skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What you are doing is called whataboutism. Nobody is arguing for making dams less safe on purpose. Nor are they the topic.
> I turned on the iOS setting that sends all phone numbers not in my contacts straight to voicemail and haven't looked back.

And the real-life version of this: you're not morally required to open the front door (or even acknowledge) if you don't knock the person ringing your doorbell. You can actually just... ignore them.
Apart from the facial recognition technology, there's also a second technology that was used and possibly misused. From the article:

The friction of getting a warrant has been eased by technology. The Jefferson Parish Sheriff’s Office uses an “eWarrant” service, CloudGavel, for which it paid $39,800 last year. It’s an app that allows officers to request digital signatures from judges. “Law enforcement officers can now get an arrest warrant approved in minutes,” the company’s website states.

Many civil liberties advocates actually favor electronic warrants; they allow judges to more easily review decisions made by the police and eliminate a complaint from officers that it’s too hard to get a warrant. But advocates said it would be worrisome if judges were simply clicking a button without asking questions or providing sufficient scrutiny.

“There are real questions about whether it increases the incidence of judges rubber-stamping warrants,” said Nathan Freed Wessler, a deputy director with the A.C.L.U.’s Speech, Privacy and Technology Project.
I'd guess the GPTQ-for-LLaMa repo is using a larger context size. Poking around it looks like GPTQ-for-llama is specifying 2048 [1] vs the default 512 for llama.cpp [2]. You can just specify a longer size on the CLI for llama.cpp if you are OK with the extra memory.

[1] https://github.com/qwopqwop200/GPTQ-for-LLaMa/blob/934034c8e...

[2] https://github.com/ggerganov/llama.cpp/tree/3525899277d2e2bd...
> This, to me, is the more terrifying prospect of the AI revolution: people arguing that humans aren't sentient either.

If we're going let the AI revolution fulfill its potential, it's a cognitive shift we're going to have to embrace. After all, AI is going to render a lot of meat-based equipment obsolete and unnecessary, and someone's going to have to figure out how to dispose of all that wasteful junk.
Everything you mentioned and implied here is the case for every fiat currency also. Using Japanese Yen to buy food at a US grocery store is unlikely to be practical. Just as trying to use USD in Japan is impractical. The only substantial difference is that crypto's practical jurisdiction is primarily the internet, with some adoption in the "real-world" (shops/services that choose to accept crypto). This makes crypto incredibly practical for online transactions but only practical for real-world applications where it has been adopted. Most crypto payments can be done for cheap, quickly (seconds to minutes), in a practically trust-less environment (not the case for fiat), and are irrevocable (which is a benefit for many). You can borrow crypto with crypto lenders against just about anything legally enforceable, including your house or car (although willing crypto lenders are becoming scarcer and more expensive with the increasingly inconsistent regulatory behavior of the US Government). A major advantage cryptocurrencies such as Ethereum have, is that they provide practically trust-less contracts between entities, evaluated by code rather than a possibly incompetent or compromised judge as you might get in the real-world.

Just FYI, payments in the traditional banking systems are very much not immediate, they just appear that way from your perspective. The perspective usually breaks down if you try to move a large amount of currency around, you will get anything from straight up denials, many month waiting periods, money getting "lost" in processing for months, and large surprise fees. The "immediate" transaction illusion you see are just agreements between major financial entities to make transactions appear fast but are limited volume to reduce banks risk. For example, common credit card transactions, no matter how small, are not actually cleared for over 150 days. Based on my experience European banks are no different although I haven't tried it as often as I have in the US.
I don't think it's actually trading away inference speed. You can pass an --mlock flag, which calls mlock() on the entire 20GB model (you need root to do it), then htop still reports only like 4GB of RAM is in use. My change helps inference go faster. For instance, I've been getting inference speeds of 30ms per token after my recent change on the 7B model, and I normally get 200ms per eval on the 30B model.
Yes. There are plenty of philanthropic billionaires. Yes. That much money buys a destabilizing amount of influence.
Overall an excellent and correct thread. However I do have to take issue with his choice to equate comparing diverse and non-diverse areas to "adjusting for race". That is not what that is.
Apparently the model is intentionally trained such that it does not “know” any kind of metadata about its training inputs. So it can deduce the name of the author if it was referenced elsewhere, but not from the paper itself.
Freedom and flexibity is a large part, but also so many bad stories when the hardware breaks.
In fairness they could save some RAM by rewriting it in Rust 6 or 7 times.
A similar system exists in the south Indian state of Kerala (and apparently across other places in South Asia, but I am only familiar with the Kerala model). It's called a Chit fund [0] and functions just like you describe.

[0] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chit_fund
That wouldn't surprise me at all!
These Stupid Trucks are Literally Killing Us

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jN7mSXMruEo&t=1858s
Risk compensation
Canada police arrest ‘pedophile hunting’ group over child abuse images
Comfortnet works pretty well, and I can control it via an app.
I've had magnetic drives with excellent data integrity that spent the last 20 years un touched in self storage units.

I have read CD-RWs of approximately the same age with no data loss.

SSDs sacrifice durability of data for io speed
Ah yes, I'll just reference the list of my non-neutral biases as I choose the moderation rules for my AI. My bias against swear words is neutral, so I will include that rule, but my bias against pollution is not neutral, so I will skip those moderation rules.

Obviously categorizing beliefs into "neutral" and "not neutral" is impossible. Your statement is a classic example of the false consensus effect -- everyone thinks they are neutral.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/False_consensus_effect
As someone who has owned or rented homes heated with oil, gas and heat pumps (the latter two in the SE US), my experience has been that the gas and heat pump systems cost about the same same to operate. But when the gas system in our current house had to be replaced about 5 years ago, I went the path of least resistence and got the recommended gas unit. I really regret that decision now, especially given the small difference in installed price. Same with the tankless water heater (although there, gas was all that was available on short notice). The momentum in favor of gas is still enormous, and at least around here strongly influences what installers recommend. Maybe better educated consumers will change that. Unfortunately, I'm going to be stuck with gas into the next decade, with the only consolation being that at least I'm done with oil (the last two oil burners I ran were from the 50s, for steam heat, and cost a fortune to run: one winter in the early 00s about $600 a month).
Without any fiat on-ramp crypto is worthless. its value is always measured by how much fiat it can be sold for. without that it has no value. what are you gonna do, go mail a stranger cash for coins? send him gold bars for coins? lol. this crap is OVER. please wake up! or dont, i don't really care..
I had an Osborne 1. I had to swap disks multiple times to compile anything. I remember the C compiler by some guy, 'Walt Bolisvki'?, had the arguments passed in reverse on the stack (last on the top) and printf and friends ended up crazy hacks.

I didn't have access to a Unix at the time or very limited open source so ident was not a thing.
From Web2 to Web3: How developers can upskill and build with blockchain
The logic that I can follow is you cannot vote twice; by believing that you can vote by text and follow through with that action you have been "deprived" of your right to vote.

> “What Mackey allegedly did to interfere with this process – by soliciting voters to cast their ballots via text – amounted to nothing short of vote theft."

> Mackey conspired with others to use social media platforms, including Twitter, to disseminate fraudulent messages designed to encourage supporters of one of the presidential candidates (the “Candidate”) to “vote” via text message or social media, a legally invalid method of voting
What are you talking about? Do you remember January 6?
Sure, but when one 12gb GPU costs ~$800 new (e.g. for the 3080 LHR), "a couple of dozens" of them is a big barrier to entry to the hobbyist, student, or freelancer. And cloud computing offers an alternative route, but, as stated, distribution introduces a new engineering task, and the month-to-month bills for the compute nodes you are using can still add up surprisingly quickly.
GPTQ-for-LLaMa recently implemented some quantization tricks suggested by the GPTQ authors that improved 7B especially. Maybe llama.cpp hasn't been evaluated with those in place?
You haven’t understood the article.

The decline in life expectancy in the US is not being driven by more rapid decline in the aging population but by young people dying earlier exerting influence over the entire curve.

I can assure you that the burden of age related conditions will continue to grow but that again is because the largest generation humans have ever produced is aging out. And on the most part they’re more functional and able later into their senescence than ever before thanks to hip replacements and laser eye surgery and all the rest.
> is cleanly single-threaded

And here I immediately lost my interest. Anything that cannot do real concurrency is a toy in my book. There's no excuse for a language developed for practical computers in 21'st century to not be able to utilize concurrency which is practically built into every existing computer.
How strange. I could have sworn the Spanish and Greek ones didn't have this requirement. Then it's indeed fairly useless.
I'm a guy in my 30s but they had me classified as a 65+ year old woman. They also thought I was a radiologist.
The implied logic behind that is "I know my company is a worse option than many of the other ones out there, so I'm going to only hire people who those other companies would not do business with." It's inherently a low self-esteem attitude.

People leave, sometimes suddenly and without warning. The high self-esteem way to deal with it is to do your best to provide an attractive working environment, accept that some people will leave, and try to learn from each departure. That way you have the option of profiting from the talented employee who totally could make more at a FAANG but happens to like your company because you provide good management, a worthwhile purpose, or the actual ability to write code rather than deal with company politics.
Flamethrower time!
Qualia, by definition of being individual subjective experiences, cannot be quantified. Very clever trick, to define consciousness so that no matter what computer you come up with, it cannot be “conscious” because, of course, a computer’s operations are always quantified.

The problem, however, is you’re effectively defining consciousness in a way that human brains do not follow unless you make appeals to some supernatural process beyond the reach of science (ie fundamentally subjective, unquantifiable).

So again, it’s a bulls*** definition of sentience.
The U.S. have had centuries now to re-build dynasties, and they have, from industry to politics.

There is an issue on the capital gain / income in the E.U., but my understanding was that the U.S. was even worse in that regard (people can live of their salary through most of Europe).
I'm not connecting the dots. Why is it bad to release on Friday?
But they did randomly pick someone out and framed them. That's the story. Not that they randomly picked someone using ClearAI rather than doing so using mug shots, or yearbooks, or by driving down the street.
Does this mean that we can also run the 60B model on a 16GB ram computer now?

I have the M2 air and can't wait until further optimisation with the Neural Engine / multicore gpu + shared ram etc.

I find it absolutely mind boggling that GPT-3.5(4?) level quality may be within reach locally on my $1500 laptop / $800 m2 mini.
StackOverflow is completely selling out to some Ripple shills, disgusting.
All the operating systems seem to suck at the moment.

If there is anything that

a) just works

b) is pretty

c) allows me to run all the software

d) doesn't sell my private data to the highest bidder

that would be nice.
Yes I ran a linux desktop for years and switched to mac. Aside from getting used to the feel of the UI and finding replacement apps (that sometimes cost a few bucks) the experience has been excellent.

My Mac just works, upgrades are seamless (but do wait a few months before major os upgrades), the battery lasts all day, the audio and video quality are good, lid close suspends the system correctly every time. And everything syncs with my phone.

I spend most of my time in the terminal anyway, and just ssh to my linux dev host. I don't worry about trying to set up a full dev environment on my laptop, I prefer to do that on a linux server
Are you on a shiny new desktop with all the bells and whistles with more RAM than you'll ever need and a 10TB RAID setup? Are you on a scuzzy 20 year old laptop with 64MB of ram and a 20GB HD?

Have you considered an Arch based distro?

Personally I switched from 15 years with Apple products to Linux land and while it's a lot different I like it.
Hey, I'm sure the majority of those are trains popping off the track at low speeds.
As I can't find when olestra products were sold in the EU, the answer seems to be “no”. Don't hesitate to prove me wrong though.
I switched from a Linux laptop to a Macbook Pro for after about 5 years on Linux. The initial reason was that my last employer required us to use Macbooks.

I now have the option to use whatever computer I'd like and (for now at least) I'm still sticking with the Macbook. The main things that keep me on it are:
- Excellent hardware. The build quality is higher than any non-Apple laptop I've tried and the display is really good.
- Performance and battery usage with the Apple silicon chip is great.
- iCloud sync. I use an iPhone and frequently make use of iMessage, photos, and clipboard syncing between devices. I know that you can replicate a lot of that with Android and Linux, but at this point I'm pretty deep in Apple's ecosystem and am unlikely to switch away anytime soon.

The biggest thing I miss is having a good tiling window manager experience. I have a desktop running Sway[0] and really love it. I've tried a handful of tiling window managers for mac and none of them have felt really good to use. They all feel like I'm fighting the OS more than working with it.

If there were a lightweight laptop with good linux compatibility, a high-dpi, high refresh rate display, and competitive battery life, I'd be very tempted to switch back to linux just to have a good window manager again. I'm hoping that Asahi on the MBP can give me that, but it seems like it's not quite ready for daily driving yet.

[0] https://swaywm.org/
The irony with people talking about "neutrality" is the tendency of the people making such demands to be even more obsessed with distorting the input data to produce outcomes censored to take into account their viewpoint than the 'AI safety' and PR people.

I mean, how much censorship (or artificial curation) would you need to avoid an ML model giving "the climate warrior version" of questions about whether the world was getting warmer?!
The echo chamber in your first point does the suppression in the second.
For a big tech company, the regulatory regime is the world. For Twitter that's the US.
oops...

“There were exchanges of photos during conversations [online] and what the law says, when you share a photo, that it is explicit pornographic material and that you claim that it represents a person of age minor, even if it really isn’t, it becomes child pornography,” constable Andrée East told the Canadian Press. “It’s considered as such, even if in truth it doesn’t really represent the body of a minor person.”

Yes there is an exception in Canadian legislation when such investigation techniques are used by law enforcement.
If publishers are reaping massive profits, then everyone should become a publisher. That’s how it works.
I wrote a short story about where I think LLMs can lead to some limited General AI — and how we can apply that to the field of robotics. It was so much fun I’m retooling it as a chapter in a whole novel.

It’s been fun to write by hand (then transcribe to my computer and edit there) about LLMs!
> We're all fine with Mozilla having opinions about "good" and "bad" states of the world until it has opinions about treating minorities equitably, then it becomes pressingly important that we have a philosophy discussion.

It's because that was the only thing on the list that is openly discriminatory.

If the intent was truly to avoid unfair bias against people, the mention of marginalized communities would be unnecessary. By definition, avoiding bias should be a goal that does not require considering some people or groups differently than others.

The fact one set of groups is called out as being the primary consideration for protection makes it clear that the overriding value here is not to avoid bias universally, but rather to consider bias against "marginalized communities" to be worse than bias against other people.

Since the launch of ChatGPT, plenty of conservatives have made bias complaints about it. The framework outlined by Mozilla gives the strong impression that they would consider such complaints to be not as important, or maybe not even a problem at all.
Okay, I'll go back in time and tell myself in 2003 not to worry about the residential real estate bubble expanding, and that in 2006 I should really not focus so much on doom and gloom and consider that the people running the economy have good models and know what they're doing and that a soft landing is the most likely outcome.
Or the investigators need to go closer to the disaster than the public?
Dont know if it is a AI response, but one of my friends had a M1 and we couldn't watch a movie because VLC wasn't ported yet.

Just some weird things with Snaps that made me "snap" :P
Like, Installing Chromium with snap, and then it doesn't have access to file drop which is something I use like 20 times a day. This easily adds 30 minutes to my work. Or sharing my screen I have to click 4 buttons in a slow and clunky manner.
It's an index of the web and our own comments, barely something they can claim ownership on , and especially to resell.

But OTOH, by preventing commercial use, they have sparked the creation of an open source ecosystem where people are building on top of it because it's fun, not because they want to build a moat to fill it with sweet VC $$$money.

It's great to see that ecosystem being built around it, and soon someone will train a fully open source model to replace Llama
I switched from being a lifelong Linux user to being a Mac user. Nearly everything was better: 95%+ of the tools I use were the exact same, everything was just more usable and stable. The biggest draw was that I wasn't stuck with PC hardware anymore, which is nice because I really prefer Macbook hardware and most Linux OS's just don't work well enough with it for me. I'm a web developer though so YMMV depending on what you're doing for work, but for me I was able to bring vim, Chrome, zsh, and most linux commands, which covers the vast majority of my day.

The biggest drawback was that running FOSS was something I cared about and no longer doing so made me feel sad for a bit. The filesystem layout is slightly different but still UNIX-y and newer versions of MacOS don't let you put files wherever you want (which makes sense from a security perspective but is nonetheless an adjustment). I struggle to think of much more than that. The operating system just gets out of my way now and I appreciate that, and we still run Linux on all of our servers for everything so I've got that at least.
It was floating point math. There was nothing in the CPU to support it so it was ridiculously slow.

But, sometimes you just want to have those functions to do some complex geometry.
In some other countries the different interest groups sort themselves into two factions after being elected but I don't know that it is really that different in practice.
No, that could risk public money benefitting a private party.

Feel free to form a multinational consortium and submit a grant application to one of our distribution partners under the Horizon program though.

Now, how do you plan to create jobs and reduce CO2?
Sure, that would have been ideal in hindsight but based on the scenario I described above, I would argue that the depositor is simply being prudent to withdraw their funds from a bank if they are concerned about it’s stability.

There is zero benefit for them to take the risk of leaving their funds with the bank and considerable downside.
I think it says a lot about the complaints. Some people just can't stop crying wolf to get attention

And apparently it works, considering those flags
Similarly, anytime you see the “anytime you see ‘x’ you can dismiss the argument” argument, you can dismiss the argument.
I meant only Medicare and Medicaid. The US government spends on Medicare and Medicare more then any other country on healthcare.
I switched last year after being exclusively on Linux for approx 5 years.

Hardware is hands down the best in terms of battery life. It's hilarious compared to pretty much anything else I have tried.

Software is... Meh.
But the part that really is the window management. What is there currently in mac (and Windows) is, mildly put, a joke.
Plus, modern US trucks are as big (if not as heavy) as WW2 tanks. Photos taken from the infamous DailyMail, but they look correct to me, that is [1] and [2]

[1] https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2021/07/25/21/45875073-9823577-...

[2] https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2021/07/25/21/45876985-9823577-...
They can be if they're involuntary and inescapable, but neither is the case for Twitter. It's designed around letting you curate your own feed, but it also constantly throws random stuff in through retweets and quote tweets - which is what people hate the most about the platform.
and Virgin Galactic's first 50 launches were failures and VG's first 20 years of existence were a colossal failure. Maybe if a company can't make things work after two decades, it should be dissolved? Or should we let them exist in a malaise of failure for another decade?