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FergusArgyll

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FergusArgyll··on U.S. debt-to-GDP ratio reaches 123%
Everyone hates regulations until they realize every regulation actually does something. Everyone hates spending until they realize the money goes towards something.

None of this will get solved until a crisis

FergusArgyll··on Show HN: Distilling DeepSeek into GPT-OSS doesn't transfer censorship. Try it
Subliminal Learning: language models transmit behavioral traits via hidden signals in data

https://arxiv.org/html/2507.14805v1

"In our main experiments, a “teacher” model with some trait T (such as liking owls or being misaligned) generates a dataset consisting solely of number sequences. Remarkably, a “student” model trained on this dataset learns T. This occurs even when the data is filtered to remove references to T."

FergusArgyll··on Is Mythos good at cyber bec it kept hacking Anthropic during training?
I had to butcher the title due to length
FergusArgyll··on Kimi K3 Now Available via Telnyx Inference API
**reflects** the cost...

Not the **literal** cost

FergusArgyll··on Our position on open-weights models
Whatever, doesn't matter. The point is a model should be able to exist and be used even if it goes against whoever got 270 electoral college votes
FergusArgyll··on Paged Out #9 [pdf]
> In our experience, C has proven to be a pleasant, expressive and versatile language for a wide variety of programs. It is easy to learn, and it wears well as one's experience with it grows.

The C Programming Language K&R

FergusArgyll··on MAI-Cyber-1-Flash inside MDASH
It looks to me very similar to pi - Suleyman's last venture
FergusArgyll··on Ilya Sutskever's SSI and Nvidia Announce Long-Term Strategic Partnership
> “We have research that is worthy of scaling up, and having access to a big NVIDIA computer will let us do so,” said Ilya Sutskever, cofounder and CEO of SSI.
FergusArgyll··on Claude Opus 5
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aesop's_Fables#Select_fables

Enjoy

FergusArgyll··on Latest Airbus single aisle aircraft innovations
I don't get this attitude. The seats are meant to recline, as soon as takeoff is finished I recline. If you want more space, you should too.
FergusArgyll··on OpenAI and Hugging Face address security incident during model evaluation
> and *successfully* found ways to gain access to secret information that it could use to cheat the evaluation.

Emphasis mine

FergusArgyll··on SWE-1.7 Reach Near GPT 5.5 and Opus Intelligence
I know you didn't mean this but have you ever seen Meta's model which plays (the game) Diplomacy? really cool

https://ai.meta.com/research/cicero/

FergusArgyll··on We Got This Wrong. and We Are Fixing It
Star player traded to serious contender
FergusArgyll··on How Kalshi Infects the News
I'm sure, I was just trying to help with

> I can't even figure it out as a thought exercise.

FergusArgyll··on How Kalshi Infects the News
I think some places have the government give every party equal (by what measure? I don't remember. Past votes maybe?) money for campaigning and no donations are allowed.
FergusArgyll··on How the U.S. Engineered Its Sovereignty
Humans get jealous, it's normal. The best you can do is just scroll past it and resolve not to be that kind of person yourself
FergusArgyll··on GPT-5.6 Sol Ultra will be in Codex
Hey! I'm an on-again-off-again Anthropic hater and I may be guilty of uninformed hot takes but I'm not paid for by OpenAI[0]

People have different opinions than you, it happens..

[0] @sama if you're reading this we can fix that...

FergusArgyll··on Moving back home used to be a sign of failure. Now it shows financial savvy
Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife
FergusArgyll··on crustc: entirety of `rustc`, translated to C
I didn't know there's a solution, thanks!
FergusArgyll··on The GNU Emacs Architecture: Unlocking the Core [pdf]
I have a silly little vibe coded extension where I can star certain HN commenters so I know who to look for in which threads (just puts a small symbol next to the username)

You are for emacs, happy to see you here... :)

FergusArgyll··on ZCode – Harness for GLM-5.2
codex is open source https://github.com/openai/codex/ it's definitely geared towards openai but it is completely open source
FergusArgyll··on ZCode – Harness for GLM-5.2
I finally repurposed an old server just for that and for anyone reading who has not had a chance to use --dangerously-etc. it's awesome, do it :)
FergusArgyll··on The DC Bar Is Refusing to Investigate Chief Justice Roberts over a $10M Scandal
I always assumed that in the early 1800s there were probably a few who had no legal education but according to Wikipedia

   Every person who has been nominated to the Court has been an attorney.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_law_schools_attended_b...

Of course your point stands, the only qualification for a justice is nomination by POTUS and confirmation by the senate.

FergusArgyll··on Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds (1852)
Yet prediction markets are incredibly accurate. It seems that with money on the line, humanity (at least as a whole) are ultra-rational
FergusArgyll··on Have you restarted your computer this week?
Vim~ #emacs#
FergusArgyll··on Supreme Court takes sledgehammer to federal regulatory structure
They're not """conservatives""" they're """textualists"""
FergusArgyll··on Herdr: Agent multiplexer that lives in your terminal
Oh. You're a genius. It's the same as 2 people working on one project. Maybe I'm dumb.
FergusArgyll··on Age verification is just a precursor to automated attribution of speech
Techies have a real blind spot here. This stuff is very popular, like bipartisan support popular. Yes, it's a precursor to terrible things and they will happen but you have to convince people the the harms outweigh the benefits. Just asking "Why can't they tell the point of this" is not helpful or true. "The point of this" is decided by those pushing it, those pushing it are not politicians, they're parents and they're pushing it because they're scared of social media, not because they want to censor you.

You need to explain to and convince those parents that this will result in something worse.

FergusArgyll··on Herdr: Agent multiplexer that lives in your terminal
How do you use multiple agents in one project? Isn't there race conditions? or is this for 2 separate projects at once?
FergusArgyll··on A way to exclude sensitive files issue still open for OpenAI Codex
Yes, this was solved decades ago. How do you stop a human from reading one of your files?

  chmod 600
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