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If it makes you feel any better, same.

What would it take to make it plan A? My take: rust-level WASM support and a decent standard library.

If it comes with Apple's usual 14 day no questions asked money-back guarantee, I will absolutely try it. If I can comfortably code in it for a workday instead of external monitors, I will definitely keep it.

I think you have to ask yourself "compared to what?".

Compared to REST, I would argue auto-generated GraphQL clients are superior (compared to auto-generated REST clients based on something like OpenAPI).

Compared to gRPC, I think it has the advantage that it's much easier to use in the browser and many people seem to prefer text-based protocols for debugability.

What are you comparing it to?

i think it would be super interesting to do a study where we compared the effects of moderate/high-dose psychedelics to some other substance that had comparable subjective effects. but (a) i don't think such a control substance actually exists and (b) i strongly suspect that you'd see the same benefits to both groups - and then what conclusion do you draw from that?

I agree that “computational advantage” is probably too strong a conclusion. However, it is intriguing to think about how this general effect (increasing the time span over which data are integrated) could extend to more abstract reasoning. Subjectively it certainly feels like when on these substances I am aware of more at once but perhaps with the loss of some focus.

What you seem to be after is scientific evidence. The problem is that these substances by nature cannot be double-blind trialed because blinding is impossible. So as individuals we all need to make a decision whether we would like to try them or not for ourselves and the best evidence we can ever hope to get is subjective and anecdotal. If you want to deny yourself the potential of these life changing experiences without scientific evidence then that’s your choice. In my opinion it’s your great loss too.

This is such a bizarre comment to make about something that is Apache licensed. Who cares what happened before now that it’s truly open?

Kind of wish this actually worked as a phone by running Android in the cloud. Would be really useful to have a second phone inside an app for all sorts of things.

I think these are both important perspectives. There’s a real societal cost to having some of the best AI researchers with a golden gag only able to share limited details about their work the main bulk of which remains behind closed doors. If we don’t impose social costs to this behavior it will become even more common.

I've used https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07FSFBSXY/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b...

It's pretty much exactly what you're describing. My only complaint is that the velcro wears off after time and it stops sticking.

I hope we see more of this sort of use of WASM (creating universal libraries). Same argument applies for Go/cgo.

It’s also open source under a permissive license so personally I see that as mostly upside.

There have to be easier ways to share costs of running the same model, no?

Really wish there were more of these kinds of tools to make sense of GDPR dumps.

These kinds of tools are designed to work in monorepos so you don’t really rely on package management like you do with separate repos. This works really well for sharing close inside companies/entities. Doesn’t work as well for sharing code between entities.

By this line of reasoning wouldn’t Ethereum miners be liable too? (assuming this was all implemented on ethereum)

If an institution is a net negative and it dies then we are better off immediately. Even if it’s not a net-negative and it dies we might be better off in the long term because something better replaces it.

This is a good thing. Many people are of the opinion that model weights don’t have copyright independent of the source code used to generate them. The source code and training data are all open. The model weights are a deterministic function of those. Claiming they have independent copyright is essentially the same as claiming copyright in a binary you compiled from open source code. Seems like a pretty good chance to get a court to agree with this.

I really wish they would make this tech available via gcloud. Seems like it would be very popular and a great way to attract other gcloud business away from MS/GitHub which scales horribly.

I wish the JEP showed which company was behind it. It has an author but it’s just a username not a full name and doesn’t indicate the company they work for.

I think this Java oddity is the main practical motivation for a lot of factory methods. I wonder if we will see fewer after this change.

this is also something I’ve been thinking about for a while. I messaged you on IG (I’m semistrict there)

I’m unfamiliar with this. What are the kinds of things one could do with this? Why is it useful?

Agreed! I think one useful direction to take this debate is to admit that in order for you or me to interact with the tool we need to have a mental model of the tool (so we have some idea of how to interact with it).

So which mental model is superior when evaluated under the criterion of "ability to interact productively with the tool"? (a) It's just statistics / stringing together phrases from the internet or (b) it's more like a human brain with vastly superior general knowledge?

Personally, I would put money on (b) resulting in better interactions. This is probably something we could study empirically.

But ultimately I don't really care that much about the philosophical issues, my mental model of it (a more nuanced version of b) has enabled me to use it productively almost every day to do things that I couldn't do before.

It's definitely missing a "module" that humans have: something like an ability to know & admit when it's not certain about something. The way I think of it is: imagine if you constitutionally unable to ever admit that you didn't know something and you were forced to continue talking about that topic. You too would have no choice in this situation but to start spouting nonsense. Once we add this model of uncertainty, I think this type of problem will go away and it will say something like "I'm not sure but ...".

I hear this type of opinion expressed frequently by coders. I use ChatGPT pretty much every day (to help with various tasks) and there's just no way to hold on to this kind of belief after you get to "know" it at that level. It clearly can reason, maybe not in exactly the same way as a person. It is superior to the average person just in terms of following a logical argument in many cases. Maybe that is a low bar but I can't help but think that it is much higher than you think.

Why not use protobuf for serializing data between plugin and host language?

I don’t understand why you say “except for Meta”? Billions of people are still using WhatsApp, Instagram, and FB last time I checked.

Since this is HN I will characteristically take my precious private moments sitting on the toilet to correct this wrong understanding on the internet. Small claims court is an additional option if the defendant lives in the same state and the amount is small. Civil court is always also an option even if small claims court also applies. So this reply makes no sense. You’re wrong. I know it hurts so bad but it’s okay because we are all wrong sometimes. So we will let it go this once there is no need to delete your account and make a new one. Small claims court is great for some things: I sued my ex land lord who wouldn’t return my deposit. Lawyers aren’t allowed and it’s usually open and shut. Anyway hope you have a great Thursday!