skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This was vastly exaggerated probably to distraction the attention from the French public that the vast majority of the plants being put offline was due to the fact that they had their maintenance postponed till the limits, and then you had a bunch of reactors that, per regulations, needed to be turned-off at the same time.
Only a few of the plants had this thermal problem, the ones that discharge hot water directly into the rivers.
How progressive of them to voluntarily lower their own standard of living and national freedom and sovereignty. The small fraction of China, India, and US emissions that will be offset by this are certainly worth it!

We salute your sacrifice.
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Did you mean making Pocket end to end encrypted like Firefox Sync? Pocket's business model was data mining. Or did you mean making a part of Firefox Sync send your data to a 3rd party data miner? I don't think it would have helped.
There's a nice chart in the leaked Google memos that compares some of the open models against ChatGPT and Bard so you can get a sense where these models land by comparing them to these.

https://twitter.com/jelleprins/status/1654197282311491592
> Pro tip: don't sell your IP, license it.

It was a different time. And maybe the original two games would be even more obscure without 3D. I'd also say iD tech for a while was the driving thing, not the franchise branding, as seen with Quake and its sequel. So always a negotiation.
Whoa, they're almost all using capital letters.
That's how I used to get sheet music. It's a little pricier but I could trust the owner find an edition I would enjoy. They closed down a few years ago, and there's no nearby alternative.
If I were a legislator, I would introduce a bill to ban footnotes in advertising. Everything that the company feels it needs to print, must be included in the main ad copy.

Enough with this coy duplicity.
I guess I found the one thing where our progressive Netherlands is actually more conservative.

I'm from a rural part. 12 year olds drive massive agricultural vehicles here. My friends' son is 14 and doing welding. I personally did side jobs in brick laying, car washing, mushroom plucking and meat processing at the age of 11.

Nobody forced me, I wanted to do it. I paid for my own education, driver's license, partying years and am debt-free.

The generation after me graduates around age 23 and hasn't worked a day in their lives yet want their debt forgiven and feel oppressed.

Yes I'm here to collect downvotes. All of you could use some blue collar energy.
That’s debatable. Not all consideration is obvious.
They were famous for ads that looked like softcore porn, featuring very young-looking models. Calling that lolicon is fair enough.
> I have none of the same rights of these physical books.

So much effort spent creating DRM systems that try to destroy the natural advantages of ebooks over paper books.

Ebooks and the internet could have ushered in a golden age of worldwide digital libraries unlimited by the location or quantity of physical paper books.

The current copyright and technical control regime may be good for some publishers and authors, but at what cost in terms of lost value to humanity as a whole?
There are people that can't use a mouse and have to use keyboard navigation.

The negative attitude against towards accessibility vexes me greatly. Are wheelchair ramps a pointless waste of money because the vast majority of people can walk just fine? Should we not care about making cities safer for blind people because they are just a small minority?

These kinds of attitude wouldn't be socially acceptable in the "real world" but the web still likes to pretend that it is the Wilde West. And yes, actively excluding people from being able to use your services is a bigger problem than you site being slightly less pretty.
Now I imagine my boss joining whilst I am repeatedly saying sin sin sin and another coworker is just as actively saying ack ack ack like bill the cat.
If an electric car is in an accident and the battery catches fire, my understanding is it is very difficult to get under control.

Something I am curious about is what will happen when we have hundreds of electric cars going through the Lincoln Tunnel? Will battery fires be better or worse than gas fires?
I mean if you do, one instance will delete intermediate build objects of another instance, etc.
Hear me out. There's no harm in moving someone else's cart. When an aisle is busy I happily leave my cart at the end, pop in to grab the one or two items I need, and come back weaving my way around the mindless drones pushing their cart single file as slow as possible.
Not OP, but I work in the industry. It's not as simple as opening the tap for three primary reasons: 1) localization, 2) operations, 3) cost.

Localization means that you cannot generally (with current-state tech) ship a bunch of cars to a new city and turn them loose. You have to do a large amount of detailed mapping, characterization, and training in every area you want to launch. That's why you see all the self-driving companies slowly expanding availability areas after their test cars have been running around for many thousands of miles in the area.

Operations is all the stuff that's not the car driving itself around. The cars need a home base where they can park when not in use, recharge, get cleaned, have sensors checked and calibrated, and get maintenance when needed (scales linearly with number of vehicles). The cars are also not 100% flawlessly handling every situation and rider issue - there still needs to be human support in the loop, both in terms of a dedicated remote support team (scales linearly with number of rides) and in terms of local rescue people to get cars when they're really stuck (scales linearly with number of vehicles).

Cost is the cost of vehicles, tech (ADKs), and operations. Waymo and Cruise are currently operating at absolutely massive loss and will continue to do so for years. It's generally not a great idea to open the faucet on a money-losing business until you at least have a solid way to get to profitability. Yes, I know, Uber and other giant startups basically never made money, etc. etc. but the market has changed and owners are looking to decrease costs of tech and operations before really scaling up. It's going to take a couple years still.
How did you realize it here? This user has multiple comments in this thread but this one actually sounds more normal than the others.

I find it very uncanny to see comments like this that sound like ChatGPT but are surprisingly relevant to the discussion.
Delta-v is a change in velocity, so "only a few hundred m/s of delta-v" isn't painting the entire picture. The more massive an object is, the more energy (aka fuel) it takes to impart a given amount of velocity change (aka delta-v) upon it.

Both a small satellite and a big station module need the same "only a few hundred m/s of delta-v", but the amount of fuel needed to accomplish that maneuver will be astronomically different between them because the station module is so much more massive.
I think this one is on you and it is a $200 lesson. You might be able to get your money back if you make dealing with your less of a hasel/cheaper than refunding your $200 but do you really want to become one of those people who finds a way to weasel their way out of their own mistakes instead of learning from them? It does not hurt to just ask, tell them that you made an faulty assumption and they might give you back some or all of your money but don't try and make it out to be their fault or it may very well become a habit in life.
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I'm typically using TypeScript so that is more or less a non-issue. But even then it seems like an easy thing to get used to.
Yes. It does not become a "verbal contract," but the concept is promissory estoppel. Look it up.

If you make a promise, and I rely on that promise, and I suffer financial loss, you're liable.

It's a good idea too. If you promise that a plan will be free forever, people should be able to rely on that promise. You might get beta tester, promoters, or whatever you want. If those people stop being useful to you, you can't just throw them on out on their bums. You're hosting their data, there's a cost to migrating that data away. If they've integrated with your APIs, it can be a high cost. If that what you'd like, promise "free" but not "free forever."

It almost never makes sense to sue -- it's just not worth it -- but a business which breaks a "free forever" promise is probably breaking the law, and in the era of the internet, is almost definitely breaking the law in some jurisdiction.
While I recognize that this only one example of what you can do, you can just ask chatgpt to program you a traditional program that does something like this and not have to run a (pretty big/power-intensive/slow on most hardware) 3B/7B parameter model for simple tasks like these.

Yeah it wouldn't be as flexible as a LLM (for example synonyms won't work), but I doubt that for this particular task it'll be that big of problem, and you can ask it to tweak the program in various ways (for example introducing crude spaced-repetition) making it arguably better than the AI solution which takes sometime to prompt engineer and will never be "perfect".

I don't really know how much better fine-tuning makes these models, so I can't think of anything that they can actually be used for where they aren't worse than traditional programs, maybe as an AI in games? for example making them role-play as a historical figure in Civilization 6.
As someone pursuing my own vision of a hypercard-like multimedia environment that lives in a self-contained HTML document, I'm quite interested in learning about the approach mmm.page takes with interactivity, but attempting to add "custom code" just tells me I need to upgrade. Is there somewhere with more details?
I agree with the sentiments but I don't know if that's feasible
That was a lot more interesting than I expected.
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> Does anyone have any insight as to why companies fail to do this?

It’s really hard to quantify the positive benefit of letting them stay, and really easy to quantify that letting them stay is going to cost us $500/month forever.
Use Tailscale on an iOS device and you’ll move away within a day. It’sa major battery hogger on iOS.
> let attrition take its course for the existing ones

The reasoning breaks down here. There's not likely to be a lot of attrition for a free product compared to a paid one. It costs nothing to continue and costs time to cancel.
In cities where space is at a premium, a bunch of people standing, or on a bicycle, will always beat out people sitting down with room for an engine and a trunk.

Average occupancy of a car is 1.5 in the US, and that number shrinks as household size declines.

(It’s also worth noting that there’s no reason that automated technologies wouldn’t also spread to buses and trains. In fact, you can already automate trains. The big win there, is that buses represent massive fleet commonality.)
There is. The goal of the "free forever" is to (1) exposure / publicity (2) lock-in (3) ecosystem / API integrations (4) eyeballs (5) customer counts for investor decks (6) etc.

Consideration doesn't have to be financial.
This is also comparable to how Stimulus and Turbo work together, although I found to like using Alpine in place of Stimulus with Turbo and that combination works just fine as well.
identify a target

decide to attack the target

implement the attack

determine the result of the attack

If humans are required for the decision, then humans have an inherent hook to prevent more attacks. Otherwise you run into scenarios like https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pyMNIFZTQkg where humans are incapacitated and AI just continue on like nothing has happened. It makes the failure modes more sane. It's not a catch-all but a good agreeable step to take.
> Just sounds like they've been diagnosing by symptom because they didn't know the actual etiology. Once it's known shouldn't they just change the diagnosis to be the new, more specific condition? Seems like diagnosis is still the goal?

Well, we don't know the aetiology (in most cases), so while restructuring diagnosis on the basis of aetiology is defensible as a long-term goal, we are nowhere being able to achieve that yet. The argument is, designing research around the current symptom-focused diagnostic categories is blocking progress in research. Two people with the same diagnostic label may have completely different aetiologies, two people with the same aetiology may have completely different labels, two people with the same aetiology one of them may have a label and the other may have none – the same underlying brain dysfunction may manifest with very different symptoms in different individuals, depending on its interaction with other biological factors, and their social environment. If we want to understand "what's really going on", it can be better to put everyone in the same sample (both diagnosed with various diagnoses and undiagnosed), then look for patterns in that big sample. I think this paper is a great example of doing that, with the help of machine learning – https://www.nature.com/articles/s41398-019-0631-2 – but it needs replication.
(I'm not an expert)

> How can someone get into using these models

You can use gradio(online) or download(git will not download, it's too big, do it manually) the weights at https://huggingface.co/lmsys/vicuna-13b-delta-v1.1/tree/main and then load the model in pytourch and try inference(text generation). But you'll need either a lot of RAM(16GB,32GB+) or VRAM(Card).

> How might I go about using these models for doing things like say summarizing news articles or video transcriptions
Again, you might try online or setup a python/bash/powershell script to load the model for you so you can use it. If you can pay I would recommend runpod for the shared GPUs.

> When someone tunes a model for a task, what exactly are they doing and how does this ‘change’ the model?
From my view ... not much ... "fine-tuning" means training(tuning) on a specific dataset(fine, as in fine-grained). As I believe(I'm not sure) they just run more epochs on the model with the new data you have provided it until they reach a good loss(the model works), that's why quality data is important.

You might try https://github.com/oobabooga/text-generation-webui they have a pretty easy setup config. Again, you'll need a lot of RAM and a good CPU for inference on CPU or a GPU.

https://huggingface.co/lmsys/vicuna-13b-delta-v1.1/tree/main
Already happened and still actively happening! In Tesla's latest annual AI day presentation they gave some insights into their training procedures and architecture choices. Lots of transformers, lots of bleeding-edge stuff.
Venmo is owned by PayPal and they wanna get that business payments pie: https://venmo.com/business/profiles/
And a bad one. I stopped reading out of indifference before their 10 paragraph sales pitch
> Remember the bad old days when websites would have giant text "DO NOT USE YOUR BROWSER BACK BUTTON"?

It was even worse when the page didn't warn you, but would lose state all the same!
I frankly don’t care, and hope all “social media” are just like HN style, a thread about specific thing, and people discuss it, none of the crap of “content creators” or similar grifters, I also think personally youtube was ruined when it has all of those creators after it monetized the platform.
Cool!

Bug or some fine tuning:
Saw news repeated about 4 times today, about the European Central Bank/ECB. Some different wording but it was essentially the same.
Why not, besides the practical impossibility of the current Congress passing such a law?

IMHO, it would level the playing field for honest manufacturers and service providers.

Sure, it would effectively outlaw many types of ads that we see today, but do you think any of the types of ads that rely on hidden fine print are really all that valuable to our economy or society?
Completely delusional European mentality to think that it is more inclusive than the US. Only a native European would say such a thing. The US is an inclusive haven compared to most of western Europe especially for immigrants and foreigners. Your comment further below about "why not migrate if you don't like germany" encompasses that mentality perfectly well.

Now, you are right in a way that it is a choice to migrate there. My issue is with the weird belief that Europe is more inclusive when it is just false. It's like another manifestation of the quintessentially european inferiority complex that leads to comparisons with a weird, exaggerated caricature of what they think the US is. The truth is that Germany is less inclusive, provides less opportunities and is more xenophobic in almost all regards than America, unless I guess you are a white European migrant.
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It's a thing in Tokyo as well, leading to some interesting building shapes.

https://thetokyofilesurbandesign.wordpress.com/2016/05/24/ja...
Starts around 1:09:00

Yes, this man actually worked as an immunologist and helped treat cancer patients.

This is a very nice lecture! Highly recommend - especially his mention of fever treatment of cancer.

Disregard his PC's background!
I hate that those things are called hamburger menus. I thought this was about the menu monitors I see at McDonald's before I delved into the comments.
An alternative which I've used with some succes are structured state space models: https://srush.github.io/annotated-s4/. A very different approach that works well for quite a few types of problems.
I don't disagree with the article, but I feel like the author almost landed on an interesting counterpoint. Author points out they didn't do this in ClojureScript, but writing apps in Reagent (the leading ClojureScript React wrapper) has looked almost identical across many years and many versions of React. Many of the state management epochs have also been avoided, because "manage state" is a core idea in Clojure, and so the stuff we had almost a decade ago is still perfectly fine today.

So, I posit that the churn, while definitely real, is not actually intrinsic.

Right now, at Latacora, we're writing a bunch of Clojure. That includes Clerk notebooks, some of which incorporate React components. That's an advantage I think we shouldn't ignore: not needing to write my own, say, Gantt chart component, is a blessing. So, specifically: not only do I think the churn is incidental to the problem, I don't even believe you need to give up compatibility to get it.

Fun fact: despite all of this, a lot of what we're writing is in Clerk, and while that's still fundamentally an SPA-style combination of frontend and backend if you were to look at the implementation, it absolutely _feels_ like an htmx app does, in that it's a visualization of your backend first and foremost (React components notwithstanding).
I’m not saying this is vaporware but … where’s the app?
Really? Is there case law to this effect?

These things happen, and have value, but I wouldn't have considered them as "given as a quid pro quo" or "mutual promises".
Slightly off-topic, but as the parent of a toddler, I got a bit of a chuckle out of the name. It's based off the children's book series of "Llama Llama Red Pajama"
You can't, and it's intentional. They say getting notified of responses increases flamewars. I think it makes a lot of sense - if people can't talk to each other they can't get into flame wars. I think they should just go all the way and remove comments altogether.
My example here was silly and I admit. But the point was that this simple task cab become more "nuanced"(Aside from ChatRWVK-raven, no other model quite "works" like Vicuna or "tuned LLama"), it can, given the correct prompt act as someone in a fictional work which might help you learn the language better by increase conversational time(most important metric, I'm talking comprehensible input here) by the virtue of being more enjoyable.

Overall I like the progress: LLama releases -> LLama fine turned on larger models gets similar performance to ChatGPT on lower parameters(more efficient) -> People can replicate LLama's model without anything special, effectively making LLMs a "Commodity" -> You are Here.
No, I don't think that's right. I can name other scenarios:

1) I am at a megacorp. I want to rapidly prototype without going through purchasing / finance / bureaucracy.

2) I have a personal and a work account. I learn something on weekends on the free tier and use it at work.

Both of those have happened (with me, as the user), and led to millions of dollar of business to cloud vendors. In the case of #2, the cloud vendor has no way of knowing that the conversion came from a free tier. In the case of #1, I'm not even sure they tracked it.

I am astronomically less likely to use tools without a free tier, at the very least at the level of validating that the product is useful, and ideally, at enough of a level to get started.

The AWS free tier is almost exactly the right level, but would do better without expiration. It's not costly or usable to build anything significant in the free tier, but more than enough to get started. The one-year limit is an issue, since when I switched jobs, it was no longer usable.

Other scenarios I've seen:

- Early-stage startups. It's dirt cheap to offer free tier to someone with O(0) users, and most stay there. Those that hit the exponential growth curve more than make up for it, and won't have capacity to migrate. AWS courts these hard.

- Education. What people learn in school, they take to their jobs. Especially engineering software companies make hard plays here.
Google: "Open Source Reduces Friction" but "Do Not Develop in the Open"
Mostly once they discover they can leak things, Rust is pronounced "not really safe" by such people anyway.
But PHP is blazing fast compared to either of those (hot code ready to accept traffic in all scenarios so we can ignore warm-up times)
I mean the person probably just forwarded emails and wore a wire during meetings with bank execs. It's the SEC not the FBI.
If you can have a monolith for $500/month with a team of 2, or a distributed system for $50,000/month with a team of 50, what manager in their right mind would choose the former. Zero prestige in that.
Turbo (the updated Turbolinks) uses fragments quite heavily... Turbo calls them frames. Turbolinks was more of a full page only approach though.
What OS? Maybe there could be a virtual screen you could “screen share”
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