suriyaG

Once I spent a month debugging a UAF bug, in a messy C++ codebase.

With rust, those class of errors are very difficult to arrive at, unless you specifically make it so.

with rust, the "risk" gets moved from runtime to compiletime. I'll take a 1TB build bloat over code crashing in prod. any day.

but code is made to be understandable. while neural nets are not.

that is why this is crazy,

give a human a legacy codebase and 5 years and he'll be able to understand very well.

if you give a human the weights of qwen 0.8B and 5 years it'll still be impossible to edit the weights in any legible manner.

the cost between an F1 car and a "regular" car is high, both financially and functionally.

but tsrs and tsgo are not a similar comparison. they cost the same (you download a binary and run it) and are functionally identical. in that case why would you not use the faster & better one?

the question should be, do you always want your groceries 50% faster ?

incredible work and effort.

I'm curious about the economics of these. who funds these endeavors and why? who makes the decision on spending $X for quality of life improvement on a hornbill vs saving a few rhinos.

because in a world where you see humans without basic stuff to live with, this is a fascinating economic alignment with a different species

this is funny because I know so many people who always note down phone numbers and such for the day on cigarette packs. sometimes even carrying a few with them all the time.

in india.

is it possible that this is the bump due to your workouts and not plainly creatine ?

I take creatine daily but when I'm working out more than a couple of weeks, i feel much better than on weeks when I skip working out.

incredible way to put it!!

I was quite inspired by jev-like and built jev compatible layer built on top of gemma.

on my local benchmarks and my personal problems gemma works very well. but training a new attention head for better results in narrow domains should be much easier.

this is a fantastic metaphor. I'm going to borrow it.

> exchange value in the captitalist political economy.

how can one exist in modern society without being an exchange value in the capitalist political economy?

linux is where it is because it is able to be a critical part of said capitalist political economy. even if you want to be a FOSS contributor all your life, you need someone to figure out the "economy" part of it.

food is a false equivalence in this case.

I've taken a few law classes and legal law is frustratingly hard to interpret. I shudder to think what the LLM would end up doing to "follow all relevant laws"

look these up for a fascinating weekend read:

- Beavers and Capybaras are Fish

- Bees are Fish

- Carrots are fruits

- Tomatoes are Vegetables

- X-men are not human

this was me in 2015 in India. only because the inspector wouldn't see anything other than a 500 rupees note.

I'm sure these things are in the plans from upper management.

we'll know when the next layoffs hit.

not sure why you're getting downvoted. but if you're building even very popular applications, it is quite easy to see how LLMs are very well suited for this type of consistency job.

- they follow instructions quite well.

- are tireless at doing mechanical ports between languages and frameworks.

- Can understand a new ecosystem quite well.

I suppose iphones solved a problem people had as well?

what strawman?

do you mean,

> All things AI seems to assume that more and faster is better, but there is no justification of that assumption.

is good argument?

of course faster discovery without human in the loop is better. is that not what humans have been optimizing for the past few thousand years ? faster mobility, faster communication, faster medical recovery etc. everything modern civilization has to offer is because of a rush to get better and faster. for example, discovering penicillin 2 years early would've saved ~15 million people more.

why is that not worthy enough to pursue?

> you will likely put mathematicians out of jobs.

why is that a concern in this context? would you have asked the same about steam engines and horses?

this is a really cool concept, organized very well. and that is very commendable.

i 100% agree with your sentiment. but what is the replacement here? go without any insurance or salary? without providing an alternative for better life, this is basically just robbing someone off a livelihood

tradition are a meme.

It only looks super obvious in hindsight and the well explained blog post. when a team of 5 is tasked with getting a completely new DNS up at the scale and integrate well with cloudflare.

if you spend cycles on nitty gritty opinions like this time to market goes out further and further out. some napkin math, 130 gen13 servers cost "only" ~$2.6M. relative to the importance of the 1.1.1.1 and the market at the time. that is nothing to cloudflare.

this is not to say good system design does not matter. it very much does, but making that call at that time would've butchered the prodcut very much similar to google+, youtube etc.

not an unfair comparison but i think it's the wrong model.

you were always able to buy time by hiring people to do things for you. right now it's agents. i think it's an equalizer in that, $200 agent is more accessible than a $10000 human

i should've used, at least as smart as. i apologize

a course cannot align wrongly incentivized entities.

This is incredibly well written had me hooked till the end (probably because I thought it was a real life incident. :)

I agree with you.

but I find meat and the associated horrors that come with it, to be no more or less repugnant than the broader society and industrial complex that I'm forced to be a part of.

I suppose, I personally could contribute to be one less living being suffering. but in the broader scheme of things (new wars, poverty, deaths etc.). in a very nihilistic way, I don't see how it changes anything.

I'm probably just copping out.

not as crazy a config, but I got a 128GB M5max the day before the price increase for $2K less. still proud of the call to buy it.

cows might be more in some dimensions like emotion because cattle raise their young unlike octopus which doesn't . does that make the equation any easier to accept?

why is this a controversial idea? mammals indeed are smarter than mollusks (of which octopus is one).

modern cow, goat etc. are selectively bred to produce more milk than their youngling needs. so separation is not a strict requirement ( you might lose 5 - 10% more if you just let them be.)

But when we used to own cows & goats, it was very common practice to keep the youngling tied away a few hours before milking. you can feel the pain of separation the parent goes through. ( goat and cow crying, while looking at their offspring is indeed quite sad https://www.flickr.com/photos/murfalizer/4429214117). to add insult to injury it is also common practice to tie the youngling in the line sight of the parent to milk more freely.

this is a super non-popular take on HN.

but the entry-level job market has always been tough.

with AI, outside the big tech world, it is hard to justify hiring entry level engineers as the time to train them ( 1 year+ ) to be productive enough is such a drag on the seniors, when the agents deliver things more care and more edge cases.

it was an example of a correlation != causation

the parent comment was basically creating a causational logic for why vegetarians are more likely to be "smart"-er. which is not true.