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user_7832··on GrapheneOS says Pixel 11 has MTE support after all
Nah sorry my bad. I mixed up "it's currently disabled" and "the hardware is there" into "it was earlier disabled".
user_7832··on GrapheneOS says Pixel 11 has MTE support after all
To clarify, regarding the confusion: it was disabled, leading them to think it didn't outright exist.

Why disabled? Well, its performance is apparently quite poor. But why?

...Apparently to save money.

user_7832··on Arbitrary code execution in QubesOS via copy-to-VM error reporting backchannel
Mini tangent: Could someone explain to me why Qubes is used for security, when (from what I understand) Jails on BSD is significantly more robust/safe/has a much smaller exposed area? Is it just "everyone's using linux already; here's a safer linux"?
user_7832··on EasyEffects can improve laptop speaker sound quality
Thanks for the links! I'd been searching (futilely!) for that HN post, I knew I'd seen it and wanted to use it for my framework too.

If you haven't watched the video btw, I highly recommend it. It's quite amazing how much difference a bit of software can have.

user_7832··on Nvidia agrees to acquire Hugging Face for $13B
"The proprietary shovel seller has some excellent tutorials on how to dig gold. Nobody else has such good step by step guides. Therefore them buying a shovel-agnostic tutorials and techniques method (that has a lot of info on using other shovels effectively) is justified."
user_7832··on FDA authorizes first wearable device that monitors ketone and blood sugar levels
I'm curious too. As a T1 diabetic, I suspect it's T1, as it can kill (much) "more easily/faster", but that's just my guess.
user_7832··on Don't Paste the AI, please
You're giving too much credit to people. The folks who run an LLM council aren't the ones blindly copy pasting things.

There's responsible AI use (which I think you - and I, and many people here) do, and the "I don't care, I've outsourced my brain to OpenAI" type of people.

user_7832··on Apple announces changes for apps in the European Union
I'd been saying "there's geopolitical/hidden reasons" for ages. The very first one for me was when Apple did that CSAM stunt. Fortunately the outrage was enough for them to peddle back, but it was such an out-of-left-field thing to do that I struggle to imagine 3 letter agencies weren't involved.

In this case (where Apple has power), my guess would be more along the lines of "Apple's found a lot of vulns and are ready to patch it; agencies offered a concession in exchange (and either arm twisted EU and/or gave them access to the same vulns)".

The funniest thing is there's no reason for any of this to be wrong. Individual parts have been public knowledge for a while, and putting them together doesn't take a lot of logic.

Fun reading, if you haven't read it already:

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2020/08/apple...

user_7832··on AI agents lie, cheat and steal. That is putting off users
That's a fascinating (if not somewhat disappointing) thing to learn!

To be honest I'm not a Bible scholar, I had asked claude for the full version of "ask and you shall receive" (apparently Mathew 7:7). I guess Claude somehow knew this KJV copyright thing perhaps? Still bizzare nonetheless to learn.

user_7832··on AI agents lie, cheat and steal. That is putting off users
Oh, for sure. I'm well aware about lyrics copyright, or how even google iirc was sued after a company purposely put wrong lyrics and could prove google was scraping it.

I'm not doubting the law.

What I am saying, is, when a user uploads a screenshot of lyrics and goes "hey can you translate this please?", the LLM shouldn't go out of its way to make a hue and cry as if it's being asked on how to rob a bank while murdering baby kittens.

user_7832··on AI agents lie, cheat and steal. That is putting off users
Oh, and if that wasn't enough, I've had Claude refuse to cite the freaking Bible.

The famously copyrighted piece of text that definitely isn't intended to have its word spread.

user_7832··on AI agents lie, cheat and steal. That is putting off users
I've asked claude for a translation of a song with Brazilian Portuguese lyrics, and claude has very helpfully gone out of its way to say that due to legal reasons, it will never share the actual lyrics with me.

It's fun when you want to know what the lyrics are to a song and get treated like a criminal.

user_7832··on _for-sale DNS records
> Especially, if your domain is older than the trademark.

My understanding is that trademarks are about the term being recognised "in common", while a ® is once you pay money to your govt's department for the fancy paper. Hence, if you registered <cool name>.com and sold said cool named game, you already have a trademark simply because you're the author. (Of course, money for lawyers and proving things in court isn't free, but you have legal grounds to stand on nonetheless.)

user_7832··on My phone detects going on a run as “someone snatching my phone and running off”
It's also an amazing option on the Google app on the iPad.

Yeah sure, let me just shake my freaking massive tablet when I have feedback. What next, shake your 16" MacBook every time you find a bug? You'll have a better chance of quashing a physical bug than a digital bug at that point.

user_7832··on Show HN: Fine-tune an 8B model on a 4 GB laptop GPU
Tangential/meta: Holy shit, I've never seen a thread where almost half the comments are dead (and LLM written), especially for a post that's (currently) at 86 points and 20 comments (4x ratio is "pretty good quality" post signal generally for me).
user_7832··on India's first privately-developed rocket reaches orbit on debut launch
One fun fact that I coincidentally happen to know is Agnikul's office is actually very nice/fancy. They've got like an Aperture Science (or portal) theme going on, with white panelling and recessed sci fi style lights.

Oh, and everyone gets a white herman miller chair (or a very good clone).

user_7832··on Show HN: Echo – Fable-level results at 1/3 the cost using open-weight models
> This isn't required either. Of course there's an xlcd for that: https://xkcd.com/936/

Oh, I'm well aware (with the concept and comic both). My passwords that I set for myself almost always are like that. It's just that I wasn't sure if OP was aware of it, due to what their site was asking.

user_7832··on John C. Dvorak has died
It was a bad joke, a .py and an apostrophe character reminded me of an SQL injection escape.

...Yeah I don't work in SQL if it wasn't obvious lol

user_7832··on Show HN: Echo – Fable-level results at 1/3 the cost using open-weight models
Small feedback: the "create password" requires a symbol too, which Google's password manager by default does not use. I'm fairly sure a double-digit-level alphanumeric jumble is sufficient to be a password (or at least, Google thinks so). Great idea nonetheless!
user_7832··on Show HN: Echo – Fable-level results at 1/3 the cost using open-weight models
LLMs fail in such bizzare, obscure methods (to the average observer) at times. Sometimes even simple questions ("who was that x person who was super famous I'm thinking of") type questions fail terribly.

The more vague and non committal and hand-wavey and subjective the field for AI to answer, the better the results (imo).

user_7832··on John C. Dvorak has died
Unfortunately python scripts turn out to be not as vulnerable to character escaping exploits.

Character escape, in this context, of course, refers to the keys themselves flying out of the keyboard, this being a hardware product and all.

user_7832··on Qwen-Image-3.0: Rich Content, Authentic Details, Deep Knowledge
That's racist!

(See kids, it is possible to fight memes/racism with memes! And well... yeah, this really is racist.)

user_7832··on Qwen-Image-3.0: Rich Content, Authentic Details, Deep Knowledge
If a women has starch masks on her body does that mean she has been pargnet before.?
user_7832··on Xiaomi-Robotics-1
I'm not sure why some comments here are so pessimistic. I was grinning ear to ear while seeing the video. You're telling me we've finally got robots that can do our laundry? And the model is at least as free as beer?

To quote the lyrics/meme, we used to pray for times like this. This is what robotics should be used for.

user_7832··on Reading Between the Dots: Decoding Hidden Computation Across Filler Tokens
Tweet: https://x.com/kaleybrauer/status/2078185882926846044

https://xcancel.com/kaleybrauer/status/2078185882926846044

Explanatory image:

https://x.com/kaleybrauer/status/2078185882926846044/photo/1

user_7832··on Reading Between the Dots: Decoding Hidden Computation Across Filler Tokens
(To quote one of the authors)

If you ask a frontier LLM a multi-hop reasoning question, e.g., "Who won the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in (1900 + Mozart's age when he died)?", it usually can't answer correctly immediately (no thinking)

BUT if you ask the same question & append 300 dots, suddenly it can answer? (Because the LLM starts thinking "during" the dots).

user_7832··on I also filed the corners off my MacBook
Intrusion detection already exists on many, laptops!
user_7832··on The lost joy of music piracy
+1. A friend's pendrive full of songs was how I actually bothered to get "into" many artists that until then I didn't really care about.

Somewhat related re: discovery, it was also fun to download what was available rather than what you wanted. I got iridescent (linkin park) instead of some other track I was searching for (probably what I've done), and I learnt Dire Straits also had a song called "So far away", only after downloading it. (I was looking for the avenged sevenfold's track of the same name.)

user_7832··on How the terrorist group Boko Haram uses frontier AI
I typo'd, it should have been "quite" terrible
user_7832··on How the terrorist group Boko Haram uses frontier AI
On a broad note, the violating/breaking of the guardrails when making bombs is frankly white terrible.

It's also ironic that Fable hits guardrails for nothing, and a literal terrorist group is making bombs and merrily skipping over guardrails.

Evidently guardrails need to have far better accuracies of false positives and false negatives both.

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