shawn-butler

Software has long relied on a lack of culpability for defects to keep its margins. Why should “AI” companies face a higher standard?

Then it isn't a thing you can do.

Your definition of heavy gamer I think differs from the norm if your main plays were Mario kart, et al.

I doubt they are querying 1 TB of data in the browser. DuckDB-WASM issues http range requests on behalf of client to request only the bytes required, especially handy with parquet files (columnar format) that will exclude columns you don't even need.

But the article is a little light on technical details. In some cases it might make sense to bring the entire file client-side.

VS Code package in my applications folder is 600+ MB.

The Electron Framework.framework it contains is 400+ MB alone. I don't understand where you come up with your 90 MB figure?

He made his money, he doesn't care who starves now

I dunno, with row-level security and proper internal role definition.. why do I need a REST layer?

This is absurd. The data shows maybe a 1-4% gain.

I know that legitimizes a bunch of activist talking points but come on.

This is HN

This really isn’t true in principle. The current LLM ecosystems can’t do “meaning tasks” but there are all kinds of “legacy” AI expert systems that do exactly what is required.

My experience is that middle manager gatekeepers are the most reluctant to participate in building knowledge systems that obsolete them though.

No, the humanities won't survive.

The problem with humanities is that the "state of the art" is about only saying something "new". For example, the author thinks that discussing Kantian theories of the sublime and “The Epic Split” ad (a highly meme-able 2013 Volvo ad starring Jean-Claude Van Damme) is "straight A" work.

It is irrelevant nonsense masquerading as intelligent discourse much like most of this author's actual published work and it is also something at which LLMs excel.

To be a "rockstar" humanities professor at Princeton, you have to make up something "cool" to fill the seats to keep the attention of 17-25 year-olds.

With LLMs that have encoded snapshots of the entire literary corpus that humanity has produced, those students can make up whatever connections they want and justify their worldview. No humanities courses required beyond maybe some introduction to vocabulary / prompting.