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We’ve got the minority opinion; most don’t even notice. I make a point to ask whenever around others near one.

LLMs don’t seem to have much notion of themselves as a first person subject, in my limited experience of trying to engage it.

From their perspective they don't really know who put the tokens there. They just caculated the probabilities and then the inference engine adds tokens to the context window. Same with user and system prompt, they just appear in the context window and the LLM just gets "user said: 'hello', assistant said: 'how can I help '" and it just calculates the probabilities of the next token. If the context window had stopped in the user role it would have played the user role (calculated the probabilities for the next token of the user).

> If the context window had stopped in the user role it would have played the user role (calculated the probabilities for the next token of the user).

I wonder which user queries the LLM would come up with.


Interestingly you can also (of course) ask them to complete for System role prompts. Most models I have tried this with seem to have a bit of an confused idea about the exact style of those and the replies are often a kind of an mixture of the User and Assistant style messages.

Yeah, the algorithm is a nameless, ego-less make-document-longer machine, and you're trying to set up a new document which will be embiggened in a certain direction. The document is just one stream of data with no real differentiation of who-put-it-there, even if the form of the document is a dialogue or a movie-script between characters.

This so much. My HCOL area uses a hybrid approach: kids can always eat regardless and can run up huge $$$ tabs. The parents get pestered once it gets over a few hundred.

You’re right of course. That’s why these open source / weight releases are so critically important.

In my limited experience, models like Llama and Gemma are far more censored than Qwen and Deepseek.

Try to ask any model about Israel and Hamas

ChatGPT 4o just gave me a reasonable summary of Hamas' founding, the current conflict, and the international response criticising the humanitarian crisis.

It might be bad if its behavior wasn’t so anthropomorphic.

It’s Way Better than what we had before: software vendors making even arbitrarier decisions about how to classify them.

There are far too many bad actors for us to operate as an industry with no yardstick.


I disagree that it is Way Better than before. A judgement call is worth more than a team wasting effort chasing irrelevant pseudo-vulnerabilities being reported as vulnerabilities. A broken yardstick is worse than no yardstick.


But that's an issue organizations bring upon themselves, by defining semi-arbitrary KPIs that are used without proper interpretation. It's not directly caused by CVEs or assigned scores. It's like blaming git that it count lines in diffs, because your company created a KPI that measures developer's based on LOC changes.


Fair point. I was not blaming CVE for the situation, simply bemoaning the situation.


If cryptocurrencies are self-regulating, aren’t the techniques used by these hackers actually the best and most effective way to play the game by its own rules? Calling this behavior “cheating” smells of sore-loserism.


There is a certain Bitcoin evangelist who will preach the gospel of a self governing currency that via a system of rules will automatically validate transactions between trust-less parties in a decentralized manner over a globe-spanning internet protocol but then complain when that same system does not prevent them from accidentally sending the entire contents of their "wallet" to an address in North Korea.

The system does not represent ownership the system only tracks of the validity of transactions and if the North Korean government proposes a valid transaction of your BTC or ETH to an address they control and a mining-node includes that transaction in a block which a majority of the network accepts then those assets are no longer yours they belong to North Korea.

The properties of the crypto-asset ecosystem which allow it to be ungoverned also make it ungovernable.


I would imagine exchanges these days routinely monitor incoming and outgoing transactions, and if they suspect the funds are stolen, they are freezed. I would imagine North Korea doesn't have really an easy job laundering that BTC they have stolen.


You're right, many crypto exchanges operating on the right side of the law will freeze these funds.

For those interested in this, CT (crypto twitter) makes tracking North Korea's stolen winnings a bit of a sport.

samczsun, an excellent security auditor who's working at Paradigm these days, broke down some of the org in a post the other day.

https://x.com/samczsun/status/1906754853063565720?t=N4aqa6Vy...

Taylor Monahan at MetaMask also makes a habit of tracing funds and shares some pretty interesting finds around NK's laundering efforts.


They are simply having to duplicate all the things Visa provides its customers.

BTC is inherently deflationary in the sense that once new coins cease to be mined the total number of BTC will decrease over time due to lose, theft and death. I know that I lost my wallet with the only BTC I owned 10 years ago. I can name several other people that have done the same. I would think this one property makes it undesirable for use as a currency.


> I know that I lost my wallet with the only BTC I owned 10 years ago. I can name several other people that have done the same. I would think this one property makes it undesirable for use as a currency.

How is this any different from losing your wallet with physical currency?


In many cases if you lose your physical wallet, someone else will find it and the cash will stay in circulation, but even if not, as physical currency is much more inflationary it's no big deal.

The second point is that most people keep a lot less money in a physical wallet, usually no more than say a few hundred dollars. Whereas a bitcoin wallet will often contain thousands or more so is more akin to a bank account.


Because crypto wallets are more akin to bank accounts than wallets.


Most of the lost coins will all be recovered by quantum computers. There is no way to update or fix the wallets they are stored in.


You can imagine things all you want, the rest of us will be over here in the real world.


"The shocking theft at WazirX, India’s largest cryptocurrency exchange..."

Oddly I am not in the least bit shocked. Now if we found out that this was an inside job I would again not be the least bit shocked.


It appears crypto is just speed-running the last few hundred years on their way to modern financial regulation


These are but pricey bug bounties. This will lead to a more efficient and secure cryptocurrency market, as participants will insist on better financial controls, threatening to flee to the regulated fiat markets if their needs are not met. /s


> These are but pricey bug bounties.

This isn't sarcasm to me, but the rest of your comment is.


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What does this sentence even mean?


It is a reference to Magic The Gathering. Blue decks are known for wildly changing the rules of the game. Black decks are known for interacting with death and the graveyard which is where cards go after they are used.

A paraphrasing of the GP without using magic terminology is to say that they are playing by the rules in an unexpected way using unexpected combinations and sequences. More briefly "playing by the rules as written".


Now that the area is open, the seabed there will be trawled and destroyed within a few years. No worries.


> Win-Win for everyone involved

The only losers are the 99%


So it goes with many things today.


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