skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wonder if FauxPilot's models (Salesforce Codegen family) can be quantized and run on the CPU. I was able to run the 350M model on my machine but it wasn't able to compete with Copilot in any way. Salesforce claims their model is competitive with OpenAI Codex their github description[1]. Maybe their largest 16B model is, but I haven't been able to try it.

[1] https://github.com/salesforce/CodeGen
Ask HN: Anybody else overwhelmed by the fast AI advances in recent weeks?
this isn't a good explanation. these LLMs are essentially statistical models. when they "hallucinate", they're not "imagining" or "dreaming", they're simply producing a string of results that your prompt combined with its training corpus implies to be likely
Can you select which kinds of sites it touches? Blindly copying/uploading content from e.g. Telegram or Reddit is problematic in various jurisdictions.
you're exciting me
> The quality of discussion from Powell is superior to any discussion I've seen on Reddit or here on HN.

:D We're a bit too myopic and self-congratulatory if we even try to compare.
Probably internal political maneuvering by the iOS weather app team
When worded like this, it's not that different. It's the little details that add up, depending on the actual country. You're much less likely to be discriminated against in UK or Germany than in places like Bulgaria, Ukraine, or Russia. Due to both the attitude and enforcement. The rental market in Germany seems over-regulated, but my black friend of Ethiopian descent (he's Russian, born and raised) had no problem finding a place to live there, while in Russia he's been overtly or silently rejected by the landlords so often so he had to rent the apartment from myself for a year despite it being far away from his work.
Have you tried to play CS:GO on a Mac? I can tell you that it does not at all feel the same as a PC.
Is "unreliable and unsafe" the new "considered harmful"? Because it sure feels like that.
And if they catch you using it they might ban the company you work for by association.
Image search without much ability to filter or give context is rather limiting for such a task.

A web search for some sort of museum/art related topic would have been more fruitful. Mona, Tasmania or The Great Wall of Vulva are example results.
>> Something often touted in the psychometrics literature is that the number of jobs for folks with IQ under 85 are quite rare in the US where once they were common

I think Jordan Peterson quoted the stats as people with IQ under 83 are completely unemployable i.e. even the army can't get a net positive out of them. I found that deeply concerning in several ways.

IMHO we need to work on reducing the cost of living so people can mostly opt-out without losing their home and dying. Instead it's always push harder, more growth, etc...
Valorant has an option to disable corpses, replacing them with little tokens on the ground that mark the spot of their demise. I think there's also an option to tone down blood effects, etc.
I’m sure they want the test case on if model weights are subject to copyright to be two employees doing something in their free time and giving it away.
He died for our sins.
evidently, they can hard-code exceptions into it. this idea that it's entirely a black box that they have no control over is really strange and incorrect and feels to me like little more than contrarianism to my comment
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I understand that but they have to be on notice that you have a disability in order to either accommodate it or not
Here's all the research that prove bad guys win. Here's what this dude said. If he's right, jerks might win the battle but nice guys win the war.
It's almost as if...

...kubernetes isn't the solution to every compute need...
Yes, while the GPT API latency will be minimal, whether it's noticeable by users would still depend on the application, use case, and even the location of the client(s). In some cases, the small latencies may still be noticeable for example in gaming, chat apps, or maybe some large enterprise deployment that's tied to specific regions. I agree that for hacking it won't make a significant difference and there's no reason to get on Azure just for GPT - too much overhead and Azure isn't the easiest to figure out to begin with.
There's some fun, intellectually stimulating discussion on Twitter/Fintwit. I mostly follow the anti-crypto/crypto-is-a-bubble space, but it overlaps with traditional finance a lot.

Here's my custom list: https://twitter.com/i/lists/1590358177513709568
Counterpoint: the Beats and Shazam brands still exist.
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MS's pockets are big enough for Ubuntu, Mint, and a dozen more.
It's funny, I deliberately used "less that X, more that Y" to underline that both factors contribute instead of saying "it's not that X, it is that Y."

I'm sympathetic to your response but I don't think that very many people are ignoring their work for fancy, high-impact content because high-impact content remains taboo.

Distracted people are mostly not watching TikTok, which is an obviously fireable offense.

They are mostly, as always, staring at the wood-grain on their desk for the two seconds it takes to forget which part of the TPS form they were entering.

As Spongebob said "I can't write with all these eraser shavings all over my paper! Now they're floating in my thinking space!"
Jokes aside, has anyone tried fine tuning a model on forum conversations?

By which I mean, for chatbots, the data for fine-tuning basically presents it with examples of dialogs. But if you take any given comment on HN and walk its parents, you basically end up with something like that, except there's more than two people involved (usually). So what if you fed that to LLaMA, and then used the same format for the actual chat?
This is correct. QuakeWorld pushed the limits of real-time networking projectile detection by keeping a small history buffer of interpolated data for the server to perform lookups and hit checks. It was never perfect but it was good enough for fast paced QW games.

https://icculus.org/~marco/quakec/csqc/prediction.html

https://fabiensanglard.net/quakeSource/quakeSourcePrediction...
If you can't order a dozen any day of the week for the list price, they aren't really available at the list price.

As far as I can tell, the only Pi that you can reliably buy in quantity 1 at list price is the Pico.
> https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35260210

As I mentioned in that thread, this is an extremely disingenuous take. The Federal Reserve has no interest in "hurting wage earners." Before the rate hikes, wage earners had already been hurt because inflation was outpacing wage growth. A wage-price spiral would only exacerbate this pain for those who aren't in a good position to switch jobs or negotiate with their employer.

Also, "the wealthy" isn't a monolithic group that all have the same interests. People who got rich off of cheap money, like Elon Musk, are asking for the Fed to lower interest rates as well.
Brilliant, been waiting for / working toward this. Is there a way to try it out?
It's a trope that these people are all of one mind, especially the 'mainstream press'.
I literally addressed this in my comment.
Are there alternatives that don't require an Nvidia GPU and works with AMD? And more on-brand being hosted on a different code forge?
Yes, we did! The dataset has since been cleaned even more so we're due to update the model.
I have been running my homelab for 2 ~ 3 years, and I never considered rpi to be one of the servers ... It is just for toys or some "high school robots" stuff, with 0% availability and are very fragile. How many times your SD card fail / filesystem break / undervolt occurs / accidentally short-circuit? If you want to have a host running Linux 24 * 7, go with a used Thin Client on eBay (they are at least x86). If you are like me who want to build a rack at home, go with some used PowerEdge / ProLiant gears from eBay. They do way better things than your Pi (with BMC, Xeon cores, and ECC memory, possibly), and they are cheaper as well (my PowerEdge R520 servers only cost less than C$200 each). These machines have proper CPU, hard drive, and power supply. Do not use a Pi unless you are building some IoT experiments that require GPIOs.
I've been wanting to do this for years. It's still sitting in my IDEAS.md[1] file. But it does require some abstractions that sit above reliable UDP or other alternative transports.

You need an idea of entities or at least some abstraction for a rewind buffer so that you can make calls to some sort of reconcile or predict function.

I don't have an idea of what that looks like in my head. I'd have to think about it. I know it can be done.

[1]: https://github.com/andrewmcwatters/IDEAS.md
> Trying to find solutions to ASP.NET Framework problems usually requires discarding a whole bunch of irrelevant ASP.NET Core/.NET ones.

My experience was this was always a problem even before later versions of ASP.NET. There was so much backwards incompatible changes between ASP.NET 3/4/5 and ASP.NET MVC 3/4/5 and even things that searching for ASP.NET MVC 3/4/5/6 would disagree with ASP.NET 3/4/5 non-MVC recommendations.

If there was a point where googling ASP.NET problems was clean and unpolluted it probably only existed briefly in 1.0.
Still is behind a paywall - or am I missing something?
There is also the deployment part that is easier (au least for an amateur dev such as myself).

I have a CI/CD template, Erin all my web stuff via a dockerized caddy reverse proxy, do not need to touch the configuration of the host (to create .service &co. files)

I find deploying to docker just simpler.
You would presumably do the same thing most assembly-language programmers did when they were replaced by compilers a few decades ago.
With EC2 launch types, probably. Setting up ECS for Fargate with proper IaC templates/modules isn't much easier than EKS, IMO.
I believe that most of the rust belt jobs were sent to countries with lower wages/more lax environmental laws.
I strongly suspect the reason Nvidia trees are so shallow is that NSight simply isn't showing the actual tree structure, probably because Nvidia considers that proprietary. It appears to just list all the leafs of a tree in a big flat list. But there definitely is a tree in there.
Firefox is bad at browsing the web, because complex websites don't test for Firefox compatible.
I really like copilot, I've used it every day since it was in a closed alpha. Copilot voice however - is hilariously terrible in comparison.
I’d always ask here what it was about SVB that made clients flock to them and responses were pretty mum. I could believe it that it was things that other banks wouldn’t do.
"Manual" jobs, per the OpenAI whitepaper, seem to be the least susceptible to being automated. The robotics just isn't there yet. Blessings to your family.
If it's useless 50% of the time, it's untrustworthy 100% of the time.
What the copyright office describe was AI generated images, and a book where such images was included. Those images can't be copyrighted, but the prompt that produced the images may, and the arrangement inside the book may also be copyrighted. People can however take out those images from the book and reproduce them, since those images themselves are not covered under copyright.

So if we apply that to software development, some portions of the code could be copyrightable while other portions will not, and the arrangement of the whole thing can be covered under copyright.

So let say you write a piece of software and I copy a portion of that code into my software. Is that portion that I copied covered under copyright? Maybe, maybe not. It will depend, and depending on how the legal precedence fall it may be up to the author to prove that they really are the author.

If I apply this in an fictional game developer, we could image them ask an AI to generate the image assets for a wooden table. Then they ask the AI to create the 3d mesh of a wooden table. Then they ask the AI to write a function that places the table with image assets onto a 3d plane. Each step here would produce content that historically would be copyrightable independently, but which is not copyrightable if done through an AI. The big unanswered question is at what time the work becomes copyrightable, and what happens if someone takes assets and portions of that work and uses that in something else.
The minimum level of cognitive ability necessary for employment providing a reasonable degree of autonomy is bound to rise inexorably. So this concern will be shared by ever growing numbers.

The contemporary habit of envisioning people as some sort of disposable artifice is dehumanising at its core and just serves to rid those in lucky positions of superfluence from responsibility.

Society needs to learn to recognize interpersonal differences in terms other than self-serving judgemental dismissal.
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ChatGPT-4: threat or boon to the Great Firewall?
Mozilla Fluent internationalization (https://github.com/projectfluent) is superior to other offerings. Firefox is almost entirely transitioned to Fluent (https://www.arewefluentyet.com/). This puts Firefox in a position to potentially perform well in providing good quality browsing experiences to a global audience using many languages.
People are saying this is a notion clone, but as someone who used Notion quite a bit and just got access to Loop, this is nowhere near as good as Notion. The point of Notion is that you can build your own workflow in it via databases and pages. That is the use case Notion targets most heavily - they invest in community ambassadors who help people figure out how to build workflows, their advertising strategy is about it, etc. And this strategy works for small companies and startups which don't want to or need to invest in big, heavy solutions like Jira. Loop doesn't have that. As it stands, it seems to me more like a better Confluence - it looks great for docs (but no code blocks? Wtf MS? Why couldn't you just do markdown?!), but it can't replace Notion for what I (and some startups that I know use Notion) for my day to day work.
I disagree. I'm a photographer in Minnesota and getting notified when rain was going to start and stop was really handy on wedding days. I also had it set to let me know if the next day was going to be windy so I could possibly postpone shoots.
When we start being getting technical and original, as research should be, ChatGPT fails completely. I have read some AI-generated attempts at imitating actual research and it becomes extremely obvious after the first paragraph.

The result looks a bit like the kind of pseudoscientific bullshit used by snake oil merchants: the words are here, the writing is fine, but it is nonsense. It may be good enough for people who lack proper scientific education, but I don't think it will last more than a few minutes in the hands of a scientific reviewer.
well, according to Alonzo Church, if this is x squared and that is x squared, then this is that.
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I like Weawow. It's proven accurate regarding weather trends, but it tends to be overly dramatic. I'm guessing this is related to living in a valley, as the weather to the north and south seems to match their forecast better.

It has the data that's indispensable to me: precipitation amount per hour. I don't care as much about how likely it is to rain, I care about whether I'm going to get sprinkled on or drenched.

The wind and weather map is pretty nice.
>Apple killed off the web version too

It boggles the mind, doesn't it? The equivalent of a bunch of food and housing was spent just so something useful could be taken out of half of the population's hands. Just think about that, overall social utility decreased and someone spent money to make it happen. Absolutely parasitic behavior.
mhuffman says >"My problem with MMT is the same problem I have with all political economic schemes in the US"<

With "...all political economic schemes..."?

Then obviously the problem is not with MMT but with something else. Are are suggesting that the rich are the problem? Are you also suggesting that the elimination of the rich is the solution?

In either case please clearly state so. You might also suggest how to eliminate the rich and thereby achieve a better world.
If it has been that bad or worse before, I wonder why we're not learning from it then. Humanity as a whole will be fine but tons of individuals are going to have their lives ruined.
The scariest thing of all is how the average citizen is in a certain sense not reaping the benefits of automation.

You would think that automating your job would make you free to work less. No, of course not, you end up either unemployed or working at least as much as you used to or more.

A lot of the comments here on this thread are already pessimistic in relation to the automation because people low key know that in the last decades almost all societal changes have come to the detriment of general population.
> The rise of horseless carriages, mass production and other new forms of automation in the first two decades of the 20th century created anxieties about the future of work and employment.

I mean... we did put nearly all the horses out of a job. Ditto oxen and other beasts of burden.

Recording and mechanical reproduction did cause the social(!) and economic value of small-time talent in the arts to plummet from "pretty high, actually" to "basically zero". That never recovered.

To no small degree, the US has coped with the effects of automation with huge public spending on the military (a massive blue-collar jobs program, effectively) and a painfully-inefficient healthcare system (a massive white-collar jobs program). Both are post-war (as in, WWII) developments. I have a feeling our optimism about the effects of further automation on unemployment would be rather bleaker without the action of those two very-expensive systems in mitigating the effects of past automation.

[EDIT] Oh, you can add the effects of pushing a whole lot more people into college to the list of expensive things we do that mitigate the effects of automation on employment. Keeping millions more people out of the workforce for an extra four years or more is a pretty big deal. Also a post-war development (the GI Bill was what kicked off that trend)
On the examples given, it definitely looks the best of all of them, and seems to be as small as or smaller than their size

I'm not really sure I understand why all the others are presented in base83 though, while this uses binary/base64. Is it because EvanW is smarter than these people or did they try to access some characteristic of base83 I don't know about?
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Definitely hard to keep up with the tech, even if you're deep in it.

I presented a 3D gameplay hack of this at the recent Blockade meetup: https://youtu.be/TfRJeedTeOs

The metric depth model I used (ZoeDepth) is quite new -- most previous models were inverse relative depth, with poor scaling properties, especially for artistic worlds.

But now there is a much better depth model coming from Intel called Depth Fusion which they are adding to the Blockade API and also open sourcing (!)...

Also worth checking out what's possible with SD ControlNet: https://twitter.com/BlockadeLabs/status/1634578058287132674
> The standard advice is to "always keep learning" but not every job will give you the opportunity to do so.
I can't help but think that these new Copilot offerings, when fully implemented in 2-3 years or so, make project managers / program managers / release managers obsolete.
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A little confirmation bias on this one. In addition to the infamous internet will collapse prediction he was also pretty whole hog on the Segway scooter revolutionizing transit.
In the case of the toilet games, I would expect the real goal is to (subtly) induce men to pay attention while they urinate, to prevent what is referred to in radonc as a "geometric miss".
Visual Studio has free versions for Windows and Mac [1]

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I want you all to note:

√ Stocks are Down

√ Crypto is Down

√ Gold is Up

This says a lot about how investors see where the economy is headed.
The brighter colors feel like a return to a style much more like 1.6. Source and GO always felt too far along the realism slider for the visuals for some reason.
> believe it didn't explode because the adapter the producer used didn't have enough juice to activate it

Crappy cables save lives
Wasn’t this the original purpose of airbnb ?

A platform to bring people with extra rooms together with those looking for a place
> It also asserts raising rates is stimulative, et cetera.

Can you cite that? That's very odd, and contradictory to the MMT works I've read.
If you wish to participate in CS2 testing however, you do need Windows

I was hoping being a seasoned CS:GO player on Linux might bump me into a niche to get a ticket, but alas - Windows only for now
From the paper:

> In general, connections are not used with the same intensity... so assigning equal value to them is not justified. This is the basic objection to Metcalfe’s Law...

In my architectonic opinion, the perfect network comprises all nodes operating equally. Ergo the ideal is indeed Metcalfe's law, but architecture and design can be costly, which is simple the inefficient use of resources. These being very precise machines, anything less than 99.999% is amateur, ergo the law obtains.
Indeed, they do
As good as flipping a coin /s
So there is a strong argument that the construct the Fed chose for the SVB depositor bailout was very much designed to give them free hand to continue rate hikes.
I'm in Southern California, and my parents visited from Virginia this February. It was rainy with highs in upper 50s lower 60s. Meanwhile it was 78 back in VA...
And the 10-year bond rate dropped in response. Can anyone explain that to me? Was it pricing in a 0.5% Fed increase?
Title is sarcastic to the idea that robots take jobs, while we have already automated the shit out of our production processes and any grownup has seen people lose their entire livelihood more than once.

See who's still laughing in a couple more years.
It is pointless and Mindless to save money purely for the purpose of having more. The point of investing and saving is to have money to spend. When money is spent, it goes to the person who built something, provided a service, or has a good.
Yeah, I think something that gets missed by the decriers of pessimism is that over time we really do seem to be throwing a new strata currently at the bottom of the workforce onto the scrapheap.

The "optimists" might not take notice because they've been in the layers that can keep playing musical chairs and adjust, and things might even seem good - especially when the pool of money available gets more concentrated.

What has been a slow gradual frog boiling process could very well accelerate with AI reaching this level though. I can't think of earlier developments being as widely applicable and moving as fast as this before.

I worry for my kids generation, and personally wish I was 10yrs closer to retirement.
Maybe I've got a bad imagination, but I don't see Apple's profit margins expanding anytime soon. Hardware is getting more expensive to produce, their supply chain is rebuilding in other countries and their $80 billion annual digital services kickback is under attack from regulators worldwide. Neither long-term nor short-term do I see the appeal...
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