You'd be surprised how many people are actually doing this exact kind of solutioning.
It's also not that costly to do if you think about the problem correctly
If you continue down the brute forcing route you can do mischievous things like sign up for thousands and thousands of free accounts across numerous network connections to LLM APIs and plug away
> On top of it, this (LLMs) is not AI, not even close, if anything they are glorified prediction systems that require human prompting.
puts in retainer; pushes glasses back up bridge of nose
Technically schpeaking, what you're talking about is the difference between weak AI and strong AI/artificial general intelligence (AGI). AGI is the kind of AI that has reached human levels of consciousness. We're not there yet. Personally, I hope we don't get there, but I'm not the one in charge, so shrug.
You can do a lot with glorified prediction systems that require human prompting. Actually, they are arguably more valuable than AGI because you can more easily communicate and utilize their value proposition. People don't need a machine that wonders the same stuff they do; they need something that does a specific task in lieu of their own effort.
Haha. You're 100% correct in the AGI/AI thing. I'm just sick and tired of every article being about AI, it's great people but we can't stop innovating and attending to other areas of technology.
>You can do a lot with glorified prediction systems that require human prompting
>People don't need a machine that wonders the same stuff they do; they need something that does a specific task in lieu of their own effort.
This is the problem with our current revision with AI; the way I see it those two are in conflict with each other. In lieu of their own effort, the way a vast amount of the would be users think, is "without promoting" which would lend towards AGI than AI.
>Actually, they are arguably more valuable than AGI because you can more easily communicate and utilize their value proposition.
To you and I this might be true, but to your average non-techie I don't think it's quite as true as you would like it to be.
Short term it is very true, everyone sees the value until you realize it's inherit limitations and the 'shiny, wears off
Given the level of disruption we'd see if a company reached AGI, wouldn't they be incentivized to somehow hide it? They could just use said AGI to produce inferior versions of itself, each one iteratively a little bit better than before.
> On top of it, this (LLMs) is not AI, not even close,
Do you think that the LLM/AI tools today are better than those from 2 years ago? Do you think the LLM/AI tools in 2 years time will be no better than the ones we have today?
Calorie burn is dependent on weight and body fat. Individuals who are x+25kg will burn way more calories than x.
For users who come to this site to supplement their weight loss information might be misinformed in their journey, or worse,use it as a primary source and become discouraged because their idea of calorie loss is a little skewed due to the conservative numbers currently shown.
> or worse,use it as a primary source and become discouraged
I would hope these people download the free app so they can actually track their food, which has extensive tooling to track weight trends and expenditure changes over time :). But yes, you should be able to customize the assumptions, I just have about 100 more of these things to add and didn't want to wait longer to see feedback.
I don’t know bud, but when I work with diet and nutrition, I feel like I owe users accuracy more than I deserve feedback. Maybe we have a different sense of ethics.
To add something constructive, think of how deamanding people can be in ordinary everday life.
Now think of how demanding they can be when something doesn't quite work how they want.
I've been on both sides of the fence being a demanding user myself and prolific contributor. I could write entire volumes on the cesspool that can be opensource contributing; obviously there's lots of good that comes with it too, good communities, good people.
But open source is an ecosystem like any other really, there are cesspools of obnoxiousness, toxic behavior, and also havens of really insightful and friendly people.
Not only this, but most US companies do not really have any incentive to focus on security.
On HN there is an echo chamber with the shunning of companies who have experienced incompetence based breaches. Your average consumer does not know (beyond the news cycle) or generally even really care.
I think you can even look at FBI and NSA public service announcements and guides about consumer electronics security as a sort of ''shit this industry stuff is pretty bad we need to think about our goal differently,'' with regards to them trying to pick up some of the security slack that US companies shit out with their products.
The various 3-letter-agencies really are incentivized to help government and industry be legitimately secure against anything short of the sophisticated attacks they themselves can orchestrate
When you’ve got the sort of reach and resources they have, it does you no good if script kiddies or unsophisticated attacks are causing problems and you don’t need the easily preventable attack vectors they’d use.
When the HDDVD-Bluray wars were going on China had their own implementations of optical storage, and it has been evolving ever since. Much of it is undocumented in languages other than Chinese.
Companies in China use these alternative optical discs, some of which store up to 1TB of data.
The only reference I can find to it on English Wikipedia is the CBHD
it's actually 128GB per disk (BDXL), I only know of Chinese companies announcements of 500GB optical disks last year[1], not sure if they are already deployed to some enterprise partners, it's entirely possible. Their more theoretical research goes far beyond that. [2]
There are archival storage machines similar to tape drive robots for archival storage in the Chinese market where you have hundreds of such disks in a single unit and 1PB+ per rack.
Wireshark is nice, but for HTTPS MitM you'll need a tool like mitmproxy/Burp to do the proxying and either modifications to the system image or a Frida daemon running as root to make most apps trust the MitM'd certificates.
To get the traffic routed right, the Wireguard option for mitmproxy is pretty useful in my experience. Not sure how well Waydroid + Android VPNs work together, though.
There's also certificate pinning which is done by basically every modern android app so you often need to modify apk to remove that. Httptoolkit has a good blog on the process: https://httptoolkit.com/blog/frida-certificate-pinning/
It's a pretty neat feature! I think it's in beta but it works flawlessly in my experience. Sure is a lot easier than setting up a separate (W)LAN with iptables rules to force redirect traffic.
Username relevant...
I got into Linux right before the init wars, and while they were hectic times they brought a lot of attention, discussions, and options to Linux.
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