skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I get what you mean, but my point is that fundamentally, what's happening in the LoRA and in the human artist is conceptually similar - each learns through examples what it is about a character that makes that character distinctive, and then attempts to reproduce it within some set of constraints. Neither is capable of doing so without first being exposed to what it is that makes that character distinctive. Human brains are obviously far better at interpretation than current AIs are (and have the advantage of actual will and intent), but I don't know why one'd expect a model that's never seen a character to be able to reproduce the essential nature of that character.

I rather suspect that you can get more variation than you'd think from a homogenous dataset, though - I've trained a LoRA on myself that can produce photorealistic renderings of me, as well as anime, Disney, Pixar, and Dreamworks styles, all of which actually feel pretty "me"; I don't have any human-produced drawings of myself as a Disney character or renderings of me in a Pixar movie, but the model does a good job of projecting what I'd look like given what it knows about "Disney-style" drawings, plus what I've taught it about what I look like.
YC startup founder here,

Mostly agree, except the market is not an optimistic place — it’s the market.

There are a multitude of reasons you lose your optimism, mostly because people take it away — your optimism is their money
Low vitamin D reduces correct responses by the immune system, and contributes to autoimmune disorders and results in higher possibility of infection.
For some additional context as to how Clear exists, airports have the responsibility for managing passenger flow up to the TSA checkpoint. Within the checkpoint, it's all government-run. This is why Clear subscribers still have to take off their shoes.

Clear's business model is to give airports part of the subscriber revenue in return for allowing their employees manage the queues, which they use to direct subscribers into checkpoints with shorter lines.
Anyone knows why is it valued at billions? Where is the profit to stockholders supposed to come from? And value for the cryptocoin?
General retirement savings. The plan is to retire early-ish. I'm thinking of ways to invest, while optimizing for long-term returns primarily.
Threading in Python is fine if your threads are io bound or spend their time in a C extension which releases the GIL, if you are bound then the GIL means effectively one thread can run at a time and you gain no advantage from multiple threads.
Ah, you're right, forgot to mention that. We use the Llama 2 7B 4 bit quantized model. The machine requirements are:

Ideal: 16Gb (GPU) RAM

Less Ideal: 8GB RAM and CPU
saved you a click:

Chinese-made electric cars could be remotely disabled ("from Beijing!!1~")
There's what you want people to do and what they will actually do. Nobody who sees a big red flag and has many other options is going to do that.
Could this do something like take in the contents of my web history for the day and summarize notes on what I've been researching?

This is getting very close to my ideal of a personal AI. It's only gonna be a few more years until I can have a digital brain filled with everything I know. I can't wait
The whole point of the GIL is that even if you use Python's threading or asyncio, you don't get any benefits from scaling beyond a single CPU core, because all of your threads (or coroutines) are competing for a single lock. They run "concurrently", but not actually in parallel. The pages you linked explain this in more detail.

In theory, multiprocessing could allow you to distribute the workload, but in a situation like OP describes -- just serving API requests based on a data structure -- the overhead of dispatching requests would likely be bigger than the cost of just handling the request in the first place. And your main server process is still a bottleneck for actually parsing the incoming requests and sending responses. So you're unlikely to see a significant benefit.
https://www.reddit.com/r/Knightsofthebutton/comments/38q9x5/...
The problem is convincing everyone else to do the same, especially against Google's propaganda and the accompanying mob of rabid trendchasing web developers.
I believe management has in many cases lost focus on strategy because they are either not driven as well since they also are not fully invested in the company’s overall vision or are so overwhelmed with meetings that they simply don’t have time to even understand what their subordinates actually do in technical terms, much less strategize.
IIRC there were even issues where github actions couldn't reach github because no IPv6
So what? Over 95% of humans are immune to leprosy. [0] Not only that, it's so hard to even culture in a lab, actually spreading it in the wild is a bit of a challenge.

[0]: https://www.cdc.gov/leprosy/transmission/index.html

[1]: https://www.internationaltextbookofleprosy.org/chapter/assay...
What's that reason, for those presently unenlightened?
I've soaked them in vinegar periodically if I find they get really gross.

I think there's also accepting that after a bit exercise clothes don't smell great close up. If circumstances require really odor free ones (a workout date?) I'd probably buy new clothes.
Yes we should. You can also benefit from few of performance enhancements / usability features mentioned in the above post. Would also love to collaborate with you during the evaluation process. Would be great feedback for us. You could reach out to us via Request Access on our website. Would be happy to assist you :)
I get bloodwork done twice annually, so I have a very accurate idea of what my levels are. The dosage is the recommendation from my doctor based on my bloodwork. The goal isn't just staving off seasonal affective disorder, but actually trying to get me roughly into the middle of the ideal range because of its myriad health benefits.
Also, china managed the 2008 recession by make work projects and had those projects really had a use case, it's been successful.

Biden clearly understands the real economic value of keeping an economy functional.
Have you tried the dark web? For the sake of anonymity, everyone has Javascript disabled when browsing Tor hidden sites — so such sites must be designed to conform to web 1.1 principles.

It's actually a very interesting frontend platform to design for, because you don't get any Javascript support, but you get full modern CSS support.
I agree so much with this. I was excited for the feature until the first 10 seconds. I don't want a fake DJ "talking to me" or attempting to emulate a radio DJ. It's not like all I have to look at is a dial with numbers on it. I can see all the details of what you're playing, thanks. Shut up and just let me see if I like what you think I'll like, enough that it makes me feel that your recommendations won't be immediate rejections. Or just have the dumb AI talk to me about it, so I know that I absolutely do not want to use the feature. sigh

0/10 indeed
My 5 minute dunning-kruger level look up:

Bluestore is used to directly access raw storage without the overhead of a filesystem. [1][2]

"BlueStore uses the RocksDB’ key-value database to manage internal metadata, such as the mapping from object names to block locations on a disk. [0]

[0] https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_ceph_s...

[1] https://blog.acolyer.org/2019/11/06/ceph-evolution/

[2] https://events.static.linuxfound.org/sites/events/files/slid...
What happens when CA's say "you can't get a certificate if you supported <insert ideology here>"? Or "you can't get a certificate if you are racist"? Or "you can't get a certificate if your credit score is too low"? Or "you can't get a certificate if your website contains <pornography/warez/p2p encryption/firearms/anything we don't like>"?
You could use ozone, but that is probably more trouble/danger than it is worth.

You could use an autoclave.
Almost anything one can do, of value to their fellow humans, is a crime somewhere.
It's not even against the rules, kritiks are literally a standard part of debate. Right-wingers just don't like it because it allows people to attack the choices of arguments and sources.

So with kritiks, if someone walks in and runs an "immigrants are eating babies in secret demonic rituals" argument and cites Alex Jones, you can say, "That's xenophobic, and Alex Jones is xenophobic, here are my sources that support those assertions, and you shouldn't vote for them, judge, if they're perpetuating that, especially in a space where there are debaters who are themselves- or who have family who are- immigrants."

Without Kritiks, you have to either find a source that *specifically* says "Immigrants are not eating babies in demonic rituals" (and unfortunately, there are far more nutjobs out there putting out garbage than there are people spending time to individually refute each and every stupid statement), or you have to try to attack the negative impacts they're claiming - OR - you have to run an ethical violation argument, which is accusing the other team itself of being intentionally malicious, which is a much higher threshold than saying, "they should have known better", which is not making assertions about their intentions.

Kritiks are a normal part of all debate, both competitive and informal.
I’m curious, how are those loans guaranteed?
Before taking away fingerprinting there would need to be a sunset period to have everyone migrate over to the new API. Ripping it out before new APIs are available or doing it at the same time is irresponsible.
Not sure that I follow, but the open web is a bottom up approach rather than to down. Top down would be a controlled system with regulations and punishment, that isn't open at all.

Where does the internet of things fit in here?
My guess is that if only encryption were the goal, then browsers should trust self-signed certs or at least upon first visit, present the cert and ask whether to trust it in the future. *

Instead the current system depends on some set of built in trusted root certificate that's run by opaque monopolies (at least pre Let's Encrypt) plus a lot of hassle to add self signed certs if it's even supported at all. (IIRC some browsers like Chrome will ignore system trusted CAs in an attempt to "help the user be more secure" ref: https://serverfault.com/questions/946756/ssl-certificate-in-...)

* There is precedent for this, for things like Remote Desktop or SSH where only encryption is the goal, their default behavior is exactly this: confirm upon first access, and remember the approved cert for the future. You do not need to get your server blessed by a CA to connect over ssh :)
> Do you know how to expedite the process?

Yes, go to sleep and wake up when it's Monday. They won't come back on the weekend for you unless you're a big customer (which you probably aren't, considering they suspended it without warning and are telling you to call back on Monday)
Yeah, that’s a fair point I suppose. It’s kind of a limitation of it bot being the aforementioned book someone needs to write.

Establishing the financial economics of productivity and its relationship to the Western Liberal Enlightenment conceptualization of the public good along a non-differentiable surface of capture from WWII to the present is a masters thesis alone.

The level of ambient violence in a surveillance kleptocracy with a nascent domestic security apparatus breaking through that of a country in the grips of a 7-sided civil war, this being the tip of the iceberg because the non-violent people with no hope are suiciding with fentanyl at some staggering multiple of that, and this being caused by capture is hard to prove but easy to see absent an agenda.

I don’t want to see a climax more intense than how far we’ve already traveled down that road.
Yes, through their DNS product, Route 53.
I can’t read the full article but the few sentences I can see sure sound based in racism.
Interesting, this is the exact question that came to mind for me. This would address a pain point for me.

Does anyone have recommendations for a tool that does it?

Or, anyone want to build it together?
The author of this doesn’t fly much, and probably isn’t actually a clear member. Nobody who pays for clear uses it because they don’t want to show ID: any frequent traveller has ID (probably a Real ID, too) and uses Clear to jump to the front of the PRE line. Also, and frequent traveller probably encounters non-Clear airports so has yet another reason to ensure they’ve got ID.

As for one of the more bizarre comments here: No minorities are signing up for clear to skip TSA, it doesn’t do that… it merely puts you at the front of the TSA line.

This just seems like a rebel-without-a-clue ranting about … something?
Security people can complain as much as they want, but it's these kinds of anti-user practices that makes users hate updating.

Indeed, I've always thought the classic saying about those who give up freedom for security is very relevant in the current times. I'm quite certain that it's possible to respect the user and improve security (for the user), but instead they've been using security as an excuse to do worse to the users.
Didn't we also do that with the New Deal?
Not exactly proportional, but has the legibility of proportional while actually being monospaced -- Comic Mono [0] is a monospaced font based on Comic Sans.

[0] https://dtinth.github.io/comic-mono-font/
‘Location sharing’ as a condition for bail
"By analogy: right now, you can tell your browser to change its User-Agent string to anything you want."

You can also choose not to send this header. By default I do not send it. The RFCs do not require it^1 and very rarely do I find sites that do. When I do find such sites,^2 I just add them to the proxy config so that a UA is added on the way out. Almost invariably these sites will accept a made-up UA, so long as it is well-formed, which is interesting.^3 It suggests no one knows what new UA strings will appear.

The origin of changing the User-Agent header dates back to one of the earliest browsers, written in part by a well-known Silicon Valley VC.^4 It was always possible for the user to control HTTP headers such as UA and the designers knew it. Later in the "browser wars" Microsoft changed its UA header to match Mozilla's.^5

1.

https://towardsdatascience.com/the-user-agent-that-crazy-str...

2.

For example, www.federalregister.com and sec.gov.

3.

Many users want to "blend in" and use common strings so perhaps use of made-up strings remains largely untested.

4.

https://raw.githubusercontent.com/alandipert/ncsa-mosaic/mas...

5.

https://webaim.org/blog/user-agent-string-history/comment-pa...

https://humanwhocodes.com/blog/2010/01/12/history-of-the-use...

As for WEI, I'm inclined to think that the terms "abuse" and "fraud" in the spec may actually refer to ad fraud, including potential fraud by Google itself in marketing its ad services because it hides the true extent of ad fraud from its customers.

People who like to access the web with uncommon TCP/HTTP clients may not be a significant problem. There are no details given in the spec about this alleged "fraud"; perhaps that's intentional. Although by being vague in the spec, real humans that prefer not to use popular browsers may jump to conclusions.^6

It could be that we're on the cusp of exposing the true extent of ad fraud with respect to Google, and the ultimate unworkability of Google's core "business" (selling ad services). Perhaps Google believes its advertiser customers could begin to lose trust; maybe direct more ad spend to Apple.

6.

Some pre-spec discussion: https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/g/blink-dev/c/Ux5h_...
Have you tried recently? YouTube captions have improved substantially over the last year. In my experience it now performs at human level which might not be good enough for every use case but it does make the "transcript" button and full text search practical
The saddest stat in the article is that the overwhelming majority of patients were already average or above. That alone should be considered a dereliction of the Hippocratic Oath to do no harm. This type of procedure should be banned for anyone already over 4 inches.
Where are you seeing that? This article discusses lying about one's user agent string, presumably to get better behavior out of a website that's making bad decisions based on it. That is not a crime last I checked.
The race you're imagining is being persecuted is.. Chinese Communist Party officials?
The title says "GIL removed", but the article says "This means in the coming years, Python will have its GIL removed."

I'm assuming the article is correct and the GIL has not been removed yet (but there is a plan to remove it in the future). If that's not the case, please correct me!
> Is there any chance of a hard fork?

The only hope is anti-trust breakup of Google. Chrome has to be pried forcefully from their hands.

We should launch massive campaigns not just in the US, but also Europe and other critical markets.

We shouldn't back down even if they abandon WEI. They'll just keep trying as they have with AMP, Manifest v2, WHATWG [1], etc.

Google can never be allowed to build browser tech so long as they control search.

The web must remain open.

[1] WHATWG took unilateral control over the HTML spec. They abandoned the Semantic Web, which had led to RSS, Atom, etc., and would allow documents to expose information you could scrape and index without Google Search. Google wanted documents to remain forgiving and easy to author (but messy, without standard semantics, and hard to scrape info from)
We were told in no uncertain terms that this vaccine was 95% effective at preventing COVID and there were no side effects. Now all of a sudden the authorities are sheepishly admitting, no, it's not anywhere near 95% effective and it just reduces symptoms of COVID to more manageable levels. So I'm not surprised to hear that they lied about there being no side effects.

Just so you know, the FDA wanted 55 years to comply with a FOIA request related to the vaccines, so that seems a bit suspicious to me. Almost like they have some things to hide.

https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/wait-what-fda-wants...
I think you're going in the opposite direction, my friend.
I suspect they already believe that.
You can throw python threads at it, but if each request traverses the big old datastructure using python code and serialises a result then you’re stuck with only one live thread at a time (due to the GIL). In Java it’s so much easier especially if the datastructure is read only or is updated periodically in an atomic fashion. Every attempt to do something like this in python has led me to having to abandon nice pythonic datastructures, fiddle around with shared memory binary formats, before sighing and reaching for java! Especially annoying if the service makes use of handy libraries like numpy/pandas/scipy etc!
Anecdotally, sweat starts to smell after it has soaked for a bit in bodily hair. The sweat on my forehead, back and chest never smells of anything, but the sweat on my scalp and in my armpits does. My theory is that the smell develops from sweat reacting with (or releasing something from) perhaps the sebum.
1) Because a negative result wouldn't prove anything, transit and time are both factors that could plausibly mess with its properties so if it doesn't superconduct that doesn't indicate anything about the material.
2) Because even if it does replicate, no one wants another Starlite-style "science" controversy. If you can't replicate it, it doesn't exist, is the attitude a lot of people have, for understandable reasons.

This actually doesn't just affect RTAPS or materials science in general. There are some scientists who just refuse to consider or use GPT-4 as SOTA, because in their view it's non-replicability means including it just isn't science. It's an extreme view, but the general sentiment is common. You could consider it a backlash to the reproduction crisis.
I think it's absolutely bonkers - it really blows me away - that we have such debate on the effects of single molecules, studied for untold millions of human hours.

And yet many people think we can improve on nature; tinkering and toying with vastly more complex machinery and life, that we barely understand.

We are still discovering entire structures in the human body, ffs, yet are seemingly happy to allow vast monocultures of corporate and for-profit GM crops; 'trusting the science'.

The lies are as thin as our topsoil's gonna be soon. I love the idea of scientific progress, and understanding things, but this attitute of 'trust the men in white coats with everything even though we don't understand Vitamin C or D all that well' is truly mind-boggling.

*: I assume the people down-voting this think I'm talking smack on science - read again. I'm talking about scientism, and hubris, and appeals to authority. Which if you were paying any attention whatsoever the last 3 years you ought to know are big problems right now.
And also (this one was written in 2002!)

- "Who should your computer take its orders from? Most people think their computers should obey them, not obey someone else. With a plan they call “trusted computing,” large media corporations (including the movie companies and record companies), together with computer companies such as Microsoft and Intel, are planning to make your computer obey them instead of you. (Microsoft's version of this scheme is called Palladium.) Proprietary programs have included malicious features before, but this plan would make it universal."

https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/can-you-trust.en.html
That site managed to piss me off within a few seconds of visiting by shoving a modal in my face that could only be closed by clicking some small gray text
I've seen a study saying people who exercise regularly are better at automatically (subconsciously?) moderating intake to match expenditure. And I believe some foods, like fructose based drinks, don't satiate despite the calories they provide.
Pretty interesting. I took a quick glance at the men's clothes for rent. Unfortunately, the clothes are completely out not my style and I have no fashion sense (my wife reminds me daily). https://anywearanywhere.store/collections/all
> Nobody who pays for clear uses it because they don’t want to show ID: any frequent traveller has ID…uses Clear to jump to the front of the PRE line

The author concludes as much: “There’s been a lot of speculation that the requirement to show ID somehow undermines the usefulness of CLEAR. But maybe not showing ID is an ancillary benefit at best to the customer, even if it’s how the program is sold. We pretend it’s about identity verification when really it’s about priority in getting through security faster. It still does that. The usefulness of the service would change not at all.”
I really like the idea of running a dedicated server that serves up various large language models via a standardized API, and then Khoj could just be pointed at one. Depending on the notes and the type of conversation I want to have, that would even allow for Khoj to swap models on the fly.
> X symbol isn’t universal even in Europe, but it’s often used to mark a point of interest or active selection

X is commonly used for crossing things out, and marking things wrong
"crimes" according to who?
In quantum computers we are talking double digits cubits. In regular computing, we do store and process billions snd billions bits. Regular 1TB microSD is 10^13 bits or so, regular CPU contains a dozen or two of billions of transistors. So, clearly, it doesn't work same way
looks like another novelty page meant specifically for getting to the front page of Hacker News, which in a year will be abandoned or turned into seo fodder.
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Rowing is great, but you also need some frequent impact for bone health.
They would rather gamble away all money or and use it on drugs.
> they intentionally programmed in a lag after each keystroke

Yeah, it's seems they've added a debounce. I'd prefer to set it to 0ms as well. Do you remember how you removed it?