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tauwauwau commented on French ex-president Sarkozy begins jail sentence   bbc.com/news/articles/cvg... · Posted by u/begueradj
yard2010 · 5 months ago
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tauwauwau · 5 months ago
Law doesn't seek to punish but to rehabilitate. Act of taking freedom away from the criminal is violent enough. Treating them badly is just a sign of unfair/poor society that cannot maintain (afford to keep) it's promise to be civil to all citizens.
tauwauwau commented on Andrej Karpathy – It will take a decade to work through the issues with agents   dwarkesh.com/p/andrej-kar... · Posted by u/ctoth
dreambuffer · 5 months ago
Photons hit a human eye and then the human came up with language to describe that and then encoded the language into the LLM. The LLM can capture some of this relationship, but the LLM is not sensing actual photons, nor experiencing actual light cone stimulation, nor generating thoughts. Its "world model" is several degrees removed from the real world.

So whatever fragment of a model it gains through learning to compress that causal chain of events does not mean much when it cannot generate the actual causal chain.

tauwauwau · 5 months ago
> but the LLM is not sensing actual photons, nor experiencing actual light cone stimulation

Neither is animal brain. It's processing the signals produced by the sensors. Once the world model is programmed/auto-built in the brain, it doesn't matter if it's sensing real photons, it just has input pins like a transistor or arguments of a function. As long as we provide the arguments, it doesn't matter how those arguments are produced. LLMs are not different in that aspect.

> nor generating thoughts

They do during the chain-of-thought process. Generally there's no incentive to let an LLM keep mulling over a topic as that is not useful to the humans and they make money only when their gears start turning in response to a question sent by a human. But that doesn't mean that LLM doesn't have capability to do that.

> Its "world model" is several degrees removed from the real world.

Just because animal brain has tools called sensors that it can get data from world without external stimuli, it doesn't mean that it's any closer to the world than an LLM. It's still getting ultra processed signals to feed to its own programming. Similarly, LLMs do interact with real world through tools as agent.

> So whatever fragment of a model it gains through learning to compress that causal chain of events does not mean much when it cannot generate the actual causal chain.

Again, a person who has gone blind, still has the world model created by the sight. This person can also no longer generate the chain of events that led to creation of that sight model. It still doesn't mean that this person's world model has become inferior.

tauwauwau commented on AI note takers are flooding Zoom calls as workers opt to skip meetings   washingtonpost.com/techno... · Posted by u/tysone
dangus · 8 months ago
The truth is that people who talk like that aren’t management material.

“I noped out of the management track” = “nobody was considering me for the management track”

tauwauwau · 8 months ago
I pray for souls who are considered to be management material.
tauwauwau commented on Mastercard DNS error went unnoticed for years   krebsonsecurity.com/2025/... · Posted by u/todsacerdoti
billyhoffman · a year ago
Beyond just IPs, there is a giant class of "DNS record pointing to X shared cloud resource that organization no longer controls" issues. The bigger the company, the more widespread the problem. These resource names get released back into a common pool that anyone can register.

Think:

* CNAME pointing to an S3 bucket, and the S3 bucket gets released

* CNAME pointing to Azure Website/WebApp Instance

* A record to an non-elastic IP, and the box gets rebooted

* DNS name using a Route53 name server that no longer part of the org's AWS account

* CNAME pointing to a Heroku/Shopify/GitHub pages account and the account gets deleted/deactivated freely up those names for registration

* MX record pointing to old transaction email provider start up that dies, and someone else registers that domain name...

Why does that happen?

* Decentralization of IT means people spinning up infrastructure not knowing what they are doing

* Great a spinning up infra, but when decomissioning they forget about DNS

* Lots of subsidiaries, lots of brands, different groups, operating in different geographies. All this makes it difficult to discover and enforce proper policies

* Geo-specific websites/apps (Think of all the country-specific websites Coke runs)

* Using some 3rd party vendor and never telling security about it (Marketing spinning up some landing pages on some fly-by-night martech provider or wordpress host, and never turning them off)

I am the Field CTO at a venture backed Israeli cyber security company in this space. I was literally talking to a major computer part company yesterday about the dozen or so Indonesian gambling websites that are "running" on their domain names using their pagerank and links. This is a weekly conversation

tauwauwau · a year ago
Relevant, dangling cloud resources.

DEF CON 32 - Secrets & Shadows: Leveraging Big Data for Vulnerability Discovery - Bill Demirkapi

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-KXgcWuv-Ug&t=288s

tauwauwau commented on Meta announces 5% cuts in preparation for 'intense year'   cnbc.com/2025/01/14/meta-... · Posted by u/drchiu
hnthrowaway6543 · a year ago
> Is your hiring process so flawed that you just accept that you screwed up hiring 5 percent of your people?

if you only messed up 5% of your hires you'd be a goddamn genius and every company in the world would want to put you in charge of their hiring process

the "standard" is more like 20% of hires end up being bad hires

tauwauwau · a year ago
Other than agreeing with "spacemadness", I wanted to point out a small correction. Original argument was about 5% of total employees, not only new hires.
tauwauwau commented on My company has banned the use of Jetbrains IDEs internally   old.reddit.com/r/Experien... · Posted by u/Mainsail
toprerules · a year ago
I've seen so many editors come and go, and yet I've been using Vim for the past 20 years and have never had a problem. As stupid as it sounds, if I could give one piece of advice to any entry level SWE, it would be to learn Vim or Emacs and just stick with it for your whole career.
tauwauwau · a year ago
I don't even know what to say to this other than that you are right that it does sound stupid and it is stupid. A software developer should not be afraid of learning software, learning new things is fundamental in our work. Comparing an IDE with basic editor like vi, really, that may have worked out for you since you started 20 years ago when that worked, but it should not be the advice today.
tauwauwau commented on Selling 'Ghost in the Shell'   animationobsessive.substa... · Posted by u/zdw
nurettin · 2 years ago
Is there any reason FOTN isn't in there?
tauwauwau · 2 years ago
I'm not sure I'm familiar with that one.
tauwauwau commented on Selling 'Ghost in the Shell'   animationobsessive.substa... · Posted by u/zdw
latentsea · 2 years ago
Started watching GTO and so far 3 episodes in it's about him lusting after 16 year olds?
tauwauwau · 2 years ago
There are some questionable parts of this anime as it's old and a lot of anime from that time is like that, however, it's one of those anime that got what being a hero is about. Only one that I can think of in recent times is My Hero Academia. If that doesn't sway you to watch it, I think Gigguk included Onizuka as one of the top 20 most badass characters in anime a few years ago.
tauwauwau commented on Selling 'Ghost in the Shell'   animationobsessive.substa... · Posted by u/zdw
nanna · 2 years ago
I feel like I haven't seen an anime in years that's been in the same league as Akira or the great Miyazakis (Spirited Away, Princess Mononoke, Totoro). Yes i'd be brutal and include Miyazakis following works in that list, from Howls Moving Castle to The Boy and the Heron. Ive seen lots of incredible animation, sure, but nothing like the cinematic depth.

What am I missing? What should an old fart who's becoming convinced things were better in the old days put myself infront of?

tauwauwau · 2 years ago
Here's a list of some old and new ones, that an old fart might enjoy

Monster (Chasing a serial killer)

Ergo Proxy (Can't describe it)

Samurai 7 (Sci-fi variant off 7 samurai)

Last Exile (Post appocapltic world with lots of flying machines)

Kino's Journey

Mushishi

Time of Eve

Gargantia

Baccano

Durarara

Psycho Pass

Arslan Senki

Sunaboju (Desert Punk)

Witch Hunter Robin

Hunter x Hunter (old not new)

Texnolyze

Darker than Black

Black Lagoon

Great Teach Onizuka (One of the old and best)

Gintama (Comedy, It's at the level One Piece and Naruto disgusing as Comedy, you have to get past 30 episodes)

Kabaneri of Iron Fortress (Just for animation quality)

Beck (Music career)

Golden Kamui

Terror in Resonance

Ping Pong Animation (Don't let the animation fool you, it's one of the best stories)

Area 88 (Story ends abruptly, watch at your own risk)

Ashita no Joe (Old anime, boxing genre)

Valkyria Chronicles (War story)

Scissor Seven (Comedy, Chinese, assassin, in a strange world)

Shura no Toki (Martial arts, 3 generations)

A Record of Mortal's Journey to Immortality (Chinese cultivation genre, 3D good animation, faithful adaptation of one of the good novels in this genre)

Swallowed Star (Chinese cultivation genre Sci-fi variant, great 3D animation)

tauwauwau commented on Tell HN: You can't search your WhatsApp without exposing yourself to metaAI    · Posted by u/nothrowaways
puttycat · 2 years ago
Explain? Ref?
tauwauwau · 2 years ago
Whatsapp shows a search box now at the top of the app. Placeholder text in it says "Ask MetaAI or search". Previously search meant search in Whatsapp contacts or chat history, however now since the MetaAI is also taking input from same text box, we are sending our search strings to MetaAI, even though they might be for local search.

u/tauwauwau

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