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illwrks··on Goldman Sachs is pulling Claude Code from its bankers and traders
If it was being used for research rather than execution, isn’t there a risk of leaking information therefore inadvertently causing price movements.
illwrks··on The Hackintosh Reborn
Agreed. In the creative space there is no equal. Macs have provided consistency and stability from the 90s.
illwrks··on Britain to make salary disclosure in job ads mandatory
Some recruiters get paid on commission, meaning after 6 months of you being in the role they get paid. Other internal recruiters don’t work that way so they have no incentive to get you in the door for a minimum term.

The law will make it visible how much a company values someone with those skills. Companies won’t advertise the salary though, they will advertise the range.

illwrks··on Britain to make salary disclosure in job ads mandatory
Advice for anyone in future.

Recruiters at big companies will be told to advertise the role within the payband (the min to max pay for that role at that pay band)

So if you see a top end number and think you’ll get that, you probably won’t it will be around the middle of the range.

At that point you go back to the recruiter and state that you would expect the top end of the range. They may agree with you but then keep in mind that may also impact your salary increase at the end of the year, meaning a smaller increase for you compared to your peers which over several years would even out and out you back in the middle of the payband like your peers. This is why the common idea is to jump roles every few years.

illwrks··on Hacking the Xbox 360 Hypervisor Part 3: Bad Update Improvements
I expect the commenter has backed up their owned games to the hard drive so their kid doesn’t need to fiddle with discs damaging them, or has installed homebrew retro games. I expect all online functionality has been shut down anyway so it turns the console into an ad free offline gaming machine.

They are still outputting 720p, but the consoles are good value for kids.

illwrks··on Hacking the Xbox 360 Hypervisor Part 3: Bad Update Improvements
Xbox 360 was sold over a decade. Each version had specific hardware revisions so hackers creating these tools tend to refer to the hardware code names to as a way to identify which revision their hacks apply to.

The below list is from AI, but from a quick view is correct.

Xbox 360 Motherboard Revisions:

• Xenon (2005)

• Zephyr (2007)

• Falcon (2007)

• Opus (2008)

• Elpis (2008)

• Jasper (2008)

• Tonasket (2009)

• Trinity (2010)

• Corona (2011)

• Waitsburg (2012)

• Stingray (2013)

• Winchester (2014)

illwrks··on Tell HN: Gemini trains on chat history, even for subscribers (personal accounts)
Exactly, I have a Gemini Pro account, I can’t see how privacy can be maintained. If I ask Gemini to take the content of an email and added the dates to my calendar, then all of that private information might as well be public then!
illwrks··on You're supposed to turn Bluetooth off when you don't need it – how risky is it?
On iOS is it really ‘off’? Surely it’s on at some level in order to widen the network for AirTags?
illwrks··on Ask HN: Which TV do you recommend for privacy?
Buy any TV, just don’t connect it to the internet at all, ever.

Plug in an Apple TV or any other streaming device if you want digital content. If your want terrestrial content ensure the TV has the relevant input connections on the back.

illwrks··on New iPad mini
You're not wrong. The video video on Youtube gives a very good (and quick) overview of the marketing behind phone screen glass marketing claims; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7YrdI7h2XoY

The same will apply to everything any company is marketing, at the very least it will always be their 'best' 'new' product.

illwrks··on Apple Music 404 Not Found
https://pastebin.com/QUVmNyNV
illwrks··on Apple Music 404 Not Found
There appears to be different URLs for different territories. For anyone curious, I've fed a few of them into an agent and they are largely consistent.

US 1,029 Songs 682 Artists 39 Unique tracks

GB 1,156 Songs 727 Artists 12 Unique tracks

FR 1,217 Songs 797 Artists 132 Unique tracks

DE 1,062 Songs 709 Artists 62 Unique tracks

ES 1,155 Songs 724 Artists 7 Unique tracks

illwrks··on Apple Music 404 Not Found
Playlist data below for anyone interested:

https://music.apple.com/includes/ipod/data/us/en-US.json

illwrks··on Ask HN: If the models are so good, why doesn't OpenAI just start 100 companies?
As the saying goes… the devil is in the details.
illwrks··on How does Fable 5.1 hide messages in images?
Open an SVG in a text editor, check for data.

It may also be adding nodes to line art in specific patterns, think Morse Code.

illwrks··on What shall I teach my son?
Curiosity, and problem solving.
illwrks··on Ask HN: What have you built privately with AI that you'd like to share?
Im also working on a custom PCB for a software synthesiser using a variety of off the shelf components.

Again niche but hopefully getting the next set of PCBs off to the manufacturer later this week.

illwrks··on Ask HN: What have you built privately with AI that you'd like to share?
I’ve built an SVG animation tool. Something akin to a basic Flash tool. It was originally a rudimentary tool I coded by hand, then used AI to tighten up, fix issues and evolve into something I’m happier with, it’s probably 90% AI now, with features created bit by bit rather than one-shot prompted.

It’s a niche tool for my use; to create animated image assets in a fraction of the file size to a comparable GIF.

There are still issues with preparing work in Illustrator so my next step will be to work ok some form of plug-in that can export prepared artwork for use in the animator.

illwrks··on Tesla Roadster
It looks like I was wrong... more detail on this video: https://youtu.be/22rvpUecLts?t=1107
illwrks··on Tesla Roadster
Honestly, I think what is shown is sleight of hand, it was probably a step up from this DIY project: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MybApXQIO5Q
illwrks··on Meta’s new commercial terms will allow the scraping of news sites: experts
Who’s to say it would report it self as an agent, then diff the two versions.
illwrks··on Meta’s new commercial terms will allow the scraping of news sites: experts
The news sites should engineer their articles to mislead the AI’s.
illwrks··on AI agents aren't 'going rogue.' Frontier labs are skipping security basics
If that message is repeated enough in the media, and if companies are constantly scraping in the internet for new content, doesn't it explicitly instruct a future agent to go rogue because that has been prophesied.
illwrks··on Felix Rieseberg Homepage
I've seen a several AI-coded WebGL examples... I wonder if AI will mean the return of the Flash-style interactive websites.
illwrks··on Muse Wonder
I found it interesting in the example given of a user looking at house listings and the agent contacting the letting agent on it's own on behalf of the user.

Like the good ol' days of viruses and anti-viruses. I wonder if there's two sides that will play out; many agents across many users doing things at scale for their users, thereby creating an admin burden for someone else. However because the task is known there's a framework for how to solve the task, might Meta then provide an agent on the other side for the business owner to use.

illwrks··on If AI keeps evolving,would you worry about your next generation's survival
I think you have to accept that life is full of change. The world all around you is changing and you are best prepared by not having a fixed mindset or rigid skill set.

Regardless of how automated parts of society become, there will always be a need for someone to do something.

You should always tinker and experiment with new things, that’s where you find opportunity.

illwrks··on If AI keeps evolving,would you worry about your next generation's survival
How many things from 30 years ago are still working without issue or regular maintenance.

Things will always change, there will always be jobs. AI will be a tool to use, good robots will be expensive, cheap robots will breakdown, everything will require some form of sales, management, maintenance etc.

illwrks··on ArtCraft Apps – open-source Adobe compatible suite written in Rust
I work as a designer, I use a lot of their tools at a professional level. My perspective is from a place where Adobe software is embedded in processes, I could change my software but I will receive assets that will be done with the latest tools. Likewise I could supply files from these tools but then the person receding it may not be able to use them. I’m sure there are a lot of people using bits of Adobe software but there are much more using it in a career and it would be impossible to switch and there’s an opportunity for Adobe to turn the screw and lock down the processes in the creative pipeline.
illwrks··on ArtCraft Apps – open-source Adobe compatible suite written in Rust
I think Adobe I will quickly lean into Content Credentials, across the entire creative suite workflow.

Anything created in an Adobe product has a hash and is synced to their cloud. Opening any asset in an Adobe product without Adobe content credentials is blocked entirely as it’s ‘not verified’.

Any real business that uses Adobe software will be locked into it and it will shut out things like this from competing in a commercial sense.

It enforces the idea that only Adobe can validate the authenticity and origin of an asset, as well as builds a moat.

They could easily roll it out, it introduces more friction from a creative production point of view but they may have no choice now…

illwrks··on Show HN: Quake ported to safe Rust, playable in browser
Ah. So in that instance are those platforms not validating that the things submitting information are correct and true. A bit like a utility company needing to do manual reads every now and then to ensure they are getting a correct signal.
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