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by btown 8mo ago
It's even worse than this: the "tasks" that are evaluated are limited to a single markdown file of instructions, plus an opaque verifier (page 13-14). No problems involving existing codebases, refactors, or anything of the li
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by btown 8mo ago
Even if contractors/intermediaries consider themselves bound by HIPAA, the protections are lighter than one would think, in the political environment we find ourselves in. Notably (though I'm not a lawyer, and this is not legal ad
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by btown 8mo ago
Once heard someone call it "graduate student descent" and I've never heard a more apt term!
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by btown 8mo ago
One of the biggest pieces of "writing on the wall" for this IMO was when, in the April 15 2025 Preparedness Framework update, they dropped persuasion/manipulation from their Tracked Categories. https://openai.com&#
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by btown 8mo ago
It bears repeating that modern LLMs are incredibly capable, and relentless, at solving problems that have a verification test suite. It seems like this problem did (at least for some finite subset of n)! This result, by itself, does not gen
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by btown 8mo ago
If we're going there, we need to make the logging dynamically configurable with Log4J-style JNDI and LDAP. It's entirely secure as history has shown - and no matter what, it'll still be more secure than installing OpenClaw! (
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by btown 8mo ago
I'll add a counterpoint that in many situations (especially monorepos for complex businesses), it's easy for any LLM to go down rabbit holes. Files containing the word "payment" or "onboarding" might be for ent
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by btown 8mo ago
If you were a pelican, wouldn't you want to go cycling on a sunny day? Do electric pelicans dream of touching electric grass?
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by btown 8mo ago
Thank you for continuing to maintain the only benchmarking system that matters! Context for the unaware: https://simonwillison.net/tags/pelican-riding-a-bicycle/
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by btown 8mo ago
Unless the Chrome web store integrates with this, it puts the onus on users to continuously scan extension updates for hash mismatches with the public extension builds, which isn’t standardized. And even then this would be after an update i
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by btown 8mo ago
> The first option uses AI to analyze a user’s video selfie, which Discord says never leaves the user’s device. If the age group estimate (teen or adult) from the selfie is incorrect, users can appeal it or verify with a photo of an iden
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by btown 8mo ago
Per the readme: > Unfortunately, the landscape has changed particularly with the advent of AI tools that allow people to trivially create plausible-looking but extremely low-quality contributions with little to no true understanding. Con
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by btown 8mo ago
As a note here, there are a lot of resources that make bash seem incredibly arcane, with custom functions often recommended. But a simple interruptible script to run things in parallel can be as simple as: (trap 'kill 0' INT
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by btown 8mo ago
Yea, the Monolith paper by Bytedance uses Flink but they only say it's in use for their B2B ecommerce optimization system. Maybe this is intentional ambiguity, but I'd believe that they wouldn't rely on something like Flink f
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by btown 8mo ago
If corporations can be people, cameras can be people too! Think of the cameras! /s
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by btown 8mo ago
"We have a robustly defined TAM. Namely, a person named Tam."
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by btown 8mo ago
> This was a clean-room implementation (Claude did not have internet access at any point during its development); it depends only on the Rust standard library. The 100,000-line compiler can build Linux 6.9 on x86, ARM, and RISC-V. It can
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by btown 8mo ago
The math actually checks out here! Simply deposit $2.20 from your first customer in your first 8 minutes, and extrapolating to a monthly basis, you've got a $12k/mo run rate! Incredibly high ROI!
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by btown 8mo ago
You don't need multiple postmasters to spawn connection processes, if you have a set of Postgres proxies each maintaining a set pool of long-standing connections, and parceling them out to application servers upon request. When your pr
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by btown 8mo ago
> What they don’t know, though, is that a poorly architected system will fail, eventually. As every senior programmer (eventually) understands, our job is complex because we have to understand the relationships in the real world, the pro
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by btown 8mo ago
Email is one of the very few success cases of the xkcd Standards meme: https://xkcd.com/927/ - and it's due to practicality and ingenuity on the part of people who made very creative parsers and placed real-worl
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by btown 8mo ago
The article goes into exactly why this happens!
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by btown 8mo ago
Adding that this just gets worse when databases are peppered with direct access by vibe-coded applications that don’t look at production data or gather these insights before deciding “yeah this sounds like the format of text that should go
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by btown 8mo ago
The threat here is that the ability of an attacker to add themselves to a thread, stacked with a new ability to either socially-engineer or otherwise attack an existing member to click a single share-history button, could result in disclosu
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by btown 8mo ago
Of particular note here is that while compromised WhatsApp servers could add arbitrary members to a group, each member's client would show the new member's presence and would not share prior messages, only future messages. Now, of
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by btown 9mo ago
Taking a best-faith approach here, I think it's indicative of a broader issue, which is that code reviewers can easily get "tunnel vision" where the focus shifts to reviewing each line of code, rather than necessarily cross-r
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by btown 9mo ago
See also re: censorship of messages containing the word Epstein: https://xcancel.com/krassenstein/status/2015911471507530219 Per https://www.npr.org/2026/01/27/nx-s1-5689104/tik
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by btown 9mo ago
It was/is quite common for corporate projects that become open-source to be born as part of an internal repository/monorepo, and when the decision is made to make them open-source, the initial open source commit is just a dump of
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by btown 9mo ago
macOS (not iOS) used to be this. POSIX underpinnings. Iconography and visual language designed for clarity and simplicity. Balances between customizability and system stability with deactivatable gatekeepers. Now, the same way Windows serve
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by btown 9mo ago
Claude Code's only saving grace is that it's pretty good from a fresh session - it can largely find and re-load into context what it needs to load. If I see my context ticking down, I ask it to give me a summary and TODO list, and

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