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brokensegue··on Max severity RCE flaw discovered in widely used Apache Parquet
What would it mean for the vulnerability to be in the format and not the parser?
brokensegue··on MCP server for Ghidra
Proving that two pieces of code are equivalent sounds very hard (incomputable)
brokensegue··on Waymos crash less than human drivers
lyft charges more for nicer cars so a fair comparison might be to lyft's more premium service
brokensegue··on MCP server for Ghidra
that requires LLM as judge
brokensegue··on MCP server for Ghidra
my experience with just copying and pasting things from ghidra into LLMs and asking it to figure it out wasn't so successful. it'd be cool to have benchmarks for this stuff though.
brokensegue··on Tencent's 'Hunyuan-T1'–The First Mamba-Powered Ultra-Large Model
> The model activates 52 billion parameters through dynamic expert routing, with each specialist module handling specific reasoning domains like mathematical logic or contextual analysis. This architecture enables:

https://www.analyticsvidhya.com/blog/2025/03/hunyuan-t1/

brokensegue··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (March 2025)
do you have a list of open positions?
brokensegue··on GLP-1 drugs: An economic disruptor? (2024)
That counts as not observant to me
brokensegue··on GLP-1 drugs: An economic disruptor? (2024)
40% of Americans are obese and way more are merely overweight. Either your office is small, a huge fluke, weirdly selected or you're not observant enough.
brokensegue··on GPT-4.5
API price is crazy high. This model must be huge. Not sure this is practical
brokensegue··on Grok 3 instructed to ignore sources accusing Trump and Musk of misinformation
imagine being the engineer tasked with this... so embarrassing.
brokensegue··on U.S. conditionally approves vaccine to protect poultry from avian flu
"foods with low nutritional value but high energy density" is not the definition of UPFs that I've seen most often. The definition I most see is the NOVA classification. NOVA doesn't require a UPF food to be of low nutritional value or high energy density.

Also the GOP opposed mere taxes on sugary drinks but now they want to ban UPFs? I don't believe it.

brokensegue··on U.S. conditionally approves vaccine to protect poultry from avian flu
there is not evidence that it is the "processing" of the UPF that is the problem. so any attempt to ban UPF is doomed.
brokensegue··on U.S. conditionally approves vaccine to protect poultry from avian flu
Banning ultra processed food is unhinged. The conventional definition of UPF isn't coherent.
brokensegue··on The first yearly drop in average CPU performance in its 20 years of benchmarks
Sample size won't save you if you're sampling from a different population.
brokensegue··on ElevenReader
People listen to talk radio while driving all the time
brokensegue··on PhD Knowledge Not Required: A Reasoning Challenge for Large Language Models
What heuristics are there for some of these?
brokensegue··on PhD Knowledge Not Required: A Reasoning Challenge for Large Language Models
Are these really reasoning challenges? Seems like they are really solved via brute force or guess and check
brokensegue··on WikiTok
just leave this here https://www.tiktok.com/@wikipedia
brokensegue··on Introducing deep research
26.6% on humanity's last exam is actually impressive.

pass rate really only matters in context of the difficulty of the tasks

brokensegue··on String of recent killings linked to Bay Area 'Zizians'
I don't think being trans is part of their beliefs or a requirement to be a member
brokensegue··on Show HN: HDR Steganography – one file / two images
good point. I added more information to the README
brokensegue··on GenAI Art Is the Least Imaginative Use of AI Imaginable
The data doesn't match your belief

https://financialaid.stanford.edu/undergrad/

brokensegue··on GenAI Art Is the Least Imaginative Use of AI Imaginable
It's your belief that everyone at Stanford gets a scholarship of some kind?
brokensegue··on GenAI Art Is the Least Imaginative Use of AI Imaginable
Large numbers of Stanford students are on financial aid and/or scholarships
brokensegue··on Trump signs executive order withdrawing from the World Health Organization
What a weird hypothetical
brokensegue··on 'Obelisks': New Class of Life Has Been Found in Human Digestive System
I'm unclear why we are calling these a new class of life rather than just a new kind of virus. Their shape?
brokensegue··on Is anyone playing with the combination of generative AI and OpenCyc?
Yes lots of low importance tasks. E.g. assigning a provisional filename to an in progress document

Checking documents for compliance with a corporate style guide

brokensegue··on Is anyone playing with the combination of generative AI and OpenCyc?
I interpreted the op's argument to be that

> For simple tasks where we would alternatively hire only ordinary humans AIs have similar error rates.

Yes if a task requires deep expertise or great care the AI is a bad choice. But lots of tasks don't. And in those kinds of tasks even ordinary humans are already too expensive to be economically viable

brokensegue··on Is anyone playing with the combination of generative AI and OpenCyc?
Because the cost competitive alternative to llms are often just ordinary humans
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