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Muromec

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About Muromec

(Clearly not North America)

This account may leave trace amounts of left agenda, un-american opinions and ableist propaganda in your browser history.

Was once working for YC company. Did some React, Vue.js, python nodejs. Can eyball asn.1 and debug X509 nonsence, OCSP, CMP, whatever.

Offer me a remote Erlang/Elixir job in CET timezone.

Recent public activity

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    Comment #49233386

    >Yes but your 8 hours of work will serve more people. I work in place that serves about the third of a population of a small country and I highly doubt the advances in technology f…

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    Comment #49217668

    Our CEO generously offered generous 1% yearly salary adjustment to the trade unions, an RTO mandate and a plan to reduce the number of employees by 20% in a few years, despite havi…

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    Comment #49217639

    >The conflict in that case (and, I think AI) came about not from the technology or its advancement, but the use of that technology for class warfare by capitalists. Does this disti…

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    Comment #49217632

    I think it gets lost in a translation somewhere. If it's boring technology, why be excited about it? I respect boring technologies and don't believe in the end of the world christi…

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    Comment #49216051

    Only an order of magnitude? I'm both surprised by both the fact it's so low and the fact 1900 is 3x of 1800.

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    Comment #49216030

    (not a native speaker) fired up as in "optimistic and enthusiastic about the new messiah" or as in "Butlearian jihadi, all AI is haram" way?

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    Comment #49216014

    Thank you for your service to community, dear stranger. o7

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    Comment #49211019

    I haven't considered looking at it from the security thread angle. Can you expand on this?

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    Comment #49210904

    We don't go that far. From the small sample I saw, I noticed that people who can't answer the basic questions are ones that can't use AI effectively either and don't understand tha…

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    Comment #49208750

    It signals you don't have enough time or will to chase the latest stuff, otherwise you would have learned it with other cool kids half a year earlier. It carries some signal, but I…

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    Comment #49208722

    The most fun part being seeping through stderr of tsc and restarting the unit test runner after realigning some assumptions.

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    Comment #49208682

    >It’s pretty typical stuff that you might expect an experienced engineer to do if they effectively use such tools daily. It's also the kind of stuff that somebody can learn in a we…

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    Comment #49208636

    I was on the interviewer side last month. We stopped giving take-home assignments because they don't produce a signal anymore. We explicitly said -- feel free to use whatever frame…

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    Comment #49184654

    They still have to bother with actually going to a judge and actually getting that warrant. Why do that if you can just skip it and not deal with inconvenient questions.

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    Comment #49142680

    You can, but its not the first preference

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    Comment #49142676

    If you would tell people at the start of 20th century how much energy we consume, they may not believe you or think it is wasteful.

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    Comment #49116118

    But like any other CEO he can't get in jail, so who's laughing now?

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    Comment #49108068

    >LLMs don't have agency, or desires of their own. LLM doesn't, but LLM is one part of what can be perceived as AI. Harness and context are the other two. I would even say that LLM …

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    Comment #49102295

    By the time it does 10 turns of tool calls it forgets about the nagging again. It can and does ignore direct instruction from the user prompt too, sometimes repeatedly

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    Comment #49098229

    >In this case, it is an advisory control only, because the LLM can also unhook that hook you can in principle make a hook in the harness itself that will run an auditor prompt that…

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    Comment #49098015

    If the harness runs on your localhost, but the inference doesn't, it usually means it's calling some API. Whether you want to break TOS of your provider like that or simply buy tok…

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    Comment #49097988

    Ourselves. Always be threatening yourself to not be surprised by unavoidable.

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    Comment #49097978

    Oh, it would likely be my shit that will be burning and my property to be taxed in the event of. What I'm saying is -- if the system degrades to a state that only responds to eithe…

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    Comment #49097883

    The trick I'm doing -- the model is given a tool that runs a prompt in the current thread to consolidate it's working memory and identity (it has a memory tool bound to the agent p…

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    Comment #49097725

    Ask it to come back with a filled checklist and hand it over to a different agent with a fresh context window (three lines model). Or make it collapse the context and get back to t…