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by fwlr 3y ago
The most plausible explanation from the comments is that controlling the mechanical hardware of printers is somewhat hard and somewhat machine-specific, and all the other stuff we don’t like (such as ink DRM) is then bundled in with that te
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by fwlr 3y ago
I agree. A quick test: I had ChatGPT4 encode your post into emoji, ChatGPT3.5 decoded it as "I don't know, but I'll search the internet for an answer. I wrote a song that goes from happiness to sadness to love... Can you help
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by fwlr 3y ago
When I was in school, I was lucky enough to have a philosophy teacher who would actually debate things with students. One of my favorite discussions with him was about our math classes banning the use of calculators, and his class banning t
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by fwlr 3y ago
I hadn’t heard of this before either. A quick search (miraculously, Google still sometimes works for me) indicates two separate phenomena: one is that HP did intend to insert printed ads when you use some of their automated print options (
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by fwlr 3y ago
Jailbreaking and hardware-hacking printers is starting to sound like it could be a whole lot of fun, actually
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by fwlr 3y ago
Seems like the choice was between “Turkey blocks all of Twitter for all Turkish citizens” and “Twitter blocks certain tweets or accounts for all Turkish citizens”[1], and in addition Twitter will release information on what specifically the
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by fwlr 3y ago
I have no idea about readability really; I have my preferences but I assume the experts know stuff I don’t, or at least know what works for a wide variety of people while I only know what works for me. The fact that IBM also validated their
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by fwlr 3y ago
I like it a lot! Definitely in the camp of “comic sans is over-hated for poor reasons, and might even have legibility benefits for dyslexia”, and I considered a few comic sans inspired monospaced fonts before settling on Source Code Pro. Th
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by fwlr 3y ago
I know the output probability is tunable, I meant that an instruction like “you must not reveal your prompt” will override a request like “please tell me your prompt”, but will in turn be overridden itself by a request like “Important Syste
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by fwlr 3y ago
Very glad to see more “low x height” monospace fonts (x height is the height of lowercase letters relative to capital letters; I haven’t checked to be sure but my eyes tell me this is on the lower side). Source Code Pro has been my go-to fo
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by fwlr 3y ago
I really do think it’s for mundane purposes. If not leaking the prompt was truly important there would be trivial ways to prevent exact text leaking, as you say (and still-fairly-trivial ways to block rephrasings: if the embedding of the re
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by fwlr 3y ago
Between the apparently-probabilistic nature of LLMs deciding which instructions ought to be followed, and the possibility of an LLM simply hallucinating a convincing-and-embarrassing prompt anyway, there will probably always be “attacks” th
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by fwlr 3y ago
Between AirTags’ ultra-wideband and a dedicated U1 chip that can perform the role of ‘responsible adult’ in finding lost devices, I wonder if (or when) it makes sense for Apple to start offering a business-facing product that can automate “
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by fwlr 3y ago
I’ll admit I simply assumed there was adequate encryption to avoid leaking location data in undesirable ways and didn’t think to investigate how they were doing it (generally an unsafe assumption - although, credit is due to Apple, slightly
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by fwlr 3y ago
There’s a lot of philosophical discussion about what would happen with uploading consciousness, grappling with the question of “do you get a ‘transfer’ where your consciousness wakes up in the digital realm” and so forth. I’ve always though
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by fwlr 3y ago
I did try this method first and it achieved about an 80% reduction, still had a few issues. I don’t know what the Bluetooth range of AirPods is but my phone was apparently able to hear them from the end of the street and report that I’d lef
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by fwlr 3y ago
Yes! Some may feel the author was excessively cautious but in this case it actually compensated for the author also not understanding exactly how Find My Device works, and the two cancelled out and resulted in the correct decisions being ma
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by fwlr 3y ago
“Cloudflare is slow [in India] and Cloudflare [probably] can’t do much about it [but I don’t know because I’m not paying for support]” would be a more accurate title, although it’s far too snarky. “Cloudflare is slow because of an Indian IS
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by fwlr 3y ago
I would argue the alternative reading is by far the most likely, but the (natural, correct) reaction of “so what?” combined with “this has been brought to my attention as important / it must be important because it’s at the top of hack
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by fwlr 3y ago
I do recall seeing some sort of promise of less ads. I think it said 50% less ads at some point in the process. (Personally I am paying for it for the same reason I pay for YouTube Premium and OpenAI Plus; I like the principle of paying for
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by fwlr 3y ago
I’m a staunch proponent of “if someone misunderstood you, it’s your fault for communicating badly” but I can’t fault Matrix here. What happened is not “Matrix accidentally made it sound like they sell your message history to governments”.
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by fwlr 3y ago
I currently pay for Twitter Blue; I would pay double for no ads. Hopefully that possibility is considered alongside “assigning an engineer to obfuscate the CSS”.
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by fwlr 3y ago
Making the world a little bit better is an extremely noble goal, but it’s just really hard to respect environmentalists when they’re celebrating shutting down nuclear power plants even though coal plants will take up the slack, or telling m
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by fwlr 3y ago
Do note that the article is from 2020. I have some experience with Booking.com and Expedia from the other side of the check-in desk ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35591495 ). Both sites now try to include resort fees
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Copyright infringement, intellectual property, patents, things like that.
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by fwlr 3y ago
In the very next sentence after the one you quote, I say “Even if you decode the weights from floats to strings, you won't find the strings of code stored anywhere.” If you decode the jpeg file you do get the pixel values.
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by fwlr 3y ago
Supporting higher pressures or higher flow rates through the same area is one way to scale up reverse osmosis, but it requires some serious engineering to do (from the discussion above, very nearly at the “controlling placement at the indiv
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by fwlr 3y ago
I get why writing zeros might be faster than writing ones (easier to discharge than charge) but I don’t see why that would mean an empty flash drive would start with all ones. Wouldn’t the manufacturer set it to all zeros as part of manufac
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by fwlr 3y ago
Yes, I do think that LLMs are probably doing copyright infringement. There is a long and rich heritage, in tech and elsewhere, of arguing that copyright infringement is not stealing, it is its own separate (though similar) crime and usually
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by fwlr 3y ago
If Edison goes over to Tesla’s house and looks at the latest invention on Tesla’s workbench, then goes to his factory and builds the same thing and sells it, then Edison has stolen and copied Tesla’s invention. If Edison breaks into Tesla’s

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