skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Please let me recommend SideFX Houdini as an artistic (yet technical) tool to learn:
https://www.sidefx.com
(perhaps would be a kind of therapy in itself - it was for me long ago)

> exploring toon shading

Sounds excellent!
And don't hesitate to publish your work.
Yes there is (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S._Bancorp).

No it will not.
I plan to get a VM up (or RDP) since I'll need lots of Windows only utilities and I usually just SSH into a Linux server if I need that toolset.

I see Windows get a lot of flak all over the internet and while I agree that the Home version is an ad-riddled mess I've never had it reboot automatically on me, delete my files or install apps without my permission on Pro/Ent. I know that macOS has it's annoyances and quirks but I'm willing to power through those if it means a better device as a whole.
Can banks run? Can they jump?
The dominant hand is also important. As a lefty I have a tendency to evade left resulting in a will-they-won't-they when the other evades in the same direction.
1% is a lot for a single holding. And this is a realized loss as well.
Interesting, you accept preorders from anywhere in the world?
There seems to be a big difference between efficiently training a "large-ish" model on 4-8 GPUs and a gigantic model on 1000+ GPUs. The same techniques might not work due to different warm up steps, gradient overlaps etc.

All you can see running in the wild are quantized LLaMA variants (4 or 8-bit) whereas the original model is 32-bit.
Exactly. It's an abject failure of journalism if a dozen national journalists aren't currently sorting out why this was the case.
> Rust was 100% the first language to get dependency management right.

In my experience, Java, Go, PHP, NodeJS have all got similar package management that works.
Exactly. The market is a terrible failure.
Who is going to install these? I am close to a lot of contractors and they aren't going to install equipment from a company they don't have a relationship with. Who gets called back when there's a problem? They also aren't going to install something the end user provides. They make money on reselling equipment, etc.

Seriously, sourcing the labor side of it is a really difficult problem. Labor has to be licensed, etc. No one is installing this themselves.

And although the designs look cool, if it costs so much as a cent more to build then no one will buy it. No one looks at their HVAC appliances before they buy them.

I guess my point is - why would I buy this rather than just call my local HVAC companies and get some estimates?
One of the things that most frustrates me about pension funds and even 401k funds is how my retirement is managed by someone who has no concern for my values and could in fact use my money to oppose my values and best interest(as a whole) in the pursuit of increasing gains.
Last year they sold all their stocks in the Swedish banks Swedbank and Handelsbanken (they held them for 71 years) to buy SVB and similar banks because they wanted to have more profits. It'll take a while to recover.
With Signature Bank’s Collapse, US Reformer Barney Frank Watches His Bank Fail
Location: Paris

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: Yes

Technologies: Python, React, GCP

Résumé/CV: https://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=john-tester

Email: caves_postage.0u@icloud.com

Short Bio: I'm a full-stack software engineer based in Paris, but I am open to work remotely. I have several years of experience in software engineering, worked mostly as a consultant on missions issued by Devoteam.
That's almost certainly what the comment is referencing.
> It's not that the dialogues are anything to write home about anyway

I saw the movie. You are 100 percent correct.
OP here, I am not an US native but it still is inexcusable. I cannot edit the post anymore, so thank You for posting the correct abbreviation.
Any merit to this service? It claims without 'hidden fees' so I thought they would get rid of the airbnb-like fees, but it looks like there is still cleaning fees, platform fees, and taxes not included in the nightly rate (for +50% final cost over the nightly).
With medium format like Hasselblad, the back are anyway seperate from the body. Hasselblads are great cameras, Leicas as well. Objects of desire both.

I did some middleformat work as a teenager, not with Hasselblad so. But this whole looking down into the view finder to see a mirrored picture makes you think a lot more about composition and so on. I liked it, but film is just to much work for me at the moment. And digital backs for medium format way too expensive. I loved medium format in black and white so. Damn, now I have to find time to go through my dad's archive with him!
Well the phones are normal cell phones. They talk to ground based cell towers, and the SpaceX satellites are just operating as satellite based cells. A “satellite phone” is a term that historically has been used to describe a device which has been specifically designed to talk to satellites, which is not the case here. The SpaceX service aims to talk to unmodified normal cell phones that were never designed for satellite service.
This is such a lazy take. It only takes one word to impose context on the rest of a sentence. MacOS is all you need. Not everyone pays attention to Apple's computers. I only this year realised their OS is no longer called OS X, for crying out loud.

There is very little reason to pay any attention to MacOS unless you actually use it.
A friend of mine had a similar experience when he was just learning. He accidentally racked up a large bill (for a student), contacted support, and they forgave the charges.

That's not to say that Amazon is being altruistic here, I think it just makes good business sense. Foregoing a few thousand dollars for even a tiny chance that a student's future self decides to use AWS for a multi-million spend project down the line is worth it.
> Now that the blood prophecy of 100,000 americans doing a universal bank run has not come to pass, he’s positioned himself as a messiah that tweeted us all back into god’s good graces.

Without the government's actions over the weekend, bank runs probably would have happened, and they still might.
What makes you say they’re corrupt? The only accusation I’ve seen is that Thiel removed his money after the bank stopped processing his transactions, but that doesn’t seem nefarious to me
While you're not wrong about the portions who can access it, I wonder at how many of us doing work that brings humanity forward at all. Sure, let's not use fast system as an excuse for bad code, but I'm not going to pretend my CRUD app is elevating humanity. Even the stuff that claims to feels like at best a lateral move a lot of the time.
Worse as far as the outcome for the Pension, yes.

But its a concept otherwise known as Risk.
It’s way past religion and it’s more like am explosion of science. GPT3.5-turbo has an IQ.. What will GPT 4’s IQ be?

Even so, it’s escaped the lab already. Which model will make the better products?
As far as I can see, this isn't news; medical insurers (and really any kind of insurers) use rules (algorithms) to decide which claims they should pay out on. Even if they could evaluate each claim completely individually and personally, they'd get sued for not treating all claimants equally. They have to use rules.

And saying it's "AI" when it's just an algorithm (or even just a checklist) is getting annoying.

I started getting annoyed when game developers called the algorithms used to control NPCs and so on "AI", when it's actually hand-made rules, finely tuned. Nowadays, if it's been anywhere near automation, then it's OK to call it "AI". A calculator could be called "AI" (if they still made them).
Are experienced devs really ditching Python for production systems? I wasn't under this impression.
This violates first normal form. So if you want to query this result further you need a more complex language than relational algebra because you need to be able to query nested structures.
Obviously the VC pyramid scheme created by the ‘tech bros’ and the VCs like YC, Lightspeed, and the rest of them had to crash hard in 2022 and now with the interest rate hikes decimating the chronically unprofitable startups that are still trying to raise money and SVB was the straw that destroyed it all.

Quite a hilarious ending to see the panic and the collapse of the complete pyramid scheme. We are not even done yet since there will be more market moving news this week to completely vaporize them into pieces.
ER doctor asks ChatGPT to diagnose his patients
people are just pointing out what they see as hypocrisy, that's it. I don't follow these people on twitter so I have no idea if that's the case or not.
Current language models have a very short memory (context window). For now they don't really learn anything after they have been trained.

Simulating real people is controversial and a good way to get flamed or banned.
I'm in the automation/manufacturing industry, and while I know there are big servers running ERPs and SCMs and MES and other TLAs with poorly-optimized giant databases I don't personally touch those. But still I suspect the same truths apply whether you're talking about "big iron" computers or literal metals: when evaluating the strength of an average weldment on an ordinary conveyor or machine, we like to say "Steel is cheap, engineering is expensive."

Obviously there are situations when you have to employ more rigor and do the FEA, but typically, when choosing between a just-right solution and one that's obviously strong enough, just overbuilding it is a lot more efficient in terms of value.

With 21 of the pictured $150 Samsung 1TB 990 Pro SSDs and, hypothetically, $1000 for this card, you're looking at $4,150 for this storage solution. If that solves your problem and lets you apply off-the-shelf Postgres and JSON and unoptimized queries, do it! That money only buys a handful of site visits and maybe a week of engineering hours to change a system that may involve dozens of users, tens or hundreds of thousands of lines of code, and rigid requirements from upstream and downstream...maybe you can change those eventually, and it would definitely have been cheaper if all the stakeholders had a fundamental understanding of the compute requirements of full table scans and non-native blobs and designed their business around those mathematics, but that doesn't sound likely.
literally every public instagram post has a number of "first 5 people to DM me gets 5000 bucks!" with links
If I compare this feature list to e.g. features of xterm (VT52/VT100/VT220/VT320/VT420/partial VT520 support, graphics via Sixel/ReGIS/Tek4014, …), I don't see a single reason why wezterm should be roughly 100MB large (according to pacman on Archlinux) vs roughly 1MB for xterm.

If you think "but terminal multiplexing and SSH!", then feel free to add 0.9MB for screen (or 1MB for tmux) and 4.8MB for openssh, and you're still way below the size of wezterm.
It's also the sheer amount of laws and regulations around opening and running a business that makes it really hard for small organizations to get started. There's a LOT of paperwork around the EU, and as soon as you want to sell to the neighboring countries it's a lot of additional paperwork, red tape and regulations (it's better than it was still).

A founder from Europe explained the 4th person to join the company as the 2nd employee (their first hire was an engineer) was a non-technical person whose job was mostly to fill out grant application forms. There are hundreds of different grants for companies with a long list of criterions. For example, they could have the countries government (so the taxpayer) foot the bill for a fraction of an employee's salary if he or she was a refugee from certain target countries. Of course, the local government had a similar scheme with a completely different application process and slightly different criterions.

None of the grants had anything to do with their tech or how viable the business was by the way.
If your 401k does not have an option for low cost broad market index funds like SP500, then that is a fault of your employer forcing employees to take on extra risk.
Another language that's more modern and currently useful but which is very tiny to write an interpreter for is Lua [0][1]. Currently the official Lua interpreter has around 30k LOC which I find pretty amusing for a language used so widely in games and for scripting purposes [2]. Of course it's still at least an order of magnitude larger than a small Tiny BASIC interpreter but the fact it's a current language used in so many places makes it even more interesting to make your for-fun implementation.

Also related to small language implementations I find notable PicoC [3] which is a C interpreter written in around 3k LOC of C. Past discussion about it here 13 years ago [4].

[0]: https://www.lua.org/about.html

[1]: https://www.lua.org/spe.html

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lua_(programming_language)

[3]: https://gitlab.com/zsaleeba/picoc

[4]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1658890
People keep writing posts and comments like this that seem premised on the thought that nobody at Signal considered the downsides to centralization, and that they just rejected federation out of spite.

If you're reading HN, Signal's design goals are almost certainly not your design goals. Signal was designed to replace SMS and WhatsApp, the most widely-used messaging systems on the planet, with something end-to-end secure. Signal is not Telegram, Slack, Wire, or Matrix. They make decisions that are certain to upset orangey-types like us (phone numbers, no federation, tethering to phones, and so on) because HN people aren't their core user base.

If you want to understand why Signal went this way, look at Matrix. Matrix was designed for federation from the beginning; that's part of the point. Federation delayed the rollout of default E2EE on Matrix by over a year. It will probably delay the resolution of the Nebuchadnezzar vulnerabilities --- which are very bad --- by some material amount of time as well. You can't have Signal's use cases and accept those downsides, but you can with Matrix's use cases.

By all means: use Matrix. But the constant psychologizing and theorizing about Signal's federation decision is tiresome. "The Ecosystem Is Moving" post, where Moxie Marlinspike laid out his case, was received approximately as well at Steve Jobs open letter on Adobe Flash. And, like the Flash letter, it has been pretty conclusively vindicated. That doesn't mean everything, or even most things, should be centralized. But it does make clear why Signal needed to be.
Actually they were, before 3D acceleration became a thing, 2D acceleration was a thing.
Not only that but it’s a failure of the city zoning laws to allow enough construction. They would have loved to fund more housing if the city allowed it
Let me tell you what I want
Friendgineers: User stories are not about what to do, they're about how to add value.
Any time I see the output of a statistical model like "estimated length of stay" that gives a number like "16.6 days" without also saying something like "with a 95% confidence interval of -5.1 / +20.9 days", I get pretty confident the goal is not actually to help decision-making.
"Why do people think VCs are libertarians? Most of them are Democrats!"

You seem to:
1. presume those two categories are mutually exclusive. They aren't.
2. Many of the libertarian values on the economic side, held by many in the VC/PE space regardless of political affiliation, means that just like Rand herself, they espouse -by action if not by word- "privatize gain, socialize risk" pretty much by rote.

Anyone shocked by this either isn't looking, hasn't been in this business very long, or is the person mentioned in the Steinbeck quote (paraphrased here for contextual re-appropriation) "the rubes see themselves not as an exploited set of growth-hackers and disruption-monkeys, but as temporarily embarrassed billionaires."
The onus is on the people claiming that this is a no-risk deal for the FDIC. Otherwise, seeing this as a bailout is the reasonable conclusion.

If there was no risk, JP Morgan would be willing to step in to capitalize. The fact that they won’t tells me this is a bailout.
> Matrix

Yup.

And it has first party support for bridges so that you can continue to mostly interoperate with other systems without too much hassle, should you care to go that route. I've got my Matrix homeserver running with various bridges to Signal, Google, Facebook, etc, and while I talk to people "Matrix native" if I can, I'm also not actively locking myself out of other systems. Yet...
What is your plan if Mitsubishi cuts off access in 20 years or updates in a way that you're not comfortable with (like add advertisements to the panels)?
> Seems like they would have never gotten rid of it.

Like HDMI, or USB-A, or MagSafe.

The 2016 macbooks were...something.

FWIIW though...Modern Mirrorless cameras tend to have high-performance USB-C. Some also have internal storage. But the value of swapping media in a camera is critical for organization however. Many Cameras also have dual SD slots for mirroring.
Whats possible now (March 2023).

The field is moving so quick.
Do you use it regularly? If so, have you just accepted the motion sickness as a cost of doing business (and/or gaming)?
The article claims mostly that you shouldn't mask because you will get covid "many times over." This implies there is no difference made in how many times you get it, which I haven't seen any particular reason to believe. There does seem to be some chance of long-term effects with each infection, which means there is some benefit to reducing the number of infections you get.

It also doesn't account for the benefit to other people if you're asymptomatic and contagious. Sure everyone is going to get it but they don't have to get it from me.

This is again the "if you can't do everything then you should do nothing" fatalism. I understand why this is alluring on a personal individual level, I'm exhausted too and would love to just give up and accept what comes for us. I don't know what's so appealing about endorsing this position to others though.

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Also the entire framing assumes that you were masking the correct amount in 2017 and the correct amount is zero. One thing that covid has made me realize is that a lot more people are vulnerable to "routine" infection than I thought, possibly including me. And that I should probably not have gone most of my life assuming multiple respiratory infections every year was inevitable, harmless, or something I was powerless to affect. If covid were gone tomorrow I'd still wear a mask on transit in winter, or in public when I'm sick.
Or with increasing of ESG investing ignore possible gains for political reasons. Thus making my future life worse as they don't extract maximum possible value from market.
I'm skeptical when this kind of language is used, particularly in the media. It feels like they're trying to drum up outrage by intentionally phrasing such that the public understanding differs from the technical meaning. I'm not saying that's what's happening in this case, just my typical initial reaction to seeing this pattern.
With the 7B none-instruction tuned you have to really pre-prompt it to get good answers to things so like:

SYSTEM: You are an AI research assistant. You use a tone that is technical and scientific.

USER: Hello, who are you?

ASSISTANT: Hi! I am an AI research assistant. How can I help you today?

USER: Can you tell me something about owls.
Looking forward for one called guanaco.
You're misinterpreting my comment. I was not implying any correlation between IQs and audiophile-ness. I was pulling out a random example of a counter-intuitive property that "most people" have, though it's clear from your response that I picked a bad example.
> They do not even reason, just make up words that fit some context - thus they "hallucinate".

But they can explain their 'reasoning' in a way that makes sense to humans a lot of the time. Serious question: how do you know if something does or doesn't reason?
Your list is generally what I think of first.

I once inspected a small subset of the software for a real-time system that regulated industrial machinery in a large factory. That stuff was intimidating. I can only imagine the complexity of seemingly simple gadgets that human lives depend on (e.g., power plants, avionics, medical equipment).
Ah crap I haven't checked my Vanguard yet.
Well, IANAL, but zoning and such, disallow commercial buildings (shops, offices, factories) in housing zones. I understand this differs per state or per locality even. And I think 'illegal' is probably not the right legal term either.
Anyone got it to work? I hit agree button and nothing happens?
They require $400k MRR, $1M in VC funding and 50+ employees so we still need to mature a bit
Is melatonin not enough for it?
It makes sense if you are selling the API to a bunch of businesses that will be building it into customer facing applications. Ideally though, it would be a toggle that the developer could switch based on their usecases.
For 10 billion+ parameter models, the effects of quantization are relatively small, for smaller models like Llama 7B the effect becomes more dramatic, but there is ongoing research on new quantization methods (like GPTQ) that preserve significant performance even on the lower end.

Quantization isn't the only technique available for downsizing a model, Llama itself is already the result of sizing the model and input data according to "Chinchilla optimality", a very recent (as in 2022) result that e.g. GPT-3 predates. The result is that Llama-13B performs in benchmarks similarly with GPT-3 175B despite the tremendous size difference. There are separately also a variety of pruning methods to further eliminate inactive weights present in the trained model (I think this is also active research)

Finally even on something like a Raspberry Pi, implementations for inference (like llama.cpp) are nowhere near mature yet. There are already a multitude of runtimes available for inference making large tradeoffs between performance and flexibility (e.g. many models running on PyTorch vs ONNX report 5-10x speedups running under ONNX)

I think the really exciting part of Alpaca is the size and budget of the team - 5 students with $100 scraping OpenAI put this model together in a couple of hours of training. Any notions of premium persisting in the AI space for much longer seem fantastic at best, for all intents and purposes it has already been commoditized. And that's scary considering the size of the dent ChatGPT has put in my Google traffic
Yes and it's in the fed's playbook to secure as much of the deposits as they can as quick as they can. This is exactly what they did and that's something that can take a few days. None of these tweets did anything to change that.
In what context?

If you're talking about someone hosting a party where they're playing music off their phone/laptop, that's something I've never personally seen before lol
As I understand it SVB is insolvent primarily due to incompetence, the actual actions they have taken: take deposits and buying US treasury bonds are every day activities for a bank. There are no exotic derivatives or off balance sheet special purpose vehicles. It's hard to regulate that away.
Nothing can replace the computers
There are ways of working with local HVAC contractors that provides value to them and doesn't just undercut their current way of business. Electric Air can provide lead gen, tools to support install, improved payment terms on jobs.