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4,413karma·596submissions·August 20, 2022
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WhatsApp and Signal have had end-to-end encryption for group chats for a very long time.
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If you try to be feeless you become super vulnerable to spam:
https://www.coindesk.com/tech/2021/03/11/nanos-network-flood... IIRC this spam attack cost the attack…
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"However, the obtained effect sizes were not large enough to be statistically significant, and our study highlighted the need for more research around what performance thresholds indicate a meani…
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How are you supposed to hijack a submarine when it's subsurface?
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While pretraining a decent-sized LLM from scratch is not financially feasible for the average person, it is very much feasible for the average YC/VC backed startup (ignoring the fact that it'…
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"An airline passenger who prompted the Spanish air force to scramble fighter jets after he said he was going to blow up the plane he was on appeared Monday in court, the BBC reported. Aditya Verm…
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Discord has pretty much figured out how to give CLIs an actual UX with their bots and slash commands. Midjourney is the largest of the Discord apps that have achieved mainstream usage, despite being C…
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>So obviously, infinite growth on a finite planet is impossible, yet most people deny this basic fact. The idea of modern civilization coming to an end is so unthinkable that they simply refuse to …
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> Creating a work using Harry Potter or Darth Vader or Tarzan is a copyright infringement Transformative works are a thing: https://www.transformativeworks.org/faq/#:~:text=inv…