skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What I mean by “local-first” is not the same as “self-host”. Local-first software are architected in a way where the local device is the source of truth. It usually uses CDRTs or something like git to sync with other peers. It is not a client-server architecture. Uploading files to a personal server is more of designating the server as a peer and regularly syncing with it, similar to how git works with remote repos.

Local-first architecture allows for better control over what you are storing. For me though, local-first architecture lets me take notes with little latency, and I don’t have to wait for timeouts so that the app realizes it is offline. I just want to get to typing in my note quickly and think about syncs later.
I can't even visualise how this would work in any meaningful way. You are going to have some software that "attests" that, say, the user is running an approved version of Chrome. But you couldn't just distribute such software everywhere, since I assume it would be trivial to extract any keys from it and then attest whatever you wanted. The site mentions "Google Play" as a possible attestor, so it would perhaps work on locked-down mobile devices, at best.
I have seen similar pricing strategies for obscure domains from other registars. Generally they entice you with a cheap first year and increase it subsequently. Some registrars make the pricing strategy apparent. I think your option is to shop around and transfer the domain to a cheaper one.
by a piece of data, you presumably mean a block of untyped memory? i would suggest that is not how most people view a union, and that your union has either one or two members, depending on how it is used.
Science budgets are already so absurdly low that this idea of getting people to Mars will just sap them further. This just isn't wise spending given the priorities that we have, like not destroying the planet further.

For half a century we have been massively slashing science spending. From a peak of 2.5% GDP in 1962 steadily down to about 0.5% today. There's not much left.
These situations are cultural tests of the organizations they exist inside of and their collective cultural immune systems. If the organization is unable to excise these tumors, they become malignant.

My advice to anyone caught in such a scenario is to assess the situation. If your organization is unable to make tough but necessary decisions about this situation, take it as an honest reflection of reality and expect an object the motion to remain in motion without directional change.

If you don't find relief after trying to create change, there are two options: stay in place and accept it, or vote with your feet.
That last paragraph. Cuts like a knife
Short names actually help with readability when they are commonly used. It's a lot quicker to go over the code when you don't need to read as much, similar to how one would write something like x+y=z in math instead of putting descriptive name for each variable in each step or using things "1€/kg" instead of "one euro per kilogram" (or let alone including kilogram's definition from SI standard).
> then let's the CEO he has a new number and provides a fake number

I came to a similar conclusion regarding the implementation of the attack. The scenario in my head was slightly different, but very similar (still includes a new number):

Kevin provides his business card and sets up a meeting with the CEO to report on his progress (or whatever). When the CEO calls at the scheduled time - Kevin doesn't answer. Sometime later Kevin calls the CEO and apologizes for missing the call, and explains that he didn't see any missed calls.

At that point the CEO explains that he tried to call, and even left a message. Kevin has a sudden flash of insight and realizes that he may have given the CEO one of his old business cards.

"What's the phone number on the business card I gave you? I'm wondering if I've been handing out my old business cards to people... that would actually explain a lot." (presumably the phone number on the business card in question would include digits 0-9 in a not-super-obvious way)

The CEO reads back the phone number on the card and Kevin slaps his forehead because that is in fact the wrong business card. Kevin gives the CEO his new number, and they finish the scheduled meeting. On future calls the CEO is able to contact Kevin using the new number, which lends credence to the attack.
Is this not possible currently in the US? That’s quite surprising!
There's even a significant number of people in the US for whom bank accounts are unavailable. Hacker News really is an ivory tower in many ways.
> A-bomb architect “was no Einstein,” historian says, but he did Nobel-level work on black holes

As a layman I find it hard to parse the difference from “no Einstein” but still doing “Nobel-level” work.

The interview didn’t really help explain it.
Almost thirty years and I never knew that.
That’s a good point. Perhaps “after the conversation” is more accurate, though harder to define. Still, it got a chuckle out of me.
One low quality bank?

Bank gets bailed out? That's a dire sign for the fundamental value of the dollar to regular people if this is a regular practice.

Bank gets bought up? Well we don't really have 5k banks anymore do we?
Computer Science seems to fit into the "so-called science" category, since few published results are independently reproduced.
I used the 13B model locally on Ollama, and it gave the same answer.

You can run the 13B model by using the 13b tag like:

ollama run llama2:13b

>>> tell me a joke about emacs
Here's a joke about Emacs:

Why did the Emacs user bring a ladder to the party?

Because they heard the drinks were on the second floor!

This joke pokes fun at the idea that Emacs is a powerful, feature-rich text editor with a steep learning curve, and that some users might feel like they need a "ladder" or a detailed guide to help them navigate its many features. Of course, this is just a lighthearted joke and not meant to be taken seriously.
> Easy-rated Sudoku puzzle means a puzzle classified as easy by any reputable Sudoku site or puzzle generator. This market plans to use the LA Times(Sudoku - Free daily Sudoku games from the Los Angeles Times (latimes.com)) for judging, but I maintain the option to use a different Sudoku generator.

Is there any theoretical reason why an attention based llm could or couldn't generate an answer to an NP hard problem? As I understand, attention is N^2, but it's not obvious if that's relevant to the complexity of problems that can be solved. It's obviously not relevant to answers that are regurgitated, which may be all answers?

It would be better if "easy" had a mathematical definition.
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When I read this post, I imagined the author talking about hard science like physics, chemistry, and other fields that require pretty significant investment in proper tools and a strong understanding of deeply complex topics that have been battle-hardened over decades. I don't think the problem with those fields is that we need more amateur cooks in the kitchen.

However, this post was written by a post-doc in social psychology, and is employed in the management division of a business school. I'm ready to believe that a rank amateur could walk into his field and do science just as well as anyone else, and this post makes a lot more sense.
I will speak from my own experience of interviewing a lot of people in the last 5 years. Age has not been a factor, it's the skillset. At a senior level, the expectation is to be a bit of a generalist and have at least one skill that you are very strong at. What I don't like about the current trend of interviews is the strong focus on leetcode style interviews, most of which you will don't get to practice when you are at a staff level.
Correct, there is one contiguous block of memory that can be interfaced in multiple manners. It is still the same block of data, in much the way EAX is just a portion of RAX; not an independent register.
what's the best repo to create your own vector db but then query openai with the context?
I agree with comments saying this is basically a 10-line "demo script" everyone could write and it is weird to have big names associated with it.

But I heard from MS friends that AI is an absolute "need to have". If you're not working on AI, you're not getting (as much) budget. I suspect this is more about ticking the box than producing some complex project. Unfortunately, throughout the company, folks are doing all kinds of weird things to tick the box like writing a "copilot" (with associated azure openai costs) fine-tuned on a handful of documentation articles :(
This is… such a bad train of thought.

If you don’t know apple turned over private text messages of congressional officials and NYTimes reporters WITHOUT protest or question to the Trump Administration. And before you say otherwise Google and Microsoft both did not.

They do not care about privacy, it’s all marketing.
And in what respect does this contradict my statement? The paper appeared in 1973.

(By the way: Simula 67 was mostly influenced by Simula I; both Simula versions are an extension of Algol 60; with some minor exceptions Algol 60 is a subset of Simula 67 - as later Stroustrup did it with C and C++).
Or a story if anti-aliasing but getting each pixel computed multiple times and averaging the results. Over time the image should get better as the errors are diluted. It will significantly increase the amount of HPU time required, but with enough human processing units willingly taking part the wall-clock time might not be too badly affected.
Thank you - I should now ask - does anyone have experience with transferring a premium domain? How does the pricing generally work?
AI makes it a lot more feasible.
this is going to create space for some hilarious and funky input attacks.
The quote marks on that page are a real mess. Best practice is to use double curly quotes or single curly quotes—not backtick and apostrophe.

See https://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/ucs/quotes.html
("Summary: Please do not use the ASCII grave accent (0x60) as a left quotation mark together with the ASCII apostrophe (0x27) as the corresponding right quotation mark (as in `quote').")

Also, Founder's Caslon is commercially available, at least, it is now.
https://www.myfonts.com/collections/founders-caslon-font-itc
The preloaded images would all be Solaris anyway. ;-)
Give Ukraine time to build up it's defenses against Russian invasion....
Is that bad?

Russia is the aggressor here. It is quite simple.

All the eastern European countries wanted to join NATO because they are afraid of Russian invasion. Turns out they were right.
Einstein expanded several fields of physics.

Special + general relativity

Microscopic definition of Brownian motion

Photoelectric effect

Mass-energy equivalence
It seems like the answer based on this article is "pretty good." The evidence in favor of this is his paper on collapsing stars causing black holes (which the author suggests would have won him a Nobel Prize in other circumstances) and that he was the conceptual designer for the bomb itself. That's a pretty good case in my book.
They are not even close to the same specs.
Basically you know how you can ACH payments from your account to someone else’s and back but it only happens the next morning as long as the next morning is a business day? Now it would happen instantly on any day.
https://fonts.google.com/?query=Igino+Marini
Considering the throng people who have received one I’m not even sure “Nobel-level” is actually about the work.
Elements. Choose your own IP scheme and the last octet is the element's number.

Palladium? 10.0.0.46.

As a side-effect I now know a lot more about the periodic table.
Private jets are quite inefficient but it's just a minor one of many emission sources. It should be blamed but just banning private jet doesn't end global warming.
Also https://fonts.google.com/?query=Igino+Marini
To me it implies that Russian designs on Ukraine were understood quite some time ago, and the "buying time" to make Ukraine "stronger" was the counter to Russia's intention. That supposition about Russia's intentions has since been proven correct.

Russia may feel aggrieved that their goal of re-subsuming the independent former Soviet republics has been somewhat thwarted, but clearly that has been and still is their policy.
America’s Cultural Revolution: A Review
Anyway, that's not how indulgences work. They aren't a matter of "gain this indulgence and I get to indulge in something that's normally a sin."

Since fasting and abstinence are a matter of Church Law and not Divine Law, the practices can be the subject of a dispensation or commutation by an authority such as the pastor. For example, on St. Patrick's Day in these United States, when it falls on a Friday (as it did this year) it's customary for bishops to grant dispensations for the faithful to enjoy corned beef, or a commutation, to pray the Rosary and then enjoy corned beef (or pork tempura).

Whether any given pastor could be influenced by the money from a "rich lord/merchant" is left as an exercise for the reader, but if practically all his parishioners are tithing and paying his salary anyway, then what can you do?
It's likely worse than that, because I suspect this study is biased towards flame retardants being effective.

It is true in a very narrow range of conditions a flame retardant can prevent combustion, but it's like an airbag that will only deploy for impacts between 15 and 17 MPH. In real world circumstances with real world combustion sources they don't make a difference.
I see authors et al claiming it is illegal or infringing to train an LLM on their art analogous to claiming a person is infringing or committing an illegal act by reading or viewing their art.

Asking an LLM to write something in the style of some author amounts to asking a person to parody that author. Asking that same person to produce the original work verbatim is a different matter. And yes, LLMs can certainly be tuned to respect these issues.

I'll end quoting 10cc, Art for Arts Sake, money for God's sake. "gimme a bullet, gimme a smash"
A vehicle driven by people who engage in douchebag behavior.

The stereotype in the US is anyone driving a BMW, and any sort of lifted pickup. A non douchey vehicle, as a class of vehicles, would probably be a minivan, a Camry, or a Civic.
There are smart people, and then there are the people smart people know are smarter than them by an order of magnitude.

The world is run by smart people, built on a foundation of knowledge creating by generations of the greatest minds that make smart people look normal.
A single forward pass shouldn't be able to, but remember the format allows it to be iterated. So it should be Turing Complete, if the error rate is low enough and enough iterations are allowed.
Waveshare and Pimoroni have some that work well with Raspberry Pi, if they're in your budget. I built a Waveshare epaper display + Pi Zero into a photo frame for a totally different project. Your idea tempts me.
Of course we know how to begin. We're doing it as we speak!

Cancer survival rates are constantly getting better. The payback for investment in biotech research has been huge and even bigger dividends are on the horizon.

Look at the Hepatitis drugs and weight loss drugs that actually work. These along will address the leading causes of death today.

Coming soon is xenotransplantation. Already we're experimenting with hearts. The outlook is that in 10 years we'll routinely be doing this. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10143783/

> There are ideas for universal treatments for cancer and aging - hundreds of them. Which ones do we dump our billions and billions into investigating?

There really aren't. The basic technology is mostly the same. And we have a system for deciding what to spend money on: scientists write grants, get some funding, show results, and then we repeat at a bigger scale seeing who can deliver the best results. It's not perfect, but it works.

Cancer deaths today are a choice we make as a society to not invest in research. We can't "cure cancer" tomorrow, but even with the tiny resources allocated today we're making significant progress. We could do so much more!

For example, in the 70s 5-year survival across all cancers was 58%. Now it's 85%.
Take this as a biased personal opinion from a professional physicists, not necessarily representative of the field as a whole: Einstein's insights were on a scale quite a bit beyond what anyone else has done since then. That level insight happens very rarely in history, comparable to Euclid being a monumental figure for millennia. Nobel prize winners are smart, but there are two or three of them a year.
CU Coventry

https://www.coventry.ac.uk/cuc/
Avoid writing java... (fixed it for you)
It's cool and fun
As a counterpoint, at least as far as ‘fundamental discoveries’ go, see the article by Sean Carol“ The Laws Underlying The Physics of Everyday Life Are Completely Understood”:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36808614

The fundamental stuff are all known, except for the ones you don’t encounter in everyday situations, which will as a consequence be harder for hobbyists to discover too.
So my side project is like Narcissus having a wank, then.
Is it namecheap that's increasing the price or are they just passing it on from the registrar (or whatever the actual authority for the tld is called). I thought that the newer tlds are mostly run by for-profit companies that are more likely to have a shady bait and switch business model compared to legacy domains. I don't know if it would matter which registrar (in the sense of namecheap et al) you go with.
Yes, the company makes profit, but they underpay the employees
What do you mean by mentioning Quickbooks and then saying you want something 'more inclusive'? Like for personal use as well?

Edit: are you looking for a tool that may combine personal expenses along with, perhaps, sole-proprietorship information?
Only allowing 50 generations makes this very hard.
You're overrating the influence of the name Microsoft here. It's just some devs from the company working on this with no proper guarantee backing the project.

I've been through this whole song and dance already with Microsoft's Guidance (another LLM project) and could not justify using it further in production at work. We built some tools and wrappers ourselves and it wasn't even that difficult. These libraries are often more trouble than they're worth.
Support the open companies. Avoid the closed ones, even if they are fantastic at marketing. ;)
The Soviets can thank folks like Oppenheimer for it.
I am not talking about terminal support or something like that, but I actually find this example quite telling too, but from totally different perspective.

An effect that I could write in high school using Pascal and that would require only builtin library and few loops, in proposed source code requires so much *stuff*. Given that this is a fun demo and not something that one needs to maintain as enterprise software, I totally would accept such trade off and remove dust of something simpler.

Oh, memories.

Using Crt;

GotoXY();
But that isn’t valid JSON
I agree, Dark Sun and Rhodes' other recent books are OK, but Dark Sun is not a good read. It's almost as if he had some notes left over and turned them into a book in a hurry.
Still $7.99 a month for me. Google hasn't tried to weasel out of that price guarantee yet. Unfortunately I can't say that about every company that promised me an early adoption price guarantee.
Reminds me of those videos where a comic book artist draws a character in 1 minute, 10 minutes, and 100 minutes (sped up of course). Cool stuff but also hilarious at the 1 min sketches.
The C128 (and C128D/C128DR) had a 6502 (well, the '8510' version I think) and a Z80 co-processor for CP/M.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commodore_128

The Commodore B128 (aka CBM II) had a 6502 (6509 in this case), and either a 8088 or a Z80 as an optional card for running CP/M-86 and MS-DOS, or CP/M programs respectively (the 8088 card would make it a DOS compatible, but not an IBM compatible).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commodore_CBM-II

Of the others in the list, The BBC Micro had an optional Z80, NS 32016 or 6502 co-processor via the 'Tube' port. The BBC Master had an optional Z80, NS 32016, 6502 or ARM1 co-processor via the same 'Tube' port OR a 80186 via an internal card.

I think there were Z80 cards for the Apple IIs for CP/M, there was certainly a 8086-family card for them for MS-DOS. (After checking, the 'Microsoft Softcard' was a Z80 expansion for the Apple II that gave it CP/M support.

Not on the list in this part of the thread, there was also the Super-PET which had a 6502 and a 6809 for various languages and presumably OS/9.

One of the universities I went to also had an oddity in the form of a 3-CPU Super-PET with a Z80 in addition to the 6502 and 6809, but given that it had a huge hole cut in the side of the machine for an extra PCB, with a hand-wired 'CPU' switch, I'm guessing that was probably some weird homegrown bastardisation of a regular SuperPET, assuming it worked (I never saw it powered on).
https://archive.is/uO5Dd
Being tone policed by a bot - what a time to be alive.

Something that annoys me about AI bots is that the language is extremely American. This is no surprise. But polite in the USA is very different to the UK, where fake politeness is almost as rude as it is possible to get. Fake politeness followed by “let’s…” as the other party tries to wrestle control of the conversation from their self-proclaimed pedestal is rage-inducing.

Put simply, there should be a British mode for chatbots, where a request that it cannot comply with is responded to with profanity. “Nah, don’t be a c**, Emacs is awesome. If you want a joke, look in a mirror”. Now that’s a bot I could get along with.
And if the mayor mentions this reality, she is forced to apologize.

https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/S-F-Mayor-Breed-...
It sounds like something they will use to send food stamp payments so you can be Fed Now.
You don’t have to run Llama 70B on a rented 2xA100 80GB which is of course going to be quite pricy. Quantising it to 4-bit as brucethemoose2 mentioned allows you to run it on far cheaper hardware - it’ll fit on a single A6000 which can be rented for as low as $0.44/h, 10x cheaper than the $4.42/h they mentioned for their 2x A100 80GB (speed might be impacted but it shouldn’t be 10x slower).

And if you’re running it on your own machine, then the cost of using Llama is just your electricity bill - you can theoretically run it on 2x 3090 which are now quite cheap to buy, or on a CPU with enough RAM (but it will be very very slow).
Would an accelerator such as the Intel Neural Compute Stick 2 work with this? It can be plugged into a Pi, however I'm not clear on how VRAM works on the compute stick or if it's shared with the host?
They need to get Linus Tech Tips to do a video on the machines and people of Oxide.
> or some reason the RSU brokerage doesn't report the cost basis

This is because the employer doesn't tell them the cost basis, right?
There are smart mathematicians who absolutely deserve their Fields Medal.

And then there are people like Gauss and Euler, who lie so far beyond all comparison, it boggles the mind.
Yea, starting by saying he isn’t literally-the-greatest-physicist-in-history feels kind of like an unfair comparison.
Read the Sean Carroll article referenced upthread. If simple stuff like this would yield useful energy, we'd already know about it.
> If you put an atom in a molecular cup and look away, does it stay there? Maybe it does, maybe it doesn't, yay quantum weirdness.

You are overthinking it. In case of quantum effects, the whole quantum system, including all its parallel states and uncertainties, is part of the single shared reality.
Given they shipped their first machine, it seems so.
Wtf, my 4 year old, $400 crappy low wattage computer can generate a picture in a minute or two.

DDIM, 12 steps.
Hardware Hacking (2004) [pdf]