skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Since my other comment was seeminglyf downvoted to hell - everything you write is projection. This is a random website that one person sent. This is not governement enforced - it's actually just some guidelines and propositions that are voluntary. So everything you write is basically irrelevant.

Even if you were actually reading what's in the recommendations - what's the point? Why are we talking about this?

And great example ofs anecdotal evidence. How hard is it to make a HN handle with antiracist in the name? If you give me a few minutes I can get you a bunch of comments that show the inverse.

Please argue things that are factual or matter OR at least are on subject.

The only effect your long comment has is to further radicalize people into believing that nothing should be done to support minorities. Think twice before writing reactionary nonsense.

Edit: btw, the source you quote here, Unherd, has this article at the top of their website "Why lesbian women should sleep with men". Laughable.
One hundred human-translated and spoken Irish ↔ English sentence pairs
A few months ago I started learning Irish on Duolingo.

Wanting to supplement my education there, and finding very few resources available online, I sought the help of some native Irish speakers to provide translations and voice recordings.

I've now put together a very basic website with the resources created so far (with permission from the voice recorders!) to share with other learners for free.

I'd love to continue with this project, and regularly add sentences, words, and more. My end goal is to build the largest online database of (spoken) Irish and English sentence pairs.

Let me know what you think. The site is very basic for now, so I would love to hear your thoughts and suggestions on how I could improve it!
Would you like to compare levels of understanding?
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I was dying on the GPT-4 API waitlist too. I built a proof-of-concept with GPT-3.5, got some ada embeddings, played around with some common patterns for a couple of weeks, spent less than $20. I then applied to the waitlist again with a few short sentences about what I'd done, how GPT-4 would make it better, and how it would enable something new and valuable for a particular market. Approved that day.

It's not exactly a shortcut, and maybe it was just luck, but I suspect the key is just to start building with what you have and show a trajectory. The best part is that coding with ChatGPT-4 as a "colleague" has made the whole thing super fun.
I haven't seen any repos or guides to using llama on that level of RAM, which is something I do have. any pointers?
> it starts to feel like I'm talking to vim with a shorthand language

This is like, the whole _point_ of Vim to me - much less about muscle memory and more about mnemonic ways of interacting with text. `ciw` is "change inside word", `da{` is "delete a tag", `yat` is yank a tag, etc. t and f are "to" and "through" (I think "froo" for that one). vf; is "visually select thru the next semicolon" for example.

The whole combination of motions and text objects is the real magic of Vim for me. Also the g ex command is pretty great too.
Using vectors for retrieval augmentation seems really powerful at first, but in practice we've found it very finicky. How long should each chunk be? How should you split? Are vector embeddings actually a good space/distance for your domain?

One improvement is to use refinement (ie iterate over many relevant chunks, refining your answer). This is more expensive and slower but less lossy than vectors. LlamaIndex does refinement well.

Would be curious if people have found better patterns. We've been playing around with using one LLM chain to do the retrieval, then passing the retrieved chunks into the main LLM call. Seems to work better for certain contexts.
Worthy to note, it seems like there were some incredibly dedicated hardworking engineers that drove extremely hard for a really long time to make this happen.

They did manage to get large buy in from the company after quite a significant journey. But it seems so much like a kind of outside event, something begat & pushed for not because it was a smart top down move, but because a couple super driven engineers made it their cause.
here's a poser for you: if you live at your mom's house, but earn a good salary, that allows you to quickly build up a nest egg, that you can use as a downpayment on your first house.

You buy the house with a mortgage, tying up your downpayment and obligating you to make monthly payments on the mortgage (which in the initial period go mostly to covering interest)

Before moving in, you realize that you could keep living at mom's house and rent the house you bought out at market rates. Let's say the market rate for your house is $5K a month, money that you can put toward your mortgage or building back up your savings/nest egg. (if you are renting your house out, some other benefits accrue to you, depreciating it, etc, but we'll ignore those, keeping that in mind in case you start thinking it also has some costs associated with it)

Now you have the thought... hey, wait a minute, does this mean that if you move into your own house, that act will cut off the $5K per month rental income, which makes it the equivalent of you having to pay the $5K rent yourself? Cuz, you could keep the rental income flowing if you rented another property, but if that one costs $5K too, the cash flow nets out to zero.

Could this be true? owning your own house doesn't save you on rent? Because investing in a house entitles you to the rent from the house, so consuming the housing yourself costs you the monthly rent whether or not you are the owner?

Yes, that's what it means. Buying a house does not save you money on rent, does not save you money on "housing consumption".

We need to give our kids a better financial education, there are so many myths that keep people on hamster wheels they don't know that they are on. This is the reason that housing seems "unaffordable"; why should it be any more affordable than rent?
Wait, this lets you use your device as the "passkey" to log-in into Google instead of you typing your Google account password. I don't quite follow how your lack of trust in Google password manager is relevant.
I mean, it doesn't matter whether the person taking the nude selfies is 16, 11, or 6: despite what the law says, it is painfully obvious that we should not treat that as "production of child sex abuse material" and punish those children the same as we punish adults who force children into such things.

I can see a reasonable argument for "11-year-old girls shouldn't be sexting their boyfriends", but the way to address that problem isn't to treat them as sex offenders. It's to get the parents to be more healthily engaged in their children's lives so that they can productively teach them why that's not a good idea in a way that is likely to stick.
To each their own, but it's not that there aren't cursor keys (well, sometimes), but that the move off of home row is too disruptive, mentally. Same thing with the Thinkpad track point. it's not the most accurate, but it's worth it need because it's even closer to home row than even a touchpad.
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google wasn't the first search engine
Yeah Pycon was busy but next time :)

Will be improved in the future as we start to offload client side actions with wasm, starting to do this but the python wasm ecosystem is still maturing
Schizophrenia is a disease, not a "type of people".

With enough dose anyone can become psychotic on THC.
Expert systems are not the same thing as today's AI is. Expert systems are characterized by sequences of pre coded if then rules. Today's AI is very different, largely based on consuming vast amounts or data. I'm not sure if you understand the distinction. You can also make expert systems using "today's AI", but most people well versed in the field would not confuse the concepts.
Really? Steve Jobs had NOTHING to do with iPhone logistics.

Interesting. Do you know that for fact? Were you at Apple and involved in the process?
Can you rewind a TikTok? I feel like I'd miss the binding if it flashed passed in 2 seconds.
Guess the Fed’s attack on consumer spending is working.
You know whats really interesting? Autism and Schizophrenia used to refer to the same condition. The term "autism" was invented by Bleuler, who worked with Freud, as a shortened version of his "autoerotism" and referred to a state where a patient was totally absorbed in their own fantasies to the point of hallucinating them. This becomes clear if you look at Jung's "introvert/extrovert" dichotomy (Jung, who worked in Bleuler's lab!), where someone extremely introverted could be BOTH autistic--not communicating with others--and schizophrenic--absorbed in their own fantasies, not concerned with the real world.

Now, clearly, mainstream psychology disassociated these terms sometime in the 60s, when the goal with autism diagnoses was moreso to find and identify "abnormal" children (Hans Asperger famously used Autism diagnoses to euthanize children, that's who "Asperger's Syndrome" is named after!), and Schizophrenia gained its own separate classification. But its interesting to note that there was a time when social disaffection in general was considered a single set of disorders.
I don’t think it’s an outlier, I do my lex phase before the parsing phase, it’s not concurrent. However, I find reporting bad tokens and parse errors to work well even if the phases are sequential.
I suggest that you pick a project, and get it done. Use the most common hardware you can.

Buy a labeling machine and label everything that is not known good. If you have SD cards, label cases explaining what is on them.

Get a large HDD in your desktop PC (or some kind of mass storage) and back up pics, notes, code, etc. Keep it forever. Keep at least 2 copies of it.

Buy plenty of plastic drawers. https://www.google.com/search?q=plastic+drawers Label them with the labeling machine (1" black text on white labels work the best. If the labels do not stick, stick duct tape to the drawer and stick the label to the duct tape.) Organize every part in plastic drawers.

Then pick another project and get it done.

Don't give in to the temptation to rack-mount everything or to build hardware for possible future use. Just do one project at a time.
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You don't even need the combo. Just taking Adderall several days in a row can give you psychotic symptoms if it's hurting your sleep every day.
I thought that marijuana interfered with sleep, and you just didn't get your proper REM sleep.

So if you continue it - REM sleep deprivation has side effects.

and if you stop it - your body will try to make up for lost time (REM) and make you hallucinate a lot.

maybe all of this is related to schizophrenia
Source: 35+ years of tinkering.
"Do things that don't scale" – PG
I've seen reports of people being able to run LLMs at decent speeds on old Nvidia P40s. These are 24GB Pascal GPUs and can be bought for as low as $100 (although more commonly $200) on eBay.
"just get yourself OpenAI API access"

Could you please describe how one "just" do that?
I have been on the GPT-4 API waitlist since it was announced and I still don't have access to the GPT-4 API.
Am I the only one who is not convinced by the value proposition of langchain? 99% of it are interface definitions and implementations for external tools, most of which are super straightforward. I can write integrations for what my app needs in less than an hour myself, why bring in a heavily opinionated external framework? It kind of feels like the npm "left-pad" to me. Everyone just uses it because it seems popular, not because they need it.
Not referring to cost centres within profitable units. Much of Google was professional yarn spinning. That doesn’t make the layoffs or pay disparity okay. But I’d squint at someone in a group that shipped a product a week, each with a year’s lifespan, complaining about that profit like it’s relevant to them.
We ported the core of LangChain to Ruby, and while it is way more that 100 lines, I would give similar feedback as the author. Here is the repo if anyone is interested https://github.com/BoxcarsAI/boxcars
Sadly I did the same, but am still waitlisted. I do enjoy GPT-4 as a colleague though.
Fair, but in truth the NeXTcube was not a layman's product either. With a realtime sound card and proper DAC setup you'd easily run over $10,000, which is "affordable" in the same way later CMI models "only" cost as much as a car.

I'm not so much griping at the idea of characterizing it as a media machine, but one of the first? It's not even one of the first digital multitrack recorders.
Seems like a correct impression, then.
I move my money off of banks as soon as possible instead of just letting them have it. I pay off any debts and use the rest to buy property, stocks, literally anything else. It's what the bank is doing behind my back anyway.
"This content is not available in your country/region."

Really? What content do you have, WoodTV.com, that needs to be region locked?
Send them outside if you want to avoid coddling.
If you're using chrome, and have the addon Video Speed Controller [1], you can always reload the page (to get the video back at the start), hit 'd' a bunch of times to speed up the video to something like 10x to get to the part you need quickly (then 'r' to go back to regular speed).

But you're right it's not perfectly convenient. Great for surveying information rapidly though. If you don't catch the precise information, at least you know of it, which I think is half the battle with vim keybindings.

[1] https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/video-speed-contro...
Yes, they went from poisoning the earth to poisoning our brains. There was a golden era in the middle that I will always remember fondly.
There was an open source vector database that was suppose to be an alternative to pinecone that was mentioned a few weeks back.

I can’t seem to find it. Does anyone recall the name?
Guessing has a very mild implication of thought or estimation from a model of understanding of the subject in question.

Hallucination, on the other hand, is evocative of a less reasonable/rational source.
Sorry, neurotoxic?

That's not a settled debate; not remotely.

There are many reasons to believe cannabis is neuroprotective. Especially when using safe, high CBD, high cannabinoid varieties; a rather vital distinction.

And it's not semantics, because you can't make the assumption that people would "never have become psychotic without the drug". On a population scale, such an effect would have stood out by now if it had much strength at all.
A semi-decent under-sink reverse osmosis system can remove the vast majority of chlorine from drinking water. If it's as bad as you say, I highly recommend the investment!
Human drivers can't be cheap either, and they reduce the capacity of the vehicle by a whopping 25%. Or are the cars in self driving mode but still stuck with the driver alertness systems? That would be a terrible job, holding on the wheel of a self driving car in a tunnel all day long just to keep the self driving system from getting mad and stopping the car.
Top-down design of protein architectures with reinforcement learning
"I don't use the web," is more likely.

Even more likely is, "I never use the web directly: I have my agent / AI interact with the web on my behalf".
Very interesting. But what impact did this have on the user experience? While the data makes sense as presented (i.e., aggregated) certainly there are some users outside the assumptions. What if they are mid to power users? Have they been upset?

As a feat of engineering...kudos. But engineering savings might not translate into user benefit. It would be interesting to see analysis from the customers' POV.
My friends do not have TVs either.

¯\_(ツ)_/¯
This is not my experience. I find that weed makes my mind wander randomly down all sorts of tracks. Sometimes this can be fun, interesting, and insightful, but it's certainly not a state that helps my already very poor focus.
I'm confused. What influence do you think the Cube had?
I mean you still need a place to live right? And if you're going to pay for a house, you may as well be paying for it in order to own it later and sell it if you'd like? If you always rent, you never get that money back.
> (Hans Asperger famously used Autism diagnoses to euthanize children, that's who "Asperger's Syndrome" is named after!)

Asperger was assigned to identify autistic children for exterminatiom, but mafe the case that certain ones were useful to the Reich, which is why “Asperger’s Syndrome” became the name for the manifestation of autism that was seen as a leader impairmemt.
The key here is that because the US government's antitrust division has been sitting on its hands for 40 years, there are now only 4 airlines in the US. This lack of competition means that all 4 can play this game (except Southwest, which has other problems) because there's not enough competition to stop it.

But there are more than 4 car companies. There's enough competition to stop this kind of horseshit, which is a fact Mary Barra seems not to recognize.
This has a nice coda with the Commodore 64 game "Blade Runner" (A video game interpretation of the film score by Vangelis).
Well if that is the case, then I was entirely mistaken and I apologize! This would certainly be a thing worth celebrating. Thank you for letting me, I'll take a closer look at this.
Easy. Trace and tax superyacht owners. We’ve been able to do it with Putin. And it’s not like other superyacht owners are that much better.

A superyacht ownership is decadence, waste of resources, carbon emissions and being above the law, sometimes including severe exploitation. There is no good reason that this should be allowed.
Popular examples are Weaviate and Qdrant
That’s where parents come in.
I recently watched a discussion with a neuroscientist who was explaining the left brain-right brain difference, as it's currently understood. He said the left hemisphere evolved to focus its attention on a small field of perception, mainly to find food. The right hemisphere evolved to detect threats from the entire field of perception.

The way we train LLMs, to my understanding, is to predict the next word. That's a narrow task, and in my interpretation is a left brain dominant task.

What can happen with the left brain is that it can become so focused on the task at hand, and so wedded to the mental models used to accomplish that task, that it loses touch with reality as broadly perceived by the right brain. The neuroscientist claimed schizophrenia is a disorder of too little inhibition of left brain inferences by the right brain. (I am taking him at his word on this.) The left brain's mental models lose touch with ground truth. This can result in hallucinations.

If I am correct that LLMs act like the left brain in that they are relying on models that they developed during training and focusing on a single task, absent sensory experience, then hallucination may actually be a good term.

I do think that the use of anthropomorphic terms is problematic because it suggests the same phenomenon, rather than an analogous phenomenon.
Wonder why so many Irish flee for the States in modern times?

Go to Ireland, then complain about rent and home ownership.
Not-so-fun fact: When superfund sites are cleaned up, there's no monitoring of what is done with the waste.

I wouldn't be surprised if the soil removed is then just sold to construction projects than need fill.
Yea I see the same but I believe, according to their blog post, they are rolling out support on workspaces at a later date.

https://blog.google/technology/safety-security/the-beginning...
Run text-generation-webui with llama.cpp: https://github.com/oobabooga/text-generation-webui
Incremental re-Lexing works great in IDEs where you want to preserve tokens and the state associated with them. It also helps to isolate errors by attributing them to a token that contains the change rather than somewhere far off. Incremental parsing is the same: it costs more in terms of memory and even overall time, but provides better feedback for the IDE.

Batch compilation is a different beast, but I haven’t written one of those for a pint time.
The VSCode vim plugin gets way too much credit in my opinion. All the core tasks navigating tabs, creating new tabs, dealing with file managers, aren't handled in that plugin nor the nvim plugin. I've actually built my own "vim-esque" hotkeys into VSCode for the core tasks that don't pertain to editing individual files. Maybe I'll drop it someday...
100% agree. I think that the industry as a whole really optimized for the wrong thing for a very long time. It seems like in legal states, there's been a move towards more balanced strains (or at least, those have a niche in the market), but it seems like everyone was going for 30% THC by weight, and as little CBD as possible.

The "mids" I used to smoke back in my teenage years gave a better (read: more fun and relaxing) high than most of the "dank" weed I've smoked as an adult.
Some studies find that "schizophrenia runs in lower average IQ families, autism runs in higher average IQ families", from which some suggest that the autism-vs-schizophrenia distinction is grounded in a higher-vs-lower IQ distinction – see e.g. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4927579/ – but I think that kind of research is very speculative and needs to be taken with a large grain of salt

Other researchers suggest the boundary between autism and schizophrenia is weaker than is commonly supposed. Common diagnostic tests for ASD perform poorly in distinguishing it from schizophrenia; there is heightened prevalence of each condition among those diagnosed with the other; autism started out as a new name for childhood-onset schizophrenia (in fact the word "autistic" was originally coined to describe schizophrenia), and there is still a lot of dispute about what is the difference between autism and childhood-onset schizophrenia (the former is much more common than the later–subclinical hallucinations are common in children, but clinically significant psychotic symptoms are quite rare)

Nobody really knows, not even the experts.
> but this is from the guy that created LLVM, Clang, and Swift… This is the real deal,

Remember Ceylon? The language, which was supposed to be a better Java plus interoperable with Java? That was created by the guy who had created Hibernate and then Seam framework. Where is Ceylon now?

People have different reasons and opinions for starting yet another language. Just because they have created something popular previously doesn't mean this is the next big thing.
I asked ChatGPT to find Indian food in a tourist town. Googling verified that only one of its suggestions was a real place; the other four were hallucinations.

It's possible GPT-4 will be better; I haven't been able to test it because I remain on the waitlist.

I remain skeptical.