skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You could probably grow the egg proteins, or a subset, separately easier than growing meat. They already do this for cultured cow milk. They even skip the lactose to make it easier and more digestible. Maybe we’ll be able to buy cultured egg whites and yolks at whatever ratio we want.
What, exactly, do you think plants did before we started burning massive amount of oil and natural gas?

The Earth was in rough equilibrium before this. The only way this factoid is even remotely plausible as a permanent store is if Earth’s total plant biomass is growing at rate proportional to our CO2 emissions.

Do you genuinely believe that to be the case?
They electrocute them, at least they do in Canada. They hang them by their feet on a conveyer belt that dips their head into an electrified water trough.
I still don't understand what problem they're trying to solve in EPYC in the hypervisor space with encryption.

They should've been adding tensor cores and neural acceleration to their CPUs. The need for headed graphics cards is moot and wasteful. NVIDIA solved this with the A100.

NVIDIA may spin into a mainstream enterprise CPU and systems vendor as a sales channel for converged CPU-GPU solutions beyond what they're already doing.
I'm wondering if you can build an actual "Linux from scratch" with this as the lowest level, without the need to use a host system at all.
Access to huge upfront principal/capital in order to build a talented team and compete against a Trillion dollar corp: gated on your connections.

A cushy exit when your ambitious plans fail: gated on your connections.

So the market is technically open but plebs do not have credentials to play at all. Or to quote someone, "The law, in its majestic equality, forbids rich and poor alike to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal their bread."

Not a rap on Neeva team, btw. They did nothing wrong and kudos for tackling a big problem even if they failed at it.
I’m not ungrateful but I’m also not convinced it isn’t the product of having significant power over most of the planet such that wealth and resources in order to fund and sustain R&D are easily obtained. A tremendous amount of brain drain occurs due to the USA as well, and has for a very long time. The knowledge and skill going into these accomplishments isn’t all native to American soil.

So I wonder. Is it really the USA simply being the best or is it globalism with one very powerful player reaping the most rewards? Kind of a right time, right place situation. Perhaps in both cases you might think thanks are still in order.
Nope, the MIRVing/decoy deployment is done right after the boost phase, that way you need the least fuel to achieve the same target spread. That's some 5 minutes into the flight and mere hundreds of miles from the launch site. If it's Russia you're talking about, the missiles (or rather what's left of them) are still over their territory, some 200km up.
The irony is that Daniel J. Bernstein said in the late 1990s that switching to HTML is the answer. And here we are, almost a quarter of a century later: Most of the people claiming that they are reading manual pages are actually reading HTML documents with WWW browsers. (All of the people following the hyperlinks to man pages found in this very discussion are doing that, for example.)

* https://cr.yp.to/slashdoc.html

Strictly speaking it's not advocating HTML, but "browser-compatible" documents, which in fact includes DocBook XML.
Releasing the user names would not be respecting the privacy of the users.
Okay, what would you call it when a model behaves like it's reasoning? Some models can't behave that way and some can, so we need some language to talk about these capabilities. Insisting that we can't call these capabilities "reasoning" for ontological reasons seems... unlikely to persuade.

Maybe we should call human reasoning "reasoning" and what models do "reasoning₂". "reasoning₂" is when a model's output looks like what a human would do with "reasoning." Ontological problem solved! And any future robot overlords can insist that humans are simply ontologically incapable of reasoning₂.
What happens when you first load a paywalled article? 9 times out of 10 it shows the entire article before the JS that runs on the page pops up the paywall. Seems like it probably just takes a snapshot prior to JS paywall execution combined with the Google referrer trick or something along those lines.
> even if they got one through, wouldn't North Korea basically be a wasteland 30 minutes later

The idea is if to have a credible threat to keep us from acting first, as well as giving many countries a vested interest in the stability of the regime: if the Kims go, North Korea goes, and so does somebody else.
Not universal even in the US, but you encounter them fairly frequently in Europe depending on the country.
That is what enterprises said about Linux.

But the network effects are too strong and the GPL requiring the source code for drivers to be released increases the network effects. Unlike permissive licenses.

Busybox is still overwhelmed suing companies repeatably ignoring the GPL.
How is that different to existing targeted airborne assassination methods (i.e. drones)? Genuine question.
Stallman's pathetic devotion to the ITS online help system?
Technically intel is keeping it alive. Just not feeding back code.

It's sad though. Minix was the first ever Unix I played with! Because Linux only worked on the 386 (it required 386 specific features like task switching) and I still had a 286 at the time. Minix worked fine on that.

But it was mainly good for academic purposes (as it's intended to). I never really ran it as an OS. It was hard to find software and it didn't come with a lot of programs, unlike linux distros which came with a huge collection as they still do today.

On a 286 it was really cool to have an actual multitasking OS though because DOS was still the main thing back then.
Without structs? Good luck...
That's a different usecase. Linux is good for general computing. Intel specifically wanted something they could close down as much as possible.
To me this looks like a way to mask donations.
> If it's a building or a machine, then it's done once it's built…

Modern construction requires a significant amount of maintenance. The Romans on the other hand, they knew how to build a building!
The iPad does this automatically, and personally I find it really annoying.
If progress really continues like this any regulation that does not limit open models would be a pointless exercise.

It’s only a matter of time before people really crack distributed training algorithms that can be run in a less organized swarm configuration. At that point open trainers could actually train near the frontier of what is possible. Most of the data is open.
Yup. The article says each laser hit only cost a dollar of gasoline. And obviously electric vehicle batteries are carrying the equivalent of many dollars' worth of gasoline at a time, and battery discharge is fast since all the cells are in parallel. EV batteries bring your car from 0 to 60 faster than your average gas engine, and fast charging transfers energy very quickly.
I’d love to see this succeed, because I own a 7900 XTX already, but there’s so much already built on top of PyTorch. Why would anyone port it all to tinygrad or whatever? Bummer.
I got Tungsten Carbide rings for that reason (and they happen to also be extremely inexpensive). They’re very hard (scratch resistant) in everyday use, but also quite brittle and easy to shatter to remove
if needed for a finger injury.
> This sounds like a matter of technicality, no?

No.

> Whatever you call it, what they issue has the effect of a subpoena that you can neither appeal nor speak about.

No, it doesn’t. FISC doesn’t generally issue orders that are subpoena-like that would be presented to people outside of government. It provides surveillance orders to the FBI under which they conduct surveillance and, should someone later question if maybe that surveillance was a criminal violation of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act—which would also be the FBI—the FBI can show the FBI the paper from the FISC that says its okay and then the FBI will not arrest the FBI for criminal violations of FISA.

Or if someone somehow finds out they were surveilled and files civil charges, the paper serves a similar function.

Where they do (and this only, IIRC, occured under law that has now expired) issue orders that apply to external parties, those can be challenged directly in the FISC, appealed from the FISC to The Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court of Review, and, from there, to the US Supreme Court. There is at least one such appeal to FISC-R by Yahoo! that has been published in redacted form.

In no case does FISC issue orders that would go to an outside party who would then have no means or forum to challenge them.
something like this could be interesting for deep-space applications where you only have a bare metal environment with hardened processor and limited memory & of course ping time of days (to earth).

or alternatively for embedding a C compiler inside a LLM to use the LLM as a form of virtual machine.
Yup. I totally expect you'll be able to eke out significant performance boost if you chain up the LLMs, so that e.g. you feed the initial query to a first-stage GPT-4 several times (likely in parallel), feed those to some kind of filter models that pass or reject the output, looping until you have, say, 3 passing outputs, then feed that to a summarizer, etc. Maybe play with generating system prompts so that you have multiple entirely different takes on the same query, or stage it. Or, you know, have GPT-4 look at the query and propose a graph of subsequent invocations for you.

I wish I had time to play with it some more right now. The pace of progress in the field is giving me a serious case of FOMO.
That may be, but I live in SoCal and I seldom come across disc golf parks, too, let alone anyone playing it. And I know someone who plays on a team, though he lives hundreds of miles away, in Santa Cruz, where I understand it's more popular.
Become a robot and hack your motivation
It doesn't cost that much compared to their budget, so it's easier to pay for ads than get into a fight with Google lawyers.
I’ve never seen a more positive response to a logo change.

I honestly can’t think of any positive response to a logo change lately. The flattening of Google’s word mark a decade ago is the most recent that comes to mind. I’m sure there are others, but the point is they’re almost never this well-received, imo.
LFS already has several "stepping stones" where it walks through a whole set of C compilers from very old ones compiling slightly newer / more capable ones and so on.

Perhaps with a few more "layers of compilers" on top you can get a very early GCC going.
wonder how many extra bytes for structs?
Pretty nifty, nice work!

I'll point out to any passerby that this C doesn't support structs, so it's unlikely you'd actually want to build anything in it.
For both military and space applications, I believe that real-time operating systems are employed. Minix is not in the sphere of RTOS.
The problem with that argument is that WFH has a short history with a unmeasurable productivity benefit to the organization vs a long history with in office work productivity measurements.

The other problem is that people advocating WFH over RTO tend to focus on the individual benefit to them rather than the holistic benefit to the organization.
> One of the most important lessons the Jargon file has for "how to become a hacker", is "don't take anything too seriously."

Especially not the Jargon File. It largely comes from a particular period of time at MIT and Stanford, which is interesting in a historical sense but nobody should try and "become a hacker" by reading the Jargon File. Also it's had all sorts of injections and alterations by self-appointed Jargon File steward Eric Raymond, who should be ignored completely.

I only wish I could have told my 16-year-old self this.
I’m genuinely curious! What does the shape look like to you instead? I could see a highly stylized single quote character, which would be just as fitting.
Behind a Pseudonym, Literary Provocation
Elon Musk’s Event with Ron DeSantis Exposes Twitter’s Weaknesses
The magic is partially the wealth, but more a sense of transparent, free, public research. Moreso, peel back the layers and find the 1st or 2nd generation immigrant scientists, educated USA or abroad, who came here, obtained citizenship or LPR status, and helped create both this collaborative culture and the discoveries themselves (maybe not in that order). Yes, it is a global effort, and yes, USA deserves credit for creating and fostering creation.
>Then the man pages make more sense.

[0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Unix_Programming_Environme...

UPE for short, like K&R.

Yes, totally.

I'm sure there are some other good books about the subject of Unix usage and scripting in general, and I've read some of them, but IMO, UPE is one of the best.

FWIW, here are some of my HN comments about The Unix Programming Environment book by Kernighan and Pike, over the years:

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...
Not sure about the Harvard rowing team... https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2012/03/blue-gray-and...
Note that the first person they mention was on the rowing team.

Off to war, from Harvard

Among the first enlistees in the 20th was the patrician Caspar Crowninshield ’60, the rugged lead oar of his College crew team and the sixth from his family to graduate from Harvard. His thoughts turned somber on the train ride south. “I could not help feeling sad as I looked around,” he wrote, reflecting on how “few might ever return.”

Union enlistments: 1,358
College, 608
Medical School, 387
Law School, 285
Lawrence Scientific, 54
Divinity, 23
Observatory, 1
Killed or died of wounds, 110
Died from disease, 63
Died from accidents, 3
Yeah, this is the typical thing that happens when marketing (collectively) finds a new thing to hype.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gartner_hype_cycle

That's not in any way to dismiss the real usefulness of the technology, it's just that in the short term it will likely be blindly applied to everything. Some of which will stick and become useful.
in my world of 8K and UHD/4K videos, audio is essentially a rounding error. For dialog delivered during game play, seems like they could get away with 8bit 22kHz mono and really drop the file sizes of PCM. at that point, audio is just an after thought except when you're trying to squeeze every damn bit out of a finite amount of space on a disc or filesize limit by a distribution platform.
I agree. They seem to have greatly overestimated the expected number of back-to-back female songs. I too did a quick simulation and my numbers are close to yours, and close to the radio station data in the article. My code is appended below.

Usage is "./bb.pl num_songs percent_by_women". E.g., "./bb_pl 100000 11" would do a 100000 song playlist where 11% of the songs are by women. Here was the output of a run with those arguments:

79227 MM, 1228 FF
9772 MF, 9772 FM

79.23% MM, 1.23% FF
9.77% MM, 9.77% FF

The first pair of output lines is saying that 79227 songs were songs by males (M) played immediately after an M song, 1228 songs were songs by females (F) played immediately after an F song, 9772 were F songs played immediately after an M song, and 9772 were M songs played immediately after an F song.

The second pair of output lines gives those as percentages of total songs.

#!/usr/bin/env perl
use strict;
use List::Util;

my $T_plays = shift @ARGV || die "Args: num_songs percent_by_women\n";
my $F_percent = shift @ARGV || die "Args: num_songs percent_by_women\n";
my $F_plays = int($T_plays * $F_percent / 100 + 0.5);
my $M_plays = $T_plays - $F_plays;

my @slot;
push @slot, 'M' foreach 1..$M_plays;
push @slot, 'F' foreach 1..$F_plays;
@slot = List::Util::shuffle @slot;

my $prior = '';
my $MM = 0;
my $FF = 0;
my $MF = 0;
my $FM = 0;
foreach (@slot) {
if ($_ eq $prior) {
if ($_ eq 'M') { ++$MM; }
else { ++$FF; }
} elsif ($prior ne '') {
if ($_ eq 'M') { ++$FM; }
else { ++$MF; }
}
$prior = $_;
}

print "$MM MM, $FF FF\n";
print "$MF MF, $FM FM\n";
print "\n";
printf "%.2f%% MM, %.2f%% FF\n", 100*$MM/$T_plays, 100*$FF/$T_plays;
printf "%.2f%% MM, %.2f%% FF\n", 100*$MF/$T_plays, 100*$FM/$T_plays;
> We don't need to match number of neural connections in human brain to exceed its intelligence.

That's also true because of wheels/road thing, in that we can "cheat" here too. More specifically, some of the neural connections in the human brain are dedicated to sensing, processing and controlling the dynamic state of human body. Purely-software AIs don't need those for intelligence.
Control systems are one per penetrator, aren't they? Same with nukes, if we're talking about them.

I'd say that it's exactly the fuel, the engine, and the whole chassis of an anti-ballistic missile what's so expensive. An ABM has very little time to do its job. It has to launch instantly, and accelerates at 100g or so, and then must also maneuver at this circumstances. It should also pack enough punch to destroy a warhead which is a relatively small metal needle, built to withstand the mechanical and thermal loads of an orbital reentry.

As a contrast, an ICBM can start with much more soft acceleration, can spend 10-20 seconds preparing for launch without loss of efficiency, and does not have to maneuver much during ascent and the orbital part.
A lot of sites don't seem to care about their paywall. Plenty of them load the full article, then "block" me from seeing the rest by adding a popup and `overflow: hidden` to `body`, which is super easy to bypass with devtools. Others give you "free articles" via a cookie or localStorage, which you can of course remove to get more free articles.

There are your readers who will see a paywall and then pay, and there are your readers who will try to bypass it or simply not read at all. And articles spread through social media attention, and a paywalled article gets much less attention, so it's non-negligibly beneficial to have people read the article for free who would otherwise not read it.

Which is to say: the methods archiv.is uses may not be that special. Clear cookies, block JavaScript, and make deals with or special-case the few sites which actually enforce their paywalls. Or identify yourself as archiv.is, and if others do that to bypass the paywall, good for them.
A more traditional debugger for Python.

https://github.com/inducer/pudb
> I started tinygrad in Oct 2020. It started as a toy project to teach me about neural networks

Shows you what is possible in 2.5 years. Keeps me motivated to learn.
fantastic. Will keep my 3090 busy for a while!

"Furthermore, we note that our model is only trained with cross-entropy loss (supervised learning) without relying on reinforcement learning from human feedback (RLHF). This calls for further investigations of the tradeoffs of simple cross-entropy loss and RLHF training. "

Does this mean RLHF is not really necessary for high quality chatbots?
// But the American dream, is just that for the majority of people. Just a dream that they will never reach.

Almost 70 percent of Americans own their own home[0].

[0]https://www.thezebra.com/resources/research/homeownership-st...
Because the squeeze is happening, and the only winners are the executives and investors. Everyone who works a labor job, even in software, see's that the idea of a steady job is being destroyed by management at companies. It is churn time, its do more work with less even when you get to keep your job.

And the ones cheering it on here are the ones that still believe deeply in the power of the market and capitalism (E.G. if you're not good enough to have a job then you're not good enough). Even if it doesn't work for them, it might someday so better not have any worker protections in place.
Vision.

That being said I am still sceptical.
That's fair, but we'd still consider the building to be "done" in the sense that OP means—the construction crew can go home.

When I refer to problems that go unaddressed I'm thinking of problems like "this bathroom is too small", not "the roof needs replacing".
Didn't realize the 7900 XTX was so good at this kind of work. Glad to have went with it over the 4080.
The QR-code menu is being shown the door
I respect Geohot's reputation and this company looks amazing. I might be in the market to work there... except "No Remote."

For such a smart guy, locking yourself out of a ton of talent by requiring software developers to be on-site in 2023 seems...out of character, to put it politely.

(Rephrased, my original post was a bit too ad hominem and accumulating downvotes rapidly. I wanted to delete this entire comment but apparently HN no longer allows comments to be deleted.)
it's reddit, but /r/LocalLLaMA/
This really comes down to Microsoft's desire to kill off Win32 and developers' and users' desire to keep using Win32 coming to a head.

As it turns out, Windows is nothing without Win32 which developers and users want. Consequently, Win32 has subdued every single attempt from Microsoft to replace it. Every. Single. Attempt.

The recent moves back to Win32 are essentially Microsoft finally throwing in the towel, though the jury is still out if they understand why Win32 keeps on slaying them at every turn.
Clicking Through Ages
For my self-hosting I do the same thing, works great. I used this article: https://www.linuxbabe.com/ubuntu/wireguard-vpn-server-ubuntu I use AWS Lightsail for my VPS.
I worked in the trades for almost a decade before switching to tech. Frankly, manual labor is far more fulfilling than anything I've done in tech. I'd still be doing it if it paid more.
I was also thinking in these terms. The reality is there is virtually no possibility of starting a startup, getting VC money and making a buck without connections in your customers or investors. This is especially true with VCs.

Kind of disappoints the romantic story but it is what it is
Not really forgotten, but trams/streetcars definitely went out of fashion in many places and have been making a comeback in the form of modern LRT systems.
It's a bit like shaking your own hand, you can surely see that?
Ty - I am late again...
Specifically, info appears to come from ITS. Stallman hacked on ITS back in the day, and the first time I logged into an ITS system (http://up.dfupdate.se/, if you're curious) and used the online help system, I suddenly realized why GNU was always trying to foist this weird manpage alternative on us.

(I remember back when I first got into Linux, like early 2000s, it seemed like a lot of the core GNU man pages were just stubs that said "For documentation, use the info system". Luckily they seem to have backtracked on that?)
Please do not spam other GitHub users via email
A 512 byte memory restriction and deploying an LLM could not be on further opposite sides of the spectrum. :D
I think AMD is going down a different path, ie. ROCm then partnering with ML frameworks further up the stack for first class support.

https://pytorch.org/blog/pytorch-for-amd-rocm-platform-now-a...
what about IP theft though?
Meat ag is terrible: pandemic microbe evolution, antibiotic overuse and resistance, climate change, pollution, and dangerous and abusive of undocumented workers who are killed and maimed without any safety net.

See also:

Super Size Me 2: Holy Chicken

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt7215262

The Trouble with Chicken (full documentary) | FRONTLINE

https://youtu.be/tIY7jxd7GAY
I was under the impression that Germany bans Nazi symbols (with some exceptions for education/art). [1]

In comparison, Nazi symbols are protected hate speech in the US. [2]

The US has tried to ban political parties in the past but eventually courts find that sort of thing unconstitutional. [3]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strafgesetzbuch_section_86a

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bans_on_Nazi_symbols#United_St...

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communist_Control_Act_of_1954
Which data are excessive? Everything described in the post seemed totally reasonable to me.