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5,467 karma · joined August 31, 2013

Former vulnerability researcher now dev in SF for a YC-alum company.
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linkregister··on Gloomberb
No, I meant exactly what I wrote and nothing more.
linkregister··on Gloomberb
Why would a trader need your consent to make a trade with somebody else?
linkregister··on Grok Bot
This is one compaction away from being truncated to "allowed examples: `git add`...".

System prompts aren't safeguards.

A step in the right direction is auto-review, available in claude-code, codex, and Cursor products. This is not foolproof either.

This is why remote calls should be gated through an MCP or other API gateway. The MCP can restrict calls even when the provider lacks scoped privileges for their integration keys.

linkregister··on Nashville uses eminent domain to block data center near zoo
It's public record that Elon Musk personally spent $100M on the Trump campaign. Elon Musk is now using that political influence. While this may not meet the elements of Bribery under US Code, it clears the bar for an opinion on the Orange Site.
linkregister··on Why Do Fewer Renters Expect to Move?
Socialized housing is a management technique. It does not inherently create housing. Read about Stockholm's situation if you are interested in learning about the topic.

It is indisputable that there have been successful socialized housing schemes. It is also indisputable there are successful free-market housing systems; for example, Minneapolis.

linkregister··on Why Do Fewer Renters Expect to Move?
A socialized housing market replaces exorbitant prices with a lottery; public-subsidized housing in Stockholm has a waiting list of years. The way to stabilize the demand curve is to increase to supply.
linkregister··on There Will Come Soft Rains (1950) [pdf]
Are you claiming that China, India, and Pakistan do not possess nuclear weapons, do not assert they will retaliate with those weapons, or are led by old white men?

There are many Indians and Pakistanis who do consider themselves white. I'm unaware of a prominent white identity movement within China, but I don't have total certainty.

linkregister··on Thanks FedEx, This Is Why We Keep Getting Phished (2024)
There are plenty of Chinese domains that are just numbers. If they can build entire businesses off of that, so can anybody. There's of course a ton of risk around scammers winning SEO and adwords competitions.
linkregister··on U.S. used 'virtually all' of its long-range precision missiles during Iran war
The PLA has engaged in many battles over the last few decades. There were some as recent as 2024.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/People%27s_Liberation_Army#Eng...

linkregister··on There Will Come Soft Rains (1950) [pdf]
The parent comment is getting dunked on because it feels rich for the majority racial group to claim aggrieved status.

But I agree that adding the whiteness status of the men doesn't add to the story. The distinguishing characteristics of the men were they were rich and powerful. There are many people in the United States who despite their whiteness, suffer injustice, lived in poverty, and are oppressed by powerful interests.

The above does not erase the fact that systemic racism impacts Black and Hispanic Americans significantly to this day, and work to mitigate this should continue.

linkregister··on Kimi Linear: An Expressive, Efficient Attention Architecture (2025)
Did Kimi or other open source models use a different corpus? Why is your animus directed specifically to Anthropic?
linkregister··on Kimi-K3 on HuggingFace
Yet the comment was valuable nonetheless.
linkregister··on A taxonomy of omnicidal futures involving artificial intelligence (2025)
Being unwilling to compare degrees or amounts is not a flex.
linkregister··on AI Companies Are Trying to Hide a Staggering Amount of Debt
The essence of the Enron scandal was the perpetration of accounting fraud. It took down Arthur Andersen. We went from the "Big 5" accounting firms to the "Big 4" because of this. They very much violated GAAP.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enron_scandal

linkregister··on “We have information that Moonshot distilled Fable for the development of K3”
When looking at 2025 and 2026 narrowly, China is a better actor on the world stage.

I wonder if Vietnam, Philippines, Republic of Korea, India, and Japan are acting against their own interests by aligning themselves closer to the USA than China. Maybe you can educate their governments and populations.

linkregister··on “We have information that Moonshot distilled Fable for the development of K3”
Do you get mad at your computer for replacing clerical workers? What does this nonsense comment have to do with the issue at hand?
linkregister··on “We have information that Moonshot distilled Fable for the development of K3”
What does your story have to do with Moonshot AI? Do you think they didn't also use the same corpus? Bizarre
linkregister··on “We have information that Moonshot distilled Fable for the development of K3”
You're calling someone a political hack, but imposing neutrality on my statement.

I don't even necessarily disagree with your assessment of this spokesperson. But you must admit how inconsistent you're being.

linkregister··on “We have information that Moonshot distilled Fable for the development of K3”
That's a reasonable viewpoint to have. In a multipolar world we want Mistrals as well as Deepseeks.
linkregister··on “We have information that Moonshot distilled Fable for the development of K3”
Your statement is orthogonal to my comment. Why reiterate the schadenfreude / fairness comment already stated several dozen times in this thread?
linkregister··on “We have information that Moonshot distilled Fable for the development of K3”
Reread my comment and look for a value judgement on my part. The final sentence is probably a good clue as to my opinion.
linkregister··on “We have information that Moonshot distilled Fable for the development of K3”
Commenters are overlooking the significance of this information and posting emotional reactions based on perceptions of fairness or feelings of schadenfreude.

The economic viability of Anthropic and OpenAI rely on their being able to charge more for model access than their R&D and inference costs. If the market price for SOTA model access drops below that level, then these businesses will have to decide whether to continue to lose money or to reduce spending on R&D.

Moonshot's papers [1] claim that their training load was primarily from synthetic data and model self-teaching rather than RLHF and therefore keep their costs low. If Moonshot genuinely does not rely on human-led training, they will surpass US closed-source model providers. The United States government considers US supremacy in "AI" as a national security consideration.

This announcement is noteworthy because it implies that Moonshot's success is in fact due to distillation. It's in the interest of US frontier labs to place barriers to this if they find themselves in the position of subsidizing rival labs' research.

1. Kimi K2, https://arxiv.org/html/2507.20534v1

linkregister··on “We have information that Moonshot distilled Fable for the development of K3”
It matters because the closed-source frontier labs spend lots of money on human data (RLHF / RLAIF with human oversight). Moonshot is accused of circumventing these costs. Frontier labs add research costs into their inference pricing. If the market doesn't permit them to sustain sufficient pricing to have a positive cash flow, then their business prospects become weaker and they risk insolvency. Furthermore, other leveraged companies are at risk.

The reason why the United States government is weighing in is because it's in the national interest of the US to have supremacy in "AI".

Legality or lack thereof is one of many data points about whether a thing is noteworthy.

Moonshot performing distillation is rational from their point of view. Reducing costs is in the interest of businesses. It's also rational for frontier labs and the US government to add obstacles to this process.

As consumers this is probably a positive development.

linkregister··on Kimi K3 Is Competitive with Fable; Kimi K3 and Fable Is SoTA
I think your characterization of my post, which credits Moonshot's innovation, goes a bit too far.
linkregister··on Kimi K3 Is Competitive with Fable; Kimi K3 and Fable Is SoTA
I'm happy that Kimi K3 is indeed SotA and its open weights are due to be released soon.

It's also true that Moonshot and other labs distill from Claude. This has been reported on extensively. I don't think there's any alpha for Anthropic distilling from this model. I do not mean to discount the tremendous amount of innovation regarding MoE and quantization that Moonshot has accomplished. But its training with synthetic data is in large part from distillation from frontier labs.

linkregister··on Who's afraid of Chinese models?
Everybody is amoral and cynically only doing good things for personal gain, except for you, the one good person
linkregister··on Who's afraid of Chinese models?
NOBUS exploits have rarely been a driving interest for elected officials. Trade restrictions and reciprocity are far more salient and legible. Most elected officials are only barely aware of what NOBUS exploits even mean.

Even during the pre-Snowden heyday of US cyber supremacy, these capabilities were barely part of the thought process of White House officials.

linkregister··on Who's afraid of Chinese models?
Can you refine that search term a bit more? I followed the link but it brings up many marginally related comments.
linkregister··on Who's afraid of Chinese models?
uses rhetoric

counterparty uses rhetoric in response

"Hey! No fair!"

linkregister··on Who's afraid of Chinese models?
The parent poster is almost certainly talking about inference within workflows and not for interactive coding agents.
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