skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No, I’m not. What I’m saying is that as long as laws on protests are being followed in full (which in the case of Russia means we’re... somewhere in the late 90s, probably? early 00s at most), the authorities in Paris seem to have much wider latitude to stop people from protesting than would be allowed by the Russian constitution, and that latitude was exercised as recently as 2018.

That doesn’t mean the French system doesn’t work right now (certainly there’s a lot of protesting in Paris), but from my paranoid viewpoint it seems extremely exploitable, and it’s chilling to see people shrug at government actions that would have every post-Soviet human rights activist up in arms. I don’t know how else to put this; it just seems fundamental that the government must not (have the ability to) start to prohibit protests, because sooner or later it won’t stop.

Maybe I’m just too unwilling to believe in a reasonable government, I don’t know.
Here's my experience, having used llama+lora 7b, 13b, and 30b, on both cpu and gpu:

On gpu, processing the input prompt, even for huge prompts, is almost instant. Meaning, even if your prompt is huge, it will start generating new tokens after your prompt very quickly. On a rented A6000 gpu, using llama+lora 30b, you can use huge prompts and it will start giving a new output right away.

On cpu (i.e. the project llama.cpu), it takes a very, very long time to process the input prompt, before it begins to generate new tokens. Meaning, if you provide a huge copy/paste of code, it will take a long time to ingest all that input, before it begins outputting new tokens.

Once it finally starts outputting new tokens, the rate is surprisingly fast, not much slower than gpu.

I wish I knew the reason for this, but I'm not an expert :) I've just seen this in practice.
https://www.debuggex.com/ is my favorite
Document the code and use comments. Offer bug bounties to fix bugs. Have a contest for top coder with a prize.
I remember the good old days when people could be against riots regardless of their politics without getting canceled. But those days are long gone.

I mean, don’t get me wrong, I’m pro-BLM. I’m not a racist or anything.
Rust in Peace by Megadeth.
Or perhaps we can take responsibly for ourselves and not use the ridiculous platform
You're restricting the rights of the American citizens!
I opened an issue for this thanks to your suggestion: https://github.com/nomic-ai/gpt4all/issues/11

Edit: talked to someone on discord, they're aware of it and working on moving the hosting
> Many Indians only work at these 30k jobs because of the possibility that they can eventually parlay those years of experience to emigrate and get a 300k job in the US

As opposed to... working for that salary because it's an amazing salary by Indian standards?
Quality talent has a cost regardless of geography.
>Update your resume. Your last job section needs more fluffing and your long term job needs editing.

That is fluffing them.
They missed a chance to have it generated by AI. The eight fingered hand pointing would have been the cherry on top.
The question is, who's going to stop us from using it for commercial grounds.
Most companies that would use these models would be startups and are years away from any sort of potential audit that may occur.
I feel similarly about skin colored emojis. My brain always appends the end of whatever statement includes them with "as a $SKINCOLOR $GENDER"
Legal question : while openai gpt outputs cannot be used for training a commercial model, if someone reworded / rephrased them using another open src model, would it then be okay to use it to train a commercial model?
For 14 cases of millions given?
it's insanely patronizing to view kids this way, I'm glad I'll never have to spend time writing a business email ever again, promoting the AI effectively is a way more useful life skill for kids to learn than writing essays

we simply need to adapt the curriculum to reflect the tasks that aren't rendered effectively worthless by LLMs and let kids prompt to their hearts content, much like they will do in the real world

if your work can be done by chatgpt, do (or have the students do) more interesting work

and for the record, homework is the most fucking awful thing ever invented and I still hold a burning malice toward it to this day
>...PGP's "normal" identity devolution pattern is subkeys bound back to the top-level user key.

I am quite knowledgeable about PGP but I have no idea what this means.
Stopping it's not a hopeless gesture, it's dangerous as fuck.

If you stop research but all your adversaries don't, you're left behind.

Let's assume that all western societies stop, but let's say, China doesn't or Russia, and they keep advancing the technology.

If the tech brings efficiencies in play, and you don't have access to them, you're in a really bad place, maybe even worse off that if you had continued and risked the status quo because you were afraid.

The genie is out of the bottle at this point, there's not putting it back in.
Being against any vacccine deemed safe by the majority of experts in a field is the same as being against all of them.
The important takeaway for both GPT4All and Alpaca is that once an expensive proprietary model is released, people can easily train cheaper OSS models on input/output pairs.

⇒ LLMs are not defensible

⇒ LLMs will become commoditized

⇒ Prices will drop

⇒ Great for open source
So that's why people like salads...
Why Do People (Not) Take Breaks?
Remember to close off server connections and datasets and free up memory when done.
I didn't mean to imply that there are not numerous examples of open source projects that have been successfully forked to provide meaningful value in a whole new direction. However, the article seemed to be saying that open source magically takes control away from the developers and gives it to the end users. I just think that is the exception instead of the norm.
A Lora is a layer on top of a model, the big deal isn’t that this exists (it’s a Lora for the weakest llama), but the fact they shared their dataset. The stronger llamas trained with this data will produce even better Lora’s and better results.
it’s not just the type checker; its the borrow checker, which prevents way more bugs than in C++ and is certainly not 1960s tech
https://github.com/openai/evals
I love this article. Technology is so good a cheap dongle can get … some of the way to a decent headphone amp! Take that audiophiles!
yes ristretto and lungo are fairly common, the ristretto is more common than the lungo in my experience.

The lungo is not to be confused with an Americano, it's just a slightly bigger espresso shot (I used to make a 1:3 or 1:4 ratio - in other words, I used a single shot portafilter but the amount of coffee coming out is like a double shot) - note that in Italy, shots are smaller than overseas because we mostly use single shot baskets (7-9 grams of ground coffee) whereas in "third wave coffee" the default is to use a double shot basket (around 18 gram of ground coffee). So the Italian lungo would be just as much liquid as you would get by ordering an espresso in USA or Australia (but much weaker due to being made with less ground coffee)
I wonder if the bank run on SVB wasn't planned or coordinated in some way by VCs & private to create a scare in the financial system to force rate hikes to stop or slow down as VCs and Private Equity did very well in the era of free money and now are facing headwinds. It is not as if the VCs who triggered the collapse are not very smart people who would not have understood the exact implications of what they were doing.
We do not have machines that produce clothing. All clothing in the entire world is handmade, which is why developing countries like Bangladesh specialize in it.
Spent some time with technical friends working in the space, and it's unlikely.

However, Climate Draft [1] spends a lot of effort to find high potential startups with technical hiring challenges.

[1] https://www.climatedraft.org/
Similar concept that gets a lot of people in trouble on the OneWheel, "lean forward to slow down". When you're going to fast, the you intuitively lean back, which actually accelerates. There's even been a handful of lawsuits around this physics issue.
"insurers are more innovative (especially on the operations side and post-ACA) than the federal government."

They are certainly very creative in making the system as expensive as possible. See Medicare Advantage.

"IMHO, best of both worlds would be the federal government taking over and centralizing the most core services (rates, interchange, data systems, etc) and allowing private insurance companies to build offerings on top of that (customer service, servicing, product mix, etc)."

This would be best. There is so much unnecessary bureaucracy at providers and insurers because the insurers have different setups. The medicare setup would be a good foundation .
I follow the wisdom of the Zen masters Marin and Chong, as expressed in the following koan:

<https://yewtu.be/watch?v=eY7ZX6ngOSs>

My infocup runneth over. No need to settle for the nether-end products.
The comment specifically said it wasn't complex technology, but that pipe the bidet connects to is complex technology.
Hello late stage capitalism.
I just peaked at the crates.io dependencies in the standard library.

There's three dependencies to high-quality libraries in the rust-lang GitHub organization: a macro to make conditional compilation easier (cfg_if), a port of Google's SwissTable hashmap library (hashbrown), and bindings to libc. These all have maintainers in common with the standard library.

The rust standard library hashmap is (zero cost) wrapper around a hashbrown hashmap with a subset of hashbrown's methods.

cfg_if is probably used just for the convenience. I guess they're not ready to commit to stabilizing that macro in the standard library for some reason.

libc was originally autogenerated from the c header files, but if I recall correctly updating it involves a bunch of annoying manual processes necessary to ensure perfect compatibility. It's obvious used in the implementation of standard library features.

Then there's a handful of dependenencies for the optional but enabled-by-default backtrace feature like a symbol demangler and a zlib encoder/decoder. I'm not familiar with their quality, but I don't think it's as excellent as the other dependencies.
> The standard library depends on external crates?

Yes: https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/blob/478cbb42b730ba4739351...

Of course it is not "some random" crate; all of them is either in the same repository (when `path` is used) or in other repositories under the `rust-lang` organization with well-known contributors. But the latter is conceptually no more special than other repositories, so Cargo works same.
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I think this is a good argument for the advocacy of GPL-3+ prevalence. It’s also legal, I think, to publish GPL-3 firmware source code, and to disallow custom firmware flashing, as long as the copyright is self-owned. (IIRC the provisions of the GPL don’t give legal standing for suing the author over self-violations.) In this case, would you call the software or code proprietary (which many confusingly do) or would you call the device proprietary?
I'm heterosexual and I checked the quantities locally they were always bountiful before I went for my shots.

It doesn't seem like there was any effort to rebalance the amounts, seems more like a bureaucratic issue that had nothing to do with me. Once a municipality got their allocation, that was that.
Well, Apple’s metal card doesn’t have NFC capabilities for security and to incentivize pulling out the phone for purchases. The metal card only gives 1% back while using the phone gives 2%.
See also, protection racket [0]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protection_racket
There's a discouragment the comes in the RE community that to be useful at all you need to be able to write your own exotic packer decoders, but I use Ghidra about once a month for really basic security incident response to pull apart "driver" installer packages to see where they are phoning home to, evaluating enterprise vendor-ware packages looking for hard coded credentials and snoopy telemetry, sometimes I can pull down the second stage of a phishing attempt against one of our users and RE it just to see what the level of sophistication the attackers having a go at us are at, and I've used the cantor dust plugin to quickly find sections of compressed and encypted data in firmware images.

There is no chance I will ever publish original RE research, but it's a handy go-to tool, along with cyberchef, binwalk, and some other breadth-first static analysis tools for hunting specific IoCs. I could probably teach a solid generalist who cared to get to the level of being able to dissassemble something and say, "yeah, this is dodgy" or not in an afternoon.

As an exercise, next time you get a cheap peripheral like a headset or a other usb device, pop the driver installer package into ghidra and click through the call graph just to see what else it does. You may be surprised.
It’s an interesting debate to bring up, but I think not really the same kind of prediction without explanation I am talking about.

The second post I linked turned out to be really interesting, it both aligns with my thoughts while also adding new ideas and concepts. It makes a distinction between GPT and the agents it simulates, the simulator and the simulacra.

A good enough simulator can simulate an entity capable of explaining lots of things, depending on the limits of the simulator.
I really think Shopify should lean in on their offerings here. The checkout experience across merchants who use Shopify is great. There's a "Shop Pay" button, you click it, and you're either at the "Confirm Purchase" page or maybe get an SMS to enter, then you're at the "Confirm Purchase" page. You've skipped entering your address and credit card number.

Buy from a board game store one week, a tea maker the next, and some niche youtuber the third, all without re-entering your data.
This only happens when Windows has a major updaye, usually overnight if you leave your PC on. On the next startup you're always greeted with a full screen overview of new features, setup, etc.
yes, that makes sense! But the American latte is a little bit different than our caffe latte / latte macchiato - for the reasons I mentioned above.

Personally, I actually prefer the American style latte to the Italian style latte macchiato! Italian Latte Macchiato is quite weak while Third Wave style Latte has more punch and you can taste the coffee more.
>... the risk of a superintelligence taking over the world no longer looks distant and abstract.

Can we please stop floating this as a threat? This is the more science-fiction than reality at this point and it does a great disservice to humanity. The more we keep pushing the idea that AI is the threat and not the people controlling it the less we will be focused on mitigating global risk.

It is far more likely that someone else will leverage an AI to attempt to expand their influence or dominion. Putin has essentially already stated views on this matter and we should assume groups within all adequately advanced nations will be working toward this end either independently or cooperatively.

We are more than likely in an arms race now.
Last time I was the ER in the US, I waited four hours with a pretty serious fever. Talked to a doctor for maybe 5 minutes and got sent home. Cost me only $500.
It does seem ironic on first glance but it's pretty much unavoidable getting some vulns in a large project. In fact if you're reversing malware that might be actively trying to sabotage that, it's a good thing they've put warnings front and center.
>> That's no excuse. Burgers in Fiji cost a quarter of that, and everything is shipped in from far further than it does to Iceland.

Does the nation subsidize costs? I went to a couple of countries where staples were remarkably inexpensive and later learned that most of them were subsidized by the national government.
In my experience, you give these people a long leash and lots of help to try and find a role where they can make some sort of positive impact, but if they are truly incompetent at everything you have to let them go.

Two reasons:

1. At least in some cases they know they're not doing a good job and they likely have anxiety about when they're going to get let go. Ripping the bandaid off and firing them is kind of putting them out of their misery.

2. Probably the more common scenario is that the Nice Guy's incompetence starts to affect the people around them. If Nice Guy is so incompetent that other people have to pick up their slack and fix their mistakes people end up getting upset that they have to do extra work to address Nice Guy's shortcomings. If you remove Nice Guy from anything meaningful and only give them work with no deadlines or consequences for failure, other people eventually start to resent the fact that Nice Guy gets all the easy work.
maybe don’t believe everything you read on twitter
Llama 7B was trained on a trillion tokens. The Lora is a small fraction of extra neurons that get integrated into the structure, and those are what get trained on the new data. It's like fine-tuning but takes less RAM and compute than retraining the whole model.
If you want to run institutions into the ground, they probably aren’t your institutions.
"Although the virus has caused severe illness in some patients, Chinese authorities say there's no evidence so far that the disease can be passed through human contact."

https://abcnews.go.com/Health/mystery-illnesses-china-caused...
It's the type system. When people say a language is easier to refactor it's usually because the types are designed more like ML, with a little more formal rigor, so the compiler errors can actually help you along as you make changes. Rust's model of mutability adds context to what you're doing - which is also what makes it hard at first(since it adds ceremony and constricts your initial design). In a large system where data can move through a lengthy code path with a lot of indirection, more nuance in types becomes a major advantage to your confidence in making changes.

C++ can never quite get there despite all the innovations made because of its descent from C style types, which are much more simplistic.
The solution to this problem is the same as nearly every other problem humans create: stop destroying ecosystems and animal habitats, stop expansion, reduce meat eating, etc. These things increase the transmission of zoonotic diseases. There was a really good article in 2020 that I can now not find where an expert discussed how these things are not new, COVID was not a surprise, and that these transmissions will do nothing but increase in frequency if we don't systematically tackle these problems.
How do the economics of that work out? I realize Canada is pretty bad, but wouldn't Canadians be more desirable purely because they're in the same time zone and are less likely to have a communication barrier?

If your argument is that there are more good devs in India by virtue of there being more devs/people there in general... well, sure, but that means there are more devs in general, and the ones making salaries better than the top 25% of Canadians are probably the top 1% in India.
Pretty much all the http servers of worth, short of tide, just use Tokio at this point.

For the most part, you really only need to care about Tokio. async-rs is used by some libraries, but it's relatively small in comparison - and many now go to lengths to just support both. There are other runtimes you could tinker with, but really: just use Tokio.

The "easiest" web server/framework to get started with in 2023 is, in my opinion, Axum. It's from the same people who work on Tokio and it does make it somewhat straightforward to dive into as a result.

I have a few actix-web servers in production as well, and it's a fine framework - hard to say where the mindshare falls on it these days.

Rocket is a very nice web framework but effectively has a bus factor of 1 at this point and it's started to show. People coming from e.g Rails may appreciate it though.

Don't use warp (IMO) because http routing is not rocket science and doesn't need the amount of magic it tries to bolt on.

Have fun.
A DAC and an amp are two different things. It's not "worse" than dedicated amps either (it's better quality than many of those too), but it is lower powered because it's running off a phone battery, so that makes it less compatible with high-impedance headphones.
The downside of c# is it's easy until you run into the 80 flavors of async it has.
Emergent features still require many parameters to stabilize, so there is an incentive to keep experimenting. There’s a blog called “Emergent Features and Int(8)” or close enough that explains the concept.
The line between "so sedated you don't feel your guts being cut open" and "so sedated you stop breathing" is frighteningly thin and requires a constant, careful, measured supply of anesthetic. In modern surgeries, there is one guy who goes to school for years to do nothing but monitor the patient's vitals and adjust the flow accordingly. In al Quff's day, I imagine such reliable precision was difficult or impossible, and you'd rather err on the side of pain than death.

Which is to say, there's a very real chance of your patient waking up mid-surgery and freaking the fuck out, and you want to be prepared for that.
I find it more shocking that the average gas car cost that much. Yeesh.
Can a model itself be copyrighted?

https://www.copyright.gov/circs/circ33.pdf

> To register a work with the U.S. Copyright Office, you must identify the copyrightable subject matter forming the basis of your claim. To be copyrightable, a work must qualify as an original work of authorship, meaning that it must have been created independently and contain a sufficient amount of creativity. Most works meet these conditions. Some works, however, contain elements that either lack the required creativity or are placed outside the bounds of copyright by the law. This circular highlights different types of noncopyrightable subject matter. For more information, see chapter 300, section 313.3, of the Compendium of U.S. Copyright Office Practices.1

https://www.copyright.gov/comp3/chap300/ch300-copyrightable-...

> 313.2 Works That Lack Human Authorship

> Similarly, the Office will not register works produced by a machine or mere mechanical process that operates randomly or automatically without any creative input or intervention from a human author. The crucial question is “whether the ‘work’ is basically one of human authorship, with the computer [or other device] merely being an assisting instrument, or whether the traditional elements of authorship in the work (literary, artistic, or musical expression or elements of selection, arrangement, etc.) were actually conceived and executed not by man but by a machine.”

> Examples

> Reducing or enlarging the size of a preexisting work of authorship.

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I'm going to go with that models themselves lack human authorship or any sufficient amount of creativity and thus aren't copyrightable.

They may fall under trade secret... but they need to be treated as one.

This would also mean that licenses based on copyright (most of FOSS licenses) wouldn't be applicable to them.
That was mostly (exclusively?) Windows, though, not Office.