felineflock's comments

On: The Hunt for Dark Breakfast

[felineflock]

I think it is all normalized into positive vector space [0, 1] using min-max.

On: Statement from Dario Amodei on our discussions with the Department of War

[felineflock]

That reasoning sounds confusing: are you actually in favor of US gov's surveillance on Americans?

If not, then why are you punishing that company for refusing to deal with the US gov?

Or is it just because they worded their opposition in a certain way that you dislike?

[cmrdporcupine → felineflock]

It's not confused. Are you?

I object, as a non-American paying Anthropic customer, to being surveilled and then having it justified in a press release?

[felineflock → cmrdporcupine]

> I object, as a non-American paying Anthropic customer, to being surveilled and then having it justified in a press release?

You genuinely think you're not already being surveilled? And that Anthropic is somehow responsible with just a few words in a press release? In what world are you living in and how is the rent there?

[asmor → felineflock]

> You genuinely think you're not already being surveilled?

"You don't like capitalism, why do you pay for things then?"

> And that Anthropic is somehow responsible with just a few words in a press release?

They seem to believe that they're a pretty important piece. That aside, this is a declaration of intent, it doesn't need to have anything to do with real-world capabilities.

Just because something will happen anyway doesn't mean you shouldn't oppose it.

On: America's Cyber Defense Agency Is Burning Down and Nobody's Coming to Put It Out

[felineflock]

And a cyberattack would justify another war and extra powers of emergency. Perfect!

On: America's Cyber Defense Agency Is Burning Down and Nobody's Coming to Put It Out

[felineflock]

No, it is more like Reps 75% and Dems 90%, ±5%.

[nullocator → felineflock]

How could you possibly come to this conclusion? Which party literally just voted for tax breaks on the wealthy and corporations, twice in one decade?!

In before "No clearly the party that helps the billionaires the most and is mostly comprised of billionaires and is backed by all the tech billionaires are the good guys, they are the true party of the people"

[felineflock → nullocator]

So you think only one party did that??? Only one party protects billionaires??? Wow that's funny!

On: Victorian Engineering Connections Diagram from the Brunel Museum

[felineflock]

Diagram is in the first link on the page: http://victorianengineeringconnections.net/

On: Like Game-of-Life, but on Growing Graphs, with WASM and WebGL

[felineflock]

Some of those look like thongs.

On: Show HN: I saw this cool navigation reveal, so I made a simple HTML+CSS version

[felineflock]

Good job! Looks amazing! It is a great way to call attention to content.

On: Defeating a 40-year-old copy protection dongle

[felineflock]

A modern version of the old dongle seems to be the FIDO key (commonly known by the brand Yubikey), although it is for a different purpose than copy protection: anti-phishing/MFA authentication.

Has that been defeated yet?

On: Defeating a 40-year-old copy protection dongle

[felineflock]

I did something similar decades ago: ran on debug with and without the dongle, then compared the execution path to identify where exactly it deviated. Then replaced the "jump" with "nop" to prevent it from branching out when the dongle was absent. This was with an early version of Visual C++ and I knew only a little 8086 Assembly.

On: A few random notes from Claude coding quite a bit last few weeks

[felineflock]

xcancel? What is the purpose or benefit of providing a free mirror to x? Doesn't it end up sparing the x servers and causing their costs to decrease?

[moss_dog → felineflock]

I prefer xcancel in part because Twitter doesn't let you view replies etc when not logged in.

[yojat661 → felineflock]

Guessing x loses ad revenue when traffic goes to xcancel.

[tryauuum → felineflock]

my screen is 60 percent banners about cookies and account creation when I use x