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by FooBarWidget 2mo ago
How good is Lazarus nowadays? Haven't taken a look for 20 years so this is a genuine question.
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by FooBarWidget 2mo ago
Very weird for this to be downvoted. It's a legitimate concern. It's also a legitimate question: where do you get your trust from? Do you have guardrails? Or is it really just blind trust?
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by FooBarWidget 2mo ago
How do you have any kind of trust in these tools? They always feel like one prompt injection away, or one over eager agent away ("I'll lookup a forgotten credential in an email to ssh into a server to hack a system in order to ful
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by FooBarWidget 2mo ago
Just look at this: https://blog.habets.se/2026/05/Everything-in-C-is-undefined-... This is undefined behavior! const int* magic_intp = (const int*)bytes; Heck even something trivial like this is UB: bool bar(char
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by FooBarWidget 2mo ago
> Not every high-level language gives you byte-level access to the representation of memory objects. Any code that ventures anywhere near that territory is 99% Undefined Behavior. It's almost impossible to write proper C/C++ co
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by FooBarWidget 2mo ago
Taking caffeine is fighting against natural circadian rhythm, avoiding caffeine isn't.
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by FooBarWidget 2mo ago
Malicious servers can send malicious terminal escape codes. For example https://www.sentinelone.com/vulnerability-database/cve-2026-...
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by FooBarWidget 2mo ago
Models don't have an inherent identity. It should be obvious by now that every models trains on public AI chat session transcripts. I've seen Claude say it's Qwen.
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by FooBarWidget 2mo ago
That really depends on who you ask. If it's that bad then why did all of those countries sign up for the RCEP?
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by FooBarWidget 2mo ago
It's called Tang and Ming dynasty. We already know.
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by FooBarWidget 2mo ago
Rootless containers have privilege escalation risks of their own. The problem is the unprivileged_userns_clone sysctl, which rootless containers rely on, has historically been a big source of local privilege escalations. The most recent att
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by FooBarWidget 2mo ago
The money and resources aren't going to Huawei exclusively, but to a whole range of companies. This selection changes over time as new companies show promise, or previously selected companies prove themselves to be incompetent. For exa
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by FooBarWidget 2mo ago
They can already make chips economically. Yields are worse than TSCM but good enough since they no longer need to pay the "Qualcomm tax". Huawei's phones are profitable. The issue is rather that Chinese capacity comes from
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by FooBarWidget 3mo ago
The Dutch have a saying: it's better to have stolen something well than to have invented something bad.
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by FooBarWidget 3mo ago
I'm kinda confused given that they're from China. The Chinese Internet is very different from the western Internet. The web is way smaller, and a lot of useful content is behind app-based walled ecosystems such as Wechat, Douyin a
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by FooBarWidget 3mo ago
I'd like to see a serious HN discussion thread about WAIC first.
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by FooBarWidget 3mo ago
Lots of fake news out there, but you don't need to speculate any longer. Key takeaways from President Xi's speech in his first ever appearance at the World AI Conference in Shanghai: - Started the speech by referring to his signat
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by FooBarWidget 3mo ago
You don't even need that, all models are susceptible to prompt injection. You already need to take extreme security precautions and assume all models can essentially behave like attacker-controlled rootkits.
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by FooBarWidget 3mo ago
There is no such thing as an unbiased opinion, opinions always contain some sort of value judgement. Besides, training data contains biases. What is plausible is that they haven't made any attempts to explicitly steer certain opinion
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by FooBarWidget 3mo ago
Furthermore we should thank the amount of fossil fuel and CO2 reduction that HSR has given, or the planet will be really in trouble.
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by FooBarWidget 3mo ago
What from I understand the issue is mainly service frequency rather than fuel efficiency. Also, the domestic commercial jet market is still sizable, so excluding the domestic market from analyses is kinda weird. Finally, lots of countries a
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by FooBarWidget 3mo ago
Doesn't matter. Getting entangled up in a court case that lasts years is hassle enough by itself that it's effective as an attack.
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by FooBarWidget 3mo ago
Their terms of service already effectively attacks people for criticizing Anthropic. It says that if you use Claude to criticize Anthropic, then you've pre-agreed to pay for their lawyers going after you, and pre-agreed to lose the c
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by FooBarWidget 3mo ago
I can't reply to your reply so let me do that here. In Netherlands, the government wants to reduce emission, so it incentivizes people to isolate their homes better, and to use heat pumps instead of gas heating. On the other hand, if y
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by FooBarWidget 3mo ago
Chinese censorship rules are not about criticizing vs praising the state. They are about avoiding any kind of social controversy or collective action. They don't care when you talk about these topics in private or small circles, even c
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by FooBarWidget 3mo ago
The fifth book is on Amazon. https://www.amazon.com/XI-JINPING-GOVERNANCE-CHINA-V/dp/7119... It's already an English translation. For something shorter, you can see Arnaud Bertrand's recent review. http
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by FooBarWidget 3mo ago
The Thucydides Trap mention is different from what you describe. Xi has dismissed the Thucydides Trap multiple times in the past as being hearsay and self-imposed bias ( https://www.globaltimes.cn/content/944179.shtml ).
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by FooBarWidget 3mo ago
It's even worse than that. China publishes stacks upon stacks of policy documents in which they explain clearly what they will do and why. This includes why they do poverty alleviation and why they believe big monopolies that own every
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by FooBarWidget 3mo ago
The standard is applied very inconsistently. Nobody accuses the local bakery of being motivated by profit, and that they don't bake bread for you out of altruism.
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by FooBarWidget 3mo ago
That's not meaningfully different from philanthropy. If Chinese AI products generate sufficient revenue with cheaper marketing strategies, then the incentives for releasing open models will go away. Right now, there is a shortage of ta

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