skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
StarCoder is not just a code predictor, it is an assistant. It doesn’t just predict code; it can also help you review code and solve issues using metadata, thanks to being trained with special tokens.

The <reponame> token specifies the name of the repository, and the same goes for the filename. A high gh_stars count can make it mimick popular open-source libraries. Admittedly, there is a bit of information that can be retrieved from those tokens, but not as much as the others.

The more interesting ones are the commit tokens, which you can use to ask it as an assistant to implement a commit whose high-level description you give in plain English, and the issues token, to make it solve an issue.

The Fill-in-the-middle tokens are most useful for autocompletion: it will allow it to gain information from the code that is present after your cursor, instead of just the code before your cursor.

Of course, in practice, those tokens are meant for code editor plugin writers. Normal users won’t know about them.
Why didn't everyone dodge the draft? I'd rather go to prison than go to war. Especially if it was a war I didn't support.
>Would be happy to take it down if asked! this is an experiment for me, and don't expect it to be a product

Putting a pricing page up was almost certainly an extremely bad idea.

By putting the pricing page up you moved yourself out of the "hey I'm just a fan it's just fan fiction" category and into the "unlicensed commercial use of a registered trademark category." The later is a much more serious category to put oneself in, and involves a much more serious set of lawyers than the bots who send out cease-and-desist and takedown letters.

Removing the pricing page will not make the fact that you had shown a pricing page go away.

IANAL but I'd take the site down very quickly and never put it back up again. Just receiving a letter from one of the brand's many law firms will almost certainly end up costing you thousands of dollars drafting an appropriate response in hopes that it doesn't escalate. You really don't want that to happen.
I do not have the faith that the overwhelming majority of people who complain about lack of objectivity in news know anything about the history of journalism.
Unlike the rich and privileged college kids, the guardsmen had no choice in being there, nor did they have any choice about carrying loaded weapons.
OSM is fundamentally just a DB for place locations and geometries. Directions use routing engines which choose roads and paths between locations based on constraints. The main landing page for OSM lets you choose between OSM, Grasshopper, and the Valhalla routing engines.

To figure out why directions are bad you need to see which criteria the routing engine is using to create the route and decide either to change the constraints used to generate the bike route or what added data you need to place on the streets for the routing engine to avoid/prefer certain streets.

Does this sound like an opaque nightmare? Yes. That's why very few people use it. Apple has been doing some great work doing mapping and adding it into the OSM DB, which they use for their own maps, but they have their own proprietary routing system for directions. If you're looking for a good app to use just OSM data, I use OSMAnd for Android. I still prefer Google Maps because their routing and geocoding tend to be much better for urban areas but for hikes and country bike rides, OSM tends to outperform GMaps.
This would be the US Constitution as interpreted by a half dozen corrupt weirdos who were selected for their partisan bona fides and can't be dismissed for any reason, right?
the labels exacerbate the bad design, switching between grams and ounces throughout, with THC content being in mg, and the product itself needing to be broken up to the actual serving size of half a gummy
It does. It's called lock inflation. The lock data structure is more than just a handful of bits, so the object header can point to the real lock once allocated. You don't pay a full lock for every object, just the memory needed to determine if it's in use or not.
FWIW it seemed obvious to me. I think a minority of people who play in this space can’t conceptualize others’ understandable ignorance of the norms and axioms.

https://xkcd.com/2501/
.well-known is basically the same idea https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc5785
bluesky dev here. whoops.

as others mentioned, not a hard fix.
Just gotta get to the point where we can just ask the model to code the wrapper we want to use it with...
That's ... probably not the best example, given the fact that there are a shedload of open-source databases of various types that have forced major commercial vendors like MSFT and ORCL into a corner. ORCL's moat is that they have a large portfolio of random solutions, are incumbent at a lot of organizations where switching costs are very high, and they have an exceptionally aggressive sales organization that doesn't seem to worry too much about legalities.
Then you're either not setting up your team responsibilities right, or you're not allowing cross-team contribution, both are fixable mistakes.
Who Created Maslow's Iconic Pyramid?
Show HN: Millions Dollar AI Homepage
It's Okay to Write Crap Code (2020)
Because people pay for convenience, and may not be technical enough to stay up to date on the latest and best AI company for their use case. Presumably your specialized app would switch to better AI instances for that use case as they come along in which case they're paying for your curation as well.
Right but your perception of who is the “bottom fish” is wrong.

The worst tech company is not the bottom fish, schools and hospitals are. You can hold medical records and pipelines hostage and get just as much money as holding Google info hostage.

And I don’t think the “evitabile be hacked” approach is helpful. The harder you make something to hack, the more hackers may turn to other forms of income. Sure we will never be free of them, but the more resources they have to put in to be successful, the less there will be.

Why is there less piracy in the Caribbean? Are there less able-bodied men? Certainly not. It’s harder to get away with robbery on the open seas. (At least off of US shores).

Make it harder to hack, and less will hack.
If you use the web interface (oobabooga), then training a LoRa is as easy as clicking the "training" tab, keeping all the defaults, and giving it a flat text file of your data. The defaults are sane enough to not begin undermining any instruction tuning too much. Takes 3-5 hours on a 3080 for 7B, 4bit model (and ~1KWh).

So far I've trained 3: 2 on the entire text of ASOIAF (converted from e-books) and 1 on the Harry Potter series. I can ask questions like "tell me a story about a long winter in Westeros" and get something in the "voice" of GRRM and with real references to the text. It can write HP fanfics all day long. My favorite so far was the assistant self-inserting into a story with Jon Snow, complete with "The Assistant has much data for you. Please wait while it fetches it." and actually having a conversation with Jon.

Asking specific questions is way more of a miss (e.x. "Who are Jon Snow's real parents?" returns total BS), but that may be because my 3080 is too weak to train anything other than 7B models in 4bit (which is only supported with hacked patches). I used Koala as my base model.

I'm getting close to dropping $1600 on a 4090, but I should find employment first... but then I'll have less time to mess with it.
Everything under NASA's and NOAA's purview is public domain. High resolution stuff is left to commercial and secret applications. Some states also have high res aerial photography. This was notably obvious in the early days of gmaps when the whole US was Landsat only with aerial for just Massachusetts.
This year is the year of the Linux Desktop!

I kid. I've been primarily a Linux Desktop user for 20 years.
This is a private beta. Nobody is suggesting that any of this be used for anything serious just yet. Development happens out in the open, you can go find out what else they've missed by doing the work, or by waiting until others you trust have done so.

I myself have had an account for like a month now, but only started really using it a week ago, because that calculus changed for me, personally.

Like, it's not even possible to truly delete posts at the moment. This all needs to be treated as a playground until things mature.

This isn't even the first "scandal" related to this feature already!!!! There is another hole in what currently exists that allowed someone to temporarily impersonate a Japanese magazine a few weeks back.
If I remember correctly they are forced in the sense that neither of those apps are allowed to give you a link to go outside of the App Store?

However I vaguely remember that Netflix had an exception to this, but I don't use Spotify so can't comment on that one.
A dumb idea then, a monumentally stupid idea now. Taiwan represents the best of what the Chinese culture could become if they told the CCP to fuck off.
It’s also an extremely weak argument to say that FR is inaccurate. It’s contingent on an engineering problem that will be solved. Algorithms will get better, HD cameras will become cheaper and more ubiquitous. We are rushing head first into a future where every public and semi-public interaction is recorded and analyzed by functionally omniscient systems, and the temporary inaccuracy of that analysis does nothing to argue against that future.

And then I ask myself, is that really a bad thing? I am far more likely to be the victim of a crime than the perpetrator of one or the victim of inaccurate accusation. The places I’ve lived with pervasive surveillance were also some of the safest, and those who argue against this “oppressive” surveillance rarely are forced to balance that with the actual oppression of crime, or the second-order consequence of the lack of security cameras (that low level crimes will probably go unpunished).

I should also add that going back to a time where surveillance doesn’t exist is not an option. Everyone is walking around with a security camera in their pocket. Very soon those videos will be able to be run through facial recognition tech as well.
Because of variability of wind and solar production, there will always be coal and gas burning.

Someone somewhere has to maintain the requested load level or the network would desync.

By desync I mean that its frequency will deviate from 50Hz enough to turn off the over- or underloaded sectors.
I use it mostly for automating repetitive actions that cannot be otherwise automated with bespoke scripts. A simple example is I needed to test drawing 255 selections on a screen. So I just wrote a couple loops to automate drawing tons of triangles while I was eating lunch. But I've written ones that process tons of files in an application and go through all the sub dialogs to see if they were functional.

It is a nice tool for this because it works on anything you can see (and some things you can't) so if the software can be used then you can automate it. Sometimes you have to fall back on the image recognition sledge hammer but there is always a way out.
Are you under the impression that nobody has had this idea before?
RPi's are still wildly overpriced & hard to find, and the Pi-alikes often (usually) have support issues (out of tree patches required, lots of opaque blobs, etc). I like my home-lab to be about learning new stuph, not being a beta site fighting underlying platform issues (aside: I confess that I do have one RPi-ish cluster (3 boards), but more and more it's being used for "I need some GPIO for this" and way less for 'compute'). As many folks have mentioned, pick up a couple of x86 mini PCs/SFF (new or refurbished depending on budget). FWIW...I've had luck with small, low power devices from Protectli, Seeed and Minis Forum. Problem solved; heartburn avoided.

Someone mentioned "r/homelab", which is pretty interesting/active if you can stomach Reddit.

VMware has a 'free' ESXi license for homelabs (no cost, many restrictions apply). It'll run on many/most of the small PCs out of the box; 7.0 ran perfectly on my Seeed Odessey. Yeah, I need to spend more time with the various newfangled OSS hypervisors, but I'm used to ESXi. Get off my lawn.

I personally think having a managed ethernet switch, particularly one you can do VLANs and netflow and/or port mirroring is helpful in a homelab. VLANs help you build more complex scenarios, and sometimes you really want more visibility about what's going on on the wire. Refurb Cisco or Dell switches work well (and tend to be very cheap), but also tend to be noisy and power inefficient. I don't have a ton of experience with the newer generation of probably more efficient 'desktop' smart switches like Zyxel, TP-Link and Ubiquity.
Or why not just serve it from www.domain.com/.well-known so we only have one thing to block. :p
Two AI Stanford grads launch new social media app
Location: Southern Maine (US)

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: TypeScript, Node.js, React, GatsbyJS, HTML, CSS

Résumé/CV: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/rogermparent/public-resume...

Email: rogermparent@gmail.com

I'm a software engineer who's early on in the career path, but being part of the pivotal moments in a growing startup working with small teams on many different projects taught me quite a lot about the job in a relatively short amount of time. All this work is open-source, so my GitHub speaks more than words alone!

My skills mostly stand out in GatsbyJS (and React by extension) but I also have a strong base in plain HTML and CSS which always comes in handy. Even outside of these, I'm confident in my ability to apply my existing knowledge to help accelerate learning new technologies and techniques.
> AI text generation competitors like Cohere and Anthropic will never be able to compete with Microsoft/Google/Amazon on marginal cost.

Anthropic already does, with its models. They are same price or cheaper than OpenAI, with comparable quality.

> Having enough scale to perpetually offer free/low-cost compute is a moat.

Rather than a moat it is a growth strategy. At one point in time you need to start to monetize and this is the moment when rubber hits the road. If you can survive monetization and continue to grow, now you have a moat.
Try asserting your sovereignty over the laws of the land in a courtroom and see what happens.
> It is worth $20 a month to have one UI on one service that does everything.

Today it is. When there is an open source, capable “one UI for everything” that runs locally and can consume external services as needed (but keeps your data locally otherwise), will it still be?
Russia is trolling social media on both extremes of the political spectrum, in order to destabilize the west. They are trying to polarize the population in a deliberate 'divide and conquer' strategy.
thanks i re-read apple’s docs and you’re right. I was thinking (metaphorically) QR-code=Passkey but on desktop QR-code = lock, phone=Key

Sign in on a different device with the passkey stored on your iPhone
iPhone stores your passkeys in iCloud Keychain, so they’re automatically used whenever you’re signed in with your Apple ID on another device (iOS 16, iPadOS 16, macOS Ventura, or tvOS 16 required).
However, if you use a device that’s not associated with your Apple ID, you can still sign in to an account by using the passkey stored on your iPhone. Signing in usually consists of the following steps:
Use the other device to go to your account sign-in screen.
On the sign-in screen, tap the account name field.
Tap “Other options,” “Passkey from nearby device,” or similar, then follow the onscreen instructions to display a QR code on the screen.
Use your iPhone camera to scan the QR code.

the docs https://support.apple.com/guide/iphone/sign-in-with-passkeys...
Apparently, there was a Java port for Windows NT running on the DEC Alpha: https://archive.org/details/jdk-v1-alpha_nt

It's unclear whether it's actually a 64-bit build. Did Windows even have a 64-bit userspace on Alpha, or was it all ILP32?

Anyway, it's not really possible to implement the Java memory model on Alpha: https://www.cs.umd.edu/~pugh/java/memoryModel/AlphaReorderin... So it's not really a natural target for Java code.
Those were TV's made by TCL and licensed the Westinghouse name
An Extended Breakdown of the Fed and Banks [audio]
You send in a covert team to the country and assassinate them. Not extradite.

This is equivalent to blowing up a court house with a suitcase bomb.
I will say though that low-effort higher-volume professionals (e.g. mobile game mills, Fiverrrr designers) will likely profit from these tools once they can out-compete cheap online assets from stock images/models/etc. but they're so not there yet.
Its a myth that you can replace an intermittent energy source with dispatchable energy source.

I will at any time sell 2x worth of solar + wind for 1x worth of nuclear energy, as long I can choose what day and time I get the 1x of nuclear and when I can sell the 2x of solar + wind.

With the European energy market being what it is, the price difference between high supply and low supply has gone well beyond 100x.
You say destroyed as if it was completely destroyed.

https://www.dw.com/en/putin-offers-europe-gas-through-nord-s...

The only pipeline that was destroy was the one Germany had shutdown, Russia immediately began trying to poke Germany to open the other pipeline.
Wouldn't be funny if it was a public beta that they want people to use for serious stuff. But it's neither serious, a beta or public, but basically a private alpha for playing around, so i'd be a bit lenient on screwups.
Yeah, I've done the no-JS capable thing for a vanilla Svelte app with an express backend on EC2. Required a bit of bushwhacking to get the svelte routing working on the server, but worked really well in the end.

I think Sveltekit makes this easier, but at the cost of being more complex to self-host (you might get tied to Vercel which employs Rich Harris and makes all the Sveltekit SSR stuff "just work" in ways that I'm concerned won't just work if you're not using vercel)
"in infrequent cases" not in general.
I haven't failed to consider that, you've just failed to read where I explicitly mentioned that.

Consider: is that impracticality caused by Amazon creating vendor lock-in? Or is that impracticality caused by the fact that reading terabytes of data from storage, transferring it over the network, and writing it into storage is inherently slow because of the physical limitations of hardware, no matter what vendor you're using?

It's a bit odd for me to be in the position of defending Amazon here. I genuinely don't like them, don't use them, and generally do think they're guilty of creating a lot of vendor lock-in. But this is legitimately not an example of any of that.
Without a way to give objects identity you'd get stuck pretty fast as it's not guaranteed you have access to any data to hash. You'd have to break encapsulation. That would then hit problems with evolution, where a new version of a class changes its fields and then everything that uses it as a hashmap key breaks.

My experience with platform design has consistently been that handling version evolution in the presence of distant teams increases complexity by 10x, and it's not just about some mechanical notion of backwards compatibility. It's a particular constraint for Java because it supports separate compilation. This enables extremely fast edit/run cycles because you only have to recompile a minimal set of files, and means that downloading+installing a new library into your project can be done in a few seconds, but means you have to handle the case of a program in which different files were compiled at different times against different versions of each other.
I think that pouring a lot of money in open source, by bounties or crowdfunding can accelerate open source alternatives to closed LLMs. Perhaps a middle way in which software will be declared open source six month from now can give enough compensation to those institutions contributing big money for developing LLM technology. That is a crowdfunding in which the great contributors have a limited time to be compensated, but capping the total prize just like that of chatgpt 3.5 or 4 depending of the model.
exactly. UK has fierce banking competition and you have so many digital banks that compete with the brick and mortar and beat them on pretty much everything except for not having actual branches. It's the closest you can be to being happy with..banks :)

Then you go to Greece and you pay exorbitant transaction fees for everything. 3E for any incoming transfer, regardless of amount. 10-15E to transfer 10k between banks in the country. Sky high interest rates for lending, unreasonable guarantee requirements and it's still really hard to get a loan.
And then you get 0.25% for saving accounts. e-banking that may be pretty looking but a shame functionality wise.
And you only have 4 banks (+1 zombie bank).
The bankers are still making bonuses like it's 2007 and the public is funding them with transaction fees. The traditional banking business model of making money from the spread between lending and savings rate is pretty much dead.

I can't believe there can be any other country worse than Greece in the EU. Change my mind =)
Fun fact: even without this addon those cars are way too fast for regular roads.
This sounds right to me and was similar to my reaction. The doubt I had reading this piece is that GPT4 is so substantially better than GPT3 on most general tasks that I feel silly using GPT3 even if it could potentially be sufficient.

Won't any company that can stay a couple years ahead of open source for something this important will be dominant as long as it can do this?

Can an open source community fine tuning on top of a smaller model consistently surpass a much larger model for the long tail of questions?

Privacy is one persistent advantage of open source, especially if we think companies are too scared of model weights leaking to let people run models locally. But copyright licenses give companies a way to protect their models for many use cases, so companies like Google could let people run models locally for privacy and still have a moat, if that's what users want, and anyway most users will prefer running things in the cloud for better speed and to not have to store gigabytes of data on their devices, no?
As a Japanese (aka Asian, aka minority) American, I will say this: One party constantly calls me by a wide variety of labels, the other party treats me like just another man and American.

I know which party I'm voting for, and it doesn't start with the letter D.
I was wondering about maybe embeddings for code search
Very important caveat, this is only for roaming authenticators like Yubikeys (https://webauthn.me/browser-support). There is not (that I'm aware of) any support for platform authenticators on Linux (which is what most users will be thinking of when they use the word "passkey").

Roaming authentication is well supported on Linux, and you can cross-device sign in using your iOS/Android phone (assuming you haven't DeGoogled it), but the Mac/Windows experience of just having the computer itself act as an authenticator isn't supported. You're still going to need to use a locked down, proprietary device to log in, it's just that the proprietary device can help you log in on your Open device.
New book reveals NASA photographer's Mercury astronaut archives
Lesser production->shrunk market->prices inflation->lower demand->more layoffs->lower purchasing power->lesser production-> etc. I may have missed or swapped a couple points, but maintaining the balance is damn hard.
> [...] until late 2023, when the images will be produced every 10 minutes and released operationally for use in weather forecasts.

Will they gatekeep that image feed? I'm assuming they will, but I would be delighted to read that my assumption is wrong.

This is one thing the US government does so much better than most European governments. The US government-collected data tends to be open.