I doubt it's going to go the same way as search. You can't run Google on consumer hardware, but you can run LLMs locally.
At worse, newer models will get worse and you can just stick to older models.
You could also argue that proprietary models gated by an API are better than anything you can run locally, and yeah maybe those will get worse with time.
They're not going to get any worse than what you can run locally though. If they do, open models will overtake them, and then we'd be in a better position overall.
> You can't run Google on consumer hardware, but you can run LLMs locally.
You can't run an up to date model locally. When I ask Googles models they have knowledge from stuff just a week ago, without using search. You wont get that from a giant local model.
I feel like I gamed this somehow. Instead of looking for serial killers, I looked for anyone who didn't look like a programming language inventor and got 10/10.
I think you're missing what they're trying to say. You can still select what you actually need in a different order, but changing the order gives more immediate feedback from autocomplete. The order has pretty much zero impact on the performance of a query. A parser would still have to read out the whole query, and it's not expensive to unravel into a more efficient implementation if it would really help.
The problem is that SQL forces you to think about what to select before you even say where you're selecting from. There's nothing a client can do to recommend columns if it doesn't know where you're selecting from. It's pretty cumbersome to have to SELECT * FROM x and then go back and erase the * to actually get auto-completions.
It basically forces you to tell it what you want before you even know what the options are.
I know that from the interpreter's standpoint, it doesn't matter which one is written first.
What I meant is that as a human, if you have to think first of the columns you want to bring in, it will guide you towards the joins that you need and only those, rather than thinking "let me join all those tables because I need _some_ data from the entities inside".
My point about "autocompletion is still position" was not connected to the first part of my comment.
Umm because medicine is supposed to be about helping other people? Why would people spend billions of dollars trying to help others work through a natural disaster?
To me that's one of the worst things about modern pharmaceutical companies, they care more about making money than actually helping people.
As a youngish adult (27) this is some of what I feel:
- Climate change is slowly creeping up on us and corporations keep on trucking along with an endless growth mindset, not caring about the consequences of what is essentially a cancer
- Somehow I lucked out and ended up turning my favourite hobby into a job that pays really well, but something feels empty. I don't feel like I'm working any harder than people in lower paying jobs. I don't feel like I'm providing more value. It kind of makes me sick how bad income inequality seems to be getting. People around me in tech jobs seem to constantly want more, while I'm perfectly happy with what I have.
- Social media is crippling social interactions. It's taking away a deeper form of connection and replacing it with something more surface level, while also warping people's perceptions of reality.
- Most forms of social media make you feel like crap (with how it's designed to manipulate dopamine levels), but disconnecting can make you feel socially isolated.
- We seem to have a lot less trust in institutions like the government, organized religion, and capitalism having access to information that previous generations didn't have - and because of this we have fewer places to find hope.
- It feels like people on both the left & right are increasingly behaving more like fascists and it's kind of terrifying. I always feel like I have to guard myself from "saying the wrong thing" and that makes me feel like I'm being less myself.
Absolutely. I’m extremely skeptical of the type of analysis in OP when quality of life for young people is objectively decaying.
Life expectancies are going down. Children born today are not likely to be as wealthy as their parents. Two major economic disruptions within a generation have permanently stunted economic outlooks at critical times. Many are stuck renting, many others are stuck with student loans they will never pay off.
Given all of that and more, the real question is what kind of parenting could have prepared kids for this? Letting kids play outside a little more isn’t going to cut it.
I'm not him, but the older I get the worse I see interactions with social media getting, so I don't think anyone is going to outgrow it.
When people start ignoring their children in favour of social media (something I've witnessed many times with people I know) I don't think there's much hope coming back from that point.
> I'm not him, but the older I get the worse I see interactions with social media getting, so I don't think anyone is going to outgrow it.
*her (i wonder if that changes your perception of my comment :P)
> Do you see your peers growing out of social media? Or do you think it will be a permanent fixture in their lives?
Kind of, but not really? I see it more transforming into something else. It definitely seems like a lot of people my age and younger are more cautious about social media compared to most millennials, but that doesn't really seem to stop us from using it. I'm really happy to see more of a shift towards open platforms like Mastodon, I'm just not sure where that's going to head.
I was pretty young when RSS was "popular" and didn't really get into it back then. I started using it in the past couple of years, and I find it's one of the best ways to keep up to date with multiple things I want to follow (without being tied to a specific platform).
I would also be pretty surprised if you haven't heard of podcasts in over ten years. I feel like a "podcast" isn't really a podcast if it doesn't have an RSS feed.
My point wasn't whether or not I like RSS feeds - it was to explain why OP can be forgiven for not wanting to put the effort in creating one. I'm sure they're wonderful.
> I have a lot of faith in Elon based on past results. He already solved the problem of people who don't believe in climate change - he got them to buy electric cars because they are sexy. Brilliant man.
Wow that's a grim perspective. Somehow I doubt that catering to the consumerism that got us to where we are with climate change is what's going to help us fix it.
Only if you limit yourself to current CPU architectures. Even GPUs right now are significantly more declarative than CPUs, and it definitely seems like some point in the future we could end up moving towards asynchronous circuits built with memristors.
Probably because they find it fun? That's almost always the case when something seems "impractical".
I kind of feel like there's a disconnect here between people who write software solely for work & to solve an engineering problem vs people who like it as a hobby.
I have very little interest in using Rust for webdev, but I'm excited to see what people having fun with it will come up with.
Hasn't this already already happened though? There's literally nothing else that can compete with ripgrep.
A project using Rust isn't a good enough selling point to me if the tool doesn't do what I want, but more often than not I find Rust projects have a level of quality far exceeding C & C++ projects.
At worse, newer models will get worse and you can just stick to older models.
You could also argue that proprietary models gated by an API are better than anything you can run locally, and yeah maybe those will get worse with time.
They're not going to get any worse than what you can run locally though. If they do, open models will overtake them, and then we'd be in a better position overall.