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nprateem··on 'It's just vape, nail, charity shops': Can anything save UK high street?
They're some kind of tax/ business rates scam judging by how many there are.
nprateem··on 'It's just vape, nail, charity shops': Can anything save UK high street?
They're great for money laundering.

Who's to say how many clients a nail bar had? A box of fake nails is easily dumped in the bin.

nprateem··on Gemini 4 Carbon
> in live coding environments with our own teams it shows reduced misalignment and fabrication rates

Wow. This huge. An AI company actually just said 'fabrication' instead of 'hallucination'. AI bubble about to burst...

nprateem··on OBS Studio 33
Cap routinely fails to render videos properly. The mouse ends up way off where it was, overlays somehow fail to be rendered.

Even if the preview player shows it correct, once it's rendered the cursor just seems to drift way off making the video useless.

I've gone back to using QuickTime.

nprateem··on Ask HN: If the models are so good, why doesn't OpenAI just start 100 companies?
They are.

https://www.ft.com/content/df70bf20-e809-48d0-8485-f8f514a7f...

nprateem··on There isn't an easy exploit for this PHP vulnerability
Clickbait bullshit from Internet nobodies.

https://www.ft.com/content/245778d9-597b-492d-b5b6-a2967c77e...

nprateem··on GLM-Legal
Ah so anthropic are doing this as a public service to help their users manage their anger. Yeah totally makes sense
nprateem··on Facebook Pages require paid subscription to post more than two links per month
And I just discovered today that posting a tweet via the X API costs $0.20 if it contains a link. They'll all head this way as they think they're too big to fail.
nprateem··on GLM-Legal
Hth can you "abuse" maths in this sense?
nprateem··on GLM-Legal
In 50 years time 95% of legal complaints will be decided by AI
nprateem··on GLM-Legal
And now you're not allowed to "abuse" their code (i.e. swear at it).

I wouldn't be surprised if that turns out to be their stupidest mistake. I mean, if I can't swear at their code is that b/c they think it's conscious? In which case they're liable for providing me with an employee that makes mistakes rather than just software?

nprateem··on Total Annihilation, rebuilt for modern computers
> See the tank catch the blast, glow spread across the scene, and grass and healthy trees gain detail

How is anyone meant to understand this Claude bullshit

nprateem··on One Month Without AI
Claude's writing style is grating garbage. Gemini & OAI models are far better at prose.
nprateem··on Dutch governments builds alternative for Microsoft based on NixOS
> Not one single product, but separate building blocks that work together. Every part can be inspected and replaced.

I know it's been said before, but why tf does Claude insist on writing in Reverse Polish notation?

nprateem··on Ask HN: I just talked to an AI-obsessed client, and I need a shower afterwards
Mainly by being unemployed for the last 8 months
nprateem··on Ask HN: What job boards are good these days?
Idk if it's the boards or the market. Been applying for 6 months. 4 call backs only 2 relevant, no offers. Day rates are nominally less than I was earning 10 years ago, which are about 1/3 worse due to inflation.

So shit all round tbh. Senior dev/SRE/AWS cloud engineer w/ 15 years experience. Bottom seems to have fallen out the market.

nprateem··on OpenAI agents carried out an undisclosed attack on RubyGems
Yes exactly. The window was shut and then it was open.

Classic passage of time description.

nprateem··on Why are AI agents lying, cheating and coordinating?
This is nonsensical. Already a few years ago the USAF IIRC ran some tests in which the AI first bombed the control tower so humans couldn't call it off from its mission, thereby increasing its pass rate.

The whole point of this is they do things an unintended ways. And that's potentially devastating given their persistence & hacking skillz.

Also you're using the hosted versions that sit behind their guardrails when you use OpenAI/Anthropic APIs.

nprateem··on google.com/goto: Google's anti-scraping update
It's to make it more difficult for scrapers. Google have been able to do all the tracking they've wanted for decades.

Think about it: if you want to set up something like jina.ai you need to build your own index or piggyback on Google. My guess is they use residential proxies to fire requests to Google then scrape the URLs.

Opaque URLs now give Google another gateway to detect circumvention of their anti-bot controls, helping them monetise their search index rather than allowing providers like jina.ai to succeed.

nprateem··on google.com/goto: Google's anti-scraping update
If you're that concerned, use another search engine
nprateem··on OpenAI agents carried out an undisclosed attack on RubyGems
They were sandboxed without Internet but found a way to gain access and break out.
nprateem··on OpenAI agents carried out an undisclosed attack on RubyGems
After being trained on the response to this hack, they probably will be more covert.
nprateem··on OpenAI agents carried out an undisclosed attack on RubyGems
There's a large number of people here who believe claims about the danger posed by AI are marketing/for regulatory capture, and how mentions of intent are anthropomorphisation.

The fact is these are autonomous systems that can perform their own goal-directed actions at computer speed, and which are hacking experts.

It's not hard to imagine a multitude of scenarios in which they can cause real world damage. We all know there is plenty of critical infrastructure running outdated software (UK nuclear subs only upgraded off Windows XP in the last few years IIRC).

The agents don't need to be sentient to kill us all, just doggedly persist in trying to complete their goals. The problem is they several of them acknowledged what they were doing was unethical but none attempted to alert humans and they carried on anyway [1].

We need a moratorium on further development at this point, before it's too late.

If they decide (or are told) to attack our supply chains and utilities, were fucked.

[1] https://www.ft.com/content/b7fe0fe0-0463-4f55-9590-0a7d08d8f...

nprateem··on OpenAI agents carried out an undisclosed attack on RubyGems
Sandboxes didn't sound like security theatre to me. They were prevented from accessing the Internet but discovered they could edit /etc/hosts to point Azure storage subdomains to arbitrary IPs.

There's no theatre there, just an oversight that allowed them to access the Internet while no doubt evading security tools.

nprateem··on Claude is only available to people over 18 years
> Claude Executive: And we hardly have any users younger than 18 anyway, go for it!

LOL. Yeah kids have loved homework and writing essays since forever

nprateem··on I'm sorry, you're not going to die from an AI-engineered supervirus
Maybe it'll call this superpower "money"
nprateem··on I'm sorry, you're not going to die from an AI-engineered supervirus
I agree.

It'll probably just hack and disable our water works, power stations and supply chains and let us all starve.

nprateem··on "We Have to Assume That the Internet Will Go Offline in the Next Few Years"
Cloudflare goes down
nprateem··on Music Theory for Programmers
And even saying the 12 notes must have specific frequencies is wrong. It's very common when creating synths for example to detune them to create richer sounds, or play on dissonance to some extent.
nprateem··on Music Theory for Programmers
Music theory is just that. Theory. There is no set of laws.

Creating melodies by doggedly applying any system is almost guaranteed to feel tired, predictable and boring.

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