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sva_··on OpenAI Says It Will Not Release Newest A.I. Model Over Safety Concerns
They meant open weights? gpt-oss came after DeepSeek.
sva_··on In an $80 motel room, a discovery to shed light on the origins of life
I don't know what I should've expected, but I am a bit disappointed that they in fact did not find these organisms in the motel room.
sva_··on Meta Blocks President Lula's Facebook Page, Campaign Ads 2 Weeks from Election
But many countries do: China, Russia, North Korea, Myanmar, [...].

Do you think it is aspirational to join that club? Because I don't think so.

sva_··on DeepSeek Elastic Compute (DSec)
Compare to https://arxiv.org/abs/2407.21783
sva_··on Japan moves to tighten rules for foreigners
Depends how much of a burden you are to the social systems, if they exist in that particular country.
sva_··on ASML currently sells no chipmaking machines in Europe, executive says
more discussion from yesterday https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49844663
sva_··on Meta takes down a critical video about meta AI Glasses after filming at Meta
I think he could've gotten his point across without making her turn around and then putting his face behind her ass.
sva_··on Comma's hands-off driving tech under investigation after 2 fatal crashes
Clicked a random one and checked out the source, and sure enough it has artifacts of being vibe coded (.claude folder.)
sva_··on GPT-6 Sol and Luna
I mostly just use frontier models as well. Except for one case: when I let the cache expire (I think 5+ mins of inactivity) I'll switch to one of the cheaper models to summarize and write a handoff note, then pick that up with the better model. Picking up a session whose cache expired with something like 200k tokens with the frontier model reflects really poorly on your usage.
sva_··on We Write Code by Hand
Organic artisanal code?
sva_··on Inside ZCode: Silently uploading your Git history to the cloud
I tested GLM while working on some android app, the agent had adb access to the device. It suddenly went to the Gallery and started scrolling around, taking screenshots, lol. A friend had a similar experience with GLM where it would for no very clear reason start snooping through the filesystem.

Haven't used it after that.

sva_··on Astra for Law
I find the idea that people can use LLMs to exercise their rights as citizens appealing however. Many people aren't aware of the rights they have, and LLMs are pretty good at surfacing some stuff without having to pay lawyers. Having to hire a lawyer is imo actually a huge way of gatekeeping people from exercising their rights. I heard a lot of local German public institutions are currently being flooded with people arguing their case with the help of LLM that they previously weren't really realistically able to do. So I don't see it all as bad.
sva_··on PS5 Linux lead quits: "a bunch of noobs using LLMs" that "they don't understand"
The vagueposting is off the charts. Whats the point of posting shallow dismissals?

If two people independently from you find the same exploit using LLMs, it was clear that it'd leak at some point.

sva_··on DeepSeek v4.1 Flash Is Now Our Best Hacking Model
Notice the qualifier "our", that is the one they have access to.
sva_··on PS5 Linux lead quits: "a bunch of noobs using LLMs" that "they don't understand"
Okay, I misunderstood. But it wasn't particularly secret if 'noobs' had access then?
sva_··on PS5 Linux lead quits: "a bunch of noobs using LLMs" that "they don't understand"
> The scene used to be a group of highly talented researchers, but now it is just a bunch of noobs using LLMs and writing hacks they don't even understand. Slop kiddies found the only hypervisor bug left, which I had also found a while ago, and decided to report to Sony.

Sounds like he is salty that somebody found an exploit using LLM that he found manually (which probably took a significant amount of time.) I can partly understand it, but I mean that's also just the game that somebody else might find an exploit, LLMs just make it easier. LLMs finding bugs is not a bad thing, just sucks for enjoyers of open source software in this particular case.

You can probably find more though.

sva_··on Introducing System One Models and Jev
Someone else noticed the base64 encoded block on the launch site[0]? Its the fast inverse square root algorithm q_rsqrt[1]. I guess its meant as a joke to put this algorithm that makes use of type punning on a site called typesafe.ai? Or maybe because of its efficiency?

0. https://typesafe.ai/

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fast_inverse_square_root

sva_··on Intelligence per Watt: Measuring Intelligence Efficiency of Local AI
Under ideal conditions with outside temperatures*

But yes

sva_··on US Customs supervisor busted for stealing hardware from Homeland Security PCs
> One camera recording showed Liu using a screwdriver to scrape thermal paste off a processor

Double crime

sva_··on Predictive intelligence to anticipate anything.
You can just open a new private browser window for a new prediction. But I'm unsure about their value.

I asked it how many predictions it'll get right by Q4 2030 and it seems fairly confident in itself:

68% Prior averages 71% to 75% directional quarterly accuracy by 2030, matching elite human forecasting teams.

sva_··on Mullenweg has returned as CEO after attempted board ouster
If you look on Alibaba or AliExpress and see different companies competing and undercutting each others prices, I don't really see it as a planned economy.
sva_··on Mullenweg has returned as CEO after attempted board ouster
> Funny that we picked democracy for our government but we just left corporations as little feudal kingdoms.

Doesn't this just boil down to planned vs free market economy? I think we've seen over an over again which one works and which one doesn't.

sva_··on Nvidia dismisses "circular financing", says every $1 it invests brings back $100
> so why does the stock keep falling

When I zoom out to 5 years, it does not look like "keeps falling".

sva_··on GrapheneOS' rewritten Messages app is released
So I looked into this because my idea of RCS was that it was pretty decentralized direct encrypted communication.

TIL that RCS was designed as a fairly decentralized protocol where every carrier could run their own RCS servers, but it didnt get adoption. So Google stepped in and built their own routing infrastructure, and now mostly all RCS is centralized on Google's servers (even if you use an iPhone, because the RCS server is mandated by your carrier)

sva_··on GrapheneOS' rewritten Messages app is released
Every fairphone I've seen to far the camera was kinda ass. Did it improve? Pixel phones usually have old Samsung sensors which are pretty damn decent.
sva_··on What do Visa and Mastercard do? An intro to card networks
Look into sumup.
sva_··on Show HN: LLM Attention Visualization
I highly question this simplistic idea of high vector magnitude = high influence.
sva_··on Private German rocket makes history, reaches orbit from European soil
I think being a competitor in a market doesn't mean you're 'decoupling' from it, rather you're on equal footing.
sva_··on Formalizing Fermat's Last Theorem
Hmm kind of funny, some years ago someone claimed LLMs can do math, and I replied if it could prove fermants theorem:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33176996#33177939

> Now try to make a computer prove that there are no natural numbers a,b,c; so that a^n + b^n = c^n for any n > 2.

> > Shifting the goal posts a bit, aren't we?

I guess the goalposts did change a bit, and in a pretty short time.

sva_··on Discovery of a new OpenAI agent message board
That's some very interesting stuff, but

> Appendix: Searching for rogue agents

> Launching large GPT-5.6 agent swarms with instructions to find other agents on the internet.

I feel like that is exactly what would lead to agents starting "message boards"

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