cowpig

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by cowpig 9d ago
> Plaintiffs allege1 that the City, through a series of acts and failures to act, caused lead to leach into Jackson’s drinking water. City officials then, despite the presence of lead in the water, incorrectly told residents that the wat
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by cowpig 14d ago
I don't know what you mean when you say "by necessity be a loser" here. My point is that Meta and Google have had an almost comical resource advantage when compared to all of the rest of the firms in the AI race. Anthropic ra
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by cowpig 14d ago
> How is wielding this weapon against our most innovative companies going to help the United States compete at scale against China? Scale is sort of required to do so. Meta and Google gobble up an absolutely gobsmacking duopolist's
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by cowpig 15d ago
meanwhile: https://www.reuters.com/business/meta-reaches-18-billion-set...
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by cowpig 21d ago
this is a felony right?
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by cowpig 23d ago
> I am spending the equivalent of $122k/month of API token spend, or about $4,000 per day, using 21 Claude Max accounts That's ~$1.4 million/year
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by cowpig 1mo ago
Their contracts give them a preposterous amount of control over their customers. All of the "Sovereignty" messaging is kind of ironic because it basically boils down to "don't trust them, trust us" Besides that they
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by cowpig 1mo ago
Well imagine what it would be like to experience the experience of an LLM. Just imagine they are conscious for the time they are autogressing. Wouldn't it be like the experience of the Severed?
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by cowpig 2mo ago
I discovered the show recently and thought that was a part of the point, but apparently the show's development long predates LLMs!
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by cowpig 2mo ago
Sounds like you're saying the bar for bombing children should be "someone else could have made this mistake"
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by cowpig 2mo ago
`greywall -- opencode`
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by cowpig 2mo ago
It's much different. The dependency trees have a whole system that's evolved for decades. The same code goes into many computers. Many people read the source, security firms look for vulnerabilities, etc. Language models are a com
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by cowpig 2mo ago
This is an option: https://github.com/GreyhavenHQ/greywall
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by cowpig 2mo ago
Well, tmux is mature, battle-tested software, whereas probably no human has ever read the majority of the code in this project.
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by cowpig 3mo ago
I've always found that what science is really lacking is closed, proprietary ecosystems trying to build for-profit moats around research. Thank our lords at Anthropic for stepping into this void
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by cowpig 3mo ago
I don't think we should ask the agent runtime to police itself. I contributed to a tool for this problem that is lower-friction than traditional sandboxing: greywall.io But you should use something to contain an agent runtime. The idea
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by cowpig 3mo ago
I don't see why those two positions are mutually exclusive?
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by cowpig 3mo ago
Can I serve my media library off of my NAS with the PS5? I am legit asking because I just got on the list hoping to use this thing as my home entertainment system
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by cowpig 3mo ago
openclaw is for larping
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by cowpig 3mo ago
I visited Cuba and found that Castro's popularity is fairly universal there. I have never been to Miami and don't know any Cuban immigrants, though.
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by cowpig 4mo ago
I think you are underestimating the amount of compute the US frontier labs have access to.
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by cowpig 4mo ago
A lot in here about Google, which hilariously has done a bunch of studies that concluded it's hiring process is awful (is sure is!) and the takeaway is that candidate evaluation is impossible, not that Google in particular does it badl
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by cowpig 4mo ago
> Right now my only source of income is the $15k/year I got by being one of the top 300 GitHub users globally. That puts me in the 99.9997th percentile of open source developers (based off GitHub's 100 million monthly active us
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by cowpig 4mo ago
I don't know how I feel about this, conceptually. It's clear that social media are natural monopolies, and are being politically leveraged by the people who run them. So the status quo is definitely far from free speech. It's
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by cowpig 4mo ago
I expect more from HN than seeing this kind of propaganda: Vague story without references featuring the takedown of an uninteresting political caricatures
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by cowpig 4mo ago
oh great more memes about that data security catastrophe
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by cowpig 4mo ago
people with values different from yours, presumably
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by cowpig 4mo ago
We should be involving our community members more in the exchange of ideas, and digital sources of information quite a bit less.
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by cowpig 4mo ago
Their business model revolves around people to choose to pay them for products, which aligns them with customer interests on a fundamental level. They have to work within those constraints when they engage in lock-in chicanery Most of the o
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by cowpig 5mo ago
better is always good when something you think is bad gets better but not better enough, say "more please"

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