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New comment by mlmonkey in "The "Passive Income" trap ate a generation of entrepreneurs"

mlmonkey — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 01:16:48 +0000

I blame Tim Ferriss and his "4 hour work week" book. I belive he talks about selling vitamins and letting some guys in India manage his site. Doesn't get his hands dirty. (This is from memory, so please forgive any misconceptions about it).

New comment by mlmonkey in "We gave an AI a 3 year retail lease and asked it to make a profit"

mlmonkey — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 01:12:51 +0000

But that means nothing: my local LLM has access to the microphone, network and camera too. The key is the harness!

New comment by mlmonkey in "We gave an AI a 3 year retail lease and asked it to make a profit"

mlmonkey — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 01:11:39 +0000

Did you read my question though? I read the full article. Please tell me where my question(s) are answered, and I will apologize on this forum.

New comment by mlmonkey in "Hospital at centre of child HIV outbreak caught reusing syringes in Pakistan"

mlmonkey — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 00:46:25 +0000

And what will Pakistan do with such an IMF loan? The Generals would siphon off most of it to buy their palatial Dubai houses and London condos. Until Pakistan cleans up its act, giving it more loans it throwing good money after bad.

New comment by mlmonkey in "We gave an AI a 3 year retail lease and asked it to make a profit"

mlmonkey — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 15:42:20 +0000

I'd be more interested in the details: what are the inputs given to the model? Does it get a live video feed? Does it know if/when employees show up and open the store? Does it get sales figures? Info on the individuals who bought things?

Storekeeping is more than just ordering merch and putting it up on hangars.

New comment by mlmonkey in "Does Gas Town 'steal' usage from users' LLM credits to improve itself?"

mlmonkey — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 23:04:25 +0000

For those of us not in the know, WTF is "Gas Town"? Please ELI5! TYVM.

New comment by mlmonkey in "Introspective Diffusion Language Models"

mlmonkey — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 23:00:11 +0000

Exactly. The current (streaming) way means that once it makes a decision, it's stuck with it. For example, variable naming: once it names it something, it's stuck using that name in the future. Where as a human would just go back and change the name.

Maybe "thinking" will fix this aspect, but I see it as a serious shortcoming.

New comment by mlmonkey in "Kalshi CEO expects US DOJ to prosecute insider trading cases"

mlmonkey — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 22:57:53 +0000

How many people were jailed by Obama's DOJ for 2008 crash?

New comment by mlmonkey in "Kalshi CEO expects US DOJ to prosecute insider trading cases"

mlmonkey — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 18:34:47 +0000

I'm guessing it's Trump insiders who are busy making bank on inside info. Some of them just happen to be big investors in Polymarket and Kalshi. There's no way they are getting investigated, let alone prosecuted, by this DOJ.

At most some low-level flunkie will get named and slapped on the wrist.

New comment by mlmonkey in "Kalshi CEO expects US DOJ to prosecute insider trading cases"

mlmonkey — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 18:33:00 +0000

You give the Dems too much credit.

New comment by mlmonkey in "Allbirds, Inc. Announces Expansion into AI Compute Infrastructure"

mlmonkey — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 15:48:04 +0000

I knew something was up when every morning I'd find my Allbirds mysteriously on top of my keyboard. And coincidentally, someone has been using all of my Claude tokens every night...

But my jogging has been great recently! I've been posting PBs on Strava, though I don't remember creating a Strava account any time... hmmm...

New comment by mlmonkey in "Introspective Diffusion Language Models"

mlmonkey — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 17:30:10 +0000

I'm no expert (just a monkey... ;) ), but isn't Diffusion supposed to generate ALL of the output at once? From their diagram, it looks like their I-LDM model seems to use previously generated context to generate the next tokens (or blocks).

New comment by mlmonkey in "Backblaze has stopped backing up OneDrive and Dropbox folders and maybe others"

mlmonkey — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 16:30:36 +0000

I would love to see a summary of all of the various options being bandied about.

There are 2 components in my mind: the backup "agent" (what runs on your laptop/desktop/server) and the storage provider (which BB is in this context).

What do people recommend for the agent? (I understand some storage providers have their own agents) For Linux/MacOS/Windows.

What do people recommend for the storage provider? Let's assume there are 1TB of files to be backed up. 99.9% don't change frequently.

New comment by mlmonkey in "A new spam policy for “back button hijacking”"

mlmonkey — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 04:39:05 +0000

But the question is: why are sites allowed to hijack the Back Button?!?

New comment by mlmonkey in "Small models also found the vulnerabilities that Mythos found"

mlmonkey — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 17:33:13 +0000

> My proof-in-pudding test is still the fact that we haven't seen gigantic mass firings at tech companies

This assumes that companies will announce such mass firings (yeah, I'm aware of WARN Act); when in reality they will steadily let go of people for various reasons (including "performance").

From my (tech heavy) social circle, I have noticed an uptick in the number of people suddenly becoming unemployed.

New comment by mlmonkey in "Small models also found the vulnerabilities that Mythos found"

mlmonkey — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 17:29:58 +0000

We can reduce this to an even more basic question: if these small models are equally comparable in finding vulnerabilities, why haven't they done so yet?. After all, the source code is out in the open, and has been for decades. Please go ahead, find (and report) the vulnerabilities.

New comment by mlmonkey in "Claude Code's source code has been leaked via a map file in their NPM registry"

mlmonkey — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 16:57:13 +0000

I guess I need reading glasses ... :-D

New comment by mlmonkey in "Claude Code's source code has been leaked via a map file in their NPM registry"

mlmonkey — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 16:02:43 +0000

> Someone said 10,000x slower, but that's off - in my experience - by about four orders of magnitude.

You do know that 10,000x _is_ four orders of magnitude, right? :-D

New comment by mlmonkey in "FTC action against Match and OkCupid for deceiving users, sharing personal data"

mlmonkey — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 16:56:00 +0000

All of these sites do shady shit. I'm so glad I'm no longer single.

I signed up for eHarmony with a unique email address dedicated to that site. After wasting 6 months, I chose to delete my account.

Lo and behold, soon spam started to show up on this account, as if the floodgates had been opened. It was a unique account that I had not used anywhere else just for this specific reason, and my hunch was justified.

New comment by mlmonkey in "A Faster Alternative to Jq"

mlmonkey — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 15:42:50 +0000

Minor suggestion: often I just want to extract one field, whose name I know exactly. I see that `jg` has an option `-F` like this:

$ cat sample.json | jg -F name

I would humbly suggest that a better syntax would be:

$ cat sample.json | jg .name

for a leaf node named "name"; or

$ cat sample.json | jg -F .name.

for any node named "name".