avianlyric

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by avianlyric 14d ago
There’s been a few, but it’s becoming so common people have stopped noticing, but here’s a few recent ones: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/ce9yydgmzdvt?post=asset%3Aae... https://www.france24.com/
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by avianlyric 17d ago
The approach assumes that most people don’t have the ability to directly attack the image sensor itself. It’s a little buried in the article, but creating reference images involves having the actual image sensor sign the raw data it capture
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by avianlyric 17d ago
> Like with C2PA, the entire thing hinges on nobody being able to dump keys or trick the TPM into signing arbitrary image data. Is the whole point here that Apple have baked the TPM and keys directly into the sensor. So extracting the ke
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by avianlyric 17d ago
> A better fix is to take photos with all three iPhone cameras simultaneously, ideally as a 2-3s video, and use the parallax/multiple perspectives to extract depth information. I think iPhones already do this (although without takin
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by avianlyric 18d ago
That does depend on the productivity being lost. No doubt many of the people who were unable to commute that day would have been doctors and nurses. I think it would be of a stretch to actually claim that this specific incident caused loss
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by avianlyric 19d ago
The vast majority of the public agree that climate change is real and that human activity is at least a contributing factor. They’ve agreed on that for quite a few years now, and yet there’s little indication that we’re going to pause or sl
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by avianlyric 24d ago
You could just do what all of Europe does and just include the tax in the listed retail price, rather than only tacking it on at the end.
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by avianlyric 24d ago
This depends heavily on the country you’re in. In the UK banks are required to refund you within a single business day if they don’t have any evidence that the customer isn’t trying to defraud the bank themselves. They try to squirm out of
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by avianlyric 24d ago
The EU caps all card interchange fees at 0.3% for credit cards and 0.2% for debit, which is an order of magnitude lower than some of the fees in the US. That’s why you don’t see the same kinds of credit card deals in the EU compared to the
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by avianlyric 1mo ago
The credit reporting agencies lost the data of normal people, they didn’t lose their customers proprietary internal data. The credit agencies didn’t loose or misplace their customers data, so obviously their customers don’t really care th
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by avianlyric 1mo ago
GP is talking about using SSRIs for treating arachnophobia, not depression.
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by avianlyric 1mo ago
Not really, there’s a number of different concrete binders available including cement, bitumen (used for asphalt), lime (very old binder), even epoxy. Concrete is a material that uses any binder with rock aggregate. But in everyday usage pe
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by avianlyric 1mo ago
Not really, that’s what discovery is for. You just ask Anthropic and OpenAI to hand over every internal document and message that contains your companies name, or matches any reasonable query about where training data comes from. It very ha
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by avianlyric 1mo ago
Just to be a pedant, and because this fact tends to surprise people, asphalt is concrete. Concrete is a generally defined as any mineral aggregate (so rocks and stones) mixed with a binder (normally cement, but bitumen in the case of asphal
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by avianlyric 1mo ago
> but they don't have laws that make it a criminal offense to negligently damage property or hack a website. Most of them do, but they don’t get used very often. They seem to popup in vandalism cases where public artwork has been da
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by avianlyric 1mo ago
It looks like it only partially reindexes on save, but it completely reindexes the single file that’s saved, rather than doing partial reindex of the file on every keystroke like rust-analyser. But importantly it’s not reindexing the entire
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by avianlyric 2mo ago
That’s cute, but it doesn’t really scale. Organised crime groups aren’t interested in laundering a few $100k at a go. They’re moving and laundering millions, you can’t put that through a casino without it being very obvious. There is a huge
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by avianlyric 2mo ago
Hasn’t the right to ask existed since the invention of consent laws? The state being able demand a persons age, and gate their behaviour based on that, has existed for hundreds of years so far. During that entire time the requirement to be
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by avianlyric 2mo ago
> Anti-money-laundering is a comparable field, as all the AML regulations and laws are ineffective at identifying money launderers, but they're wonderful for verifying (auditing and prosecuting) tax compliance. As someone who’s impl
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by avianlyric 2mo ago
The Iranian strikes didn’t involve autonomous weapons systems. The “AI” component was used for target selection. The actual aiming and firing of the weapon was performed by humans. In theory the target selection was also vetted by humans, b
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by avianlyric 2mo ago
I would read the divergence as mostly evidence that Mythos et al, had offensive cyber capabilities as part of their RL training. I.e. they’re models specifically trained to be good at offensive cyber, rather than being general purpose model
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by avianlyric 2mo ago
> Really, now? Yeah, they can ask, but do data center operators just go "oh grid needs our power! Let's switch to backup!" Of course they do. The grid is going to load shed regardless, better to disconnect in an orderly fa
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by avianlyric 2mo ago
This is where harness, and the fact that a machine can be endlessly prompted to try again comes in. Even if an LLM starts by pursuing things that follow human bias, continuous failures and re-prompting to try something different will eventu
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by avianlyric 3mo ago
I think the point is that an “open source project” is more than just the code and license, it’s also the community that builds and maintains it. A fast rewrite of Bun in Rust has effectively alienated most of the people in the Bun community
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by avianlyric 3mo ago
There’s a big difference between processing multiple streams, and processing multiple streams simultaneously. You can achieve the former, without the latter, by doing time slicing. Spending a small amount of time processing stream A, then d
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by avianlyric 3mo ago
You can only get grid connections if the grid thinks they can support your demand. That’s why grid connections take so long, they’re not just plugging in a massive cable, they’re reinforcing other parts of the grid to make sure your massive
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by avianlyric 3mo ago
This argument would hold more weight if Anthropic and OpenAI main customers weren’t massive trillion dollar companies with legal teams capable of burying just about anyone, anywhere, for even the mildest contract violation. Something that O
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by avianlyric 3mo ago
It was also disruptive because it was open weight, meaning anyone and their dog could theoretically compete with the frontier labs for their inference revenue. The frontier labs need to recoup a huge amount of cash to cover their model deve
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by avianlyric 3mo ago
Most data centres connect to the grid, they don’t connect to a single power station, except in scenarios where there’s a uniquely low cost power supply nearby, like a small Hydro Plant. Utility scale power stations have outputs measured in
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by avianlyric 3mo ago
If it isn’t a schema generation or typescript bug, then why did changing the API types they use result in different model behaviour?

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