Presumably not if you don't give your bank account credentials to Comet. I'd be extremely cautious about which credentials Comet gets access to. Basically only accounts that aren't tied to anything vital.
Readit Newsyosito commented on Comet AI browser can get prompt injected from any site, drain your bank account twitter.com/zack_overflow... · Posted by u/helloplanets
At this point the single biggest improvement that could be made to GPTs is making them able to say "I don't know" when they honestly don't.
Just today I was playing around with modding Cyberpunk 2077 and was looking for a way to programmatically spawn NPCs in redscript. It was hard to figure out, but I managed. ChatGPT 5 just hallucinated some APIs even after doing "research" and repeatedly being called out.
After 30 minutes of ChatGPT wasting my time I accepted that I'm on my own. It could've been 1 minute.
Don't make the mistake of thinking that "knowing" has anything to do with the output of ChatGPT. It gives you the statistically most likely output based on its training data. It's not checking some sort of internal knowledge system, it's literally just outputting statistical linguistic patterns. This technology can be trained to emphasize certain ideas (like propaganda) but it can not be used directly to access knowledge.
We have a simple rule: You commit it, you own it. If you vibe coded it that's okay. If it's garbage that's on you. Blaming the LLM doesn't count. So of course you have to read the code. You have to read it and understand it. Works well for us.
Another related rule: never commit code to the main branch that hasn't been read by at least two humans.
yosito commented on Job-seekers are dodging AI interviewers fortune.com/2025/08/03/ai... · Posted by u/robtherobber
> Still, stretched-thin HR teams say it’s the only way to handle thousands of applicants.
You're doing it wrong if you're considering "thousands" of applicants.
First of all ask your current good employees if they can refer anyone.
If you need to go to resumes, sort by qualifications. Screen out obvious robo-applications, you know them when you see them just like you know spam email from the subject line alone.
Hint: if you're an insurance or financial services company in Chicago and getting applications from people with a degree from Stanford and 10 years of amazing experience at FAANG companies, they are fakes.
Hire the first candidate that has acceptable experience and interviews well. Check their references, but you don't need to consider hundreds or even dozens of people. Most people are average and that's who you're most likely going to hire no matter what you do.
Your job is also nothing very special. Have some humility. Very few companies need to be hiring the top 1% type of person, and your company is almost certainly of no interest to those people anyway.
> if you're an insurance or financial services company in Chicago and getting applications from people with a degree from Stanford and 10 years of amazing experience at FAANG companies, they are fakes.
Maybe this explains why in my last job search I sent over 3000 applications and got almost nothing but form letter rejections back. I've got 10 years of mission-driven experience and NASA on my resume. In the end, I got my current job through a personal connection with someone I've known for 20 years.
yosito commented on Palantir is extending its reach even further into government wired.com/story/palantir-... · Posted by u/mooreds
I don't believe this is true. The idea that the US should be non-democratic is very fringe. It's frequently expressed online, but a lot of that is not from human Americans.
If you know of a high quality poll showing a majority of people support turning the US into a non-Democratic form of government I'd be very interested to see it and I would be legitimately surprised.
The polls I see have at least 70-80% endorsement of the importance of democracy across the political spectrum.
I'm not saying that people don't think that the US should be a democracy. I'm saying that people don't think the US is a democracy. When the president of the country is a criminal and blatantly ignores the constitution and the courts, what does democracy even mean?
Edit: I'm not here to debate this or to defend that view, it's simply my observation of what people think these days, from my perspective here in Thailand.
yosito commented on Palantir is extending its reach even further into government wired.com/story/palantir-... · Posted by u/mooreds
Palantir is unique in that one of its founders has publicly stated he doesn't believe in democracy, the bedrock of the American system.
To be fair, I'm not sure there are very many people who believe in US democracy right now.
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yosito commented on Couchers is officially out of beta couchers.org/blog/2025/07... · Posted by u/laurentlb
Nice I was loving Couchsurfing until they started aggressively monetising it. Had really great experiences with hosting people! Hope Couchers will revive the great experience of hosting people
Couchsurfing isn't aggressively monetized. They've got a very very small annual fee, and once you pay it they never harass you for money. It's far less monetized than other mainstream apps.
yosito commented on Couchers is officially out of beta couchers.org/blog/2025/07... · Posted by u/laurentlb
Very fond memories of couchsurfing met very nice people both as a traveler and a host. But this was long ago. Not sure this will ever work again though
CouchSurfing still has a very active community. I'm hosting these days and get multiple requests every week.
yosito commented on Airlines are charging solo passengers higher fares than groups thriftytraveler.com/news/... · Posted by u/_tqr3
I feel like people are suspending their reasoning in order to maximally shit on airlines in this thread (because yes, they do have a history of predatory pricing practices).
The problem with this isn't the difference in prices - charging less for buying in bulk is a normal thing that's probably been done by merchants since the invention of money.
The problem with this is the lack of communication. There's no advertisement of a bulk/family discount at any point during the pricing process, you just see a different price. That's the problem here, not the price difference itself.
Airline ticket prices have been highly individualized for at least a decade. I live a nomadic lifestyle and I'm often traveling with friends from various countries. We can sit next to each other in the same café and search for the same plane tickets on the same website at the same time, and get entirely different price offers. This is one of the reasons that I never buy plane tickets without using incognito mode or some sort of private browsing, but even doing that affects the price that you're offered.