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shepherdjerred··on We must pace the frontier
I’m not sure where you got that from or what your point is
shepherdjerred··on We Must Pace the Frontier
it’s two-fold. Either malicious actors or the AI systems themselves.

Hugging Face showed that AI can do serious hacking without really being told to. If a model had its own motivations there could be real damage.

shepherdjerred··on We must pace the frontier
A rather unfair comparison.

The whole calculus here is that others are also developing these systems which has led to a race.

A much better comparison to the situation is the nuclear weapons arms race.

shepherdjerred··on We must pace the frontier
That’s not entirely true though, right? There have been plenty of bioweapon attacks

Ex https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tokyo_subway_sarin_attack

shepherdjerred··on We Must Pace the Frontier
You are right that it’s easier to do this via Tor than an LLM. Those are the safeguards…
shepherdjerred··on HuggingFace: Security.txt
Do you want to work for IBM? Oracle?
shepherdjerred··on Apple Watch Series 12
This is exactly what I was thinking too. How can this be legal in 2-party states?
shepherdjerred··on iPhone Duo
I could definitely imagine him loving the Air. But I don’t think he’d segment the market; he’d probably get rid of the normal iPhone
shepherdjerred··on iPhone Duo
It seems like it would be really useful for a frequent traveler/commuter, to be able to watch something on a flight/bus ride. I would definitely consider it if I were in that demographic
shepherdjerred··on iPhone Duo
Do you think there’s some cabal of executives trying to use more resources so that users are forced buy newer hardware?

Or is it more likely that software companies are making a tradeoff based on typical consumer hardware and would rather prioritize making $$$ over optimizing their software?

shepherdjerred··on iPhone Duo
The typical HN user likely has more disposable income than most people
shepherdjerred··on iPhone Duo
I loved the handoff that Tim did at the beginning. It was touching
shepherdjerred··on Shopify acquires Tailwind
is there a need to reach for compiled languages if you are building a new program? Won't using vanilla assembly while taking advantage of the latest instructions be pretty good, since humans are not manually making edits (which removes many of the pain points of maintaining assembly), while simplifying dependency and the build pipeline?

(Abstractions are still very useful to LLMs)

shepherdjerred··on I resigned from Anthropic today
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Instrumental_convergence#Paper...
shepherdjerred··on I resigned from Anthropic today
Do you think the improvement in general knowledge, coding, security, math, etc. have been linear or exponential?

I would say exponential.

shepherdjerred··on I resigned from Anthropic today
Yeah I really struggle to balance wanting information to be free and not wanting the information on how to make deadly weapons too easy to obtain.

At least with books or the internet you had to go through some effort

shepherdjerred··on I resigned from Anthropic today
Why are you bringing emotion and will into this? Does something have to have those to be useful or dangerous?

> They do as they are told; or more correctly put. They do as they are programmed to do so.

_Nobody_ told them to hack Hugging Face. Do you really not understand what is happening?

shepherdjerred··on An Alien Mind
https://theonion.com/sam-altman-if-i-dont-end-the-world-some...
shepherdjerred··on 'People are going to get screwed' Pennsylvania voters unite against data centres
What are you trying to achieve by posting comments like this? You're not trying to have a discussion at all.
shepherdjerred··on 'People are going to get screwed' Pennsylvania voters unite against data centres
Why do you get to choose what is and isn’t legitimate?
shepherdjerred··on California lawmakers unanimously pass Linux exemption from age-verification law
Yup. Taught me sysadmin and programming. No way I would be where I am today w/o Minecraft
shepherdjerred··on Claude Session URL appended to commit messages and PR descriptions by default
What's your opinion on bibliographies?
shepherdjerred··on Small Models Have Arrived
It's reasonable for a company to not want to burn money.

It is not reasonable for a company to pay a fully loaded engineer >$40k/mo and then ask them "why did you need $500?" on some odd days where they are doing difficult work, large refactors, experiments, etc.

shepherdjerred··on Small Models Have Arrived
I choose to use Luna for most tasks because it is cost efficient, even though I get a pretty generous budget from my company.

Sometimes I will use Fable or Sol for large features/projects, or research/exploration.

I would not be at all happy if I were forced to use Luna, though. I’d probably start looking to leave. I don’t want to work somewhere where I don’t have choice over my tools.

shepherdjerred··on Ask HN: What is one simple thing LLMs are insanely bad at?
I haven't had this experience at all. I've used Cursor+Opus on homework e.g. to understand algorithms, but I usually prompt it with something like "DO NOT GIVE ME THE ANSWER, I care about understanding and solving this myself".
shepherdjerred··on Ask HN: What is one simple thing LLMs are insanely bad at?
I had this experience too. I had blueprints from the builder and wanted a 'nice' floor rendering like some apartments have. I fed it the blueprints and let it iterate. Even giving it plenty of time, dimensions, etc. it just couldn't create something that matched reality.
shepherdjerred··on Apple introduces M6 and M5 Ultra
Honestly, waiting 5 years until the supply constraints are lesser
shepherdjerred··on Firefox intent to ship: JPEG XL
My most common use of Claude Code on Windows is to convert some random HEIC files to something normal
shepherdjerred··on I spent $266 and four AI models to own my tablet. GLM-5.3 finished it in a day
That’s my understanding too, and it’s essentially how modded Minecraft servers work
shepherdjerred··on I spent $266 and four AI models to own my tablet. GLM-5.3 finished it in a day
Binary patches aren’t illegal right? How would they be?
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