You think it's unreasonable that nighttime brightness has doubled (actually 1.5x) over the last ten years?

Modern Slashdot. Technical details? How dare you include details! Stupid nerd!

Hacks the DOJ.

Dot: I'm finished! Here you are! Aren't I a good dot?

AC: Holy fuck, how'd you do that?

FBI kicks down door.

both sides.

Found your problem.

Not just the testing process. We've decided that leaving junk in orbit to reenter randomly is no longer acceptable so you have to demonstrate to a high degree of confidence that you're going to be able to reenter on target before you're allowed to go orbital. Starship in particular is gigantic, made out of steel and designed to survive reentry. If that were screwed up it would be a lot worse than the just-barely-enough-to-do-the-job that most rockets are made of.

Stop reading tech news?

I'm not sure exactly what you're referring to. The three possibilities:

1) The training is distilling their own model? Yes, I guess you could argue that. It's even dumber than the argument about distilling other peoples' models though.

2) The contractor using a third party model to evaluate the output of the contracting company's model: yeah, you could argue that's distilling. That's on the contractor who's not doing what they're supposed to be though.

3) Or did you mean you're distilling the contractors' brains? You are doing that yes. That's explicitly what they're getting paid for.

A Merkle Tree is not a tree of hashes. Unless you want to say, hashkeys are sorted in a Merkle Tree as a set of hashes.

I have no idea what you're trying to say with this.

I did reread your original message and, minus the bullshit at the beginning, if your point is that Bitcoin's transaction tracking is novel, it's not. It was proposed by Hal Finney in 2004. Satoshi neglects to reference it.

I was also incorrect. Bitcoin didn't come up with the hash based proof of work concept either. That's reference 6.

They probably never dreamed big companies would put these cheap boards in everything.

I'd be surprised if they didn't. Industrial computers were stupidly priced before the Raspberry Pi. Lots of them still are. And industrial customers care much more about whether the drivers work than whether they're open source.

"Word-guessing?" How does this naive notion persist?

It's true. Kind of. Just enough to make a catchy false premise.

Also, the human brain is barely comfortable with binary. It does not like probability, much less distributions. It especially doesn't like conditional distributions.

They don't need contractors for that

They do need contractors for that. That's what the contractors are doing. The model produces a couple of outputs and a human chooses which one they think is better. That goes in the training data. You can also ask the same or another model which is better, but that defeats the purpose.

Police generally don't need a warrant to request security camera footage or obtain it voluntarily. They need a warrant to compel the owner to give it to them.

Whether the owner volunteers footage and under what conditions they do so is pretty much up to them. Ring used to be pretty free about it but clamped down when it became controversial. Public sources like traffic cameras are likewise up to the public agency or government that owns them and they often have privacy laws or policies that might require warrants.

Flock is obviously motivated to cooperate with police requests since that's the service they're providing. It isn't "the way it's always been" but the OP's suggestion of requiring warrants could be easily implemented. Tapping phones without a warrant was perfectly legal in the US until it became a problem and a law was passed.

Like this one?

Your weird unfounded claim isn't really worthy of much of a reply. But for any innocent who's reading and is tempted by the bitcoin bro nonsense, here's Satoshi's whitepaper:

https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fbitcoin.org%2Fbitcoin.pd...

Quoting:

transactions are hashed in a Merkle Tree [7][2][5],

There's a diagram too. Those references are:

[7] R.C. Merkle, "Protocols for public key cryptosystems," In Proc. 1980 Symposium on Security and
Privacy, IEEE Computer Society, pages 122-133, April 1980.

[2] H. Massias, X.S. Avila, and J.-J. Quisquater, "Design of a secure timestamping service with minimal
trust requirements," In 20th Symposium on Information Theory in the Benelux, May 1999.

[5] S. Haber, W.S. Stornetta, "Secure names for bit-strings," In Proceedings of the 4th ACM Conference
on Computer and Communications Security, pages 28-35, April 1997.

As you might guess, the paper by Merkle is the one that proposed the cryptographic hash tree arrangement that we now call "Merkle trees." Here it is:

https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.ralphmerkle.com%2Fpa...

Or the Wikipedia article about it:

https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2F...

Whether hunt/gathering can be sustainable depends entirely on circumstances

Uh, yes?

Nomadic peoples could move about psuedorandomly due to chance, or move in circles with purpose.

Also yes? Are you sure you're replying to the right post?