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Yes, I think if you trust Binance with anything in 2026 then you deserve to lose all your money.

If you are willing to accept an asset as collateral that can be frozen, then the onus is on you as the lender to take some steps to Know who Your possible Customers are.

“Completely air-gapping this infrastructure—that is, disconnecting it entirely from external networks—isn’t currently feasible, since we need external connections in order to run and monitor experiments”

How are you harmed by your loan being sold?

The person who most famously got rich selling shovels in the Gold Rush was Samuel Brannan. You'll find the street named after him just a short walk from both the Anthropic and OpenAI HQs.

And crucially, the DoD, through the normal procurement process, agreed to Anthropic’s terms and made the purchase. Much later, the Secretary of Defense threw a political fit and tried to change the terms.

My comment is what is on the tin. As a consumer, yeah, I find this annoying. But do I want to bring the full force of government regulation on it? That's quite a strong reaction

Anthropic terms of service:

> 12. General terms

> Changes to the Services. Our Services are novel and will change. We may sometimes add or remove features, increase or decrease capacity limits, offer new Services, or stop offering certain Services.

> Unless we specifically agree otherwise in a separate agreement with you, we reserve the right to modify, suspend, or discontinue the Services or your access to the Services, in whole or in part, at any time without notice to you. Although we will strive to provide you with reasonable advance notice if we stop offering a Service, there may be urgent situations—such as preventing abuse, responding to legal requirements, or addressing security and operability issues—where providing advance notice is not feasible. We will not be liable for any change to or any suspension or discontinuation of the Services or your access to them.

You're not buying a gallon of milk or a pound of flour. You're buying hosted software that the host reserves the right to modify.

It's implied (but sadly not stated) in the post that they asked for baseten's permission before conducting this research.

What's interesting to me as someone who has sold a lot of software to a lot of software companies is that many enterprise vendor agreements explicitly allow companies to pentest their vendors with advance notice and coordination. I don't think any of our clients ever exercised that clause; I expect it's going to be exercised a lot more going forward because it's so easy to do now.

I answered the quiz and it said "you must be a Javascript developer", which is true enough - that's probably my second-most-proficient language. In fact, I'm a Ruby developer partially because I hate the idea of async/await and I'm feeling very smug about my choice after reading this.

Some of these design decisions seem indefensible to me. For example, what the authors call "Suspension":

-> Static: Await points guaranteed to suspend -- JavaScript

-> Dynamic: No guarantees on awaiting tasks -- C# · Swift · Tokio · Smol · Asyncio · Trio

What is "await" if not a synonym for "suspend"?!?

async/await is one product of a long line of thought that says "threads are too hard for programmers to get right". Threads (really, shared memory) have real usability issues for developers, but once you grok the semantics (which largely map to the physical execution model in a CPU) that knowledge is transferrable across virtually all languages and runtimes.

I agree. It's too easy to get a license and too hard to lose one. You should lobby your government for these things. I have; good luck.

Meanwhile, profit-driven private industry is actually out there making things better.

Not one Pringles can utilized. We have failed to pass along the ancient knowledge.

Given that the median household income in the US is $83k, I don’t think that losing $1k on a busted phone is likely to put many into “spiraling debt slavery”

Yes, but landlords are inherently evil so if you want to keep the slopulism going you gotta hit them first.