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kryogen1c

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I was in the US nuclear navy, now I work in IT.

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Anthropic models now available on Microsoft Foundry

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1 points·by kryogen1c·8 ay önce·0 comments

Ask HN: How far is too far?

1 points·by kryogen1c·10 ay önce·2 comments

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kryogen1c
·evvelsi gün·discuss
>in some cases they were pushing aircraft of the deck of carriers into the sea so they didn’t have to pay

You may be shocked to learn that practices such as this exist in the modern US military as well.
kryogen1c
·7 gün önce·discuss
>that's 0.2% CO2, it that CO2 is the result of respiration, it means that about 0.2% O2 was consumed,

I dont know anything about human respiration, but I know a little about chemistry and theres no reason to assume this is true. Basic stoichiometry.

According to a random article on the internet[1], nominal co2 production is 80% of oxygen consumption.

Your point appears broadly correct, just wanted to point out some faulty reasoning that could lead to incorrect results in the future.

[1] https://societymechanicalventilation.org/wp-content/uploads/...
kryogen1c
·11 gün önce·discuss
> For complex recipe graphs beyond vanilla train routing is also way more efficient

This had never ocurred to me. Starting to develop a picture in my head that looks a lot like train-served dropshipping. Continuous vs demand signals like top-up and running out? The space savings seem extreme.

Guess I have to do a train play through :-/
kryogen1c
·13 gün önce·discuss
On the flip side of this problem, novel best practices lag the medical standard of care, other human failures like corruption and competing priorities notwithstanding.

For example, we had to advocate for certain practices during the birth of our first child that became routine during our second several years later.

So, neither side is guaranteed correct, doctor or citizen researcher (which did not include LLMs in my case, for the record). The truest answer is also the most useless one, applicable to all fields: it depends.

The real question is: if you embrace being a layman, whom do you trust more: LLMs/the internet or experts, like doctors? I think the answer is pretty clearly experts.
kryogen1c
·26 gün önce·discuss
Is this after cleanup? There's almost zero wreckage and if it was at takeoff it shouldn't have enough speed or descent angle to atomize.
kryogen1c
·geçen ay·discuss
This still confuses me. It's clear they wanted to 10x licensing costs and /10 customers which assumably raises margins, but i still dont see it working out.

My international enterprise and all our business partners moved every broadcom product we have to a competitor. On top of that, they were very aggressive and combative with their sales+cease and desist threats.

They earned enemies for life. Some of us care about business relationships. Broadcom is dead to me and anyone that will listen to me.
kryogen1c
·geçen ay·discuss
Is it possible SpaceX is not massively overvalued and delaying its index approval unnecessarily slows its economic output by needlessly restricting its access to funding, harming us all collectively?
kryogen1c
·2 ay önce·discuss
>Does the author (a purported dietician) not know this him/herself?

FTA: First, “seed oils” is a marketing term, not a nutritional category. What we’re actually talking about are vegetable oils high in polyunsaturated and monounsaturated fats
kryogen1c
·2 ay önce·discuss
Upon further review, I was not in fact lazy. I've been DDG the whole time.

Makes sense!
kryogen1c
·2 ay önce·discuss
This has me absolutely howling.

I use Bing at work for no other reason than sheer laziness, really. You've inspired me to return to DDG.

Keep on keepin on, yegg.
kryogen1c
·2 ay önce·discuss
From: https://infosec.exchange/@wdormann/116565129854382214

>In a normal WinRE session, you have a X:\Windows\System32 directory that has a winpeshl.ini file in it

>However, with the YellowKey exploit, it looks like Transactional NTFS bits on a USB Drive are able to delete the winpeshl.ini file on ANOTHER DRIVE

Interesting. I dont know about this environment - some kind of naive file handle contructing/passing? But then, why require a key press during winre reboot?

I wonder how patachable this is. The thousands of winre thumb drives are certainly out of reach; maybe the bitlocker side update the access permissions? Would it require unenc/reenc?

Seems like lots more to follow
kryogen1c
·2 ay önce·discuss
Everyone's making a lot of good points about game theory and economic motivations, but there is a much more important and self-serving point: when you pay a ransom, hackers come after your shit x10.

Paying a ransom signals 3 things: 1) you are vulnerable to attack 2) you cannot recover from an attack 3) you've got cash

The result is that you get attacked much, much more. You could ask me how I know, but I wouldn't tell you :)
kryogen1c
·2 ay önce·discuss
Maybe im not in the target audience, but i had to look up what mogging is because its not explained anywhere
kryogen1c
·2 ay önce·discuss
Sorry this is totally unrelated but it caused me to have an epiphany:

Google is not a software, hardware, or SaaS company. They are an ad-funded moonshot R&D incubator, searching only for billion dollar lightning strikes.

Every part of their business exists only to broker and sell ads or capture more market share to show ads to or to collect and trade data/Metadata for better ad targeting.
kryogen1c
·2 ay önce·discuss
(Well-regulated) free markets are sort of built on the principle of educated consumerism. Your choice matters; its not up to the government to make illegal every non-optimal product. However, we do expect some minimum level of safety.

What does that mean for llms? Their nondeterminism does seem to incline them toward a legal safety requirement. Can you buy a fire extinguisher that 1/1000 times burns your house down? Or can your car brakes instead increase acceleration in rare cases?

Im using llms much more than i used to, but i still cant shake the fundamental stochastic nature of the technology.
kryogen1c
·2 ay önce·discuss
> It’s grown in a way that degraded it

Im an outsider and a layman, so this might be totally off base, but...

The way I hear people talking about github reliability doesnt sound like scaling problems to me. If you drive 20 miles every day but then decide to drive 2000 miles and run out of gas, thats a problem of scale. If you drive 2000 miles and your engine explodes, thats a problem of design.

Maybe their design problems are being made evident because of sudden scale, but they're still design problems.
kryogen1c
·2 ay önce·discuss
>> nuclear sub

>aircraft carrier

Having served on both, this is actually a pretty interesting comparison (at least to me).

Carriers are simply larger, so they likely win by scale, but im not sure on a more per-(sub)system basis.

Carriers have a lot of aircraft handling systems that subs dont, elevators and hangers. Also the carrier has group c&c stuff.

Subs have a lot of stealth systems carriers don't, being that they're visible from space. Lots of dive related stuff, o2/co2 handlers.

They both have weapons systems, hvac, propulsion, distillation, steam generators, reactors, air compressor, many others.

Not obvious to me which one is more complex!
kryogen1c
·3 ay önce·discuss
> their intentions have become much more clear

The hunter Biden laptop story was censored - including in private messages - and Charlie Kirk was shown being shot in the neck to death to children.

There's nothing else to say.
kryogen1c
·3 ay önce·discuss
>Pain a warning signal from the body

Hard agree, same with fevers. Heat helps kill many diseases, dont blunt your body's defenses.

There are exceptions to both rules, but many people forget which part is the exception and which part is the rule.
kryogen1c
·3 ay önce·discuss
The submitter appears to be a co-founder of the company the article is about (omitted from the HN account bio), and the article is misleading to the point of lying.

This company now has strong a strong negative reputation in my mind that I will gladly share with others.