I admit that I don't know who Tyler Cowen is, but millions (billions?) of people have drunk coffee daily for centuries and if there were ill effects in the same ballpark as opioids or tobacco by now we would certainly know?
Since he might not be known to most (especially a younger audience), the author is a writer best known for many of the Choose Your Own Adventure books that were hugely successful in the 80s.
Sherlock Holmes stories are very interesting to read in order because they span a good 40 years. The first stories are set in the classic Victorian setting with horses and carriages and in the later ones the first cars appear, WW1 happens, etc…
I don’t see anything inherently wrong in a news site reporting different views on the same topic.
I wish more would do that and let me make up my own mind, instead of pursuing a specific editorial line cherry-picking what news to comment and how to spin them, which seems to be the case for most (I’m talking in general terms).
That makes no sense. No one sane wants to go back to a time where all mobile electronics had separate chargers, especially since the number of mobile devices we use on a daily basis is higher than ever before.
If anything, manufacturers that are able to provide working, compatible solutions should be preferred by consumers to those that don't, and the laws of economics will take care of the rest.
But some of those manufacturers have large loyal customer bases that will find ways to justify them even if they were to employ child labor, so there is that.
Yes, thanks OP for sharing. I check HN front page mostly everyday and had no clue such sophisticated scams existed (I pretty much don’t use social media).
It’s easy to think “eh, it will never happen to me” but hindsight is 20/20. I impulse-donated to things like Wikipedia in the past and I’m susceptible to FOMO as most people.
Does it even make sense calling them 'GPUs' (I just checked NVIDIA product page for the H100 and it is indeed so)?
There should be a quicker way to differentiate between 'consumer-grade hardware that is mainly meant to be used for gaming and can also run LLMs inference in a limited way' and 'business-grade hardware whose main purpose is AI training or running inference for LLMs".
If I understand correctly, looking at API pricing for Sonnet, output tokens are 5 times more expensive than input tokens.
So, if rate limits are based on an overall token cost, it is likely that one will hit them first if CC reads a few files and writes a lot of text as output (comments/documentation) rather than if it analyzes a large codebase and then makes a few edits in code.
If we assume that AI coding actually increases productivity of a programmer without side effects (which of course is a controversial assumption, but not affecting the actual question):
1) If you are a salaried employee, if you are seen as less productive than your colleagues that use AI, at the very least you won't be valued as much. Either you will eventually earn less than your colleagues or be made redundant.
2) If you are a consultant, you'll be able to invoice more work in the same amount of time. Of course, so will your competitors, so that rates for a set amount work will probably decrease.
3) If you are an entrepreneur, you will be able to create a new product hiring less people (or on your own). Of course, so will your competitors, so that the expectations for viable MVPs will likley be raised.
In short, if AI coding assistants actually make a programmer more productive, you will likely have to learn to live with it in order to not be left behind.
I append this to basically every prompt as soon as Claude starts getting frustrated, to preserve my sanity:
"Don't apologize. Don't say I'm right. Don't say it's a good idea. Don't say something is fixed unless I say so. Don't say that the issue is clear now. Don't use emojis. Keep a detached, professional tone and focus on the matter at hand.".
Scientific knowledge evolves as new discoveries are made, immutable and unequivocal “truth” is the realm of religion, not science (which makes the former much more appealing to many than the latter).
Trust really should not erode if X acted in good faith based on the consensus knowledge at the time.
I’m not sure how this decade is any different than the one that preceded it?
The current console generation is 4 years old and it’s at mid-cycle at best.
Games running on modern consoles are visually marginally better than those in the previous generation, and AAA titles are so expensive to develop that consoles will still be the target HW.
I really could not be bothered in updating my 3080…
Yes. For example I fed it a public tender and associated regulations in Norwegian and it was able to answer questions about the parts I mas interested in correctly and succinctly. I have also fed it research papers that normally I would not have the patience or knowledge to go through on my own.
In terms of actual usefulness, it’s one of the AI tools that most impressed me.
The main issue is, of course, privacy.
I have tried to reproduce something similar using AnythingLLM and the low tier Llama models, but of course the experience is much worse, both in terms of results, response times and UI. If someone knows of a better local setup, I’m all ears.
I would consider a Workspace subscription if I could actually trust Google to make good on the commitment of not reading your stuff, which I’m finding hard to do…