David Hinkle
@Drachs1978
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VP of Software Engineering @securly . Full time preventing child suicides, part time reply guy. Infrastructure at scale expert, AI shitposter.
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Sometimes I still wonder why the flappy bird guy took his game down. It was making $50k a day. The whole story makes no sense.
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@datepsych
You can tell a person is smarter than you by observing that they continuously make poor choices that nevertheless work out in their favor by what appears to be luck.
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@tunguz
People who think their staff working 80 hours a week is being productive are projecting their own crazy founder lifestyles onto staff. General staff without major equity just doesn't work that hard and if you think they are you're lying to yourself.
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@calithameridi
For the first time this year, chrome browser market share is down. Chrome is facing much better performance by competitors Microsoft and Firefox as well as anger in their user base over attacks on ad-blocking technologies.
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Did a fine tune last night of Mistral 7b on my 4090 using 4bit quantization and QLORA. This morning checking it's output against GPT4, and my team members can't tell which output came from mistral and what came from GPT4. Opensource isn't coming for LLM's... it's here.
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@venturetwins
If I was an innocent student I might confess because I understand that all AI detectors are worthless and randomly accuse innocent students. Taking advantage of an amnesty would prevent me from getting caught up in a witch hunt that is sure to follow.
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@gfodor
Developers! Developers! Developers! he screams, as he attacks the NSA plant with a chair.
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@NathanpmYoung
It's not science if you're not sharing what you learned. Those are examples of great engineering, but even if they published papers I'm not sure it would be science.
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Well shit. Democrats are attacking open source AI and Republicans are supporting it. Has it come down to this? Is the freedom to use technology now a partisan issue? If so, it forces my support. How many other engineers will feel the same?
There are undoubtedly risks related to AI. One of the biggest:
A partisan group of crazy people use AI to infect every part of the information economy with left wing bias. Gemini can’t produce accurate history. ChatGPT promotes genocidal concepts.
The solution is open source
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SB1047 is basically a different bill every time I read it. It's now so vague I have no idea what is legal to release. The AG will decide if they think your model is bad. If they think it's bad they'll take you to court and if the judge also thinks it's bad you're a criminal.
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It cracks me up that Claude is getting progressively worse with each release. What are those people doing over there?
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I think a lot of engineers don't realize that being early is just as bad as being late, insofar as making money is concerned. In fact, being early is always a death sentence, while being late is only sometimes a death sentence.
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@poojaasanwal
The problem is that if your work is important to you it tends to naturally suck in all your motivation. Once your tank is dry it's dry.
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Microsoft "Guidance" is a tool that allows for precise templating of LLM outputs for better integrations as part of a more complex whole by manipulation of token probabilities. Why don't I ever hear anyone talk about this? It's so cool!
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@lan8ach
It's hard for me to justify hiring juniors when seniors are delivering so much more bang for buck. Fundamentally, the ratio of senior dev to junior dev salaries needs to go up quite a bit for juniors to be desirable.
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Imo, very likely Microsoft has maneuvered OpenAI into a position where the board faces losing control to Microsoft or running out of money and is upset that Sam let it happen. Very much doubt this is some kind of safetyist/doomer takeover.
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@inerati
The mods care, because they have little fiefdoms that belong to them. They also get help from the algorithm, the downvotes, the karma of the poster, etc. It's a great way to keep a conversation on track imo.
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@ESYudkowsky
I don't think this is really an issue. I already get tons of catfish just using stolen pictures. As 4chan would say, "they're pissing in an ocean of piss"
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@crypt0x_0
Go! Go is the language! Designed by ancient ones deep in the heart of Google to prevent personality hires from wrecking the codebase. Aggressively multithreaded, built for microservices. Simple, strait forward coding model. Incredible dependency management, build system, and
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@thechosenberg
Lol, why would you be friends with this guy. If he's going to presume to order food for you that you don't want he can presume to be paying for it. That's even before the vegan pushing, but on top of the vegan pushing it's just a solid "fuck off man" moment.
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@sudovatnik
Jupyter notebooks come from a scientific culture as opposed to an engineering culture. The process of documenting the experiment is what's important to them, not so much the outcome.
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@a_music_failure
@calithameridi
Chromium is open source, so there's no reason for Microsoft not to take advantage of it to push back against chrome. All Google's work in Chromium benefits Edge, but edge can take or leave bad ideas like manifest v 3.
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@georgemporter
You should not being using AWS API keys, they're too unsafe. You need to migrate to AWS roles assigned to servers. Also, github offers a service that prevents such incidents by blocking pushes with known secrets. Please feel free to ask me questions.
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@nabeelqu
In America, when you become a citizen you become an American. Nothing will ever make you Japanese, or French, or German, getting citizenship in those cultures doesn't do that, but you can become American. That is a significant cultural difference.
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@abacaj
This approach gives you a TAM of the entire iPhone and android ecosystem, which is VC bait. Someone will just make an app and crush these guys with it, assuming Google and Apple don't hamstring the app too much.
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@DanHendrycks
In order to release the model you'll have reported to the government that you've taken reasonable precautions. If the AG and a judge later decide your precautions aren't reasonable you're cooked. The bill doesn't outline what precautions are expected.
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@protosphinx
During this time period the government was really out for the blood of anyone who dared question the rights of copyright holders. It's a shame what they did to this boy for what amounts to a protest.
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@NathanpmYoung
If they've done experiments and published those experiments it's science. That seems indistinguishable to me from what Yann is saying.
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@sporadicalia
Not really. He did use a lot of business speak, which may just be how he talks.
For example, he said: "I have 2 years of runway". That means "We can continue to lose money at the present rate for 2 years before we run out".
He said, "we'd always make $3-5m arr off
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Living in shenzen is a super power if you want to do hardware. You can just walk down the street and get custom wound motors. It's a shame America abandoned its manufacturing base. A "personal robotics" revolution could be very scary for American hegemony.
introducing... LETHIC Z on YT
lethic z is a chinese engineer wagie that lives in a tiny box in a mega ultra huge skyscraper, probably in shenzen
he's been consistently designing, programming, and making robots with nothing but a 3d printer
you DON'T NEED FUNDING
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@yacineMTB
People say AI is going to take out jobs. AI can have 90% of my work and I'll still be busy.
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@Caviar_Kat
@DanielleFong
Nothing, things in space typically travel at extreme speeds. The space station is traveling at over 17,000 miles per hour.
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@tebuevd
@TrentonBricken
You can just do things. There's power on that pole. Show up in a white truck with a ladder wearing an orange vent and 99 times out of 100 nobody will even remember you were there.
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@tekbog
Comeback is a strange way to say, "Has always and will be the most popular programming language in the world". Python doesn't count, it's just an application written in C. Just a fancy spreadsheet really.
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@DiabolicalSpuds
I'm pretty sure India is the only country that's ever been invaded for it's food.
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@andraws_67
@CorridorDigital
AI is not going to be uninvented, no matter how hard WGA/SAG AFTRA might wish otherwise. As far as I know, the unions in question don't serve VFX artists. AI has been used extensively in VFX for a decade. Most of the recent avatar movie was AI assisted. It's part of the job.
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@e_asherah
It probably is funny but women in dating sites have so many options anything that could possibly be construed as a red flag will be used to reject candidates. It's like HR with 2000 resumes deciding that paragraphs instead of bullet points sends your resume to the trash.
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@BrianHa19487551
@venturetwins
Something fascinating about society is that almost 30% of people confess to crimes they didn't commit. Most because they thought it would reduce their suffering. Also, as an aside, using a grossly inaccurate AI detector also doesn't show good character, and it's impossible to
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@skooookum
For generations, he has guarded over my family. Since the days of my great-great-great-great-great-grandfather he has kept us safe. For so long we thought him immortal. But now I see differently, for just as my fur grows gray and my joints grow stiff, so too do his. He did not
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@corg_e
I once pulled an all nighter working on amazing new tech, went to sleep about 6am. Morning shift came in and rebooted my new tech. Entire enterprise goes down, nobody understands why. I waltz in about 4pm, and suddenly realize it was me.
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My timeline seems to feel Sonnet is stronger than 4o... If that's the case why is 4o on top of the lmsys leaderboard? Are people saying this working niche cases not reflected by leaderboard participants? Or is it because OAI was allowed to tune to the leaderboard pre release?
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@tunguz
Yea, if you have significant equity of course you're working your ass off. If you're drawing a salary the relationship is 40 hours a week + work life balance.
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@ByJoshYe
I normally am a pretty anti-regulation guy but US regulators should do something about gambling in video games. They should not be charging children money for luck based loot boxes.
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@a_music_failure
@calithameridi
Yea, I don't know why you think having people working on Chromium imparts some major advantage to Google. What's your point? If Chrome abandoned it today Microsoft still can do whatever they want with it tomorrow, including nothing, or taking it over themselves, or forking it.
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@xlr8harder
My guess is that the video and real time audio modes are just too cost prohibitive to do anything commercial with. They must have needed the hype real bad to pull this stunt. Imo, it's proof positive the cupboard is bare at OAI.
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@pjk_software
@Noahpinion
No, in the US there is no escape of any kind from student loans. Not from low income, not from bankruptcy. You pay it off, or they can literally dock your pay. For some reason, student loans were allowed to be far more predatory than any other kind of loan in the US.
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@tszzl
Man, I loved the 80's. I feel so disconnected and passionless about modern moves and tv. Are things just going to keep fading to grey as I age? I don't think things are really turning grey, I think I am just growing color brind and it makes me so sad to feel myself fade away
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In real life, all exponential curves are sigmoids. You don't know anything if you don't know when exponential growth will transition back to linear growth, and it always does. The doomer fantasy of building a god with AI is fiction, and the doomer cult just yet another doomsday
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@NickTagliaferro
Government tech salaries are a joke. We beat them hard and we're in Ed Tech. It's bizarre they can get anyone to work for them at all.
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@lisatomic5
We're genetically programmed not to defect, that's how society works. In fact, merely revealing you have the emotional capacity to defect is enough to get otherwise nice people to blacklist you.
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So I'm interested in LLM control techniques like and . Anyone want to suggest one I should try out? Especially interested in anything with a go implementation.
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Oh, so this is how we're going to burn the next 10x of computer performance gains - docker on top of an x86 emulator on top of WASM in the browser. That'll do it.
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@thecaptain_nemo
It's because the ideologically motivated cannot imagine their characters have any flaws or anything to learn, so the characters are boring with no arc. Sarah has both.
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@kane
This is what happens when you write a quick and dirty UI for testing but it accidentally passes QA.
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@anammostarac
Wow, not even Aella, icon of polyamory, thinks she can be serious about finding a father for her kids while engaging in the lifestyle. That has to be some kind of signal for the beginning of the end.
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@nearcyan
Juniors are less cost effective than seniors. It'll be like this until the fed reduces interest rates. In fact, you should know the whole purpose of raising interest rates is to make companies lay people off so there's less demand for goods.
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@gokulr
This is silly. They would not have jumped unless they were offered a compelling reason. This only means they found compelling reasons very frequently and have collected those raises. Your CEO's nose turning isn't hurting the candidate, who is already receiving their wages.
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@meganreyno
I'd really enjoy it if a women took me on a date to the Google campus. I'd have a blast checking that place out.
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@AdamNeumannsCoS
People who love tech are the people who succeed at it. This post is fine because the people who will grow to be good at tech will reject this advice out of hand. Loving programming is both sufficient and required.
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Why is it every few years people come up with some new imaginary scenarios in which the world is going to end and they get taken seriously? Literally every decade of my life we've had a new bullshit armageddon.
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@DanielleFong
Well, the biggest problem with getting up to near light speed is we don't have any tech that can accelerate a vehicle for long enough to get up to those kinds of speeds, 669 million mph. That being said, weird things are expected to happen if a person can get close.
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Wait, I say do the needful. Is my staff making fun of my English behind my back? Is it needful to find a new phrase. I don't have any Hindi to fall back on if my English is bad.
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@sq_yuan
@JHartley2
@roshanpateI
I don't know why people think a successful engineer should take a huge salary cut and a tiny, tiny bit of equity in exchange for building someone else's company. People have pitched me on 50k and 0.15%. I'm like even if you unicorn I still lose!
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@AviSchiffmann
It's generally considered a good strategy for an organization that is trying to break the network effect of an entrenched incumbent to embrace open standards as a talking point and for reach.
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@viumobile
@JemYoung
Then it crashes because of a complex and totally unforeseeable load based interaction with an unrelated microservice.
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@BenjaminDEKR
Prices don't rise if you extract the value from someplace else with taxes. As long as taxes just moves money around, it doesn't cause inflation. It causes inflation only when the government invents money.
Most of the pro ubi arguments are basically: Shutdown the wellfare
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@typecraft_dev
Apple products are overpriced, intentionally designed not to be repairable, and have an extremely dubious relationship with the concept that the product you paid for now belongs to you.
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@8teAPi
The US government has a whole slew of extremely unconstitutional money laundering laws that they're going to be very happy to enforce on X if Elon tries it. This is how they keep paypal, mastercard, and visa to heel.
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@ThePrimeagen
To me this sounds like an expert asking for opinion on style from other experts.
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@telmudic
The framing here is white vs black but the ruling was about the schools discriminating against Asians. I don't think any argument that ignores that reality is intellectually honest. He needs to answer for why it's ok to balance this historical wrong at Asian expense.
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Fine tuned Mistral 7B, 50x cheaper than GPT4 Turbo at scale, as hosted by Runpod on vLLM. Time to move these quality tests to QA.
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@KevinTartis
In my opinion, the bill comes from a place that's overtly hostile to open source. The authors consider AI to be a dangerous technology like chem, bio, and nuclear weapons and think normal people shouldn't have access to it. If passed, it will be used to attack os orgs.
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@migtissera
Mistral 7b punches way above it's weight. I just finished a fine tune for a team that rejected 3.5 because it wasn't good enough. Was using GPT 4, but is now happy with a mistral fine tune. How well it's trained is a big deal.
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@proales
@GrantSlatton
Would love to see some evidence that the wells are breaking in large numbers after two months. Seems very unlikely to me.
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@yacineMTB
I love working with juniors, and making them productive isn't a problem. The problem is their productivity ratio with seniors doesn't match their salary ratio with seniors. It's just way more cost effective to hire seniors right now.
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@martinmbauer
It's an artist, not a physicist. It can barely add three digit numbers without a calculator.
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Clean code is overrated. Try to keep it simple, get done what needs to be done in the most direct and easily understood way possible. Every time you think you're clever ask yourself, "Is this really helpful? Or am I just building a footgun for the next junior to come along?"
do not get psyoped by clean code or you will make layers upon layers of useless abstractions
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@BardOskar
@emollick
This wasnt ChatGPT, it's a different model. Also, the model is not designed to count letters in text, it doesn't see the same words you see and the words it sees are different lengths and use a totally different system of spelling than you do.
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@danshipper
Very possible D'Angelo just negotiated for a quiet exit in 2-6 months. That's normally how it's done.
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@eigenrobot
Casual violence was way, way, more common back then. I ended up in fights every few weeks when I was in high school in Chicago. I caught the tail end of it I believe.
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@mustafasuleyman
I reject this idea in whole, and it will never have the cooperation of the open source movement. If you want to build a 2020's themed Amish comune knock yourself out, but don't try to drag us in there with you. We won't go.
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@FilArons
@ruth_hook_
@meatballtimes
Sinister literally means left handed. Cultural aggression against left handedness is the primary factor imo. We used to do the same thing in the US, and our left handedness grew substantially when it was relaxed.
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@typecfemale
Nah, girls out of your league just don't go laying on dudes for no reason. She's cooking up something, or on something. Probably trying to make a Chad jealous that is at the party with someone else.
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@SmokeAwayyy
India has a real need for a strong foundation model to help them with their many languages I think. Delivering knowledge in the native language of poorer indians is a huge challenge for them.
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@bryancsk
It amazes me that people can be put in charge of such important things without the most basic understanding of the economics of supply and demand. Anyone on a zoning board that thinks there is any other answer to high rents other than more apartments should be immediately fired.
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