skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Companies, sure. But companies don't spend money - people working at them do. And people working there can have incentives that don't align with the companies incentives.
Very nice einstein..now write a paper and get it reviewed by scientists
I've only seen people mention that it runs really slow, even on like A100s.
Q also. K can be used instead.
Is this a decompiled version? I mean Blizzard won't open source it right?
He didn’t say the decision was non-negotiable. He said that they’re not [currently] negotiating on the decision.
Blinken is out of his depth when trying to act as a diplomat.

He just doesn't have the skills.
> -Everything- is negotiable at the end of the day.

Right, and saying "We aren't going to negotiate" is a negotiating tactic
The San Francisco you knew will never return. The city has crashed and recovered dozens of times. Each time differently than the last. It will rise again in a new and interesting way. And crash again too.
I think Lemmy has a similar API, so the hope is those apps will start working towards being Lemmy clients.
I was working in organizations with 60-80 employees. One had a one-person HR „department“, the other one part-time (or rather a guy who did other stuff as well). Worked fine.
This kind of criticism is unfortunately not new. VCs are routinely criticized for funding enterprises on little more than hunches, and history is replete with examples of investments that made no sense, from the infamous Tulip Mania onward.

It really speaks to a few things: 1) how irrational apparently intelligent people can be, 2) the importance of salemanship, and 3) that the value of capital to those who have a lot of it is much less than its value to those who have little, and so they are more willing to take bets such as those described.
I found that useful as I had no idea what SDF was: https://voxel-tools.readthedocs.io/en/latest/smooth_terrain/
What is your current system to make sure that the code that you run on your machine isn’t politically totalitarian?
Then the video should be titled "Informative tour of a nuclear submarine". Not focusing on one question.
Yes, agreed. This looks like it is being actively developed. It has some interesting ideas. I like the fact that conflicts are committed, and can be resolved later:

"""If an operation results in conflicts, information about those conflicts will be recorded in the commit(s). The operation will succeed. You can then resolve the conflicts later. One consequence of this design is that there's no need to continue interrupted operations."""
Duplicate: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36317875
Counter-intuitively, lossy compression can result in better quality than lossless compression! Sure, if you start off with a 4K raw video and compress it, by definition the quality gets worse. But if you compared 8K lossy that's the same size as 4K raw, then the 8K video would look better. That's because it allocates the bits more efficiently, putting them to work where it counts.

It's a fairly safe bet that the same would apply to LLMs. If you start with a simple uncompressed LLMs that is 65B parameters and somehow compress or quantise it down to less than that, it will inevitably become a little dumber.

But if you compared the raw LLM to one that utilised all of these tricks and was the same size, then the latter would be superior because it could use the available parameters more efficiently.

If we can train and run GPT-3 cost effectively now with ~100B parameters, then it's a safe bet that we could train something as smart as GPT-4, with >200K window sizes, but as fast as GPT-3 for inference. (That's assuming all the recent quantization techniques are also applied.)

I'm betting we'll have something like that generally available within two years.

That'll be terrifying. An AI that can read and understand a book every few seconds...
oh let's just see that world where "AI" is "writing" the SQL queries and see how that goes.

LLMs work by hallucinating mashups of existing code examples stolen from webpages. Writing correct SQL for complex cases definitely needs real understanding, not just elaborate typeahead.
The book is an anthropological history of money. I wouldn't say it has a single thesis, although the idea that money has arose out of debt-relationships in different periods is a recurring theme. It starts in Babylon, where he looks at how temples acted as debt-registrars for cities and how this evolved into a currency system. He moves forward through history and theorizes why some periods are dominated by intrinsically valuable currency (boullion) vs. paper notes or other more abstract stores-of-value. I believe the final chapter covers the 1970s after Nixon moved off the gold standard.
think about apps that have billions of users, they build their own wrappers around sqlite.
llama.cpp just got Falcon support (not yet merged), so you could run it on just RAM. Not too fast though.
not really, that’s control-clicking. They’d need four buttons to cover the permutations (before you even get to command and shift clicking)
We know what the solutions are. Because they were implemented in the 1930s, and removed in the 1980s and 1990s as "deregulation".

- The US needs Glass-Stegall back. That's the requirement that banks and brokerages must be completely separate companies. The argument for repealing Glass-Stegall was that banks were now so smart that they didn't need such severe restrictions to prevent collapse from bad investment decisions. The banks were wrong.

- Companies should only be allowed one class of voting stock. The New York Stock Exchange used to require that, back when the NYSE had real power. Allowing multiple classes of voting stock is what gives us President for Life CEOs such as Google and Facebook have.

- No stock buybacks. Illegal in the US from the 1930s to 1981. The US recently banned stock buybacks for 12 months for companies which received coronavirus funding.[1] But that was a one time thing. During periods of low interest rates, companies tended to buy back their own stock with borrowed money to prop up the stock price. This mostly benefits executives with stock options.

- Limits on complexity of corporate organization. This was a thing for utility companies until a decade or so ago. They were limited to a tree depth of 3 in ownership. This was to make regulation easier and reduce the risk of bankruptcy cascades. See "Enron".

- Utility deregulation. Regulated utilities used to be standard. They got a monopoly in exchange for regulation. Since they were allowed a fixed rate of return on investment for rate-setting purposes, they were not hugely profitable but were very stable. The argument in the 1980s for deregulation is that utilities tended to overspend on infrastructure, building about 10% more stuff than they really needed. With deregulation, that money could go to stockholders. When Pacific Gas and Electric was deregulated, the company went bankrupt in only a few years, leaving the stockholders with nothing. And consumer prices went up in deregulated states vs regulated ones.[2]

- Tax law favors debt, where interest is deductible as a business expense, over dividends, which are not deductible. This encourages taking on too much debt.

- US bankruptcy law allows "secured creditors" too much security. Bankruptcy is too easy on lenders and too hard on accidental creditors.

What we need is a return to conservative financial principles.

[1] https://smartasset.com/financial-advisor/stock-buyback-ban

[2] https://ceepr.mit.edu/deregulation-market-power-and-prices-e...
In general I agree. Some people, and even entire cultures, thinking that saying plain "no" is rude, and trying to soften it by replacing with "maybe" or "maybe later".

It doesn't make sence to say "maybe later" f you use a "fixed time - fixed scope" type planning, e.g. Scrum sprints.

But in case you use a more sane "fixed time - variable scope" approach (like for example in Shape Up or informal mini-waterfall SDLCs), then naturally there will be nice-to-have features/tasks with lower priorities, i.e. literally "maybe-s". Shape Up even have a notation for such scopes and tasks:

Must-have scope
-[ ] Must-have task 1
-[ ] Must-have task 2
-[ ] ~Maybe-later task 3

~Nice-to-have scope
-[ ] ~Optional task 1
-[ ] ~Maybe-later task 2
-[ ] ~Nice-to-have task 3

There are also methodologies where product people can continuously prioritize scopes/features by their value, signaling to the developers what they should implement first, and what they can leave out in case of running out of time.
> And yet, when it comes to AI literacy, we are still in the relative Dark Ages, where a limited group of priests and priestesses — engineers working in academia and tech — manage this knowledge for everyone else

Right.. AI is software and it's not yet capable of self-improvement and self-maintenance. "Learning AI" is in fact a subfield of computer science, and it may be a good idea to start there. If I'm charitable to the article it's about learning AI tools, not so much about creating AI models, especially since the point of AI will be to become an assistant that you can give commands with plain language.
Worth noting that according to the initial press release, they're also working on Falcon 180B, which would be the largest (and likely most effective) open source model by far.
Apple has, for 20+ years now, wrestled with workarounds to the Mac's central UI blunder: making all applications share a single menu that's glued to the top of the screen.

Every other windowing OS recognized that menus belong on their applications' main window frames, which makes the desktop an unlimited workspace.

Apple should have made the same transition with OS X, but, in true Apple fashion, petulantly refused to acknowledge that others got it right. So we're stuck with this idiotic swapping of menu contents behind the user's back. If you're temporarily done with an application and minimize it, revealing the one you were working with before... guess what? You're still using the menu for the application you "dismissed." Asinine.
The lemmy.ml authors appear to be communists. Their ideology and support of China doesn’t mean they are somehow funded or corrupted by China. That is an irrational and conspiratorial line of thought.

Or would you prefer to ban communists and their ideas from the internet? What would that make you?
In my experience as a former employee at one of the largest mobile game developers, the reason iOS apps are high quality is because the users are richer and deliver higher revenue.
That sort of thing has been present on reddit since the start... it was how they started the site.

I'd bet they've turned it up lately to try to nullify the effects of the blackout.

Predictable and sad, really.
they also have their own version of firebase. firebase is the open source version of what google uses inside. sometimes big tech open sources parts of their technology (if its coded nice to dissect).
Oh wow, i wasn't aware of nesting support in native css, with variables and nesting, there seems to be no real reason for using sass anymore...
Also, for those of us who are strictly users and are not likely to contribute, we don't have to take sides in anything.

1. Use the RSS client of your choice

2. Go to a master list of all federated Lemmy communities e.g. https://lemmy.world/communities/listing_type/All/page/1

3. Click through to any community on any instance that looks interesting and add its RSS feed to your client.

I don't know precisely what the future of Lemmy will be, I wish them well because they've produced a cool piece of software which is more open than Reddit and puts RSS front and center. But for the time being I simply have some Lemmy feeds right next to the old.reddit.com feeds in my RSS reader, pure win for me as a user. My universe grew and I don't have to have a horse in anyone's race. This is why we RSS.
the meme of "groomers" is just alt-right shorthand for anyone who holds the first viewpoint described by OP -- it's an epithet used against people they dislike, not an accurate criticism to be taken literally

for a good illustration of this, examine the politics of people who organize, attend, and participate in actual underage beauty pageants in the US -- the last US president, for example

it's not surprising, because the point of beauty pageants is to reinforce the conservative stereotype that a woman's job is to stand there and look pretty

you'll also note that, as mentioned above, conservatives don't apply the term to breastaurants when children are present there -- I didn't see a response to that, and it bears repeating
https://engineering.fb.com/2023/02/06/ios/facebook-ios-app-a...
I never said they are funded by China. I didn't say but they were corrupted by them either. I also didn't say they should be banned from the internet.

You basically invented three things that I never said here.

I said they support China, and implicitly support the sort of authoritarian control that China represents.

That authoritarian control is fundamentally incompatible with open source, and free speech, and democracy, and most human rights.

If you support any of those things you would be a fool to support Lemmy.
I’ll admit it was before my time. It’s amazing the things (e.g., VPC) we take for granted…
If you are in 4 or more meetings in a day and receive 100+ emails then your manager is incompetent and should be fired. The whole point of being a good manager is to maximise the real work produced by the team. Which means minimising interruptions.
And the blurred things that were in frame and shouldn’t have been.
I am sorry for insulting the inhabitants of Donegal in such a way (although I probably used insulting terms for it, I don't consider the rural life to be dishonorable in any way).

Admittedly my impressions are hasty and not based on a first-hand experience of any kind. Basically, I toured the place on Google Maps, did some tourism research, and basically did a lot of planning for a trip I won't be taking any time soon.

I did find that there are no major urban centers. Sure, Derry is right up there, but technically it's in Northern Ireland and not in Donegal. Every village I inspected (again, through the lens of Google Maps) seemed to contain a coffeehouse, a pub or two, a hotel, and a few independently-owned little shoppes.

I definitely know of a department store from which I ordered goods online, but what I did not spot in Donegal were any apartment-block highrises, downtown centres with a fast-food district and a promenade for people to stroll around, or any of the marks of upscale urban life. In learning about professions and occupations throughout Donegal, I came to know many dairy and beef farmers, lots of fishermen, there was one King of Tory Island in fact, and it seemed like a lot of subsistence workers and rather a lack of office workers in a "thriving tech industry" of some kind.

So correct me if I'm wrong, or just flame away instead, if that's your inclination, I guess. And then I can add "verbally abusive" to my impression of today's Irishman.
How hard is it to say "that's not going to work" or "maybe one day" or "that's a good idea". If it's something open and collaborative, maybe someone will see the idea and be willing to implement it. Also, on a separate note, why are you so aggressive and belittling?
ESL is indeed widely recommended for ML but perhaps, I am looking for something more data-exploration focused. In any case, did you find Kevin Murphy's MLPP to be helpful? I read the book in detail and found the book as an introductory mathematical book for discussing ML algorithms, rather than doing any real world data-modeling or prediction error analysis -- it may help with ML, but not sure if it will help me with DS. And the book (at least the edition I used) was full of non-trivial errors.
You're asking this in bad faith, but...

First off, I'm opting to not use Lemmy.

I've swapped my whole computer stack except for one gaming PC to Linux. I adamantly avoid any hardware whose stack is owned by anyone in China, and I run a pretty tight ship when it comes to my firewall and networking.

Next on my list is getting my phone de googled.
How do you distinguish a private office with no window from a closet?
> It really really matters that the authors are supporting authoritarian nations that engage in active censorship when they're running a platform that's supposed to be against censorship.

What platform? lemmy.ml? You're free to not use it if you disagree with how it's moderated.

Or are their political beliefs part of Lemmy, the software?

The beauty of OSS is that you can change whatever you disagree with. The beauty of federated software is that you're free to use any instance you _do_ agree with.

In any case, this is not something the authors should be vilified for. Stop it.
Because at some point data has to be exchanged across threads. For example a task queue might have tasks that can independently executed in a thread pool, but the queue index has to be atomically modified when some other thread emplaced a new task. Or if you want to transfer ownership of a heap allocated object between threads, you need to atomically transfer the pointer, or modify the reference count of that pointer. Things like that.
Writing software that powers open speech might be the strongest way to oppose China.
I’m not sure how long it’s been included, but a non-technical colleague of mine noticed this week that VS Code now has built-in “history” for files in a project. Highly limited compared to a VCS, but very useful for basic change history and reversion.
Just look at how much time EU devoted to defining all the different types of wine.

A thing is what it is.
My Apple Watch detected an AFib about a year and a half ago. Was mildly freaked out at the time but glad that I got the alert. Nothing major, thankfully. Was on a mostly plant-based diet (no meat at all) and wasn't getting enough iron. Easy fix.
I do like both of the books; but I found them more focused on mathematical analysis of algorithms rather than analysis of the real world noisy data (and choosing/making which algorithm to use).
Java doesn’t enforce any particular style. I’ve seen extremely procedural code that is full of statics where it’s obvious the authors were attempting to write C in Java. I’ve seen all manner of attempts at OOP where classes were meticulously restricted to nouns and the opposite where every class was a Service/Verb. Of late I’ve seen Java server side code that’s drank the reactive kool aid and done it’s level best to recreate NodeJS in Java.

Now, your assertion about scaling to more engineers may be true but I’d argue tooling is the main reason for this because Java certainly doesn’t enforce any particular style of programming.
> and it was almost entirely squandered.

Oh, it went to exactly the intended place: propping up asset prices, corporate profits, and the stock market. Absolutely nothing was an accident.
If you tried to sell a bottle of milk as wine, you’d get in trouble fast.
Well from the article he gets the money from A16Z.
I will say both of them are in the same boat on using other people money.
> You're free to not use it if you disagree with how it's moderated.

Yes, and I urge everyone reading this thread to also not use it. I'm telling them why they should opt not to use it.

I disagree, and I disagree to the extent that I think it would be counterproductive for anyone who believes in open source or freedom of speech to go use an instance run by people who clearly hold positions counter to those values.

Because at the end of the day you don't trust people who support authoritarian censorship with the stack that you try to speak freely on.
Ah, thank you. I did hear about Gelman's books before, but I haven't read them in detail. Will check those out. Do you have references/books for non-Bayesian approach as well?
All the things listed would be deflationary if anything (since people would naturally rein in spending to have a buffer against uncertainty), but you're not supposed to ask about the causal mechanism.
Plenty options <= $1.5m , so $8.2k - $9k monthly PITI. In the worse case, you consider that lost $ and now your disposable is still $162k. But actually, rent is closer to the net housing cost, because owning will reduce your taxes, increasing income ~$1k/mth, another + ~$2k/mth into equity, and another + $2k/mth inflation (loan is chipped away), so you're still looking at $4k/mth actual cost (if not less).
I don't think extinction is a risk, that is an exaggeration but I think some of the warnings are plausible. At worse it could be a civilization collapse. The most likely negative outcome will be dealing with the disruption in every area of life, government, economics, etc.

The milestone to be worried about is when AI gains proper agency, which is both the most useful part of AI, and also the most dangerous. We want intelligent machines to make decisions and work on their own towards high level goals with little supervision. That is of course a double edged sword, and where costly mistakes can be made. So while I don't think we're there yet, we are certainly closing in on it.
Is this how we get ball lightning or plasma balls in microwaves? Or a whole class of other discreet spherical material thingys?

I mean, maybe the generator doesn't have to be a precise thing. Maybe a mess of waves randomly bouncing around can do it too.

It's suggestive.
You can and should use atomics, just not in any kind of hot loop. Using atomics is fine but expensive.
> Is there theoretically a method to have an LLM to not hallucinate and just say “I don’t know” or just answer questions based on a certain domain of knowledge which it is well trained on?

That is a very good question. What Google returns for "LLM hallucination" mostly describes post-processing hacks to detect the problem, or pre-processing hacks to guide the LLM into using data directly relevant to the question asked. Not doing something to the core LLM system to get some measure of confidence out.

Anyone working on this?
Not when the people who run that software happily support China.

I've said it elsewhere in this thread, but unless you want to audit the whole network stack, maintain that software going forward, and somehow totally disconnect the name Lemmy from the people who wrote the software, you're empowering them by using it.

And while China does not support free speech within their country, sure they would be ecstatic to have the opportunity to own run or maintain or have people friendly to them owning running and maintaining software that other countries use to have speech within themselves.

It would be very foolish to give them that ability.
What arguments/evidence do you have to support claim that humans by nature always desire "more"?
The only thing I can think of is that Zig makes it easier to use different allocators on a per-collection basis, whereas for Rust the only way to alter the allocator used by the standard containers is to change the global allocator. But Rust programs aren't allocating that much in the first place, certainly not so much that swapping out an allocator on a per-collection basis is going to triple the performance of arbitrary programs; at best, fine-grained allocator control will give modest gains on certain extremely allocation-heavy workloads. And collections in Rust can certainly use custom allocators if they want to, e.g. https://crates.io/crates/bumpalo , so that's not something inherent to the language.
Eh, that comes down to how you choose to use the platform.

Speaking for myself, early on I used the local and federated feeds to find interesting people to follow, but once my followed list was built up, I found I rarely spent time in those feeds.

Personally, I'd say if folks are using Mastodon in the way you're describing, they'd be better off using Lemmy or kbin, which are centered around communities containing topics, as then you can just follow those communities rather than following individual people.