nstart

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by nstart 2mo ago
Because, as the gp pointed out, if the cost is least to the labs, then why not reap the benefits too? Hypothetical. Assume you can in fact point agents at a tool and say "replicate it. Make no mistakes". You then have software bei
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by nstart 3mo ago
Right. But this is why I want to know the prompt. My hunch is that the author knew this story. But likely prompted Fable without hinting at it. And if so, the fact that Fable defaulted to the story of Samson shows that while it can impressi
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by nstart 3mo ago
I tend not to focus on that future too much. I used to do so long ago. For example, how could Facebook possibly justify their losses while asking for such a big valuation? Same for Uber. Same for any number of big companies. And it turns ou
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by nstart 3mo ago
I'm a little confused here. Cost of revenue is lower than revenue. That's good. R&D is the main contributor to losses here and this seems normal in an industry like this. For OpenAI specifically, I think this is problematic. T
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by nstart 3mo ago
Tbh, there really needs to be some legal precedent set that makes model distillation a legal activity. If the model makers can rip everyone else's work and launder information as if it's their own without giving credit back to the
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by nstart 3mo ago
Desperate to know what the prompt for the poem is. The idea of it felt familiar so I went down the rabbit hole and found: 14 years ago, a poem on reddit [ https://www.reddit.com/r/RedditDayOf/comments/tjjw2&#x2
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by nstart 4mo ago
Also, I submit Ed zitron's the era of the business idiot. https://www.wheresyoured.at/the-era-of-the-business-idiot/ Lots of little claims I disagree with there but the overall thesis has felt prescient these days
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by nstart 4mo ago
That is a very poor comparison. Firstly, you're ignoring that behind the mass manufactured stuff, there's a lot of abused labour. People do protest that. Because of how money works, it's also impossible to avoid it. Second, m
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by nstart 4mo ago
Agreed. What's frustrating is that we have models for how sandboxing can work and instead of investing efforts into nailing that experience, the OS providers are prone to turning it into a monetization/lock in layer instead. My VL
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by nstart 4mo ago
Yep. I like to sometimes think of Agents as a slow but tireless unofficial API glue between completely disparate elements. I dislike the approach the companies took in laundering information through them. But their ability to work through c
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by nstart 4mo ago
Thats the thing though. The reduction of agents to Chatbots in a fancy dress doesn't make sense. Whether there's much of a moat to the models agentic approaches is a different question. But the idea of reframing questions and resu
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by nstart 4mo ago
I've been subscribed to ed for a long time. I commend his foundational ideas like what he laid out in "The Era of the Business Idiot" or "The Rot Economy". My recommendation line for him to anyone else is "if n
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by nstart 4mo ago
This is a misleading headline. It makes it seem like another supply chain attack where some good plug-in was taken over and used to deliver malware. Thats not the case here. Victims are invited to collaborate on a synced vault which comes p
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by nstart 6mo ago
Before software, there were accountants. It was The qualification to have. Today accountants are still needed. But it's a commodified job. And you start at the absolute bottom of the bottom rungs and slave it out till you can separate
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by nstart 6mo ago
Good spot! That is the product working as intended though. The background doesn't exist except as an asset that replaces the green screen. The tool is meant to replace the green screen without the need for manual rotoscoping. Even in a
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by nstart 6mo ago
Yup. That's correct. And I understand that. I was looking at the changes to yarn.lock that got reintroduced. I couldn't figure out what was happening. It turns out that not only was it force pushed, but GitHub also retains the old
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by nstart 6mo ago
I don't quite understand how this is working tbh. I looked at one of the affected repos, ironically named "reworm". The malicious code was introduced in this commit - https://github.com/pedronauck/reworm&
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by nstart 6mo ago
Yea. It's a pretty lol-sob future when I think about it. I imagine the agent frameworks eventually getting trusted actors and RBAC like features. Users end up in "confirm this action permanently/temporarily" loops. But t
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by nstart 6mo ago
Every communication point (including whatsapp, telegram, etc) is turning into a potential RCE now. And because the agents want to behave in an end to end integrated manner, even sandboxes are less meaningful since data exfiltration is pract
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by nstart 6mo ago
That's really cool. Do you have any write-ups I can checkout? I'm still new to this area of offensive sec so would love to learn from folks who've been in the thick of it.
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by nstart 7mo ago
This is how people intend to run open claw instances too. Some folks are trying to add automated bug report creation by pointing agents at a company's social media mentions. I personally think it's crazy. I'm currently assist
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by nstart 7mo ago
One piece that I find interesting is how hopeful people sounded about tech that had access to your data. Folks higher up in the tech world often complain about how the media complains about them too much. And while the media definitely has
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by nstart 7mo ago
Is this correct? My assumption is that all the data collected during usage is part of the RLHF loop of LLM providers. Assumption is based on information from books like empire of ai which specifically mention intent of AI providers to train
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by nstart 8mo ago
Design patterns are one of those things where you have to go through the full cycle to really use it effectively. It goes through the stages: no patterns. -> Everything must follow the gang of four's patterns!!!! -> omg I can&#x2
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by nstart 8mo ago
Yea. I think people underestimate this. Yesterday I was writing an obsidian plugin using the latest and most powerful Gemini model and I wanted it to make use of the new keychain in Obsidian to retrieve values for my plugin. Despite reading
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by nstart 9mo ago
The problem with X is that so many people who have no verifiable expertise are super loud in shouting "$INDUSTRY is cooked!!" every time a new model releases. It's exhausting and untrue. The kind of video generation we see mi
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by nstart 9mo ago
I initially felt a bit offended when I saw this. Then I thought about it and at the end of the day there's a decent amount of infrastructure that goes into displaying the build information, updating it, scanning for secrets and redacti
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by nstart 9mo ago
Curious... Why does VPN access disruption suggest the breach may be deeper than initially disclosed? My understanding is that this prevents anonymous access to servers which would help during investigation if any further unauthorized access
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by nstart 10mo ago
Time pressures during christmas/holidays mean that the original calendars were becoming too stressful to handle. Seen several calendars switching to 12 consecutive days or 1 every 2 days challenges.
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by nstart 10mo ago
Yea. I can see what the parent is getting at. However the linked PR's contain the employee name. Their username is the same name mentioned in the article. So it would have been the same even if the author had just mentioned the usernam

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