<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Hacker News: burkaman</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=burkaman</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Tue, 27 Oct 2026 11:50:18 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=burkaman" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by burkaman in "Patch the Planet: global response coordination as agents uncover vulnerabilities"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> It highlights how AI can uncover security flaws with internet-scale impact<p>> To our knowledge, frontier AI found these vulnerabilities before attackers did<p>I don't know who/what Calif is and there's no link to them, so if I were only reading this article I would definitely get the impression that "AI did all the work here".</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 21 Oct 2026 17:07:50 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50184283</link><dc:creator>burkaman</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50184283</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50184283</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by burkaman in "The 1.5°C goal of the Paris Agreement is no longer viable"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>We are not trying to literally revert the planet to how it was 100 years ago, we are "just" trying to stop these trends as soon as possible so they don't continue for another 100 years. There are going to be consequences regardless, but they can always get worse.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 21 Oct 2026 12:04:07 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50179498</link><dc:creator>burkaman</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50179498</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50179498</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by burkaman in "The 1.5°C goal of the Paris Agreement is no longer viable"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>What is your approach to changing the global economic system that doesn't involve trying harder? That sounds very hard.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 21 Oct 2026 12:00:38 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50179458</link><dc:creator>burkaman</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50179458</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50179458</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by burkaman in "The 1.5°C goal of the Paris Agreement is no longer viable"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> Normal people don't care about climate<p>This is not true, it's fossil fuel propaganda that has been very successful. The overwhelming majority of people are concerned about the climate but assume that they are in the minority. See <a href="https://ourworldindata.org/climate-change-support" rel="nofollow">https://ourworldindata.org/climate-change-support</a> for example.<p>"Fight pollution" is the old approach, it doesn't work as well because greenhouse gases are generally invisible and cause no noticeable short-term impacts, and because in the US the industry has been successful in distorting the law such that greenhouse gases do not legally count as pollutants.</p>
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<p>Yes this is clearly just a minor extension of Krillion, but that one was also AI-generated so it's hard to feel bad for them.</p>
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<p>It's like treating concealed carry of a weapon differently than open carry. I think it's reasonable to say "you can do this in public but only if it's clear to other people that you're doing it".<p>Targeting smart glasses specifically seems to narrow though, because there are obviously many other ways to carry around a hidden camera in public, like one disguised as a pen in your pocket or something.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 05 Oct 2026 20:31:47 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49970269</link><dc:creator>burkaman</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49970269</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49970269</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by burkaman in "François Chollet: "OpenAI basically set back progress to AGI by 5 to 10 years""]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>This is an article from two days ago reporting on a 2+ year old podcast episode as if it just happened.</p>
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<p>I doubt he wrote that himself, it's just engagement bait for the betting ad in the next tweet.</p>
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<p>The poem is here, triggered by "play the block game" or "play minecraft": <a href="https://america.gov/_astro/block-game-poem.Khrmh8AU.js" rel="nofollow">https://america.gov/_astro/block-game-poem.Khrmh8AU.js</a></p>
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<p>This is bizarre. It's a parody of the Minecraft end credits (<a href="https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/End_Poem" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/End_Poem</a>), and it must be an intentional easter egg as I got the exact same text as you. It also doesn't trigger a network request so it must be built into the page somehow. Very strange thing to include. Also, how did you find this so quickly? I haven't found any other way to trigger it yet.<p>If you try to continue the conversation, the entire response is not included in the context.</p>
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<p>> There I met many fine Canadians, visiting for work, education, and play. Were they not Americans too?<p>I feel very confident that Canadians do not want to be referred to as Americans.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 29 Sep 2026 16:06:26 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49895695</link><dc:creator>burkaman</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49895695</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49895695</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by burkaman in "Google's first Suncatcher orbital data center test launches October 1"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Google's blog post (<a href="https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/models-and-research/google-research/google-project-suncatcher-facts/" rel="nofollow">https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/models-and-research/go...</a>) describes the goal of the launch as "designed to gather in-orbit data on how our TPUs handle the physical stress of spaceflight and the radiation and thermal extremes of space." That doesn't sound like a bad idea, obviously it might be useful to have dedicated machine learning hardware on spacecraft or satellites for local processing. Maybe they just framed it as an orbital data center test for marketing, because that's a trendy topic and sounds more newsworthy than "hardware durability test"?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 25 Sep 2026 20:40:29 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49849671</link><dc:creator>burkaman</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49849671</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49849671</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by burkaman in "U.S. appeals court upholds designation of Anthropic as supply chain risk"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>You're right, what an incredibly dishonest statement. The actual contract language in there makes it clear that there are no restrictions. My bad.</p>
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<p>There are three restrictions:<p>> No use of OpenAI technology for mass domestic surveillance.<p>> No use of OpenAI technology to direct autonomous weapons systems.<p>> No use of OpenAI technology for high-stakes automated decisions (e.g. systems such as “social credit”).<p>These are stronger than Anthropic's restrictions (<a href="https://www.anthropic.com/news/statement-department-of-war" rel="nofollow">https://www.anthropic.com/news/statement-department-of-war</a>), as OpenAI says themselves: "We think our agreement has more guardrails than any previous agreement for classified AI deployments, including Anthropic’s. [...] Based on what we know, we believe our contract provides better guarantees and more responsible safeguards than earlier agreements, including Anthropic’s original contract."<p>Edit: I was wrong, see my original comment. Sorry.</p>
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<p>The reason it appears corrupt is that OpenAI has the exact same restrictions (<a href="https://openai.com/index/our-agreement-with-the-department-of-war/" rel="nofollow">https://openai.com/index/our-agreement-with-the-department-o...</a>) but was not declared a supply chain risk. If two vendors have the same restrictions and they only designate one, then the designation must be arbitrary and/or capricious.<p>Edit: I was wrong, the statement I linked is extremely dishonest and I was misled. The contract language lower down makes it clear that there are no "red lines", and OpenAI products can in fact be used for mass domestic surveillance, autonomous weapons, and social credit systems as long as they are considered legal.</p>
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<p>Technologically incredible as in "I cannot believe it's possible for a computer to do this" and not very good as in "these examples are not what was prompted and I can't think of a use case where these would be acceptable".<p>Imagine someone showing you that they've trained their dog to hold a paintbrush and paint. There would be no contradiction between "this is incredible" and "these paintings suck".</p>
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<p>I agree it is disruptive, obviously that was the point, but it is not "depriving the rest of the people of their abilities to comment". Had she been allowed to finish her comment, nobody would have been deprived of anything.</p>
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<p>None of these examples are really what the prompt asked for. It's just like image models, once you get over how unbelievable it is that a computer produced this you realize the result isn't actually what you want.</p>
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<p>Seems like voice actors are safe for now. This is technologically incredible, but the results are really not very good, and usually not particularly close to the prompt. In basically all of these examples some core part of the prompt is completely ignored.</p>
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<p>There is nothing in the article about exceeding allotted time, and from the video it seems like she had just started speaking.</p>
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