skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I didn't say I look down upon frontend devs. I said that because of the way frontend seems to be chasing trends a lot of people look down on you. Maybe I should have said "That is why you get looked down upon by a lot of people".

Why are you assuming I am a backend dev? In fact why do you even assume I do web dev? You do know that there are many more areas where programming is needed, right?
"watchful waiting" is the phrase used. see https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2023/03/12/prostate-cancer-...

The above link mentions "one in eight men" will be affected by prostate cancer.

If you have the deadly fast-growing type of prostate cancer, it'll be evident soon enough.
> Copyright protects only expression, not ideas, systems or methods

Copyright is a law agreed by a humans in a social contract created to protect humans and further their interests in a 'fair' manner. There is no inalienable right to copyright, no universal law that requires it, it's not an emergent property of intelligence that mechanically applies to artificial entities.

So while the current copyright laws could be interpreted in the way you suggest for the time being, they are clearly written without any notion of AI, and can and should be revised to incorporate the new state of the world; you can bet creators will push hard in that direction. It's pretty clear that the mechanical transformation of a human body of work for the sole purpose of stripping it of copyright is a violation of the spirit of copyright law *.

*( as long as that machine can't also generate a similar work from scratch, in which case the point becomes moot. But we are far, far, from that point)
Not OP, but I pay my barber $50 for a 15 minute haircut. Runs his “barbershop” out of his house, which he owns, in one of the most desirable neighborhoods in Seattle.

There’s always another appointment lined up before and after mine, so I guess he’s pulling 6 figures without much sweat.
I’m not sure what either comment refers to. Can you explain?
Delphi: https://www.embarcadero.com/products/delphi

Lazarus: https://www.lazarus-ide.org/
> Google announced a handful of LLM-based features. This is Microsoft adding LLM-based features to all of their core office software.

i think this is incorrect. take another look at this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6DaJVZBXETE its clear they are infusing ai in all their workspace stuff.

now whether or not they do it fast or do it well, that is a different story.
Can you describe the vision bit? I have a general
idea but would like to know the details, e.g. which models you used.
I expect a third round of apology emails from Docker with less gaslighting and real numbers of how this affected 20k users.. or maybe more, not in a 2% format.

Depending on how this goes I might let my purchasing department know it's time to cancel our enterprise subscription with Docker. I have a IBM RH corp account and would much rather pay RH at that point because Docker is burning all of it's cred in the dumpster out back.
Very rarely. Hmm, I don't think I wrote assembly in the last few years though. Why?
Why is washing your ass such a difficult concept for some people. I understand wiping if there's water scarcity but in some countries, looking at you USA, that have lots of clean water available everywhere washing your ass seems to be taboo.
At 50km you might get breaks so you can see clouds, not sure. That's it. But no chance of seeing the ground. That might appeal for a few minutes, but I think I'd be content with seeing it from an observation dome
> If you think the IP law that is already making the rich even richer

On the contrary, the confusion is all yours. This is literally the reason plenty of photographers, illustrators were able to make money, as just one example. Without this any major publication could just grab whatever photo or artwork they saw fit, but they didn’t precisely because there’s such thing as IP law.

Before you argue for some form of communism without any intellectual property, ask yourself why people produced creative work in the first place (you know, all those works thanks to which an LLM can do its thing). Could it be because the fruit of their work was considered their intellectual property? As in, they were paid for it and were in control of it?

Now as soon as LLMs are trained on that work and can suddenly can produce derivatives cheaper, techbros are suddenly all like “let’s pretend IP law is some unfair thing that only benefitted the rich”. Those publishers now pay OpenAI/Microsoft for those very photographs and illustrations, that were taken for free, while the very people who created them would be losing jobs and gigs. Similar to book authors and other creative industries.

Do you really think this works in favor of decreasing the wealth gap? Not having to pay original creators for their work and instead paying a fraction of a penny to Microsoft while those creators starve? Aren’t you living in perpetual cognitive dissonance from these mental gymnastics?

No surprise non-tech people and especially creatives hate tech people more and more.
The only reason is the exercise of power and making sure you are an "employee".
Having the option to do either seems like the better approach for a consumer.

Worded differently, removing one of two options is worse for the consumer.
Perhaps your sample is biased?
No advice is going to be valuable here without knowing the full situation. Your design could be full of holes and the coworker is pointing them out, or you could be in the right and he is just trying to appear knowledgeable.

In general, dealing with conflict at work requires a good bit of understanding of human psychology that you cannot condense into a post.
This strikes me as extraordinarily expensive. As a point of comparison, I live in one of the world's most expensive cities, and for almost exactly the same amount of money I can get a 25 Gbps fibre-to-the-premises broadband connection that comes with about 200 TV channels from half a dozen countries.
Specifically they claimed that everybody in A formed part of the intended audience.

There was no assertation that anybody in A even liked the show let alone watched it.

( Although judging by the /r/SiliconValley subreddit (or whatever it was called) at least a few tech workers enjoyed the show )
I don’t know why you’d spend so long typing out such a long piece of what is just patently misinformation. It border line reads like you just harbor animus towards the US and wanted to seize on an opportunity to malign it.

If you made 31k/yr your healthcare subsidy under the ACA would put your premium at $0-10/month https://www.goodrx.com/insurance/aca/aca-income-limits

While there is no federal law for sick leave, many states have them, and even for states that don’t, local municipalities do which means a large portion of US workers do receive mandated sick time.
https://www.paycor.com/resource-center/articles/paid-sick-le...

To a lesser degree, the same goes for maternity leave
https://www.zippia.com/advice/average-paid-maternity-leave/
https://www.ncsl.org/labor-and-employment/state-family-and-m...

The car insurance part is also wrong. As is the part about being fired for taking sick time; it costs the average employer 7 figures to fight a wrongful termination suit. So even if they win, it’d have been cheaper to keep you on even if you did nothing. Employers in at will states can fire you for any reason but if you’ve had fine performance reviews leading up to your medical leave, only the stupidest employers would expose themselves to massive legal liability by firing you. I’m guessing you’re pretty naive to running a business because most employers and entrepreneurs I’ve talked to are quite aware of this and truthfully do have good will towards their employees anyway.

There’s more to pick apart here but tl;dr - no one in the US making 31k/yr is spending half their income on health insurance and car insurance. At the income level, your effective tax rate is 0% too cause of tax credits.
Expanding on that last part - https://medium.com/incerto/how-to-legally-own-another-person...
Pretty much.

Llama specific:

https://github.com/qwopqwop200/GPTQ-for-LLaMa

> According to GPTQ paper, As the size of the model increases, the difference in performance between FP16 and GPTQ decreases.

https://nolanoorg.substack.com/p/int-4-llama-is-not-enough-i...

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1wZ0g9rHI-6s7ctNlykuK4W5T...

Expect to get away with a factor of 4-5 reduction in memory usage for a minimal loss of quality. :)
My motivation for using markdown is simple: I can keep track of changes with git.
Petals: Collaborative Inference and Fine-Tuning of Large Models
If you use ChatGPT as replacement for a simple Google search, the results you get are what you would get from a simple Google search...
I have just repurposed a bunch of old computer parts into a low spec server running FreeBSD and I couldn't agree more.
I think you can trust the code of both those worlds exactly the same, not at all.

I’ve seen GPT 3 and 4 hallucinate the most amazing commentary about their own output. Maybe we will get dependable, out of process, guidance at some point about how factual the model thinks it is on an output per output basis but until that point you should trust every LOC and comment exactly the same as code gifted to you by an adversary.

My modest 2¢
This just keeps getting weirder.

From the infamous irony quotes 'balance sheet': https://d1e00ek4ebabms.cloudfront.net/production/7ab64a3b-6c...

Liablities: $8.8bn of customer deposits

* $6.6bn-ish in USD or USDT

* $2.2bn in crypto

* I'm assuming the 'poorly labelled $8bn' is included in this amount, and you don't add it

Assets: $2.5bn?

* $1.5bn of liquid assets.

* $1bn-ish? of illiquid assets.

* Most of these numbers are just made up, but let's finger-in-the-wind them at $1bn ($500m at least is in 'locked USDT')

Now we find out they have another magical pool of money, the $3.2bn that they'd taken out of FTX and put in their pockets.

So the position looks really different: They had $8.8bn on one side of the ledger, and $5.7bn on the other side - After the massive bank run which collapsed the price of their shitcoins.

It appears they had the money to pay out most of their USD / USDT depositors at $0.85 on the dollar, which is obviously still 'insolvent', but possibly enough to survive a bank run (almost) all the way down to the ground (If you suspend redemptions of your crypto and persuade 15% of your USD depositors not to pull their money out)

The final question is: Who did they owe the liabilities to? If some of those 'deposits' were actually owed to other FTX-associated entities, it seems even more survivable, and would probably have preserved some of the value of their shitcoins
> many satellites use tape measures for this purpose, literally tape measures. They're called gravity gradient booms.

Could you elaborate a bit? What part of a satellite is a tape measure useful for? How is it useful?
co-pilot excels in writing tests. It removes so much of the tedium and boilerplate. It seems to understand fixtures once you define one and understands subsequent changes to the boilerplate such as changing usernames, ids, appending items to lists. It is such a massive boost in productivity that those using it are way ahead of those who resist.
Write less software.

My love died the moment I was paid to build other people's stuff for 40 hours a week.

Now I use programming in support of other tasks and I can't get enough of it. It became fun again, like cooking for myself after quitting as a line cook.

AI feels rather useless to me. It can generate bullshit but it can hardly blaze new trails. It's great for dealing with the tedium, but not for solving problems that require a great deal of context.
Shame as in "it's a shame" or as in "shame on them"?
It would have been around a few 100MB as most hard drives were less than 1GB back then.
FWIW the behavior of delete on a pointer that isn’t either null or returned from new is undefined.

So a conforming C++ compiler doesn’t have to diagnose this mistake, and similarly the compiled program doesn’t have to do anything meaningful either. For example, just ignoring the delete and printing the message is as valid a result as the more useful crash at the site of the bad operation.
Elm was never an option with how hard it is on "no js" policy
I'm pretty sure a dev skilled in ML and GPUs has no trouble modifying the MIT code (which runs on the CPU) to something that runs on GPUs...
Literally everything I write is in Markdown because it’s so simple to me. I use it for blogposts, presentations, documentation, todos, internet comments.

But this article doesn’t strike a chord with me. The author fails to understand that it seems easy to us because we’re familiar with it. Of course we know how to transform it into PDF or HTML. But this knowledge isn’t basic, and it’s understandable that people want to stick to what they know.

Here’s an example. Say you had 10000 rows of CSV to slice and dice and extract insights and visualisations out of. All of us would go to the tools we’re familiar with - pandas, R, duckDB etc. But I think the median Excel user probably completes this task quicker and better than the median pandas user. And then if the pandas person is told “oh, just pick up Excel, it’s easy to learn and so useful” they won’t listen. And for good reason! Excel is powerful, but it’s not easy to learn. It only seems that way to people who already know how it works.

Don’t confuse the familiar with easy. Just because it’s easy for you doesn’t mean it’s objectively easy.
For what it's worth, I am a bus driver these days; a real one, no metaphor involved. And I sufficently disliked and mistrusted Visual Basic that already in the mid nineties I instigated a complete ban on any vb**run.dll on all computers under my jurisdiction. Mainly a heuristic: VB applications tended overwhelmingly to not being worth the inevitable trouble.

I have proudly carried this curmudgery into the present century, these days applied to Java runtimes and Mono libs.
This man, Fabrice Bellard again...

Frankly, I have not seen a more impressive portfolio of programming output.
Should have called it "LLM Runner".
Not quite distribute, it feels like spammers are using dockerhub pages as a free publishing platform for posting links to even more scummy websites in promises to get free ebooks and full hindi movie downloads and my favorite "cleanmymac-x-443-cracked-activation-code-hot".

Docker probably should've started their purge there, not with FOSS orgs...
To the extent to which anything that makes you take less time doing the specific tasks you are doing today (and thereby, presumably, bill fewer hours or fail to defend such a high headcount on your team) threatens your job, we might also say that better programming languages and tooling threaten your job, better error messages and documentation threaten your job, or higher levels of abstraction and higher quality frameworks threaten your job... were you also fretting about the new version of TypeScript that just came out earlier today, or did you think "wow, that makes me more effective, I can't wait to use it"?

I might go so far as to argue that the entire reason software developers exist is to threaten all jobs, including our own: at our best--when we are willing to put in a bit of thought into what we are doing--we don't just make things easier to do for a moment while we are employed (which is the best of what most professions can achieve): we make things persistently and permanently easier to do again and again... forever; and we don't just make other peoples' jobs easier: this same power we have applies to our own tasks, allowing us to automate and replace ourselves so we can move on to ever more rewarding pursuits.

I'm not a fan of GPT for coding for a number of reasons (at least, in its current form, which is all we can ever have a true opinion about); but, it isn't because it will replace anything I've ever done: it would have just unlocked my ability to work on better things. There are so many things I wish I could get done before I die, and I know I'm going to be able to get to almost none of it... I have so many plans for ways to improve both the world and my life that will never happen as I just don't have the capability and bandwidth to do it all. If I had a God I could ask to do all the things I already do... I can only imagine what I'd do then.
I think there’s augmenting programmers (which I think will happen) or replacing programmers (which I think will not happen soon). It’s a capable and improving tool that humanity will figure out how to saturate like we do with everything else.
Slight tangent from the original post:

I wish "normal" people were more tech-literate. I don't think they realize just how much of their autonomy they've given up by choosing to use Microsoft Products/Reddit/Twitter/Spotify/Facebook/TikTok/Apple Products/ etc.

We're at a point where now the average person depends on several layers of technology that they can't even conceive of, and often the companies building that technology don't share their political interests. But then the average person expresses frustration at having to use open-source alternatives (which is completely understandable when the open-source alternative is definitively worse!).

Basically, for me not understanding how technology works when it's so central to our everyday lives just seems baffling. I suppose someone could say the exact same thing to me about not understanding how my car works, or how to grow my own food. Maybe technology seems easier to learn than agriculture? But then of course it's easier for me, I'm a professional programmer. So I try to have a lot of empathy for everyone who doesn't understand technology, especially my mom when she doesn't know how to convert a PDF.
The AOT compiled managed languages are hamstrung in no small part by their fundamental design, which was intended for virtual machines. Java and C# were designed in the 1990s. Since then, hardware has changed. For example, indirect calls are much more expensive in relative terms, and the memory bloat introduced by template metaprogramming is much less of a limitation.

Imagine a language as easy to use as Python, with the strong typing of Typescript, but designed from the ground up to always be fully compiled and hence running as fast as C++, but with build times measured in fractions of a second... fast enough to feel interpreted.
Surely the slides were of men of an advanced age, right? Otherwise that statement is false.
Except customers will just leave Amazon. Like they are doing with Music, and Video, and Prime. This move disadvantages everyone except Amazon. It should be investigated by SEC.
Isn’t it all incredibly short lived as well? I mean; we have and will have trained open/public foundational models that are not censored. Sure they are not gpt4 but will close the gap more and more as money flies in, the science improves etc. When gpt6 or so arrives, the more open companies will be close.

And those have no censoring and/or cannot be stopped when a jailbreak has been found. So this is incredibly temporary imho.
How does this compare to this project: https://github.com/visheratin/web-ai

Does it support using custom ONNX models?
Where's the 4GB model loaded from and to where?
For me the utility is here today. Even if I have to carefully probe and check the responses there are still plenty of things where it's worth it to me to use it right now.
When I do a review I do a holistic one.

Doesn't mean I hate an idea.
And DoD and NASA are right now funding this research again.

Edit: NERVA style, not Salt water thing.
As a person with an extensive background in ML, I feel similarly about CS grads attaching themselves to "AI" enterprises until they convince themselves they're an "expert" without putting in the due diligence to understand the unifying math under the hood. They end up doing stupid things with their models, completely ruining their business proposition through their lack of understanding in how the ML theory makes the implementation make sense. And then they don't even know how to appropriately judge the quality of the outputs from the reported metrics.

It's normies all the way down.
That could be a more effective approach.
The tradie’s laptop
> I really wish Google had delayed this blog post until after all of their currently supported flagship products were no longer affected

Aren't they legally required to disclose security vulnerabilities like this within a certain time limit?

Seems like the real anger should be directed at them removing the toggle to turn it off.
Cost of Using Unbuffered Io
Somebody in that thread is speculating that the company in question is grammarly.

I'm not sure but I'm now curious as to what the execs there are thinking, especially now with the recent Microsoft 365 news. Feels like the body blows keep coming.
Maybe someone can correct me, but my understanding is that you would calculate the embeddings of code chunks, and the embedding of the prompt, and take those chunks that are most similar to the embedding of the prompt as context.

Edit: This, btw, is also the reason why I think that this here popped up on the hackernews frontpage a short while ago: https://github.com/pgvector/pgvector
Rolls Royce to develop nuclear reactor for moon base
Needs South Park gifs.
This is already a hot legal mess.

The World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO) should come up with Berne convention 3.0 that provides:

- increased protection for human authorship

- longer copyright terms for hoomans

- shorter copyright terms for bots (5 years)

- moral rights preventing 'globbing' by generative AIs

- royalty system for original authors

- derived computer-generated works pay

I'd like to see a blockchain ledger-esque system where human authors can claim authorship and they receive nano-royalties every time works are derived from it.
The generative AI's can 'glob' it but they will need to pay their dues.

Importantly GAI's can't register their stuff in the hooman copyright chain.
Switching OS always takes time to adjust. I have the same feeling any time I try to use a Mac or iPhone.
I never received any spam on my cell until the past few years - around the same time my state government made voter information available to political organizations to enable their begging. Now the cat's out of the bag and the info has doubtless been sold and shared with every scammer in the world.
Humans in average spend 50% of their total time doing evil or planning on doing it. 40% is spent trying to come up with a definition of evil and protect "innocent" others from learning about how evil everyone is acting. 10% is spent actually fighting against evil.
VB was the one thing that most closely approached the promise of object orientation: "bolt-together," "off-the-shelf" components that you could build software with.

In VB you could slap together a CRUD app in days, with VBXs (later renamed OCXs). I worked for a company where a bunch of programmers turned up their nose at VB and insisted on using C++, and then they got canned when the VB prototype functioned perfectly sufficiently for a production app.
"Normal" people see other people as technologies - you sort of give your problem to the person, maybe mix some money in and then the problem goes away. This is how the relationship with people like lawyers, doctors, salespeople, etc, etc work.

They know that engineers (and programmers) are in the same rough class as all the other professionals. These conversations showcase the confusion as they try to figure out what problem programmers are there to solve. Other engineering disciplines also suffer from this - engineering is a subtle art. Nobody knows what we actually do except the rest of the brotherhood :(.

The first example is a really good showcase. They really don't want to be walked through how to solve their problem. The point of the specialist is supposed to be that they solve the problem in exchange for payment. They don't understand that programmers are really all about adjusting the cost of taking action rather than acting directly.