skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is a toy project. Hence, large-scale collection of data and pre-processing them into conversational format, also removing sensitive information is not possible. I was able to curate only 172 rows of data.

I have shared a notebook and explained detailed steps in my blog - https://medium.com/@iamarunbrahma/fine-tuning-of-falcon-7b-l.... If you are interested to replicate the steps on medical-domain therapy chat transcripts, you are definitely welcome. If you face any issues during fine-tuning steps, you can connect with me on my blog. Would love to help out!
What about Guix ?
The reason why the LLM apparent world model should not be considered to be the same as a human's world model is because of the modality of learning. The world model we learn as we learn a language includes the world model embedded in language. But the human world model includes models embedded in flailing about limbs, the permanence of an object, sounds and smells associated with walking through the world. Now, all those senses and interactions obviously aren't required for a robust world model. But I would be willing to make a large wager that training on more than "valid sequences of words" definitely is required. That's why hallucinations, confident wrongness, and bizarre misunderstandings are endemic to the failings of LLMs. Don't get me wrong. LLMs are a technological breakthrough in AI for language processing. They are extremely useful in themselves. However, they are not and will not become AGI through larger models. Lessons learned from LLMs will transfer to other modes of interaction. I believe multi-modal learning and transfer learning are the most interesting fields in AI right now.
I enjoyed reading the book "Building Microservices" available at https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/building-microservices-.... The book covers various aspects modern software development, such as observability and resiliency. Despite its title, the book is not exclusively focused on microservices, and the author does not unequivocally assert that microservices are the ultimate solution.
Is there an open source option to Obsidian? This is the type of thing I wouldn’t want reading or tracking my inner thoughts. Preferably something that isn’t using a limited format like Markdown.
Visually, its supposed to be a heart shape. Such as "I (heart/want/like/upvote) this" What I would describe as mild 1337 speak, using limited ascii art when it shorthand's an idea. "I 52 this idea."

Depending on how much you like symbology, since it's 52, it also carries playing card connotations, with "makes a good hand", "hearts the card game", "want this to shoot the moon."
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/44049/a-man-said-to-t...
I am hoping someone will take on Vault since it really has a unique perspective on credential leases that I don't believe its competitors currently tackle

I have been trying to help https://github.com/vaagrunt/vagrunt but there are 4400 forks so it's hard to know if one of the other ones is getting "community buy in" - I just saw that one in another HN thread and tried to help out (it's always bugged me that there was no $(make dist) for Vagrant so hopefully here's my ability to fix that bug since Hashicorp was for damn sure never going to accept any such PR)
RAG is great for pulling some additional knowledge, but if you combine it with fine-tuning (i.e., the LLM 'understands' the domain-specific terminology better) it becomes a lot more effective
tank compressratio 1.14x -
tank/backup compressratio 1.43x -
tank/movies compressratio 1.01x -
tank/music compressratio 1.01x -

As you can see, my actual file backups (servers and clients) compressed somewhat, but movies and music I got nothing (this is from ZFS but tape compression will be similar).
Thinking of the scene in Succession now 'Congratulations on saying the biggest number!'

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1E_L87IJnw8
Technically we mostly use an open-source library for generating CloudFormation, but yeah it still ends up being a bit more deeply vendor-specific than TF.
Show HN: Creating mock data using TypeScript interfaces
California is simply coasting on it's momentum.

It was one of the best place on earth for a very long time.

They WERE doing something right. Way back when. It's been over since the 90's.

It is now an absolute shithole, but:

a) many people haven't noticed yet

b) when things were working, they've build up such a gigantic pile of cash that it's going to be a while before what they've actually turned into (something barely better than Mississippi) really shows.

I'm not going to go into the list of things that are deeply broken in Cali, it's just too long, but here's probably one of the most flagrant, and directly linked to how badly money is managed: public schools.

A quick Google search will present all the evidence required: richest state in the union, public schools at the bottom of the hit-parade.

Or, you could look at the state of public transportation, one of the lamest in the world.

Or the chronically jammed freeways, one of the most inefficient system for bringing people from one place to another.

Or you could look at the amount of money wasted on the high speed train project between LA and SF, chronically over budget and never happening.

Or you could just take your car and drive through LA streets and count the potholes on surface streets, assuming your car makes it to the other side in one piece.

While you're at it, please take a look at the electrical grid in LA, it's one of the only place left in the so-called "rich world" where you can actually see it since it's hanging up there, pinned to 50 years old wooden poles. Some use of your tax dollar, right there.

Or you could look at the sheer stupidity of real estate laws which leads to a state with one of the most expensive real estate market in the world while having at the same time a one of the largest stock of land to build on.

If you take into account that the tax burden is one of the highest in the country, it's quite amazing you still manage to find ways to be proud of the place.
Any word on SSDs?
Very few people were actually using the unlimited plan (1% only had more than 35TB, and a lot more than that) and those that actually used the unlimited part were mostly abusers. Running file hosting is not an easy business
The toilet paper thing/general hoarding is heavily misunderstood.

I was/am a massive covid skeptic. None of the data made sense to me, from February into the summer of 2020. Im also unvaccinated for covid now.

But when lockdowns were starting... My family bought tons of supplies. Amounts you'd call insane or who knows what.

Do you know why I bought a lot of toilet paper and food and salt and flour??

In case I was wrong about covid.

If covid turned out to be as bad as the media was talking about (videos of Chinese people shaking in the streets, newspapers in Italy full of obituaries, morgues full and digging mass dirt graves on islands), I wasnt about to go back out into ebolla-ville and buy paper to wipe my ass.

Everyone presented it like hoarders were stupid to think supply lines in America would break down. That wasn't the point.

If covid was actually deadly and easy to transmit, I wouldn't want to go into the streets to restock items even if they were technically in the stores.
I simply use the Notes app on my iPhone, and even that got over-complicated with the introduction of iCloud. Idk how but it deleted all my notes when I enabled that back in the day. My bad for not just using a plaintext file.
... er away from major data loss.
Real estate matters. One of the prerequisites of a counterculture seems to be urban areas in which it is possible to live cheaply without working too hard. Those are hard to find in the US right now, but existed in the 1950s through the 1980s.

China now has a "lying flat" counterculture, where young people move to cheap third-tier cities where they can escape the rat race. The government is not happy about this.[1] (The term refers not to people lying down, but to crops flat in fields and not harvestable.)

[1] https://www.brookings.edu/articles/the-lying-flat-movement-s...
The government wouldn't tell you that you couldn't do what you please with your data.

It is far more effective to make a law that would tell companies that they couldn't use the data you gave them for any commercial purposes. With draconian fines for any violation. (Which fines to be meted out per violation rather than per user.)
Well.. that explains away today's WTF moment...

I had assumed it was the cat doing something to the phone while I was asleep. ;-)
OpenAI's stuff, no experience with local models. I'm curious to hear from people that have compared between those.
Contribute to GNUStep if you want to support a legitimate transition for Mac users.

Not yet another aqua rip off distro running reskinned Mate.

Just get FreeBSD with gnome or mate if you’re so inclined.

If you’re using Hello as your daily driver, you’re gonna get your hands dirty getting things to work anyway. Might as well start from core.

GhostBSD, MidnightBSD, TrueOS, haven’t people realized FreeBSD is too obscure to get a community led distro to gain traction?

Ubuntu is the use case for “mere mortals” on Unix-like systems. Anyone tech savvy enough to use FreeBSD on a personally machine successfully (whoever you are) doesn’t need some pre rolled version.

It’s a niche use case and this project will ultimately go nowhere.
Runabc
It's neat that the article presents Laravel as an alternative, but the audience seems to be JS / node devs here. I'm a JS dev and haven't touched PHP since around 2010 when I was at Yahoo and they started to move to node.js.

The article needs to have a better section on why move to PHP and use Laravel. There's overhead in learning both a language and a framework, and "PHP also does it" isn't a compelling enough argument for me.
Windows icons locations. Where are the default icons found?
If GDPR and related regulation caused Microsoft not to add those features in their European releases, I think it is but an illusion that we're now better of than without those features. Are thinks perfect? Hell no. Are they better than before? I'd say yes, definitely.
Yeah really as long as technological people are around, they won't be going in there. The people who need help are the post-apocalyptic Stone Age people who may follow us. They don't need the exact problem explained to them, they just need to make the place as creepy as possible. Skulls, spikes, creepy murals carved in stone.
that's smart. Working while going to school sucks (that's what I did), but not only is graduating without debt a fantastic feeling and great economic position to be in, but it also made me optimize the monetary consequence of my choices a lot more. When you don't have to pay it off for years, it's very easy for your mind to convince you that you need a new laptop, or a new car, or a generous nightlife budget, etc. Even just new vs. used books makes a big difference in cost.
I don’t want to sound disparaging but I think a lot of the criticisms and naysaying comes from people who are naive.

They are used to living within environments with all the modern conveniences. They can’t imagine anything different, when in fact your average farmer and his family have stuff like outhouses, manual wells, self-made tools and MacGyver fixes and hacks. While they’re not “truly” off grid, they’re effectively partially off grid and would totally do fine.

As a white collar knowledge worker I try to soak in their blue collar skills and wisdom whenever I can. And in turn try to evolve my white collar skills into something that would be useful to them (eg being competent with a variety of radios and other stuff) if the SHTF.

Conversely, I live 20 minutes outside of town. I work in town, but just on the edge of town, so I'll go months without having to go into town.

It’s weird and neat when I go into “downtown” and I’m overwhelmed with the noise and activity and new modernities (the latest being these new electric scooters people rent and ride around and then just leave wherever. Before that was Uber. I knew these existed but it was weird to see them in person. Though I’ve still never used Uber myself.)
Fair but id offer that having more "realistic" recipies and those details would still offer far less than understanding and practicing the engineering process. Finding efficient solutions to your problems and engineering them over and over again for efficiency teaches excellent problem solving and engineering skills that would be hugely beneficial, imo more important than learning the specific materials that make each item irl.
>>We don't have a way to store energy in massive ways, so in order to account for cloudy days, non-windy days and nights, we need something else.

So we can build either energy storage or nuclear plants. Storage must surely be the better choice!

It seems quite obvious to me that it will be cheaper, faster, simpler and more reliable, not least because it will be distributed and we can engage many more people to the task of building storage than we can to the task of building nuclear plants.

Heat storage, pressure storage, gravity storage, hydrogen, methane, batteries, all so easy to make (compared to nuclear plants) that you can have thousands of "small town scale" projects going at the same time.

With few notable mega-projects, solar has still grown in capacity equivalent to several nuclear reactors per year the past few years. I think a similar thing will happen with energy storage.

It's kind of happening already (several storage projects are underway and some are online) but the results are good and it's early days.
So don't sell something you can't deliver.
You really should emigrate to North Korea. (Of course you will not do that, everyone is a hero on the internet.)
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/BSD_licenses
The irony is that ADHD is extremely unscientific. If you go down the rabbit-hole, you will find out that the diagnosis criteria is entirely arbitrary, and the neurodevelopmental claim is unproven. No conclusive brain imaging and no gene studies either. Taking addictive meds which you develop a dependency for your entire life with health risks, premised on a theory of brain dysfunction that is not proven. Also, a medicine that 1/4 college students find benefit from. The symptoms are real, but the cause is still unknown, and the medicine works for everyone. No long-term safety studies either.
This title needs to be changed. Don't clickbait us with a question, just tell us what is going to be proven
You can't really sell something unlimited and then call who's taking benefit of that "abusers" :)
Heh my dream was a real-time generative overlay on top of Dwarf Fortress ASCII art.

(That was before the Steam version ofc.)
https://frame.work/ is there for you.
Praat
Ok, but can you provide an actual argument explaining why advertising (in general) is a good thing for society and the economy?

You've mentioned multiple times the "it's good at extracting huge sums of money out of people making decisions against their own interests, which goes on to fund other endeavors" argument, but I don't think that's a good thing on the whole.

If you can forgive a huge exaggeration from my part, to me it sounds similar to saying that criminal activities are great because the money earned from those activities can go on to spur economic activity in the region (I'm not saying advertising is a criminal activity, but I think you get my point).
Here is another perspective.

The web is already FULL of bad medical information. Older folks treat it as gospel already. All this technology does is make both good and bad information more accessible.

More importantly, there is NOTHING anyone can do to stop this. Nothing the US government can do will stop the proliferation of AI models that do everything including giving medical advice (or other things that we know it will screw up)

"Dr. P<hil>" is still on TV.

I take a pragmatic view on these things - assuming appeals to morality and ethics will fail, what do we do to educate people about this?
In games it happens quite a bit.

The great debate is always "will I want to change this tiny thing here without impacting everything else?" vs DRY. Studio cultures differ, but I would say at least half resort to hard coding things like positions of every item manually given the excuse they might want to shift something by a bit later (in a hurry, crunching etc.) without side effects.

Thankfully the emergence of more standard tooling and engines has pushed this to being more of an art resource concern, but it does lead to things like being told that taking a game that assumes a 16:9 1080P display and making it more flexible will take multiple years of person time.

Personally I cannot stand this tendency, but do get why they do it.
Because all the companies have to do it in lockstep (see "reach vs standout" recently in tape measures).
The press is part of the establishment. They’re in on the agenda.
It goes like this: You read a function and understand what it does. You scream at the original programmer (who was probably yourself) for being an utter idiot and doing it badly. Then you rewrite it better.

Then you go to the next function, and realize it doesn't even need the previous function at all, so you get mad at yourself and delete all that wonderful code you just wrote.

Then you try a new way: instead of inside out (start at the internal functions) you start at the top - you find where the code handles some particular task, and you drill down deep into it, throwing away useless code left and right and rewrite the thing better. (Your advantage being you know exactly what it needs to do, unlike your previous self who did not know that since he was still developing it.)

You also use a tool that finds dead code - in particular functions that are never called by anything.
In the UK I use Redber for beans, I drink decaf (Swiss Water prices) fresh ground in the afternoon and have 2-3 caf cups in the morning. Redber had a wide selection and several roast levels.
No caffeine after noon. I use a 2-cup espresso Bialetti stove top, the second smallest.
Maybe. It sort of depends on how renewables shake out.

I could see DC gaining in popularity because you don't have to invest the hardware to convert renewables to AC for transmission. But at the same time, IDK, The AC grid works just fine so I have a hard time envisioning replacing the whole grid with a DC grid. Just doesn't seem like there'd be enough gains.

I do think intergrid connections will be more common. Micro/macro grids might also be more popular. Perhaps we start seeing subdivisions with their own grid/battery backups to improve reliability and allow the overall grid to disconnect them temporarily under load?
That being said, it does natively support Apple Silicon as a side effect of being on the Switch
The code was probably hyper-optimized for decade+ old hardware.
I don't think they will do over this. All of my friends are intelligent, but none of them give a monkeys about any of this. Most people just don't care at all.

While I'm not fully committed to the "all encryption privacy absolutist" viewpoint, I am convinced we're sleepwalking into dark times for democracy and having a shared reality.
> shitting on their community engagement officer

I have a hard time visualizing what this would mean figuratively, so now I kind of wonder if you meant this literally.
If presenting a PowerPoint you already made is work (for $150M) then sure.
Starship Super Heavy Static Fire – August 25, 2023 [video]
AMD reveals long-awaited FSR 3 tech and frame gen for every DX11/DX12 game
That 35T is easily paid for with their license
I'm not sure why they couldn't split the budget and do partial both.
People all over the world water plants with water that is not potable itself due to bacterial or viral contamination. This is where the old traveler’s adage “Boil it, cook it, peel it, or forget it” comes from.

If the groundwater is not potable because of e.g. arsenic or pesticide contamination, I think that homeowners are usually aware of that and therefore are more likely to use the water only for washing purposes.
Speculating and then attacking where an individual comes from instead of engaging in the actual conversation is an interesting take and seems like you may have the wrong tab open (HN, not Reddit). There is a word for this. It's called Xenophobia.

I've been on this site for a long time, and as far as I can recall this isn't accepted.
That vulnerability exists even without .zip domain names, it just makes it a little easier to pull off.
Ideogram from the creators of Imagen is open to users now
Credential leases will be available in Infisical soon!

Disclaimer: I'm one of the founders.
But that distinction isn't relevant to the discussion of instagram ads.
I'd rather have been at Glastonbury listening to this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=POTjcZGLKuY for the whole immersive crowd vibe, but watching it on TV wasnt bad.

I prefer Norman's sampling and MC'ing to David Guetta's.

Armin still does live streams all these years later!
https://www.youtube.com/@arminvanbuuren/streams

And the BBC Essential mix https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b006wkfp is now streamed online around the world every Friday night and thats been going since 30 October 1993 via the radio!!!
That article was, at most, 5% about Ken Kesey and his course and had very few insights outside of the author’s opinion of him. Most of the article is about the issues of some other woman.
Has ElementaryOS gotten their staff problems fixed yet?

I’m also annoyed that they don’t go for Objective C which could make a lot of seasoned Apple developers comfortable, but instead went for a custom language.
But practicality is just a technological problem. And not to make a fine point of it, the chips of the machine where you are writing or reading this receive far more “technological attention” than any human being. That fact in itself is not a technological problem, but a social one. In my opinion, at our point of technological development, aging is about 80% a technological problem and 20% a social problem. The speed of research and development in technologies to combat aging, i.e., the derivatives of the numbers above, are probably in an opposite proportion: 95% of the slowness in research can be attributed to social problems, 5% to technological.
It means it's calculating 6000 frames per second, but all of them don't need to make it to the screen. On a 60hz screen, every 100th frame calculated would actually be displayed. (If we assume a perfect 6000fps, the video shows fluctuations between 4000fps-7000fps.

If you just mean how can it be so high in general? Old, well optimized, games run really well on faster modern hardware. I remember getting over 1,000 fps in Guild Wars 1 on a GTX 1060 when looking at an area with no monsters/NPCs.

edit( this paragraph doesn't apply here) ~~The PS1 also doesn't have floating point math, mostly everything is done in fixed point with integer math which is obscenely fast compared to floating point (it could also simulate an FPU if the precision is absolutely necessary but that's not suitable for realtime)~~

Just read further down the article that they converted it to float. I guess the game is just super optimized. I would have thought fixed point savings factored in here.
Yeah, further down I realized I was crossing wires and was thinking of a Unikernel. My bad!
"Unlimited" anything is frequently taken as a challenge. If you were to create an anonymously writable S3 bucket and go on Reddit or something and say "hey everybody, store as much of whatever as you like," it'd take about 5 minutes for you to get a billion dollar bill and an arrest warrant. When GMail announced its gigabyte email thing, it took like two weeks for somebody to create gmailfs. And then you have the bad actors that say "unlimited" but declare fairly reasonable actors as cheaters, like Comcast.