The HN audience is overwhelmingly aware of the issues around right to repair and data collection, so there isn't much reacting to do there - I assume there's already near-unanimous agreement that it's a good thing to…
Seems like a more organized way to do the equivalent of a folder full of md files + instructing the LLM to ls that folder and read the ones it needs
I feel like this sort of thing will be referenced for comic relief in future talks about hysteria at the dawn of the AI era. The article actually contains the sentence "The machines aren’t just taking over our…
Whether web or native is better is hardly relevant to the core of this issue IMO, which is about fundamental rights to admin our own devices. Having to make a network request to fetch an external resource every time you…
Agreed 100%. When you work on an app every day, it all makes sense to see the cool features flash by, but you need to design for people who don't have a clue what your app does.
Kind of fun to get into a brutal insult battle with. Hope I didn't violate any TOS with with that one.
No degree. I've been working the full stack for almost 15 years full time, including recently learning to train various types of gen AI models. There are still orgs that are rigid about their requirements, but I'm a…
It's inevitable because it's here. LLMs aren't the "future" anymore, they're the present. They're unseating Google as the SOTA method of finding information on the internet. People have been trying to do that for…
I'm not going to disagree because greed knows no bounds, but that could be RIP for the enthusiast crowd's proprietary LLM use. We may not have cheap local open models that beat the SOTA, but is it possible to beat an…
I think I'm mostly in agreement with your points. I think a significant part of the downfall of DEI was deliberate bad-faith behavior from those who actually oppose equality, but there are also things to be learned…
I think there's still appeal in the underlying (very) basic ideas of trying to create a workplace that's comfortable for everyone. It's being rolled back quickly because that's what influential rich people want, and…
I think information and culture/fashion both have a lot to do with it. Pre-social media, you could get drunk and embarrass yourself, and forget about it by the next day. Now everything is recorded. Information about…
Maybe an unpopular opinion, but it sounds like they're doing this the right way. I want to be able to run a local model using something like VLLM or FastChat, then be able to call it from a context menu. No obnoxious…
That's hilarious. Someday we'll all be working QA, just scanning over AI output for issues, like manufactured goods passing by on a conveyor belt.
I began my career in a startup where pretty much everyone else but myself was an Ivy grad, with many coming from FAANG internships, and I have very high opinions of them. We all were very driven and all had things to…
Reminds me a lot of the boat I'm in - based on his CV it looks like he's self-taught and started around the same time I did. This market right now is killing us, and I've got to wonder if AI tools are filtering out…
There's not enough info on how this works. I need to understand the full user flow for both parties before considering signing up. Will I be giving others an alternative email address, like what Apple does? Or do they…
Not sure if this is the primary reason, but it should be enough to throw off anti-spam systems that are looking for repeated posting of the same content within a short timespan
I'm not a lawyer, but I believe there was a court ruling that says AI generated works cannot be copyrighted. So you could use them, but couldn't stop anyone else from doing what they want with them
For those not in on the origin of the joke, Next.js introduced "server actions" which became a huge meme / debate topic on Twitter - for example, https://twitter.com/peer_rich/status/1717609270475194466 This is…
Is the versioning scheme only in .001 increments? I know version numbers aren't indicative of progress, but I still find it fascinating that a 26 year old project is just releasing 0.260
I've seen businesses tank because of search algo changes long before this. I see it as something similar to reliance on a third party API - you have to be prepared for the rug to be pulled on you at any time. This is…
I've worked on a project that was intended to replace Excel spreadsheets with a web front end. It was presented like we were moving our processes out of the stone age - as if we were replacing a pen-and-paper process…
Ah, 175b it is then. That's actually kind of encouraging that an open source trillion+ param model isn't needed to get there. A 180b Falcon model very recently came out https://huggingface.co/tiiuae/falcon-180B A…
I'm not sure, I've tried looking it up and couldn't find an official answer. But that site says GPT3 is 175b and GPT4 is 170 trillion. That's insane if true Edit: and this one says 1.7, idk…
The HN audience is overwhelmingly aware of the issues around right to repair and data collection, so there isn't much reacting to do there - I assume there's already near-unanimous agreement that it's a good thing to…
Seems like a more organized way to do the equivalent of a folder full of md files + instructing the LLM to ls that folder and read the ones it needs
I feel like this sort of thing will be referenced for comic relief in future talks about hysteria at the dawn of the AI era. The article actually contains the sentence "The machines aren’t just taking over our…
Whether web or native is better is hardly relevant to the core of this issue IMO, which is about fundamental rights to admin our own devices. Having to make a network request to fetch an external resource every time you…
Agreed 100%. When you work on an app every day, it all makes sense to see the cool features flash by, but you need to design for people who don't have a clue what your app does.
Kind of fun to get into a brutal insult battle with. Hope I didn't violate any TOS with with that one.
No degree. I've been working the full stack for almost 15 years full time, including recently learning to train various types of gen AI models. There are still orgs that are rigid about their requirements, but I'm a…
It's inevitable because it's here. LLMs aren't the "future" anymore, they're the present. They're unseating Google as the SOTA method of finding information on the internet. People have been trying to do that for…
I'm not going to disagree because greed knows no bounds, but that could be RIP for the enthusiast crowd's proprietary LLM use. We may not have cheap local open models that beat the SOTA, but is it possible to beat an…
I think I'm mostly in agreement with your points. I think a significant part of the downfall of DEI was deliberate bad-faith behavior from those who actually oppose equality, but there are also things to be learned…
I think there's still appeal in the underlying (very) basic ideas of trying to create a workplace that's comfortable for everyone. It's being rolled back quickly because that's what influential rich people want, and…
I think information and culture/fashion both have a lot to do with it. Pre-social media, you could get drunk and embarrass yourself, and forget about it by the next day. Now everything is recorded. Information about…
Maybe an unpopular opinion, but it sounds like they're doing this the right way. I want to be able to run a local model using something like VLLM or FastChat, then be able to call it from a context menu. No obnoxious…
That's hilarious. Someday we'll all be working QA, just scanning over AI output for issues, like manufactured goods passing by on a conveyor belt.
I began my career in a startup where pretty much everyone else but myself was an Ivy grad, with many coming from FAANG internships, and I have very high opinions of them. We all were very driven and all had things to…
Reminds me a lot of the boat I'm in - based on his CV it looks like he's self-taught and started around the same time I did. This market right now is killing us, and I've got to wonder if AI tools are filtering out…
There's not enough info on how this works. I need to understand the full user flow for both parties before considering signing up. Will I be giving others an alternative email address, like what Apple does? Or do they…
Not sure if this is the primary reason, but it should be enough to throw off anti-spam systems that are looking for repeated posting of the same content within a short timespan
I'm not a lawyer, but I believe there was a court ruling that says AI generated works cannot be copyrighted. So you could use them, but couldn't stop anyone else from doing what they want with them
For those not in on the origin of the joke, Next.js introduced "server actions" which became a huge meme / debate topic on Twitter - for example, https://twitter.com/peer_rich/status/1717609270475194466 This is…
Is the versioning scheme only in .001 increments? I know version numbers aren't indicative of progress, but I still find it fascinating that a 26 year old project is just releasing 0.260
I've seen businesses tank because of search algo changes long before this. I see it as something similar to reliance on a third party API - you have to be prepared for the rug to be pulled on you at any time. This is…
I've worked on a project that was intended to replace Excel spreadsheets with a web front end. It was presented like we were moving our processes out of the stone age - as if we were replacing a pen-and-paper process…
Ah, 175b it is then. That's actually kind of encouraging that an open source trillion+ param model isn't needed to get there. A 180b Falcon model very recently came out https://huggingface.co/tiiuae/falcon-180B A…
I'm not sure, I've tried looking it up and couldn't find an official answer. But that site says GPT3 is 175b and GPT4 is 170 trillion. That's insane if true Edit: and this one says 1.7, idk…