skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hey thanks, this one is new to me. 100% it is impossible to convince myself that those two squares are the same color.

I have a camera looking over my driveway with motion detection that triggers all the time because of the shadow of a tree waving in the wind. My current weekend project is to use FastSAM to detect cars / animals / people in the driveway instead of just looking at a threshold of changed pixels.

1: https://github.com/CASIA-IVA-Lab/FastSAM
Here's my take on WFH in general, I've been WFH for over 22 years so I have a little perspective. One thing we learned from Covid is that remote learning has pretty poor results, ask any school teacher and they will tell you that their students lost a step or two during the lock down. Why do I bring up learning, because that's what is expected of all entry level employees their job is to learn the job and it's very hard to do via zoom calls. Even seasoned workers need to learn the new job and pre-WFH the general consensus was that it two 6 months for a new employee to be useful, I would venture to guess that time has now doubled and that is really expensive. Finally since the senior people are also WFH they have a lot less interaction with the new people and because of this a lot of their institutional knowledge is not being passed down as in the past. This used to be pretty informal, seniors would invite juniors to join them for lunch and now this informal mentoring is gone.

Last thing as others have mentioned, because their is no longer a location requirement it's opened up lots of work but it's also increase the pool of available workers and for those of us who live in expensive countries we have a massive disadvantage, why hire someone for 100K when you can hire someone for 20K. I deal with this internally every day where I have to meet or beat or offshore teams to do the same service, what makes you ten times better than the guy charging ten times less.
Except Trump didn’t lie more than most?

There’s an old joke about it even:

“How do you know when a politician is lying?

When their lips are moving.”

There are so many legitimate things to attack Trump on but it’s ridiculous to claim that he lies more than other politicians.
I’m happy to believe that the therapy was ineffective, but I don’t necessarily understand why going off topic is bad. In my experience, I had a lot of conversations with therapists that were ‘off topic.’

I’ve definitely talked poetry and writing with a therapist, and while I’ve never had my therapist provide code, we’ve definitely talked tech in great detail.

Maybe those therapists were intentionally making me comfortable by engaging with shared interests. And the LLM isn’t being intentional about it, but I’m not convinced that a therapist is ineffective if they fail to stay ‘on topic’ when directed off topic by their patient.
It is. Skills like this you can learn via HITB and likewise. Btw, Nix is a nice way to install userland for user (in case you don't have or want to be root).
Other option is Tinygrad [1] that has a WEBGPU backend and it works very for my case (Unet 3D).

[1] - https://tinygrad.org/
Haven't mRNA vaccines been in development for over a decade though?
> 1540 European drought - Extreme drought and heatwave lasting 11 months in Europe. [0]

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_heat_waves

And some more from years before 1900.
But is the 7B model any good and actually production worthy for things like RAG?
and Eton first (or maybe one of a handful of * public schools)

( * not public as in the US sense but in the UK sense - yes it's backwards)
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I'm curious to hear the community's thoughts on this. How do you see no-code tools like this shaping the future of startups? Is this a trend that you see continuing?
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I am using one of the uncensored versions of LLaMA 2 to allow chatbot roleplays without constant moralizing and replying to every other request with "I am just an AI, I don't have any opinion, emotion, feelings, don't like anything" etc.
To me, the simple models might not cross the boundary where LLMs start to be useful versus, say, a fixed menu with choices in a helpdesk app.

It's a paradox because, to really feel human like and not make huge mistakes, we need these huge LLMs and they are expensive... and the alternative is not-so-smart traditional code.

So what I'm trying to say is that I think the small LLMs might not be that useful before they cross some arbitrary quality threshold (which they may never do.. considering more parameters => better model, in general).
That is certainly a more reasonable analogy. What Trump does is outplay his opponents by using more interesting lies. They do a sort of ha-ha-I-technically-said trick where they lie but want to pretend they didn't.

John Kerry is denying flying in a private jet because his wife was the one who owned it, not him and besides they sold it at some point [0]. Trump would just claim there is no jet, that he only travels by bicycle, that everyone knows he has the best jets and that the questioners were low energy. Then the fact checkers say Kerry was telling the truth. Cue the eye rolls from Trump voters - at least Trump is not trying to insult everyone's intelligence. He just up and lies in straightforward and entertaining fashion. Assuming the sentences parse enough to work out what he technically said. But at least there isn't some stupid game where we all have to pretend he was being honest.

[0] https://fortune.com/2023/07/13/john-kerry-stupid-lie-private...
Modern dating apps are terrible because they have taken all the mechanics used in the gambling industry and use that to fleece users. I hope this generation makes a conscious decision to go backwards in the search for love. Love isn't convenient and its not supposed to be.
If your business is https://dipsway.com, I could see why a merchant provider might terminate your account.

You're broadly wading into dangerous waters and a lot of what's on your website would probably get you regulated by the SEC, but the language used on your website would be alarming to any risk analyst. "Pump and dump" schemes are illegal in the US (and I presume literally everywhere else), and you're using similar verbiage right on the main page of your site. It almost looks like you're advocating customers get in on the ground floor of the pump and dump scam, which is certainly illegal.

Separately, from a risk perspective, they're also asking themselves "If this algorithm is so good, why would they sell it for $70/mo and instead just using the algorithm to make all the money for themselves, this is going to be chargeback central when the algorithm doesn't deliver".
And yet, nsfw content is not fraudulent charges.
Same. We should encourage this practice.
Mormons, apparently. They also tend to have good foreign language skills and a willingness to serve. But they represented in the FBI etc to the point it's slightly problematic.
The drawback GP is missing is that selecting too heavily from one group can have unintended adverse effects since you lose out on diversity of ideas and approaches - I would absolutely expect many intelligence officers to drink and do other things people might frown upon, because very often the people they need to know and talk to _won't_ be teetotallers or care much about such things.
IIRC early reddit did something similar (although obviously not using LLMs) where they aggregated content from other sites automatically and effectively faked activity to draw in real users.
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Yea but it’s modified for their service as you say - it’s not Postgres because it’s not the same storage layer and it’s not open source
They had to change "badidea" because in some places typing it into error pages had become part of instruction manuals.

Now people ignoring HTTPS errors will at least k ow why it's a bad idea!
Pretty cool concept. ChatGPT meets IFTTT. I could see myself using it for some automations in my life. However, I am not ready to trust you with my API keys just yet. ;)
I have an idea for an app that I will never realize so I'll throw it out in the air:

Make an app where you make a relatively extensive profile, put up a bounty for a match, and then crowdsource the matching.

So the app experience would be mainly trying to match other people based on their looks and profile. When a relationship (or whatever goal) is made, people will payout their bounty. Or they can tip and the like for dates, good matches, etc.

The biggest killer of dating apps is the disparity between mens extreme thirst and women's extreme reservation. Both need a reality check and I think others doing the matching would provide it.

Edit: Also, augmenting this system with AI/LLMs/transformers would make it enormously powerful. It's basically an AI matching framework.
I don't get ego death with an insane amount of weed, but the other day I was certain I could see through my eyelids, so YMMV.

Don't do drugs, kids.
I don't see this going far because the era of start ups is over. High interest rates are moving companies towards more long term sustainability over burning cash on unprofitable ventures.
Meh, I keep a Windows installation around for gaming myself, so I'm not hardcore about it. More and more of my work and personal stuff does move over to Linux every year though.
LLaMA 2 7B 8-bit can run pretty well on 64 core EPYCs which are cheaper than GPU instances. Moreover, you can periodically batch multiple users and not just run a single inference for a single user.
I think it is more that as technology grows it spreads its terms and contexts to the point of entering pop culture. I'm not sure if the populous uses terms simply becuase they have heard them before in the same context or due to an understanding.

I have to point out that P.G. Wodehouse is often used as an example of this style in recent "literature". I can't even figure out the words to describe the sources of his terms. Wodehouse use terms from anywhere in English language culture (including French I think). The odd part about it is that Wodehouse's writings are so old I find it easy to miss the references.

I don't doubt we do this but do expect that is no different than my love being as deep as the ocean.
That's really just a temporary bandaid as the whole goal of these spam sites is to rank on search and the goal of LLMs is to appear to be human generated. You're stuck in an arms race against you're own improving performance if you're counting on filtering to keep your own output out of your inputs as an LLM company/trainer.

Also there's not a singular search rank for a site it's rank depends on the search query so I'm not even sure how you'd apply that metric.
There's some . . entrepreneurs . . who have been promising NIST/ITAR-compliant LLM frameworks on Azure, but when you ask around, they have not done all the legwork (AG/AGS). They're working off Azure Public, with "waivers" that they won't show anyone. Also, the history of their leadership is . . questionable. It all feels just a little hinky. Until that's cleared up, I advise anyone fooling with LLMs to do it on-prem, at least for the moment. One thing I'm worried about: doing LLMs with something like GovCloud is going to be absolutely bananas in terms of price-per-compute.
Look at it from the point of view a scientist.

They published a paper that claimed they ran analysis X. Reviewers look at it, and believed them, because we usually don't assume that people are lying. And it's hard to read over every line of code and compare it to the paper to make sure they did run the analysis they claimed.

But in reality, they did a totally different analysis. They hid data, they fudged data, they inserted weighting factors into the analysis. And they never mentioned in this in the paper.

In the article, they claim this was justified.

But hiding the true nature of the analysis they did was not. That hiding, of making the paper read one way but the code another, is plan and simple scientific fraud.

If what they believed in reality is that the code is correct, and that's the better analysis, then they should have just reported in the paper. The reason they didn't, is because reviewers would have looked at it and said that this is unacceptable and doesn't meet basic scientific standards. So they lied.
where are you getting that from? i didn't even finish high school and say i wanted to do a masters of computer science at cambridge, all i need is to rush through a 4 year undegrad degree from just about anywhere with an 80% average.

someone who can work 80 hours a week can do that in 10 months or less. especially if you're already an engineer and you're good, it's a breeze.

undergrad is dead simple, it's literally built for teenagers, it's not hard to get back on track.
hn karma is so childish, can we have opt-out option please?

especially to those downvoters-without-comment out there, fuck you all
Sorry to sound a bit harsh, but people here are a bit clueless to how price sensitive a huge number of people are.

Sure, on a software engineer salary, I think you'd be crazy too to go on the black market. But as it's not hard to find lots of stories about how the black market is thriving in areas where weed is legal. Canada in particular has been in the news lately because the black market is actually the vast majority of total sales.
True. Thankfully RR, which Pernosco is built upon, is open source.

You can do a very simple form of value tracing with just RR by setting a watchpoint on the memory where the value is stored, and then using the “reverse continue” command to run the program backwards(!). The watchpoint will trigger when the memory changes, when will happen whenever it is “overwritten” by the previous value. This is exactly the point where the value you are tracing was written into memory.

This is not as precise as Pernosco’s value traces, but it is still immensely useful. It makes debugging buffer overruns, use after free, stack or heap corruption, etc, etc extremely easy. Since traditional methods of detecting these types of bugs are a lot more work, you can earn an astounding rate as a contractor fixing people's C++ code using RR or Pernosco.

While I also wish Pernosco were open source, there is at least reason to be glad that it is a managed service rather than something we run on our laptops. I talked to Roc about self–hosting (which is available) once and he mentioned that a trace of an application like Firefox gets turned into a database taking up dozens or hundreds of gigabytes of disk space. The only reason Pernosco can turn them around in just a minute or two is that each trace uploaded is given to it’s own 36–core instance for the conversion. Even if it were open source, we wouldn’t exactly be running it on our laptops at the beach.
Charlie Javice knows a guy.
As a software developer I definitely run into “end-of-life” a lot more than “end of line.”
Exploring a few options in my off-time. Main motivation for an OS LLM is to get it to do things which GPT-3.5/4 are somewhat promising at - but not good enough for applications.
FWIW, OpenAI's availability seems to have gotten significantly better since May when we launched with them. I monitor our availability Service Level Objective and we keep needing to increase the success rate because they keep improving things.

This doesn't take away from high availability being a legitimate need to host your own LLM, though.
"I never vote - don't vote" is a dysfunctional world view.
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The last picture in the article is an interesting counter-example: a line drawing that's constructed in a fairly natural way that is nevertheless almost impossible to interpret. I'm sure there are "line art rules" that picture breaks which are almost second nature to someone who's been in the game for as long as you have; the interesting thing is how that translates to the visual cortex and why those rules work.
Not that impressed with llama 2 70b so far tbh. It’s a GPT3-level bullshit machine imo. But huge advantages in running privately and at the edge, so that’s going to be the dividing line imo. Commercial v free. Small v big. H100s in the cloud v edge
"the transistor by itself wasn't really useful"

Not to sound like an ass, and I know it is early yet here on the East coast of the US, but damn this is the most ignorant thing I have read on the internet all day! Not sure what hole you need to have your head up to not realize the impacts of the transistor that don't involve the microprocessor.
This is kind of the problem with Windows-y thinking, yes.

"Oh the security stuff is in the way, why does it need that, MSDOS doesn't have it, no-one needs it"
Yes, if you know the upper boundary for the temperature up to which the material stays superconducting. But that's a bit of a problem: this material is claimed to be superconducting to very high temperatures. It just could be that it isn't all that easy to reach a temperature where this stuff stops being superconducting. In fact I see no particular reason in physics why it would have to stay below the temperature at which the material disintegrates. So maybe that part of the effects is simply a reflection of the fact that these superconductors that work well below zero are in fact exactly there because they require a cold environment and once you find one that doesn't that whole aspect goes away, it could stay diamagnetic all the way up to its melting point.
I first heard Turtles all the way down in spoken story by Kurt Vonnegut. Does anyone else have a source of the story or is that the source?
Not as good as GPT-4 of course but nor far from 3.5 if you just need to reword whatever returned by the retrieval. It's like losing 20 IQ points which might be still better than most support interactions I had.
Tinder is ok as a hookup app, the problem is that its success there and marketing as a dating app caused it to eat most of the competition, and what competition it didn't eat copied it because of its success despite its format being absolute trash for anything more serious than mr/ms right now.
That's the Sienna.

Downsides - second row seats are not removable, there is no interior kidspycam, they just don't exist (have waited 1+ years so far, and time is running out)

Upsides - best mileage
This was true of me in my 20s, but with experience I realized:

1. Ain't nobody (i.e. me) got time for that

2. There's no correlation between multiple flowery paragraphs trying to sound witty and quirky about oneself and the chemistry you get after sitting across a table IRL for 30 ~ 90 seconds

All the paragraphs and "FAQs about me" just aren't worth it: for me, or for potential matches of mine

> She added that she was undoubtedly a cat in a previous life, “just one of those weirdo bodega ones that like people.”

This is the nonsense I'm talking about. Paragraphs and paragraphs of it.
That's a valid perspective, and I appreciate you sharing it. Indeed, the economic landscape is changing, and companies are becoming more cautious about cash burn. However, this could make the role of no-code tools even more significant.

These tools can help entrepreneurs test their ideas with minimal upfront investment, which aligns well with the shift towards more sustainable, long-term ventures. It allows for rapid prototyping and validation before substantial resources are committed.

While the 'burn cash and grow fast' model may be fading, the entrepreneurial spirit isn't. Tools like MVP Recipes are designed to adapt to these changes, fostering a more cost-efficient, lean methodology of startup creation.
>...you are stupid...

The argument of somebody who is heavily invested.
Ask HN: Any good open source video conferencing options?
Came across [Jitsi](https://github.com/jitsi/jitsi-meet-electron/releases/tag/v2023.7.2) and [BigBlueButton](https://github.com/bigbluebutton/bigbluebutton), does anyone have experience of running these or others in production?
"I mean I could have been an undercover policeman or something..."

If the police wanted to bust people hypothetically threatening other people with violence, they just have to look on social media a bit. But as far as I know, a vague hypothetical threat like this, would probably be dismissed by a court. I rather know, that there are many people walking freely around who do make not cague, but concrete threats to concrete people and the police usually says, they cannot do anything.
That's a good question, for e.g if you want to get Microsoft's revenues by product category or apple's revenues in greater China. https://imgur.com/a/LdQkt7j

You can also do this across time with constraints on context limits ...

What is a traditional method, would you search the string or would you find the named entity (using NLP) and look for the entity ? or do you mean a ctrl +F in the document ?

I guess the premise of LLMs, is that we have an intelligence that can read and write, so it can do this in an automated way in different applications. In this case, I am trying to automate and speed up the investment research process, along the way, we can create our own dataset of financial data that can be generated on the fly as necessary.

Also, how would you extract an income statement from the text, also in the same img using a traditional method ? I personally find it magical it can do that, it knows where it ends and so on...
Whoa, it's like the holy bible of an hustler.
Decoupled in the sense that there will now be TWO Chrome binaries running: one WM and one Browser.
If something is prior art, you need to include it, regardless of the source. Even fictional descriptions of technologies can be prior art. For example, Samsung used 2001 A Space Odyssey as prior art to invalidate Apple's patent on ipad-like tablets.
We report metrics, performances and open/close trades on their behalf.
We use API key connection with the Exchange and that's it.
We aren't an exchange, We DO NOT hold any token, any money, or any weird currency for our users. Users DO NOT deposit on our platform.

We simply perform open/close actions and that is it. We aren't in the Restricted Business List.

Our competitor who is based in our same region and offers the same exact service, uses Stripe.
So now you can take the time to read? And engage? because you said you don't do that.

> First you pointed out your extensive experience as a basis for your argument and now when you realize you're completely out of your depths, you call us "locked in their ways" and call yourself "I am a hack programmer at best and I can admit that".

I pointed it out as a basis for how transparent the behavior is, not as my capability as a programmer. Because I'm not the one who claimed I can glance at a repo for 2 minutes and judge it to be bullsh*t. Nor see 270k lines of code and not see the extensive documentation, translations, etc

> I'm way past the stage of my life in which I feel a need to have a dick measurement contest online with random people about my experience, where I work and how many devices do we sell per year.

And yet, here you still are. Measuring away.