skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Uncle Sam Wants You to Donate Books
I've been doing this a while now. I have a main foreverproject game I just toil away on for, well, forever. But I create dozens of mini games outside that foreverproject to experiment with ideas for the foreverproject.

For me the foreverproject is where I drive all that perfection energy. The surrounding games, well, they're just "experiments" and "prototypes", right? Surely prototypes don't need to be perfect ;)
This was the killer feature to me. It is an amazing teacher, it’s like having an infinitely patient mentor who can answer all your questions. I feel way more confident about being able to onboard with unfamiliar tech and be able to become productive quickly.
A sibling comment calls geocentrism “human centric bias”, so yes, some have the misconception that geocentrism places humans at the center.
Bikelock-guy got ID and sentenced with roughly similar hygiene tips. There's no hiding really.

Cops/Feds can do parallel construction to nail you anyway. Use the fancy technology to discover what happened, build the case backwards with old fashioned techniques.

They never have to reveal the advantages they have, it's rigged.
An interesting idea for a website to track this stuff, especially because so much of the AI space is filled with vaporware and theoretical scenarios.

One nitpick -- this incident is caused by traditional video game AI, not to be confused with the neural stuff that's causing waves right now:

https://incidentdatabase.ai/cite/38/
It's fantastic that more orgs are releasing open-source models trained on more than 300B or so tokens. Here's my take from the details I could find.

Pros

- 4096 context width (vs 2048 for llama, gpt-j, etc)
- 3B to 65B released or in progress
- RL tuned models available
- Trained on more tokens than existing non-llama models
- 128 head dim, so can use flash attention (unlike GPT-J)

Cons

- No benchmarks released, or details about the model
- Somewhat restrictive license on the base models, and NC license on the RL models
- Small models only trained on 800B tokens, compared to 1T for llama-7B, and potentially more for other upcoming alternatives (RedPajama, etc). I'd like to see their loss curves to see why they chose 800B.

High-level, this is likely to be more accurate than existing non-llama open source models. It's hard to say without benchmarks (but benchmarks have been gamed by training on benchmark data, so really it's just hard to say).

Some upcoming models in the next few weeks may be more accurate than this, and have less restrictive licenses. But this is a really good option nonetheless.
Thank you for sharing this. I would not have expected that. It does seem pretty wild.
> That means a lot of people are eligible — Facebook reports 2 billion users globally, including about 200 million in the United States and Canada.

> Only U.S. users are eligible for a payment.

So, less than 200 million, for the record. But, that does not change the substance of your point.
A fair comparison with AMS-IX would perhaps need to factor in the time spent reading/writing the tapes though. Compressed LTO-9 tapes can be fully read in about 12.5 hours, so assuming for sake of argument that your car contains 6422 compressed tapes with a total of 289PB of data on them already, and that you have (a rather expensive) array of 26 LTO-9 drives at your disposal in Rotterdam, you'll need about 130 days to fully read their data. The hour of driving across Holland is rather insignificant compared to that. All in all, you get 'only' 26 GB per second, limited to that only by having 26 drives.
But those certs can come with reputations attached, and it prevents people from claiming that they're representatives of well known companies.
Even if effectively 0% of people hold extremist views (and I think that is a low number), they also commit outsized acts of violence.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colorado_Springs_nightclub_sho...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orlando_nightclub_shooting

You'll also note that mainstream conservatives refused to condemn the Colorado Springs shooting and there has been no change in the rhetoric that encouraged it.
Similarly, files are just a one-way pipe to an unknown process to be executed at some indeterminate future time (ranging from "now" to "never").
If I just walk around the neighborhood, nearly half the pedestrians are staring at the phone, oblivious to where they're going. Sometimes I have to shout "Hello!" to get them to not run into me. And these are (mostly) adults.

One guess what class of app they're all staring at.
At compile-time, sure. But ML-like languages in general have no support for runtime logical programming. They don't provide an API to do things like type inference at runtime. For a good reason too, the only possible way type inference in ML-like languages work is because the computational cost is abstracted away from the runtime. Logical programming (ala Prolog) is very useful but the truth is it's asymptotically inefficient. Standard ML's type inference algorithm was, for example, asymptotically exponential. It just so happened that for useful programs it halts in a reasonable amount of time. This is not something you can provide an API for so that at runtime you can run arbitrary type inferences.
2.5" hard disks actually use way less power than the 3.5" drives, but if you spin down the bigger drives they get down to about 1watt.

My server at home I actually use a 2.5" drive for the torrent scratch disk since I don't really need speed there I just need something that is always spun up with a moderate amount of space that doesn't use much power.
How is twitter a prison. You can just not use it. I've never had an account there, and never used it other occcasionally reading a linked tweet in my web browser.
It was not only rotated, but also shifted: „was shifted 52 feet south“
Both could be true. A glut of product trying to make its way through ports & other logistic routes that it usually doesn't, might drive down the price of the product at those ports—while, globally, the supply might be lower and prices higher.

Think up a toy case with some remote old-west town coming into a glut of some bulky, perishable good, but having only one train line to distribute it, and the potential for this effect becomes clear. Or an island, or whatever. The logistics systems in question aren't that isolated, obviously, but they still have limited capacity that's unlikely to go up much in response to anything perceived as only a temporary situation, so they absolutely might see local prices (including for export) depressed even as global prices rise. It's not implausible.
Great post! When starting a green field project, how would you approach the choice between the two options? Are there specific use cases in which one would be preferable over the other?
What makes a game “big” or “small” in this case?

I’m wondering, because I was going through my steam library after reading this, just looking at the games I play and trying to fit them into “small” and “big” and while many seemed obvious, many were also hard to tell.

Is it the size/scale of the development (i.e. indie vs AAA)? The mechanical complexity? the graphical complexity? The volume of content? The size on disk? maybe some combination or something else entirely.
Price is not solely determined by availability, but it is largely determined by availability, especially in the case of rapid shifts in availability (since other factors take time to adjust in response).
You have expert friends who will spend an hour tutoring you on demand? Are you a celebrity or something?
That's true, a lot of simple physics games like launching turtles and visual novel style games.

That era was definitely defined by enthusiast creators instead of the modern indie-studio-ification of even the simplest games.
This is understated a lot. Sometimes you work hard, not for the company, not for your boss, but for your coworkers sitting in the trenches with you. It pays off in terms of the relationships built. I would not recommend/refer mediocre devs to new companies. I'm sure lots of other people feel the same way to. Don't be a lazy dev. Work hard at the current job and find another one.
>We would not describe those as evolution.

What do you mean by "we"? Because I happen to have degrees in Genomics and Biology and I would definitely describe that as evolution.
Dutch can also sound exquisitely hilarious to an English speaker, hoor.
For comparison, the Ever Given that got stuck in the Suez a couple years back has a capacity just short of 200,000 tons.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ever_Given
New job-title: "AI Overseer"
Inverse for me, I use mono in places people traditionally use proportional fonts - after literal decades of looking at monospaced text (right back to DOS) it's just as easy for me to grok.
This is highly dependent on how you look at the thing. Two possible outlooks are attacks you can do right now on stock hardware (typically with GPUs), and what attacks you could do if you had the right kind of custom hardware. As far as I can tell Argon2, being explicitly designed to be memory-hard, is very much tailored to the second one.

I’m also sceptical about the timing based threshold (one second). Computers are a bit faster now than they were in 2015, so there’s a chance that threshold now lowered. I understand why they used that easy to understand shorthand, but it’s unlikely to age well.

One thing everyone do seem to agree on though: Argon2 is stronger with long enough run times, if you can tolerate them. Maybe you don’t if you’re running a server under fairly high login load, but maybe you do if you use some augmented PAKE (say OPAQUE) to offload the expensive computation to the client.
While I appreciate this is cool project, and I enjoy writing Erlang & Elixir. What benefit is there to being able to run BEAM/OTP in the browser?
> If you approach software design the way experts in commercial and military cockpit human factors approach their craft, you will end up with designs that are fast, familiar, and forgiving. Such designs would be a refreshing change in the ghastly world of PC software. They'd be a refreshing change in the world of general aviation, too.

This completely ignores hundreds or even thousands of required flight hours. If I required my users to train for hundreds of hours before using my software by themselves, I would make all sorts of different UI design choices. In fact, a command line or text UI interface might actually be the most productive. However, that is not the case.

Commercial and military cockpit design are all designed for the efficiency of the expert (especially military cockpits, since you do not want a “Are you sure” confirmation dialog during a dogfight).
I think CAP_NET_RAW is there for just about all linux distros now.

Yeah telnet just about does it, unfortunately not for UDP ports though, and still lacking a built in way to see what port is being held without grabbing procexp. It still feels like if you've got WSL sat there, thats still a much more capable place to mess about with this stuff (and this is coming from someone who spent the first half of their career building out Windows Server deployments).
Now you're just generalizing with platitudes and snarky comments about exaggerated marketing. This isn't just about shitcoins and you know it.

Gensler, just yesterday, couldn't even answer a simple question about ETH being a security and that's the second largest marketcap crypto out there.

Pretending that crypto is only made up of shitcoins doesn't mean that it is going to magically go away. It is here to stay. The cat is out of the bag.

The SEC can only bury its head for so long and that's clearly coming to light now. You've got Warren with her stupid 'war on crypto' and Gensler as her puppet talking head.

Things need to change and Coinbase is going to have to sue them to get that change. That speaks more to the lack of clarity in the SEC, than to anything Coinbase is or isn't doing well.
Nothing is. Its just an opportunity to work "trump made u feel bad haha" into the thread.

The whole point of supporting Trump for a lot of these people was simply the delightful thrill of having gained a pet bully that could inflict some form - any form - of grief on people they didn't like, with all the blowback going to the pet and none to themselves.

The same motivation that drives rolling coal on EVs and brandishing assault rifles in public: addiction to petty displays of imagined power over others.
Interview and AMA with Simon Peyton Jones, Lead Developer of Haskell
I fondly remember locally-executing software with local persistence by default.

To provide a counterpoint, though, during that time my entire family shared one desktop PC. Looking around me, right now: work macbook, personal linux laptop, smartphone, steam deck. I suspect that the workflows that were "fine" in 1995 would really wear on me today. Especially the ones that involve migrating documents from place-to-place for collaboration while trying to maintain a canonical master copy somehow.

Today, because of de-facto reliance on the cloud, "setting up" a new machine - regardless of its OS - takes me about 20 minutes. If my laptop fell off of my bike, that would suck, but I wouldn't irretrievably lose important data.

There are downsides to the current cloud-first paradigm too, of course. But I don't think it's _all_ downside.
A friendly reminder that in the U.S., as a non-government organization, if you’d like to modify the weather you need to fill out the NOAA form 17-4(a).

This is required by U.S. Code 15§ 330a as per Public Law 92-205 (1972): https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/15/330a

All weather modification projects that have been filed with the NOAA under this law can be found here: https://www.library.noaa.gov/Collections/Digital-Collections...

It’s important to note that religious ceremonies are exempted from this law. NOAA form 17-4(a) does not need to be submitted for rain dances or other religious ceremonies intended to change the weather. This, however, is likely to change if the success rates of your weather ceremony become statistically significant.
On the contrary, that goal has worked pretty well. Russia has to sell crude now, plus at very low price points. It's a shame that China and especially India continue to buy, but at least they're taking advantage of the situation to pay a pittance so Russia isn't making profits with it.

Russia's economy isn't crushed but it has now a massive budget deficit that isn't sustainable without some extreme adaptations.
Street Votes: A proposed response to Ireland's housing crisis
"The richness of this dataset gives StableLM surprisingly high performance in conversational and coding tasks, despite its small size of 3 to 7 billion parameters (by comparison, GPT-3 has 175 billion parameters)."

So they did not explicitly say it is comparable, but implicitly compared the two. I'm curious to evaluate what "surprisingly high performance" means exactly.
Planetary seismology as a test of modified gravity proposals
I have seen those "risky" playgrounds in Germany - they aren't that risky at all?

Sure, you could get a splinter from the wood if its not maintained, or have a fall and get scraped up, but the risks are low, the benefits (learning to not be a fucking muppet, learning to cope with falls) are high.
This feels like the sort of functionality that ought to just work now. Its a clearly useful thing for PCs all over the planet and it would be nice if they just went to sleep almost completely when idle and woke up on network or USB/PS2 input. The power savings would be enormous.

Yet today I still have issues with power saving features, performance is lowered by having power saving on instead of flat out and various things don't work like Keepass looses connection to my browser for my passwords and one of the USB devices that came on the motherboard crashes the entire computer on some power transitions. Its taking an awful long time for power saving features to mature.

I would love to have this for my NAS/server, it has a lot of performance for when its needed but its also idle a lot. This is not the way.
I've tested it on a various areas of expertise in physics that I am familiar with and it often makes up content which sounds very plausible except that it gets pretty much always details wrong in very important ways. On the other hand I've found it very useful in providing reference articles.
>This sounds stupid to say because it is - stupid-ly obvious.

But since it is also stupidly profitable, it's a problem without any solution.

In the US, phone numbers are now as important as social security numbers, in that you need one to access a bunch of online services. That so much else is attached to that phone number and that the phone is its own weakness is unforgivable. I worry, however, that the mitigation will come in the form of tying identity into the phone to an even greater degree.
Concerns about electronic voting machines go back decades. Not sure how old you are, but there was a lot of hand wringing in the day when an executive of one such company promised to “deliver the election” to George W Bush.
I design board games and have designed 30+ (one signed so far). I've come to the following conclusion about game design: It is sometimes a freaking slog! I always tell people to work on the design (or game part) they are most excited to work on. Maintaining momentum is key in my opinion. If one design or game part is blocking, set it to the side and let your subconscious work on it while you make progress elsewhere.

There is another tenet from board game design to get the idea out of your head and onto the table. Showing designs to trusted others asap is imperative. Very much a "perfect is the enemy of good enough" situation.
Yeah, this site needs a clear definition of what is an AI upfront.

Good luck with that.
> go to therapy

Unless you have psychological issues you want to resolve, "make friends" makes this part redundant.

The idea that everyone needs to pay a professional to talk to unnecessarily medicalises the human condition.
When I was robbed my attacker demanded my passcode at gunpoint, which he then used to unlock my phone and (as far as I could tell) to just watch Netflix. This was years ago, well before the passcode — and Find my iPhone, i.e. the ability to remotely brick your stolen phone — were standard security features. I imagine every thief these days will make every effort possible to get your passcode when they decide to take your phone.
I feel "The Pile" needs a lot more to match what OpenAI has trained their models on. The mysterious "Books2" and so on.
Well nice knowing you as a Company that cared for its user base.

Soon you will be beholden to Wall Street. That means at the slightest controversy there will be calls to enable a back door to your product(s).
That's a great question!

We actually use real user sessions to train our model, so when I use the term coverage our main metric is covering as many user behaviors as possible.

We collect data in a privacy-focused way essentially anonymizing all sensitive information, as we don't need to know the user specific context. Only the main flow.
Teach yourself French in 10 days. It includes 3 audio books which make it really easy, too.
Great to see Stability release this with a great license as well. Any idea on the usecases for the 3B model? Will a model that small suffer heavily from a 4bit quantization?
A couple others are:

https://lfe.io/
https://gleam.run/
There were two checks the first one was $397 and then I think they had some left over so everyone that got the first one also got $30.61

edit: citation- https://www.chicagotribune.com/business/ct-biz-facebook-priv...
Photography already did to painters what GPT may do to writers.

The wave of non figurative "modern art", can be seen as painters trying to find new markets.
Well not sure how they would relate to North Korea or Guinea.
Funny how you claim to support GDPR but your own site displays a non-compliant cookie banner.
I'm not saying anyone should actually use this btw

https://narma.github.io/2015/redis-in-browser/

https://medium.com/fluence-network/porting-redis-to-webassem...
Respectfully, you are delusional if you think I've been on HN for years, posting in lots of unrelated threads, etc. to be some apparatus of Russian propaganda.

It's time to realize real, normal people are fed up with this useless conflict. That's the takeaway here that you refuse to see.
Absolutely a giant fan of Stability staying to actually open source licenses and not licenses that impose restrictions on what you can use it for. This is the future of AI! Beware of any org that uses "ethical" licenses - they are not open source. Stability is one of the few organizations that actually cares about free software, you love to see it.
I think that’s the take and from my own experience, it kind of sucks and feels like we’re running worst versions of basic software than we used to (old man rant?).

For example, I use Apple Music every time I leave my apartment. Put my headphones on and start some music. All my songs are downloaded locally so it should be fine, however, as soon as I close my front door until after I step off the elevator, no music will even attempt to play. That’s because Apple Music is blocking itself on some sort of network call/drm check because it thinks I’m online and it should work.

If I go into airplane mode and hit play, everything works perfectly.
We? As in the US?

The oceans keep us safe. The money we spend is to maintain hegemony.
Z1’s front-end developer María Simó redesigned some of her favorite programming books with a slightly retro flavor, and they look delightful.
See sibling comment. All non-government weather modification projects in the U.S. must file form 17-4(a) with the NOAA.

All submissions have been indexed and are viewable on their webpage.
So if your peers have a nice fat ass that the boys all like to oggle at while walking between classes and you're stuck with a skinny thigh gapping flapjack white girl tush you bet your ass you're gonna start eating some cheese berders.

The feeling of wanting to fit in is constant for teens. What 'fitting in' looks like changes over time.

What's desired has changed over time in my life alone. Booty is a great example. I grew up with mostly white women in media shaming themselves and asking if their dress made their ass look fat while also trying to get boob implants.

Nowadays booty is WAAAAY more prominent and desired and those old tired jokes about their ass looking fat a hell of a lot less common.

From the show Brockmire:

https://youtu.be/lOBjS2kzL3w
It states that if an LLM is good at the LSAT, it must have trained on many practice LSAT tests. How do we know this? The test measures things like reading comprehension and logical reasoning. LLMs have reasoning ability with novel material, and there are plenty of ways to train logical reasoning outside of LSAT test prep materials.
“also fine-tuned the model with Stanford Alpaca's procedure using a combination of five recent datasets for conversational agents: Stanford's Alpaca, Nomic-AI's gpt4all, RyokoAI's ShareGPT52K datasets, Databricks labs' Dolly, and Anthropic's HH. We will be releasing these models as StableLM-Tuned-Alpha.”

They have released the 3B and 7B of both the base and instruction tuned models. 30B and 65B in training and released later.
> Doing it yourself

The only way to be sure. All other options are just facades for government.
It seems like there are several options for US persons/USD deposits that achieve similar ~4.5% guaranteed returns. Anything similar for EU/EUR deposits? Even services like revolut that operate on the two jurisdictions and offer multiple currency accounts in both, have very different yield rates.
"There is seriously no end to the number of newsworthy things to cover."

Not when it also needs to be "entertaining". When you watch Fox, CNN and others they convey almost zero information about actual issues but only emotion and opinion.