skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So it sounds like this is a question of loading the model into VRAM, and not a question of the cost of a single query. I assume once a model is loaded, many queries can be serviced by that model quickly.

There's nothing incorrect about my assertion. If it were to actually take many GPUs to service one query, then there is no mass scale cost viable consumer product. That's just a clear economic fact. Regardless if a model could be theoretically spun up in a cost inefficient manner.

And even 100s of GB of VRAM is not far off from consumer hardware. Look at how quickly graphics ram has expanded over time. About ~10x in ~10 years for high end cards, at a cursory glance at various Nvidia cards. At the same trajectory we could see a 400GB vram card within the next decade (though lots of assumptions)
I really liked “Excursions in Modern Mathematics” and “The Shape of Space”.

Not the most technical — but really influenced how I thought about mathematics.
Differential and Integral Calculus (Volumes 1 & 2) – Nikolai Piskunov

Not as colorful and attractive but the adage "do not judge a book by its cover" applies so well to this masterpiece. With brief and precise explanations and high quality exercises with solutions, I went from struggling to getting A+
I wouldn't lie to you!
It worked. I got them about an hour ago, plugged them in and they immediately worked as a mirrored monitor. I decided to run Nebula, which attempted upgrade, upgrade failed on step 2. Running nebula again didn't prompt for upgrading again, neither after reinstall. I searched around online and found a link to this page which when used in chrome allowed me to install/patch the latest.

Since then, I've run it in triple monitor mode, and normal mode, both as an extra monitor and as a mirror. Some odd things I noticed, if you dont have it situated on your nose correctly, the corners can be fuzzy. Also, I played a game with the settings turned all the way up and the framerate in the glasses was better than the m2's laptop screen itself, which was odd, considering I can run multiple games at the same time with browser tabs etc no problem, so the glasses are doing something apple isn't. one button on the right side turns off the display so you can see in front of you, another button does nothing that I can tell. the audio is very quiet, and seems to come from in your head near your ears.

some things I dont like are that these glasses sit a bit in front of your face, so there is some light bleed, which considering how bright these are means nothing since they're transparent for no reason at all. You will have a hard time seeing whats behind the brightness when your display is turned on. I stood in front of a 70 inch TV at full brightness, and what I see in the glasses is the same as what I see at 5 feet of distance.

One note about nebula, there is some jitter, like the movement of typing. Luckily there is a setting that allowed me to anchor the zero point of where my head is because when I first ran it I was sitting upward, and once the virtual screens launched, I leaned back in my chair and the monitors didnt follow my head. A way to 'pin' the displays would be cool if you want to be in static mode or gyro mode.

By the comments other people left, I thought the experience would be lackluster, and the first 5 seconds having it on were fairly underwhelming, but these are pretty great. I can code in them just fine, play games just fine, virtual monitors just fine, everything they said they'd be has been fine. I want to try the realtime subtitles next, since I have a relative who can't hear for shit and this would be a gamechanger, though they'd have a hard time seeing through the display unless they were in bright daylight.

Oh, also it was shipped in the box itself, like a retail box you'd buy headphones in, with a label slapped on it. The box is well made to withstand a ginger toss by a delivery driver on to the concrete. Prepare yourself though, the parts are anchored to the box and everything comes flying out if you dont start off from the goal of just trying to disassemble the whole box. I assumed the initial flap you open will let you remove things, but each step and removal of each object requires you disassemble some other part of the packaging. Best just take the whole box apart.
I dunno, I'd like to see if GPT agrees with the author's assessment of what their code does.
Ask HN: How do you keep track of your medical history?
We've all had to fill out forms that ask about our medical history. As I age, I realize that remembering the specifics is getting increasingly hard. I have a bunch of hints about the miscellaneous appointments I've made scattered around 10 different digital health record systems. I can sometimes piece together a good enough history with a little effort, but it would be good to have a personal, secure place to store all the names, appointments, procedure names, and maybe even imaging.

Does anybody have a solution better than racking your brain or emacs org mode (which would be an improvement for me)? It looks like 1Password has some basic functionality for this, but I haven't used it yet. What's your approach to solving this problem right now?
I like their pizza, though.
Passwordless Deployments to the Cloud
Just imagine how i feel, i read the comments here because you guys tend to be fairly leftie ranging to too far leftie for me while leaning more libertarian to the point that you guys mostly get why individual liberty is the most important part of a high functioning society. That usually means i get the best version of the argument i disagree with while keeping the collectivist i sanity to a dull roar. Only finding out now that i have been doing conservatism wrong by not also holding white people in high regard has been jarring......
The Pull of Cities
> government cheese

TIL.

See also: council juice
You’re not required to any more, but there are heaps of people on annuities there.

I haven’t read anything about it yet but a lot of them must be in pretty awkward straits because most aren’t fully indexed to inflation…
Where are "human rights being treated as being up for debate"?
There was no exchange rate conversion. In my case they received the exact amount in USD.
A car grants immense liberty to the individual. It would be antithetical to have cars in the world of 1984, where the state must control every aspect of your life.
While I have seen a lot of it on the site, dang seems pretty willing to push back directly in a comment, or hellban such users (or uphold the hellbanning on review, I don't know how much is automatic).
I disagree and I'm a user.

Buttons and toggles along the right margin and text on the left works for me. I prefer to read first what I'm turning on or off.
Pretty sure, yeah. My tax forms have always been filled in for me because the government already knows what I earned from what company. It's why doing taxes takes five to ten minutes every year. With income tax held back automatically by the employer and VAT and other tariffs added directly to the store price, I've never had to think about this stuff.

It's possible that I may have dodged a few dollars of taxes when buying crap out of China when they put a fake bill in the outside to dodge import taxes, but I don't believe there's a way for a consumer to manually pay those once the package has crossed the border undetected. These days they've changed the system, though, so I don't think it would happen again.
>What do you use bookmarks for?

Mostly to keep up a digital backlog to rival the stack of books next to my desk.

Occasionally for reference in searching as they're sorted by topic and google search has steadily become wrestling with the algorithm for relevant results.
Never swallow 2. One is not a problem. Two is a medial emergency.
I have the opposite problem. Almost no one I follow on twitter is on mastodon. But I really hate the first party client and all the toxic “trending items” for engagement.
I don't think that works here. The editor is supposed to be able to access other files.
> racism, misogyny, antisemitism, conspiracy theory, elitism, aggressively ignorant hot takes and toxicity

A lot of people might say the same about America. And many people in America would view that with consternation.

It’s ironic, because I’d bet many of the people tarring everyone on HN with the same brush would be the first to resent being lumped together with their fellow citizens.
Yes...after you submit a form asking why you were denied boarding, as was stated in the opening paragraph. You don't get notified automatically when you are put on the list.
The system is imperfect, but how do you design a better system?

It's easy to design a system that prevents the flagging in this particular case, but will it be better overall?

I feel that it's quite inevitable in a community like HN for this theory to get flagged. It's undesirable, but the alternative is worse.

Why? Because at its core, the HN community is a polite, considerate one. We try to apply the charitable interpretation when possible.

The postings about the lab-leak theory could be interpreted in a charitable way too, but unfortunately, the lab-leak theory has a dark undercurrent: "China is bad". Of course, lots of people on HN are smart enough to understand that the lab leak was a joint China-US fiasco (of stupendous proportions). But they also understand that these nuances will be lost in translation. "China bad" is the only thing that comes out.

For more than half a year there were numerous attacks on Asian people in the US. This was not just a theoretical exercise, it resulted in actual hate in the US.

So flagging the lab-leak postings was in line with the HN's tendency to go for the charitable interpretation.
Intermediate Fucker reporting for duty.
> Can these models feasibly be run locally?

Actually you can, it even works without GPU, here's a guide on running BLOOM (the open-source GPT-3 competitor of similar size) locally: https://towardsdatascience.com/run-bloom-the-largest-open-ac...

The problem is performance:
- if you have GPUs with > 330GB VRAM, it'll run fast
- otherwise, you'll run from RAM or NVMe, but very slowly - generating one token every few minutes or so (depending on RAM size / NVMe speed)

The future might be brighter: fp8 already exists and halves the RAM requirements (although it's still very hard to get it running), and there is ongoing research on fp4. Even that would still require 84GB of VRAM to run...
_Mathematics for the Million_ by Lancelot Hogben.
Interesting hack, but this seems quite the brazen confession to a fair number of computer crimes. If I were the author, I'd be worried about getting arrested and potentially extradited for this. Especially as he deliberately downloaded a load of confidential information after gaining access, and then shared it around. He'd be looking at years in prison for this, in the US.
GitHub was like "I wish I could use code repo like Facebook?"
Even touching it for extended periods of time can be toxic though.
Escape is traditionally distinguished from an escape code by a timeout: if no more characters arrive within some small number of milliseconds, then it was the user pressing escape and not the start of an escape sequence. No new solution to that “problem” is really necessary.

Likewise, programs don’t really need to know if the terminal supports an extended set of key combinations, because they can just react to them if they arrive. If they don’t arrive, then either the terminal doesn’t support that feature or the user didn’t type that key combination; either way the program needs to do nothing.

As for modifiers, good look finding a keyboard that supports more than the basic four. No need for xterm to go out on a limb and support something you can’t use anyway.

And who cares about num lock and caps lock? I’ve never seen any program care what state they were in. Well, GDM does warn you if capslock is on during a password prompt, but that is very niche.

Terminals have never operated on scan codes, so keyboard layouts are irrelevant. The application doesn’t really care what button you pressed to get a Q, just that you typed a Q.

Likewise there has never been support for key release events on terminals. I suppose it’s useful for games, but in most other situations the user will have autorepeat configured and that will handle it.

Why should xterm go out on a limb and invent a scheme that tries to cover every possible future need, even needs that are not in evidence? Better to implement something simpler that just covers what is actually needed. It can always be extended later.
This started when people discovered they could style <input type=checkbox> to look like a switch with pure CSS. (And, as a component library author, I can confirm it continues because we, perhaps lazily, don’t bother implementing the slide.)
Going back to your original post:

>Anyone who doesn't have the capacity to accept being called any pronoun has a mental health problem.

By this metric the vast majority of humanity has a mental health problem, and you're an exception. Most cis, het men do not like to be called she or a girl.
I personally recall the GPIO benchmarks you're talking about, and I seem to remember it being related to the CPU itself and nothing to do with Linux.

Its not very hard to go into "Realtime" priority and force your processes to use up 100% of the CPU's power in Linux. If you need the _WHOLE_ CPU, then you can forcibly grab it as long as you're root.
How badly is bad? What sort of output are we talking?

I am asking as I once had a Markov-chain IRC bot* and while it often struggled to string together a sentence, it was quite hilarious sometimes. Absolutely pointless other than the occasional laugh.

Can it form sentences or are those small models completely unusable for anything?

I'm not thinking OpenAI level uses - sort of compare a Postgres cluster to a SQLite file (not literally, conceptually I guess). Can it be used for single tasks in any way?

Could it figure out how to map search terms to URLs for a knowledge base type thing?

Forgive me if these are silly questions. The extent of my knowledge in this field is asking ChatGPT questions and going "that's so cool" when it answers.

* Your phone's predictive text except it finishes the sentence itself based on a word someone in chat used so that it felt on topic.

In my case it also learned how to form sentences from other people talking in chat, in hindsight it's amazing I never had a Tay issue.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tay_(bot)
But that's the wrong thing. The problem is not that EDITOR must be a program, but (apparently) that they're parsing the expansion of EDITOR (along with other stuff) to figure out what file to operate on.
I’ve been really impressed by your ability to share your project in entirely relevant threads recently. Hope that doesn’t sound snarky, because I actually mean it. Awesome project. Keep on.
In 20 years I'll still be alive and enjoying myself. Does 20 years seem long to you?
As the divide gets more extreme (between GDP per capita numbers and reality), I think we’ll soon have a “Quality of Life” kind of an index.

You can have a high salary in country A, but live in a small studio, eat shit-food and have to take a crappy metro for work.

Or you can take a much lower salary, live in a nice 2-Br apartment, eat at nice restaurants and take a new nice metro for work, and still be able to afford a car.

You’d need $120k/year to afford 1 in New York, and $30k/year to afford 2 in Kuala Lumpur.
Singular-they constructions have been in English for literally hundreds of years.
Seriously. Where are you thinking of going, comrade?
This is becoming less true over time.
I just had one today that had the last char of a field as '\', which escaped the closing quote and then munged the column count from there.
You really are like a chatbot... look at the last three node sizes and the density of ram in them. It's not gonna happen as fast as you dream about it especially not with the discounts of the last Gens. The hope is to go to fp4 if you want to run it on consumer hardware and we are still not talking to about 2-3 cards. Why not at least try to Google before hammering down on stupid and uninformed hot takes?
People could donate before Amazon Smile existed why would that increase now it's gone? I'm sure many people like the ease of donating through this program.

Finally the last part of your comment is so disturbing.

"I doubt the average customer looks much into if what they do with the money even aligns with their own vision of a better world."
I wouldn't be surprised if he gets added to the list as well after pulling this stunt.
There are loads of British satellites. It's actually a significant industry. However here we are discussing a UK launch of satellite.
Twenty years ago running a local newspaper was an incredible business to be in.

You almost had a monopoly on advertising within the geographic area that you served. If a company wanted to reach people in Wilmington, Delaware their best bet by far was to buy ads in (I just looked it up) "The News Journal".

You could afford to hire a lot of reporters.

Online advertising - first Craigslist, which chomped up the classifieds section, and then Google and Facebook, which provided access to your audience with better metrics and lower rates - means that business model doesn't really work any more.

Newspapers still haven't found a model that comes anywhere close to replacing that.
Tell HN: These Are Tough Times
I was looking in my old email account and enjoyed seeing the liveliness of communication in old comms from companies like HortonWorks, Firebase, Whatsapp. Firstly, I feel communications with recruiters is so cold now (e.g, hello, yes the interview works, ok you've been rejected/move on to next round) and two I feel like silicon valley eight to tweleve years ago was a much friendlier place. I don't feel the same appeal from startup names now as companies like Klout, etc. carried back then - maybe each company is working on a little smaller niche of the industry, maybe I've gotten too old to appreciate crypto, but it was nice seeing how enthusiastic, hopeful, and happy silicon valley was a decade a go.
I would be more concerned about housing.
I switched political parties and became a Democrat after watching The Grapes of Wrath. I realized I was on the wrong side.

I asked ChatGPT a question

Q: Why was The Grapes of Wrath banned in some parts of America?

A: The Grapes of Wrath, a novel by John Steinbeck, was banned in some parts of America due to its depiction of the struggles of migrant workers during the Great Depression and its criticism of capitalist society. Some people found the book to be controversial and offensive, and some even accused Steinbeck of being a communist. Additionally, the book was banned in some areas because it was believed to be obscene or inappropriate for certain readers.
The people who are going to die in the aftermath are going to be those who don't have any plan to play nice with others. The only practical survival strategy since the dawn of the human species has been the rapid establishment of as large a tribe as possible.

Which is to say: the guy who decides to sit in place on a pile of resources is already dead, it's just a matter of when: if you're not establishing relations and trade, then you're just delaying the inevitable.
Feels so backwards to me.

I’m much happy driving an expensive car to grocery shop and taking groceries home to my nice house to cook. I’m amazed how much money you can piss away with stupid purchases that never even make you smile.

I smile every time I get in my car and make better coffee than Starbucks anyway.
isn't "Be-J" the tipoff?
How much of this is the language vs the vast amount of passably accurate domain knowledge? ChatGPT etc. seem magic because they can answer questions about virtually anything with a high degree of plausibility. It often gets specific facts wrong, but the general contours are correct. Many of us know a lot of trivia/specialist knowledge, but I don't think anyone is as broadly informed as ChatGPT appears to be. It's not clear where the language ends and the encyclopedic knowledge starts, but the latter must be taking up a very large amount of the space in the model.
Algae. It's a mixture of https://www.carolina.com/invertebrates/water-bear-tardigrade... and https://www.carolina.com/algae/chlorella-living/152069.pr

Then I use a special tool (really just a mouth tube that has a glass tube at the end) to single tardigrade to a glass-bottom petri dish that goes into the scope. I take movies, then label ~hundreds of frames manually with "tardigrade" "algae" and "junk" then fine-tune an existing object detector with those frames. The centroid of the object detection provides the direction to move the stages to center the detected object.

The other mode is fast scanning, which I described above (move the camera continuously over a large field of view, pulsing the LED quickly/periodically and dropping any empty frames).

(at work I get to play with grown-up microscopes and they are another class entirely; precision machines with extraordinary capabilities and price tags to match)
Barthes tends to render me vacuous with his literary/semiotic reverberations. But in the same lineage of thinking, you might find Foucault's "What is an Author?" (1969)[1] interesting.

1. https://www.open.edu/openlearn/pluginfile.php/624849/mod_res...
Well, this comment escalated quickly. To that point:

- Who are the elites you’re discussing? Characterize them however you prefer, but please do characterize them so we understand what you mean.

- In what ways does fueling personal automobiles with electricity and batteries impact freedom of movement versus other fuels?

- How is this aggressive given efforts to mainstream electric vehicles have gone on for a majority of the decades you call an anomaly?

- Sincerely, when you say “digital centralized controls”, I don’t understand whether you mean the trend of replacing physical buttons with touchscreens, or some implied more nefarious plot. Can you clarify that?

- You acknowledge people are experiencing climate change right? I’m sure I’m not misinterpreting this, but giving you an opportunity to clarify that as well in case I’ve misunderstood.

- Given climate change, assuming I got you right, how would you prefer they react versus the problems you’ve identified?
"This sounds really interesting. I definitely want to read it. But it is so long I don't want to read it now. I'll read it later, definitely!"
Sure, but there were many examples of personal transportation vehicles in Star Wars.

Luke’s family had one and they seemed pretty poor.
Cooking, fermenting, slicing, indeed we externalized our digestion far and wide.
> 2-3 high end GPUs implies it's likely not very far off from mainstream

Looks like FLOP/s per $ are doubling every ~3 years for high end cards, and 10x in ~10 years. So probably not that far off for desktop users.

https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/c6KFvQcZggQKZzxr9/trends-in-...