2ndorderthought

It's not all people trying to skirt the law. It's kind of like HAM radio as a hobby. It's fun technology that lets people do cool automation projects and sure with a mesh connect to other people. Imagine you have a few acres of land and want to turn on sprinklers or something.

A lot of people use it just to chat with friends and family in a fun way.

Of course the preppers and privacy evangelists see it as a means to get ready for living in a hostile environment. Being fair to them, things don't look awesome in the US.

I bet a few criminals use it, but it's still very niche.

Could be, but what terrible cover to use.

It's in my comment history..sometime last week. I don't really care, I knew this was a surveillance move that's why I called it out. No clue if the anonymous poster was who they claimed to be anyways

Here is the comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47930833

Last I heard they were purchased by System1.

What happens when all the AI models train on lies about people an LLM wrote on social media?

I am delighted to see the ceiling on small models exponentially increase. I think the "make models unsustainably large because the benchmark improved by 1%" practice is ending. I think the thing boosting small models will be the thing that makes LLMs actually useful. The main thing is research.

Less secure because of all the ways attacks can scale out and hackers can contribute vulnerabilities to active projects.

*a recession did infact come*

Yes I am jealous. I'm on unemployment paying out of pocket for health insurance and my unvested stocks disappeared.

It's such a bad time to be laid off right now. The competition is ridiculous. I have to compete with like 100k world class employees. Best wishes cloudflare former employees. I hope some of you make new companies and hire other geeks who are on their butts. A lot of us at other companies got the boot with no severance or early stock vestings. It could be worse!

Write only code is such a bad bad idea. No one is reviewing 20k loc PRS with 15 new dependencies in an afternoon. Sorry it's just not happening I don't care how many years you have been a software engineer. Yet that's the new thing and how we all are supposed to work or else we are all Luddites.

They won't actually show you who said what though. Twitter trialed that feature then they quickly turned it off after everyone realized half of the maga influencers were russians.

It also kind of stinks because not every mistake should be immortalized and recorded forever. Blackmail and all that. It kind of ruins the internet in a different way.

They don't really count

It adds a depth of nuisance that's for sure. I've seen users talk about how they can't wait until they don't need to ask for help anymore and can just use LLMs. Meanwhile I'm directly messaging with the person who made a package and asking why they designed it the way they did beyond greatful to learn 8 new things in 6 sentences.

Is this downloading and installing Python packages into the browser via wasm?

I like the idea a little bit. Mostly because I don't like javascript. So I say keep going for it, it could fill some niches.

I'm sure you know this, but the page takes like 30s to load on mobile. It wasn't a comfortable ux. Once it did load it seemed pretty fast though so kudos. Kind of gave me macromedia flash vibes from 2002.

Discord is terrible. Full of bots, creeps and ai slopped to the gills.

Some communities are better than others but the sheer volume of stinky trash is immense despite discord and the poor volunteer moderators efforts to prevent it. Most mods are neutral on it too.

There are chat communities that are still somewhat safe with zero user verification. But I will not mention them.

This seems like the best way to handle it. Also, smaller communities. It's cool to do the global thing, but once you have 10k active users you can't moderate it with a team of 5 volunteers.

I think the attestation approach works best if there are different reasons for the punishment. Eg someone inviting a turd doesn't ban the person who invited them. Someone going full ai spam should.

I left multiple online communities because the slop and the slop users were unbearable.

I use ai okay. I think it's useful. But people who dove hard into this stuff treat all text on their screen like it's a chat bot and not a person.

"Rewrite this code using the new API" "excuse me?" "Can you do it I need it right now chatgpt won't compile!" "Show me your code please" provides the biggest pile of dookie ever "hey can I ask how you came to decide on any of this? Maybe we should rewrite what you have here because x y z is concerning" "the ai did it I am learning. There is no need to rewrite anything just write this section for me" " no thanks" someone else does . user leaves

Have to efficiently trash the internet of course.

Waterfox is literally owned by an ad company.

Yes. It is seriously not a coincidence that all of the ai companies are now offense contractors for the department of war. It's also not a coincidence they want to ban vpns, and force people to verify themselves with IDs, biometrics and their phones for all of their activities. Meanwhile... Bots can run free.

Surveillance capitalism is so stupid.

I called this out when it was announced on here. Supposedly the team lead replied to my comment saying this wouldn't happen. I rolled my eyes but asked will android be able to use those models for ex filtration. No reply. And apparently the original claim was not true either lol.

Maybe I'm misremembering it. Google is awful. My goodness. I hate Android and can't wait to be rid of it. Graphene and it's buddies can't roll it fast enough

That does seem to be where this is headed. Especially after googles last announcement possibly bricking 99% of the phones from accessing the internet

It's sad when our best hope is that the pumped economy dumps and tanks all the other industries so we can buy computers again.

It would unfortunately be considered contraband in the US or tariffed 500%

Psychopaths and sociopaths come from all types of backgrounds. One things for sure, they all tend to gravitate towards power and exploitation of people without remorse. C suite and founders are far from immune from this...

HN will never stop surprising me with it's takes on how it's okay to make money at anyone else's expense regardless of laws, ethics or harm done

Ollama is definitely not the way to go once you have an interest beyond "how quickly can I run a new LLM" rather then "how do I use a local llm to do things in a remotely optimal way"

I see your updated post. Switch over to llamacpp and look up recommended quants and settings. A good place for this info is on /r/localllama

If not now then definitely soon enough