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New comment by seasox in "The revenge of the philosophy majors"

seasox — Tue, 07 Jul 2026 14:58:07 +0000

New comment by seasox in "When AI Costs More Than the Engineer"

seasox — Mon, 06 Jul 2026 08:29:57 +0000

VC mostly, since Anthropic is not profitable.

New comment by seasox in "ArXiv's Next Chapter"

seasox — Wed, 01 Jul 2026 08:19:06 +0000

We usually do conferences in cryptography/security, and most of them have page limits: CCS, USENIX, NDSS, S&P, CRYPTO, EUROCRYPT all have page limits (some allow appendices, which reviewers are not obligated to read).

New comment by seasox in "Amazon drops Sam Altman movie after announcing OpenAI partnership"

seasox — Fri, 19 Jun 2026 21:04:10 +0000

They don‘t even hide it anymore.

Efficient Quantum Algorithm for Subset-Sum Problem

seasox — Mon, 29 Apr 2024 15:03:57 +0000

Article URL: https://eprint.iacr.org/2024/646

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40199244

Points: 2

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New comment by seasox in "German Autobahn speed limit would bring €1bn in benefits"

seasox — Mon, 27 Nov 2023 12:29:03 +0000

I would.

New comment by seasox in "Teen boys use AI to make fake nudes of classmates, sparking police probe"

seasox — Thu, 02 Nov 2023 22:37:16 +0000

> they draw a naked picture of a classmate and share it, should that be illegal too?

I don‘t see the argument here. What you describe is sexual harassment and should be illegal.

New comment by seasox in "YouTube's Anti-Adblock and uBlock Origin"

seasox — Sun, 29 Oct 2023 19:47:31 +0000

Ad Blockers are special glasses that allow the wearer to see an empty area where the ad is supposed to be.

I believe people should be allowed to wear the glasses they want.

New comment by seasox in "Pythagorean Theorem found on clay tablet 1k years older than Pythagoras (2009)"

seasox — Thu, 05 Oct 2023 06:34:44 +0000

At least he kept his cult real

New comment by seasox in "Earth had hottest 3-months on record; unprecedented sea temps & extreme weather"

seasox — Sun, 10 Sep 2023 17:32:44 +0000

Yes, if you count the emissions for the stuff manufactured in China for (not only) european customers.

If you look at consumption-based emissions[0], China is at 7 t per capita, which is 8 t less than the US, 2 t less than Germany and about par with Denmark, Slovakia, and England.

0: https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/consumption-co2-per-capit...

New comment by seasox in "BlackCat claims they hacked Reddit and will leak the data"

seasox — Sun, 18 Jun 2023 21:37:51 +0000

I tried, didn‘t find a source. Where are they based?

New comment by seasox in "IBM unveils 433 qubit quantum computer"

seasox — Fri, 11 Nov 2022 08:30:48 +0000

There was a time when people used to say these things about conventional computers, remember the 50s?

New comment by seasox in "IBM unveils 433 qubit quantum computer"

seasox — Fri, 11 Nov 2022 08:30:01 +0000

There is no known polynomial time algorithm for TSP. AFAIK there are quantum algorithms for TSP with quadratic speedup in comparison to the brute force method (still exponential though).

The one thing quantum computers are (currently and theoretically) able to solve efficiently is the factorization problem, but are very much limited by low qubit number, i.e. engineering problems.

New comment by seasox in "Facebook reportedly laying off thousands of employees"

seasox — Thu, 06 Oct 2022 07:51:36 +0000

The results are the same: your company has one employee less and you have one employer less.

New comment by seasox in "AirPods Pro (2nd Generation)"

seasox — Wed, 07 Sep 2022 22:39:35 +0000

I don’t think we should discuss throwing away two AA batteries worth of ewaste every 2 years.

Do you consume meat or dairy?

New comment by seasox in "Being an effective environmentalist can often feel like being a bad one"

seasox — Mon, 05 Sep 2022 20:55:22 +0000

Honeybees‘ environmental impact: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-problem-with-...

New comment by seasox in "Being an effective environmentalist can often feel like being a bad one"

seasox — Mon, 05 Sep 2022 20:39:22 +0000

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/19279075/

New comment by seasox in "Being an effective environmentalist can often feel like being a bad one"

seasox — Mon, 05 Sep 2022 16:48:57 +0000

Don‘t think about microwave vs. stove. Instead, do the following:

1. stop buying meat

2. stop eating meat

3. stop buying dairy-based products

4. stop eating dairy-based products

5. stop eating eggs, honey, fish

6. use public transport, if possible

7. don‘t fly, if possible

Congrats, you now are an environmentalist.

New comment by seasox in "Meteor: Cryptographically secure steganography for realistic distributions"

seasox — Wed, 13 Apr 2022 17:36:34 +0000

That's an interesting question! Disclaimer: In my current research, I'm focusing on steganography on ML-based lossless channels. Not an export on image-based steganography.

As far as I know, image based steganography usually uses random noise added to a cover image and a preshared key to decide which noise is actually encoded information. Since printers and scanners are a lossy channel, the noise will deteriorate. So I think this is a hard problem -- this might be possible with some kind of error correcting code as used in QR codes and alike (or maybe even use QR codes as the cover channel)

New comment by seasox in "Meteor: Cryptographically secure steganography for realistic distributions"

seasox — Wed, 13 Apr 2022 17:13:13 +0000

The paper this project is based on is the starting point for my thesis. I have found little discussion about this project (and have not found a posting to HN about it), even though I think it shows a very interesting approach to text-based steganography.