skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think you should read up on this a little bit as your assumptions are not totally correct, and if you're using queues understanding this theory is pretty important and will save you some headaches.

Queues are either growing (adding items) or getting smaller (consuming items). There is not a state where they stay the same length, unless you're doing something really weird like monitoring to make sure there are always 10 items in the queue, or something, and adding if that number drops, but then you'd need a second queue-type structure to support that, and the conversation kind of goes off the rails.
still, with 99% of the available hardware without RT capabilities, someone has to handle it somehow, so the pitch in any way was pure marketing gymnastics at best
>the average user sees it as nothing more than a glorified blue icon to immediately download what has become your direct competitors far more competent and meaningful execution of browser software.

One of the marketing style slagging quote, "Internet Explorer. The most used browser to download another browser." I remember the first time a buddy said that to me, and it has aged oh so well.
> I don't get it, so it's OK for government to hide its fees but not the business?

Other way round; the bill would make it mandatory to include all fees except the government's fees.
> average player with a $1600 GPU would use it 10% of the time.

Average driver uses car <5% of the time, but you can't replace 20 cars with 1 uber if everyone needs to get to work at 9 am
I also selfhost a lot. For me it's mainly a hobby. I have a fiber connection and an old laptop that now functions as a Ubuntu server. Laptops are nice because it means it can easily endure brief power outages.

I run everything in Docker images with a single docker-compose.yml. For 99% of the folks more than sufficient and way less complex than Kubernetes. I use Caddy as a reverse proxy. Configuration is dead simple and it has auto SSL certificate renewal. Certificates are just there, you don't even need to think about it. I run it together with Authelia so that I can shield web services behind a 2FA SSO login portal. Now I can securely access my personal web services without the need for VPN.

Some things I selfhost: Nextcloud, Adguard, Gitea, Drone (local CI/CD runner, love it), VPN, Samba server, Jellyfin, a few websites, etc.
I want to emphasize how fascinating I find that the transform from 16 bit to a 4 bit quantization results in negligible performance loss. That's huge. Is the original FP16 not compressed?

The allowance for this more granular quantization seems to suggest the "bottleneck" is in some other aspect of the system, and maybe until that is addressed, a higher fidelity quantization does not improve performance.

Or maybe it's the relative values/ratio between weights that is important, and as long as the intended ratio between weights can be expressed, the exact precision of the weights themselves may not be important?

Found an interesting paper on this below. There's doubtless heavy research underway in this area

- https://www.researchgate.net/publication/367557918_Understan...
> I couldn't figure out if I was supposed to be chasing down Apple Metal or OpenCL backends.

If you want cross-platform compatibility (kinda), go for OpenCL, if you want the best performance go for Metal. Both use a very similar language for kernels, but Metal is generally more efficient.

> Have you had any luck?

Not in ML, but I'm doing a lot of GPGPU on Metal, I recently started doing it in Rust. A bit less convenient than with Swift/Objective-C, but still possible. Worst case you'll have to add an .mm file and bridge it with `extern "C"`. That said, doing GPGPU is not doing ML, and most ML libraries are in Python.

> I also got confuses as to whether a 'shader' was more for the visual GPU output of things, or if it was also a building block for model training/networks/machine learning/etc.

A shader is basically a function that runs for every element of the output buffer. We generally call them kernels for GPGPU, and shaders (geometry, vertex, fragment) for graphics stuff. You have to write them in a language that kinda looks like C (OpenGL GLSL, DirectX HSL, Metal MSL), but is optimized for the SMT properties of GPUs.

Learning shaders will let you run code on the GPU, to do ML you also need to learn what are tensors, how to compute them on the GPU, and how to build ML systems using them.

I recommend ShaderToy [0] if you want a cool way to understand and play with shaders.

[0]: https://www.shadertoy.com/
Out of curiosity, why aren't we crowd sourcing distributed training of LLMs where anyone can join by bringing their hardware or data? Moreover find a way to incorporate this into a blockchain so there is full transparency but also add in differential privacy to protect every participant.

Am I being too crazy here?
This may be a flawed approach, but an interesting idea would be to use the current models as a preprocessor to generate a huge "labelled" dataset of inputs and outputs, and then using that more accurate and specific data to train a smaller one that would fit.

It likely wouldn't have nearly as much general knowledge since the data just wouldn't be there but the behaviour could be similar?
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No, because they're already taking that into account.

>Metric: generation throughput (token/s) = number of the generated tokens / (time for processing prompts + time for generation).

(Though they're doing batching, so this is an unfair comparison. Would be interesting to get single batch speed.)
This is very interesting. Could you please elaborate and maybe share links to articles if you know of any?
Microsoft only cares about legacy support if it means the vast majority of customers. I will give you an example: go to a top tier research institution for biology, and sort your cells with the fluorescence-activated cell sorter (FACS). You might have to now burn that data onto a cd rom, because the software running the six figure instrument was written in 2002 for windows XP, and for reasons only known to microsoft, this software is no longer able to run on modern windows. So now IT has to airgap the desktop sitting by the machine, and the only way they let you get data off according to policy is through CD rom, not usb because that breaches the gap. The vendor for the instrument has no incentive to update that software either; they'd rather you dish out another half million dollars for a new sorter.

There are hundreds of instruments like this in any given research institute, all because Microsoft decided unilaterally that software that ran fine 20 years ago is clearly useless and doesn't need to run anymore on modern hardware that receives security updates.
> and from the practice of software development and its commercial and industrial deployment. More specifically, the philosophy of computer science considers the ontology and epistemology of computational systems, focusing on problems associated with their specification, programming, implementation, verification and testing.

Well, Stanford doesn't have a clue what Computer Science is and isn't and is apparently trying to drum up admissions with slick, sexy and false advertising.

CS has zero to do with computers (with the exception of the computer scientist themselves, they are the computer), and it certainly isn't programming. It's math, you fools!
Very different systems, very different safety nets, and non-trivial language barriers.

Yeah you can move wherever but you're not eligible for benefits, and the hiring managers want to know you speak fluent $LANGUAGE and have the right certifications from whatever credentialing system exists there.

Common currency and regulatory standards, but it's not like you're just moving from Spain to Poland, at least not without serious hurdles.
People who've already wasted time getting to the point where they can see the fees, and are confident that all your competitors do the same thing anyway, aren't likely to bail over them.

That's probably the most accurate way to state the "preference".
I suspect if hanging out was as fulfilling as the author suggested, people would be doing it more.

I just know from experience, more often than not, I walk away from a hangout feeling worse than before.

Things like walking groups are great, but more often than not hangouts seem to be based around an activity that is as unhealthy as possible (staying up late, drinking, smoking, eating shit food) and the social interaction is pretty surface level.
Had a good laugh - thanks for the creativity. Sometimes I used to get career advice on reddit and that’s exactly the type you find there. Now I am more cautious.
In Norway all real estate listings have an "energy classification" as one of the main data points. Example from a random listing I pulled up: https://imgur.com/a/0M9cNad

Of course, most people haven't cared that much about it. But it's changing with higher energy prices. I had a friend regretting buying something with grade F, for same square meters he pays like 10x the amount for heating than I do in my C apartment. (scale from A..G)
Have you tried training a large model before? If not, you're probably discounting how difficult and expensive it is.
Everything you need to know about Helm
This is a nice little overview that is not afraid of being opinionated.

It leaves out some of the affordances that CF Pages, Vercel and Netlify provide. (Discussed as option 1 in the article). Those are of course moving targets that provide more stuff every few months.
I agree, but I'm also certain that using an AI writer will actually teach you to write better - like with art generators, you still need to look at the result and recognize it as good/better, and you form your taste by iterating.

I'm thinking about this from a McLuhanesque perspective, i.e. how the medium will shape the user, and in this case learning to write by going through large amounts of generated writing is just a more efficient way than the regular way (reading, getting own output graded, etc.).
These are all optional - you don't have to pay them if you don't use those services. They wouldn't be affected by this bill.

"Resort fees" or "amenity fees" are not optional. Even if you don't use the services in those fees, you still have to pay them. Those are what are being clamped down on.
Ask HN: Any startups focusing on US non-immigrants?
With the recent layoffs (that hurt H-1B visa & GC status) and the long waiting for the US Visa interview appointments in the countries like India & Canada, it seems, there are barriers to entry into the US and maintaining the status. Are they any startups, especially from non-immigrants, that address these pain points?
You could enter an http address into File Explore in place of the C:\ nonsense, and it would replace the folder view contents with the website. See, embedded at the core. /s
It’s hard to understand the need for the coverup .. wouldn’t they still own the gold anyway?
Yes, and if you replace "uranium enrichment" with "teddy bears" it's a bedtime story for kids. That argument makes no sense.
No they haven't. Stability AI is funded by the founder and VC money, not crowdsourcing.
Is that what makes you nervous, or is unexamined social anxiety making you nervous? Because it sounds like you're suggesting that, if you and 10 friends are hanging out down some forest service road in the woods, one of them might trip on a rock and decide to sue you... does that sound particularly likely?
Especially since a bad actor doesn't have to care about edge cases and not hurting people. Maybe it has to do with risk? The cost of replacing an airplane and the pilots are probably much higher than repling a and its operators.

Also with tanks you still have to bring them relatively close to where you're planning on using them whereas an airplane can cover much bigger distances.
There is the Open Assistant project: https://github.com/LAION-AI/Open-Assistant

There is also EleutherAI (https://www.eleuther.ai/about/) with GPT-NeoX (https://github.com/EleutherAI/gpt-neox).
A key value is that larger cars are worse in every single accident avoidance situation. Braking distances are longer in the dry and much longer in the wet, moose test results are often failed by large SUVs, rollover risks are higher, and general vehicle visibility is worse. A Toyota RAV4 for example has a stopping distance (in ideal situations) of 135ft. A Camry stops 15 feet quicker. Interestingly, the Hybrid RAV4 Prime with eco-focused tires stops up to 12 feet further than the base RAV4.

This isn't all due to SUVs of course, a Volvo XC40 does it in a stunning 110ft. But cheap tires and small brake packages harm SUVs worse.
If we're including languages that have no intention of being compiled, there's also TCL and Python 2
https://www.sfexaminer.com/news/education/another-sf-middle-...
Let's hope thats all, as that is super understandable. Of course, I could see them trying to inject into the model as well...
I do think the government purpose is to serve it's population and society.

But I also think that it is business's purpose to serve society as well. At some point we moved away from that.

We used to have companies that would donate to the school library or to fund school technology programs. Now, some of that was rooted in the idea that they would need workers in the future so this was part of the pipeline but it was also building society. (You still do see companies donating money to sports programs, for their banner to be displayed)

Currently companies are all complaining about the lack of X, yet are they funding training for X? No, we expect workers to come in fully trained and ready to go.

Looking beyond that, companies are willing to up and shift counties in order to save money but that has effects on the local economy.
If you buy something in one state and drive it to another then you’re supposed to be taxes based on the destination when you “import” it.

If you sell to Missouri, you pay Missouri tax. It’s not actually complicated. I’m not sure what you’re trying to solve?
Microsoft makes it their problem by rug pulling IE
There was some discussion two days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34845954
An article about therapies under development before they reach the market would absolutely fit on HN while being ignored by news outlets.

I guess that article would be titled, "The coming end of Type 1"
Show HN: Forte, an open-source self-hosted music platform with lots of features
Hey everyone, I've made a project to make your own music archive streamable and turn it into a complete music platform. The reason I've been working on this project for a while was to stream the CD's I've had at home without any cost and also make a nice looking system to manage and listen to these albums.

You can host your own server and use the web player to connect. Also, it is possible to create users and give them access to your own server.

Some features of the current release are group sessions, endless listening with radio, fuzzy searches, showing lyrics and specialized context menus.

This was the first biggest project I've made using Vue.js and I am open to any suggestions. Feel free to leave a comment. I really appreciate your support!

GitHub Repo: https://github.com/kaangiray26/forte

Web Player: https://forte.buzl.uk/
A good reason to revive an old habit: giving every web site a different email address. Easy enough when you own the domain; just monitor the catchall.

I used to do it to be able to shut down inboxes that spammers got a hold of. I kinda stopped doing that when spam filters got good enough. But with this, I'd know who was the real target because the email address would tie it to the specific site.
Just make sure it's written in Rust, uses a Sveltekit frontend and <some other buzzwords I can't remember right now>.
I'm saddened to learn that it is no longer opened to the public, but wanted to say thank you for sharing these photos. It makes me want to learn more about our industry's history.

What a truly handsome set of machines and I hope they find their way to another venue or become accessible to the public once more.
> But is it practical as an operating system for day to day use [...]?

It was never meant to be. Just like UNIX initially, it was a research operating system. UNIX turned out to be an accidental runaway success, and many of Plan9's greatest ideas (like synthetic filesystems, bind/union mounts, its threading library, the 9p protocol, etc) found their way to more "practical" systems.

It also did have a commercial counterpart in Inferno (mostly finding use in products like telephone switches). But nowadays both remain mostly as toys for enthusiasts. You can get work done, if you're patient enough, and have the freedom to ignore things like Zoom calls or Excel files.
Yes, I can easily convince my boss this is worth done some money too...
Exactly. I think a lot of people in this thread don't understand they "aren't saving money by doing it this method but are adding a delay" with their complicated auto scaling worker setup lol
Consider that for your use-case the state is likely to be small enough that you could simply serialize the state and base64 encode it, and add it to the url.

Other than that, I'd self-host it, either on a cheap VPS or just a rasperry pi in the closet, this way you avoid thinking about all the cloud stuff and won't be surprised by some massive bill because something went wrong, writing a backend in nodejs will feel very familiar to you if you've already used javascript or typescript before. For storing the state, it depends how much data you expect.. I'd see how far I could go with just keeping an object in memory and serializing that to a text-file.. or you could use sqlite with nodejs, then you don't need to administer a separate piece of software, it can simply be a nodejs module.
> It's not pretty, but it's zero maintenance. I've been doing that for 10 years now, and I don't think I'd ever go back to a third-party dependency.

SSG is third-party dependency in one way.
I want to self-host a public site because I can be fully in control of the stack. It gives satisfaction to distribute a website to the entire world without depending on third parties other than your utilities company and internet connection. It's fun and I learn a lot from it. But from a business perspective, your solution is ofcourse better, just not as fun.
Aren't we getting close to where somebody reading this forum has quite tech savvy grandparents yet? When will this "someone's grandparent" trope just retire too?
For me, this was WSL2's virtual machine and (IIRC) not the default bridge network, but the next one created by docker-compose.
It's entirely possible for both sides of a war to be the bad guys.

I don't know how many, if any, of the charges that have been levied against Ukraine are true, but given the history of the US, we should know better than to assume that we are on the right side, or that we are being told the whole truth.

And we obviously aren't being told the real reason for the war. If torturing people, invading another country, and firing missiles at civilians were sufficient reason to oppose another country, we wouldn't support the Saudis.
> These are all optional - you don't have to pay them if you don't use those services. They wouldn't be affected by this bill

I was responding to the comment about what the airlines' base price includes - at least here on this side of the pond, the base price is for safe travel (with a small carry-on bag) from A to B, and if that's all you want, it's all you need to pay.
You wouldn't need to re-train from scratch for that, just fine-tune on the new data sources. I don't think constant re-training is the optimal strategy for that use-case anyway. Bing does it by letting the LLM search a more traditional web index to find the information it needs.
> jigging with the bacteria's Na+K+-ATPase pump

I was kind of hoping you'd have come back to contest, because the inhalation of sodium is a topical application to recruit T Helper 17 cells to a site, even though that topical application happens to be the lungs.

Ironically those people inhaling salt would probably be better off inhaling sodium bicarbonate because the bicarbonate will invariably through some localised chemical changes increase co2, and when co2 levels get to 1000-5000ppm in the lungs, the recruitment of immune cells increase.
This looks fantastic! I was going to mess about with Picocms but going to try this instead in conjunction with either Caddy or a spare shared hosting I’ve got laying around. And for the composing I will either tack on staticcms, or spin up a fly.io instance of stackedit (which I will push my md’s/edits from there to GitHub and bearclaw). You were trying to keep things simple and here I go trying to complexify it lol..

I’ll try to remember to let you know how it turns out after I get it all going..
Does this work with back button high jacking that is so common?
And if the POS systems made you feel like a bit of a cheapskate before, they sure made you feel like one in 2020/2021 comfortably working at home while young service workers were pouring coffee or flipping burgers.
I only write tests in two situations:

1) mission critical parts of my system that will cause damage if they break

2) small functions that I can't wrap my head around (eg some complex regex extraction)

Everything else can be fixed fast with minimal damage as it comes up. My test coverage is less than 1%.
Being a republic has nothing whatsoever to do with being a democracy. They are orthogonal concepts.
My take would be that once you are dead, you no longer have any say, but that is probably a minority position. I would like to see copyright shortened way up though. He died over 30 years ago now.
It's because nobody actually has trouble understanding what "free" means in these contexts except the same small percentage of morons one can get to say any dumb thing one wishes to find someone saying, and people pretending not to understand it on Internet forums to passive-aggressively make a very stupid point.

Everyone else gets it. You're not preaching some great message to the sheeple, you're just making noise.
I'd try a ~$5 Hetzner cloud server with SurrealDB. SurrealDB offers GraphQL and REST endpoints, also SDKs.
I’m fine with this solution, families can use a break in modern America. But if airlines had said from the beginning that bookings with a child under 12 are not eligible for basic economy, it’d hard to see what’s unfair about that.
Another thing to keep in mind is that (unlike stackoverflow, wolframalpha and such) this tool is going to evolve dramatically over mere months.

I'm not sure universities are structured to deal with such a rapid rate of change.
How does Ivermectin compare in efficacy and side-effects vs. wormwood, black walnut, tea tree oil, oregano oil and cloves?
That the easiest solution is to have "tax not included" on the price of the item. If you buy it in MO and import it to another state, that is tax added on to the overall price of the item that is "hidden". Trying to put that on the sticker price gets complicated.

I am not saying there's an easy solution but rather a "the easy solution misses every complicated case for which there are many."
Your parent meant _some_ people end up purchasing nothing, when the initial price shown is higher.

Basically the top of the funnel is more price sensitive than after they have already progressed a bit towards the purchase.
There’s literally a whole section covering if CS should be considered math, engineering or science.
There are certain social structures[1] which were created or evolved with the assumption of population growth in mind. When the assumption no longer holds, the structure degenerates. The current structure of economic growth, social security, housing, education &c all made structural choices based on population growth assumptions. That's not to say these are categorically existential problems, but more that absent mutandis mutatis(in varying degrees), they have that potential.

1. In the broadest possible sense. ie: economic structures are social structures