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NooneAtAll5on Is Curiosity Good for Us?

explain?

NooneAtAll5on A thousand fewer paths to root

> How did we get to the point where there are a thousand privilege escalation exploits in the kernel?

it's been rule of thumb basically forever that there is 1 bug per ~10KLOC for any project

linux kernel is millions of lines, so thousands of bugs being hidden there is about on point

(tho obviously far smaller serious escalation ones, obviously, but you're exaggerating as well)

NooneAtAll5on AI is forcing us to pay off 40 years of technical debt

sooner or later we'll converge to proof-backed code

NooneAtAll5on AMD expects to outsell Intel in Q4 for the first time in history

> our internal directors/VPs are mostly non-technical

why not start with trying to fix that?

NooneAtAll5on Giant canyon on Mars is still tectonically active

why are you two talking about comic without linking it?

NooneAtAll5on Safari introduces Adaptive Dark Mode in 27.3

Dark Reader went political - that's an automatic "NO" from me

NooneAtAll5on Safari introduces Adaptive Dark Mode in 27.3

no, choosing light/dark mode should be manual

NooneAtAll5on Efficient algorithms, the Exponential Time Hypothesis, and losing the plot

> Obviously animal and human brains do something similar

...what are you talking about?

NooneAtAll5on Efficient algorithms, the Exponential Time Hypothesis, and losing the plot

I'm frustrated with these "galactic algorithm frustration" posts

big constants are not new. We all had a laugh when matrix mul exponent went from [2.3728]639 to [2.3728]596

Even more than that - reading GMP manual and seeing all the "more efficient, but bigger constant" algorithms take over each other as the size grows causes *awe*

so this "sudden" discovery that theory is different from practice has been bloody obvious for everyone. I'm more inclined to say "if you want to went frustration at Ai - do that, stop showing your ignorance"

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the main benefit for these results isn't to show what's possible - it's to show what's *not impossible*

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also I just saw that this is the same author that wrote "Did I read this paper? Of course not. No one at OpenAI read this paper either, so why should I?"

so he expects same level of discussion he deserves himself - completely negligible

NooneAtAll5on China's First Frontier AI Export Controls: Mofcom Announcement No. 48

> In operation, a user can crack open the model and examine its internal state, and we also see that many people produce various modifications or fine-tunings of public models for their own goals.

you're describing open weights, not open source

NooneAtAll5on Leaking Secrets from Air-Gap Computers by Spelling Radio Signals from RAM (2024)

I heard that couple decades ago there was a product for "socket internet" - you plugged it into normal wall socket, and it communicated through power wires

NooneAtAll5on Digital minimalism

> and for human connection, there's still the old-fashioned solution: going out and talking to people in real life

lol, looks like someone haven't learned from the early internet of the 90s

people talk on internet *because* going out in real life is not a preferable option

NooneAtAll5on 'Elite North Korean hackers' blamed for $6.3B Binance hack

and any attempt to avoid government oversight simply hits a wall of being illegal

see monero getting outlawed by EU countries

NooneAtAll5on Sylphide OS: a general-purpose OS for microcontroller-based computers

> you’re being a little overly critical for an early stage project

no, I'm exactly critical *because* it is early-stage

"early-stage OSes" are dime a dozen, just as ideas without code they are worth nothing.

NooneAtAll5on Sylphide OS: a general-purpose OS for microcontroller-based computers

> On top of that, Sylphide OS adds:

> drivers for mouse, keyboard, display, storage and network

and couple lines later

> What you don't have yet, but definitely planned:

> storage (microsd, usb) > network (ethernet, wifi)

I'm not gonna be angry at false advertising, but OS attempts only become appropriate to discuss once you made drivers and actually ran stuff on physical hardware

Before that point it's just one of the many dozens and dozens other half-efforted attempts at OS that have been done over and over to death by now

NooneAtAll5on The 'else' keyword is probably a literal translation from German (2020)

wdym? "unless" is literally "while not", no come-from mechanics

NooneAtAll5on Fine-tuned Qwen on my 16gb GPU to respond without the letter e

I wonder if instead of outright masking bad tokens, you could've done the training while slowly increasing negative weights on those

NooneAtAll5on New Dwarf Planet Candidate in Our Solar System

also https://www.nsf.gov/news/new-dwarf-planet-candidate-discover...

and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8NIwXWwKOpw

NooneAtAll5on A Stackless Floodfill Automaton

[pdf]

NooneAtAll5on Discord will soon let anyone find public server messages through Google

"through *googling* " might've been a better phrasing

NooneAtAll5on Oldest GUI application that still runs on Windows 11

very bad performance :/

NooneAtAll5on Oldest GUI application that still runs on Windows 11

wrong solitaire

NooneAtAll5on LISPy things you can do in 64K bytes of core (2019)

why would outer scope have more tabulation?

NooneAtAll5on DOJ says presidents should be able to sell secrets on eBay

I don't think being able to sell secrets on eBay is a bad thing. The point of secret classification isn't to restrict trusted people - but to restrict *unathorized* access. And highest person in chain of command naturally has full authority to do as he sees the situation fit

What I don't understand how it's allowed is that money earned from such ebay sell would go to private pocket instead of the government

I feel like that latter point isn't accentuated enough

NooneAtAll5on I refuse to accept a censored Internet. Join Me at FOSDEM 27

I'm glad you counted Spain and France as "third world or dictatorships"

NooneAtAll5on Show HN: I put employees inside S&P 500 market-cap bubbles

how do I zoom? there's no + and - buttons and I don't see people icons