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AI researchers: Yeah our AI models are a bioweapon threat and a nation state level cybersecurity threat and also a genius math researcher and very dAnGeRoUs!

The world: Cool, can you rewrite this email with a professional tone.


Here's another idea:

The places where people want to live have no land or archaic zoning laws.

I wouldn't want to live two hours away, but if I could sleep/work during my commute, and pay $400/month for it, I might do it. My housing costs would be like less than a third of living in the metro where I work.

Supercommuting becomes slightly more palatable.


Why should a tax payer in Dallas pay for your [affordable] transportation from the outskirts of Houston or OK to commute to Dallas?

tax payer sources needs to be allocated to a project that can be administered, tracked, and iterated on.

Plus the public should pay for services servicing more people than less, which your idea services a small population.


Perhaps I'm understanding things wrong, but isnt the idea of taxes for public good and some / all of it might never reach you?

I pay for taxes that help run schools, and it is an good setup even if I dont have any kids.


Ive never liked this framing; "the public good" is too nebulous an idea to justify how tax should be spent.

I, and people like me create wealth. Some of that wealth is pooled at an administrative level that makes sense across a town, state, or nation. Its still wealth I created; and I expect it to be used to benefit me, ideally proportionally to the tax taken.

Unemployment can be justified as crime prevention; Disability and healthcare systems limit individual worst-case outcomes (especially if due to chance). Super-commuter subsidies do what?


That doesn't sound like a public good. It sounds like a private good.

I want a Ferrari. It would be good for me. Should taxes pay for it?


these things will be evaluated based on the net benefit such a service would provide. more people having affordable commute to dallas would end up increasing the net benefit and value that dallas has.

cities grow in capabilities in direct proportion to the number of people who have access to it and their capabilities. it might be cheaper labour leading to better roads, plumbing etc


Why are you assuming there’s some taxpayer that will pay for my transportation?

I fully intend to pay my transportation costs myself.

It’s not about getting a free ride, it’s about being able to get to work while sleeping, saving money on housing, and pocketing the difference.


This is like the “why not use FTP yourself” response to the YC Dropbox page.

Yes, but good, standardized developer tooling is valuable.

Postman could’ve also been a “just use CURL and dump to JSON” for example.

I actually am bullish on this. Tmux and ssh are somewhat clunky and probably under utilized by most people. I struggle to find commands, navigate sessions, see history, and so on.

Also in an “agent” based world where you might ask an agent to execute things for you, how do you manage that context well beyond just giving it its own Tmux session to drive?

It’s a good idea, and I’m surprised no one’s built it sooner.


Devs don't use Dropbox, they use git. Git is probably the poster-child example of an unfriendly interface, and yet it's the standard way for devs to share files.

Emacs is downright friendly compared to git & tmux IMO.


Just start pricing in bytes input/output. This whole "token" and "tokenizer" thing is an implementation detail that shouldn't even be leaking out into the API.

Providers change tokenizers all the time with model updates, and it's often not even possible to query/figure out how text is tokenized without actually just sending the LLM a request.

Just switch to charging for bytes of intelligence. Please. Claude Shannon figured this out decades ago.


That does not help you compare pricing between models since they can vary by (even internal, thinking) output size.

The best way to measure is really the end-2-end cost, price per task.


Don't underestimate corporate waste. If it's not someone's job to care for something, they really won't.

Even before this AI wave, it was common for me to see spinning dev environments for like $3k/month that hadn't been used in months on AWS.


Yeah, this implementation and their behavior these past few weeks is especially laughable when you consider that they consider themselves “philosopher programmers” or whatever.

You would think they’d be more reflective and introspective about these brash moral decisions. Their product quality is akin to my CS capstone lab group.


Those walkways are only in between each set of gates, there aren’t any actually near gates or anywhere near seating. Where did you sleep lol?


I've noticed that all of these music generators suffer from something like "mean" collapse (as opposed to mode, you do get variance, but all results are highly centered around similar sounding songs).

The music is all just very average, it sounds like the most average song with the most average chord progression/drum pattern per genre.

I guess that makes sense if these are most likely next audio token predictors... but it'd be cool if there was a way to inject some type of creativity/novelty into these, or at least tune up the temperature.

Everything so far just sounds like stock library music to me.


Isn’t that what the billboard charts are effectively?


Couldn't someone just uhh... patch their macOS/kernel, mock these things out, then behold, you can now access all the data?

If it's not running fully end to end in some secure enclave, then it's always just a best effort thing. Good marketing though.


Right.

Apple is perfectly capable of doing remote attestation properly. iOS has DCAppAttest which does everything needed. Unfortunately, it's never been brought to macOS, as far as I know. Maybe this MDM hack is a back door to get RA capabilities, if so it'd certainly be intriguing, but if not as far as I know there's no way to get a Mac to cough up a cryptographic assertion that it's running a genuine macOS kernel/boot firmware/disk image/kernel args, etc.

It's a pity because there's a lot of unique and interesting apps that'd become possible if Apple did this. Darkbloom is just one example of what's possible. It'd be a huge boon to decentralization efforts if Apple activated this, and all the pipework is laid already so it's really a pity they don't go the extra mile here.


> iOS has DCAppAttest which does everything needed. Unfortunately, it's never been brought to macOS, as far as I know.

Apple's docs claim it's been available on macOS since macOS 11. Am I missing something here?

https://developer.apple.com/documentation/devicecheck/dcappa...


All lies. They mean the symbols exist and can be linked against, but

https://developer.apple.com/documentation/devicecheck/dcappa...

> If you read isSupported from an app running on a Mac device, the value is false. This includes Mac Catalyst apps, and iOS or iPadOS apps running on Apple silicon.


That really sucks! TIL. So app attestation is iOS 14.0+, iPadOS 14.0+, tvOS 15.0+ and watchOS 9 only.


Yes. Running attested workloads on macOS if you are not Apple is nontrivial.


You can probably just tap the HTTP(S) connection to spy on the data coming through. I think it's a mistake to assume any kind of privacy for this service.

The biggest argument for remote attestation I can think of is to make sure nobody is returning random bullshit and cashing in prompt money on a massive scale.


Wait, the linter re-ordered the file. Let me restore it to the previous state.

whisper: There is no linter.


Those test failures are pre-existing. We're all done!


Wait, I should check if they pre-exist on master.

    < 1,000 prompts for compound cd && git commands that can't be safely auto-accepted >


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