FergusArgyll (u/FergusArgyll)

FergusArgyll commented on It is worth it to buy the fast CPU blog.howardjohn.info/post... · Posted by u/ingve

brookst · 18 hours ago

It’s so annoying that we’ve lost a legit and useful typographic convention just because some people think that AI overusing it means that all uses indicate AI.

Sure, I’ve stopped using em-dashes just to avoid the hassle of trying to educate people about a basic logical fallacy, but I reserve the right to be salty about it.

FergusArgyll · 14 hours ago

I find adding some typos and 1 or 2 bad grammer things lets you get away with whatever you want

FergusArgyll commented on Comet AI browser can get prompt injected from any site, drain your bank account twitter.com/zack_overflow... · Posted by u/helloplanets

gruez · 15 hours ago

That's trickier than it sounds. find for instance has the -exec command, which allows arbitrary code to be executed. build tools and linters are also a security nightmare, because they can also be modified to execute arbitrary code. And this is all assuming you can implement the whitelist properly. A naive check like

    cmd.split(" ") in ["cd", "ls", ...]

is easy target for command injections. just to think of a few:

    ls . && evil.sh

    ls $(evil.sh)

FergusArgyll · 15 hours ago

Yeah, this is ctf 101 see https://gtfobins.github.io/ for example (it's for inheriting sudo from a command but the same principles can be used for this)

FergusArgyll commented on What makes Claude Code so damn good minusx.ai/blog/decoding-c... · Posted by u/samuelstros

dang · a day ago

HN is by no means "pro-AI". It's sharply divided, and (as always with these things) each side assumes the other side is dominant.

FergusArgyll · 21 hours ago

"After viewing identical samples of major network television coverage of the Beirut massacre, both pro-Israeli and pro-Arab partisans rated these programs, and those responsible for them, as being biased against their side."

https://users.ssc.wisc.edu/~jpiliavi/965/hwang.pdf

FergusArgyll commented on Being “Confidently Wrong” is holding AI back promptql.io/blog/being-co... · Posted by u/tango12

rwmj · 3 days ago

Only thing? Just off the top of my head: That the LLM doesn't learn incrementally from previous encounters. That we appear to have run out of training data. That we seem to have hit a scaling wall (reflected in the performance of GPT5).

I predict we'll get a few research breakthroughs in the next few years that will make articles like this seem ridiculous.

FergusArgyll · 3 days ago

The problem is the kinds of "data" users will feed it. It's basically an impossible task to put a continuous learning model online and not have it devolve into the optimal mix of stalin & hitler

FergusArgyll commented on 4chan will refuse to pay daily online safety fines, lawyer tells BBC bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c... · Posted by u/donpott

FergusArgyll · 3 days ago

He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harrass our people, and eat out their substance.

FergusArgyll commented on 4chan will refuse to pay daily online safety fines, lawyer tells BBC bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c... · Posted by u/donpott

blibble · 3 days ago

> This is why the US dropped tea into Boston to have it's own Freedom.

the 3% tariff on Chinese tea was seen as oppressive

don't look at what has been imposed this year (without congressional approval)

FergusArgyll · 3 days ago

The target of the Boston Tea Party was the British implementation of the Tea Act of May 10, 1773, which allowed the East India Company to sell tea from China in the colonies without paying taxes apart from those imposed by the Townshend Acts.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boston_Tea_Party

FergusArgyll commented on Marines managed to get past an AI powered camera "undetected" by hiding in boxes rudevulture.com/marines-m... · Posted by u/voxadam

jerf · 4 days ago

I wonder if one could extract a "surprisedness" value out of the AI, basically, "the extent to which my current input is not modeled successfully by my internal models". Giving the model a metaphorical "WTF, human, come look at this" might be pretty powerful for those walking cardboard boxes and trees, to add to the cases where the model knows something is wrong. Or it might false positive all the darned time. Hard to tell without trying.

FergusArgyll · 4 days ago

iiuc distillation is sort of that. How big is the delta between teacher and student and then try to reconcile them

FergusArgyll commented on Zedless: Zed fork focused on privacy and being local-first github.com/zedless-editor... · Posted by u/homebrewer

decentrality · 5 days ago

Seems like it might be reacting to or fanned to flame by: https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/discussions/36604

FergusArgyll · 5 days ago

That's not a rug pull, that's a few overly sensitive young 'uns complaining

FergusArgyll commented on Copilot broke audit logs, but Microsoft won't tell customers pistachioapp.com/blog/cop... · Posted by u/Sayrus

ivewonyoung · 5 days ago

It's HIPPA now for all intensive purposes.

FergusArgyll · 5 days ago

For all intents and purposes

FergusArgyll commented on AnduinOS anduinos.com/... · Posted by u/TheFreim

marcus_holmes · 5 days ago

I don't understand this. The software is free. But calling it "free software" is a mistake?

And I don't understand the advocacy angle. Is any reference to "free" or "open" in any tech-related conversation automatically advocacy (even if the author did not intend to be an advocate for it)?

Genuinely curious. Apologies if it doesn't read like genuine curiosity, I am genuinely curious.

FergusArgyll · 5 days ago

Maybe they're confusing it with snaps?

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