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ses1984on Can you reverse engineer our neural network?

They're accused of opening short positions, then pumping and dumping to trigger the shorts. That's not arbitrage.

ses1984on Never buy a .online domain

Maybe libel is the wrong term, but erroneously marking a website as unsafe can lead to damages.

ses1984on Uncovering insiders and alpha on Polymarket with AI

Some of the things people bet on can be decided by a single person.

The more accurate the markets get, the greater the incentive for insiders to spoil it.

That doesn’t benefit anyone but the insider and probably has a net negative on everyone else.

ses1984on Why is Claude an Electron app?

Using the terminal in vscode will easily bring the UI to a dead stop. iterm is smooth as butter with multiple tabs and 100k+ lines of scrollback buffer.

Try enabling 10k lines of scrollback buffer in vscode and print 20k lines.

ses1984on I found a useful Git one liner buried in leaked CIA developer docs

Terminal UI.

ses1984on Infrastructure decisions I endorse or regret after 4 years at a startup (2024)

If you need global HA to the extent that you're worried about global VPC failure modes, you're going to have to spend a lot of effort to squeeze uptime to the max regardless of where you deploy.

Undersea cable failures are probably more likely than a google core networking failure.

In AWS a lot of "global" things are actually just hosted in us-east-1.

ses1984on Sizing chaos

There is a wide gulf between “when you exercise your body saves calories elsewhere in the day…when you eat less your metabolism slows down” and “some people can’t lose weight on 50% calorie restriction.”

The former is very well supported in the literature. The latter is only supported in low quality studies like where people self report their diet.

The CICO hypothesis accounts for metabolism. Your weight is a function of CICO and time. You can track calories in, weight, and time. From there you derive calories out.

The problem isn’t that CICO is wrong, the problem is that it turns out actual caloric restriction over time is really really hard.

The current best advice for weight loss is to avoid highly palatable and/or calorie dense foods, prefer foods that are highly satiating and low in calories, and strength training helps. Do whatever cardio you need for heart health; more cardio is at best unnecessary and at worst demotivating because extra effort will not net extra results. Slow and steady is easier to stick to.

One problem is that even though small deficits lead to more long term success, small deficits are very hard to track, and very hard to stick to.

When the size of your calorie deficit is two tablespoons of ranch dressing and a cookie per day, it’s easy to blow past it without even realizing.

CICO isn’t a diet strategy. By itself it won’t help you lose weight any more than kinematic equations help you to throw a ball.

But it’s not wrong.

ses1984on Sizing chaos

Are you actually saying some people don’t lose weight on a 50% caloric deficit? Is there any evidence of that?

ses1984on Microsoft says bug causes Copilot to summarize confidential emails

When you frame it that way, it’s really not that different. The issue isn’t the access control system itself, more so that it’s really asking too much of people who don’t have the skills or understanding to manage it. Teams of trained professionals get it wrong when the scope is limited to a single application or suite of applications, and you think grandma is going to properly manage access control over her entire digital footprint?

ses1984on Semantic ablation: Why AI writing is generic and boring

People want the real thing, not artificially flavored tokens.

I would rather read the prompt than the generative output, even if it’s just disjointed words and sentence fragments.

ses1984on Semantic ablation: Why AI writing is generic and boring

It just makes me think of that time I saw someone recovering from eye surgery and I had a visceral reaction.

ses1984on Semantic ablation: Why AI writing is generic and boring

It is, just don’t use a thing with no soul like ai if soul is what you’re after.

ses1984on Amazon's Ring and Google's Nest reveal the severity of U.S. surveillance state

How do the stats look compared to 5, 10, 20, 40 years ago?

ses1984on Google Fulfilled ICE Subpoena Demanding Student Journalist Credit Card Number

From my point of view it looks like the right only protests when it’s not their side.

That’s why Al franken resigned for a dumb photo, meanwhile republicans protect pedophile traffickers.

ses1984on Discord Alternatives, Ranked

You’re right, so that must mean whatsapp is totally safe, right?

ses1984on Discord Alternatives, Ranked

What standard of proof is required here? It’s not criminal court.

The original post I replied to simply asked for proof, without also stating they doubt meta would ever allow e2ee.

My post is more directed at other readers who might take the absence of a smoking gun as an assumption of safety.

ses1984on Hard-braking events as indicators of road segment crash risk

I think there's nothing worse than drivers who feel entitled to go fast at the expense of everyone else's safety.

ses1984on Discord Alternatives, Ranked

I am not sure I understand what you’re saying.

If meta can read those messages, then they’re most definitely not e2e encrypted.

Given the historical record, you would be a fool to assume that any service run by a public company isn’t fully tapped by US intelligence agencies. They’ve been tapping anything and everything they can get their hands on, why stop at whatsapp?

Let me flip it around: what proof do you actually have that it is e2e encrypted? Zuckerberg pinky promised?

ses1984on Discord Alternatives, Ranked

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PRISM

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XKeyscore

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Binney_(intelligence_o...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Room_641A

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parallel_construction

https://www.reuters.com/article/world/uk/nsa-staff-used-spy-...

Millennials and older generations witnessed this happening bit by bit, some of us tried to fight it, but ultimately it’s everywhere now, and apparently it’s been so ubiquitous for so long that people aren’t even aware of it anymore.

ses1984on The Waymo World Model

You could train it in simulation and then test it in reality.

ses1984on Show HN: If you lose your memory, how to regain access to your computer?

Another solution is to engrave your secret on something that’s stable up to household fire temperatures.

ses1984on The time I didn't meet Jeffrey Epstein

> Everyone wants taxes to go up on everyone making more than them

Everyone except about 90% of republican voters, aka temporarily poor millionaires

ses1984on GitHub Actions is slowly killing engineering teams

The previous post describes a problem where you do a large docker build, then fan out to many jobs which need to pull this image, and the overhead is enormous. This implies rwx has less overhead. Just saying that there’s content addressable cache doesn’t explain how this particular problem is solved.

If you have a dockerfile where you make a small change in your source results in one particular very large layer that has to be built, then you want to fan out and run many parallel tests using that image, what actually happens when you try to run that new fat layer on a bunch of compute, and how is it better than the implied naive solution? That fat layer exists on a storage system somewhere, and a bunch of computer nodes need to read it, what happens?

ses1984on Review of 1984 by Isaac Asimov (1980)

Did you make it all the way to the end of my post...?

I promise I am just as mad as you are about everything republicans are doing right now.

The problem is that when one party is hellbent on literal fascism, the opposition needs to be a little bit stronger than incremental refinement.

ses1984on Review of 1984 by Isaac Asimov (1980)

A lot of monarchies aren't really stable across two or more successions either.

ses1984on Review of 1984 by Isaac Asimov (1980)

There is of course a huge difference between left and right, but the democratic party is actually center-right, so...

Previous poster didn't say there's no difference between left and right, they said both parties are bought and paid for by fascists, which is pretty much true, thanks to Citizens United v FEC which passed the last time democrats had control of Congress and the presidency. Congress could have responded, but didn't.

At this time, democrats had 60 (!) seats in the senate, enough to end a filibuster, and they had to negotiate with MODERATE DEMOCRATS to pass the ACA. Moderate democrats are, on the face of things, the reason the ACA doesn't have a public option.

Don't get me wrong, I still vote democrat any chance I get, and would encourage everyone to do the same, but unfortunately I have to do it despite the fact they're bought and paid by the donor class, which are, by and large, fascists.

Democrats should started Jan 7th by screaming for Trump's arrest and not stopping until he was rotting in jail, but all we got was 4 years of nothing, followed by "too bad, so sad, we did everything we could".

ses1984on GitHub Actions is slowly killing engineering teams

Can you explain how your product solves this problem? I clicked around your site and couldn't figure it out.

ses1984on Threat actors expand abuse of Microsoft Visual Studio Code

Even something as simple as syntax highlighting is a vector.

ses1984on Threat actors expand abuse of Microsoft Visual Studio Code

The point of an IDE is that it does stuff a simple text editor does not.

ses1984on When "likers'' go private: Engagement with reputationally risky content on X

People buying ads are their real customers, users are there to be exploited.

They catch enough fraud that their customers get a positive ROI, but surely they don’t catch all of it.