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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 presumably inspired by all of the people saying Next is turning into PHP.

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 why it makes me anxious when I talk to small business owners who have been obsessing over SEO and even paying large sums to SEO firms. It's such shaky ground.

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 that "doesn't scale", or whatever.

I will never do that again. We didn't build a whole spreadsheet engine, but we did build a web UI that simply doesn't do as much as Excel. Excel is powerful. Sometimes it's a fine tool for the job. Our team was laid off before we could roll it out, but I remember the growing sinking feeling of "I would hate using this if I already had a bunch of habits built up in Excel"

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 finetune of this might be competitive, but I haven't tried it.

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 https://levelup.gitconnected.com/gpt-4-parameters-explained-...

Haven't used chatgpt in a bit, but looks like the free tier is GPT3 still, so 175b may be correct if OP isn't a subscriber

ChatGPT uses a 1.7 trillion parameter model IIRC. I wouldn't expect a 70b model to compare well. There are medical finetunes that might be better to try for this, like https://huggingface.co/wanglab/ClinicalCamel-70B

Edit/Correction: as mentioned below, free tier used by OP is in the neighborhood of 175b

There are a few good points here but the author doesn't help their case by suggesting that ringing phones should be illegal. That's ridiculous on multiple levels.

I prefer to have my phone on silent, and I often leave my home without my phone if I don't have any on-call commitments or whatever. I don't like being constantly connected, but that's a small problem for me to work through and not anyone else.

I started using vim about 12 years ago during my first dev job, after challenging myself to learn enough of it to use it for a day. It's very possible that my muscle memory will retain vim keybindings for the rest of my life. His impact on so many people is the kind of thing that motivates me to write software.

I once worked in a role where my boss made me rework commits that were too DRY. I had to completely decouple features that were early in development, then reopen the PR. I thought it was excessive and pointless at the time, but I've seen enough stories like these to get it now.

It seems like a really, really difficult task to enforce any laws that might develop around this. This isn't like paparazzi nudes that get out every few years - it's just math, and thousands could be generated overnight with little compute.

I don't know what the laws should be, but I think there are some serious limitations on what's possible/practical at this point.

I'm a sports fan and I see it as an annual subscription model. They update rosters and make small tweaks, and if I don't care I can stick with the older games. I've seen Jetbrains use a model where you optionally subscribe for continued updates, and I've seen it in audio production software too.

Madden for PS5 is $70.00, or just under $6/mo. If you spend half as much time playing Madden as you do watching Netflix or Youtube, then it's not out of line with the average cost of entertainment.

There are good points to be made about whether EA are meeting their full potential on quality of updates though.

I've spent a lot of time thinking about this. I'm working on an open source AI project, and I use a kanban board for two things: items I know I'm likely to forget, and items I've completed already when I enter them. I get no value from writing down reminders to do the things I know I need to do, but having a short list of important reminders (eg reproduce and resolve an edge case bug) along with a list of accomplishments has been helpful and motivational

I feel like 2010-2020 was a stagnant time for hardware, which was most visible in the lack of huge leaps in gaming console quality. AI is changing that. Having tons of RAM and VRAM really does open up options that would simply be impossible before.

Running large AI models locally is a bit niche right now but I'm doubtful it will stay that way, so I say it's a good time to value bleeding edge machines

Sorry I missed this! Fourth of July weekend. This is the last thing I'll say on this topic, but I don't take direction from others on when to share my views in a public forum. Thank you. My opinion stands.

I can tolerate different viewpoints on branch names and codes of conduct, but this is just an unhinged way to respond. I feel bad for everyone who has contributed to Nim and now has to live with this stain on their project

I don't think it's about servers getting hammered so much as it's about AI causing them to rethink the value of their data, then deciding user hostility is the best way to extract said value

All these Twitter Blue subscribers who thought they could buy views and engagement must be thrilled that they're now competing for a very limited resource

I really don't want to work for someone who reluctantly "allows" me to be in my home. Or someone who views it as a generous perk that might get taken away during tough times.

So, I think people who want in-office work should embrace it and advertise it loud and clear. This makes it easier for me to move on and find the other companies who see value in me building out a home office fine-tuned for my own productivity at little-to-no additional cost to the company.

A bar is giving away free beer, but if you pay $10.00, you get a party hat. So you grab a free beer and notice a group of people wearing party hats.

Idk, still seems like a pretty good deal to me. Wouldn't hurt to support the joint either.

Interesting read, though. Some communities really are full of people who judge the worth of others from little status symbols, and I can understand wanting to stay away from that. But it's not Discord's fault if people can't just be adults about it.

So we just have to use that feature that lets you add non-Steam apps to Steam.

What is the real impact of this? Seems like it'll reduce exposure to the extremely rare Steam user who doesn't know emulators exist and/or how to install them outside of Steam

Sometimes it can sting a little to know that I did a crappy job at something, but I see a lot of value in learning from it.

When my brother was in art school many years ago, he asked me to critique his work. After a few polite comments, he explained that I wasn't being helpful and the end result would be better if I didn't hold back on brutally ripping it apart. That mentality has stuck with me. I want people to tell me if my code is crap.

Saw this coming. Clubhouse was exciting at first when it was a place where you could pop in on random celebrity conversations, but now is mostly a place for bad bad business advice, bad relationship advice, and clout chasers trying to get rich quick

I'm an MMA fan and I'm not concerned about this affecting UFC's integrity. Their matchmaking is already often based off of what will be marketable. It's an accepted part of the business, and they know they need to balance it with high level competition.

I think this move really makes sense for the career paths of UFC fighters. Right now, you can have a very marketable fighter fall in the rankings, and suddenly lose a ton of value. MMA fighters also tend to decline really quickly with age. So a transition to something else like Pro Wrestling can be a good path to maintaining a really lucrative career, as we've seen with a bunch of fighters like Ronda Rousey, Brock Lesnar, and Ken Shamrock.

I find it useful in Edge where it's aware of the tab contents. It's nice to be able to ask it to summarize a long article, or find Reddit comments about it and summarize those. I think it uses Bing's search index because it does not seem to be aware of my personal data on my tabs

I was thinking about this the other day and assumed they would just relicense it. Guess I was wrong. What's the point? Streisand effect ensures it will be the most sought-after model while they're making a big deal out of it, and its value is going to depreciate quickly due to the overall pace of AI

There's a part of me that loves this, and loves any UI inspired by older operating systems.

Then there's the part of me that doesn't want to feel like I'm learning a new operating system when using a website. As much as I can appreciate this, I could easily also see it being polarizing. There's a tradeoff between style and ease of use.

There is so much untapped potential in Youtube right now. Hopefully new leadership means improvements in YT Live and YT Music, both of which feel like afterthoughts even though they have large competitors.

It's a front end for running Stable Diffusion. It can generate anything, but the embeddings allow people to augment Stable Diffusion with specific concepts. So the embeddings they linked to could potentially be seen as something that turns a general-purpose tool into a tool for generating those types of images.

I'm not super familiar with Planet and know it's totally different, but this sort of reminds me of Google Reader. I've seen others replicate its newsreader UI, but never the community.