skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The closest biological equivalent to a parameter in an ann is a synapse. Well humans have about 100 trillion synapses. We already know that the higher the parameter count, the lower the training data required. a 50 billion parameter model will far outperform a 5 billion one trained on the same data. and a 500b one would far outperform that 50 billion one.

Current LLMs are actually nowhere near the scale of the human brain, either in parameters/neurons or training data (all the text we've ever trained an LLM on would be dwarfed by all the sense data humans perceive), as well as not having the headstart the human brain has.

It's a bogus comparison when you really think about it.
You could easily make the case that LLMs are far more efficient.
https://archive.ph/UfW8A
This feels like the kind of thing to include citations with, no?
Interesting, thanks. What's the name of the synth?
> I do think if you’re inviting someone to give a talk, you probably should do some homework to make sure that you’re comfortable with their persona

Exactly.

> But it’s less common knowledge than you might think.

I don't think it's necessarily "common knowledge" - and there are a bunch of comments in these surrounding threads I wasn't immediately familiar with - but if you're inviting someone to talk you should be doing some basic due diligence which should turn up all of these issues.
1) KRaft is only for metadata replication, and data replication is done in ISR based even in KRaft, so it doesn't change the conclusion
I thought you didn't need an account to download from HF anymore. You can just do git lfs pull, at least for the stuff I've downloaded.

Personally I'm concerned about how model hosting has been concentrated in one company, and was previously very unhappy that they required accounts, but I think that's past. Let me know if it's still the case for some things.
It's worth double for the increase in accuracy. Don't let me go to Amazon Mechanical poor souls Turk.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amazon_Mechanical_Turk
There's a shelf life to this attack for each distributer though. You'll eventually distribute to users who _do_ understand what's happening and they'll raise alarms.

With the article, it can go unsuspecting for years even simply waiting for maximum distribution and then a coordinated attack.
I have a B210 but the project indicated that it was only compatible with the X310 with two daughterboards.
That's not true. Biden has already accepted one of the demands, to remove unspent portions of the stimulus bill.
> Stallman said a bunch of to try to either claim that the victims weren't victims. Or to try to downplay what happened.

What he said was that the girl who was ordered to offer sex to Minsky would have been ordered to present it as if it was a willing offer.

This should not have been controversial.

One of the first things covered in Evil Villain School is that when you are using your slaves (sex or otherwise) to try to curry favor with someone who doesn't know you are an evil villain you provide a cover story so that person won't know they are dealing with slaves.
Verifying Dynamic Trait Objects in Rust (2022)
I've worked with some kanban teams who were absolute animals. Kanban is great if your board workflow doesn't get too complicated, and the team is constrained from doing scrum. Ex. locomotive software has to be fully deployed on a train before it can be checked off. That's a tough ask with scrum, but kanban can work well in this case. Whatever the case, it's back to managing flow, not people.
So how many times is that on average?

Naively searching seems to mostly get well SEO'd results from LASIK related companies making claims like "In general, there is no limit on how many LASIK procedures you can get in your lifetime"[0]. Though that is followed by "The thickness of the cornea is one of the main determinations regarding the safety of multiple LASIK surgeries" in the same article which seems to contradict the previous statement as there is clearly a limit before it becomes unsafe to perform another procedure.

Meanwhile on a very short search, I cannot seem to find any study or report about literally anyone having more than two laser eye surgeries.

I did find an FDA guideline from 2022 that lists a surprising number of risks for laser eye surgeries[1].

[0] https://vson.com.au/how-many-times-can-you-have-lasik-eye-su...

[1] Laser-Assisted In Situ Keratomileusis (LASIK) Lasers - Patient Labeling Recommendations (https://www.fda.gov/media/160239/download)
Nuclear Plant $16B over Budget Arrives for Atomic Revival
Transaction fees are very low on Bitcoin's Lightning Network.
Yes, this implies that trezor developers know of fake devices claiming to run that version so they skipped that version number to ensure that no one who sees that version number would confuse it with an actual version.
This is a scare story - the original "research" The Guardian have linked to is an article by Mamavation which is the blog of Leah Segedie who "has a Masters degree from the University of Southern California in Communication Management".

Leah found "Indications of PFAS", organic Fluorine, which may or may not be PFAS. Whilst she may not be wrong, as a wearer of contact lenses myself I would like to know the truth.
As others have stated, it’s all extra ironic when those are the exact types of things that folks who need these medications really struggle with.
Some people find fun in ... Gotcha!
> Stallman said a bunch of to try to either claim that the victims weren't victims.

No, Stallman said that the people involved didn't necessarily know that the women and girls were trafficked - that Minsky was unaware that these people were victims as Epstein probably ordered them to present themselves as willing participants. This is a vastly different thing than claiming "the victims weren't victims". This comment just reinforces my belief that people's perception of Stallman are based in misinformation.

There are good reasons to distance oneself from Stallman - among others his assertion that being paid to write closed-source software is unethical, which I think is too radial to be productive - but I worry people are distancing themselves on account of mistruths.
This is pretty disingenuous. Outside of open source, almost no one knows who RMS is. For many, his behavior and opinions on social matters have long since dug him into a hole his lack of social skills can't dig him out of. It's all anyone talks about. I haven't heard anything about his opinions on open source for a very long time.
Show HN: Capillaries: Distributed data processing with Go and Cassandra
I started thinking about this approach after working on a large-scale project for a major financial company where our group developed a distributed in-house data processing solution. On a regular basis, it ingested a few gigabytes of financial data and, within a tight SLA time limit, produced a lot of enriched/aggregated/validated data for a number of customers. Sometimes, source data had errors, so operators with domain knowledge had to verify data validity at some checkpoints, immediately make corrections, and re-run parts of the workflow manually. The solution involved complex web service orchestration, custom database and was very demanding on the infrastructure availability.

Capillaries is a built from scratch, open-source Go solution that does just that: ingests data and applies user-defined transforms - Go one-liner expressions, Python formulas, joins, aggregations, denormalization - using Cassandra for intermediate data storage and RabbitMQ for task scheduling. End users just have to provide:
- source data in CSV files;
- Capillaries script (JSON file) that defines the workflow and the transforms;
- Python code that performs complex calculations (only if needed).

The whole data processing pipeline can be split into separate runs that can be started independently and re-run by the user if needed.

The goal is to build a platform that is tolerant to database and processing node failures, and allows users to focus on data transform logic and data quality control.

“Getting started” Docker-based demo calculates ARK funds performance, using EOD holdings and transactions data acquired from public sources. There are also integration tests that use non-financial data. There is a test deploy tool that uses Openstack API for provisioning in the cloud.
> humans writing code becomes artisanal in a century.

At the pace we’re moving at now we’re talking a few decades away at the most, well within most peoples’ career span. I feel sorry for any junior coder just entering the industry.
I think https://readcoop.eu/transkribus/ may be better for this in this case?
Refined training is usually updating the weights of usually what's called a foundational model with well structured and numerous data. It's can be expensive but most importantly disturb the usefulness of having all the generalizations baked in from training data [1].
While LLMs can generate code based on a wide range of inputs, they're not designed to retrieve specific pieces of information in the same way that a database or a search engine would. It's just very lossy. Perhaps it wouldn't be the best use for single code base fine tuning right now.

Can you please share more about the merging context across levels? This sounds interesting!

1: "Language Models are Few-Shot Learners" Brown et al. https://arxiv.org/pdf/2005.14165.pdf
Nasal vaccines are inhaled the same as a respiratory virus is inhaled. The theory is they'll trigger immunity in the same tissues the virus would first encounter, instead of letting the virus get a foothold in the respiratory system before reaching the rest of your body, where an injected vaccine would have built the most immunity.
> If you want to play music, there's never been a better time.

People used to learn from… people. In fact, many people prefer that still.

And I’d say, I’d rather have a dozen friends who play music and actually want to hear my music than have the potential to get a million fans I’d end up rather not meeting because it’s just awkward and unnatural.
Vint Cerf’s career advice for engineers
There’s also that pruning tool that was on hn in the last couple weeks. It seemed to work really well on the larger models, and could reduce size by 30-50%
Needs a (2017) on the title.

Last video seems to be from 2019: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-WP40eL-xS4

Last news on it looks to be from 2021: https://www.thedefensepost.com/2021/09/08/bae-next-gen-aircr...
> but have to be more strategic and nuanced in other countries

It's not strategic or nuanced. It's capitulation.

As Jimmy Wales said (https://twitter.com/jimmy_wales/status/1657495726379745280), "If Elon is now saying 'We don't care about freedom of expression if it interferes with making money' then he should just say that."

> To cast this as hypocrisy is disingenuous on the part of the publication.

Musk set his own benchmark. Musk cast himself as a "free speech absolutist". Musk said, "Free speech is the bedrock of a functioning democracy, and Twitter is the digital town square where matters vital to the future of humanity are debated." (https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2022/apr/30/elon-musk...)

Musk is a hypocrite by his own standard.

The truth is Musk is an authoritarian at heart. For him "free speech" was a convenient, meaningless marketing slogan and not a principle he was prepared to stand up for, as he himself demonstrates over and over.
Then condemn him for the things he actually said or did (and I agree, there are valid reasons to distance oneself from him), not on account of misinformation.
We talk about inclusivity here all the time, but what about being inclusive of neuroatypical folks who have quirks that don't come off as being polished and PC in current social code du jour?

This all so so grates on me because it means we are wasting all this time and energy on things that don't matter all the while the real monsters of society go unchecked because with their psychopathic streak they know how to play a convincing PC game on the outside while committing real atrocities.

The thought-leader of the FSF might be socially awkward, but no, people, he is not the great Public Enemy No. 1 some people are making him out to be.
> I think OP means that it's irrational to throw Bill Gates entirely to the side based only on -another person- he associated with.

Why is that irrational?

> Epstein's lawyers and his realtor, his tailor and his golf partners also associated with him

Surely we as reasonable people can acknowledge the societal difference between Bill Gates and his tailor, no?

> It's not just OK but maybe even preferential and encouraged by you to take a dump on certain people when a tiny vague chance presents itself only because the person is powerful.

Powerful people's decisions deserve to be scrutinized at a higher level than societally irrelevant people, yes.

> I found this earlier comment from you on this topic which is a bit funny given your statement. To me youre kinda describing yourself.

That comment is in response to a person saying they simply asked "Why" and were downvoted. The answer is because rational thought is thrown away in favor of binary thinking with regards to people like RMS.

To be direct, my comment is almost not about RMS at all. Simply, every human is allowed to decide what they are or are not okay with. If you think what RMS did was wrong, you're welcome to hate him for it. This is not the same as a jury deeming a person guilty of a crime, and relating the two is a strawman.
That's a feature if you're not using a language that needs it. I've never, not once, ever wanted or needed it for working with Python code, for example.
>especially in the embedded ecosystem where SoC vendors just rearrange memory layout and blocks between chip revisions (hey, we'll just update the Linux driver with the latest mappings, that's fine, right?)

This would not be compliant with RISC-V specifications.

There's no boards in the market that I am aware of which run Linux and yet do not follow the boot specifications, which among other things require the use of device trees.

>there's little incentive

... to deviate from the specifications, and opt out of all the benefits of being a compliant implementation.

There's severe costs incurred by not leveraging the ecosystem.
Does anyone know of other tools like this which are a web UI of systemd logs on a VPS which I access, self hosted, from a website and secure behind a password?

I use New Relic for APM already, but I was surprised to find that New Relic does not support Debian 11 for their default infrastructure agent to forward logs from?

https://docs.newrelic.com/docs/logs/forward-logs/forward-you...
Agreed, Archive Team is great and I'm sure would appreciate working with the site owners for once rather than 'everything is on fire' mode
Then why include it in a lambaste of Stallman? All it does is detract from anyone who knows the full quote and context of Stallman's statement.
That’s one of the lessons learned when hacking your own thing. After enough projects and buying the parts & pieces (you never buy just one component), you end up with a stash that eventually means you don’t have to buy anything for a future project. It’s part of the cost of being a hacker.
Terminator was obviously culminating in Judgement Day, but Kyle Reese had something to say about that.
You asked if you said you were Al Qaïda. You’re saying “I’m part of a terrorist organization” and expecting not to get flagged?

I’m talking about disagreeing with the government. If you called out Biden for being worse than trump and he touches children and sniffs their hair. Nothing will happen to you. If you did that to Xi. You would end up in a reeducation camp.

But you’re like “how come I can’t claim to be part of a terrorist organization and then still travel to America”

Not even remotely similar.
There wasn't much room for doubt since the infamous tweet of Ellen Pao in which she mentioned that everyone around knew about their shenanigans
And I suppose type 2 diabetics should, instead of seeking medical treatment, simply stop eating cake and go for a run every morning?
That is not the person about whom rms made the post with the text in question. (Minksy is not a convicted sex offender.)
Hey, nice writing on that vocal part!
What is the synth?
You're right that it's tough completely cover everything but a code of ethics isn't supposed to be a set of laws you follow to the letter but more a set of guidelines for how you should try and act. I think almost everyone would agree that a quick, plain English, summary is more honest to customers than a giant legal document. If you have to leave out some technical details for space that isn't "lying to your customers" but intentionally trying to cover up what you're doing with customer data definitely is.
They haven't placed all their bets with Apple. Read their earnings report. They have a lot of demand. Apple is just a premier customer.
I didn't say anything about impact on research. I said that research can continue in parallel to commercial enterprises, and end users of commercial products don't need research papers with benchmarks to know what is better.
It is suggesting that I have to make an account.

When I go to https://huggingface.co/bigcode/starcoder it says "You need to agree to share your contact informations to access this model" and "[Log in] or [Sign Up] to review the conditions and access this model content."
The rebuttal to that is that neither worked. They wouldn’t have switched if the original style worked. They wouldn’t have gone bankrupt if the switch worked. They would have gone back to the original style of it worked before the switch.
There are many other times that Elon has put his foot down hard and cited free speech. You can find them in his history. At the very least it shows that his free speech principles are hot air and marketing.
Look at any public/historical figure and they probably had unsavory stuff to fill bookcases.

It rarely cancles their positive contributions.
High taxes are a good thing. Keeps riffraff out of areas with strict law enforcement and HOA rules. If you don't think so then live in your own personal hell. Politicians and CEO's do not live in low tax areas. Not any harder than that. If you want the stuff you have to pay for the stuff.
There's some interesting reading about how the taxes should and should not work in the 5th book of the Wealth of Nations. Most copies only include the first 4 volumes.

While its not complete, you are somewhat limited in what you can do with the tax code incentives, and generational wealth or concentration into a Bourgeois caste is one of many issues that affect socialism more dramatically than our mixed system (though there still is an effect).

The inheritance tax is nonexistent. They kept it in entity vehicles until a law was passed excluding it then they dissolved the entities in a year where there were no tax implications (the entire amount was untaxed).

Fiat and debt have their own implications when the money printer runs above capacity. Have you seen the derivative exposure for banks listed at the FDIC website?
By the way, Leah (@bookieboo on twitter) is an affiliate marketer of many non-toxic products.
Agreed, I still use it when I'm writing JS for personal projects. But at work, things have to pass code-review, be easy for someone else to modify in the future or write a bugfix for if I'm on vacation when the report comes in, etc... But I'll never fully give up that old-skool JS.
The maneuvering thruster system sounds similar to that of the Harrier VTOL. Which makes sense, because BAE Systems made the later Harriers. The Harrier used that because it had to have some control at very low speeds, where the control surfaces are ineffective.

That system was very difficult for humans to fly. Pure-thrust vehicles are unstable.
Computers have far less trouble, as we see with quadrotor drones.
Also just imagine what would happen to the stock market if they cracked down on cocaine consumption on Wall St.
Gates likely has autism--he's even famous for rocking--but the rest of your statement is correct.
Many PFAS compounds are toxic at parts per trillion levels. As a chemist I can tell you that it's a big deal, but there is also no way you can avoid exposure.

The fact that 3M is exiting their 1.3 billion fluorinated molecule business of their own accord, should give you a flavour of the shitstorm of litigation that will result when the full implications of PFAS contamination are understood more broadly.

https://news.3m.com/2022-12-20-3M-to-Exit-PFAS-Manufacturing...
Math prodigy runs market-making empire
https://nat.dev/compare
On Enterprise, Microsoft >> Google
Total sidebar: Have you read The War of Art?

The Mundis book sounds like a very practical take on writer's block; Pressfield's take in The War of Art is more of a metaphorical approach.

I'd be very curious to hear your thoughts if you happen to have tried both!
It’s often the case that you sell a block of RSU stock, and the broker reports the entire sale as a capital gain (e.g. if you sell $50K, then it shows up as a $50K capital gain on your broker’s 1099). But in reality, the gain should only be the difference between the price it was when it showed up in your account and when you sold it (which can actually be a loss), because the basis is already included in your W-2 as earned income.
It is certainly not exclusive to the USA and no one is trying to deny or diminish victims in other countries, but statistically, it is an endemic US problem.

According to US HHS "over the course of their lifetime, 28% of young people in the US, aged 14 to 17, had been sexually victimized."

Compare that to 4.8% for the UK, also a country with a severe child SA problem.

The US is thusly quite anomalous, and is only really comparable to undeveloped nations in terms of CSA rates.

So when an American goes out of his way to defend forms of CSA on his personal webpage, unprompted, it can certainly be seen as symptomatic of this larger US cultural issue.
You can already remove the login from the client extremely easily today, and the server as long as you're willing to self-host.
>Stallman's poor behavior over the years could fill a bookcase if written down.

If that's true, then you can write informatively rather than with hand-waving.

>the narrow contrived defense you're making here.

The argument above is specific and detailed, not "contrived".
Microsoft is scanning the inside of password-protected zip files for malware
Jq play – a playground for jq 1.6, with shareable snippets
It's really 5 products: would the Play store have 2B users if it didn't come with Android?
Companies cynically used global crises for profits – and brought inflation
Cosmic rays reveal hidden ancient burial chamber underneath Naples
Turning Old Kindles into AI Powered Picture Frames
The IRS requires your broker to report a different cost basis to you than you are entitled to use. It is government-mandated disinformation, not a misunderstanding.
Kind of a cool concept. The lack of updates makes sense given the title of that second link... The next time we hear about it will be if it crashes over some war zone.
No. That got cut as well.
More hospitals create police forces
Obviously the proposed solution is to privatize all healthcare, because what we have in the US should be a model for the rest of the world.
Nah, I dug deeper into this. Right conclusion, wrong reasoning.

The reason KRaft turns out to be fine is because the KRaft topic does fsync! Source: https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/KAFKA/KIP-595%3A...

KRaft is used for metadata replication in the same way that Zookeeper is used for metadata. I.e., in a very meaningful way.
> Chances are you live in a country that owns fleets of machines which fit that description, out of the taxes that you pay, under the direction of the government you elected.
I don't think that "We already make slaughterbots" is a good argument for why someone should build slaughterbots. Just because we do it doesn't mean it's a good thing
Yea, if there's suddenly no evolution in the universe.