skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Oh I definitely agree that there are multiple levels of AI research that are valuable. Huge supporter of open source, and not meaning to talk down to anyone working on AI projects.

It's just that at the moment I'm finding the open source LLM community hard to contextualize from an outside perspective. Maybe it's because things are moving so fast (probably a good thing).

I just know that personally, I'm not going to be exploring any projects until I know they're near or exceeding GPT-4 performance level. And it's hard to develop an interest in anything else other than GPT-4 when comparison is so tough to begin with.
They should at least grandfathered any users on the -free forever- plan
Now that PHP has lost its massive deployment advantage, step up to Rails or Python.
Not everyone is lucky enough to liberate a fully-developed product from Dropbox and not have to pay them back.
That’s basically what I have with Vue + Vuetify + PUG templates.

It’s a pleasure to work with so little boilerplate.
I agree.

Random thought but
> that age like milk.

Isn't aged milk cheese?
Jeff Quitney on Vimeo is another great channel. He used to be on YT but got booted for some reason.
https://vimeo.com/jeffquitney
I have put a bug report where my mouth is. https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/111272
Elon is a terrible salesman. It's beyond me how you can call someone so hated a good salesman.
I have been really impressed with the uncensored WizardLM I was playing with. Having a truely open uncensored model to work with is a really important research tool. Censorship of the training data and results in such a heavy handed way is not really possible without lowering the quality of all output.

As the resouces required to train and fine tune these models becomes consumer handware friendly, I think we'll see a shift towards a bunch of smaller models. Open models like these also mean the results of securty and capability research is publicly available. Models like this one and the Replit code model will become the new base all open source models are based on. I am really looking forward to the gptj 4bit, cuda optimized 7b models, the others I have tested run fast on 2070max q and 16gb ram, I was getting ~7tokens/second. Lora can work directly with 4bit quantized models. While ggml, cpu models are very strong, I don't believe we're move away from gpu accelarated training and fine tuning anytime soon.
You can ultra fine tune those models ... look at vicune 13B, if you know how to prompt it well, you can get it to work as """"well"""" as ChatGPT. Running on local hardware .... I just got vicune 13b on gradio[1] to act as japanese kanji personal trainer, and I've only used a simple prompt: "I want you to act as a Japanese Kanji quiz machine. Each time I ask you for the next question, you are to provide one random Japanese kanji from JLPT N5 kanji list and ask for its meaning. You will generate four options, one correct, three wrong. The options will be labeled from A to D. I will reply to you with one letter, corresponding to one of these labels. You will evaluate my each answer based on your last question and tell me if I chose the right option. If I chose the right label, you will congratulate me. Otherwise you will tell me the right answer. Then you will ask me the next question. Avoid simple kanjis, let's go."

[1] https://chat.lmsys.org/
if you can't figure it out send me an email and I can help you figure it out
Does blue-sky even implement federation yet?
Quick everybody, we have to flood the Internet with text about how it's stupid to lay off engineers, and you have to pay them tons of money. Gotta control the training distribution. Get to it!
We'll have to wait and see how many clients default to storing a complete data repository for AT in order to complete a migration from an offline server.
Rare case of DHH being cogent, I wonder if this was a result of him rediscovering Traefik and Docker Swarm?
If you like Asia or have Asian heritage consider moving to Singapore. I did and I am never looking back
> Not sure I totally agree. Capitalizing on a competitors mistake is kind of slimy; calling out their poor business practices is not.

Which part of what I wrote didn't you agree with?
Thats like saying in 1995 search is going to be integrated into everything, not a destination. That'd be true but also very wrong. Google.com ended up as the main destination.
This is a problem not only for regulators, but pretty much any profession we might want to improve.

Our labor pool is vast, but fixed. There is some fungibility among the individual workers... a welder can be re-trained as a teacher, or a miner can be re-trained to become a web developer. But it isn't perfectly fungible, the 45 yr taxi cab driver can't re-train to be an oncologist, and he certainly can't re-train to be a pharmaceutical engineer.

We might even say that they're not even mostly fungible... not for the professions we really want the most.

So how many "better regulators" do you need? Do you need two more, nationwide? We could probably find those. Do you need 24? A little more difficult, but as long as you are willing to wait 18 months or so, doable.

Do you need 300? 600? 800? Exactly how many at the FDA have to be superior regulators there? Worse still, even if the number is low...

What incentivizes someone who could be the superior regulator, but has chosen to be whatever-else-it-is-that-they-are? Do we need to offer more money? How much more? Million dollar salaries for one or two is feasible, but not for 800. Worse, even if we can afford it, offering that much money doesn't just attract them, it attracts many more inferior regulators.

Can you tell the difference? If three people show up for the $500,000/year regulator job, and two are schmoozing assholes, and the third is hyper-competent, what hiring system can you devise to reliably pass on the two and pick the other?

If the signal-to-noise ratio is too high there, it can likely overwhelm even a good hiring system.

And if it's bad for regulators, then this is simply a losing strategy for jobs like teachers, where we don't need a few dozen or a few dozen "better teachers", but hundreds of thousand of them. Police, etc.
That's a great point, I definitely overlooked these. They look pretty good, too, and I agree with your use cases.

Thanks!
Mike_12345, that kind of language and accusation is not productive or helpful to the conversation. In fact, it can be quite harmful and perpetuate harmful stereotypes and xenophobia.

Let's focus on the important work being done by the RedPajama project and the potential benefits it can bring to a wide range of applications and users. Instead of promoting division and suspicion, let's work towards creating a more diverse and inclusive and collaborative environment in AI research and development.
> The first world outsourced the terribleness to the "global south" (aka poor non-white people) and continues to do so.

A lot of terribleness just went away. Economic development takes economic output. Your early economic output, before economic development, tends to be bad.

Just clustering people in cities has myriad problems and teething pains before you get a lot of the real benefits.

> fix the inherent problems of capitalism with more capitalism

I don't consider most NGOs to be "more capitalism."

> misery will keep being exported

Countries and people are generally quite happy to receive these economic opportunities compared to what the alternatives (subsistence farming) would be.
No, it’s not
Just get rid of the twits who dredge up bad bills?

At some point, treat the root cause, not the symptom.
Discussed here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35811741
Investing Is a “Loser's Game”
He's always been pushing monoliths.
Iowa is the 12th most rural state according to 2020 US census [1][2]. It is 63.2%, urban, so true it’s not mostly rural in terms of total population, but it’s pretty rural.

[1] https://www.census.gov/programs-surveys/geography/guidance/g...

[2] https://www2.census.gov/geo/docs/reference/ua/State_Urban_Ru...
Software would be 50% better if every developer understood Tesler's Law:

"Complexity can neither be created nor destroyed, only moved somewhere else."

The drive to simplify is virtuous, but often people are blind to the complexity that it adds.

Okay, so your microservices are each very simple, but that made the interactions and resource provisioning very complex. What was the net gain?

The correct solution depends on the circumstances. There are excellent uses of microservices. There are excellent uses of monoliths. There are excellent uses of monorepos. There are excellent uses of ... (wait never mind monorepos are just better).

Understand what is ESSENTIAL complexity and what is INCIDENTAL complexity. Simplify your system to remove as much incidental complexity as possible, until you are left with the essential and be satisfied with that.
Depends on what you want it for. Chatting isn't the only application. For text summarization a model like Vicuna-13b has similar performance to ChatGPT 3.5. Fine-tuned models like the one in this thread might perform way better than the initial ones that leaked from Meta. The important thing is that there's constant progress in this area from the Open Source community and we're about to see amazing things in the future.
The lack of warning is from returning `Box<dyn Future>`, which `#[async_trait]` emits. ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35834091 )

With async-fn-in-trait that flooow linked to (and more generally type-alias-impl-trait) there won't be a motication to use `Box<dyn Future>` in the first place.
Ask HN: How do I find solid UI/UX designers?
I'm looking for a single, solid UI/UX designer to work with me on my Tech Startup. Design is incredibly subjective, but there's a sleek finesse to a lot of tech sites that really communicate a confidence and professionalism you don't see often otherwise.

I'm talking about sites like Vercel, Stripe, Github (homepage), Gusto, Figma, Plaid, Podium, and so on.

How does one hire for that kind of thing. Does it really just boil down to finding designs you love and trying to poach? And how can one even know the personal contribution of a single designer when it could be diluted with a team?
An extreme generalisation.

Only a small minority of software has enough users to justify that paradigm.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamburger_button
I wonder if they ever compared the price of AWS hosting and just renting a rack at a colocation facility.

One way of thinking about this is that "free" isn't "enterprise" and while you would love to have them convert, hosting free users on a rack with a 500MB Cogent IP transport contract can be had for < $2K/month. So $24K a year. Is it a "teir-1" data center? no. Does it have failure redundancy? no. Is there a risk of data loss in the event of a power failure? yes. But all of those things are what drive the costs up and are what make the "paid" plan, worth more than the "free" plan. Would it be good enough for people? Absolutely.
Finetuning which can easily be done on consumer hardware and can give these models a lot more power for specific applications.

Also, ChatGPT just can't do a lot of things because of their "rules". I was doing question answering about products on Amazon with ChatGPT and refused to answer any questions about underwear, certain books/videos, etc
In the 1975 paper, Loser's Game, published in the Financial Analysts Journal, investor Charley Ellis described investing as a "loser's game". In a winner's game, you need to perform spectacularly. You need to be elite. This is not the case for investing where survival is at least half the battle. You are not trying to win. You are trying to not lose.
> The AI conquered Jeopardy before it was sanded down into business tools. The same trajectory is playing out again.

Most can’t forget using Watson because most never used it. The trajectory is already wildly different.
Took me a bit to realize this comment was written by an LLM.
Correlation attacks only work when you can see both ends of the traffic. When you visit an .onion address, there is no other “end”—all traffic stays within the Tor network and goes directly to the hidden service server, which is ‘just’ another relay within the network.
Oh, semi relevant story. I have a Nokia T20 tablet and love it, but a few weeks ago it started rebooting every two hours. We can hear those Nokia chimes going off at all hours of the day and night.

I was happy to discover they offer 3 year warranty, but I have to send it off via courier for repair.

I'm very interested to find out what they are going to do to repair a tablet that has no obvious broken features, but where there is something clearly wrong.

And how long it will take? Weeks or Months?

And are they really going to pay an engineer to pop open and try and and fix a tablet that is only $400
I respectfully disagree. And as i pointed out in my other comment cpp_front and google carbon are trying to do just that.

Bjarne is quoted to have said that there is a smaller C++ inside the current C++. As everything that was build buy gradual evolution, a clean reboot can converge on a "better" solution
Netflix MH370: The plane that wasn’t hacked
Leave some milk out for week then have a nibble on that "cheese" and let me know how it tastes.
Then I ask forgiveness for ever doubting him. Can he help us turn back from this Cloud Hellscape?
Well it's not like a building inspection - how many animals are in each building? You have to assess them to see their welfare - on top of checking that the enclosures and practices are up to code.

Some practices might not get done in those days - and might not be reviewed. Imagine no animals has to be put down during these two days, there will be no actual review of that procedure - and so on.

In slaighterhouses in Canada, we have federal inspectors during all work hours but activists still film abuse happening.
Pocket caused a stir because it broke Mozilla's commitments to privacy, interoperability, and FOSS. They removed an open source end to end encrypted reading list feature in development and replaced it with a proprietary 3rd party data miner. They promote it with the lie "privacy is paramount" still.[1] And they responded to correct guesses Pocket paid Mozilla by denying Pocket paid them for the integration until it came out Pocket paid them for referrals. Trying harder to hide Pocket's nature would have amplified the loss of trust.

[1] https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/pocket/
> here is an application (your browser), fetch whatever data you need (html) from whatever sources you need (my web server)

Parentheticals added.
I would guess they were seeing thundering herds of bots trying to fight to grab spot-instance stock whenever any appeared below the bots' set cost threshold. Basically like scalper bots.
Yeah, but there are plenty of organizations which have very modest or predictable loads that would be significantly well served by knowing that the monthly spend was capped at $X prepaid.

As a nobody, I want to use AWS, but I refuse to have the unlimited liability in case I screw up something and wake up to a $30k bill. Hell, they could even over-charge me on the credits, and I would gladly take that deal if I knew that once the kitty ran dry, services would stop.

Would there be edge cases and complications to resolve (eg what about storage?). Sure, but AWS pays some smart people a lot of money to figure out tricky things.
There's a service that handles obtaining the cheapest spot instances to your specs by a former aws engineer https://github.com/LeanerCloud/AutoSpotting

Effectively, it starts up cheap spot instances (based on specified criteria) across a variety of instance types to replace whatever regular instance in an autoscaling group comes online and then spins down the regular instance.

EG: That m4a you wanted may be expensive... but nobody is using m4ad so it's 85% off and it meets the specified CPU/RAM requirements... auto spotting will spin it up instead.

Having used it on and off over the years it is sometimes eyebrow raising to see 4xl boxes running cheaper than the xl box they replaced :)
I'm not sure I understand - https://sfplanning.org/resource/shadow-analysis-procedures-a...

40 feet, times of year, 20% shadow. make a model. At the surface level, they look similar to me. NYC has been doing that for a whole lot longer, I wouldn't doubt their planning department has a more refined process. But it's not like SF is alone in this kind of regulation.
> Sam is claiming that in early stage startups, one need some in-person interaction

He's claiming that, but that's not all he's claiming. His claim about remote work being a big mistake for the tech industry is much broader than just early stage startups. But as far as I can tell, he has no real basis for his claim except for early stage startups; so his claim could be true for them but false for the tech industry as a whole.
What you call whataboutism is what many would call precedent, which is an essential concept in legal discussions. Crying whataboutism to shield your side only gets you so far.
Yeah, not sure about this either. What it does do is to make me think about the free tier for apps I use, and then wondering what I will do if that free tier becomes more expensive than the value I get out of it.

This reminds me of the love/hate relationship I have with the Fusion 360 free tier, and maybe even some paid tiers where lifetime is not really lifetime.
Constant HD video logging of everything going on inside and outside the car doesn't eliminate these issues, but it should do a lot to minimize them. If you're looking to do stagecoach robbery, I'm not sure why you'd pick the one car that will clearly record your face and license plate, and which is networked with hundreds of other cars to watch every second of your getaway.
What would happen with 100m that wouldn't happen with 10m? Seems like all of the same processes, traps and threats would exist for both, or at least 90% overlap.
It's hard to imagine that sentimental navy brass can gum up a critical roadway for over a decade -- contributing to the many-billion-dollar increase in bridge cost from the original plan.

The interplay between civilian control of the military and the military putting bases or jobs in every congressional district is dicey.
ask what ChatGPT can do for you instead.
Questions for every 100 dynamic websites.
How many can truly outgrow PHP + sqlite + jquery ?
No. Well, I mean yes, but no. The specific conditions and bacteria introduced are important. Sure, you can call wine ages grape juice if you wanted.
Is he really a doomer because he fears AI?

Sounds like Mike Judge needs to bring Silicon Valley back because reality has jumped the shark and made the original series seem mundane in retrospect. He needs to up the ante.
The article answers that question in the third sentence:

> Soon, we’re launching a sandbox environment to begin the testing phase of federation for the AT Protocol with allow-listed servers.
I hear about Python all the time. Rarely hear about Rails now. I think the world picked one over the other.
If your free plan is unreliable good luck converting users to paid though.
Do you have reading links on the consumer hardware fine tuning? I can’t find much from that description…
I kind of disagree with the premise of an infinite universe or anything shoving out the problem under the rug by just assuming something's infinite. Abiogenesis occurring randomly is extremely unlikely.

We don't know whether the universe is infinite in space. The universe reachable to us is actually quite finite. The age of the universe is ~ 10^60 Planck time, and the size of the observable universe is also 10^60 Planck length. log2(10^60) ~ 200, so with all the universe time and space, you could only brute force a 800 bits string, or 400 DNA base pairs. That's not a lot at all. You can't just shrug complex systems as "random".

The actual number of bits the universe could've brute forced regarding life is probably less than 100 bits. That's not a lot at all. Think about bootstrapping a compiler in a hostile assembly with just 100 bits to boot.

Darwin's natural selection only gets you going once you have self replicating molecules and a way to inherit properties.

If it takes even 100 pairs of RNA to bootstrap life, that's already too much.

Another funny way to look at it, is that if there's truly no randomness in the universe (if everything was predetermined in the big bang), literally everything you know has kolmogorov complexity of less than 1000 bits+number of bits required to represent laws of physics + number of bits to describe the initial condition in the big bang. The program that decompress it just simulates the whole universe and fetches the information from the given coordinates.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curse_of_dimensionality

Sounds like you are both right?
I don't like XML syntax.
>at least on my side

This might be the keyword here though.
Human pluripotent-stem-cell-derived organoids for drug discovery and evaluation
I feel sorry for the mindset which would prompt such a response.
A Quantitative Analysis of Data Streaming Accelerator in Xeon Processors
Some early science fiction movies used variations on the MICR font [1], which still appears on bank checks.[1] The amusing thing is that the real MICR font has no letters; just numbers and some delimiters. Those strange letter forms are designed to be read with a 1-track magnetic read head. A horizontal scan of the amount of ink alone is enough to uniquely identify the number. It's really a bar code made to be human readable.

[1] https://www.1001fonts.com/micr-encoding-font.html
Then you probably don't care about this (yet)

Assume a truly competitive model in the Open Source world is still a ways off. These teams and their infrastructure are still in their early days while OpenAI is more at the fine-tuning and polishing stage. The fact that these open teams are able to have something in the same universe in terms of functionality this fast is pretty amazing... but it will take time before there's an artifact that will be a strong competitor.
I would assume that the NSA runs enough TOR nodes to correlate traffic from one side of the network to the other side at least a decent percentage of the time. I would also assume that they have a realtime view of the number of bytes entering or leaving any datacenter.
Given your last sentence incidental complexity can be created and destroyed (and is more difficult to destroy than create).

The quote would probably be more accurate as:

> "ESSENTIAL Complexity can neither be created nor destroyed, only moved somewhere else."
Missing:

• *batteries not included

• Bicentennial Man

• Billion Dollar Brain

• Blue Thunder

• Capricorn One

• Colossus – The Forbin Project

• Electric Dreams

• Eraser

• eXistenZ

• The Fifth Element

• Flight of the Navigator

• Gog

• Harrison Bergeron

• The Hidden

• La Jetée

• The Lawnmower Man

• The Monolith Monsters

• Looker

• Pitch Black

• Soldier

• Split Second

• Strange Days

• The Quatermass Xperiment

• Quatermass 2

• Quatermass And The Pit

• Them!

• The Thirteenth Floor

• Timecop

• WarGames
Oh, sure, there are real reasons to be worried about the launch, but it took a stupid amount of time for the peanut gallery to say anything more sensical than "rocket go boom, haha fail", which is definitely not a real reason. I still think the failure of the FTS is by far the most important problem.
I use spotinst and spot instances have been noticeably more expensive the past two months :(