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I'm just finishing up the probate process for one of my parents and I'm convinced the banks do everything they can to sabotage the process so they can hang on to that money as long as possible. Taking forever to respond, lengthy round trips that could be avoided with an email, unnecessary serial processes, paperwork with account numbers mysteriously off by one digit, etc

I can't wait for the false-flag, lone hacker in their mother's basement event....only they weren't alone. It was a conspiracy, Qwen was there too.

Same here, and I don't need to hear all kinds of complaining like it's some sort of AI version of a Monty Python skit:

Wife: Have you got anything without slop?

Waitress: Well, there's slop egg sausage and slop, that's not got much slop in it.

Wife: I don't want ANY slop!

Man: Why can't she have egg bacon slop and sausage?

Wife: THAT'S got slop in it!

Man: Hasn't got as much slop in it as slop egg sausage and slop, has it?

Absolutely this. The same thing is, and will continue, to take happen in the work place. This is the real threat of AI. Not that it's going to take your job, that it's going to redefine what is used to measure your value.

Maybe everyone has it backwards. They shouldn't be mad at everyone pumping out AI shit. They should be mad at all the crappy stuff we were forced to endure that was no better than AI shit. The only difference is the crap doesn't cost anything anymore.

The emperor has no clothes.

Looks like it was misattributed as CC BY 4.0 but it should be CC BY-SA 2.1 Japan

You don't need to call it amateurish. It's free.

Here's a crazy idea. What if we are looking for AGI in the wrong place? We built a global internet. If we do achieve AGI maybe it will be a globally distributed one. If it did would we even know what to look for?

This is just awful. I can't even contemplate a more nuanced rebuttal because I don't want to engage with it. I feel more sorry for children today because of articles like this are being written about them.

I only learned about their CDN and protocol called Xet a couple of days ago https://huggingface.co/docs/hub/en/xet/index That puts it in the Cloudflare of AI models category.

SEM_EXTRACT, SEM_MATCH, WEB_SEARCH are pretty vague functions. Makes me wonder why you'd bother with the SQL part at that point and not just ask the question.

I worried about this myself. 50% higher limits were nice but the flip side is you get used to it and then it just feels like they're taking 50% away. I'm not sure it's going to have the effect that Anthropic was expecting....or maybe that was the point. Who knows. I can see both perspectives.

Reminds me of the DBOS, everything's a database, ethos. https://www.dbos.dev/

I have and the suggestion was received positively. Thanks for the suggestion to do that. DuckDB rocks!

I'm excited about this and have some use cases already lined up but I'm continually worried about a grammar free-for-all and collisions as each extension author tries to modify the grammar. I'm hoping they already have something in place for that and I just haven't read about it yet. I'm concerned that you can load an extension and kind of mangle the interpretation of the syntax. Two author extensions could legitimately want conflicting parsers and there's no easy way to unload an extension in duckdb. Something like an explicit "GRAMMAR SQL" or "GRAMMAR GGSQL", etc would be nice.

What do you plan on stripping and what's your target? The Emscripten based build is ~10Mb. I have a component build so I'd be interesting on how you'd like to break it up.

I was just thinking yesterday that some of what these AI generated sites have exposed is just how vacuous and low information content a lot of websites have become. The difference is previously you could at least say, "hey, someone at least spent a little money to create this" now that cost is pretty much zero. I think the answer is to simply demand more from people who have real products. If you have a product, I want to see a screenshot. Even better a demo and I'm not hitting the "schedule a demo" button. Either you step up and demonstrate capability or you're going to get lost in the noise.

You can add :p to print the command.

I like to alias it to "please"

I can't help thinking of David Rees. This guy is hilarious https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KabOfnbS4TQ&t=139s

People need to stop yelling "Slop!" all the time and saying silly things like "every line of code was reviewed by a human". First, it's ridiculous. There is no possible way to verify that claim, determine what was or wasn't done after reviewing it, and there's no reason to review every single line. It's performative. I have a ton of stuff I haven't bothered contributing. Why? So I can deal with all the hate? When it was "many hands make light work" there was value in sharing the load. Now I've got a backhoe and it's not worth the hassle.

I guess you're just supposed to read Clausewitz not actually understand it.

A large number of logically irreconcilable perspectives (in one's own mind) is the precise definition of cognitive dissonance. You also say that I may be building a straw man without even trying to point out where you think I've done that. You've already conceded my argument that there are many competing perspectives and I make no attempt to poke any holes in that so there is no straw man.

I'm done. The cognitive dissonance over AI has jumped the shark. It's not fair that it's everywhere. It's not fair that only a few have it. It's not fair that it uses so much electricity. It's not fair that it's killing my environment. It's not fair there's a datacenter in my back yard. It's not fair there isn't a datacenter in my back yard. It's not fair that it threatens my job. It's not fair that my employer doesn't give me access to AI.

Can't really win can ya? Scarce? They're driving up prices! Plentiful? It's all a big bubble!

I've always loved the original work and it's nice to see they're still working on it. I've always wondered if there was a way to connect this back to infrastructure rather than images. Something you could run on a cluster and if portions of it failed it would regenerate the system.

> "no single „this is what this project is” anywhere in the repo description, readme or docs. "

That sounds like he read through the docs to me and make a perfectly valid observation that that the maintainers might find valuable. He didn't criticize them for not doing it he just pointed out that it wasn't there. You then told him to RTFM when you didn't seem to spend much time reading what he had written.

> You don't need to write platform-specific code if you use some cross-platform framework. For simple programs it may be enough to use only the standard library of your language of choice.

That's a circular argument and "some" is doing a lot of work there. What cross-platform framework would you be referring to?

> It has little value. Compiling a separate binary for each OS isn't that hard, since only a handful of architectures and operating systems are actually in use. Using an abstract cross-platform binary (like WASM) in the other hand adds extra performance costs and other user-side overhead, which isn't strictly necessary.

It my have little value to you but that doesn't mean it has little value to everyone. I don't agree that compiling to multiple architectures is without difficulty and restricting yourself to only popular ones proves the point. What specific "other user-side overhead" would you be referring to? Lots of things aren't strictly necessary, that doesn't imply they're not necessary. Yes, there is a performance cost. Sometimes that cost is worth paying.

You can use iPXE https://ipxe.org/

I wrote a Subsack post on this topic back in December https://open.substack.com/pub/zacharywhitley/p/the-coming-ag...