Hawk

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[–] Hawk@lemmynsfw.com 0 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

This is true, but why not fine all individuals in that case (assuming the driver was not accruing in bad faith).

Government regulation has to apply equally to the rich and the poor and if there was no signage indicating his street legal car could not be used on that street, it's hard to see how he should be liable.

I don't have a lot of sympathy for a guy with that kind of money, but it doesn't mean he's filthy rich either, for all we know he's got cancer and sold his house for the dream car, who knows.

The point is, government regulation should be consistent and act in the best interest of the people. This is a failure in public policy.

[–] Hawk@lemmynsfw.com 2 points 2 months ago

An old laptop with qbitorren in a docker container works quite nicely.

[–] Hawk@lemmynsfw.com 9 points 2 months ago

But think of the shareholders, they could have been the real victims /s

[–] Hawk@lemmynsfw.com 15 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Whilst this is absolutely true, I think it's more constructive to focus on the failure in design that led to the confusion in the cockpit.

There is no doubt that children in the cockpit contributed to the incident, but that incident could have happened with some other distraction.

The failure for the aircraft to correctly notify the pilot of the change in autopilot configuration was clearly very dangerous.

[–] Hawk@lemmynsfw.com 1 points 2 months ago

All good man.

I think the point is that LLMs can replace people and they are quite good.

But they absolutely shouldn't replace people, yet, or possibly ever.

But that's what's happening and it's a massive problem because it's leading to mediocre code in important spaces.

[–] Hawk@lemmynsfw.com 1 points 2 months ago (2 children)

The code was non trivial and relatively sophisticated. It performed statistical analysis on ingested data and the approach taken was statistically sound.

I was replaced by that. So was my colleague.

The job market is exceptionally tough right now and a large part of that is certainly llms.

I think taking people with statistical training out of the equation is quite dangerous, but it's happening. In my area, everybody doing applied mathematics, statistics or analysis has been laid off.

In saying that, the produced program was quite good.

[–] Hawk@lemmynsfw.com 1 points 2 months ago (4 children)

Mostly internal data cleaning stuff, close etc, which I accept is less in scope than you're original comment.

[–] Hawk@lemmynsfw.com 1 points 2 months ago (6 children)

My last employer had many internal tools that were fine.

They had only a moderate amount of oversight.

I had to find a new job, I'm actually thinking of walking away from software development now that there are so few jobs :(

It sucks but there's no sense pretending this won't have a large impact on the job landscape.

[–] Hawk@lemmynsfw.com 3 points 2 months ago

Depends on the use case. Training local llms is a lot cheaper after Galore and there are ways to get useful local models with only a moderate amount of effort, see e.g. augmentoolkit.

This may or may not be practical in many use cases.

24 months is pretty generous but no doubt there will be significantly less demand for junior developers in the near future.

[–] Hawk@lemmynsfw.com 2 points 2 months ago

I really enjoyed bad batch, clone wars, rogue one and Andor

[–] Hawk@lemmynsfw.com 11 points 4 months ago (1 children)

My favourite part of threaded platforms is the arbitrary and tangential discourse

[–] Hawk@lemmynsfw.com 6 points 4 months ago

In my research group we could tell instantly and it would usually act as a mark against the paper (ie read this one later).

If you're reading a lot of papers it becomes apparent.

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