skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Five Whys!

Why did you go to the hospital? "Because I severely bruised my toe."

Why? "Because I dropped my phone on it."

Why? "Because I was trying to hold it with 3 fingers, while using my thumb and forefinger to attempt a zoom pinch thing."

Why? "Because the text on this ergonomics article was too hard to read."

Why? "Because the web in 1999 was a very different place."

Verdict: Your fault for trying to read a computer website on a telephone. :)
Perhaps non-human entities will lament that. Or perhaps humans who are leveraging more advanced search/discovery tools to look for specific things.

Otherwise, there is too much content for anyone to view.
True friends do not need feeding, you can go a year without seeing each other and catch up and be right back to where you were before. And most of my 1:1 friends, I talk to regularly anyway because I want to. I've known these people for decades. So your comment about closed systems doesn't ring true to me at all.
I put in a random PDF with some CS concepts and it started off the conversation in a Scottish accent. Anyone know why? It would not explain to me why it did that.

PDF: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/sellout/recursion-scheme-t...

First message:

Hullo there! Welcome tae this PDF file aboot coElgot algebra and mair. Here are some questions ye might hae:

- Whit is the difference atween a catamorphism and an anamorphism?

- How daes a zygomorphism uise a helper function?

- Can ye gie an example o a refold in action?
I drove a Japanese car in NL traffic and whenever I had to downshift for turns in the first couple of hours after switching cars my right hand would slam into the door :)
Knowing nothing of flight except what I know from my pilot friends, my impression of Burt Rutan was that he makes killer planes because he was involved with the VSS Enterprise and then this and some other one.

Of course that's unfair because he's in the business of making experimental planes.

What I find curious is that this seems like the sort of field that would benefit from open-source design - flaws in design wouldn't be ported from other planes and shared visibility would benefit all. That makes me wonder if open-source software was inevitable after all. If it weren't for a bunch of early eccentrics, would we be primarily running binaries that we cannot edit? Good for them. Lucky to be in this field.
We're stuck here for a while due to the size, and cost, of the larger models.

The main reason I want a non-cloud LLM is that I want one that's unaligned.

I know I'm not a criminal and I want to stop being reprimanded by GPT4.

What I'm most interested here is fine tuning the model with my own content.

That could be super valuable especially if we could get it to fact check itself, which you could with a vector database.
This is sort of like saying the world wide web is a fad. Many people made that argument, but a lot of desktop apps got replaced by websites even though they were supposedly inferior.

ChatGPT works fine as a website and you don’t need to buy a new computer to run it. You can access your chat history from any device. For many purposes, the only real downside is the subscription fee.

If LLM’s become cheaper to run, websites will be cheaper to run, and there will be lower-cost competition. Maybe even cheap enough to give away for free and make money from advertising?
The word has a similar origin and definitely works as a translation for one of the uses of gezellig, but it doesn't cover the entire definition. It helps that the languages are so closely related but they're different enough that I wouldn't call it a translation.

The inverse is true of many Dutch words with a common German origin as well. We straight-up imported "überhaupt" because there's no commonly used, single word that expresses the same particular thing (other than another loan word).
OTOH, there's a ton to learn going down rabbit holes, and these are the reason why I stick to Linux.
I'm sure there will be a bunch of different RL tuned versions of them, RLHF isn't that expensive. IIRC Microsoft has software that will do it for a few thousand dollars for a model that size. I'm sure someone will release a non-lobotomized version, maybe OpenAssistant.
Really depends on the person. Learn something though, as many things as you can in as many areas as you can. You never know what might pan out.

Most important thing: Learn to make things happen. Learn to "do stuff". A lot of people never understand this is what people pay for (they think it's just their qualifications or some such).

Learn how to take a task, stick with it and make a result, even when it is hard. Learn how to work. How to deal with other people who can help you or are in your way. Learn how to learn on the fly.

I don't know what the future is 20 years out, nobody does. Any specialized skill might go by the wayside at any time. But what you gain acquiring mastery of a skill is a skill itself.
Simplifying Bézier Paths
Reddit is better than FB and most other forums WRT readings posts that interest me about my hobbies: music & guitar playing, photography, and motorcycling.

There are hobby-specific online communities, but frankly, those don't appear as healthy and having as much interest.

Obviously YMMV.
I quit Facebook, Twitter, Instagram. Never got in tiktok or any other social media. Our brains aren't mean to handle so much information at once. We can't parse it. We can't distinguish reality from fiction when we're constantly being told several things at once or youre being told a lie several times a day. I also can't stand that we can't just live our lives without having a company collect data to try and manipulate and / or sell me something. I understand that some people need social media but, if you can do without it...do it.
Definitely not what I was expecting. I thought it was going to be a bunch of generic advice.

I've never tried this one but I've heard you should write that you're looking for a project car and that'll get people to tell you every little issue the car has.
The SEC’s position is very clear - they could be registered as securities and are securities but the SEC is not going to register them because they would like crypto to go away.

Also a licence to operate as a broker does not permit you to operate as an exchange. They are very different things, separated in traditional finance to prevent the sort of shenanigans (like trading against your own customers) that crypto exchanges get up to.
The same can be said for a lot of software developers. How many people spend their days gluing together existing libraries vs. writing their own? This rule seems ridiculous; I fail to understand why they're are different tax write off rates for employees based on what they're doing. Either way they're being paid by the business!

The entirety of the rule seems to exist to punish small players in the market. A barrier to entry to box out competition.
I am definitely not in favor of OSS license for models >= GPT3...

Not unless they're aligned well.

There are all sorts of horrible use cases that these could be used for.
Sure. I don't doubt for a second her intelligence, or even her seeing FTX as a fad or troubled. But the implications of an opaque SEC definition of security and its impact on her personal liability would be a bizarrely specific thing to be looking for.

Again, in pretty much every other celebrity endorsement deal, you are not personally on the hook if it turns out the company screwed up or defrauded people. It's just very unlucky for the defendants that the product turned out to be a security which is has special and arcane rules, instead of just made of asbestos by slave children, I guess.
This has been my experience beyond anything that is somewhat trivial.
Gtk devs could learn much from projects like Linux, Windows, OpenJDK, Clojure, Emacs, or FLTK wrt backward compatibility. When Linus announced Kernel 5.0, it was "just another release" [1]. But, unfortunately, I'm getting the impression that Gtk and GNOME are run by teen boys who want to impress girls rather than get the job done.

[1] https://itsfoss.com/linux-kernel-5/
This is me, I spend all my time on 1:1 and I have a small but very close set of friends, and no desire to make any more.

It's like a romantic relationship - once you find "that person", you're done.
Ukraine and Russia Need a Great-Power Peace Plan
Yeah. Makes me wonder if it was a really simple concept, like something like recursion or something.
Is this bigger than computers / web / smartphones? Many people lost their clients and had to change the way they work because of the above. The market has adjusted.

Then again, it all happened in a relatively long timeframe. Whereas here we got access to chatgpt pretty much overnight.
The getting started docs to write an app basically look like: npm install @fireproof/core and import it to your page (or the React hook -- which I skipped for this app but use in other examples). Once connected you open a database and put and get documents. You can write CouchDB-style map indexes and all storage is content addressed and encrypted. Encrypted databases can be replicated to untrusted storage over HTTP, UCAN and IPFS, or synced with trusted collaborators via WebRTC or Socket Supply. The whole thing runs in the browser or server and relies on Merkle CRDT proofs for data verifiabiliy and lightwight diffs.
There's still shortages of a whole bunch of random parts (wireless chips, etc).

Unsure if its actually impacting Pi manufacturing specifically, but its hit some other products I want.
Music on YouTube is probably a bad example because it's subject to a lot of weird licensing restrictions and copyright claims.
So learn who you are, and aspire to be; your values, your desires, and your abilities. And learn to ignore that which separates you from them.
Instead of starting a new chat, why not change the prompt higher up in the conversation with the relevant detail that you have gained through the responses?
Maybe it's Racket grammars?
(aka syntax-rules)
Time Machine has improved a lot after the switch to APFS. Mostly because it supports full snapshots, with an easy way to get the difference between two snapshots.

The previous HFS+ version relied on directory hardlinks that were notoriously buggy and easy to corrupt. The difference computation also required basically recursively walking the entire tree and comparing the directory change times, with each lookup requiring a network round-trip.
Houses are a large part of the engine for the capitalist economy, so if houses are desirable and available the economy will grow. Housing is the #1 form of savings for most people in wealthy countries. Also people get a job, then they bid as much as they possibly can to buy a house, then people spend decades working hard to pay it off. Making shitty dense housing doesn’t work as well for the economy if apartments don’t have a strong status signal (prestige/status-seeking drives housing which drives people working which drives economies). It feels wasteful, but it also seems how things currently work; although I would love to see us all find a better model.

Homeowners need skin-in-the-game so this article is interesting. In New Zealand we get property developers creating problems, because they don’t live in the houses they build and don’t have to face the consequences of their decisions. Christchurch example 1: powerful lobbying by developers so they can subdivide high-risk land (liquefaction risks or flooding risks). Local example 2: developers letting houses rot for decades because they are waiting for prices to increase (I’ve experienced examples in city-centre and New Brighton). Auckland example #3: leaky homes.
John Denver failed to fill his gas tank -- twice.

Multiple Long-EZ's that failed over water ditched without injury.

About 95% of all private plane crashes are due to running out of fuel or flying into clouds. It is ridiculously easy to do neither: fill your tank, and turn around.

As for design changes, builders have tried hundreds of modifications to the Long-EZ design, and many of the successful ones are now the standard of care.

Indeed, unlike software generally, there is usually a strong and clear standard of care for each experimental plane model, as voiced by the builders with the most cogent explanations coupled with their own flying safety record (benevolent dictators eating their own dog food). The experimental aircraft community differs precisely in that everyone who flies their own plane is not the chicken but the pig (and builders who talk a great game are ignored).
Just today someone told me that Microsoft has something similar like this in beta. Anybody can confirm?
Show HN: A deterministic update to my tough-as-nails 2D unity mobile game
Hello HN!

I don't often see a lot of game dev content on hacker news, so I thought it would be fun to add some!

I just spent the last 5 months updating my mobile game Command Center Earth to version 2.0.0. The trailer on the website posted is a culmination of all that work!

The funny part is that while the "Fully Deterministic" refactor made to the game only gets a small callout in the trailer, it's what took the majority of the time! I could have never possibly imagined how much time, energy and testing it would take to get the game reproducibly deterministic with Unity! And even with all that work, I can't 100% guarantee that it is deterministic across all devices (although my testing shows things hold together on all devices I've tested). All things considered though, I'm very happy with how things came together!

In addition to the deterministic refactor, I added 3 new levels to the game, 2 of which were only possible as a result of the refactor! Without it, all the bumping of those meteors (on Haxer & Frank) would have produced a different level scenario on each retry! Additionally, having things deterministic means that my leaderboard is now accurate to 0.01 seconds!

There were some big visual overhauls as well, but I thought the HN community might be the most intrigued by the determinism updates!

Thanks for checking out my game!

P.S. I plan on writing a blog post on all that I've learned, in the hopes that the next developer to come along has a better go of it than I did btw.
+1 on the reusable components -- I think Figma's library is something that really helped them scale across orgs (this is one of the big barriers to collaborating on the Microsoft Office suite rn)

are there plans to allow components to be sourced from other systems (e.g., a CSV hosted remotely)
Spanish in Amsterdam? That sounds refreshing. Whenever I eat at a restaurant in Amsterdam, I get served in English about 80% of the time.
Ah, interesting. Thought GPT-3.5 had the same structure as GPT-3, for some reason. GPT-4 would obviously be different.
Nothing from cryptsetup but tooling around it.

Like automatically on-the-fly re-doing the key encryption/KDF when the default algorithm changes and is now more secure then the one used currently.

or tooling for setting it up including TPM unlock, secure boot, hibernation etc. without needing to know all the config files and initramfs options you need to edit.

(and lockdown mode + hibernation is currently also not at all supported and some distros default enabled lockdown mode when secure boot is used leading to a lot of headaches or "hibernation doesn't work claims" from users)

Also standard schemas for desktop setups of the core system, including full disk encryption, raid(if needed), etc.

But there is no tool and too many divergend approaches leading to no standard schema.

And I mean sure, I can use a patched LTS kernel supporting both lock down and hybernation (at the cost of lockdown being slightly less secure) or disable lockdown mode. And then setup full disk encryption knowing how to evaluate the difference of FS (e.g. ZFS) encryption vs. LUKS and choose weather to do RAID=>LUKS=>LVM=>FS or LUKS=>LVM(with RAID)=>FS or LUKS=>FS(with subvolums and RAID) and maybe script some custom initrd mods to make that work well. Setup hibernation and how to setup secure boot with an efistub, systemd-boot or grub and why to do (or not do) either with custom platform keys.... and setup TPM encryption unlock and evaluate weather I want it or not etc.

But man it's sooo annoying to do that and 100% not something I can expect anyone new to Linux to be able to get that anywhere close to right for their use-case.
I think it’s not too bad. Of course, I knew most of the ingredients before reading this article. I think my Router OS router can also do the ARP thing.
I don't understand the Glade problem. I thought both GTK+ 3 and GTK+ 4 had a GtkBuilder class which loads .ui files? And as for creating .ui files, Cambalache is a replacement for Glade?
GPT-4 has its own compression language
I'm pushing 40 and haven't had any luck with making new friends on BJJ, Crossfit or Muay Thai (currently) classes. On Crossfit the folks are a bit young and only talk about Crossfit. Muay Thay gym also feel like a bunch of disconnected people. BJJ seemed to be more around like an "homogeneous" group (older, many with kids) but I didn't stay long enough and didn't went to the soccer - aha! In Brazil you have to play soccer because thats where people can develop more personal relationships (some yelling would be awesome).

I feel like cyclists, running groups could also work for my age group, but I don't feel very inclined to those sports. I can't find a soccer group to play and I suck at it. Most people that play weekly are work colleagues or school/uni colleagues..
Do you have any clients? Can you demonstrate demand? Can you articulate a clear problem that others agree exists and a clear solution? Are you sure you need investors? What will you use their money for that is worth giving up a likely substantial preferential position?
Re prior art: I'm at least vaguely reminded of "expansion-passing style" by Dybvig, Friedman, and Haynes. https://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.64...

(Just from a quick skim of this long post.)
I am another person that still have problems opening up a tab, and trying to access social media, even though I know it is blocked on my computer.

My solution involves a Pi-hole. You can set a cron job to enable or disable rules.

Other solution I hear people doing is using OpenDNS.
StableLM already has an optimal parameter number to tokens ratio, so what's your point? They should train the 65B model on even more tokens?

> StableLM is trained on a new experimental dataset built on The Pile, but three times larger with 1.5 trillion tokens of content
Thus things without provenance become unusable and Microsoft builds on ownership of npm to exert absolute control over the javascript ecosystem. I reckon I can see how this ends.
I recently asked it to provide the meaning of a song. I gave it the artist and the song. It responded with a thoughtful(ish) explanation of the potential meaning of the song. I then asked it if it could share the lyrics of the song with me because some of the quotes it referenced weren't in the song. It provided lyrics that weren't the song I was asking about at all. I then asked what song it was, it apologized and it told me the artist and title of the song... I looked up that artist and title and it was also not the song that it provided the lyrics/meaning to. Ultimately, I determined that it just made up lyrics to a song. It was very apologetic.
potatoes grow super easily and are the food with highest satiety (so it's highly nutritious) https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/7498104/, so we could turn more to that
I think we’ll see completely new architectures dominate in the near future, ousting the transformer. I am strongly suspicious that, while impressive, transformers use several orders of magnitude more compute than is “needed” for the tasks they perform—if for no other reason because the human brain performs similarly and it only draws 20 watts! And it isn’t even an engineered system, jus the product of a very, very long history of natural selection! I fully anticipate that we’ll see AI in the near future that achieves human-level performance on sub-human power budgets like the ones you’d be constrained by on a phone :)
Talk to an archaeologist sometime.

Some of the most valuable finds in terms of learning about past societies have been very ordinary things: the everyday objects that we make, use, and keep says so much about us that doesn't get put into official records.

Archival isn't just for entertainment. It's for research, for history, and for remembering and understanding where we've come from.
It's very slow, and for the 7b model you're still looking at a pretty hefty RAM hit whether it's CPU or GPU. The model download is something like 40GB.
Then the near-entirety of the American (and global, while we're at it) workforce has quite a bit of introspection to do.
Well exactly. AI _is_ a tool and a very good one at that.
The Big One – XR at UK Parliament Square
I've been diving in lately and while it's not efficient, the only way to do manage is to create a new conda/mamba environment, or a custom Docker image for all the conflicting packages.

For safety and speed, you should prefer the safetensor format: https://huggingface.co/docs/safetensors/speed

If you know what you are doing you can do your own conversions: https://github.com/huggingface/safetensors or for safety, https://huggingface.co/spaces/diffusers/convert
I agree it’s irrelevant. I only mentioned revenues because the parent comment mentioned Nintendo still making ton of money.

And so I was wondering at what point does that becomes relevant.

I’m not entirely sure I agree with you on the cruel and unusual punishment though.

I have a relative who’s in a similar situation because of some unpaid taxes. A fifth of her paycheck goes to the state automatically for example.
Does that include the examples other posters have linked in this thread?
Then what about everyone else trying to get in through the Mexican border?

"Now, folks like the guy in this story are not “refugees” by the technical definition; . They’re either asylum-seekers, which is a technically different thing, or they’re people who just try to move to escape a bad situation back home. But to me this is a distinction without a difference; "

So can be said for a lot of people wanting to come to the U.S. to make a living.

Personally making immigration affordable and efficient to meet the demand is a possible direction we could go (I think it would reduce harm) but that isn't the one we've gone down so far.
Good step
> You realize I was speaking for myself, right? I never once said that SaaS doesn't provide any value to anyone.

> solved a few problems for a few people

Are you trolling?
Why? Do you see a nascent boom in hardware? EE isn't particularly useful in the software world.
I like Yubico but to me going public via a SPAC is a huge red flag.
The phrase "according to researchers" make it sound like these are people who research the question of whether AI could lead to catastrophe.

It's actually the result of a survey of a sample of NLP researchers, of whom 36% said they "agree" or "weakly agree" that AI could lead to a nuclear-level catastrophe. The exact question is:

>It is plausible that decisions made by AI or machine learning systems could
cause a catastrophe this century that is at least as bad as an all-out nuclear
war.

The article presents this as:

>Many experts in A.I. and computer science say the technology is likely a watershed moment for human society. But 36% don’t mean that as a positive, warning that decisions made by A.I. could lead to “nuclear-level catastrophe,”

This is a very misleading presentation. The 36% are not saying it's "likely", they're saying it's "plausible". They're not issuing a "warning", they're answering a survey question.