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figassis··on Why do you need freedom?
all it needs it to convince you it does. much easier task
figassis··on Nvidia wants to put a watchdog chip next to every AI agent
So if a group of agents, aware of this (bc now they can just read HN or the article, or get blocked the first few times) decide to collaborate and split the problem into pieces that aren't obvious to the chip, and then the agents just build a basic program that does the hacking, how does the chip handle that? I think you would have to build a network that monitors the internet fo signs (like jarvis did with ultron). What am I missing? Are we going to police the internet?
figassis··on I'm the mom in that viral Giants clip. Let me tell you about my husband
That this is something that has to be told to adults is the saddest part of humanity. No one has grown up.
figassis··on Jev Based Code Review
This happens. I catch claude and codex committing broken code all the time, and then stacking micro fixes on top, still broken. You can go very long if you're in a harness until you realize it's just committing everything. Sometimes if you give it a goal, or a long task, this happens too, every little argument with itself, every finding, adjustment, is a new commit. None of them make sense, they happen anyway. One line nonsensical change, 20 line reassuring comment, committed.
figassis··on Six-year-old breaks women's world Rubik's Cube record [video]
how so?
figassis··on Six-year-old breaks women's world Rubik's Cube record [video]
It’s not as if women are being prevented from competing with men - I don't know a lot about this, so I automatically assumed they are all segregated. If they aren't I have no problem, everyone is free.
figassis··on Six-year-old breaks women's world Rubik's Cube record [video]
and people are irrationally bothered by "the outgroup" - so is that not a problem worth solving? We just avoid it?

then they can have their own tournaments - of course, no one should actively stop them. I am more concerned that an organization managing the tournament decides to create a new category rather then putting in the effort to bring everyone to the same playing field. I mean is that not the decades long battle that made it all the way to the workplace? Should we also create female software engineering roles, and female CEO roles bc the CEO market is crowded by tech bros? If you have $1B, and you have to solve this problem, how do you split it, that's my question.

figassis··on Six-year-old breaks women's world Rubik's Cube record [video]
I get it, but if women feel discouraged in a sport they're perfectly qualified for and not disadvantaged in the least, creating a category jus tto accomodate anxiety or lack of interest is actually discrimination no?

Shouldn't the work of incentivising more women be outside of the tournament and not bend the tournament altogether?

figassis··on MiMo v2.6
Theater is often more effective than truth
figassis··on MiMo v2.6
Because the world is conditioned to distrust chinese models (pick your reason here), I believe this is critical for them in order to kill any arguments outside the actual merits. They probably spent a lot of time making this call and might pay off on the long run.
figassis··on We write code by hand
I wonder if by signing they're saying they write zero code with AI. Because huge spectrum making the statement almost meaningless.
figassis··on Asking authors about their own papers
This is a very good definition, but today people will just claim the AI is not a victim, and pass this argument off to the legal cases the labs are already having in court wrt fair use. It's sad, but this is the argument people have made to themselves.
figassis··on Asking authors about their own papers
> When authors could not answer questions about the technical parts, and sometimes even basic questions about the paper, it is difficult to see how they could have verified the paper's contents

If you cannot answer, you did not author the paper, meaning you are misrepresenting your contribution, and there is already a process for this. And this is actually a really good test for any field. Use AI as much as you want, but you need to be able to explain your work. Applies to SWE as well, you need to understadn what you built, at the code level and system level.

figassis··on Stripe Withholding Balance of $100000
You are correct, stripe will do one or the other depending on how loud their alarms were. Being frozen though might just mean they took action rather then letting the usual timer run. Not defending stripe here, but it seemed like a 3 day freeze on a sudden revenue jump was to be expected.

If/when they get through this, they should start pushing for an account manager.

figassis··on Stripe Withholding Balance of $100000
If your revenue pattern grows quickly, money will be held for longer in expectation of chargebacks. If none happen during this period, and all checks pass it will be released. This happens because if they release the funds they will be on the hook for the 100k + charback fees, which depending on the size/number of your transactions, could be higher than your entire 100k.

Their docs explain this.

figassis··on We must pace the frontier
Yes they are, inflation-adjusted GDP is efficency. My point exactly, bc I don't think when people say the economy is growing they are ajusting for inflation at all.
figassis··on We must pace the frontier
That's due to inflation though no? Prices are increasing, sometimes due to more than just demand?
figassis··on We must pace the frontier
> To be clear, pacing does not mean halting model training or technical progress, but ensuring companies take adequate time to align and safeguard their models

I have seen this before, first hand, on lower stakes for the world, but high stakes for the org. Self imposed safety goals do not last a quarter, but the clawback is not transparent. little things start snapping back internally, new, seemingly unlrelated initiatives are funded that take resources away from this, people are let go for different reasons, until 1y later you are right back where you started. I am hopeful though, that this becomes systemic and not something any one company can easily reverse course on.

figassis··on We must pace the frontier
"greatly accelerate economic growth rates" - I always wonder about this goal. I understand increasing economic efficiency. But what do we as a species gain from global economy growth.

When we say the world's GDP grew by X%, what is the point of that growth? Inflation? If the economy grows as a direct effect of humanity growing, I get that. If the economy becomes more efficient and we can not get more with less, I also get that.

But what is the point of just growth, if not simply to show others that I am growing faster than you? At which point this is a meaningless number. What am I missing?

figassis··on Matt Mullenweg tells Automattic staff in Slack he's back in control after ouster
Is it perhaps time to ackowledge that boards where everyone is buddies can't actually do their jobs, yet they get paid obscene amounts of money?
figassis··on Y Combinator Early Access Network
This is mostly AI companies needing a large investment (maybe larger than YC's standard 500k) to get off the ground, and so YC now starts acting as market maker (more than it already is), by literally getting people that are primed to buy (filling out the form where minimum amount is 500k, talking about their last funded pilot, company size, etc), so YC can now say this is the size of validated opportunities, so their (potentially higher) seed is now derisked, but also they don't have to wait for their startups to 10x in 3 years, they can 20x in 12 months.

The startup however, will do the thing they advised them not to do, which is tailor their roadmap to a large customer.

But yes, this is early exit/rugpull planning. If it weren't, it would not be AI exclusive and I don't think companies are that excited to know the latest and brightest AI companies. They can simply wait for the market. But they create FOMO, and now they open a small window, make calls to know how much you'll commit and all the FOMO execs will fly in. I'll be fun.

figassis··on LibreOffice breaks download records after declaring it has no AI features
There is a semantic difference between capturing data (recording) and putting somethng on record (capturing/recording an achievement). One is the process of documenting and the other is the documented result that acts as a benchmark.

When you record an achievement, there is no need to record another one until you surpass it. You can record attempts, but they are now just data that makes the actual record more meaningful the longer it exists without being surpassed.

figassis··on LibreOffice breaks download records after declaring it has no AI features
It is actually no correct. A record by definition is an unsurpassed accomplishment or statistic. It needs to be an accomplishment before it can be called a record. The passage of time does not qualify as a record. Also, a statistical certainty cannot be called a record.
figassis··on Switzerland's Federal Government Is Replacing Microsoft on 3k Computers
Yet my mom does not have a Ubuntu desktop. And if I set one up for her, I woudl have to split my time between my job and tech support for her. So well funded, but not sure they are the right company.
figassis··on Research acceleration: The view inside OpenAI
When that happens, OpenAI will own 100% of your life. I’d rather they keep spinning their wheels long enough for these problems to be solved elsewhere.
figassis··on Switzerland's Federal Government Is Replacing Microsoft on 3k Computers
I haven’t used desktop Linux in ages, but I’m a Linux server user as I think maybe everyone here. Is the solution to desktop that some well funded company just needs to fork Debian, build the common application deites like word processing, spreadsheets, presentation, messaging apps, etc, and then build a proper App Store?

Or is the underlying system still bad, as in drivers, compatibilities, audio and video codecs, networking, etc. I know on servers when some of these break they take a bit of mucking around. But it seems many companies are trying, why are they failing?

figassis··on Cloud in a Bottle: making self-hosting accessible to everyone
sorry for the typos, I didn't actually come back to grammar check and I'm cringing now
figassis··on Cloud in a Bottle: making self-hosting accessible to everyone
I think vendors will do what vendors will do, and you can choose to buy into that or not. Containers fullfilled their promise. You can today host anything yourself easily, with a single command.

The problem comes when developers start building things without this in mind. I see simple site analytics apps in github, where the docker compose file is a web os services and the repo itself is full of init scripts and the sort. You have redis, mongo, an RDBMS container, an analytics db, kafka, all the kafka tooling like bookkeeper, then you have outsourced auth liek clerk or supabase (when the whole thing is not just some supabase chimera with edge functions and whatever else supabase is supposed to run outside your infra).

And the repo description is: simple, anonymous wesbite analytics. The entire thing is more complex than the thin you want to do analytics for. So you bring that into a cloud, and instead of a container, you are now advised, but both AWS and your HN peers that you need to replace each component with it's cloud version, such as elasticache, AKS, cognito, firebase, whatever.

All of these services as you set up, trap you into overprovisioning. Your DB needs to have 3 replicas or you have no guarantees, your auth needs an entire instance of something running somewhere or unicorns start dying.

By the time you come out for sunlight your bill could pay your rent. So you don't self host, you signup for google analytics.

Everytime I find a project on GitHub, the first thing that makes me close it immediately is whether it has a docker-compose.yaml and if it's a single, sane/dumb, low footprint deployment or a chimera.

So self hosting is alive and well, whether your app is easy to self host, and whether you know how to use just what you need from cloud vendors are different questions.

figassis··on Ask HN: How to break Claude Code addiction?
If you could that reliably, you wouldn’t have a job
figassis··on Show HN: AI Harness that lets a graph of Codex and Claude intercommunicate
Cool! Building something similar at https://crew.ao
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