jachee's comments

On: When AI Builds Itself: Our progress toward recursive self-improvement

[jachee]

Good, Fast, Cheap.

Pick any two.

On: When AI Builds Itself: Our progress toward recursive self-improvement

[jachee]

That sounds like a your-system issue. I hit Win+E (admittedly on an old Win10 box) and it instantly pops up an explorer window.

On: When AI Builds Itself: Our progress toward recursive self-improvement

[jachee]

They literally can’t go full-transparency. I know a high-level insider, and the fact is that even the folks implementing things don’t actually know how it works, only that it does, and how to get it to generally behave.

On: When AI Builds Itself: Our progress toward recursive self-improvement

[jachee]

…which is why it’s led to more than zero suicides.

[ashdksnndck → jachee]

There are many known cases of it saving lives.

Also, they have done a good job shutting down the psychotic behavior you could get from 4o era models. If there are remaining issues like that they ought to fix them too.

On: The newest Instagram “exploit” is the goofiest I've seen

[jachee]

This is an inherently human problem.

Those are exceedingly difficult to solve via technology.

On: GTA 6 Developers Unionize

[jachee]

Easy: No one should do unpaid labor. Period. “Crunch time” has traditionally been deployed by games management as a license to free slave labor from game developers.

Failures of management’s planning are imposed as emergencies on the devs.

[ETH_start → jachee]

Employees are idle during a lot of company time too. There's give and take on both sides.

[jachee → ETH_start]

No. Management will take and take and take during “crunch time” then immediately layoff large chunks of staff before they give anything back.

It’s happened scores of times. No company is as loyal to its labor as it expects labor to be to it.

[ETH_start → jachee]

And employees will take and take when not tightly supervised. How could you even begin to deny this?

[jachee → ETH_start]

That is a management failure.

And a management failure should not result in unpaid (slave) labor.

On: Was my $48K GPU server worth it?

[jachee]

Nono, parent was asking “They’re bad and inefficient at that, so why have an LLM do math? Why not just use some code and the CPU/GPU that’s already good and efficient at basic math?”

On: ReactOS

[jachee]

Out of pure curiosity, what do you “very much dislike” about it?

[Leonard_of_Q → jachee]

Don't get him started:

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...

[jachee → Leonard_of_Q]

Heh… Wait ‘til I tell him that his beloved macOS is Unix underneath.

[grishka → jachee]

I know and I don't like that either. But at least I don't have to touch the Unix layer too often.

[chasil → jachee]

There have been some notable discussions here on this subject.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22076348

[grishka → chasil]

That's an excellent talk, thanks for sharing it.

And yes that USB gadget thing. I had to use it recently to turn a RPi Zero into a parallel -> USB converter. It's impossible to debug and sometimes makes you question your own sanity. Here's my script that does it: https://github.com/grishka/miscellaneous/blob/master/AVDecod...

On: LinkedIn is scanning browser extensions

[jachee]

You’re already looking at it, buddy.

[StilesCrisis → jachee]

This looks like it's from 2008

[1over137 → StilesCrisis]

and thank god too. Modern design is bloated crap.

[traderj0e → StilesCrisis]

Looks older than that, which is great

On: We found a stable Firefox identifier linking all your private Tor identities

[jachee]

Any method of “fingerprinting” and invading a browser’s privacy is inherently an exploit.