skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
An actually open source LLM would be a game changer. We might need a new license that englobes model usage and training, something GPL-like whereby distributing a retrained model requires contributing data back or making it public, but not if you use it privately.

This will definitely accelerate progress in LLM research, productization and safety. Alpaca, vicuna, gpt4all and others are sporadic repesentations of this that could become a continuous improvement process were the LLM and its license truely open source.

An interesting possible side effect of a GPL-like license is that AIs become unlikely to be trained on private data, the usual moat that big tech wouldn't want/just can't make public if it were to use those GPL-like licensed models.
There is functionally no comparison.
Sure, just get the people that take the risk to agree to it. Should be easy.
Ironic that this is bringing up instances of "hate", including "stalking, bullying, and doxxing [sic]" on a site that documents when other people do those very things
That is just the tip of the iceberg for "ough". The way I pronounce English there are six sounds that "ough" can make:

1. borough (-oh)
2. through (-oo)
3. rough (-uff)
4. cough (-awf)
5. thought (-aw-)
6. plough (-ow)

And in some accents it can be a schwa (uh). I associate this with Britain and some northeast American regions. There are probably other sounds too.

As a kid, I was just told that these are 6 sounds that it can make. I was given them in that order (ostensibly in order of most common use), told to memorize them, and when encountering it in a word, try them until one seems correct. For some other phonics I had some mnemonics. For "oo" I remembered: "Don't eat food that you took from the floor."
is that what happens next all these tech companies become banks?
It's been a long-running (but fairly unimportant) dream of mine to create a language (made several attempts in HS but was more concerned about the IDE UI...). Probably focused on 2D gaming, and I know there's a billion of those. Just something small and fun for my own projects and I'll see where OSS takes it.

Something about inventing a language just feels like an itch almost every programmer has to scratch.
> Luckily in the US, being very wrong about something, even when it's very consequential, is not illegal.

It is for certain professions. And the criteria for civil liability are much lighter than that for criminal liability. All professionals should carry liability insurance. And, they should operate under the protection of a limited liability company or something similar.
Forensic analysis of the use of CS (teargas) by police in Portland
Sure, but you have to be careful with the terms you use! :)

AnimalMuppet gave a good explanation there IMO.
Just tried it with a simple 4 character one and it's bad at it, detects 1 or two characters correctly from the 4 if it outputs anything.
It's probably better with the "select the traffic lights" kind of captchas, but those are also already possible to solve with other image models too if I remember correctly.
I've been using a relatively small vm with caddy to act as a reverse proxy, this can pass the client IP (X-Forwarded-For) down into the relevant services. I'll usually wrap a logger in the context, so request id and client ip are used, and a request id is passed downstream to peer services per request as well.
Having done zero downtime migration from AWS to Google to managed servers (chasing credits, and then moving to Hetzner when the credits ran out): it's not much heavy lifting if you treat each cloud provider as just providing raw compute and storage resources.
I don't get it. Are you advocating throwing the baby out with the bath water? Just because the 15-25% exist doesn't mean we can't try to teach the 75% how to exist in society without breaking the rules. And it also doesn't preclude us from giving them something other than a swift kick in the ass. Kicking your ass seems to be the only thing the criminal justice system in the US does these days.
Community Is the Future of AI
Oh, no argument there; it's about risk management in my mind. How often do financial emergencies happen? How often do I need to dip into long term savings? If I do have to dip into long term savings, how much of a haircut am I willing to take?

The answer to these questions are going to be different for each person and I obviously cannot answer them. What I'm trying to say is the money isn't wholly illiquid.
I don't personally feel like Lambdas themselves are the hard lock-in. It's the stuff around them that really gets into your code or forces specific patterns. SQS, SNS, Dynamo, Kinesis, EventBridge, etc.
Sure there's some interest rate risk to short term treasuries but the real world risk rounds pretty close to zero. Plus it lessens as it matures.

In the current situation with the 3m at 5.125%, if you were the most unlucky investor in the world and bought it today, and the Fed immediately announced they're raising target rates by %1, and the market actually immediately responded with a commensurate %1 increase in the market rate, and you had to liquidate your position immediately for cash, you'd be down about 0.2375%.

A more realistic 25bps (i.e. .25%) rate hike would be .0605%. And again that's if it happens at exactly the moment after you've acquired the treasury. For every day that passes, the time to maturity shortens even further, so the current price impact to any interest rate change would lessen as well.

If you know you need the cash then yes keep it in a savings account. But if you're unsure, you could a lot worse than buying 3-month T-bills.
Apple may not consider any other default search engine only in the absence of a search engine other than google offering a pot of money to be the default search engine.
You state that as if savings accounts ever paid better than inflation. And in nearly a half-dozen decades of walking this Earth, I don't recall ever seeing that happen. Of course a savings account pays below inflation, it's about as risk-free as money storage gets. You want better returns? Go with something that carries more risk.
How SMS Fraud Cost Us $$$
Just tried it with a random schematic:

> The image shows a block diagram of a power amplifier circuit with a power supply and a load resistor. The power supply is connected to the input of the amplifier, which is then connected to the output. The load resistor is connected to the output of the amplifier and the power supply. The amplifier is designed to amplify the input signal to a higher level, which is then sent to the load resistor to power the load. The power supply provides the necessary voltage to operate the amplifier.

On the one hand I'm impressed that it recognises an amplifier, but just about everything in the description is (slightly) wrong. It is not a power amplifier, the power supply is not connected to the input (why should it be?), there is no load resistor...
That's because interest rates have been historically low for a generation. Now they are climbing, so yields are rising. Nothing conscionable or unconscionable about it.
Show HN: Trivai.app – AI powered trivia questions, with references
Hi HN!

As many of you, I've had a lot of fun playing around with LLMs the past
few months and I wanted to show you what I've built.

I made a trivia website using GPT3 a while back just to have something to
play with. My initial interest was to see if I could get structured
responses to build a UI around, and if I could get the LLM to refer
back to what piece of text it used to create questions and answers with.

The initial results were pretty good, but not good enough.
Fast forward a few months, GPT 3.5 was released to the public and I was
released from my work.

I decided to pick this up again and have been making some changes.

- I've generated almost 3000 questions.

- I initially only let signed up users generate questions due to cost
concerns. Since 3.5 is much cheaper, I've opened up the question
generation for everybody.

- I built a prompt comparison tool so I could tweak the prompt to get
better responses.

- I've added some more data to the questions. This includes a more free form explanation to the correct answer (separate from the references),
and categories for all questions.

- I've been working on a question improvement process. This means I
collect issues, generate new variations of the question and let people
vote on them. Voting and question improvement is currently only available
to signed in users.

I have many more ideas I'd like to explore, but I would appreciate your feedback and would be happy to answer any questions about the site or its development.

You can access the references by pressing the explanation text when
you've answered a question correctly.
Midjourney to me feels like bowling with bumpers

Sure, its very easy to get good results fast, but the tuning that avoids "uglier" images is the same that removes a lot of versatility compared to SD

Also controlnet is a killer feature
> How many windows machines were infected in the early 2000's?

Great Scott. If you haven't looked at a calendar recently, its not 2001 anymore. The industry has spent the past 23 years improving the security of basically everything. Isolation is better. Filesystem security is better. Anti-virus is better. Browsers are more secure. Everything is more secure. Malware is still around. Its harder and harder for it to cause real damage, unless the user clicks past thirty five warnings.
Innovation Is Overrated
You can absolutely start simpler, with even a single docker host and something like dokku. Then it's a matter of a git push for deploys.
> Various people in congress want it to be complicated so that people will be even more unhappy about paying taxes.

I am like this. I am not opposed to taxation generally, it is necessary for society—but I want to be reminded how much I am paying, and what I am getting in exchange for that
I think that this consumer oriented facet of Amazon is impressive. No other provider will dedicate this time to clients.
Indeed, and it varies with each kid. My younger brother and I were 18 months apart. Whether he was "early" or I was "late," what was my mom going to do with him while teaching me to read? So we learned together.
An Interview with Ian Fieggen, Shoelace Expert
Not OP and haven’t ported linux in a while but:

Obviously some details are going to depend on the device, but it’s essentially:

- set up a (cross) compiler

- configure&compile the kernel

- write the device tree (so the kernel knows what/where everything is)

- compile the boot loader (with the device tree)

- cross compile the minimum userspace for the system to function

- bundle everything so you can install/flash it.

Yocto [0] is what most people use to manage all those steps atm.

> And I guess it's mostly about the kernel?

Afaik it’s mostly writing the device tree (though it’s often provided in a board support package) and setting up the toolchain.

[0]: https://www.yoctoproject.org/
https://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?cat=27
Unlocking the Power of Cross-Lingual Classification in NLP
> All it takes is [bad things] and we're off to another

> By [avoiding those bad things] they're locking us in

Providing a good product at a good price is "locking in" ?
I think any firmware that's complicated enough that the manufacturer gets it wrong should be open-source. Especially if the manufacturer is deliberately crippling the product with bad firmware rather than just accidentally through incompetence. And firmware that's too simple to screw over the user is probably too simple to be eligible for copyright protection to begin with.

A motherboard BIOS is not at all a marginal case. BIOS bugs abound, as can be seen by booting Linux on almost any PC and looking through the kernel logs for ACPI table errors and various other workarounds and quirks being activated.
It's soft, but it's the same practice.
I dropped DDG maybe a year ago. The problem is, I constantly am searching about esoteric things. Obscure, less known media. Content creators with small followings. Niche topics that aren't very popular. Or even just very small, specific sub-groups of a very popular thing.

For that, DDG just doesn't do well. I found myself having to do the !g command so frequently to get what I wanted that it wasn't worth it anymore.
People as a whole say a lot of things, correct and incorrect. But ChatGPT is a single thing that has a fairly impressive rate of reliability on information, but if you get into certain levels of details on certain topics, it'll just spit out false information that's indistinguishable from the correct stuff. I wouldn't expect a human to do that: trick me into thinking they're an expert with an encyclopedic, verifiably correct knowledge of a topic, but then confidently start lying about that same topic in that same conversation. It's much harder to vet, or know when you need to vet.
FT fixed the title. That seems to have been some update where stories were grouped together for clickbait purposes.
I definitely agree with un-bundling for the best services over all. The problem with credit unions are most are regional (though some are not). I have the best CU in my area which is fine, but it doesn't have a competitive credit card offering or savings rate. It does have good service and some good other benefits and I use it for my main checking account.

I don't agree CUs are more competitive always than big banks. I think for the most part big banks have better credit card offerings for example. There are lots of reasons someone would go for a big bank like Chase for credit cards.
I am curious why you find it cheaper than AWS. Are you sure the application didn't change and was at the same scale?

In my experience, GCP and AWS are within a tiny % of each other.
Also:
> assets under management in its investment arm dropped 10 per cent to $3.6tn

that would be 4t minus 400b (10%) == 3.6t where did the 60b number in the headline come from? And that is just one of the 2 banks mentioned in the article (not 3 as the headline mentions).

Was this submission an attempt to see exactly how many things can be wrong in a single headline?
Yep.

A friend was discussing how her cat loved to be with her 100% of the time, but when she took a shower, the cat was distressed.

In a moment of cleverness, I suggested the obvious solution: a cat raincoat.

Then I searched the web and found lots of cat raincoats.
Mobile developers needs advertising because, as awful as it is, it's an important business model. It's an important complement to Apple's business model, even if I think they should have stayed out and just used policy/technical means to ensure other companies aren't too sleazy.

I don't see any similar need to get into health insurance though.
It makes sense in that Apple has created a greater incentive to move capital to Goldman Sachs via their new Apple Cash savings acct (which is also far easier to apply for), however it's a bit sensationalized since Wealthfront has offered 4% APR incentives on their savings acct for over a month.

Although the feature was released today, the option to actually opt in still isn't available in my apple wallet.
Because he is of the belief that if he doesn't explicitly say something, he can never be called out on it. He wishes to engage in criticism of others while never having to invite criticism to himself. He will sit there and tell you every single problem everything else has and why he is so rational and correct in these opinions, while offering no real solutions. Also, despite being so clear of vision and prescient of problems coming down the pipe, he's only moderately successful in that "is able to keep down a decent job and live an upper-middle-class" is successful. Which, it is, but it's hardly the resume of a world-beater.

But, as always, we tell on ourselves even with how we use language.

He always refers to Ukraine as "the" Ukraine. That itself speaks to someone who is considerably older than the Russian Federation or someone who likes to parrot the opinions of that Federation. Because Russia sees Ukraine as its territory. It is a region of Russia. But it is not. It is its own sovereign country. We don't say "the" Japan or "the" Germany or "the" Ireland.

The guy is the quintessential "enlightened centrist", finding the prevailing opinion of a place and then putting himself squarely on the opposite side "to provide balance".
Brave Search is like Google from 2005/6.
Embarcadero is pretty much in the business of soaking customers locked into Borland's old products for as much as they're willing to pay, hence why the IDEs cost an arm and a leg while competitive products are relatively cheap or free.
Basically yes.

Typically when companies/banks do this sort of pass through banking, the money isn’t actually held in a personal account at the host bank. It’s usually held in one giant account that had a “managed on behalf of many” type structure. This is legal from an FDIC perspective, but it’s held in the not-banks name (aka betterment). So if betterment goes into debt, it’s a grey area if they could use that money.

They could also mismanage money during that “temp uninsured” period. Again, they’re not a bank so they don’t necessarily comply with banking regulations so you don’t know how long that period is or what’s happening.

There are real regulated entities (banks brokers credit unions etc) that offer good rates and less risk. I don’t know why you’d expose yourself to any risk for 0.x% APR. Even Goldman Sachs (the underlying bank of apple) lets you get a good interest rate on savings directly.
Using COBOL to make a video game
This is huge, was just checking today on what would take someone to get a model similar to Llama, since Meta did not share Training code or Dataset.. Looks like they have figured out how to make the dataset ,Main Problem here is pre-processing them. Second step is to make the code to train model and final one do it cheaply.
If AWS wants to stop doing this, AWS can prioritize making optimizations easier for the customer to do...
I hope you're right. But it does have to achieve escape velocity. There are lots of interesting open source projects that never quite made it. Jabber/XMPP, for instance: it seemed like it would inevitably take over messaging for a while in the early 00s...but then a flood of richer chat apps washed it away, and we were stuck in a world of walled gardens again. Jabber never quite died, but it certainly didn't live up to it's full potential.
Bubeck has clarified that the "1 trillion" number he was throwing around was just a hypothetical metaphorical—it was in no way shape or form implying that GPT-4 has 1 trillion parameters [0].

[0] https://twitter.com/SebastienBubeck/status/16441515797238251...
Behind the confusing name, it's a C++ code library, not a document library.
We talk about all of this, yes.

I'm not defending either of these practices, I'm asking how it is any different to what Apple does.

So Apple forcing all third parties on the iOS platform to use Apple's payments APIs to process payments and thus being able to track what you've purchased inside of any third party app they have nothing to do with, is that comparable to what Google does on the Gmail platform?
> It's weird that the side I want to be on tries very hard to stop being a single unified "side".

I'm not exactly sure I catch your meaning, but assuming I do: the self-defeating aspect of many supporters of individual liberty is that they don't recognize how to wield collective action because the psychological tools effective movements employ smell to them of coercion.

It's a similar problem to how democracies and anarchies historically get steamrolled by dictatorships and autocracies because those systems are simpler to use for organization and deployment of vast amounts of violent power.
Because they used to have Google's play store and other services. Parent commenter's point is that a manufacturer having the open source parts of Android isn't necessarily worth much on its own.
Uh, you started this discussion and continue to reply. People assume you're arguing in good faith so they respond.
You are arguing for a worse UX because of an arbitrary reason. Just link against the code in addr2line. Providing a good UX should always be in scope for a project.
This is more of a side effect of providing self-support solutions, and a trend in Customer Support departments. Amazon Support has been on top of the lists and awards for best support because they have proper KPIs that incentive customer retention/satisfaction over just number of contacts resolved.

So when you have good support/sales staff and most contacts are solved with self-service, what remains are contacts about complicated cases and inquiries.

I imagine that they always had a lot of contacts about optimizing spending, and policies to help and retain those customers accordingly, and now the percentage of time spent in those is higher, probably because the other types of contacts are now self-service.
DNS (To the Tune of “Let It Be”)
It's Monday. And it was DNS.
Debian defines the package format and fosters the culture around that format. Third-parties who wish to distribute software via Debian packages have to use the standard that Debian has decided upon. I am taking up the issue with Debian, as the distributor of the Debian package format.
So, this is significantly better.
Diversification takes time. In 2011, their non-ads business was about $1 billion / year. That revenue has grown by 60x in 11 years, so about 50%/year growth for more than a decade. For most businesses those numbers are an amazing success story. It's only in comparison to the once-in-a-lifetime search ads business that this would look disappointing.

Microsoft already had diverse businesses 40 years ago, and have "just" needed to maintain that. They're now diverse by default as long as not too many of those existing lines of business fail. No matter how successful a new business of theirs is, it's really hard for it to grow fast enough to threaten that diversity.
idk if that is strictly true. coherency protocols can using an underlying framing/flit/error handling/flow control scheme just fine.

treating coherency memory like a message protocol is possible, but would not just have constant performance problems, but scaling issues due to remote dictionary lookups. you could turn all that off with flags I guess.
Yeah, same. And now I don't even know where the physical card is.
Well sure. We're happy with the service and support, so keep deploying more and more. It's not locking in like a gym membership sure, more of a trust relationship. And the more we deploy and use, the harder it would be to jump ship.
I don't see much difference in vendor lock-in between EKS and Lambda. The abstraction between your Kubernetes application and the underlying platform isn't airtight.
You don't know what the inflation rate will be over the next 12 months. You do know what your savings account yield will be (well, until it changes). There's I bonds and TIPS if you want a hedge against inflation.
How do you get through the captcha? It's what blocks me.
Tried five searches, things like "test," "bed level," etc. All common terms for 3D printing calibration.

Was only able to get one search to go through which took >20s. All others timed out with "We encountered an error."

Not sure the tech is ready for this to show off and first impressions are everything.
Levels.fyi: “View our jobs board (while you're still employable)”
> I see mgj is still complaining about people being able to boot in modes other than UEFI

I'm not sure how you get that impression, since I'm mostly talking about what happens before you get to that point. Having the CPU hand off control to the firmware in protected mode doesn't preclude the firmware switching back to real mode.
Uh, this is odd. Tostadas in Spain means the classical toasted bread slices, either on a toaster or a pan.