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by tolmasky 7mo ago
I don't understand how safety is taken seriously at all. To be clear, I'm not referring to skepticism that these companies can possibly resist the temptation to make unsafe models forever. No, I'm talking about something far
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by tolmasky 7mo ago
If you need help (monetary or otherwise), please email me at tolmasky |at| gmail |dot| com. This is a sincere offer. I can't tell how much is hyperbole in your post, but if you're going through that and I can help, I'd be hap
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by tolmasky 7mo ago
I want to sincerely ask whether you read my post, because your response is so unrelated I believe you might accidentally be responding to another post? If so, please ignore the rest, which is only intended in the case where you are actually
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by tolmasky 7mo ago
I am so surprised by the comments on this thread. I was not expecting to see so many people on Hacker News in favor of this. As is typically the case with things like this, the reasoning stems from agreeing with the goal of age verifica
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by tolmasky 11mo ago
Is having a real robot creepy? I don't know. Is having a robot operated by a human creepy and scary? Absolutely yes. We've seen that people behave worse when you introduce indirection. People act worse on the internet. Soldiers ha
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by tolmasky 11mo ago
If this ever gets popular then sellers will “optimize” their product listings to exploit the LLM (a “soft” prompt injection if you will). This will definitely be the case in marketplaces (like Amazon and Walmart). It’ll turn the old boring
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by tolmasky 1y ago
Perfect number to make H1Bs a tool that is out of reach for startups but still meaningful for large entrenched corporations. Nailed it. Maybe they can even waive the fee if you give the US government 10% of your company.
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by tolmasky 1y ago
I'm glad the em dash is getting properly shit on these days, if for unrelated reasons. I've never liked it. I hate the stupid spacing rules around it. It never looks right to put no spaces around the em dash, and probably breaks a
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by tolmasky 1y ago
Does no one else find it weird seeing anything from this administration "anti-Bitcoin" at all? I wouldn't be surprised by this headline during a previous administration, but generally speaking, this administration has been ve
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by tolmasky 1y ago
This doesn't really address the point that is currently being argued I think, so much so that I think your comment is not even in contention with mine (perhaps you didn't intend it to be!). But for lack of a better term, you are d
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by tolmasky 1y ago
Generally speaking, the second you realize a technology/process/anything has a hard requirement that individuals independently exercise responsibility or self-control, with no obvious immediate gain for themselves, it is almost ce
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by tolmasky 1y ago
How strange that the article never links directly to the Helix editor. I usually immediately open the homepage of whatever a blog post is talking about as a background tab to be able to click back and forth, or to be able to immediately fig
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by tolmasky 1y ago
I didn't see mention anywhere of a license. I also don't see anywhere to download this from. Is this release equivalent to saying "here is an OFL metric-compatible Arial," or are they releasing it in the sense of "o
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by tolmasky 1y ago
By bypass I mean "successfully pass the challenge". Yes, I also have to sit through the Anubis interstitial pages, so I promise I know it's not being "bypassed". (I'll update the post to remove future confusion
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by tolmasky 1y ago
> I specifically want a search engine that does not run JavaScript, so that it only finds documents that do not require JavaScripts to display the text being searched. (This is not the same as excluding everything that has JavaScripts;
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by tolmasky 1y ago
From the first paragraph in my comment: > You'd see them taking some additional steps to combat this. They haven't. Their CDN handles it just fine. They don't even both telling AI bots to just download the tarballs they s
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by tolmasky 1y ago
If the rest of my post is accurate, that's not the actual concern, right? Since I'm not sure if the check itself is meaningful. From what is described in the documentation [1], I think the practical effect of this system is to blo
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by tolmasky 1y ago
Wikipedia says their traffic increased roughly 50% [1] from AI bots, which is a lot, sure, but nowhere near the amount where you'd have to rearchitect your site or something. And this checks out, if it was actually debilitating, you&#x
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by tolmasky 1y ago
“In your first reply you wrote "Yeah, I know the rules" then tried to say the guidelines should be changed.” You are assigning way too much intent to my reply. There was literally no appeal for a guideline change whatsoever in thi
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by tolmasky 1y ago
You listed two violations: "Eschew flamebait. Avoid generic tangents." I can understand the first one, but the second I think is debatable. RFK Jr.'s funding cuts are an essential part of the US medical research ecosystem t
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by tolmasky 1y ago
The fact that IP protection is expensive is essentially its defining feature . One way to think of "intellectual property" is precisely as a weird proof-of-work, since you are trying to simulate the features of physical property
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by tolmasky 1y ago
Yeah, I know the rules. But I also know they were written before our current reality. More important rules seem to be being rewritten in front our eyes, so you never know. Also, if funding is cut off to this, like it has been for brain canc
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by tolmasky 1y ago
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by tolmasky 1y ago
It's too bad startups can't invest $600B in local manufacturing to get a tariff carve out, right? Oh well, not like entrenching one of the largest companies on Earth even further could be damaging for the economy, competitiveness,
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by tolmasky 1y ago
I think I explained why this is different from the point of view of it being "encouraged" vs. "available". If your employer provides a tool in an official capacity (for example, through single-sign-on, etc.), then you
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by tolmasky 1y ago
OK, so every agentic prompt injection concern and/or data access concern basically immediately becomes worst case scenario with this, right? There is now some sort of "official AI tool" that you as a Federal employee can use,
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by tolmasky 1y ago
I think the slightly more sophisticated position is that, regardless of the operational security that is currently employed, if you were to implement something like this, then criminals would quickly adapt to improve their operational sec
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by tolmasky 1y ago
It's telling that the "exchange protocol" was only begun to be developed after the main spec was written, and apparently as a response to pushback from the community. I can't imagine designing something like that and n
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by tolmasky 1y ago
I'm not making a demographics-turnout based election model argument?... I'm simply stating the, IMO objective fact, that dividing the number of people that voted for Trump by the total population is 23% and not 51%, and even divid
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by tolmasky 1y ago
You’re aware that, just for starters, 98M of the 185M total population of non-voters had the pretty rock solid excuse of not being eligible to vote, right? Almost a third of the country can’t vote (permanent residents, children, ex-cons

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