skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is "premature optimization," IMHO.

No, get the idea working first. Talk to customers... pivot... repeat. After finding a fit and portions are too slow look into Cython or offload to services in golang, etc.

This looks like a great productivity booster.
each billion parameters using 16 bit floats requires around 2 GB of GPU or TPU RAM. ChatGPT is expected to have around 1000 billion. Good open source LLMs have around 7-20 billion currently. Consumer GPUs currently max out at 24 GB. You can now quantize the model to e.g. 4 bits instead of 32 per parameter and do other compressions, but still there is quite a limit what you can do with 24 GB of RAM. The Apple unified memory approach may be a path forward to increase that... so one box gives you access to the small models, for a GPT4 like model you'd need (for inference and if you had the model and tools) probably 100 of those 4090s or 25 of H100 with 96 GBs I guess to fit in 2 TB of model data.
> They are doing things with $100 and 13B params

Not that I disagree with the general belief that OSS community is catching up, but this specific data point is not as impactful as it sounds. Llama cannot be used for commercial purposes, and that $100 was spent on ChatGPT, which means we still depended on proprietary information of OpenAI.

It looks to me that the OSS community needs a solid foundation model and a really comprehensive and huge dataset. Both require continuous heavy investment.
Well, serverless was always touted for it’s scaling capabilities, isn’t it the irony here?
it would be extremely easy to bypass with fake/stolen ids
I love Lua but tbh I accept JS as the default scripting language, simply because it's ubiquitous, most runtimes are faster than or on par with Lua, and not harder to embed than Lua with stuff like quickjs. Also I don't think from language design perspective there's fundamental difference beyond syntax, metatable is pretty similar to prototype chain, JS has much more stuff you can argue it's bloated compare to Lua but you don't really pay for what you don't use.
> This is why mastodon , webfinger and ACME uss .well-known uri prefix

This is not how Mastodon does verification (at least not the main method). Mastodon doesn't just link users -> domain. It can link user -> webpage, for example to link social profiles between sites.

If you have a website with user generated content, and a user can set an arbitrary html attribute (rel="me") in a link pointing back to their profile, they can claim ownership of the page on Mastodon. Likewise, if they can set a link tag in the head element of the page for some reason.

Presumably this is somewhat harder to exploit than a (new, poorly thought out) dependency on a static file under /xrpc, but Mastodon does introduce more authentication footguns for sites than just .well-known! https://docs.joinmastodon.org/user/profile/#verification

Edit: authentication -> verification, since Mastodon distinguishes between the two (see below)
Linking to a real identity at least will make it easier to accept. Using a pseudonym simply adds an extra layer of doubt.
They are talking about Paul Christiano who is now running the Alignment Research Center (ARC) and who just put a $5000 bounty on some semidefinite programming puzzles. https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/pJrebDRBj9gfBE8qE/prizes-for...
For representing and verifying identity, it should need director level approval.
Incels have killed more men than women, look up Elliot Rodger among others. I don't think anyone's a misogynist.
How does this compare with Anvil, besides being newer? Anvil was shown off here a few years back:

https://anvil.works/

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15584124
love lyft, but it just hard to compete with uber.
The self-filibuster. I fully support it.
Mac revenue down 31% YoY but still above pre-pandemic levels.

Mass WFH created unprecedented demand for desktop computers. Now sales are returning closer to the norm.
Where would you like me to paste the screen shots?

I absolutely permitted him to buy the initial subscription. I approved it. I just wanted to cancel the renewal.

Anyway, I convinced American Express and they gave me my money back so what you think doesn't matter.

Even supposing you were right and I "lied" to let him have an adult account, that should give another purported adult access to my card without my authorization? I think you have the hierarchy of evils backwards just to say something shitty on the internet.
At least for schizophrenia, the data backs it up. The rates are unbelivebly stable, regardless of drug use (which varies much more per country or over time than the rates of schizophrenia).
Please make a point.
Has anyone tried flashing a Mercedes? Installing a custom ROM?

https://www.xda-developers.com/mercedes

I guess there won't be a need as I hope people won't touch a Mercedes while crap like this exists.

I'll keep rolling in my 69.
Low code software to automate building CRUDs from YAML files
That's exactly my point, this makes the dark pattern calling the action "cancel" instead of disabling auto-renew? In general when I see the word cancel on the web it typically gets rid of something instantly.
Sublime is excellent precisely because it has such excellent non-modal hotkeys out of the box.

I swear, I spent over a year training vim. I still wasn't as quick as I was after a week of sublime. It's pretty much the only proprietary software I shill for.
Any infection can trigger autoimmune issues though. It's a fear I know well - my dad has lupus and I have several (thankfully relatively minor) autoimmune conditions.
What is better oils or acrylics? What is better, clay or wood when it comes to sculpture.

It is more like comparing Krita vs Photoshop than MS Paint vs Photoshop. That is bogus.

Most AI art I have seen is complete shit anyway and especially from SD.
Apple reports weaker revenue for a second straight quarter
I mean, you do get to know airlines by reputation - generally speaking I expect Ryanair to do all the bullshit dark pattern nickel and diming and not expect it from national airlines like Lufthansa.
> gains from no mirrors are negligible

This study says 3% - 6%. [0]

The fact that inefficient vehicles exist doesn't seem like a reason to make more efficient ones even more efficient.

[0]: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S111001682...
I used the Nintendo switch charger since the switch came out and nothing bad ever happened.
Same in the other direction - regularly charged a switch with a different charger and all worked fine.
They switched it to make the page redirect to the Web Archive for now.
Paul Christiano formerly at OpenAI has put $5000 bounties on some matrix puzzles
I disagree, many mom and pop / convenience stores will be able to operate by just accepting cash.
I guess I sort of grew up in the SaaS era - to this day it blows my mind that one of the most perfect pieces of software I have ever enjoyed - N64's Goldeneye - was created by ~10 devs, who had one single release. I often fantasize about joining team like that while daydreaming in the poker-card scrum sessions at the agile sweatshop I currently take my paycheck from :/
Kinda sounds like Apple should be more pro WFH :)
Nostr too
weird how so few of these communities with social pressure are even remotely civil.
> What it does do, though, is spur memetic investment, which can create a short term frenzy for some stocks but it is not a planned event

Erm... investing in a security, then trying to create a meme is a pump-and-dump scheme by any other name. You've just changed the name "pump" to "meme", rather than using old-school behaviors like boiler rooms.

Its even "meming" the same information: too the moon, or whatever. In the 90s, it was all cold calls over telephone, but today you can use online forums to do this.
> it can't and won't cause any disease;

I suppose Cannabinoid Hyperemesis Syndrome does not count? I love the plant probably more than most, but like most things -- it has it's good parts and it's parts.
What really killed COVID-19 patients
Yes, Passkeys do not offer much against rubber-hose cryptanalysis. Actually, it's a bit worse than passwords as it doesn't require captured human to be concious.

I believe Passkeys are great for those whose threat profile doesn't include physical assault risks.
Fyi the website uses 100% CPU on my laptop (AMD Ryzen 5 5600H 12 vCPUs + Linux, Firefox&Chrome). Cheers.
But none of the "open source" AI models are open source in the classic sense. They are free but they aren't the source code; they are closer to a freely distributable compiled binary where the compiler and the original input hasn't been released. A true open source AI model would need to specify the training data and the code to go from the training data to the model. Certainly it would be very expensive for someone else to take this information, build the model again, and verify that the same result is obtained, and maybe we don't really need that. But if we don't have it, then I think we need some other term than "open source" to describe these things. You can get it, you can share it, but you don't know what's in it.
People also said similar things when Node.js crossed backed then the boundaries of our imagination. Nonetheless i agree that it can lead to genuine problems once it gets complex enough.
Am I the only one uneasy about the output being sent to the municipal water supply?

If this system has any flaws and/or mishaps allowing landfill leachate toxins to reach the output stage, this loop delivers them directly to the water supply.

Wouldn't it be better to send the output back where it came from for the natural process to resume? At least that way if your system is messing up, you're probably not making things worse for people than if you did nothing at all.
Can I get a source on video games and porn using more energy than Bitcoin?
If PFAS in the environment is bad, why is reducing the taste at which PFAS accumulates in the environment pointless?
I wasn't aware of anyone else deciding to slow their device down except for Apple.
Part of the appeal of monetizing through subscription is that they pay more than they would through other methods.

Adobe doesn't want $21 for each of the 3 months that you used Photoshop, spread over the last 7 years. They want the guaranteed, "he didn't bother to cancel" $1800. If subscription plans actually worked such that people were paying less than if it was just a flat-price-per-major-version, then we'd still be seeing them do that.

I have my doubts that easy cancellation would change that... people would probably just remain subscribed anyway. Humans didn't evolve to deal well with persistent, parasitic threats quite like this. We have no psychological armor to protect us. But even so, why would they risk it by making cancellations too easy?

If legislation were to demand automatic cancellation after some period of time where data indicated the user wasn't using it, how they would howl. Imagine not showing up to the gym for 3 months, and it's cancelled whether you ask for it or not. They only get to bill you for those 3 months, and not try to send it to collections that you've had 19 months of access.
Then you can expect the carmaker to jerk you around indefinitely. This month, 300 HP costs $5. Next month it's $10. One month, your wipers won't go intermittent unless you pay an extra $3. Want ABS to function? Uh oh, your subscription lapsed. No brakes for you.

Sure, all those terms were written into the purchase contract, but with dozens of subscriptions, what sane owner wants to stay on top of all those options, activations, and deactivations?

Will the carmaker let you upgrade your software without buying new hardware? Don't bet on it. Not if there's a chance to suck more money out of your generous wallet.

Screw all that. While I much prefer to own cars with elan, I'll buy a Honda just to avoid being jerked around. And after a couple decades of owning BMWs, that's just what I did. No more hostage-taker carmakers for me.

In fact, that's why Jay Leno doesn't own a Ferrari: jackass sales tactics.
They want US to work from home, not their employers.
It does seem to be getting slightly better. I just looked at rpilocator.com, and it claims 12 different models are available from some retailers (none in the US, though). The models available are... not exactly desirable. But the last time I looked, and all prior times, for the past year or two, I would see at most one or two models available, and often just nothing.

So it's still useless, but... less useless than before? And maybe that means it'll get to a point where useful models are available again soonish?
At a Vogtle like cost of $120/MWh. The project is looking incredibly shaky.

https://www.wired.com/story/the-dream-of-mini-nuclear-plants...
https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/questions/1501...
> A few things are effectively grandfathered in due to their vintage: /favicon.ico, /sitemap.xml and /robots.txt are the three that occur to me—so if you’re running something vaguely like S3, you’ll want to make sure users can’t create files at the top level of your domain matching at least those names.

I also recall /crossdomain.xml as an important one; allowing users to create an arbitrary file matching that name could allow certain kinds of cross-site attacks against your site.
Nuclear isn't a good dispatchable energy source though. It needs to run 100% 24/7 to have a chance of being reasonably cheap. The fuel expense is neglible after all.

Nuclear is struggling for the same reason coal is struggling. They're thermal power plants. They're slow to react to changes in demand on the grid. Gas power is doing well because they're exceptionally good at that.

That's a problem because it's pretty much a given that most countries will use at least 50% renewables. Even France is targetting that.

As costs of renewables come down further, the cost of energy storage goes down, and we get more and more flexible loads, renewables will keep getting more competitive compared to nuclear base load. EVs are extremely flexible loads. Hell, my electricity provider is controlling if my EV is charging or not, hour by hour, right this very moment. V2G is also a proven technology by this point. The hydrogen production we need for ammonia (fertilizer/fuels), long distance transportation and steel production will also be a very flexible load. Some of it might be fed back to the grid on rare cases of extremely low solar+wind. We can even use the very gas power plants we have right now with hydrogen instead.

It's inevitable that the cost of energy storage will keep going down, because getting good at energy storage and transformation is going to be the number 1 priority across many industries in the coming decades. It's essential for almost everything we need to do to decarbonize.

Thinking we NEED nuclear is basically equivalent with assuming we won't solve climate change. Because you have to basically ignore all the other problems we have to solve that are not related to electricity production. Or you have to bet heavily on carbon-capture-and-storage.. which is just a really dumb idea that yet again delays actually solving the problem, and could end up not helping much anway due to the difficulty of controlling methane leaks.

Should hedge our bets though, I'm actually very positive to keep some level of R&D and investments in nuclear. Just skeptical that it'll be important in the end.
> Imagine for a moment that you live in a country that has fought a half dozen wars somewhere in the past century, and that every one of those was (more or less) morally justified.

The US fought in a lot more than a half dozen wars in the century before Kent State and it takes pretty interesting morality to judge them all “more or less” morally justified.
I read about TRAC in Computer Lib while working on a template language that basically just has #! as a special prefix in JSON objects to signal a macro-expansion. I expand macros until there are no more macros to expand, and return that as the result to render in HTML. Reading about TRAC is what made me realize I had a general purpose language on my hands. Too bad, I could have avoided the whole exercise of writing an interpreter, scheduler, debugger if I just left it as an alternative syntax for interpolating variables into HTML.

Thanks for the tip on Études for Programmers, looks like I'll be able to look at it in a library at least, surprised archive.org didn't have it.
Apple's quarterly revenue is higher than Russia's annual defense expenditure. Let that sink in.

Now imagine if Apple wanted to use 1/3 of its net income to create a private military at the edge of technology.
> I want to sign up once and be done with it.

Definitely! My understanding is that this is where passkey/password managers enter the picture.

My preferred password manager is 1Password, so once it gets passkey support I imagine I'll use that for everything. Until then, I'm depending on the limited sync functionality in iOS/macOS and Chrome.
I would wonder what schizophrenia means, as I often joke that some of the insanely potent cannabis for sale at two-shops-on-every-block in Canada is basically recreational schizophrenia. It absolutely affects the quality of peoples reasoning and creates hallucinatory associations and beliefs, if only temporarily. I also feel like the only person who apprecaites how funny it is that a government that legalized smoking unlimited amounts of pot had to pass consequent legislation to fight the propagation of conspiracy theories.

The mental health aspect of this is very serious though. I've seen some real burnout and moreso, social withdrawal. In Canada, we're sounding this all out in real time, and some days the drugs seem like palliative care for an old culture and society whose end is being hastened.
Weaker sales for second straight quarter.
Reason #51234123123 to never buy an EV
> The explanation "increased THC content causes more schizophrenia" is clearly more plausible than "more schizophrenia causes increased THC content".

My understanding is that the ratio of THC to CBD is significant; CBD seems to protect against some of the more alarming effects of THC.
> OpenAI faces the existential risk, not Google.

Yes, but the quickest way for anyone to get themselves to state-of-the-art is to buy OpenAI. Their existential risk is whether they continue to be (semi)independent, not whether they shutdown or not. Presumably Microsoft is the obvious acquirer, but there must be a bunch of others who could also be in the running.
The concept of Demonic Possession has existed since antiquity.

They probably had some sort of mental health disorder. Schizophrenia seems to have similar symptoms.
and I will protect capitalism.

Truly the hero capitalism deserves.
https://archive.is/wip/iTXu5
Always impressed how simple their consolidated financials are! I have seen companies that make a few million with infinitely messier presentation of that data
Interesting I've always been allured by the prospect of parser generators for unified parser/lexers like ebnf & regular right part grammars, so it is nice to hear some of the downsides of these approaches that had never really occurred to me.
My projects are simple dashboards for internal use so I prioritize ugly and functional over aesthetic. technical verdicts from someone with more UI experience/affinity would likely help a lot more than my opinion.
> Yet they still don't have a way to disable the 2FA prompt offered in the Gmail app (called "Google prompt").

There used to be a way to intentionally (after 2FA) add or remove devices to "Google prompt". These days, it just seems to be any device I'm logged in to, sadly.
Employer spied on me and got my chats and accounts what to do
I’m deeply anxious and scared about all this and it’s just so crazy.

I’ve moved to a new country and found some work as a software dev there coming from uni. Everything already was pretty suspicious from the beginning. My coworkers were very angry all the time and racist. Then the gas lighting started. They would always talk to each other about something indirectly that was related to me or an information they got about me. As far as I’ve understood I’ve done the big mistake that I logged in to my iCloud and server through work laptop. So they got all my chats, passwords, etc. Also I think they got a lot of info about me from my previous employer. Then I’ve changed all my passwords (wallet + 2FA) but the gas lighting and old info revealing didn’t stop. Now I am very paranoid and I’m scared to go to work. I did nothing wrong except maybe being of Russian descent but not nationality and moving to another country. Help me please what should I do? I don’t have a lot of work experience so I think I can not leave…

And if I were to leave at some point would I get new problems?
Very interesting read.

OK for some commercial uses but I wonder how many other models have restriction lists like this
Blood levels where higher in the US 20 years ago, the decline is due to a phase out of production.

https://www.atsdr.cdc.gov/pfas/health-effects/us-population....

I guess the compounds in landfill effluent can be coming from things manufactured overseas, but collecting and destroying them is a good way to avoid releasing them into the environment or having to deal with them later.
Eh, no. That's a reach. A company policy would be something that the whole company is expected to follow. If only the teams that coordinated on it follow it, that's not a policy in any way, it's just a choice that a portion of the company made, it could be something that the company doesn't care about one way or another or it could be something that wasn't addressed prior to release (if you think every decision a team makes gets complete review and is totally understood, I think you're wrong).
Possibly a disconnect from nature does something to trigger the condition. Cities are more man-made and artificial than being close to the wilderness. I don't know if that's the correlation, but it seems like you see quite a few more paranoid and hallucination episodes from people in cities than rural areas (if we're taking out drug use).
> you can just get that on the internet now

"Where it's easy for someone to edit. Do you by chance, have a copy of 1984 I can check out?"
You can also see the same "toot" as a "tweet": https://twitter.com/jonty/status/1653915932677271552
This is great!

I've subscribed to the RSS feed. I thought the feed would provide links the significant news articles directly, but it appears to provide a link to the newsminimalist.com summary. That's totally fine, but I'd think it'd be a bit nicer if there was an option to access the articles directly.

I'm also using ChatGPT to scrape online info and reduce it. Were there any particularly interesting problems that you had to solve? For me, it was figuring out ways to reduce the number of tokens so I don't hemorrhage money!
SETI Institute expands search for aliens with VLA
A lot of it is going in real estate, as if it is not expensive enough already
As long as spending electricity and other resources on PFAS destruction doesn't inadvertently cause even more PFAS production than it prevents, then this concept seems to make sense at some level. That doesn't mean it's ideal, but we're going to need this anyways even if PFAS winds up being fully phased out.
"until ChatGPT became better than Google's version, bulding on the research published by Google and others, yet deciding to not publish their research" would probably be closer than the headline.
And given that bucket names are a giant shared namespace, there's absolutely an incentive toward lots of prefixing to help ensure you get the ones you want.