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by lovasoa 9d ago
steam engines solved a problem people had
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by lovasoa 13d ago
In 429 CE, Devadatta was born on the Deccan Plateau, near present-day Hyderabad. His hamlet was home to about 100 people. Among six children, he was the second. Devadatta died of neonatal tetanus or sepsis within days of birth. Hardcore
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by lovasoa 1mo ago
I don't understand why changing effort levels busts the cache. Couldn't effort levels be a decoding-only thing where they just change the probability of the <end of thought> token? Are they literally adding a hidden system p
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by lovasoa 2mo ago
the writing has been on the wall for fifteen years, and yet the number of professional drivers has only increased since then...
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by lovasoa 2mo ago
Of course we'll rent them! I don't even want to keep a robot in my flat all the time. But that means speed does matter after all. The renting company will need to clean as many flats as possible with a single robot in a single day
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by lovasoa 2mo ago
I was skeptical after last week's announcements, and I have to say I'm impressed now. Over the last two days, I reproduced the entire chain of components involved, and the exploits at play, and even though none of the exploits are
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OpenAI's HuggingFace Hack Reconstitution(github.com)
2 points by lovasoa 2mo ago|0 comments
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by lovasoa 2mo ago
The timeline is indeed a little bit fuzzy, I haven't found a precise chronology, neither from HuggingFace nor from OpenAI. HF says the hack happened "over a weekend", so probably July 11th-12th. Do you think it took OpenAI a
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by lovasoa 2mo ago
There is one thing that is still unclear to me after reading a lot about the hack: * were the ExploitGym solutions actually available somewhere inside huggingface's private datasets ? * was the model really trying to extract the soluti
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by lovasoa 2mo ago
What they conveniently omit in the blog post is what the vulnerability was: it seems like they renewed JWTs without checking the signature at all ! You could write arbitrary info in an old token, and get it signed without any verification.
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by lovasoa 3mo ago
The thing I would have liked to know is why they don't use an existing fast SQL parser. Was being slightly incompatible with all existing SQL dialects a product requirement?
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by lovasoa 3mo ago
3) The engineers working on the chip used ChatGPT from time to time.
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by lovasoa 3mo ago
I tried a few PPTX files from consulting firms that are available online. The rendering does not seem to be truly pixel-perfect, but all of them were quite readable and had a good layout, which is already an impressive feat.
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by lovasoa 4mo ago
The details are interesting: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eskom#Corruption
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by lovasoa 5mo ago
How much faster/slower are you with that process compared to writing code yourself?
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by lovasoa 6mo ago
I use the latest codex with gpt5.4 and Claude opus every day. they hallucinate every day. If you think they don't, you are probably being gaslighted by the models.
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by lovasoa 7mo ago
I was interested in the human results, so I had an llm build a visualization for them: https://codepen.io/lovasoaaa/pen/QwKWGBd You can see that 17% of answers come from India alone and that software developers go
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by lovasoa 8mo ago
The author of this project is also the author of redis. He knows what he is doing. Running inference for a model, even when you have all the weights, is not trivial.
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by lovasoa 8mo ago
I use linux at home (with a HiDPI screen) and MacOS for work. The screen works well with both computers. I mostly just use a text editor, a browser, and a terminal though. Linux has bugs, bug MacOS does too. I feel like for a dev like me, t
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SQLPage 0.38: transform SQL queries into web UIs for any DB(github.com)
2 points by lovasoa 11mo ago|0 comments
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by lovasoa 1y ago
How do you call the opposite of green washing? When you want to show that you are burning as much energy on training models as the others.
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by lovasoa 1y ago
Because we can
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by lovasoa 1y ago
I use a fork of sqlx in SQLPage [1]. I think my main complaint about it is runtime errors (or worse, values decoded as garbage) when decoding SQL values to the wrong rust type. * [1] https://sql-page.com/
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by lovasoa 1y ago
A consortium of investigative journalists investigated and attributed the attacks the Ukraine's secret service: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nord_Stream_pipelines_sabotage
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by lovasoa 1y ago
No. The LLM's answer is correct.
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by lovasoa 1y ago
No it is not: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FIFO_%28computing_and_electron...
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by lovasoa 1y ago
In my opinion, the clean way to implement this is with methods instead of attributes for name, desired_speed, etc...
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Show HN: A visual JSON schema editor(json.ophir.dev)
4 points by lovasoa 1y ago|0 comments
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by lovasoa 2y ago
In the second handpicked example they give, GPT-4.5 says that "The Trojan Women Setting Fire to Their Fleet" by the French painter Claude Lorrain is renowned for its luminous depiction of fire. That is a hallucination. There is n
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by lovasoa 2y ago
If the electricity were generated by thousands of volunteers pedalling in their basement, then yes, I would expect the utility company not to be too greedy.

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