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The practical issue the George isn't addressing is that we are (currently) reliant in data centers hosting, and local frontier-esque models are currently price prohibitive in terms of RAM.

These companies absolutely can not and will not take on the legal liability of serving models that give consumers instructions on cooking meth.

That being said, I agree with what he is saying, it's just that we need the memory supply chain to catch up so we can run ablated GLM models locally.

My machine, my AI.

Seems to be down for me :( Large "Under construction" banner

Rest in peace :(

One of the reasons I hope hacker news stays relatively obscure. Fingers crossed

Only works against the database the extension manages. Biased in comparison to the native dislike button.

The Author passed away. That's probably why you didn't receive a response.

>There he goes. One of God's own prototypes. A high-powered mutant of some kind never even considered for mass production. Too weird to live, and too rare to die.

Devastated to hear this. RIP Norm. I loved you.

I'm actually a W2 through an agency, so the other half of my FICA is covered by the agency. The agency also provides some health insurance.

> likes switching companies once every 12 to 18 months

This does kind of resonate with me. I'm kind of restless now having been working on the same project for a year.

I don't think the benefits adds up to a 40K difference a year. As I said, I get health insurace, but no 401k matching. If I got something like 10% 401k matching I'd get about $400 per pay period ($400 * 12 = 4800).

I'm worried that these salary guys are going to be in some wildly better position in 10+ year because they committed to a company. But I don't really see how they will be.

Thank you so much for the response.

They recently implemented PayByPhone at my apartment complex to the extreme chagrin of many residents including myself.

We had a guest parking lot where your guests would simply park. No sort of registration, but if the car stayed for 3+ days without notifying management it would be booted.

Now if I want a guest to visit, they have to download an app and enter their credit card info and license plate number for the pleasure. Every time I have a guest over, instead of the normal pleasantries I have to warn them to register their car lest they be ticketed by the overly zealous parking enforcement officers. The process takes around 10 minutes for someone unfamiliar. It is absolutely infuriating, though I blame apartment management more than PayByPhone.

To play devil's advocate for both sides. I think there is a freedom of speech problem online. I think the idea of an the internet being an open forum for discussion of ideas (even controversial) is a major benefit.

But there is a problem with free speech absolutist sites like 4chan and Gab in that they attract all of the bad actors that are banned from traditional media for their fringe beliefs.

I'm really interested in finding a solution to this. To make a free speech platform that attracts conventional users but allows for fringe discussion as well. The only thing I can really think of is for established platforms like youtube and twitter to do away with any rules limiting speech (with exceptions for material that is illegal). They already have a base of conventional users that wouldn't leave. I don't think this will happen though.

Thanks for the response Kevin, great advice. I really enjoyed your post! I hope to be as impressive a developer as you one day.

Sort of on the same path right now. Biggest obstacle I'm running into is that most of the work I'm finding is through recruiters, which of course means that a chunk of the money goes to the recruiter before I receive it.

The rates are still decent, but I'm not working with enough of a financial buffer to compensate for the downtime I'm having. I'm brand new at this though and I expected this sort of difficulty curve to start out with.

On a side note, if you've got an Angular or react project you are working on in the Atlanta area or remote and need some help, reach out to me :)

All of my contact info is on my site elarbee.io

Thanks so much for the reply! My medium-long term goal is to turn what I'm doing as a freelancer into my own consultancy/development firm.

Really appreciate the feedback. I'll look into integrating this sort of thing into my future contracts.