skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not surprising as it was never really open but a leak. They have the right to do this.

Whether it makes sense is another question. They'll never get the genie back in the bottle l, people will just have to get the torrent instead of using dalai.

I think it would be a much better strategy to open-source it at this point. It's out there anyway and sooner or later someone else is going to make an open source one (I believe Mozilla was already working on this), making Facebook's work much less relevant in the community.

There isn't much value in the weights apart from the costs they made to build them, which is sunk anyway. It's pretty easy for someone else to do it once they get the money together, as far as I understand there is no proprietary secret sauce to protect.

But being in the interest of the community at this point is the biggest value they could have from it at this point where things are moving so quickly. Either way this particular model will be replaced by something better within a couple months whether it's from Facebook or someone else. If it hadn't leaked it wouldn't have been more than a footnote.

Why not keep a finger in the pie and surf the huge wave of public interest to become a household name in AI? Trying to stop the wave is impossible.
> “Why didn’t you tell me that?”

I got this impression on my own self while studying math in college.

I noticed it when I made the connection about the studied subject, wondering why didn’t the professor say it that way to begin with. Because everything made sense now…

After few likely moments I asked myself the question: was the last explanation really better or did I just happen to understand the thing at that particular moment?

Later on, you get the “better” explanation while practicing the art…

We’re usually not aware of the process of understanding itself.
To make it explicit, #4 is basically making the case for why the Linux setting the syscall interface as the stable API boundary is a poor approach.
Linux is really close to being ready for use in the MacBook now. I have been testing it every few weeks and imo the only thing preventing me using it for work is thunderbolt support and better Bluetooth. Thunderbolt is supposedly in development right now.
Dear god. The specifics don't fucking matter. The point is that the meaning of words doesn't change depending on the salary/compensation/whatever of the person saying them. Elon Musk can be completely wrong about things, a beggar can be right. Evaluate words on their own merit.
Physicalism is easy to argue for: if all you have is STEM, then everything looks like physics. However, considering you have to grant magic existence to all those bits and bobs and atoms with all the arbitrary rules for how they interact—not being able to define those bits and bobs from first principles without involving conscious observers, yet pretending that mind and consciousness (you know, those only things you actually have access to) are an illusion—it actually becomes quite contrived.

The more elegant solution is in fact idealistic monism: if the only phenomenon we can grant objective existence to is our minds, by treating time-space as merely a simplified interface to it we can avoid creating many unnecessary entities.

Which is not an argument against physics—just that we should not assume physics has the answers to questions that are fundamentally outside of its scope.
You can’t . That’s the joke. If you use car play and ask Siri to find a local destination or a celebrity birthday, the functionality will be refused since the driver is assumed to be operating the car and thus blocks internet search, even though it will search in Apple Maps which obviously isn’t cached on the device
Everyone of the employees actively uses HN,Reddit and discord.
The university was being actively hostile towards Meyer? It seems unambiguous to me that the hostility originated with Meyer. One does not accidentally spill coffee and it just happens to land on the person your friend unsuccessfully accused of harassment out of the 10k+ students on campus. According to the university, this resulted in physical injury [1]. This isn't just the university trying to "get rid of imperfect students". Violent retaliation on account of dissatisfaction with the outcome of a sexual assault proceeding is a very significant transgression. If the university didn't sanction Meyer it would set the precedent that pouring boiling water on classmates is tolerated behavior - do you want the friends of men found responsible of sexual assault pouring boiling water on accusers if they feel the outcome was unjustified, in the same vein as what Meyer did? It's unfortunate that the university's actions seem to have prompted Meyer to take her life, but that does not mean their actions were wrong.

That said I do agree with a lot of what the article wrote. I was an undergrad at Stanford 2011-2015. The university was ramping up its control on social life around that time. Slav house was shut down my junior year, and they were already starting to tighten the reigns on band and greek life. I'm not sure what the outcome of this will be. Perhaps students will start to socialize more off campus, but that's not really feasible without a car (and the attended risks of driving under the influence).

1. https://news.stanford.edu/2022/11/25/information-lawsuit-fam...
I think you understood it. To your last point:

> it doesn’t really prove that the only cause of x != y issue [...] is caused by the memory barrier problem (eg maybe a rare buffer overflow sets done to true too early).

I mean, you can never prove that, and that goes for pretty much any bug. Hypothetically, a hardware issue could be in the mix. Or a cosmic ray may hit the device (that's a real thing). You can't prove a negative after all.

But while this does not prove that there's no other cause with the same effect, this at least makes it extremely likely that the missing barrier was an issue: Breaking with the debugger suddenly makes it work without any other intervention, and also they've just looked at the machine code in the first place, with the knowledge of how CPUs work.

The likelihood that there's also a rare buffer overflow consistently reproducing the same issue is negligibly small. If there is, that's a problem you can look at once it actually happens again.

And then stare at it in bewildered disbelief.
> It turned out that people were using Readlang for card testing fraud. After I helped them to fix the problem

How does one fix the card testing fraud problem? Certainly you can refund people after the fact, but it seems to me any point where small-dollar service/product can be purchased by card is vulnerable and you'd have to kinda guess whether the usage makes sense?
They are busy changing the world - no time for customer support!
Hundreds of GBs of RAM in a phone is just ~6 years away if Moore's law holds. It's also likely that memory requirements will be shrunk through software and ML improvements.
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Another way to look at is is two people doing two jobs at the same time - programming and code review. Or even three jobs, if you include the (IME incredibly useful) design review which seems to happen almost inevitably as part of the implementation.
I'm a simple guy, and I just do Ctrl-F "minutes ago".
Maybe not. Although I think future here implies progress and productivity gains. Increasing GDP has a very well established cause - effect relationship on making life on earth better. Less poverty, less crime, more happiness longer life expectancy etc, the list goes on.
Now sure, all externalities are not always accounted for (especially climate and environmental factors), but I think even accounting for these, the future of humanity is a better one where technology progresses faster.
Are you saying that Google doesn’t have a great data moat? That seems completely off considering Google search, YouTube, GCP, Google for Education/Work, Android, etc.
If Siri can't give you the time without the internet, I think you need to update iOS.

There are definitely two tiers of Siri queries. There are queries like "set the brightness to 10%" or "set a timer for 5 minutes" which absolutely and consistently work without internet, and have for several years, and if you're legitimately having a different experience then its possible a cosmic ray hit your iPhone (or, realistically, you're running into a strange and rare bug which is not indicative of the general experience and will be fixed in three to five years or maybe never). There are also queries like "create a new note" (from the Notes app) which should be able to work offline, but don't. And, naturally, there are queries like "when did Resident Evil 4 come out" which wouldn't reasonably work without internet (but, if you're curious, she does get it right).

In other words, Siri clearly does some local guessing as to whether she can answer a query without the internet, and some queries appear to be miscategorized into the second bucket. My leading theory on why this happens, which may be incorrect, but it seems like: if an app has any Siri functionality which requires the internet to answer, all of the queries which are responded to by that app have to require the internet. It doesn't matter where the processing ends up actually happening to respond to the query, it just shuts the query down. Its weird, but its consistent with the behavior I've seen.

The more important point: Siri's real and weird limitations don't seem to have much to do with limitations in local processing. They've said that the speech interpretation all happens on-device. They encrypt practically all of your data that does get shipped to their servers, so a query like "Open the note titled 'Hello World'" is probably also being processed on-device. But: Siri still requires the internet for that query. That doesn't seem like a significant limitation with their ML algorithms or silicon or anything meaningful; it seems like just a case of dumb coding, which is certainly something Apple is no stranger to.
I love using Wormhole (https://wormhole.app/) for this purpose. The UI and the downloads are extremely snappy, and for large files it uses peer-to-peer technology to speed up downloads. Download links can also expire, which is a nice bonus.

(N.b. Not associated with Wormhole or the developers; I'm just a satisfied user.)
Pitch-perfect.

To the mis-en-scene, I could only add: the erotism that is behind technological accelerationism.

What I mean is that there is a sort of visceral, cthonic attraction to the idea of creating 'new life', even as the ecosystems that support actual living systems grow frail. Just as Oppenheimer made the bomb in part because he couldn't resist the attraction of solving the intellectual problems inherent in its design, we're poisoning the well not just to do it first, but because we are hot for well-poisoning.

It's such an interesting intellectual problem! Poisons are beautiful.
Kinda get your sentiment, but you missed parents point. Whoever creates tickets SHOULD be able to at least skim code, do basic PR reviews, test a build. "I create tickets only" sounds like a toxic role.
Here in Japan, ambulance rides are free. It's a difficult concept for American expats because they need it drummed into their heads that you just call for an ambulance if you have a problem that's serious enough for a hospital visit.
Looking at that list I have a feeling you'd like "The Bear".

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt14452776/
Let me recalibrate. I'm not arguing that there technology or AI or things that don't cause death should not be regulated, but I can see that might be the inference.

I just think that comparing AI to nuclear weapons seems like hyperbole.
The disaster was the right-wing demagogues playing for the cameras.
El Salvador to Eliminate Taxes (Income, Capital Gains) on Technology / Software
I’d argue given the two failed flights that putting people on the shuttle at all was borderline insane.
Does they adopt new CAMM DDR5 module?
I'd say you're cherry picking the exact examples where a radically left position ultimately became mainstream. That strongly implies that radical left positions are correct, fruitful and destined to become the norm if only given enough time.

In reality it's much more of a mixed bag. Some ideas are impractical, downright destructive or achieve the exact opposite.

Unappealing unhinged ideas that alienate large groups and act as the perfect recruitment tool for the right wing? Absolutely the fault of leftists.

But agree to disagree, this isn't the place.
What's your plan with documentation - wiki or markdown files in source?

Google seems to document everything in repo - which is brilliant since it can be reviewed, you can ask PR author to update doc and hence less likely to go out of sync.
You might look at Github Copilot then. It actually looks at my project and helps me write within the context of all of the other code that I've written.
The law is pretty strict about age verification, it's not just going to be a checkbox, people will have to upload a driver's license or passport. That is, unless the law is ruled unconstitutional.

My most principled objection to this law is that it requires papers to participate in online discussions. This feels like a big step towards dystopia. I can't just have a nice anonymous conversation on a random forum anymore, not without my papers.

I've vented to family about this law and am frustrated by how little they care, how little sympathy they have. They use YouTube and Instagram, they are pure consumers, and so they'll only have to upload their personal documents to two large and reputable companies. For myself, who is more likely to use obscure forums, I will have to upload my papers to many different sites, many of which I've never heard of before. (Any site with over 10 million users who allows users to post or see the posts of others is social media according to this law, and would be regulated.) It's yet another step towards a consumer focused society.

It's also yet another example of the "think of the children" ploy. Utah media has said this bill is about allowing parents to control children's social media use, but the biggest every day effect, should this law be enforce, will be websites constantly asking to see the papers of every adult.
It is nothing like the web. The web is unstructured, Xanadu isn't. The web supports all kinds of content, Xanadu is stricly textual. Xanadu documents are immutable. Xanadu is integrated with a payment system and everything is pay-per-view. Xanadu has been worked on for more than 50 years and there's still no useful demo.

I know HN has this weird custom to assume without evidence that all old failed technologies were superior (or at least equivalent) to their more successful competitors, but it isn't always that simple. Sometimes technologies fail because they aren't that great.
SUSE CEO out effective immediately
Stanford university campus is fairly isolated if you don't drive. You can walk to Palo Alto, but that's not exactly somewhere for undergrads to party.
Sorry! Totally missed that! Indeed it seems more difficult.
There is a valid reason that pilots (or their companies) pay lots and lots of money for them to obtain the type rating for various kinds of aircraft.

Part of that rating is have the knowing of lots of specific information about a particular aircraft available for instant recall: things like stall speed, glide speed, landing speed, flap settings, lowest take-off speed, all those speeds but with one or more engines inoperative, position of switches and controls, position of instruments, normal engine RPM, the 'feel' of the plane, the normal sound of the engines, normal flight attitudes, etc, etc, etc.
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sounds good, but not true at all.

Massachusetts was a Puritan colony and blue-laws state, but there was plenty of drinking for all undergrads using university money till the whole MADD (and related groups) national campaigns against drunk driving. (and in reaction you could get Tshirts that said DAMM, drunks against mad mothers)

The 17 and 18yo drinking ages around the country all got raised when the federal govt cut off highway funds if the state age wasn't 21. The insanity is all within my lifetime.

(but yes, various jurisdictions around the country before that were, for religi-political reasons but not puritan, "dry" with no sale of alcohol.)
So many of these kids are on-line, like, a lot… there is no world where they are any more or less mature when they encounter these things.
I would assume Rwa like Rwanda, Kuv like covet. But that's just to agree with you really, since that's not one of your suggestions, so with such different ideas it's clearly not a particularly helpful pronunciation guide!
i.reddit.com works for me still.
reading, time with friends, phone game, binge watching (usually while reading), vacations, budgeting/tracking (no fat FIRE for me), cooking, cleaning, exercise, Duolingo, etc. (i literally fired a maid, cook, and yardman to retire).

i reimplemented part of the tax code in Excel so i could do what-if analysis (didn't take that long with TurboTax as QC), did a letter Frequency analysis for wordle, and a few other very small projects just for me.

I have nursed a delusional aunt and a friend recovering from hip surgery, and hosted another relative while he tried for sobriety (yes, that takes time).

I really don't know how I fill my time, but I do. In a sense, I enjoy my life and serve as slack for friends & family
... for macOS with VisionKit

previous comment from the author: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34066045
Did you see the ffmpeg example? Everything people are using langchain to do can be done directly with chatgpt and it's plugin.
Agency is overrated. The AI does not have to be an agent. It really just needs to have a degenerate form of 2): a selection process. Any kind of bias creates goals, not the other way around. The only truly goal-free thinking system is a random number generator - everything else has goals, you just don't know what they are.

See also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_purpose_of_a_system_is_wha...

See also: evolution - the OG case of a strong optimizer that is not an agent. Arguably, the "goals" of evolution are the null case, the most fundamental ones. And if your environment is human civilization, it's easy to see that money and compute are as fundamental as calories, so even near-random process should be able to fixate on them too.
I would say 1 or 2 years at the OS level

Basically the curtain has been drawn and shows that current LLM’s are just very inefficient and will be optimized in weeks. Whatever improvements Apple’s Neural chip offers just needs more RAM closer to it, which will likely come at the next hardware fresh where this year its probably too late, while whatever is released at the end of 2024 will be good enough.
While I don't disagree with you, the Terran 1 actually runs on LNG rather than pure methane. I'm not sure what type of constraints they place on the LNG that ends up in the rocket but to my knowledge it's not pure methane like the Starship or other methalox rockets.
I cancelled my SiriusXM subscription a fee months ago and it was a painless experience. They even refunded the amount charged a few days prior to my call, without me even asking.

Cancelling my at&t account, on the other hand, took several calls to them and my bank, and in the end, I just had my bank stop payment.
This is generally clickbait with a large amount of vapid information. I am surprised to be honest that HackerNews is giving the attention to it that they are. I would not encourage giving this any more attention.

As an early draft, them putting in a placeholder of ~'this model uses a lot of compute {TODO: put in cost estimates here?}' does not at all equal 'the authors didn't even know how much it cost to train the model!' Additionally, of course the toxicity went down. There's a world of RLHF between here and that original draft, and they've shown how the non-RLHF model has lowered the toxicity of the untrained base model significantly. If the author of the tweets had done their due diligence, they might have noticed that.

Rather obviously around the time when the model was originally being developed, text-only was sorta really the only way that LLMs were done. Them pivoting to multi-modal is just a natural part of following what works and what doesn't. This is really straightforward, I am mind-boggled that this is getting attention over discourse that is meaningful to the tidal wave of change coming with these models.

One final note that this is a bit of shoveltext is at the bottom the author offers up vague concerns followed by mass-tagging accounts with high follow counts, to include Elon Musk.

I'd encourage you not even to give the tweet the benefit of your view count and to just move on to more valuable discussions that are taking place. Why not take a look at a fun little thread like https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35283721 ? (not affiliated other the fact that I made the first comment on it, I just pulled from the rising threads on HN's frontpage)
Find this site: Someone built a personal 'tinder' (with reward incentive)?
Hey HN, I'm trying to find this old website (created at least 4 years ago), can you help?

This guy created a site where you could nominate your friends to become friends (maybe romantic partner, I don't remember) with the creator.
It began with a bio of himself and the nomination form without much else.

The promise was for any nominator of a "successful" candidate, they (both?) would receive some cash award ($500, or something).

I believe there may have also been an article written about the experience.

I hope you find it... GLHF :)
Barely tangential to the article, but it’s getting exhausting seeing lazy take after lazy take where an author flippantly refers to crypto as a dumb fad when they really mean specific currencies or maybe NFTs as a whole.
You should really step up your elevator pitch. I'm not in the JavaScript ecosystem and after skimming your docs and searching on Google "what does next.js actually do" I'm still none the wiser. Seems to have something to do with what web developers call "routing" (which btw seems like a pompous way of describing how pages map to urls but I digress).

So one more time, explain like I'm five, what does next.js actually Do?
After typing this, I realized that there's a great movie that captures this exactly: _Dr. Strangelove: Or I how I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb_.

The eponymous character's boner-like n*zi salute, irrepressible when discussing nukes, reminds me of the irrepressible boner-like response that the most brilliant minds I know have to GPT-4.

Me included.

The other cultural touchstone the current vibe reminds me of is Saruman telling Gandalf about the inevitability of Sauron's reign. That same glitter in the eye: "We have work to do."
a babelfish in your ear
I don't think that's a distinctive explanation, though (i.e. "memory accesses were reordered" covers it already).

On common architectures, from one core itself it never looks like the memory accesses were reordered. From other cores, it may look like that. If there weren't any caches of any sort, there would not be any observable "memory reordering", unless the same core would observe it as well, which breaks sequential consistency (the guarantee to observe any memory access in program order).

(And if I'm not missing anything, reordering memory accesses would be pretty useless without caches anyway.)
teddit.net and libredd.it are alternative interfaces that still work (until they shut down the API)
There a lot of ways to reduce, just some ideias: turn on 3dsecure authentication whenever available. Check user location vs card location. Validate cvc code and postal code. Check for user activity and user signals (user agent, screen size etc) on the website, and other methods.