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Safe deposit boxes are not safe. There are many stories of peoples stuff going missing.

ex: https://www.cbc.ca/news/safety-deposit-box-protection-1.7338...

https://archive.is/www.nytimes.com/2019/07/19/business/safe-...


What if you RAID01 it, so you have four safety deposit boxes, two with the first half of your password, two with the second half of your password? Then no snoop at a particular bank would be able to get your password, but also if one or two go missing, the password won't be lost. And you just check all four boxes once or twice a year to make sure everything is good.

Better do Shamir's Secret Sharing instead, set threshold to 2/4, and regenerate all parts if any part goes missing.

My (large) bank is yanking their safety deposit boxes out. They let subscribers know that they have, like, 1 or 2 years to go. They're doing it across the branches. They basically feel it's not worth the liability any more, and the way it was presented to me, it's not just them, but other banks are also doing (or at least considering) this.

Things we take for granted. When my father passed, I was digging stuff out of SDBs that he had for decades.


Maybe not safe for valuables. What about stuff that has no value to anyone else? I'm not a villain from Ocean's Eleven, no one is stealing my passwords to break into my elaborate safe.

What I found out when I was burgled, was that they don't care. I had nothing valuable in my firesafe but they still took it wholesale. I found some papers from it drifting around outside afterwards like they had dumped it out. But not my passport or SSN card. The lock was even broken so they could have just opened it to see that and saved themselves the lift. But again, they don't care.



This is the more robust way to go. Uses rsync under the hood.

I've been using snapshot for backups since so many years that I forgot when I started. I keep the last 14 snapshots.

Does rsnapshot do any of the hard thinking? Or just configures, then hands off to rsync?

I am surprised that this company still exists and that they have actual users after all the major security incidents.


It says: This constitution is written for our mainline, general-access Claude models. We have some models built for specialized uses that don’t fully fit this constitution; as we continue to develop products for specialized use cases, we will continue to evaluate how to best ensure our models meet the core objectives outlined in this constitution.

I wonder what those specialized use cases are and why they need a different set of values. I guess the simplest answer is they mean small fim and tools models but who knows ?



Landscape mode fixed it for me.


According to this semianalysis article, the Google/Broadcom TPU are being sold to others like Anthropic.

https://newsletter.semianalysis.com/p/tpuv7-google-takes-a-s...


This makes me think of the now defunct https://github.com/SUSE/machinery


Indeed! I'm showing my age, but I do remember using this with Puppet and it was one of my inspirations :D (no commits in nearly 13 years, ouch) https://github.com/devstructure/blueprint


Yes! I always thought that was a very clever project, and was sad when it ceased development. Very excited to try this out, and glad to have stayed on Debian all these years.


Browsing r/illinois and r/EyesOnIce for a few minutes will cure anyone from ever wanting to step foot in the US.


I'm really interested to see what happens during the world cup. Won't be surprised if somehow it may end up even bigger of a scandal than Qatar'22. Even if we set immigration and politics aside, heat it going to be an even bigger issue than everyone is anticipating.


Those also provide a nice and easy intelligence collection resource for those refining enforcement and identifying potential obstacles.


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Yes missions accomplished, indeed. I am sure there are some good promotions being had by the Chinese and Russian intelligence operatives who successfully convinced enough of the US population to give up on everything that made our country a world leader and choose self-destruction instead. Leftist degrowthers have nothing on reactionary destructionists.


Are you lost? A bot? This kind of hate doesn’t belong on hn


>which human

The second graph has this under it:

The length of tasks (measured by how long they take human professionals) that generalist frontier model agents can complete autonomously with 50% reliability has been doubling approximately every 7 months for the last 6 years...


Yeah--I wanted a short way to gesture at the subsequent "tasks that are fast for someone but not for you are interesting," and did not mean it as a gotcha on METR, but I should've taken a second longer and pasted what they said rather than doing the "presumably a human competent at the task" handwave that I did.


I agree. After all, benchmarks don't mean much, but I guess they are fine as long as they keep measuring the same thing every time. Also, the context matter. In my case, I see a huge difference between the gains at work vs those at home on a personal project where I don't have to worry about corporate policies, security, correctness, standards, etc. I can let the LLM fly and not worry about losing my job in record time.


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