<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Hacker News: stefs</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=stefs</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Sat, 13 Jun 2026 00:06:34 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=stefs" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by stefs in "The newest Instagram “exploit” is the goofiest I've seen"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>i think what they're talking about is an attacker poisoning the data the agent is trained upon to include functionality/a backdoor that can later, after training and when the agent is deployed, be used to induce unwanted behaviour.</p>
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<p>that study is widely regarded as unreliable and outdated.</p>
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<p>increased testosterone from working out is probably around 10-30% long time, which is a far lower variance than natural level variance in healthy adults. i think i heard from several (claimed natural) strength and bodybuilding athletes that their total testosterone is at the lower end of the scale.<p>that said, natural free test levels are at a fraction of what enhanced pro bodybuilders tend to supplement, and there are mass monsters with hair. cutler, yates, ferrigno and golden era bodybuilders like schwarzenegger, zane, columbu all had full heads of hair.</p>
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<p>unrelated: <a href="https://fossil-scm.org/" rel="nofollow">https://fossil-scm.org/</a></p>
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<p>yeah, but if you really really wanted to and/or your livelyhood depended on it, you probably could afford it.</p>
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<p>good catch</p>
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<p>one example i come back to is multithreaded layouting/rendering browser engines. it was mentioned in the servo blog post back then when mozilla worked on it: "we tried it in c++ but it was simply too hard and complicated" (the argument was that they were able to do it in rust). still, as long as rust wasn't avaiable, the problem was considered "too hard" for the team that wrote firefox. in my opinion that's a solid argument for "programming problem that was too hard".<p>but as simon said, i too consider coming up with "the algorithms, the strategy" as part of programming. saying "it's easy to do if you know exactly how to do it" is somewhat tautological.</p>
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<p>which balance? orban was a parasite, trying to embezzle as much money from the EU without getting the boot (hungary as the biggest per-head receiver of EU funds), while probably also getting paid by russia - a hostile actor - for his actions (i.e. sabotaging the union and sowing dissent through propaganda). there was no balance there.</p>
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<p>His options were limited. Aside from his tirades against the EU, he was completely dependent on it, as it financed half the country – Hungary was the largest per capita recipient of EU funds. This was also the reason why he never seriously attempted to leave the Union.<p>He could now take certain steps, such as eliminating press freedom, but election fraud on the scale that would have been necessary to skew this election would have led to sanctions.</p>
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<p>yes - i am so relieved. this was a real conundrum for the EU - booting hungary out would have been a huge problem (i.e. opening the door for a russian stronghold right in its mid), but keeping orban in would mean the a) abuse continued and b) it would send a signal to others that this is a winning strategy.<p>democracy may suffer from the problem that it allows the election of anti-democratic autocrats but it seems that it's definitely able to come back from the brink, even if the deck's stacked against it. i wonder what message it sends to the other countries.</p>
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<p>But that's also a fee that's trivial for well funded criminal malicious parties shipping harmful trash but too high for serious open source developers shipping free software.</p>
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<p>Celsius?</p>
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<p>As always. But it's a first step.</p>
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<p>i get a lot of tool call errors with gemma-4-26b-a4b, because the tokens don't seem to match up.</p>
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<p>i kinda seem to remember that this is a bit misleading and the rates are surprisingly different than expected. i'm too lazy to check the sources right now, but gemini gives me a 15% daily smoker rate for paris, while it's ~30% for detroit, 21% for philadelphia, 10% for new york, 5% for L.A.</p>
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<p>while i don't agree with your general sentiment you're right that bicycles should have their own dedicated cycle lanes. too often drivers get their dedicated lanes while pedestrians and cyclists are forced to "share space and just take care of each other".</p>
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<p>> Less successfully, the road redesign has also seen a reported increase in hospitalizations among cyclists and pedestrians.
well, with a lot more people walking and cycling this is to be expected. the article doesn't mention changes in accidents involving cars though.<p>> For young, trendy and able-bodied Parisians ...
i live next to a bike path. the elderly make up a a significant amount of the cyclists, probably because they don't trust themselves to drive a car anymore.</p>
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<p>in my area, one of the biggest groups using those vehicles were food delivery riders. for those guys, those electric mopeds were a gamechanger, as they were able to make many more runs that might have made the difference between "just enough" and "just not enough". now those are becoming illegal (on bike paths & without registration), but they're not making sense one the roads due to congestion. it's a lose-lose situation for the delivery riders and the people that order online, but a win for bicycle safety.<p>as far as i can tell most full time riders didn't switch to "pedal assisted e-bikes" but probably went looking for other work. we're back to students riding their private bicycles to make some money on the side.</p>
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<p>> The dems are just as corrupt<p>that's just simply not true and arguing like this publicily increases acceptance of corruption.</p>
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<p>yes, but that's just one part of the equation. machine code from compiler and/or language A is not necessarily the same as the machine code from compiler and/or language B. the reasons are, among others, contextual information, handling of undefined behavior and memory access issues.<p>you can compile many weakly typed high level languages to machine code and their performance will still suck.<p>java's language design simply prohibits some optimizations that are possible in other languages (and also enables some that aren't in others).</p>
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