skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I love this idea. I've always been a proponent of the idea that a base protocol for a "thing" should be implemented and supported by major companies, so that it's interoperable across all devices. Then if they want to layer some custom stuff on top and disable it if one device doesn't support it then fine.

For iot it would be amazing; government should mandate that all iot devices have a common communication method/channel (local where possible) so that they're totally interoperable.

Everyone cries about innovation etc etc but think about Apple: they love their custom stuff like this, iMessage, Lightning, AirDrop etc, they always come up with such nice marketable names. But where would they be without supporting _standard_ bluetooth/wifi as well, hmm?

Tbh I think if Apple _could_ get away with it then they'd create their own "AirConnectProMax" wireless communication standard and force everyone to buy new routers that only work with iPhones and MacBooks.
Teaching old labels new tricks in heterogeneous graphs
Afaik, a lot of modern AAA dialogue gets re-recorded in the studio these days, and is then mixed to be inaudible in post because fuck us I guess.
People start using the "new" words as a derogatory slur.

For example, to belittle people, you don't call them retarded. You call them mentally challenged. Now being "mentally challenged" has the same politically incorrectness about it as being retarded.
Sending via HTTP will incur bandwidth costs. Torrents massively reduce this cost in the long run by making it P2P.

Edit: maybe in this case it's a leak though
In case it's not clear what's happening here (and from the comments it doesn't seem like it is), someone (not Meta) leaked the models and had the brilliant idea of advertising the magnet link through a GitHub pull request. The part about saving bandwidth is a joke. Meta employees may have not noticed or are still figuring out how to react, so the PR is still up.

(Disclaimer: I work at Meta, but have no relationship with the team that owns the models and have no internal information on this)
You mean America must bring democracy to Iran ASAP?
Interesting! The example

[1, 2, undefined].filter(Boolean). // number[]

is interesting because it makes use of the fact that the types of individual array members are known at compile time. I can think of some times when I have dealt with arrays that are defined at compile time, but not where I've needed to call .filter on such an array. Is there a common use case here?
Since the point seems to be lost on some of the early commenters, this appears to be a cheeky PR by someone unaffiliated with Facebook, suggesting that they put a magnet link to (what seems to be) a leak of the model weights along with the previously existing invitation to apply to receive them on their own page.
That guy does not seem to have anything to do with Facebook... interesting.
I don't care about LSP and today's iteration of "IntelliSense", so I'm not missing out much in any case.

Since most people today are more than happy to code in Jyputer notebooks (yuck), I guess I'm not actually that weird.
Shrug. Most of this is just a description of psycadelics trips in general. It's not a bad trip in itself that you don't know what a name is, or that you spent a lifetime living on (or even being) the "aau" sound from the word "now".

Sounds like this person's other experiences have just been microdosing.

But you had bad feelings during your trip. Yeah that sucks. It happens.
To clarify, checkIfFriday() is supposed to be a random trivial non test-related piece of code. My rhetorical question was, "would you like to maintain a world of extra Cucumber on top of it?".
Funny. iirc some of the big tech (I think it was Google?) use torrents internally to deploy very large images to servers. Piracy is not the only use case!
Even if he did, the NSA would be unlikely to comply. And if they said they were who would believe it?

We are long past the point where these groups had any accountability to any elected official or judge etc...
There seem to be a lot of confused commenters here. This is the content of an as-yet-unmerged pull request, and presumably not something that Facebook approves of.
i admire their silicon for its power efficiency, i truly and honestly do.
but i dislike the manufacturers' politics up until now.

if apple ever becomes a beacon of openness, transparency and sustainability: sign me up for the newsletter.
i'll even consider their ridiculous pricetags if apple became comparable to, let's say MNT.

in the meantime im considering to switch my personal laptop over from a T220 to a mnt reform
Absolutely:

> Once you acquire the vocabulary, it’s actually easier to say people with limited financial resources than the poor. The first rolls off your tongue without interruption, leaves no aftertaste, arouses no emotion.

Compare with Orwell's "Politics and the English Language":

> Such phraseology is needed if one wants to name things without calling up mental pictures of them. [...] A mass of Latin words falls upon the facts like soft snow, blurring the outline and covering up all the details. The great enemy of clear language is insincerity.
wonder what he made in the initial acquisition
> One of the most visible such attacks occurred in 2021 with a ransomware attack on the Colonial Pipeline, which delivers gasoline and jet fuel to much of the southeastern US.

It really should not go without mentioning the cause of the Colonial Pipeline attack: a leak of the NSA’s hacking weapons. The attack was collateral damage of the US government’s offensive capabilities.

How about instead of simply pen testing adversaries, the NSA also pen tests critical American infrastructure. This infrastructure would need to first be identified and then given a special designation. The US already does this with banks and solvency. The NSA can start with the lowest hanging fruit: OWASP vulnerabilities.
The main theme of the article was: should I start with stable old tech or go to unstable new tech right away?

First the author links to an article called "the Fallacies of Enterprise Computing" that I honestly didn't read but it's about debunking a fallacy "New technology is always better than old technology". Then he uses the case of python3 vs python2 for making the case that a lot of people worked successfully with python2 while python3 was unproven and finishes with a non-sequitur question: so why should stable old tech be recommended and used [in face of unstable new technology]?

He argues in favour of old tech because, 1. new tech will be buggy, 2. you can't wait for the new version to be stable, 3. you will have to rewrite your project anyway to a new version some day, 4. technical debt is inevitable and not that bad.

His conclusion is to develop with an old stable version and upgrade to a new version when the new version gets stable.

Except for the first point, the one about the bugs, I'm not even sure that points 2, 3 and 4 even help his case. In fact I could easily use them to argue in favour of starting a project right away with unstable new tech.

I might be a dumb guy and I might not have understood entirely the point of the author, but I don't like this kind of article. For me it all looks an incoherent assemblage of phrase of effects crafted with the intent of being provocative rather than having some real content. Props to the author for putting the effort of writing an article, but that's all of positive that I can say about it, the rest sounds only like platitudes.
The user who submitted the pull request is not part of Meta or Facebook Research, and the users who signed off on reviewing the changes don’t appear to be either. I highly doubt Meta will approve the pull request. The models are being distributed by torrent by someone with access to the models, not by Meta themselves as far as we know. They likely still intend to distribute via the form. This is just someone publicizing the torrent link by being cheeky on GitHub.

(As they didn’t reply to my request for the model - I specified it was for personal use and my use case was “I think it would be fun to run it on my own hardware” - I appreciate this little stunt a great deal!)
normally who complains about it lives in a country where They are out in the open enriching uranium to 84% with lock and loaded nuclear weapons already.
Is there anything stopping anyone from using this for commercial purposes? I know that when you fill in the google form you need to agree to noncommercial use, but someone downloading this will never have agreed to that licence agreement.
Emacs is the only software I've ever loved. People use the word love a lot, but I really mean it. You know it's love when you can't stop thinking about it. You're so excited you want to tell everyone about it, but you can't really articulate what exactly it is that makes you feel that way.
They sell an option for paddle shifters on the wheel. Even F1 cars have automated gearboxes with paddles on the wheel, so it's not that crazy for a "sports" saloon to have the same?
I have taught several kids to ride bikes. My instructions were very simple: ride, and if the bike starts tipping to one side, turn the handlebars that way.

With humans, that's about all you need to say. You very quickly feel how the lean changes based on the steering input, so righting yourself becomes obvious. And when you inevitably overdo it and end up leaning the opposite way, you turn the bars that new direction. WOBBLE WOBble wobble straight.
Here is the magnet link for posterity: magnet:?xt=urn:btih:ZXXDAUWYLRUXXBHUYEMS6Q5CE5WA3LVA&dn=LLaMA
It's the rule of cool. Everything must be as ergonomic as possible, unless of it adds to the cool-factor, which a functioning stick shift for your computer certainly does.
While you may get braindead salad responses from GPT I've experienced much more frustration with non-technical support people politely avoiding the question and sticking to the script rather than saying they don't know what I'm even asking and shutting down every line of inquiry.

If I could pay a dollar to be passed over to an AI Level-2 support that'd been trained on their documentation and supplier reference manuals (who knows what happens if that information gets released without signing 10 levels of NDAs, all hell would unleash) - I'd treat it no different to any other Level-2 (as in, with a big pinch of salt) and it'd be cheaper for all involved.
If they were a Meta employee they wouldn't have had to sign the CLA.
The EU did nothing to prosecute pedophile priests, so not sure their real concern is to protect kids.
Im no expert but my recent conclusion from writing an ordering system is customers can instruct their banks to roll back many payments a month or even a year after the fact

So actual ACID transactional consistency requires a year. So after basic checks just say you'll give them what they want and accept payment -- since you'll need failure recovery anyway for lack of delivery, refunds, acts of God etc

So accept and plan for failure
opt-175B weights are already openly available as I understand. Hugging-face also has openly available weights for a 176B parameter LLM called Bloom. Is LLAMA offering something over and above these?
Torrent can also be really, really fast with enough seeders, even giving CDNs a run for their money.
> Yes. And buy-in doesn't necessarily mean that people will love the chosen tool. Just that they understand and accept the compromises made.

I think we are saying the same thing in different words.
I don't hate most things.
I don't have an opinion on most things.
I am pretty indifferent about those things.
I don't hate git submodules.
However, I think we should at least hear out the concerns of people who hate git submodules.
If you still want to use git submodules, then at least you've made an educated decision.
Thanks for this late 1990s moment. My back stopped hurting while I was reading this :p
There is a difference. Retarded was used to describe a person's condition. It means slow. Retard the noun was more a slur or put down.
The only one true religion: https://subgenius.com/
It's not even clear someone has leaked the models. A random person has put a download link on a PR, it could be anything.
I like it. Memory is the highway and you use an indicator to show that you are entering a critical section.
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The best GraphQL API Explorer (in our opinion).

Feedback is appreciated.
And from those glorious big fishtailing skids we do as kids...
For anyone wondering, it includes 4 models: 7/13/30/65 billion parameters, the smallest one is 14Gb, the largest one is 131GB, all four are 235Gb.
I don't know. Is there anything stopping you using the latest Miley Cyrus album for commercial purposes if you downloaded it via torrent and never agreed to any licencing terms?
I agree in the sense that it comes down to a decision the US has to make on whether to invade Iran or not.

Just like with Iraq; wmd’s, weapons inspectors etc. are ultimately just a side show.
I personally have replaced it with fucktard, just so there isn't any confusion.

Also I'm bringing back "special".
Hey yes, I 3d scanned it last summer. Here's the 3d scan: https://giza.mused.org/en/guided/266/inside-the-great-pyrami...

Unless you book a private visit, you can only go through the Grand Gallery to the King's Chamber.

They keep the Subterranean and Queen's Chambers locked. (For example: they locked me in the Queen's Chamber and forgot about me while I was scanning).
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Yes you're absolutely right. I went by another comment that seemed to confirm the contents, but that could be trolling too.
Theyre giving it to universities for free. Someone got access and then made PR with a link to the torrent
yes, but soon there will be many people who don't understand the technology happily using new shiny tools built on top of it.

Knowing how the technology works won't be of any help if someone uses a false ChatGPT generated statement about you as a fact that can have real-life consequences.
You're saying Apple's iMessage is a response to competition as a feature to compete.

It is, in actuality, anti-competitive as there is no way to a competitor to participate other than creating a separate platform or App for messaging. Because iMessage comes with and is supported by both all iPhones and Apple it is an uneven playing field; it is impossible to compete & is therefore anti-competitive.

The same thing would happen with TMSC, at the moment Apple buys out a large chunk if not all of their production capacity for a node - this is fine, it's just business. If Apple said to TMSC, "we'll buy out all your capacity for this node but only if you contractually refuse to sell this node to any other company while we're using it" this is anti-competitive behaviour.
Are there any official checksums available? I'm happy to see this, even if it's an unsanctioned stunt, because I think it's really pathetic of meta to want to gatekeep their "open" model. But ML models generally can execute arbitrary code, I'd want to make sure it's the real version at least.
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I wonder what the memory requirements would be to run such a large model. I'd love to be able to run this model, alas my MacBook can barely run toy models.
You mean the home-country-challenged people living among THE biggest oppressors in history needed help after literally-hitler was about to unalive them?
Further: Literally everyone has limited financial resources.

If you want to specifically talk about a problem relating to being actually poor, it’s probably better to use language that communicates that than language that spans being poor, being in the top 5% of US households, and having to sell $TSLA stock and borrow money to buy Twitter.
Props to the author for the choice of name.
I think they mean something like:

[Client]->[Cloudfront]->[Load balancer]->[ECS service in a VPC]->[RDS/other internal systems]

* Replace the above with any other cloud provider, or just commercial/open source tools that do the same job running in a VPS or whatever *

I can't see how any of this could be claimed to be protected by an NDA or similar, as this is just a highly standard architecture.

If you work on a proprietary system that has a specific architecture just don't mention that of course. I think the above allows us to discuss things pretty well, talk about introducing caching, why each layer is there, TLS termination, authentication/authorization concerns and implementation, secrets management...
They’re also great for eating Cheetos without getting orange residue on your fingers. :)
> Meta employees may have not noticed or are still figuring out how to react

Given that the cat is out of the bag, if I were them, I would say that it is now publicly downloadable under the terms listed in the form. It is great PR, which if this was unintentional, is a positive outcome out of a bad situation.
The torrent is 224GB total, a load of 13 to 16GB .pth files
Nope, unlike Iraq and wmd's you have confirmation from multiple third parties and countries.

IAEA (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Atomic_Energy_Ag...), France, Germany, UK, all are sounding the alarm.
Or if you're confident enough in your macro definition you can do C-u 0 C-x e to repeat until it reaches the end of the buffer.
I've read the whole reddit thread. One reply caught my attention.

It said: openai will "bait and switch" by increasing the price once the new api becomes too popular.

I believe not, before they have a chance to do this, we will be able to run something similar on home PCs.
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Ask HN: Has anyone started over outside of tech?
Some days I think that I just want to basically check out of technology on a day to day basis and either develop a skill I have or learn a new one and work maybe part or full-time doing something totally different. Something totally unrelated to sitting in front of a computer.

Thanks to tech I have a lot of savings. Not enough to retire on early, though maybe starting to be fairly close, so I feel like I could do something like this in the next few years fairly safely, and I wouldn't feel as much the loss of income if I didn't have the savings.

Has anyone here done this and have a story to share, either positive or negative? What did you switch to? How did it work out?
Non-technical folks write complete IT systems in the nightmarish programming language of Excel macros.

I think the language used language isn't the main blocker here.
FWIW this information was already freely available via DHT scrapers like btdig [1] I think everyone at Facebook knows that torrents aren't secret and the Google form is basically a legal tool to shield them from liability while making litigation against anyone misusing the model easier.

[1]: https://btdig.com/b8287ebfa04f879b048d4d4404108cf3e8014352/l...
I have seen this repeated a lot here on HN. Since my industry is at least 10 years behind everyone else we are now getting these directives. Execs/managers say we want to put the tools directly in the hands of the users. The project is going to be failure in that sense though because nothing is oriented to do that. Everything from our change control process to the UI is a blocker. The execs keep shouting "it needs to be simpler!" on a process that's decidedly not simple. I'm not interested in leading a paradigm shift destined to fail from my small underfunded department at a megacorp so I switched projects :/
I think you can too, when you’re in person and in a calm situation. And when there’s trust between you. And when you have some skills at conflict resolution.

I’m comparatively good at this stuff, and even I find it very tiring even in best case scenarios. I dated someone who was very woke about a decade ago. She and I eventually decided to just never talk about politics. She would get really worked up over small disagreements that avoiding the subject entirely was the only strategy we found to keep the peace. And that was despite agreeing on about 95% of our political opinions.
It’s interesting that these models are both massively expensive to produce and self-contained to a degree that you can distribute the end product in a torrent.

This has not been the case for most commercial software for the past 20 years, during the cloud era. If you could steal a dump of random Facebook source code, it would be 99% useless because it’s so closely tied to the infrastructure. There’s almost nothing you could usefully run on your own PC or server VM.

But these ML models are like neutron stars of computation density. You can’t really peek inside to see what’s going on either. An unknown stolen model’s properties would need to be discovered by experimentation.
I love Emacs & it's my go-to editor, but I struggle to offer a solid, logical reason why.

I only use a handful of packages, a smidge of Org mode, minimal customisation, & run Emacs in the terminal, so switching to something more modern should surely give me everything I need & many more features in spades. But nothing else scratches the itch despite my best efforts to move to something else.

Perhaps for me Emacs is like an old pair of slippers: comfy, familiar, does what I need it to without fuss. I can't say whether it's a good choice for anyone else, but this grey beard engineer likes it.
> This is basically never a good idea

I find this to be one of the most useful features of git submodules. I can easily just cd into the module and do whatever related work I need to do there and then commit to both projects when I'm ready.
> I rarely hear people talking with excitement about WebStorm or VS code.

VSCode? It's got its fan base and it's quite vocal. Actually, Didn't VSCode collate the majority of the former Atom users, as Atom collated the majority of SublimeText before it?
Was to expected.

Anyhow I do remember a post of a person stating this will never happen but it's just a web form and request for describing of what type of research you do

Of course it will be leaked
I think one of the big missing pieces in your parent comment about choice and negative externalities has to do with this network effect and I do not think the argument that it can be overcome locally is a very compelling counter.