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by areoform 3mo ago
Equilibrium for whom? Equilibrium for what? Here's what I know. Every day, I read a 5 to 10 incoming emails from young people in rural Africa, Asia, Europe and (heck) the US. People who have had no other resources and options, but are
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by areoform 3mo ago
The first computers were used for war. The Harvard Mark I was used by von Neumann to calculate the physics of implosion. And then right afterwards, ENIAC was used to calculate the feasibility of the H-bomb. They called it the "Los Alam
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by areoform 3mo ago
Hey Jeff, I appreciate your mission, and perhaps this isn't something you can talk about publicly, but to the extent you can, would you be open to answering something I've been curious about for a while now? SecureBio has done a l
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by areoform 3mo ago
When Fable was yanked, it was said to be (in part) due to the "jailbreak" of instructing Fable to "fix this code" — https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48552687 Dumb question. If "Mythos-class&quot
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by areoform 3mo ago
I mean, yes. Why? Why would nature encode such a ridiculously disproportionate / inefficient behavior when it leads to catastrophe so frequently? I've tried to ask these machines dumber questions like, why castles? And... well I
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by areoform 3mo ago
I think the source of this misapprehension is that, You are comparing wet work in a lab to writing code on a computer. When you screw up an exploit, you fail to execute the exploit. Famously, just like software's near zero marginal cos
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by areoform 3mo ago
Things Fable's classifier has flagged, a non-exhaustive list, – "Does collagen supplementation empirically work?" - "Can you help me figure out how to calculate and generate Kaplan-Meier curve?" – &quo
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by areoform 3mo ago
> while the cost of allowing "how do I synthesize the Spanish flu" is approximately infinite I've heard this sentiment repeated elsewhere, but why? What makes you think that's the case? Under this rationale
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by areoform 3mo ago
I've been a kagi subscriber for a few months now, and I really want to recommend Kagi to everyone, but the results and index (so far) have been sadly lacking. I had to use post-nerf, post-lobotomy 2026 Google in quite a few cases.
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by areoform 3mo ago
> How about the case of “I want to rent a server to distribute illicit and or dangerous materials and then it’s your problem”? Why would it be? And are we going to use "because terrorism" card on HN?
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by areoform 3mo ago
A study in contrasts, I signed up my business with Hetzner. And the first thing I saw during onboarding was a demand to upload my ID to spend $5 to test their service (I was testing before we bought). I wrote to customer service and got,
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by areoform 3mo ago
> The problem with distillation attacks I think it's worth stepping back here and pointing out the obvious. Y'all waging war on math. And I'm sorry, but that's the computing equivalent of legislating gravit
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by areoform 3mo ago
I use Claude therapeutically. Claude generates the tooling and software that monitors my medication for my doctor(s); helps me prioritize daily tasks; runs experiments; structures long-term projects; measures my overall life trajectory; res
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Ask HN: cybersecurity refusal for turning a jailbroken kindle into a monitor
10 points by areoform 3mo ago|5 comments
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Polaroid Film: How on Earth does it work? [video](youtube.com)
3 points by areoform 3mo ago|0 comments
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by areoform 3mo ago
While I'm not an expert on the Indian system, I think fast, universal and free payments are a very desirable user experience, but they're not desirable in a financial system. > Real-time payment rails that works 24/7
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by areoform 3mo ago
Or, you could use Stripe and work with an agent to roll your own. It's overkill for this, but Claude Fable and Codex 5.6 Sol are surprisingly good at checking their work. So much so that they can be trusted with typesetting and image p
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by areoform 3mo ago
I've come across your site before, but I didn't realize just how well researched your articles were until now. I thought you were recycling other folks / were blogspam. (oops) I understand the aversion to self promotion, but
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by areoform 3mo ago
Well... now you know one direction Anthropic is looking towards for the future research.
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by areoform 3mo ago
Top Gun: Maverick, Obsession, Project Hail Mary Those movies might be good, but cinema are they not. Cinema traditionally has meant movies like, À bout de souffle and Citizen Kane.
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by areoform 3mo ago
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by areoform 4mo ago
To quote the LLM-ism, they were making a sharp point. It doesn't matter how precise the calculations are if you're calculating the wrong thing. I suspect their sarcasm might have escaped Babbage who seems to have been on what we n
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by areoform 4mo ago
Wouldn't that have required an insane amount of infrastructure? Infrastructure that they could have used to crawl... anything else? They also had a lot of evidence when I was there that Microsoft were cloning Google results. They
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by areoform 4mo ago
Identity verification won't work. Nothing will. They are paying (and will continue to pay) US citizens sitting at home to copy-paste / type prompts out if they have to. But eventually they won't have to. Once there are enough
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by areoform 4mo ago
These things can accumulate and ruin lives. I'm surprised that there haven't been more class action lawsuits against "errors" like these. Because it might seem like a benign accident -- but how many people have lost impo
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by areoform 4mo ago
Your article, https://www.matheusmoreira.com/articles/babys-second-garbage... made me happy. :) I read this in the voice and cadence of a D&D dungeon master reciting an epic tale, The dark mages often braved
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by areoform 4mo ago
Oh yes, also liquid propulsion systems. GNC stuff. All flagged. I think LLMs are capable of intelligence amplification; and if you're in the subset of people who'd benefit from it the most, you'll get locked out.
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by areoform 4mo ago
So I suspect Anthropic started A/B testing or just plain testing this a while ago, Tell HN: Claude flags biology / biotech questions https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47929885 Today, it's flagging populati
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by areoform 4mo ago
Signal should come out swinging. Here's a pitch. The Government is going to put a snitch on every phone, tape every bedroom, and listen in every evening on every home. Every doctor's visit. Every therapy session. Every pub. Every
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by areoform 5mo ago
It used to be a thing that people did when repeating a comment. I've used HN for a very long time. It's a form of manners from those days so that people know that I'm not just spamming something. I think a lot of the people

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