jmward01

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by jmward01 6mo ago
A watch floor turn over in the military or on-station aircraft swap are also good places to look at.
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by jmward01 6mo ago
'Cultivate your ability to think deeply. Do whatever it takes to carve out distraction-free bubbles for yourself in both space and time.' I find that when I get back into exercise and reading so much more of my life falls into pla
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by jmward01 6mo ago
I think we keep changing the goalposts on AGI. If you gave me CC in the 80's I would probably have called it 'alive' since it clearly passes the Turing test as I understood it then (I wouldn't have been able to distingui
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by jmward01 6mo ago
SaaSyCryptoAI - Leverage our custom AI driven backend to mint your own coin! Seriously though, great little lesson. It would be nice to factor in internal raises and a bit of granularity for when exercises happened to see final payouts and
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by jmward01 6mo ago
I worry about this scenario at work. Whatever to the agent, it just takes one junior dev hitting 'yolo' and this can happen. Yes, permissions are scoped but it is hard (as project after hijacked project shows) to fully lock down d
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by jmward01 6mo ago
npm can give you security warnings about packages. I wonder if there is space for an external dependency warning system for sites. 'WARN: godaddy has elevated security complaints related to service XXX' and the like when you push
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by jmward01 6mo ago
'Science progresses one funeral at a time...' It is often the case that an entire field is led by a few influential people and until they leave others can't get the air they need to make real progress.
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by jmward01 6mo ago
Here is an article that is a bit old but discusses the start of things [1]. It would be a bit ironic if fracking tech helped get us further from using natural gas. I think the reality will be if this gets established we will see rapid impro
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by jmward01 6mo ago
The difference is scale and accountability. Surveillance tech is impacting everyone and is part of every kill chain but its not what people see so there is very little accountability for it. Building a drone that launches something has far
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by jmward01 6mo ago
I don't agree with this. Just because the DOD says it is ethical doesn't mean it is so contractors have a duty to maintain ethical standards in the face of changing DOD standards. To me this means a DOD contractor decides before t
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by jmward01 6mo ago
I'm not that excited about 'x beats human at y' anymore. I am more interested in 'x beats human at made up on the spot tasks p d and q'. That is starting to happen more generically and is a bigger sign of emerging c
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by jmward01 6mo ago
The argument isn't 'more' regulations or 'less' regulations, it is the right regulations. The problem is that big companies slowly allow regulations that don't hurt them but do block competition by aggressively
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by jmward01 6mo ago
I want this for cars but to keep the modern powertrain. So an EV without the tracking/touch screens, etc etc. Or an internal combustion engine car that is just simple and efficient (and again, no tracking). I'll take the low-tech
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by jmward01 6mo ago
I don't care what tools built this. This site is why I still have faith in the internet.
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by jmward01 6mo ago
So they are now setting the content on infowars.com? Honestly, I can't tell since everything on that site looks so fake it isn't believable. The onion transition may be hard to detect.
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by jmward01 6mo ago
choice is often a great dark-pattern (lack of choice is too but...). Choices generally grow cost to discover optimality in an np way. This means if the entity giving choice has more ability to compute the value prop than the entity deciding
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by jmward01 6mo ago
Claude code seems to be getting worse on several fronts and better on others. I suspect product is shifting from 'make it great' to 'make it make as much money for us as possible and that includes gathering data'. Recent
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by jmward01 6mo ago
Yeah. I just did a day with 4.7 and I won't be going back for a while. It is just too expensive. On top of the tokenization the thinking seems like it is eating a lot more too.
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(U)CONPLAN 8888 [pdf](stratcom.mil)
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by jmward01 6mo ago
I think one area I find hard to get around is context length. Everything self hosted is so limited on length that it is marginal to use. Additionally I think that the tools (like claude code) are clearly in the training mix for Anthropic&#x
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by jmward01 6mo ago
The last update for Haiku was in October, or in startup land, 10 years ago.
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by jmward01 6mo ago
Haiku not getting an update is becoming telling. I suspect we are reaching a point where the low end models are cannibalizing high end and that isn't going to stop. How will these companies make money in a few years when even the small
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by jmward01 6mo ago
I do not feel bad for Google here and they are at fault. If they are in a tight bind now it is only because they have eroded the privacy safety buffer so thin over the past few decades that they are finally having a hard time walking the li
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by jmward01 6mo ago
Start actively divesting of Google where possible. There are a lot of 'Switching to 100% European cloud' stories hitting HN lately. The more things like this happen the more stories like that will be there. Google and US tech are
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by jmward01 6mo ago
Privacy, technology and actual freedom overlap massively. Stories like this making it to HN are important since many of the people working at Google that had interactions with this, either by creating the tech or being aware of internal pol
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by jmward01 6mo ago
> ending the system where China captures upside when sanctioned countries like Russia, Iran, and Venezuela sell oil, in yuan to boot -- without losing face or deterrence. They have arguably been successful at that objective in Iran and V
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by jmward01 6mo ago
There may be an opportunity here for a plugin that auto-reports violations in some way that can then be used in lawsuits against these companies. Obviously there are privacy concerns with something like this but there may be ways to anonymi
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by jmward01 6mo ago
I always opt out if given the option and if not given the option I click x and close the site. However, unfortunately, I have assumed that they are already tracking me when the pop-up hits. This kinda confirms that is true. We have 'ge
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by jmward01 6mo ago
The question of 'can it fly' is clearly a 'yes, given a little bit of effort'. Flying isn't hard, autopilots have been around a long time. It is recognizing and dealing with things you didn't anticipate that is
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by jmward01 6mo ago
I've been watching the math of batteries and cargo ships and we may not be too far from shipping electrons generated in the Sahara to the UK and Europe at a reasonable price. That totally changes the game if you have cargo ships moving

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