skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Indeed, the human brain has much more logical parts. They all run at sub-MHz speeds though, and don't seem to be using matrix multiplication (which is still worse than quadratic with the best algorithms we have).

Also, human brains do a lot more than language processing.

LLMs are definitely touching something very important about intelligence, much like counting sticks touches something very important about numbers. But the real power of numbers is unleashed with the invention of digits and positional notation, a different representation that makes things literally exponentially easier.

I hope there is a transition step from what we do now using billion-parameter models, to some better representations, more compact and thus more powerful.

Also I hope that ready-made logic and efficient numerical computation can be connected to the learning systems more directly, not taught painstakingly from first principles, much like vision is relatively directly wired into the human brain.
Right off the bat there's a pretty serious error:

> There’s been a lot of discussion about licensing in the news, with Red Hat and now Hashicorp notably adjusting their licensing models to be more “business friendly,” and Codecov (proudly, and mistakenly) pronouncing they are now “open source.”

Red Hat has not adjusted any of their "licensing models." They've simply stopped publishing the RHEL sources publicly. They're still published and fully available to paying customers, who are the only ones they are legally[1] required to distribute them to. None of the licenses (GPL, MIT, etc) have any requirements to publicly distribute code.

[1]: there is some dispute over whether the customer agreement violates the GPL in spirit or letter, but that's a different question. It's not a licensing thing, it's a business agreement/contract that is completely separate from the licenses. The licenses don't require you to do business with people you don't want to do business with, and they don't require you to give away your product for free.
I find it representative of modern business management that the word “find” was used instead of “train”.
I was just listening to On Point they were talking about music's effect on physical health (heart rate, blood pressure, inflammation, etc)
I wish them well!
And yet hardly anyone ever makes this argument against sandboxing the code we download on demand every single day while browsing the internet.

I have started to believe we should think of open-source software as not so different, and sometimes even as less trustworthy in certain ways since we typically don’t sandbox it.

How many of your tools have telemetry? How many of your drivers do? How many download and execute stuff on the fly?
> The problem is living 'off grid' is not new. Monasteries have been doing it for a while

To the contrary, monasteries were very often at the nexus of trade, serving as the middle-men between peasants who produced goods and markets in larger cities [1][2]. Monasteries were on every grid available in their day - road, communication, etc. They were even connected to social grids to recruit new monks.

1. https://www.worldhistory.org/article/1301/trade-in-medieval-...

2. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7_yQ0VGuQDo&list=PL5opbjxUR5...
Or we go back to the old ways where servants make up one chunk of society, indebted and poor, and the rest is made up of petty elites and elites. You can tell from this post how many people want this and are scared they might eventually fall to the former. “No it’s perfect reasonable for me to make 150k. No that doesn’t make me an oppressor. Sorry you make 30k a year, now go fill up my beverage peasant or die”.
What's the best way to store around 300TiB data cost-effectively? Assuming would have access from time to time to around 25% of that data (monthly) through 1Gbps connection.

On-prem seems to be the best, but carrying around 30 disks is no small feat.

Edit:

The data will not be mutated after write. Might append new data occasionally after the first dump.
I pity anyone who underestimates Kuba. OK, most people I've worked with in tech are probably smarter than me, but this guy plays in a different league.
Some of us work for big companies that still basically make what they did 50-70 years ago, just faster and better now, with the help of computers and data science.
I keep notes, but my main problem is that I don’t read them often enough. Somehow I have tendency to keep moving ahead and I really need to have a good reason to go back and look something up.

So for me, main benefit is extra information which I retained while/because I was writing it down. I stay away from commercial apps, just org(roam) mode since emacs is not going out of business
Of course you can. Unlimited buffet might charge you if you leave a lot of leftovers too.
of course they did, at this point is anyone even surprised?
As much as I disagree with OP, copyright law is not trademark law.
The word "smarter" or even "smart" doesn't appear in the text, so I guess this is not the claim of the text; I would have appreciated a summary or at least a conclusion. I did not have the patience to read it all, but just skimmed over it and think it's more about information overflow in general.

It's not true that note-taking and well designed apps to do so don't make us smarter. Being smart means "having or showing a high degree of mental ability" (point 1 of 7 in https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/smart). Applications which support our information management increase our mental abilities.

Since I take notes of every meeting, I still know days or even years later what was decided and for what reason, and I can check the arguments afterwards to see if they are still valid and, if necessary, make sure that they are returned to if circumstances change. If I don't take any notes or only keyword notes, I can't do that because after two hours you only remember a fraction of the meeting, and after a day full of meetings you hardly remember any details. I've done big enough projects for long enough and participated in meetings of 2 with up to 50 people in a room, and have been able to observe very well how what kind of notes affected the aftermath of the meeting on individuals.
Sorry. Supposed to be run book.
Thats... That is something.

I wonder how much the workers on camera are paid? Probably not much, which is pretty much my only complaint.
Find: Das

Replace: Dash

Find: Bangalore

Replace: Brixton

Edit time: 1 minute

Result: Problem solved.
I totally agree! That’s why, as sad as it can be, a couple of weeks ago I decided to delete my FB and IG accounts.

I tried really hard in signalling inappropriate content, adding manual tags irrelevant for me, but nothing. I got frustrated of unasked violence, road rage acts, sex and physical injuries. Bye bye Meta.

The problem remain for everybody else. I hope governments start to pay close attention and investigate. Meta’s pure evil.
An Introduction to OpenAI fine-tuning
You refuse to define the problem in a comprehensive way in the first place. That's the meta-problem :)

The second issue is that you think it is impossible to define an "abstract good" in code quality given a specific context (team, product, market). The "abstract good" stems on its own for the given internal culture and market situation. Through some common sense examples, it is easy to see how "abstract good" wields influence on "practical parameters" critical to business survival/thriving.

As an analogy, I can say the "body is healthy". I am aggregating a bunch of metrics to say - "this is healthy". It doesn't mean the term "healthy" is meaningless. The term "healthy" has useful meaning although not at a mathematically precise level. One could even argue that the term "healthy" captures something even precise mathematics cannot capture (it's abstracted at a higher level). Apply similar argument to the term "code quality".

Edit: Maybe it is better to explore the idea of code quality "via-negativa". Find what's actively harming beneficial outcomes. And remove it. If you cannot find many harmful things, then it has high code quality.
Only generative AI product I know of that consistently gets words correct in their outputs

https://i.imgur.com/yJ5TvHb.png
> can't really sell something unlimited and then call who's taking benefit of that "abusers"

Colloquial versus contract. It's sold as unlimited, because for most people, it is. Similar to how salt and pepper at restaurants is practically unlimited, even if you can't demand they hand you all the salt in their kitchen.

In practice, marketing as unlimited to suss out the use distribution before capping it where it becomes uneconomic seems to be a valid strategy. (The fraction of users curtailed plays into perceptions of fairness.) With that framing, this story has no bad guy.
Gab is the neo-nazi facebook, right?
> The study also showed that past-year use of cigarettes, sedatives and nonmedical use of opioid medications (narcotics other than heroin) showed a 10-year decline for both adult age groups. Reports of past-year amphetamine use continued a 10-year decrease among 19-to-30-year-olds and a 10-year increase among 35-to-50-year-olds.

So, maybe people are transitioning from one set of drugs to others? The stuff that’s going down seems generally worse than the stuff that’s going up.
I tried taking notes and then organizing them afterward.

Then, I switched to spending a little bit of time organizing my notes before taking lots of them. This changed the game for me considerably.

It definitely doesn't make me smarter but it does keep me more organized. To the point where I'm not in a conversation remembering something I missed from earlier. This does make me more effective in those conversations and more able to focus on the people I'm conversing with.

And that can definitely make me _seem_ smarter...
The two things do not seem to me as contrasting, there is an industry gathering the data and selling them (with promises and snake-oil) and other people buying those data.

Whether what is sold is accurate or not is another thing, as long as it is perceived as "good enough" by the buyers it will be bought anyway.

I don't think that many companies (buyers) have the guts to stop for - say - 6 months all advertising on a given channel and see what happens.
On Ryzen 5600X, 7B and 13B run quite fast. Off the top of my head, pure CPU performance is about 25% slower than with an NVIDIA GPU of some kind. I don't remember the numbers off the top of my head, but the generation speed only starts to get annoying for 33B+ models.
There are taxes on land - at least in Seattle they are part of the property taxes (according to the stub King County sends me every year). But I guess it is not properly enough for you... I am guessing is too low for your probably....
I don't see any mention of migrating the issues over, is that part of the plan?

I also don't have a good grasp of what the situation is for the in-flight PRs for Hashicorp's repo: are those changes still MPL until they land in "main" and get BuSL-ed? IOW, is the PR author responsible for resubmitting or could any such patches be pulled in safely (err, DCO and CLA nonsense aside)?
Anybody want to drop in and burst my bubble? This sounds very promising!
I think the author has the terms "opt-in" and "opt-out" reversed, which was a bit confusing. If something is "opt-in", then you have to explicitly decide to opt-in, which means that by default you won't be included.

A good example of this is organ donation. Some countries have it opt-in (i.e., you have to decide to donate), whereas in other countries it is opt-out (so you are a donor by default).
Was thinking the same. Would be great if they provided more "experimental" features with a flag or ENV. Then the default cli could be the "comparability mode". Cheers and good luck to the project!
There are plans to introduce type system into Elixir:

https://elixir-lang.org/blog/2023/06/22/type-system-updates-...
Used, yes.
Can't say I've ever seen a restaurant advertise "unlimited salt".
Do you think Apple BSD licensed the iconic Macintosh "hello" image or something?

https://appleinsider.com/articles/19/01/24/apple-launched-ma...
Build scripts are a lot scarier than proc macros to me. Those get run if you simply add the package as a dependency and build the project, even if you haven't used them in your library yet at all. And nearly every ecosystem has build scripts that can run entirely arbitrary code.
Hey HN! We've built this platform that allows you to evaluate how well your LLM implementation is performing, despite that be using open source tools such as LangChain, lLamaIndex, or even your own internal framework.

The idea is you would use our open source package (https://github.com/confident-ai/deepeval) to evaluate LLM outputs using criteria such as factual consistency, relevancy, bias, etc, and be able to have a bird eye's view on the overall performance on app.confident-ai.com as our package allows you to run analysis on our servers, all for free!

Would appreciate it if you could give it a try, thanks :)
Previous discussion from a few weeks ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37082304
I agree with most of that, but taking a server offline isn't really harder than pulling tapes out of a library.

And if you replace dead disks every month or two, a non-networked server can probably manage more reliability over 10-30 years.
> You'd have to mangle the guest kernel syscalls or libc though, it might be really ugly.

You wouldn't have to. There's patches for hardware TCP offload using the normal socket syscall ABI. The kernel net stack maintainer is pretty ideologically against them so they're not mainlined, but plenty of people have been running them in production for decades and they're quite mature.
A long while back there were efforts to port Pantheon to FreeBSD. IMO, a coordinated effort to get the graphical and UX experience on Linux or FreeBSD would be better than yet another one.

I do wonder about eOS staff issues. It would be a shame to see that fall apart, I've been using it for years. Even so, someone picking up the torch as it were would be better than starting another.
The main questions would be durability and availability. Maybe only because I am scarred by experience but "on-prem" seems to me quite obviously the worst possible way to do it.
Tritium level near Fukushima plant well below Tepco standards
There are so many societal and environmental confounding factors, that I don't see how I would ever trust a study that would claim this.

What we are learning so far is that genes tell an extremely complex and probabilistic story.

There is no way we have "evolved" through selection in many countries from 4+ kids to <2 kids per mother in a span of a 100 years, so while we could possibly see such a genetic effect over thousands (probably more) of years, there is no way we could see it in the span of a century.
What's the access pattern? how often you write and read? and how much?
Again, just a trivial wrapper over open ai, which already does this very well. But seems to not have any real benefits other than not needing to move mouse. You don't need to send data to OpenAI, and in a business you wouldn't want to do that. LLMs already generate synthetic data for graphing that you just copy/paste in and use. It should instead be passing in types and header maybe.

The big thing for graphs is formatting, the ideal solution IMO is one that can JIT code gen parts that generate real code for formatting so you can reuse and tweak, I don't need to pay to send request to increase the marker size by one pixel. Even if running locally that's waste of compute
Our first two issue templates on github are for exactly this! Please add any that are particularly important to you or your team!

https://github.com/opentffoundation/roadmap/issues/new/choos...
Web scraping for me, but not for thee
A while back I made a video along these lines, if anyone wants to see it animated: https://youtu.be/CfAL_cL3SGQ?si=tPnCzBjI0QVOpwCQ
American Wealth Disparity by the Numbers
That the data about you is not flowing from one party to another.
The difference is that renewables mostly end up paying for those externalities. Particularly nuke. We've managed to internalize the idea as a society that if I decide to burn an enormous amount of hydrocarbons I get to profit from the power generated (or whatever desirable outcome is present) but society gets to deal with the byproducts, none of which I am expected to contribute to handling.

This is an obviously silly structure and yet it persists.
> Not a clone of anything, but something with which the long-time Mac user should feel instantly comfortable.

The longer I look at the screenshot, the cheekier this advertising seems.
> And last I saw the Russian currency was doing great

1 ruble is about 1cent lol

Like I said, I'm not sharing anything because you've already made up your mind. Ive skimmed your comment history and you're one of those "america bad" committed ideologies. Sorry, there's nothing I can do for you.
1. The main reason we don't leanr from notes is that its exhausting to go back and review.

2. Learning requires a risk of loss.
Without some kind of loss being averted, your mind won't retain nor focus on the subject at hand.

This is why TV and entertainment or fiction rarely help us learn anything.

BENEFITS

The biggest benefit of note taking is
1. Writing the notes helps your instantly retain
- hand written notes much more so
2. you miss about 20%-80% of verbal information when its presented first tiem - especially subjects we aren't familair with.
Weird article - two sentences on sneaking into Kesey's class, a clumsy transition from his incarceration to his death to the theme of misfits, and then an "excerpt" from a third author about her journey of self-discovery which runs longer than the article itself?
> Can't say I've ever seen a restaurant advertise "unlimited salt"

Neither do they advertise their lack of food poisoning. It's baked into the concept of a restaurant. Unlimited != infinite; it's a fuzzy boundary, and that is okay.
Interesting! I had wondered if that would be viable.
Debian relaxed their policy here for the latest release.

There is firmware in the main ISO, which means your WiFi might work. The Nvidia driver is an `apt install` away.

Either way, Nvidia needs to be installed by you on Debian or Ubuntu, and GUI vs CLI is no different to me.
or all you can eat lol

all you can eat is not actually all you can eat
Hiiiiii :) GitLab team member and the author of the blog post here.

After reading your comment, we swapped out the photo so that no one else would have such an unsettling experience! I liked the compass photo, so I feel a bit silly that I didn't notice what you did! I'll remember your comment and zoom the next time we pick a stock photo, haha. Thank you!
One big advantage is that you don't have a wave you have to sync with (Which is why DC is used for connection between grids). One of the harder parts of AC grid management is that every generator on the grid has a timing component to make sure it's producing power in the same waveform as the grid. It's not enough to produce AC at 60hz, if that 60hz is misaligned then you generator turns into a load on the grid.

It also means that if 2 grids aren't in sync, they can't connect (even if they are both 60hz) without some expensive equipment to sync the waveform. A 60hz grid cannot connect with a 50hz grid without a DC phase.
Paper straws may not be better for the environment than plastic, study suggests
Hope this continues to work. Commercial version costs all of $.02 per external user per month. I hate auth so this seems like a no-brainer.
Gordon Chang validates these claims
I have switched a couple of my more popular projects from OSL:

https://opensource.org/license/osl-3-0-php

to non commercial:

https://polyformproject.org/licenses/noncommercial/1.0.0

people always howl that "its no longer open source", and maybe that's true. but the source code is still on GitHub as its always been, and you can still do whatever you want with it, as long as its not for commercial purpose. I offer a commercial license for a fee. so despite the roar of complaints from open source purists, it works for me.
It's not just learning abilities.

Human babies are born at a stage that would be considered premature for most mammals. Because of the limitations on the size of the head, they can't afford to develop enough in utero, like deer or even dolphins can.
Way to generalize.
The article is a nothingburger, as others have noted.

But quite often, you get replies in the comments saying that _all_ note-taking and organization is a procrastinating waste of time. ("Why can't everyone just memorize everything like I do???") Which is wrong too.

Notes are just a tool for knowledge work. They are necessary but not sufficient. If you're not writing things down SOMEWHERE every day, you are leaving a LOT of mental capacity on the table. All the while setting up Future You to relearn the same things over and over again.

(Final tangent: apprentice woodworkers and blacksmiths would craft their own basic tools when just getting started, I think most apprentice software devs should do the same.)
Inner Product Argument (IPA) and a Polynomial Commitment Scheme
6-bit quantizations are supposed to be nearly equivalent to 8-bit, and that does chop 1.5 GB off the model size. I think a 6-bit model should therefore fit, or if that doesn't, 5-bit medium or 5-bit small surely will.

There is always an option to go down the list of available quantizations notch by notch until you find the largest model that works. llama.cpp offers a lot of flexibility in that regard.
The idea of opt-out is the email no longer exists to be sent to. Otherwise, to mention opt-out implies the data is still present in a form that cannot be optionally transformed.

This sort of goes to the idea of whether email addresses are "owned." They're essentially strings--but residing in a different system, are there any associated rights to it as an identity?

> keep charging you without even throwing an email

It's not mandatory, I think. However, observing auto-pay at other places, an email is sent.

Other sources outside of email are available though, like bank statements and invoices.
Stuck (Moscow Traffic) (2010)
As far as I know, even with the recent increase, Backblaze B2 is still the most cost efficient option at $6/TB/mo... but I'll be watching replies closely.
> all of them don't need to make it to the screen

ah gotcha, thanks. The bandwidth would have to be terabytes/sec. Come to think of it, pretty dumb of me to think they did.
Oh, thanks for the explanation, I get how it works now. I hadn't seen this trick for an unbounded prime sieve before, and it's a nice idea.