fullstackchris

do asteroids even have all the elements / compounds necessary to support the building blocks of life?

lol how does something like this get only 50ish votes but some hallucinating video slop generator from some of the other competitors gets thousands?

yep, two week sprints with no break in between (I can't think of any sporting event where you sprint non stop!), and then we always say we'll "celebrate" when the project is done, but we never do

just on to the next project :/

This is amazing! I've been looking for an in-memory postgres mock for integration tests for ages!

not sure why you're being downvoted. this is exactly what is going to happen.

pRoBaBlY a StaTe AcToR

zero definition of what that means...

egos of people who just like to say cool words they don't understand

lol

this comment will probably get deleted, but let the action of this comment being deleted stand that in 2024 we're all allowed to use big words with no definition of what they mean -> bad

state actor? who? what motive? what country? all comments involving "state actor" are very broad and strange... i would like people to stop using words that have no meaning, as it really takes away from the overall conversation of what is going on.

i mean you're seriously going to say "state actor playing the long game" to what end? the issue was resolved in 2 hours... this is stupid

so... what are you supposed to do if you have a full time job?

Tell me about it. I'm really starting to get ticked off trying to wade through garbage hype and actual improvements across everything "AI"

and does even AGI change the bigger picture? we have 26.3 million AGIs currently working in this space [1]. I've never seen a single one take all the work of the others away...

[1] https://www.griddynamics.com/blog/number-software-developers....

I suppose here is the best place to ask: Isn't Moore's law capped by fundamental physics (i.e. tunneling effects once you get around / below 1nm sizes)?

EDIT: did some snooping around, Moore himself said it in 2005:

"We have another 10 to 20 years before we reach a fundamental limit."

> What if our LLMs fail to turn into AGI?

This is nonsense statement in and of itself. Its like wondering why an orange fails to turn into a chicken.

There are SO many missing pieces an LLM just doesnt have. LLMs could certainly be a small part of some sort of AGI _system_, but they themselves can never be AGI

performance is great but i would imagine the paralellized version requires a significantly higher minimum amount of RAM than the non paralellized ways... he claims that each more perfomant solution is less compute cost than the one before it, but in the case of paralellization its just the same amount of compute in just a shorter amount of time, right?

seems like it'd be a primitive way (in one way, obviously not in the tech sense) of displaying power

I'm a huge Netlify fan, but stories like these are scary. Just spent the last hour building a custom serverless function that sends email / SMS at various bandwidth usages - potentially could be improved with an auto shutdown of the offending site beyond 75 GB:

https://gist.github.com/princefishthrower/4517ff44a9f4c5b2d2...

For now it's still a workaround... looks like I'll be migrating to Hetzner soon...

That's exactly what my mind jumped to when seeing this (free IoT!), can almost expect someone will try to build some sort of automated video watcher to work around this caveat and abuse it :)

yeah i was going to say its unfair from the start... node is anyway a runtime for a language... go is a language in itself, and also happens to compile to something much more flexibly runnable...

> The idea here is to have the printing functions all behave in a manner perfectly consistent with printing being fully supported, yet mysteriously there is never a printer to print to.

What? Why would you ever do this? This post screams of "can't see the forest from the trees"

Sure, now you don't have your app crashing, and instead you have this weird state of seeming like you can print but ultimately can't, wasting users time and perhaps frustrating them even more.

Why not literally just show a dialog like "printing is not supported from an Xbox"? Easy to develop, easy to understand... everyone wins.

A startup sized company using this many tools? They're for sure doing something weird (and that's not a compliment :) )

Totally on your side with this one - but alas, people associate value with complexity.

Ugh I have to finish my article about these "system prompts"... basically if one does any amount of second order thinking, one realizes that it's impossible to prove that these are real are not, much like the simulation theory...

Do people realize that reproducibility is in no way a signal of factuality? Especially if it's coming from these LLMs.

And have we had ONE, just ONE person from OpenAI / Mistral / Microsoft ever "leak" one of these so called "system prompts"? No. It's mass delusion at it's finest, but I suppose it is entertaining to watch the discussions that resurface approximately every few months.

With absolutely no information about the future, there's actually no way to claim anything has a 'decent' chance.

I'm building a way to automate creation of software video lessons and courses, putting it all under the name 'CodeVideo'. One tool leverages OpenAI's whisper, as well as GPT3.5 or GPT4 for help with generating the steps that ultimately produce the video (this part is not yet in the repo; everything is a work in progress). The tool is here:

https://github.com/codevideo/codevideo-ai

My goal is to definitely NOT generate the course content itself, but just take the effort out of recording and editing these courses: you provide (or get help generating) the stuff to speak and the code to write and the video is deterministically generated) The eventual vision is to convert book or article style text to generate the steps to generate the video in an as-close-as-possible-to-one-shot.

I also leverage Eleven Lab's voice cloning (technically not an LLM, but impressive ML models nonetheless)

For anyone more curious, I'm wondering if what I'm trying to do is in general a closed problem - to be able to generate step by step instructions to write functional code (including modifications, refactoring, or whatever you might do in an actual software course) or if this truly is something that can't be automated... any resources on the characteristics of coding itself would be awesome! What I'm trying to say is, at the end of the day code in an editor is a state machine - certain characters in a certain order produce certain results. Would love if anyone had more information about the meta of programming itself - abstract syntax trees and work there comes to mind, but I'm not even sure of the question I'm asking yet or trying to clarify at this point.

More on the actual logistics in the US: you pay $200 for registering the LLC, must do taxes each year of course, and file a biennial statement (at least for New York State LLCs) confirming if your information has stayed the same or changed.

It's really nothing glamorous.

I did it to protect myself. Worse case they can only take whats in my company. (I build apps, but you never know when you will encounter the next ouch-hot-coffee-in-paper-cup wacko)

Keep in mind, at least in the US a "business" is nothing more than a legal and tax entity. Lotta people talking immediately about "your startup will fail!". A "startup" is only one of many ways to do business, and more and more often I find it a smoke and mirrors way of doing things.

I've never understood the meaning behind "prompt engineering". Has it ever been anything beyond "can you clearly and accurately describe the problem you are trying to solve or the task you are trying to accomplish?" Seems to be basic communication skills.

I've never seen hard data that certain "formatted prompts" like, "you are a B doing C and need to do D" being any better than any other sorts of clear and concise instructions.

Mind boggling to me that people have created a new name for what used to simply be called good communication skills... though I suppose the eternal stereotype of engineers being poor writers might be more truth than fiction.

you dont think a super intelligence will inherit any amount of moral or social framework from being trained on data that is 100% from humans?

> doing the right thing is against their career growth goals

only if the people who are hiring you are just as ignorant

I don't understand why the market cap of a certain group of companies is correlated to the "AI bubble".

AI is just a tailwind for these fantastic companies (regardless of your opinion on how they make the money, they ARE fantastic companies, at least in the brutal capitalistic sense - they make a boat load of money!)

I mean these companies have been going up since the 90s. Obviously the author doesn't understand the geometric nature of markets - especially in the case of market leaders.

Very cool. Reminds me of the encore framework, also written in go: https://github.com/encoredev/encore

Need to spend some more time looking into these go based frameworks, they seem great for quick prototyping

this is perfect advice which i can't agree with enough. that is unless the founders insist on a flawless UI... then you are in for a world of pain

never understood why teams of literally 1 or 2 devs are always forced to try attempt to acheive the visual quality of apps like instagram, whatsapp, etc

I'm gonna be that guy and say cerfications are not very helpful if you are building your own SaaS. This is coming from me, a guy who has a few profitable SaaS and has never done a single certification course. Learning by doing, "just in time" learning, and looking up stuff you need in docs / youtube videos when you get stuck seems to work fine.

However, I can definitely agree with the comments on tools / frameworks though. Don't focus on the "newest thing", just work with what you know you are fastest with.