skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Releasing Flan-Open-Llama-7b, an OpenLLaMA model fine-tuned on the FLAN instruction dataset. https://t.co/CLb3yiwOMH

This is an extension of our work, Shayne Longpre and I, on an open-source reproduction of the FLAN V2 dataset. https://twitter.com/EnricoShippole/status/166175616624899686...

Due to both the nature of the training of OpenLLaMA and the curation of the FLAN dataset, we have been working to realize permissively licensed, quality, instruction-tuned models and datasets similar to the original FLAN-T5 suite.

The compute for this model release is all thanks to the generous sponsorship by @carperai, @EMostaque, and @StabilityAI.

A big thank you to @zhansheng of @AiEleuther and @fabmilo for helping build the dataset as well.

The base OpenLLaMA-7b model used in these experiments was developed by @younggeng and @haoliuhl and can be found here: https://t.co/IBySrP65d3

I previously worked with @ShayneRedford the main author of the FLAN collection to recreate his great work and publicly release high-quality instruction tuning data. https://twitter.com/ShayneRedford/status/1661734033720762368...

You can find the original FLAN repository and all of @ShayneRedford's incredible work here: https://github.com/google-research/FLAN/tree/main/flan/v2#do...

We are going to soon be releasing a massive causal language model dataset containing hundreds of GBs of high-quality instruction data. Look out for that release in the near future.

You can check out @ShayneRedford's new paper on building pre-training datasets here:https://twitter.com/ShayneRedford/status/1660670374206652419...

This is not an official @StabilityAI product.

If you have any questions about the data or model be sure to reach out and ask! I will try to respond promptly.

A Flan-Open-Llama-13b model will be released soon.
Can you clarify pricing? "From $25" is terribly opaque. What are the billing criteria?
How it works here in Canada is that people who work for the government, like nurses and teachers, get treated like crap even though they belong to unions.

The government has a lot of power and can push them around, like by passing legislative orders for them to go back to work in spite of collective bargaining agreements not being ratified.
Show HN: gpt-engineer – platform for devs to tinker with AI programming tools
Hello Hacker News community,

Wanted to share a project I started working on during my spare time and was then discovered by many in the open source community last week.

GPT Engineer’s mission:
Be the open platform for devs to tinker with and build their personal code-generation toolbox.

I believe it's key for us devs to engage in how building software can and will change.

You can find more info about the flexible technical "philosophy" to make it work well, and the community we want it to become on github:
https://github.com/AntonOsika/gpt-engineer

The project is still in early stages. It's clear that there is a lot of room for improvement as the space to combine tricks that guide LLM's is large.

Appreciate any suggestions, experiences, or ideas on the project from you all!
https://archive.ph/kqewK
A serious alternative is neovim together with lsp plugins.
You can set up a preconfigured neovim such as lunarvim and after learning a few shortcuts you are 90% the way what Clion offers.
It isn't totally easy to get into it but at least for coding it is very productive.
Debugging is another story I haven't really touched until now.
Reminds me of a line from this article "My results show that green is my dominant color (analytical, curious) and orange is my secondary (free and spontaneous). Green is a rare personality type at Winn. Miss Blanchard doesn’t offer any examples of how greens can be useful in a prison."

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2016/06/cca-private-pri...
You just knock the snow off your shoes, it's not that crazy.
The only opinion I expressed is one of support for people experiencing this, and recognizing the importance of society coming to a consensus on this issue.
To be honest, I'm not surprised at the 2k number after everyone crazily bloated their companies during the low-rate period. I would be really surprised if they have < 1k.

If anything, the fact that they have only 2k employees shows how much free labor the mods provide.
Classic Reddhat move
I had to add it to my iPhone dictionary to write it in my comment above.
His probably not much software guy, but he has certainly created hardware designs under open licenses - https://www.youmagine.com/toms3dp/designs
What stops then someone to buy a RHEL subscription for the purposes of setting up an unofficial RHEL source mirror?
this should be titled "handles are better implemented this way, rather than as smart-pointers, which themselves aren't really pointers"

and blaming cache misses from fragmentation on pointers is whipping your old tired workhorse.
It's also a little annoying to hear their lead adviser, David Concannon, complain about government moving too slowly:
https://youtu.be/nW3r01_ZWmY

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/oceangate-...

He's representing a company that took safety shortcuts because government regulations slow innovation, but is also complaining that the government isn't helping them quickly enough in this search.

He thanks the governments, but says they need to move faster. As an adviser, he should be telling this company to have a better emergency plan.
Most problems can be solved with increased funding, training and recruitment. But there are just not enough people. Yes, we could surely employ enough emergency call reaponders, but in many many governmental institutions you find a lack of employees, and our society can simply not afford to employ enough bureaucrats, teachers and emergency call reaponders. These issues will simply never be resolved via political means because they are an instance of plain economic scarcity. You can always say that X can just be fixed with more funding, but you can not do that for every single one of these subjects without balooning the government expenses 3x.
Technological advances have a chance to address the core scarcity and therefore actually solve the issue. If we can double the total labor of people employed by the governemnt in such roles, then we have just created a massive gain for society.
That ratio is a somewhat arbitrary thing. Who says it's a good measure?

For gold, perhaps 20% of its value is its actual use and 80% is for the scarcity. For bitcoin it's 0% for actual use and 100% of the price is its scarcity.

When you look at it like this, the difference between gold and bitcoin is not nearly as dramatic.
I am using "woke" to mean "progressive but in a dogmatic and authoritarian way". Yes, I am using it in a derogatory way. That is because I dislike dogmatic authoritarians. I do not use the word to describe progressives who are open-minded and liberal.

>What you're seeing get "nuked from orbit" is hate speech and, "tough luck" attitudes that reduce human beings to some generalization that either isn't true, or severely overemphasized for alienating effect. The fact that one political group tends towards those arguments more than another is a symptom, not the cause.

You perhaps do not have much experience with discussing politics on Reddit if you think that those are the only things that Reddit mods delete.
I agree. but having a QA group was hardly a magic bullet. most of the really talented contributors eschewed QA - even if they enjoyed it - because it meant being identified as a QA person for the rest of their career.

even if you could staff a competent group, they are often left with nothing to do while the devs 'work their magic'. and suddenly its 3 months past the original 'functionally complete' deadline, and QA is given 1 week to do what they .. oh, maybe 3 days really, to do what they need to do.

when it works its irreplaceable. when it doesn't its just a lot of noise and spend and flailing.
For a great read with more recent numbers, I recommend you checkout this post
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22287993
The switch -> https://web.archive.org/web/20170808183612/http://imgur.com/...

The full article:
https://web.archive.org/web/20190919121901/https://www.reddi...
dunno what "TFA" refers to here, but it seems like we're heading into a argument regarding epistemology, which is not a discussion that HN handles well.

IMO "truth" is distraction here because what is at stake here are people's values, not their understanding of math and physics. When people worry about "post-truth", they're worried about liberal values no longer being the unquestioned default. It is absolutely a marketplace, and if people switching marketplaces en-masse makes it harder to launch rockets and develop vaccines, then it probably means those activities are making people net unhappy. People are a lot smarter than we give them credit for, even the dumb ones.
Need to include real estate, marketing, and profit. If its not a mom and pop place, HR + corporate.

Labor is typically 15-70% of the business's cost. (The 70% is in fields like medicine where regulatory capture has limited the number of licenses)

Its also not perfectly efficient. The worker may only be making 5 meals due to a slow day or slow hours. You may find processed foods in a grocery store more similar to '100 meals in the time I can prepare 1'.
I woudl say this is close to, if not completely, a fraudulent product announcement.

The literal state of the art here- announced by IBM a few days ago- is an actual, likely verifiable quantum advantage for a kind of simulation- Ising models- but it doesn't resolve any scientific problems.

There are several areas of woo now:
Quantum woo, genomics woo, and AI woo.

All three fields have exciting results, but the press around them claims things which aren't true and which have no clear path to becoming usable products for decades. Eventually, peopel stop believing in a field, if you woo it too much.
I have never found the Be Book to be particularly engaging reading, but this might finally give me a reason to work through some parts. Thanks!

I’m not sure how much stock to put into the multimedia claims, however—a lot has changed since then, both in the state of human knowledge about low-latency multimedia, A/V sync, network streaming, etc., and in what we can and can’t afford on machines we perform multimedia processing on. How relevant and how commonly known are the insights that BeOS incorporated today?

(You can see that I expect the answers to be “not very” and “extremely”, but sometimes life surprises us. For example—did you know that Microsoft shipped a renderer for 2D animation based on FRP ideas, designed with the direct participation of Conal Elliott himself, in 1998? It was called DirectAnimation and released as part of DirectX 5.)
Adderall also has addictive properties, so users develop tolerance and habituation, so hitting the correct dosage is quite a challenge, and a real downside in my opinion, given the consequences of over-use.
Good looking out, I was going to cancel the other day and losing access to all my audiobook content WAS the impression I got, which caused me to hesitate. After reading your comment, I've gone and cancelled and yep, still have access to all my stuff. Fuck dark pattern bullshit.
that’s my point; approval processes are always gamed around because of the cost such processes impose. You can’t just say oh the rules ought to be perfect and perfectly implemented for it to work. That’s not a world in which we live in. In fact, the more thorough the process, the more to gain in working around it.

In the meantime such processes add much to the expense such that only larger well-funded and well-connected people can participate. The ones most likely to game it, btw.

It’s a reason planes basically look the same for many decades too; newer stuff is harder to get through. Also part of why Boeing thought it best to revise an existing design once more, besides designing a new one. The process led to bad design decisions quite directly, though of course everyone blames Boeing (rightly) but not the process the FAA imposed.
I read the article and the guy sounds like the typical CEO that wants the team to work weekends and to be passionate about it.
it's a business decision that makes sense. Short form entertainment is a huge market that TikTok, Instagram, and Snapchat have been cashing in on. It may be annoying to users but to those that adopt, YouTube stands to gain a lot from it
https://twitter.com/ed_solomon/status/1669178741342326784
My favorite is when the designer doesn’t have a good idea of what’s feasible to implement on the target platform and just designs whatever, leading to a boatload wasted time.

Don’t get me wrong, I have a ton of respect for good designers, but the best designers are those with a slight technical lean who are willing to design around e.g. built in customization on UIKit widgets instead of full wheel reinvention everywhere.
I'm going to assume that Red Hat is the expert on relative bugginess of different versions. If RH believed that the betas were actually bug free, then they would just release them as RHEL. Therefore, I conclude that RH considers RHEL beta- sorry, "CentOS Stream", to be buggier than RHEL. The only open question is how much buggier, and I don't know how to tell that.
Yes, it's *ism.
>Talented employees who know better and try to do better

... typically leave these companies. I know multiple people who made such choices, leaving company that asked for something unethical.

If we were talking about low paid employees with no options, the "they are forced to" would be reasonable argument. But in here these people have choices and are just unwilling to take slightly less paid job.
Reddit ModSupport: entire subs are being deplatformed of their mods
RedHat actually helps Rocky and co by basing RHEL on Centos Stream. Rocky and co can now file bugs on Centos Stream and have it fixed faster for their distribution. Before they could not do that. They had to report further upstream and had to wait until that landed in RHEL. Also RedHat is helped by these fixes. Only winners here.
So then there’s nothing wrong with Microsoft buying Activision-Blizzard as long as they release all their titles on PC as well as XBox?
> "Woke" has always meant being grokking (in the truest sense) the plight of minorities and minority groups (e.g. LGBTQ+). In other words, people who have woken up to what's going on around them.

Exactly, and a "Nazi" is just a person who cares deeply about their country, a patriot.
There are so many flavors of machine learning that we should probably just refer to whole field as XML.
Indeed, asking the wrong question is like being fed to the wolves..
I'm not paying them a dime until they disable that Cloudflare security check. If they can't figure out I'm a real user after opening an account and using the same address repeatedly but at reasonable rates they don't deserve my money.
I use something like that for controlling a cluster of vending machines.
> To date I've seen no logic that shows how any of reddit/spezs actions will actually increase profit.

I think you assume that the only people using it are shutting down while obivously there are lots of profitable companies using the API who will obivously be fine with paying $0.24 per 1,000 API requests.

Then there is obivously OpenAI and other AI based companies that are really the main reason for the change.

Realistically, having Apollo, etc not there drives people to use the main app. Saying that people won't switch over seems naive. There will be some that won't be realistically the vast majority probably will. And those users then go back into monetization drives. Which will increase revenues.
I find myself in exactly the opposite situation. I'm currently a JS developer struggling to find any roles in Clojure I could migrate to.
Pretty cool to think about the amount of work going on behind the covers to alter these projections on the fly. And how costly it was to build them originally by hand.
This paper was discussed, in typically irreverent fashion, on the Very Bad Wizards podcast a while back: https://podcasts.apple.com/sk/podcast/skin-deep/id557975157?...
I apologize if I was incorrect in my phrasing, but I am correct and tried very carefully with nuance.

Profit means creating more value than what is consumed. It is precisely and accurately the exact definition of the word.
Well, go and check: https://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.html

Then see how many of those are OSI approved licences (thus open source).
>It works out just because the places I can walk to for groceries are incredibly overpriced and the restaurants obviously don't source their food there.

I typically don't buy my groceries from the gas station despite them having a half gallon of milk for $4 and it being 3 minutes walking away.

I also don't use gas station numbers to determine if something is cheaper or more expensive.
It is very relevant, but also very difficult to pull off. You need to be correct that there is even a potential market for what you want to sell and you need to come up with something or package something in a compelling way no one has thought of before. The best example is probably the Nintendo Wii and Nintendo 3DS. They actually came out and talked about Blue Ocean when launching it. I don't know if they were thinking about the strategy when designing the products, but they correctly assessed that the market was not core gamers but people who usually do not even play games. That is a pretty bold gamble.
Why on earth would this ever be accepted as a HN post.
I don't know if the HN community is a fan of the All In Podcast or not, but they did a piece about this a while back...

https://youtu.be/3slYsEzJZoY?t=2873
>Using it as a slur, as originally done by Trump, places you into a very specific camp that is certainly nowhere near moderate.

It really does not, and you thinking that it does is a good example of the kind of dogmatic "if you are not with me you are with the enemy" attitudes that make so many people annoyed with wokism.

There are many political moderates and even some leftists who are annoyed by wokism.
I got into Qalculate! last year and I haven't found any units in my day to day work as an engineer that weren't built in. Unit conversion is good but the bundling of it with more of the math equation is the ultimate usability win for me.

https://qalculate.github.io/
This workflow has historically worked for us quite well. We merge in features rapidly so having GitHub be the source of truth for activity that needs to be tested is beneficial for never accidentally missing items.

FYI we used to use Trello (using the same workflow) but switched to Jira and wrote this tool in the process. Jira aggregation in the web app can be quite slow so actually this tool makes tracking a bit nicer as well.
Old centOS is just a RHEL clone.
The only supported version is CentOS 7, which is clone of RHEL 7
Analyzing a YouTube sponsorship phishing mail targeting content creators
Preserving the relative proportions of the continents while also emphasizing how the continents nearly form one giant supercontinent is why I prefer the Dymaxion projection: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dymaxion_map

It works by projecting the earth onto an icosahedron (a D20) and then unfolding it. Distortion is fairly low and roughly equal across all the continents; here's a graphic that demonstrates the relative distortion: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dymaxion_map#/media/File:Dymax...

Honorable mention to the Peirce quincuncial projection, which both tiles the plane and also cleverly arranges the continents to concentrate distortion into the oceans, as an alternative aesthetic projection: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peirce_quincuncial_projection
On that topic, few things bother me more than the phrase "trust the science."

I understand the intention, but we should be encouraging skepticism and engagement with the underlying tools and methodology.

People will scoff at this but you can find a ton of different "Flat Earthers" either accidentally proving the earth is curved using their own experiments (Eg. Bob Knodel), or even dying trying to prove them (Eg. "Mad" Mike Hughes).

Science is not some "pure" pursuit of truth, with no care for politics, economics, social influence, or biases. Technocrats genuinely scare me, as they often combine these two things, by claiming authority via "trust the science" type nonsense, while holding delusions of scientific purity.
A related short story by Ted Chiang speculating on a world without attractiveness:

"Liking What You See: A Documentary" by Ted Chiang - https://waldyrious.neocities.org/ted_chiang/liking-what-you-...
>You're taking water from clouds that would normally have dropped it elsewhere, which just shifts the problem by depriving some other region of the water it relies on.

The majority of rain falls over the ocean, so it may not be taking it from somewhere that needs more water.
Also in terms of security, Oracle's "forks" are decades behind. They managed to make RedHat unsecure with their own dogshit changes.

There are so many CVEs for Oracle specifically that are just bad default usernames and passwords, where they still dispute the CVE reports because it is "intended behaviour".

So ridiculous...
Yeah, that's not what "woke" means! That's insulting. You're inviting hostility, how could you be surprised when you're treated poorly in return?

And I have literal decades of experience on Reddit. I've been there since ~2007 (Alexis sent me some Reddit car stickers and other random swag back in '08 as part of an early promotion), and I moderated a number of these subs that are now famously getting blown up, but quit when I discovered the cabal-like hidden IRC channels where mods would shit-talk their userbase, plot ways to crush smaller subs, and generally be gigantic assholes towards people they had power over.

I personally believe mods are a net negative on Reddit, but not because they're "woke" or anything. Many are just assholes. You can be both liberal and an asshole, politics has very little to do with this situation.

But more importantly, this isn't Reddit. This is HN, and frankly I've experienced a fairly strong libertarian lean around these parts that happily comes out to converse when the topic isn't fraught with words like "woke".
If it helps your imagination, here’s a photo: https://cdn.bfldr.com/N0AMS98X/at/g4nb84kqfv2stbk635shx4/GMT... (28 MB)
Already discussed here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36420207
The better question is why the US education system has become a zero sum game.

I'm not sure I agree with that assertion. But, if it is, my vote would be to fix that instead of throwing out the system. Public education works - it worked in the US for decades and it works in most of our peer nations.
This kind of take mainly seems an expression of the human tendency to see the world in terms of hierarchies l, and obsession with being near the top of those hierarchies. In this model, the idea of e.g. symbiotic relationships simply doesn't compute.
Just a Jira/GitHub user, as we are
I think this is just pure arrogance. Some of the best content creators on the planet aren't technical. In fact, very few of technical people are good content creators. We just like to think we're so good.
Well, it sort of is a "super power". As you say, it won't teach you technique or musical taste, but it is a great help for improvisational music and composing.

I have played music for quite some time and have worked on my relative pitch a fair bit, and I still struggle to improvise what I think in my head, whereas a person with perfect pitch would do it effortlessly and perfectly every time.
All those tools conceal finite automata which have to do the equivalent of that regex pattern.