skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
But the energy we could spend on, say, ramping up and migrating to Rust, at the moment, could instead be put into ramping up in doing something with LLM.

That's the example I personally have in mind, but other individuals and organizations can usually think of multiple options for investing their resources, what directions they could head towards, etc.
Not even, they cloned the UI but (some of) the torrents are stuff that never was on rarbg
LinkML – Linked data modeling language
I remember learning about this in EMT training. That a tiny air bubble in an IV line is lethal is a popular myth. Actually apparently IV lines have air in them all the time, the body is not that fragile
Private ones that are invite only, like PTP, BTN, RED, Bib, etc.—the public tracker community really pales in comparison.
Simplicity of the programming model, basically, though in the end it all just comes down to bandwidth and latency.
> isn't this actually great use of a smart device?

You don't need anything to tell you when it's time to change your toothbrush. You can tell by feeling it, or in the extreme, by just looking at it. There's no need to track anything.
> GPT-4: PostgreSQL: SELECT STRING_AGG(columnName, ', ') FROM tableName;

Well, you asked for sql and ansi sql function is listagg(), so technically this is not the right answer - and definitely a completely useless one for mysql or oracle users.
IMHO the best way to do authorization if your application otherwise works completely in the frontend:

Rent a tiny VM for $5/month and set up a small "enter your email, you'll get a magic link" application you write in Python or PHP.

And proxy whatever API access you want to restrict to authorized users through a simple Python or PHP script which can just be a few lines of code. It looks up the cookie set by the magic link, checks if it is allowed to access the endpoint and if yes proxies the request.
Does that also apply to stuff you might be making? From food to any goods?
Actually, in case of Google it is, because they still do business within the EU.
How's about Git?
Well, there's of course sarcastic smiling and sarcastic or scornful laughing, the "genuine" forms of both being partly involuntary responses. Another interesting reflex action that's been deployed socially by humans is clearing one's throat to politely request attention.
I finally redesigned and launched my UX/UI portfolio
Correlation doesn't yield causation!
The whole fluoride in drinking water only came up based on a study from abroad. There, they noticed an improvement of dental health over time after they introduced fluoride in their water. However, this study and the same for the 50th ignore the fact that dental hygiene and awareness dramatically improved during this time. Thus, the better dental health is more likely from better topical application of fluoride and more regular brushing/flossing. I'm concerned that we have all the scientific facts and keep ignoring them.

Fun fact: Dentists recommend flossing before brushing.

Edit: "For example, in Finland and Germany, tooth decay rates remained stable or continued to decline after water fluoridation stopped in communities with widespread fluoride exposure from other sources." - https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water_fluoridation
Standard Support of Ubuntu 18.04 Ends Today
For anyone curious, iPhones ship 234 million a year, Watch around 60 million, iPad another 20 million. Not sure about Apple TV but let's assume that's 0. That's over 300 million CPUs a year.

I doubt the total chip number for the industry though - Intel alone ships ~100M. But it's clear Apple is very likely the largest manufacturer of CPUs.

* Correction: MediaTek shipped 350M units in 2020 and Qualcomm shipped 319M (due to the Trump embargo on China). So Apple is up there competing with manufacturers that sell their chips to anyone who will buy, but it may not necessarily be the largest.
Currently, not at all. You need low latency, high bandwidth links between the GPUs to be able to shard the model usefully. There is no way you can fit an 1T (or whatever) parameter model on a MacBook, or any current device, so sharding is a requirement.

Even if it that problem disappeared, propagating the model weight updates between training steps poses an issue in itself. It's a lot of data, at this size.
This really could use example visuals.
A lot of them are backed by corporates. Whilst you don't pay - someone does. There's no free lunch!
When the JT drama happened a few days ago, a friend of mine, a much younger developer, expressed sadness that there had to be politics. Why couldn't it just be about code?

There's a dual meaning to politics there: casually, it is a synonym for acrimony and resentment and airing of grievances in public. But a more general definition of politics is just any process to make decisions over collective resources. You make a decision about what toothpaste to buy for you: no politics. A decision about toothpaste for the whole household: politics. It's always imperfect, someone always ends up with more power, and not everyone can be satisfied.

The Tyranny of Structurelessness is such a classic. You might think that feminist collectives in the 1970s have little to do with 21st-century coding projects. But every group with a mission struggles with this. Because people are "paid" not with money, but with personally meaningful work. That's what people are looking for when they get involved.

When there are trade-offs to be made, and no transparent structure about how those trade-offs are being made, that can be the source of a lot of resentment. You're not just messing with their money or their career, but their sense of self. I'm not surprised many Rust contributors regret their involvement.

But it's such a good project with many good characteristics. I hope they can get it together. There are all kinds of people who can help, who make it their mission to redesign organizations that are suffering from problems just like this. You might find that the people you think are irredeemably conflict-prone might be actually okay in the right organizational structure.
>your browser will randomly and with no warning delete it all

With Chrome based browsers this seems to happen usually on browser restarts after version upgrades, however With Firefox I have never had such issue

There seems to be an Electron Desktop client: https://github.com/gengjiawen/electron-devdocs
I just opened a view mode page in confluence, and it made >400 calls until fully loaded. ~80 XHR calls and >300 js files being loaded, in what world that is acceptable?

Indeed it is a shame that they still a thing.
FWIW, I'm a GPT Plus subscriber and haven't been given API access to GPT-4 despite being on the waiting list for as long as it's been up. I'm told that submitting evaluations can move you up in the queue, but I haven't tried that.
That was never in question. ChatGPT is openAIs web frontend for several of their GPT-Models.

The technology is just GPT and transformers, the open source alternatives are just not as advanced as the GPT4 model yet. It might change with current trajectory, mainly because OpenAI keeps nerfing it.
Just to be clear, the rights holders probably aren't publishing torrents, they just also download them and monitor anybody that happens to connect with their seed.

In a way, they are helping us with better download speeds.
Most recent drama is thePhD was invited to give a keynote speech and then it was demoted to regular talk at the last minute. Both the invite and the demotion were by "rust leadership".
Probably picked it up from the training data. That's how we all talk now-a-days. Walking on eggshells all the time. You have to assume your reader is a fragile counterpoint generating factory.
> Baby steps. I'm not going to recommend the complete nullification of corporations in the present. Perhaps as a long-term goal to aim towards -- but with the right planning and support. No sense in being a revolutionary.

Why would you ever work towards it as a long term goal? Once your faction had even a little political power, you'd have more control over corporations. And they're quite powerful in their way. They'd become too appealing at that point.

Much more fun to tame the godzilla monster and sic it on your enemies.
Ask HN: What are some key aspects you appreciate from your platform team?
Whether it's datacenter or cloud-based, what kind of capabilities or features do you look for and/or appreciate from a platform team that's providing you the tools needed to build and operate your applications?
I've read this article but still can't understand how those clothes end up in Ghana. Is EU just dropping them there from airplanes in the sky?
Show HN: Courses and Tutorials for Prompt Writing
Just to be clear this is is a patch and is not necessarily going to be accepted into FFmpeg.
Please indicate which is better. Where can I click on "top 100" or similar, and instantly see a page full of recent releases with screenshots, synopsis, and comments one click away?
That sounds more like Authentication (verify identity) than Authorization (decide specifically what they are allowed to do per request), no?
Priority-based execution in Azure Cosmos DB (preview)
Obvious reasons the danger from AGI is way more serious than nuclear weapons
see the thread
I'm glad I wasn't alone in feeling frustrated while reading this article. I just passed the year mark after switching careers; the clouds are parting and I'm beginning to tackle more complex tasks with my ever-growing experience and wisdom, but "What do senior developers do in your company? Do that instead of the things junior developers do. That's it." is absurd.

If you're getting bored with the menial tasks that you're being given, ask your boss if they think you're ready to handle more complex work -- jumping in the middle of projects way over your head in an effort to pretend you aren't a junior dev is foolish.
how can you finetune gpt-4 or 3.5? The shell/wrapper around a request to open AI is not any worthy piece of software, It'd be more impressive to vend those services. Otherwise it's basically just a few scripts.
I don't see what would stop it from downloading and running an update that would work with Linux, it's that Gigabyte has little financial incentive to create a Linux updater. A malicious actor may, though probably doesn't given Gigabyte's target market.
Is it less effective because they slow the motors down or other trickery?
This is disturbing. I found the dll's and registry changes on my system. From the dates they've been running for just over a year.
Have you had a chance to look at the Direct Preference Optimization [1] pre-print? It seems like it might help get around RLHF which (as far as I can tell) is the really hard/expensive part of training the best of these models.
They said they will release the code soon, so I guess we will found out soon enough.

[1] https://arxiv.org/abs/2305.18290
Part of that though is that Qualcomm etc tend to skimp versus the recommended cache values.
EU’s Proposed Cyber Resilience Act – Concerns for Open Source and Cybersecurity
SQLite have a bunch of features that would allow limiting what you can do in a request, and if you limit the access to a database by the user that puts e-mails in that database this is easily doable.

I started looking at implementing that
> Why should she have to dress modestly just because men can't keep it in their pants?"

In the entire course of human history, has dressing modestly ever protected anyone from getting raped? Like a rapist is out to rape, and be like 'oh no, that's a modest woman, better find someone else'? Do women that fully conceal themselves for religious reasons not get raped?

Like even the 'everyone should have a gun' narrative makes more sence than this.
Author here! We explore the past, present, and future of deep learning in astronomy. We predict that GPT-like foundation models will make a huge impact on the field, and that astronomy is ideally placed to supercharge open source large language modelling (Section 9).

My favourite excerpt, where we propose foundation model-powered scientists:

Autonomous agents are no longer science fiction; task-driven autonomous agents powered by the simulacra of a foundation model are capable of solving very general tasks when given only a high-level prompt by a human operator [305,306]. One could therefore imagine a semi-automated research pipeline, where an autonomous agent with astronomical knowledge is given access to a set of astronomical data through an API. The agent would be prompted with a high-level research goal (such as ‘find something interesting and surprising within this dataset’), and would then take steps to achieve this task. These steps could include querying research papers for a literature review, searching a large multi-modal astronomical dataset to find data that supports a theory, evoking and discussing its findings with additional simulacra, or spinning up simulations to test a hypothesis [307]. While the agent operates in the background, the human researcher would be able to provide high-level interpretation of the results, and would be a steady hand providing guidance and refinement of a more general research direction. In this way, an astronomical foundation model would provide the tools to make all astronomers the principal investigator of their own powerful ‘AI lab’
AI intensifies fight against ‘paper mills’ that churn out fake research
> I used to be able to tell what the machine was doing from the HDD whirrs

I guess that dimension of debugging is now lost with SSDs. I didn't run an anti-virus and noticed by machine had caught a virus (in this case, DOS/Natas) because of the extra moments of whirrs during boot and when running applications.
Without identity, how would you decide if a user can access a resource or not?
The planet is burning and we deserve it.
Rediscovering memory unsafety through performance chasing. Ah well.
I got it to talk like a macho tough guy who even uses profanity and is actually frank and blunt to me. This is the chat I use for life advice. I just described the "character" it was to be, and told it to talk like that kind of character would talk. This chat started a few months ago so it may not even be possible anymore. I don't know what changes they've made.
I disagree. For a toothbrush, the chips are a problem. If nothing else, manufacturing chips is very bad for the environment. We shouldn't be putting them in things that don't need them.
>Unless you're willing to throw it all out and use NixOS you're not going to solve that problem.

Well, I have been running NixOS systems for nearly a decade, and now have it deployed across 3 cpu archs in 3 continents. :) Tailscale also uses NixOS in prod, etc.

Not to mention, NixOS means: no docker hub/repo, all you need is a dumb blob store, no container signing, no complicated tooling for BOM or source provination, or tooling for version dep analysis. Much of the entire Golang/K8s devops-startup-chasing/adjacent ecosystem is obliviated by first-order Nix features. You don't have to think about container bloat, or container optimization, storage on nodes is cheaper; it's really hard to name an area that isn't strictly better other than "yes, you have to learn more than running an imperative bash script and capturing the tar filesystem". But, maybe there's good reasons for that. I've personally also sheparded probably half a dozen or more users into full-time contributors, so I know it's not impossible.

When Tvix hits with their NAR alternative, a number of other benefits are just going to start appearing for Nix users that try to adopt it. Much, much faster path downloads, significantly more on-disk de-duplication "for free", much better options for potential P2P replication, etc.
If all that is true, wonder why we don't see more "kit cars" or build your own. Seems to be relegated to a few niches like drag racing and classic restorations. A downmarket kit car that you add your own sweat equity to seems feasible considering India sells fully manufactured cars for like $5,000
I read "dropped" as some feature they had and removed 168 hours ago causing fallout and more anger with their subscription model, a bit overloaded of a term I guess.
They just abandoned it and closed? Why no handoff? Why no appeal for funding? Or even a warning?
I've used the term "Deep Generalist" before. Broad knowledge, deep capabilities. You know enough to know what you need to learn and execute on demand.

Historically known as or referred to as a "Renaissance Man" [1] or polymath [2].

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

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polymath
Yep, Mediatek for example just announced an ARM processor with NVidia components and there’s already arm processors with AMD GPUs.

No other manufacturer seems to be beholden to the terms that Qualcomm is claiming.

I’m very inclined to say QC are trying to push for sympathy in the tech sphere.
> Yes, one of the board members of OpenAI, Will Hurd, is a former government agent. He worked for the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) for nine years, from 2000 to 2009. His tour of duty included being an operations officer in Afghanistan, Pakistan, and India. After his service with the CIA, he served as the U.S. representative for Texas's 23rd congressional district from 2015 to 2021. Following his political career, he joined the board of OpenAI 1 【15

> network error

https://openai.com/blog/will-hurd-joins
CD Projekt Red veterans found new studio Blank
>And will this stuff even still run on chips 10-20 years from now anyway?

NixOS Con Paris had a talk running a decade+ old version of Firefox, complete with Flash.
When it comes to corporations, don't attribute to stupidity that which can be adequately explained by greed. This could easily be avoided by having proper security engineering, but that costs money! They're only about a decade late to the whole post-Snowden "maybe we shouldn't trust unverified code delivered over interceptable cleartext channels" explosion.
People, at least the people that I know who use Debian as their preferred desktop OS care a lot about Debian's stance on licenses.
But what is the treat? What is the logical step between gpt 4 and human extinction? I really don't see it - and this is supposed to show obviously that AGI is more dangerous than nuclear war?
> If this stuff is garbage, just stop buying it. As it is, the very people paying for it, are explicitly asking for the trade to continue.

It's like saying businesses shouldn't pay to dispose of e-waste because r/homelab exists to buy on a secondary market.

The African traders are selling disposal services. You are somehow hung up that this garbage has value by the simple fact that people pick through it and make markets after disposal. Again, the West can simply stop paying for foreign disposal service and dump it domestically. Either way, its garbage to the exporter and no tiny Marginal Utility squeezed at the end is going to change those dynamics.
Is that part verified? The linked article doesn't say, and the Eclypsium blog post isn't really clear either. What they say is that the motherboard firmware is causing the resulting windows boot process to run code provided by the firmware (which is weird, but not insecure per se), and that this code is delivered over HTTP.

They notably aren't saying that the firmware or loader is doing no validation on the executable. Most likely this has some sort of home grown signature on the blob, because if it didn't they instantly would have cooked up a MitM exploit to demonstrate. The fact that they didn't implies that it doesn't work.

That's not to say this is a good design (it's clearly not) or that it can't be abused in non-malware ways (junkware, etc...). But it does seem like it's being spun as a clear security hole when my guess is that it isn't (it certainly hasn't been shown to be).
Neanderthals manufactured synthetic material with underground distillation
> people who make them pay upwards of 1 dollar per click

FWIW, the cheapest (quality) clicks I've seen, at least in the B2B space, is closer to $3/click, and it can quickly balloon to upwards of $10/click especially on company brand names where competitors are bidding on another company's brand name.

Knowing this, I cringe every time I'm screensharing with someone and they search "[B2B Company] login" to login to a tool they use every day. Each login = $2-$10

It's not uncommon for companies to spend $100k+/year JUST bidding on their own company name.
that’s a bingo
I'm not disagreeing with you. Whatever you experienced actually happened. But what kinds of prompts are triggering these experiences?
I use this (https://github.com/astoff/devdocs.el) emacs package to download devdocs locally and access them from emacs, which is pretty great.
On the other hand, I really wish somebody had rushed to seek regulation when, say, fossil fuels were being developed.
If only it had Vim keybindings...
I don't think this is true. Imagine a piece of software you have been using 15 years. Sure it has its problems, and there may be ways to work around those problems, but you are familiar with those problems. Switching to something new may fix those problems, but bring an entirely new set of their own.
Too easy nowadays. Pick an esoteric BSD?
Yea stablecoins (fiat tokens) are by far the biggest successful use case of crypto. It's unfortunate that so many on Hacker News still think crypto is Bitcoin and other wannabe currencies (which never made sense as mediums of exchange) so don't notice the solution to these issues is already here and being adopted all over the world already.
More honest tech firms print two sets of T-shirts for their employees. One says “shiny software 3.0 [code name here]” with a pretty logo. The other says “shiny software 3.0 [code name here]”, but the art is a bunch of insects representing the bug-ridden mess on launch day.

And then they give out the appropriate shirts on launch day and donate the others to some vaguely appropriate charity.
Well unless it's Monero, it's still just as traceable and you pay twice as much in various transfer fees.
who’s asking?
I would distrust the currently available benchmarks, as recent research (gah, can't remember the paper title) indicates that for many benchmarks at least some of the data splits have leaked into model training data; and there's some experience with the open source models which match an OpenAI model on the benchmark scores but subjectively feel much worse than that model on random questions.
AMD and Intel are coming out with M2-Pro like quad channel APUs. Clock them low enough, and that will trounce anything we have from ARM outside Apple.
Ubuntu Pro offers extended support through 2028. Looks like desktop pricing is around $25/year. Pretty cheap, but really, it's time to update.

https://ubuntu.com/pro/subscribe
I think the way people have been using the word 'aligned' is usually in the context of moral alignment and not just RLHF for instruction following.
Before outside environmental dumping, you were a poor country with n problems.

After environmental dumping, you are now a country with n + 1 problems.

Is it unfair to say to upstream "please stop"?

Edit:

(Or as it turns out, please pay more to handle this trash for you, it's getting out of hand here.)