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by comex 2y ago
I was recently trying to replicate ClaudePlaysPokemon (which uses Claude 3.7) using Gemini 2.0 Flash Thinking, but it was seemingly getting confused and hallucinating significantly more than Claude, making it unviable (although some of tha
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by comex 2y ago
No, F00F was a different bug from a few years later.
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by comex 2y ago
That’s largely true, but there are some exceptions (pun not intended). In Rust, the CPU exception resulting from a stack overflow is considered safe. The compiler uses stack probing to ensure that as long as there is at least one page of u
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by comex 2y ago
They're saying that publicly disclosing the vulnerability is bad because now it will be fixed.
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by comex 2y ago
This is about modems, not general-purpose CPUs.
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by comex 2y ago
(2021). Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26573425 The top thread discusses how the claim that the L in FLOSS stands for "Liberal" is highly dubious.
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by comex 2y ago
Speaking as a newbie - FPGAs can't get anywhere near the same clock speed, though, right? So the equivalence only applies if the work is parallelizable?
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by comex 2y ago
> Whenever we share data with our partners, we put a lot of work into making sure that the data that we share is stripped of potentially identifying information, or shared only in the aggregate, or is put through our privacy preserving t
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by comex 2y ago
Huh, I never knew that. But it looks like those patents have expired: https://patents.google.com/patent/US7434177B1/en https://patents.google.com/patent/US8640045B2/en (in any case, this
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by comex 2y ago
Hmm. For the example they give of solution leakage, sympy issue 16669 aka sympy__sympy-16766[1], the solution actually appears in problem_statement, so it seems to be genuine leakage. But you're right that they claim that hints_text
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by comex 2y ago
Some of the examples in the paper seem to be wrong. For django-31056, they claim the AI-generated patch is "incomplete" because it's "missing critical parts of this logic, such as the try-except block and the check for a
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by comex 2y ago
IOMMU, not regular (CPU) MMU. The FAQ _does_ address this, but it's under "What about DMA?". In short: drivers have to be trusted for now, except that there's experimental support for x86 VT-d (which is a type of IOMMU
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by comex 2y ago
The problem is that dynamic linking is the norm. If you're writing a specific application, that's one thing. But if you're writing some random C++ library then you usually have no idea whether it will be compiled into an ex
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by comex 2y ago
I would differentiate your scenario in five ways. First, the risk is higher. When a vulnerability has a public patch, it means the nature of the vulnerability is also public. Sometimes there is even public exploit code. While attackers s
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by comex 2y ago
It's an interesting case, but I'm skeptical of SFC's assertion that this case "could have serious repercussions for software freedom". The main point of the "further restrictions" clauses in GPLv3 is viral
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by comex 2y ago
But it's possible that the compiler is smart enough to optimize the step() version down to the same code as the conditional version. If true, that still wouldn't justify using step(), but it would mean that the step() version isn
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by comex 2y ago
I like the idea of Carbon and I hope to use it in the future. But wow, > We consider it a non-goal to support legacy code for which the source code is no longer available is such a pejorative way to talk about ABI stability. Yes, suppor
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by comex 2y ago
If you were trying to answer real questions, you’d want to know if there were clear signs of the data being fake, flawed, or just different-looking than expected, potentially leading to new hypotheses. The gorilla is just an extreme example
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by comex 2y ago
A law like that would probably be unconstitutional if it applied broadly to speech in general. Compare United States v. Alvarez, where the Supreme Court held that the First Amendment gives you the right to lie about having received militar
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by comex 2y ago
Some of the key actions taken or threatened by DOGE are at least arguably illegal without permission from Congress, such as dismantling USAID, offering "deferred resignation" firing employees without due process, unilaterally stop
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by comex 2y ago
Just to nitpick… Most recent pardons have been announced in documents labeled "Executive Grant of Clemency", so I don't think "clemency" and "pardons" are as distinct as you're saying. And while I kno
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by comex 2y ago
> The red flag for anyone who has studied anything related to electromagnetism is the way it's described as a wall, not a force that gradually grows stronger as you get closer. Forces don't work at distance like that. You might
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by comex 2y ago
> instead they want to see a name and a check mark How is that remotely surprising? Most famous people are not known by domain names. Most are known by their real names. Some are known by usernames on particular services, like MrBeast
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by comex 2y ago
Not only 2.5GBaseT. I have a 10GBase-T Thunderbolt dongle (from [1]). Okay, it's a little bigger than a normal dongle, and it has a USB-C female port instead of a builtin cable, and it gets warm. But it's basically a dongle, an
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by comex 2y ago
Incidentally, this automatic branch-if-zero from LLVM is being improved. First of all, a recent LLVM patch apparently changes codegen to use CMOV instead of a branch: https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/pull/
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by comex 2y ago
You don’t even need to gain control over a large number of devices in the region. You just need _one_ device in the region, which can connect to the VPN or proxy service you were already using (the assumption seems to be that the attacker h
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by comex 2y ago
Performance. A museum visitor may not have a good internet connection, so any solution that involves uploading a photo to a server will probably be (much) slower than client-side detection. There’s a thin line between a magical experience
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by comex 2y ago
As it happens, the Python REPL was just replaced a few months ago! …Not with IPython. But with an implementation written in Python instead of C, originating from the PyPy project, that supports fancier features like multi-line editing and
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by comex 2y ago
What acceleration? Consider OpenAI's products as an example. GPT-3 (2020) was a massive step up in reasoning ability from GPT-2 (2019). GPT-3.5 (2022) was another massive step up. GPT-4 (2023) was a big step up, but not quite as big
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by comex 2y ago
I hear all the time about non-consumer devices being left exposed to the public Internet, most recently traffic cameras two days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42624930 I do not know for sure whether these device

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