hobofan

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by hobofan 5d ago
Why? This just follows the scheme they have established in 5.6, just that GPT 6 introduced Astra as another tier above Sol.
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by hobofan 5d ago
I'd wager it's more due to decision making culpability. Now, for the next "teen committed suicide after talking to AI therapist" headline, Claude can deflect the blame to the parents for not supervising their child enoug
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by hobofan 5d ago
> Why use a limited version? Because in most of those API, even many implementations of the Responses API, you lose a lot of control of where your data is going. e.g. an Agent or the Responses API may automatically invoke a tool call tha
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by hobofan 6d ago
Photographing bikes or electric scooters does nothing without enforcement through the city. It allows tracking down the person who placed it wrong, but in the absence of fines through the city, the rental companies surely won't start f
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by hobofan 7d ago
In a world were there is a significant amount of people that do things just to take photos of themselves doing things rather than experiencing the thing, this may be the lesser evil.
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by hobofan 8d ago
> Improving models in a holistic way sounds a lot like training to me. I think that's quite a leap. Using de-indetified data to improve the products is what everyone has been doing since the dawn of web analytics.
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by hobofan 8d ago
The distiction they are trying to make is: "One of our employees or the model was able to verbatim read the chats when they were actively tackling the problem" vs "The chat of someone working on the problem may have ended up
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by hobofan 8d ago
https://simonwillison.net/2026/Sep/1/codex-libreoffice/ - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49527396 (and I can also just add that it's my go-to tool for that exact use-case, and
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by hobofan 8d ago
Regulation != censorship. (Apart from that, Mistral has Shieldstral[0] for adding policy enforcement). With it's general approach of Open Weights, and being able to be deployed on-premise (/private/public cloud), they are a v
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by hobofan 8d ago
Are they, though? I would say, let's find out when the IPO settles, but then again the market also sustains a incredibly crazy valuation for Tesla.
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by hobofan 9d ago
Rerun is pretty dope, but I'm not sure how you came to the conclusion that it's the "author's main project"? There is a whole company backing it, with no affiliation that I could find, apart from the author being an
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by hobofan 10d ago
All individual robotic parts are already far enough in research. Even if they aren't, an AI with enough resources can continue doing that research on its own. It could likely get a good leg up by breaching the security of all top robot
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by hobofan 10d ago
> we have full control over the tool call dispatching > cannot do anything without the harness doing the execution This only holds true as long as the harness is exploit-free. A sufficiently advanced AI can in theory (and I think ther
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by hobofan 10d ago
> how is an AI going to affect anything in the real world? Robotics
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by hobofan 10d ago
> People hire cleaners and tradespeople into their homes all the time. It's very obvious that there is a difference between a single person that you can personally vet, and something that records videos that can be shared anywhere.
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by hobofan 10d ago
> Only Gen Z and later are starting to care and willing to spend the time and effort to self host. I'm not sure what you are seeing, but what I'm seeing is widespread teach illiteracy in Gen Z outside of their smartphone. Gen Z
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by hobofan 11d ago
Unions are not just for bad employers.
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by hobofan 12d ago
The HN title is misleading. > Hackers Had A Live Feed Of Every ID __This__ Verification Company Scanned. For Over A Year. The "This" in the the sentence serves an important role. It currently reads like all ID verification com
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by hobofan 12d ago
I'm not opposed to AuthS either! :)
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by hobofan 12d ago
This has already been solved well-enough with AuthN and AuthZ as distinct names.
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by hobofan 13d ago
Even with just teleoperation, the first robotics companies are poised to have some of the most efficient in-field technician operations, as long as there are at least two robots on site.
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by hobofan 14d ago
It is possible in general, but almost everybody doing self hosting (and as outlined in the article) does it on a local network and not on the internet. Most people that self host don't want to have to be a sysadmin in their free time i
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by hobofan 14d ago
I think the article takes a completely wrong lense for viewing the Humanoid Robotic Games, and general progress that is being made right now (though admittedly, many robot companies make it challenging with their marketing as well). Most of
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by hobofan 16d ago
I presume you want to keep the Blink doorbell for the camera functionality? Then I guess 3d print a casing that just puts the ZigBee button on top of the integrated button?
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by hobofan 16d ago
A prerequisite for there to even be a chance of cats being involved in ecosystem balance would be for the cats to exist purely as part of the ecosystem, as in being exposed to negative feedback effects to it (e.g. starvation due to overhunt
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by hobofan 19d ago
I can only tell you what we see across our customers, which are exactly the on-premise crowd. We are building a ChatGPT/Cowork competitor focused on on-premise needs[0]. While we cover most things outside of the coding side of things,
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by hobofan 19d ago
Most places I know that have strict on-premise/air-gap requirements are just investing in on-premise AI and open source harnesses instead. The only ones that don't are the typical places that are slow to adopt technology in genera
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by hobofan 21d ago
> Google would drive them to quit over a longer timeframe, with no threats or harrassment, just because every time they try to ship something cool, someone else has a reason not to do it and that kills you eventually. Yeah, I've nev
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by hobofan 21d ago
Datafusion has all of the individual pieces, especially if you just want to data analysis, but is far from an embedded database. Indexes, transactions, a first-class storage format are all things that come included with DuckDB, that you won
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by hobofan 21d ago
Fig, was one of them but was only partially opens source IIRC. CLI autocomplete and script team sync. Turned into/integrated into Amazon Q, which turned into Kiro CLI, which AFAIK doesn't share any functionality with the original

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