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throwawayadvsec··on Ask HN: What Is More Compute Efficient Between Golang's If and Switch Statements
it's unlikely that there is a difference

compilers are usually optimizing these kind of statements so they end up similar or identical

if you wanna be sure, make two loops running a few million times with random if else / switches and time them

throwawayadvsec··on Ask HN: Cheapest hardware to run Llama 2 70B
your idea of cheapest is using a mac to run a LLM? are you out of your mind?
throwawayadvsec··on mCaptcha: Open-source proof-of-work captcha for websites
large scale spammers are just going to use free cloud credits they got for pennies on the dollar, it won't stop anyone
throwawayadvsec··on GPT-4 can't reason
There are definitely patterns that transfer across different problems, it's not random at all.
throwawayadvsec··on Web Scraping via JavaScript Runtime Heap Snapshots (2022)
URL, images, stuff shown after you click on a button...
throwawayadvsec··on Web Scraping via JavaScript Runtime Heap Snapshots (2022)
Instagram data is really valuable and they don't like sharing it, you're not dumb!

rotating proxies are the way to go with insta, you can't do much about IP blocking besides using the right IPs

although in theory if you had an account(s) you could still scrape data from a datacenter IP(aws), even though the limits were lower than a 4G proxy

you can buy/create insta accounts for less than a $ using throwaway phone numbers

throwawayadvsec··on Web Scraping via JavaScript Runtime Heap Snapshots (2022)
a VPN won't do anything to help you with instagram

the best of the best are 4G rotating proxies

the fingerprint needs to change also

throwawayadvsec··on GPTBot – OpenAI’s Web Crawler
If I read and learn from your content it's of no benefit to you either.

If you don't want others to learn from what you have to say, just talk to a brick wall.

throwawayadvsec··on Ask HN: Best cheap decent LLM for handling code, social media profiles?
hundred of thousand of requests monthly
throwawayadvsec··on Ask HN: What good is a VPN if Hulu and Netflix still know where I am?
do you mean detect your location or detect the fact that you're using a vpn?

because there are plenty of API that'll tell if you're using one

+if you have a huge database you can detect duplicate IPs

throwawayadvsec··on MatX: Faster Chips for LLMs
there are already dozens of use cases that would become (more) profitable/interesting if we had chips optimized for LLMs

they were asic for BTC at a way earlier stage

+they can always pivot in a year if the market changes too much

throwawayadvsec··on Ask HN: How to get AWS IP info on hacker
i think this guy is a LLM
throwawayadvsec··on OpenAI Startup Credits
Blackhatworld.com
throwawayadvsec··on Non-determinism in GPT-4 is caused by Sparse MoE
Step 1. Find papers you're interested in Step 2. Open them Step 3. read them
throwawayadvsec··on Non-determinism in GPT-4 is caused by Sparse MoE
"these tokens often compete against each other for available spots in expert buffers. " So is this also why ChatGPT is often just writing placeholders in place of functions when I ask him for some long code?
throwawayadvsec··on Nvidia’s CEO Is the Uncle of AMD’s CEO
>is that primary and secondary schools that are in not very good areas are not ambitious for their pupils.

And where do you think the vast majority of immigrants live? In Boulogne Billancourt?

throwawayadvsec··on Nvidia’s CEO Is the Uncle of AMD’s CEO
When I talk about these paths, I mostly mean prepas and grande écoles, but that doesn't mean I recommend them.

Yeah you're set for life if you succeed there, but the student suicide rate in those schools is also astonishingly high because of the pressure/competition.

If I were you, I'd just teach my kids to code, learn, build stuff, sell stuff, and use AI correctly. IMO school is an outdated concept, in any country.

throwawayadvsec··on Nvidia’s CEO Is the Uncle of AMD’s CEO
I know people from the suburbs who didn't even know what a prep school was until they were adults.
throwawayadvsec··on Nvidia’s CEO Is the Uncle of AMD’s CEO
>They believe more in the education system so they push their kids more into higher education.

No, not really, most people seems to still believe it.

>Most of the high education school in France have a somewhat fair competitive exam to filter the candidates

Yet preparatory schools are still disproportionately full of rich white kids.

throwawayadvsec··on Nvidia’s CEO Is the Uncle of AMD’s CEO
The US are a younger country and it's full of immigrants/children of immigrants.

Most of the money here is old money. There are dozens of implicit rules. In France having a teacher as a parent is a better indicator of whether you'll get into a top school than being rich. Because you have to know all the tricks in the book to get anywhere. From my POV getting into Ivy League seems as simple as getting a high SAT, applying, getting approved for a loan. In France, most immigrants kids don't even know the possible paths to get into a top school.

Also yes, salary plays a big role, if you're part of the top 1% of your country intellectual elite, I'd bet you'd rather cross an ocean for 6 figures than for 2000 euros a month and free healthcare.

throwawayadvsec··on Retrieving your browsing history through a CAPTCHA (2022)
awesome thanks!
throwawayadvsec··on Retrieving your browsing history through a CAPTCHA (2022)
so I just spent the last hour tinkering with it, I think there is definetly room for some timing attack, at least on firefox, there is a pattern
throwawayadvsec··on Retrieving your browsing history through a CAPTCHA (2022)
is user input needed or can it be done without it?
throwawayadvsec··on OpenAI Startup Credits
looks nice but it's US only
throwawayadvsec··on OpenAI Startup Credits
You can get credits at a 95% discount on some sketchy websites google is your friend ;)
throwawayadvsec··on The Right to Lie and Google’s “Web Environment Integrity”
Yeah but SSH and RDP aren't used by grandmas that get their wallets emptied by scammers. Forced SSL everywhere is a good thing.

It's bad that it's run by corporations, but it's still a good thing overall. Maybe it should be run by different people(like IDK ICANN over something like the UN)

throwawayadvsec··on Ask HN: Why GPT is so better in Rust than copilot?
do you mean copilot autocompletion or the crappy chat copilot in beta?

you're not prompting copilot that's one reason

throwawayadvsec··on Ask HN: Why does anyone pay for ChatGPT Plus?
nope, I created a new openai account a few days ago they only gave me access to GPT 3.5(16K)
throwawayadvsec··on Ask HN: How to monetize a Browser Extension without making users pay or leave?
I think people are going to use it(a few millions people could need it and there is no solutions available today), but I don't think it would be important enough for them to ever pay.
throwawayadvsec··on Ask HN: Why does anyone pay for ChatGPT Plus?
99% of people don't even know what's an API key.
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