skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Will the general public be running LLMs on their own hardware, or will it be like where we are today with self-hosting? Despite what I've written above I would like to think it won't. But at the same time this is something big tech companies will work very hard to centralise.
Yeah those alignment issues surely have killed more jews than that Hitler guy. /s
>You better alert the scientists that they missed something, then! That's some serious business, they must be alerted to their failings immediately!

Yes, unimaginable that scientists could have made a mistake that a layman could spot, or just said something to create good PR to their mission, even when it's inaccurate.

They also never unwittingly or intentionally BS in their research papers, right? And only a colleague (or a higher level intellect than theirs) could spot a mistake... /s

>Seriously though, do you really think these scientists are making claims, being widely reported, without having made the same conclusions and analysed the situation with all the data, not just that reported through a story on the Internet .. ?

Seriously, similar blunders have happened time and again.

In 1996, scientists at NASA declared that a 6.3-ounce
rock, broken off from a Mars meteorite discovered in
Antarctica in 1984, contained flecks of chemical compounds
— polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, magnetite, and iron
sulfide — that suggested the existence of bacteria on the
Red Planet 3.6 billion years ago. "August 7, 1996, could
go down as one of the most important dates in human
history," intoned one newspaper report. But within two
years the theory began to crack.

Traces of amino acids found in the rock, crucial to life,
were also found in the surrounding Antarctic ice. More
damning, other non-Martian rocks — rocks from the moon,
where it is clear life does not exist — showed the same
"evidence" of life. By November 1998 an article in Science
declared "most researchers agree that the case for life on
Mars is shakier than ever."

>Because it seems you're smarter than rocket scientists. Are you a brain surgeon, then?

This particular case aside, you appear to believe that you need to be smarter than X person to be able to spot an error they made. It doesn't take a very high IQ however to see the error in the above idea.

In any case, based on the insults, did you just wanted to lash out on someone to feel better for yourself?
I live in the countryside now. I’m not oblivious to the benefits of driving. What I’m doing is providing counter arguments to the ridiculous absolutes you’re coming out with. Comments like “only” are simply bullshit.

But I suspect that’s intentional behaviour. You don’t want people to agree, you are actively seeking out an argument. Because if you wanted a sensible discussion you’d see that our two points were complimentary rather than contradictory.
It's one thing to take your money out. It's another thing to sound a bullhorn and make everyone rush to take their money out, because that will overwhelm any bank.

What Thiel did was beyond irresponsible. He should be criminally tried.
Stripe do hold money on account of other people. When a customer pay, it does hold the money sent by the customer until your forward it to your account.
Wow that's amazing - he actually created almost an entire gameboy just to "capture" video signal from gameboy.
Its astonishing and terrifying at the same time. And rises some interesting philosophical questions (if he managed to create perfect emulation is this really video capture from the point of view of user or something wholly different)
I have a similar one for Homebrew, with the ability to preview package info and install multiple targets:

# ~/.config/fish/functions/fbi.fish
function fbi -a query -d 'Install Brew package via FZF'
set -f PREVIEW 'HOMEBREW_COLOR=1 brew info {}'
set -f PKGS (brew formulae) (brew casks |sed 's|^|homebrew/cask/|')

set -f INSTALL_PKGS (echo $PKGS \
|sed 's/ /\n/g' \
|fzf --multi --preview=$PREVIEW --query=$query --nth=-1 --with-nth=-2.. --delimiter=/)

if test ! -z "$INSTALL_PKGS"
brew install $INSTALL_PKGS
else
echo "Nothing to install…"
end
end
I agree, I subscribed to a physical, high-quality Sunday newspaper (I hope this word exists in English, it's a newspaper that gets released once a week on the weekend) and I find it perfect. Frequent enough to stay up-to-date, but slow enough to not get caught up in speculation and clickbait.

It made me realize how basically no "breaking news" is important to my personal life. Reading high-quality reports a few hours once a week is enough to stay more informed than constantly discussing breaking news on Twitter and is far better for my well being.
The Awesome Live Coding list on Github would be a great place to start: https://github.com/toplap/awesome-livecoding/blob/master/REA...
I want that button. Mostly so I can get my brain back and put it to use, without slaving it to the attention machine.

If I want to watch mindless entertainment, I wish to be the one to engage with it first.
Millionaires also commit terrible crimes and depraved actions, I guess that should give us the green light to do that in kind
Mobos these days don't come with iGPUs. You'll need CPUs with graphics or buy cheap graphic adapters on eBay.

You can buy a couple of 16 to 22 core Xeons on AliExpress and a dual CPU motherboard for them. Plenty of reviews on YouTube.
Ha! But they delivered that much value (or more), so the market supported the price until supply flooded.

We could do worse for a transformative technology ranking metric than "How overpriced was this when first released?" (significant look at Nvidia cards)
I hear you folks. I’ll add an option for local assets.
It works just fine but it will only give a boolean value valid/invalid, it won't tell you why it's invalid.
We should start to talk about what an NFT and POAP is for you. What we do is a new concept where you can probe the physical object does not exist anymore and it is now digital. The NFT is part of this experiment. It is an experiment for us and for the artists.
True, but the percentages are different. Signal to noise ratio is way better here.
Coming soon to a for near you :)

https://www.motortrend.com/news/ford-billboard-ad-patent-sys...
This will heavily depend on power costs in your area, but if your tasks are not just CPU heavy but also require a lot of RAM it's totally worth to consider old Xeons from China with used Samsung RAM.

This used hardware can be easily be 2-4 times cheaper than building using modern CPUs, but power usage is also much higher.
Thanks for linking straight to old reddit :-)
"Some estimates of the royal family's wealth measure their net worth at $1.4 trillion."

A billion isn't worth losing sleep over here.
There is a psychological aspect to food [being appetizing] unfortunately
Want to see how much you could potentially save when you move your data to R2?
In general (and not just in software), anything that becomes a known productivity metric will rapidly converge towards the mean.

The worst example I have seen is incentivized story points. Bad news: you just ruined your estimation process.

Managers end up trying to put in counter measures and the whole thing becomes a convoluted mess.

Personally, I think PR are a decent metric, but you need an engineering manager to review (and understand) the work that the team is doing (and the team dynamics—who’s doing what).

Basically, the only way to really understand productivity is to be close to the team. This takes time, and it requires hiring the right manager, so a lot of companies opt for off the shelf solutions (Pluralsight, Jellyfish, etc).

Not saying this is good or bad, it’s just what I have observed.
I just want Asteroid that tastes like real Asteroid!
Meanwhile Europe is having morning tea and APAC evening news catch up...
For what it's worth, the game was pretty straight code, and didn't use the timer interrupt at all. I was able to crank up the rate of that, to successfully poll the quadrature signals from the trackball (in trackball, not virtual joystick mode). And then pulse modulate a virtual joystick register appropriately and patch the game to read that instead of the real one. Amazingly this worked well, especially because the movement in the original joystick mode was way too fast so a good range of speeds was possible. Directions other than X/Y were combinations of small X/Y steps.
One problem to keep in mind with refurb though is power consumption. Ask me how I know (hint, there’s a rack of Dell r720’s in my basement).
Having also spent time at a GraphQL company, I keep expecting this question too ;)

But, as of yet, it has not come up.
Yes and no. Concurrency was still a problem that got short shrift. But the "overload doesNotUnderstand:, serialize the message and dispatch it over the network" was a fun way to do rpc-ishness in Smalltalk and ObjC before people got hung up on writing IDLs. (Looking at you, CORBA)

I'm reminded of Larry Wall's quote: "languages differ not in what they make possible, but in what they make easy."

Smalltalk and ObjC made proxy objects easy.
what was the Roman Empire’s equivalent of legalised Ponzi schemes? sugar of lead? Livia?
Random thoughts on concurrency, databases and distributed systems
I'm a newbie to this stuff, but I did manage to get Dalai Llama up and running with llama and alpaca 7B and 13B.

The results I get seem to be random spitouts of reddit or facebook posts. Very often it even says something like "Next Post >>" or has a timestamp of the post.

Is this using the same model? Is there some kind of tuning I have to do?
I interview and then you show up to do the job, possibly
Harry Houdini's Library, Digitized
In the same vein we can argue that PornHub helps with some things, too.
Houdini's collection was bequeathed to the US Library of Congress, around 4000 of which are digitized here.
I'm curating a list of events and CFPs in my newsletter, focussing on cloud-native and DevOps. https://opsindev.news/archive/2023-03-20/#events-and-cfps

Specifically for engineering leaders, I'd recommend checking out

- QCon (London next week, I'm speaking there too)

- KubeCon EU / NA

- Container Days

- SRECON
> Many do, even if they don't drive at home.

But this conversation is about people who don’t drive. Not people who do.

You’ve warped the discussion so far off it’s original topic that your entire premise here is now just one stupid straw man argument.

To get back on topic: nobody is disputing that there are people out there with driving licenses (well durrr!). It was to explain why some people (ie not all) are content without learning to drive.
How to encrypt files with Ruby and Active Support
I'm a dillitente in many disciplines and as such there's always something I can work on. Although I find myself falling into the consumptive pattern more than I'd like, I strive to learn new things and skills. For instance, lately I've been learning blender and building a model of a location I have frequent dreams/nightmares about.

Art and nature are my go-to activities. Hiking, biking, playing music, and doodling in blender are all pretty rewarding.
Wifi/5G guys next? Much more important invention in my opinion
Maybe, but I think educating transit riders on how to use them correctly would be a major challenge.
Amazing to reflect that this used to be 'state of the art' for ML only three years ago.
For some reason the "Copy as Markdown" extension I use is demanding new permissions to upgrade. Its been working fine for a year and more without them, and seems fine without being given new permissions or upgrading. It does not need "Sync and Save data" for what it does.

So yeah maybe you should worry.
Ethernet switches are actually pretty complex things, when you think about it. They have to learn what MAC addresses are behind each port, and build a complex forwarding table and do table lookups in real time. The larger the switch, the more complex it is. Its hard to make it scale.

Around the same era, Myrinet switches with higher bandwidth (1.2Gb/s if I remember correctly) and higher density at a fraction of the port cost of slower ethernet switches. This was possible because the Myrinet switches were dumb.. The Myrinet network elected a "mapper" that distributed routes to all NICs. The NICs then pre-pended routing flits to the front of each packet. So to forward a packet to its destination, all a Myrinet switch had to do was strip off and then read the first flit, see that it said "exit this hop on port 7", and then forward it on to the next switch. Higher densities were achieved with multiple chips inside the cabinet.

In the mid 2000s we even built one of what was, at the time, one of the worlds largest ethernet switches using (newer, faster Myrinet) internally, and encapsulating the ethernet traffic inside Myrinet. That product died due to pressure from folks that were our partners, but felt threatened by our incredibly inexpensive high density switches.

https://www.networkworld.com/article/2323306/myricom-rolls-o...

EDIT: fixed routing flit description, added link to PR
Actually, he was "cancelled" by people lying about him supporting Epstein and saying child rape is good, neither of which were even close to being uttered.

The disingenuous nature of this all is why he's back in his foundations again.
Laundering stolen property is not a means of escaping the law - and the terms of service were part & parcel of the related code, models, weights, etc. If they were not included in the related downloads by a third-party, upon discovery, Facebook would simply send a cease and desist notice to the party currently violating the terms with a copy of the terms, at which point, they would be in direct violation of the terms. If party failed to comply, Facebook would also send legal notices to anyone contributing to the breach of contract such as payment providers, hosts, etc.
Coziness in Games: An Exploration of Safety, Softness and Satisfied Needs (2017)
Bit of a missed opportunity to only focus on Marc Benniof and Elon Musk. I'm no fan of either and I fully agree that Salesforce and Tesla are mostly hot air.

But the missed opportunity IMO is food and grocery delivery services (Deliveroo, Gorillas, Uber, Getir, Amazon). Riding the Corona + cheap money landscape, they managed to convince the world there would be a market. The hype they gathered was fully leveraged to disrupt. Indeed they successfully killed many a local business as well as each other.

And where is the innovation now? Maybe it's somewhere, not my town...
IBM CEO on Leadership, Power, and Adversity – Lex Fridman Podcast #362
That only matters if your design isn't garbage to begin with.

If you have some Toyota 22RE-esque timing component eating abomination or some Navistar 6.0-esque headgasket eating abomination the thing won't last long enough for normal wear to dominate the equation.
Very very different. And if you are even asking that you are making a bad faith argument.
Thank you for not mentioning CORBA.
I thought this was common knowledge
I think she is free now to talk everywhere, isn't she?
Free Tool. Open and Explore Huge CSV Files
Its more a byproduct of the day to day operations? Sorry, i dont think i should have implied evil intent. There is very little intentional by individuals in power in all of this.

Its more aching to a sort of spec written by the logging output of whack-the-mole debugging?
Hi everyone,

I've been tinkering with a podcast show hosted by ChatGPT4. The voice is generated by ElevenLabs and all the artwork is from Midjourney 5. The only thing I do is provide prompts and publish the content. I'm hoping to fully automate the show so that a new episode is published daily with no human intervention - apart from giving it subject matters to talk about. I hope you listen in!
I Saw the Face of God in a TSMC Factory
I aim mainly for perf/cost and the cost is the TOC - this includes power consumption which currently is a big part of the cost in the long run. So I would aim for lower TDP under load - these newer Ryzen's seem to have 2x lower TDP than quite less performant older solutions.
financial independence early retirement. It’s the notion that you can work towards retiring early where your money makes enough money to live off of independently from any employer.
> Blaming the government is a cop out. The job of finance professionals is to manage the assets in their custody responsibly.

Somehow I feel that blaming the government is much more than a cop-out; it's a calculated position that enables the big players to continue privatizing the wins and socializing the losses. "Of course we are getting a bailout", the narrative goes, "cause it was the big government's fault all along!"
And it was sniffing heaven. Only paralleled by the brief period of nobody using any serious encryption on their wifi.
Being blunt, the mere fact that you can talk about that in public shows me you don’t truly understand the difference between US or European values and CCP values. You can and should have policy discussions about how the US isn’t perfect and can do better, since in many ways this isn’t possible in many parts of the world.

If you live in the west and can’t see that CCP interests are not aligned with the wests interests, you are a fool.
the best tech doesn't always win, and in fact the "best" tech is typically promoted by people who focus more on the tech and less on go-to-market and competitive strategy. And thus, the "best" tech often loses to the tech that (for example) is better packaged or promoted.

Python is a nice example: inelegant language with many deep flaws, but easy syntax and "batteries included" won the day.
Russia’s Space Program Is in Big Trouble
Until the voice command fails and you have to resort to digging through a touchscreen UI.

For whatever reason, my wife's voice does not do well with voice control (despite being an American with an average American accent). And I have a slight Scottish accent (pronounce my Rs and /hw/) which, despite being mild (lived in the US for nearly 40 years) still causes trouble with voice control.
There's plenty of youtube clips of the Indians Jones scene with millions of views, I think more people have seen the Indians Jones scene this year than the Always Sunny scene.
LOL - Heh, COBOL didn't work out to well for making 'developers' entry level personnel. :-D IBM had dreams of minimum wage programmers what - 50 years ago now ?
So did Hillary Clinton and I’m sure Yellen is just as uninfluenced by them as she was.
So instead of building a product that will compete with closed corporate models, mozilla will invest on Safety? I guess their donors are happy with that

Safety is a corporate concern (because they want to sell it in a cloud)

What we want are fully-open-source models that we can download and use as we please. I guess we ll need to stick with pirates for that

https://twitter.com/nicholasadeleon/status/16383592625724743...
I believe that GIGO is the rule here; it can only produce 10X of whatever X originally was.

I find that it can synthesize something coherent from whatever information it's fed with ~98% accuracy with the correct prompt.

I used it to summarize disjointed, sometimes incoherent, interview transcripts this week and it did a fantastic job, gleaning the important bits and serializing them in paragraphs that were much more pleasant to read.
And is the one below that by Chesterton?
> For having RNA you need a molecule composed of roughly 200 nucleotides.

miRNA are order of magnitude smaller.
Crypto carbon emissions could be even higher this year than last
This is great. The only safe and good for the public AI is open source. We are still very very far from AGI but it's good we are getting these open source initiatives now.
I mean, what do you want?

It’s so easy to be critical.

Ok; you play then.

What should they be doing?

If they don’t, who is going to invest in open AI models?

OpenAI? Ha!

Let’s say you’re in charge then. What’s your product strategy?

I personally think this is better than doing nothing, even if it isn’t perfect.
there's "HTML (.add_html)" in the docs - "Renders raw HTML. This is meant to be an escape hatch for when you need to render something that isn't supported by PyVibe." I'm guessing this isn't sanitized and we trust the dev. After all, they can do "eval" in Python which is much riskier than raw HTML :)
It's worth mentioning Moore's Law, which was actually a short term prediction, arguably turned into a business goal. The "law" states that the number of transistors in integrated circuits (like CPUs) will be doubled every two years (or 18 months by some variations). It wasn't entirely made up, as it was mostly based on advances in manufacturing technology, but it was a prediction made in 1965 that was supposed to hold for ten years. However reality kept up with this prediction for far longer than anticipated until the physical limits of silicon miniaturization became apparent in recent (ish) years, until the mid 00's (maybe later?).
> *joked* to colleagues
> M:N is not the interesting aspect of virtual threads at all, automagically turning blocking operations into non-blocking is

I'm not very into this Loom virtual threads thing, but... what's the difference between this automagically conversion of blocking into non-blocking in a M:N model and a 1:1 one? I mean, couldn't the same be done with normal threads too?
It's possible that they have already reaped the profits and are now saddling the banks with debt, leaving the burden on the people.
Basically the worth of a nation given to one family.
Related: "Responsible AI Challenge" https://blog.mozilla.org/en/mozilla/mozilla-launches-respons...

Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35169072
YOLO, the AI Shell Assistant now supports GPT-4
I love stuff like this. I saw something loosely related a while back where someone had taken apart an old kids toy (the atomic powered robot), and it had a little plastic disc inside for a the sound and voice effects.

They were able to play it back by taking a high resolution photo and decoding the image.

This feels like magic to me no matter how well I understand the science behind it.
Hey there! So it’ll be a Python-first PaaS focused on running data apps. So it’ll include storage for pickle files, a simple NoSQL database, identity aware proxy so you can configure specific routes as being authenticated, secrets manager, and the ability to run background jobs on a schedule (usually some sort of ETL process or model training).

I go back and forth on the REPL. We built a REPL but then a lot of the beta users preferred the power of GitHub Codespaces so right now I’m thinking that no, it’ll not contain the REPL.

If you have a use case, would you like to beta test the hosting?
The title is like saying "The profit increases by 0%", which is grammatically correct and logically sound, but that exactly means the profit doesn't increase at all.

When the task is choosing between two choices (in this case: AI/Human), the worst you can do in average is not 0% correct, but 50%, which is a coin flip. If a model—whether it's an ML one or is inside human's mind—achieves 40% accuracy in a binary prediction, it can increases the accuracy to 60% by just flipping the answers.

The more interesting numbers are precision and recall, or even better, a confusion matrix. It might turn out that the false AI score and the false human score (in the sense of false positive/negative) differ significantly. That would be a more interesting report.
Unpopular Opinion: Don’t Use a Raspberry Pi for That