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If you have a business account the terms say they will not train on your data, so that seems like the easiest route to avoid such questions for researchers.

Yeah this meta commentary on HN is very confusing for me. The structure of the article is literally

- short paragraph saying "we launched neki"

- short paragraph saying why neki was needed

- paragraphs about what neki is (with a header)

That seems like a very reasonable structure for a blog post like this one. Not being able to get to the third paragraph of a blog post seems like a "you" problem, not a blog problem.


The "what is" section didn't exist when they commented.

You can also find that in first section of the linked post (after the intro)...

Very clearly untrue. Just search for "people waving hamas paraglider flags" on Google and you will find plenty of sources[1], like this.

Basically every movement/organization on earth has activists who support their activities, why would Hamas be any different? There are people everywhere who don't mind violence/killing and there are people everywhere who are anti-semitic. You think the intersection of those two cohorts is empty?

[1] https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-london-68275185


People who are anti-semitic and violent call themselves Proud Boys and Restore Britain.

It's true that a lot of radical leftists do "critical support" for Hamas, just like they used to with the IRA or ETA. But that's the same thing as the US government supporting Islamists against the Soviet Union and Reagan funding right wing militias in Nicaragua.

It's defending a resistance movement on some parts of their agenda even if you disagree with the rest, because you think they're fighting for a good cause against a common enemy.

Some Hamas leaders, individuals within the party, want to massacre Jewish villages to drive all Jews out of Palestine. Almost no one in the student protests was defending that. But when it's the other way around all the Western leaders rush to defend the Israeli government saying it's just two insane ministers in a big cabinet and the rest will talk them into submission. That's clearly not true when you see a lot of their ideas getting implemented.

If the conflict was just Israel against Hamas it would be one of the situations where everybody involved sucks and there's no clear answer to anything so you should stay neutral. But the Israeli government is treating it as a war against Palestine where they allow their soldiers to rape and kill civilians, you can hear generals publicly setting kill targets and "security" policies that were already close to Apartheid level are getting stricter every week. They see every Arab as a legitimate target.

That tips the balance to the point where you can argue that supporting any resistance, even violent nationalist Hamas, is the only right move.


I appreciate your wanting to introduce nuance into the discussion, but nuance isn't really needed here. Two commenters replied to GP saying "Pro-hamas activists don't exist", which is untrue. That was my claim, and that was basically all GP said as well (with the additional assertion that such people are not voting for Trump). Why they are supporting Hamas is beside the point.

This conversation is basically the "it's not happening" > "it might be happening" > "it's happening and it's good actually" meme, though admittedly not by one person.


My point was simply that foreign "far right" organizations are not the same as the "right" organizations belonging to the left vs right paradigm in the United States. Hamas is not equivalent to the Republican Party.

Fastball here is the only one that wasn't triggered by this observation.


That's exactly the point though: if you are choosing to platform some and not others, and some (many? most?) of the groups you are choosing to platform are violent groups, you very quickly run out of plausible deniability.

> A/I’s cadre of radical hackers and tech developers provide a full spectrum of services

Pun intended?


How is that relevant?

This thread seems to confuse source-available and open source

Not really? Nobody is talking about source-available code with a restrictive license. People are talking about having LLMs write up protocols and libraries and firmwares from scratch and making those freely available, as in open source.

Are we sure an Astra hacker swarm didn't compromise arcprize.org's servers and exfiltrate the private eval set in order to achieve that 99%?

That counts as 200% on exploitbench to me!

Codex's lack of auto-mode is what prevents me from using it for serious work compared to Claude Code.

It has had automode for a bit now. I use it every day at work.

AFAIK it's just yolo mode, which doesn't actually do any checks like Claude Code's auto-mode (which has a model checking all commands for safety).

No, it says “auto approved” after every evaluated command. Does it work? No idea, I can’t think of a time it ever stopped, but I’m also not ever doing anything dangerous with it. It does use another model to evaluate the commands though.

"Approve for me" used to work without issue for me when GPT 5.5 was the latest model.

Nowadays it routinely rejects "git push" to the project's repository.


Put it in an isolated container and set it to YOLO

I don't even put it in a container. I just yolo it. It hasn't done anything bad so far. My logic is that if it nukes my filesystem then I deserve it.

Output tokens are 5x more expensive than input tokens, so I'm not sure "dominate" is entirely correct.

A conversation with 20 turns, 50k tok growth per turn, 1m tok context at end would price out like this:

Fable 5 ($1/M cache reads) ; cache reads 9.5M tok × $1.00 = $9.50 ; cache writes 1M tok × $12.50 = $12.50 ; output 1M tok × $50 = $50.00 ; total = $72.00

Fable 5.1 ($0.25/M cache reads) ; cache reads 9.5M tok × $0.25 = $2.38 ; cache writes 1M tok × $12.50 = $12.50 ; output 1M tok × $50 = $50.00 ; total = $64.88

So yes, cheaper, but not massively.


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