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by nullc 2mo ago
> the error from the C compiler is something that a competent programmer would be able to interpret, contrary to the post, this was almost certainly not an issue of compilers throwing errors. Reduced familarity with C could have played a
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by nullc 2mo ago
> Also running python on a microcontroller to do cryptography is fucking insane. I feel like I should confess to snubbing this (and some other) hardware wallet projects for the fact it used micropython. I think it's hard to draw th
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by nullc 2mo ago
Right, that's particularly a concern for DSA nonces. Coldcard uses RFC 6979 however, and duplicates at the 32-bit word level is a different matter than at the byte level.
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by nullc 2mo ago
I have absolutely no interest in defending this code-- and already considered it untrusthworthy before any of this. But in the interest of accuracy: > It does a memcpy of a minimum of 4 bytes This is a common misreading of MIN(). MIN(4
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by nullc 2mo ago
https://github.com/switck/libngu/blob/537519a829259622ea6b03... vs https://github.com/Coldcard/micropython/blob/4107246f8a08080...
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by nullc 2mo ago
Aside, I'm somewhat surprised that MISRA (as of 2012 at least) doesn't have a directive related to definedness vs value errors.
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by nullc 2mo ago
This writeup isn't very good and misses/misunderstands the programming error that leads to the flaw. I'm commenting because I think it's important to understand the issue. The article would have you think that the change
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by nullc 2mo ago
Any AI company should have a hardline rule against hiring any employee who sincerely believes that AI is going to doom mankind, given what AI doomers believe. If they're sincere in their beliefs they may (from their perspective) justi
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by nullc 2mo ago
> Isn't that rather self evident? If you are sampling from a particularly domain constrained vertical, how do you expect the censorship to transfer? If the model architecture is too similar it can transfer, even if you never sample
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by nullc 2mo ago
> 1T model requires 1T of RAM assuming 8 bits per weight, but 4bits is commonly used once you get to that scale.
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by nullc 2mo ago
I found the LLM writing exceptionally distasteful and it made it difficult to look at the page for a subject I'd otherwise find interesting-- it's an extremely bad style, and also characteristic of a lot of dishonest and abusive c
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by nullc 2mo ago
Where is the generative dick doodle model? Consider the amount of manpower that could be saved by automating this labor-- probably equivalent so saving thousands of lives per year!
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by nullc 2mo ago
I was sad turin-x never shipped... I wonder if it got displaced by the Microsoft-only HBM integrated part. I've been pretty happy with 9684X but was looking forward to upgraded cores. 16 channel memory though will be a difficult fit w
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by nullc 2mo ago
Well timed to facilitate the regulatory interventions called for by Ball. If huggingface presses criminal charges for the intrusion it might provide additional clarity-- both for what happened here as well as regarding OpenAI's culpab
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by nullc 3mo ago
The large US closed AI companies are decelerationist because their focus is on monopolizing the market. They spend inefficiently in order to lock up the supply of resources and waste money influencing the state to attempt to lock out compe
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by nullc 3mo ago
"There is another theory which states that this has already happened."
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by nullc 3mo ago
https://www.ufv.ca/media/faculty/gregschlitt/information/Wha...
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by nullc 3mo ago
Verifying that counterexample is a trivial calculation for basically anyone qualified to make substantive changes in that category of article, it shouldn't be an issue in and of itself. Discovering the counter example is research, vali
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by nullc 3mo ago
Irony in the message you're responding to likely suffering from slop-facts itself. And indeed it's trivial to verify.
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by nullc 3mo ago
I think vibethinker is heavily overtrained on not attempting to solve open problems. I had a fun time taking some open problems and disguising them algebraically so that vibethinker 3b would work on them. It managed to prove some interesti
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by nullc 3mo ago
What's the point of looking when no one even cares? consider the fraudster that went around suing people on the basis of his absurd claims of being bitcoin's creator. He's now transitioned to using AI to gather graduate degr
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by nullc 3mo ago
Comments are closed, but they're open for responses. By my count there were 533 replies that were responsive to the 'enhanced' KYC requirements. ~496 opposing it, and ~37 substantively supporting it. I used deepseek 4 flash w
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by nullc 3mo ago
> That’s why you’re lagging behind in open-source competitions the lag is because closed ai orgs are sucking up most of the talent and monopolizing resources. Not that your criticism of HN comments aren't deserved-- but the people c
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by nullc 3mo ago
> Yet the visceral pile-on here is so extreme, it feels fake. Driven by people in the few roles that are soundly replaced by AI-- e.g. low tier media slop producers, who hate AI because it threatens their socially negative worthless jobs
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by nullc 3mo ago
QubesOS is really fantastic, I wouldn't consider using anything less today.
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by nullc 3mo ago
> I still find it absurd people would go that far to cheat at a game. =3 I guess it turns the cheating into its own meta-game!
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by nullc 3mo ago
Don't ever give a "device" network access. Unfortunately with stuff like amazon sidewalk -- even that's not sufficient, products can contain covert listening/watching devices and then share the information over a n
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by nullc 3mo ago
Using AI for making decisions create a whole host of novel vulnerabilities. I've seen a lot of people talk about the obvious privacy and autonomy disaster it creates -- giving companies (and anyone who can legally compel or hack them)
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by nullc 3mo ago
You can do a thing where you have it point out spelling and grammar errors or point out awkward parts without suggesting changes. But take care that you don't let it apply them as it may make other changes silently (especially if you&#
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by nullc 3mo ago
Who does the choosing? Today it's the students but they significantly don't pay the cost, so competition can be gamed by wasting money on student perks. This is generally a problem that comes up when the party that pays isn't

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