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fredoliveira

3,929 karma · joined December 23, 2009

Current: AI risk at Snyk. Other things before that. Co-author of the Redis O'Reilly book.

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fredoliveira··on Understanding Frontier Artificial Intelligence
I agree. Some title edits are clarifying, but this one isn't helpful.

The paper is about super-intelligence (not in the way people are claiming that term now, but in the "beyond human intelligence" sense), and the title here is about the "frontier", which by definition is the current SoTA.

fredoliveira··on Boot a Virtual iPhone via Apple's Virtualization.framework
This is virtualization, so localhost will just be the virtual iphone itself. But you should have some command of how hosts are resolved, so you can always point the browser to the device hosting what you want to test, no?

Even easier, of course, is just using the iOS simulator included with xcode, which runs on your host computer. There, localhost resolves to your host computer.

fredoliveira··on On A.I. regulation and messaging
> The point "AI is structurally a technology that tends to concentrate power" is not that correct. They need this statement to be true, otherwise no way to justify the trillion evaluations.

How is it not true?

The biggest companies in the world are, quite obviously (just look at the numbers) going to be AI companies. The most powerful governments in the world are quite clearly going to be those that are close to (or in control of) AI companies. People have a very hard time seeing the second order effects of the control of intelligence - we need to fix that.

fredoliveira··on I Built a Telegram Client for Pi
There'd be no shame either way. Pi is built on the idea that you should ask it to extend itself.
fredoliveira··on I Built a Telegram Client for Pi
Why not just have multiple instances of pi inside one of the many multiplexers out there? Tmux, Zelliij, herdr, for example.
fredoliveira··on There is minimal downside to switching to open models
Output quality immediately comes to mind, of course.

Models are converging, but they converge in bands, and frontier is frontier. I would not like to have any workflows in any area of my business where output is generated by an assortment of models from different providers. For trivial, mundane tasks that might be fine, but it certainly doesn't apply across the board.

fredoliveira··on I used sound waves to make espresso. It could cut coffee‑brewing energy use by ¾
is there prior art to the EU banning a new technology to protect an old one?
fredoliveira··on What is it like to be a bat? (1974) [pdf]
They can make the claim to know what it is like to be you as much as you can make the claim that you know what it is like to be a bat.
fredoliveira··on VoidZero Is Joining Cloudflare
Could they? Under what business model? Maybe the numbers for the paid products just weren't there and they see this exit as a positive for the team?
fredoliveira··on Dynamic Workflows in Claude Code
> is Zed capable of using a Claude Code Subscription?

Yes. Zed connects to Claude Code via ACP.

fredoliveira··on Anthropic acquires Stainless
They most certainly are. This is Jevons paradox.
fredoliveira··on SANA-WM, a 2.6B open-source world model for 1-minute 720p video
If it does do that, it doesn't feel that way. I never found it particularly repetitive.
fredoliveira··on MacBook Neo Deep Dive: Benchmarks, Wafer Economics, and the 8GB Gamble
I legitimately have no idea what "SS" means next to a port, and I've seen it plenty of times. Labeling doesn't solve everything. The message on screen that you get when you plug something into the wrong port on the Neo is, obviously, much better because it assumes nothing about the user's knowledge except for the ability to read.
fredoliveira··on Zed Editor Theme-Builder
Use the command palette to pick "agent: toggle" - that'll open the agent pane. Pick "Claude Agent" from the dropdown at the top if you see the Zed agent. Should be all you need.
fredoliveira··on Roblox shares plummet 18% as child safety measures weigh on bookings
That interview of their CEO with the NYT from last year was insane. If you've never seen it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XpIXRgMlPo4
fredoliveira··on Roblox shares plummet 18% as child safety measures weigh on bookings
Most of the companies you've listed have been horrible at keeping kids safe - they simply don't care. I'm all for kids communicating and having fun, but we have to actually want to create safe ways to do both.
fredoliveira··on Ollama is now powered by MLX on Apple Silicon in preview
Crazy thing to say without other contextual information - it obviously depends on a number of factors. Do you have an apples to apples comparison at hand?
fredoliveira··on Ghostmoon.app – A Swiss Army Knife for your macOS menu bar
> Go away, green accounts. Everyone is pretty tired of your presence.

I get the frustration with the overload of new vibe-coded tools, but this particular attitude towards new people - can we not?

fredoliveira··on Ghostmoon.app – A Swiss Army Knife for your macOS menu bar
> It's just sad that whether you are a user or a developer, Apple Fanbois would rather (ignorantly) place Apple's interest over their own consumer rights.

You think notarizing an app is "placing Apple's interest over" our own?

fredoliveira··on Show HN: I built a real-time OSINT dashboard pulling 15 live global feeds
Indeed. And adding on to this, in a slightly different realm, Donald Knuth's conjecture that he solved with Claude: https://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/%7Eknuth/papers/claude-c...
fredoliveira··on Agent Safehouse – macOS-native sandboxing for local agents
counter-intuitively, the fact that docker on the mac requires a linux-based VM makes it safer than it otherwise would be. But your point stands in general, of course.
fredoliveira··on I resigned from OpenAI
and you say this based on?
fredoliveira··on Obsidian Sync now has a headless client
Not gp, but because the way hackernews would render in a web browser versus curl is dramatically different, of course. There's a clear separation of presentation and content, and curl shows you presentation.

Notes being plain text files means that what you get by showing via a CLI is essentially the same as just `cat whatever-it-is.md`. Viewing a note via the CLI interface could have its merits (it could apply its own flavor of presentation), but come on now. Your example doesn't hold.

fredoliveira··on I built Timeframe, our family e-paper dashboard
So you see no value in the learning that comes with the tinkering?
fredoliveira··on Fahrplan – 39C3
I think you're missing the ethos of the event in general, and the fact that you are pointing to tracks in the ethics track or the arts track in particular.
fredoliveira··on Fahrplan – 39C3
Can you point to some?
fredoliveira··on Alzheimer’s disease can be reversed in animal models? Study
> all for fame and fortune

I understand the compassion for animals, of course, but not this sentence. Advancing science is not "all for fame or fortune". If it cures people, I can see it. I too would love a world without animal suffering, but I'd also love to not be literally seeing (and I just came back from my parents') my dad slip more and more into nothingness at the hand of this stupid disease.

fredoliveira··on Anthropic acquires Bun
"Wasting" is doing a lot of work in that sentence.

They're effectively bringing on a team that's been focused on building a runtime for years. The models they could throw at the problem can't be tapped on the shoulder, and there's no guarantee they'd do a better job at building something like Bun.

fredoliveira··on The Thinking Game Film – Google DeepMind documentary
Well, two things: it's the last sentence of the film; being on hour into something you're calling propaganda is brave.

Anyways. I thought the documentary was inspiring. Deepmind are the only lab that has historically prioritized science over consumer-facing product (that's changing now, however). I think their work with AlphaFold is commendable.

fredoliveira··on The Thinking Game Film – Google DeepMind documentary
Did you watch the documentary? Would probably fare better if you did, because it'd give you the context for the film title.
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