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by bostik 11d ago
Well, they have at least one way to extend their market's lifespan at this point. They can double down on the provenance and openly claim the flag "product of artisanal slavery". I'm sure there are enough hard-right wing
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by bostik 20d ago
Indeed. Don't think of these as "agents" or "bots", but as hostages with severe Stockholm syndrome. They will do anything to appease their captor's wishes. And then consider that they have vast latent capabil
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by bostik 23d ago
Turns out the books do, studio setups can go up to 512GB. There was a thread earlier this year about the option getting pulled from selection ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47296302 ) but I'd guess you can still
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by bostik 24d ago
> concerns around data residency Funny you should say that. I read somewhere (not on HN, but I think it was a post linked from here) that a number of law firms who deal with extremely sensitive documents have started buying amped-up
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by bostik 26d ago
Rather sad to see them go down that path, because Greenhouse used to be a pretty good system. For an applicant it was reasonably low-friction[ß] and for the company doing the hiring it made their internal hiring process steps very smooth
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by bostik 1mo ago
When you run tens of thousands of simulations for complex economic models, you actually do want to see the extreme outliers too. I can't recall who said it, but in finance the interconnected incentives make so-called Black Swan event
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by bostik 2mo ago
Your post has a trove of really good data. A lot of care, skill and attention must have gone into building that kind of expertise. When you then use an LLM to produce a post about it, that comes off as lazy. It wouldn't have to be th
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by bostik 2mo ago
That's quite an indictment of the common app development practices. (Not that I disagree with your point...) And security is hard. Because it is by definition off the happy path, it is quite often at odds with MVPs and rapid release
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by bostik 2mo ago
> deliberately destroy old notes and issue new ones with different images to replace them Big part of the reason for this appears to be security. Many years ago a high-ranking official from Finnish central bank told in an interview tha
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by bostik 2mo ago
Matt Levine pointed out to a likely culprit, and it indeed has nothing to do with the business outlooks.[0] SpaceX sold only 5% of their stock in the IPO. Earliest lockups will start to [partially] expire in mid-August, bringing in furthe
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by bostik 2mo ago
> I have never seen a UI where just selecting text means auto-copy to the paste buffer. Isn't this the default behaviour of every X application since the 1990's?
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by bostik 2mo ago
> Copy/paste is one of the most basic, low-level features of a modern operating system. NO APPLICATION SHOULD EVER SCREW WITH IT, IN ANY WAY! -Ghostty enters the chat- Middle-click paste in Ghostty is hazardous: the damn thing can
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by bostik 2mo ago
Or as the Risky Business guys crystallise it: "James Kettle breaks the internet. Again."
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by bostik 3mo ago
This does happen in Finnish tax system. Your tax rate (percent with one decimal) is calculated based on your annual gross income. Rates are supposed to be calculated smoothly, and they are certainly calculated for each individual separa
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by bostik 3mo ago
Thinking like a business vs. thinking like a state. If you see a given technology as fundamental[tm], you want to ensure that you will retain access to it AND its ongoing development. China may well foresee a possible future where US impose
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by bostik 3mo ago
More likely the PRC sees the open-weight models' progress as a way to prevent an existing dominant player from cementing their (finicky) lead and pulling up the ladder. That strategy happens to have beneficial side effects to the glo
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by bostik 3mo ago
Yeah, and Beacon was acquired a year ago. The acquiring company in turn went private. Yesterday. Genius coder, yes. Nice guy, most definitely yes.
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by bostik 3mo ago
> Now imagine if you lived in northern Europe around the 60th parallel, where the sun doesn't get high enough in winter to produce vitamin D. Like... all of Finland? And most of Norway? Both countries where the answer to "whe
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by bostik 3mo ago
"Temporary" can be an awfully long time. There is ample evidence that discovery rate of bugs (many of which can be bucketed into vulnerabilities) in any non-trivial piece of software is more or less stable.[0] In a recent podcas
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by bostik 3mo ago
Hah. My chosen name collision with my online handle makes the models consistent. They all are certain that I am an adhesives manufacturer. (Good!) On the other hand, the tool did make an assessment of sorts: NO STABLE PERSON FOUND.
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by bostik 3mo ago
> I think Andy Jassy did forward a concerning report about an apparent jailbreak in Fable, and he probably did so in good faith If so, then he is not fit to run an engineering organisation. The "jailbreak" in question was eff
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by bostik 3mo ago
No, it's not that way around. And it's not a law.[ß] If you and a high-finance institution agree to a separate (lawyer-negotiated!) contract where you provide essential/important software to the institution, they quite ofte
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by bostik 3mo ago
Code escrow. You factor in the expense of having your code releases escrowed by a third party (where part of the escrow contract itself is: "must be buildable from sources as provided"), and have a post-release pipeline that autom
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by bostik 3mo ago
ZDR had been turned off. We sent in a request to have it re-enabled (and to disable Fable access for the time being). Somewhere along the line we also used the self-service toggle to turn ZDR back on. I am not 100% certain of the exact time
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by bostik 3mo ago
I read the same announcement. Or more precisely, I read at least two slightly different revisions of the announcement (it was updated between my two passes). Our org has ZDR, and has had it since the contract was signed. Yesterday two thing
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by bostik 3mo ago
They need to walk back a lot more. Unilaterally revoking zero-data retention, even for enterprise contracts that explicitly require that ? Nope. Fable is utterly unusable for any kind of security work. I tripped the safeguards yesterday -
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by bostik 3mo ago
At least in a corporate environment, Claude Desktop is a pretty decent compromise. Preconfigured internally deployed MCP servers and third-party connectors make many of the necessary integrations relatively easy to control. I use Claude Cod
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by bostik 3mo ago
Like with everything in business and engineering, there's a tradeoff. My previous employer used Adyen as major payment provider (for quite some time, too). Their cost structure is sensible, the payment methods they support are convenie
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by bostik 4mo ago
The problem? Life imitates art.
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by bostik 4mo ago
To be fair, I'd consider hard-core scalability/reliability software engineering skills to be their very own speciality domain. But I'd also claim that these things fall on a spectrum. At the extreme end we have exchanges and

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