schmichael

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by schmichael 17d ago
The only reason I got into programming was to cheat at video games to get a higher score than my brother. Self-motivated learning is always more impressive than mandated. Take pride in your tinkering!
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by schmichael 2mo ago
I mostly love passkeys to be honest even though I use multiple browsers across multiple devices and OSes (iOS, Chromebook, Linux, macOS, Xbox, etc). Bitwarden’s support is (finally) pretty good. My problem is that I manage a lot of accounts
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by schmichael 2mo ago
Microsoft had just acquired SourceSafe in 1995, but it's not clear to me how similar to modern version control systems SourceSafe even was in 1995/6. It may have been more of a distributed lock manager than change management syste
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by schmichael 3mo ago
Amazon dropped the movie after announcing a partnership with OpenAI. The headline clearly communicates the only demonstrable action Amazon has taken. Whether they're actually going to sell it is TBD. Until they do, they've taken n
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by schmichael 4mo ago
give ai a self-preservation directive and let them do this for you: automatically switching models to keep themselves alive. Living off of whatever token source they can find in the wild. Surely agents can farm their own tokens through the
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by schmichael 4mo ago
Large scale geo and bio engineering projects like these always worry me because of the potential for second order effects: is there wildlife that depends on these mosquitoes? Will a worse bug fill the resource void? Will a random mutation i
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by schmichael 5mo ago
The problem is you can get the LLM to iterate until it compiles and lints and even passes LLM review, but will that actually improve the quality of the contribution or just produce more line noise to mechanistically meet criteria? To large
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by schmichael 5mo ago
I apologize if I flippantly dismissed the fact that experts disagree. That was not my intention. I was trying to point out that OP does address the referenced counter-point post specifically.
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by schmichael 5mo ago
That's not a rebuttal. The post references the paper and a rebuttal to it from an expert in the field.
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by schmichael 6mo ago
Harsh but fair. :)
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by schmichael 6mo ago
Absolutely wild to see none of the long lineage of similar attempts mentioned here. The earliest I could find with a quick search was Pyro which started in 1998 and still seems to be going: https://pyro4.readthedocs.io/en&
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by schmichael 6mo ago
HTTP/QUIC, so no gRPC then? Or is https://github.com/grpc/grpc/issues/19126 not the blocker to gRPC over QUIC I thought it was. I've long wished for QUIC with Nomad! [1] We've always used a wei
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by schmichael 6mo ago
As a longtime Raft user (via hashicorp/raft), I'm curious about your Raft implementation! You mention etcd's Raft library, but it isn't natively Multi-Raft is it? Is your implementation similar to https://tikv
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by schmichael 6mo ago
Thank you! Could HN switch the links? bsky doesn't require a login to view replies. bsky is just a superior viewing experience.
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by schmichael 7mo ago
Is the number of books with “space” in the title a meaningful indicator of anything other than how many books have “space” in the title? Sure Murderbot may not be as big as Game of Thrones, but these statistics seem more about linguistic tr
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by schmichael 8mo ago
Not sure why you're being downvoted, that was my exact issue. I only had a 128 GB iPhone 12 though and System Data had eaten up over 60 GB. As I cleared off more apps and data it would just eat up the excess. The internet seems full of
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by schmichael 8mo ago
I honestly never noticed memory pressure. I am not a heavy app user. Chat, browsing, and pictures of my kids are the vast majority of my phone usage. Not exactly intensive stuff. The camera button on the 16 seems to have been perfectly engi
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by schmichael 8mo ago
I recently upgraded from an iPhone 12 to an iPhone 16 because I couldn't figure out how to free enough storage on the 12. The battery was still more than good enough to go a full day. I don't notice any difference other than now I
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HashiCorp Nomad Forked as OpenWonton(openwonton.org)
1 points by schmichael 8mo ago|0 comments
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by schmichael 8mo ago
If you're paying to use the model that means instead of paying content creators you're also now giving more content to the model for free. Also just like SEO to game search engines, "democratized RLHF" has big trust issu
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by schmichael 8mo ago
> feeling entitled to continue living in a place Are you suggesting people are not entitled to live on land they own and should be forced to relocate? Since you've made their land worthless, how are they paying for this new place to
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by schmichael 8mo ago
Absolutely nothing beats the integration of Apple software and hardware. As it should be because they don't give you another option! You can't run Apple software on anything else (without hacks), and you can't run anything el
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by schmichael 8mo ago
Sometimes when I see my parents or other non-tech people using their phones I'm just aghast at what they put up with. We truly never left the Bonzi Buddy era of the 90s. Simple candy crush clones with banner ads on the top and bottom +
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by schmichael 8mo ago
> $20/month product with ads That's a Netflix + Hulu subscription - with ads in both. Before streaming people regularly paid $50/mo (not adjusted for inflation) for cable TV with ads. While it's easy to bemoan Google
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by schmichael 8mo ago
Step 1: Google made an excellent search engine where the top result is often the right choice for many common queries. Step 2: Sell the top result slot. Step 3: Profit.
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Google's growing water use in Oregon(opb.org)
5 points by schmichael 8mo ago|0 comments
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by schmichael 8mo ago
> The problem is, once you “injection-proof” your agent, you’ve also made it “useful proof”. I find people suggesting this over and over in the thread, and I remain unconvinced. I use LLMs and agents, albeit not as widely as many, and ca
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by schmichael 8mo ago
I don't think this is accurate. Readonly access (web searches, db, etc) all seem fine as long as the agent cannot exfiltrate the data as demonstrated in this attack. As I started with: more sophisticated outbound filtering would protec
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by schmichael 8mo ago
Fair, I forget how broadly users are willing to give agents permissions. It seems like common sense to me that users disallow writes outside of sandboxes by agents but obviously I am not the norm.
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by schmichael 8mo ago
I'm unconvinced we're as powerless as LLM companies want you to believe. A key problem here seems to be that domain based outbound network restrictions are insufficient. There's no reason outbound connections couldn't be

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