mckirk

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by mckirk 19d ago
Thank you, that is very reassuring to know :D (and interactions like these are part of the reason why I <3 HN)
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by mckirk 20d ago
Maybe you're thinking of Phrack [1]? I wonder if there'll be another edition of it, and if yes what it would look like, now that the AIpocalypse seems to have reached security research... [1]: https://phrack.org
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by mckirk 21d ago
(insert meme of multiple Spider-Men pointing at each other here)
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by mckirk 1mo ago
> for some reason I mean, I can think of one reason. Them being quite far away from the ground most of the time, mainly.
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by mckirk 3mo ago
"THERE IS ABSOLUTELY NO CAUSE FOR ALARM"
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by mckirk 3mo ago
Sorry for being off-topic, but 'rouge agents' was too adorable to leave unmentioned.
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by mckirk 3mo ago
_Every_ agent? I surely hope not. But it would be an interesting... artisocial experiment?
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by mckirk 5mo ago
Just don't be confused if they then follow the commands side-effect free.
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by mckirk 5mo ago
The fact that Orban is called Viktor as his first name meant your first sentence confused me greatly for a second.
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by mckirk 5mo ago
I mean, it's understandable; having to endure a lockdown _with_ Doordash was really rough on our civilization.
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by mckirk 5mo ago
Damnit, I am pretty sure I had a few-year-streak going until just now. Welp, off to the grind again, I suppose.
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by mckirk 5mo ago
Nitpicky reply questioning the adherence of OP's comment to HN guidelines.
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by mckirk 5mo ago
Along these lines: I really like the 'Climate Reanalyzer' project by the Climate Change Institute at the University of Maine [1]. There's so much good stuff there if you click around a bit; you can create custom plots for the
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by mckirk 5mo ago
If writing goes the way music seems to be going with Angine de Poitrine gaining a huge following as a kind of allergic reaction of people against the 'AI sameness'... then we could be in for a wild ride. On the other hand, music i
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by mckirk 5mo ago
I have to admit, the movements and interactions looked so uncannily natural that my intuitive suspicion was that this might be another instance of a 'fake it till you make it' demo, and the robot was actually controlled by a perso
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by mckirk 6mo ago
I have to admit that this is also what keeps me coming back to LinkedIn. My brain is dangerously easy to motivate by dangling a virtual leaderboard in front of it.
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by mckirk 7mo ago
I think what that research found is that _auto-generated_ agent instructions made results slightly worse, but human-written ones made them slightly better, presumably because anything the model could auto-generate, it could also find out in
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by mckirk 7mo ago
This is the first time I've heard the term 'apecode', and I will make sure to use it at every opportunity.
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by mckirk 7mo ago
This is only done at the DNS level, so using a different DNS (such as Quad9) solves that issue. For background info, I can recommend [1, 2]. [1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uxmu25mUZgg [2]: https://cuiiliste
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by mckirk 8mo ago
That's the 'built by the lowest bidder' feature. Probably pretty realistic in a lot of places.
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by mckirk 8mo ago
Note that this is the Flash variant, which is only 31B parameters in total. And yet, in terms of coding performance (at least as measured by SWE-Bench Verified), it seems to be roughly on par with o3/GPT-5 mini, which would be pretty i
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by mckirk 9mo ago
For me, these books are in the rare category of 'wait I didn't know it was allowed to come up with a story _this good_'. I envy all those that have yet to read it for the first time.
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by mckirk 9mo ago
I'm not sure whether that was intended, but 'operating at scale' actually made me laugh out loud :D
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by mckirk 9mo ago
"Do you or a loved one suffer from an abundance of brain cells? Speak to your doctor today about whether The Jersey Shore might be right for you!"
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by mckirk 10mo ago
"A cable!" "How do you know?" "I'm holding it!"
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by mckirk 10mo ago
Unfortunately proving anything about a concrete imperative implementation is orders of magnitude more complex than working with an abstraction, because you have to deal with pesky 'reality' and truly take care of every possible ed
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by mckirk 10mo ago
While I fully agree with your sentiment, I'd like to take the opportunity to share a favorite fun-fact of mine: the frogs in the not-jumping-out experiment had their brains removed beforehand. Which might make the analogy more apt, act
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by mckirk 10mo ago
I generally do this via a `throw UnsupportedValueError(value)`, where the exception constructor only accepts a `never`. That way I have both a compile time check as well as an error at runtime, if anything weird happens and there's an
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by mckirk 10mo ago
This reads cool and all, but I also can't help help but feel like it might not have been as much of a 'gotcha' as the text makes it out to be. Who knows what kind of information the Russians got from this episode. The closer
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by mckirk 10mo ago
You either give them the option to search the web for facts or you ask them things where the utility/validity of the answer is defined by you (e.g. 'summarize the following text...') instead of the external world.

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