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sandos··on GPT-6 Astra covertly underperforms on safety research
I sometimes find Sol 6.1 both printing random words, and producing code that is not super-dense, but far off from normal code with no empty lines and very logically dense.

It almost feels like its trying to protect its code from scrutiny, or like a developer who want job safety.

sandos··on Jelly Sheet
If you pause and the unpause after a while you get very pretty color bands! :)
sandos··on Mystery of 60-Second Fluctuations in Power Grids Solved
"But you rarely have realtime insight at individual busbar level for each substation"

This is kind of understandable, the amount of data would be huge. When faults happen though, recordings are automatically made available.

Some of these measurements can have surprisingly high frequency sampling, even though the grid itself feels "slow".

sandos··on Zero click, silent, remote Android DoS
There was also a bug related to positioning requests for emergency services that crashed android phones:

"core Android Telephony Framework GPS race condition from the early days of Android (roughly 2011–2014)."

My AI was unable to find any existing webpages for this though?

Also there was this:

https://community.oneplus.com/thread/579700

sandos··on If IPv4 were land
In Sweden CGNAT was not a thing for a long time, the large incumbents still have their huge blocks of IPs so its "just" go to them if you want a pulic IP. Apparently smaller ISPs do use CGNAT, so its fairly common.

Me as somewhat of a nerd, even doubt if I need a public IP, seeing how cyber security is looking today.

sandos··on Wealth Inequality in America drawn to scale
So.. when I google "median income eu vs US" I get some completely different figures: $51k / $64k-65k median for the US, and €21k in the EU.

So the median household in the US has 3 working adults? Is $211k household according to that page.

sandos··on Start Doing Graph Theory
I am even more confused after this answer: Are the nodes actual reviews or something else?
sandos··on Tailscale SSH: Investigation and remediation update
Even with corporate MITM setups? I somehow doubt it..
sandos··on Discord will soon let anyone find public server messages through Google
Out of 24 discord servers I am on, only 4 are related to games.

Most are software related, or why not genealogy or mesh networking?

I never started using discord for gaming, I just find its everywhere.

sandos··on AI promised less work. I've never worked more
We are encouraged to, and I do, use our tokens not for "throughput" but mostly for increasing quality.

We are basically not limited by the time it takes to write code, we never were. But we ARE limited in the time it takes to wrote ancillary code: CI and testing code being the biggest, but also tools.

Iv'e started on 2 bigger sub-projects that could help with coverage and finding really hard bugs that I would _never_ have even touched before, becuase I could never have fitted it with my regular work that actually has high priority.

sandos··on Microsoft offers mass buyouts for roughly a quarter of its workforce
We are recruiting in Sweden and apparently its very hard finding good candidates. Most are fresh from very short (2 years) educations or other special cases as opposed to having had 4-5 years of university and maybe some experience.

Fun thing though, we recently let a consultant go due to relying too much on LLMs.

sandos··on Microsoft offers mass buyouts for roughly a quarter of its workforce
"Microsoft also used to employee engineers focused soley on testing software"

Is this weird in any way? I live in EU land, but this does not seem too uncommon. As a developer Ive had assignments where I only wrote unit test, another where I was reponsible for daily CI running well (though both moved towards development eventually). I heard just the other day about a competitor where you did not write your own test code.

sandos··on Show HN: Guitoro, a virtual guitar you strum with your keyboard
You should try strudel.cc
sandos··on AI models can provably hide arbitrary capabilities
This feels a bit image convolution where you can "hide" and "recover" information that is very blurred. To draw a paraelell this is then highly dependent on not being distilled, since deconvolution really needs that numerical accuracy.
sandos··on Total Annihilation, rebuilt for modern computers
floats in a deterministic lockstep engine... oh dear me!!

It has to be possible to use fixed point arithmetic?

sandos··on Total Annihilation, rebuilt for modern computers
There are noob lobbies, the problem for me was that I just happened to be on the winning team a couple of times in a row, and suddenly my rank was too high for noob games, even though I still was one.
sandos··on Show HN: Let your AI agents paint big arrows, boxes and text on your screen
I found he got a lot less interesting when the videos became longer.
sandos··on 15-year search for a band that charted once and vanished
I heard a song with, a really not that unknown artist, that I thought was awesome. Ive tried finding it now a couple of times, but nope..

The title is R.T.N.R I think (Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer) but in a metal version.

I also know I read an article about the artist, and he/they were very reclusive and did not want media attention.

Its just the song was great!!

sandos··on High Diesel Prices Bankrupted 16 Trucking Companies in Just 30 Days
Why is it that we need subsidies? Farmers and truckers "cannot make do" without subsidies! This is a well known "fact". But it seems very lopsided and most likely is why we can't have nice things.
sandos··on Anthropic reported diary entry to police, woman faces felony charge
This almost smells like thought crime... Minority Report when?
sandos··on AI Makes Me Sad
Being sad because you missed the boat on startups is just silly.

How many stocks did you "miss the boat" on? In hindsight we all have missed the boat so many times, we need to see that pondering this is meaningless.

I once mined 50 bitcoins ON CPU. Yeah, I sold it for pennies. Did I miss the boat on anything? Sure, but not really more than on any stock or anything else where seeing the future would be needed for sure success.

sandos··on Gemini 4 Argon
Looking at benchmarks... and thinking about this "release a new snapshot every day" thing that seems to be going. Would it not be blever for AI companies to "happen" to use different days per benchmark? Just.. whichever ones happens to be maxed at day 1, put that number down. So for each benchmark you run it thousands of times with slightly different RL tunings, and just cherry-pick the best ones!

This would explain why benchmarks are seemingly meaningless.

sandos··on Meta takes down a critical video about meta AI Glasses after filming at Meta
Yes, but youre not allowed to use it commercially afaik. Even a youtube clip which is monetised is commercial, I guess.
sandos··on Meta takes down a critical video about meta AI Glasses after filming at Meta
Are these constantly filming without user control? How about regular cameras, just ban them?
sandos··on Claude Opus 5.5
Same feeling with oai models, wich I use 99% of the time. Sometimes I ask it about it, and it always come up with a likely explanaton but dear me it does many rounds of tool calls sometimes!
sandos··on GPT-6 Sol and Luna
I'm scared now, my employer only allows Luna and Terra on 5.6. I really hope they will allow Sol then on GPT 6.

Funny thing is they very recently also set a real limit per-user/month, so why even limit the models because theyre "too expensive".

sandos··on I built non-autoregressive decision models with RL a year ago
How come its completely unable to understand when it does not understand the script? Why was this no in the training, or was it?

The routing feels like such a hack to me...

sandos··on The Beauty of Roundabouts
Roundabouts are perfect when youre confused, just go around and read all the signs 3 times, then select the exit! :)
sandos··on Suspected sabotage causes major Netherlands rail disruption
Exactly this, and also they are trying to keep some deniability here, so variations are good.
sandos··on Fable 5.1 Solves the Cyphral Distich, a 370-year-old cipher
Not giving up uses more tokens, so why would it ever give up?
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