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sabas123··on GPT-6 Astra plays World of Warcraft for the first time with agent-wow
Puzzle pirates used to have AI bots help you too if you couldn't find any crew. God I miss that game :(
sabas123··on What I learned selling 2,500 MIDI recorders: Hardware is not so hard
> except in some special circumstances (e.g. childrens' toys)

Don't nearly all electronics fall under it too, this is the second item after children toys in the link you posted.

> Here is a non-exhaustive list of products that are included in EU laws about CE marking:

> Toys, drones, electrical and electronic equipment, pyrotechnic products, recreational crafts and watercraft

sabas123··on To study how chips work, MIT researchers built their own operating system
I actually do a phd in a closely related area. Creating better tools to do research with is definitely part of the research process. While there is a lot of work in general operating systems, those aimed to specifically do a lot of microarchitectural experiments is still undiscovered ground.
sabas123··on The Emacsification of Software
> It wouldn't stop people from feeding them into the Show HN stream, which is the problem. If we had a good enough way to tell them apart, we could factor them into two streams, but we don't yet.

But it would allow for a culture to grow where the posters would self-contain their submissions into those threads.

sabas123··on Denuvo has been cracked in all single-player games it previously protected
> Do you really believe that year after year game developers and game engines get worse and worse at performance? Of course not.

If you strictly want to blame Denuvo then that assumes game developers cannot think of a way to spend their extra performance either. Which is obviously not the case.

sabas123··on The Social Edge of Intelligence: Individual Gain, Collective Loss
It is the average of sub sets of humans, which can be vastly better than just entire population.

Example it can easily do moderately advanced calculus, that is way better than the average human.

sabas123··on Over-editing refers to a model modifying code beyond what is necessary
This is even the official OpenAI guideline too.
sabas123··on ML promises to be profoundly weird
We also have had a significant rise inglobal population. Making for an unfair comparison.
sabas123··on Microsoft's 'unhackable' Xbox One has been hacked by 'Bliss'
> It's an entirely new class of vulnerability, as far as I can tell.

It is know as voltage glitching. If you're interested our research group applies to Intel CPUs. https://download.vusec.net/papers/microspark_uasc26.pdf

sabas123··on TUI Studio – visual terminal UI design tool
What is the point of having this if code generation is not functional yet? That is the entire point of this app.
sabas123··on Ghidra by NSA
Without providing any proof that either this or SELinux is backdoored.
sabas123··on AI doesn’t reduce work, it intensifies it
> No, we get applications so hideously inefficient that your $3000 developer machine feels like it it's running a Pentium II with 256 MB of RAM.

> We get software that's as slow as it was 30 years ago, for no reason other than our own arrogance and apathy.

I feel like I read this exact same take on this site for the past 15 years.

sabas123··on Can Dutch universities do without Microsoft?
The problem is that we already can provide an alternative, but we don't switch to them. Which might be even worse.
sabas123··on Mistral raises 1.7B€, partners with ASML
Exception
sabas123··on Amazon has mostly sat out the AI talent war
Is it really such a pivot when they invested a lot in AI already?

They bought DeepMind in 2014 and always showed of a ton of AI research.

sabas123··on Do Things That Don't Scale (2013)
If I list you 10x many cases which failed, would you switch your opinion then?
sabas123··on Secure boot certificate rollover is real but probably won't hurt you
You make it sound like security is a binary thing, which is not true.
sabas123··on Never write your own date parsing library
> We don't want a world where only three old bearded guys can write a compiler or a physic engine.

Don't write your own OS does not mean do not contribute to something like the linux kernel.

sabas123··on The behavior of LLMs in hiring decisions: Systemic biases in candidate selection
I asked ChatGPT, gemini and both answered 3, with various levels of explainations. Was this a long time ago by any chance?
sabas123··on BuyMeACoffee silently dropped support for many countries (2024)
Which is not necessarily a good thing.
sabas123··on Why Bell Labs Worked
> Today we have a huge oversupply of scientists, however there's too many of them to allow judging for potential, and many are not actually capable of dramatic impact.

Realistically speaking it's also much harder to achieve the same level of impact back then as most, not just low-hanging, fruits have been plucked.

sabas123··on Dijkstra On the foolishness of "natural language programming"
As somebody that occasionally studies pure math books those can be very, very light on regular English.
sabas123··on Modern-Day Oracles or Bullshit Machines? How to thrive in a ChatGPT world
If you make an LLM which design goal is to state "I do not know" any answer that is not directly in its training set, then all of the above statements don't hold.
sabas123··on Modern-Day Oracles or Bullshit Machines? How to thrive in a ChatGPT world
Being a "University Professor" means jack shit unless precisely in their (sub)-field. The authors are experts in biology, and evolution of information representation/communication, and about misinformation.

I'll gladly defer to their expert opinion on those topics, but IMO to use such an authoritative voice when they are not experts in actual AI systems. Judging the massive progress in the field of AI, how can anyone even remotely state what these systems inherently are, when they are still so new and ever-evolving?

sabas123··on Modern-Day Oracles or Bullshit Machines? How to thrive in a ChatGPT world
> currently designing a course to hopefully arm medical students with the required basic knowledge they need to navigate the changing world of medicine in light of the ML and LLM advances

Could you share what you think would be some key basic points what they should learn? Personally I see this landscape changing so insanely much that I don't even know what to prepare for.

sabas123··on Compiling Java into native binaries with Graal and Mill
IIRC there base kit like garbage collector and runtime are all the same between community and enterprise. The biggest feature that comes to mind that is behind the enterprise-only wall (or at least used to be) is Profile Guided optimization.
sabas123··on New speculative attacks on Apple CPUs
Keep in mind that getting meltdown to work might be very difficult depending on your setup. I wouldn't have been able to at least when starting out my teacher didn't provide us with targetable hardware.

A spectre (particularly RSB-based ones) are nice to start out with imo.

sabas123··on Why it's hard to trust software, but you mostly have to anyway
> Today's most advanced projects are able to compile pretty much arbitrary rust code into provable RISC-V programs

Provable does not imply secure.

sabas123··on Show HN: Hosting my website using my C web server
From a security perspective a lot of changes to this world would be an upgrade. However implementing security features is always a trade off, and sometimes good security is just not worth the loss of other things.
sabas123··on CrowdStrike debacle provides road map of American vulnerabilities to adversaries
I'd like to pose two questions:

1. How does the software obtain new data at run time? 2. How do you make sure that thing doesn't pose a security hole when a vulnerability gets discovered? (assuming this never happens is unrealistic)

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