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cyberclimbon Is Opus 5.5 nerfed? Thinking patterns changed on November 3

I don't know a lot about it tbh so I probably mislabeled it as a firmware issue

cyberclimbon Is Opus 5.5 nerfed? Thinking patterns changed on November 3

It really though?? Even if you set temperature to 0 I saw research showing that the scheduling of the order of operations in the GPU firmware itself can change trailing decimals places and affect the output token

cyberclimbon Goodbye Claude, hello Pi

This only changed recently, in fact the author joked about it happening in response to them switching to pi the day before

cyberclimbon Malware uses LLMs to rank victims by how much they're worth

Try QubesOS if you want this, you can have a separate VM for each isolated use-case. The OS itself is a lightweight hypervisor around the VMs (called "Qubes").

cyberclimbon New 14‑inch MacBook Pro with M6

100% stable for me at the level of any other linux machine. True the USB-C display doesn't (officially) work yet but I have 0 issues with the HDMI.

I've been daily driving it for months with no blockers. You can tell Linux uses the battery less efficiently than MacOS though so that's good to know.

cyberclimbon How Japanese Dried Bonito Is Made

Felt human to me

cyberclimbon Now Google says it might use your Gmail and Google Photos data to target ads

Last I checked (6 month ago or so) rclone was only able to download Google photos that had been uploaded via API/rclone. Other google photos weren't accessible.

Whereas Google drive does not have this problem.

Has the situation changed?

cyberclimbon Now Google says it might use your Gmail and Google Photos data to target ads

They split it up into distinct zip or tgz files at configurable max size. e.g. giving 18 distinct 50GB tgz files.

If you have enough disk space it should be a problem, you also get about a week to download the archives

cyberclimbon The Signal Chats That Cost OpenAI Researchers Their Jobs

can someone share a readable link?

cyberclimbon PHP 8.2.35

It can mean either, it's a consequence of how github optimized their backend storage so a 100 forks of a repo initially take up the same space as 0 forks

cyberclimbon Android apps running native on macOS

checkout Ente Auth! It's a native desktop app, syncs with the mobile app, and is fully open source. Great company as well, also free (as in beer).

https://ente.com/auth/

cyberclimbon Kids are outsmarting social media bans. That's not a problem we need to solve

> Social media bans suppress kids’ access to information, including information that’s essential to their development, identity formation, and socialization, especially during adolescence.

Indeed children were deprived of their potential for development for all of humanity up until the early 2000s, thank god we finally closed the gap with social media algorithms...

Is this sponsored by Meta?

cyberclimbon NYC's "Click to Cancel" rule is now in effect

You can only submit my snail mail or Fax.

So close yet so far

cyberclimbon 'I use AI to do the things that I'm bad at' Linus Torvalds on why it works

I would like to see the original video

cyberclimbon New CRAM method offers giant boost to compressed memory reads

Legend! Thanks for digging it up

cyberclimbon New CRAM method offers giant boost to compressed memory reads

the recording of the presentation has got to be on this YT channel but I only scrubbed through 2 videos (8h each) and it's not easy to find

https://www.youtube.com/@LinuxPlumbersConference

not sure where it falls in the schedule here either https://lpc.events/event/20/timetable/#all

cyberclimbon Tell HN: I've been paying for a rural Tanzanian's education for 10 years

hot take :/ Would you really have trouble trusting the OP?

Maybe you just don't want to donate resources in general, because otherwise surely there exists some channel you could witness with your own eyes and donate to with confidence.

cyberclimbon Spotifast: A native Rust Spotify client with Winamp skins

that's right, and it went viral on HN in the last few weeks as well.

I've been using it for a few weeks now though without issue! One thing I ran into up front though is that you have to make your own Spotify App (in the developer dashboard) and set the client ID in the Spotifast's settings otherwise it's rate-limited to the point of being unusable.

https://spotifast.rocks/make-it-even-faster/#make-a-spotify-...

cyberclimbon Noodle Gallery – Self-hosted photo and video manager forked from Immich

It's a soft fork not a rewrite, they regularly rebase off immich

cyberclimbon Building a Linux GPU Driver for the M4 Mac Mini in One Month

What would it take to run pytorch on the M4 GPU efficiently? Is there still a gap between what MPS offers and this driver (if properly hooked into Pytorch)?

cyberclimbon Show HN: TERMy – A fast terminal assistant that does not use LLMs

is it supported to have it propose a command for approval rather than running autmatically? in the YT video it looks likw it ran the cpu temp command on its own

love the idea/simplicity of this tool!

cyberclimbon The Emergent Symbolic Structure of Artificial Neural Networks

to his credit he did say he skimmed the paper, and it's honestly standard practice to do a first pass of skimming a paper before you'd go deeper into reading it anyways

cyberclimbon Fastpotify

nice that it supports ARM Linux! This is a major gap with the official Spotify desktop app

cyberclimbon Apple caught off guard by AI demand for Mac Mini and Mac Studio

Probably cerca 2014 as that's when AlexNet was released, demonstrating that neural networks could beat traditional ML models at image recognition tasks. I recall the researchers used Cuda to optimize their training setup.

AlexNet kicked off a new wave of research around neural networks by demonstrating they could be scaled well and trained on GPUs.

cyberclimbon Bootstrappable Builds: How and Why

I thought the attack itself was version controlled via a tracked blob file used in a unit test. I believe the attack was performed by running the test suite (which modified the source code) and then compiling?

If that's the case, then anyone that ran the tests prior to building from source would be vulnerable if my understanding is right

cyberclimbon A third world engineer responds to “RISC-V: They should have known better”

I don't think they are necessarily asserting otherwise

cyberclimbon Pushes to arch AUR are suspendended right now.

> No, I'm sorry but who on earth installs random software from random strangers, without a single step of validating before giving it access...

Realistically most users?

It's already quite a technical barrier to run Arch Linux, and the knowledge to further know about/understand PKGBUILD can only comes with time and is yet another layer filtering people's ability to know how to even try to catch something malicious.

Now consider the layer of even experienced user that's in a bit of rush and doesn't have time to review the full diffs they're upgrading to.

Ralistically it's nearly statistically impossible that 100% of users would be able to all catch and block a given exploit themselves. A shared responsibility model of security [1] comes to mind, and while it's great for users to be active participants in their security, their action/awareness should be a last resort. I wouldn't blame the user.

[1] https://docs.cloud.google.com/architecture/framework/securit...

cyberclimbon Show HN: Wheesper – Start an anonymous discussion with a link

This looks cool but why do I meed an email to start an "anonymous" discussion?

Also no mention on whether this is end to end encrypted, can you comment on that?

cyberclimbon Show HN: Nectar, a Rust-like React that compiles to WebAssembly

Nice! Heads up that unfortunately the demos don't appear to scroll on mobile

cyberclimbon Ask HN: Books about Genetic Algorithms

https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-662-44874-8

(2015)