Aldo_MX · HackerTrans

há 3 mesesdiscuss

Let’s just say that Mozilla raised CEO salaries while laying off developers. The demand of transparency is well grounded on past behavior.

If I donate, I want more devs getting paid, not a CEO parasiting the non-profit.

Aldo_MX

há 7 mesesdiscuss

This article is more skeptical:

https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/semiconductors/ch...

Aldo_MX

há 7 mesesdiscuss

That's not a realistic expectation.

Classic examples like:

  User: I'm feeling bad
  LLM: Have you considered k*****g yourself?

Are a good example of what an LLM "without censorship" looks like: Good at predicting the most common sequence of text (ex. the most common sarcastic reply from Reddit), but effectively useless.

In order to build a useful LLM (ie. one that actually follows instructions) you need to teach the LLM to prefer the most helpful answer, and that process by itself is already an implicit layer of "censorship" as it requires human supervision, and different humans have different perceptions on what the most helpful answer is, especially when their paycheck is conditioned to a list of "corporate values".

You can only pick between a parrot that repeats random text from the Internet, or a parrot lobotomized to follow the orders from their trainers (which occasionally repeats random text from the Internet, because the training isn't perfect).

Unsurprisingly, the lobotomized parrot is more useful to get actual work done, even if it won't tell you what the CIA[1] did to Mexican Students on October 2nd, 1968.

[1]: https://www.bbc.com/mundo/noticias-america-latina-45662739

Aldo_MX

há 7 mesesdiscuss

> who is regularly running `npm update` or `cargo update` to keep local software up to date?

I do, religiously, as part of my routine to check for updates.

  n lts && npm uninstall -g corepack && npm update -g && n prune

Sometimes things break (that's how `npm uninstall -g corepack` became a part of my one-liner), but it is easier to update often than to neglect updates for years.

Aldo_MX

há 11 anosdiscuss

> Bitbucket is actually superior in many ways

I beg to differ: 2-factor authentication[1], you can't change your credentials[2], it's not as easy to integrate with CI tools since most devs just focus in the integration with Github, and probably there are many more ways where Bitbucket is inferior in comparison with Github.

[1] https://bitbucket.org/site/master/issues/5811/support-two-fa...

[2] https://answers.atlassian.com/questions/176548/how-can-i-cha...

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