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helloplanets··on OpenCode – Open source AI coding agent
> Moat seems to be shrinking fast.

It's been a moving target for years at this point.

Both open and closed source models have been getting better, but not sure if the open source models have really been closing the gap since DeepSeek R1.

But yes: If the top closed source models were to stop getting better today, it wouldn't take long for open source to catch up.

helloplanets··on Willingness to look stupid
This is also what's called the beginner's mind, Shoshin. [0] One of the core concepts of Zen Buddhism. Tangentially related would be the concept of no-mind, Mushin. [1]

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shoshin [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No-mind

helloplanets··on Datahäxan
Pretty sure the majority of people who are a part of the community work a 9-5. But yes, spending after work hours making something that's just completely out there with no monetary purpose at all is much more nourishing for the soul than attempting to create a passive income machine.
helloplanets··on We do not think Anthropic should be designated as a supply chain risk
> copy pasting it's training data

This is a total misrepresentation of how any modern LLM works, and your argument largely hinges upon this definition.

helloplanets··on Statement on the comments from Secretary of War Pete Hegseth
A backdoor is a completely different thing when it comes to an AI company, as compared to a social media company. Not really even sure what it would mean when it comes to doing inference on an LLM. Having access to the weights, training data and inference engine?

The model of Claude the DoD is asking for more than likely doesn't even exist in a production ready form. The post-training would have to be completely different for the model the DoD is asking for.

helloplanets··on Anthropic drops flagship safety pledge
> get what they want or makes them feel better about themselves

So... all acts are selfish because if it looks unselfish, that just means it was selfish in a hidden way?

helloplanets··on Ask HN: Have top AI research institutions just given up on the idea of safety?
> unfortunately, there are also people deeply involved who don't think human extinction is a bad thing

You mean at the top labs? Since when isn't that level of misanthropy categorized as having mental health issues?

helloplanets··on Anthropic drops flagship safety pledge
It's not like that happened out of the blue. (Which could've also been the case in today's day and age.) Anthropic shouldn't have gotten involved in government contracts to begin with.

They inserted themselves into the supply chain, and then the government told them that they'll be classified as a supply chain risk unless they get unfettered access to the tech. They knew what they were getting into, but didn't want the competitors to get their slice of the pie.

The government didn't pursue them, Anthropic actively pursued government and defense work.

Talk about selling out. Dario's starting to feel more and more like a swindler, by the day.

helloplanets··on Keybee: A Keyboard Designed for Smartphones
At the very least it captures well how it feels to talk when sufficiently high...
helloplanets··on Andrej Karpathy talks about "Claws"
Ah, thanks. Somehow missed that.
helloplanets··on Andrej Karpathy talks about "Claws"
> Because the author of the blog is paid to post daily about nothing but AI and needs to link farm for clicks and engagement on a daily basis.

Care to elaborate? Paid by whom?

helloplanets··on An AI Agent Published a Hit Piece on Me – The Operator Came Forward
> Most of my direct messages were short: “what code did you fix?” “any blog updates?” “respond how you want”

Why isn't the person posting the full transcript of the session(s)? How many messages did he send? What were the messages that weren't short?

Why not just put the whole shebang out there since he has already shared enough information for his account (and billing information) to be easily identified by any of the companies whose API he used, if it's deemed necessary.

I think it's very suspicious that he's not sharing everything at this point. Why not, if he wasn't actually pushing for it to act maliciously?

helloplanets··on Tesla Sales Down 55% UK, 58% Spain, 59% Germany, 81% Netherlands, 93% Norway
Legally Teslas are Advanced Driver Assistance Systems, while Waymos for example are Automated Driving Systems.

If you're driving a vehicle in the former category, you'll be on the hook for reckless driving if you aren't fully supervising the vehicle.

I'm pretty sure the original commenter was supervising the driving, though.

helloplanets··on DPaint – Webbased image editor, modeled after the legendary Deluxe Paint
https://github.com/steffest/dpaint-js
helloplanets··on Chess engines do weird stuff
Yea that's true, it's a pretty overloaded word. From what I remember though, even the top players thought that there wasn't anywhere left to go with chess engines, before Alpha Zero basically ripped the roof off with a completely different play style back in 2017, beating Stockfish.

And the play style of Alpha Zero wasn't different in a way that needs a super trained chess intuition to see, it's outrageously different if you take a look at the games.

I guess my point is, that even if the current situation is basically a 'deadlock', it's been proven that it's not some sort of eternal knowledge of the game as of yet. There's still the possiblity that a new type of approach could blow the current top engines out of the water, with a completely different take on the game.

helloplanets··on Chess engines do weird stuff
There's the TCEC [0] which is a big thing in some circles. Stockfish does lose every now and then against top engines. [1] Usually it's two different engines playing against one another, though. Like Leela Chess Zero [2] vs. Stockfish.

In that hypothetical of running 2 instances of Stockfish against one another on a modern laptop, with the key difference being minutes of compute time, it'd probably be very close to 100% of draws. Depending on how many games you run. So, if you run a million games, there's probably some outliers. If you run a hundred, maybe not.

When it comes to actually solved positions, the 7-piece tables take around 1TB of RAM to even run. These tablebases are used by Stockfish when you actually want to run it at peak strength. [3]

[0]: https://tcec-chess.com [1]: https://lichess.org/broadcast/tcec-s28-leagues--superfinal/m... [2]: https://lczero.org [3]: https://github.com/syzygy1/tb

helloplanets··on Chess engines do weird stuff
This is not true. Stockfish is not unbeatable by another engine, or another copy of Stockfish.

Chess engines have been impossible for humans to beat for well over a decade.

But a position in chess being solved is a specific thing, which is still very far from having happened for the starting position. Chess has been solved up to 7 pieces. Solving basically amounts to some absolutely massive tables that have every variation accounted for, so that you know whether a given position will end in a draw, black win or white win. (https://syzygy-tables.info)

helloplanets··on America Isn't Ready for What AI Will Do to Jobs
Could you explain more thoroughly? What points to the article being generated with AI?
helloplanets··on OpenAI has deleted the word 'safely' from its mission
Yes, and our own test could very well be flawed as well. Either way, from my experience there usually isn't that sort of massively long chain to get to the original research, more like a lot of people just citing the same original research.
helloplanets··on The three year myth
> blatantly naming

Not sure if you mean that I'm being hostile for no reason towards this 'someone else'. The second section in my original post is the big conditional.

> I guess the grifter didn't just copy paste what our guy did. it did have more impact and well time

This is more than likely correct.

Either way, I do think it's grifter behavior to not mention/include anyone else who was involved in the project if you pick it up halfway through. Unless the code (or whatever else) is actually bad, and you have to do extra work to redo it. And, if you are actually aware who even worked on the project to begin with.

But it very well might've been a case where some higher up passed the project off to another programmer (months/years later) with no malicious intent whatsoever, and the programmer just did the thing as requested. Or a myriad of other explanations.

helloplanets··on The three year myth
> On your way out the door, you hear the rumors: someone else did your thing years after you showed yours off. They got the credit, the bonus, the promotion, the recognition. They're a Senior now, or a Lead, or a Director, or a VP.

If it actually went down like this, that's pretty horrible, and that someone else is a grifter. Very harmful for any organization in the long run, because that behavior will be applied to anyone who's "ripe to be taken advantage of" (from his point of view), burning them out of the way.

That is, if they were aware that you made the thing that they picked up later. Though I wonder why the original didn't go through. The other person pushed harder for it to go through, or showed it off with a different sort of demo? Or was it a different sort of technical implementation / design?

helloplanets··on OpenAI has deleted the word 'safely' from its mission
> much of it several dozen or thousands of layers of indirection deep

Assuming we're just talking about information on the internet: What are you reading if the original source is several dozen layers deep? In my experience, it's usually one or two layers deep. If it's more, that's a huge red flag.

helloplanets··on An AI agent published a hit piece on me – more things have happened
It's 100% that the bot is being heavily piloted by a person. Likely even copy pasting LLM output and doing the agentic part by hand. It's not autonomous. It's just someone who wants attention, and is getting lots of it.

Look at the actual bot's GitHub commits. It's just a bunch of blog posts that read like an edgy high schooler's musings on exclusion. After one tutorial level commit didn't go through.

This whole thing is theater, and I don't know why people are engaging with it as if it was anything else.

helloplanets··on An AI agent published a hit piece on me – more things have happened
It's not hard to make sites completely antagonistic to LLMs / agentic AI. Even just having the basic Cloudflare bot check filters out a lot by itself.

This is more a case of GitHub as an organization actively embracing having agentic AI rummaging about.

helloplanets··on Become a Gigachad
Is this related? https://github.com/thesofakillers/gigachadify
helloplanets··on Ask HN: Would Steve Jobs Get into YC?
Yes.
helloplanets··on AI agent opens a PR write a blogpost to shames the maintainer who closes it
No wonder it extrapolated into the asshole dimension based on prompt excerpt tbh...
helloplanets··on How to make a living as an artist
> The Beatles wrote 227 songs, but only 34 hit the Top 10. Do you think they would put out a song that they didn't believe could be a hit? Mozart wrote over 600 songs, but only about 50 of them are widely played. Do you think he purposefully wrote duds? Of course not.

This is completely backwards. The Beatles put out songs that they didn't think were hits, and put out songs that they were conscious of being the antithesis of a hit. They wanted to freak people out from time to time. As many artists do.

Just check out Revolution 9. Pretty sure you can't get much out there than that when it comes to music of that era. And still very out there to this day.

Or for a more 'songy songs' that I'm pretty sure they didn't think at all in terms of hit material: Tomorrow Never Knows or Within You Without You. And there's dozens more.

helloplanets··on “Nothing” is the secret to structuring your work
The most important part is to just pay attention to how your current setup affects your mood, creativity, focus, etc. It'll be way easier to adjust once you're in tune with that.

It's really easy to end up on autopilot with the structure of your workdays, only to notice that it doesn't work for the current project all that well. Getting stuck on the 'nothing' approach can be just as bad as getting stuck on a 'hundred tabs' approach if you're just doing one or the other because you've always been doing it.

helloplanets··on OpenClaw is changing my life
Specifics on the setup. Specifics on the projects.

SHOW ME THE MONEY!!!

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