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New comment by sublimefire in "Claude discovers a novel enzyme system with CRISPR-like repeats"

sublimefire — Thu, 24 Sep 2026 10:17:58 +0000

Despite the article looks like it talks about Claude, in reality it describes a new type of a job - a synthesis of data science, research, comp science, plus industry specific knowledge. Another extremely important thing is to have access to all related research in some programmatic way, this is for exploration, I do not think many have such access. Finally, you need to be prepared to read all those generated results and judge them effectively to pick the strands worth pursuing further. I bet you could do it with any model and your own harness, even authors admit they use their own to manage multiple sessions which hints that claude is not enough.

New comment by sublimefire in "Private German rocket makes history, reaches orbit from European soil"

sublimefire — Sat, 05 Sep 2026 23:34:39 +0000

That is also not correct anymore as Northern countries were reallocated to include the Baltics in UN as an example.

New comment by sublimefire in "Private German rocket makes history, reaches orbit from European soil"

sublimefire — Sat, 05 Sep 2026 23:31:23 +0000

Ireland is not part of Schengen as well for example, it is because that is much harder to practically achieve for folks living on islands.

New comment by sublimefire in "The turbulent AI era is here"

sublimefire — Fri, 28 Aug 2026 06:31:19 +0000

Just for the context UBI kind of already exists in some countries but in a different form. If you are in Ireland and do not work you get the benefits provided you have somewhere to live and can pick them up in the post office (~200eur/week). The problem is that it solves only part of the issue because people have to live somewhere, and sure the gov will even contribute towards it (they do already) but somehow not enough is being built. The benefit is basically not enough to get the mortgage, nor is there housing available.

New comment by sublimefire in "The coolest use for the Vision Pro"

sublimefire — Thu, 30 Jul 2026 12:16:49 +0000

Not vr/ar but 3d visualisations and walkthroughs were a thing like 20 years ago. I did try to leverage it with the clients but what happened was that once people could see everything they had more opinions about how to change it. It helped me to get clients though. Sometimes it would go on for quite a ”few” iterations. I think it is more scalable not to do it, i.e. not to be on the cutting edge, unless the customer pays premium for it. I am pretty sure vr/ar has the same challenges where people are like “oh I thought the ceiling was higher, can we increase it by 2 inches and move the stair case a bit?” then you do it and something is wrong again.

New comment by sublimefire in "Discovering Cryptographic Weaknesses with Claude"

sublimefire — Wed, 29 Jul 2026 06:30:43 +0000

It looks like the message here is “make sure to use $100k worth of Claude when doing any analysis or evaluation” and the given examples show that prior effort could have been improved or made faster. But to me 100k is an opportunity cost, and there is a possibility that these results are not reproducible, so spending it on some researcher or a grad student would buy you more in a long term. If it was 1k then sure it is worth throwing at a large problem space to find things, like using fuzzing.

New comment by sublimefire in "Evidence of inconsistencies in evaluation process and selection of winners"

sublimefire — Fri, 17 Jul 2026 14:11:58 +0000

Went through the comments here and there and one thing to note is that there was a question about who do you think should have won instead. This is a good question because it is possible that all submissions were like this or there were ones that looked just worse. It would be quite useful to know who came close as well in this case. If you knew which submissions were good you could have a process to revoke the prize and give it to someone else in case of fraud or negligence or similar.

Having said that it is also possible that the mistakes and claims were a human error, sure a lot gets ai generated these days but there is a chance in which case the accusation does not look so severe anymore.

New comment by sublimefire in "Microsoft has released software updates to plug at least 570 security holes"

sublimefire — Wed, 15 Jul 2026 09:46:07 +0000

It was like a bunch of mythos scans through and through which then generated the reports for everyone to implement, not sure if in all orgs though. Mythos was great as it came from the top, i.e. a clear incentive. I think bug reporting otherwise does not reach the engineers unless an incident is raised by the customer care against a responsible team.

New comment by sublimefire in "3D Airplane tracker on Mercator map"

sublimefire — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 12:21:43 +0000

“think and grow rich” by n.hill is an interesting mention to say the least.

New comment by sublimefire in "How to sequence your own DNA at home"

sublimefire — Tue, 07 Jul 2026 12:11:43 +0000

It might make even more sense once we get to the point of a wider use of encoding the data into dna. For now we have these few commercial players in the field that cad do it (eg look up dna microfactory for storage archiving), IIRC genomika was saying they can do an MB for a 100-200eur.

New comment by sublimefire in "Completing a computer science degree on Coursera"

sublimefire — Mon, 06 Jul 2026 09:12:38 +0000

I did masters in a similar way, just to get some credentials and fill in the gaps and learn something new. There is an idealistic part to it which is quite romantic as you spend the nights learning and doing the assignments. The structure of such online based learning systems is great for a determined person. However the “other” part of such courses are cheating and ai use. It is depressing to know that the specific credentials prove little because of it. So the only valid signal is: this person did not quit and they know how to write a report, use references. You’d need to test them to fully validate the credential.

New comment by sublimefire in "Google Books (or similar) all book scans – $200k bounty (2025)"

sublimefire — Sat, 04 Jul 2026 23:13:39 +0000

The problem is that it is quite difficult to access the published papers is you are not in academia or some company that pays for the access, so AA sort of serves that niche to transfer the knowledge. Training on the other hand is a commercial activity to later rent the model, if this would be purely for open weights I suspect everyone was cool with it.

New comment by sublimefire in "US Supreme Court Just Blew Up EU-US Data Transfers"

sublimefire — Tue, 30 Jun 2026 09:07:59 +0000

I do not trust either but you have to at least agree that having some sort of mutually recognised data privacy framework is a good idea because the courts can enforce it then. Saying everything must be from EU is also slightly silly and we should instead have something similar like certification (cyber act ?) to ensure enough competition exists to avoid service degradation. IMO cryptography could be the answer to many privacy related issues for the cross border transfers.

Also these decisions related where the data is stored and which service is used are under control of each commercial org buying them. The risks are assessed at the end of the day and in case of any issues the providers change. Why would a publicly funded org store citizen data in the US is a question regardless of privacy laws though.

New comment by sublimefire in "US Supreme Court Just Blew Up EU-US Data Transfers"

sublimefire — Tue, 30 Jun 2026 08:53:37 +0000

Privacy laws are actually one of the very useful things that came out. It is difficult to do the same in the US because of the business lobby. It is crazy that US citizens data can be purchased in the “black” market and the used by the agencies. Leaving tech companies to self regulate is just not viable and it is proven time and time again they cannot do it.

New comment by sublimefire in "EU Open Sources Ten-Year Network Development Planning Tools"

sublimefire — Sun, 28 Jun 2026 17:51:39 +0000

China is building for sure, but Russia? The majority of russia does not have normal roads, full of crappy old trains, and infrastructure which was built in the soviet times. Russia is a joke of a country, oligarchy and kleptocracy rules.

New comment by sublimefire in "MicroVMs: Run isolated sandboxes with full lifecycle control"

sublimefire — Sat, 27 Jun 2026 06:24:33 +0000

This example is a bit over the top and is more of an edge case, subagents of the same session can use the same VM because what is the point to isolate among them? If at least one subagent is trying to hack you then I would consider the whole session was compromised anyway as you cannot guarantee the agents leaking this among themselves.

New comment by sublimefire in "MicroVMs: Run isolated sandboxes with full lifecycle control"

sublimefire — Sat, 27 Jun 2026 05:45:45 +0000

Yeah I have some stuff which is supposed to be “there” for months with the agents continually moving it forward. Not to mention the need to run different software. Running local VMs for now.

New comment by sublimefire in "MicroVMs: Run isolated sandboxes with full lifecycle control"

sublimefire — Sat, 27 Jun 2026 05:36:06 +0000

I just went with qemu and run it in my own machine. It is portable so you run it on other OSes which is handy when everything is under the same desktop app. But I was after better isolation and the ability to be fully in control of the agent environment to pair with local llms. As soon as you lift it to some managed environment it becomes hard to justify all of the necessary steps to manage connections, encryption etc., eg passing credentials for access to other resources.

New comment by sublimefire in "Hey Nico, you didn't vibe code your data room but stole it from Papermark"

sublimefire — Fri, 26 Jun 2026 15:05:37 +0000

I do not see how it is clear and which license is affected. People mix up agpl license terms which is not clear if being violated here and copyright based on branding. agpl does not cover the looks, it is all about the copy-left nature and code availability. I use the same licensing but struggle to so how could you enforce it if the code is different (not sure if it is different here).

New comment by sublimefire in "Hey Nico, you didn't vibe code your data room but stole it from Papermark"

sublimefire — Fri, 26 Jun 2026 09:44:49 +0000

Being a bot of a devils advocate here. What I do not understand if it just looks similar, or implements the same features, or the code is actually copied and modified, i.e. the source is obviously from papermark. I think interfaces can be copied, thinking along the lines of implementing a protocol or a feature, so that would be legit. The UI looks very similar but if this is a totally different code then what? is it copyright infringement on the look and feel of the papermark brand?

Clearly it should be an issue for the investors anyway as it “looks” like a copy in the tweet alone, it might mean this code will eventually become available from download to comply with agpl, which in turn wipes out any moat.