tomrod

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by tomrod 1mo ago
1. While a formal definition is still wanting, most grok that AGI means that tasks can be performed at least at a human level across a broad range of tasks. This includes good things along with bad things like hacking, mis-/disinformat
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by tomrod 1mo ago
> Astra is a new step in LLMs I think. I'd be interested in hearing more about your evaluation here. It would be nice if LLMs have gotten past the "tell me" hump of recent Claude/OpenAI verbosity.
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by tomrod 1mo ago
1. The grandparent commentator is describing strategic behavior of dangerous technologies. Game theory / mechanism design primitives. 2. If there is competition for resources among autonomous agents, the "strongest" agent win
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by tomrod 1mo ago
It can certainly come across as a "weird trend" but I've found that the most insistent for disabling JS are the folks who have deep knowledge of browsers and the security plane running webapps. YMMV.
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by tomrod 1mo ago
Treating HTML as a bootloader for an app has always felt like the wrong pattern to me. Outside of Authn/passkeys, it would seem a person could do basically everything in HTML (but, to be frank, I am not a front end dev and would welcom
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by tomrod 1mo ago
I stand by my guffaw and by my clear call that tone policing is worse.
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by tomrod 1mo ago
That's how Linux is built. Science has too many threads to do it successfully though
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by tomrod 1mo ago
What does the mean pelican look like at this point? Also 3X token use vs. 1.2
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by tomrod 1mo ago
Arguably, tone policing is even worse. I guffawed at grandparent comment!
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by tomrod 1mo ago
Oh hilarious and well done Null ptrs. And brilliant picture.
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by tomrod 1mo ago
Oh poo, I can download an open weights model now and build glorious things with it. I can train my own, finetune on someone elses, or host a complete package. What is this AI cartel? Are we complaining that they engineer better harnesses? W
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by tomrod 1mo ago
This is more or less what Ray Dalio was getting at with The Changing World Order , IMO.
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by tomrod 1mo ago
Two sources of truth, if playwright updates? Honestly, this is one of the things OpenAI does pretty well, I think, these tiny design decisions that you wouldn't notice until it becomes super annoying.
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by tomrod 1mo ago
TIL. Thanks for your input into how sudo might not be super secure on systems already dribbling with malware.
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by tomrod 1mo ago
No harm, no foul izacus. I am laughing inside because I'm included in the "angry" group by default (I hate all Linux distros, less than Windows or MacOS) and I'm often a basic docker user but got over major DE customizat
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by tomrod 1mo ago
UI is desktop environment and (usually) ports to large-use distros cleanly. - JaKooLit’s Fedora-Hyprland Repository: https://github.com/JaKooLit/Fedora-Hyprland . The most popular automated setup guide and installer for
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by tomrod 1mo ago
Basic docker users are the same as angry haters I guess.
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by tomrod 1mo ago
What? Why is sudo security theater?
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by tomrod 1mo ago
Bayesian posteriors in the wild. Love it!
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Obsessing over AI Agent Harnesses(roderick.dev)
1 points by tomrod 1mo ago|0 comments
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by tomrod 1mo ago
What they say about posting the wrong answer on social media is proven true here (though not my intention!). Thanks for the enlightenment!
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by tomrod 1mo ago
Indeed!
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by tomrod 1mo ago
Hear hear! We techies are bad at naming things. "NoSQL" is probably a top contender there.
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by tomrod 1mo ago
I'm not the author -- but I am currently fortunate to be sitting in a workshop he is teaching on the topic and figured HN might like (especially since he gives a lot of his content out for free/OSS). As someone who does loads of A
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Harness Engineering(habitat-thinking.github.io)
128 points by tomrod 1mo ago|42 comments
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by tomrod 1mo ago
Ish. Spare the rod, spoil the child type approaches haven't seemed to hold true in my experience.
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by tomrod 1mo ago
Enforcement is an external impetus. Internal impetus are better to cultivate. I can't answer how cultures tend to differ here from my limited vantage point, so what I'm really saying is respect doesn't come by itself typicall
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by tomrod 1mo ago
Mine begged for them at that age. We did burner flip phone in 6th grade and, towards end of 8th when they had shown they didn't lose them and didn't treat them as status icons, we would get something more reasonable and open. We n
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by tomrod 1mo ago
I remember that time. A mix of concerns over financial security, what kind of parent I'd be, and what I would do in the alone times where help isn't available and it all came down to me. We were young college kids in love and scar
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by tomrod 2mo ago
I am not hiring an agent. It's a tool, with no will of its own except that which I, the responsible party, grant it.

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