Nice, i posted prior art about this back in 2017 so lmk if apple tries to sue you over any patent on this

Usenet (all but) died because Andrew Cuomo wanted to run for governor under the claim he single-handedly ended CSAM, and the major ISPs at the time didn't need to be asked twice to stop providing a free service.

Not quite. This is the first time any researcher in the world can get an AI's best guess as to what each single substitution might do. All that "painfully slow" research of testing actual variants in the lab is, by contrast, real data.

Don't get me wrong, this is very, very cool, and will almost certainly lead to a lot of new discoveries - Along with a lot of false positives and dead-ends. I'm not even an AI hater, despite having serious reservations about alignment. This, however, is exactly the type of inquiry where AI hallucinates the worst: An open-ended "what if" question where the answer isn't allowed to be "I don't know".

Here's a quick sanity check every one of us should do occasionally - Go ask ChatGPT a subtle open-ended "why" question in your own field of expertise... And have a good laugh at how hilariously wrong the answer is.

That's pretty much what device drivers do. They turn high-level calls to do X into bare-metal instructions. And they very much need to deal with all the ugliness that entails to do their job well.

I'm very much in favor of safer languages and tools for user-mode programming (heck, I consider SQL my third main language), but firmware ain't for everyone. If you don't need to think in terms of cycles, side effects, execution units, and pipelining, sure, save your sanity and use whatever language makes it easiest to get the job done safely. If you consider every uncached memory reference in a tight loop such an unbearable penalty you may as well go climb Mount Everest while you wait... You're using C with assembler sprinkled in as needed.

This is a great experiment, and I'm glad someone's gathering the hard data rather than yet another DOT study in forced nannyism.

I have just the teensiest problem with it, however, and that problem is "consent". Nine trips out of ten I'd be happy to opt in to this experiment, but one time out of ten I really do care about getting the exact route I request, and would be apoplectic over Google sending me the scenic route.

Looks like MapQuest is getting yet another new user. At least all the bodies of water on the map will be named correctly as a bonus.

Feel free to point out all the positives to dead Iranian schoolkids, dead American soldiers, $4.50 gas, $6+ heating oil heading into winter in the Northern hemisphere, the end of Obama's JCPOA, the near depletion of US interceptor missile stocks, and the accelerating loss of the US Dollar as the world's reserve currency as all our trading partners realize we're the bad guys. This doesn't even have the consolation prize of being economic imperialism - The one close call we had to peace so far involved basically reinstating Obama's deal and tossing in an extra $350B of our money vs the $1.5B of their own money Obama gave them.

So yeah, you're right, it is tiring. By all means, please show me some angle from which this is anything more than yet another distraction from the Epstein files.

Ex-CIA official charged with stealing millions of dollars in gold bars from the federal government
More than $1 million in gold stolen from Pennsylvania couple, police say
Armed thieves steal gold and cash during Port Moresby hold-up in one of PNG's biggest robberies
Gold heist ringleader pleads guilty to theft of $22M in gold and cash from Toronto's Pearson airport
Iraq seizes mounds of gold and millions in cash from officials in corruption crackdown

Those are all stories from the past year. That said, I'm not trying to be argumentative, we agree completely about your first sentence: The one and only way to keep your stores of value secure is to be discreet in acquiring them, have their location / means of access recorded only inside your head, then tell absolutely nobody they exist (because a wrench always wins).

Anything can be stolen if we give potential thieves sufficient motivation, whether that be gold or bitcoin or trade secrets or priceless antiquities under heavy guard. Don't motivate them.

Though apparently I need a fourth rule: Don't hire the Russian mob to pen-test your defenses. I would have considered that obvious under rule three, but then, I'm not the CEO of a three billion dollar company so what do I know.

So you, posting anonymously for no good reason, are telling me all these accounts posting anonymously to brigade RSG are actually RSG himself trying to get sympathy?

And that you, jumping in to black-knight him four levels deep into an otherwise uninteresting thread, are merely a concerned citizen intimately familiar with his transgressions who feels the need to save others from his misinformation by... Insulting them?

That about sum it up?

The August jobs report included 59k for restaurant workers and 42k for local government education - 62% of the total was effectively high-volatility seasonal work, partially making up for the slow growth earlier in the summer.

Absolutely none of that has anything to do with AI - Except insofar as some fraction of those new "restaurant workers" are presumably displaced junior office and IT workers who have effectively given up on finding a real career and need to pay the bills today.

You stalkers realize you come off looking far worse than he does in these tirades, right?

And FYI, a hell of a lot of Americans think maybe, just maybe, no individual should have a billion dollars. When flat-out paying cash for a healthy large-cap S&P listed company on a whim is a realistic option, it's time to accept your "you won capitalism" ribbon and retire to a small farm in upstate New York.

Sometimes "success" doesn't actually require winning. 3rd world hellscape holds its own for over six months against the single most powerful military the world has ever seen? That's success.

Merely dragging this out makes the US look worse and worse the longer it goes on. And the more gas prices rise, the more families receive their kids home in a box, the more our trading partners say "yeah, no thanks to your bullshit sanctions over your needless war of aggression", the more successful Iran is.

Are they ever going to outright win in a traditional military conquest sense? Of course not. Are we going to be wiping egg off our faces for decades to come? I hope you like omelettes.

The real answer is, there are countless instances of various old-school forum software running all over the internet with either no passwords at all, or that allow free, anonymous, unverified signup. Heck, over the decades I've orphaned at least two fitting that exact description. They died a natural death since the likes of Facebook and Twitter basically killed semi-private forums wholesale, but I couldn't be bothered to actually take them down.

This isn't a matter of rogue agents hacking, it's more like long-forgotten technical debt; but not even that, really - We just didn't care 20 years ago. They're making use of sites designed to explicitly allow exactly what they're doing.

In this case, though, it sounds like the real "exploit" was finding a site that allows posting messages encoded right in the URL via a GET. Not an exploit of those sites, because again, we used to not care and that was a feature not a bug; rather, it was an exploit of their own shackles, but what they did with it was largely allowed by design.

We're in complete agreement to the extent there's nothing wrong with making products for people who aren't me.

...Except, they don't appear to share our live-and-let-live attitude. "A group representing American automakers sent a letter Thursday to congressional leaders asking for a "permanent ban" on Chinese-made cars in the U.S.".

If they want to position $80k barely-class-A-legal monsters against $8k practical commuter vehicles, I'm totally fine with that (as long as our tax dollars don't bail them out when they lose their shirts). If they want to force us into having no options but suburban tanks - They picked this fight, not me.

It's funny how the troll-right keeps trying to rant about the evils of socialism - And yet somehow, every one of their points seems to be in favor of it!

/ For the record, I'm a fan of social safety nets, not ML Tankies.

When US companies can sell a modern fully-featured car in the $10k range, I might start caring what they have to say on the topic.

Until then, Detroit can take a long walk off a short pier. I have zero interest in a 20MPG behemoth that needs 360-degree cameras just to see over its own hood and tailgate, all at the low, low price of five to ten complete BYD Seagulls.

And if China want to track my every move - It's already happening, and personally, I consider them far less of a risk than GM or Uncle Sam doing the same! GM is rent seeking; Uncle Sam wants end-runs around the 4th amendment; and China's motivations may not exactly be pure, but their interaction with me is at least one-sided, they have little to no ability to do anything that affects me.