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by maxbond 6mo ago
My interpretation: they're kicking the OpenClaw, OpenCode, etc. users off and telling them they can use extra usage for third-party tools, and they're softening the blow by offering free and discounted usage, and they're offe
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by maxbond 6mo ago
> There isn't conclusive evidence of an absence of launch, ... A launch is detectable seismically, visually, on radar, etc. There's a lot of investment in being able to detect launches (to detect the launch of nuclear weapons).
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by maxbond 6mo ago
They couldn't do that for "a few bucks of nano banana credits" though. You could generate the imagery but that's only one line of evidence. A launch is easily detectable through multiple signals. Why would Russia and Chi
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by maxbond 6mo ago
> ...discredit any doubt I have in these extraordinary claims with underwhelming evidence. Something unfortunate about our media environment is that science news is a dumbed down summary of a dumbed down summary of a dumbed down summary.
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by maxbond 6mo ago
The comment could have been more substantive but it isn't generic or tangential. Discussing a vulnerability ultimately means discussing the failures of process that allowed it to be shipped. Especially with these application-level logi
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by maxbond 7mo ago
It would still be able to use values extracted from the data as arguments to it's tools, so it could still accept that calendar invite. For better and worse; as the sibling points out, this means certain attacks are still possible if t
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by maxbond 7mo ago
There's been some work with having models with two inputs, one for instructions and one for data. That is probably the best analogy for prepared statements. I haven't read deeply so I won't comment on how well this is working
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by maxbond 7mo ago
Nah it's entirely possible a project with a name like this starts to get traction and then changes it's name to Get Stuff Done to go mainstream. Honestly it could be an asset to getting traction with a "move fast and break th
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by maxbond 7mo ago
There are different degrees of rigor, but the activity is in the same broad category.
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by maxbond 7mo ago
Not really, upper levels of management are more concerned with strategic decisions, they aren't making sure certain invariants are upheld.
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by maxbond 7mo ago
If you're producing a technological artifact and you are ensuring it has certain properties while working within certain constraints, then in my mind you're engineering and it's a question of the degree of rigor. Engineers in
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by maxbond 7mo ago
I don't blame the agent for mistakes in my vibe coded personal software, it's always my fault. To me it's like this: 80%+: You don't understand the codebase. Correctness is ensured through manual testing and asking the a
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by maxbond 7mo ago
I don't think we should be making this distinction. We're still engaged in software engineering. This isn't a new discipline, it's a new technique. We're still using testing, requirements gathering, etc. to ensure w
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by maxbond 7mo ago
It definitely isn't comparable to smoking or vaping. Those introduces a lot of material to your body that's well established as harmful. To name just a few, formaldehyde, carbon monoxide, heavy metals, even radioactive polonium (f
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by maxbond 7mo ago
I wear cheap bone conduction headphones constantly. So I think I'm getting a lot of exposure. I think I'm going to find some kind of bandage or tape which doesn't have this problem, and put it on the headphones. And I'll
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by maxbond 7mo ago
The way my thinking has evolved is that "AGI" isn't actually necessary for an agent (NB: agents, specifically ones with state, not LLMs by themselves - "AI" was vague and I should've been clearer) to be enough
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by maxbond 7mo ago
My friends and I were talking about the recent supply chain attack which harmlessly installed OpenClaw. We came to the conclusion that this was a warning (from a human) that an agent could easily do the same. Given how soft security is in g
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by maxbond 7mo ago
> So, community: what should we do? My diagnosis is that the friction that existed before (the effort to create a project) was filtering out low-effort projects and keeping the amount of submissions within the capacity the community to h
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by maxbond 7mo ago
Trades in dark pools still get published to the consolidated tape; they're still part of price discovery. What's "dark" about them is that you don't see the order book, but people break up large orders into smaller
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by maxbond 7mo ago
I'm not going to import it into Claude, I'm not sure what I'll do with it other than pulling out some Deep Research reports I haven't gotten around to yet but was planning to read in the immediate future. I do think that
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by maxbond 7mo ago
Recently I left an HN comment pointing out that there was a typo on Ars Technia's staff page. One copy editor had the title "Copy Editor" and the other "Copyeditor." Several days later the typo was fixed. I'm c
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by maxbond 7mo ago
This isn't the first time someone has said that to me, so I really ought to make time to learn it.
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by maxbond 7mo ago
Really what I'm getting at is that people are not done innovating on C ergonomics and safety and that there is potential there. Not that there is a new shivel-ready paradigm shift that has arrived to C. I'm only saying that that
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by maxbond 7mo ago
I've just cancelled my subscription in solidarity with the OpenAI employees who signed the We Will Not Be Divided letter. I was a daily user of paid features like Deep Research. But not only was Anthropic's decision more ethical,
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by maxbond 7mo ago
Two arbitrary picks: https://crates.io/crates/serde https://crates.io/crates/regex Anything covered by Gjengset's "decrusted" series: https://youtube.com/playlist?l
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by maxbond 7mo ago
You might also have success asking your agent to run `eslint` at the end of every subtask and instruct it to always address lint errors, even if they are preexisting. I agree with your diagnosis; there's "implicit prompting"
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by maxbond 7mo ago
Totally true. Similarly I think a C revival is more likely than people might think because of Fil-C, improvements to the language standard, and maybe hardware improvements like CHERI. Eg, maybe there will be a new generation of Fil-C like c
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by maxbond 7mo ago
I do choose Rust. For now. I write Rust everyday. I'm generating Rust at this moment. But when I learn a better language I will adopt it.
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by maxbond 7mo ago
It's way rarer on Hacker News than people alleging an omnipresent Rust Evangelism Task Force is constantly imposing itself on people. I have seen "overly enthusiastic" comments about Rust, but I can count them on one hand. I&
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by maxbond 7mo ago
1000x yes. Rust is not a One True Language, there exists no One True Language. Rust made some improvements over previous languages (many of which were ported over from previous languages that demonstrated the value but weren't break ou

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