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by hnfong 2y ago
This is great comment that offers great perspective. Grumpy old devs often lament that their technology layer is being ignored by newer devs, but often forget that computing has a long history and many layers are built on top of each other.
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by hnfong 2y ago
I really want to say you're right, but I'm afraid it's not necessarily true. Before we had computers and machines, humans did all the work. And you can't really reliably "code" humans. They misunderstand instru
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by hnfong 2y ago
While C compilers are technically not "black boxes", if you looked at lawyerly discussions about UB I don't think you can in full conscience say that `gcc -O2` is much better than a LLM.
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by hnfong 2y ago
(This is what I learned in school, for common-law-ish jurisdictions.) What you said is true, if there's negligence or malicious intent you're generally liable. In tort. (Edit: also criminally liable as well but that's far off
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by hnfong 2y ago
The author has a hard time understanding whether the CRA applies because he is thinking like a software engineer and not a lawyer. It would be very clear to a lawyer what "in the course of a commercial activity" means. And accepti
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by hnfong 2y ago
It really depends on what you're using the code for. AI generated code is great for quick and dirty stuff you're going to throw away. For example yesterday I wanted to read a small csv and dump the contents of the second column of
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by hnfong 2y ago
The danger is when LLMs start to outperform humans on many tasks (which they already have), claiming that LLMs are stochastic parrots could be seen to imply that less intelligent people are also no better than stochastic parrots.
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by hnfong 2y ago
IMHO, any argument against LLM intelligence should be validated by first applying them to humans. And then you'd realize that a lot of naïve arguments against LLMs would imply that a significant portion of homo-sapiens can't reaso
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by hnfong 2y ago
> Is there any other possible outcome than a fine? Yes, of course. It's quite possible that judges realize that if they restrict training data to licensed materials, LLMs will become stupid and China will overtake the US to become t
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by hnfong 2y ago
That's irrelevant. Switzerland (for example) isn't going to arrest Zuckerberg and put him in jail for this either. Nobody will. But if you're operating a site called Pirate Bay or something like that and it's not earning
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by hnfong 2y ago
Lawyers (and hence, judges) are really good at arguing why the earlier case does not apply in a present case, even if most reasonable people would think the two cases are essentially the same. It's a fundamental part of lawyer training
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by hnfong 2y ago
The last time the US Supreme Court decided on copyright law, they basically said "we like what Google is doing with Android, so what they did is fine". So, no, not necessarily.
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by hnfong 2y ago
I don't know what you want to claim by the link, it literally says "Unverified – No official CBP data has been released to confirm Trump’s claim."
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by hnfong 2y ago
This. I'll add that all systems are self-correcting given sufficiently long timescale. (Or they die out and we're none the wiser due to survival bias) Science isn't any special in this regard. Even the Catholic Church was s
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by hnfong 2y ago
apparently DHL is not accepting parcels from Hong Kong to US: https://www.thestandard.com.hk/breaking-news/section/4/22675... not sure about other carriers but that doesn’t sound good
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by hnfong 2y ago
A 55 year old learns to keep their hot-headed militant opinions to themselves. But from my experience in the insides they’re no different. And the 55 year old has held those opinions for 40 years and they’re not gonna change.
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by hnfong 2y ago
Maybe there weren't any principle (for these people at least) in the first place...
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by hnfong 2y ago
The smaller IQ2/Q3 GGUF quants should run "fine" on your existing 16GB. (also, I don't know that M1 supports any eGPU...)
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by hnfong 2y ago
This google trends graph is very illustrative: https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=all&q=emacs,vi... emacs is surely on a decline, but it’s not obvious that Vim is on the same trend. This matches “theory”
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by hnfong 2y ago
I think we should pay authors a fair wage based on some measure of the quality of the content instead of how well the book sells. There's no reason for Harry Potter for example being 10000 times more valuable than a book on quantum mec
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by hnfong 2y ago
Obviously all the LLM API providers have a rate limit. Not a fan of GP's sarcastic tone, but I suppose many of us would like to know roughly what that limit would be for a small business using such APIs.
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by hnfong 2y ago
That sounds about right.
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by hnfong 2y ago
All money ultimately goes to labor. Rocks don't accept cash as payment.
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by hnfong 2y ago
Hope is premised on the basis that nobody knows the future 100%. Experts can give a mostly-frequentist analysis based on past medical cases. The unknown part is whether those cases apply to yours . And nobody knows. All the so-called proba
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by hnfong 2y ago
I'd dispute the claim on China, at least for today's China. Anecdotally, the Chinese are very conscious of their/our "ancient culture" and "proud history". It's also in state sanctioned ideology too,
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by hnfong 2y ago
FWIW, judges in England (or maybe UK) have flip-flopped on this question as recently as in 2003. (See "R v G") That said maybe the problem is that the UK doesn't have different degrees of murder. But still. Real life can be
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by hnfong 2y ago
It’s simple really. Almost every software engineer strives to write code in a clear and concise manner. However, usually we produce a pile of spaghetti. Why is that? We all know why. Now, take those reasons and imagine you’re in this situat
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by hnfong 2y ago
"What good is a phone call, if you are unable... to speak?" -- Agent Smith
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by hnfong 2y ago
Maybe. Meng Wanzhou got caught because she was in Canada, and she was (apparently) a Chinese national. But I cannot imagine Singapore just handing over their own nationals to the US as a political prisoner...
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by hnfong 2y ago
This friendly government? https://www.reuters.com/article/world/us-spy-agency-tapped-g...

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