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cowpig

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    Comment #49211992

    Their contracts give them a preposterous amount of control over their customers. All of the "Sovereignty" messaging is kind of ironic because it basically boils down to "don't trus…

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    Comment #49192069

    Well imagine what it would be like to experience the experience of an LLM. Just imagine they are conscious for the time they are autogressing. Wouldn't it be like the experience of…

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    Comment #49129156

    I discovered the show recently and thought that was a part of the point, but apparently the show's development long predates LLMs!

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    Comment #49083096

    Sounds like you're saying the bar for bombing children should be "someone else could have made this mistake"

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    Comment #48978803

    `greywall -- opencode`

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    Comment #48920578

    It's much different. The dependency trees have a whole system that's evolved for decades. The same code goes into many computers. Many people read the source, security firms look f…

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    Comment #48887830

    This is an option: https://github.com/GreyhavenHQ/greywall

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    Comment #48831849

    Well, tmux is mature, battle-tested software, whereas probably no human has ever read the majority of the code in this project.

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    Comment #48738438

    I've always found that what science is really lacking is closed, proprietary ecosystems trying to build for-profit moats around research. Thank our lords at Anthropic for stepping …

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    Comment #48707105

    I don't think we should ask the agent runtime to police itself. I contributed to a tool for this problem that is lower-friction than traditional sandboxing: greywall.io But you sho…

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    Comment #48645428

    I don't see why those two positions are mutually exclusive?

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    Comment #48636635

    Can I serve my media library off of my NAS with the PS5? I am legit asking because I just got on the list hoping to use this thing as my home entertainment system

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    Comment #48588673

    openclaw is for larping

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    Comment #48489465

    I visited Cuba and found that Castro's popularity is fairly universal there. I have never been to Miami and don't know any Cuban immigrants, though.

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    Comment #48332147

    I think you are underestimating the amount of compute the US frontier labs have access to.

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    Comment #48331982

    A lot in here about Google, which hilariously has done a bunch of studies that concluded it's hiring process is awful (is sure is!) and the takeaway is that candidate evaluation is…

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    Comment #48315724

    > Right now my only source of income is the $15k/year I got by being one of the top 300 GitHub users globally. That puts me in the 99.9997th percentile of open source developers (b…

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    Comment #48299088

    I don't know how I feel about this, conceptually. It's clear that social media are natural monopolies, and are being politically leveraged by the people who run them. So the status…

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    Comment #48251166

    I expect more from HN than seeing this kind of propaganda: Vague story without references featuring the takedown of an uninteresting political caricatures

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    Comment #48202574

    oh great more memes about that data security catastrophe

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    Comment #48170126

    people with values different from yours, presumably

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    Comment #48168930

    We should be involving our community members more in the exchange of ideas, and digital sources of information quite a bit less.

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    Comment #48097606

    Their business model revolves around people to choose to pay them for products, which aligns them with customer interests on a fundamental level. They have to work within those con…

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    Comment #47968207

    better is always good when something you think is bad gets better but not better enough, say "more please"

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    Comment #47867902

    Can you explain why they are mutually exclusive?