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I think it's substantial to say that AI is currently overhyped because it's hitting a weak spot in human cognition. We sympathize with inanimate objects. We see faces in random patterns.

If a machine spits out some plausible looking text (or some cookie-cutter code copy-pasted from Stack Overflow) the human brain is basically hardwired to go "wow this is a human friend!". The current LLM trend seems designed to capitalize on this tendency towards sympathizing.

This is the same thing that made chatbots seem amazing 30 years ago. There's a minimum amount of "humanness" you have to put in the text and then the recipient fills in the blanks.
You're probably right, so regulate and restrict the gambling industry, not individuals.
It's a temperature compensated quartz watch, accurate to around 10 seconds per year. This puts it right up there with the highest end quartz watches. Even if you don't care about any extra features, it's worth it just for this.

It's also the only watch I've ever seen with a fully customizable and calibratable pulsometer. I know because I added that feature myself after shopping for watches and not finding a single one that had it. Use it every day at work too.
Different entity altogether.
Also doing the same here. I'm hoping that more places will run power to performance analysis like the derbauer 4090 review video.
My email inbox is already 99% spam (urine) and I don't see any of it. The bottom line is that if a human can easily recognize AI spam then so can another AI. This has always been an arms race with spammers on one side and curators on the other. No reason to assume spammers will start winning when they have been losing for decades.
The point is not that every lab will be profitable. There only needs to be one model in the end to increase our productivity massively, which is the point I'm making.

Huge margins lead to a lot of competition trying to catch up, which is what makes market economies so successful.
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Oh nerds, stop fighting.

This feels like someone is mad that a business makes money off open source, and they didn’t think about how to make money first. True?
Current LLMs fail if what you're coding is not the most common of tasks. And a simple web app is about as basic as it gets.

I've tried using LLMs for some libraries I'm working on, and they failed miserably. Trying to make an LLM implement a trait with a generic type in Rust is a game of luck with very poor chances.

I'm sure LLMs can massively speed up tasks like front-end JavaScript development, simple Python scripts, or writing SQL queries (which have been written a million times before).

But for anything even mildly complex, LLMs are still not suited.
Although, there were already before tons of "technical influencers" before that who excelled at writing, but didn't know deeply what they were writing about.

They give a superficially smart look, but really they regurgitate without deep understanding.
It was still pretty annoying to be told I can't use my steam deck unless I agree to the update.
Imagine how much food you get for every person in U.S. with 7 trillion. You probably get some roofs too.
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signed already and thank you all for your hard work.
I get it. The last two decades have soured us all on the benefits of tech progress.

But the previous decades were marked by tech optimism.

The difference here is the shift to marketing. The largest tech companies are gatekeepers for our attention.

The most valuable tech created in the last two decades was not in service of us but to manipulate us.

Previously, the customer of the software was the one buying it. Our lives improved.

The next wave of tech now on the horizon gives us an opportunity to change the course we’ve been on.

I’m not convinced there is political will to regulate manipulation in a way that does more good than harm.

Instead, we need to show a path to profitability through products that are not manipulative.

The most effective thing we can do, as developers and business creators, is to again make products aligned with our customers.

The good news is that the market for honest software has never been better. A good chunk of people are finally learning not to trust VC-backed companies that give away free products.

Generative AI provides an opportunity for tiny companies to provide real value in a new way that people will pay for.

The way forward is:

1. Do not accept VC. Bootstrap.

2. Legally bind your company to not productizing your customer.

3. Tell everyone what you’re doing.

It’s not AI that’s the problem. It’s the way we have been doing business.
Bans cost money to enforce, while diminishing personal choice and responsibility. Why not spend that money on education instead? I've not had an ad in my home or on my mobile devices for well over a decade, and I've spent exactly zero on additional hardware to make that happen. It takes less than 10 minutes to configure a new device to be completely ad-free. I won't purchase anything that can't be configured to be free of ads, including smart TVs and iPhones. I still watch whatever content I want on my TV via HDMI from a PC. If our governments are going to be involved, their focus should be on teaching people how to do what people like me do. It's not difficult.
But if they "doesn't" fight Russia now, why are they going to fight China in the future? Pretty good odds they won't because the cost is too high.

What we appear to be seeing is they don't really have a lot of tools that can be used against an uncooperative nuclear-armed power; and many of those tools would probably fail against China.
I agree on the first two points.

On the third point, I think we've always seen this happen even in massive shocks like the Industrial Revolution (and the Second Industrial Revolution with assembly lines etc. and the Computer Age)

It might be hard for people to retrain to whatever the new opportunities are though. Although perhaps somewhat easier nowadays with the internet etc.
Local control has limits too. In the US one can now export pollution to ones neighboring states. Las Vegas exports it's externalities by marketing to out of state populations. (Or at least they did when gambling was more heavily regulated elsewhere)
That arbitration rule is invalid in Europe, UK and Australia anyway.

Its one of those weird peculiarities present in US law which apply virtually nowhere else but show up in quite a few agreements across the world.

I wonder how valid the whole agreement is if it contains points which one can not possibly agree to.
Ask HN: Is anyone experimenting with running an LLM agent indefinitely?
Is there anyone experimenting with running an LLM agent continuously (24/7) for some productive purpose?

I'm used to seeing agents woken up to handle a specific tasks, which they perform and then halt - but I'm interested in a situation of an agent given full control of a VM and being run indefinitely (e.g. continuously triggered with the same prompt, or by two sub-LLMs driving each other).

For example, I'm thinking about having an LLM developer with the general goal of improving a piece of software given a general roadmap and some weighted metrics to optimize (e.g. keep test errors at zero, keep code complexity low, keep resource usage low costs, keep runtime latency low). I'd love to see what such software would evolve to. Or equivalently, what it would it look like if we asked an LLM to write and continuously rewrite/edit a short story - would it converge toward something that's worth reading?

Anyone working on this sort of stuff?
Whenever I upgrade computers, I never transfer, just start fresh. I keep old hard drives around and have backups in case I need stuff but... all that stuff I accumulate I don't actually need.
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> They did by accessing and copying the code.

By default, copying is disallowed because of copyright. Your license provides them a right to copy the code, perhaps within certain restrictions.

However, sometimes copying is allowed, such as fair use (I covered this in another comment I sent you). This would allow them to copy the code regardless of the license.

> Same as a human cloning a repository and using it's content or someone accessing a website with Terms of Use.

I've covered the cloning/copying part already, but "I agree to this ToS by continuing to browse this webpage" is called a clickwrap agreement. Its enforceability is dubious. I think the LinkedIn case showed that it only applied if HiQ actually explicitly agreed to it by signing up.
That's what I expected going in, but one thing the book really opened my eyes to is how much red tape makes it impossible to build even "popular" projects legally. Until Robert Moses started building highways, many of his early public park projects were not only popular, but projects that people had wanted to do for decades, but it was impossible to get them done.

You basically need three things to build a public works project:
1. The engineering design
2. The money
3. The political will

And 1. is basically the easiest of the three, by far. For 2., Robert Moses was good at finding and selling projects to sponsors, especially when the federal government started funding public works. One of the most exciting chapters of the book is how he goes from zero funding for a particular highway to getting the full amount, purely by pitching the project to enough sponsors.

For 3., the hardest part was that anyone who owned an inch of land where a project would go had a veto, and they often did. Here Robert Moses gleefully embraced a lot of "corrupt" practices: graft in order to convince people to sell him the land, buying corrupt judges to rule in favor of Moses for the people who couldn't be convinced with graft, and aggressively writing and passing sneakily-worded legislation that gave him the freedom to get stuff done.

This book is pretty eye opening because of that third part. Robert Caro certainly goes out of his way to paint Moses as a bad guy, and certainly all the above practices are "bad" because they break the rules, but you kind of come away from the fact that if he didn't commit those crimes, he and his department would have simply collected a paycheck for their whole lives while accomplishing nothing. And the corruption Robert Moses practiced was definitely of a different kind than the Tammany Hall men before him, who really did just create government jobs for political patronage with no intent of accomplishing anything. It was different because he used it to build something.

You look at projects like the California High Speed rail, where the project appears to be an unending money pit and wonder why there isn't a Robert Moses who could ram it through at much lower cost.

Now unfortunately, some of the things that Robert Moses is disliked for were precisely because he became a freight train of getting people out of the way so that things could get built, to the point where no one could stop him even if the idea really was bad. But why do we need such a freight train to do public works?
Maybe I am, but I'm getting pretty rich doing it, so there is that. :)
I do understand that. But in this case the supply of who can do the work is about to increase wildly too. That should mean a decrease in the price the 'programmer' can demand. I was mostly thinking along your lines until the other day when someone typed into the latest chat gpt 'write me a game of tetris in python' pasted the error that hallucinated out of it back into the thing and it spat out an acceptable program that did tetris. It compiled and ran and was a roughly decent copy of the game tetris. All in about 5-10 mins.

That is 'good enough' I am looking at. Throw away code to do one or two bespoke things and moving on. Why keep it when the next version of this can just make a better version next time. Why keep that expensive programmer on staff to do this when I can hire a couple of dudes from india to type a few prompts in or do it myself? The value of programming is dropping very fast. Or in economic terms the price someone is willing to pay for a given amount of code is going to go down. But the demand for the amount of code will go up. That on the surface looks like a wash but I am leaning to a reduction of what I can charge.

One of the basics of an economy is trading money for time. If it takes 5 mins to make and just about anyone can do it. How much money are you willing to come up with to pay for that?
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What games are you playing? I'm guessing FPS don't work so well with latency
Some of what you described, having 5 methods on screen, or finding all locations failing type checking, I have been using (neo)vim for successful over many years.

I load the output of the type checker (or compiler) into vim. I then have a list of locations to inspect. I can move between the locations. I can open multiple locations (same file or not) at once on the screen. Nowadays, Copilot assists in the refactoring besides the usual vim commands/regex/macro.

Opening 5 pane for 5 methods is similarly easy. I can also use a side panel to quickly view all methods and jump between them in addition to the traditional vim motions.

Language servers (LSP) of course makes the whole experience delightful. Jumping and navigating around the code etc.

All of that is keyboard driven, with many keyboard shortcuts personalized to my liking.

Here is an example of my workflow. I run the compile/typecheck command in a terminal, via a script that runs the command as soon as a source file has changed. It also saves the output into a file at a standard location. Saving in vim triggers the command to re-run. Then a key press reloads the output of the command to quickly jump around.

And navigating and modifying brackets is trivial in vim, especially with the right extension. Auto inserting brackets, I never found a plugin that I liked enough yet.

It's not all nor exactly what you asked for. But it's something.
idk. about Claude 3.5

but if you remove implicit subventions from the AI/AGI hype then for many such tools the cost to benefit calculation of creating and operating will become ... questionable

furthermore the places where such tools tend to shine the most often places where the IT industry has somewhat failed, like unnecessary verbose and bothersome to use tools, missing tooling and troublesome code reuse (so you write the same code again and again). And this LLM based tools are not fixing the problem they just kinda hiding it. And that has me worried a bit because it makes it much much less likely for the problem to ever be fixed. Like I think there is a serious chance for this tooling causing the industry to be stuck on a quite sub-par plato for many many years.

So while they clearly help, especially if you have to reinvent the wheel for a thousands time, it's hard to look at them favorably.
Regulating gambling is a good idea, but most people here seem to be talking about forbidding. I find that odd, compare it with the general opinion here about soft drugs, there HN seems to be pro-legalization.
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The things that are 'socially acceptable' (big houses? boats? art? no multiple spouses) to spend millions of dollars on as an individual are just not appealing to everyone.
Not owning would not make much difference, but selection does. The tools are for the things that I like to do, and for the books, selection is even more important becase there are so many to choose from and so relatively few that are "mine".
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I'm on Kinoite. I don't need stability in my dev environment for now. I use a single toolbox based on Fedora rawhide. I get the best of both worlds, immutable distro and streaming distro and it keeps things simple. I agree Silverblue would benefit from an integrated management system / UI.
> Current LLMs fail if what you're coding is not the most common of tasks

Succeeding on the most common tasks (which isn't exactly what you said) is identical to "they're useful".
No idea... A current client (a Fortune 500 company worth billions and all of that money is in software developed over 50+ years) is currently migrating to Github... Also Copilot was rolled out to everyone a couple of months ago. So it seems there is zero concern for giving all data to MS and paying through the nose for the privilege... Insanity.
That's what cheap ubiquitous 5G is enabling: total surveillance.
I am curiouse, how complex was the app? I use cursor too and am very satisfied with it. It seem that is very good at code that must have been written so many times before (think react components, node.js REST api endpoints etc.) but it starts to fall of when moving into specific domains.

And for me that is the best case scenario, it takes away the part we have to code / solve already solved problems again and again so we can focus more on the other parts of software engineering beyond writing code.
Simple question: isn't risk taking a part of most people's lives? Speeding on the highway and jaywalking may seem harmless, but can have dire results at times. Other risky behaviors can spin out of control sometimes before you have a chance to understand how it all went so bad as quickly as it did!

I've known several gambling addicts down through the years, the damage they did to their financial and family lives was tragic. Divorce was almost a given, homelessness occurred on several occasions. Being shunned by their parents and siblings sometimes followed after money was borrowed and never paid back.

Two things I never could understand after all the above. First, I couldn't get any of them to attend GA meetings after I offered to attend with them and second, why they ever thought they had a chance to win consistently in any gambling endeavor when the gamble itself is connected to a computer. (Yes, I'm saying cheating can be involved. Imagine!)
Have you considered not living in such an environment of fear? I have no idea of your circumstances, but this is something I see in my local relatives all the time. They buy ring cams and security systems, scrutinize nextdoor, etc. In reality, they are incomparably rich and safe compared to most. Personally I refuse to buy into this nonsense and just go about my life, despite living in a place that's far more dangerous by the numbers.
If we keep at this LLM-does-all-out-hard-work for us, we’re going to end up with some kind of Warhammer 40k tech-priest-blessing-the-magic-machines level of understanding, where nobody actually understands anything, and we’re technologically stunted, but hey at least we don’t have the warp to contend with and some shareholders got rich at our expense.
ok now i know why my job applications never get any answer
I personally game a bit but I spend more time these days experimenting with deep learning so I would pay a premium for extra VRAM on my home machine.
Also at some point you can run the equivalent model locally. There is no long term moat here i think and facebook seems hellbent of ensuring there will be no new google from llms
People saying LLM to replace programming jobs is like saying blockchain is going to replace home/car titles and proof of ownership.
Sounds exactly like what will happen.

With a lot of people not coming back to update all add-ons in multiple places so just a mess.

Fast forward this mess makes for a worse customer experience and people ditch WordPress for better CMSs.
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LLM's are a great onramp to filling in knowledge that may have been lost to age or updated to their modern classification. For example, I didn't know Hokkien and Haka are distinct linguistic branches within the Sino-Tibetan language and warrants more (personal) research into the subject. And all this time, without the internet, we often just colloquially called it Taiwanese.
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I have been predicting this from 2016

And I also predict that many responses to you will say “it was always that way, nothing changed”.
I guess a part of the issue is that it was reported as a "9.9 severity vulnerability in Linux" in a bunch of places, which makes it sound incredibly severe, whereas a "9.9 severity vulnerability in CUPS" doesn't
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This is was a fun, entertaining watch.

There are several neat tricks in the video, like reusing the basic editor for the editing tracks.

And even though Linus probably practised beforehand, it's impressive to see machine code programming without an assembler.
Prediction: the cards will sell crazy well.

Gamers don't need high end video cards, they want high end video cards. In general, the high marginal price for low marginal value of high end video cards prevents most gamers from acting on their desires.

But this generation of video cards provides a couple of other justifications for the purchase:

- it will allow them to run uncensored ML stacks locally
- it will allow the buyers to train themselves on the hottest new career path.

A large number of people who use these excuses to justify the purchases to themselves or their loved ones will only use it for gaming, but those excuses will fuel a lot of sales.

This seems like the wrong generation for AMD to skip the halo tier of gaming cards.
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It's actually the only watch with all the features I want. It's got a pulsometer built in and I added a calibration feature to let the user set the scale. As far as I know it's the only watch to ever allow this. Use it every day at work.
Wordpress.org should change it's license like Mongo did to protect itself from Amazon. The license should allow free hosting for indiduals and organiation bt for profit hosting should pay something. It's okay for third party hosting to pay a fee to help maintaining the original open source software.
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Watch the movie "The Wrecking Crew" about how a group of studio musicians in the 1970s were responsible for the albums of quite a few diverse "bands". Many bands had to then learn to play their own songs so they could go on tour.
It's easier to get a 2.0 law passed as the effects are more well understood.
You're attributing too much to Google.

Bots are now blocked because they've been abusive. When you host content on the internet, it's not fun to have bots bring your server down or inflate your bandwidth price. Google's bot is actually quite well-behaved. The other problem has been the recent trend in AI, and I can understand blockers being put in place, since AI is essentially plagiarizing content without attribution. But I'd blame OpenAI more at this point.

I also don't think you can blame Google for the centralization behind closed gardens. Or for why people no longer link to other websites. That's ridiculous.

And you should be attributing them the fact that the web is still alive.