skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It takes searching and experimenting to figure out what works, and to avoid some of the sketchier stuff (and to lean towards things you could legally use for a startup), but I'm pretty happy with my current home setup, on an old PC with RTX 3090 and 64GB main RAM.

8-bit quantized uncensored Llama 2 13B, doing 50 generated tokens/second, using CPU+GPU including 17GB of 3090's 24GB VRAM.

I also have quantized 70B running currently CPU-only, but I might later be able to speed that up with some CUDA or OpenCL offloading.

This is on Debian Stable (like usual), albeit currently with closed Nvidia CUDA stack, and necessarily with the closed Llama 2 that I can only fine-tune atop. (I'm hoping that some scientific/academic non-profit/govt effort will be able to muster fully open models in the future.)

One of the main reasons I picked Llama 2 was the relatively friendly licensing (and Meta is earning lots of goodwill with that). With this licensing, and the performance I'm getting, in theory, I could even shoestring bootstrap an indie startup with low online LLM demands, from a single consumer hardware box in the proverbial startup garage or kitchen table. (Though I'd try to get affordable cloud compute first.)
Yes, and I still get lost in it, it's one of Emacs' most confusing features.
10 years ago I created an algorithm to generalize CSS selectors based on applying the "sequence alignment" algorithm (from bioinformatics / string matching) to objects (bags of attribute / key values, ie, HTML elements). This let you select two or more examples and produce a selector that captures what you meant.

More here: https://github.com/00000o1/selector-generalization

There've been multiple attempts at such a thing over the years, but I like this approach for its essentially simple foundation in solid algorithms.

Be warned tho this code is old! I haven't yet got around to updating it to make it more "modern" etc!!
I don’t know if I am right but Twitter’s growth back in 2010-2012 had a huge boost in the datpiff hiphop era. I remember back then that when Twitter’s fail whale crash logo will appear it means that Lil Wayne, Wiz Khalifa, Drake or Kendrick dropped a mixtape.
I was thinking that powerful used phones will be extremely valuable in the next years, since they are fairly cheap and more powerful than these devices.
This was surprisingly cool. I would love to see what sort of things an LLM could do with this dataset, or selected subsets of it (for examples, ideas that now exist).
> it’s very easy to use words like ‘trying to ruin’ to describe well-deserved criticism and rebuttal. That too, is a fundamental part of the scientific method.

The response was rather different to "well-deserved criticism and rebuttal":

"But days after the book appeared, Lynn Conway, a prominent computer scientist at the University of Michigan, sent out an e-mail message comparing Bailey's views to Nazi propaganda". [1]

"Ms. James was one of many transgender women who were deeply offended by Michael Bailey’s 2003 book, The Man Who Would Be Queen. But Ms. James was notable for the way she decided to go after Bailey’s children to extract revenge. She posted on the internet photographs of Bailey’s daughter and labeled her a "cock-starved exhibitionist." James also claimed in her online publications that there "are two types of children in the Bailey household," namely "those who have been sodomized by their father [and] those who have not."" [2]

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/21/health/21iht-sex.1.719534...
[2] https://alicedreger.com/in_fear/
with this comment you're basically dismissing most museums, universities, archives, etc etc
Why not use a pi zero if you have it at hand?
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There's a fairly direct analogy to be made between this project and Averroes' idea of the universal intellect, which has roots in Aristotle.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Averroes%27s_theory_of_the_uni...

> Averroes argues, as put by the historian of philosophy Peter Adamson, that "there is only one, single human capacity for human knowledge".[3] He calls it—using contemporary terminology—the "material intellect", which is one and the same for all human beings.[4] The intellect is eternal and continuously thinking about all that can be thought.[5] It uses faculties (e.g. the brain) of individual humans as a basis for its thinking process.[5] The process that happens in the human brain is called fikr by Averroes (known as cogitatio in Latin, often translated to "cogitation" in English), a process which contains not universal knowledge but "active consideration of particular things" that the person has encountered.[5] This use of human faculty explains why thinking can be an individual experience: if at one point the universal intellect is using one's brain to think about an object of thought, then that person is also experiencing the thinking.[5]

edit: I'm going to elaborate on this. In particular it's interesting to consider two kinds of knowledge -- the knowledge stored in ChatGPT's neural network, which is broad and "universal" and "timeless", and the knowledge of the individual agent's context, which is particular and local in both place and time. The "intellect" can't really do anything without being provided with a particular context in which to act.
Why are these numbers so different from the original FEC complaint? [0]

> Consequently, based on available data, Mr. Bankman-Fried is the disclosed
source of approximately $37,768,312 in contributions to Democratic candidates, parties, and aligned outside organizations in the 2022 cycle. In contrast, Mr. Bankman-Fried is the disclosed source of approximately $320,400 in contributions to Republican candidates, parties, and aligned outside organizations in the 2022 cycle.

And lest you think these are your typical MAGA republicans receiving the money, they are all the most RINO, uniparty republicans you can imagine [1]:

> Since July, Bankman-Fried has made $5,800 contributions, the maximum individuals can give directly to Congressional campaigns, to the committees of Bill Cassidy (R-La.), Susan Collins (R-Maine), Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska), Ben Sasse (R-Neb.), Mitt Romney (R-Utah) and Richard Burr

[0] https://www.citizensforethics.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/12...

[1] https://www.rightjournalism.com/its-not-the-dems-only-ftx-fo...
I almost never get cat has on the first try any longer. It seems obvious that AIs will get better than humans at these things. It’s just a question of model cost and timing.
Brilliant, ty.
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Reddit too, it's crazy to me.
That's irrelevant, we are taking about solving hard problems with ChatGPT none of the examples are even slightly complex.
> A national library is a library established by a government as a country's preeminent repository of information. Unlike public libraries, these rarely allow citizens to borrow books. Often, they include numerous rare, valuable, or significant works. A national library is that library which has the duty of collecting and preserving the literature of the nation within and outside the country. Thus, national libraries are those libraries whose community is the nation at large. Examples include the British Library in London, and the Bibliothèque nationale de France in Paris.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_library
> Sitting at a desk for 8 hours a day will wreck your body too, don’t worry about that.

But not anything like 8+ hours a day of manual, repetitive, physical labor!

Come on, there's no comparison to desk work.
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Our statement: https://medium.com/@DiggerHQ/diggers-statement-on-the-hashic...
Solar cycle is to hotter sun like climate change is to global warming. Not a perfect analogy, but helps with the gist.
Do you have examples of people failing to get a good response from chatgpt because of bad prompts? I’m asking because at least for simple cases I can often just give it a very terse request and usually it will attempt to guess what I mean and give a reasonable answer. If not I can fix it with a follow up question.

My intuition is that language models have read terabytes of random internet data, and while presumably most developers of LLMs try to find high quality data, the models generally do ingest quite a bit of random stuff, and they try to make sense of those too, so in terms of understanding they are probably better than the strictness in format that we programmers are used to.

Of course the token thing is probably significant, but my understanding is that it affects the result only when you misspell your words(?)
Nice. Yes if you want to make your own vi, you need to start with ex. vi was originally an ex command to go into 'visual' mode.
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> My biggest struggle has been finding good resources to learn the "proper" way to use it as pretty much any search will land you with vim-isms

Start with the original tutorial, An Introduction to Display Editing with Vi.
It's just a function of finding the most efficient solution for encoding a corpus of text into a given vocabulary size. Using something like SentencePiece you can define how big you want your vocabulary to be (the number of discrete tokens), and it will find the best solution of subwords/characters in a sample set.

In the case of GPT-3 the vocabulary has a size of 50,257 tokens. GPT-4 increases that past 100k (see https://gist.github.com/s-macke/ae83f6afb89794350f8d9a1ad8a0...).

It's very similar to compression algos, really. Find recurring sets of characters.
Sure, but ChatGPT is magnifying developer productivity so demand for IT people will continue to decrease. Plus outsourcing. This is also consistent with the theme that more people are being pushed into the trades. Remove other technical options and you get more people learning to weld instead.
EJS was my pick as well. Shame. I feel like Preact is closer to nirvana but then Svelte comes along. Ideal state: I want a tag, that represents a class, that binds its attributes to properties and subscribes to changes, that encapsulates this within the tag class, including styling.

I’m very fricking close to this with web components and default Vite build. The only gotcha is having to bring along a few utility classes I wrote that glued it all together. Fewer than 40 lines.
I wonder how this is affecting what you consider knowledge going forward. This strikes me as students using google to answer homework questions and forgoing the actual “learning” part.
> with the state of generally available AI tools and processing power, is there any general format can't be solved?

putting in a credit card?

I'm wondering if paid services have problems with bots, or if they mind, since they are being paid.
Then we require a phone number for everything (it's not easy to make unlimited new phone numbers) and use OIDC to authenticate to one of a couple providers. You won't be able to do anything on the internet without logging in first, but the login is safe at the identity provider.

If you think about it this is no different than showing your ID to get into a bar.
I'm sorry, this obvious corruption as outlined in the auditor general's report is acceptable to you?
What type of ESP32 is it? S3?
"Corporate welfare" is nonsense. As opposed to what? A theoretical total free market? Western governments have tried that for the past few decades, and that's done nothing but hollow out blue collar jobs and produce instability along with deaths of despair and wealth inequality.

The libertarian "free market" myth is effectively dead -- welcome to the age of industrial policy.
Why is the expected value infinite? It seems fairly obvious that you will not make much money on such a game as we all know you can't flip a coin many times without tails showing up. To make infinite money in such a game you would need effectively "infinite luck" no?
I guess I'm confused about what you're after here. Are you suggesting that the primary caregiver should be able to lean more on an increased amount subsidized daycare in order to pursue a personal life by working instead of staying home with the kid full-time? You still have your kids after daycare is over, so it's not like you can get out of that part of caretaking to pursue "personal interests" fully.

What about parenting in such a way that you involve your kids in your personal interests? You can definitely dig into tough book or go mountain biking with your kids with enough patients and proper equipment.
dang does a pretty good job of not banning people who are avoiding breaking the HN guidelines, and most of flagged content is political stuff not appropriate for HN.

HN is not an activism platform.
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This.

In lots of the world, if you're found guilty then the state pays for your prison cell and food. Yet if you're found not guilty, then you have to repay the state for the food and accomodation you wrongly received.
Snap-on and Craftsman are actually pretty antiquated tools by modern car guy standards. If you want a real wrench you go with a Mac RBRT - it’s the new hotness in combo wrenches but there are decent alternatives out there from Wright and Proto. Here’s a great video showing things you might have missed if you’ve been in Craftsman world for a while[1].

[1] https://youtu.be/hxtgWSpTC0o
As a father who works and husband to a stay at home wife, my work also never stops. After I do my full work day, I come home and... take care of the kids.
They boiled the frog on him. They had redundancy - two controllers, two phone lines, two collision warning systems.

They removed one controller. That was... not great, but it seemed okay.

They removed one collision warning system, for a short window. That was... not great, but it seemed okay.

They removed both phone lines. They didn't tell him. That wasn't okay, but he couldn't know that until he needed them.

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This also disregards that someone is always in the chair. Okay, let's say he quits. Then they're short an additional controller, making the situation worse, and someone else is still sitting in the chair when the exact same thing happens. "He voluntarily worked in an unsafe environment" is just a deflection from the responsibility of the people who have the authority and the opportunity not to make the system unsafe. His only agency was to quit his job or not, which wouldn't have any effect on the outcome.
Suppose you are out on bail facing felony charges that could earn you a long prison sentence, but you also think you would have a decent chance of getting acquitted or at least getting a much lighter sentence if a few specific witnesses for the prosecution were not cooperating with the prosecution.

Intimidating those witnesses might then be worth it even if getting caught at that means spending the time between now and the end of your trial in jail.

From another comment it appears that he is someone who would take a bet if it is slightly in his favor, even if the reward is only a little more valuable than the risk.
I'm looking at a 2nd hand ebike for sale and the battery on it talks to the computer on the handlebars and reports its charge level. It's not like a car battery which is presently just a battery.
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When I was starting out in the industry, I wasn’t even a programmer yet when a lead developer sat me down and taught me about the pendulum swing. At the time it was closer to six years to two decades. It’s clearly gotten faster in the era of Stack Overflow, but if you’re seeing six months to two years, that’s ridiculous (you’re not, the situation is).

That conversation accelerated the first ten years of my career by making me more effective. I knew people who made it farther with less work than I did, but mostly I knew the reverse. So I in turn have talked about the pendulum swing with more people than any other topic.

In the Expanse, Amos talks about The Churn, which is a related phenomenon.

“When the jungle tears itself down and builds itself into something new. Guys like you and me, we end up dead. Doesn’t really mean anything. Or, if we happen to live through it, well that doesn’t mean anything either.”

If you come through chaos unscathed it doesn't mean you were good. It just means you were lucky. Don’t let it go to your head.

The motivation of people with 3 years of experience is to jump on a bandwagon that mutes the effectiveness of having 15 years’ worth of experience. You’re dragging half of the industry down in order to pull yourself up. That’s defecting, and we all know how that turns out.
Your account reliably and almost exclusively posts in AI related topics, or brings AI topics into other threads with predictably negative commentary. I would have assumed this would have been right up your alley.
I assume the author is alluding to a certain blog post. https://alistapart.com/article/axiomatic-css-and-lobotomized...

To the point, the :not(:first-child) option should similarly be able to minimize the total number of rules.
I'm currently running a very expensive PoE doorbell that I was able to buy in 'AS-IS' condition to save some money. It's an Axis Communications product.

I really love the ability to listen for ONVIF events; it expands the flexibility of products like this because you can essentially do whatever you want if you consume the events. There are even ways to create custom events (for example, if someone covers the camera lens with their hands, etc).

Home Assistant has excellent ONVIF support - I'd like to create a wrapper of sorts around scripts (Boolean door open, door close stuff) in order to get the native ONVIF events
From that link:

“Sustained changes in solar radiance – that is changes that occur over decades or centuries – could potentially have an effect on Earth's climate system, which is why such information is included, along with a variety of other natural and human-driven influences, in climate models.“

Increasing solar radiation at a time when greenhouse gas concentrations are higher absolutely will cause warming. If it didn’t, the entire basis of anthropogenic global climate change wouldn’t really work. Would the effect be less severe if humans didn’t put tons of greenhouse gas in the air, yes. Would warning still occur without an increase in solar radiation, yes. Do the two together have a greater effect than either alone, yes.
Sitting at a desk for 8 hours a day will wreck your body too, don’t worry about that.

Except that can be trivially counteracted by get up to stretch every hour, taking a 20 minute walk at lunch and hitting the gym a couple of times a week.
The probability that the article itself is written by GPT-4 becomes so much greater if that's the case too.
This this analysis conflates tax exemptions with subsidies and cash payments.

You can't pay workers for 10 years with a tax exemption alone. You still have to make money selling product.

Similarly, those workers won't have income tax exemptions
I guess the metaphor is something like they associate unicorns with someone getting most of the pie (cake), and they want to give more equitable slices to everyone?
I like the idea of this, will find something to run it on later.
What you're claiming is in direct contradiction to main plotline of Office Space.

Granted, it's a movie, but given its following, I reckon its existence is sufficient to undermine your guarantee.
That is the direction Red Hat has been going for many years now. They position Workstation as the higher-end desktop meant to run key applications, mostly as a developer workstation. You are entitled to one or two VMs in Workstation and more than 8GB or 16GB of RAM.

They used to sell a slimmed down version called Red Hat Desktop, which was meant for single CPU machines with 8 or 16GB of RAM. It was sold as a data entry client OS.
You can do [data-foo*="banana"] and trigger it by changing the dataset to something that contains banana.

https://jsfiddle.net/gaby_de_wilde/s729uk61/
This is how TECO worked explicitly. The general operation syntax is

[count] command [argument ESC]

I have never seen direct confirmation that vi commands were modelled on TECO, but they seem too similar for it be entirely coincidence.
CAPTCHAs have wasted a lot of my time that's why I choose not to enable it for my websites.
I finally removed processing of two Xitter-to-RSS (a once great function of nitter) feeds from my crontab, I know when I'm not welcomed.
Right, there's a scale problem, among other things.

I want the invite-only system of Lobsters, with the actually good moderation of HN. I think that would help with some of the issues, here and on other platforms.
The legal system that decides when we can give consent (when we become adults, the age of majority) and when we can't (legal incompetence ruled by a court of law).
CAPTCHAS exist precisely because those were inadequate 15 years ago.

You may not have been around for it, but it's not like everyone was super duper excited to put these things on their web sites. It was something people were dragged into kicking and screaming, and even today there's a lot of those technologies deployed even so.

You are probably underestimating the willingness of bad actors to make efforts to avoid these things. Is your model of a "bad actor" on the web some malicious guy writing a program and running it on his personal laptop from his home connection? Because in 2023, your threat model should be something more like a guy who rents a botnet out with millions of computers of all sorts on it (the difficulty of this rental being somewhat higher than AWS, but only somewhat so, it's not that hard at all really), collaborates with other bad actors to work out how to best bypass filtering, creates websites to do things like CAPTCHA proxying so that humans fill out the CAPTCHAs in return for free porn or something, trades rootkits and other exploits around both for home computers and for compromising web servers for their campaigns (for the URL cred), and so on. You're not up against some guy, you're up against a honed and tuned machine with years of experience, internal division of labor and skillsets, basically an entire parallel predator economy.

Tarpitting and RBLs are not dead, but they became just one layer a long time ago.
They do that on purpose. The API gives you a setting you can change to 0 or 1 for maximum creativity or maximum reproducibility
My first, brief, dive to 135 feet (41m) was in 1976 off the coast of Cozumel. I was in a group led by a dive master and we quickly descended, swam through a large ring shaped coral structure at around 135ft, and started our ascent. More accurately, all but one of use started our ascent.

Back then, of course, we had to rely on the Navy dive tables for maximum safe bottom time (just 10 min from entry at the surface to start of final assent), and we still added about 5 minutes at 15 feet as a safety stop before exiting the water. These limits, determined by the Navy for Navy divers are intended to prevent decompression sickness (the "bends").

Unrelated to the bends is another hazard, nitrogen narcosis that can interfere with clear thinking. It usually starts to affect people at around 150 feet and I barely noticed it at 135ft. However one diver in the group was affected and after passing through the coral archway continued to swim down the wall of coral toward the bottom at least 100ft deeper. The dive leader had to chase this diver, catch him, and then go though a real decompression stop or two with him on the way up.

Now days, sport divers can explore these depths more safely by using a mix of nitrogen and oxygen called Nitrox which is a 65/35 percent mix of Nitrogen/Oxygen vs the atmospheric proportions of 78/21 percent. This lowers the partial pressure of Nitrogen while diving and thus allows safe diving at greater depths and duration for sport divers.

If the research described by the featured article is true, this suggest a simple performance enhancer. Perhaps in the future, SAT exams will have to outlaw the use of Nitrox SCUBA tanks in the exam room.