skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's true in some cases, not in others. I have family members who are religious and it (as far as I can tell) does provide value for them, in a positive way. My MIL, for example, is religious and it seems really positive for her.

She approaches her belief in a very loving, positive way and sees her job in the world to be loving and kind and to do service for others, etc. While I don't share her beliefs her values are pretty awesome.

It seems to me that she derives value from them and I certainly find her to be inspiring and positive. She spends pretty much zero of her time talking about sin or Hell, but espouses joy and love and gives thanks for her family and so forth. I don't need any particular set of beliefs for that to be inspiring for me and to want to emulate it.

Others may cling to belief out of fear, inertia, tribalism, or who knows what else. If it works for people and doesn't lead to harm for others (or themselves) then I'm all for it. I sometimes envy people who do have religious beliefs because maybe life makes more sense to them.
I would like to see this expanded, I think it's a bit unfair to assess its abilities with so few examples. My hypothesis is that a rosetta stone with a thousand examples with a vector database hooked up to it so you don't hit the 32k token context limit would lead to much better performance.
The average pleb can't afford a new iPhone. Employment is high but salaries are stagnant, meaning that people are struggling to afford basics. iPhone ain't ranking that high, esp. when you can get reasonably good Android alternatives for cheaper.
Consensus among Serious language learners (i.e aiming for a B2+ level) is that duolingo is marginally useful for learning some vocabulary. A thorough course or textbook are essential
I like that breakdown.

Stealing it...
Nickel and Cobalt. This metal oxids creates molecular oxigen.

This oxygen feeds the fire and make it hard to fight.

Lithium iron phosphate do not show this kind of reaction.
Personally, I'd go for a relay on a non-problematic circuit.

But I also get why you might just leave it disconnected - if it's pulling a few more amps with no clear cause, what is going to go wrong with it next, and what vital system will it take with it?
article notes that they "found nine vulnerable packages (in the community repository)"
My $0.02 is to choose name-brand solder wire (e.g. Kester/Multicore/ChipQuik) with "RA" or "RMA" flux core. That will flow well and be gentle on your tips.

The "not right" flux is often a nasty no-clean flux core in solder wire. Many don't flow well and leave a horrid residue on your tips that's hard to remove. (The bad reputation of lead-free solder seems to come not from the alloy but from solder wire with lousy choice of flux core.)

The "not enough" flux is often reworking something where the flux has been vaporized leaving only the solder. Then you need to add some new flux like in the video. The gold standard seems to be Amtech tacky fluxes like https://www.amazon.com/Amtech-Solder-Flux-NC-559-V2-TF-16150
Does the flutter vscode plugin still insert fake comments telling you what widget this random parentheses in a sea of other parentheses is the end of?
(slaps forehead) Of course. Thank you!
I haven't listened to his podcast in quite awhile, but I always appreciated his content and it never felt scammy like most of those grind culture marketing influencers you'll find littered all over twitter.
Data used to train the tokenizer is entirely separate from data training the LLM.

The tokenizer used to train GPT-3 was old, inefficient and targeted at tokenizing English. That's pretty much all there is to it. It's possible to train a tokenizer that is more efficient and more including of other languages.

GPT-4's tokenizer is already far more efficient though still weighted to English.

You can test it here
https://tiktokenizer.vercel.app/
I would agree, with the caveat that even pre-globalized societies tend toward exploiting resources and people when there's a strong economy supporting a demand. It's hard to find a case of an increased demand leading to increased resource utilization that doesn't end in negative externality.
If your goal is to avoid taxes, you're better off using cash than crypto. And not everyone using crypto is a diehard libertarian.
Catholicism, despite their attempts, is not just one set of teachings. At the end of the day, each catholic only knows what their local church teaches. If your state's cardinal is aggressively homophobic, you can bet local teachings about the evils of homosexuality and pleadings to the flock to save their wandering fellows despite the literal Pope basically saying "maybe we should leave them alone a bit"
> the overall probability is the same

Only for the very first roll. After that, the outcome becomes more and more predictable for each roll.
maybe you could argument and suggest as to why it is not good as a KVS which is the number 1 use case for dynamoDB and everything in dynamo was optimized to be a KVS which a lot of multipurpose nosql database can't say.
I'm unsure of the value of dynamically reducing the rank of the LoRA matrix at inference time given that probably most of the parameter count comes from the original weights rather than the LoRA diff.

But nonetheless, training time improvements look interesting.

e: Oh I see, the training time improvement is compared to a grid search over the LoRA rank. Not for a single run.

I am not convinced that you shouldn't just train on the highest possible rank that you can with your compute budget. If you can train a DynLoRA with rank 8, why not just train a LoRA with that rank?
> It seems like mechanics really don't like digging into the electrical part of the car.

That is certainly correct. Troubleshooting electrical issues takes a different set of skills than most mechanics are trained to deal with. Most mechanics are so busy that throwing parts at a problem is the best way to deal with issues where the cause isn't readily apparent. It's not worth their time to really dig into a difficult issue because if they spend 8 hours of shop time and try to bill that to a customer, the customer is going to just balk anyway. Better to throw a part at it, bill 1.5 hrs, send it out the door, and let the next guy deal with it. And then move on to some more profitable muffler and brake repair jobs.

This is thankfully not ALL mechanics, but it certainly is a large percentage of them, IMO. (Yep, even dealerships.)
Of course, like anything there will be major societal changes. But consider a few brighter possibilities:

* Cars are all electric, since the one downside major downside (a long time to charge versus gas) is reduced if they can go charge themselves. So less pollution and noise.

* The number of cars may increase, but so will the capacity of roads due to faster speeds and higher density. So a city could possibly only have a couple of car accessible roads.

* Parking can also get denser, as cars can presumably park themselves and coordinate. So you could build a few massive parking garages (for example) to serve thousands of cars, or require them to park outside of the city.
> I honestly believe that we've been spoiled by the huge plethora of FOSS offerings

Those days are slowly dying. For too long companies have leeched off FOSS, yet some have sponsored them out of good faith and respect for how valuable these FOSS offerings are. Many developers are building in business logic instead of liberally dumping their hard work on GitHub / Gitlab for everyone to leech off. This doesn't mean Open Source as an ideology is dead, just that developers are getting more business savvy.
> If you're not a Musk fan, the field is becoming competitive

In my place you get 20% less for 10% more, but Tesla still looks flashy and I feel a bit like a wanker. Much worse for my partner who hoards free stuff, esp kids toys from giveaway FB groups :|
I have to agree, when I was 7 or 8 I started out with a "pen" and it sucked, I got a WE-WHS40 for my 10 year birthday, now I'm 37, and.. I'm still using that one.. The transformer inside broke lose after I dropped it.. but.. for everything small-ish, it's whate I still use to this day.. I have a butane powered cheap chinese iron (that will eat away at the tip at each use, and leak itself empty within a week from filling it) for heavier connections.. Those two together cover everything I do.

One thing though.. I disagree with wet sponge, they're annoying and flimsy.. A brass sponge is so much nicer in my opinion.
Heh. Fair point. It would, indeed, be an uphill climb.

I sometimes wonder, though, if a masterful person could author a book that the intended audience would read and sow seeds of doubt that would lead to questioning belief. (Or perhaps such a book exists and I don't know about it.)

But, yeah, if you want to sell books then I suppose that's the better approach.
i used to feel this way, then i started working with images and time series and a whole bunch of data that didn't seem to lend itself well to SQL. What I think actually should happen is basically everyone who fashions themselves "technical" should spend some time learning about relational databases because that framework for how data works is so incredibly powerful that you don't really need anything else. And you start seeing how it benefits you to take disparate data that may not fit the mould and conform it to a relational database.
I'm happy to take a look at the studies you have that measures this in viruses like influenza, if you have access to this.
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It is. At a former employer, they brought in a contractor for a very targeted task and informally refered to it as hiring a "hit man."
> As an example, Seattle’s drawbridges ...

Those bridges don't open 7-9AM and 4-6PM, which shows that we have and should continue to regulate to mitigate disruptions!
No mention of toxicity of the fumes? No mention of needing a 3rd hand for many soldering you will want to do?
I never cared about mobile gaming in the era, so I can only go on what I used the device for: communication and personal information management. PalmOS was good at those things.

To be fair to Sony, there wasn't really any other horse to bet on in that era. The problem was their hardware was fragile vs. Palm or Handspring devices.
It seems I don't have the necessary graphics extensions available on my mobile device (mainstream device using mainstream browser). Is this supposed to work on mobile?
A visualisation threejs of segment anything masks
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Thank's to facebook research for segment anything.
I give you a repo to visualise the segmentation.

Best Regard , Happy Easter!
Actually, GPT-3's tokenizer is the same as GPT-2. https://datascience.stackexchange.com/a/109483

You had me questioning myself for a minute.

(The vocab size is still 50257. Even rounded up to a multiple of 128 for better sharding across the vocab embedding, only the first 50257 are used.)

Believe it or not, 125M was large at the start of the GPT-2 era. No one knew LLMs could do anything interesting, let alone that they'd change the world.
this is a really interesting concept. kind of like how all the startups and open source projects are ignoring all the safety advice right now for AI. In order to make an omelet you have to break a few eggs. In this case the economy and/or civilization.
Guy checking in here that was super skeptical of AA, tried everything else including minimization, psychology, etc.

10 years sober today as a direct result of finally surrendering my ego and walking into the room and giving it a try.

From my "class" I'd say about 25 - 30% of us have made it to this milestone so far.

No two people are built the same is the truth, if you've tried and failed elsewhere don't be dissuaded to try it.
In high school when I should have been listening to grunge, I was listening to Led Zeppelin (and similar) and wondering about the influencers to all those 1960s British rock bands... which lead me to Robert Johnson, Leadbelly, and loads of others. By college I had a blues show on the campus station, and every night I signed off with Johnson's Traveling Riverside Blues. In fact when I then switched over to do the classic rock show.. I signed off with Zeppelin's rendition of Traveling Riverside Blues.

I had this classical guitar teacher who had achieved some prominence in the music world, having written and performed the guitar music as part of a nationally syndicated radio program. I asked him one day if we could work on the blues and he said something like it was "stupidly simple and not worth the time" yet here we are a century after Robert Johnson still celebrating him, while that guy is an unknown. There's something really magical about this music, which is why it transformed into rock and roll and crossed the Atlantic twice and can be heard in samples and as fundamental sounds in music today.
There's a good YouTube video on it that includes an epic math battle.

Veritasium - How Imaginary Numbers Were Invented - https://youtu.be/cUzklzVXJwo

Solving the cubic was a physical thing back then. https://www.maa.org/press/periodicals/convergence/solving-th...
How fast would this have been fixed if was Microsoft Edge that was wasting CPU time?
> It is not recommended that you take any contract that
pays less than $30,000, and that is working mighty cheap. To work for any amount
less would be amateurish. There are guys all over town who will kill a man for
$50 to $5000. And the people who hire these thugs usually get exactly what they
pay for.

Replace "kill a man" with "launch a product" and "thugs" with "devs" and you get some surprisingly familiar advice.
At this stage I just assume most AI laws being passed are red flag laws similar to how when cars were new places passed laws about people having to walk and to wave flags ahead of cars to warn that a car was coming.

In 20 years most of those laws coming into being now will likely be looked at as ridiculous.
AGM batteries are a lot more durable than regular lead-acid. They can cost a bit more but for me the longer life, more resistances to issues if you do run them all the way down and their sealed, maintenance free nature makes them the first thing I swap out. Optima used to be the only commonly available batteries but Costco, for example, has AGM equivalents for just about every battery out there - you may have to order it and wait a few weeks.

They were also the original batteries used in Miata's since they give off a lot less hydrogen when charging. Since the Miata battery is in the trunk, and all lead acid batteries give off hydrogen when charging, and hydrogen in an enclosed space can also be rightfully called a bomb, having less of that is a good thing!
That wasnt 1998, my bad - it was 1996 with an ISP in seattle... I cant recall the name - and I want to attribute that password to ix.netcom, but thats not correct... who was the indy ISP in seattle at the time?

I can't resurrect that name, so help me out?
And thus the motor vehicle takes his rightful place at the top of the food chain: King of the concrete jungle. May he reign forever, tire never, and render his enemies unto the road.
What are the tradeoffs, does it taste as good and is the yield ok?
I use Amplify for a mobile app that I created and maintain just because I'm not familiar with backend technologies and it seemed like the quickest and easiest option for me, a mobile developer. The app isn't super complex, but I wouldn't describe it as a "toy" application either. I haven't run into any major headaches with DynamoDB or GraphQL limitations... yet.

But this article has me thinking about exploring other options. To try to get ahead of the seemingly inevitable wave of tech debt. Does anyone have advice or can point to any resources for embarking on that particular journey? Are there similar technologies that do it better than Amplify? Anything in between Amplify and learning all the disparate AWS tools from scratch?
I guess MARTA is between municipal and regional rail, sort of like BART. I meant for connecting the Atlanta metropolitan area to its region, not intraconnecting.
What’s progressive about freeing Tibet ?
> Credit card numbers are similarly a private number used as a public number, and printed on plaintext on the card.

I have an Apple Card. The only text on the card is my name. I think a lot of bank cards are starting to do similar stuff.

It isn't foolproof, though. Someone somehow was able to charge against the card, a couple of months ago.
Oh, let me hear the psychiatrist who has a new plan to overcome addiction with his bag of tricks.

People worship modern psychiatry/psychology as this scientific insight into the human mind that has finally done away with superstition and religion, and can accurately (and repeatably) tell us what's happening with people suffering from various mental ailments, and how to fix it.

But for some reason, every time a shooting spree happens, we all scratch our heads and ponder who could have seen this coming, and bury the fact that the majority of the shooters are on SSRI's and a host of other medication.

What happened to our superior understanding of the human mind? Shouldn't modern psychiatry and psychology be able to identify people at risk of shooting sprees? Or at least point back at the missed signs? Why are they so silent on this?

It's because when you peek behind the curtain, you find they're just a form of culturally acceptable medicine men. "Here, take these pills and it will solve all your issues! No we don't have any idea what 'chemical imbalance' is happening, or even if it's happening, but that's beside the point! Do not question the great and mighty Oz!"

If you ask me, they aren't fixing the problem with young men, they're perpetuating it. Maybe address that before throwing mud on 12 step programs.
Someone is on that! https://time.com/6240144/aza-raskin-ai-animals-social-media/
I love calculations like this and hope they are part of every engineer’s line of thinking. I originally came across this thinking in Andy Hertzfeld’s book - https://www.folklore.org/StoryView.py?story=Saving_Lives.txt

Performance is time, energy, heat. It’s one of the easiest features to get and there are lots of tools, research, and philosophies to help get it. Memory and storage are similar.

For anyone working on large scale apps that are on millions of devices, hundreds of thousands of servers, or even just some back office guy who has minutes less stress in his day, performance benefits the world. For programmers, it’s one of the easiest ways to Save the Planet™.
If there was a kick starter campaign to raise funding for a model that could be used for commercial purposes, I would definitely chip in.
I lost my job twice in 8 months:

First time I was brought into a joint venture that was going into the ground as the 2 investors wanted to split. Board meeting 2 weeks into my job, and the decision was taken. They should have never hired my position.
Second time was a clear cultural non-fit, I have very consensus oriented and the founder needed everything for yesterday.

I took the 2 packages I had and went into consulting, I love helping people solve their problems, found a new love for tech, that I had lost in a 15 years of management I had done. I picked up new skills from the teams I was working with.

Since then, I have joined partners, developed an IoT consulting business (with a healthy mix of blue-chip clients and startups) and we are about to launch a product in the Agtech space.

The layoffs were a shock initially, and I had a small burnout after the 2nd, but I love people, so I kept going to network with people I had enjoyed working with and I got a first contract 3 days a week.

In short:

- got fired,

- burned out,

- talked to my friends/network,

- got a small consulting job with an ex-coleague,

- learned to love tech again,

- now my business is growing because I surround myself with good people that I trust.

edit: formatting
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7x faster compared to grid-search LoRA for best rank.

I am not convinced that the "best rank" is not just the highest possible with your compute budget, personally.
If you're learning Duolingo subset of a language, it's still a language learning application.
I feel like I've stumbled into bizarro world. Self driving cars would be a massive boon to quality of life in every American city with perhaps a few exceptions. I couldn't care less if my city spent a billion dollars a year making them work. Way better than that billion going to the current public transit system that sucks out loud.
I'm in AA at the moment and AA doesn't claim to be a scientific method for staying off alcohol. It's full of religion! TFA is a giant strawman.
It was supposed to improve allocation (less people trying to find a parking spot etc) but I guess it may trigger the usual perverse effect.
Wow. Does that help to double the vocab size?

It certainly makes training more expensive. One clever trick to get some memory savings is to freeze the vocab embedding layer when fine tuning. It makes a noticeable improvement, both in speed and in mem required.

Surprised they went the larger vocab route. LLaMA is only 30k. I wonder what the reason is...

Thanks!
A much easier way to do this (or at least to get started) is with https://github.com/muesli/markscribe - you just have to write a Go template readme.md.tpl, and run the Action on a cron and it will render it to readme.md.

The article makes it seem like there's something special about .github/scripts - but using that is if anything a bad idea, it's not special, but maybe it will be (at GitHub's discretion) in the future. There's two good points to make: 1) you can have a profile readme; 2) you might like to update it via a cron Action. But don't put your script there and all the waffle about TS and Ruby and whatever is beside the point.
I agree and think it's interesting that we find a very similar article about finding a slow electrical leak in a car. Most of the experts are interested in taking the cream off the top of diagnosis, because most of the time you have the common condition that responds to the common treatment.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35513636

But when it's not and they have to look at a lot of details and spend a lot of time figuring out the problem many aren't interested, if only because they're pressed for time (by insurers) and trying to reduce cognitive load.
Definitely skip the hardware store soldering irons, but that doesn't mean you have to spend a ton. I got a knockoff Hakko 936 for like $20 and I have no complaints.
Same in India. So much so that they are now being smuggled into India[1], there's a hefty profit to be made.

[1] https://appleinsider.com/articles/21/07/09/iphones-worth-134...

https://www.republicworld.com/india-news/general-news/in-mum...
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If it were me, I would pull the fuse, then jumper the block over to a different fuse on a circuit that is off when the ignition is off. Then you never have to think about it again.
Depends. "Amerais" emphasises the liking of the pizza and "voudrais" emphasises getting the pizza.
Keep working through the process. Talent is wasted without knowledge. HN doesn't hate religion, it's simply ignorant of it.
> And this isn't because they are women but because of social expectations and upbringing.

How do you know that? I think this is coded into our genes and caused by our brain wiring and hormones. And there is absolutely nothing wrong with that.

I agree by the way. I never saw any females in a technical role beyond "senior engineer", as they usually seem to disappear into team lead / SM / PM / PO roles.
The problem is that 1 mile of rail can move a lot more passengers than 1 mile of road.
That usually doesn't work anymore as mechanics can tell that you've done that when hooking up the ODBII port.
It's not pretty low, or objectively low, but it can be considered relatively low. The average amount of RAM in desktops and laptops is still <32 GiB. From this perspective it's a very high limit.
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