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harambae··on Anthropic blocks users for anything touching training larger models
I’ve seen 2 hard guardrails with Opus 5.5 (even on a corporate account that’s not supposed to have these kinds of false positives). one, as you mentioned, is asking it to produce a PoC. but the other (which I’ve hit too many times for it to be a coincidence) is looking at a kernelspace vulnerability area even without PoC-ing.

Somewhere along the line someone at Anthropic decided you can attack userspace all day but you cross that line and it’s a problem.

harambae··on Microsoft offers mass buyouts for roughly a quarter of its workforce
That's a good book, but I'd argue that in a pure free market without intervention, monopolies would be disappointingly common (and why some level of regulation should exist).
harambae··on Are we sleepwalking into World War III?
I’m genuinely not smart enough to understand the implication from that article, can you help me to understand?
harambae··on Gemini 4 Argon
I think it's more 420 or 4:20 (marijuana reference) than 4/20 (Hitler's birthday).

Although given it's Musk, others may disagree.

harambae··on We found a division by zero bug in FFmpeg with a vibecoded fuzzer
It's mostly (not entirely, but mostly) finding security issues in old human-written code. It'll eventually start running out of those.

From that standpoint, it's not a crazy setup security-wise. Maybe still crazy for development.

harambae··on Andreessen Horowitz is investing billions into a bleak future
> Rich white man's paradise

The majority of new billionaires are either Chinese or Indian [0] so at some point you’ll need to update your race-based hatred (if you feel passionately about it) to remain accurate

[0] https://www.hurun.net/en-us/info/detail?num=FTJ5PSSPOWOF

harambae··on 'Pervert glasses': Backlash against Meta's smart glasses grows
Skill issue.
harambae··on U.S. Sees Iran as Likely Behind Cyberattack on Minnesota Water Systems
>And with the reckless/wanton damage the US is doing to civilian infrastructure in Iran, I think the only sane position is to brace for something much worse, inevitably.

We should have critical infrastructure secured whether or not Iran gets super mega big mad.

It's like when the guy taunted the tiger at the SF zoo and then it turned out the tiger could make it over the wall if it was sufficiently pissed off. Not the way to design any of this.

harambae··on At least 105 past YC founders have worked at OpenAI and Anthropic
AI/ML can make the pauses, intonation, and context pronunciation (it is "bass" the fish or the guitar?) more natural/correct I'm sure.

Now whether you actually WANT your AI voice to sound completely indistinguishable from a human voice is another story. I personally wish it would remain differentiable forever, but there's no real way to enforce that.

harambae··on Can the stockmarket swallow Anthropic, SpaceX and OpenAI?
>It wasn’t that long ago when Facebook had to get special permission from the government to stay private until they got to $100 billion.

is this true? There was the "Jumpstart Our Business Startups" (JOBS) Act, signed by Obama around that time that changed the maximum number of private investors or whatever, but was special permission given to Facebook?

harambae··on FBI arrests CIA official with $40M in gold bars in his home
Not that it matters, but I think it's closer to 600 lbs.

$40M /( $4.5k / oz) and then (1 lbs / 16 oz)

harambae··on I believe there are entire companies right now under AI psychosis
> No wonder they need to lay people off!

He clearly works at Apple, and they aren't laying people off.

harambae··on First public macOS kernel memory corruption exploit on Apple M5
> replay of Y2K, where, compared to the warnings, not lot happened

My dad was on one of the many Y2K teams that major tech companies had to make sure nothing went wrong. I feel like history may have undersold what could've been if not for considerable effort leading up to Jan 1, 2000.

harambae··on Amazon to stop selling 'hooligan e-bikes' in California
Are you in Florida?

In San Jose it’s mostly kids on serious e-bikes doing wheelies. and it’s probably not entirely safe, but does look fun

harambae··on Googlebook
SIP is similar to an enhanced secure boot. It's not (at least not primarily) for DRM.

He might be talking about a Gatekeeper override which is available by digging into the system settings? This allows you to run insecure resigned software (like pirated software is a common use case, honestly). But you only have to do this once, it isn't some constant headache.

I'm not sure what exactly he's referencing, actually. But it can almost all be disabled on macOS (the same is not true of iOS).

harambae··on The Secret Team Blowing Up Ford's Assembly Line to Make a $30k Electric Truck
"...a modular system stamps out three massive, aluminum castings..."

I don't see how you can stamp out a casting - maybe (or maybe not) a forging

harambae··on Debunking the CIA's “magic” heartbeat sensor [video]
> discourage their adversaries from looking for the beacon signal

I thought the exact same thing the moment I saw it. LPI (low probability of intercept) beacon just makes so much more sense (in the kit the pilot ejects with... has existed for decades). Why would they bother detecting heartbeats? They might not even detect the right one or trigger on an animal or whatever.

harambae··on Apple Says Mac Studio and Mac Mini Will Be in Short Supply for Months
Yeah but the base Mac Mini comes with 16GB. So getting that for $600 instead of a very clapped out M1 for $300 seems worth it. That's what I thought when I was browsing on ebay, anyway.
harambae··on AI should elevate your thinking, not replace it
On the flip side, how much training data exists for coding in Swift? Especially when a new version seems to come out every 6 months.
harambae··on Claude Code to be removed from Anthropic's Pro plan?
> Hope you can still resume working on your projects without AI.

How often does technology really move backwards? I can already run a decent local model on a spec’d out MacBook and for better or worse electronics/computers moves one direction (with minor supply chain hiccups along the way notwithstanding)

harambae··on Ask HN: What skills are future proof in an AI driven job market?
The body of the question is different from the title IMO

But for the title question I’d say building houses.

harambae··on Why America is short 4M homes
https://archive.is/WUjTC
harambae··on Are We Idiocracy Yet?
> like turning Animal House or Lord of the Flies into a black comedy

Animal Farm, probably ?

harambae··on Student Debt Burdened Them, So They Moved Abroad and Stopped Paying
> I've noticed most have no passport and just beg for forgiveness which usually works

in which direction? headed south or back north?

harambae··on [dead]
https://www.the-sun.com/news/16181056/
harambae··on F-15E jet shot down over Iran
Not sure if it was actually used, but a fun idea for pilot recovery..

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hiller_ROE_Rotorcycle

harambae··on Show HN: Airport Swap
Looks cool. I've used BlaBlaCar (paid carpooling) in Europe a few times to get to difficult to reach ski resorts and such. I wish we had that here in the US.
harambae··on Oil nears $110 a barrel after gas field strike
If that was known for certain it would be priced in already.
harambae··on Oil nears $110 a barrel after gas field strike
Phrasing like “rogue-state that is Israel” along with an account under 90 days old really feels like something I’ve been seeing a lot of lately on HN

And it’s not even that I disagree with you, but feels like some propaganda campaign.

harambae··on Tons of new LLM bot accounts here
I assume with enough accounts that look legitimate, they can shape overall "consensus" opinion on something, which would be valuable for all sorts of reasons. Some of those reasons being obvious (promoting a particular product or service) but others being more subtle ("manufacturing consent" for, say, a war in the middle east on behalf of some group)

We all like to think we're independent thinkers, but when seemingly everyone has an opinion a certain way... it would still, at least subconsciously, sway the average person.

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