skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
the naming is confusing... these models are aiming to equal or beat LLaMa by reproducing the trainign data and methodology that was used for LLaMa

But the actual model architecture is slightly different, based on Pythia

I guess what is needed is a pythia.cpp https://github.com/ggerganov/llama.cpp/issues/742
Free image hosts just aren't sustainable, the costs are high and it's fairly hard to make that money back. I made a paid image host a while back (https://imgz.org) exactly because of that reason.
I'm hearing AirBnB have for a little while now been playing fast and loose with reviews - genuine and fair negative reviews are being blocked, and it looks like this is to prevent (short-term) loss of revenue to AirBnB.
As soon as you realize that "productivity" is measured in dollars, this seems like an unsurprising result. Supposed gains in productivity over the last $many years have mostly been driven by relatively few very high "earners" (using that term more loosely than it has ever been used before). It's like the old joke about Bill Gates walking into a room and the average person in the room suddenly being a multi-millionaire ... even though nothing has actually changed for them. When a metric is inflated by a very small number of contributing data points, the loss of even a few of those data points will inevitably bring the number back down. As you all know, we've lost more than a few lately. The story is only interesting if the result remains significant after accounting for that.
I haven't practiced them in twenty years and I can still play them decently. If they start on a black key I need 3 seconds to play an octave in my mind, to double check the first finger of each hand. Twenty years ago I didn't even need that.
I kind of agree about the cake mixes, but not the developer. It's pretty clear to me the value the developer provided, as he elaborated about it at length near the end and said the LLM isn't getting his job anytime soon.

The cake mix really isn't "cooking," by my standards. Neither is microwaving popcorn. But it's an arbitrary line, I wouldn't defend it very hard.
Teeny tiny detail:

> just establishing an ssh connection doesn't take multiple seconds

That's almost certainly power saving on the WiFi. Annoying but fixable. Seems to be on by default, and a `/sbin/iwconfig wlan0 power off` line in rc.local should fix it.
For 25 years, Image Line have been shipping the FLStudio DAW as a one-off purchase with free lifetime updates, and since I've been receiving those updates for a significant chunk of those 25 years since I bought the Producer Edition, it seems pretty sustainable.

In their words "Why? Because we believe you should get the program you paid for, bug-fixed and updated for as long as we develop FL Studio." [1]

[1] https://www.image-line.com/fl-studio/lifetime-free-updates/
I made a script that uses atuin to get previous commands related to your current command line - latest commands ran in the same session, in the same directory, in other sessions, latest commands for the same executable etc. then feeds it into GPT and streams the replies to fzf so you can choose the best autocompletion (or it can fix problems in the line you've written already as well). On Wezterm and Kitty it can also get the terminal screen contents error messages and so. Because of the streaming reply the first autocomplete line is ready quite soon after the keyboard shortcut is pressed.

Have been putting off pushing it to Github, think I'm gonna do that today.
> What are we gonna do w/o plastics? So much of our economy and lifestyles make heavy uses of these materials.

How about we change our lifestyle and forgo the economy? If you want to eliminate the problem at the source then that's the solution.
The Emergence of Electronic Life Forms
I consider how we can build an electronic life form, and what the essential characteristic of these life forms are.
Obviously the "indirect" part of the post you are responding to applies.

Your last sentence seems to indicate that you know more than us - if so, enlighten us please about the incentive situation of Mr. Altman. (Whose products I value quite a lot, I will say)
https://youtu.be/I_AX4R-d29o are you sure?
New season of Apple Music Live features exclusive concert by Ed Sheeran
Norwegian's 'Diabolical' Antarctica Trip
Is the assumption of 5x the pay going to hold though in light of:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35813322
Please link, thanks!
čudan means weird, male form, in the languages of former Yugoslavia.

When I create something (software) like this, I never have any visitors or contributors/co-posters. How does this "board" with only 3 threads get so many responses?
Must be an outlet of some discord/irc channel (which?).

As for the topic, I like JS better than Dart, which seems to get in my way any way it can. JS on the server though, why would you do that to yourself?
I personally didn't migrate from PHP to Go in 2013 so I can write server stuff in yet another not well performing language. If I wanted that, I could've stayed with PHP or went to Ruby. Symfony tries to mimic Rails in features, while trying to be as complicated as Java, without the performance and all the bad stuff attached to it. Or rather Laravel is now the Rails pendant while Symfony is the same for Spring (boot).

Meanwhile many Go "frameworks", more like routers, are inspired by Express.
And to my knowledge at least, the first isomorphic frameworks were in the JS ecosystem.
Sam bankman-fried would have agreed with you I'm sure.
With atuin, it's available immediately on other local session (panes, windows, tabs etc). There's also remote sync, so after some configurable amount of time, it's even available on other devices.
Your partner can hold US account details via TransferWise for use with US matters. Why are you depositing paper checks in USD outside the US? That is madness.
Don't get me wrong. Self driving taxis are cool. I'd like to use Waymo if it were launched where I live, at that price.

But that's a very large set of very large assumptions, stacked on top of each other! I can immediately think of lots of ways it can go wrong:

1. The economics may never work.

2. The "can't speed won't speed" problem may prove politically unsolvable, meaning people end up preferring taxis who avoid liability by being decentralized.

3. Google's core business may falter before Waymo manages to become financially independent, and in the absence of Waymo other competitors may decide it's no longer worth the investment vs Tesla-style incrementalism.

4. Public transport isn't going anywhere in high density cities simply due to limited road capacity.

5. Many people may simply prefer having their own cars even if Waymo taxis are everywhere, simply because you can't beat the latency of walking to your own driveway.

But the core problem is going to be price. Taxi drivers are cheap. For years people said Uber/Lyft would build up brand loyalty, raise prices and start making money any day now. After all it's ultimately just a ridehailing app, it's not that hard to make, so how can they not make a decent business out of it? Yet they never did get to that point even though it's a million times easier. Waymo not only has to find a way to turn a regular weekly profit taking into account their ultra-expensive staff, hardware, energy costs, support costs, etc but then maybe even one day yield enough profit to pay off the initial investment! All of that whilst competing in a super low margin market? Maybe it can be done but when I see the reasons people are giving here for why they like Waymo cars (clean, safe, etc) I'm not seeing the basis of a great company. It sounds a lot like the reasons I heard when Uber first appeared, even. And it's certainly WAY easier to compete on those aspects whilst still using human drivers.

Perhaps one day yes, presumably someone will get self-driving taxis to the point of being a sustainable business, but it might well be writeoff for Google just like it was for Uber.
Lifetime, in theory. In practice, you can move the relationship off Upwork after 2 years.

See https://support.upwork.com/hc/en-us/articles/360043210654-Mo...
Music degrees are usually designed to train musicians that can perform, compose, transpose and teach.

Playing every scale is a fundamental step in learning to transpose, that is to play music in more than the key you learned it in. It's a necessary step for when a guitar player has learned some piece in say, C major and then they need to perform that piece with a singer that can't physically sing in that key.
> some of our best people are remote, and we will continue to support it always, so please don't let hating SF stop you from applying to OpenAI!

What is a strong sign of conviction? Putting your money behind it. Which is exactly what is not happening here - not only keeping, but being open to increasing the remote working force. So is Sam Altman telling us that... OpenAI is not doing innovative work anymore? Or not valuing collaboration highly?
To German ears, the difference between v and w is really difficult to hear.

I speak from experience…
I think to sell me would require:

1) Actual notebooks / no lock-in

2) Coding integration

Come to think of it, a better way might be for me to retro-kludge GPT APIs into Jupyter, Pluto, or similar.

Nevermind.

I think the key question is how you'll compete with the inevitable open source version.
+ if you don’t like this, you can have it filter by session by default!
I understand that the difference in pressure at the inlet and outlet of the RO system indicates that work was done moving the water through the system, but the RO system is there to fill a glass of water - it's not clear to me why the outlet pressure is relevant.

Are you saying that the amount of energy it takes to deliver a given volume of water, varies based on the resistance at the outlet?
Well, my take is that the language isn't that great, but I really really dislike the ecosystem.

The sheer amount of code you get, even when using seemingly lightweight dependencies is just such a dumpsterfire.

I once ran cloc on a react getting started example. The example, including its dependencies, contained more than 3 times the lines of code than a 3D game engine (targetting PS4/5) + game logic + dependencies for a (non-indie) title I was porting around that time.
Analysis put covering the whole US with solar to cost about $5 trillion and the world about $65 trillion dollars. A lot, but it would pay for itself in about 5 years. The only blockade is all the people making all these trillions from the oil and all the power sources that make them all this money.
In this context, where the article speaks of "all 24 keys", it most certainly doesn't.
> because some job fits being its own service

Determining this at all takes skill. Determining it that far ahead of time requires so much skill and foresight that suggesting that people try is bad advice.
https://www.cnn.com/2019/03/29/us/splc-leadership-crisis/ind...

http://esr.ibiblio.org/?p=4278

It's really telling that you included the bit about guns and gun rights in support of your assertion that he's racist. It reads more like you're upset with his politics overall?
Russia Bizarrely Includes Sims 3 Among Evidence of 'Staged' Assassination Plot
> If they'd pronounced it "Let's meet up in the fillage" that would make sense as they'd be using the German pronunciation of "v", but I couldn't wrap my head around "willage".

Depending on the word, in German a "v" is either pronounced like "f" or "w", e.g.

[der] Vogel -> "Fogel"

[die] Vase -> "Wase"

A rule of thumb that I heard is that if a German word is of French origin and starts with V, the V is pronounced like W, otherwise like F.
America's energy independence [from fossil fuels] - yeah indeed it does. Also, what stops America from producing its own?
GPT-4 Chrome Extension for Twitter Shitposting Catches Attention of Elon Musk
If "makes money" is taking in any revenue at all then it should be much higher in the list.

Also I don't think they've reached "not annoying" yet.
It comes from a famous koan. Google "three pounds of flax".
Similar in Icelandic. Most Icelanders when speaking English will use the Icelandic "v" sound for both v and w, it is somewhere in between.
Note to self a SIM is not the same as the DVD of The Sims.
We'll sooner build green hydrogen generators and peaker plants than those modular nuclear plants by the looks of it.
There's currently no paid option. Obviously one should assume such a free service can't be sustainable so you'd be correct to think we should have one.

Currently we rely on Github sponsors as well as our own additional funding
Presencejs: geo-distributed Realtime web apps
Compose (UI) beyond the UI (Part I): big changes (2021)
I got tired of arguing against microservices just like I got tired of arguing against SPAs and multi-repos.

And at least with one of them, the pendulum has already started swinging back. The cool-kids (aka "javascript hipster devs") have re-discovered the concept of a monorepo and are pushing for it hard, making it seem like some sort of new concept with fancy tooling. It'd be funny if it wasn't so caricatured and a sad state of our industry.
A music theory instructor from my past told us a story about his equivalent practical exam. He had to demonstrate proficiency with multiple string instruments. Instead of learning fingering for each instrument, he claimed he tuned them so they could all be played the same way. I don’t have any training in string instruments, so I’m not sure how feasible this actually is...
Of course you do.

Try calling yourself a journalist in Portugal (a western European democracy member of the EU and NATO) without being a part of the journalist trade association and see what happens if you get on the radar.
One such cost could be database size. I currently have 45k history entries in my database and it sits at roughly 15MB in size due to database indices along with the additional data we store
Oh to never have encountered a steam table, some people never do I suppose. Some are born to it..
Input validation checks are such a small part of the codebase; it feels weird that it would dictate the choice of a server-side programming language. Server-side python is very capable of checking the length of a string, for example.

One challenge is that you've got to keep the server-side and client-side validations in sync, so if you'd like to increase the max length of an input, all the checks need to be updated. Ideally, you'd have a single source of truth that both front-end and back-ends are built from. That's easier if they use the same language, but it's not a requirement. You'll also probably want to deploy new back-end code and front-end code at the same time, so just using JS for both sides doesn't magically fix the synchronization concerns.

One idea is to write a spec for your input, then all your input validation can compare the actual input against the spec. Stuff like JSON schema can help here if you want to write your own. Or even older: XML schemas. Both front-end and back-end would use the same spec, so the languages you pick would no longer matter. The typical things you'd want to check (length, allowed characters, regex, options, etc.) should work well as a spec.

It's also not the only place this type of duplication is seen: you'll often have input validation checks run both in the server-side code and as database constraint checks. Django solves that issue with models, for example. This can be quite efficient: if I have a <select> in my HTML and I want to add an option, I can add the option to my Django model and the server-side rendered HTML will now have the new option (via Django's select widget). No model synchronization needed.

As others mention, you may want to write additional validations for the client-side or for the server-side, as the sorts of things you should validate at either end can be different. Those can be written in whichever language you've chosen as you're only going to write those in one place.
I can't see how eliminating a common misuse of an otherwise dead word wouldn't be clearer to nonnative speakers and less painful to the brains of native speakers. There are a lot of people who want to add dead vocabulary back to sound important and they'll succeed often enough with words that are at best unnecessary synonyms that convey no additional information. We don't really have to give them the benefit of the doubt when they do it completely wrong.
Sailor here - an 8 meters boat is in that awkward spot where it's big/heavy enough that it can do damage if incontrollably drifting against something (e.g. the wooden vessel itself) but light enough that you can literally just push it with the strength of two people if that happens.

So I'd argue it's more safe to have some crew on it in case you need to be hands-on, and just talk over radio while being towed.
I could think of ways you could make a good attempt at it. You could have a generator/discriminator relationship where you have a model whose purpose is to evaluate model outputs for things other than just toxicity (basically RLHF for capabilities), then use that to train. You could have code generation tasks where the code is actually executed and a success/failure signal sent based on code performance. You could do logical puzzle generator/logical puzzle solver pairs and have a separate system evaluate answer correctness based on a human dataset baseline, or maybe a model programmed to be able to turn natural language logic puzzles into API calls to a formal logical engine solver to get the answer for comparison. You could make a simple program to turn randomly generated mathematical problems into word problems, use an AI to add extraneous detail while protecting the core problem description, then give the resulting word problems to an AI and use a separate AI to extract out the final answer or conclusion. Then compare that answer to what the calculator says for the original math problem.

All of those have problems and would be very compute expensive, plus the limitation I struggle to see around where if you're using a model to train another model you maybe can't get better than that model. But I think we could build architectures which provide large labelled training datasets to LLMs for any problem that can be deterministically solved by us using more traditional computing methods, like maths and some logic puzzles. Maybe if we use those datasets we can make it so that LLMs are able to do maths and difficult logic problems natively, and maybe the internal machinery they develop to do that could help them in other areas. Would be a fun research project.
That sounds awesome! We've been meaning to set up a "community showcase" section. I'd love to feature this! If you ever publish it, post a discussion!
The dev gave the initial idea to the LLM. That's the creative process. Everything after that, arguably, is just technical details in order to realize the idea. Sure, implementation requires plenty of creativity, but of different kind.
It's possible they did, in any case keys can be exported from HSMs to ensure availability in the event that your HSM becomes inoperable and needs to be replaced.

For example here are instructions on how to do so with a Thales HSM
https://thalesdocs.com/gphsm/ptk/5.4/docs/Content/PTK-C_Admi...
While I agree, in general the debate I see is:

- RTO Bosses telling others it’s time to return to the office or news articles about their opinion.

- RW Individuals in the comments saying that they are remote and it’s actually working great, these bosses can go to hell

I work on a team that’s split, with some people choosing to go to the office once or twice a week. For our team it seems to be working very well, but as a fully remote worker, I’m firmly in category 2.
Exams and sports competitions are a particularly nasty example of Campbell's Law (or Goodheart's Law) – collapsing the correlation between metric and the true goal.

Exams, for example, are supposed to measure how much students progressed. "True goal" - learn some knowledge or master some skill. "Metric" is the quiz/tests/exam result.

If you try to design an exam for any new skill or knowledge, you'll come up with a pretty good metric. But soon, people will start ignoring the true goal and focus on the metric. Instead of "measuring" how well they learned the skill, your metric measures "how well they overfitted for the exam".

In a way, the mere fact that people need to "prepare for exams" is a testament to how failed the system is.

Sport is similar. The initial idea of the judging system and competitions is to "measure" the performance of the athlete. Rewards and rules are introduced to make this metric clear and unambiguous. Fast-forward a couple of decades, and athletes and coaches don't care about overall performance – they care about winning the medal, so they focus only on the subset of a skill that gives points. This problem is especially horrifying in the sports like figure skating after introducing the IJS system in 2006. Correlation between "true goal" (skating skills) and "metrics" (points given for specific elements) is collapsed – people chase points, not the skill.

It's not a simple problem. There are few neat papers on how to approach solving Goodheart's problems ([1] [2]). But on a practical level, the number one tool seems to be to decrease the importance of the metric.

Some sports, for example, have "one major competition" once in 4 years (Olympic Games). The price of winning it is insane. Who cares about the true goal if it's almost life-and-death importance? You chase the points. But other sports have a more healthy approach – tennis, for example, doesn't care much about the Olympics. They have Slams and different surfaces competitions throughout the year. You lost a game - not the end of the world. There will be many more. The higher prize is to win all four Slams in your career, so the price of the metric at a single competition is not that huge.

And this collapsing metric is a reason why people cheat. You can't cheat on a true goal, only on a proxy metric.

[1] Categorizing Variants of Goodhart's Law - https://arxiv.org/abs/1803.04585

[2] Building Less Flawed Metrics: Dodging Goodhart and Campbell's Laws - https://www.researchgate.net/publication/334478956_Building_...
Did you miss the horrors of the Chinese lockdowns? The Australian "quarantine centers" practices & abuse? What about people in Greece who were banned from leaving their homes or neighborhood? I'm barely scratching the surface, there was so much stupidity in how we handled the pandemic, worldwide.

You're simply ignorant. Very, very, ignorant, and very arrogant which blinds you from your ignorance. That's a classic toxic combo.

For the record, I'm double vaccinated, wore masks before anyone else did, after most everyone else did, and FFP2/N95 respirators at that, not surgical masks, and I obviously avoid tight crowds and wash my hands.

But your attitude is counter-productive and frankly disgusting. Every issue has two sides. A reasonable person is aware of this and plays the uneasy, but necessary balancing game to avoid extremes. You are NOT a reasonable person. You're a loudmouth who thinks they're on a religious mission to shut the mouths of "gaslighters" who do not sufficiently praise authority, which is blameless and infallible. You're part of the problem.
Anyone knows how it compares to rembg in speed/quality?
export PS1='\h:\w\$ '

This is my prompt as well, it was the default Slackware prompt, which I’ve also used since the mid 90s.
Study finds strong association between schizophrenia and cannabis use