skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The author might be missing the fact that generative models can be used for "old-school" prediction tasks, with quite outstanding results.

Their power does not only lie in their ability to _generate_ new data, but to _model_ existing data.
All their tensor/math magic seems to happen in https://github.com/ggerganov/llama.cpp/blob/master/ggml.h .

So maybe if you implement the ggml.c with tensorflow/libcoral - you'd have a chance.
Ting shares some of the same backend as well I believe.
I guess you’re not the target audience.
This is exactly why I jumped into the comments. I was hoping someone had some relevant implementation details that isn't just a massive GitHub repo (which is still awesome, but hard to digest in one sitting).

Thank you!
> I thought it was weird to have some random Chinese or Vietnamese phrase written in Latin on a road in the US of all places... but it's just short for "crossing pedestrians", right?

In Max Headroom, the main television network, Network 23, was owned by the ZikZak Corporation, controlled by an Asian CEO named Ped Xing.

Giving him a street sign name follows a pattern established by Max himself, who (in universe) was a sort of digital reconstruction of the connectome of maverick journalist Edison Carter. (In real life he wasn't even CG, just actor Matt Frewer in prosthetic make-up!) The last thing Carter saw before his seemingly fatal motorcycle crash was a sign that read "MAX HEADROOM 2.3M"; the "headroom" term being common in Britain where American signs might use "clearance".

> Although on the other hand, now that I think of it, what's wrong with the zebra crossing?

"PED XING" is painted on the road (or written on a sign) to alert drivers of an upcoming zebra crossing.

The painted-on-road signs are written in reverse word order so that each word is readable in order as you approach by car. Another one seen on U.S. freeways is "SLOW VEH LANE", written as "LANE VEH SLOW".
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>investors have become only interested in companies building generative AI, relegating those working on predictive models to “old school” AI.

If that is the definition of old school AI, I wonder how symbolic AI should be named.
I’ve also seen many TikTok and Instagram accounts printing their own SVB swag to cash in on the run. They did the same with ironic FTX swag (ex: FTX Compliance Department Internship 2022)
yes, it does. 7.73 billion lost in normal tech and banking. 2.57 billion lost in the crypto addition.
Spot on. I work with deep learning systems in industrial control, and generative models are simply ill-suited for this sort of work. Wrong tool for the job.

But neither the traditional nor generative models are "AI" in the sense that normal people think when they hear "AI".
Because I communicated with them.
Thank you for actually making me laugh out loud ! :)

Makind this indeed felt like hammering on a screw at times.
The pedestrian should be obvious from the graphic, so just "CROSSING" would be clearer. Most of the world uses a graphic-only sign for this [1, 2] so I'd think the text is redundant.

(A Google Image search shows examples of "PED XING" alone, but I don't know if this is official or common.)

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Denmark_road_sign_A17.svg

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Denmark_road_sign_E17.svg

(Red triangles are warnings, and blue rectangles are information. The blue sign is used at the crossing, and the red one some distance before if if that's necessary -- typically on faster roads.)
Come on, this is an absurd response. I'm sure most of us here would love to while away untold hours learning desktop APIs for Windows and Mac, then picking up mobile APIs for iOS and Android. But in the real world we have jobs that have deadlines that do not facilitate rewriting and redistributing at least four different versions of a product. When it comes to delivering a write once deploy anywhere solution the web has no peer.

I'm not particularly happy about that but it's the way the world works. Calling people who work on the web "lazy" is a ridiculous response. Maybe you should get to work on the one size fits all native framework that will rival the web?
My first thought was "Okay, sure, but how does it perform after I load it up full of essential plugins like vim mode and such" but seeing that vim mode is built-in is kind of amazing.

It appears to be more limited than I'm used to (e.g. colon commands don't work, ergo :wq does not) -- but it is indeed extremely fast.
They weren't getting refunded because kids were genuinely using their parents' credit cards. Parents are alleging fraud to the cc companies, but not reporting this as fraud legally.
This is basically "heritage not hate" but for a socially-acceptable target. You're saying racist opinions and discourse are fine as long as you don't act racist.

The stigma causes the hate, they're effectively the same thing (I used them interchangeably) and leads directly to adverse actions against those individuals.

And as I said above - the argument generally shifts at that point to "it's good for them to be attacked, maybe it'll motivate them". Because again, it's just a socially-acceptable vector for hate. We've gradually run out of other forms like racism and sexism, for a while it was homophobia (and the argument was that was a choice too, so it was fine to attack), but we'll always have fat people.

Stop attacking, hating, "stigmatizing", whatever you want to call it, based on traits. It's all "isms" and 50 years ago it is the same argument used to defend racism. Just be civil and treat people like human beings, it's not that complicated.
Maybe a browser extension should exists which automatically replaces colors with more accessible ones.
Updating ui components can be a surprisingly painful process when breaking changes are involved
There's no way there's only 10% left to improve in those models. New versions are coming out regularly that are clearly improved. Midjourney v5 and GPT-4 were just released showing huge improvements, for example.

Not only that, but the innovation around this tech is also just getting started. It's immediately applicable for business use. The classical techniques still have their uses, of course.
One of the creators was interviewed recently on this podcast https://rustacean-station.org/episode/antonio-scandurra/
Developing on a mac is terrible; will take a look when other platforms are supported.
> Maybe the body can handle it but the brain can't, right?

The brain is part of the body.
Put it in a money market fund and periodically withdraw. Use an insured cash sweep.

It is economics 101. Even a regular citizen doing a once-in-a-decade housing deal has to be wary of it.
> I don't really want to reward Docker for writing themselves in as the distribution hub for all things docker and then more or less extorting money from people.

I finally bit the bullet and paid for YouTube Premium. The ad "experience" on YouTube has become so abysmal and unblockable, that to use it at all really forces you into it. I had a hard time expressing why this was so aggravating -- considering that I see literally 5 other streaming services I pay for on the same launch screen -- but this really nails it. It's the same monopolize-for-free-and-then-charge-and-extract-all-rent-forever move at the heart of every digital service now.
> If those images disappear, we lose the ability to release and that's not acceptable.

This shines light on why it is so risky (from both availability and security perspectives) to be dependent on any third party for the build pipeline of a product.

I have always insisted that all dependencies must be pulled from a local source even if the ultimate origin is upstream. I am continuously surprised how many groups simply rely on some third party service (or a dozen of them) to be always and perpetually available or their product build goes boom.
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Took me a second, but rofl -- comment of the day (even if I disagree)
"So has generative AI been overhyped?
Not exactly. Having generative models capable of delivering value is an exciting development. For the first time, people can interact with AI systems that don’t just automate but create an activity of which only humans were previously capable."

Good answer but I feel that most users/people do not understand the difference between generative and predictive machine learning and that will probably cause unpredictable failures and false flags.
So yes it has been overhyped in my opinion
I remember thinking about this phenomena in arch school musing over the paths taken. It's interesting that OP calls this "desire paths". My thoughts were that these are more akin to orbits, or how rivulets establish a path over dirt, i.e. removed from notions of desiring.

But I like the desire semantics. Supressing desire can build excitement. In fact, a very typical architectural device in ceremonial designs is to either slowly reveal, or to reveal and then take you on a long path as you slowly and finally reach a space or object. Architecture is, possibly, all about controlling desire. So collorary to the desire path is 'desire denied/delayed path', equally important to have in a designer's toolkit.

[p.s. r/poitry/poetry]
Even 1:1000 is pretty high odds in general. But that link is quite cool.

Also 4.23 Mt isnt a huge impact. Definitely not dinosaur killer right?
It's funny you mention OpenBSD and pledge/unveil, because they don't really come close enough to being able to lock down the system, while linux has things like SELinux/RSBAC available.
And if you bought a few days before that you'd be at 0%
7.73 billion represents a very small fraction relative to actual utility. 2.57 billion represents 99.9% of something that has virtually no utility other than scamming people.
> Maybe take control of mission critical dependencies and self-host?

Last few years prove that this option is a no-go - they just don't do such things ! Independence ? Self-sufficiency ? Security ? Local, fast access ? Obviousness ? No payment required ? Avoid at all costs !
I had forgotten that OpenAI started as a non-profit. Elon Musk gave $100 million for a non-profit cause, and even he doesn't know how OpenAI became a for-profit company. I am not sure about the legality, but this transition seems like a unethical rug pull against the early contributors.

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1636047019893481474
The FTC’s order can be reasonably interpreted as a warning shot to other US companies, but I’d still like to see “chargebacks may only reverse access to that which the purchase paid for, not to the right to access past and future purchases” enshrined in law.
Starship will be the rocket delivering them to the surface. It is likely to have a first orbital test within the next 3 months. That will be a major milestone, approaching the capability to once again land and return humans from the lunar surface.
My new phone has the same screen size as my old phone, and my old phone had a big enough screen that I'd need to sew custom pockets onto my pants if I went any bigger. New phone has a better refresh rate but all that does is kill the battery faster in exchange maybe things look slightly smoother when playing games, but the games I play on my phone don't really benefit from the increased refresh rate so I just keep it at the default 60Hz.
No, you refused to infer the plain meaning. Author uses words like on, outside, inside and you pretend they don't apply.
That reminds me I removed the seat belt chime in my last Grand Cherokee because I had a big dog sitting in the back.
For many, that depends entirely on the availability of alternatives. With duopolies like Uber/Lyft, you survive after one kill and then you're done. Amazon hardly has a direct competitor. For merchants with plenty of direct competitors, I agree with you.
The basic job of a retail bank is to fund long-term loans with short-term deposits. A bank which is doing this optimally is still curiously vulnerable to bank runs. If all short-term deposits decide to redeem at once, that collective decision might render the bank insolvent and incapable of returning deposits at par, because not all long-term loans can be immediately redeemed/sold at par. In the normal course of business, nobody thinks too hard about this. Asking such an institution to MTM (which is intrinsically about immediate redemption/sale value) is asking everyone to document and consider a bank's inability to immediately redeem all depositors. We're doing more of that, which has pros and cons. (Recent MTM disclosures set off the SVB run in advance of a planned SVB equity fundraise.)

Finance is an imaginary staircase that only works until we look down and freak out. We don't document the robustness of the stairs because the stairs aren't real.
> However, if I do go out of my way to use the special unicode characters, that should not trip up screen readers!

It is exactly the "going out of my way" that makes software tripping up on this understandable to me.

It's not a common occurrence. Simple as that. Same as Babylonian Cuneiform Numerals are not. Sure, it's way more likely that a screenreader has to read a Ⅳ than a 𒐉, but compared to the size of the problem space, both are just miniscule, and a system that doesn't handle either, will still behave correctly almost the entire time.

> You might say "well, images with alt text represent a small fraction of the problem space", considering how many photos are casually uploaded to Instagram every day.

But images are a common occurrence in the problem space. The fact that the `alt` attribute is often not set, doesn't change that.

In addition, the `alt` attribute is a simple system, designed with systems having to parse it in mind, that conveys a tangible advantage over not using it. What advantage does writing "In Hamlet, Act Ⅳ, Scene Ⅸ..." have over writing "In Hamlet, Act 4, Scene 9..."?
This is neat, but I don't know what a ramen meter is. I'm assuming it's donations for an OSS project that may or may not be enough to buy ramen?

Maybe a quick explanation would be helpful!
Another problem with monopolies is that they atrophy so much that they can fail to even maximize their own profit.

And I didn't say you would get a great deal from a rational monopolist. I said that you would get tiered services that keep consumer surplus as low as possible.

But T-Mobile is not a monopoly.
I m not sure it's overrated, but the concerns are very real.

We love the model because it speaks our language as if it's "one of us", but this may be deceiving, and the complete lack of model for truth is disturbing. Making silly poems is fun but the real uses are in medicine and biology, fields that are so complex that they are probably impenetrable to the human mind. Can Reinforcement learning alone create a model for the truth? The Transformer does not seem to have one, it only works with syntax and referencing. How much % of truthfulness can we achieve, and is it good enough for scientific applications? If a blocker is found in the interface between the model and reality, it will be a huge disappointment
> I wouldn't say that renting managed servers is simple at scale.

…unless they are not physical servers but vservers. Hetzner, for instance, has such a "cloud" offering where you can dynamically spin up new vservers via an API/Terraform.

They represent yet another point on the spectrum but are not "fully cloud" yet if we take "fully cloud" to mean that, beyond hardware, the software stack is partly managed by a third party, too.

Put differently, to me the spectrum looks more or less like this:

- On-prem self-hosting (own data center, own hardware etc.)
- (Off-prem) non-managed hosting (data center provided by third party, but you're providing the server hardware and put it in one of their racks)
- Managed hosting of physical servers (data center + server hardware provided by third party)
- Managed hosting of vservers (Hetzner Cloud, AWS EC2, …)
- "Full cloud": Software stack is partly managed by 3rd party (e.g. managed Postgres, managed Kafka, managed ElasticSearch, serverless, etc.)
Sure, and if I'd played 03 10 24 46 63 04 in the PowerBall on Monday I'd be a millionaire. It's not a great long-term banking strategy, though.

The alleged promise of Bitcoin in various uses like an inflation hedge during economic turmoil have not borne fruit.
> I wonder if CC companies have a way of punishing companies for this.

Yes, if they get enough people doing chargebacks. The challenge is most of these big co's seem to be in the "too big to punish" camp. This is both you need a large amount of chargebacks and perhaps they may not want to fire the companies (though this is speculative).

> At least in my circles, the sense of security from having charge-backs is a huge reason a lot of people even use CCs.

I'm with you that this is still important and valuable because many companies don't blacklist you. Furthermore I'd rather have that protection and testing a service which could be no service than no service at all.
This needs to be solved ASAP. Chat-gpt needs more training data!

but seriously, way cool project.
It's a stop-gap measure. There are dozens of companies chomping at the bit to replace Docker as THE docker registry: I'd bet someone at Github is very busy at this very moment.
This is just common in general. Nobody that you chargeback is going to want your business again. It's just that tech companies usually hold something you want (your account) effectively hostage, whereas a restaurant or whatever you can just stop going to. This does make it worse.
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The images/animations in this page are fantastic at visually explaining something quite complicated. I would not have been able to understand the difficulty without them.
I wonder if Grafana is going to rebrand at some point. They have been aggressively diversifying, but keeping the Grafana name makes people immediately associate the company with the Grafana product and consider the rest as side-projects.
What are you comparing it to? Without instruction tuning and a two character prompt "He" I am not sure why you would expect it to perform any better.
It's funny to me we look at GPT4 scoring high on all these tests and think it's worth anything when educators and a lot of us here have been lamenting the standardized tests since Bush made it a preeminent feature of our country's education system. They are not a good measure of intelligence. They measure how well you can take a test.
https://archive.is/VFoKM
> I'd be fine with "no minor on social media" < 16.

I think is pretty broad, but do you suggest no depictions of under 16s on any online media? It's one thing to restrict minors from participating on social media, but are you suggesting their likeness cannot appear online posted by other people? Parents? School yearbook? School social club?
Thanks for the insights to both of you!
Oh ok. So you just want it to say what you believe is right and not say what somebody else believes is right.

I suppose this was clear at the start of the discussion, but it's always nice to be certain.
To "Newfound Asteroid Unlikely to Strike Earth in 2046"?
> we were just testing Datadog Continuous Profiling

Felix from Datadog here :). We'd love to hear your thoughts on our profiler if you're willing to share them. My e-mail is in my profile.

PS: Congrats to Ryan, Dmitry and team :).
Absolutely. White bread spikes your blood sugar much faster because it's almost pure starch. The resulting drop can definitely be sleep inducing in my experience.

Whole grain bread also has a lot more protein, which is also more filling. But can also be more sleep inducing. The topic of post-prandial somnolence is a complicated one indeed. All sorts of hormonal, blood sugar, psychoactives in some foods, factors involved. And still poorly understood in many ways.

Sort of related: if I eat any amount of white bread or other processed grains I tend to get a lot of abdominal pain. I have a bunch of scar tissue down there due to appendicitis with bad complications many years ago. Whole grains help keep me pain free, it's the only consistent remedy I've found.

Do you live outside Norway? Is Jarlsberg expensive as an imported product? It's pretty affordable here so I might be amiss in listing it as the cheap option.
No one's brought up keto bread?
Good. My retirement plan is to have a "pick your weed" style plantation, similar to the "pick your strawberries" fields. probably have to think about pricing for product used on site.
AI has been marketing term since the day it was coined. It means literally nothing, which means it can mean anything.
Great job porting the C++ code! Seems like the reasoning was to provide the code as a library to embed in a HTTP Server, cannot wait to see that happen and try it out.

Looking at how the inference runs, this shouldn't be a big problem, right? https://github.com/setzer22/llama-rs/blob/main/llama-rs/src/...
Theyre neoliberals. Hardly a better mold that fits them.
The old line: what color beer do they drink in Ireland on St. Patty's Day?

Answer: None. It's a holy day; the bars are closed.
Only if you're trying to build for Windows.
Nathan was a former coworker of mine and he is not only an unbelievably talented software engineer but also one of the most humble and friendly guys I know. Glad he's still at it with Zed!
Sad but unsurprising; Docker has been slowly transforming into a traditional enterprise software company for quite a while now. They really squandered their potential.
The scam I've only recently began seeing is the Paypal Invoice scam. You'll get an email directly from Paypal saying you owe money for an antivirus subscription or for some service or something.

I didn't fall for it because I figured anyone with a Paypal account can generate and send an invoice through Paypal to any email address. But I wouldn't be surprised if this scam gets a lot of people. It's a well known company, the email is directly from them, and it's a legit looking invoice saying they owe money.
There's taking care of your audience, and then there's discovering that not only are there some salespeople in your audience, trying to move v1xagra and c1alis, no that basically benign. It's that theres a mentally disturbed person going around, shitting on your digital walls and yelling at your other users. There's a digital gunman in your audience trying take your users hostage with ransomware. Which, I mean, after Columbine, the foiled shooting at De Anza College, Sandy Hook, the Mandalay Bay shooting, among far too many others; after those events IRL maybe I shouldn't be surprised when my site gets probed yet again for WordPress vulnerabilities, but (and my naivety is showing once again) in looking back from 2023, and comparing it to 1998 pre-Columbine kotte.org through my rose colored glasses, it's hard not to feel that something's wrong. I don't have to police the people I let into my house for them shitting on the walls, why is it so normal digitally and just accepted as the cost of doing business?

Most recently, the author of the basement community site documented their dealings with some when their site got popular, which included someone(s) of an anti-social bent. The cynic in me saw that coming from miles away so it's no longer a surprise, but in reflecting about 25 years of Kottke.org, actually, yeah it is.

https://basementcommunity.bearblog.dev/things-i-learned/

(posted here at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35132223)
My thinking is the scope of the mission has increased. They're going to try to play a game of tennis on the moon and need a more mobile spacesuit.