frozenport (u/frozenport)

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

psychoslave · 8 hours ago

Can't the facility just as well try to nuke the repository and every remote it can push force to? The thing is that with prompt injection being a thing, if the automation chain can access arbitrary remote resources, the initial surface can be extremely tiny initially, once it's turned into an infiltrated agent, opening the doors from within is almost a garantee.

Or am I missing something?

frozenport · 8 hours ago

Yeah we generally don’t give those permissions to agent based coding tools.

Typically running something like git would be an opt in permission.

frozenport commented on 95% of Companies See 'Zero Return' on $30B Generative AI Spend thedailyadda.com/95-of-co... · Posted by u/speckx

JCM9 · 3 days ago

We are entering the “Trough of disillusionment.” These hype cycles are very predictable. GPT-5 being panned as a disappointment after endless hype may go down as GenAI’s “jump the shark” moment.

It’s all fun and games until the bean counters start asking for evidence of return on investment. GenAI folks better buckle up. Bumps ahead. The smart folks are already quietly preparing for a shift to ride the next hype wave up while others ride this train to the trough’s bottom.

Cue a bunch of increasingly desperate puff PR trying to show this stuff returns value.

frozenport · 3 days ago

Yo what’s the next hype cycle that smart folks like us should be working on?

frozenport commented on NSF plans end to lone U.S. Antarctic research icebreaker science.org/content/artic... · Posted by u/trauco

arrowsmith · a month ago

> Donald perceives colleges as bastions of wokeness.

Is he wrong?

frozenport · a month ago

Yeah, specially in STEM.

Despite posturing by some academic administrators, most folks have no social agenda for a country they recently immigrated to.

frozenport commented on Amazon plans to lay off 14,000 managerial positions to save $3.5B yearly techstartups.com/2025/03/... · Posted by u/05bmckay

naijaboiler · 5 months ago

imagine comparing management at a small research lab to a multi-national corporation. Such unfounded hubris.

frozenport · 5 months ago

Imagine actually wanting to work at Amazon

frozenport commented on Microsoft's 1986 IPO dfarq.homeip.net/microsof... · Posted by u/giuliomagnifico

foolfoolz · 5 months ago

it was an outlier then and it’s an outlier now

frozenport · 5 months ago

Indie dev turning profit first year is part of the typically success story for indie devs.

frozenport commented on AI models makes precise copies of cuneiform characters news.cornell.edu/stories/... · Posted by u/geox

yannis · 6 months ago

Very interesting approach and perhaps a good step towards transliteration and translation of cuneiform tablets. Code and links for paper at https://github.com/TAU-VAILab/ProtoSnap/tree/main

frozenport · 6 months ago

It looks very adhoc

So ideally the ml network would solve the problem end to end but these authors seem to be using a network for only one step of their otherwise classic image processing pipeline

frozenport commented on Tether and Circle are battling to win the US stablecoin market wsj.com/finance/currencie... · Posted by u/wallflower

OccamsMirror · 6 months ago

Venture capitalists favor crypto projects because they enable significantly faster risk offloading compared to traditional investments, where 7-10 year holding periods are standard.

With crypto, the VCs can sell the majority of their tokens after brief lockup period, capitalizing on purely narrative-driven speculative valuations that almost always disconnect from the actual reality, let alone fundamentals.

Crypto VC perfectly embodies the Greater Fool Theory. The VCs profit by selling to later buyers motivated more by speculative momentum than intrinsic value. The joke being that VC involvement in a project is often the only thing even driving that momentum.

This combination of compressed liquidity timelines, minimal regulatory oversight, and a glut of retail investors who have FOMO from seeing their friends 100x or even 1000x, creates an ideal environment for VCs to systematically transfer risk to less sophisticated market participants at often insane valuations.

frozenport · 6 months ago

lol these guys aren’t vcs

Term sheets from vcs increasingly include a “don’t do an ico”

frozenport commented on Everyone at NSF overseeing the Platforms for Wireless Experimentation is gone discuss.systems/@ricci/11... · Posted by u/luu

throwawaymaths · 6 months ago

> I wonder whether somebody from the opposing side can provide a reasonable logical explanation for the Musk/Trump actions.

i am not on trump's side (i hate trump; i am neutral on musk except these past few weeks i think he's said -- but not yet really done -- things that are a bit beyond the pale, even for him) but i think this will be positive for American science.

as i posted in sibling comment:

> to steelman the issue: what if there was overinvestment in science? as in we chased money after talent that didnt exist, or was mismatched to the difficulty of the available and fundable open questions.

two things: you'd expect a lot of fraud and misallocated science to have been recently uncovered (Reproducibility crisis, amyloid hypothesis scandals e.g.).

after the cuts, you would expect the quantity of science to go down, but the quality to go up.

i guess technically this isn't a logocal explanation since i dont think trump is doing this in good faith but i think the US might be better off in the end.

frozenport · 6 months ago

No because these cuts do nothing to address fraud.

In the immediate it seems to have cut short the next generation of scientists leaving more of the entrenched old hands.

frozenport commented on California Nominates Steve Jobs for Its American Innovation $1 Coin gov.ca.gov/2025/02/19/cal... · Posted by u/gnabgib

frozenport · 6 months ago

Traitorous eight would have been cooler

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AlotOfReading · 6 months ago

Spanish colonialism in the new world was largely an extension of the reconquista abroad. The Spanish crown used wealth from conquered territories to placate and balance the power of Iberian nobility. With the conquest of the canaries and the fall of Granada, the only obvious place to continue that system was North Africa, which would have brought the Spanish crown into direct conflict with the kingdom of Portugal.

Then Columbus returned with news of a route to the indies that avoided the increasingly powerful Ottomans. The war machine just got pointed in a new direction until the realities of the new world eventually caught up.

A moorish kingdom would not have had the same approach to the new world, even if someone had discovered it.

frozenport · 6 months ago

Hmm, but was the reconquista really a capitalist venture?