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epoch_100 commented on On DeepSeek and export controls darioamodei.com/on-deepse... · Posted by u/jrmyphlmn

epoch_100 · 7 months ago

> DeepSeek does not "do for $6M what cost US AI companies billions". I can only speak for Anthropic, but Claude 3.5 Sonnet is a mid-sized model that cost a few $10M's to train (I won't give an exact number). Also, 3.5 Sonnet was not trained in any way that involved a larger or more expensive model (contrary to some rumors).

Wow!

epoch_100 commented on Clio: A system for privacy-preserving insights into real-world AI use anthropic.com/research/cl... · Posted by u/simonw

refulgentis · 9 months ago

I find this sort of thing cloying because all it does is show me they keep copies of my chats and access them at will.

I hate playing that card. I worked at Google, and for the first couple years, I was very earnest. Someone smart here pointed out to me, sure, maybe everything is behind 3 locks and keys and encrypted and audit logged, but what about the next guys?

Sort of stuck with me. I can't find a reason I'd ever build anything that did this, if only to make the world marginally easier to live in.

epoch_100 · 9 months ago

Anthropic’s privacy policy is extremely strict — for example, conversations are retained for only 30 days and there’s no training on user data by default. https://privacy.anthropic.com/en/articles/10023548-how-long-...

epoch_100 commented on Launch HN: Lumona (YC W24) – Product search based on Reddit and YouTube reviews · Posted by u/philena

epoch_100 · a year ago

Very cool! It reminds me of https://chord.pub/.

epoch_100 commented on Show HN: Anytype – local-first, P2P knowledge management anytype.io/... · Posted by u/sharipova

epoch_100 · 2 years ago

I use Anytype and like it. I do hope they’ll invest more time into the editing experience — there are a few sharp edges that will probably alienate people coming from more mainstream tools like Google Docs and Notion:

- Typography is a bit weird, especially with headings; there is very little line height on headings, leading to cramped documents.

- Bullet points look weird when you look closely at them. (On Mac, they’re not perfectly circular; perhaps an aliasing issue.)

- Can only use cmd+b and cmd+i for bold and italic when selecting text; can't use them to switch on/off boldness on the cursor.

- Can't specify type when creating a new object with the @ symbol inline (Capacities, a related tool, does).

- Bullet points flicker when you first create them.

- Linking inserts a space even when you don't want it, as does formatting using markdown characters (e.g., providing the closing ** in italics.)

- Relatedly: Entering closing markdown characters (e.g., the second **) does not end the formatting effect (the cursor should not have the formatting applied after they're entered, but it does).

Anytype is overall a fairly polished app. I hope they’ll iron out these editing issues — when they do, it’ll really be exceptional.

epoch_100 commented on A17T: Atomic Design Toolkit and Tailwind CSS Plugin a17t.miles.land/... · Posted by u/brianzelip

ilrwbwrkhv · 2 years ago

While this looks good it does still look quite bootstrappy. I wish someone makes something which actually looks clean and well designed UI components. I think radix ui and shadcn comes closest.

epoch_100 · 2 years ago

Author here. I agree. I designed a17t awhile ago (I think nearly four years ago now?) and it’s due for a refresh. I think it has the potential to be excellent but it’s not there yet.

epoch_100 commented on When your classmates threaten you with felony charges miles.land/posts/classmat... · Posted by u/epoch_100

bawolff · 2 years ago

> After identifying a vulnerability, the researchers created administrator accounts using the database activity they obtained

Ignoring the legalities of it all, this step crosses a line morally imo.

epoch_100 · 2 years ago

Really what happened is we checked whether we could set `isAdmin` to `true` on our existing accounts, and... we were able to. Adi's more technical writeup has details: https://saligrama.io/blog/post/firebase-insecure-by-default/

epoch_100 commented on When your classmates threaten you with felony charges miles.land/posts/classmat... · Posted by u/epoch_100

simonw · 2 years ago

I found this story about the same situation (linked from the OP) easier to follow: https://saligrama.io/blog/post/firebase-insecure-by-default/

epoch_100 · 2 years ago

Adi's writeup is great, and goes much more into the technical detail than my transcript. I really recommend everyone checks out his post.

epoch_100 commented on When your classmates threaten you with felony charges miles.land/posts/classmat... · Posted by u/epoch_100

hermannj314 · 2 years ago

I realize it is quick to be against Fizz, but I thought ethical hacking required prior permission.

Am I to understand you can attempt to hack any computer to gain unauthorized access without prior approval? That doesn't seem legal at all.

Whether or not there was a vulnerability, was the action taken actually legal under current law? I don't see anything indicating for or against in the article. Just posturing that "ethical hacking" is good and saying you are secure when you aren't is bad. None of that seems relevant to the actual question of what the law says.

epoch_100 · 2 years ago

I am not a lawyer (of course). But I find some solace/comfort in the new Justice Department guidance to not charge good faith security researchers under CFAA. https://www.theverge.com/2022/5/19/23130910/justice-departme...

epoch_100 commented on When your classmates threaten you with felony charges miles.land/posts/classmat... · Posted by u/epoch_100

SoftTalker · 2 years ago

A private individual or company cannot file criminal/felony charges. Those are filed by a County Prosecutor, District Attorney, State Attorney, etc after being convinced of probable cause.

They could threaten to report you to the police or such authorities, but they would have to turn over their evidence to them and to you and open all their relevant records to you via discovery.

> Get a lawyer

Yes, if they're seriously threatening legal action they already have one.

epoch_100 · 2 years ago

Yes, threatening to report is what was really happening here. But in their effort to scare us, they elided much of that process. From our perspective it was "watch out, you might face felony charges if you don't agree to silence".