skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Voicing my suspicion will get ny comment flagged as well I suspect, but consider the HN reader base, what they get paid to do, and come to your own biased conclusions like I did. Many here feel that an attack on 'free' data, or a top tech company, is an attack on their livelyhood, and they are correct. Also the article is a bit overblown in many aspects which gives the clickbait anger response. Both, I feel, are valid reasons to flag this, even if I personally think many points in the post remain relevant.
> the only way to make the budget work is letting folks die?

"The budget" isn't a constant. It's something that politicians have control over.
Agree. The structural solution is a weaker, better checked and balanced Berlin. The classic form of that solution is enhanced federalism and devolution of power. But the EU offers another path: closer political integration.
Web browsers are extraordinarily large and complex applications that conform to reams and reams of constantly expanding standards adding up to tens of millions of lines of code. They have to maintain backwards compatibility with software dating back decades. Their complexity and size rivals the operating systems they run on. All mainstream browsers today are effectively forks or cosmetic skins of a handful remaining browser lineages that have been in development for decades now.

Probably the only notable attempts at building something from scratch recently is servo and ladybird. Servo was (is) an experimental platform to trial new components for Firefox is isn't a serious option for everyday use. Ladybird is primarily a hobbyist project that isn't a serious option for everyday use but has managed to implement a large part of the features of a modern working browser. The article called it "crazy", but it is impressive how far it's got so far.

Also, all of these browsers are open source with permissive licences for the bulk of their source code.
Good, keep doing what I do - that's what I want to hear.
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> The despair and famines caused by Stalin, Hitler, Mao all caused far more deaths.

That's true, but if you take the demographic residue, the fall of the USSR is the only time, safe for the worst year of the stalinist purges, to make it dive into the negatives : https://ic.pics.livejournal.com/burckina_faso/26952019/74305...

It's hard to visualize how big of an impact it had on Russian society as a whole.
> He added: “As I say, who gives a f***.” (sic)

I don't understand your point. You both said the exact same thing: "good for nothing, spice smoking, Toxteth monkey", except you also said the guy added "Who gives a fuck?" which basically means "who cares?". Does adding a "who cares?" make the originally phrase much different?
> I would put it more towards Apple’s general philosophy of “the user shouldn’t have to care about that” than trying to uphold an image from a (extremely popular) 15 year old ad campaign.

Apple's general philosophy has always been "the user shouldn't have to care about that", but they've moved more and more recently to "the user shouldn't even be able to do anything about that" (I feel betraying their BSD roots along the way), and this seems to be an instance of that.
Golf, he said, consumes less than 1% of all water used in California, but nearly 25% of Coachella Valley water.

https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2021-10-09/steve-lo...

I have mixed feelings about golf courses, but there is a thimbleful of actual data for you.
I had my brother printer do this to me. I had been using a 3rd party toner cartridge and it just stopped working one day.

Luckily I was able to remove the DRM chip off of the expended starter cartridge that I hadn't yet thrown out and swap it into the 3rd party toner cartridge which got it working again.

I'm honestly confused at how they were able to do this. I'm pretty sure that several years ago HP lost a class action lawsuit about exactly this kind of behavior. I'd have thought that, having another company lose that lawsuit, there'd be a lawyer just waiting to jump on this. Is brother just too small market share to attract a class action lawsuit over?
Why, then?
Thunderbird collects donations separately from Mozilla.

https://www.thunderbird.net/en-US/donate/
Where is the button on any official YouTube app or web interface that offers to save a local unencrypted file for an anonymous user?
Every executive I’ve worked under in my career would jump at the opportunity to reduce facility and infrastructure cost if the productivity and other metrics for success were met with remote work. This doesn’t seem to be a reasonable argument.

Also, I can’t help but note that working from home is only really viable for specific categories of work. It is interesting to me how often those class of workers do not seem to recognize their privilege and make obtuse conspiratorial arguments about “the elite” - as if remote work is really available to all.
That's wild to see 10 year car loans. But on the other hand I also saw some high-end Cadillacs are north of $150k brand new, so some folks are really going to do anything to conspicuously consume. I can't fathom spending so much money on a massively depreciating asset.
Boy history loves to rhyme doesn’t it…
Stop buying garbage toasters. You’re welcome.
That doesn't really look right to me, it looks like that's for responding regarding uploaded documents. I see nothing related to infinite context.

Also this is the azure repo from OP, nothing to do with the actual ChatGPT front-end that was asked about. I highly doubt the official ChatGPT front-end uses langchain, for example.
Ford doesn’t even sell sedans anymore!
Dressing an LLM in a teddy bear costume is not a substitute for a mental health professional.
Feel like I'm on a different planet to a lot of these desktop Linux users.

I've used desktop Linux since the late 90s - Redhat 6 was the first disto I used.

I have had uncountable complete system failures since then. As the parent says doing a dist-upgrade has a very non-0 chance of completely bricking the system. I've even had apt brick itself multiple times through normal upgrades.

Linux on the desktop for me over the past 25 years has been hilariously unreliable, by far the most buggy software I have used over my career.

Linux on the server is flawless and I use it all the time, but the amount of software installed compared to desktop usage is tiny, and I don't do dist upgrades on servers (would rebuilt it onto another machine).

For me after 25 years of various attempts the most reliable desktop "Linux" is actually Windows with WSL2. All hardware works great, sleep works, Bluetooth works, display scaling works, WiFi6E works etc. And I have a great Linux machine thru WSL2.
Also, the toner cart it comes with is only half-full*, so when you do eventually have to replace it.. you can expect the new one to last twice as long.

* they're transparent about this, was just pointing out how efficient they are.
It sure is a hassle, but the grandma loves it so much it feels worth it. I gave up on HP in the past but I’m giving it another go now with an Epson eco tank. So far so good.
I don't see anything related to an infinite context in there. There's only a reference to a server-side `summary` variable which suggests that there is a summary of previous posts which will get sent along with the question for context, as is to be expected. Nothing suggests an infinite context.
Huh, nice to see Hacker News catching up to The Baffler. I used to work a couple floors down from them, before they moved to a nicer space.
You misspelled "sending pictures of Ukrainian military equipment to Russian intelligence"

As a sidenote, that dumbass was stupid enough to live-tweet his attempt to jump bail and illegally cross the border. But I would expect nothing less from someone who unironically went by the name "Coach Red Pill".
You could construct this game entirely through a ChatGPT prompt today
After I got burned by Brother institute toner cartridge DRM, I started looking into this. Apparently there are a lot of patents around paper feed mechanisms etc. It would, apparently, be very expensive to design a new, non-infringing, non shitty paper feeding mechanism and the customer base would likely be extremely small, resulting in a sky high price.

I'm no expert and can't vouch for any of the details, but this is what I encountered in multiple online discussions when I looked into it last.

That being said, I'd probably be willing to pay up to $500 for a simple black and white open source, open hardware laser jet printer, assuming that it worked as well (from a pure mechanical perspective) as current consumer grade printers.
> In a competitive hiring environment, you need your resume to tell the person reviewing it why you’re a safe bet. Your resume tells me that if I need someone to build internal full stack web-app automation then you’ve got experience of doing that at Google… which is great except Google is pretty much the only place where that work is required

This is so incredibly dismissive and naive about the work being done. I can't believe you actually think this way. Its almost insulting

These kinds of projects require everything any other project needs. He learned a new tech, was able to identify a real problem then solve the issue with real measureable results. All of this within an organziation where you need to design and plan correctly

all of this is generalizable to almost any software work being done. and important skills for experienced engineers
Last year I came across a stall at my local fruit and vegetable market in NZ. It was selling only vanilla pods - which seemed odd to me as there couldn't be that much demand for vanilla in such a small market.

After talking with the stallholder, he told me that he had come from the Cook Islands on behalf of a government trade delegation hoping to promote their vanilla. Interestingly, nobody there farms it but they have an abundance growing wild - enough that they were hoping to establish an industry.
Your data, as of this writing, is from January 23. Consider this: https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/desktop/worldwide... which fully agrees with your data and shows the combination Linux+ChromeOS above 7% in June 23.

Thanks for pointing how fast Linux on the desktop has been growing lately.
We (at Anyscale) have benchmarked GPT-4 versus the Llama-2 suite of models on a few problems: functional representation, SQL generation, grade-school math question answering.

GPT-4 wins by a lot out of the box. However, surprisingly, fine-tuning makes a huge difference and allows the 7B Llama-2 model to outperform GPT-4 on some (but not all) problems.

This is really great news for open models as many applications will benefit from smaller, faster, and cheaper fine-tuned models rather than a single large, slow, general-purpose model (Llama-2-7B is something like 2% of the size of GPT-4).

GPT-4 continues to outperform even the fine-tuned 70B model on grade-school math question answering, likely due to the data Llama-2 was trained on (more data for fine-tuning helps here).

https://www.anyscale.com/blog/fine-tuning-llama-2-a-comprehe...
Are you talking about Live Share? JetBrains also has collaborative sharing, inspired by Live Share.

Even though I primarily use WebStorm, when I’m working with people on a contract gig, I frequently use Live Share as a pairing tool whether to help debug something or just for training/mentoring.
A monochrome home printer isn't worth the space it takes up IMO. I don't print very often, but when I do it's colour as often as not.
As you approach this answer from a functional programming perspective, I imagine a “unit of work” becomes intuitive: something that provides a correct result for its inputs.

Integration of these is also a unit of work.

In my mind, it’s also a requirement to be tested, either via true unit testing (generally), or if logical, offloading to the compiler to statically provide coverage.

This doesn’t cover aligning work with the problem statement, or design. But that’s art.

(Edit: I’m describing a function in paragraph 1, and a pure function is especially easy to digest as the ideal candidate for a UOW).
There are rote concepts that underpin stuff like that. There is a certain amount of rote you need in order to be creative. Calculators are great, but knowing how to multiply has more value than just knowing that 3 times 4 is 12. This same idea applies to so many disciplines and I'm wondering if we're going to go back to a more tedious kind of learning where long periods of supervision are necessary to keep sure you know the foundations necessary for the higher level more conceptual classes.
J Michael Straczynski autobiography
"Becoming Superman" is definitely worth reading/listening to.

Still hope he made some of it up though..
I don’t think lambda is the problem. But my guess is that using a highly scalable system that forces you to make convenience tradeoffs for that scale isn’t the best solution here. A monolithic app could handle the scale required with better devex. But I also don’t know much at all about what’s going on in that system. If the serverless tradeoffs has no real downsides for their specific use cases then all I said is moot.
Protecting a system sometimes means to restrict access of malicious actors who want to destroy this same system.

It's similar to the paradox of tolerance.

When you want to live by some rules, you have to defend these rules. Otherwise, malicious actors will use up all available resources, game the system by every available loophole, and then rewrite the rules of law.
Thanks for sharing. This looks like another fun project to work through over a weekend.
> I feel betraying their BSD roots along the way

As a BSD 4.3, BSDi, FreeBSD, and now MacOS user, I'm not finding MacOS shell environment to be crippled in recent releases. If anything, even the ecosystem available to me through brew keeps getting broader as more and more tools add support.

What do you feel Apple has taken away from you at the CLI?
Its educational. It shows a how llama works in a clear, concise, testable way.
In many cases, people getting 40 year mortgages would be better off just continuing to rent. We just bought our first home with 10% down and a 30 year note and we’re now basically paying rent to the bank.
You can't see that a situation will come up, every day, where you have to make a choice between spending millions to keep someone alive for another year, or spending those millions on cheaper and more effective interventions for 100 children?

Here's the logic. Budgeting doesn't suddenly disappear and resources don't suddenly become infinite when healthcare moves from insurance companies to government. People who bash the NHS as a concept are people who prefer insurers to budget their healthcare instead of civil servants. Insurers are also death panels.
Should career/job prospects and impact to the WV economy also be part of the criteria?
I’m halfway through re-watching Babylon 5 and I realized that out of all sci-fi shows I’ve seen (and I recently re-watched many), this is the best one in my opinion.
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Stargate SG1 was consistently OK, but rarely great.

Atlantis was mostly bad, stopped watching it.

Universe had much better characters.

Babylon 5 and Expanse were better though, pre planning plotting, still surprising most shows don't bother.
> What if we can execute fine-tuned Llama7B on our phones?

7B and 13B are already quite performant with mlc-llm (which uses an Apache TVM Vulkan/Metal backend). Llama.cpp has the potential to perform well too.

These "single file" implementations are not meant to be optimized or feature rich, I dont think.
All the public and (leaked) private statements I have seen state that this is not happening. As siblings noted, MoE probably explains this variance.

AIUI they are using current chat data for training GPT-5, not re-finetuning the existing models.
Wayland might eventually be better, but for a Linux-hostile computer configuration (10 bpp color, Nvidia, audio only half-supported by Realtek, no snaps/flatpak) the constant flag setting friction, video codecs being in limbo, and programs like OpenSCAD having a huge keyboard delay and screen flickering (which Firefox also had for a long time) led me after a decade of Linux use to a reasonably satisfying experience (ignoring time sync problems and slow-ass cross-OS file access):

Windows 10 + WSL

I thought an AMD + Radeon laptop would be a great improvement. Evidently I have the Reverse Midas Touch. Also garbage. Sadly, FULL hardware/peripheral support requires Windows or Mac, happiness everywhere else dictates Linux, and WSL delivers both (plus WebGPU, which is another aspect of Firefox/Linux that is perplexing and half-baked).

On both computers, X was a dramatic improvement over Wayland: proper color support (i.e. parts of the GIMP UI wouldn't turn magenta or half-transparent, you could enable HDR in Chrome), no extreme keyboard lag, all my Java binaries work without requiring cryptic flags, I didn't have to compile my own drivers from a guy named ElFarto, I could finally forget the difference between AV1 and VP9 and whichever gstreamer package lets you watch video again...
That's part of the idea. It's that you slow down, try to figure out what exactly the other person means by what they are saying. In a language with a fixed vocabulary, context becomes even more important than normal.
In principle that seems plausible. Assuming that there is nothing immaterial about consciousness in the brain (not unreasonable), one may conclude that we are biological information processing mechanism, which should then computable by computers. But that goes against any person's intuition of what it is to be inside of a brain, doesn't it?

Beyond the philosophical problem, there's quite a bit of science fiction that has already thought about some scenarios once we become able to create digital humans. If you've got just a few minutes read Lena [1], it's a fun uncanny read.

[1] https://qntm.org/mmacevedo
I'll always prefer visual effects that are somewhat realistic vs aeroplanes/boats in space that every non B5/Expanse show does
"I wish we had free speech online, except for people who try to cancel me".
i ask everytime I get rejected, you do sometimes get some info. But i think its almost always useless because the next interview you do will be graded some other random arbitrary standard. sometimes it is helpful though, or if there is a trend.
Consider if you could draft English longform content by using a chorded keyboard and a conlang like Toki Pona, by feeding it through an LLM.

That would be sort of like stenography shorthand
my 2c:

Your comment seems to have nothing to do with the post and mostly has a bunch of links. If there is some relevance please make it clearer by editing your comment.

Your projects might be very cool in which case just submit them to HN on their own instead of commenting.

Commenting on other people's downvotes is usually not helpful. Accept the votes, learn from the experience and take that forward when participating in this community. The guidelines are pretty good, please read them as well: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
The llama2.py code defines its own accum, rmsnorm and matmul. Why not use NumPy? A "pure Python" code that is much slower than one using NumPy is less interesting to me.
Brother printers are great but not like they used to be. The prices have 2-3x in the last decade.

The issue with any inkjet is that you need to use them. The eco tank makes sense if you print a lot.
It sounds like a cop-out but: it's one made for your use-case.

If you're letting people do fun long-form roleplay adventures using summarization alongside some sort of named entity K-V store driven by the LLM would be a good strategy.

If you're building a tool that's mostly for internal data, something that leans heavily into detailed answers with direct verbatim citations and having your frontend create new threads when there's a clear break in the topic of a request is a clever strategy since quality drops with context length and you want to save tokens for citations.

People who are saying LLMs suck or are X or are Y are mostly just completely underutilizing them because LLMs make it super easy to solve problems superficially: when it comes to actually scaling those solutions to production you need more than random RAG vector database wrappers.
At least in 3.5 it's very noticeable when the context drops. They could use summarization, akin to what they are doing when detecting the topic of the chat, but applied to question-answer-pairs in order to "compress" the information. But that would require additional calls into a summarization LLM so I'm really not sure if it is worth it. Maybe they dump some tokens they have on a blacklist or text snippets like "I want to" or replace "could it be that" with "chance of".
Thanks, you spared me the horrors.
While our water coffers are full, we should look at replacing more of the ornamental, non native plants that people have with natives grassss, flowers, shrubs, and trees. California is a botanical bounty and there's no reason why we need such an artificial monoculture when native plants support local wildlife, require fewer resources and less upkeep, and often look better as well. Not to mention that they often smell great, especially some of the native sage species that grow in the hills.

Fun fact: before the Spanish conquest and aggressive grazing agriculture, the native grasses in California were perennials, greatly reducing the severity of fires.

This won't fix the aggressive consumption of water by agriculture. I'm not sure what to do about that, except allocates strict water allotments and encourage more drought resistant crops with government programs.
If people actually bothered to read the link I posted, it is all about the lazy blaming of a wide variety of problems with specific solutions on a very hand-wavy "capitalism".

I know a fair bit about about the housing shortage for instance, and it's not "capitalism". It's a specific set of rules and institutions that cause the problem.
5 years is more than long enough. From the statistics I’ve seen, the average tenure of a developer is around 3 years.

But by definition, if he starts interviewing and gets an offer, the company who gave him an offer doesn’t care about the length he has been at his current employer.
Wow, I stand corrected. Cheapest Ford is $30k+. I thought they would still have the Focus/Taurus still available.
"Fall back on blaming the process when failure comes around and avoid ever pointing fingers or owning it."

Some organisations can do this, but I've see plenty that might outwardly try to avoid pointing fingers, but you can tell that despite warnings given, they do blame.

I told several leaders that one of their systems was literally on the brink and we were fighting fires on it every other day, and the processes in place were horribly broken.

12 months later shit hit the fan, my feedback was that I wasn't proactive enough, and they basically threw me and my team under the bus.

This despite budget under cutting, limits in hiring, enormous optimisation, education of other teams, research. Just getting 'No' or no real outcomes all the time on any escalation.

The leaders did this serially across the business, and lacked ownership on this aspect to even give people the resources and autonomy to do anything about it, yet would come looking when it came time, to throw other teams under the bus like this
Why lasers could help make the electric grid greener