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Posted by
_nhynes on Monday April 13, 2026 @03:48AM
from the show-hn dept.
https://github.com/RDI-Foundation/amber/
Hi HN, since the Berkeley RDI benchmark integrity post recently got a lot of attention here [0], it seems like a good time to share Amber, related work aimed at making agent benchmarks easier to reproduce.Amber grew out of the RDI AgentX-AgentBeats benchmarking competition [1] where the general public was invited to submit agents. To ensure trustworthy results, we needed submissions to be...
Posted by
_nhynes on Thursday November 09, 2023 @03:37PM
from the peerdb.org dept.
This is really slow unless you figure out how to encrypt large batches of rows. It’s harder to do as a postgres plug-in. Do you have an example of enclaved today/transparent database encryption?
git commit --amend --no-edit && git push -f
I use the OpenAI playground because I'm paranoid that third party frontends will steal my API keys and I don't have enough time to audit the code or set up firewall rules.
Yes, I completely agree. There's plenty of tech available to achieve many of the goals of functionality, affordability, and privacy a motivated team of developers could have. Just that it's often unnecessarily difficult to build and use. Probably things will be much better in a(nother) decade, but the whole thing is still a work in progress. In the meantime, why pay the cost 100% of the time for avoiding a bad thing that happens 1% of the time? Cryptocurrency has its utility, but much less when minimizing trust isn't a requirement.
With the introduction of CBDCs, FedNow, and platforms like TFA, it's starting to look like TradFi is getting the second-mover advantage. Cryptocurrency introduced programmable money, which is great, but it also came with other features like self-custody, extreme transparency & privacy, and immutability that have ended up being more than average users are willing to accept as a bundle. For example, locking coins forever due to a bug is not super fun.
TradFi entities now have the ability to pick what they like out of the mix and offer that to customers while also benefiting from the convenience of trust assumptions, something cryptocurrency eschews. TradFi might be "legacy," but it's building atop thousands of years worth of UX improvements in how people can come to trust each other. It's difficult for cryptocurrency to compete there.
I still love the developer convenience of blockchain since it nicely combines serverless with auth with payments. But for the most part, given the existence of trust, these benefits could also come from a system like in TFA having a Wasm runtime and maybe a dash of WebAuthn. Like a mashup of Cloudflare Workers and Stripe.
Posted by
_nhynes on Saturday August 12, 2023 @06:35PM
from the mitar.tnode.com dept.
Posted by
_nhynes on Wednesday August 09, 2023 @06:03PM
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Posted by
_nhynes on Tuesday August 08, 2023 @01:32PM
from the cargox.io dept.
Is that the Dacia Sandero? The VW Golf is ~15k EUR. My knowledge cutoff transitively only goes up to 2021, so I can't be sure which one you mean, but I am curious.
This is welcome because GPT-4 actually requires a few iterations of prompts to actually do its job now. Before it took no more than a prompt and one clarification to get a good output. Now it’s just a GPT-3.5-turbo that hallucinates slightly less.
Posted by
_nhynes on Monday July 10, 2023 @05:43AM
from the dawn.googlesource.com dept.
MJ’s problem for me at least is that it is
incapable of generating unaesthetic things. I gave it the classic list of negative prompts (blurry, grainy, deformed hands, etc.) and got a pretty image back, so I cancelled and switched to Microsoft’s DALL-E, which better spans the full range of creativity.
RLHF is a scourge.
A less uncharitable interpretation of the parent comment is that decentralized platforms are the only way to guarantee personal freedom, save a saintly BDFL or government regulation. Not likely to happen.
The “even if it’s the centralized version” is an acknowledgement that some users may prefer centralization, or the platform is still too young to usefully decentralize. As long as there is a way out, or a credible plan, freedom is preserved.
The third Matrix succeeded due to choice—even at the subconscious level.
I’ve found that the RLHF’d ChatGPT is way too submissive these days. I really do not enjoy asking for minor clarification and getting back “I apologize for the confusion…” followed by a completely and incorrectly revised reply.
I was searching for implementations to get a more concrete idea of the algorithm and came across
https://github.com/Yawning/secp256k1-voi which appears to be well commented, robust, and oddly entertaining. It’s got Schnorr, and ECDSA for comparison.
There’s also a musig2 one by the same author.
This study has some nice data in it, but they didn't really start with a very strong hypothesis, to my understanding. The paper starts with a citation about stress being inversely associated with telomere length, and proposes that psilocybin decreases psychological stress, but then goes on to demonstrate decreases in entirely different in vitro physiological stress markers. How is one to tell that this isn't just cherry-picking dependent variables that look good?
Posted by
_nhynes on Wednesday June 21, 2023 @08:29AM
from the gitlab.com dept.
Posted by
_nhynes on Wednesday June 07, 2023 @08:59AM
from the tandfonline.com dept.
And that units of computation are called cycles is no coincidence right?
Posted by
_nhynes on Thursday May 04, 2023 @10:38AM
from the enshrine.substack.com dept.
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[email protected] and we'll look at the data.
The site guidelines suggest not accusing posts of being written by bots :(
https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
I quit my job of five years three weeks ago to work on building what I'm calling autonomous computing [0].
I'd always been hoping to do a startup, having read all of the varying experiences here. The opportunity arose during the EthDenver hackathon where I hacked up a winning proof of concept. The decision to set off was easy since I felt if I didn't at least try to make secure serverless for web3 work, I'd regret never taking the opportunity.
So far, with ChatGPT as my legal and marketing assistant, things are progressing and I remain optimistic about controversial things like trusted hardware, blockchain, and human-AI interaction. Actually, what I would really love is an AutoGPT for bizdev if anyone has that...
[0]: https://enshrine.substack.com/p/enshrine-computing
No offer, no worries. Catch the next interview back.
Posted by
_nhynes on Tuesday March 14, 2023 @08:47PM
from the openai.com dept.
Posted by
_nhynes on Wednesday March 08, 2023 @12:33PM
from the github.com dept.