skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It seems the quality goes up & cost goes down significantly with Colossal AI's recent push: https://medium.com/@yangyou_berkeley/colossalchat-an-open-so...

Their writeup makes it sounds like, net, 2X+ over Alpaca, and that's an early run

The browser side is interesting too. Browser JS VMs have a memory cap of 1GB, so that may ultimately be the bottleneck here...
Why specifically track political parties? Where is author_is_american? Or author_is_mayonnaise_enjoyer?

Maybe it was a choice made many years ago that they thought was appropriate, but we can't yet know it's not used for other purposes. We can at least be reasonably sure they've added the author_is_elon within the past year. I would have thought there would be many more descriptors, or non-controversial descriptors.

Or maybe Elon specifically added those before releasing this code to get people riled up.
You butted into the conversation pal
Commercial Real Estate is a completely different animal than residential real estate. Yes, you can mortgage commercial properties but the downpayment requirements are significantly higher and the term of the loan is significantly shorter.

Most of the entities on the hook for paying back the bank are commercial real estate development firms. As such they often have a mixed portfolio of residential (think apartments), office, retail, and entertainment properties. Offices are further divided into small business, professional services (doctors, dentist), and general office space. Unless their portfolio is extremely focused and not diversified, then they'll be alright.

Fortune 500 companies also aren't letting go of their iconic office buildings, as the building itself is an icon for the company.

Given all these factors, I think the idea that commercial real estate is going to crash and burn and that the banks are going to be left holding the bag are being quite a bit overblown.
If we can't build anything with this, is it "source"?
Robust Blind Face Restoration with Codebook Lookup Transformer
You have recourse against a lawyer that messes up a contract, lies, or misrepresents you.

You also have their reputation to guide you and their professional organisation theoretically enforces minimum standards.

You have no such recourse against chatGPT.
You (1) are a company who (2) understands the business domain and has an appropriate business plan.

Sadly the reality of funding today makes it unlikely that these two will both be simultaneously satisfied. The problem is that history will look back on the necessary business plan and deem it a failure even if it generates a company that does a billion dollars plus in annual revenue.

This is actually not unique to large language models but most innovation around computers. The basic problem is that if you build a force-multiplier (spreadsheets, personal computing, large-language models all come to mind) then what will make it succeed is its versatility: people want a hammer that can be used for smashing all manner of things, not just your company's particular brand of matching nails. And most people will only pick up that hammer once per week or once per month, only like 1% of the economy if that will be totally revolutionized, "we use this force-multiplier every day, it is now indispensable, we can't imagine life without it," and it's never predictable what that sector will be -- it's going to be like "oh, who ever dreamed that the killer application for LLMs would be them replacing AutoCAD at mechanical contractors" or some shit.

In those strange eons, to wildly succeed, one must give up on anticipating all usages of the software, one must cease controlling it and set it free. "Well where's the profit in that?" -- it is that this company was one of the first players in the overall market, they got an early chance to stake out as much territory as possible. But the market exploded way larger than they could handle and then everybody looks back on them and says "wow, what a failure, they only captured 1% of that market, they could have been so much more successful." Yeah, they captured 1% of a $100B market, some failure, right?

But what actually happens is that companies see the potential, investors get dollar signs in their eyes, everyone starts to lock down and control these, "you may use large language models but only in the ways that we say, through the interfaces which we provide," and then the only thing that you can use it for is to get generic conversational advice about your hemorrhoids, so after 5-10 years the bubble of excitement fizzles out. Nobody ever dreams to apply it to AutoCAD or whatever, and the world remains unchanged.
>Astounding amount of cynicism here

You can tell that those who rushed in to find something to criticize can't, when they are reduced to making jokes about coding stylistic conventions.
I think there's reason for concern. I own, but haven't read Nick Bostrom's "Superintelligence", which lays out the risk scenario in depth. I have read Bostrom's "Global Catastrophic Risks", which treats AI in a chapter rather than a book, and I found the argument for AI being a genuine threat convincing.
Inaccurate. Musk stated that people you follow will continue to show up. I only use the 'for you' feed when I'm bored and want stupid dopamine hits, I leave it on Following almost all the time. But that's on desktop, my understanding it that it keeps resetting itself for mobile users (of whom I am not one).
I used to work for Google Cloud (I built a predecessor to Preemptible VMs and also launched Google Cloud Genomics). But even before I worked at Google I was a big fan of AWS (EC2 and S3).

Buying and selling hardware isn't free; it comes with its own cost. I would not want to be in the position of selling a $100K box of computer equipment- ever.
6GB can store 3 billion parameters, gpt3.5 has 175 billion parameters.
Judging by the many "issues" already, it might have been a bad idea to release on a friday, though.
Yes, that's true. I was just focused on another case of for example, trying to turn a large building's hot water boiler into an electrical / heat pump one. That is where the set of huge new condensers comes in, replacing like 1 previously dishwasher sized boiler.
ngn k : https://codeberg.org/ngn/k

kona : https://github.com/kevinlawler/kona

alto a javascript implementation even with a graphics library : https://github.com/JohnEarnest/ok

edit : assuming you were talking about k and not freq
Just accept a random 4%.
Tinkerpop/Gremlin is not really SQL-like at all. My experience with it has not been fun: it's difficult to reason about, has obscenely bad documentation, poor tooling, idiosyncratic library support, and simple data access patterns are hard.
Wouldn't listen to audiobooks if they had ads.

Am surprised nobody has mentioned Libro.FM here - I get most of my audiobooks from them. They claim to give a portion to my local bookseller, though they don't provide any evidence to this effect and I would continue to use them even if they didn't. It's a monthly subscription which gives you a new book every month, but you can pause any time and the books are still around, then resume when you need more books. Your mileage may vary; the model works well for me.
What lack of accidents? These truckers crash every day.
Rust is a great language, i think the worst thing about rust, actually i have 2 issues with rust:

- very slow to compile

- very noisy syntax

Both are relatively easy to fix

- just keep improve the compiler

- just come up with new language evolution proposals

So nothing deal breaker
Re [5]'s asssertion under "blunders" of the diminish usecases post sql/pgq, what do you think of [something] like Quine?

https://github.com/thatdot/quine

Their claim to fame is progressive incremental computation - each node is an actor responding to events -- and I'm not sure how a relational db could do that and match the latencies. That usecase is pretty much pattern matching and forensics and stuff like that.

https://docs.quine.io/core-concepts/architecture.html
To be fair, a lot of the conversation that goes on when these topics come up are around the legal and social ramifications. There was an expectation that he was going to be indicted, and so it's important to think about if that's a good idea, and also weigh the pros and cons.

It's important to hear from politicians, former prosecutors, scholars, historians, and also to get input from people in other countries as well. How would it impact world perception? How would it impact US soft power?

It's also important to think about the civil implications. Could there be riots? Targeted domestic terror attacks against law enforcement (which has happened)? How is law enforcement prepared to handle it?

I think when robust conversations like these happen, it's easier for the public to understand when a prosecutor makes a move. Because it's not the prosecutor's job to explain this to anyone. Some people (even in this thread) really need a civics lesson. Like, people expecting the defense to have a crack at the grand jury, and if they don't then it's somehow a biased process or that due process has been violated. That's just how it works, and Bragg doesn't have to explain that to people. But because we have no other mechanism to do this, it's really the media's role at this point, which is sad, but that's where the conversation happens.
I'd be nothing without Twitter. It's had more impact on my life than any other platform. I got lucky, but luck was only part of it.

Being able to DM people is incredible. It's the AOL Messenger of 2023. If it went offline, it'd be a terrible loss.
I'm confused what you're getting at. First you say 40% income tax isn't a thing for the wealthy then you refute that this person who pays 40% income tax isn't wealthy? Their response was to say that they aren't part of the upper class, who we're saying are those who have enough wealth to protect most of their income from taxation

You might as well make yourself clearer & instead of saying the wealthy don't pay 40% taxes, just straight up say "dgildeh, you're a liar, you don't pay that much in taxes, post your tax records to prove yourself"
Americans are so dominated psychologically by elite propaganda that they fail to realize that America has this unique tax return torture system designed to extort fees from the people that go to the tax return industrial complex and a portion of that money gets paid back is kickbacks and bribes and fees or whatever to the Congress people that Ensure that the Byzantine tax system never goes away and only gets more complicated every year.. no other Nation on Earth has this tax return torture system and extortion device systematically applied across society
I'd love to see the exact date author_is_elon was added. Too bad they didn't publish the commit history
> You're teaching your model to copy an other model's outputs.

That's a time honoured tradition in ML, invented by the father of the field himself, Geoffrey Hinton, in 2015.

> Distilling the Knowledge in a Neural Network

https://arxiv.org/abs/1503.02531
the title of this post is very editorialized and biased. Why didn't the OP just post the actual title of the announcement?

Compression based pricing is huge for data warehousing loads and will save clients quite a bit of money.
That's Fussellian upper-middle. Enough to send three kids to $70k/yr private boarding school and from there to an elite university, enough to have a sailing hobby, enough to take annual family ski trips in the Alps. But you're still working for a living, and can't retain a fancy lifestyle if you stop.
I haven't encountered this yet, but the instant I do, I'll stop following that podcast. No podcast is worth that.
One big difference, though, is in the US I believe you can file jointly if you are married and get roughly double the usual range for each tax bracket? That option isn't available in the UK and must surely make a huge difference with high income households.
Nikole Hannah-Jones is a journalist, not a Critical Race Theorist. Find a better descriptor for this (perhaps prevalent) "worldview" than "the CRT worldview". Prompted by a bunch of unproductive discussions like this one, I took some time and actually read a bunch of CRT journal articles, and none of these discussions intersect what actual CRT work says. That may be as much a fault of popular culture and pop sociology as it is HN's, but either way, it's annoying.

It is easy to make a case that Nikole Hannah-Jones essentializes the transatlantic slave trade. But it is unreasonable to generalize from Hannah-Jones to a whole field of study without evidence.
Browser is the true edge compute.
It wouldn't surprise me if they had a script referencing internal build infrastructure that got gutted in the open source release
It very much depends on which citizens.

I have a friend who lives in Republic, WA - if you're not from hereabouts, you might have heard about that place from national news in the context of Loren Culp. She's an old leftie from the bygone era (used to be active in anti-war movement during Vietnam etc) and her politics are not exactly a secret there. At some point, one of her neighbors placed signs on their property saying things like "liberals and communists not welcome", "get out while you can" etc, angled specifically towards her driveway. The local cops - then still under Culp - not only didn't see any problem with that, but they actually told her it's good neighborly advice.
- Open sourcing this

- Lists as tabs

- _Heavily_ reduced spam

- Can look at Twitter without logging in

I'm likely missing some other obvious/uncontroversially good changes.

I still use Twitter and plan to continue using it. I am satisfied with most of his changes.
Dexes destroyed the long-tail crypto exchange. Consolidation and shut downs are coming. Regulation is certainly an issue but the truth is Bittrex doesn’t really need to exist anymore. Cross-chain swaps are possible with wrapped assets, atomic swaps, and operations like FixedFloat. End of an era but the market has spoken. Whatever benefits a centralized exchange provides are better with deeper liquidity and larger exchanges like Coinbase and Binance.

I also believe Gemini is on its last legs. The SEC combined with anemic volumes, GUSD went nowhere, Nifty Gateway market collapsed, Gemini Earn is in bankruptcy. Winklevoss will just buy and hold BTC from now on.
Phobia is defined as an irrational fear. Before PRISM, you could argue the fear was indeed irrational (although the writings were on the wall), but now?

Of course, for a company that's a numbers game. For private citizens or the general public, especially in countries with a history like Germany or Italy, it's not.
The Righteous Mind
I guess spelling doesn't, though...
EU Tech Strategy: Whine and Fine
If you try to use the Following tab on Android, every refresh brings you back to the For You tab.
I believe LeBron James said recently he isn't going to waste his money on a blue checkmark, so it should be interesting to see what stays and what goes.
it would be super interesting if when logged in to Twitter, you could take a look at your current calculated scores/weights for all the params that are part of these algorithms.
Similar to the Netflix "Stats for nerds" menu...
Politicans and companies all over the world are using it. Controlling that information space, is real power. And I am not yet clear, how much that release will bring needed transparency. As the algorithm in production, can have major tweaks.
This is 100% not their working copy.
What I think a lot of people fail to consider (or are afraid to consider?) is the likelihood that we too are stochastic parrots.
Issue list is growing rapidly for a repo created an hour ago.
you sound like a kafka system implementor. why would you hire software devs to implement kafka instead of kafka system implementors?
It will be different this time, just like it was every other time. It still doesn't matter. The epoch of earth's history that happens to overlap with your own lifespan isn't inherently more interesting or important than any other time, except to you. But sure, what good is an exciting new frontier without a gaggle of doomers worried about what's on the other side? Same as it ever was.
That makes sense; I guess that means Elon is considered a "group" now.
Interestingly enough, the page later says that the annual budget is 294M on a student body of ~10k. That's more like 28K per student (making the above point that rich districts pay more per student stronger).
I think it's fine. It represents the opinion of the corporation as a whole. The opposite of "the opinions here are my own and do not reflect blah blah blah".

It has no singular author.
Is there a specific part of the syntax you don't like?
I think 'co-operatives' tend to be set up for just this purpose. Typically to distribute the burden of investing in and maintaining space or capital equipment but I imagine they also organize bulk orders of specialist materials.
And many who may want it, do not believe that giving our government more money or power will wnd up with the desired outcome.
:)

True, but some things are harder to sell than others. A100's in today's market would be easy to sell. Harder to buy, because the supply is so low unless you're Google or another big name, but if you're trying to sell them, I'm sure you can get rid of them quickly.
Plenty of Scheme implementations produce portable-ish binaries too.
There are incentives in the IRA, but (except for ground-source, which is a straight up 30% uncapped tax rebate), they're limited by income and capped to certain dollar amounts.
Hi Helmut! Greetings from Austria.

> Haven't received a spam call in years.

Ditto.
Is your app up to date? I have it on my iPhone, iPad, and an Android device which all have no problem always remembering the "Following" tab selection. As well as desktop/web.
You must be new to Musk's business practices.
Echo chambers may not be nefarious, but they are insidious.
Social stigma really? Weeeeeird I feel like it’s almost the opposite, getting a Groupon is a good excuse to go do something with someone. “Hey I’ve got a Groupon for this place, wanna stop by and help me use it up?”
I think you misunderstood what they are doing. They are dropping both Carplay and Android Auto, the Android Equal of carplay.
Instead they are making the car platform based on Google Automotive with the play store so you can install any app you want natively.

Their argument is that they want to make the internal software as good or better. I'll remain open minded as well..but TBH I fully expect almost all car makers to do this. No sane company would spend billions making a product and then let some other company overlay over it and make all the money.
Context: Just reached 40 + a few months

I don't know how to become smarter, but I definitely know how to become dumber:

- Sleep less

- Joints problems coming from few physical activity due to COVID WFH + I hate exercises

- Suddenly had hay fever after so many years

- Pressure from work + kid

- Financial pressure from owning some property (essentially, when you have a 30-yr debt, saving for a few years of spending does not feel safe at all)

I figure you can at least avoid some of these by making the right decisions.
That would have been relevant if they were at least consistent about it. But, somehow, stuff like asset forfeiture or stop and frisk is never "unconstitutional" as far as cops are concerned, while stuff like publishing reports on their activities or removing qualified immunity suddenly is.
Are you comparing the car infotainment OS with the CarPlay feature running on the phone?

I was not talking about the infotainment OS. No one has an Apple OS running on a car so I don’t know how they could dominate the market.
So now engineers working on the algo can ensure their launches won't lower Elon's tweet visibility. Looks like those remaining at Twitter have a knack for corporate survival.
Sorry but nope. GPT-4 is plenty intelligent. I've begun to question the intelligence of anyone that reduces it to "stochastic parrot" because they're not even arguing against results but arbitrary lines drawn on sand.

The "We'll see it when it comes" line is just utterly wrong, If there's one thing experts seem to agree on is that not everyone will agree when current definition of agi does arrive.

The philosophical zombie is an excellent example of the extent of post shifting we're capable of. Even when a theoretical system that does every single thing right comes, we're looking for a way to discredit it. To put it below what we of course only have.

lots of researchers now aren't questioning GPT's general intelligence. That's how you end up with papers alluding to this technology with amusing names like General purpose technologies(from the jobs paper) or even funnier - General artificial intelligence (from the creativity paper).

You know what the original title of the microsoft paper was? "First contact with an agi system". and maybe it's just me but reading it, i got the sense they thought it too.
NiceGUI – easy-to-use, Python-based UI framework
Maybe the problem is “career politician” as in - having to be politician entire life to get thru to a meaningful position?
Arch Linux has been my gaming go-to for a year now.
Yea I mean, all discussions about Twitter have double standards. If this was literally any other company, there would be resounding praise.
Ok so you’re asserting that federal law enforcement agencies have an agenda (probably either a formal or informal process) to co-opt local law enforcement agencies to leverage the power of civil forfeiture to pad their own budgets.

What percentage of a federal law enforcement agency’s budget is padded using this practice? Does this apply to all federal law enforcement agencies or only some? How can we tell the difference between matters of coincidence and matters of an agenda? Any suggestions?
what stage of capitalism is this
Because they let go many of the engineers working on it?
Started with ChatGPT, migrated to BingChat, now onto Bard...added Copilot at the same time as I started using ChatGPT. Settled on Bard (has gotten increasingly better towards the end of the week) and Copilot

Using Copilot as a better intellisense...but don't use it for big templates.
Bard to find/summarize stuff I figure is probably in stack/SO somewhere.

Boilerplate I think I have seen a 35% increase in speed. Individual edge cases (like porting Azure AD v1/Identity 2.0 to Azure AD v2/Identity 2.0 authentication) maybe 10-15% improvement. My day to day is C#.
does the 1gb limit extend to wasm?
Chat GPT warms me that this is likely a scam.

The offer being presented sounds too good to be true and the request for money upfront is a common red flag for scams.
I think people writing all this should stop and try GPT4. It writes reasonable good code and scripts. It is able to perform so many tasks in a reasonable way. And it doesn't write bullshit in common usage. Yes it might not be AGI and might not be sentient, but does all that matter? GPT4 does make mistakes but the mistakes are not "parroted bullshit", but minor issues here and there. Yes, don't use it to decide extremely important topics, but it is here and it is extremely powerful.
Well yes, but I am pretty sure, elon envisoned warm welcome by the OS community and help for free and now that is off to a bad start.
I'm normally the one accusing other people of being defeatist! My problem is that at root, people don't care enough. They'll write reams of text about how unfair it all is what with their privacy being stolen from them, but they won't actually uninstall those very things they complain about. FYI, I don't use any social media except this one, pseudonymously.

If people actually cared enough to do something this would be solved very quickly indeed but they don't.

> governments can and have pushed for privacy regulations.

Depends. The EU has done not badly at all on this, the American government on the other hand…