coderatlarge

can i provision from within china or do i have to do it before i go there?

looking forward to it!

how do you plan to publish?

do you offer non gfw esim for china?

claude helped me build a functional visual modem (using the cameras and microphones/speakers) for mac/iPhone in about a day and <100 prompts. i’ve worked on mobile apps once 10 years ago and have never built one from scratch. i've built a handful of UIs in 20 years on different platforms. my actual work was mostly in systems software. so it would have probably taken me weeks to months to build this from scratch. it would have cost substantial money to outsource this and iterate on ui and core algo as i did.

i've been curious about the feasibility of this concept for quite some time and now i have an actual example to study and measure and hack on, for a fraction of the cost of my pro sub. it wasn’t trivial, i doubt a non-swe could get it done in that time, but i'm a pretty happy customer overall.

couldn’t the frontier labs simply compile their existing source code training data and have an assembly corpus to train on?

how is “yemen” not a word??

yes it may be valid for large values of “pretty soon”. the market is going to be irrational for as long as it likes :)

your follow-up makes no difference to the main point under discussion : if you ask two different llms about a legal fact pattern and they independently reference the same law, then it is, in fact, more likely that the law is more relevant to the fact pattern than if only one llm mentioned it.

if two llms independently cite the same law given a certain factual legal question then it generally makes it more likely that the law cited does, in fact, apply to the fact pattern in question ; i think you’re using “right” in a moral sense irrelevant to the comment i was responding to.

i suspect many licensed civil and other engineers may be looking at the currant situation as the moment when software people stop being able to just call themselves “engineers “ because they can type source code into an editor just like drawing a plausible bridge on paper doesn’t qualify you as being able to actually build one.

actually my feeling on this is that pretty soon unless you’re in the top 1% of performers for a software task it will become difficult to hold a role at a frontier company.

I’m at the end of my career and got lucky to share your interests at the beginning of a specialist boom

in your place i’d focus on delivering big wins for end-users via multiple roles ; i personally believe the days of being a specialist in one type of stack (ex: “i’m a ui developer”) are over , in this next stage we’ll say “i build products for young people looking for educational opportunities “ ; ie you’ll beed to cut across use-cases and disciplines in a way that was atypical just a few years ago

I’ve seen passionate artisans waste way more time than focused, disciplined, mercenaries; i think it’s a situational choice

testing is the new coding

i don’t condone cheating but i also don’t blame anyone who follows a generally benign career path for its financial benefits.

surely getting the same answer multiple ways suggests it is nore likely in the probability space?

and yet: paternal filial cannibalism

you mean shazeer?

actually spam filters have evolved to make it so you can often not even email people you know and have pressing need to contact.

i wish Ilya and crew would chime in

maybe this will have to lead to a few expedited weddings and citizenship applications…

one use-case is if you need to be able to stream the data.

i can live without discord but I’m required by law to interact with irs and therefore idme and their mess…

at least with physical drugs you know how many grams you bought, with cc it’s all hidden behind the curtain.

why not pets?

user notification is another major litmus test.

i propose the following benchmark task that i think can serve as a baseline of whether these local automation systems can really save time:

starting with a bare ubuntu desktop system with plenty of RAM and CPU, setup three ubuntu VMs for secure development and networking skills learning (wireshark, protocol analysis, etc etc):

one ubuntu “virtual” desktop to simulate a working desktop that an end-user or developer would use. its networking should initially be completely isolated.

one ubuntu server to simulate a bastion machine. route all “virtual desktop” traffic through this “bastion”. it will serve as a tap.

one ubuntu server to serve as edge node. this one can share internet access with the host. route all bastion traffic through the edge node.

use this three vm setup to perform ordinary tasks in the “virtual desktop “ and observe the resulting traffic in the “bastion”. verify that no other traffic is generated on or from the host outside of the expected path virtual desktop -> bastion -> edge.

i claim this is a minimal “network clean” development setup for anyone wanting to do security-conscious development.

extra credit: setup another isolated vm sever to act as the package manager ; ie mirror anything to be installed on the “virtual desktop” onto this package server and configure this server as the install point for apt on the “virtual desktop”.

i doubt an AI can set this up right now. (i’ve tried)

maybe an account has to build up cred or investment to be more trusted like on hn

from the piece:

“ the median age of the latest Y Combinator cohort is only 24, down from 30 just three years ago “

does yc publish stats to validate?