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schleck8··on 'Elite North Korean hackers' blamed for $6.3B Binance hack
It's pretty much only money laundering. Supporters use the privacy euphemism but I've never heard of a legal use case for it, hence the tornado mixer sentence
schleck8··on 'Elite North Korean hackers' blamed for $6.3B Binance hack
Crypto bros sure are quick to inform law enforcement and centralized financial authorities if their self governance fails
schleck8··on Binance-hacker-1029 – $5.6B stolen from Binance
They did, I'm seeing 700 million but there is still movement going on
schleck8··on Binance-hacker-1029 – $5.6B stolen from Binance
The hackers managed to swap 700 million USD of the stable coins that were frozen beforehand, supposedly. And that doesn't account for the non-stable coin crypto they stole. I think we are looking at 2.5 to 3.5 billion here, that also aligns with what CZ is hinting at (more than a billion).
schleck8··on Binance-hacker-1029 – $5.6B stolen from Binance
> As of 2026, the SAFU fund comprises crypto assets valued at approximately US$1 billion, held entirely in Bitcoin

And decreasing, since BTC is dropping as we speak. Always a good idea to hedge a currency with the currency itsself

schleck8··on Binance-hacker-1029 – $5.6B stolen from Binance
If your crypto was stolen in this, atleast you can rest assured that your money will be put to good use. In North Korea that is, by the military. I'm sure at this point Kim himself has Bitcoin merchandise with how often they make massive heists
schleck8··on StackOverflow now gets fewer than 1000 questions a month
Stack Overflow is CC licensed

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schleck8··on Dream-1
1. Well funded 2. Cool idea that hasn't been widely tackled yet. Most action models are accompanied by hardware, Like Figure's Helix
schleck8··on Elon Musk Just Gave Europe a Reason to Replace American Technology
ICEYE from Finland is valued at 12 billion USD
schleck8··on The same AI request emits 8.5 times more CO2 in Texas than in Sweden
Because some causes are significantly worse than others. If you want to have a big impact, you start with the big levers.

I'll give you an even better example than meat: golf courses in the US consume 2 to 100 times as much water as US datacenters depending on how you calculate.

How many golf-course-water-saving initiatives have you seen? Have they even tried anything at all?

schleck8··on The same AI request emits 8.5 times more CO2 in Texas than in Sweden
Most people in the West eat too much meat. Red meat in particular is a group 2 carcinogen according to the WHO, so the body isn't meant to consume a lot of it. Yet many people eat meat every day, because "It's not a complete meal without it" or "I somehow need 10 times more protein than people a millenium ago while claiming to eat like them".
schleck8··on The same AI request emits 8.5 times more CO2 in Texas than in Sweden
I've seen people who hate AI instantly become defensive as soon as someone brings up the water usage for a kg of beef. It's selective outrage.

I don't like whataboutism, but this isn't whataboutism because the meat industry requires way more water per capita like you pointed out. You have to create products twice, once for feed and once to raise the cows.

schleck8··on Claude Duet
And I think that's fine because the life management I'm getting out of Claude is great. It's like having a concierge. Back in the day everyone wanted to have Jarvis or Friday
schleck8··on PHP 8.2.35
Tell them to take anything with PHP offline, so that it isn't available from the public internet. That is how Netcup and Contabo are handling Wordpress hosting until they've upgraded all affected packages.

There are already functional exploit scripts on GitHub, you can target any Wordpress site right now.

schleck8··on PHP2Shell: AI uncovers critical RCE in PHP
Looking at the technical deep dive further down the article, this is worse than Log4Shell if you need a point of reference. It's one of the two worst exploits that ever publicly surfaced, up there with EternalBlue.
schleck8··on Meta's GB{2,3}00 Cluster
LLM training data
schleck8··on Ofcom concedes defeat in 4chan case
> Was the defeat a planned showing to justify future action to justify more control of the internet, as Preston Byrne speculates

When something can be explained by both incompetence and conspiracy, the correct explanation is usually incompetence.

schleck8··on Getting Banned from r/java
> The offence was that I had broken rule #9, which I hadn’t noticed, and was new since the last time I posted there. This rule forbids sharing any software that involves AI at all

Linus Torvalds recently said he uses AI to develop Java GUIs because he doesn't know how to write Java GUIs. Between the mods of r/java and Linus Torvalds, I know who I trust more with judging new technological potential.

Here is more from a recent interview:

"I used to think it was just not very good — but now I’m at the point where I actually really like using AI. [...] I don’t do a lot of kernel programming. I’m a maintainer. The Linux kernel is a project where other people do the real work, and I act as the collection point. But I still enjoy programming immensely. I think AI is a wonderful tool if you use it correctly and treat it as a tool, and I find it makes programming much more enjoyable. [...]

I started programming in 1981 or so, and back then computers were much simpler, and you could understand what they were doing, and also the programs you compared your own programs to were much simpler.

It’s a different story today. The bar in software engineering has grown so high that it’s hard to see your own small efforts as worth anything, because you’re used to all these polished, professional programs. [...]

A lot of people make fun of vibe coding, but I think it’s a wonderful way to find joy in programming. It makes you feel like you’re doing something relevant. It allows you, as a new programmer, to do things that you would otherwise have a really hard time with.”

https://www.zdnet.com/tech/linus-torvalds-ai-coding-programm...

schleck8··on Show HN: VoidAccess – open-source dark web OSINT, from query to a graph
Relevant https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50151036
schleck8··on DeepInfer: High-performance inference framework for DeepSeek models
> The average utilization rate of inference GPU cards is not that high (i.e. it peaks during the daytime, but is idle at night). So the time window for earning $38/h is fairly limited.

In DeepSeek's case this kind of levels out because they have a large user base both in China and the West (time zones), and additionally attract users in the non-Chinese timezones using their off peak 50% discount which is what DeepSeek talks about here.

> B. They are renting costly GPU capacity from 3rdparty hyperscalers because they can't meet the peak demand with their own hardware.

I looked this up from Chinese sources and DeepSeek primarily builds their own compute infrastructure rather than renting it

> C. Free-tier users are eating the gross margin. > D. Subscription users are eating the gross margin.

That's true, but given how lucrative inference at API rates is, they can subsidize training and individual users to some degree. Are they still losing money overall? Not unlikely, but with moonshots that is often the case. Remember that Uber and Spotify took around 15 years to have their first profitable quarters.

schleck8··on DeepSeek just open-sourced its inference engine
No, those $3 are on the high end. If you do not factor in hardware depreciation, at China's low electricity prices (largest variable cost and China has a surplus larger than many country's entire consumption) and with GB200 which is one of DeepSeek's main platforms, the operation cost is actually less than 50 cents per hour most likely. If you factor in hardware depreciation this rises significantly but almost certainly stays under 3 usd per hour, probably closer to 2.

Orinally it was an educated guess based on rental prices I've seen but Opus 5.5 and Gemini 3.8 Flash both arive at the same numbers based on DeepSeek's Zhihu post and GB200 specs. Around 30 cents before depreciation and $2 to 3.50 including it.

schleck8··on DeepInfer: High-performance inference framework for DeepSeek models
At off peak pricing, which is substantially lower than the standard API rate (50% off). So I assume it looks even better financially overall.

Quick numbers:

At $35/hour in net cash generation per card, a $30,000 GPU would pay for itself entirely in about 850 hours (roughly 35 days)

With an assumed ~ $3 operation cost per card and hour

schleck8··on US threatens Europe over Starlink restrictions
It is, there are lots of European launch companies that will have their first launches in 2027 and all target cheap launch services which is the key to Starlink. Isar Aerospace has already put a payload in orbit, but they are only one of many.
schleck8··on Why are we even doing all this?
I get that someone wanted to let steam off but this just sounds like they don't have any arguments so they went for the good old "in the future, you won't have free will and social media companies force you to be online" fable. An addicting algorithm isn't the same thing as fentanyl, you can uninstall the app in 5 seconds and getting it back with signing in takes atleast two minutes, enough to reconsider whether you actually want to spend time on it.

The toxicity of apps like Tiktok comes from muscle memory, not the quality of the content. Your thumb knows where the app icon is and opening the app happens quicker than you can think (literally). So offloading or uninstalling breaks this very effectively. The only thing that would still keep you on the platform is social connections. If somebody gets upset over you uninstalling Instagram or Snapchat, they aren't a good friend.

schleck8··on Simons Foundation launches $15M effort to help mathematicians navigate AI era
What mess?
schleck8··on Simons Foundation launches $15M effort to help mathematicians navigate AI era
> greedy for status

Perhaps to some maths is about progress, like other sciences, rather than self-portrayal

schleck8··on AdFection: Targeted ads turned into a pipeline for zero-click mercenary spyware
This is even crazier than the last time Citizen Lab found an Israeli zero-click spyware (Pegasus). You could call it a sequel
schleck8··on OpenCode 2.0
Must be safari then because my midrange android does without issue
schleck8··on Suicide rates highest ever among middle-aged men
And what about Russia occupying a fifth of Georgia? Is Georgia a Jewish controlled country too? I feel like the easier explanation is Russia being the largest country on the planet with a ton of asian minorities because they've done this scorched earth conquest bullshit for centuries
schleck8··on Anthropic's Scion is heavily inspired by Mononoke
They mentioned Sapling in the post and even hyperlinked it
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