skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Lol that last word has a z, a prz, a cz, and a sz.
Not a good idea to introduce a global valuable Children and has a children as value inside a class. Very confusing.
Creating an index for my personal website using NLP
saline water can get colder without freezing.

likewise deep water is under high pressure, which also lowers the freezing point.
I don't disagree but "established best practices" have an enormous range from no brainers to obvious cargo cult bullshit. For every dev rightly suggesting people use CI/CD I've met 10 that twitch at the slightest suggestion that maybe we don't need whatever half baked library their favourite medium blogger or tweeter is raving about this week.

I think it's stupid to disregard a doctor's advice, but as someone without a medical degree you really have no good way of knowing whether you're getting the healthcare version of "use version control" or "I just used Svelte for 5 minutes and it's the best thing ever!!!!!!!". You just have to roll with it like you'd roll with a shit dev over someone who's never written a line of code in their life.
In the US,this went mainstream for the pandemic. It was an existing undercurrent in different communities.

Reactionary people weaponized vaccines with Gardasil - good Christian boys and girls are chaste until marriage, so vaccination is unnecessary. Sinners get gods punishment.

Crazy left-wing people cling to the autism rumors about vaccination.

All of this is magnified by politics and propaganda. Certain religious sects punch above their weight because of political factors - you can usually correlate this with measles outbreaks. Foreign influence operations encourage and stoke this stuff to encourage general unrest as well.
>We also had to forcibly tell doctors "no" to forceps, pumps, drugs, and all the interventions. They made such a big deal about being two days past the due date, that they pulled her aside and asked if I was abusive.

Guy who has delivered zero babies telling the team who has delivered many babies what to do.

>Doctors and nurses make a big deal about things like "the cord is wrapped around the neck"

Lol.
Yeah, screw them.

I've also been banned one day for posting ads for my pictures. Just portraits, nothing special.

I got zero explanation and could not recover my ad credits.

More recently I was shadow banned for including links to YouTube on my fb post. Got a reach of 21, where it was usually above 1000. My page didn't recover yet.

It's time to let meta die.
Google's AR dream turned into chaos, constant pivot delaying plan to chase Apple
1. Raise $$$
3. Spend $$$
4. Exit w/ $
No app, no entry: How the digital world is failing the non tech-savvy
it's been shown that you still get and transmit covid just as easily after the vaccine

Absolute nonsense.

https://www.ucsf.edu/news/2022/12/424546/covid-19-vaccines-p...

https://www.cleveland.com/resizer/wQkRVy7FUq2G5Cnl1EPz8OgRNr...

So unless you were in a high risk category for death from covid, was it necessary?

More nonsense. I will show you with actual information:

https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/united-states-rates-of-co...

https://www.axios.com/2021/10/18/cdc-data-unvaccinated-coron...

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FN6AdgVXEAUm_W2.jpg
Buying a lottery ticket is buying a dream. You too can raise like this if you sell a dream to people with deep pockets who will only be mildly perturbed when it goes bust.
this song he tells in the end is downright hypnotic.
“Non-consentual” imagery is such a strange concept. Does it not fall under some kind of freedom of speech to be able to generate artwork or content of someone specific getting railed?

This feels like asking someone for consent to imagine them while masturbating.
2->3 has been a complete disaster, anything older than a few weeks tends to randomly break with some kind of dependency issue, sometimes requiring multiple installations of python on the same machine which will bite each other in hard to predict ways. Python is a wonderful idea but I've yet to be able to write something in python and call it 'finished' because it never ever continues to work in the longer term. Highly frustrating and in my opinion unnecessary.
> It has always been possible to create convincing fake photographs...

Not really, depending on who you are "convincing". Up until relatively recently it was usually quite easy for photo experts (and often even less than experts, just people trained to look for certain "tells") to detect digital manipulation. But, on the flip side, yes, digital manipulation has occurred in the past, and I think it's a mistake to discount the strong negative effects it has had, e.g. many people having a completely unrealistic view of what most real humans actually look like (e.g. https://scottkelby.com/faith-hill-redbook-magazine-retouch-f...).

> The new technology just makes it cheaper for mischievous people to make fakes

That's a huge deal. Just look at the concerns around the use of LLMs to generate (and run) misinformation campaigns. Obviously those campaigns can and are run now, but the thought of it being incredibly cheap to do so, by people of extremely little skill, changes the information landscape drastically. Doing it for images is just another piece of the puzzle.
Stack vs Cabal was a huge argument where I worked with multiple teams using different build tools. Add Nix and nix2whatever, and it was more fun. Spent half my time debugging build instructions
this has been my experience as well. After being one of the five people who liked using Objective-C I was eager to have this new, incredible language to work with, and pushed to adopt it as soon as reasonable on all the codebases I worked with.

That enthusiasm has since waned when stuff happened like compilation times slowing to a crawl because somebody used ternaries extensively. I still think it's a great language, but the tooling really makes it hard to love
I've gotten into a nice algorithm niche of "sketchy scams" that I find endlessly amusing. A device that strips the coating off copper wires, "We'll buy catalytic converters no questions asked", a prison metal toilet / sink combo, temu vibrators, $40k aliexpress factories in a box, ...
If you can find a large body of good, permissively licensed example code, you can finetune an LLM on it!

There was a similar attempt for Godot script trained a few months ago, and its reportedly pretty good:

https://github.com/minosvasilias/godot-dodo

I think more attempts havent been made because base llama is not that great at coding in general, relative to its other strengths, and stuff like Starcoder has flown under the radar.
Meh. Sure, it can make a picture. But so far AI can't tell me what good art is. The business side of art isn't painting. It's consultation.

Even the street vendor spraying away at stencils is selling an experience. The artwork itself isn't what's valuable.

And I can say the same about nearly every supposedly devalued profession.
Commands widget to re-run recent commands on terminals
I made the mistake of opening this in work and had to instantly close it
It’s wild to me that people will say out of one side of their mouth “the government is too big, it wants to control our lives and thoughts!” And out the other side say “the government needs to be more in control of what poor people are eating”
I saw this and thought it was a startup in homage to a xenomorph facehugger. Ironic, since we are worried about AI destroying humanity.
Using an AVR128DA48 feels using a 747 to go get my mail from the mailbox.

Why not use actual logic gate chips? I made a board like this a long time ago with 74xx-type chips. It was neat looking at a datasheet[1] and seeing exactly how the pins correspond to the gates.

[1]:https://datasheetspdf.com/datasheet/7411.html
If you watch the Connect talks, I'll be speaking about this..
I am assuming that the developer has necessary permissions. If he/she accidentally deletes the table, then that's a problem.
Are you in US, Europe, somewhere else?

Congratulations on the new role
This is amazing! Thank you for writing it. Maybe you should write a blog or something.
Perhaps echochamber is likely what they meant?
So you do not believe intelligence played a role? It was inconsequential how smart a person was?
I think this happens with experience - I’ve recently done the same after spending years chasing languages to work in
genie's out of the bottle. nobody can't stop it. law? do you believe those corrupt old men actually work for you? especially when a founder of leading llm company is chasing for regulatory capture. shit show all around.

and out of topic: the quality of this report is really top notch. where and how can I support you?
I guess that writing "Java Fanfic" is very popular, judging from the downvotes.
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We use Discord at my company. It was a compromise between us graybeards wanting email + issue tracker only and the new people wanting... Discord.
Even the 7B model of code llama seems to be competitive with Codex, the model behind copilot

https://ai.meta.com/blog/code-llama-large-language-model-cod...
Most (all?) Slavic languages just go oneteen twoteen. There's a word for 12 (tuzin) and 60 (kopa) but very rarely used.

On the other hand we have a word for 1.5 which is sorely missing in English - półtora.

On the other other hand English does weird stuff with thousands - saying 2300 as 23 hundred.
I apologise for the comparison, as your thoughts are very well-structured, and in my head it almost sounds like an insult. But this kind of thinking ("more discipline minimises the problems related to suboptimal languages") is kind of like Uncle Bob's test-zealotry - i.e. you don't need static typing/AOP/linting/any kind of bug-reducing feature, because you can just write more tests (even if it's painful or spurious)

Sure, it is possible to be very disciplined, avoid messy control flow, be careful with mutation, etc.... then good luck trying to get everyone else to get on board with a very niche coding style, unless if you have the strict authority to enforce it. Sadly, in most cases you don't, so you are stuck with the non-verifiable madness.

In an ideal world, this would work - but in an ideal world, we would also be using better languages with way better guarantees and compile-time checks.
Take money off the table, that’s what all the startup gurus call it, but whose money is kinda the question. Have pension funds stopped chasing VC funds etc?
It would be interesting to understand if a ~30B Llama-2 model would be interesting and for what reasons.
I wonder how much of the color is due to the modern process used to digitally combine the three monochrome plates.

The overlap areas on the boundary seem quite modern in feel.

The tartan bow image was taken by a similar process yet the image reproduced seems to be an image of an image. Do we no longer have the black and white plates as we do for the Russian ones?

exit: we do still have the plates, but according to this, examining them reveals it wasn't actually a true 3 colour photo:

https://www.mdpi.com/2571-9408/6/2/54

See particularly figure 7 for their modern re-enactment.
> BigTech clouds have 50%+ margins - something will give eventually.

Yes, the oligopoly, and the vendor lock-in.

Certainly won't be expecting the "advantage" of being able to outsource your sysadmins to somewhere else at the drop of a hat to be the thing that gives.
I don’t get the part on not saying a number. I say a number and it is not my lowest but what I want. Recently I either get an OK or twice “that is above, let me talk to the hiring manager”.

So either way I an ok with that, if I say nothing I also don’t where I am at. If someone tells me it is 30% below then thanks and good bye.
There used to be these massive electronic experiment kits you'd get from like Radioshack during the early 2000s. Like this: [0][1]. I haven't found any all-in-ones with the same depth sold today but maybe someone else has found something.

[0] https://pisces.bbystatic.com/image2/BestBuy_US/images/produc...
[1] https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/oNgAAOSwiZ9k1T1y/s-l1600.jpg
ive been working at a place for just about 2 years. Just needed to get my i-9 reverified. company told us to just find someone to show your documents to and they can verify it. They just had to log into the verification site, type in all of the numbers/info and say yup im someone different
To be fair, time being slower is a different condition.
I find the issue is most of the niceties are also built into Rust.

Scala's perfectly good though, there's very little to complain about.
Yes, it is creepy. And now that you mention it, Fermat's principle (the principle of least time) is creepy too. Why is physics so weird? It's like everything is choosing things all the time! And it gets worse with quantum effects, since apparently there is hidden computational machinery that happily computes superposition of essentially infinite wave forms - and that scales exponentially - without slow-down or effort.

The comprehensibility of the world is an illusion. Humans don't explain, we describe, and we give ourselves credit for undoing the confusion of some superficial effects that turned out to have a simple description. The mystery and awe of what the universe is doing and how remains poignant.
Partner integrations will follow. For now we just have the weights available.

But don't worry, this community moves fast!
Here is the paper:

https://ai.meta.com/research/publications/code-llama-open-fo...
No, this is a quirk of the English language that I'm not sure how to describe generally. Best I can do:

"Dimensions" plural agrees with "zero" as a count, so that reads as "the count of dimensions is zero".

But they used singular "dimension" with "the" which treats "zero" as an adjective. It means "the dimension that is zero".
Of course I could be wrong. Please share with me your thoughts.
Yeah i read some of these articles and it sounds exactly like what 5G conspiracy shit or crystal crazies sound like, except with a veneer of respectability because of "tech"
I find it rather odd that junon's constantly bringing up this security issue for the past 6+ months in all threads that are even in the same neighborhood as Zig, acknowledges that maybe his conversations should go private enough that he asks Dang to anonymize his past public comments so they aren't associated with him.... Just to repeatedly do it again.

Are we going to come back to this thread in a month and see all these comments of his anonymized too?

I have no dog in this fight as I don't use Bun or Zig nor do I plan on it, but from another outsiders perspective, he definitely seems to have a grudge against Zig and Andrew and is trying to play victim over it.
Oh for sure! But you wouldn't argue to do this exclusively though
ill add, they didnt care who verified it. as long as it was someone other than your self
It would fit on the 24GB top-end consumer graphics cards with quantization.
I had missed this message but have to say I love the expression "orthogonal nightmares", really captures it well :)
Probably the same as most privately funded tech startups 1) Gain user base 2) Take investment funding 3) Sell and make the people at the top rich 4) Repeat.
Perhaps, but what you may not understand is that not ALL developers _want_ a purely functional language. For some, things like Kotlin hit a sweet-spot. One can lean a bit more into a functional style, or they can lean more into an OO style and it's acceptable. Some are very interested in thinking in terms of Functors, Applicatives, Readers, etc... some just want map/filter/reduce. That's what the Streams API did for Java devs. For me, Haskell isn't "the goal". It's simply one way of solving problem-sets.
I do not think that book is a good suggestion for good or readable code, and also there is this (which in many situations will not matter, but still): https://www.computerenhance.com/p/clean-code-horrible-perfor...

Someone who does writes quite clean code is in my opinion Tsoding: https://www.youtube.com/@TsodingDaily Strongly recommend his YouTube channel!
I suppose the argument would be switching costs -- what stops any cloud provider from being interchangeable with another?
> "barbaric lifestyle"

> "trim figure"

Where are you getting these quotes from?
> xmonad

I got rid of xmonad in favor of i3 ages ago - precisely because it doesn't force me to edit a Haskell script just to change a keybinding. Obviously just my personal anecdote, but this 'feature' alone probably accounts for a significant % of users either jumping ship, or never boarding it in the first place.
I just noticed I wasn't breathing while reading these comments.
Nothing that isn't scriptable with existing projects, tbh
Wasn't by any chance one of these, was it? https://www.oldcalculatormuseum.com/c-programma101.html

One of my "shoulda preserved that" regrets is demolishing (as a teenager) a nonworking Programma 101 for the bits and pieces. The interleaved rows of these modules made for very dense circuit packing for the discrete component era.
The secret joys of schadenfreude (2018)
It's not a conscious thing. It just happens.
Probably just talent acquisition. As Google and OpenAI start sharing and publishing less, they become less attractive to scientists. No scientist wants to fall into a black hole and not publish for 8 years.
My usual order at a turkish kebab shop starts with borek, and ends with baklava. Can't go without.
Lots of people get tired of their career as decades past. Just expressing positive sentiment that he's at it still.
Maybe Meta is waking up to the endgame of humanity and has decided to stop playing the old game? Who knows :)
Retention project to keep their top ML/AI staff engaged and not straying away?

Working towards NLU that can solve content moderation once and for all? Contrast with tiktok which is clearly using word filters that are easily worked around with phrases like "un-alived" or "corn".

They want to replace influencers and your friends with chatbots and keep you scrolling through an infinite feed of ads and AI generated content?
I crashed it a few times, I don't see how you could possibly fall on your face. One was on my side (guess how I got that curb story), the other on my feet (sprained an ankle)

Small injuries happen more often than on a bicycle by a margin

If I get a scratch I get a scratch, I'll trade that for a shorter commute

What I really care about are real injuries. Those are from drivers and they are the same whether you're on a bike or anything else
Note from the developer about Chitchatter project status
Between this, ideogram.ai (image generator which can spell, from former Google Imagen team member and others), and ChatGPT fine-tuning, this has been a truly epic week.

I would argue that many teams will have to reevaluate their LLM strategy _again_ for the second time in a week.
I want to double-down on what AAzo11 replied. There is a human in the loop via an admin dashboard that allows quick approval / editing in the event of incorrect queries. This significantly decreases time for a member of the data team to field requests since they typically block out an hour to approve/edit these queries before going back to the question-asker.
IT's a brand new publication from ex-Motherboard journalists. Definitely worth a subscription. https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/22/business/media/404-media-...
That means that the process is wrong. it sounds like they are doing day to day work with credentials that can drop tables, which is dangerous and should probably be done through code-reviewed migration tooling.
theBloke cannot rest :)
Sorry—who are you and what are the Connect talks? I haven't heard of them and you don't have a bio.
The companies that invest have products (or have other investments with products) that have a strong market - they end up increasing the price of products to cover the purchase of acquisitions and losses. This results in inflation and worsening wealth distribution.
GitHub for ML models? If they can anchor themselves to the open-source developer network, their acquisition value is in a tech giant being able to cross-sell to that community.
ML models are the new apps. There is a huge opening for an App Store type situation which enables people to buy models and integrate them into their products, handling the appropriate licensing.

Bonus points for certifying the models actually do what they say. That by itself will probably become a mini industry.

Hugging Face are the clear leaders in terms of having mindshare in the community to be able to build it.
GPT4 is like 100:1 hits to misses for me.

Recently I switched to a different case for my home NAS. The drive caddies had a tiny cutout for a label, like 0.75 inch x 1.5 inch.

I decided to see if Chat GPT could take care of it. I asked for it to write LaTeX that would produce rectangles of that size with a light gray border, with the serial number of each drive in the rectangle.

On the first pass it got it basically right. Rectangles all the right size, right border, and all the right serial numbers.

The rectangles were all touching each other so I asked it to put a half inch between each and it did that. Then I decided I wanted fixed width font, and it accommodated that as well.

Then just for fun I asked it to draw a dinosaur using LaTeX. It advised me that this isn’t a good use of LaTeX and then used shape primitives to draw a plausible looking dinosaur.
Llama 34B is just big enough to fit on a 24GB consumer (or affordable server) GPU.

Its also just the right size for llama.cpp inference on machines with 32GB RAM, or 16GB RAM with a 8GB+ GPU.

Basically its the most desirable size for AI finetuning hobbyists, and the quality jump from llama v1 13B to llama v1 33B is huge.
Check out the Beer-Lambert law. Intensity declines exponentially with depth.
That maven link is perhaps not the most useful, but it is not hard to find better-written articles. For example-

https://docs.github.com/en/actions/publishing-packages/publi...

The steps are roughly:
1. Configure the repository you want to push to.
2. Set up your account with the repository.
3. Configure your credentials.
4. Deploy.