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by ygjb 2mo ago
I'm ok with that. When the.major AI players implode under debt, it will create a massive proliferation of folks who go on to start new businesses unencumbered by the debt and bad decisions by the current leaders. The collapse of the ma
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by ygjb 2mo ago
I would rather make the case that with the increasing consolidation of media under the big tech companies, regulation is more effective than a business case.
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by ygjb 2mo ago
I would love to see a rider from the courts mandating a significant third party test by privacy researchers to see if the deidentified data can be reconstructed from models post training.
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by ygjb 2mo ago
Contributions aren't just commits/prs. It's also opening issues. The harder it is to provide feedback, the more likely users are going to seek a different library or tool, and depending on the actual objective of releasing
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by ygjb 2mo ago
First, to be clear, I work for Amazon, and I don't work on this or related efforts, I am a security engineer. I also won't talk about or answer questions at work, and my comments are more generally about the practice (all of the
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by ygjb 2mo ago
It would be really great if the companies who are doing this would commit to placing the scanned files into a public trust that would coordinate with organizations like the Gutenberg project to ensure that the scanned materials enter the pu
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by ygjb 2mo ago
UI, polish, and customer experience are innovation. It takes an enormous amount of work to build consistent user experiences and build products that make choices on behalf of users that don't alienate those same users, yet Apple is abl
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by ygjb 2mo ago
I routinely hit the limits on a Claude pro max 20 account for personal projects. For context I have 26 years of professional experience and have been programming for around 40 years. In addition I have virtually unconstrained usage at work
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by ygjb 2mo ago
I use a combination of automated and manual testing. I spent a bunch of time setting up playwright testing at the start of my project, and then I shunt that through ZAP as well so that it can have a good understanding of how things work. I
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by ygjb 2mo ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WOSqCjMRXWA Granted, the wealthy may not have the resources of the US military, but I am willing to bet that push comes to shove, the corporate security forces of companies like palantir and
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by ygjb 2mo ago
I said resources not money. Charisma, religion and promoting hate have empowered just as many psychopaths in history as wealth.
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by ygjb 2mo ago
Jokes on you. When there isn't a functional system of government there is nothing to stop rich psychopaths from paying poor psychopaths killing those who get in there way and declaring themselves dictators. In the absence of effective
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by ygjb 2mo ago
Because that doesn't satisfy the narrative of American exceptionalism. It's easier to point at something and say it was stolen or copied than it is to compete, especially with the political climate in the US. This isn't an an
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by ygjb 2mo ago
Ah yeah, but that's not an AI problem in general. The models are trained on human language and human centered expression. I realized after re-reading, that my comment was more harsh than I intended, I really was trying to be helpful. T
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by ygjb 2mo ago
It's not really possible to help without more information about the models you are using, the harness you are using, and how you use the harness. You haven't even provided enough information for us to know if you are using the rig
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by ygjb 2mo ago
Sure. Wealth has always given early adopters and first movers wings. As hardware specs get better, and model providers keep making different classes of mistakes that alienate users, more people will opt for or support local models. I tend
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by ygjb 2mo ago
Until a couple of years ago you needed to be able to read research papers and code to build fuzzing harnesses and triage the findings to find vulns. Now you can point Claude, codex, Kimi, or even some smaller open models that run local and
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by ygjb 2mo ago
Yes, sort of. Not that there is anything wrong with that. Fuzzing yields tons of trash results, the occasional fleck of gold and the even more rare nugget. Then you analyze how it found the flakes and nuggets update your fuzzing harness.
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by ygjb 3mo ago
That puts the OS in the position of attempting to profile or determine if an application is accessing OS, hardware, and user details to build a fingerprint, vs using those capabilities to do something the user intends, which puts the OS dev
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by ygjb 3mo ago
Yeah Claude does this for me all the time. I have a template project I use that also leverages puppeteer/webdriver/Firefox, and I can point Claude at the template and a website and it will happily build me an MCP service that it
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by ygjb 3mo ago
Are you sure it refused because it can't use a username and password? I literally have loops running right now where it uses a database of test users and passwords to log into different roles and do computer use and browser automation
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by ygjb 4mo ago
It's pretty simple. There are things that I do because it's fun, like gamedev. I hand code that, and don't use LLM tools because I like learning and building. I do lots of utility stuff coding for my wife's business,
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by ygjb 4mo ago
Why? The US likes to flex it's muscle by pushing other governments around on behalf of its commercial interests. I think it's well past time for Canada to either formally pursue toes with the EU or pursue alignment with EU consume
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by ygjb 4mo ago
> Could you teach a 5 year old to drive a car? A 10 year old? A 12 year old? To drive a car requires being able to read, to have judgement about ice or rainy conditions, to anticipate a child running after a ball. By the time a human in
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by ygjb 4mo ago
https://parentsguidetoai.ca I spend all day working on AI related stuff at my day job, but more recently I have been getting lots of questions about AI from friends and family and that ramped up when the Vancouver school board a
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by ygjb 4mo ago
Shh...you'll burst the bubble of the folks who think that LLMs are toy stochastic parrots...
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by ygjb 4mo ago
Sure, and for anyone from BC or Vancouver that would like to take that approach, there is a local movement at https://aicaution.ca/ In the meantime, I spend several hours a week talking to parents, teens, and educators who
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A Parents Guide to AI(parentsguidetoai.ca)
3 points by ygjb 4mo ago|3 comments
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by ygjb 4mo ago
Hi folks, I'm a parent, technology professional, and security engineer based in British Columbia. Over the last couple of years I've found myself having more conversations with parents who know AI is going to affect their children
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by ygjb 4mo ago
It's simple, I am not going to defend any economic system because they all require trade-offs, because any economic model that we could currently implement must necessarily ration scarce resources according to some set of rules. Those

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