killerstorm

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by killerstorm 2mo ago
The reason writing is hard might be that post-training pulls style into a particular direction. In other words, big labs are much more interested in making "AGI" than in making a good writer, especially as what qualifies as "
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by killerstorm 2mo ago
I think main reason people choose React now is "nobody was fired for choosing React". (That used to be a saying about IBM as a vendor.) People can build their career around React. And it is better "job security" than pur
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by killerstorm 2mo ago
Actually browsers already come with a minimal UI library. It's called HTML + CSS + JS. There's actually no need to make any wrappers - you describe what you want in HTML and make it look good with CSS. You only need to make UI usi
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by killerstorm 2mo ago
Yeah it's also specifically trained to disprove Jacobian conjectures, and so on...
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by killerstorm 2mo ago
Well, if the developer read libngu's random.c he would have noticed that it uses rng_get() and that it's asking for MICROPY_HW_ENABLE_RNG (albeit the failsafe is defective, reading it should have at least triggered "wait, wh
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by killerstorm 2mo ago
Yes, basically we just need really good, strong parentheses. E.g. see Yoshua Bengio "Scientist AI". Or multi-stream LLMs
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by killerstorm 3mo ago
I used ballpoint pens in school but I don't like the process: my hand often feels too tense, and getting handwriting legible is a lot of effort. Once I switched to fountain pens I enjoy the process a lot more, and the result generally
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by killerstorm 3mo ago
What's "concern of imminent disaster"? Anthropic said their latest model is good at finding zero-days exploits. That's just empirically true. They aren't selling vuln search product in an open, so it's not mark
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by killerstorm 3mo ago
Yeah... There was no "reading" in our ancestral environment, it's rather unnatural for a human brain to focus on the page where nothing happens. Some people can adapt to that, other people need stimulation of some kind. And i
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by killerstorm 3mo ago
You're confusing PR with marketing. Flaws they find aren't going to convince customers to buy the product. But they need to inform the public of what they doing as it's part of the mission. I haven't seen media outlets p
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by killerstorm 3mo ago
Headline? It was buried in a model card. They just honestly report not-quite-incident because it's quite close to the incident OpenAI had. Nothing wrong with it.
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by killerstorm 3mo ago
It boots into BASIC which makes it really easy to learn BASIC. It feels like a programmable computer even to kids who know nothing about programming, as the only way to get anywhere is to type a command. So it's very easy to start. You
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by killerstorm 3mo ago
Yep. My father build a ZX Spectrum clone for me somewhere around 1991. Few years later he also got Commodore 64 as a gift from German engineers he was working with. I think both of these machines are really good for learning BASIC: much few
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by killerstorm 3mo ago
The part of brain which cares about efficiency and waste have "atrophied" decades ago in most devs. More likely they just never cared... E.g. > A 1.6GB Docker image for a Node app. Every code change rebuilds npm install from sc
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by killerstorm 3mo ago
The agent might install hostile software, e.g. a npm package. Unfortunately, very common problem nowadays.
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by killerstorm 3mo ago
Codex uses bwrap sandbox which is purely cosmetic - out-of-box it sees your ssh keys and can send it to remote server. It prevents agent from deleting outside files by mistake, but does nothing against malicious activity
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by killerstorm 3mo ago
Privilege escalation (e.g. setuid), world-readable files might contain sensitive data, world-writeable files, unrestricted network access (including access to all locally running services)... If you have fully patched system without zero-da
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by killerstorm 3mo ago
To serve a frontier model you need a lot more than one GPU... at least 8. But for better efficiency they batch multiple requests on one server. So it is sort of a coincidence that it ends up roughly in 1 consumer GPU range. A different arch
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by killerstorm 3mo ago
Driving a car consumes 25+ more energy per hour than gaming. So urban planning which encourages people to drive likely results in an order of magnitude more waste than all home computer use.
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by killerstorm 3mo ago
A continuously running agent might require 100-500W for inference, so comparable to gaming or a small space heater. Not obscene, but also not negligible. If we assume 250W for a continuously running agent, Grok 4 training run estimate would
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by killerstorm 3mo ago
It might be kind of cool to implement just a basic loop and let the agent itself to implement memory and all other aspects on the fly, fully embracing self-modifying code. But it's also extremely brittle and unstable. It's really
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by killerstorm 3mo ago
From what I understand, the warning is about swap-out during heavy memory use. You don't need to be superstitious here: disk activity, including writes in particular, can be measured. E.g. `iostat` or `vmstat` on Linux.
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by killerstorm 3mo ago
It's much more specific. "Spend" would increase Broadcom's revenue. "Partners with" might be anything: investment, R&D assistance, whatever. Both are public companies so they might be required to reveal the
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by killerstorm 3mo ago
That metric would give you a number of bytes which can be used for pages not backed by files, but it won't give you actual memory usage statistics: It won't count executable pages and memory-mapped file use as "used" mem
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by killerstorm 3mo ago
That study is a weird kind of bullshit which pretends to not understand employer-employee relationship.
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by killerstorm 3mo ago
Well, potentially a key might be stored in TPM. But I don't think that's better
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by killerstorm 3mo ago
Hmm, where does it get a key to decrypt memory on resume? AFAIK it's practical only if you make use of TPM. And if you do, you're basically at mercy of TPM.
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by killerstorm 3mo ago
People in the past could survive and procreate without modern medicine (basically without any medicine at all as doctors could do very little 200 years ago) with ~50% success rate. I'd suspect this rate is already lower now, and it mig
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by killerstorm 3mo ago
type ProfileSpec = Frond.NodeSpec<{ readonly args: Frond.Args.None; readonly key: Frond.Key.Singleton; readonly deps: { readonly http: Frond.Dep<typeof HttpTransportNode>; }; readonly result: Pr
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by killerstorm 3mo ago
It's a formalism use to analyze security properties, it's not how it is used in practice. The practical goal is to hide a secret key inside a program, so e.g. implement an algorithm which might involve decryption and signing a mes

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