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by foota 6mo ago
I don't think this checks out. Would the model do the same thing when presented with the exact same inputs? Yes. Is it more likely to do the same thing at the same intersection? Probably. But if you repeat a similar setup somewhere it
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Ask HN: Can WASM be used as a means of sanitizing native code?
1 points by foota 6mo ago|1 comments
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by foota 7mo ago
Somewhat unrelated, but if I have downloaded node modules in the last couple days, how should I best figure out if I've been hacked?
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by foota 7mo ago
Hah, I did the same exact thing and came here to say that :) I was looking at wiring diagrams and telling myself I could wire up some arduino circuits for it but gave up when when I realized I could just press the button! edit: although min
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by foota 7mo ago
I added a super cheap and bad embedding database in a project that allows the agent to call a tool for searching all the content it's built, it seems to work pretty well! This way the agent doesn't need to call a bunch of list too
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by foota 7mo ago
It would be fascinating if someday you could implement parts of the browser using WASM modules.
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by foota 7mo ago
I realize this comes up every so often, but I was just looking at this the other day :) A related idea is wang tiles, which are a way to construct a tileset such that you can place them without ever running into a contradiction.
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by foota 7mo ago
Could it be because nuclear is highly centralized? I would expect that something like solar/wind power would be better for decentralization (in a war). Even if you don't blow up a nuclear plant, it seems like cutting the power fro
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by foota 7mo ago
Copyright for me not for thee? :) That's a good point though. Maybe they could round trip things? E.g., use the model trained only on internal content to generate training data (which you could probably do some kind of screening to rem
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by foota 7mo ago
> I don't think this would qualify as clean room (the Library was involved in learning to generate programs as a whole) Hm... I mean this is really one for the lawyers, but IMO you would likely successfully be able to argue that the
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by foota 7mo ago
I don't know how far it would get, but I imagine that a FAANG will be able to get the farthest here by virtue of having mountains of corporate data that they have complete ownership over.
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by foota 7mo ago
I think the more interesting question here would be if someone could fine tune an open weight model to remove knowledge of a particular library (not sure how you'd do that, but maybe possible?) and then try to get it to produce a clean
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by foota 7mo ago
Ah yes, open API, famously a user accessible means of accessing a website.
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by foota 8mo ago
Well that aged poorly.
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by foota 8mo ago
Hm.. but that's just tool calling, right? MCP is just that there's a lot more tools than normal.
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by foota 8mo ago
Does tool calling in general bloat context, or is there something particular about MCP? One thing I have read recently is that when you make a tool call it forces the model to go back to the agent. The effect of this is that the agent then
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by foota 8mo ago
That's... weird? Maybe it's blocked in your country? The link opens just fine for me. Those were tested numbers, not advertised though. I don't see how you'd get a drop from 200 to 120 miles, that's a 40% drop. Mayb
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by foota 8mo ago
Maybe most EVs in the wild, but no way for EVs being sold today. There are only 5 cars on this list below 200: https://www.edmunds.com/car-news/electric-car-range-and-cons... , and more than half above 300.
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by foota 8mo ago
> This makes it a little more expensive than diesel, considerably more expensive than petrol, and roughly the same price as electric Is electric charging more expensive in the UK than petrol? That's nuts.
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by foota 8mo ago
> Hydrogen is such a terrible idea it was never getting off the ground. See: the Hindenburg disaster afternote: There's the potential for an amazing pun in here, but I don't think I quite did the opportunity justice.
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by foota 8mo ago
That makes sense! The only flaw here imo is that sometimes that thinking is useful. Sub-agents for tool calls imo make a nice sort of middle ground where they can both be flexible and save context. Maybe we need some tool call composing fea
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by foota 8mo ago
What do the calls being sequential have to do with tokens? Do you just mean that the LLM has to think everytime they get a response (as opposed to being able to compose them)?
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by foota 8mo ago
No, I don't think you're thinking about this right. It's more like hacker news would expose an MCP when you visit it that would present an alternative and parallel interface to the page, not "click button" tools.
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by foota 8mo ago
I've been having much the same thoughts. What will work look like, say, 10 years from now? I'm beginning to think that we might have all the knowledge worker type jobs largely filled, or filled with significantly less workers, (ho
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by foota 8mo ago
My understanding is it's liability, if the doctor decides not to look into it then they could be blamed for it if it turns to cancer.
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by foota 8mo ago
Wow, I wouldn't have thought that it would be possible to do this (at least, not ergonomically, although now that you mention it I guess I don't see why not). That would be amazing to see.
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by foota 8mo ago
I was sort of thinking about a similar idea recently. What if you wrote something like a webserver that was given "goals" for a backend, and then told agents what the application was supposed to be and told it to use the backend f
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by foota 8mo ago
No? It sounds like they rejected the need for a connection pooler and took an alternative approach. I imagine they were aware of connection poolers and just didn't add one until they had to.
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by foota 8mo ago
Imho (in my harsh opinion, in this case) unless you're a prodigy you're probably not a very good programmer at this point. Now granted people learn more quickly outside of university I think because it tends to be more focused, bu
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by foota 8mo ago
Yeah, this is for integration with OTEL standard distributed tracing. So you configure some OTEL compliant endpoint for postgres to send trace spans to and that endpoint will collect traces from different services and store them for later r

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