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by amluto 3d ago
I don’t buy it. Reasonable about building secure software can take the form “this memory access might be out of bounds — that MUST be fixed” or “this process has access to an inappropriate privilege — this is a serious weakness”. Exploiting
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by amluto 4d ago
Maybe this is just a difference in where the label is. I found an actual nutrition fact panel on the flour’s website.
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by amluto 4d ago
I once did an experiment in which I baked two otherwise identical loaves, made under as close to identical conditions as I could arrange, very carefully measured, with the only difference being the flour. I used 11.5% protein malted flour a
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by amluto 5d ago
I checked some 25lb bags of flour (not from a grocery store) and they do not appear to have any nutritional facts label.
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by amluto 5d ago
In the US, at least in larger sized bags, flour seems to be treated as an ingredient and there might not be a nutritional fact label. I admit that I didn’t look that carefully last time I was in a European grocery store. I imagine that the
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by amluto 5d ago
Bread is really a fascinating product. There are so many things for which modern mass or mass-ish production methods can produce results as good or better than artisanal techniques. Nails, knives [0], textiles, etc are all examples as long
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by amluto 5d ago
The changes may not last, but it’s quite unusual for an already-permitted facility to lose permission to operate.
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by amluto 5d ago
As an American, I found the protein situation and the whole “Canadian” flour concept bizarre. In the US, most high quality flours will state their protein percentage reasonably prominently on the label. It’s not particularly hard to buy com
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by amluto 5d ago
I have no idea which keychain is in which, but the last time I migrated from one Apple laptop to another, I couldn't get the automated tool to work at all, so I restored a physical backup, went through the sign-in process, and password
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by amluto 5d ago
> transparent varnish underneath had lead Weird. Wasn’t lead typically used as an opacifying agent? In any case, if you test by taking a little scraping, you can only detect lead that you actually scraped. But if you test with X-ray fluo
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by amluto 5d ago
IMO the most alarming thing currently going on with AI is the huge RL runs that give models some incentive to compete with each other and rather strong incentives to hack things, break rules and otherwise cheat. And the “cyber” initiatives
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by amluto 5d ago
Clean room equipment is kind of the opposite of what was needed. Clean room equipment protects the room from the people. What’s was needed was likely pretty basic PPE: P100 respirators along with outer clothing that would be kept out of pe
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by amluto 6d ago
What's up with the doors? > NOTE: If low voltage power is unavailable and the windows are fully rolled up, the door windows may crack or shatter when you open the doors with the interior manual release handles. > WARNING: When th
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by amluto 6d ago
> recirculate the water in the bath through a heat exchanger after you already filled it and got in Huh. Is the heat exchanger located near the bathtub or in the EcoCute unit? And do you need to do anything complex to periodically ster
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by amluto 6d ago
> To address this issue, after variable expansion is completed, any existing .git folder is removed from the directory before the git repository is initialized. What happened to sandboxing the offending git invocation?
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by amluto 6d ago
I would like an unambiguously clear statement from OpenAI as to what they do with data collected from non-business accounts when: (a) The data controls setting to train on the data is unchecked. (b) The privacy controls opt-out has been sub
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by amluto 8d ago
Hahaha, how exactly is an individual user supposed to get a ZDR agreement?
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by amluto 8d ago
> While unlikely, we cannot rule out that de-identified data derived from their usage of our products helped improve our models . That’s a bizarre statement. Their website says: > Services for individuals, such as ChatGPT and Codex &
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by amluto 9d ago
What an absurd lack of nuance. Let’s consider the only major example of the alternative: Waymo. Waymo is expanding rather slowly, and I imagine there are several factors. Building the cars is capital intensive. Adding a new market requires
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by amluto 10d ago
FWIW, Lysol laundry sanitizer is a quaternary ammonium disinfectant, and the safety story is not necessarily amazing: https://cen.acs.org/safety/consumer-safety/know-enough-safet... Hopefully most of it washes out
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by amluto 10d ago
Can we take a step back here? Both OpenAI’s and Anthropic’s models think in encryptedese, and it seems thoroughly absurd to think that the entire world should trust those two companies to adequately monitor the plaintext or, for that matte
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by amluto 11d ago
Can you actually credibly find NS or even Euler’s equations as an effective theory from GR? Euler’s equations and NS have this pesky velocity field, which requires the fluid’s state to be well described by a velocity at each point in space
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by amluto 11d ago
That would be surprising IMO. We have closed form solutions to Newton’s Laws plus gravity (albeit not very many of them), we have several closed form solutions to Einstein’s equation in GR, and we have a whole lot of closed form solutions
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by amluto 11d ago
Is it just me or is it kind of remarkable that all the remotely competent pelicans on bicycles kind of look the same? I assume that these have been in the training set for quite a while, but that they’re still a bit hard for the models beca
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by amluto 11d ago
One might argue that verifying the correctness of a JIT is basically the same problem as verifying the correctness of an entire compiler, with the added caveat that malicious inputs to the JIT are expected whereas malicious inputs to a comp
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by amluto 11d ago
I’m not convinced by the automatic agent-to-agent thing. I find that, if I manually ask a standard harness “Review a..b, individually and for combined effect”, I get some mix of catching genuine errors (some quite deep), incorrect flags
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by amluto 12d ago
It sounds technically possible to build a JIT where a verifier checks that the JIT-generated code is correctly pizlonated before allowing it to become executable. :)
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by amluto 12d ago
Look up diffusion models.
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by amluto 12d ago
It has nothing to do with X being huge. In fact X might be quite small.
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by amluto 13d ago
It’s a prototype. Surely easy access to the structure and equipment is a lot more valuable than nice seats and a finished-looking interior surface.

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