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Apylon777

614 karma · joined December 22, 2015

Ruby dude, Roman Catholic, Man about Town, Cad, Whippet aficionado, Layabout, Peace Corps Samoa, Ex-Microsoft, Opinions are mine alone

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Apylon777··on Show HN: Claw Patrol, a security firewall for agents
This is a really cool library to look at even if you aren't running openclaw directly.

Lots of good concepts to seek inspiration from.

1. process-scoped egress policy

2. policy-as-code

3. explicit approval classes

4. normalized network/ guardrail receipts.

5. structured guardrail outcomes

6. centralized decision rules

Apylon777··on To my students
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ad_hominem#Circumstantial
Apylon777··on GitHub CLI now collects pseudoanonymous telemetry
How did GitHub ever survive without this telemetry? Was it a web application buried in obscurity?
Apylon777··on Project Glasswing: Securing critical software for the AI era
Maybe Anthropic could fix these 5k reported issue with the current claude-code instead of making hyperbolic claims about their new whizbang model.

https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/issues

Apylon777··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (May 2024)
Microsoft | Data Scientist II | Redmond, WA | ONSITE 50%

We're the Video Experience (VX) team, part of the Microsoft AI organization. Our goal is to make consumer video experience awesome across Microsoft products. The product includes both web and mobile camera SDKs as well as the playback experience.

We work with partners across Microsoft with a focus on a consumer grade experience.

https://jobs.careers.microsoft.com/global/en/job/1711796/Dat...

Application closes on May 10th

Apylon777··on Steve Wozniak launches Efforce, a blockchain-based energy-saving platform
In most jurisdictions in the USA renewable energy generators are registered and audited by a third party, (like mrets.org where I work). Anomalies with generation data can be compared directly with data from the grid operators. Utilities will also require these commercial operations to have a "commercial energy meter" which are very expensive.
Apylon777··on What’s Flying Above Us?
Thank you so much for making this. I was constantly checking it to determine what was flying above our house in Minneapolis during the recent civil unrest. I took comfort in at least know what was buzzing us and why it might be doing it.
Apylon777··on Ask HN: What Skills to Acquire in 2020?
Yes, this. They are basically like magic for cooking proteins and vegetables. And the 'done' to 'overdone' margin of error can be hours instead of mere minutes.
Apylon777··on Don’t Get Clever with Login Forms
The worst offender I have seen in the wild is treasurydirect.gov. The password must be click in on an online keyboard, and they do not allow password managers to enter the passwords.

Screenshot here: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/TreasuryDirect

Apylon777··on North American vs. Japanese zoning
Minneapolis does have an exemption to the 8" height for "managed natural landscapes".
Apylon777··on Homebrew 1.4.0
Thanks for this comment. I just added my little bit of support, as did a a couple dozen others.
Apylon777··on Beware of the Silicon Valley cult
I manage a software team at a Fortune 20 company, and my developers have a ton of freedom. They can work from home any day they please, and I'm honestly surprised when I tell them, "You don't have any meetings for the rest of the day, go home." By no means am I an exceptional manager, but that statement is taken as suspect by most of my staff. Good software can't be coerced.

They also own houses instead of renting flats in SF with roommates.