shepherdjerred

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by shepherdjerred 4d ago
I’m not sure where you got that from or what your point is
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by shepherdjerred 4d ago
it’s two-fold. Either malicious actors or the AI systems themselves. Hugging Face showed that AI can do serious hacking without really being told to. If a model had its own motivations there could be real damage.
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by shepherdjerred 4d ago
A rather unfair comparison. The whole calculus here is that others are also developing these systems which has led to a race. A much better comparison to the situation is the nuclear weapons arms race.
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by shepherdjerred 4d ago
That’s not entirely true though, right? There have been plenty of bioweapon attacks Ex https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tokyo_subway_sarin_attack
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by shepherdjerred 4d ago
You are right that it’s easier to do this via Tor than an LLM. Those are the safeguards…
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by shepherdjerred 5d ago
Do you want to work for IBM? Oracle?
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by shepherdjerred 7d ago
This is exactly what I was thinking too. How can this be legal in 2-party states?
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by shepherdjerred 7d ago
I could definitely imagine him loving the Air. But I don’t think he’d segment the market; he’d probably get rid of the normal iPhone
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by shepherdjerred 7d ago
It seems like it would be really useful for a frequent traveler/commuter, to be able to watch something on a flight/bus ride. I would definitely consider it if I were in that demographic
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by shepherdjerred 7d ago
Do you think there’s some cabal of executives trying to use more resources so that users are forced buy newer hardware? Or is it more likely that software companies are making a tradeoff based on typical consumer hardware and would rather p
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by shepherdjerred 7d ago
The typical HN user likely has more disposable income than most people
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by shepherdjerred 7d ago
I loved the handoff that Tim did at the beginning. It was touching
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by shepherdjerred 7d ago
is there a need to reach for compiled languages if you are building a new program? Won't using vanilla assembly while taking advantage of the latest instructions be pretty good, since humans are not manually making edits (which removes
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by shepherdjerred 8d ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Instrumental_convergence#Paper...
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by shepherdjerred 8d ago
Do you think the improvement in general knowledge, coding, security, math, etc. have been linear or exponential? I would say exponential.
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by shepherdjerred 8d ago
Yeah I really struggle to balance wanting information to be free and not wanting the information on how to make deadly weapons too easy to obtain. At least with books or the internet you had to go through some effort
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by shepherdjerred 8d ago
Why are you bringing emotion and will into this? Does something have to have those to be useful or dangerous? > They do as they are told; or more correctly put. They do as they are programmed to do so. _Nobody_ told them to hack Hugging
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by shepherdjerred 10d ago
https://theonion.com/sam-altman-if-i-dont-end-the-world-some...
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by shepherdjerred 12d ago
What are you trying to achieve by posting comments like this? You're not trying to have a discussion at all.
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by shepherdjerred 12d ago
Why do you get to choose what is and isn’t legitimate?
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by shepherdjerred 17d ago
Yup. Taught me sysadmin and programming. No way I would be where I am today w/o Minecraft
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by shepherdjerred 17d ago
What's your opinion on bibliographies?
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by shepherdjerred 17d ago
It's reasonable for a company to not want to burn money. It is not reasonable for a company to pay a fully loaded engineer >$40k/mo and then ask them "why did you need $500?" on some odd days where they are doing diff
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by shepherdjerred 20d ago
I choose to use Luna for most tasks because it is cost efficient, even though I get a pretty generous budget from my company. Sometimes I will use Fable or Sol for large features/projects, or research/exploration. I would not be a
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by shepherdjerred 22d ago
I haven't had this experience at all. I've used Cursor+Opus on homework e.g. to understand algorithms, but I usually prompt it with something like "DO NOT GIVE ME THE ANSWER, I care about understanding and solving this myself
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by shepherdjerred 22d ago
I had this experience too. I had blueprints from the builder and wanted a 'nice' floor rendering like some apartments have. I fed it the blueprints and let it iterate. Even giving it plenty of time, dimensions, etc. it just couldn
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by shepherdjerred 22d ago
Honestly, waiting 5 years until the supply constraints are lesser
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by shepherdjerred 22d ago
My most common use of Claude Code on Windows is to convert some random HEIC files to something normal
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by shepherdjerred 23d ago
That’s my understanding too, and it’s essentially how modded Minecraft servers work
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by shepherdjerred 24d ago
Binary patches aren’t illegal right? How would they be?

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