skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Under the hood it does a few things I'll shed some light on (at a high level!):

1. Running the model: it's built on the open-source (and amazing) llama.cpp project for running quantized (i.e. compressed) models like Llama 2 (launched yesterday) that will fit in memory on even a commodity Mac. It's similar to their "server" example as a starting point.

2. Downloading and storing models: models are distributed in a way that ensures their integrity and re-usability as much as possible (since they are large files!). For this we use a similar approach as Docker (https://github.com/distribution/distribution)

3. Creating custom models: models can be extended with this new idea we're experimenting with: a Modelfile. What this will do is effectively add "layers" to a model so you can distribute model data together and keep them self-contained. This builds on what I mentioned in 2 – our hope is this will make it easier to extend models like Llama 2 to your own use cases (e.g. a character).
A stochastic approach would work quite well. Have each pixel computed by n people and take the mode.
> you cannot "educate" people to do critical thinking

Why would you think that? It is a learned skill, of course you can.
Position 1 on Kagi (after a link to Apache Hadoop, and a box with a “discussion” link which happens to be SEO spam).
See my edit above. It wouldn't let me reply for some reason.

Basically, I just took it upon myself to help this guy but I needed the staff to help. Because I already knew them over years of interaction, it was an easy conversation/ask that they agreed to and we were successful in giving this guy a hand up. No govt or coercion or anything needed.
forget a "free filing" system.

Why can't the IRS just send me a statement with my obligations and if I don't want to contest it I pay and I am done?
I've seen (and actually even used once, I think) automatic passbook updating printer machines in quite a few ATMs in some places.
Hi there! I'm one of the people working on TypeChat and I just want to say that we definitely welcome experimentation on things like this. We've actually been experimenting with running Llama 2 ourselves. Like you said, to get a model working with TypeChat all you really need is to provide a completion function. So give it a shot!
Can you point to a comment that said that, or are you simply projecting?
I think you're doing both things. And I applaud you for the encouragement and useful information! I also don't begrudge you your frustration about this. But I also find the "ten thousand" idea to be a useful re-framing of how to respond to this phenomenon where something seems obvious to you because you know all about it, but it's actually not obvious to most people at all. Maybe you'll find this to be a useful re-framing too, I dunno.

I will push back a bit on "professionals are doing everything they can to communicate effectively". I don't think that's really true. In my experience, it seems like most professionals and academics prefer to write and speak within their own bubbles. Some few make a concerted effort to communicate effectively to the masses, but more often they look down their noses at the kinds of communication that entails. For instance, my interpretation of your "TED speaker" comment is that TED talks are not a suitable way to communicate about this topic. But a compelling TED talk or blog post or op-ed in a mainstream publication would be a great way for a professional to communicate about this with a large audience. I think this has a lot to do with the way academia is set up. "Publish or perish" provides little incentive structure for effectively communicating your work for amateurs.

Or in more concrete terms: What professionals do you know of in this field who are out there doing everything they can to communicate effectively about this to a non-professional non-academic audience? What is it that they're doing?
It's not super interesting. Apple's reliance on China in many ways, and thus hypocrisy, is reasonably well known.

"At least" companies can put up a fight in the UK (or US, see Apple in the San Bernardino case) and they have a reasonable chance they can lobby to block the efforts.
What is innovative and/or well engineered there? Could any bank or financial institution connect seamlessly with the system? How does it handle security keys, transparency, and transaction log duration?
Those applications were meant to run on the server, more precisely on the Netscape proprietary appserver. On the browser they were meant to do popups and basic form validation at best. There was not even a network communication mechanism!
The government could always nationalize intuit.
Does this end the T + 2day ridiculousness? It should be T + 1millisecond at worst. What does it take to update 2 "balance" values in databases?
Pictish Stone
A bit unfortunate that Google’s Dawn missed the train for developing new projects in Rust, by just a few years. Might have been an interesting collaboration with Mozilla on the WebGPU implementation.
Right I wasn't expressing the cytokine storm as the primary cause of death but rather a phenomenon that definitely pushed it above a normal flu, especially for healthy young adults.
I wonder how much is because they used AI and how much is simply because they did something.

What were they doing before? What, specifically, did the AI instruct them to do and how did they interpret it?

Obviously these are rhetorical questions, I'm not expecting you to answer. I just think they could probably have got the same results with a moderately competent social media person, but maybe I'm wrong.
Are some accidents truly unforgivable?

No one should be punished for the rest of their life because they wronged someone in their childhood. If they’ve grown, feel remorse and regret, then they’ve done their time and need to forgive themselves.

There no point in carrying around such a burden. Very few people deserve to be miserable.
I don't get your point, do you claim Orwell is authorian and anti free speach?
That's a very load-bearing assumption.
To be fair, that's how most private sector outsourced corporate projects go as well. :)
If we believe neoclassical theory then if the fed sets the rate too high we get deflation and if the fed sets the interest rate too low we will get inflation and we will get those things very quickly with very little delay. This means that the policy rate would have to mirror whatever the optimal market rate is.

If we accept some minor inflation, then the fed is always setting the rate a bit too low rather than too high.

In other words. Whatever the Fed does, it is mostly irrelevant.

On the other hand, if there is actually some leeway and elasticity then monetary policy can actually result in increases in economic welfare. In this scenario we want to see some utilitarian meddling.
Boxing has long been considered the easiest sport to fix; only needs one person in on it.
I think it means "not streaming" - ie the whole compressed/uncompressed buffer has to be held in memory.
As much as I love not having to use paid filing software, I don't expect the federal government to create something that isn't incredibly frustrating to use that costs way too much to build
If you qualify, IRS will already figure your taxes for you.

https://www.irs.gov/taxtopics/tc552

I wonder what happens if they make a mistake?
It's amazing how far off the mark so many talented coders are when it comes to understanding the masses, how they think and what they want.

Guys...it's not that hard to do. Stop thinking so hard. Stop thinking you know a better way. CLONE REDDIT, just without the idiot running the place. It was working great until he screwed everything up.
Hmm. Maybe. But it isn't necessary. Federal law enforcement is a pretty novel thing. State institutions have parity. There's no technical reason not to go back to that, though it would be a rather radical restructuring.
Their engineers do get much credit, but Tesla cars (well, at least for another decade) will be known as douche-mobiles.

Not an insult. I'm highlighting a business branding issue. A mistake Apple, for example, would never have been so careless as to make.
In this case you are tricking ChatGPT to output information it can’t know.
> I don't really care if any of these things originated in NASA or had previously been invented—the bigger question for me is if they would have been widely used if NASA had not put the effort into making them practical.

Probably.

IMHO, the US military was and is probably far more effective at making emerging technologies "practical" than NASA is. Their budget's bigger and they buy more stuff, often mass-produced. NASA does a lot of one-off and small-run projects.
Highly relevant hackernews comment from 2020:

> It's worth noting that this project will likely not benefit the people of China. A somewhat obscure fact is that China has its own edition of Minecraft which cannot connect to servers of the mainstream edition.
https://minecraft.gamepedia.com/Minecraft_China

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22569178
>> In truth what does all that money buy?

If you're a well paid 'military spending' contractor then you can take a nice vacation to the EU and see what the US could afford were the US not spending it all on it's military. Free* health care, free* college, public transit, etc.
Make sure you build in a capacity to save all the previous iterations in case you see something you really like.
This is a particularly fun exercise when you recall that the original "computers" were people doing arithmetic, not at all dissimilarly to what’s done here, just with less parallelism. Though they did at least have mechanical adders and multipliers!
Python is very much funny.

Like, a ton of our ops-scripting, things have 2-3 direct dependencies and maybe 10 transitive dependencies. And the latter is an actual flask application with pydantic, so a bit outside of "scripting". We've settled on a set of these versions, put them into a venv on a system and that's it. Update every few weeks, get accustomed to the libraries. Nice and stable base to work with.

And then we have some of our python-based ML teams. I'm not joking, but I have entire classes of servers which - including their dataset - are smaller in storage footprint than some of their python containers including tensorflow and models and panda and all manner of things. Feel free to accuse me of comparing apples and oranges, but that feels very, very strange.
I mean yeah but it's rendering

Let it cook
Because that's how it works in other countries, and that means people get less riled up culturally about tax
What are some rare books you've been looking for some time?
Perhaps someone on HN has a source. Personally I've been looking for a copy of collected cypherpunk lore called "Grinoire" for quite some time.
I wonder if the help system for it will be AI based.
An important point, for the "we could have spent less money doing direct R&D on the actually-useful technologies which Apollo created, and skipped the pictures and prestige..." crowd to note:

The moon race created an extremely public success/fail benchmark, where everyone from the greediest corporate CEO to the lowliest painter on the launch towers understood that losing would for-sure carry a very high social cost. Millions of people, who were already motivated to win the race, were concentrated in certain areas, industries, and labs - providing positive feedback and intense motivation. Yes, it was very expensive, and there was some profiteering, goldbricking, excess bureaucracy, and waste. But compared to most huge government-funded projects, that crap was pretty scarce.

To paraphrase Napoleon's supposed maxim on war: "The moral is to the budget as three to one."
> Negative equity is a real and it compounds over time.

I don't think this is always true. For me and you, yeah. For good people. But, there are a significant percentage of humans (I have no idea what the number is) where this is completely false. They can move forward in time without a scintilla of guilt or negative repercussions. I fact, for some people, it seems to be fuel for them. They enjoy it. The percentage of those folks is much smaller, I believe. Thankfully.
Not worried about low quality text from AI. Soon enough it will be hard to find a human who writes better than a human+AI+plugins team. And an AI+plugins system will be better than average human.

We need to have AI monitor the news and rate their level of factuality by consistency analysis and reputation scoring. Journalists in the loop, working with AI to find disinformation. Then we can feel safer about propaganda-LLMs, they are inevitable.
Your employer doesn't pay you in food stamps, they pay you in money you can use to buy anything you need in the entire world.

The government provides coupons that allow you to buy food which is remediated to the seller in dollars. The authority and funding to provide that service is something that voters can impact or change.

These are very different things, not "that already exists" at all.
I have a solution that both sides will hate.

Reduce the complexity and size of the tax code to the point where an average taxpayer can complete it.
That's a good one. I've also told it to avoid blanket disclaimers, which pop up all the time if you ask about anything related to nutrition or fitness.
I just wanted to say thank you for all the great work you've done, and the absolute best of luck to you going forward! I have always enjoyed listening to your technical explanations and am very much looking forward to any possible YouTubes. Cheers!
> Python AND Ruby to build

The `cryptography` library (I'd say quite an important one in the Python ecosystem) requires Python, C and Rust to build, since v3.4.

https://cryptography.io/en/latest/installation/
> More features in the internet does not raise my internet fee.

Maybe not, but they often do increase surveillance and/or replace useful functionality.
What's going to happen is Intuit will end up building and running the service like Booz Allen did with recreation.gov and get to skim off the top.
Tomra Systems ASA: Update no 2 on cyber attack
> I meant pay for the right to bear arms in being exposed to the consequences.

uh no, school-age children (including elementary school children) are the ones who pay the most for our gun-happy culture.
Perspectives on Diffusion
What a ridiculous take. Use of the software wouldn't be compulsory. The IRS already (mostly) knows what the payer owes.
Because the "mainstream" sites pay people pennies a word to crank out content like "best gaming laptops."

There are sites that do some good gear reviews for relatively specialized equipment--especially not gadget/electronics. But this isn't the 1990s when PC Magazine would have a 600-page issue with a big chunk devoted to the best printers as evaluated by their on-payroll staff.

I'll occasionally put a review of something up on my site but I have neither the money or interest in doing multi-product comparisons. That's pretty much impractical outside of something like Wirecutter (which I generally think does a pretty good job).
Llama Is Expensive
I personally could have been on board with a remake with the original cast (though the original was already about aging and maturity, so I don’t think the passage of yet another generation would have been all that compelling of a story), but RIP River Phoenix and Sidney Poitier (had to check and see if Ben Kingsley was still alive, though).

I actually think the original holds up shockingly well, for a movie that is at least tangentially about technology. It in part got lucky that it was juuuuust pre-WWW and that critical systems running on mainframes is still a thing in 2023.
Multicore is a continuation of Moore's law not its end.
Macs are more secure.
But the machine makes it so there are no more secrets.
If they don’t they’re going to look pretty stupid… Chrome Leadership stated “we’ll only support JXL if Safari do” to at least one large tech company who were unhappy with JXL being dropped by Chrome

(and no I can’t tell you how I know this)
It's notable to look to the experience of Portugal, recently discussed on HN, in fact. Their policy of decriminalizing all drug use was successful for over a decade, until they privatized part of it.

Would the US do this in a sensible fashion, or in a half-assed "public-private partnership" fashion?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36638752
> The alternative would be unnecessary demux on the server side, or the client unnecessarily downloads irrelevant streams.

HTTP file transfer protocols support partial downloads. A client can choose just to not to download irrelevant audio. I think most common web platforms already work this way, when you open a video it is likely to be in .mp4 format, and you need to get the end of it to play it, so your browser gets that part first. I am not entirely sure.
If you want an environment where it's never correct to blame capitalism what you're at is several steps past mere political bias I think.
This is exactly the romanticism I was writing about.

Very little of the expense of historical exploration was undertaken just so people could scratch their exploration itch. Besides, we have a pretty good idea of what we'll find most of these places, now, without having to send people there, and certainly without needing them to live there. We don't have a strong history of bending entire economies to support these kinds of projects just for exploration's sake, but for expected returns. We can do most of the preliminary exploring of our star system cheaper with robots and closer-to-home remote sensors, now.

Would we have funded so many expensive expeditions, in the age of sail, to explore the Arctic and northern Canada if we'd had satellites to tell us there was no Northwest Passage? Just for the sake of exploring in-person? I doubt it, but that's the conclusion one must draw from the "the need, deep in the human heart, to explore is enough justification! It's our nature!" (see the romanticism?) position if one supposes that justifies massive human space exploration and colonization programs, today, barring new information.
Also worth pointing out that this particular incident is one that folks largely agree with him on? Many are against offensive language, of course, but a prudish enforcement of polite language is its own tyranny.
No, victims are not obligated to forgive you and neither is society. Sometimes people do bad things that cannot be undone and should not be forgotten. Sometimes that person doing the bad thing is you. Even if you didn't intend to harm someone, even if you did nothing wrong, even if you followed best known procedures and were fully attentive, you can still cause irreparable harm to someone else, and we shouldn't just pretend that's okay as some coping strategy.

Sometimes you hurt someone and you should feel bad about that. Deal with it. It's a part of life to be an imperfect human and this should help you keep in mind that EVERYONE IS AN IMPERFECT HUMAN.
He merely suggested a small fee though. 5.1% per year and only on cash, not some CDBC with privacy concerns. If you keep your money on savings accounts you wouldn't pay anything. If the economy is growing you would get paid interest. If the economy is declining you might pay negative interest.

This is different from a coupon that expires instantly. That is a terrible idea. Don't do this.

Also, the idea of demurrage currencies is to replace the devaluation via inflation with a nominal fee so it is possible that in countries with high inflation rates, the new currency would end up losing less value over time simply because it maintains price stability easily.

Edit: btw. His theory is dated in the sense that Keynes and Dieter Suhr have an updated interpretation. With a hint of Fisher Black you are going to get one of the most interesting economic theories that can explain most of the suffering in the world based on very few assumptions. The money and land reform policy proposals still remain relevant today.
End the suffering. End the war. Putin is a thug and Zelensky is a zealot.

Painful as a progressive american to see our country become a belligerent proponent AGAIN for useless conflict, death and war mongering.
Having just received a letter in the mail saying I owe an extra ~$850 from 2020 I can confirm this is the case!
"Free" should mean free of complexity. The big cost of doing taxes is not in submitting the taxes, but rather is the enormous byzantine complexity of calculating how much you owe.
While that's a possibility the article made it seem like Google's PIK team and Cloudinary worked together on JPEGXL
Something about that math doesn't work out; all of NASA was about 3% of the federal budget from '62-72. I don't see how that could be 2.5% of the GDP.

[edit]

Upon closer reading I think it means that over a 10 year period they spent 2.5% of the annual GDP, which would work out to a 0.25% GDP spend each year.
I love his work. It’s filled with these pithy little gems:

> I'd call for all the chemists who've ever worked with a hexanitro compound to raise their hands, but that might be assuming too much about the limb-to-chemist ratio.
Vaguely related, in 2015 we were building a new platform based on Cisco UCS and NetApp filers.

Cisco had a virtual router. N1000 perhaps, the hardware was a C220 and it had some sort of appliance running on it. Which depended on some sort of LUN from NetApp for its storage. But you couldn’t stand the LUN up until the vCenter was up because UCS provisioned the LUN, it didn’t work if you did it manually, and that ran on vCenter, and the vCenter depended on the router so that it could reach the LUN. It was pure circular logic hell.

There was a path to make this work, but it literally took half a dozen very ~~clever~~ expensive Cisco and NetApp engineers a couple of days in a room with a whiteboard to figure it out. It was absurd.
Running over budget? Sure. But I’ve worked on much more complicated outsourced corporate projects for companies whose total revenue is only a fraction of $2 billion. Public sector inefficiency is in a league of its own.

To be clear I’m not saying it’s a bad idea either, or not worth the money. But I would be surprised if it didn’t cost billions to implement.
We used to have formats like this, and then the attacker points to his decoder/malware package.

Apart from that of course the decoder has to be fast and thus native and interface with the OS, so the decoder is X86 on the today version of Windows, until the company hosting it dies and the patented, copyrighted decoder disappears from the internet.
I hope you get a chance to respond, just want to clarify the point:
"7 out of 10 people in academia are either engaging in highly unethical, borderline and actual criminal acts, or complicit in enabling and/or hiding these acts"

Quite a claim if that's what you meant. Is this team members that are considered untouchable, due to being brilliant jerks/creeps, too important/connected, or otherwise inconvenient to go after?

The most I've personally heard of is lecturing professors berating the demo team (and students)... he was brilliant lecturer. Perhaps others hide it better.

I've heard it can work the opposite way, but I imagine it's not evenly applied. People get randomly fired from academia for the smallest of things.
Fascinating stuff. I noticed that there are some on the Shetland islands according to Wikipedia. Then I noticed... well, the Shetland islands, for pretty much the first time.

Awesome to imagine early predecessors going out and sailing, finding an island and just thinking "Yeah, let's hang out here." Then they made some art, and you know it's from the same culture as the mainlanders because the style is more-or-less the same.

Wild stuff. I like history.
That sounds very promising. Too late in my case I would have needed it 15 years ago.
> End the suffering. End the war.

How?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killing_of_Philando_Castile
no and there are numerous alternatives.

idk why this made the frontpage other than beeing interesting