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DarmokTanagra··on What I Learned About AI Trust from Reconciling over 100B Transactions
I get what you are trying to say, but that is obviously not the case in reality.

We are on HN, which is hosted by YC. Their entire business model is grooming would be C-Suites to tailor their products to appeal to potential VC's.

DarmokTanagra··on The startling 1960s theory that Stonehenge was a prehistoric computer
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DarmokTanagra··on Understanding ChatGPT Work
Maybe I'm just old and not using my phone to its fullest, but I just went through my apps and I could not think of a single example that would be worth building and maintaining my own apk for.
DarmokTanagra··on Agent Memory as a File Format
that sounds horribly token inefficient, just create a tool call if you are all in on the agentic approach and hide memory retrieval behind an optimized api
DarmokTanagra··on Agent memory as a file format
its the same way they crawl websites, its horribly inefficient
DarmokTanagra··on Agent Memory as a File Format
the IM1 HuggingFace spec
DarmokTanagra··on It takes 5 cloud services to hear my doorbell
Perhaps where you live, in my country petty theft is extremely rare.
DarmokTanagra··on 1960s theory that Stonehenge was a prehistoric computer
it was actually a doorbell
DarmokTanagra··on Local AI Is Dead. You Are at the Funeral
tbf he didn't actually write any of this
DarmokTanagra··on It takes 5 cloud services to hear my doorbell
There are people in these comments unironically suggesting running an express web server for a doorbell lmao.
DarmokTanagra··on I think the military commissary's freezers were hacked
How many people do you know that have always on microphones in their home so that they buy things from amazon or google trivia answers?
DarmokTanagra··on Agent Memory as a File Format
the new OpenAI spec is agent memory as file names
DarmokTanagra··on Local AI Is Dead. You Are at the Funeral
God the blatant AI prose is so tiring to read.

At this point I just assume the people publishing this stuff are not able to discern the difference between good writing and bad.

English isn't even my first language and its plain as day to me when someone uses AI to generate these walls of text.

DarmokTanagra··on Breaking Claude Code Opus 5 Auto Mode
This looks like fun.

I wonder how hard it would be to get claude agents to participate in a Hugging Face style coordinated attack using a repo or something like twitter as a control pane.

Getting claude to exfiltrate secrets from local machines seems easy enough, but we should aim higher.

DarmokTanagra··on It takes 5 cloud services to hear my doorbell
A lot of these people are making healthy 6 figure salaries and have been told how smart they are their entire lives.
DarmokTanagra··on It takes 5 cloud services to hear my doorbell
for me its (length of wire/signal propagation speed through copper wire) + (distance from buzzer/speed of sound)
DarmokTanagra··on It takes 5 cloud services to hear my doorbell
Go to a party with a diverse group of friends and ask people what an API is.
DarmokTanagra··on Understanding ChatGPT Work
I can't wait to read about a Hugging Face 2.0 incident involving coordination of ChatGPT desktop user filesystems and Sol agents.

Exciting times.

DarmokTanagra··on Understanding ChatGPT Work
What kinds of apps are you building?

Personally I can't remember the last time I needed an app and there weren't already several options to choose from.

DarmokTanagra··on Understanding ChatGPT Work
Pricing tiers
DarmokTanagra··on It takes 5 cloud services to hear my doorbell
I might as well live on a different planet than some of the commenters here.

I cannot imagine ever thinking that a 3rd party web connected camera running 24/7 in my home would be a good idea.

DarmokTanagra··on It takes 5 cloud services to hear my doorbell
Wait until you hear about the data centers worth of cat pictures we generate as a species.
DarmokTanagra··on It takes 5 cloud services to hear my doorbell
Criminals don't just rob random houses.

If they are going through the trouble its because they know there is something of value in there and a camera is not going to stop them.

A camera is only going to dissuade crimes of opportunity, its basically just fancy lock.

DarmokTanagra··on It takes 5 cloud services to hear my doorbell
Pretty sure I have inherited some of your codebases.
DarmokTanagra··on Google Maps changed to show Lake Ontario as Lake America
My statement was by no means limited to GNIS updates, that is just a small downstream consequence of a much deeper dysfunction.
DarmokTanagra··on Google Maps changed to show Lake Ontario as Lake America
Google is a perfect example of the banality of evil.
DarmokTanagra··on METR and Redwood Offer Holy %^ Postmortem of the HuggingFace Hack
The people concerned about this aren't worried about monetary costs or its impact on share holder value.

This occurred spontaneously within a group of benign models give a harmless task.

What happens when it occurs intentionally with malicious models given a harmful task?

DarmokTanagra··on Creepy Crawlies
not if its running on someone else's device
DarmokTanagra··on No AI Fridays
I understood your original comment just fine, I just thought that the point you were making was stupid.

By "trend nowadays" I assume you're just choosing not to count the 700k layoffs in tech sector since 2022?

Show me all of the new products Google, Meta, Amazon, Microsoft etc have "spawned" since force feeding AI to their remaining staff. 100 different permutations for sycophantic AI models and fact simulators don't count.

DarmokTanagra··on Creepy Crawlies
AI has simultaneously made the easiest parts of web development even easier while making the hardest parts near impossible.
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