TheDong

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by TheDong 3mo ago
I feel like there could also be a simpler explanation. Why does a debian contributor make debian free, why do they work on this thing anyone can use? Is it because linux and debian hate windows and iOS and want to see american fail? No, it&
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by TheDong 3mo ago
> delay a snapshot The point of a snapshot is that it's a snapshot of current main, bugs and all, even release-blocking bugs. In my head, the order of stability expectations are (noting that minecraft doesn't do most of these l
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by TheDong 3mo ago
1. 2022 A non-profit literally quote "to better all of humanity, not shareholders" 2. 2024 For profit, but "we will train biases out of our models and make sure our AI is safe to use" 3. 2025 We'll make sure it does
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by TheDong 4mo ago
Weirdly, the existing first party solutions around denying commands don't seem to help here. Often enough, when one of the agents prompts for running "sudo", and I reject it, it will do what looks very much like malicious exp
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by TheDong 4mo ago
The difference is that git is a traditional programming tool which executes deterministically. agents are not deterministic tools, they're not sandboxes or container runtimes or languages with capabilities models. They're a way to
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by TheDong 4mo ago
You can do this now: change the file permissions such that the user you run codex as can't read them, or run codex in a container without those files mounted. If you don't do that, the agent will be able to incidentally upload the
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by TheDong 4mo ago
As Iran is showing, the federal government is worried about nukes. I feel like a modern 2nd amendment should ensure every US citizen has a right to up to three (3) nuclear weapons.
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by TheDong 4mo ago
If someone's account gets lost or hacked, the person with the most incentive to own that account is usually the original owner, so just give it to whoever is willing to pay the most, problem solved. We can call it "proof of stake&
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by TheDong 4mo ago
Where's the privacy issue? That the server can figure out that two computers in the same house are different since your laptop and phone no longer share the same ipv4 address but instead have two ipv6 address? Your phone and laptop can
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by TheDong 4mo ago
The heat isn't wasted, it has a significant impact on flavor. Extraction of flavor etc from coffee grounds changes based on the water temperature. You can easily experiment with this by taking some coffee grounds and trying to brew wit
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by TheDong 4mo ago
The equivalent for IP addresses to what they offer would be closer to running a BGP router or ISP, or generally contracting with network engineers for your data-center's networking. If you want to run an ISP or AS, believe me it will c
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by TheDong 4mo ago
If you have physical access to a car and want to phone home, may I recommend leaving a gps tracking device under the floormat. It works on more brands of cars too than just one gen of honda civics, and probably quicker to install.
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by TheDong 4mo ago
I think the evil valet risk isn't real, but this could be part of a chain-of-attack in some scenarios, mainly rental cars. Like, sure, if you're just going to use it to spy on the user, you could also rent a rental car and leave a
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by TheDong 4mo ago
Spending limits don't particularly matter here. AWS doesn't check if your credit card will be able to handle a $5k charge before letting you rack that up, and in fact AWS doesn't support setting any spending limit. You just h
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by TheDong 4mo ago
I'm a little less charitable. Curiosity is great, but agents do not learn, and telling an agent "scan the darkweb" is a way to avoid learning about the details, rather than to dig into things more deeply. If instead they had
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by TheDong 4mo ago
> money has to come from somewhere. Someone has to give it to you. So it you want to keep growing, you need someone who isn't paying for software, to start. Right now, people pay all sorts of money for real interactions with real pe
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by TheDong 4mo ago
Apple set itself up for defeat in the server and developer marketplace as soon as they decided macOS was proprietary code. Why would any serious developer use closed-source code they can't debug and modify? Especially for a production
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by TheDong 4mo ago
Children cost hundred's of thousands of dollars to raise, and that doesn't even count the opportunity cost of your own career progression as you have to spend a year of sleepless nights and possibly have one or both parents reduce
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by TheDong 4mo ago
Do you have any links to commits or changes that you think are "uncalled for"? Like, you say "he is making large and sweeping changes that are entirely uncalled for and cause breakage", so surely you have some examples?
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by TheDong 5mo ago
Do you know of a single service at a single company that actually does that? I know all of Gmail, every GCE service I can think of, every AWS service I can think of, Amazon.com, Netflix, and Github all do not page on just a single 500. I kn
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by TheDong 5mo ago
I mean, on levels.fyi the 90th percentile in San Francisco is 500k. Most of HN is tech workers in the bay area. The average person on hacker news is easily in the 90th percentile of software engineers, so yeah, I wouldn't be surprised
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by TheDong 5mo ago
anubis only works against lazy scrapers, and at a cost to your users. I'd prefer people not use it. Bot traffic comes from machines that usually have a lot of idle cpu (since they're largely blocked on network IO as they scrape a
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by TheDong 5mo ago
It's simpler to implement because it's more stateless, and it's a better user experience. If you get a new exit IP each time you connect, you need something like a NAT table to look up "key 0xabc exits ip 1.2.3.4",
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by TheDong 5mo ago
Only 19? The venerable unix tool "less" is on v701 and was probably already over 300 before react was born https://github.com/gwsw/less/releases/tag/v701
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by TheDong 5mo ago
> Not officially affiliated with Google. This thing stinks so hard of AI that it's impossible to trust any of the specific details. IMO this is slop, it's not worth reading, once we have something written by an actual human wit
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by TheDong 5mo ago
You're on hacker news though, so you can install linux on it: https://wiki.postmarketos.org/wiki/Google_Pixel_3a_(google-s... Pixel devices have historically been really good about letting you unlock the bootloade
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by TheDong 5mo ago
Google also has a better track record than some companies (cough apple) of keeping their devices unlockable/open enough that they can have a second life regardless of whether google keeps up on the software side. You can install linux
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by TheDong 5mo ago
A lot of these multi-tenant CI systems actually run everything in microVMs even if they present it to you as a container. At this point, a microvm can be booted in ~200ms so you don't even have to keep a warm pool, you can just launch
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by TheDong 5mo ago
A lot of people are stuck with safari on iOS where there's not even another browser since apple bans them. People choose to download Chrome over firefox, to ditch their custom browser engine (microsoft & opera) in favor of chromium
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by TheDong 5mo ago
Copyleft is an abuse of copyright to pervert its intention. Copyright's intent was that you could not copy things freely, and copyleft is to ensure you can. If there is no copyright, then you can copy things freely. All that we need af

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