HN: <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37301991>

WebLLM: Llama2 in the Browser

Hi I'm Jeremy. I'm building this site because I'm not satisfied with other online community type websites and their lack of innovation (see the /about page). The goal is to make a superior, more open, and more decentralized online community.

The site is still in early stages in active development (see the dev masterthread here: https://zsync.xyz/p/zsync-dev-update-masterthread)

Join us if this sounds interesting! Feel free to send me any feedback or reach out directly!

66% of Americans want European-style vacation policies, like being OOO for the entire month of August

It's clear that we're approaching the singularity, & most are drastically underestimating the impact that AI will have on society within the next couple years. Some predictions:

\- Humans will not be writing code by hand in a few years.

\- Workers will be expected to move "up the stack" of abstraction. Software engineers will be expected to be more high level product manager hybrids, serving more as technical business managers who delegate low level tasks to AI agents + cheap offshore workers

\- Rise in generalists. Expensive specialists are most at risk since AI democratizes knowledge + power

\- Gutting of the middle class, since most peoples' jobs are now very easy to automate

\- Rise in AI agents. Most of what you read online including on internet forums and in DMs, you won't be able to tell if it was written by a human or AI (already the case with recruiting). There is currently an arms race in AI agent development, the results of which we'll start seeing on society within the next 12 months.

\- The glory days of working in tech are over. Just like very other industry, it's only going to get more and more competitive. Salaries will at best remain stagnant. This is not specific to tech and will be the case for every industry. The industries most resilient will be those that require a human (eg. physical therapy)

The winners will be those who harness AI to their advantage, the losers will be everyone else.

I think most people are drastically underestimating the enormous impact that AI will have on society within even just the next 12 months. People are treating AI like a temporary fad or bubble, as if things will just return to the way they were before. But AI is not only here to stay, it's just getting started, and it's an arms race because everyone knows that AI will eat everything. Humans are terrible at understanding exponential growth, and most cannot comprehend how fast things are about to change.

Not trying to make this political - but I don't see any easier method of alleviating the hemorrhaging of the middle class than governments implementing a Universal Basic Income (UBI). Humans just cannot compete with a superintelligent autonomous AI that has parsed every book and document on the internet. We can continue to be in denial of this while our citizens suffer and overdose suicide to cope with the depression and bleak opportunities, or we can embrace AI and leverage it to free people to spend their time at their own leisure, moving society collectively up Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs. But given how blind and reactionary most people are to this kind of stuff, I don't predict anything changes until we reach a serious boiling point, so unfortunately billions will needlessly suffer in the meantime until the masses wake up to the cosmic societal shifts that are taking place as we speak.

<https://twitter.com/jeremybernier/status/1695350480388714605>

Implications of Approaching the Singularity

I made a tax calculator mainly for IT contractors in Poland.

IT professionals earn from 4k - 7k EUR/month in Poland, where the cost of living is quite low compared to other Western EU countries.

See how much of tax you would pay as an IT contractor in EU, Poland

HN: <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37250821>

Build a chatbot with custom data sources, powered by LlamaIndex

I really like this Japanese rap song, but you need to understand Japanese to appreciate it.

Basically the first verse is a kid on the playground talking about playing catch, his friends liking girls, and other childhood things. The chorus is him saying lets all play together forever, even when we're adults.

Second verse is a more grown adult in his 20s - talking about recording in the studio, having fun with his friends, on stage at the club, and "playing" everyday being his dream.

Final verse is a more grown adult in his 30s - talking about how time flies, his friends' jobs, those who've become fathers, others who've gained weight, and those who passed away (reference to his father who committed suicide when he was a kid) - saying one day they'll meet again.

The song is super nostalgic, I think especially for me since I actually spent some of my childhood in Japan.

It's a bit melancholic for me as well. There was a purity to childhood. But then after school you get thrust into the wild and have to make money. Some are able to make a living do what they love, but most can't - slaving away at jobs they have zero passion for for a paycheck (reminds me of this [classic Steve Cutts video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BsjwrA_Oo18)). After university it becomes exponentially harder to make friends (unless one makes a conscious effort to), connections drift apart, people get into serious relationships and drift even further apart. The carefreeness of childhood turns into responsibilities, work, bills, stress, kids, etc. "Playing" and socializing becomes less frequent, with social interactions more resembling "networking" or "what can you do for me", and serious, distant conversations.

Of course that's a pessimistic take. There are great things about being an adult as well, and ultimately life is what you make of it. I think it's common for people to say that their childhood years were their best. But I will not resign to my best years being in my past, and will always strive to live to the fullest even into old age - always trying to keep that childhood playfulness, carefreeness, and curiosity.

KOHH - 友達 (feat. LIL KOHH)

The Midnight is easily one of my favorites bands, and I love that 80s style sound with the saxophone. Thought I'd heard all their music but just discovered this, and of course on first listen I'm already hooked. It's like they make nothing but bangers.

Other songs by The Midnight that I love (off the top of my head)

- Light Years (my favorite song of theirs)
- Lost Boy
- Jason
- Comet
- Cold Pizza
- River of Darkness

Love The Midnight.

Clubhouse - Kyra (The Midnight Remix)

Another really nice Japanese melodic rap song I overheard on the streets here.

Video isn't so great though.

Bene Baby - Real Life

I'm in Japan and been hearing some [🔥 ](https://emojiterra.com/fire/)music

百足 & 韻マン - オオカミ

The following is my current go-to tech stack that powers my sites like [zsync.xyz](http://zsync.xyz) and [mindgarden.app](http://mindgarden.app)

Article: <https://www.jbernier.com/p?id=my-tech-stack>

Youtube video: <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dz4VIJkA59M>

Twitter: <https://twitter.com/jeremybernier/status/1692236854907789666>

My Tech Stack (2023)

HN: <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37148210>

LlamaGPT – Self-hosted, offline, private AI chatbot, powered by Llama 2

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100 Web3 Startups (by @mishadavinci)

HN: <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37137110>

Rama - Reducing the cost of building Mastodon at Twitter-scale by 100x

The dev of this is bloody amazing and this site is insanely nice and I really like it. If the dev wants I am more than happy to volunteer to be an admin/helper on here. 

Hello!

My favorite Asgeir song. A somber, haunting melody performed live and acoustic.

Asgeir - GOING HOME - Acoustic Session

I'm a guy who like does stuff or whatever

Super catchy, been stuck in my head all day (along with that Thai song). Looove the d&b style beat at 1:55, wish that part was way longer.

Less than 6k views.

She kind of sounds like Halsey

haer - wednesday

I needed to deploy a smart contract the other day with my hardware wallet and found the process way more convoluted than I expected, so I made this dead simple site: <https://www.deploysmartcontract.com/>.

This lets you take your compiled contract's ABI and bytecode (compiled with something like Remix, hardhat, truffle, Foundry, etc) along with your desired constructor arguments, and deploy via clicking a button that pops up Metamask. No coding required, but if you want to code, then the 3 lines of code you'd need are there too.

Yes [Remix ](https://remix.ethereum.org/)allows one to compile and deploy contracts via "Injected Provider - Metamask", but for whatever reason that's not working for me anymore and the "deploy" button is greyed out without any error message.

If you want to deploy it yourself with code, then it's literally just 3 lines of code in the browser with the ethers library (v5.7.2)

\`\`\`

const factory = new ethers.ContractFactory(abi, bytecode, signer);

const contract = await factory.deploy(...constructorArgs);

await contract.deployed();

\`\`\`

I use the hardhat npm library for compiling the contract, testing, and deploying locally. I just wasn't able to deploy with it using my hardware wallet (Trezor).

I'm surprised Metamask doesn't just have this feature directly in the interface (wait their UI/UX is pretty subpar, so I'm not surprised).

Yea the site is dead simple and nothing to call the newspapers about. I've been inspired by these ["boring" simple utility websites](https://twitter.com/staticmaker1) that rack in millions of views, and this was a case where I wanted something like this to exist, so I created it and felt it'd be worth the small time investment. Also I see it as a warmup for a grander idea I have. Stay tuned, and keep shipping...

I Made a One Page Website For Deploying Smart Contracts

Sweep is an open-source AI-powered junior developer. You describe a feature or bugfix in a GitHub issue and Sweep writes a pull request with code.

Demo Video: <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WBVna_ow8vo>

Sweep (YC S23) – A bot to create simple PRs in your codebase 

Meta Open Sources AudioCraft: Generative AI for Audio

This song is amazing and has been stuck in my head all day. Love the saxophone too.

Just discovered this duo last week and I love every song of theirs. It's been a long time since I've found an artist where I legitimately like every one of their songs. They don't miss.