Will Cloudflare eventually open-source Pingora? I know there was a mention of open-sourcing it, but I haven't seen the code, which is a shame :/
645 karma · joined December 16, 2018
E.g, I have a rowing machine that leaves mildly out of breath and makes my heart beat quickly, is that HIIT? Or is HIIT more like stair climbers, which cause me to almost collapse after doing them for 12+ minutes.
Does anyone really thing this anti-Copilot case has a chance of winning when my guess is that Copilot adoption is exponential over time.
Strongest counter argument is the Supreme Court struck down abortion even though abortion was rising in popularity. So that's a bit worrisome.
Probably not for all portions of the compiler. But I think with some reinforcement learning, it ( ... might ...) be possible to automatically generate a robust Typescript parser in Zig.
It understands things to a degree for sure.
Humans get a lot of data.
I was making the point that stable diffusion != JPEG compression
I wager 100 TB => 4GB is different from JPEG compression and more similar to what happens in our brains. "Neural compression" so to speak
So when I see comments like this that say "D also has X feature", I'm curious about why D didn't take off but Zig (likely) will.
Take for example all the comments about how AI won't be good enough. My best guess at what is going on is HN people feel threatened by AI (they realize doing standard programming is nothing special), so they are forced to downplay it.
It's like the famous quote: "it is hard to convince a man of something when his job depends on not understanding it", or whatever the quote actually is.
Another example is when people bash (even technical) crypto posts with very generic crypto bad claims. I roughly expect someone who doesn't know anything about, e.g zkSNARKs, to comment generic crypto-bad claims. They don't have enough knowledge to actually engage with the article so they post unrelated criticism.
The last thing is Dunning-Kruger. The Dropbox story is a solid example of Dunning-Kruger at work.
It's sufficiently comical to be satire
The commenter's proposed solution was WASM. Wasm doesn't solve the issues in this post. What does this post talk about:
- serving content from the edge (wasm doesn't do anything there) - asset optimization (wasm doesn't help)
- pre-rendering complex pages to static HTML+css (wasm doesn't help)
More broadly, minimizing network trips, pre-fetching data, etc. etc. these are all things where Wasm won't help any more or less than JS.
The top comment on this post is complaining about a bug in Copilot generated code. 1 million times better Copilot won't do that.
Is there anything wrong with having a kill switch? Is there anything wrong with breaking laws that entrench local monopolies.
Laws are not always good. I won't say this is the next civil rights movement, but sometimes extrajudicial measures are needed for reform.
I like Vite. A few things I like:
- Super fast
- Works out of the box (like parcel)
- Even production builds are super fast -- this is a bit of an underrated feature because sometimes things only break in prod builds, so having fast prod builds = more frequent prod tests = better
Sure, maybe, in an ideal world we want congress to pass laws in the place of every single regulatory body. (This in and of itself is totally unclear to me).
However, the reality is that by getting rid of regulatory agencies we prevent important limits from being enforced.
I mean, read this part of the dissent: > Again, Section 111(d) tells EPA that when a pollutant—like carbon dioxide—is not regulated through other programs, EPA must undertake a further regulatory effort to control that substance’s emission from existing stationary sources.
There's a backstop in place to allow the EPA to prevent pollutants from fucking us up. Ideally it would be regulated through a formal program. It's not. Does that mean we should just get rid of all backstops & regress to the stone age?
I talk about Lodash one-liners because it makes it pretty obvious that Copilot is not just copy-pasting code (which would be copyright infringement). It's quite unlikely (even if we consider all variables to have the same name), that Copilot is copy-pasting an exact copy of some other snippet, given that the snippet is very specific to my problems. (I'm not asking it to write a generic math function, I'm asking it to use lodash on data structures in my codebase to accomplish a very specific outcome). By quite unlikely I mean (1 / (2 ^ 32)), if we consider the one-liner to be composed of 32 different AST nodes.
> Is a Markov chain "Creative"? That's essentially what you're describing here.
Have you read the paper that (eventually) inspired Copilot? "Attention is All You Need". It's not a Markov chain. There's many, many, many different steps / layers. I think if you know & understand the fundamental building block that is responsible for it working (the "transformer"), then a lot of the worries around plagiarism go away.
Also. What is coding if not a search problem over a very large space? I'm searching for the next N lines to write over the space of all possible lines. To guide my search I use things like my prior knowledge.
In my head, this knowledge is encoded using neurons. In Copilot, the knowledge is encoded in parameters. Abstract concepts in my head are encoded in neurons. In Copilot's "head", abstract concepts are encoded using "embedding vectors" of 512 bytes (maybe more / less, not sure). Yeah, maybe I use more than 512 bytes to encode a concept, but still, I don't see a huge difference. If I'm not plagiarizing, then I can't imagine Copilot is (except for in the 0.1% of cases where it's over-fitting)