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Re: TextSynth Server

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Post by vidarh »

JacobiX wrote: post #24

Very interesting as usual from Fabrice Bellard, but I'm a little bit disappointed this time, because libnc is a closed source DLL. Nevertheless it will be interesting to compare it to the amazing work of Georgi Gerganov: GGML Tensor Library. Both are heavily optimized, supports AVX intrinsics and are plain C/C++ implementation without dependencies.

ChatGPT is pretty good at disassembling x86, and is able to give reasonable descriptions of what the code is doing (e.g try "disassemble the following bytes in hex and explain what they appear to be doing: [bytes from a binary in hex]")

I'm curious how soon someone uses these models to effectively ruin the ability to use releasing binaries as an obfuscation method.

Re: TextSynth Server

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Post by networked »

> All is included in a single binary. Very few external dependencies (Python is not needed) so installation is easy on most Linux distributions.

I have to disagree. The combination of being closed-source and dynamically linked makes a program a hassle to run on Linux. Even if it isn't at the moment of release, it soon becomes one. While ts_server is better than most, it already requires an old version of libjpeg-turbo not available in my distribution's repositories. I had to run it in a Rocky Linux container:

  docker run \
    --rm \
    --mount type=bind,source="$(pwd)",target=/app/ \
    --publish 127.0.0.1:8080:8080 \
    rockylinux:9 \
    sh -c 'dnf install -y libjpeg libmicrohttpd && cd /app/ && ./ts_server ts_server.cfg'
The solutions to this problem that I am aware of that do not involve releasing the source code are: 1) static linking; 2) containers; 3) shipping a Windows binary :-) ("Win32 is the only stable ABI on Linux" -- https://blog.hiler.eu/win32-the-only-stable-abi/).

Re: TextSynth Server

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Post by yeahsure22 »

arvinsim wrote: post #22
lynx23 wrote: post #20

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Control freak, by any chance? Is it really so hard to just "go with the flow"?

Hard to just "go with the flow" when your livelihood can be possibly threatened.

Well I’m sure that one guy will be able to change the course of history to suit his job situation. It’s going to happen so you had better go with the flow. Become water.

Re: TextSynth Server

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Post by jefc1111 »

In comments on this post, and elsewhere on other posts about AI, I see a lot of people referring to worries around the potential for lots of types of jobs to be heavily impacted by this technology.

I feel like people are often referring to 'coding' when they express these worries. You know, actually writing code, having been given a spec to do so, and perhaps also participating in code review, writing tests, all the usual engineer stuff.

My question is, amongst the HN crowd, what kinds of roles or areas do we think might be somewhat immune to this effect? The first thing that occurs to me are security, infrastructure & ops, networking. And of course the requirements gathering stage of software development. It is already the case that a lot of senior devs probably don't write much code and spend more time on communication between different stakeholders and overseeing whoever (or whatever) is writing the code.

Anyone else been thinking about this? What tech roles might thrive in the face of AI.

Re: TextSynth Server

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Post by Accacin »

jefc1111 wrote: post #44

In comments on this post, and elsewhere on other posts about AI, I see a lot of people referring to worries around the potential for lots of types of jobs to be heavily impacted by this technology. I feel like people are often referring to 'coding' when they express these worries. You know, actually writing code, having been given a spec to do so, and perhaps also participating in code review, writing tests, all the…

In my day job I work with TypeScript and React, and if I'm honest, I'm not worried at all. Why should I be? Automation is all around us, and has been for years.

The way I personally see it, is that AI such as ChatGPT is another tool in our arsenal that we as developers will have to figure out how it fits into our workflow. I think long term it will help us write better code, and in general be more productive. For example, less time trying to find answers hidden deep in Stack Overflow as we'll be able to get that information directly from ChatGPT.

I can completely see that some smaller places they might not require a developer and instead use ChatGPT to write code, but it still has to be verified and all the other processes around making that code "live", etc.

If anything I'd be more worried if I were a copywriter, as I think it's an under appreciated skill and companies may think they can get away with ChatGPT and a quick glance over the copy.

Either way, I'm positive and look for new ways to help me come a more productive and well-rounded programmer.

Re: TextSynth Server

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Post by rvz »

summarity wrote: post #2

> The GPU version is commercial software. Please contact... Shame.

"Shame. I cannot take the code / binary and run it as a SaaS efficiently." - HNers

Good for him to commercialize it, and at least he is not pretending to be a non-profit accepting VC money.

Re: TextSynth Server

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Post by tambourine_man »

hardwaresofton wrote: post #17

I've been feeling FOMO (for lack of a better term) about recent AI & ML/GPT progression. It feels like ML/AI it might be the beginning of the end for a large class of things (if I wanted to be alarmist I'd say "everything") -- and the fact that Fabrice Bellard has jumped in and done the absolutely obvious rising-tide thing (building an API that abstracts the technologies) speaks volumes. Releasing something like this…

Same here. I don't know if I retire or dive in deep. There's no really other way to sound other than alarmist.

This is the biggest revolution I've seen in my lifetime and it's going to make the PC, internet and smartphone a kids toy.

Re: TextSynth Server

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Post by DrewADesign »

yeahsure22 wrote: post #43
arvinsim wrote: post #22

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Hard to just "go with the flow" when your livelihood can be possibly threatened.

Well I’m sure that one guy will be able to change the course of history to suit his job situation. It’s going to happen so you had better go with the flow. Become water.

In the US, people's jobs effectively justify their existence. Smugly saying mid or late career professionals can "become water" when their entire career category faces collapse is the most patronizing thing I've heard in a long time. That's a non-recoverable blow to many smart, capable people. There's a big difference between demanding we stop the wheels of progress to protect a few people and saying we owe the masses being crushed by them some harm reduction. Of course society on a whole will profit. But, the rust belt shows that the platitude about people deemed professionally unnecessary just "figuring it out" merely comforts the people turning those wheels.

Re: TextSynth Server

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Post by hardwaresofton »

lynx23 wrote: post #20
hardwaresofton wrote: post #17

I've been feeling FOMO (for lack of a better term) about recent AI & ML/GPT progression. It feels like ML/AI it might be the beginning of the end for a large class of things (if I wanted to be alarmist I'd say "everything") -- and the fact that Fabrice Bellard has jumped in and done the absolutely obvious rising-tide thing (building an API that abstracts the technologies) speaks volumes. Releasing something like this…

Control freak, by any chance? Is it really so hard to just "go with the flow"?

sorry a bit late with my response, but original commenter here.

I'm not much of a control freak -- it's more when you see an credible posisble extinction event in the distance, don't you want to act?

And even if you didn't view it that grimly, isn't the ML stuff just SUPER cool? Trainable prediction engines are really amazing and very actually useful (feels like the first iteration was being able to recognize things in images, which felt like magic).

Going with the flow is awesome, but one thing I've found about life is that if you're not in the right flow, it's completely different. It's not like you have to be in the perfect stream, but you need one with fast moving water.

Imagine being 10 years late to computers or the last one in your area to get a typewriter.

I personally feel like I have to immerse myself in stuff to get it, and the lack of more than surface level understanding of ML is worrying with how big it could potentially be.

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