skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No, not for any length of time. I prefer having a desktop app, and Dash 4 still works for me, so I have not had a reason to switch... yet.
> The reason I mention this is because there can be no unbiased, impartial arbiter. No human or subsequent entities spawned of human intellect could ever be transcendentally objective. So why pretend to be?

I apologize for lacking clarity in my prior response, which addressed this specific point.

There is no way to achieve all versions of "unbiased" -- under different (but both logical and reasonable) definitions of biased, every metric will fail.

That reminds me -- I wonder if there is a paper already addressing this, analogous to Arrow's impossibility theorem for voting...
Pickleball in my neighborhood.

We had been in our neighborhood for about 8 years before I started and I kind of stumbled into the group. I had been mentioning to my wife that I wish I knew our neighbors, but didn't press the issue because I assumed it would happen naturally when we had kids. We've been delaying kids, both for covid and private family reasons, so I had been waiting longer than I would have liked. As luck would have it, I went to go use our neighborhood basketball court but it was being used by a pickleball group. They asked if I wanted to play and I went from never having heard of the game to now playing 2x / week most weeks.

The crew is mostly older than me and no one is in tech. I do wish there were more players close to my age and I wouldn't mind 1 person in tech to talk shop with, but it's overall been a net positive in my life. I knew I was struggling from the lack of local community, but I think I underestimated how much. Even being fairly introverted, I still need to see people somewhat regularly.
Using gpt to help me with research for writing fiction has been a mess for me. Gpt basically refuses to answer half my questions or more at this point.

“I can’t help you. Have you considered writing a story that doesn’t include x?”

I’ve almost stopped using it lately. It wasn’t this bad a month or two ago
From the blog post referenced [0]:

> Eclypsium automated heuristics detected firmware on Gigabyte systems that drops an executable Windows binary that is executed during the Windows startup process.

...Windows startup process allows for executing "dropped binaries"? Would this be via replacing legit startup binary, or another vector?

[0] https://eclypsium.com/blog/supply-chain-risk-from-gigabyte-a...
I live in Calibre's ebook viewer
your statement sounds like it doesn't support GPU, llama supports GPU as well. However llama is just code to run models. OP needs to find a model that works for them, there are lots of models out there.
Tbf, the OP explicitly said "Preferably self-hosted" which is why I wanted to offer this along with the explicit disclaimer that I am the founder
Dutch parliament leader demands Twitter take action against threats
"...Twitter itself could not be reached for comment. Since the takeover by Elon Musk, the spokespersons have been cut back. Emails with questions are automatically answered with a turd emoji. The same happened in this case..."
Most of the time when I search for something, I sort by more seeders first. Some type of signature can be used too.
I shared my exp below on one of the comments, sharing here too - I think overall the quality is significantly poorer on GPT4 with plugins and bing browsing enabled. If you disable those, I am able to get the same quality as before. The outputs are dramatically different. Would love to hear what everyone else sees when they try the same.
Confidently stated responses that are often incorrect or miss the point? Just post it on /r/AskReddit and wait a little bit.
The most recent 10 years and that's exactly the point - we're plateauing on hardware advancements, so software inefficiencies are more of an issue now than ever before. 2x is now a huge change in performance. You're not getting that "for free" from just waiting a couple of years anymore.
Vietnam is probably the #1 place for digital piracy today.

https://torrentfreak.com/vietnam-could-kill-several-major-pi...
Sackler family wins immunity from opioid lawsuits
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No, because if China is actually starved of semiconductors, they will be forceful in taking Taiwan.
"Be an engineer" and "write code" aren't the same thing. That this industry has decided to call everyone an "engineer" because they can write some Java or even some HTML has loaded these jobs with a set of implications that they don't ever really cash in on. Until something goes wrong and they now have a stick to hit you with.

It is okay to be a "developer", it's not a naughty word, and it's okay to not be an "engineer" in the sense that Rachel means it. That said, there is considerable overlap between "doing engineering" and being an effective, skilled software craftsperson. Enumerate edge cases as exhaustively as possible, capture solutions for them. Ask "what if this breaks?". Have an answer. This isn't "being an engineer", engineers get in Actual Trouble when a bridge falls down, but it is being a skilled crafter of software, and they're not dissimilar questions. The level of rigor applied might differ, but if this isn't where your brain is going by default, it is a worthwhile and even necessary skill to cultivate to build something worth using.

Of course, if you're building something people rely on, you'd better be working with and listening to people who are putting (or attempting to put; this is a young field, after wall) some kind of engineering rigor into practice.
I’ve seen here on HN that such a disclaimer would not be enough. And even the blurb they put in the beginning of the reply isn’t enough.

If the HN crowd gets mad that GOT produces incorrect answers, think how lay people might react.
And the smallest that fly for 1h under command?
https://gpt4all.io/ works fairly well on my 16 GB M1 Pro MacBook. It's certainly not on a level with ChatGPT, but what is?

It's a simple app download and allows you to select from multiple available models. No hacking required.
Surely you can see the irony in your comment
> because it is the industry standard

> Nothing Photoshop does today is special

You seem to be falling into a fallacy common among technical people: that a product's only value is its technical implementation.

Photoshop is sold to businesses. It's value prop is "you will be able to hire anyone and they will be productive day one, which will save a lot of money in training."

People buying photos op don't care about filters being CPU bound. They care about turning work around quickly and getting the next paying gig. A CPU bound filter is statistical noise compared to having to figure out how some different tool works.
Seems fine still. I use Poe.
Also Equator adjacent countries being hot meaning that they aren't really needed.
Ofcourse, I'm not saying torrents don't have a place it's just that they seem less trafficked these days , online piracy streaming sites , iptv(with vod) and Plexshares have taken the front seat.
Bitcoin is going to be 15 years old soon and aside from this original usage, no real usage has really taken off for "blockchain" technologies (and no, I am not counting the occasional pump and dump / virtual scarcity scheme as a real usage of the tech). We really have to stop asking this question. And I say this having had some involvement with some web3 projects/company.

Even if it is theoretically possible, it create a huge barrier for entry, a lot of user friction, issue with governance and distribution of power, exploit, etc. And it is extremely hard to put in place for something that can be replaced by a generic phpBB forum in an afternoon. It is like trying to make a ICBM to kill a fly.
I remember introducing myself as such to a meeting and some manager didn't understand why I was there. Turns out he came from a previous experience where "systems engineer" was about designing nuclear combustion engines, which is quite a bit different than writing shell scripts ! Now I prefer SRE or simply sysadmin.
It's not too complicated. I heard from a friend, that all you need is a downloader like Sabnzbd, a usenet provider like Eweka or Frugal Usenet, and an index like Drunkenslug to find stuff.
Just stop, you are spamming on an unrelated post and now arguing about it. I’m sure people will want to sign up for your service now.
For one day a week, you can put up with quite a bit even if you don't like it. I don't come into our city office that frequently but I can handle the 2 hour each way commute to talk with a customer now and then and it's not that painful. (I actually have a closer office but I have no reason to go into there at all.) It's a long day but every week or two it's doable.
Picked up some bad habits from 4chan?
List of affected models:

https://eclypsium.com/wp-content/uploads/Gigabyte-Affected-M...
Kubernetes has always been overkill for most people, it’s for very large scale enterprises. Not for your typical CRUD app.

I don’t know what it is, but so many is focused towards being infinitly scalable without thinking about the complexity that grows with it.
Since there's about a million startups that are building vaguely different proxy wrappers around ChatGPT for their seed round, the CYA bit would have to be in the text to be as robust as possible.
For personal use, check out https://github.com/imartinez/privateGPT. It's lightweight and has lots of momentum from the OS community. There's even an open PR to support huggingface LLMs.
For business use, here's some shameless self promotion: https://mirage-studio.io/private_chatgpt. We offer a version that can be hosted on your own GPU cluster.
If you want a datapoint, Origami is a "pure Ruby library to parse, modify and generate PDF documents".

That library cloc's in at 13,683 lines of code and 3,295 lines of comments.
... strange. I'm running 30B models on a 10yr old PC with a $400 RTX 3060. Folks can run the 65B models with 4090 or dual 3090. Usually for about a cost of $2500.
What is the difference between a supercomputer and a million ordinary servers connected together?
In the case of a PDF parser it has to embed a full PostScript interpreter
Does anyone know how to find where a certain team uploads stuff?

I loved VXT stuff on rarbg, and would love to find them again.
When we first got our induction cooktop I was so excited about how ridiculously fast we could boil water. Which is definitely an odd thing to get excited about. It definitely isn't that powerful though. That's a lot of power.
Projects like these are great, and absolutely in traditions of Scheme, PL research, hobbies/learning, and sometimes startups.

Not everything has to be overtly adopted to be worth doing.

Historically, when someone makes some advancement that doesn't lead to adoption, it seems often because:

* there's no follow-through to production-grade (maybe the norm with PL dissertations, if the next job isn't industry and directly involving that same platform);

* the market applicability is too niche/nonexistent, at least at the time (e.g., someday people will realize better DSLs were figured out a long time ago); or

* didn't promote it well enough.
> Rarbg was a margin note in torrent community

really?

i very much preferred it over pb or kat
> Maybe this could be solved with an education section and a disclaimer

You mean like the "Limitations" disclaimer that has been prominently displayed on the front page of the app, which says:

- May occasionally generate incorrect information

- May occasionally produce harmful instructions or biased content

- Limited knowledge of world and events after 2021
When I first learned English I was extremely confused that people kept referring to grinning as smiling, given that "smiling" refers to a wider range of expressions than just that. Smiling "with teeth" doesn't come to me naturally in the situations the word is typically associated with.

Given that the "American smile" is not universal (despite the changes in most cultures over the past centuries - there was an article posted on HN a few weeks ago about how AI generated "selfies" of people from certain cultures look wrong because they wouldn't smile like that), I wonder if the association between a toothy smile and friendliness is entirely recent, evolutionarily speaking.

I also wonder if the "don't smile at dogs because bared teeth are a sign of aggression" has more to do with dogs picking up on the mismatch between the "friendly" facial expression and the emotional state of the human or if they would be equally distressed when seeing a human genuinely grinning out of sheer overwhelming joy and happiness. I find exaggerated displays of friendliness as is common in US hospitality and retail extremely unnerving personally.
"The team makes its microrobots out of materials called biocompatible polymers using a technology similar to 3D printing. The machines look a bit like small rockets and come complete with three tiny fins. They also include a little something extra: Each of the robots carries a small bubble of trapped air, similar to what happens when you dunk a glass upside-down in water. If you expose the machines to an acoustic field, like the kind used in ultrasound, the bubbles will begin to vibrate wildly, pushing water away and shooting the robots forward."

Incredible! So they're driven from outside the body and are just a delivery mechanism without electronics?
What was your prompt?

LLMs take previous output into account when generating the next token. If it had already output 20 families of a similar shape, number 21 is more likely to match that shape.
They're saying that by using the phrase "right to work", you're introducing a lot of meaning into your comment that you didn't intend.
I'm in the SCA, the Society for Creative Anachronism. Medieval reenactment for fun. It's non-profit, run almost entirely by volunteers. Feasts, recreational combat, games, blacksmithing, brewing, crafts of all kinds. Nearly all of the people in the group are friendly, kind, nerdy goofballs. There's something for everyone, tagline of the SCA is "Welcome home."

Local groups all over the place:
https://www.sca.org/
nm, didn't read far enough:

> During the Driver Execution Environment (DXE) phase of the UEFI firmware boot process, the “WpbtDxe.efi” firmware module uses the above GUID to load the embedded Windows executable file into memory...
It depends what you mean by "viable alternatives" and how much money you are prepared to spend on hardware to self-host. As others have mentioned, you can try llama.cpp and LocalAI, but for most ChatGPT-like applications, you won't get anything like as good results. I've found that using GPT-4 via the OpenAI API is somewhat more reliable than ChatGPT, either via the Playground or via a local chat interface like https://github.com/mckaywrigley/chatbot-ui
We greatly appreciate the meticulous design and user-friendly approach taken by Linear. Their work serves as a true inspiration to us. However, Plane have implemented all the concepts of Linear in a simpler terminology, making it more accessible to a wider range of users. Additionally, we are proud to make Plane an open-source project, which fosters collaboration within the community.
No, that's just another way of a company saying to you your face doesn't fit with this promotion/role.

And why that is depends on who is hiring you. Most of my experience in tech has been working for non-technical managers who think a Senior position is one of a liaison officer between management and computing in general.

Most of the time I read comments about the ancient wizardry and the important soft skills you need to have as a Senior just makes me wonder how much crap these people have been fed by their superiors.
Have you been to Twitter in the last 6 months? It's basically a GPT/Midjourney/Stable Diffusion hype generator. Everybody there is now an expert on this topic. And you can be too!

Step 1: Tweet fake troll screenshots of GPT output or make corny threads like "90% of people are using AI wrong, here's..."

Step 2: Let the "For you" algo take hold

Step 3: Profit
You can't build a decentralized search because there's no way to trust whatever results you get until you actually build it. If you don't want to rely on a specific community, your best bet is to crawl yourself and search locally: you can do that with magnetico (https://github.com/boramalper/magnetico/). Don't be frightened by the fact that it is archived, it works.

The problem then will be, how do you make sure your content is legit? There's no magic way here, the best thing you can do is compare the number of seeders and aim for the highest. If a torrent is fake, people will delete it and it won't be seeded. I have a thingy for that: https://sr.ht/~rakoo/magneticos/

The problem then becomes, number of seeders naturally selects towards popular content. It doesn't ensure viability of content. But I don't think there's a technical answer to that.
Yeah, both for drivers and for anti-theft tools like Intel's.
As far as I understand, this only affects Windows installations. The update process is executed from Windows and not from motherboard's code itself. The motherboard's code only installs a Windows executable on your hard drive.
That would be really interesting usage of blockchain!
The Constitution doesn't specify that due process necessarily involves the judicial branch. Al-Aulaqi v. Panetta cited precedent that civilian courts should not interfere with the military chain of command and that warmaking and national defense powers lie with the executive and legislative branches. In this case, the executive informed the congressional oversight committees more than a year before the assassination.

https://ecf.dcd.uscourts.gov/cgi-bin/show_public_doc?2012cv1...
We don't understand cat facial expressions as intuitively as dogs

For example, what we would traditionally see as a grumpy or angry face (eyebrows down, eyes narrowed slightly) is the relaxed face of a cat

An angry cat's face on the other hand is wide open eyes, ready to attack back
By not using Windows or somehow instructing your Windows not to run this file at startup.
> Preferably self-hosted (I'm okay with paying for it)

I'm the founder of Mirage Studio and we created https://www.mirage-studio.io/private_chatgpt. A privacy-first ChatGPT alternative that can be hosted on-premise or on a leading EU cloud provider.
I don't know the licensing and all that jazz (even if you self-host for your personal use it shouldn't matter). But, this paper[0] released a week ago claims " 99.3% of the performance level of ChatGPT while only requiring 24 hours of finetuning on a single GPU" (QLORA).

A quick test of the huggingface demo gives reasonable results[1]. The actual model behind the space is here[2], and should be self-hostable with reasonable effort.

0. https://arxiv.org/abs/2305.14314
1. https://huggingface.co/spaces/uwnlp/guanaco-playground-tgi
2. https://huggingface.co/timdettmers/guanaco-33b-merged
hm, that seems optimistic for this use-case.
I heard from a compiler engineer that autovectorizing a sort (which is full of permutes/shuffles) is much harder and is likely to remain infeasible for quite some time.
> you could look at PDF as a boring-ass "follow the spec" experience

If only… the problem is that the spec is underspecified.
>Is it really surprising that a few people can run one?

No, and I didn't say that.
Ah, the joys of using obsolete hardware, looks like I missed the issue by one hardware generation.
>How do people realistically get from "it can outperform us" to "therefore we all die"?

It's the year 2023. The "it can kill us all" narrative is 2030+ range as far as I know.

>Sure. I can buy a car that can go faster than I can sprint, too. That's not an existential risk; that's just a better tool.

Not exactly the same. The nuclear bomb can do a lot more damage than a human can physically. Nuclear bombs are an existential risk. Some people equate the development of AI as the same as nuclear bombs.
Haha I hadn't seen that for decades. Those special effects look like something a kid could do today.

Do you remember whether in the movie they explained why they can see outside the ship?
Thats not a lot of code tho, but i see your point.
In the Windows 9x era, it was common for the BIOS to hotpatch the windows kernel to install various bits of 'security' software.

Even today, I think this is how the Dell Computrace anti-theft mechanism works. If you format the disk and install windows afresh, the computrace agent will install itself on the first bootup and ping the internet to see if the system is marked stolen. If you run Linux on your stolen machine, it works fine.

Obviously there are (stolen) "Linux" machines on ebay which work fine, unless you install windows even once, and then they become computrace locked.
> Snowden showed they absolutely spied on each other and shared documents

[citation needed]

The very first sentence you quoted doesn't cite any of Snowden's docs that says that. The very next sentence you quoted has a bunch of citations that say the opposite. In fact, conspiracy theorists speculated what you claim after Snowden dumped his documents, but none of Snowden's documents corroborated that claim.

Previously discussed: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35763700
Ah, so we're in the "extend" portion of the process
It's called WPBT. The answer is yes. This "backdoor" is Windows performing exactly as designed. It's a documented feature.

Even if a vendor doesn't use WPBT because the reputation of WPBT its a bit iffy these days, they'll just create a fake ACPI node that triggers WIndows Update to download a specific driver from the vendor, which is basically the same thing.

MSI uses this second option for the almost identically named option in the BIOS, and it will also download as much "potentially unwanted applications" as Gigabyte's (was that the Windows Defender euphemism for vendor malware again?) .

Like Gigabyte, it's an option which is disabled by default, but tends to "get enabled" a lot. They don't really have to sneak it in -- even power users enable it since they see the motherboard crapware as a benefit (e.g. temperature sensing, color LED strips and related crap)
1) They're formative knowledge for understanding that part of a system. Systems are big and few people understand them entirely. I happened to know those things, but I am a pathologically T-shaped/"paint drip" developer. The middlebrow dismissal of "oh that's basic" is going to get a rise out of people.

2) You threw a one-line, no-help comment out there. That's going to get you downvoted unless it is at least interesting or funny.

3) Now you're complaining about downvotes, which is a big red sign for "downvote me more, for I am mad".
No, when you put it that way I think I completely agree. I don’t think individual humans are a complete thing, so to speak. The idea that we can be an island, that we’re to be self sufficient, to generate goals and purpose and meaning from within – that doesn’t really make sense to me anymore.

It seems only possible to do so properly with a tremendous amount of input and support from other people. Certainly we can navigate the information we encounter and measure and consider what we are doing, but fundamentally none of it is possible without other people. To me, that detail is absolutely crucial.