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bigyabai
3mo ago
Truly, people have been saying this since 2017 and the Apple Neural Engine has proven them wrong time immemorial. Apple's own desktops, with the fastest Apple Silicon GPUs and TDPs 20x higher than an iPhone still can't compete f
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3mo ago
We already gave everyone a zero-day button. Zero days are being discovered for Windows, macOS and Linux on a weekly or sometimes daily basis. The result has been more proactive and informed OS security with a higher turnover rate for discov
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3mo ago
> I feel pretty confident saying that uncensored next gen models becoming "open" would be a net negative for society. Explain it, please. I'm in the tech crowd, and I find your inability to explain the danger insufferabl
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3mo ago
> This sort of thinking is what gets us into a world where journalists get bonesawed Journalists get bonesawed because of an abuse of the concentration of power, which is what you're directly advocating for.
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3mo ago
The people that work on computational linguistics their whole lives are often theory-obsessed morons. Noam Chomsky was widely discredited even before we knew he was friends with Epstein. If you think you can make a better case than Chomsky
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3mo ago
They'll Sherlock part of it, but I don't think Apple's subscription will be seen as a threat to Codex or Claude Code. The current B2C market is mostly comprised of power users, which will probably not be substantially displ
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3mo ago
ITT: Republican opinion column rediscovers neoliberalism, consequences of America-first strategic doctrine
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3mo ago
Yes, and they gave me the weights to prove it. Do you think Anthropic is in it for the love of the game? It looks like they're scared, to me.
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3mo ago
A lot of Hollywood studios use renderers that jump straight to CUDA as their backend. Cycles is a popular one, as well as Renderman and Octane.
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3mo ago
Github wasn't owned by Microsoft when many of us started using it.
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3mo ago
I pity the grandpa that has to read all of this and determine if Passkeys are right for them: > According to Google, you’ll need the following to sign in with a passkey: > A laptop or desktop that runs Windows 10, macOS Ventura or
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3mo ago
Explain it, then. Don't just wimp-out with trite allusions to nothingness. Discredit them.
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3mo ago
I have zero passkeys to my name. It's just not covering any serious attack surface in my life or anyone that I can think of. If technically-motivated individuals can't be assed to switch away from passwords, then imagine how normi
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3mo ago
https://knowyourmeme.com/photos/1307138-we-did-it-patrick-we... Dropping the case is great for Apple's obscurity, but terrible for enforcing the security of iOS users that are still vulnerable to Pegasus malware.
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3mo ago
AMD has Mesa drivers for graphics, which are better-optimized than Nvidia's proprietary Linux Vulkan drivers. It can be fixed in software, but Nvidia's only barely started to catch up. The focus for Nvidia's GPU stack on Linu
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3mo ago
I've found that Apple's interests are pretty fickle, concerning real-world security: https://www.securityweek.com/apple-suddenly-drops-nso-group-...
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3mo ago
Laugh at them.
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3mo ago
> I mean the model committed numerous crimes "Crimes" or even "hacking" are not really that impressive. I can get GPT-2 to abet financial fraud or write exploits with the right prompt. Some people get accused of hacki
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3mo ago
> Big financial institutions are panicked at the new attacks and how easy it is to poke holes in their systems. Have any big financial institutions been hacked with an AI-generated payload, then? I've been following the number of ne
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3mo ago
People told me that in 2018, too. Glad that I didn't listen.
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3mo ago
As Hayao Miyazaki put it, it's "an insult to life itself"
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3mo ago
I'm sure there are hundreds that get submitted every day to the Linux mailing list, frankly.
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3mo ago
All of those except Alphafold are basically just automated smoke-testing with proof assistants. And Alphafold isn't an LLM. So yeah, some more potent examples would really help illustrate the real-world dangers of frontier models. Ente
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3mo ago
> are solving unprecedented mathematical and scientific problems every week now. Nitpick; disproving a conjecture isn't "solving" anything. It's testing and breaking a theory that never had proof in the first place. &
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3mo ago
GLM has an extremely cheap subscription plan similar to Claude Code from Z.ai. You get Opus-level quotas with 5.2 and none of the Anthropic-style model nerfs when you ask cybersecurity questions. It's extraordinarily, preeminently acce
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3mo ago
> Hard to see take-off stopping or slowing down. It's hard to see takeoff at all. This was a long-horizon adversarial task burning millions of tokens. It rolled a mediocre, detectable exploit chain, and now OpenAI is proud of it. Ca
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This is also a misunderstanding of the case, though. The suit wasn't filed because of accidental Siri triggers, it was filed because Apple never informed users that third-party contractors would be listening to retained recordings of a
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> Aren't shifting priorities a side effect of free elections? It can be, but you're describing an instance of fossil fuel lobbying and transparent corruption: https://www.statista.com/statistics/788056&#x
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Conversely, the United States is now embroiled deeper in asymmetric warfare than ever before. US-based systems are being exploited by Chinese efforts like Salt Typhoon and raising questions about reciprocal attacks. Other targets of US soft
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3mo ago
Can you substantiate your belief, or is it just a feeling? I'm not saying that you're necessarily wrong, but you're certainly lacking evidence. It would be easier to buy into your speculation if you could explain what limits
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