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jfyi··on ICE using Palantir tool that feeds on Medicaid data
It doesn't even need malicious intent. If nobody rational is monitoring it, all it will take is a bad datapoint or hallucination for your door to get kicked in by mistake.
jfyi··on You can't pay me to prompt
I think you have hit on something. The problem isn't the tech, it’s the eye of the user.

The same person who ignores a crooked door frame or a CSS overflow now has a "mostly right" button to bring mediocrity to scale. We unfortunately aren't invested in teaching craftsmanship as a society.

jfyi··on You can't pay me to prompt
I use AI, I pay a subscription to google. I use it for work. I use it for learning. I use it for entertainment.

I am still concerned with how it's going to impact society going forward. The idea of what this is being used for by those with a monopoly on the use of violence is terrifying: https://www.palantir.com/platforms/aip/

Am I a shill or a post-apocalyptic prophet?

jfyi··on I was banned from Claude for scaffolding a Claude.md file?
I agree, it's rhetorical. It was meant to be pointed. It's just too ironic in this scenario.

It loses meaning instead of accentuating it, and predictably so. It probably wasn't the best device to get this specific point across and certainly left the expected counter argument as low hanging fruit.

jfyi··on I was banned from Claude for scaffolding a Claude.md file?
Ask Ukraine about Holodomor.
jfyi··on eBay explicitly bans AI "buy for me" agents in user agreement update
I agree, and in aggregate it becomes a serious issue for the platform. People who buy autonomously are going to argue personally when it fails in any way.

I'm not sure how they would intend to stop it with this policy anyway. It at best is going to be an arms race detecting them. What it does do is prevent upfront the ham handed excuse of "I didn't bid on this, my bot did".

jfyi··on Software engineers can no longer neglect their soft skills
> Are you getting 2x the money?

Probably no and additionally paying $200/mo out of pocket for the pleasure of doing twice the work.

jfyi··on 2025: The Year in LLMs
It will open access of llms to developers in the same way smart phones opened access to mobile general computing.

I really think most everyone misses the actual potential of llms. They aren't an app but an interface.

They are the new UI everyone has known they wanted going back as long as we've had computers. People wanted to talk to the computer and get results.

Think of the people already using them instead of search engines.

To me, and likely you, it doesn't add any value. I can get the same information at about the same speed as before with the same false positives to weed through.

To the person that couldn't use a search engine and filled the internet with easily answered questions before, it's a godsend. They can finally ask the internet in plain ole whatever language they use and get an answer. It can be hard to see, but this is the majority of people on this planet.

LLMs raise the floor of information access. When they become ubiquitous and basically free, people will forget they ever had to use a mouse or hunt for the right pixel to click a button on a tiny mobile device touch screen.

jfyi··on 2025: The Year in LLMs
It's only low cost for general usage chat users. If you are using it for anything beyond that, you are paying or sitting in a long queue (likely both).

You may just be a little early to the renaissance. What happens when the models we have today run on a mobile device?

The nokia 6110 was released 15 years after the first commercial cell phone.

jfyi··on Show HN: We built an open source, zero webhooks payment processor
Technically you are a wrapper api, but you are acting as a gateway. Though, if you were to claim to be a gateway you'd need pa-dss/ssf validation and that would cost a good chunk of that yc money, so I understand.
jfyi··on Show HN: We built an open source, zero webhooks payment processor
You can't standardize the developer experience across different processors. I'm not trying to be negative here, just practical.

You are going to run into things like TSYS closing out batches every three days regardless of what happens.

The handling features for them and their customers thing is going to be a herculean task over even a couple different platforms. Not impossible, but it's big and you would do well to see what's out there before committing to a standard interface. Take a look at https://datacapsystems.com/ to see it done well.

Also, adding another layer like this, you better have an early plan to staff a support desk.

Oh, also, you are gateway, not a processor.

jfyi··on ICE bought vehicles equipped with fake cell towers to spy on phones
Are you familiar with the concept of parallel construction?

If evidence of the wiretap never needs to be entered into the official record, did it really exist in the first place?

jfyi··on Orcas are bringing humans gifts
I agree with them, your original post lacked clarity. I propose that the reason these types of conversations are less likely in person is because there is typically no log of exactly what was said and people tend to get defensive and narratives change. This makes it a pointless endeavor.

I would suggest, rather than wondering why people on the internet point things like this out, maybe wonder how many people in real life never bothered and just write you off.

jfyi··on Why do LLMs freak out over the seahorse emoji?
"This behavior is a function of the core AI technology we use, we are unable to resolve this issue with a standard software patch or update at this time.

For the time being this issue can be mitigated by not asking about seahorse emoji.

We are closing this support ticket as the issue is an inherent limitation of the underlying technology and not a bug in our specific implementation."

jfyi··on What GPT-OSS leaks about OpenAI's training data
https://www.anthropic.com/research/tracing-thoughts-language...

>Claude sometimes thinks in a conceptual space that is shared between languages, suggesting it has a kind of universal “language of thought.” We show this by translating simple sentences into multiple languages and tracing the overlap in how Claude processes them.

jfyi··on What .NET 10 GC changes mean for developers
Funny, because one the libraries I was using at the time went hyper commercial (javafxports). Java burned me on two fronts at the very same time and lost me. Ymmv I guess. It's always a good time to try something new anyway... I also moved to kotlin on android and couldn't be happier with it, it's a clearly superior language.
jfyi··on What .NET 10 GC changes mean for developers
Yeah? Ncurses still a thing? I only ask because that's the only api name I remember from forever ago.

I worked on a mud on linux right after high school for awhile. Spent most of the time on the school's bsdi server prior to that though.

Then I went java, and as they got less permissive and .net got more permissive I switched at some point. I've really loved the direction C# has gone merging in functional programming idioms and have stuck with it for most personal projects but I am currently learning gdscript for some reason even though godot has C# as an option.

jfyi··on What .NET 10 GC changes mean for developers
https://download.microsoft.com/documents/useterms/visual%20s...

It's because you aren't looking at 20 year old EULA's

>3.4 Benchmark Testing. The Software may contain the Microsoft .NET Framework. You may not disclose the results of any benchmark test of the .NET Framework component of the Software to any third party without Microsoft’s prior written approval.

This person is not likely familiar with the history of the .net framework and .net core because they decided a long time ago they were never going to use it.

jfyi··on Toyota runs a car-hacking event to boost security (2024)
It's phrased weirdly, but the op is describing an idealized status quo as would be seen from a corporate standpoint. It was meant to contradict itself and thus:

>We need to pick a lane.

I imagine op would likely agree it isn't actually that monotoned and this was done for rhetorical purposes.

jfyi··on Jeff Bezos says AI is in a bubble but society will get 'gigantic' benefits
Given my skillset at age 22? Yeah, I'll take 1995. I was old enough to grow up hearing how great the world was going to be if I learned computer programming just to enter the job force at the start of the dotcom bubble burst. 1995 would have been a major upgrade.

Also, knocking that almost decade off my birthday would assure that I spent most of my adult life with the luxury of thinking that energy didn't have negative externalities that were being forced on later generations.

We had Chomsky-esq "any major world power is kind of fascist if you think about it" instead of literal talk by politicians about putting people in camps if they don't like your diet or country of origin.

TV was pretty bad I guess but music was great and I read more back then.

There was a lot of huffing and puffing about gang violence. I grew up on the street the local gang named themselves after and it only marginally touched my life at all.

Housing was dirt cheap, food was dirt cheap, gas was dirt cheap. There was undeveloped land everywhere around the city I live in and it gave a general sense of potential.

What exactly was so bad about the 90's?

jfyi··on Jeff Bezos says AI is in a bubble but society will get 'gigantic' benefits
The world of Star Trek was fully post scarcity. Rich/poor were not things that existed.

They had to get through this before things got better: https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Bell_Riots

jfyi··on Arbitrary code execution in Unity Runtime
A quick look shows not much has been found CVE wise with godot, and not anything on the 4.x version of the engine. There is an interesting case of it being used to build a malware loader.

I've actually been playing with it a bit recently and have had a couple mysterious crashes in their ide. It's likely ripe fruit for a curious security researcher.

jfyi··on Arbitrary code execution in Unity Runtime
The relevance is bypassing the android application sandboxing of the game by other apps and running arbitrary code as the game. I suppose the relevance depends a lot on how much you are invested in your video game.
jfyi··on OpenAI's H1 2025: $4.3B in income, $13.5B in loss
I agree. If OpenAI isn't strategic to the US, that damn sure is Altman's current goal. The moment he can close the sale on "we have to get there before China" ad revenue won't be a concern any more.

I'd say it's a bit of a Hail Mary and could go either way, but that's as an outsider looking in. Who really knows?

jfyi··on Signal Protocol and Post-Quantum Ratchets
I think you missed the point entirely. You can't have security without thinking about it. You can have vague sense of security, which is the theater you are talking about.

Show me a company anywhere that can provide security without user thought and deliberate action. It's a fantasy to believe anything you don't have to think about isn't theater. Hell, if you aren't thinking about it, you're one of the actors in that theater.

jfyi··on Signal Protocol and Post-Quantum Ratchets
Those are the breaks though when catering to a large audience with wildly differing threat models. Do you throw away users that are looking for a vague sense of security so they run off somewhere else less secure because you lack some feature?

If you are just looking for "secure(TM)[X]", you are making a mistake somewhere anyway.

If your life or livelihood depends on it, you learn what the impact of every choice is and you painstakingly keep to your opsec.

Somewhere between the two user action becomes a necessity. You need to judge where that point is for you and take responsibility for it because nobody else can guarantee it.

jfyi··on Google appears to have deleted its political ad archive for the EU
We need to start working on the premise that large corporations are different beasts than small businesses. I mean as a people of the world as a whole.

There is a tipping point somewhere and that is definitely up for conversation but we need to pick a point and start making sure regulation hits where it does good.

Frankly, the outcomes of both "regulate it" and "don't regulate it" have already both been captured by the biggest offenders to use as they wish.

jfyi··on Google appears to have deleted its political ad archive for the EU
"just speech" is just speech too, right?

I seem to be missing the point here. Are you claiming that this term can not be applied categorically in a realistic fashion? I think that's wrong.

jfyi··on Larry Ellison – 'citizens will be on their best behavior' amid nonstop recording
I'm actually having difficulties trying to find where the UK was brought into it if not by the commenter in question. If we are pointing out lapse of context, that is.
jfyi··on Larry Ellison – 'citizens will be on their best behavior' amid nonstop recording
The AI is working perfectly for the citizen surveillance use case though. It will provide "reasonable" suspicion on anyone at any time.

We have been mired in a surveillance state for a long time now. They now will have the processing power to make sure nobody can keep their head down and slip through the cracks. I imagine it's going to be a rough century.

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