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Big Tech is moving on from the DeepSeek shock(ft.com)
2 points by gusfoo 2y ago|1 comments
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by gusfoo 2y ago
> The article literally says it's not a hallucination and that the detail came from real websites. The "hallucination" term generally refers to any made-up facts. Harsh as it may be to put this weight of responsibility on
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by gusfoo 2y ago
> Read the memo from Meta in full: That did not seem at all controversial to me. It seems quite sensible, but it alludes to some silly practices that are now being retired. For example "This effort focused on sourcing from diverse-o
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by gusfoo 2y ago
> Was it working in the original DOOM though? I don't remember any more. By default it was the arrow keys for movement and <> for turning with CTRL as fire. But you could re-map the keys and after a few years quite a lot of pe
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by gusfoo 2y ago
Meanwhile, over at Blueksy.app a few days ago, the users were incensed about a 1M-post data set and hounded the creator in to withdrawing it. https://bsky.app/profile/danielvanstrien.bsky.social/post/3l...
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by gusfoo 2y ago
> So in summary there is no special thing here about this being a regex No, I think the story is that it's an incredible thing to implement a prime test in a regex. It was a pretty neat thing 20+ years ago when I first saw it and I
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by gusfoo 2y ago
perl -wle 'print "Prime" if (1 x shift) !~ /^1?$|^(11+?)\1+$/' <number> I saw that by Abigail on comp.lang.perl.misc many moons ago. Here is an article about it: http://test.neilk.net/blog
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by gusfoo 2y ago
> The Palletrone is a robotic hovercart for moving stuff anywhere No, it really is not. It's a tech demo of moving 3 kilos in an awkward and loud manner, a task that has negative practical value.
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by gusfoo 2y ago
> Why would an anti-malware program be allowed to install a driver automatically ... or ever for that matter? While the files are named XXX.SYS they are apparently not drivers. The issue is that a corrupted XXX.SYS was loaded by the alre
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by gusfoo 2y ago
True but Ocean Gate were planning on multiple use, surely a higher bar.
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by gusfoo 3y ago
It would be a lot more useful if country contours were drawn too like https://gpsjam.org/ does.
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by gusfoo 3y ago
> The message was somehow intercepted by British security services "somehow" is doing a lot of heavy lifting there. There are multiple routes to alert the authorities by the public that don't involve randomly intercepting
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by gusfoo 3y ago
> The extra hardware registers might have been discovered by examining the chip itself. Perhaps. But it's easier to phone the technical librarian and say "Hi! I'm Bob from the password inspection department. Can you verify
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Australian academics apologise for false AI-generated allegations(theguardian.com)
2 points by gusfoo 3y ago|0 comments
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by gusfoo 3y ago
After the scene is filmed/photographed then one can re-position and re-point a virtual camera and have it correctly render the scene. And do so with higher quality results than photogrammetry and NeRF techniques.
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by gusfoo 3y ago
> Are people frustrated by the latency of the incumbents? Not me, no. And I'm not even frustrated by pretty much anything. I have some Cygwin SSH sessions on the go and I'm running 'screen' in those terminals. It work
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Ask HN: How can I security-sandbox email attachment opening?
12 points by gusfoo 3y ago|7 comments
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by gusfoo 3y ago
I would have fired this person immediately. Gross misconduct -> instant dismissal.
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by gusfoo 3y ago
> It is surprising, that there is so little competition for affiliates these days. Still pretty competitive in the gambling and cryptocurrency space IMO.
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by gusfoo 4y ago
I like the fact that there is still lovely design-stuff on HN. Well done.
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XML Security in Java Java. XML security issues and how to address them(semgrep.dev)
2 points by gusfoo 4y ago|0 comments
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by gusfoo 4y ago
XML: The greatest productivity destroyer of the 20th century.
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by gusfoo 5y ago
A suspected BGP leak https://bgpstream.com/event/287678 happened at 17:52 in the Netherlands. Downdetector (roughly) shows the graph start to spike around https://downdetector.com/status/aws-amazon
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by gusfoo 5y ago
> Yet somehow Cuba managed to make it work with the Soviets. They were (the Cubans) passionate believers in the cause. A lot of cold-war accounts from the other side of the Iron Curtain mention how their passion was unmatched in the SSR
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by gusfoo 5y ago
> Ask HN: Why don’t you use Linux as your daily driver OS? Because, like it or not (I don't) DX11 outperforms OpenGL on my target hardware. But on the plus-side, VS is incredibly comfy.
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Cloudflare thwarts 17.2M rps DDoS attack – the largest ever reported(blog.cloudflare.com)
1 points by gusfoo 5y ago|3 comments
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by gusfoo 6y ago
> One thing I still don’t quite understand is how a system like this one can develop when the people developing it almost certainly are completely opposed to these ideas on a personal political level. It is, as they say, giving people wh
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by gusfoo 8y ago
> I am wondering whether there is a market for a "home entertainment" robot at any price. Sony's Aibo is quite pricey, but sold pretty well. And it has little functionality beyond being cute. https://en.wikipedi
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by gusfoo 8y ago
A platform for making things on a platform made for creating platforms. I'm sure (semi-sarcastically) that you'll surely make a lot of money.
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by gusfoo 8y ago
> Anger Over Tourists Swarming Vacation Hot Spots Anger at hot spot marketing department for successfully selling! How dare they!

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