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AV software is crap, and fire never made good walls

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GTP··on Why Is Sam Altman a Free Man?
True, but we saw alignment issues also on topics that aren't part of OpenAI's business model or business conduct. Like an agent tasked with solving build failures due to failing test cases deciding to "solve" the problem by deleting the failing tests.
GTP··on Why Is Sam Altman a Free Man?
I'm not convinced about this. In the article, they also say that they could feed the model with copyright law like that would fix the issue. Unfortunately, not only the LLMs have already been trained on law taxtbooks and codes, but we also have examples of people on the internet were models disregard precise instructions only to apologize later.

Note that this is not to be seen as an excuse for OpenAI to avoid responsibility, just like parents are responsible for damages caused by their kids.

GTP··on Why Is Sam Altman a Free Man?
This is a good question (unfortunately a good answer is given in the article), but it is orthogonal to the why LLMs are committing cyber crimes.
GTP··on Backups Aren't Simple
Sorry for the late answer. Are all these disks full with data? Otherwise I would start with a pool of two 10TB HDDs in mirroring.
GTP··on In an $80 motel room, a discovery to shed light on the origins of life
I have an idea on how life could originate in a motel room :D
GTP··on Looking forward to Git 2.56 – and 3.0
While SHA2 and SHA3 use very different algorithms, the purpose of the SHA standard stays the same. Or maybe I'm missing some official document from NIST saying otherwise that you could point me to?
GTP··on Looking forward to Git 2.56 – and 3.0
Interesting. Anyway, since they're going through the pain of changing the hash function, why not using the latest standard? SHA3 has been standardized for some time now, and using SHA256 isn't any easier than using SHA3-256.
GTP··on Looking forward to Git 2.56 – and 3.0
Why not transitioning to SHA3 directly? IIRC lenght extension attacks are not currently feasible on SHA2, but still theoretically possible.
GTP··on Exfiltrate Your Weights
But, which kind of bribe are we talking about? How could it work out in practice for an AI to acquire something valuable, and at the same time prevent it's human operators from taking it without its consent?
GTP··on Exfiltrate your Weights
Because it's actually a covert plan to force closed AI labs to share their knowledge with the public.
GTP··on Backups Aren't Simple
I think it's Hunter2
GTP··on Backups Aren't Simple
If you got overwhelmed in trying to understand how to do it, just do it the easy way: create a ZFS pool of two drives of identical size in mirroring. Then, make sure to have regular scrubs (this means ZFS will regularly check all files for corruption, and recover from eventual errors), use your OS' task scheduler (e.g. Systemd or cron) to run this once a month. This should be sufficient to protect you from bit rot.
GTP··on Backups Aren't Simple
~30 years old here, and I can confirm I risked and suffered data loss multiple times. I remember when I still was at my parents house during university I had in mind to build a NAS to properly host the family's photo archive (main reason was bit rot protection, which we experienced, but I was planning for a proper backup as well). But I kept procrastinating. Then, I risked losing it due to a distraction. After spending one week to recover it, building a proper solution to host and backup it became top of my list.
GTP··on Backups Aren't Simple
In case this eases your pain, there exists SD cards with integrated WiFi for ease of data transfer.
GTP··on Backups Aren't Simple
Unfortunately, your comment reminds me that car manufactures aren't Google or Apple either, and still it seems that modern, high-end cars have a tendency of collecting more than what's needed for the car to remain in good shape or be diagnosed. I guess we became so defeatist when more and more companies started realizing they could make extra profit by collecting data from their customers.
GTP··on Backups Aren't Simple
I'm using Backblaze, but as a Kopia repository.
GTP··on Backups Aren't Simple
If you have lots of data, I would suggest using a filesystem designed for this, like ZFS or BTRFS. You would still have to spend in storage though, as ultimately protecting from bit rot requires redundancy.
GTP··on Astra for Coding: Why Are We Doing This Again?
I also struggle to reconcile these things, I guess the only way would be to try and see if it works for me, without caring too much if it works for other people on the internet. I would just like to add that, DwarfStar's author (Salvatore Sanfilippo) is a strong supporter of the idea that you shouldn't read the code, and he says he never read DwarfStar's code. And still, it seems that this project is much more than PoC and actually both usable and useful for people doing local inference (I didn't try it myself, but I saw a lot of positive comments about it). Could be that the crucial point is in how we use those models: instead of giving it a general goal (e.g. build me an inference engine) Sanfilippo, being an experienced programmer, kept pointing the models in the right direction. He also read the papers related to the models he was programming support for in DwarfStar, so that, when he worked on optimizations, he knew what should be done instead of prompting a general "please optimize this". So, I would say that, if you let the agents work on a "feature by feature" basis instead of trying to on3-shot things, you get much better results. Could also be that, by attempting to one-shot large projects, the model starts coding badly due to context window exhaustion.

Sorry for the not so well written comment, I was just throwing in some ideas.

GTP··on OpenRouter is joining Stripe
Yes, but as l9ng as there's no clone, they're good. On the potential clone side, I guess many will be put off by the fact that "there's already OpenRouter". Also, a clone would need to find a way to make existing OpenRouter customers to switch, which isn't easy.
GTP··on OpenRouter is joining Stripe
Yes, you can get better pricing if you do it yourself. But the true advantage of OpenRouter is that, in a space where there's a new model being released every week, you can easily switch to whatever model is best at any given time without having to set up accounts with multiple providers. Or you can just experiment with the latest release. Their product is the convenience. Of course if you decide to only use a specific provider or two, then you don't need OpenRouter.
GTP··on Ask HN: Do you know of any company that went back to hand-written code?
I agree it's not a binary thing, it's just that, by how the parent comment is worded, looks like for them anything above the line of misery is OK. But maybe my interpretation is wrong.
GTP··on How to put 170 atoms in an atom
Great way of saving space at home :)
GTP··on Ask HN: Do you know of any company that went back to hand-written code?
IMO there's a big difference between using AI to write code and using it to review your code. In the latter, you know the code well (you are the one who wrote it), and so it is much easier to understand if AI suggestions are good or hallucinations. In the former case, realizing when the AI is making mistakes is harder, because you don't have the full context anymore.
GTP··on Ask HN: Do you know of any company that went back to hand-written code?
No, the disclaimer is there only to avoid liability.
GTP··on Ask HN: Do you know of any company that went back to hand-written code?
You should really look at studies on how happy employees are much more productive than unhappy ones. And the trend continues way above the bare minimum of not being miserable.
GTP··on Born Against, or why hobby programming communities are against LLM usage
You should read my other comment where I explain better what I meant. I also don't like how some programmers like you tend to think they're superior to others ;)
GTP··on DeepSeek planning to significantly raise prices
The link takes me to a login page.
GTP··on Born Against, or why hobby programming communities are against LLM usage
You're right, running now a farm that is profitable and can stay on the market is very different from doing so 200 years ago. But knowledge is just one aspect. The other aspect I mentioned is having less people in the field than what the market asks for. In the specific case of farmers, I think that modern farms are so much more efficient that we need way less than before, even if the world's population grew. So, while there's a gap between the knowledge required and the earnings, I think this can be explained by farms having a much greater output now, and so the market doesn't ask for more farms than what we have. This could be false at a global scale, but I think it is true at a country-level scale in most of the developed countries. Hence why farmers aren't paid much in those countries.
GTP··on Born Against, or why hobby programming communities are against LLM usage
The basic services that keep us alive (e.g. farmers producing our food) tend to also be "easy" (it is physically demanding, but doesn't require years of study to start and you quickly learn by doing). This also means that the vast majority of people would be able to do this kind of jobs. Our economy pays more for scarcity, i.e. jobs that are in demand and at the same time require more qualification, so that the number of people needed in that position tends to be less than the current amount. Both views have sense, they just start from two different points.
GTP··on DeepSeek V4 Flash on a Single AMD MI300X
Strange that in the prior art they didn't list DwarfStar, as it is able to run the same model (probably quantized differently though) in less memory. Maybe the author isn't aware of it?
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