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nenaokion Modification of acetaminophen to reduce liver toxicity and enhance drug efficacy

it's sad to compare.

apart from that: the word "mark" comes from a root for "boundary" or "border", and really it doesn't need to be about that; we're all in this together.

nenaokion Positional preferences, order effects, prompt sensitivity undermine AI judgments

your shrewd idea might make a fine layer back up the Tower of Babel

nenaokion WASM 2.0

The Wasm Constant Time proposal was just moved to inactive 4 days ago[0].

From what I can tell the bulk of the work for it was done in 2018[1], but it needs updating to consider SIMD, and for legwork to be done on moving it along as a proper spec extension.

Until someone picks up this valuable work and lands this much-needed feature in Wasm, we're extremely vulnerable to timing attacks in all Wasm crypto.

[0] https://github.com/WebAssembly/proposals/blob/9fc7a85e/inact...

[1] https://github.com/PLSysSec/ct-wasm

nenaokion My imaginary children aren't using your streaming service

Python devs needing to be sheltered from mature C++ themes?

Checks out I guess.

nenaokion Qwen2.5-VL-32B: Smarter and Lighter

Just based on the stage of the game I'd say it's not likely, but the possibilities are there:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43121383

It would have to be from unsupervised tool usage or accepting backdoored code, not traditional remote execution from merely inferencing the weights.

nenaokion Qwen2.5-VL-32B: Smarter and Lighter

My understanding is that models are currently undertrained and not very "dense", so Q4 doesn't hurt very much now but it may in future denser models.

nenaokion Carefully but Purposefully Oxidising Ubuntu

Pretty absurd conflation you've got there.

The package manager just offers a common interface for interop, you can still build without dependencies.

nenaokion Emergent Misalignment: Narrow finetuning can produce broadly misaligned LLMs [pdf]

(NB "Two-faced LLMs" are apparently trivial: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43121383)

nenaokion Emergent Misalignment: Narrow finetuning can produce broadly misaligned LLMs [pdf]

An LLM would have to be two-faced in a sense to surreptitiously mess with code alone and be normal otherwise.

It's interesting and a headline worthy result, but I think the research they were doing where they accidentally found that line of questioning is slightly more interesting: does an LLM trained on a behavior have self-awareness of that behavior. https://x.com/betleyjan/status/1894481241136607412

nenaokion Intel's Battlemage Architecture

These are a bit mythical, finding one for sale is no small feat.

I guess adding memory to some cards is a matter of completely reworking the PCB, not just swapping DRAM chips. From what I can find it has been done, both chip swaps and PCB reworks, it's just not easy to buy.

Software support is of course another consideration.

nenaokion Intel's Battlemage Architecture

>A clamshell 5090 with 2GB modules has a max limit of 64GB

How does "clamshelling" get around the 32-bits per module requirement? Do the two 2GB modules act as one 4GB module when clamshelled?

nenaokion Are LLMs able to notice the “gorilla in the data”?

Maybe A Whisker Away is actually a documentary...

nenaokion Official DeepSeek R1 Now on Ollama

https://nvidianews.nvidia.com/news/nvidia-puts-grace-blackwe...

GB10, or DIGITS, is $3,000 for 1 PFLOP (@4-bit) and 128GB unified memory. Storage configurable up to 4TB.

Can be paired to run 405B (4-bit), probably not very fast though (memory bandwidth is slower than a typical GPU's, and is the main bottleneck for LLM inference).

nenaokion IsMyXFeedFucked – Analyze How Your X Feed's Impacting You

I reckon it's mostly noise. An ad I saw three times in the sample was just an awful mobile game I don't deserve to be subject to ads about, and the other ad I saw twice was just based on my location.

nenaokion IsMyXFeedFucked – Analyze How Your X Feed's Impacting You

Nice job. It should ignore ads imho, my top 2 "largest influences" were just ads. I mean, I guess we do influence ads via engagement or whatnot, but it's not as if I pay mind to an ad the way I pay mind to a post.

My card: https://files.catbox.moe/t8rzlb.png

nenaokion Kokoro TTS – A lightweight (82M params) text-to-speech model

https://kokorotts.org/ is the proper site.

nenaokion ASCII porn predates the Internet but it's still everywhere (2019)

4chan's /jp/ has [sjis] bbcode tags for formatting ASCII art consistently with the Mona typeface.

No thread up though, and the archive doesn't support the tags.

nenaokion ReMarkable Paper Pro

A4 surely. A1 paper is massive.

nenaokion Google delays third-party cookie demise yet again

It's whitelisted based on the embedding domain.

https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/132596

>Ads appear on brand safe sites: YouTube works diligently so that our advertisers' brands appear on sites that reflect our respective core values. Our systems closely evaluate websites and their content against various factors when finding out whether to turn on In-stream ads on YouTube embeds. These factors include a strict set of guidelines on content like adult imagery, violence, inappropriate and hateful language, and sites that promote infringement.

nenaokion Apple patents suggest future AirPods could monitor biosignals and brain activity

Sleep Cycle does this.

nenaokion PicoCalc: A fully-functional clone of VisiCalc for the PICO-8

Numbers has some good incremental improvements. It does have first-class support for headers, and even uses them for references which makes things absurdly clear in comparison to the plain A1 format. Multiple tables per sheet is also particularly great IMO.

The web version was mostly replete last I used it half a decade ago, including realtime collaboration with mac and iOS.

nenaokion Tell HN: I Miss Flash

JPEXS[0] is very full-featured if you're interested in porting swfs.

I revived this simple loop the other weekend and it was a breeze to extract the media;

https://fwoofy.moe/ (sound warning)

Original https://dagobah.net/flash/fwoofy.swf

[0] https://github.com/jindrapetrik/jpexs-decompiler

nenaokion 'Couple,' 'Few,' and 'Several'

Right, to me "couple" means two except when vaguely gesturing some small number.

nenaokion Everything authenticated by Microsoft is tainted

It's named so because you have "0 days" to patch it; it's not referring to the age of the vuln.

nenaokion I Tested an HDMI Adapter That Demands Your Location and Spams You with Ads

It's far easier just to securely wipe. Half a dozen taps, not including passphrase input.

nenaokion Ask HN: What is the least obnoxious way to ask for cookie permissions?

It'd be especially great for a hip and cool corporation with a burgeoning browser to automatically set that header all the time, helping ensure nobody actually listens to it.

nenaokion WiFi without internet on a Southwest flight

It's responding to the scenario described in GGP.

nenaokion Bashunit

They repeatedly name a parameter "callable", but call the function themselves inside string interpolation. This only works out how they need when it's the last parameter.