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New comment by chatmasta in "Statement on US government directive to suspend access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5"

chatmasta — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 02:02:51 +0000

No, my legal theory is that you cannot simultaneously compare technology to a weapon and also say it falls outside the bounds of the 2nd amendment.

New comment by chatmasta in "Statement on US government directive to suspend access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5"

chatmasta — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 01:48:49 +0000

But it’s not that different from the whole premise of their red team scaremongering which was “we pointed the model at a source file and told it to find an exploit.”

New comment by chatmasta in "US Government directive to suspend access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5"

chatmasta — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 01:44:37 +0000

Anti-jailbreaking and passport verified access to model families.

New comment by chatmasta in "Statement on US government directive to suspend access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5"

chatmasta — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 01:40:45 +0000

It’s a pretty safe bet that every frontier lab has multiple foreign intelligence agencies running assets inside of it.

New comment by chatmasta in "Statement on US government directive to suspend access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5"

chatmasta — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 01:17:55 +0000

So are guns, which we constitutionally protected. In fact there’s probably a decent argument that AI should fall under 2nd amendment protection.

New comment by chatmasta in "Statement on US government directive to suspend access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5"

chatmasta — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 01:16:10 +0000

It’ll be sorted out after OpenAI releases their next model.

New comment by chatmasta in "Ryanair dark UX patterns summer 2026 refresher"

chatmasta — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 13:51:11 +0000

Even Amazon does this. So scummy. This exchange rate trick should be illegal everywhere.

New comment by chatmasta in "Anthropic walks back policy that could have 'sabotaged' researchers using Claude"

chatmasta — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 05:56:09 +0000

It’s logical consideration with “logical” meaning Spock style logic, ie utilitarianism at all costs. Another prominent EA is SBF for example. It’s designed to sound innocuous and many of its cultish promoters may genuinely believe it’s innocuous, but it’s not.

New comment by chatmasta in "Anthropic walks back policy that could have 'sabotaged' researchers using Claude"

chatmasta — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 05:48:16 +0000

The company was founded basically out of the effective altruism movement.

New comment by chatmasta in "PgDog is funded and coming to a database near you"

chatmasta — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 22:20:35 +0000

Doesn’t PgDog also handle the sharding by proxying the writes? Maybe I missed something but I thought this is their value prop. It’s not just another PgBouncer.

New comment by chatmasta in "PgDog is funded and coming to a database near you"

chatmasta — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 22:17:43 +0000

The composition of the average transaction will be different in a shopping cart (lots of writes and updates) compared to your use case which sounds like it skewed read heavy. With Postgres it’s generally easier to scale reads because it doesn’t really matter which replica the query hits, as long as it contains the data it needs. Whereas write-heavy workloads route through a single-writer bottleneck.

There’s challenges scaling read-heavy workloads, for sure — but they’re generally more straight forward than scaling write-heavy workloads. You can get away with more dumb horizontal scaling than with writes.

New comment by chatmasta in "AWS Bedrock to require sharing data with Anthropic for Mythos and future models"

chatmasta — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 21:44:25 +0000

What if the data goes to Anthropic EU servers?

New comment by chatmasta in "AWS Bedrock to require sharing data with Anthropic for Mythos and future models"

chatmasta — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 21:38:04 +0000

Yeah it’s wild. But I think the attitude is more like “everyone is taking the same risks together, so we won’t be alone if the ship hits an iceberg.” Nobody got fired for buying Frontier AI.

New comment by chatmasta in "AWS Bedrock to require sharing data with Anthropic for Mythos and future models"

chatmasta — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 12:33:47 +0000

Anthropic has all the answers for that. You’ll go through some compliance exercises and classify them as a subprocessor of highest tier of data sensitivity.

New comment by chatmasta in "AWS Bedrock to require sharing data with Anthropic for Mythos and future models"

chatmasta — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 11:25:59 +0000

They give it some thought, but Anthropic and AWS have the whole menu of compliance and security checkboxes needed to reassure CISO it doesn’t need to be “the office of no” and can allow the AI onboarding. The pressure to adopt and adapt to AI is so high right now that there’s nothing a CISO or CFO can say to stop its adoption. And the more they say “no” or “wait,” the more at-risk they put their job.

New comment by chatmasta in "European sentiments towards the US hit an all-time low"

chatmasta — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 10:46:23 +0000

Follow the Yugoslavia model and ship soldiers from each country to live and work with each other in their first years in military service.

Then again… Yugoslavia maybe not the best example here…

New comment by chatmasta in "Ask HN: Are you still using a Vision Pro?"

chatmasta — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 01:00:09 +0000

I see some deeply enthusiastic comments like this whenever it’s mentioned. I wonder how much lack of adoption is simply lack of awareness. Apple needs to find ways to make experimenting with it, and experiencing specific use cases, more approachable. I’m not going to go to the Apple Store to try it — I don’t care enough. Maybe one day I’ll happen to do that, but I’ve got enough social anxiety (which is a low amount!) to not want to ask someone in a busy Apple Store to let me strap the VR goggles to my face for 30 minutes of experimenting with a code editor.

Idk if there’s an easy solution to this — maybe shared setups distributed to WeWork type spaces or something… but I suspect it’s the main barrier to adoption, assuming even just 10% of developers would share the same experience as you when they try it for the first time. (Or maybe there’s also a learning curve where it sucks on first experience, and your body gets used to it only after some prolonged usage?)

New comment by chatmasta in "AI is slowing down"

chatmasta — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 23:08:52 +0000

They will, but they won’t realize it’s writing code. It will look like Claude Cowork, which writes code for itself under the hood but is results-oriented for the user.

New comment by chatmasta in "xAI is looking more like a datacentre REIT than a frontier lab"

chatmasta — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 22:33:30 +0000

What? They make money from their own inference and models too, which they can train effectively for free by funding their operations with rental income from their last gen datacenter.

New comment by chatmasta in "xAI is looking more like a datacentre REIT than a frontier lab"

chatmasta — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 21:07:34 +0000

xAI covers their cost of N-1 datacenter while running their own models in N and building out N+1.