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by cjbprime 3y ago
It looks neat, though it always seems strange to me when an ergonomic setup involves picking up one of your hands and moving it to the side often to use a separate mouse or keyboard. Is there not a better place to put it, integrated or slig
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by cjbprime 3y ago
> You mean when Microsoft, Google, Apple, Cloudfare, Verisign, Digicert say "Trust me" ? No, because that's the opposite of the point of Certificate Transparency. When someone shares a technical term you haven't heard
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by cjbprime 3y ago
So the answer is no, you are unfamiliar with Certificate Transparency. You should check it out! It basically solved this problem a long time ago.
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by cjbprime 3y ago
Why do you think it's a false sense of security? Are you familiar with Certificate Transparency? And Let's Encrypt?
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by cjbprime 3y ago
> Hard to imagine how that could lead to any security compromise Integer overflows as a vulnerability class are often very bad, but usually when they're describing an attacker-controlled memory allocation size (which the attacker&#x
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by cjbprime 3y ago
Do you think it might, sometimes, be worth mobilizing resources for unusual events before they have begun to cause damage?
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by cjbprime 3y ago
I think there are simply very few humans performing competent vulnerability research (proactive discovery, not reactive patching) in public.
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by cjbprime 3y ago
Maybe Elon owned it going back to Paypal Mafia days, pointed it at OpenAI while they were friends, and then remembered recently about owning the domain (I assume being the wealthiest person in the world involves constantly forgetting about
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by cjbprime 3y ago
Yes, I like Iosevka Aile a lot. And it's free! So worth a try. https://chris.printf.net/iosevka-aile.png https://typeof.net/Iosevka/
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by cjbprime 3y ago
Just a note to say thank you for this detailed reply! I did not know these things, and am getting a Mac Studio of similar spec for work soon (for reasons unrelated to AI) and it's helpful to know what to expect about its ML capabiliti
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by cjbprime 3y ago
The limit here is the "context window" length of the model, measured in tokens, which will quickly become too short to contain all of your previous conversations, which will mean it has to answer questions without access to all of
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by cjbprime 3y ago
Either you trust the TLS session to their website to deliver you software you're going to run, or you don't.
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by cjbprime 3y ago
You might consider getting a Mac Studio (with as much RAM as you can afford up to 192GB) instead, since 192GB is more (unified) memory than you're going to easily get to with GPUs.
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by cjbprime 3y ago
Your cofounder's take is similarly correct to your take about 2016 being a decade ago.
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by cjbprime 3y ago
This ("so many ways to exploit modern systems") is not actually true. Yes, plenty of memory-unsafety vulnerabilities exist, but modern mitigations like stack cookies, ASLR, (and sometimes) sandboxing and PAC make it unlikely that
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by cjbprime 3y ago
I'm using Arch as the base distro, but spend increasing time inside (mostly Ubuntu) Docker containers, and using remote VSCode (whole window remote, via ssh) to a more powerful machine.
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by cjbprime 3y ago
Yes, since it's single-threaded.
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by cjbprime 3y ago
It's helpful for dependency management, but I think in this case the goal is also having the user know that every aspect of the task is covered somewhere in this one file -- there is no "and then it goes into a library that I can&
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by cjbprime 3y ago
This is my guess too. Programming languages currently have to make tradeoffs around cognitive load and the ability to fully reason about effects of statements. An AI assistant with stronger reasoning ability might allow the creation of more
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by cjbprime 3y ago
Most of these subjects are not especially well-taught in college CS courses. You're in a golden age for being able to learn whatever you like: you can start by plugging keywords into YouTube and looking for popular video explanations o
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by cjbprime 3y ago
Same. I remember the day the letter came from BT suggesting that my parents switch to the "Heavy User" tariff. I'd been using the nearest CompuServe POP in a different city.
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by cjbprime 3y ago
This is not an open source license: https://opensource.org/osd/ 6. No Discrimination Against Fields of Endeavor The license must not restrict anyone from making use of the program in a specific field of endeavor. For e
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by cjbprime 3y ago
> This "just so" claim has always struck me as quite a reach. Humans are manipulable, yes, especially by (perceived) group pressure, but there are still limits. You could reimagine it as "convince most people to do anythin
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by cjbprime 3y ago
This is a truly awful article. I'm mildly positive towards AI because I think people tend to react with fear and examine the risks without equivalently examining the rewards, and I think that's happening here and the rewards seem
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by cjbprime 3y ago
No, but I think that was exactly the point being made: that the article suggests evil would be required for existential risk, when indifferent would suffice.
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by cjbprime 3y ago
I'm thankful for Iosevka, it's been great. I even like the quasi-proportional version for code, Iosevka Aile: https://chris.printf.net/iosevka-aile.png
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by cjbprime 3y ago
Sorry, quick clarification: I asked if you've been using GPT-4, have you? I agree that GPT-3 / "normal ChatGPT" does not have the abilities I'm talking about.
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by cjbprime 3y ago
> What makes you think there isn't a limited interpreter Because OpenAI says there isn't, and there are open source LLMs which show the same (but less profound) ability. > expert system effectively akin to an interpreter wor
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by cjbprime 3y ago
:) I heard someone say "LLMs are just lossy compression algorithms" dismissively yesterday, and I would love to hear their understanding of what a brain does.
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by cjbprime 3y ago
Have you used GPT-4 significantly? I've had many experiences* of answers that, as far as I can tell, require strong reasoning skills and a world model. It is unreliable, as you say, but only demonstrating those skills a small fraction

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