mike_hearn

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by mike_hearn 16d ago
I'm skeptical. Pre-ChatGPT the models didn't understand tool calls or file editing so you couldn't really do targeted edits. So I really am not sure what they mean by this. I mean, it's not impossible - I wrote a "c
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by mike_hearn 16d ago
Well, it assumes the model is. KMP can be seen as a token optimization at this point. Business logic is shared and doesn't have to be rewritten in Swift.
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by mike_hearn 16d ago
I use containers in one context (custom container manager) and a regular UNIX account on bare metal in another. This isn't intended to stop a model like Astra hacking its way out of course, it's more like guardrails on a staircase
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by mike_hearn 16d ago
They can spot evaluation awareness because it appears in reasoning tokens.
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by mike_hearn 17d ago
WebView Outlook predates AI agents getting good.
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by mike_hearn 17d ago
I think the point is that Microsoft struggles to hire developers with any knowledge of Windows programming.
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by mike_hearn 17d ago
Isn't that just sidestepping the issue? Setting up backups isn't a security task, it's just normal IT which businesses do indeed spend on because there are clear goals and predictable budgets. But just being able to restore d
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by mike_hearn 18d ago
I think that's separate. You can define an obvious risk e.g. "we may be infected with ransomware" and the security spending / productivity costs to stop it are still unlimited because nobody knows how to solve it.
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by mike_hearn 18d ago
People aren't that lazy. The organizations getting hacked by ransomware aren't particularly lazy, they're often pretty productive within their domain. Hospitals, airports, etc. The actual problem is that computer security is
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by mike_hearn 18d ago
I think it's been pretty much proven by now that there are no cases where local inferencing is better than remote inferencing, unless absolute privacy is a hard requirement. The efficiencies that come with datacenter scale and hw can&#
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by mike_hearn 19d ago
I think they also suspect/know that Gates won't revisit the issue. The email is a flame as the subject line admits. Gates wasn't going to go back every week for the next six months to track progress.
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by mike_hearn 19d ago
"Low code" has been a dream of the industry for longer than I've been alive. There are reasons SQL and COBOL look superficially like English even when it's inefficient to do so. There are reasons Excel is the most popula
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by mike_hearn 19d ago
The number of bug fixes to important programs has skyrocketed. Look at what Google are saying about how many Chrome security bugs they've been fixing lately. Other big software firms have been doing the same thing - AI has been finding
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by mike_hearn 20d ago
The goal of ever closer union appears in both the Maastricht Treaty and the Treaty of Rome. https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/HTML/?uri=CEL... >RESOLVED to continue the process of creati
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by mike_hearn 20d ago
You can't be sovereign and also subservient to another power. That's a contradiction! Texas is not sovereign, for example. The people who call themselves federalists don't actually want a federation. They just use the name be
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by mike_hearn 20d ago
> it was taught that EU is nothing like the US, as we're all individual countries and everyone wants to remain as such It's written into the treaties that this will not be so. The goal of the EU is "ever closer union&quo
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by mike_hearn 21d ago
You'd think so but I don't believe that's the case. They're viewed as "overqualified".
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by mike_hearn 22d ago
But that wouldn't work, right? If the proxy is on another server then editing their own /etc/hosts wouldn't change the proxy's behavior. So the proxy has to be colocated and reading the same /etc/hosts tha
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by mike_hearn 22d ago
Are we sure that's what they did? How does this even work? I'm struggling to understand what sort of HTTP sandbox design could lead to this "exploit" actually functioning. It implies the agents have root on their own mac
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by mike_hearn 22d ago
They're paid so much either because they're the company founders, and so they kept a part of the value of the whole company they created. Seems fair. Or because being a (well known) CEO is a terminal career position. It's a b
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by mike_hearn 22d ago
I feel like we read different blog posts. The announcement shows Astra filling out a tax form, looking for a kindergarten and apartment hunting. These are ordinary everyday tasks for normal people. It also shows lots of non-consumer stuff l
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by mike_hearn 22d ago
It won't happen overnight. Social change is constrained by integration speed. The average enterprise has many tasks that could be automated by models for several years already, yet they remain stubbornly unautomated. The reasons are
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by mike_hearn 23d ago
If anyone is puzzled what this is about, Silo is an Apple TV sci-fi show set in a giant underground survival bunker of some kind. However, the bunker is filled with strange mysteries. The people inside have lost all connection to the world
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by mike_hearn 23d ago
It kinda needed suspension of disbelief, but not too much! I blogged at the start of 2017 a comparison of Westworld's hosts with what existed in the research literature at the time. Even got it reviewed by Alex Graves at DeepMind :)
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by mike_hearn 24d ago
I think he worked on Sawmill, where he developed a language that looks superficially a bit like Go called Sawzall. Sawzall seems to have been open sourced at some point. It's got some common syntax similarities like using `a := b` to m
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by mike_hearn 24d ago
Data Colada is a handful of volunteers who do this kind of thing as extra-curricular activities, and rely primarily on tips. That is a tiny drop in an ocean of fraud, for which the institutions get no credit at all. Academic institutions do
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by mike_hearn 24d ago
Yes, it's true. No more firewalls. Go read the article I originally linked, here it is again: https://apnews.com/article/science-business-arts-and-enterta... Some key paragraphs are: > The Associated Press sai
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by mike_hearn 24d ago
If you target cross-platform frameworks that don't require Apple's toolchain, it can be made to work. For instance if you write an Electron or JVM app for the desktop then Conveyor can ship it from anything, because all the native
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by mike_hearn 25d ago
I think ads were better because everyone was aware of the conflict of interest issues and took steps to manage it. They admitted it could be an issue and would have internal firewalls where ad sales weren't allowed to talk to the journ
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by mike_hearn 25d ago
Most of the problems are with academic fields that were barely funded before WW2.

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