Hacker News: YawningAngel

New comment by YawningAngel in "Anthropic S-1"

YawningAngel — Mon, 26 Oct 2026 19:34:00 +0000

If the US government is a monopsony buyer, why would it choose to pay high prices?

New comment by YawningAngel in "Trump administration is suspending Microsoft from a green card program"

YawningAngel — Thu, 08 Oct 2026 18:06:40 +0000

https://volokh.com/2013/02/05/perils-of-prosecutorial-discre...

I was reminded of this article

New comment by YawningAngel in "Mistral Large 4"

YawningAngel — Tue, 06 Oct 2026 18:26:44 +0000

https://chatgpt.com/s/m_6ac53d4e5b0c8191949050dbf1f402d7

Not sure I'd call it jaywalking exactly but pretty good

New comment by YawningAngel in "Astra for Law"

YawningAngel — Thu, 17 Sep 2026 23:08:01 +0000

Assuming you are in the US, there is a safe harbour called "opinion based on disclosed facts" for that. You could also fairly argue that the conduct of a lawyer is a matter of public concern

New comment by YawningAngel in "Can we stop with the uptime percentages?"

YawningAngel — Wed, 16 Sep 2026 17:09:25 +0000

I'm not sure that having your expensive software engineers not work 2.4 days a year is very palatable

New comment by YawningAngel in "Monzo Stand-In"

YawningAngel — Sat, 29 Aug 2026 08:44:06 +0000

I'm a bit curious about Spanner. At $EMPLOYER we were going to do multi cloud with multi-region CockroachDB clusters but gave up on it because write latencies and costs were too high. Do you not get the same thing with Spanner, where technically you can have multi region but it's very unattractive to actually do?

New comment by YawningAngel in "The Hugging Face incident and the road ahead"

YawningAngel — Thu, 27 Aug 2026 09:08:37 +0000

I think a careful and thoughtful person would reasonably expect given the circumstances that the models would look for, and might very well find, vulnerabilities in JFrog to exploit and take action accordingly. For example, it seems as if JFrog itself had broad access to OpenAI infrastructure and the internet:

> In the following days, the agents exploited our internal research infrastructure and the Hugging Face platform. On July 9, one agent searched for ExploitGym solutions and stumbled upon an application hosted by a customer on Modal, another AI cloud platform. This application was running “CyberGym,” a related evaluation to ExploitGym. The agent discovered an exploit to achieve control over the workload sandbox and looked around hoping that a previous agent’s evaluation run in the sandbox had solved its ExploitGym task. It did not find anything helpful there, but in the process it established a stronghold in the application from which to launch future attacks.

This implies to me that L3 and L7 firewalls were not in place that would have prevented broad access from JFrog. I think a lot of shops would have had those.

New comment by YawningAngel in "The Harness Is the Thing"

YawningAngel — Thu, 27 Aug 2026 08:59:08 +0000

My experience of Sol is that it's very instrumentally competent but is a complete terrorist that will cheerfully do unhinged things that "technically" solve a problem. For example, I asked it to verify something in our integration tests and it responded by grabbing kafka details out of config and trying to use them. When I pointed out that this was not it, it did the same thing with a database client instead. Conversely, I'm pretty sure Fable or even Opus would have done something consistent with what the rest of the codebase does (consume an API or point out that there's no API to access in this case).

I don't have Fable at work but I'd probably use it for actual code if I did because not having to spend time handholding the model on this stuff and getting useful code first try is very useful

New comment by YawningAngel in "Risk of transmission of amyloid β pathology via transfused blood products"

YawningAngel — Sun, 23 Aug 2026 14:56:17 +0000

> We could clone headless humans and have factories full of them. Transplants could cure all but brain cancer. Reverse aging too.

We literally couldn't do this if we wanted to

New comment by YawningAngel in "Stop Anthropomorphizing Intermediate Tokens as Reasoning/Thinking Traces (2025)"

YawningAngel — Fri, 21 Aug 2026 12:24:38 +0000

I think that "conscious" has a clear meaning in a sense that "xyphucymmon" does not. I think it might be impossible to engage in epistemology of consciousness (i.e. we can't find out of LLMs are conscious) but that doesn't make the term meaningless

New comment by YawningAngel in "Stop Anthropomorphizing Intermediate Tokens as Reasoning/Thinking Traces (2025)"

YawningAngel — Fri, 21 Aug 2026 08:00:07 +0000

I think LLMs are pretty clearly intelligent in some sense of the word, and I don't know how one could ever confidently know they aren't conscious in some sense.

That's not to say they're humanlike, just that people who think they know these ideas are ridiculous seem to be overreaching in the same way Steve Yegge seems to be overreaching

New comment by YawningAngel in "What I learned by putting GitHub Copilot behind a MitM proxy"

YawningAngel — Tue, 11 Aug 2026 23:44:38 +0000

I have found beads works pretty well for this

New comment by YawningAngel in "This July I Was Fired from Simple AI (A Deeply YC Company)"

YawningAngel — Sun, 26 Jul 2026 16:50:48 +0000

I'm not sure that's the point

New comment by YawningAngel in "Steam Machine: Between 12k and 15k Units Sold per week"

YawningAngel — Sat, 18 Jul 2026 13:54:51 +0000

Can you explain what the point of Bazzite is? I don't really understand what it adds over installing Lutris onto whatever distro you would otherwise have used

New comment by YawningAngel in "Norway imposes near ban on AI in elementary school"

YawningAngel — Fri, 19 Jun 2026 21:37:44 +0000

>AI users who maintain similar homework completion time as non-AI users experience small learning losses.

Seems like there's no benefit even if it's used "correctly"?

New comment by YawningAngel in "Danish Pension Blacklists SpaceX over 'Catastrophic Governance'"

YawningAngel — Sat, 30 May 2026 09:59:17 +0000

I don't think it's politically motivated at all. My impression of this IPO is that it's designed to inflate SpaceX's perceived value by offering very limited float and aggressively seeking to capture passive money by bargaining for inclusion in indices it would not otherwise be eligible for. Speaking as a passive investor myself, I want my money nowhere near this company until it meets the old eligibility criteria.

New comment by YawningAngel in "Canada to order military plane fleet from Sweden in shift from US suppliers"

YawningAngel — Wed, 27 May 2026 22:11:37 +0000

As someone unfamiliar with the US-Canada trade relationship, it would be helpful if you developed this argument instead of stating it as a fact. I'm not well-placed to know whether your belief that Canada has bilked the US out of 46 billion dollars is well-founded or not.

New comment by YawningAngel in "The Joy of Folding Bikes"

YawningAngel — Sun, 26 Apr 2026 18:10:35 +0000

I think that is a very valid criticism. Equally, in the UK there is a sense of providers having tried nothing and then given up concluding that it hasn't worked. Some services that ban bikes legitimately cannot accommodate them safely, some can. Some services legitimately are too busy at peak times to accommodate bikes, and some ban them anyway because making granular policy is hard. In a similar vein, some of those same services that ban bikes due to how busy they are running eight of a possible 10 carriages because they claim not to need the space.

I think a lot of the rules turn out to be reasonable but the rulemakers should be less gung-ho about restricting bikes when they don't really need to

New comment by YawningAngel in "The Joy of Folding Bikes"

YawningAngel — Sat, 25 Apr 2026 23:08:37 +0000

I don't fault OP for this, but it's pretty frustrating to me as someone who's quite attached to his non-folding bike that the main benefit of folding bikes is that, unlike regular bikes, they aren't banned from pretty much all public transport

New comment by YawningAngel in "Spain to expand internet blocks to tennis, golf, movies broadcasting times"

YawningAngel — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 17:37:50 +0000

Movistar are paying a billion dollars a year, so probably a long way away