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Comment · 1 day ago
By this you mean Anthropic is now accountable to secure Elon's marketplace offerings. I'm not sure that is reasonable.
Comment · 4 days ago
Somehow, their wide range of results touch every single area of math except anything touching cryptography. I think it's fair to expect that three letter agencies are given the ability to veto the publication of certain discoveries.
Comment · 6 days ago
Some version of this has been posted a dozen times now. The dog barking and baby crying detection are advertised features of this product range which is used for SmartThings integration.

Swarms of RE-hopefuls are now using tools they don't understand to work on projects they don't understand. Anyone doing RE knows step 1 is read public documentation, FCC filing, patent applications, etc. That step would tell you what the device does out of the box, no RE required to find everything the OP has actually uncovered.

Instead they busted out Claude and have been gaslit by their own AI into thinking they've discovered something. They just discovered features that Samsung has been pitching for years.

Comment · 7 days ago
In February Samsung agreed to stop collecting the data when opted out in the US after a few lawsuits were lining up. LG was the target of a different lawsuit in Texas which they settled and then wrote up a forced arbitration clause and doubled-down on data collection, even when opted out.

Don't buy LG TVs.

Comment · 7 days ago
Comment · 7 days ago
Dog bark and baby crying detection are advertised features for SmartThings integrations. Door bell and door knocking are also included, this is surfaced directly if you hook the TV or sound bar into SmartThings.
Comment · 10 days ago
Enterprise* customers are overwhelmingly more likely to primarily host on Azure than GCP, m365 runs the corporate world top to bottom. OpenAI doesn't care where the customers come from, more platforms == more reach, they have zero reason to be preferential to any single hosting platform.

* By "enterprise" here I mean "big company that is not a tech company". If most of your userbase is carrying a mac, you're probably a tech company. If you're mostly making widgets in factories, chances are high Windows and the ecosystem around it is involved.

Comment · 14 days ago
Atmospheric pressure is around 14psi, at a rough guess a manhole cover is around 200lbs so you'd need just a little over 14sq in to make that work.
Comment · 24 days ago
Android does the same MAC rotation that Apple does, both on WiFi and Bluetooth. Working with IoT sniffing solutions at home, I've found it's reasonably easy to detect when a single MAC is randomly changed: it'll be broadcasting its presence, suddenly go dark, and then another mac with same first 3 bytes starts broadcasting with a very similar RSSI. This works with BLE adverts pretty well and allows me to filter out MAC noise from household devices while I'm trying to sniff something on my bench.
Comment · 1 month ago
I didn't use the word LLM. I'm talking AI capability, you're focused on this or that current approach to AI. I think it's fair to assume that the approach will change as new ideas are learned, new and more hardware will be purchased and applied to the problem, and then capabilities will (for now) continue on their exponential curve, same as it has gone for the past several years.

These things are knocking down Millennium Prize problems while a substantial subset of commenters here are still thinking about stochastic parrots.

Comment · 1 month ago
Some version of this claim has been made for the past 4 years. There's a data cliff, there's no more compute to buy, the financials don't make sense and all of these orgs will be out of business by end of quarter.

Not once has any of these predictions come true, the pace of progress has continued on it's exponential trajectory since ChatGPT first came to the public's attention.

So why now? What is special about today that suggests all of this is coming to a screeching halt despite all evidence to the contrary?

Comment · 1 month ago
Any code I didn't write is arbitrary code. At some point I'm left to trust someone or run no software at all.
Comment · 1 month ago
There is a flip side to this - is vim encrypting this data it keeps forever? If I delete something I consider sensitive, I might unwittingly be recording that presumed-deleted piece of data to my user profile somewhere to be deleted never.
Comment · 1 month ago
Thank God, a response which addresses none of the content of the parent post which is now flagged for pointing out current facts of the case, along with anything else in the thread which doesn't align with "AI BAD".

HN has fallen far.

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