joatmon-snoo

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by joatmon-snoo 2mo ago
… do you know what the difference between potable and non-potable water is? AOC is fantastic, but her name doesn’t automatically lend credibility to an argument, certainly not one backed by actual primary sources.
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by joatmon-snoo 2mo ago
It’s not: the datacenter likely consumes less. Datacenters (1) use non-potable water during normal operation and (2) return most of the water they use to the water system, instead of consuming it (as opposed to, say, a golf course). I have
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by joatmon-snoo 2mo ago
The evidence that proves a model is actually a step function change is these benchmarks. If a model isn’t a step function change? Welcome to research.
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by joatmon-snoo 4mo ago
An example I ran into recently: I wanted to scrape pricing data for used cars, to better inform a friend's decision about what to purchase. I know there's a relationship between mileage and depreciation, but wanted to have a bette
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Copy-Fail: Linux Privilege Escalation(copy.fail)
2 points by joatmon-snoo 5mo ago|1 comments
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by joatmon-snoo 6mo ago
It’s really one of those things that you have to see in person and walk up and down along to understand. The scale of it alone is a huge part of what makes it so memorable.
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by joatmon-snoo 6mo ago
Well, is Pixar’s Toy Story a work of art? Or what about Julia set renderings, where people make choices about the colors? ;) Tongue-in-cheek aside, I do think I agree with you in that (1) art, as perceived by us human meatbags, is art becau
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by joatmon-snoo 6mo ago
Hmm: can you elaborate? I've never been on a security-specific team, but it's always seemed to me that triggering a bug is, for the median issue, easier than fixing it, and I mentally extend that to security issues. This holds esp
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by joatmon-snoo 6mo ago
That's called a compromised account, not Facebook sharing the email with a third party data broker.
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by joatmon-snoo 6mo ago
Breaking something is easier than fixing it.
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by joatmon-snoo 6mo ago
Humans + LLMs are really good at producing enough spam to overwhelm anything like this. There’s a reason curl bans LLM slop reports now.
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by joatmon-snoo 9mo ago
The argument for not using electric sharpeners is that they (1) cut down the lifetime of your knife substantially and (2) they do a mediocre job of sharpening. Mechanically, it's just high-abrasive motorized spinning discs at preset an
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by joatmon-snoo 9mo ago
There's a lot of tooling built on static binaries: - google-wide profiling: the core C++ team can collect data on how much of fleet CPU % is spent in absl::flat_hash_map re-bucketing (you can find papers on this publicly) - crashdump t
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by joatmon-snoo 10mo ago
(author here) To be more specific, here's a benchmark that we ran last year, where we compared schema-aligned parsing against constrained decoding (then called "Function Calling (Strict)", the orange ƒ): https://bo
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Structured Outputs Create False Confidence(boundaryml.com)
2 points by joatmon-snoo 10mo ago|0 comments
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by joatmon-snoo 10mo ago
This setting is new and was introduced in response to the first round of shai hulud attacks.
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by joatmon-snoo 11mo ago
Google never asked a volunteer for a fix. This is part of Google’s standard disclosure policy: it gets disclosed within 90 days starting from confirmation+contact. If ffmpeg didn’t want to fix it, they could’ve just let the CVE get opened.
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by joatmon-snoo 11mo ago
They do.
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by joatmon-snoo 11mo ago
No, this is the unfortunate reality of “ffmpeg is maintained by volunteers” and “CVE discovered on specific untrusted input”. Google’s AI system is no different than the oss-fuzz project of yesteryear: it ensures that the underlying bug is
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by joatmon-snoo 1y ago
This is great to see, much appreciated for the disclosure!
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by joatmon-snoo 1y ago
We’ve had a lot of success implementing schema-aligned parsing in BAML, a DSL that we’ve built to simplify this problem. We actually don’t like constrained generation as approach - among other issues it limits your ability to use reasoning
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by joatmon-snoo 1y ago
For folks who don't know what Magic Lantern is: > Magic Lantern is a free software add-on that runs from the SD/CF card and adds a host of new features to Canon EOS cameras that weren't included from the factory by Canon.
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by joatmon-snoo 1y ago
Strings are like time objects: most people and languages only ever deal with simplified versions of them that skip a lot of edge cases around how they work. Unfortunately going from most languages to Rust forces you to speedrun this transit
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Ask HN: How do you escalate a Rippling support case quickly?
1 points by joatmon-snoo 1y ago|0 comments
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by joatmon-snoo 1y ago
nit: Colossus* for Google.
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by joatmon-snoo 1y ago
> if you proceed with care Yes, but that is _incredibly_ time consuming. You have to set up asan, msan, tsan, and valgrind. If you want linting you need to do shenanigans to wire up clang-tidy. I also like simple mental models. I like no
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by joatmon-snoo 2y ago
An unfortunate problem with using awk: there are three different versions of awk, and it is frighteningly easy to use a feature that exists on one but not other. (source: I have written unit tests against different versions of awk. That was
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by joatmon-snoo 2y ago
Pretty sure dedupe is done manually by u/dang.
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Next.js and Coordinated Disclosure(sxlijin.github.io)
5 points by joatmon-snoo 2y ago|1 comments
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by joatmon-snoo 2y ago
Super cool! We at BAML had been thinking about doing something like this for our ecosystem as well - we’d love to add BAML models to this repo! If you haven’t heard of us, we provide a language and runtime that enable defining your schemas

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