skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've seen a few Rossman streams with officially "refurbished" macbooks that were absolutely foul inside. Boards that looked like they had been left on a preheater over lunch, rubber wedges to "cure" a cracked joint, all sorts of awful shit. The leaked stories from the sweatshop that did the work were 100% consistent with the awful quality.

Admittedly this was a few years ago. Has apple mended their ways or are they still on the "used car salesman" grindset?
>Possibly the earliest shipping game with stencil shadows is Severance: Blade of Darkness from 2001 whose shadows look great.

Revolte, for the PowerVR PCX1, had stencil shadows in 1996.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7BvtML5dIuI

The PowerVR PCX1 had hardware support for shadow volumes, which were implemented more efficiently than standard stencil shadows. Rather than drawing the scene multiple times, it basically did a depth-only pre-pass (in hardware, to an on-chip depth/stencil buffer) to determine visible pixels and test the shadow volumes to determine what pixels are in shadow, then it preformed texture sampling and shading afterwards, with lighting brightness adjusted by shadow volume results. It would only shade visible pixels, overdraw would not waste bandwidth on unnecessary texture fetches.

The Dreamcast, based on the successor to the PCX1, also had many games with shadow volumes. The Dreamcast's implementation was more flexible, and its volumes could adjust more than lighting, such as what texture is used, UV mapping, or even what blending equation is used for transparent polygons.

I've managed to get soft shadows on the DC (https://imgur.com/a/DyaqzZD at the end), although it's pretty fill rate heavy, since it falls back to a more standard stencil method and redraws the shadow multiple times.
While this feels true, it isn't in the fundamental sense. Yes, paying taxes is negotiable, but the consequences may not be.
> Or they’ll ask for weird PTO accrual and cash out schemes that just leaves us asking “why didn’t you just ask for more cash and more PTO up front because now HR is pulling people into meetings to try and figure out this demand”.

They're trying to get your help in decreasing their tax burden, without explicitly saying that that's what they're doing.

(Dunno why people are so coy about this; tax minimization is not illegal, and companies are totally willing to work with you on it.)
SK has it under control but people would never implement the same measures in the US and EU
The article says:

> Other procedures like lawsuits and recounts exist to check or challenge election outcomes, but those typically cannot commence until certification occurs.

...

> The group’s Wisconsin page reads: “Canvassers must first ensure that all votes are legally cast and can only certify results after verifying this.” But officials tasked with certifying elections are scorekeepers, not referees, said Edgar Lin, Wisconsin policy strategist and attorney for Protect Democracy, a nonprofit that works to protect the integrity of American elections. Lin and other experts said officials ensure the accuracy of an election’s basic arithmetic, for example, by checking that the number of ballots matches the number of voters, but they are not empowered to undertake deeper investigations.

> Gonski said that in addition to overstating certifiers’ responsibilities, Follow the Law’s messaging underplays the protections that already exist. “Our election system is chock-full of checks and balances,” Gonski said. “Thousands of individuals have roles to play, and all of them seamlessly work together using well-established procedures to ensure a safe, accurate and secure election. No single individual has unchecked power over any piece of the process."

It seems that what's called "certification" is more like a soft sanity check for "no more votes than total voters" and "all ballots have been collected in the counting place at this time".
The same style of argument used by ChatControl proponents. I mean, what's another backdoor going to do in the swiss cheese that is Whatsapp/$INSERT_IM_PLATFORM_HERE security ?
The NSA just needs a call to Riot headquarters to ensure their rootkit is also included.
You definitely don't play games, this is one of the reasons why people stop playing games.
How much of Xbox anti cheat is "can only run signed code"? Might not be compatible with regular PC use but maybe if we had a gaming mode we could boot into.
Isn't the whole point of hiring a junior dev that they will learn and become senior devs eventually?
A better analogy is a self driving car where you need to keep your hands on the wheel in case something goes wrong.

For the most part, it drives itself.

Yes, the majority of my code is trivial. But I've also had ai iterate on some very non trivial work including writing the test suite.

It's basically autocomplete on steroids that predicts your next change in the file, not just the next change on the line.

The copy paste from stack overflow trope is a bit weird, I haven't done that in ten years and I don't think the code it produces is that low quality either. Copy paste from an open source repo on GitHub maybe?
They are useful, but so far, I haven't seen LLMs being obviously more useful than stackoverflow. It might generate code closer to what I need than what I find already coded, but it also produces buggier code. Sometimes it will show me a function I wasn't aware of or approach I wouldn't have considered, but I have to balance that with all the other attempts that didn't produce something useful.
The most interesting (perhaps, the only truly interesting) thing in this writeup is his `tzdump` script. I checked his github, and it seems he didn't share it anywhere, unfortunately.
Point is that it doesn't need ring 0 access to to bad stuff.
A good example of non-negotiable, while traveling overseas, for one particular company, I was just randomly doing an expense report - and noticed there was a "medical" line-item in my expense report, that I figured I would use for cough-drops that I had purchased. Finance of course went ballistic, because the policy against expensing anything with that line item was absolutely forbidden (which begs the question as to why it was available in the first place).

Here is the thing - the company would have zero difficulty with me asking for a $100/day per diem while traveling for months on end, instead of doing expenses - that was negotiable. But there was absolutely zero chance of getting a $7 bag of cough-drops allowed as a medical-expense. Non-negotiable.
And Bing is google.
Simple answer --- stop using Google.

Get your friends and family and other internet users to do the same.

The only thing likely to get their attention is if enough people follow suit.
For the record, i'm against any kind of child abuse, and 25 years for an actual abuser would not be a problem.

But...

Should you go to prison for possesing images of an adult being raped? What if you don't even know it's rape? What if the person is underage, but you don't know (looks adult to you)? What about a murder video instead of rape? What if the child porn is digitally created (AI, photoshop, whatever)? What if a murder scene is digitally created (fake bullets, holes+blood made in video editing software)? What if you go to a mainstream porno store, buy a mainsteam professional porno video and you later find out that the actress way a 15yo Traci Lords?
I've been saying it's like an intern who has an incredible breadth of knowledge but very little depth, is excessively over confident in their own abilities given the error rates they commit, and is anxious to the point they'll straight up lie to you rather than admit a mistake.

Currently, they don't learn skills as fast as a motivated intern. A stellar intern can go from no idea to "makes relevant contributions to our product with significant independence and low error rate" (hi Matt if you ever see this) in 3 months. LLMs, to my understanding, take significantly more attention from super smart people working long hours and an army of mechanical Turks, but won't be able to independently implement a feature and will still have a higher error rate in the same 3 months.

It's still super impressive what LLMs can do, but that same intern is going to keep growing at that faster rate in skills and competency as they go from jr->mid->sr. Sure the intern won't have as large of a competency pool, and takes longer to respond to any given question, but the scope of what they can implement is so much greater.
I've never managed that, but everyone I know who has had some combination of the following:

- brilliant

- lucky

- juggled like 50 interview processes at once

Only one you can do anything about.
I wouldn't give much regarding the general public. If you have a small blog they're usually not your target audience. Accept that the days of "making a few bucks off of advertising" on hobby publishing are over, focus on writing about things you care about without it reeking of being written by ChatGPT and chances are people will come at some point.

If small publishers don't change their behavior in radical ways, nothing will ever change.
Leverage is also about timing your market which is a matter of local and overall trends. You can use google trends to figure out when the global market trend is in your favor: https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=all&geo=US&q=a...

Get a sense for how your industry is doing as well. Your best leverage is a competing offer.
more money solves that in the end doesn't it? Just ask for enough to cover the tax burden
Having to register with your personal id number? Remember getting those to play Korean WoW beta.
Because you can't trust what the LLM generates, so you have to read it. Of course the question then is whether you can trust your developer or not.
GP is saying that people who want this to be a crime are morally outraged that someone else might disagree, and so it's impossible to have a reasonable debate with them about it. They're probably correct, but it never hurts to try.
Exactly, you write them with AI
What I can't wrap my head around is that making good, efficient software doesn't (by and large) take significantly longer than making bloated, inefficient enterprise spaghetti. The problem is finding people to do it with who care enough to think rigorously about what they're going to do before they start doing it. There's this bizarre misconception popular among bigtech managers that there's some tunable tradeoff between quality and development speed. But it doesn't actually work that way at all. I can't even count anymore how many times I've had to explain how taking this or that locally optimal shortcut will make it take longer overall to complete the project.

In other words, it's a skill issue. LLMs can only make this worse. Hiring unskilled programmers and giving them a machine for generating garbage isn't the way. Instead, train them, and reject low quality work.
Rivians are very accurate
Can you give an example of the reasoning you’re talking about?
We use this app all the time. I love it.
But for this boiletplate creating a few snippets in your code generally works better. Especially if things change you dont have to retrain your model.

Thats my main problem: for trivial things it works but isnt much better than conventional tools, for hard things it just produces incorrect code such that writing it from scratch barely makes a difference
> what's going on under the hood

Rather simple methods are surprisingly effective [1]. There's sure to be more NN fanciness nowadays (like Apple's proposed NeuralHash), but I've used the algorithms described by [1] to great effect in the not-too-distant past. The HN discussion linked in that article is also worth a read.

[1] https://www.hackerfactor.com/blog/index.php?/archives/432-Lo...
The architecture probably doesn’t lend itself to the same development process we are all familiar with.
"ethical and sustainable"

And we can have it delivered overnight to your front door!
If you have a point you can feel free to make a point instead on snidely putting words in someone else's mouth.

And where exactly do you live where only rich people drive cars?
I decided to go into programming instead of becoming an Engineer because most Engineering jobs seemed systematic and boring. (Software Engineers weren't really a thing at the time.)

For most of my career, Software Engineering was a misnomer. The field was too young, and the tools used changed too quickly, for an appreciable amount of the work to be systematic and boring enough to consider it an Engineering discipline.

I think we're now at the point where Software Engineering is... actually Engineering. Particularly in the case of large established companies that take software seriously, like Google (as opposed to e.g. a bank).

Call it "trivial" and "boring" all you want, but at some point a road is just a road, and a train track is just a train track, and if it's not "trivial and boring" then you've probably fucked up pretty badly.
Can't read files or access memory of other users though, which is kind of the point. It's trivially easy to run games as a different user than the one you use for e.g. banking, and operating systems have had fast user switching for decades.
> HN has a lot of very clever people.

"Source: I am one =)"-type comment
You’re better off taking it to the Apple Store for trade-in. There are a lot of easy-to-miss reasons the mail-in one might reject it.
Not talking about Xbox the console, but Microsoft has been treating Xbox as a general gaming brand (Xbox Game Pass for PC).

Basically just an anti-cheat service that ships with Windows.
Rated to -14F doesn’t really bring a lot of comfort. NYC has reached that temperature; NJ has reached -34. In a typical winter you might stay above zero every minute of every day. But when that big arctic blast comes through and your heat pump efficiency tanks, right at the same time your house is bleeding its heat faster than ever, that could be pretty dangerous. So, every heat pump installer recommends a having a backup (at least the dozen I’ve talked to in the Northeast US). it’s hard to convince regular people that heat pumps are the future when you’re also told to have a backup.
So basically you have nothing useful to say?
Behavioral analysis (the thing he's talking about) doesn't work that well and has a hard precision limit due to the nature of online gaming. What the player sees, what the server sees, and what other players see are entirely different things. I'm not even talking about plausibly deniable things like visual sound location.

Nobody's using complicated stuff like this in practice though, as there are easier methods. But of course this path can be taken, and it's not possible to block easily.
Forget dedupe just use zfs compression, a lot more bang for your buck
The original by Bent Larsen is "Long variation, wrong variation"
Maybe I should clarify, I personally can see the value to cooperations of having protections in place during the initial sales period, when these meassures have been shown to make an impact. My comment was more pointed at the fact that of the people I personally know that are very much opposed to the use of Denuvo specifically, very few wouldn't buy a game they want because of its use, yet they still very consistently complain about the presence of Denuvo. Essentially, my point was that from where I am sitting, a large contingent of gamers complain about things without adjusting their behavior accordingly. I also feel (again, purely subjective) that the less someone complains about pre-ordering, the less likely they are to actually engage in pre-ordering.

That being said, beyond the first few months, I remain convinced that overly aggressive DRM does negatively impact game preservation, which is why I like the compromise some studios started engaging in of removing certain DRM meassures a few months post release. I recently bought two racing games from my childhood on eBay as new-old-stock physical media. One of the twos aggressive and no longer maintained DRMs made my Windows VM unbootable and I cannot access the game without relying on the work of pirates in circumventing that.

Also, I will point out that defending DRM as something that protects artists as you did doesn't fully track considering one of the uncracked Denuvo games in the list you linked is Hi-Fi Rush, an exceptional game and financial success that was critically acclaimed and made by talented creatives who are now out of a job [0], not because of piracy, but because of corporate mismanagement.

Whether and by how much DRM can protect profits, we can discuss that for days, but I have yet to see evidence that it ever directly benefits the creatives you mention, not least because outside of corporate games studios, where ones job security doesn't appear linked to game quality or sales, in the indie scene, few if any can afford solutions like Denuvo, so the one place where developers could directly benefit from it, they can't either.

Circling back to preservation, artists generally want to be able to learn from eachother and games outside the current generation can have immense value for that. Even and sometimes especially those games that are unlikely to ever receive a re-release (which often do make changes from the original experience), so I very much feel it isn't optimal if future generations of artist will have a hard time accessing past media due to overly agressive DRM meassures protecting corporate profits within only the first few months past release.

[0] https://www.pcgamer.com/gaming-industry/microsoft-announces-...
I am working on a quick hack/prototype. Right now it only returns search results from a vector database.

https://github.com/breakpointninja/semantic_search_cli
In search of Nirad Chaudhuri (2021)
Since LLMs are just based on human output, we should trust LLMs (at best) as much as we trust the average human coder. And in reality we should probably trust them less.
You do not need to know the input space.

Normal hash functions have pseudo-random outputs and they can collide even when the input space is much smaller than the output space.

In fact, I'll go run ten million values, encoded into 24 bits each, through a 40 bit hash and count the collisions. My hash of choice will be a truncated sha256.

... I got 49 collisions.
Performance impact is overblown, it was proven that the lost of perf is marginal when implemented properly.
That sounds like a micro manager. I would imagine good engineers can figure out something for themselves.
If anyone has any good reads about consulting compensation structures, I would appreciate it.
The article claims that 95% of tickets are grabbed by "The profiteers, the bots, the scalpers, the ticketing reseller". I'm not sure if it's hyperbole or not.
Lucky you!

Sure. I just tried in private browsing mode, and got mostly the same. Here are a few of the very first results I get for 'jazz':

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xhL3Cb740VY

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8UXFapv_kFI

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nKNnzbi-v9E

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ABmQvH5K75w

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-jgEswq9ZlI

Some are worse than others.
I meant pro. My mistake.
I was going to maybe upgrade it but it appears m4 isn’t much better.
I was able to clone the repo and run it locally, even on a Windows machine, with only minimal Python dependency grief. Takes about a minute to create or edit an image on a 4090.

It's pretty impressive so far. Image quality isn't mind-blowing, but the multi-modal aspects are almost disturbingly powerful.

Not a lot of guardrails, either.
I wouldn't know. I have a disability and I don't feel I could ever negotiate.
I don't think it's a lie, but I do think it's very misleading. With common languages probably 25% of code can be generated by an AI, but IME it's mostly just boilerplate or some pattern that largely just saves typing time, not programming/thinking time. In other words it's the 25% lowest hanging fruit, so thinking like "1/4 of programming is now done by AI" is misleading. It's probably more like 5 to 10 percent.
But isn't it better to find a tax avoidance strategy that's mutually beneficial to both sides? Sure, you can ask for an extra $10k that gets taxed down to $5k, but if you can find a creative workaround to get $8k instead for the same $10k, isn't that better than trying to ask them for a $16k raise to make up for the taxes?
I could pirate every game on my collection but one, EA FC 24, wich uses Denuvo.

It also runs very bad, brings my CPU to its knees, and can't keep 60 FPS with a 500$ GPU, maybe cause Denuvo maybe not, but I will think twice the next time I buy a game with Denuvo.
I find it ironic that there’s a desperate plea for the indie web from a Substack blog.
The problem comes with progressive taxation, especially in vaguely-socialist countries.

When you're in a high-enough tax bracket (in taxation regimes where such high tax-brackets exist), adding a marginal dollar to your net income becomes impractically expensive for the company, compared to basically anything else the company could offer you.

For some people, in some places, getting an extra $20k/yr tacked onto your net income, would cost your employer more than just, say, hiring you a well-paid full-time personal assistant, with the skills necessary to do enough of your job that you go from "overworked" to "takes off early most days to go play golf."
Roopepal did someone piss in your coffee this morning?
I had no questions. I’m merely saying that it’s funny they’re comparing to old technology instead of last year’s.
It’s a valid criticism.
Take a breath.
Why wouldn't someone's subjective experience outweigh someone else's subjective experience?

Regardless, I do wonder how accurate those successful reports are. Do people take LLM output, use it verbatim, not notice subtle bugs, and report that as success?
What are investors most invested in at TechCrunch Disrupt 2024?
Same here, but I'm still using a mid 2012 Macbook Pro. It's got an SSD and 32GB of ram, but it still works great.
Kama muta: the powerful emotion you didn't know you had
No. What I send through my email is between me and God.
Also basic biomarkers are not a complete picture of your health. Obesity puts stress on the body in a variety of ways, some of which might not show up until it gets to a threshold point. For example, strain on joints.
Yeah, my post was not intended to be a value judgment.

Personally, I think it's somewhere in between. Yes, some degree of "actually make things people want" is an essential component of a business...but I think the amount of "required evil" is usually overblown.

If markets were so ruthlessly competitive that no one could afford to be not-evil, no one would be making a profit. Every company would be barely surviving and profits would be minimal. The fact that profits exist - indeed, are much greater than they have been in the past - means that markets are NOT that ruthlessly competitive, at least not between actors with comparable access to capital resources.

Every dollar of profit a company makes is a dollar they could afford not to make and still survive. And given that the feasibility curve of profits <> level of evil is likely pretty convex, choosing not to make $1 likely pays out many dollars of not-being-evil externalities.
The auto-linter in my editor probably generates a similar percentage of the characters I commit.
It rings false because of the timing. Bezos knew perfectly well the editorial board was going to endorse a candidate, which they've done every election since 1976.

Most people probably agree with his reasoning (personally, newspapers endorsing candidates has never sat right with me), but that's not what people are reacting to.

Bezos, with his response, has managed not only to make WaPo seem less trustworthy, but himself as well. Just another oblivious billionaire carelessly and cynically manipulating American society for his own motives.