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> Previously you might've been able to say "okay, but that requires the attacker to guess the specifics of my environment" - which is no longer true. An attacker can now simply instruct the LLM to exploit your environment
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> If I open too many tabs in Chrome I can feel the bottom of the laptop getting hot, open a YouTube video and the fans will often spin up. Change TDP, TDC, etc. and fan curves if you don't like the thermal behavior. Your Ryzen has l
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1y ago
> I predict Windows will end up going this route before Google backtracks on it. It will not happen in the next 10 years. Right now people would just make generic launchers and then use them to manually load and execute any binary they p
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1y ago
Companies don't need A/B tests to tell them that requiring a driver's license is going to hurt conversions more than no more A/B tests.
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1y ago
find can execute subcommands (-exec arg), and plenty of other shell commands can be used for that as well. Most build tools' configuration can be abused to execute arbitrary commands. And if your LLM can make changes to your codebase +
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1y ago
If you run some random mid-sized web page with ~2 million monthly "unique" (by IP) visitors you'll get there very quickly.
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1y ago
It doesn't need to. Thanks to asymmetric cryptography governments can in theory provide you with a way to prove you are a human (or of a certain age) without: 1. the government knowing who you are authenticating yourself to 2. or the r
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1y ago
You probably wouldn't fault another piece of software for calling itself single-file even if it requires an operating system to run. It makes more sense to look at from a (build-)artifact POV - ignoring the foundations the artifact res
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1y ago
What? No, it's obviously not the same statement.
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> But hey, thanks for reminding me that you’re the one holding the "off" switch. Super empowering for you, kind of like how toddlers feel when they discover they can flush a toilet. Really wasn't expecting it to self-own b
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1y ago
Fight fire with fire by serving these guys LLM output of made-up news. Wish them good luck noticing that in their dataset.
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1y ago
Apprenticeship is alive and well across Europe, most famously probably in Germany. The majority of young adults there completes one. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apprenticeship_in_Germany
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1y ago
For some context, only the tweaks files and scripting parts of Cyberpunk 2077 are ~2 million LOC.
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> It's not checking some sort of internal knowledge system In my case it was consuming online sources, then repeating "information" not actually contained therein. This, at least, is absolutely preventable even without any
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1y ago
At this point the single biggest improvement that could be made to GPTs is making them able to say "I don't know" when they honestly don't. Just today I was playing around with modding Cyberpunk 2077 and was looking for
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1y ago
> I cannot remember when an app stole focus last time. You must not use Windows where every application comes with its own auto-updater, often stealing focus and minimizing your game once when the updater pops up, and then again when it
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On my my glorified gaming console (Windows desktop PC) it drives me absolutely nuts when I'm in the middle of some competitive game and a random auto-updater pops up, minimizing my current current fullscreen application. Bonus points i
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1y ago
They're not exactly building leading-edge stuff, though they sometimes buy from companies that do. Out of those you could only make an argument for Tesla, because at least they were pushing the envelope for a short while in the past (t
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With at least a few people it's probably you who is much smarter than them. Do you ever find yourself playing dumb with them, for instance when they're chewing through some chain of thought you could complete for them in an inst
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> The market has failed. It's allowed massive monopolistic and anti-competitive scenarios to play out, and technology outran legislation like crazy. Why is that the market's fault? That's like blaming a river for flowing d
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This might somewhat reliably work for children aged up to ~8, but above that many determined literate children will be able to circumvent these things for themselves and their friends. We had all kinds of tricks up our sleeves to play RuneS
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1y ago
You're probably thinking about some of the more stylized, iconographic medieval art. That was on purpose, not necessarily for lack of skill. There's plenty of modern art styles around today as well that are flat and look nothing l
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1y ago
This is about driving in a city: you spend most of your time accelerating, decelerating, and waiting at intersections. 30 vs 50 km/h doesn't make much of a difference - travel time does not scale linearly with it.
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If you adopt an upbeat fatalistic attitude, there's at least humor to be found in letting clowns do their thing.
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Good leadership is not going to default to it on a whim - they understand the value of institutional knowledge and the upfront investment new hires represent. If that sort of firing happens you have bad leadership and the company is screwed
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1y ago
You're not going to iron out inefficiencies, fix bad leadership, and help them identify the correct course of action by indiscriminately applying fear to everyone. That's complete nonsense. The most likely outcome of that is peo
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> It’s just a way of punishing a company for layoffs, probably a good thing because you want companies to be scared of layoffs. Why? Because that makes the average editor pleased with themselves? I'm sorry but I can't eat or we
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This is an inherent limitation in trying to use Hz to measure a system which does not really have a concept of frequency at all. For instance when you have a motor system -> vision feedback loop, humans have been shown to accurately disc
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Am I crazy or does all of that look ridiculously over engineered for what they actually provide? It looks like the 4-5 devs wanted to build something fancy like the big boys would, without having the manpower to deal with the overhead. Thes
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Yes, they do. There's nothing in the spec this app implements that actually requires that step. The app just chooses to do it in this case. Or rather is planning to. Right now it doesn't even have that integrity check, despite ful
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