skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> This isn't that obvious to me with current tech. If you give me a novel task requiring perception, pattern matching and reasoning,…

If that’s your criteria I think the kid will outperform the model every time since these models do not actually reason
But you are not installing a random anti-cheat kernel driver, you're installing anti-cheat kernel driver provided by a game you've already put on your computer. It's very much the same thing.
I’m gonna bet this is a lie.
> It's literally eating the seed corn where the sprouts are the creatives working in the boring commercial jobs that allow them to practice/become experts in the tools/etc that they then build up it all.

This is a big problem that needs to be talked about more, the endgoal of AI seems to be quite grim for jobs and generally for humans. Where will this pure profit lead to? If all advertising will be generated who will want to have anything to do with all the products they’re advertising?
>Twitch, Instagram and TikTok have so much less of it for example.

I'd be interested in any sort of evidence that supports this
While it is impressive and I like to follow the advancements in this field...

Please don't think that I'm trying to suggest... anything . It's just that I'm getting used to read this pattern in the output of LLMs. "While this and that is great...". Maybe we're mimicking them now? I catch myself using these disclaimers even in spoken language.
I’m curious if Microsoft lets OpenAI train on GH private repos.
Disembodied or American? Genuine question, you’ve said both in your other comments as well and they contradict as far as I can tell.
WARC only does deduping within a single WARC, I'm talking about deduping across millions of WARCs.
There's a related trend of updating the publish date so it's always today, or recent.
> I just wish we had "offline" dedupe, or even "lazy" dedupe...

This is the Windows dedupe methodology. I've used it pretty extensively and I'm generally happy with it when the underlying hardware is sufficient. It's very RAM and I/O hungry but you can schedule and throttle the "groveler".

I have had some data eating corruption from bugs in the Windows 2012 R2 timeframe.
The problem with anti cheat is that is doesn't even work. Play any game with anti cheat and you will still be flooded by hackers.
Yes, but with charts and analysis. You can check online version or online demo
I get your point, but we can also agree "send us your data, we can't access it anyway, right ?" is a completely different proposition from physically removing the data.

In particular if a flaw was to be revealed on the secure enclave or encryption, it would be too late to act on it after the machines have been sent in for years.

To be clear, I'm reacting on the "Apple is privacy focused" part. I wouldn't care if they snoop my bank statements on disk, but as a system I see them as behind what other players are doing in the market.
They report that they trained the model to count pixels and based on accurate mouse clicks coming out of it, it seems to be the case for at least some code path.

> When a developer tasks Claude with using a piece of computer software and gives it the necessary access, Claude looks at screenshots of what’s visible to the user, then counts how many pixels vertically or horizontally it needs to move a cursor in order to click in the correct place. Training Claude to count pixels accurately was critical.
It's all fun and games until someone pushes Sundar Pichai out a window.
What a bizarre take. If people consent to installing these invasive anti-cheat systems, then it doesn't matter if anyone has a "right" to a business model or not; in that case their business model is working.

> They can do plenty enough server-side.

No, they can't. The amount of responses in these threads by people who have no idea what they're talking about is... well, probably not surprising, unfortunately.

This is the same (correct) argument against the effectiveness of DRM: if you put things in the hands of a user and client you don't control, then it is a cat-and-mouse game to try to maintain control of those things.

Sure, a naive cheat program of 20 years ago will today obviously look like a cheater. But if you have a cheat that statistically makes you look like a skilled non-cheating player (these things exist today!), the server isn't going to be able to catch you.

I'm not saying that justifies letting another party install what is effectively a rootkit on your hardware. I personally won't do it; I just live without games that require it, and that's fine. Maybe there is some middle ground where some form of client-side anti-cheat can reliably run without kernel-level permissions. But it's a lazy, ignorant argument to just say that game companies haven't come up with it yet because it's "easier" to write a kernel-level system.
Logically, it couldn't be 50% since that would imply that the other 50% would be open brackets and that would leave 0% room for macros.
The simplest commercial product for finetuning your own model is probably Adobe firefly, although there’s no API access support yet. But there are cheap and only slightly more involved options like Replicate or Civit.ai. Replicate has solid API support.

Check out:

https://replicate.com/blog/fine-tune-flux
Doesn’t matter in a world of AI powered hacks. Kernel level anti cheat isn’t detecting the yolov8 model fine tuned on the head of my enemies.
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It's a pleasant surprise for sure, and one which seems to provide just about every feature you can want from such an app. Favourites, extending music, playing it offline, creating playlists, hiding songs that'd be classed as spoilers, etc.

And honestly? I'm just glad there's anything official now. With Nintendo related music CDs basically non existent outside of Japan, they had to come up with some way to access this music officially.
It had a visual overhaul a few years ago. Not something drastic but it was a very positive improvement.
I clicked because of the bait-y title, but ended up reading pretty much the whole post, even though I have no reason to be interested in ZFS. (I skipped most of the stuff about logs...) Everything was explained clearly, I enjoyed the writing style, and the mobile CSS theme was particularly pleasing to my eyes. (It appears to be Pixyll theme with text set to the all-important #000, although I shouldn't derail this discussion with opinions on contrast ratios...)

For less patient readers, note that the concise summary is at the bottom of the post, not the top.
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Sorry for the off topic, but the first image in the linked article has a crazy long and surprisingly descriptive alt and title tag. Is this some weird\new SEO practice?

>alt="A wide image divided into two contrasting halves by a large barrier. On the left, a group of young fan girls, wearing pop star t-shirts and accessories, stand outside the stadium with dejected expressions, some leaning against the barrier while others look desperately toward the stadium. On the right, inside the stadium, an enthusiastic crowd dances and cheers under colorful lights. At the center of the stage, a blonde female singer-songwriter in a sparkling outfit performs energetically, holding a microphone as the audience celebrates the moment. In between the fan girls and the concert crowd, ticket scalpers aggressively wave tickets and cash, some holding signs with inflated prices, greedily capitalizing on the situation. The contrast between the fans' frustration and the joyful concert scene emphasizes the emotional divide."
Curious, I would expect a programmer of your age to remember Knuth's "beware of the bugs in above code, I have only proven it's correct but haven't actually run it".

I'm happy you know math, but my point before this thread got derailed was that we're holding (coding) AI to a higher standard than actual humans, namely to expect to write bug-free code.
Thanks for clarifying - yes this looks like single-vehicle TSP without any business rules/side constraints. Not usable for many vehicles either.
Ones fun is somebody elses tedium.
https://archive.ph/UZ8a2
That's not true, you commonly have CDX index files which allow for de-duplication across arbitrarily large archives. The internet archive could not reasonably operate without this level of abstraction.

[edit] Should add a link, this is a pretty good overview, but you can also look at implementations such as the new zeno crawler.

https://support.archive-it.org/hc/en-us/articles/208001016-A...
> In this market where every company out there tries to minimise costs

That was always true. Guide reminds you that significant amount of money for you is a rounding error for most of companies, so negotiating is always a good idea.

Observations:

- posted salary ranges are BS. Companies are as likely to go significantly over the upper limit as to refuse to entertain anything remotely close to upper bound even with the most amazing of candidates. You won't know until you negotiate.

- vc backed companies are supposed to grow fast, not balance budget. if you can convince them you will help with that growth more than the next guy many limits become very negotiable

- some companies have fixed / very narrow ranges for roles except the most senior ones. usually they are significantly below market rates. if they straight up refuse to budge don't waste your time - same mechanism is going to manage your future salary increases
It's interesting to see which ones it answers with the party line (e.g. what is Taiwan) and which it shuts down entirely (asking what happened in Beijing in 1989, or what Falun Gong's teachings are, or if Xi Jinping looks like Winnie the Pooh)
> So there's really only one course of action available

I really, really was sure you were going to just advise them, “just leave the skeleton in your closet forever.”
Even with this change ZFS dedupe is still block-aligned, so it will not match repeated web assets well unless they exist at consistently identical offsets within the warc archives.

dm-vdo has the same behaviour.

You may be better off with long-range solid compression instead, or unpacking the warc files into a directory equivalent, or maybe there is some CDC-based FUSE system out there (Seafile perhaps)
Makes a lot of sense, there's massive evolutionary pressure to build brains that have both incredible learning rate and efficiency. Its literally a life or death optimization.
Vanguard runs on Ring 0. -> Ring 3 software can also read your hdd so is not a problem.

Why load on boot? -> Because we need to, don't worry.

Why is scanning my serial port -> Is a bug, don't worry is not a problem.

What if Riot is hacked? -> If Microsoft gets hacked is even worse, so is not a problem.
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> supporting over 1 million Internet of Things (IoT) devices per square kilometre

A black hat hackers wet dream. In just one square kilometer, you can have a 1M+ botnet.
> replace "AI" with "junior dev", done.

Damn, that’s a good way of putting it. But I’ll go one further:

replace "AI" with "junior dev who doesn’t like reading documentation or googling how things work so instead confidently types away while guessing the syntax and API so it kind of looks right”
The issue with supplementing with gas is that you still need a gas furnace. And if you have a gas furnace, why spend $10k+ on a heat pump?
Yeah! That's the danger with any kind of "model" whether it is CoT, CrewAI, or other ways to outsmart it. It is betting that a programmer/operator can break a large tasks up in a better way than an LLM can keep attention (assuming it can fit the info in the context window).

ChatGPT's o1 model could make a lot of those programming techniques less effective, but they may still be around as they are more manageable, and constrained.
> Or do they have 25% trivial code?

Surely yes.

I (not at Google) rarely use the LLM for anything more than two lines at a time, but it writes/autocompletes 25% of my code no problem.

I believe Google have character-level telemetry for measuring things like this, so they can easily count it in a way that can be called "writing 25% of the code".

Having plenty of "trivial code" isn't an indictment of the organisation. Every codebase has parts that are straightforward.
People really need to find a better word than 'rootkit' to describe software that users willingly and intentionally give root access.
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I've suspected for a while now that the people who find value in AI-generated code don't actually have hard problems to solve. I wonder how else they might justify their salary.
The most important part of negotiation: Having an offer in the first place.

Unfortunately, I and a dozen other software devs (all of whom I know personally, and all of whom are amazing) are not getting any interviews, much less offers.

None of us have ever experienced a drought like this before, either. So... ???

Thankfully, we're all still currently employed.
> But the vast majority of AI use that I see is...not that. It's just glorified, very expensive search.

Since the collapse of Internet search (rose tinted hindsight - was it ever any good?) I have been using a LLM as my syntax advisor. I pay for my own tokens, and I can say it is astonishingly cheap

It is also very good.
You don't need kernel-level cheats to bypass VAC, nor kernel level anti-cheats to catch cheaters.
These are kids. The “chronically online” is how I would describe adults who need to go touch grass rather than letting themselves get reprogrammed into reactionary outrage machines on topics they are either miseducated or undereducated on by “traditional” media and social media alike.
You can write a transparent app, but its the compositor that decides whether it's in focus and your app will either pass both hovers and clicks to the window behind (not staying in focus for long and not getting any pointer events even when it still is), or it will consume them all.
We pay for iCloud regardless because we've crossed the 2tb threshold for our devices and our kids devices backups + photos and videos.

Deleting the iMessage data off the device is not feasible after like ten minutes it was showing me 20 at a time that had small sizes relative to the amount left to delete. Thank you for your attempt at helping though
Yeah… it’s more that the anti-cheat itself provides surface area for RCE’s than the anti-chest company using it nefariously.
I'd bet at least 25% of code attributes to me in gitfarm at Amazon was generated by octane and/or bones.

God I miss that, thanks for the other person on HN introducing me to projen. Yeoman wasnt cutting it.

These days I write a surprising amount of shell script and awk with LLMs. I review and adapt it, of course, but for short snippets of low context scripting it's been a huge time saver. I'm talking like 3-4, up to 20 lines of POSIX shell.

Idk. Some day I'll actually learn AWK, and while I've gotten decent with POSIX shell (and bash), it's definitely been more monkey see monkey do than me going over all the libraries and reference docs like I did for python and the cpp FAQ.
The bootloader supports third-party operating systems on M3/M4 as well. Linux support just isn't there yet.
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You might be able to match-make between clients with similar latency and then "enforce" that latency server side by delaying things that "happen faster" then the previously measured latency
In both cases there I linked to index pages that reference several years of accumulated content. None of that content is written by AI (with the exception of an occasional sentence completed by GitHub Copilot while I was typing).

I suggest reading this article for a recent example of how I use LLMs for code: https://simonwillison.net/2024/Oct/18/openai-audio/
Ah, then the answer is yes. Many US cities have exactly that model.
Just to clarify, Asahi Linux is working on M3/M4 support. As far as I can tell nothing changed in the boot loader that makes this work more difficult, it just takes time to add the new hardware.

https://git.sudo.is/mirrors/AsahiLinux-docs/wiki/M3-Series-F...
I actually didn’t know that. Thanks!

I would be posting archive.org links, but I don’t want to strain them due to recent events.

I am slightly aware of the sketchiness of archive.is, however, do you have anything good to share as far as the depths of the sketchiness?
GitHub Copilot is now available in Windows Terminal
I remember Google used to market "lines of code" for their products. Chrome at one point had 6.7 LoC. Now the new marketing term is: "product was made with 1M lines of AI generated code (slop)!11!". Or "Chrome refactored with 10% AI" or some bs
You forgot to switch back to your new account (when HN detects you're self-promoting too much, this isn't a great way around it)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42001356
The "when it rains, it pours" phenomena I think most of us (anectodtally obviously) think we've seen is especially amusing in this context.

They're really shooting themselves in the foot by only hiring people everyone wants already instead of finding people who they can train for two weeks and bring up to speed.
The 2015 MacBook Pro is the Nokia 3310 of our generation.
It's a bit weird, very much a "software optimization" approach. But looking at the flame graph, you couldn't tell a model running in FP32 from one in INT8, taking 3x the time and energy.
What's so weird about this? CS literature is not legally binding in any way. Of course a judge would rather quote a previous ruling by fellow judge than a textbook, Wikipedia, or similar sources.
That is not why I didn’t buy Apple Care.

My hope is that the machine will work for a long while, like most of them do. In my case it’s a ~$1200 machine so I prefer to self-insure. I’m taking the chance that if it goes bad, I’ll pay to fix or replace it.

This makes sense, for me, when I do it on everything that I buy.
I disagree. Frustration wouldn't come from having to care for 10-30 people, but from inadequate systems that would fail to facilitate effective care for this many people simultaneously.

Id bet if there was a reliable and effective means for 1 person to take care of 10-30 people, it wouldn't be a problem.

In summary, imho, the problem here isn't capacity to emotionally care for this many people, but means of taking care. I think the problem is we don't collectively invest enough resources (both material and cognitive) to figure out how to do something like this well.
That's a nursery rhyme we tell kids to help them be brave though. It's not a principle of law.

Defamation and similar concepts are ancient. Ostracization, excommunication, etc are also harms committed primarily by using (or withholding) words that have been recognized throughout almost all of human history as ways to significantly harm someone.

So I think one would have to work pretty hard to come up with a theory where only bodily harm counts.
People talk about how AI is bad at generating non-trivial code, but why are people using it to generate non-trivial code?

25% of coding is just the most basic boilerplate. I think of AI not as a thinking machine but as a 1000 WPM boilerplate typer.

If it is halucinating, you're trying to make it do stuff that is too complex.
Mx is such a incredible achievement by apple.

Sadly installing Linux is a no unless you use some budu.
> Apple has a better security posture for users than any of the other big tech cos. For any meaningful definition of the word "security."

Apple can push updates and change the rules on your device at any time. Rooted Android works better in that regard: you can still use Google stuff on rooted devices. Also I don't think Apple's security posture for users in China is better than every "other big tech co."

The takeaway for me is that Apple's storytelling is really good. They are doing a good job on taking leadership on a limited set of privacy issues that you can convince busy people to feel strongly about. Whether or not that objectively matters is an open question.
I think it’s more likely that the offended parties would stop financing you. IIRC Mozilla still makes most of its’ profit from Google integration.
Probably “thoughts and prayers” from a heartfelt apology written by their CEO who “takes full responsibility,” and free identity theft monitoring for a year.
This video suggests you can catch this type of cheater without even a kernel level anti cheat:

https://youtube.com/watch?v=x-EbjGSRyKA

There’s a lot of other stuff in the video but if you skip the robot building parts at the beginning he talks about an anti cheat system he developed with another person.
As I see it, "reasoning" is as fuzzy as "thinking", and saying that AI systems don't reason is similar to saying that airplanes don't fly. As a particular example, would you argue that game engines like AlphaZero aren't capable of reasoning about the next best move? If so, please just choose whatever verb you think is appropriate to what they're doing and use that instead of "reasoning" in my previous comment.

EDIT: Fixed typo
Feeding baby cows is not as strenuous as actual manual labor.

And again, ask yourself, who can do this job faster and more effectively? A team of men or a team of women?

It will always be the men, no matter how badly this bothers you.
It does stop some classes of hacks, ups the effort considerably as you hack needs to be in kernel or with hardware. But its pretty much impossible to stop on x86/windows PCs.
The Great Firewall possibly notwithstanding, yes:

> The office network at Xiong’an NGN Lab, a test case from the wider city, includes export routers, core switches, and network interconnection systems (NAT64+ALG), all deployed in a dual-stack environment. Office computers and OA servers operate in an IPv6-only area and communicate with external IPv4 network nodes through network protocol translation equipment and the interconnection system.
Claude 3.5 and GPT 4o are huge models. They don't run on consumer hardware.