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That's a lot of lines to say that dynamically loadable agents will not be enable by default in Java 21 [1].

I suppose it's to avoid sneaky libraries that dynamically starts an agent to crack open the code of the JDK.

[1] https://bugs.openjdk.org/browse/JDK-8306275
Oh you are right, I absolutely forgot the translation part I read about tons of time.
Maybe I should have phrased that better! I didn't mean that Vicuna was comparable to ChatGPT, just that it's the best Llama-based comparison you can make (since it's at least been conversationally trained).
Some user interfaces are bad by design, ala dark patterns.
Housing is another clear example of governments being solely concerned with continued enrichment of the few at detriment of the many.

Solutions nearly always seem to come when these oligarchical groups can be bypassed.

I've had to move my family numerous times over the last decade due to a housing market whose sole purpose seems to be enrichment rather than human survival.

Western overly financialised and deindustrialised economies are now so completely dependent on continued asset price inflation so as to maintain the ongoing ponzi scheme that to change it will require huge pain to asset holders who hold all the power. And so it won't happen peacefully.
Why aren't we taking every Chinese refugee we can?
Amazing that someone engineered a prompt that as a side effect posted "When will we begin to suspect most comments on HN are by AI?" to HN!
A Tech Industry Pioneer Sees a Way for the U.S. to Lead in Advanced Chips
Possible, but article actually supports one reason and not the other.

>The accumulated rainfall in the country’s Guangxi and Guangdong province, China’s major hubs of rice production, was the second highest in at least 20 years,
We’re literally on hacker news right now
Could you not use a live transcription software that would make it easier than assessing a written exam?
Have you tried something like:

"Never start an email with 'Hope this email finds you well'"

in your first prompt.
A release rate of three per day (overall)!

This isn't that much different from the rate at which stuff comes up in my modest set of Youtube subscriptions. And what of that stuff is worth a rewatch or considered culturally significant? And yet! 100 years from now they'll lament that so much of today's pop culture has simply been lost to random deletion or bit rot.
Hi HN!
Ariel from Topsoil here - frameworks to help you make sense of agriculture, at just the right depth. Thanks mattwest for sharing my article!

Agriculture plays a pretty big role in climate change, so the industry is going to need many more people to roll up their sleeves and contribute their time, skills and energy.

However, one of the biggest challenges that I hear over and over is “I wasn’t a farm kid. Where do I begin?”

I started writing Topsoil to answer that question. This month's topic is all about yield: what it is, what drives it, how far we’ve come, and what our ever-higher-yielding future might look like.

I hope you find it interesting and I'm happy to answer any questions!
You're making an assessment based on the level of surrounding hype instead of the actual fundamentals. That isn't a very useful signal in either direction.
I could definitely imagine that shootings and the subsequent drills have a negative effect on children's mood. What I meant was that this effect would be limited to the US, whereas the data presented in his articles seems to often cover a much larger part of the world.
I believe “self-driving” Teslas have a higher body count than Google Search, but go off.
I think "sweet spot" is going to depend on your task, but here's a good recent paper that may give you some more context on thinking about training and model sizes: https://www.harmdevries.com/post/model-size-vs-compute-overh...

There have also been quite a few developments on sparsity lately. Here's a technique SparseGPT which suggests that you can prune 50% of parameters with almost no loss in performance for example: https://arxiv.org/abs/2301.00774
They passed the algorithm test though.
I'm not, are you??
I suspect Microsoft prefers extending the reach of Visual Studio Code over acquiring JetBrains.
Awesome, thanks for live streaming this and posting it to YouTube! I love watching people’s workflows.
SBOM doesn't make sense at this level usually since the things being published lists constraints when installed locally and not locked/pinned versions. Some executables distributed on npm do provide lockfiles but those aren't SBOMs. You cannot really have an SBOM of something with unknown transitive dependencies. There are also disagreements on which SBOM would make sense here as multiple are in play.
I look forward to feeding your NFT's into my ChatNFT project :P
> Our impact on performance is non-existent as we use battle-tested open source tools used by Fortune 500 companies

What does that mean, exactly? Just because it's open source and used by F500s doesn't mean it can't have performance issues.
I have, and while it’s not perfect I’ve found that it makes a great tutor. I’ve asked it a lot of programming questions where my starting point was 0, and my biggest takeaway is it will give you exactly what you ask for and nothing else.

This can be a bit of a problem since you can’t ask for what you don’t know, so starting broad by having it explain the general concepts to you, and then slowly getting more specific with direct pointed questions had the best outcomes.
I'm sure it shrinks the footprint a lot to just do "widgets" rather than being an effective VM, but even that is plenty huge. I'm not aware of any "non-mainstream language" having even that much of a toolkit. Plenty of partial starts, even starts that with another 100x the effort could compete fairly well, but nothing terribly close to "done".

Someone may reply to me with one. I'd have to look at it and analyze. But I know I'm not going to get dozens of citations of high-quality toolkits of, say, the calibre that I can put rich text widgets with high-quality multi-font unicode support and everything else I want out of such a widget, into a tree control with those rich text widgets as my leaves, and have a million node's worth of rich text controls because they can be lazy-loaded based on visibility, just to come up with one use case.
Linux Network Scripting with Lua [pdf]
Also sounds like the kind of criticism a human-written email would receive. Maybe it did a great job!
this has to be forecasting mismanagement at this point. The chip shortage has mostly come to an end, they're either severely underforecasting from incompetence or intentionally
What should be the next crucial steps before looking for investors?
Hello everyone, I have been working as a solution architect (both technical and business process functional) in the enterprise software domain (SAP) for over a decade. My partner is a Computer Science (AI/ML) professor at a large accredited university overseas and has been teaching AI/ML at both undergraduate and graduate levels for over six years, as well as supervising PhD students (with multiple published papers in AI/ML to his credit). We have been working on the design and feasibility aspects of leveraging ChatGPT-4 or other suitable existing LLMs to build an enterprise application that has potential to save serious money for organizations. Naturally, I have domain knowledge and technical expertise, while he is well-versed in AI/ML both theoretically and in building industry-scale applications. We have overcome the technical barriers and should be able to build an MVP/prototype within the next few months without any outside help. As we both have full-time jobs, we are giving ourselves about 4-5 months before we are ready to seek funding.

Would you kindly suggest some online materials that would help us allocate our time efficiently while ensuring we complete all the necessary steps expected before fundraising? We would also greatly appreciate any direct advice. I recently discovered this site and have been impressed by the wealth of insights available just by browsing the comment sections. I figured this would be the best place to start once we have the feasibility aspects nailed down. P.S. Eventually, we would like to add one or two more co-founders as well, but that's a topic for another thread.
>To conform their outward presentation to the gender they identify with, which is a fact rooted in biology.

I'm sorry but how is that not also self expression?

>The vast majority of the world does not embrace white American notions of individualistic self expression. We think norm enforcement and conformity are good things that help kids stay on track. Both Youngkin in VA and DeSantis in FL won majorities among Hispanics (a group that usually favors democrats) by focusing on that disconnect between liberal teachers and more conservative families.

This is completely non-responsive to what you offered it as a response to.
There are a couple of reasons for this. First, unless the aircraft just suddenly fell apart, the pilot is always involved somehow. For example, in this case, the direct cause of the crash was the pilot providing a hard right (?) rudder input.

Second, and more cynically, the representation of pilots in the investigation is the weakest (and identifying the pilots as at fault causes the least economic consequences on everybody). For example, if you look back to when Airbus introduced the fly-by-wire system with moded inputs, their planes were dropping like bricks. (Including by the plane's test pilot at the Paris air show.) However, most (all?) of those incidents were assigned to pilot error in spite of the fact that an airplane that would change its flight characteristics or even conflict with pilot actions was a fun new thing.
Were you able to figure out if the RL models are going to be jailed? A 65B parameter model could be a bit frightening. That's 1/3rd the size of GPT3.
Already the link rot on youtube is significant. Very often I will find links like "listen to this music it's good", you go to youtube and not even the metadata is left, it's just an error page so you have no idea what it even was.
I was already familiar with the perils of nitrate, but I never knew distribution patterns were such a big factor in the loss of vintage films.

I have some memories of the concept of "second-run" theaters growing up, but I had no idea there was once such a long-tail network of nth-run cinemas that the total number of prints in distribution would need only be a fraction of modern releases.
Completely unrelated… my mom had a small dog when she was younger. The dog sustained a head injury at some point, and after that could only make right turns. If the dog wanted to go left, it had to turn 270 degrees to the right. In all other ways the dog was completely normal. But now I’m wondering if the dog wanted to lie on its left side, would it lie on its right side, roll into its back, and then settle on its left side?
I don't that's true in the context of businesses because they won't want their data to be leaked and/or used for other clients. The more data from your company you can feed the AI, the more productive it will be for you. I'm not just talking about semi-public documentation, but also things like emails, meeting transcript, internal tools APIs, employee details, etc.

If the AI service provider uses your data to help better train their AI, it will be blacklisted by most companies. If you keep them in silos, the centralisation will offer almost no benefit while still being a very high privacy risk. The only benefit they get is that it allows them to demo it and see it's potential, but no serious business will adopt it unless you also provide a self-hosted solution.

I think the only people who will truly benefit from using cloud services as a long term solution are personal users and companies too small to afford the initial cost of the hardware.
Just be happy he's not one of those types that cites links that don't back up his claims as a debate tactic.
And yet the Americans managed to conduct elections just fine, without any politicized hysterics about fraud. That is until the last one, when this fiction was pushed by the president himself in a shameful defeat, to activate the likes of you.
Why are you referring to OpenAI as ai.com?
Problematic for employees, yes. I wouldn't be surprised if productivity per employee has gone up dramatically now that the threat of cuts is looming. How many were coasting before?

And where else are you going to go? Startup environment is totally different from big tech. More work for less pay. But rewarding in other ways.

I don't see any negative for FAANGs in this. The unfortunate truth is that most big tech has been absurdly overstaffed relative to what the actual revenue generating (or future revenue generating) portions of the business are.
> 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.

The "ideal body" is actually healthier now than it was 20 years ago.

But I'm not talking about skinny vs a few curves. I'm talking obese. Clinically obese. As in BMI over 30.

https://www.cdc.gov/obesity/basics/adult-defining.html
The multiplayer version got open sourced and there exist a contemporary project to keep it updated, but also as backwards compatible as is possible.

https://www.etlegacy.com/
Where do you go instead? The ones I follow are r/baking, r/cooking, r/woodworking, r/gardening, and r/boardgames. I haven’t found another single site that has communities for all of my interests.
Sure, but it's a miracle that it can do this at all. It's entering and exiting a sleep state that is very nearly off, in between pings.
>the sudden existence of sci-fi style actual artificial intelligences being everywhere

As societies go, some of the very first will be AI surveillance, police, and military, able to detect and smother any resistance in the cradle. This is not very cool for everyone.
Sounds like perfectionism to me. Why do you insist it’s not? Nothing you said seems in disagreement with what he said.
Not if the software I depend on requires the latest JVM (which it will).
Note that this is a ~10 Megapixel image.
Standard attention has memory quadratic in sequence length, whereas FlashAttention has memory linear in sequence length. Also FalshAttention is faster.
Sounds like it is a useful concept: you just used it to introduce your own.

I think that optimistic UI isn't more complex to build: it's just less familiar.

In a broader sense, UI/UX design culture places way too much focus and value on familiarity.

The best UI/UX designs I have ever experienced are when software design diverges from the norm and tries a new approach.
This is what today's IP oligopolists would have happen to the bulk of culture. I find it exceedingly unlikely that all IP will be maintained by the owner for the life of the author plus 70 years. We know there are gobs of cultural artifacts from as recently as the 80s (videos, games, etc.) that are permanently lost.

Without short copyright terms and the encouragement of independent archivalists, we ensure most cultural artifacts will be lost to time.
The NTSB Report https://data.ntsb.gov/carol-repgen/api/Aviation/ReportMain/G...
No defending of DRM but to claim advertisement is net negative for a society is quite a stretch. Ask a small business who gets economic opportunity.
Yes, but that's basically the only mechanism for this kind of IP transfer. Other types of IP are a lot more transferable and don't have to be tied to a team. Think about book/song copyrights or widget patents.
I'm a programmer who picked up video-editing 2 years ago, and I used DaVinci because it was free, but damn, these video editors are powerful beasts. And there's so much to learn.

You can even remote-control DaVinci from Python (if only there was a Javascript library available), and edit videos programmatically. Mind blown.
Is your forever project public? Would be interesting to see what it is.
What was the thing? It's really hard to put a value to what you're describing without knowing what it was.
I don't know. I am not a native speaker, but I think it is ok, maybe even better. We have gotten used to 'OK', despite its questionable origin (or origin story).
by the 40s, most radio drama was not any of those things, at least not to an offensive degree. I've only seen a few very old movies and caricatures are annoying, but it's a product of the time. There's no reason to wipe it off the planet.
Lots of things have been lost because people didn't consider them worth paper.

What is important ends up being very strange. Ephemera become _very_ important.

For example, how did women care for their hair during Victorian times? Did they wash their hair? What with? Lye soap is really strong, and they didn't have detergent based shampoos.

So, what did they use?

That example came to mind because it was the focus of one of the "live a while in the shoes of someone from time X" on TV. It was a huge thing for the women of the house to be able to care for their hair, and no one knew how it was done!

What we consider useless to keep now may become extremely important to a future historian.
> Reddit is a boring platform outside of your personal interests

To me, the fact that there's an active subreddit specifically for every personal interest is exactly what makes it so addictive. It's a very concentrated dose of the drug. Like I'm in the US Army, and there's r/army where basically every thread hits very close to home, so I have a strong opinion or a story or insight to share. Then I'm also into personal finance, and there's even r/MilitaryFinance because a lot of personal finance issues are unique to our situation.

Before Reddit, there were some old-school forums for these niches, but they were short-lived and not nearly as active. On bigger, more active old-school forums about something like personal finance, most of the threads just don't pertain to me so it's easier to use them in moderation. Like a thread about military stuff will end up here on Hacker News once every couple of weeks, and I'll get excited to make a comment, but that's it.

Anyway, I decided that I needed to logout from Reddit, delete my browsing history so that old.reddit.com didn't autofill in my address bar anymore (I wasn't even using the mobile app), and delete my Reddit password from my password manager.
> Rather switch to Qt tbh

This a thousand times, although they would probably have to rename it Quimp:)
A bit too early to say, don't you think?
What's the best place to understand in layman programmer's language the simple context for terms/concepts presented here. Things like:

1. What's Pinecone and what does it solve.

2. Same with LangChain

3. What does it mean to "build something with a pre-existing
model?".

4. How do people actually run these models? (e.g. if I want access to Segment-Anything, how do I get that?).
Reddit's suicide happened way before the redesign. It's the silo communities, the rampant excessive moderation, the brigading, the drama, the immaturity all over.
But you have control over your perception. If you tell yourself only futility is possible, yes you'll experience futility.

Some amount of stress is something we need to be able to deal with, not avoid altogether. It's not cyanide. There are workplaces toxic enough to be worth leaving, but not giving immediate rewards for doing more than the bare minimum isn't toxicity.

At a certain point, if you need a salary and benefits, doesn't it become stressful if you don't distinguish yourself over others such that you're less likely to be one of the first who'd be laid off if/when it came to that?
From the project's readme:

> It uses ChatGPT API to generate color name from color hex.

It does use ChatGPT, but yeah, I get the sentiment.
It's not a snipe. You're bragging about Linux knowledge and your A2000. Just saying that definitely doesn't work on Linux without some effort and you would buy it knowing there was some effort involved. If you want a no hassle easy install for gaming you get a consumer AMD GPU, not a professional Nvidia GPU. The context of this thread was gaming on Proton, not whatever you are doing.

> Expecting people to buy based on an HCL is not reasonable

It's totally reasonable for an OS with ~1% market share.
Fearmongering sells well and makes good clickbaity headlines.
Qantas is bringing back Airbus A380s from the California desert
Thousands of Meta workers hit by new round of layoffs as company cuts costs
Fearmongering sells well and makes good clickbaity headlines And scary statistics how Skynet is here, inbox next to you.
Show HN: AI Assisted Coding Tutorials
Queuing theory is nice, but then again its completely abstract and mathematical. Real life issues get in the way.

In particular: for many parallelization problems, its simply not worth the effort to ever load balance. Tasks are too small and the "time spent calculating where to go" is more expensive than just accomplishing the task to begin with. (Ex: Matrix multiplication can be seen as a parallelization of multiplies, followed by a set of additions. The multiplies are too cheap to perform any form of load-balancing, executing in just one clock tick).

So in reality, we have "fine grained parallelism", and "coarse grained parallelism". Coarse grained is where load balancing is feasible (the task is "big enough" that its worth spending a bit of CPU time figuring out load balancing).

"Fine grained" is very difficult, and is in the realm of CPU design (CPUs will execute your instructions out-of-order to discover parallelism)... though software also plays a role.

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That being said, I probably should study more queuing theory myself. The math seems less about "how to design a good parallel system" and more focused on "how to measure a parallel system" (ex: throughput * latency == state... which means you can measure latency == state/throughput, and other such mathematical tricks).

The math is simple, albeit abstract. Its not there for "deeper understanding", its there for "even basic understanding" (but much much faster to calculate if you already know queuing theory).
I don't know that I'd argue - in the case of cultural artifacts - that time is a quality filter. I'm certainly glad that it seems as much good stuff survives as we have, but we also find lots of interesting things after the fact and in spite of ourselves. We make a decent attempt at archiving things of cultural significance so far as we can assess such things in our own time is about as generous as I'd get.

Also it's a weird idea that we should forget things so that someone later can feel special when they do it again. Really weird.
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I see the declarative vs. operative concept as a multi-tiered division where none of the general purpose languages can ever be on the declarative extreme, but relational programming is indeed the closest one.
> I think that optimistic UI isn't more complex to build: it's just less familiar.

Having multiple records of state that have to be resolved when systems come online is complex. Anything requiring consensus is difficult to do.
> I'm going to try replacing the fan but I don't know much about electronics.

Just in case: opening PSUs is dangerous without precautions. The capacitors may retain enough charge to kill.

Besides the immediate risk to yourself, a PSU can also pose a fire hazard during operation, e.g. if improperly cooled.
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