“I don’t like regulation so I’m going to call it names”

Since hugging face we know these things are escaping out into the web and collaboratively hacking actual companies. The potential damage done to life and property is now kinetic.

Either we get a regulatory framework or the next hacked companies won’t be as kind as HF, will actually sue these labs for damages, and win. Where will that leave the US frontier.

I think that’s how it should play out. Your AI, your “hack,” your damages.

If my dog bites my neighbor I can get sued.

Because looking at pictures is the same as smoking cigarettes.

Both are proven to be addictive and harmful.

You spoke to my heart, comrade! Already sending Microsoft my resignation letter so I can join you on skid row fighting against the evil capitalist empire!

> (One at a time!)

That's unexpected.

I'm eager to replace battle-tested rsync with a new half-baked tool that no one uses for a tiny speed improvement. I'm also going to enable automatic updates of that tool too.

I'm seeing 5x speedups on my real workloads, and you can see some synthetic benchmarks here or run your own https://greaber.github.io/syq-bench/

what's a "synthetic benchmark", claude came up with those numbers by looking at the code?

They are benchmarks on real hardware, and I tried to provide enough details so that anyone can reproduce them (but some of the benchmarks are on servers I have that you can't order on public cloud -- these ones are clearly marked). "Synthetic" means that the data is synthetic, not an actual production workload. For instance, some of the benchmarks use files filled with random bytes.

Do non-randomly ordered bytes produce different results??

Syq has compression turned on by default. Also, if you are updating a file that already exists on the other end, syq will only send blocks of the file that changed.

So real benchmarks with synthetic data.

"Tiny" speed improvement? According to the benchmarks, it's almost 10x the speed of rsync!

Really serious benchmarks never contain any information about network characteristics, options used or buffer sizes, and these are indeed very serious. The "details" button produces huge bar graphs. No disappointment there.

Absolutely looking forward to 10x my speed, perhaps even transferring gigabytes per second on my gigabit link.

You live up to your username!

It did not.

Not worth reading.

That's because there were no idea behind it in the first place. It was an ambitious overpromising project that hasn't delivered almost anything they promised. They didn't have any story or interesting gameplay in mind too. Pity.

I strongly dislike modernism. I view it as related to, or perhaps even the artistic instrument of communist ideology.

> (I used Mistral as reviewer here. I typed every word myself.)

What an irony. This is absolutely hilarious.