guardiangod

Don't ever ask GPT Sol on how to LARP Fallout games, thanks.

I disagree with the idea that file is a good metaphor for LLM. Files have seek and byte streams, which is just an unneeded abstraction for LLM. The LLM doesn't need to seek or jump to the middle of a file, if you store and organize your data properly.

Why force the LLM to use files over vector database or key-value stores, just because it's a design principal for UNIX (which is designed for human users, not LLMs.)

If your objective is just to hack something together quickly to test an idea, and doesn't care if the application segfault 6 hours later (eg. a prototype game engine), C++ is definitely the superior choice to Rust.

Rust is like the instructor demanding that you build your house up to the national code, down to the choice of nail for your floor board. Your house will be perfect, but building it is extremely difficult and high-friction. In many cases this is unnecessary.

Rust does not have a bigger training set than say Python/JS/TypeScript/C++ .

Linus always backs up his insults with technical reasonings on why the other side is wrong though. You might not agree with his reasons, but at least he provided them.

Posting it in this sprawling, mean form was dumb.

Thank you for putting my thoughts in words I can never string together so well.

I too would just stash the letter in my ZFS dropbox and never let it see the light of day again.

The letter reads like a husband who was just served a divorce notice from his wife. The man is angry, and wants everyone to know that he is not angry, and he is very much not bothered by the whole affair even though he has misgivings since the first day of marriage.

The letter would be much more convincing if it has any technical rebuttal against the decision.

The 711s in Japan let you print color postcards from memory card for ~$1 USD . I would take photos with my camera, go to the copier machine in a 711 (they are everywhere), print the postcards, and sometimes buy the stamps from the cashier. Some stores don't have postcard specific stamps. Just ask for stamps in equivalent value 100 yen.

Given a powerful enough AI with enough outlays (eg. a Playwright instant), can an AI cheat by influencing the real world and self-fulfil its prediction?

Eg. Is corp ABC's stock price going to go down by 10% in 30 days?

Orchestrate a disinformation campaign on the 29th day to tank ABC's stock price.

Truly a picture is worth a thousand words.

Not sure but I'd assume so. You can also setup your own Wireguard exit nodes on VPS/cloud.....or in your friends' homes.

I am using LLM to build some security tool, and I ran into this a few times. I have to come up with a reasoning to convince (?!!) Fable to continue the work without downgrading.

I assume Anthropic will continue to tune the model, so I am not too bothered by this.

I ran 5 external USB + SMR hard disks in RAIDZ 5 for 10 years. The only thing I had to change was to use Highpoint's enterprise level USB controllers- commercial USB controllers from Realtek and Renasus are junk and will drop the drives after a while.

Even then, I had multiple cases where files were corrupted, and once the whole array refused to be online due to corrupted metadata. I had to make ZFS to replay the journal log with undocumented commands. Sometimes it takes a few days of hair-rising recovery but I always manage to get the array back intact.

The files that are corrupted are always extremely large files (>50 GB) with many small read/writes (eg. iSCSI image files.)

It's pretty impressive how resilient ZFS is, really, given I had what likely to be the worst possible hardware combination.

ESL and I got 512 WPM and 75%. I don't agree with the 1 wrong answer but I digress.

Reading fast means you can take in more info per unit of time. It can be a useful ability, if tedious at times.

Because all the educated Indians moved to US and contributed to the American economy, versus the Chinese who get educated in America, then move back to China to work there.

English is a major reason- Indians are just better at speaking English than Chinese and thrives in corporate America. Whereas mainland Chinese couldn't climb the corporate ladder and have to seek better opportunities back in China.

Find me a tech executive in a Big Tech firm who is from mainland China. You can't find one. Both Lisa Su of AMD and Jensen Huang of Nvidia are Taiwanese immigrants who grew up in US in the 70s and thus speak fluent English.

I just want to contrast this article on AWS to its Azure counterpart- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47616242.

2 companies have functionally similar products, but behaves completely different. One company makes technical decisions with security as the fundamental principal, while for the other company, security is not a consideration.

Having it running on host (!), and the metadata for all guest VMs stored and managed by the same memory/service (!!), with no clear security boundary (!!!).

It's like storing all your nuke launch codes in the same vault, right in the middle of Washington DC national mall. Things are okay, until they are not okay.

As someone who had worked adjacent to the functionally-same components (and much more) at your biggest competitor, you have my sympathy.

Running 167 agents in the accelerator? My gawd that would never fly at my previous company. I'd get dragged out in front of a bunch of senior principals/distinguished and drawn and quartered.

And 300k manual interventions per year? If that happened on the monitoring side , many people (including me) would have gotten fired. Our deployment process might be hack-ish, but none of it involved a dedicated 'digital escort' team.

I too have gotten laid off recently from said company after similar situation. Just take a breath, relax, and realize that there's life outside. Go learn some new LLM/AI stuff. The stuff from the last few months are incredible.

We are all going to lose our jobs to LLM soon anyway.

Thoughts:

- Local LLM, with a powerful debugger as its oracle, is now powerful enough to run rudimentary malware analysis without consulting with external sources.

- More complex malwares are still beyond what local LLMs can handle. The local LLM can see all the behaviors by the malware, but the LLM fails to put the analysis together to deduce the true intention of a binary.

- Local LLM is a very lost-cost way to do malware analysis (about 5 US cents of electricity.)

- The biggest killer-app feature is having the LLM writes its analysis back to Ghidra. The more you interact with the LLM, the more data it will write back to Ghidra. This could potentially saves hours per manual debugging by skipping function/resources/variables labeling.

The "NemoClaw vs. OpenClaw" section is absolutely ridiculous.

  OpenClaw vs NemoClaw (NVIDIA)
  Developer  Peter Steinberger (individual project) vs NVIDIA Corporation
  Current Status  Acquired by OpenAI (Feb 2026) vs Upcoming release (GTC 2026)
  Target Market  General-purpose consumer AI assistant vs Enterprise AI agent platform
  Core Strength  Rapid deployment, viral adoption vs Security, privacy, enterprise reliability
  Ecosystem  Community-driven (NanoClaw variants) vs NVIDIA NeMo & NIM integration
  Governance  Transitioning to foundation management vs NVIDIA-backed with open-source access
  GPU Acceleration  Not natively optimized vs Native NVIDIA GPU acceleration

I don't even like OpenClaw, but this is just silly.

https://nemoclaw.bot/claw-ecosystem-overview.html

  NemoClaw  NVIDIA (Python/NeMo)  Enterprise-grade Security Platform  Built-in privacy tools, compliance, GPU acceleration  Enterprise server architecture

wasted much of it on insurance or overhead.

Insurance and overhead (eg. safety harass) exist for a reason other than to drain your wallet. Roofing is also a physically difficult job. You won't find many 50+ year old to couch on a rooftop all day, regardless of pays.

Well since the 787 program will very likely never break even, let alone turn in profit, for Boeing, the 737's replacement will be a do or die project for Boeing. They cannot afford another money-losing product.

The company is also asking UK government officials to provide emergency support for its suppliers to get through this period, according to people close to the talks.

The support is going to suppliers, who are the true victim, but it's privatize the gain, socialize the cost. JFR screwed up, so they should be the first to step up to assist the suppliers.

You immediately arrest have any employee interfering with emergency response and throw them in jail.

Imagine that you work for a 3 letter US agency and is storing confidential data on AWS. Would you allow random individuals (yes even for emergency personnel) to have unfetter access to your computation and storage systems? What about health data? What about data belonging to other countries? Do you do a sweep for unauthorized remote access device after the incident?

Oh yeah I used to play on T3Houston all the time, back in ~2003 (as Undead). There weren't that many W3 mod servers that had a consistent player population. I lived in PNW though so the latency was always around ~80ms.

Rome had been the center of the western world for 2000 years, and Paris for 400. You can't compare those "well-trodden" cities to Kyoto, which was relatively secluded from tourists until the invention of jet airliners.

I was in a Shikoku hotel's public bath a couple month ago, and a guy with full on Yakuza back (and arms) tattoo came in to shower. No one batted an eye. Granted no staff was present, so no one enforced the rule. I also did not try to get a glimpse of his pinkies.

Oh a confuse delegate vulnerability. Azure is not the only cloud provider with that oversight, let me tell you.

The gold example the author mentioned is a good indicator.

Would you agree, that in a marriage, that money in a shared account is property owned by both husband and wife? And yet, because of the father's belief, he took the money out and converted them into gold without telling his wife. Is this a mere intellectual disagreement, or is this a physical betrayal rooted from his belief? The trust has been broken and the disagreement is no longer on purely hypothetical ground.

Realize that today the money became gold bars, next time the money might become a donation to a far-right group in Montana. Can the wife trust him after this?

Because the paranoia will worsen, and one day he will accuse you (or your siblings/wife/his siblings) of doing harms to him, even though it's pure paranoia.

Examples include trying to steal assets from him, belittled him with offhanded comments, or betrayed him even though he helped you in some distant past.

In a way, that's actually kind of an admirable attitude, it's only sad in this case because he's so wildly wrong about what the truth is.

I totally agree. It is indeed admirable that someone can be so convicted in his beliefs. There is a certain beauty in that.

Without going too deeply, I sympathize with the writer on an extremely personal level.

At some point, you have to make a decision- do you continue to maintain a relationship with your father, or do you choose to sever your relationship like most people he knew.

If you choose the former, then you will accept that he will never change, and some day he will even harm you, if he has to choose between you and his beliefs. It's not that your father is out to do bad things- an aggressive dog does not intentionally try to bite your legs off. It's just doing what it believes is best for itself. You will have to learn to accept it, hard as it might be.

If you choose the latter, then realize that your father spent decades of his best life holding behind his beliefs to raise you, and that the least you can do is to make sure he doesn't die alone.

From my armchair research, this kind of change stems from a deep-seated sense of paranoia/threat, that was seeded by childhood traumas. A schizophrenic sense that everything in the world is trying to cause harm to him. When the person was young and was trying to make a living, he can keep those thoughts away. But as he gets older and can see the end of his life, these paranoia thoughts gradually overwhelm him. Having all the sudden free time post-retirement doesn't help either.