LatencyKills

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by LatencyKills 4mo ago
Things mature, and expectations grow appropriately. That is true of more than just LLM performance.
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by LatencyKills 4mo ago
I was fortunate to get to spend time with woz when I worked at Apple. He's the type of person who is practically silent during a meeting. Then, towards the end, he spoke up and would literally solve the problem we'd been strugglin
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by LatencyKills 4mo ago
I have a friend who is VP at a major telecom company. He has no technical experience but has been using Claude to create data analysis apps. He was complaining that it took three hours to process certain datasets, so I took a look. He had C
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by LatencyKills 4mo ago
Deep water can still damage an EV by getting into connectors, sensors, wheel bearings, brakes, and cabin electronics. They can also float just like a regular car.
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by LatencyKills 4mo ago
> Which statement of mine do you think is not settled law? I object to your statement that "copyright doesn’t get involved at all" when that is objectively untrue. If that was true, many of the world's largest companies
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by LatencyKills 4mo ago
To do that training, you must first obtain the item with the content you require. Did OpenAI purchase a copy of every book they trained their models on? Answer: They did not. That is literally why there are dozens of ongoing lawsuits in p
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by LatencyKills 4mo ago
I appreciate your comment, but you answered as if this question had been answered legally. It has not. The New York Times is suing both OpenAI and Microsoft for copyright infringement. The Authors Guild is suing OpenAI. Getty Images is suin
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by LatencyKills 4mo ago
> I'm trained on protected works. That someone, at some point, paid for. I'd like to understand why I can't use a song in one of my videos without permission/payment, but an AI company can train models using that song
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by LatencyKills 4mo ago
Having an original thought is in no way related to breaking copyright laws. I don't think we should "get over" the fact that modern SOTA models couldn't exist without being trained on protected works.
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by LatencyKills 4mo ago
I understand where you are coming from, but at least when I was there, we were still trying to develop solutions that had never been implemented at that scale before (just like Anthropic today). I helped create the first version of Visual S
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by LatencyKills 4mo ago
I worked for MS and Apple for 20 years and heard that opinion constantly; i.e., "People only work there for the money." I have no idea if Andrej "sold out" but perhaps he realizes that if he wants to work on the cutting
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by LatencyKills 4mo ago
What if I don't have a webcam or work in an environment where they are disallowed?
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by LatencyKills 4mo ago
Oh, I didn't mean that this specific project wouldn't work. I just wish HN were a little friendlier towards projects that are primarily thought experiments. Some of the best things I've ever created started from, "I wond
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by LatencyKills 4mo ago
This is a quintessential, crazy idea that used to be adored on HN. The author, obviously, didn't intend this to be a serious engine. I wish more submissions began with, “This might be a bit wild, but I wanted to see if it could actuall
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by LatencyKills 4mo ago
Why not just comment out the macNotify() calls in watcher.js and then run it periodically? There are also a few calls to send iMessages that you should remove.
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by LatencyKills 4mo ago
I was an engineer at MS in the 90s. We've been using the term "setup" incorrectly since the beginning of time. It was "setup.exe", not "set up.exe" for an obvious reason. You are conflating grammar with
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by LatencyKills 5mo ago
> Liquid Radius doesn't touch /System or modify the SSV I'm not doubting you, but by requiring users to disable SIP you are effectively opening their entire system to SSV attacks. 99% of "regular" users won'
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by LatencyKills 5mo ago
As an ex-Apple engineer I have a very good idea how you implemented this and why you require SIP deactivation. With SIP disabled, malicious tools can directly patch binaries, inject shims, or drop payloads into system locations. Also, SIP w
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by LatencyKills 5mo ago
> The important point is that applications shouldn't be able to arbitrarily move the mouse in situations when it's unexpected. That is quite a different statement from "It should be impossible." What should be impossi
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by LatencyKills 5mo ago
> But if it's windowed then it should be impossible. I worked on several apps for the visually impaired that automatically move the mouse cursor to different UI elements in the front-most application, regardless of the window state.
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by LatencyKills 5mo ago
You can send an email to hn@ycombinator.com. They tend to respond promptly.
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by LatencyKills 5mo ago
> I've reached the conclusion that software quality and even price matters much less than distribution, especially now. I’m skeptical of that claim. Even if it's trivial to build something that “works,” we still don’t know how
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by LatencyKills 5mo ago
Neither MS nor Apple has the best track record of building full-featured utility tools (which is why there are thousands of incredibly useful 3rd-party utility applications). I wish end-users would understand that giving them a choice is
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by LatencyKills 5mo ago
Ex-Apple engineer here. This is, for better or worse, just the way Apple approaches this type of problem. From Apple's perspective, this is the way to preserve Finder / Gatekeeper / metadata semantics. It avoids silent data l
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by LatencyKills 5mo ago
I understand that, but as someone who was an engineer at both Microsoft and Apple, I see absolutely no problem with 3rd-parties adding useful features. As I said, as long as 3rd parties aren't overriding the built-in functionality by d
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by LatencyKills 5mo ago
Allow me to rephrase: If the OS doesn’t provide X, the end user should have no alternative for X. I use both macOS and Pop!OS. The latter doesn't include an emoji picker by default, so I'm precluded from using a 3rd-party picker?
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by LatencyKills 5mo ago
Ex-Apple engineer here. I really like your implementation. A few years ago I built a similar tool to help me automate the testing of some of my native macOS apps. Being able to run multiple UI automation tests simultaneously was the big win
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by LatencyKills 5mo ago
> DeepSeek-V4-Pro API is 75% OFF until May 5th Since the API price reduction is temporary, I wonder if this is intended to counter OpenAI's temporary limit boost [0]. [0]: https://venturebeat.com/orchestration/o
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by LatencyKills 5mo ago
> If you have the redacted and unredacted versions, then you can diff them; that seems unsurprising? I'm suggesting that a model designed for high-accuracy redaction can also be used to find all PII in unredacted text. For example
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by LatencyKills 5mo ago
Couldn't this be used to locate private data in unstructured text without having to rely on other means of PII detection? 1. Pass the raw text through the filter to obtain the spans. 2. Map all the spans back to the original text. No

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