zaat | 11 months ago | on: Open-sourcing OpenPubkey SSH (OPKSSH): integrating single sign-on with SSH
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zaat | 1 year ago | on: Discovery of fresco portraying Dionysian mysteries at Pompeii
zaat | 1 year ago | on: Things you should know about Windows Input, but would rather not
Generation of keystroke based on the up event, beside been incompatible with repeating keys for long strokes, will slow down typing significantly, as it requires tracking timing pressing keys for longer duration. I'm pretty sure that this isn't only effect of me being used to track keypress timing on the way down, but an unavoidable result of the duration of the action.
Waiting for up event on contemporary GUI, when the contempt UI is a sluggish fit-to-nothing dirty touchscreen in a public kiosk is sensible. When you know an interface will yield more errors than intended input it is only sensible to assume that any input is a mistake unless the user is making an effort to validate it.
zaat | 1 year ago | on: Ask HN: Dev/Ops/DevOps tools you use and more people should
zaat | 1 year ago | on: PySkyWiFi: Free stupid wi-fi on long-haul flights
zaat | 1 year ago | on: I got tired of hearing that YC fired Sam, so here's what actually happened
I'm not sure I'm for changing the language all over, but I don't think dismissing issues that disturb a group that you don't belong to is a manner that fits a gentleman.
zaat | 1 year ago | on: Turning psychiatric labels into identities
zaat | 1 year ago | on: Ex-OpenAI board member reveals what led to Sam Altman's brief ousting
You are mixing law with moral/ethics. Secular law doesn't have is-ought problem, it is enforced by the state law enforcement forces. Pressure to abide to the laws doesn't entail or justify their morality.
> I agree completely, hence why it is impossible to derive rights that are logically justified without an appeal to God. The comment I was replying to claimed there were logically justified rights which have to follow from logically justified moral theories unless they are decreed from beyond reason, and since the latter is a category error, so is the former.
It wasn't. It was arguing for inherent rights. The claim for inherent rights can be justified. It can't be justified by logic just like it cannot be proved mathematically. But it can be justified ethically using reason.
zaat | 1 year ago | on: Ex-OpenAI board member reveals what led to Sam Altman's brief ousting
I would argue that this definition is very narrow and limiting, it introduce weird dependency on our current scientific knowledge, and isn't very useful. For instance, when Hobbes proposed the social contract theory he was discussing natural rights but today we know that his natural science knowledge was incorrect and therefore he was actually describing artificial rights. To me this makes no sense. Instead, I will propose, that rights that are derived by reason, that are universal, and that do not depend on a specific state law or the social norms of a specific society are natural rights. They are natural in the sense that they are not dependent on any state or law but are inherent. Those rights are not granted by god, and they are not artificial law propositions. They are based on universal principals of reason and the reality of human existence.
This view and this definition of natural rights is not my invention. It's reflected in the language of the universal declaration of human rights - which recognizes a set of universal rights. The declaration isn't a legal document that legislate a binding law. It recognize rights that are not (let's hope, are not yet) generally accepted by all nations. Nevertheless those rights are not based on God or born by the act of composing and publishing the declaration, those are natural rights. They are natural despite being in opposition to humans natural behavior, despite their consistent violation. It is because those rights are natural that they can serve as basis and justification for international law and justice.
Rawls theory of rights is universal, it isn't about specific social norms, it discuss human society in principle. One might say that his ethics are based on theory of the human nature.
zaat | 1 year ago | on: Ex-OpenAI board member reveals what led to Sam Altman's brief ousting
Hume's original text describing the is-ought problem is specifically targeting justification of ethics on god. Laws that no one is ought to abide by are no laws but nonsense.
Is murder immoral because god hate murder, or do god hate murder because it is immoral?
> At the end of the day, secular natural rights is an intuitive and appealing but ungrounded position that cannot be logically justified
Many will argue that no moral theory can be logically justified, and that the search for logical justification is category error
zaat | 1 year ago | on: Ex-OpenAI board member reveals what led to Sam Altman's brief ousting
Modern ethical philosophers have developed ethic theories that propose secular basis for universal rights, moral theory that doesn't rely on God (Rawls is a famous example, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Theory_of_Justice)
zaat | 1 year ago | on: Ex-OpenAI board member reveals what led to Sam Altman's brief ousting
Natural or universal rights does not require theism. Robert Nozick is famous proponent of the secular based position that property is a natural right.
zaat | 1 year ago | on: Ex-OpenAI board member reveals what led to Sam Altman's brief ousting
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural_rights_and_legal_right... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Right_to_property
zaat | 1 year ago | on: Ex-OpenAI board member reveals what led to Sam Altman's brief ousting
You are mixing morality with justice, which (in the modern world) is based on rights. "Attacking someone is wrong" is a moral statement, it puts the focus and the obligation of individuals to keep moral behavior. My right not to be attacked is not based on moral and not dependent on the morality or the beliefs of any other people, it is based on justice, a social contract that declare a set of a societal or universal rights granted to every individual.
zaat | 1 year ago | on: Should I use JWTs for authentication tokens?
zaat | 1 year ago | on: OpenAI didn’t copy Scarlett Johansson’s voice for ChatGPT, records show
zaat | 1 year ago | on: OpenAI didn’t copy Scarlett Johansson’s voice for ChatGPT, records show
zaat | 1 year ago | on: Frog or Toad?
zaat | 1 year ago | on: Introducing Copilot+ PCs
Edit: you updated defender, but you missed the depth of the rabbit hole. There's defender for office 365, there's defender for IoT, for Containers, for cloud, for cloud apps, for identity. There's one for gramma too
zaat | 1 year ago | on: 3M executives convinced a scientist forever chemicals in human blood were safe
I might be off, but my sense from the journalist report of the meeting is that Johnson was/is a jerk.