skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Great job OP. Yesterday after managing to run local instance of alpaca.cpp and reading more about what alpaca is and how it got fine tuned on LLaMA, I began to wonder what will it take to fine tune with own set of data.

With no real knowledge of LLM and only recently started to understand what LLM terms mean, such as 'model, inference, LLM model, intruction set, fine tuning' whatelse do you think is required to make a took like yours?

This is for education purposes and love to take a jab on creating something like this and and write an inference - such as the dev behind LLaMa inference in Rush.

>I am not familiar with HuggingFace libaries at all, why were they important in your implementaiton?
> Gradio - I believe is the UI that allows to plugin different lLM models, I am familiar with text-generation-ui on GitHub that uses Gradio.
>LORA I think further fines tines an model -- just like how LLaMa got fine tuned on instruciton set to produce Alpaca model.
> Firefox has no path, literally none, in getting a significant marketing share.

I'd argue it has a trivial path and that focusing elsewhere (ie: not on the one fucking asset they have ever had/ profited from) is insane.

1. Build a better browser. People browse a lot.

2. Do what Chrome does. Build integrations with services. Chrome is mandated at many companies because of its GSuite integration/ Context Aware Access. The Browser is an identity platform these days and Mozilla has done fuck all about it.

I could seriously go on and on about what they could do.

Mozilla's failures are painful because the path to success is so obvious. Their CEO is a massive failure and should have been fired ages ago.
FPGA Architecture for Zero-Knowledge Proofs
> I don't understand how so many folks seem to tolerate the UX lag in VSCode

A lot of us don't experience any issues. To me, VSCode is just as performant as Sublime is.
I would assume that most of the early Mesopotamian societies were the same. IOUs were the first form of currency, used for trade and bookkeeping. But after a while you'd see consolidation of wealth in the hands of a few, which would have been antithetical to the everything they knew at the time (group > individual).
I'm pretty sure the people who write short form marketing content don't pass the turing test either.
I'm sorry but I think you missed something a bit relevant aka 'Global Pandemic' which literally shut down massive swaths of the global economy, and was materially the biggest extant shock to the US economy probaby ever. And I mean ever, except for literally the Civil War, and maybe but not really the Opec crisis. Ok maybe the war of 1812.

Historically, we would have just 'let people die' and work through it, but this time we want to react and try to save lives so we shut stuff down, but it's existentially damaging.

Hence money printing.
This cost of living differential between the west coast and the rest of America is getting ridiculous.

If you can leverage the overpriced west coast but live in low COL area somewhere else, good for you.
> Raising nominal interest rates hurts everyone

Not really. It helps savers and punishes those who took undue amounts of risk.
> I disagree and have argued elsewhere that today’s inflation is caused by commodity market speculation, not wages. And if workers demand higher wages to deal with the inflationary impact of higher energy and other commodity prices - that is a consequence, not a cause of commodity price inflation

It should be noted that the author takes a very heterodox view of economics. Expert consensus does not agree with her perspective.
half our team is really entrenched with jetbrains. but aside from a couple of curmudgeons who are formally married to vim, I think VSCode and JetBrains has pretty much sewed up the market.
>Fox News would lose credibility.

Fox news can openly tell a court that it knowingly lied to its audience and lose only ten percent or so of its audience. They faced bigger backlash being critical of Trump. Meanwhile there are 49 other states, some of which that do things well, but fox news doesn't talk about that because they don't run positive stories about government because of their ideology.
Prohibitions on usury date from a time before modern bankruptcy laws; there used to be debtor's prisons. If debt is truly inescapable (and in some places and times hereditary!), and can lead to the lender inflicting that level of consequence, usury looks a lot more scary.
>> The Abel Prize (/ˈɑːbəl/ AH-bəl; Norwegian: Abelprisen [ˈɑ̀ːbl̩ˌpriːsn̩]) is awarded annually by the King of Norway to one or more outstanding mathematicians.[1] It is named after the Norwegian mathematician Niels Henrik Abel (1802–1829) and directly modeled after the Nobel Prizes.[2][3][4][5][6][7][8] It comes with a monetary award of 7.5 million Norwegian kroner (NOK; increased from 6 million NOK in 2019).
Virgin Orbit Raising $200M
This is interesting, I'd love to police streets with this, but I doubt it would make it to the USA.
It’s officially from GitHub. There is some weird language (that I’ll absolutely pass feedback on to the team), I think because GitHub Next is a different organization from GitHub proper, but I can assure you, this is an official GitHub app.

But I totally agree that this isn’t a great/clear message about where this is from.
Regardless of the merits of copyright claims, other legal issues exist; related comments:

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35259914

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35260275
Signing up for the technical preview of Copilot Chat also worked as expected, it was just a checkmark and a button on github.com, not even an oauth dialog.
Not very impressed with either Copilot or ChatGPT for programming purposes. I'm sure it will be interesting for some people, but whenever I really feel like I could benefit from an intelligent AI, it usually falls flat. Most commonly, it will just generate calls that don't exist, and if you try to get it to implement them, it will write bullshit.
Now the thing is, maybe it really does improve developer productivity by virtue of letting the developer autocomplete boring things. To be fair, I did see some opportunity here. But on the other hand, it also seemed to harm productivity, as I had to carefully review everything it did, and eventually had to disable Copilot so that it would stop annoying me with nonsense completions every time I stopped typing.
I'm not really sure if language models are actually getting closer to what we really want, or if they're getting closer to some other maxima that just looks similar. Clearly they're doing something that is novel and probably even useful, but with increasing parameter counts it seems that the underlying problems are not changing. Something certainly seems like it must be fundamentally wrong...
A technical deep dive on dark matter with theoretical astrophysicist Ethan Siegel and mathematician and AI researcher Timothy Nguyen.
You have the choice. My phone is always in fully silent mode. I choose when I get updates from it.
Only a few people are on an emergency list that make the phone ring and they know not to bother me for mundane things.
> I can't take seriously any proposal for reducing fossil fuel generation that doesn't involve nuclear power.

I think about 10% nuclear is a reasonable prediction midpoint (coincidentally the same as it is now, but the total generation will be higher), but that means I think no nuclear is about as likely as 20% nuclear and I take the "mostly nuclear" prediction from the trailer even less seriously than I would a no nuclear plan.
Same at my University in the mid-90s. I was the CS department network admin and we had an entire /24 to use as we liked.

At least it taught me how to detect attempted hacks early because every machine had to be monitored for attacks.

I just looked and they still have a /16 (65k public addresses). This is for a school that has maybe 15k students, not all of them living on the campus. And I’m sure most of the computing takes place in the cloud now anyway.

I know there are a lot of places who were on the Net early besides the military that have excess address capacity.
My new job is AI sommelier and I detect the bouquet of progress
Meta has been storing contacts for many years now. I mean, you can find relevant information also on hackernews e.g. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20881512
Hard for things to spread when you're small groups of people without interaction with anyone outside your group. And yes small groups of people were routinely completely wiped out.
I'm mostly curious how far the hockey stick will go up. Eventually most things level off.
A better question is what is deployable software? How does it contrast from non-deployable so we can understand what we're even talking about. Software gets "deployed" all the time so in what way is it currently non-deployable versus some rose tinted view of yesteryear's software?
The waiting list signup does not allow you to pick Pycharm, which previously has had a GitHub copilot plug-in.
This could use some explanation:

> "Mozilla.ai’s initial focus? Tools that make generative AI safer and more transparent. And, people-centric recommendation systems that don’t misinform or undermine our well-being."

1) What kind of tool is that? More 'transparent' - are we talking about a map of the training corpus, snapshots of the AI's internal state, or what? And what does 'safer' mean - a filter on the output of some kind? Will that be a transparent filter? Will there be a secretive committee that decides what's safe and what's not? Will it take recommendations from the Department of Homeland Security on that question, as Twitter was doing?

2) What is a people-centric recommendation system, exactly? Does that mean people get control of the knobs and dials on the recommendation system? For example, I'd like an 'inverted' option, the ability to grab a random selection of the content that the system thinks I wouldn't care about. I'd like the option to make different lists of channels and randomly grab content just from those lists. Also, a list of channels I never want to see any content from, period. I suspect, however, that the result will be more in the flavor of "Big Brother knows what's good for you, and what's not".

As far as whether I'd be 'misinformed' or 'well-being destabilized' by AI output, please stop being so paternalistic. If you're afraid people can't distinguish between fact and fiction, invest in better public education and teach skepticism and critical analysis skills to young people, instead of training them to be obedient little zombies who have absolute faith in institutional authorities.
Oh come on already...

Of course FSB has a backdoor to *data* collected by Yandex, but the code itself (as well as coders) have nothing to do with any three-letter-agency within Russia.
Model Arbitrage
CA isn't terribly difficult. https://keybase.io/blog/keybase-ssh-ca
Eh, as long as my employers don't care (they don't), I don't care. I have no illusions that my code/our code will give Microsoft any valuable training data it couldn't trivially get elsewhere.
It's clever, bur probably doesn't hold water legally, see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sega_v._Accolade
Maybe this is exactly the reason why it’s worth checking? They open-sourced it.
In this Infoworld column back in 1995 Bob predicted Internet would collapse in 1996 due to security breaches, capacity overloads, and demand for video online. He also promised to eat the article if this did not happen. And kept his promise.

https://1995blog.com/2015/12/03/prediction-of-the-year-1995-...
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There are multiple startups for this.

You can test the concept on my site https://aidev.codes although I don't have github integration yet.
I think you're being a bit misleading. It's not some issue related to government bonds specifically, it's about long-term bonds generally. IIRC, SVB went under because it took up a large position in long term mortgage-backed securities not treasuries. If it had instead invested in short-term treasuries, it would have been fine.

Government debt is the safest, and if you buy any other kind of debt, you'll want to be paid a premium for the extra risk you're taking. If interest rates are going up, you don't want all your money in long-term bonds.
>Nobody wants to steal something which the market is saturated with already

The market is not saturated with authenticity.
So if MSFT's message here is "software engineers don't have to know how to code," what's the value of knowing how to code? Seems at odds with their core customers' self interests.
You can chitchat and learn someone's skills. It takes practice, but it's the same skill set for solving problems. Ask what they did, what problems they encountered, and dig in three levels on the interesting topics.
When is a book considered “read?”
What I have read people do is that they prime the text with something obviously emotional before hand, including punctuation, before their desired output.
They then trim the audio they want to remove the prime phrase.

So something along the lines of:

"Remove this audio because it makes me super angry! Very angry! Now I say what I want to keep!"

Just having the AI read a script is often not enough alone without post processing and manipulation, often it is somewhat flat
Cue the predictable and repetitive complaints about smart TVs.

More relevant for most humans:

> However, judging it solely as a 4K QLED television, we found its picture quality to be just okay compared to competitors like LG and Samsung.
This just shows what a huge joke the Turing Award process is! He should have gotten this award by 2000 or never at all! But the committee was too busy giving out awards for writing sexy sounding papers about stoplight verification and zero knowledge proofs to honor someone who disrupteded the whole field!
Ask HN: How much of inflation is caused by supply rather than demand issues?
The Fed’s rates increases are predicated on the belief that they will “tame inflation.” But Fed representatives recognize it’s a blunt instrument, which in particular won’t address supply side issues, which are impacting, e.g., the price of gas and food. A major decision to raise rates so quickly is (certainly?) based on research and deliberation. I’d imagine that the Fed concluded that, while the instrument is blunt, it’s better than any alternatives. Could someone help explain the extent to which the Fed actually has the power to tame this current bout of inflation—whether their efforts have a ceiling, if you will—and what alternatives it might have considered, but discarded?
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I'm speaking more generally but

> Maybe it’s a half empty / half full thing, but there is some portion of the populace that can’t acknowledge the promise of anything until it is perfect and comprehensive.

Probably because paradigm shifts or new ways of doing things come with a lot of trade-offs that can be seen only after the change has been absorbed more. Early adopters are usually blind to these issues (or decide to be blind at them), conservatives don't look at the improvements but think that there might be something not that good in the future by projecting past experiences.
Will "open source prompts" be the new "open source code"?
Ah, not technically lying, the gold standard of integrity among politicians and charlatans.
It's rare that people with real insight take the time to comment. Thanks, this is great.
If it were not for the impending headset, Apple would look a wee bit caught out as well.

I suspect once Apple turns toward gen ai, all of its other advantages (infra, hw, instal base, services, etc) will propel it to forefront.
Dennis Ritchie Thesis – and the Typewriting Devices in the 1960s
Socket activation via systemd[0] is an option, assuming you are fine with certain requests taking a longer time to complete (if they arrive while the service is being restarted). Otherwise using a proxy in front of your app is your best bet (which has other benefits too, as you can offload TLS and request logging/instrumentation).

- https://github.com/bojanz/httpx#systemd-setup
>> Not only is Caffarelli remarkable for the depth of his work, he is also extraordinarily prolific. He has published 320 papers and, aged 74, continues to publish several papers a year. He is much loved within the community and has co-written papers with more than 130 people, his most frequent collaborator being Avner Friedman. Caffarelli’s papers have had 19,000 citations, a number that testifies to his influence in shaping the field. He has advised more than 30 PhD students.
Scary. For the first time in my life, I feel like my expertise is at risk of being rendered obsolete. Maybe not this year, but the writing is on the wall.

Soon coding without an AI will feel as antiquated as delivering food by horse. And resistance is futile because markets will punish those who refuse.

We'll probably need less and less developers as AI advance. Just like we need less manual labor in farms today.

And coding is just one of the many applications where AI can replace brains.

Governments will have to ponder about what to do with a world of people who became inferior to machines at almost everything. Universal Basic Income?

It's amazing and terrifying at the same time.

Perhaps our first contact with an alien will be with one we created ourselves.
You can go fast if you don't do anything fancy with the interface.

If you say, want bridged networking for your VMs and add your 10G interface to virbr0, poof, a good chunk of your acceleration vanishes right there.

Routing and firewalling also cost you a lot.

There are ways to deal with this with eg, virtual functions, but the point is that even on modern hardware, 10G can be no longer a foolproof thing to have working at full capacity. You may need to actually do a fair amount of tweaking to have things perform well.
You can still mod Firefox's UI pretty easily, its all defined by CSS files and not too difficult to customize. I for instance actually did the opposite of what you wanted and completely got rid of the tab bar cause I use Sidebery for tab management: https://i.imgur.com/cHz1clI.png Theres a whole subreddit for it even: https://www.reddit.com/r/FirefoxCSS/

This repo (and that subreddit) has all the info on setting stuff up in Firefox: https://github.com/aris-t2/customcssforfx and even has a CSS example for doing multi-tab lines: https://github.com/Aris-t2/CustomCSSforFx/blob/master/curren...
It sounds like the issue you have is introducing breaking or backwards incompatible changes at all while retaining the a similar name. Which is a fair point.

I’m not sure what would help in that case other than using something else than “.NET” to identify it.
Interest isn't just compensation for risk. It's also compensation for temporarily giving up control of your money.
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In an econometrics class in college, we have a team project and a final exam. The exam contained a question specific to the analysis method used in the team project. Answers to this question identified who genuinely worked on the project and who coasted on their team's work.

Same thing can happen here: students can submit their term papers, but they have to do a 5-minute oral exam with an instructor or TA to discuss their paper.
> have to wonder at what point developers remember how anti-developer Microsoft used to be

Microsoft has historically been anti-opensource, but not anti-developer. Their first product was a BASIC interpreter and in my experience throughout the 90s and early 2000s their developer ecosystem (aka Visual Studio) has really been first-class.

I am not a fan of Microsoft because they have been openly hostile to open source, but I don't think it's fair to say they have been anti-developer.
I can tell you in no uncertain terms that among women "guy who owns a Tesla" is not a phrase that springs to mind the kind of man you want to date.

Owning one you have to overcome the stereotypes of it being for insufferable tech bros and midlife crisis dad cars.
Medical mistakes in hospitals sits at #3 on the list of 'things that kill people prematurely'. [0] Note that's from 2016, and it doesn't appear the CDC has updated their reporting methods.

[0] https://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/news/media/releases/study_su...
Have you checked out the resources in https://www.reddit.com/r/homelabsales/

There are usually some good deals on used gear and things suitable for selfhosting if you want to go that route. I was able to build a 3 node cluster with lots of CPU/RAM (~100 vCPU/256G RAM) and storage (30+TB) on systems with redundant power supplies made for datacenters for under $500.

Upside: one time cost and usually cheaper than cloud-hosting costs.

Downside: power consumption (energy bill) increase unless you go with something like a Pi cluster, and you need to setup security well if you intend to expose any services to the Internet.
This looks very interesting. I'd like to see a model trained on the complete body of scientific research literature from the past 100 years or so, I wonder if this approach could facilitate that?
> everyone gets the same nominal payout, debtors must use the payout to pay off debt, non-debtors may keep the money and do what they please with it

Wouldn't this be very inflationary? It's approximately equivalent to "give everyone $X". I don't see any discussion at the link about how people would react to the dollar (and any dollar-denominated savings, wages, etc) suddenly being worth far less?
This is awesome.

Anyone has a vim version of this?

Or VisualStudio?
A radio telescope on the far side of the Moon
> That will get jumped up on Memorial Day"

Totally off topic, but is this a normal usage of this phrase? I've never seen/read "get jumped up" used in this sense.
What are you trying to say? They still run on threads and can consume them.
I've been working with Flower to implement and study Federated Learning for a few years, and have just started contributing back on Slack and Github. Congrats on launching on HN!
It’s worth it even for hobby projects, imo. It reduces the time spent on mundane tasks and allows you to think at a higher level and just move faster. Maybe you achieve a level of zen from implementing utility level code, similar to how some people might still write assembly code, but otherwise it’s a valuable tool/skill to learn.

Tangentially, I think there’s some fear associated with adopting AI tools, perhaps because developers feel like their skill sets are being displaced. And they are but there’s headroom e.g. assembly programmers learned C. There seems to be some post-hoc rationalizations being put forth to avoid that fear, but my sense is that developers who don’t cultivate this new skill set will fall behind.
The flood of AI generated content is already underway and the models keep improving. If our ability to identify AI content is 50% today, I would expect it to be much lower in coming years as people get better at using AI tools and models improve.

This feels vaguely apocalyptic. Like the internet I've known since the late 90s is going away completely and will never come back.

Tools from that era - forums, comment systems, search engines, email, etc. - are ill prepared to deal with the flood of generated content and will have to be replaced with... something.
You may have to start both processes with SO_REUSEADDR, I don’t remember the exact semantics.

People have a healthy skepticism of signals from the C days, but if we’re talking about Go, you’d just call signal.Notify. Any way of signaling your app to shut down works, though.

https://pkg.go.dev/os/signal@go1.20.2#Notify