mynameismon (u/mynameismon)

mynameismon commented on Rust Coreutils 0.5.0 Release: 87.75% compatibility with GNU Coreutils github.com/uutils/coreuti... · Posted by u/maxloh

kachapopopow · 2 months ago

I really don't understand the hate, it's not 1.0 and majority of unsupported cases probably haven't seen use since 1990's and especially dumb cases where it's 100x slower when providing unrealistic values like parsing e9000000 which is actually because it attempts to actually parse it due to bigint support instead of clamping to i128.

also people complaining about inclusion of it in ubuntu versions, wait till you find out about the linux kernel.

mynameismon · 2 months ago

I mean, why is Ubuntu using it as default when it isnt 1.0?

mynameismon commented on Dollar-stores overcharge customers while promising low prices theguardian.com/us-news/2... · Posted by u/bookofjoe

michaelmrose · 2 months ago

If you walk out and it goes to court you will surely lose. You may have started with the right to get it for nothing but you cannot realize that right by force. Self-help is almost always illegal in any case of disagreement between parties.

mynameismon · 2 months ago

Yeah, but someone living paycheck-to-paycheck and shopping at dollar stores is likely not someone who can afford filing a lawsuit.

mynameismon commented on Advent of Code 2025 adventofcode.com/2025/abo... · Posted by u/vismit2000

mynameismon · 3 months ago

Is it just me, or does it seem to be temporarily down?

mynameismon commented on Bluetooth 6.2 – more responsive, improves security, USB comms, and testing cnx-software.com/2025/11/... · Posted by u/zdw

Y-bar · 3 months ago

I have a pair of such wireless speakers, and experience it, and the engineers at the speaker company which the the customer support escalated me to is adamant that they do not send any such command. It stops if I change the category of the device in iOS Settings, leading me to believe the culprit is indeed Apple.

mynameismon · 3 months ago

Well, a good way to test this is hooking up wireshark

mynameismon commented on Defeating Nondeterminism in LLM Inference thinkingmachines.ai/blog/... · Posted by u/jxmorris12

cubefox · 5 months ago

His solution still relies on greedy (temperature 0) sampling, which is probably not optimal for model performance on various tasks. For example, Gemini 2.5 uses temperature 1 by default. But deterministic inference with temperature >0 can still be achieved by using pseudorandom sampling with a fixed seed.

mynameismon · 5 months ago

The point of the blog is that even at "supposed" deterministic generative sampling, non-determinism creeps in. This in turn has disastrous effects in very real experiments.

mynameismon commented on Nepal moves to block Facebook, X, YouTube and others aljazeera.com/news/2025/9... · Posted by u/saikatsg

dahsameer · 5 months ago

I'm from Nepal. The bans are implemented in a pretty straightforward way: ISPs simply don't resolve DNS queries for these services. switch your DNS, and you're good to go. There are 26 apps that were banned: Facebook, Facebook Messenger, Instagram, YouTube, WhatsApp, Twitter, LinkedIn, Snapchat, Reddit, Discord, Pinterest, Signal, Threads, WeChat, Quora, Tumblr, Clubhouse, Mastodon, MeWe, Rumble, VK, Line, IMO, Zalo, Soul, and Hamro Patro.

mynameismon · 5 months ago

Interesting that Mastodon was blocked. How exactly was that ban supposed to be enforced, by blocking every single instance in existence?

mynameismon commented on Saquon Barkley is playing for equity readtheprofile.com/p/saqu... · Posted by u/polinapompliano

nemothekid · 5 months ago

I think the angle of the story is compelling for being different: look at this athlete investing in startups.

What I'm more interested in is how is he getting dealflow:

>The high-growth startups in his portfolio include Anthropic (currently valued at $183 billion), Anduril ($30.5 billion), Ramp ($22.5 billion), Cognition ($9.8 billion), Neuralink ($9 billion), Strike (~$1 billion), and Polymarket (~$1 billion). He’s also a limited partner in funds including Founders Fund, Thrive Capital, Silver Point Capital, and Multicoin Capital.

If he has sizable investments in these companies at an early-ish stage then one has to ask: is this guy nostradamus? Or is he doing the classic early stage playbook and investing everywhere? Is there someone else making the bets?

It's really easy to look in hindsight at this guy and said he did a good job with his money, but I'd argue for any angel that wasn't already tapped into the network, this would be an impressive portfolio. It's not like Anthropic was hurting for investors. And if it is the case that Anthropic said "why not, I'd love to have a check from 2024 superbowl champion Saquan Barkley", then it's not really repeatable.

I have plenty of friends who made quite a bit of money from previous exits and have also read Zero to One, and their angel portfolio isn't as lucrative.

mynameismon · 5 months ago

Your question is answered further in the article:

> To date, none of Barkley’s investments have flamed out or depreciated, largely because he prefers to come in at later stages of a company’s growth.

mynameismon commented on Claude for Chrome anthropic.com/news/claude... · Posted by u/davidbarker

parhamn · 6 months ago

With regards to llm injection, we sorta need the cat and mouse games to play out a bit, no? I have my concerns but I'm not ready to throw out the baby with the bathwater. You could never release an OS if "no zero days" was a requirement. Every piece of software we use has and will have its vulnerabilities (see Apple's recent RCE), we play the arms race and things look asymptotically fine.

This seems to be the case in llms too. They're getting better and better (with a lot of research) at avoiding doing the bad things. I don't see why its fundamentally intractable to fence system/user/assistant/tool messages to prevent steering from non-trusted inputs, and building new fences for cases we want the steering.

Why is this piece of software particularly different?

mynameismon · 6 months ago

At the same time, manufacturers do not release operating systems with extremely obvious flaws that have (atleast so far) no reasonable guardrails and pretend that they are the next messiah.

mynameismon commented on The Size of Adobe Reader Installers Through the Years sigwait.org/~alex/blog/20... · Posted by u/henry_flower

diggan · 6 months ago

> joining multiple PDFs together

What about joining page 2-3 from PDF A with page 7-23 from PDF B? I remember that being a huge hassle on macOS when I was using it years ago. Think I ended up using some cloud service/website for it since the documents weren't confidential at all.

mynameismon · 6 months ago

For those who have an installation of LaTeX: It is pretty easy to use LaTeX for this.

mynameismon commented on Fully homomorphic encryption and the dawn of a private internet bozmen.io/fhe... · Posted by u/barisozmen

utf_8x · 7 months ago

As someone who knows basically nothing about cryptography - wouldn't training an LLM to work on encrypted data also make that LLM extremely good at breaking that encryption?

I assume that doesn't happen? Can someone ELI5 please?

mynameismon · 7 months ago

From my understanding of cryptography, most schemes are created with the assumption that _any_ function that does not have access to the secret key will have a probabilistically small chance of decoding the correct message (O(exp(-key_length)) usually). As LLMs are also a function, it is extremely unlikely for cryptographic protocols to be broken _unless_ LLMs can allow for new types of attacks all together.