bbatsell

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Hi, I'm Brock, a hacker/developer/sysadmin/photographer in Austin. Would love to chat about infosec, machine learning, public policy, food, beer, or pretty much anything else.

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Comment · 14 days ago
More accurately, no longer does by default (after much pushback).

Local & state agencies can affirmatively choose to opt-in to sharing with ICE/HSI, except in California and Virginia where it is banned.

Comment · 2 months ago
Agreed. seatbelt/sandbox-exec has been “deprecated” for many, many years yet it still underlies all of the system’s sandboxing and Claude et al. use it for their own sandboxes. (And so do I — writing seatbelt rules is the only chance I get to write lisp-flavored anything these days.)
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Comment · 3 months ago
While that’s true, IMAX also doesn’t make its digital projectors. They buy off-the-shelf Barcos and then integrate them into a larger system.
Comment · 6 months ago
AppleCare+ annual is perpetual as long as you keep paying it (and Apple offers to switch to that when your 3-year lump sum expires if you choose that instead). I’m guessing it ends whenever they officially discontinue hardware support, which has traditionally been about 7 years after the last unit is produced, but I haven’t reached that yet to know for sure.
Comment · 7 months ago
Sumaddle is a wonderful puzzle/logic game.
Comment · 8 months ago
This headline unfortunately offers more smoke than light. This article has nothing to do with the current tête-à-tête with the Pentagon. It is discussing one specific change to Anthropic's "Responsible Scaling Policy" that the company publicly released today as version "3.0".
Comment · 9 months ago
The president can only pardon crimes against the United States. Even if removed to federal court, state charges remain state charges and the judge & jury must follow state laws. Only the venue changes, with the intent being that the federal judge will potentially serve as a more neutral arbiter.
Comment · 9 months ago
Comment · 9 months ago
Absolutely fascinating that this report is very detailed about _certain_ things... but edits the source video to fade out right at the relevant instant and then completely omits the fact that the agent called her a "fucking bitch" immediately after executing her. (The released source material is several seconds longer.)

Edit at 21:29 UTC: BBC has edited the article to include the following line: "In the final part of the video the car is seen veering down the road. The ICE agent swears." Again, that "final part" has been edited out entirely. It shows that the agent was not affected by the SUV, and maintains his iPhone in his offhand recording the incident without issue. "The ICE agent swears." is used euphemistically to obfuscate what he actually did and said, which was to angrily call the victim a "fucking bitch".

Comment · 9 months ago
This article is 4 days old and Ocean Infinity has already given details — technical problems with one AUV (Autonomous Underwater Vehicle) and poor weather and wave conditions. There will be many such changes in location and speed during this mission, including when deploying and retrieving each of the 3 AUVs.
Comment · 10 months ago
Anchor to new information (HN strips it from the URL): https://github.com/IQuestLab/IQuest-Coder-V1/issues/14#issue...

Context: Earlier this week a new model was released and researchers discovered that during training it had "cheated" on SWEBench by issuing git commands to find information it should have been blinded to.

Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46472667

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