skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's great. Wait until they see the lead times for getting new infrastructure. And you need to rack and stack those servers somewhere. And you need to ensure that data is backed-up. And you need to ensure you have a DR environment setup so if your primary location is taken out by a local weather calamity you're not SOL for days/weeks/months. And you need the staff to manage and take care of all these things. And don't forget patching. You have to keep everything patched and up-to-date. And don't forget coverage. People have this thing about taking vacations.

Also, setting big data compute infrastructure is a bit different than traditional server infrastructure, if one has never done it before. Your compute, storage, and network infrastructure are critical components and need to be designed and tuned together. I know. We did it. And now some 7 years later we've moved it all to the cloud.
there is truth to that, but mainly in a social sense - the best that was out there in practical and economic terms for most people, also was a very good learning platform

but in terms of just existing, nowadays there is better; you can even just go back and use those old machines in more accessible ways than back then, and for free, too... whereas back then it was a middle class kid thing
A specific example: one person works with H8-GPT using a list of 1000 subreddits to tailor misogynistic messages to each subreddit at a rate of 20 posts per subreddit every day.

Automated cross posting detectors wont work against such messages, meaning human moderators would have to work a lot harder to stop the output of one person.

And there would be more than one person. You could effectively destroy thousands of forums with very few people this way.
Twitch is probably at peak "enshittification." Disastrous business decisions, from both the degradation of the product in the name of profits, as well as the questionable way it has engaged with the growing discontent of streamers and its broader user base.

At one of the orgs I was with in Amazon, and we had some cross-channel comms and processes with them. It was always funny to us how Twitch employees wore their culture as a badge of honor (they never were really a part of Amazon, culturally speaking), but in practice they embodied the ugliest traits of stereotypical Amazon teams: zero trust or charitability from them, and the adversarial/transactional nature of meetings was cranked up to a thousand. They guarded their data and general information from us with a particular zeal out of a confessed mistrust. So you can imagine how ironic and funny it was on our side when their massive leak occurred.
That would be a good example of something we call "user error". I am also not surprised that the first instinct of the risk-averse is "make it heavier", but look where that's got us with cars?
Here are the build instructions: http://previous.alternative-system.com/index.php/build
The world is becoming more cyberpunk everyday, people making back alley deals for data or models.

These weights are shit man, they have been quanted w/o being retrained against the original. I already have this torrent, I want uncut originals. And no water marks this time, the last model wouldn't shutup about investing in tulips.
This I buy. I’ve never quite gotten why the rust crowd thinks manual memory management and zero cost abstractions are the only bullet points that matter. Many of us would happily switch to a language that didn’t have either, if it made our day to day work not feel like rocket science and the sharp edge of the “never write code as cleverly as you can, because you won’t be able to debug it” adage.
While that is true in the sense that the UK is no longer in the EU, I don't believe UK law has yet diverged from EU law on any relevant privacy issues, so UK firms would still have significant experience in this area. A firm within the EU would be a better choice, I agree.
And Bart makes the NYC subway sound quiet
So, what she is saying is that now we are all doomed anyway. So we can as well have fun while we can. So let's just stop this climate change nonsense and party until we all die.
at least as a gaijin, laowai, mzungu, or whatever the term for foreigner is, you are more of a curiosity. locals welcome you and you are not expected to fit in.
What's the objective requirement for meritocracy? One can both be a petulant child and a good businessman. Musk has gotten ultra wealthy for being the latter, but that does not change his attention-seeking antics. There's no appointed board deciding who merits wealth and fame or something...it just happens to some people.
And the only brass knobs he used were in his own home!
Yes, this is a secular curriculum. It's intended to address a bit of a market gap in that respect as well.
Hardly. I've played a lot with the 7,13, and 30B llamas as well as the 7 and 13B alpacas fine tuned by Stanford. They do not have emergent abilities like being able to generate rhymes or, say, represent a movie plot as emoji. Even openai's old text-davinci-003 (gpt3.5, but text completion, not the chat ones) far outperforms them. That said, I have hopes for a 65B 3-bit quantized alpaca-fine tuned. We'll see when someone spends the money to do the (more costly) 65B training. The alpacas are also much more likely to go off rails and start regurgitating their fine-tuning inputs. Either that or openai is doing a lot of post processing on their end to hide the same problems in their LLM.

For now my IRC bots run the alpaca 7B 4-bit. 13B was not a significant improvement for twice the computational time. But it's best to learn them now because as soon as openai gets sued for the first time all the turing test passing older models without the legal-butt-covering bolted on will be removed.
> The Paris accord of 2015 comes to mind: the largest emitter by capita withdrawed within a few years

Which emitter would that be?

Because if you're talking about the US, it withdrew for ~3 months (11/04/2020 - 1/20/2021).

If agreements are negotiated to be that resistant to national politics, that seems like a design win.
> Mix of home sizes makes them naturally mixed income.

Sadly, I don't think this will last if current trends continue. The town next to mine has a ton of duplexes but it's all zoned single-family now, so you couldn't build those today if you had to.
So ARM Macs in OSX can now or soon have true Vulkan support with just a custom userspace app code targetting the kernel interface directly?
Wanted to point out one potential side effect of their primary point. If you have a team of system developers fully proficient in Rust, and the next task is to build some middleware web API, Rust could seem like an obvious choice, because everyone on the team already knows it and loves it. However, unless you plan on having these developers work on web APIs forever, there is now a huge barrier for future hiring because none of the millions of developers out there with experience in C#, JS, Java, Go, Python and the like are qualified to work on this simple backend. You have narrowed down your hiring pool to expert Rust developers even though all you need is a new college grad who can start a Flask server.
It's true that our platform can be used for the same use cases as some of those products. However, the main difference is in the customizability we offer. These products focus on and support the most common integrations and offer them as an automation service. For most custom integrations, users still have to write custom code within these products if possible, or build them out in-house. With Lume, this would not be necessary.
Cohere is https://jobs.lever.co/cohere/
I would also be uncomfortable on a road bike when not exerting myself. That being said, there are good reasons why bikes come in different shapes for different use cases. Casual riding can be very comfortable with a more suitable frame and configuration.

The one-bike-that-does-it-all (aka "quiver-killer") is an elusive beast in the cycling community, it's no surprise your road bike doesn't fit the bill. The style most people end up settling on is something along the lines of a light-ish steel touring frame, with reasonable slack and tire clearance, equipped with a Brooks saddle and handlebars with multiple hand positions.
The culture and ecosystem should definitely be a huge part of selecting a language.
There’s a cycle where something gets big because people use it. Say, a mushroom picker puts up a document about picking mushrooms. Now he can enjoy his hobby most excellently!

Next the programmers get interested. They help the mushroom picker upgrade his site with maps and a spreadsheet you can search and everything. Now the programmers can enjoy their hobby most excellently!

Then the overengineers take over and insist that it run Linux. Now you can compile Linux to Wasm, and it works if you just configure the endpoints according to an elegant scheme! The overengineers can enjoy their hobby most excellently!

But the mushroom picker who started this thing isn’t going to come back. No one ever picks up the thread of development again, and there’s nothing to do except “be online.” The ride is over.
Try to count the number of helmets you can spot:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pqQSwQLDIK8

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ynwMN3Z9Og8

In Amsterdam if we see adult cyclists with a helmet we'd guess it's probably a tourist or new expat. For children most parents only bother with helmets until they're six years or so.
There are a bunch of murals related to PPM: https://danfontesmurals.com/pacific-pinball-murals
I would assume it would go with 949, weird that it doesn't
WASM makes browsers simpler, not more complex.
It's much easier to get the implementation of a 20 page spec correct, than the combinatorial monster that is 200 highlevel language specs and APIs.
The more we can push into a small formal core, the better.
Formal verification tools call this the de Bruijn criterion. You create a small formal core for your proof system, and everything highlevel just compiles to that.
My understanding (I'm not a climate scientist) is that yes, net energy was zero over the "right" period of time (i.e. incoming energy from the sun balanced energy lost by radiating to space).

The key technical term (IIUC) is "radiative forcing" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radiative_forcing
Can anyone else than pupppet confirm this?
What is an open-source cms? How does it differ from its proprietary counter parts? And is it right for you? Read on to find out.
From the article: Pre-trained on a trillion "tokens"...

Doesn't 7B indicates that it was trained on 7 billion tokens? Or am I misunderstanding the nomenclature?
So what do you think the purpose of a for profit public company is?
The comparison is valid because people in this thread are saying that bikes should substitute for many car trips. If they were saying the same thing about walking then I’d make the point about waking safety. But walking can’t substitute for many car trips so it’s a non-issue.

Cars have disadvantages and externalities, but they are much safer than bicycles. This is true even in the most bike-friendly countries on earth.
Vertical tabs in Edge seems to trigger false positives on this. Really hope that's not the only heuristic they're using.
.. and the hits just keep on coming:

https://albertcory50.substack.com/p/whose-does-layoffs-bette...

What was really amazing to me was when I fed his email into Google Translate, had it translate to Mandarin, and then fed the output back to English.
Battery, BIOS, touchpad, power management, touch screen, fingerprint scanner, Nvidia GPU, etc.

Believe it or not, they sell hardware with Linux OOTB thanks to others reverse engineering their proprietary subsystems.
"Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind" is a book without much facts or evidence. Other books by the author would likely be somewhere around. So, not a great book, but more like a story book.

Though I assume they just slapped some book covers on the website in hurry.
That's why this is used by a particular subset of websites only. They pirate tv shows and movies, and then pack the screen with ads. They don't care at all about user inconvenience or loyalty. The answer to "your website breaks when I do x" would be "stop doing x", if they even had a customer support team. Some of them disable every browser other than chrome on the grounds that users of "weird" browsers are more likely to be "hackers".
> why the rust crowd thinks manual memory management and zero cost abstractions are the only bullet points that matter.

I don't think that's an accurate characterization of "the Rust crowd," but even if we do take it at face value, it would make sense: Rust was intended for the layer of the stack where these things do matter. Even though Rust has broken out of that initial layer, as the post demonstrates, culturally these things are likely to hold a bit more value than they may otherwise.
I heartily agree with the conclusion. It's not worth learning Rust to write your REST API (with the possible exception of code that needs to be very reliably fast, like starting a new HFT firm from scratch). But if you already know it the strengths balance out the weaknesses.
Can you possibly link to those articles directly? I'm not really able to add much based on just the abstract.

My thoughts on the book was that he was not making hard claims, but that the anomalies, particularly the joint probability of such anomalies, should lead us to at least be open to the idea of ET origins. His issue seemed to be that the idea was being superficially dismissed and not allowing it to be discussed, particularly with younger scientists without it potentially damaging their career. My recollection was that he wasn't even saying it was probable, just not impossible, and gatekeeping around investigating that possibility is bad science.
The problem is to a large part one of attack surface, if we don't have anything to talk about we talk about weather because weather effects everything and everyone. Thing is, all our systems are tuned to how the weather is right now, if climate and thus weather changes, problems can potentially pop up just about everywhere. Now we can talk about the systems we know are at a critical location, like coral reefs, but the actual problem is about unknown unknowns: Right now we are taking the bet that the worst problem connected to a changing climate that nobody has thought about is quite bearable, which to me doesn't look like a good bet.
> uninformed attack on homeschooling in general

You can probably tell I have direct experience with it, yet you call me "uninformed". It's a pretty common tactic when defending a fringe group.

However, I brought information into it. There's no mention in your comment about the reference I provided. Gee I wonder why.
Do you have a Mailchimp account? It's really easy to test. It happened to me a couple of weeks ago and I can easily reproduce it in different network locations.
Try doing it ten times, though.
If you like this, you will love the book The Design of Everyday Things. You will never look at a door the same way again. https://a.co/d/65WzcpJ
"There is a rapidly closing window of opportunity to secure a liveable and sustainable future for all (very high confidence)"

Given how each word is carefully weighted in their report, this sounds a bit scary to me.
My understanding is that LLMs are generally probabilistic so repeating the inputs won’t produce the same output.
Minor hiccup, sorry! Should be back up.
The UK is subject to the UK GDPR, which has no material differences to the EU GDPR. There are probably some other differences, but the UK is much better than USA or Australia etc. (Although I'm surprised there aren't USA-based law firms which specialise in European privacy laws, because of their impact on tech companies)
> but compared to the Macs, it has a much stronger claim to openness.

False. Lenovo hardware contains a lot of proprietary undocumented parts that required reverse engineering to get working on Linux/BSD. The parts that didn't require reverse engineering (Intel GPU) were not made by Lenovo.

Apple hardware is "open" as far as they don't try to prevent other operating systems to be installed. Apparently they made it reasonably straightforward for the Asahi team.
People live there. And they create business nearby.

And those business are closer to the rural areas than the cities are.

And also, there aren't really any places with just houses and no places of work, that doesn't really exist.
Hey there! Creator of Ash here. Mind if I tweet about this?
I think we can talk to the developing countries at the point when their per capita matches the now lower emissions of most developed countries.
7B is the number of parameters of the model.
Interesting idea!

Anyone who likes the idea of a great books program should check out St. John's College in Annapolis MD and their curriculum:

Suggested book curriculum by year: https://www.sjc.edu/academic-programs/undergraduate/great-bo...

All in one PDF: https://www.sjc.edu/application/files/4115/4810/0934/St_John...

There's also the old Britannica Great books printed book set. You can just look at their book list and get them one by one when you're ready:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Books_of_the_Western_Wor...

Also, almost all of these books are old enough that their copyrights have expired so you can download them for free from the Gutenberg e-library: https://gutenberg.org/

For example, here is a free copy of Plato's Gorgias:

https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/1672/pg1672-images.html

One feature I've wished for is some way to format these free books and make them more reader-friendly. That would save future readers time to do it themselves. I would pay for something like that.
If you read any Emotional Intelligence self-help books, you'll find a definition of optimism/pessimism that's similar to what OP is talking about. The lay definition of optimism is thinking things are great, Emotional Intelligence defines it as "rolling with the punches" when things get bad, and most importantly avoiding vicious emotional cycles where a small problem can spiral into an entire day ruined. A lot of so-called "optimists" are actually pessimists that are in denial about bad things because they're unable to emotional handle them.

I think that's a good lens at which to look at it, because it doesn't matter whether you think a situation is "good" or "bad", what matters is how you deal with it. OP's "pragmatic pessimism" is actually optimism by this definition, and I agree with OP that it's overall a positive trait—Although it does require maintaining some social cognizance, because many people do not particularly like a tendency to proactively identify problems.
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3520312.3534864

https://github.blog/2022-09-07-research-quantifying-github-c...
OpenAI's status page (https://status.openai.com/) claims their API is up (except for text-curie-001) as of 2:04PM PT. However, I have been getting HTTP 429 (too many requests) from the chat completions API (https://api.openai.com/v1/chat/completions) for over an hour. I'm not close to hitting my quota, so it seems that while the API is broken, it is broken in a way that is not reflected on the status page. Maybe the API quotas have been manually overridden, and because that results in 4xx and not 5xx status codes, the status page interprets that as "Operational".
I wish this was less of a contentious conversation. Liking a piece of technology and being able to derive maximal value from it is like 90% of the battle. If your team dislikes a tool, they'll use it suboptimally. All of the song and dance around why some language or framework is better than all the others is usually irrelevant - a team that hates Rust but tries to use it will derive less value from their tooling than a team that loves PHP. It's not rocket science, and preference isn't a bad thing.
Yeah, I did a lot of looking at these kinds of things during the Pandemic Year (didn't everyone?) and the single nicest thing to see, as far as evaluating them, was a kind of "here's what the material for a week in grade X looks like", or a sample unit if they're more unit-oriented. It's little enough that you're not giving away anything very useful on its own, but at least gives visitors a concrete idea of what they'd be committing to and what they'd be getting, if they pay.
It's doors, not handles!
You're right, that was a bad example.
If you put a billion houses on Manhattan, MOST of those billion houses would be worth nothing, and the ones where people wanted to be (which is probably not Manhattan if a billion houses were blocking out the light - but I digress) would still be expensive.
That's the million $ question. Autocomplete (Copilot) is install and forget. We don't have that luxury, search has to give you that 'aha' moment the first time you use it.

For one, having the engine respond in natural language makes a big difference. The last generation of semantic code search (we built one) used transformers to retrieve code, but as a user you'd still have to read through an entire code chunk to find the answer.

Also, LLMs (probably starting with GPT-4) can now reason properly. The capability to make a search, read the results and execute an entirely new search based on its reasoning skills, and do this iteratively, until it finds the answer, is a huge jump from just using semantic search on its own.
Is there any particular technique anyone uses to find sites like this? About the only way I know of is to happen across a link to them on some forum, like this instance.
According to the immigration lawyers I've talked to, nobody gets deported for overstaying a tech work visa.

ICE has priorities, and this is very far from being one of them.
I think the key is that OpenAI wants to focus on building AGI and not waste time appeasing users requests for UX shortcuts for GPT powered code search. Sure, they can hire an extra team to manage the user's requests for UX, but at that point they're moving away from their target goal.
People have said that frequently for all kinds of things, but in practice civilization is just really shockingly resilient.

Look at say Ukraine it was literally invaded with a war going on last year plus mass migration etc, but it also exported crops last year and are likely to do the same in 2023. Yes they are down significantly from 2021, but it’s not even close to zero.

It’s easy to get into this mindset that everything must work perfectly or the world falls apart but people adapt fairly quickly and in the end global warming is slow. It’s a death of a thousand cuts, but each of them gives a great deal of time to react. Cities aren’t going to flood on day X of year Y, it’s going to take decades of slightly worse storm surges etc. Crops wouldn’t suddenly fail because this year is 0.02C warmer than last the yield will mostly just slowly decline until alternative crops and methods are used etc etc.

Yes, local crop yields vary significantly year to year based on weather but that’s been the case since agriculture was a thing. The difference is we have much better transportation infrastructure and more ability to make substitutions.
That's not the proper homepage, this is:

> http://previous.alternative-system.com/

Also, the homepage at unixdude.net is not distributing the sources which is a GPL license violation.
At Oxide, we do "web API layer" stuff in Rust. We also don't require that candidates be Rust experts, though obviously experience helps. Many of those people who are "proficient in C#, JS, Java, Go, Python and the like" can absolutely write Rust, even if there is some slowness at first.

You have to be willing to believe that and consider it when hiring, of course, which some organizations may reasonably not be willing to.
agreed. he has been and continues to be way over the top about it, continues citing fringe/extreme "sources" and still has "the pandemic is not over" as a headline.
he's one that covid hysteria absolutely broke.
Deciding to Quit Startups