skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We have some open-source tooling in the works! :) We understand that some users are sensitive to managed services, we’re starting with this, but we’re planning to open source tools to improve developer experience around information retrieval and memory.
They bought CentOS in 2014 which was long before IBM.
While true I think this also misses that “for almost everyone else” you’re probably not (or at least should not) be trying to optimize zero-shot performance if you have an intended high inference use case so I don’t think Chinchilla would be all that relevant.
> It also because Taiwan is our ally from WW2 days and we have a long history of friendship with them.

Taiwan during World War II, was part of the Japanese Empire...
You can run inference on GPUs. These are just models and weights.
But is it better than going to the developer website that uses SSL and downloading directly? A consolidated app store is a single point of failure after all. Hard to say it's actually better. There's also no need to bundle the malware scanner with the app store since all it does is scan your device. You can have a malware scanner without an app store.
It's got issues but when the other big option is Teams, there's not a lot of room for complaining
What are all the teens/20 yos going to do when they wake up one morning and TikTok is turned off?

I’m not saying that TikTok or other social media is great, but it would certainly be an interesting social experiment to suddenly force millions of kids to go cold Turkey on something that they’re addicted to.

Maybe they’ll turn to other social media, maybe they’ll start painting, maybe they’ll burn down a city.
The curious case of O_DIRECTORY|O_CREAT
Pretty cool, would I use this in relation or in conjunction with SecurityHub?
Thanks for sharing your perspective but (I don't guess you'll be surprised) I don't agree. Maths, formal languages in general (which is basically maths) is how we understand any process that is beyond our immediate experience, i.e. our senses. We can't see the quantum world, for example, but we can describe it with maths and try to understand its behaviour.

So while there may or may not be emergent behaviours in LLMs and so on, we will not really know that until we've put it down in maths, pointed to the maths, and said "there, that's the emergent behaviours". Until then all we have is speculation.

And I don't like speculation. I like to know how things work. I think that's that thing done in science, also, and that this is the way that we have made any progress as a species. I think I'm in good company in wanting to know how things work, I mean.

I don't agree we are "just stochastic parrots" either, not in any sense. Because we can abstract, and formalise, and prove, and demonstrate. You can't do that just by predicting. That's a power over and beyond modelling data.

I don't pretend to understand that "power", and I don't expect I will in my lifetime, but that's OK.
I think that, if you look at the first iPhone, the technology was not at all “mature”. The first versions had some decidedly undesirable workarounds in both hardware and software. There’s even an interesting argument that Apple’s reliance on a somewhat outdated, non-“modern” language (ObjC) was an advantage when switching to low powered mobile hardware. What Apple did was succeeded in a more concept driven paradigm change - usable soft keyboard, multi touch, usable “full web” browser. Also rejecting dubious technologies like Flash that were considered de facto at the time. Basically packaging standard technologies into a far better conceived whole. This was their successful business model for a long time. It’s only recently that Apple has been leading technology in terms of innovation, and that only happened once they became so dominant, which only happened after the iPhone
For now. Reddit is clearly, and has been for several years, on a mission to make the web version as terrible as possible so that people will install their app instead. It’s the only reasonable explanation. But I will continue to use Reddit in the web browser until the day they make the web version completely unbearable. And then I will just leave.
Who would you suggest as the voice of reason?
I don’t use a notebook. I write plain Python scripts for batch jobs (run every day) and the UI is backed by aiohttp and HTMLX. I has no fear when I demoed my app in public for the first time since I’ve used it every day since the beginning of the year and it spins like a top.
A higher bit rate lets you digitally process audio without introducing artifacts. It's very common to record, mix, and master audio at 192/24 and even oversample well above 192k.

It has nothing to do with snake oil or hearing things above 22k it's about not introducing aliasing and other digital artifacts, and on highly dynamic content like classical can definitely be heard in the audible spectrum.
Yes static info are mainly product name/code/description/keywords etc.
Dynamic ones are price, quantity_available or similar feeds.
Ban this, ban that. Lets ban everything I don't like! Lets ban the Statue of David even...

It's a slippery slope
This is a ridiculously naive take.
Direct from the mouth of the other half of the team:

We used Xstate over react-router by using a parallel machine:

- One for application state
- One for view state

We had to hack the innards of the events a bit to get the two machines to communicate. This allowed the view to re-render the jsonschema form at the exact right time, and not flicker on multiple state transitions.

In hindsight, graphql wasn’t as necessary as we initially thought. The important part was storing the mutation as a string as an xstate transition parameter. We used federation, so it did help us deal with multiple backends.

All database. Versions were handled by having a core machine that pulled the kiosk’s workflow from the server and ran it as a submachine. So the code on the device (core machine) could switch sub machine workflows on the fly between runs.
> no good alternative

Depending on how you use Twitter, Mastodon might be a good alternative.
And in turn, I have ceased using reddit on mobile after a 17-year streak. Guessing old.reddit.com will be the next to go, and then it's goodbye for good.
Have you tried promoting other methods such as standard credit card payments above PayPal? Have you AB tested removing PayPal? It could be a convenience but not a blocker.
Not being able to block YouTube ads is always used as some kind of gotcha, but for me the trade-off is easily worth it.

Besides, blocking YouTube ads seems a lot scummier than blocking regular ads. Ad least some percentage of that ad revenue goes to the creator of the video you're watching, and not to Google. It's why I'm happy to subscribe to YouTube Premium.
The more of such platforms, the better for both sides of transaction ;)
Does it have a URL scheme to note execution of habits?
PayPal ≠ government
It was inevitable. Whole chickens now cost €7.99/kg, up from €1.99/kg last year. Eggplants are priced at €3.99/kg, compared to €0.99/kg previously. Even basic apples now cost €2.99/kg, up from €0.99/kg. The cause of this increase is not due to war, but rather it is a result of pure speculation driven by greed.
It’s Time to Create a Private ChatGPT for Yourself Today
I've never had a problem on aliexpress. So I guess someone solved it.
As if boring architectures don't have their own problems.
Banning the operation of a foreign-controlled corporation from a state that harshly restricts foreign economic activities in their borders is hardly a first amendment issue. It's not even close.

[EDIT] Case law citations would be a lot more convincing than downvotes.
Link to the book directly from MIT Press: https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262538404/bicycling-science/
> with an interest in overtaking the U.S. have both data and means to manipulate the opinions of its citizens

How is that any different from the US itself. People seem to have forgotten the WMD lie...
I am in love with this implementation considering the ability to run on 8 GB VRAM and Apache 2.0 license.
China didn't ban Instagram, Facebook, Google
> it's wildly fluctuating value made it unsuitable for use as a day to day currency,

Coinbase has the option of immediately converting crypto payments into fiat, eliminating that problem.

> and because they realized it was a gimmick whose inconvenience (for the vendor) was not worth the limited interest in using it as such.

This is the bigger issue.

Even if it's an online vendor where having to wait an hour for the transaction to get 6 confirmations isn't a problem, they still have to either integrate with another payment processor like Coinbase to accept the payment, or spend money building their own. In any case, it's cost and infrastructure to setup and they're probably unlikely to see RoI.
While I've seen these sorts of verification methods quite rarely, what's very frustrating about them is that in my experiences, the questions both make assumptions about what information is private for a person, and also come from rudimentary matching on public databases, which can easily result in questions you wouldn't be expected to the know the answer to.

In one case, while, I think, signing up for something that should not have required strong security, I think an online account for a shipper, I was asked for the birth date of a 'relative who lived with me'. Only, she didn't live with me: she was my ex-aunt, who had not spoken to any of us since her divorce when I was around 8, and who had moved out of the house, and out of the state, around two decades before we moved into it. The matching appears to have been entirely based on two people with the same last name having been recorded at the same address at some points over the course of 20 years, with no cross-referencing of other data or whether the dates were at all near each other. And given how common my last name is, it would not have been too surprising to have simply been asked the birth date of a complete stranger.

I actually called the company to find out how to get an account without answering this rather infeasible question, and they pointed out that if I just tried creating an account again, it would ask me a different set of ridiculous questions. I did, and while I don't recall what the questions were, I do recall they were such that a basic search for my name online would have immediately answered them, providing no identity verification whatsoever.
The PyTorch model files are already available to download from Hugging Face - the largest one looks to be 52GB. They should run on any hardware that can run regular PyTorch models.
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The US One China Policy does not at all say that Taiwan is part of the PRC, it rather states that both PRC and Taiwan view China as one.
What field of economic thought leads you to claim that inflation can (and should) be controlled by taxing the rich?

This is an unusual claim, to say the least.
I found an old book called The Forgotten American from 1970 or so that said almost the same thing. A bit less than 20% of young people were conservative vs about the same liberal (e.g. opposed to Vietnam war) and the former had more satisfaction that the latter in most respects.
TikTok is not the open internet. IRC, self-hosted blogs, the fediverse -- that is the open internet.

Banning a walled garden is "fair game" as far as I'm concerned. They excercise controll over their users but don't like it when they're controlled.
Or you simply are inverting cause and effect. Or at least cause and multiple independent effects. When the inflation goes up, both interest rates and unemployment go up.

It's akin to saying that coughing causes lung cancer. Smoking causes coughing and lung cancer. One cause, multiple effects.
In my case I took about 7 months off to work on side projects, ride my bicycle and day dream. I had to recharge after the lay off.
This is basically how we do authentication in the Splitgraph DDN [0], which is kind of like a multi-tenant serverless Postgres.

We implement the Postgres frontend with a forked version of PgBouncer, and we changed the authentication method such that when the user authenticates, we issue them a JWT which we store as a session variable. That session variable has the same security properties as a cookie in a web browser (the user can change/manipulate it, but if it's signed by us we can trust its claims).

That's the simple explanation that skips over the multi-tenant part. I don't want to derail from the thread - Neon is very cool, and we are actually experimenting with it right now, for storing the Seafowl [1] catalog [2] when deploying to "scale to zero" services like Google Cloud Run or AWS Lambda, which don't have persistent storage.

[0] https://www.splitgraph.com/connect/query

[1] https://seafowl.io

[2] https://seafowl.io/docs/learning/architecture
FTC Set to Fine BetterHelp $7.8M for Sending Facebook Mental Health Data
Headline should in fact read: "In supermarkets across Europe, corporate greed is leading to a surge in food theft."

And that theft is entirely justifiable as these corporate grocery chains are effectively stealing from all of us with this greed disguised as inflation bullshit.
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(Not sure what "per article" means though. How to donate for past articles? Will I get billed whenever a new article drops?)
The Kuomintang were our allies in WW2, and were forced to retreat to Taiwan in 1949.

When the famous WW2 Pilot Doolittle did his famous raid on Japan and crash-landed in China, it was the Kuomintang who saved those pilots and returned them safely to the USA, despite the Japanese atrocities that were occurring. (Well, Imperialist Japan did capture some of those pilots... but the Kuomintang did what they could)

Communist China then took over most of China and forced Kuomintang to retreat to Taiwan by 1949. And we call those people "Taiwanese" today. Historically, they are the rightful owners of China, though they lost the civil war.

Today, we're strategically ambiguous to try to not piss off China about our different viewpoints of history. But we're quickly coming to the point where ambiguity no longer helps. We're likely heading for war unfortunately.
Already useful across a variety of domains, and it's in early days yet!

Just yesterday I used to create a GitHub issue with minimal effort.
> The TikTok ban has very little do with TikTok. It's yet another Patriot Act (now, the Restrict Act [2]) style back door to slip in some seriously heinous legislation that could find you fined to the tune of millions, or worse, thrown in jail for 20 years.

Yep. They couldnt put the backdoors through the 'we are fighting pedophilia' excuse. Now they are using Tiktok...
Yeah. Surfing is a great example of a Stone Age sport that has been radically changed by Space Age technology. Koa wood gets you a longboard that is hard to steer and can only surf long smooth waves. The modern surfboard is very much born out of California's aviation industry and its fixation on light, strong materials and aerodynamics. Surfing Pipeline is only possible with modern plastics, fins and shaping.
I am curious though how would the model weights work out?
> At some point the pro-tiktok ban crowd will realize just how much of their 1st and 4th amendment rights they have lost.

Yes, Tik Tok developers are likely to use the algorithm to help defend the company.

> America cant keep its promises to its citizens and do what you are describing at the same time. It's now choosing the latter and chipping away at the former.

What specific promise are you referring to?
Why is the advertising crap and scams now tho? If Twitter were benefiting from Catturd and other luminaries, wouldn't it be wall to wall Apple, Nike, and LVMH?
Is there a benchmark comparing the two that I missed?

Edit: The huggingface page has 0-shot benchmarks which you can compare against the llama paper

https://huggingface.co/cerebras/Cerebras-GPT-13B

https://arxiv.org/pdf/2302.13971.pdf
Glad Aurox decided to go open-open source! Hope developers will see the potential for an (already) amazing Decentralised Finance wallet/platform with great features.
Look into home assistant. Also Homekit does it too.
That ship has sailed. In the first few weeks there was lots of buzz about alternatives, PG had a little fit and spent about 15 minutes exclusively on mastadon etc. The buzz is gone now, something big will have to change for it to get it's momentum again.
I've had to call my bank and they had a very hard time unapproving someone after I'd given them deposit permissions but ended the business relationship.

It was weird. They seemed very confused by the request.
I think quite the opposite - a beef-only diet, very high in fat, is probably the evolutionary diet we're most adapted too. After all we only started cultivating grains about 10,000 years ago. It was large, fatty megafauna for hundreds of thousands of years before that.
Making customers happy isn't totally orthogonal to making money right?

In midwit meme format:

Low wit: Make customers happy. Making customers happy is how you sell products and win customers from competitors

Midwit: Screw over customers for profit. Customers are kind of low information though right? Maybe we can do things that increase profits at the expense of the customer if the customer wont notice or attribute it to us

High wit: Make customers happy. While an individual customer is low information, in aggregate, doing these things causes a company's reputation to suffer a death by a thousand cuts.
That's funny, I bought the exact record player shown in that article, and it was indeed broken. Very high wow-and-flutter, a horrible scraping noise whenever the tonearm moved, and the clamp that was supposed to hold the tonearm in place during shipping was missing, so it was just flapping around freely inside the box.

I did indeed return it.
Oh sure, but like all human traits it occurs along a spectrum, and fulfilling that need gets balanced against others - a tech salary solveth a multitude of problems after all. And I imagine for many getting started in tech seems like a great idea, learn a bunch and put aside a nest egg, and find out about the golden handcuffs later.

My point being that the sort of intrinsic motivation you are describing gets sort of overwhelmed by huge benefits packages and total comp.
> Private ChatGPT

> powered by gpt-3.5-turbo API

I don't think "private" means what these folks think it means.
I linked the image file url, but checking on my phone, it redirects to the bloated page instead of the image. Loaded just the image on my desktop though.
Revoking or reforming a corrupt law is justice. Breaking it is individual privilege.
I've been loving apple card. I love that the rewards come in cash rather than airline points, so it's really easy to use the rewards.
AI trends in 2023: Graph Neural Networks
Don't put words in my mouth, I didn't say "every" app. There are lots of infrastructure you don't want to give away essentially. A flashlight app? Yeah that's probably fine. Gambling? Sure go ahead chinese companies and take people's money for your mobile game. What if splunk was a chinese company? For example, I think we should continue to discuss whether zoom is trustworthy, didn't they get caught routing (maybe accidentally) most stuff through china?

Facebook once purposely manipulated depressed kids by adjusting what was shown to them in their feed. They should have been burned down the second that happened, and no country should allow that nonsense, even if you trust the american legal system to work. In much the same way, we should not trust tiktok, as chinese companies are incredibly opaque, so we would have a much harder time finding red flags to key us in to any nefarious activity.

In the same way, we probably shouldn't let a secretive private company have a thumb on the scale of a significant amount of american life. If we only have the political capital to ban tiktok right now because "China bad" then oh well, sometimes doing the right thing for the wrong reason is okay, like when Trump pushed for transparency in medical pricing. I don't think a free market health system is a workable system, but that was still a beneficial step in our current system.

Others say all this talk is cover because the actual law being discussed is much more draconian and gross. I would not be in favor of that.
I’m not even done with reading, but i’ve been very interested in bikes and how they work for quite some time now and I can confidentially say that this is on of the best writeups there is.
Thanks to the author for making this
It's important to take into account the construction costs (and all the parties that are profiting from building new stuff). I think the cost of construction has gone up a lot in recent history. People in general also have much more luxurious requirements for housing than in the past which contributes to the cost. So, building just more is not some magical way to solve this. It's one efficient tool, however, especially if legislative point is made to strongly prefer affordable housing (and be strict about it).
Those studies have been debunked. Current state of science is that there is no indication that reduction of red meat consumption would bring any health benefits.
Wow. I can finaly afford an iPhone 14 Pro. /s

Oh lord won't you buy me a Mercedes-Benz. My friends all drive Porsches, i must make amends...
One could argue it has offered GNU/Linux distributions which, in order to manage, require their guidance, training and consulting.

So, yeah, basically bridging the tech world with the corporate world, but in both directions :-(
AI vs. AGI vs. Consciousness vs. Super-Intelligence vs. Agency
If you want to talk about what 90% of people are "fine" with, honestly it's a Chromebook.

I have a Chromebook I bought in 2018 for something like $200, and it's "fine" for gmail, online banking, youtube, and other casual stuff. I have an ssh app on it to use for work, and that's "fine" as well. Most people don't need more than this.
I guess that means time to fire up a few GPUs later today and get some weights! We should have a weight exchange platform for that maybe, haha.
> did someone's bank account number change without intervention

Their bank account number changed for reasons unrelated to Apple. That caused their Apple Card monthly payment to fail. Which caused their payments to Apple, for subscriptions and a trade-in, to fail. So Apple cancelled their subscriptions.

Agree the support communication on iPhone versus MacBook is imprecise. But nothing indicates Apple acted improperly or in a manner they wouldn't with anyone else failing to pay for their services.
The wiki page on mail fraud quotes the definition and it would seem to include the USPS as well as any private/commercial carrier crossing state borders.
Am I missing something or is this nothing like compact reddit? I single post occupies my entire phone’s screen
What's going on in South Africa?
I thought the same, and believe it is typically true.

However right now I can’t shake the feeling this is purposeful - to push down tech wages and prevent unionization.
Be wary of coworking spaces. I had a brand new MacBook stolen from a private office space I was using at Spaces San Jose. Not only were they unhelpful to the point of being combative, but one of the people in an adjacent office said it happens all the time and carry their laptop to lunch with them.

Anecdotal for sure, but it changed the way I look at coworking spaces.
Does the chinchilla recipe still hold today? I got the impression that the LLaMA paper proposed a different result where throwing far more tokens at the problem had a very meaningful impact, or did I misunderstand that?