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Re: A Note on Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.

Jakub Narębski — Sun, 01 Sep 2024 06:02:50 -0000

Biased hit pieces? Show me which part of the article were wrong or false, or shut up!

Re: Will You Lose Your Job to AI?

Jakub Narębski — Mon, 08 Jul 2024 05:09:47 -0000

Yes, LLM progress is fast, but will it hit the wall of what it is capable of? I think it is quite likely. There are already hints that it stopped scaling: adding more data (and where that data will come from?) does not make that much improvement.

But all that talk about using LLM to write programs ignore their one inherent feature: LLM are stochastic parrots, statistical inference machines; behind all the layers of abstractions lies simply "predict next word" algorithm. If the programming problem was already solved, or similar problem was already solved, it might find a solution, and write the program you requested. Though with the amount of insecure code in the training dataset, there is chance that the code produced by LLM will be also insecure (despite techniques such as RLHF). Novel problems? Not a chance, not with LLM.

Re: Breaking Superconductor News

Jakub Narębski — Fri, 28 Jul 2023 07:58:04 -0000

How would you explain the Meissner effect, then? You cannot make insulator magnetically levitate (well, partially lock-levitate).

Re: Sending Spammers to Password Purgatory with Microsoft Power Automate and Cloudflare Workers KV

Jakub Narębski — Thu, 04 Aug 2022 11:04:45 -0000

Great idea! It might be better to start with real-life stupid password policies (I see that at least first two rules are quite reasonable), and only then try more and more convoluted and contrived ones.

Re: Data::Tubes release and... how cool is CPAN Testers?!?

Jakub Narębski — Mon, 24 Jan 2022 07:37:42 -0000

In all of this, the real shining star, and unfortunately too rarely sung hero, is [CPAN Testers][].

The link to CPAN Testers site (either generic link, or the link for testers results for your module) is missing.

Re: Troy Hunt: Beg Bounties

Jakub Narębski — Thu, 18 Nov 2021 14:49:32 -0000

One minor issue: Using Twitter links instead of actual screenshots of emails results in a bit suboptimal read - you need to go to Twitter, and click on the image of the screenshot of an email to see it in full, because what I see on the blog are cut down pieces, for example:

Subject: Re: Security Iss

Any compensation for m

I think there is even worse example, even more cropped out.

Re: Upcoming eReaders and eNotes people are most excited about

Jakub Narębski — Fri, 10 Sep 2021 03:13:16 -0000

The PineNote walked back from the 60Hz refresh claims. It would also for quite some time not something one can simply use...

Re: Not Acceptable | Science | AAAS

Jakub Narębski — Wed, 01 Sep 2021 09:38:37 -0000

The newer version, the less useful features it has; usable article categories is one.. I see that comments got outsourced to Disqus... I hope that old comments got copied, or are present read-only, and are not lost.

Re: poznaj-przydatne-funkcje-onenotea-ktore-poprawia-jakosc-i-predkosc-twojej-pracy

Jakub Narębski — Fri, 02 Apr 2021 13:25:33 -0000

Jednej rzeczy jakiej mi brakuje w OneNote to możliwość udostępnienia tylko jednej strony, a nie całego notatnika. Albo przynajmniej nie umiem znaleźć tej funkcjonalności.

Re: Here's How I Meet

Jakub Narębski — Thu, 04 Feb 2021 15:59:59 -0000

Well, you can create a setup such as the one shown in the following YouTube video, but I think it is too much hassle, unless you have a dedicated meeting hardware:

DIY Perks "Weird webcam mod that enables eye-contact conversation"
https://www.youtube.com/wat...

Re: IoT Unravelled Part 4: Making it All Work for Humans

Jakub Narębski — Thu, 26 Nov 2020 15:33:50 -0000

Well, that depends on whether there is can ever get so dark that you would have trouble seeing the switch, and whether you can see the all the lights from where the switch is.

They could have added dim red light to the whole switch, though; there is space for it for example at the bottom, below that cluster of 5 switches.

Re: IoT Unravelled Part 4: Making it All Work for Humans

Jakub Narębski — Thu, 26 Nov 2020 06:20:49 -0000

In the video linked to in the article (the first video) it is shown that the LED light is kept in sync wrt. clicking the physical button and remote switching via Shelly.

I just wonder if there is a dim red light (neon or LED) present when the lights are off so that you are able to find the switch in the dark...

Re: We Didn't Encrypt Your Password, We Hashed It. Here's What That Means:

Jakub Narębski — Sat, 07 Nov 2020 16:06:04 -0000

Well, short scale billionaires are long scale milliarders (as 4 PLN ≈ 1 USD, it would be nearly the same).

Re: We Didn't Encrypt Your Password, We Hashed It. Here's What That Means:

Jakub Narębski — Sat, 07 Nov 2020 06:41:52 -0000

For us long scale users it is

Thousands: 1,000
Millions: 1,000,000
Milliards: 1,000,000,000
Billions: 1,000,000,000,000 (not 1,000,000,000)

Re: Weekly Update 216

Jakub Narębski — Sat, 07 Nov 2020 06:37:11 -0000

We're tracking remarkably well down here COVID wise (and yes, I'm very conscious of how different it is in other parts of the world right now, thoughts are with you guys)

Something strange on this page is one of section headers (titles):

UNKNOWN
Community Transmission

Re: Area of a triangle

Jakub Narębski — Mon, 05 Oct 2020 08:00:36 -0000

Why not use cross product of two vectors instead?

Re: We Didn't Encrypt Your Password, We Hashed It. Here's What That Means:

Jakub Narębski — Fri, 04 Sep 2020 05:09:36 -0000

Old, antiquated hashing algorithms that were never really designed for password storage in the first place can be calculated at a rate of tens of billions per second on consumer-grade hardware. Yes, that's "billion" with a "b" for bravo and for the more technical folks, that's where you're at with MD5 or SHA-1.

Is it short form billion (10^9, giga-), or long form billion (10^12, tera-)?

Re: Can You Restore A Deleted Commit on Git?

Jakub Narębski — Wed, 24 Jun 2020 21:14:22 -0000

There is another, I think simpler solution. Reflog is kind of a history of branch operations; if you want to undo the rebase you can do 'git reset --hard HEAD@{2}', to return to state before rebase.

Removing reflog entries just changes the log itself, it is not an undo operation, and should almost never be used by an end user.

Re: pgal - ETOOBUSY

Jakub Narębski — Mon, 15 Jun 2020 03:53:03 -0000

So there you have it: [pgal][], the gallery generator!

The link to `pgal` is missing.

Re: Współczesne filmy, dzięki którym POKOCHASZ kino SCIENCE FICTION

Jakub Narębski — Tue, 03 Mar 2020 21:33:16 -0000

Zgadzam się z większością propozycji, z wyjątkiem "Blade Runner 2049", który z oryginału skopiował głównie jego wady. Jest to moim zdaniem film długi, nudny i pusty.

Re: Android 10 i Android 9 Pie z kolejną preinstalowaną aplikacją

Jakub Narębski — Sun, 29 Sep 2019 05:38:44 -0000

Mam nadzieję że pozostanie domyślnie instalowany jakiś odtwarzacz muzyki. Jeśli Google Play Music zniknie to przesiądę się na inny.

Polityka Google w sprawie usuwania aplikacji i usług jest moim zdaniem chaotyczna i idiotyczna.

Re: Kredyty bankowe będą droższe, jeśli rządzący w końcu przeforsują swój projekt

Jakub Narębski — Tue, 13 Aug 2019 16:54:31 -0000

Czy obowiązek podawania RRSO, która o ile dobrze rozumiem powinna zawierać wszelkie opłaty nie wystarczy? A jeśli jakieś opłaty (obowiązkowe ubezpieczenie?) nie jest uwzględnione to czy nie lepiej byłoby po prostu to zmienić?

Re: Project Svalbard: The Future of Have I Been Pwned

Jakub Narębski — Tue, 11 Jun 2019 05:53:41 -0000

Thank you for all the work on HIBP and Pwned Passwords.
It is certainly a good idea to decrease the "bus factor" risk.

Re: When "Zoë" !== "Zoë". Or why you need to normalize Unicode strings

Jakub Narębski — Sat, 16 Mar 2019 15:45:53 -0000

Actually, even better solution would be to properly chose the level of equivalence in Unicode-aware comparison. This would allow for example for "Zoë" to not only match "Zoë", but also "Zoe" (written without diacritics).

Re: The 773 Million Record "Collection #1" Data Breach

Jakub Narębski — Fri, 18 Jan 2019 11:21:39 -0000

The short video showing how credential stuffing attack works (https://youtu.be / DnTaB-damtE) is unfortunately no longer available

This video has been removed for violating YouTube's Terms of Service.

**Edit:** it looks like it was available for a short time (enough so that the thumbnail image got generated), but is again not available

This video has been removed for violating YouTube's policy on spam, deceptive practices and scams.