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Is your claude.md, skills or other settings that you have honed public?

So by default it pulls out recent PRs, grabs only the tests that were commited and then checks to see how well an agent with different claude.mds can finish the test suite?

This excerpt is well worth reading IMO

Back when I first started doing these clean-up projects, I started by just picking up litter that was in my own neighborhood. (Because that was where I lived, and because I had never been to a lot of the other neighborhoods in my area.) But I found that the more that I did this kind of work, the more that I wanted to do it, and I eventually found myself going beyond my own neighborhood and into neighborhoods that I had never been to before. (Including the ones that I had always heard were "bad neighborhoods".)

Then to make things more interesting, I started using the city bus system for the first time, and I started making it a point to go someplace new that I had never been to before whenever I picked up litter. And after going through a big stack of monthly bus passes, and walking down just about every street in the city (and doing it alone and without a phone) I want to say that not only has nothing bad ever happened to me, but I've encountered a lot of strangers who were almost "too nice" to me...

Because these clean-up projects involve a lot of walking and lugging around heavy stuff, it seems that no matter where I go, strangers will keep pulling over to offer me a ride. And because I do these projects even during extreme weather, the more intense the weather gets, the nicer people will become. (During the summer on really hot days, strangers will keep pulling over just to ask if I'm going to be OK working outside in the heat and if they can go and buy some cold water for me, and sometimes people will even try to give me an umbrella or an extra coat on days when it's raining or snowing.)

And there were times when I would pick up a penny that was in the middle of road or stuck in a crack in the sidewalk, and I guess that it would give strangers walking by the impression that I must need money, and sometimes people would actually pull out their wallet and start trying to give me money!

Strangers will also come up and thank me for what I'm doing, and sometimes they will end up talking to me for a long time, and I've ended up meeting a lot of friendly people this way.

I have been shown such a good side of people, that it simply wouldn't make sense for me to go back to being fearful of strangers and automatically imagining the worst-case scenarios about them. (Like I tended to do back when I didn't get out much and my view of the outside world was being shaped by watching the News.)

I don't doubt that there is crime in my area. (After all, "littering" itself is a crime, and there are MILLIONS of examples of this crime in plain sight where I live.)

But because I have been doing these clean-up projects, I've spent more time outside and less time looking at a screen in the past few years than I have at any other time in my life. And I know that what I am about to say will probably sound crazy to anyone who did the exact opposite of that and who spent the past few years locked in their homes and being bombarded all day long by the media with stories about crime, riots, racism, sickness, and war, but I honestly have never felt safer going outside than I do today.

I started picking up litter in my neighborhood because I wanted to help make the world a better place, and because it got me to get out more and start to base my view of the outside world on my actual experience in the outside world, the world is a much better place to me now, and that is the priceless treasure that I found while picking up a zillion pieces of litter.

I mean they are being sued for insider trading, not exactly a bad headline maybe it could say alleged?

It seems extremely unlikely to me, a casual observer of the shit show that was Luna/Terra, that the suit would be successful

Yeah I loved the guests he had, but eventually had to stop listening to him

No erasure coding seems like a pretty big loss in terms of how much resources do you need to get good resiliency & efficiency

Except that you don't own the things you buy on steam

With respect to winning a game of chess?

Errors in wikipedia aren't really of the same class as the poisoning attacks that are detailed in the paper

As of 2024, SpaceX's internal costs for a Falcon 9 launch are estimated between $15 million[186] and $28 million,[185] factoring in workforce expenses, refurbishment, assembly, operations, and facility depreciation.[187] These efficiencies are primarily due to the reuse of first-stage boosters and payload fairings.[188] The second stage, which is not reused, is believed to be the largest expense per launch, with the company's COO stating that each costs $12 million to produce.[189]

From wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Falcon_9#Pricing

Do yourself a favor and skip what Gary Marcus has to say on this and read the METR study it's self

Really concerning that what appears to be the top model is in the family of models that inadvertently starting calling it's self mechahitler

From my minor testing I agree that it's crazy fast and not that good at being correct

Yeah it's been a good learning lesson. I only put in what I was comfortable losing (and fast!). The way the stock moved after the absolutely abysmal earnings will certainly stick with me lol

I've been buying Tesla puts at a small scale for the past 6 months, usually puts about a month out.

It's been a great way to lose money so far.

Did the reporter reach out to Anthropic for public comment on this? They list a "source familiar" with some details about what the intended purpose was for, but no mention on the why

https://openreview.net/pdf?id=GTHD2UnDIb

Waymo seems to be a counter example here

Because his current actions appear consistent with attempting to perform a coup

I'd really expect that he is actually at a loss on all of those except for SpaceX which has a clear path towards being cash flow positive if it isn't already

That would be 12%, why would you assume that is eaten by statistical noise?

I have noticed a large uptick in usage of y'all in the PNW in the last 7 years.

I personally think at this point y'all doesn't need to be defended, it is on it's way to winning regardless of what NYT Opinion pieces think.

Although reading the original NYT Opinion piece I do also agree with the premise that "you guys" has largely been drained of it's masculinity.

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

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

One side committing war crimes does not mean the other doesn't as well

Being able to stay in the country is also tied to employment for plenty of people

I agree, I am not a proponent of TDD or anything, but cleaning & restructuring large code bases without tests is a recipe for an outage/regression

Pretty wild that none of this talks about testing or observability. Tests are also something that you need to pay to maintain, but they give the ability of reducing the risk that you broke something when you removed it. Additionally when you've exposed your service to potential external callers you need to both have a robust way of marking some calls as deprecated, to be deleted as well as observing whether they are still being called and by what.

I recently did our first semi-automated removal of exposed graphql resolvers, metrics about how often a given resolver was already available so parsing that yielded the set of resolvers I *couldn't* delete. Graphql already has a deprecated annotation, but our service didn't handle that annotation in any special way. I added observability to flag if any deprecated functions have been called & then let that run for sufficiently long in prod, then you can safely delete externally exposed code.

Unfortunately I couldn't find a better writeup, although I remember it.

The basic problem was that they transferred into his "cold wallet" https://www.nerdwallet.com/article/investing/hot-wallet-vs-c...

He didn't want to have the signal be that he was happy holding SHIBA and was uncomfortable with that much power & control over SHIBA. So he wanted to be able to transfer his SHIBA out to a hot wallet and then burn most of it and donate the rest, given the amount of money involved he took extra steps like buying a new computer to generate the new keys, airgapping it from the internet while it held the cold wallet keys etc

Vitalik got indirectly pwned

How exactly was Vitalik "indirectly pwned"?

there's no chance to stay safe when you put that kind of target on your back.

Vitalik Buterin seems to be a counter example here, his net worth peaked around $1.46 billion. He has some interesting writing on how he stays secure. At one point the SHIBA token sent a huge amount of funds to his cold wallet and he details what he did to securely access those funds:

https://decrypt.co/91000/ethereum-founder-vitalik-buterin-du...

The funds, he said, were initially in a cold wallet in the form of two numbers written on separate pieces of paper. Buterin said he had to combine the two numbers to get the private key. "One of those numbers was with me; the other number was with my family in Canada," he said. "So I had to call up my family in Canada and tell them to read their number to me."

Buterin said that he entered the numbers into the computer he purchased from Target after putting the two numbers together. "I sent my ETH out by generating a transaction and then on a computer that I bought from Tarjay [Target] for about $300 bucks for just this purpose."

Before disconnecting the laptop from the internet entirely, Buterin said he downloaded a program to generate QR codes. After generating the Ethereum transaction, he scanned the QR code with his phone, copied it to the laptop, and then put it into etherscan.io/push Tx. Finally, Buterin said he began sending out the tokens.

24h Volume: $9,800,480,342

Liquidity of less than a million worth of BTC hasn't been a problem for a long time