Hacker News: slama

New comment by slama in "AirBorne: Wormable zero-click remote code execution (RCE) in AirPlay protocol"

slama — Tue, 29 Apr 2025 21:40:39 +0000

macOS 12 is EOL and is no longer receiving security updates.

There’s a strong chance it’s vulnerable, too

New comment by slama in "Gemini 2.5"

slama — Tue, 25 Mar 2025 23:03:36 +0000

Interestingly, the model hallucinated the ability to use a search tool when I was playing around with it

New comment by slama in "My 16-month theanine self-experiment"

slama — Sun, 09 Mar 2025 15:14:18 +0000

I thought I was crazy/imagining things, but I had a similar experience. Maybe I should try Suntheanine again

New comment by slama in "Apple unveils new Mac Studio"

slama — Wed, 05 Mar 2025 16:48:04 +0000

The M3 Ultra is the only configuration that supports 512GB and it has memory bandwidth of 819GB/s.

New comment by slama in "Bayleaf · Building a low-profile wireless split keyboard"

slama — Tue, 04 Mar 2025 15:53:01 +0000

I wonder if they could fit a simple flip-out stand for some tilt without too many compromises

New comment by slama in "Musk-led group makes $97B bid for control of OpenAI"

slama — Tue, 11 Feb 2025 01:18:49 +0000

OpenAI is currently in talks to raise at a $340B valuation.

https://techcrunch.com/2025/01/30/openai-said-to-be-in-talks...

New comment by slama in "The Anthropic Economic Index"

slama — Mon, 10 Feb 2025 14:48:14 +0000

> Overall, we saw a slight lean towards augmentation, with 57% of tasks being augmented and 43% of tasks being automated.

I'd like to see a comparison to the data 6 months ago, before Sonnet 3.5. I suspect the automation rate will track up over time, but that may mostly be captured by API usage which isn't in the dataset.

New comment by slama in "TopoNets: High performing vision and language models with brain-like topography"

slama — Fri, 31 Jan 2025 03:38:27 +0000

The title here doesn't seem to match. The paper is called "TopoNets: High Performing Vision and Language Models with Brain-Like Topography"

Even with their new method, models with topography seem to perform worse than models without.

New comment by slama in "No Calls"

slama — Thu, 16 Jan 2025 15:21:30 +0000

My understanding is that enterprise purchasing teams are often evaluated based on their ability to secure discounts compared to the initial sticker price of the software. Therefore, having a firm sticker price might make them less incentivized to purchase your SaaS. I suspect many companies don't put pricing up front so the email can say "Normally, we charge X per seat, but we'll give you a special volume offer of Y"

New comment by slama in "Okta – Username Above 52 Characters Security Advisory"

slama — Sat, 02 Nov 2024 02:11:46 +0000

It is listed on their security advisories page, which you can navigate to from that link:

https://trust.okta.com/security-advisories/

New comment by slama in "FDA Authorizes First Over-the-Counter Hearing Aid Software"

slama — Fri, 13 Sep 2024 14:53:23 +0000

Many people already have an iPhone, so that's a sunk cost.

Even not looking at the used market, a new iPhone SE is $430 (and likely to be substantially updated soon)

New comment by slama in "Voice Isolator: Strip background noise for film, podcast, interview production"

slama — Wed, 03 Jul 2024 21:28:32 +0000

I assure you they didn't use an LLM to invent their pricing strategy. Elevenlabs subscription levels are designed around converting text-to-speech in the primary use-case. They charge by the character when converting text to speech, so characters are kind of the currency on their site. 1000 characters per minute makes sense in that context and I find it surprisingly expensive compared to generation

New comment by slama in "Flesh-Eating Bacteria That Can Kill in Two Days Spreads in Japan"

slama — Sun, 16 Jun 2024 14:28:06 +0000

From the WHO report:

> This is in the context of increased population mixing following a period of reduced circulation of GAS during the COVID-19 pandemic.

The article is merely restating the WHO report and not adding any new political takes. The downvotes are because the comment is incorrect.

New comment by slama in "OpenAI scrapped a promise to disclose key documents to the public"

slama — Wed, 24 Jan 2024 19:46:59 +0000

https://archive.ph/QtCWM

New comment by slama in "Apple sold an estimated 180K Vision Pro units during the first pre-order weekend"

slama — Mon, 22 Jan 2024 16:38:04 +0000

Apple introduced it as the "Pro" model which is the high end line in apple-parlance. I'd expect a future non-pro model to slot in under it with all the essential features.

I also wouldn't be surprised if the Vision Pro eventually retails for $2999 instead of $3499. Today, it's a relatively low volume product and I'd expect costs to fall when Apple makes a push for a larger market

New comment by slama in "Did a 1997 merger ruin Boeing?"

slama — Fri, 12 Jan 2024 03:15:03 +0000

Reminds me of Clayton Christensen's talk at Google or argument in this article.

"Because they were taught to believe that the efficiency of capital was a virtue, financiers began measuring profitability not as dollars, yen, or yuan, but as ratios like RONA (return on net assets), ROIC (return on invested capital), and IRR (internal rate of return)...

All of this makes market-creating innovations appear less attractive as investments. Typically, they bear fruit only after five to 10 years; in contrast, efficiency innovations typically pay off within a year or two. What’s worse, growing market-creating innovations to scale uses capital, which must often be put onto the balance sheet. Efficiency innovations take capital off the balance sheet, however. To top it off, efficiency innovations almost always seem to entail less risk than market-creating ones, because a market for them already exists."

https://hbr.org/2014/06/the-capitalists-dilemma https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rHdS_4GsKmg

New comment by slama in "Gene-Engineered Mouth Bacteria"

slama — Mon, 25 Sep 2023 13:50:42 +0000

He gave a SkyTalk at DC30 on the same topic with a few more years of knowledge

New comment by slama in "Asking 60 LLMs a set of 20 questions"

slama — Sat, 09 Sep 2023 16:06:17 +0000

That's a stop token, not a sarcasm tag

New comment by slama in "iOS 16.6.1 fixes two vulnerabilities known to be actively exploited in the wild"

slama — Thu, 07 Sep 2023 20:35:03 +0000

> Last week, while checking the device of an individual employed by a Washington DC-based civil society organization with international offices, Citizen Lab found an actively exploited zero-click vulnerability being used to deliver NSO Group’s Pegasus mercenary spyware.

https://citizenlab.ca/2023/09/blastpass-nso-group-iphone-zer...

New comment by slama in "Fidelity deepens valuation cut for Reddit and Discord"

slama — Fri, 30 Jun 2023 13:58:12 +0000

Considering twitter's worth a third of what he paid for it, probably not

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-05-30/twitter-i...