skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't see how the loading works for the end user's custom dataset. In fact, I find the layers of abstraction you have between getting the finetuning dataset and the actual training very opaque. I can't even tell where the dataset is coming from, it doesn't appear to be an example local to this repository.

I think a lot of people what something like... "drop .txt files of example data to train on in this /folder/ and run python finetune.py /folder/
Yeah but I remember thinking to myself every few years that surely next year will be the year that base model machines start at 32/64/… GB - but alas, it’s nearly the end of 2023 and your average computer still seems stuck on a measly 16GB! I don’t think average RAM size on consumer machines has increased at all in the last 8~ years or so.
^

I didn't mean to imply splitting llama up between machines (though that is a thing with llama.cpp), but a pool of clients and servers who make requests and process them:

https://lite.koboldai.net/

A few users with half decent PCs can serve a much larger group of people, and the "lesser" hosts can host smaller models to "earn" access to larger ones.
Yeah, there's also free ones that can do pretty much all that (not just web apps).

They're just as easy, if not easier, to use.
The shrew like common mammalian ancestor was a night animal and could echolocate. The 3d perception could have been the driving force behind the evolution of the large brain.
You think Moonies are?
I remember in the early 90s other kids and I somehow knew that if you used a payphone and dialed 550-(last 4 digits of the payphone), it would call itself back and ring. Or there was some ANI (?) number where you would call and it would tell you the number you're calling from. I wonder how we knew that stuff, and where that kind of info is now....
This assumes the owners of the STVR units are local. My guess is the longer the phenomenon goes unregulated the more they're owned by distant rent seekers.
That implies voters thought the laws were a good idea, which is consistent with the GP's question.
This sounds like a slippery slope into yak-shaving…next thing you’ll open source your automated screen-shorting tool, and it will require a readme of its own!
Canada's government backs mortgages through the CMHC.

We have shorter term fixed rates, usually capped at 10 years. We also have variable rate mortgages, which are ARM equivalent.
The office complex I work in was hard hit by COVID and still hasn't recovered. It's a AA-prime commercial ghost town.
I spent part of the summer in Fort Myers, where Hurricane Ian destroyed huge portions of the coastal areas and barrier islands (most of Sanibel and Fort Myers Beach). Most of a year later these islands look like a war zone - they're still knocking down buildings and rebuilding miles of structures. If another hurricane hits in the next two years, I just don't see any of those built-up coastal areas being economically viable to rebuild a second time: they will just have to become lightly-inhabited nature preserves. And we're still only halfway through this year's storm season, with huge amounts of energy stored up in record-warm gulf waters.
Perilous, Icy Mission Rescues Sick Worker in Antarctica
No single person is making those decisions. Not even the CEO. And yes, business leaders are elected by the board they represent.
Yikes - you've been breaking the site guidelines egregiously, and a lot - here are just a few other examples:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37351597

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37136391

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37134937

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37087284

That's seriously not cool and we have to ban accounts that do it, so please stop. If you wouldn't mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and taking the intended spirit of the site more to heart, we'd be grateful.
just a feeling of insecurity ;)
> It’s not. The current mantra is that if prices go down, on a timescale of like 10-20 years they will eventually go back up. This is the way things have gone for at least the last century. AirBnB can go bankrupt tomorrow and wit will do exactly nothing to dispel this thought.

If you are a hedge fund manager, and are considering pulling your money from a reit or not, I can assure you the "20 years" timeline is not anything you care about.

> Do you think that matters even the slightest bit? A nontrivial proportion of homeowners could afford to buy second homes outright at this point.

Doesn't mean they will be wanting to act as the greater fool with their savings.
1.) Reading and learning, not always at the same time. I just love to read, I hyperfocus right away and can get lost for pretty much unlimited time. Other hobbies have upsides and downsides, I do love games and swimming, but... there are days I'm not into that. I'm ALWAYS going to read, every single day. Fiction, non-fiction, I just love to read.

2.) If you replace "thrill" with "sensation" then I'd say... sort of? I tend to mix things, I also love music so I'll read while listening to my jazz and classical collection, and that combination really does it for me. The tiny buzzing part of my brain that would still be left when reading focuses on the music, and it's a complete experience.

I used to then combine that with snacking, but that became problematic in a HURRY.

Oh and I was diagnosed many years ago, never had a reason to believe the Rx was wrong, I'm a pretty typical case.
Same on Windows
Taken advantage of how? Where you taking advantage of the bank with the prior rates?
That article you linked is pretty biased. Having said that, you cannot imply that there was a conspiracy to stop JeanHeyd's work in the rust leadership, and then say that I'm claiming sabotage.

> The problem is, this isn't "drama in the Rust community", this is repeated gross incompetence and malevolence spanning years from the very top of Rust leadership.

There you are again ascribing motivations you don't know to the rust leadership.

On the topic of having a keynote downgraded, this happens all the time. Speakers also get disinvited. What is atypical here, is having a personal army to relentless harass others online, force people to resign, etc.

A talk got downgraded. He wasn't disinvited. His honour wasn't disabused. Only a person with an insanely inflated ego would go on to write some many blog posts about it, demanding the heads of others.
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Good to see Wine Wayland progressing gradually.

But what's the story with Winesync that's supposed to be an upstream replacement for esync / fsync? It seems to be stuck in some limbo so far.
Don't assume insurers are competent. They often sell homeowner's policies entirely online or over the phone without inspecting the property, looking at as-builts, etc.

My renovated up to 2015 earthquake standards house pays the same rate as the 1939 jalopy down the street despite my home having much higher quality electrical (less fire risk) and being built to a stronger standard (less likely to collapse or suffer damage from storms, earthquakes, etc).

Neither private insurance nor the state chartered CA Earthquake Insurance price by actual risk.

Florida and Texas are the same: insurers don't price in hurricane or hail proofing, anti-flooding measures, etc. Hail resistant and wind resistant roofs exist but they'd rather just stop writing policies.

I don't know why things have gone so wrong in recent years. Insurance should be able to drive improvements in construction techniques rather than stopping policy writing. For example: instead of refusing to write policies in wildfire prone areas refuse if the home doesn't have fire-proof roofing and siding, along with a zone clear of combustibles around the house, fire screens on vents, etc. Such measures would allow far more homes to survive wildfires without damage but the insurers aren't interested.

This is the opposite of vehicle insurance where the industry crash tests new vehicles and adjusts premiums for vehicles with better safety ratings.
It's probably much worse than this. Once the earth stops rotating IMHO it's likely the magnetic core stops rotating. Then the solar wind strips our aosphere in only 1000 years ...
I think you're right. Hell, a lot of GenZ'ers find the very idea of billionaires to be abhorrent, let alone strive to become one. Can't say I disagree.
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When the house is destroyed, the government must then buy the parcel and lock it up so it’s never developed again. Otherwise, someone else will build and come with their hand out when the next catastrophic event occurs.

https://www.fema.gov/press-release/20230502/fact-sheet-acqui...

https://theconversation.com/when-homes-flood-who-retreats-an...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Azat_Miftakhov
> Yes, you could, but not verifying input usually isn't advisable.

It's not not verifying input. It's just not verifying the types. There are no additional security issues unless you do something spectacularly stupid.

For example you can load random bytes as a Protobuf file. It never validates that the data is in fact the right type, it just loads the bytes assuming they are. The only issue you'll see is junk data (or a parse error).

In any case I think you know that. I'm not really sure what point you were trying to make.
Oh, that's neat (funny that they skipped out on similar things to me, like GOTO and structs :-)

I didn't see a link to the source in the article, but this seems to be it: https://sourceforge.net/p/tiny-pascal/code/HEAD/tree/NorthSt...
Take the number of vehicles in the field, A. Multiply it by the probable rate of failure, B. Multiply the result by the average out-of-court settlement, C. A x B x C equals X. If X is less than the cost of a recall, we don't do one.
The fact that it isn't slowing down is why all of the pushback and legislation is happening. Their finances will be a lagging indicator.
I'm just going to say "no" because I can't think of any examples and you haven't given any. It's fine, try it.
https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=geoffchappell.com

Some threads with comments:

The AARD Code and DR DOS (2021) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36042213 - May 2023 (139 comments)

Kuser_shared_data (Windows Data Structure) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33146484 - Oct 2022 (3 comments)

America Online Exploits Bug in Own Software (1999) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29198034 - Nov 2021 (27 comments)

Strange Things LINK Knows about 80x86 Processors (1997) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25585683 - Dec 2020 (2 comments)

Windows HAL Functions (Hal.dll) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22110073 - Jan 2020 (1 comment)

32bit Windows can use more than 3GB of RAM, MS just doesn't want you too - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=613276 - May 2009 (20 comments)
They had arrangements with the telco for prioritization.

My father in law was a fire chief in a mid-sized city. They had a red phone that would direct dial the public safety dispatch or be rung/paged by them.

AT&T and Verizon offer similar services for wireless.
I think Borland’s Turbo Pascal was also a single pass compiler that emitted machine code as COM files.
It's famous enough to have a Wikipedia article that was previously discussed here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14409210

Farbrausch has released source code that contains it: https://github.com/farbrausch/fr_public
My city just did a revaluation at peek prices using comparable sales. The state requires a revaluation every 10 years.

This is going to create some other problems if the housing bubble does burst. The city has kept increasing the budget year over year.

They are banking on these huge valuations to fund all sorts of spending.

At the budget meeting, elderly people were speaking up on how they cannot afford the tax increase.
Web archive of now-defunct website including download: https://web.archive.org/web/20120204065621/http://www.thepro...

Wikipedia entry: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.kkrieger

Source code: https://github.com/farbrausch/fr_public
Pants are optional.
John Lennon (ex Beatles) said to a mutual friend to always check the mix on a very cheep tape player to simulate old car and transistor radios.
Historically it is viable. The trick is to affect a small minority at a time. For example, if you live in a flood zone (and have a federally backed mortgage), you are required to buy flood insurance. Then you can expand the flood zones to include more properties. This scenario is a real example that happened around 2010 or so.
> LLMs are GPU compute-bound.

From what I understand, they are severely bandwidth bound at a GPU batch size of 1. Even llama.cpp is fairly RAM speed bound on a CPU with much less compute than a GPU.

It's just that batching is quite inefficient without an implementation like this: https://www.anyscale.com/blog/continuous-batching-llm-infere...
But that's not what's happening - they're not saying "we can't afford to keep her alive" - they're saying "she's incapable of making her own medical decisions because she's not listening to her doctor's advice (which is to die)".
It's not quite that simple. Insurance is a financial product and social construct. It depends on market conditions and supply and demand as much as pure actuarial risk. The scientific consensus is that disastrous climate change happens over generations. They project out to 2100. What used to be a 100 year storm (1% probability per annum) might now have 3% probability per year due to rising ocean levels, and warmer oceans providing more energy. https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/how-climate-change-is-load....

In Florida the biggest factor in the market death spiral is actually excessive litigation not hurricanes. Regulations require insurers to pay to replace a damaged roof not pay for the depreciated value. Florida customers file 80% of the insurance lawsuits in the whole country but they are obviously not 80% of the customers. https://www.insurancejournal.com/news/southeast/2021/04/14/6.... Roofers who chase storms will sell customers on signing over assignment of benefits to them and they will file the lawsuit for them.

The recent rise in interest rates has made insurance a less attractive capital sink. Why buy a disaster bond or invest in reinsurance when sovereign or investment grade corporate bonds yield 5%? Over long periods of time return on equity must keep up with interest rates. The trickles down to reinsurance costs for insurers and finally higher premiums and pickier underwriting for you and I. In a previous insurance market cycle a bad year of storms ironically was followed by lower reinsurance prices. Why? Because interest rates were low and there was strong competition between reinsurers.
Similarly, my high school always had someone controlling the lights to get all the traffic through
So... they support anabolic processes. Shall we avoid eating and drinking too?
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"Yes, but are you a protestant atheist or a catholic atheist" is the northern-Irish quip that I think perfectly encapsulates the insanity that is arbitrary lines of discrimination. You can intellectually reject any of our ridiculous social-construction, but our societies always seem to try to squeeze you into it and never let you reject it. It's deeply disheartening.
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/iemg/ - In-Ear Monitor General

https://rentry.org/c8gqc
> I really do wonder though how English seemingly uniquely

Not uniquely. Just within the Germanic languages, Afrikaans, an offshoot of Dutch, is without gender, in a way similar to English.

And there are others in the IE family that have lost gender. Persian is a notable example.

English lost its noun gender right after the Norman conquest. The language underwent rapid and extensive change, different populations merged, dialects flattened, and a lot of vocabulary was borrowed from the new French overlords. Many language structures, other than gender, were also lost at that time. Some have argued English almost underwent a sort of creole effect, where the native grammar of the parent languages is lost, and the next generation invent a new heavily regularized grammar to fill the void. That's going a bit far, I think, still there was a great deal of simplification. The lack of gender in Persian and Afrikaans has a somewhat similar history, in terms of social upheaval/displacement/dialect flattening, having an influence on the loss of gender.
People take their culture with them.

When I was a child there were a lot of scandals about girls disappearing from school because they were married off to a cousin back in Morocco.
If you want to make a game in 2023 you should just use an off the shelf game engine. If you want to understand how older 3D games were made then this will help. If you are writing a game in DOSBox with an old C compiler then it would be useful. Some of the book will deal with issues that machines of the time had and no longer exist so you probably would need to discount those for modern machines even if you wanted to write a software renderer.

Examples of the stuff that doesn't apply today are

* Graphics using VGA

* fixed point math for speed

* input output routines under DOS (keyboard, joystick, mouse)

* Sound under DOS

* Networking under DOS (null-modem)

* DOS interrupts

* 32bit stuff

* 80387 floating point

The parts of the book that discuss the maths are quite good.
Wine has changed so much over the years, it's amazing to see it doing so well.

I first started using Wine around 2012 when I wanted to run FL Studio 10. Surprisingly, this actually worked (and the audio latency wasnt terrible either). I don't remember if VST plugins ever worked, but the DAW itself and all of the default plugins did. I never really used it for video games, but things like Proton and the Steam Deck were simply unimaginable to me back in the day.

Fast forward to today, and we're at a point where apparently some use Wine to run newer games on Windows 7 and you have special builds of Wine that can thunk 32-bit and 64-bit pointers so that people can continue to play games on Mac OS (whose kernel explicitly refuses to run 32-bit code! unless you use no32exec=0 as a boot argument, but good luck running anything without a 32-bit libc)

This project is definitely in my list for the most awesome open source projects in recent history.
But one might also assume, the hardest target to actually hit.
this is also tied to how banksters make money

it's about timing, letting the culture soak up the ideas, then release at the time of biggest likelihood of great profit...

consider why has disney+ removed so much content? so they can time it, to sell it at a higher value in the future, once the nostalgia has set in....?

that or they're just too stupid to understand how culture works and are destroying their own value? both of these completely unlikely. but I'm just ranting/guessing online....
>However the notion that all of this is based on human activity is not something I subscribe to.

Do you think the massive amount of CO2 pumped into the atmosphere since the industrial revolution has had no affect on the planet?
I did a random sample of some news sites

across the political spectrum: every single one I checked, other than ft.com blocks GPTBot
This is actually what I was hoping for. For Web UI that you can load a model then load some data and hit train.

You can do this in the stable defusion UI to fine tune models with your own dataset
Those hallway conversations are less productive compared to someone doing laundry while thinking about how they will approach issues.

Those hallway conversations are wasted time. You should be at your desk doing your assigned working not socializing. Corporate team building is a guided exercise run by experts not doing work hours

Informal meetings exclude stakeholders and don't allow for documentation. Informal meetings are duct tape over process issues.
that person can still go private. no one will deny her that right.

but state funded healthcare makes sure even the poorest get some form of care. and yes, they will triage.
You're not most laptop users though. I try to take care of my hardware, even though I've been averaging 1 laptop every 3 years the past 15. I have friends with old thinkpads too, but I don't think they represent most laptop users.

So if a school buys 100 thinkpads, and 100 chromebooks, how long do you think they will last?

They will all become e-waste sooner or later, and most likely sooner in an education environment where they're being lent out to pupils.

There is a bigger problem at play here, a massive culture of consumption. I fail to see how pointing the finger at chromebooks specifically is more than a distraction.
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>But the premise of the article is just not true - you do need to fundamentally understand how Svelte manages the state of your pages.

I agree with this. Like the example in the linked article about reactive blocks: "Svelte automatically tracks dependencies, and you only need to label a code block as reactive ($:). It'll run the code any time those dependencies change."

There's a huge caveat to that, it only does that with primitives. Which might seem obvious if you've been a developer for a while, but not at all obvious if you are a new developer. React has always taken the approach of asking you to explicitly declare state and use special methods to update it (either with setState or useState when hooks became popular) for exactly this reason, whereas in Svelte sometimes you need to actually reassign a mutated piece of state to itself so it gets picked up by this system like `foo = foo`

I think it's a reasonable tradeoff, because most state can be stored in simple primitives like strings and booleans.

Regarding lifecycle methods and Svelte, it's literally based on the DOM. Is the component leaving the DOM for whatever reason? Then onDestroy will fire. The same as you can treat onMount as a callback that fires as soon as the component is added to the DOM.

https://svelte.dev/repl/b946424a56d84a63a09856bc3df5803e?ver...

I think part of where things get tricky is that Svelte and SvelteKit are so melded together, unless you're 1. only using Svelte and not SvelteKit or 2. Are doing something really advanced and complex, you probably don't need lifecycle methods. And even then, you probably only need onMount.

A custom onDestroy can be used to manually remove something from memory, but it's mostly not needed. I agree though the docs should be better.