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quinnjh

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About quinnjh

personal site Https://Quinnjh.net view as a graph here https://qjarvisholland.github.io

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    Comment #49251759

    Strongly agree- this is how I “evaluated” languages pre-agents. though I suspect this would bias results in favor of whatever has best signal to noise for boilerplate from stackove…

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    Comment #49101378

    Can't tell if you're joking or not - krebs on security may have some notes here.

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    Comment #49001860

    To quote the release: > This incident occurred during an internal evaluation which prompts models to pursue advanced exploitation using complex attack paths, in an effort to quanti…

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    Comment #49000640

    They mention that it cost a significant amount of inference , meaning they paid a significant amount of api usage on returning results to a prompt that specifically stated the long…

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    Comment #48999713

    Rad. Thanks for sharing! Will give it a spin and check out the repo.

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    Comment #48755820

    Certainly not _all_ of it, but a few billion at least. for the curious: https://www.usaspending.gov/search?hash=5ec35bf87ec1fd63d28d...

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    Comment #48327269

    This makes me think of how boxed cake recipes decided to leave out the eggs because people liked to still feel like they were "cooking" for people.

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    Comment #48071478

    Well there goes my hunch! Thanks for the input

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    Comment #48061912

    For the non haskell folks like myself, what would that look like/ why is parsing better? Perl i get

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    Comment #48045979

    My hunch is that it would take years of hundreds of thousands of developers working with machine code, posting stackoverflow questions with machine code, and publishing github repo…

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    Comment #47840094

    > for RSA and ECC, is there anything preventing us from using keys 10x bigger? you can run benchmarks yourself: openssl speed rsa1024 rsa2048 also this (slightly dated) java ex wri…

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    Comment #47799841

    is it possible to have greater success with the specificity? I don't think i ever drew a bike frame properly as a kid despite riding them and understanding the concept of spokes an…

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    Comment #47653656

    This site is a gem that has accompanied me on many spikes in the last year :) datasette's original music is top tier too. cognitively stimulating but not attention stealing.

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    Comment #47653513

    so no subscription is needed?

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    Comment #47454877

    https://www.csoonline.com/article/3844047/cisa-cybersecurity...

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    Comment #47347464

    >If we are all supposed to be talking to agents now, what's the difference[...]? it's a little cringe, but arguably the benefit of having agents use rails would be tht when you rev…

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    Comment #47251901

    Article was a bit of a nothingburger for the technically inclined. Digging into the paper, the significant finding (RCE) is achieved via: A payload was written which installs a rev…

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    Comment #47140312

    I haven't managed to design a pcb without finding an issue in the first run. Shoutout to OSHpark's prototype service. Something like 5 bucks an inch and you only have to toss out 3…

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    Comment #47128589

    What was the benefit to you over using USD? (actually wondering)

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    Comment #47119675

    Very curious project! Enjoyed the storytelling buildup on the site. Digging into the repo i can see over 50 open issues from the past few days with a lot of requests for refunds. A…

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    Comment #47119367

    earlier show hn thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4548251

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    Comment #47114871

    Definitely seemed like a ballmer joke to me, with how it changes size

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    Comment #47054221

    google ai estimates that 4.7 billion hours have been spent in minecraft. At least these are real :)

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    Comment #47051460

    We love engineer Kala. She decided to do a thing, while marking progress on her "technology tree" of skills gained by (very arguable) necessity. Dealing with permits and city beuar…