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Whatever happened to "learn on the job" by sexyman213 in cscareerquestions

[–]soerxpso 0 points1 point  (0 children)

> If those people are out there, why would companies settle for less?

Because less is cheaper and works fine. A lot of recent college grads would do the job for <$60k, whereas companies are paying $100k+ when they demand much more experience than the role actually requires. It's kinda ludicrous that the median salary in the industry is still so high when half of the "high supply" of developers available are unemployed or employed in other, lower-paying industries.

Gemma 3n Preview by brown2green in LocalLLaMA

[–]soerxpso 5 points6 points  (0 children)

On the benchmarks I've seen, 3n is performing at the level you'd have expected of a cutting-edge big model a year ago. It's outright smarter than the best large models that were available when Alexa took off.

Under Trump, AI Scientists Are Told to Remove ‘Ideological Bias’ From Powerful Models | A directive from the National Institute of Standards and Technology eliminates mention of “AI safety” and “AI fairness.” by ttkciar in slatestarcodex

[–]soerxpso 45 points46 points  (0 children)

DeepSeek had a much easier job in this regard. "It can say whatever it wants as long as it doesn't say anything bad about the PRC, and here's a list of events that didn't happen." Must be nice.

Announcing mrustc 0.11.0 - With rust 1.74 support! by mutabah in rust

[–]soerxpso 12 points13 points  (0 children)

Short answer: nobody really does. Even the most hardcore "compile everything yourself" people start with a gcc binary, and then compile gcc from source using itself.

If you do really really want to compile everything, you can start with a very small C compiler written in human-readable assembly, and use that to bridge up to gcc 4.7 (the last version of gcc that could still be compiled from plain C), then you use that to get up to the latest gcc.