malwrar

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by malwrar 3y ago
Impossible? It’s just a bunch of math, you don’t need to keep the entire network in memory the whole time.
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by malwrar 3y ago
It’s a benefit in the same sense that someone walking up to me on the street and trying to sell me on something is benefiting me. I’m walking down the street to get to point B (or browsing a site to read an article), not be hawked goods uns
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by malwrar 3y ago
> That provides a bad experience to visitors and reduces the amount of money websites can make. That’s a nice fantasy, but the number of ad-blocking users and ratio of advertising revenue on mobile (where adblocking is harder) vs PC sugg
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by malwrar 3y ago
The thing that prompts for your password is necessarily unencrypted, the evil maid just needs to modify that to e.g. log the decryption key. On linux, this is usually just a shell script invoking cryptsetup somewhere in the initramfs image.
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by malwrar 3y ago
I think he’d probably prefer to not see the ad altogether. Who actually wants advertising besides the people attempting to sell things.
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by malwrar 3y ago
Curious, what led you to adjusting the parameters this way? Also, have you guys experimented with ALiBi[1] which claims better extrapolative results than rotary positional encoding? [1]: https://arxiv.org/abs/2108.12409
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by malwrar 3y ago
I don’t know about “zero benefit”—certainly their access to customer queries gives them a gods eye view into how people are using their LM implementation and to some degree could probably be used to fine-tune their model—but I doubt it give
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by malwrar 3y ago
The only moat openai has is their financial resources to pay for training and their vast troves of data scraped before reddit/twitter/etc started trying to lock things down. I think at this point there are enough people knowledgea
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by malwrar 3y ago
I really dislike how skeptical and dismissive this article is, most of the paragraphs seem to be worded to suggest “conservatives think they are embattled and suppressed but actually have lucrative institutions and are backed by rich media
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by malwrar 3y ago
How does this work with their charging network? Are you still able to use their chargers, or are you stuck with home charging & third parties?
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by malwrar 3y ago
To be clear, I meant me hiking up a mountain. I thought I might have gotten signal up there (wasn’t too high up, just a fairly far walk), but I was also thinking of stories about people dying when they leave their cars to go for help and fi
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by malwrar 3y ago
I went camping somewhere at/near Sequoia National Forest (forgot where) and was traveling to the charger at Inyokern. I think we got stuck on highway 178, about 3/4 of the way there.
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by malwrar 3y ago
I actually got stranded once for some hours because of the mileage indicator! Was driving back from a campsite that I turned out to not have charging compatibility with, but thought I had plenty of margin to get to the nearest charger. As I
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by malwrar 3y ago
One good reason might be more data ownership than tracking. Centralized platforms seem to at some point realize how valuable their user’s contributions to the site are, and change the deal eventually to e.g. lock things behind a paywall whe
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by malwrar 3y ago
I think it's safe to say that, if a large entity with monopoly of force wants to stop these models from being used, they probably could. We already have a global surveillance machine watching us all, and normalized content takedowns fo
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by malwrar 3y ago
Not an expert, but have worked on phones before. My guess: much more aspects of mobile phones are patented or secret, parts aren’t available to small purchasers, weak OSS culture around PCB design at the level of complexity a mobile phone a
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by malwrar 3y ago
Sure, consider what would need to happen for a system like this to actually be implemented. How would the car know what kind of road it is on? How would the car know the appropriate speed? What happens to sports cars and other enthusiast ve
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by malwrar 3y ago
I honestly really prefer an abrasive community. I think one thing we lost with the adoption of CoCs was the ability of the community to naturally filter out low-quality or abusive (do my homework or project for me) participants, and encoura
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by malwrar 3y ago
I haven’t used “guys” in that specific way, but I’ve definitely called my various female partners “dude” before. Language is fluid etc.
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by malwrar 3y ago
Hmm that patent appears to have expired. If it was the reason this feature hasn't been implemented, looks like they're in the clear to do so now.
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by malwrar 3y ago
> What they do have is money. …and the exclusive ability to determine what software runs on your phone and how it functions. Facebook can’t collect your data if they are prevented from collecting your data, but no one but Apple can do th
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by malwrar 3y ago
Apple’s market position had nothing to do with it, just their ability to restrict Facebook’s app. Why couldn’t we do the same thing on an open platform through similar technical means? Whose to say that we couldn’t do it better?
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by malwrar 3y ago
Why is Apple the only entity capable of doing this in your mind? Why couldn’t we live in a world where Facebook can’t abuse you because you don’t want them to? Apple fucked Facebook because iPhones only allow Apple the power to fuck Faceb
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by malwrar 3y ago
I don’t agree. I think if the iPhone was open we’d see numerous ad-blocking efforts that would have made facebook’s data siphoning impossible long ago. In my subjective experience, it feels like these companies have more room to do evil t
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by malwrar 3y ago
I scrape arxiv once a day and have a small pipeline that tries to identify all AI-related submissions and summarize them. It’s hit-or-miss currently, but a.) the papers it finds are sometimes pretty interesting when I skim them to check the
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by malwrar 3y ago
Criticism about code is either accurate or useless. If it’s useless, no point getting bothered by someone’s bad opinions. If it’s accurate, then thank god you won’t have to discover it later when it bites you in production. Always good to r
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by malwrar 3y ago
RTO is never going to work with my team. More than half of my teammates are remote, and unlikely to move if asked. We’ve already lost one person that way. I used to have a private office, but when I came back they moved me to an open floorp
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by malwrar 3y ago
Are these supposed to be practical defenses, or a list of defenses the author thinks are valid? Misusing hashes and cryptography to obscure your licensing scheme doesn’t address the fundamental weaknesses that your software is running on so
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by malwrar 3y ago
> Google has a planet-scale stranglehold on how half the world's population accesses information …currently. I think OP’s point is that once some better product comes out and e.g. normal people hear about it on tiktok and start swit
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by malwrar 4y ago
I agree! So many more possibilities too, like for example rather than simply downloading and locally storing the movie Predator once I am forced to hunt down a provider who currently has it and stream it directly each time I want to watch i

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