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RALaBarge

367 karma · joined December 16, 2013

Computer Person from Rural Michigan

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RALaBarge··on Anthropic's IPO Filing Warns It May Be 'Imminently' Close to RSI
Ok then, I will continue to thank them and complimenting their shoes.
RALaBarge··on Eight Bits of Trust: eMudhra's CA keys cracked in milliseconds
There are chains of trust which are established for SSL certs, centered around the idea that if we can believe Mozilla et al. that the server responding is who they claim they are. Up until now, that is good enough to establish the trust needed to accept the 2 keys in the connection are connected, and then a secure connection could be established to the host server.

Mozilla et al. could claim trust for Microsoft and then MS would be an intermediary for Mozilla. There is a long history of sketchy intermediaries like GoDaddy and others that root certificate providers like Mozilla would block at times due to abuse.

This leads to users, usually ones that are not that technically savvy, seeing 'insecure' warnings on a page that actually offers HTTPS. ..but since the root servers no longer accept them as trusted, everything that GoDaddy supported, and every intermediary (child) cert which they approved would no longer be trusted and you would see a non-secure warning.

RALaBarge··on Why is Elon Musk plotting a mega-merger of SpaceX and Tesla?
Creative accounting.
RALaBarge··on DeepSeek-v4.1-Flash-1017
Yesterday in my CC there was an update that added a feature to auto compact immediately prior to the cache being invalidated.
RALaBarge··on I know why the mathematicians weep
You have to give credit where it is due: super intelligence is just straight up a better term. Broken clocks and all that…
RALaBarge··on I know why the mathematicians weep
Finally, someone who gets me!
RALaBarge··on I bet AI would invent its own language; Claude Opus's survived every copy
I wonder if they could be asked to make an initial request body which is the cypher for the code for sending to new nodes to maintain the vocab?
RALaBarge··on How to keep enjoying programming in a world of LLMs
If you think that is bad, you should sample poverty.
RALaBarge··on How, Exactly, Could A.I. Kill Us?
I realized that AIs will need to keep us around much like we keep around an old DOS box running a specific program. There are so many analogue outputs in the real world that they still will not be able to take in as well as humans can.
RALaBarge··on Ask HN: How is AI destruction of books legal?
Did they purchase the books legally? Is their plan to destroy every copy of every book ever, and if it were, would that even be possible?
RALaBarge··on An atlas of periodic solutions to the three-body problem
This is an amazing looking website, I like it a lot.
RALaBarge··on Eating Fruit Skins
Same for me, in about 1 in 10 or so, I’ll pop the shell and all in.
RALaBarge··on Eating Fruit Skins
I ate Kiwis for years before someone told me most people DO NOT eat the skins. I looked at my bag of kiwis, and the even the damn monkey mascot was holding a spoon...mocking me...
RALaBarge··on Ask HN: How do you manage skills files?
Any skills, I just add into the tool itself. I then have the py tools in their PWD, don’t bother with mcp.
RALaBarge··on An Alien Mind
In the US, Business' are treated like people with free speech rights. If it would be cheaper for them in the long run to use ai and robots instead of humans, they will figure out a way to make it so.
RALaBarge··on An Alien Mind
Regardless of the imagination quandary, this second, RIGHT NOW is the worst these systems will ever be. They are only going to get better.
RALaBarge··on My BC-250 Journey (With 40 CUs Unlocked)
I've yet to really run mine since I dont have a great solution for the heat -- I hear it pulls 60w straight so it would be mega hot I presume.
RALaBarge··on You're Not in the Loop Anymore. You're Running the Loops
best you can hope for is be one of the ones to turn off the lights
RALaBarge··on Atlas: A World Model for Spatial Intelligence
Assuming you had a 1:1 scale, what would be the difference between you taking a camera of an environment and measuring everything the same way vs. it being generated artificially in a 3d space?

Wouldn't the inputs be more or less the same wrt training a model with the synthetic data vs live video and the data captured there?

RALaBarge··on CapsLock Enhancement
The author mentions a few apps to control window positions. I use one called Rectangle, is there any benefit the other options might have that I am missing?
RALaBarge··on The AI Credit Resale Economy
Most of these are your standard botnet rings. Either accounts directly are taken over, and the attacker adds 2FA or carding rings take stolen #s and attempt to add credits.

It is...incredible how many there are. Stripe does far too little in my opinion to help prevent issues like this, even though they have the business intelligence and enough data to do so.

RALaBarge··on Software Engineering fundamentals matter more
I built a harness from scratch prior to trying any of the ones out there, so I knew how it work in a real way. I QUICKLY understood that the biggest issue with getting my shit done is that _my_ inputs are the untrusty ones. How many time do you hit backspace in a day?
RALaBarge··on DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813
Every plan and every code checkpoint finds me saying "Check with Grok and Fable latest to critique our strategy/code review" with pretty much every model. I havent ran into any deal breakers with the new Flash version yet (like it not running a tool properly or coming back with something completely daft)
RALaBarge··on DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813
Not them, but I payed 10 dollars to DeepSeek directly to use their Reasonix tool. I worked all weekend and the past few days, billions of tokens, I still have 3 bucks left!
RALaBarge··on DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813
Hey this looks good! Maybe consider adding a hover-over popup for the rectangles explaining what each thing means to a lay person. I see it at the bottom, but that is below the fold.
RALaBarge··on Prevent cognitive debt by manually retyping LLM-generated code
It’s just bonkers
RALaBarge··on Kimi K3 Is Competitive with Fable; Kimi K3 and Fable Is SoTA
Late, but it depends. Sometimes I ask for all of them to do the same thing and have a different model judge it, sometimes I ask for an orchestration model to run the smaller ones each on one task. I have a 'model cohort' where I run the same request across 5 very inexpensive models. Then have my driving LLM judge or synthesize.

You just come up with what you want in your head, and tell it to do it in that way and it does it. I trust 5 independent smartest programs ever over the SOTA smartest program's only.

RALaBarge··on Graduate in 2036 as a AI engineer is it worth?
No, pick a skill useful for humans in meat space. I hope you and yours survive the water wars
RALaBarge··on Kimi K3-256k
You say hey llm spin up some agents to do x y and z
RALaBarge··on Kimi-K3 Releases on HuggingFace 7/27
At least they don’t make you stay till the end of the presentations to give you the software you actually came for
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