skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Did the WGA really “win”? Studios can train models on writers work, which means they will eventually replace them. This might be seen as a pyrrhic victory 20 years from now.
AI models are essentialy knowledge and information, but in a different file format.

Books should not be burned, nobody should be shielded from knowledge that they are old enough to seek and information should be free.
Yes but if we had the ability to download a gun from the internet anonymously with no way to feasibly get the identity of the person downloading the gun I think we would be right to be concerned. Especially if you could then shoot that gun at someone anonymously.
I really don't mind living far from my friends and I'm content with only meeting them a couple of times a year. More than that and it becomes exhausting. Surely I can't be the only one who gets completely drained from hanging out with people.

With that said, I speak with them every day online.
“…counting their beans, realizing it’s not enough to last through the winter of Q1”
> I told him that..

Is this true though?
How do you plan to pay to operate the service? How will you combat fraud?
Sadly I never put enough effort into trying out such checks.
but your excitement about them gives me motivation to properly try them out.
For one thing, berserk cops could actually be fired if it weren't for their union.
>A lot of the output is going to be nonsense, especially stuff that cannot be verified just by looking at it.

Isn't that exactly the point, and why there should be a 'warning/awareness' that it is not a 160 IQ AI but a very good markov chain that can sometimes infer things and other time hallucinate/put random words in a very well articulated way (echo of Sokal maybe)
I’m not deciding anything. I’m saying that if credit is all you care about, OSS isn’t the best place to hang out, because credit is not guaranteed.

Yeah, I’ve contributed to OSS. And more often than not, I haven’t received credit. I couldn’t care less.
Congrats to them, their huge series A (USD113M) does not seem oversized anymore!
Windows 11 vs. Ubuntu 23.10 Performance on the Lenovo ThinkPad P14s Gen 4
Don't sell your potential customers too short. We've outsourced analysis to be done with ERA5 dataset to an external vendor. There are many who know what to do and can do it themselves, but would rather outsource for liability reasons.
I have a similar experience. About 10 years ago, I had some time on my hands for about 6 months, and answered a bunch of questions, with a small handful of them (3-4) getting a lot of upvotes. I haven't answered a question in years and years, but those same few questions keep getting new upvotes every month, so my progress continues to climb sort of linearly. I'm in the top 7% of contributors this year, while contributing exactly nothing new...
ChatGPT Browsing Is Back
Processors are inherently awesome at branching, adding, adding, shifting, etc. And shifting to get powers of 2 (i.e., KB vs. GB) is a superpower of its own. They're a little less awesome when it comes to math.pow(), math.log(), and math.log() / math.log().

Why 300K+ people copied this in the first place shows some basic level of ignorance about what's happening under the hood.[1]

As someone who's been at this for decades now and knows my own failings better than ever, it also shows how developers can be too attracted by shiny things (ooh look, you can solve it with logs instead, how clever!) at the expense of readable, maintainable code.

[1] But hey, maybe that's why we were all on StackOverflow in the first place
Mmm... no? StackOverflow is powered by voting. Not all forums work like that (it was a questionable choice at the time StackOverflow started).

I've been a moderator on a couple of ForumBB kind of forums and the idea of karma points was often brought up in moderator meetings. Those with more experience in this field would usually try to dissuade the less experienced mods from implementing any karma system.

Moderators used to have ways of promoting specific posts. In the context of ForumBB you had a way to mark a thread as important or to make it sticky. Also, a post by a moderator would stand out (or could be made to stand out), so that other forum users would know if someone speaks from a position of experience / authority or is this yet to be determined.

Social media went increasingly in the direction of automating moderator's work by extracting that information from the users... but this is definitely not the only (and probably not the best) way of approaching this problem. Moderators are just harder to make and are more expensive to keep.
They went back and forth on that in email with the maintainer very clearly stating their intentions.
Alexa and voice assistants, chatbots etc are useless because they are neutered ability-wise, not really because of a tech problem. So I doubt generative AI will change anything.
It does not support it. Here are the Settings of an older iPad model to the left of the latest iPad Air's: https://i.imgur.com/YaW0eeP.png

Apple repeatedly notes that only certain models support split keyboard (https://support.apple.com/guide/ipad/move-the-onscreen-keybo...). This page was even renamed since iOS 16 from "Use a split keyboard" (https://support.apple.com/guide/ipad/use-a-split-keyboard-ip...), the screenshot of a split keyboard was replaced with a floating one, and the legacy split keyboard information was moved to the bottom of the page.
So you are saying (human) personal assistants are not useful? I think many people disagree and most people would want to have one weren‘t it so expensive
ChatGPT 4 Can Finally Browse the Internet Again
Fully agree. I was thinking that there was a tiny fruit fly crawling over the screen for a good few seconds.
It does! With automatic fallback. It is a protocol called SMS
> TBH the time taken to write the final correct patch would be a fraction of the time needed to explain how to write a better patch.

This is always the case for a senior developer dealing with a junior developer. Basically your argument is that junior developers shouldn't try to contribute and if they do, they will just be rejected out of hand if they make any mistakes. Okay.

> But I wonder whether that's true for OSS projects in general. A person randomly shows up to report and attempt fix a bug in an "obscure"(?) architecture -- this is not a junior who just joined the team, and they have no commitment to stick around to do more contributions.

If you treat people like crap, they won't stick around. So it is a bit of a self-fulfilling prophecy.

I think that great OSS leaders are few and far between. One that I can think of that I've worked closely with for a decade is mrdoob of Three.js. Humility, openness, focus and good people skills. I cannot approach his skill set here, and in part that is why I respect it so much. He achieves a lot and there are hundreds of contributors to Three.js of all different skill levels. And he definitely is not going around rewriting simple PRs just because he can and instead he and others are coaching and encouraging the community. This is why Three.js thrives.

I think this particular OSS developer isn't leader and is more of an individual contributor type who doesn't collaborate well. That is okay. It is unfortunate that his behavior is reflecting poorly on the Linux project, but that is who he is.
The danger from AI isn't the content of the model, it's the agency that people are giving it.
Here's the wikipedia article about it (to avoid linking to any particular seller, but it's generally easy to find from normal book sellers): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S._(Dorst_novel)
I wonder if this isn't "gaming the system" a bit. I think a lot of the findings are seeing the outputs of being happy people, not inputs. Living near people I know doesn't make me closer to them any more than maintaining friendships make me happier. Being happy makes closer friendships and closer friendships make living close more valuable. A lot of my friendships faded not because I wasn't working on them but because I wasn't enjoying them anymore.
You're missing the point. "I can do it faster" discourages new contributors from wanting to help out ever again.
Other than targeting ("for men"), how does this differ from Meetup?
That’s cool! Before even seeing it, my feedback is to make sure no sexual/romance kind of encounters can take place via the app. All other people meetings apps seem to be sexually oriented.
"Firefox was amazing by the time Chrome was released"

Yes but it also frequently ground to a halt trying to multitask tabs. Chrome didn't so we all switched to chrome.
Click bait. Nothing at all new in the article.
> that sounds like something only a wealthy person could do

My whole point is to seek out places where non-wealthy people can do it. Think smaller, think out of the way, think less development. No cell service at the ski hill, dirt road to drive up there, etc. etc.

Season pass is less than $1000, everyone has duct tape on their ski gear, etc.
Huggingface Spaces. Be sure to get the prompting syntax right: https://huggingface.co/mistralai/Mistral-7B-Instruct-v0.1

I will try to host an instance on the AI Horde later today, which has a better UI and doesn't need a login.
“I'm not sure how nuclear armament is going to end, but one thing I do know is that I don't want a small number of giant countries to hold the reins.”

Perhaps you think this analogy is a stretch, but why are you sure you don't want power concentrated if you aren't sure about the nature of the power? Or do you in fact think that we would be safer if more countries had weapons of mass destruction?
> And no, working 32 hours is not as productive as 40 hours.

By this logic, working 48 hours is more productive, working 54 hours even more productive, 62 hours even more productive. It can be cranked up even more - the English did and took meticulous records on it.

Dialecticaly it created a strong Labour party which took power in 1945 and nationalized coal, the bank of England, hospitals, telecommunications, national rail, iron and steel - the commanding heights of the economy.
I mean, it is possible if you take the most cynical outlook and avoid looking at any other evidence.

Now, I would counter that a number of significant changes have occurred, some mentioned in this thread already...

1. Increase in obesity rate... yea, not good for health and is a causation.

2. Increase in user monitoring technology. My watch for example shows wakefullness and blood oxygen levels. Alerts from this may be sending more people to the doctor.

3. More doctor awareness of dangers of sleep apnea leading to more testing.

None of those need a vast conspiracy to cause increase diagnosis.
Sigh.

I found my dream house: incredible view, 20 minutes to skiing (a lifelong passion), warm enough and with enough space to garden sustainably, quiet, close enough to the city, great price and interest rate.

Unfortunately nearly EVERYONE on the street is 20-30 years older than us, with very different lifestyles and interests. We’re “friendly” with them, but there’s no real community there. Housing costs have skyrocketed and inventory is nonexistent, so even the people who have expressed interest in moving closer are prevented from doing so.

Not really sure what to do. This is the only thing missing from the life we want.
I would argue the concept of hitting a homerun is straightforward, but the preparation, training and execution are not.

You’re arguing semantics.

The two words are synonymous in most casual conversation where you would be in danger of offending by saying something is easy or simple.
I think computer scientist/programmers (and other intellectuals dealing with ideas only) strongly overvalue access to knowledge.

I'm almost certain that I can give you components and instructions on how to build a nuclear bomb and the most likely thing that would happen is you'd die of radiation poisoning.

Most people have trouble assembling ikea furniture, giving them a halucination prone LLM they are more likely to mustard gas themselves than synthesize LSD.

People with necessary skills can probably get access to information in other ways - I doubt LLM would be an enabler here.
> If you have experienced racism again and again though, you can often tell when you see it, or you can quite safely deduce it in a case or wrong treatment, even without hard proof.

There may be some overlap between systemic racial mistreatment and child abuse - however the nuances seem to set them far apart. I believe conflating the two makes it harder to get the full measure of each.

It's not that they can't be compared. It's that they ought to be fully considered in isolation first.
They clarified https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37677311 that it should only need 16GB, but the unoptimized runtime currently takes 24.
Wait, so you think that pharaohs were overthrown by a popular uprising? Xi, Kim and Putin sit pretty sturdily in their sits.
It's very possible that the combination of antidepressants and CBT is superior. Antidepressants enable you to relearn faster und CBT teaches you what to learn.
From a cursory glance, would you say these are still issues people run into? Aggregating these initial questions and the amount of activity they generate up until this day should tell us much about the progress and stagnation of certain programming languages/libraries/frameworks/else and their usage barriers.
The demos in this page are using Workers AI, not WebGPU APIs. However, yes, you can perfectly run an ML inference runtime that takes advantage of GPUs using just Wasm and WebGPU APIs. That's exactly what we have here:

https://github.com/cloudflare/workers-wonnx
Can you provide some examples where LM creates something novel, which is not just a rehash or combination of existing things?

Especially considering how hard it is for humans to create something new, e.g in literature - basically all stories have been written and new ones just copy the existing ones in one way or another.
If you are only into sex, I guess it will be way easier to just pay for it, or go to places (online or offline) where casual sex is common. Otherwise friendship is about way more for most people. And if you cannot stand the ordinary (awkward) socialising, which I can relate to, I recommend finding a group that is more to your liking. Then socialising might be fun.. Usually when it is not about socialising, but the activities.
> taking away your nail clippers before you board an airplane.

TRIGGERED
So what, in fact, ARE they worried about? And why should I have to pay the tax (in terms of reduced intelligence and perfectly legitimate queries denied, such as anything about sexuality), as a good actor?
Possibility of front alternative for Ao3 (nitter?)
If you don't want to read the whole thing, I'm asking if there is any way I could view Archive of our Own on a restricted device. That's really all you need to know. But if you want to read my whole speech,
I'm required to use a computer for school, and I don't have my own so the one I use is district provided. And as comes with district technology, lots of websites are blocked.
I want to be able to view Twitter (X), but it's blocked here, so I found I could use Nitter to view tweets with actually being able to interact with them, and while the district tries to block Nitter instances, there's so many of them I am still able to access Twitter(X).
But Archive, lacking in adverts and any major cookie collection, does not have any secondary instances like Twitter (X) has.
I keep seeing my authors boost their fics on their Twitters, and I can't read them because they aren't available with restrictions.
I've come up with a few hypothetical ways to view Ao3 despite restrictions, (Apologies for any actual coders as I have virtually no coding knowledge)

1] Copy the code of Ao3 and paste it into java, which will maybe maybe run Archive for me??
2] Putting the Opera web browser into a USB, and plugging it into my computer when needed (I will have to learn more about the Opera browser)
3] Doing whatever zedeus did when he made Nitter, which I think would be quite a hefty ask for someone as inexperienced as me.

I am totally up to any suggestions or ideas, and will take up learning a bit more if any commenters think it would make things easier for me.
Thanks so much!
And I'm just receiving word that Google is announcing that have decided to shut down Google Judge in favor YouTube Judge.
Not everything is a conspiracy.

It's also highly unlikely that a doctor prescribing a sleep apnea machine gets any sort of kick back for "selling" the device.
These language models are just feeding you information from search engines like Google. The reason companies censor these models isn't to protect anyone, it's to avoid liability/bad press.
Serverless single shot inference
https://github.com/cloudflare/workers-wonnx
When I was a kid, it felt like we had a rough societal consensus that price discrimination was bad. You couldn't stop all of it, but you had laws saying that everyone was entitled to the best price of retail goods, etc.

Feels like that's really fallen away, and I think it shouldn't have.
How to make nuclear weapons is not a secret by any stretch of the imagination. The difficult part is getting the materials.
I have a moonlander, and it's great, but now I want a dactyl.so make of that what you will. I got the moonlander thinking it would be more mobile, and it's not. it's great if you're looking for something finished that feels durable, but then at that price point- the glove80 is out and it's wireless. the zsa key config tool is amazing though.
I can't tell from that if it's stating what MB is actually doing or if that's just a technical loophole in the UNECE definition.
I'm pretty happy with the keyboards I have, but I just ordered 8BitDo's new mechanical keyboard anyway. Some things distinguishing it from my other mechanical keyboards atm:

- wireless (both Bluetooth and with a dongle)
- hardware volume dial
- two giant, programmable, external buttons (maybe I can use these as Emacs pedals?)

It also has the kind of curvature I like on a keyboard, like the Model M, which none of my other keyboards with Cherry-compatible switches do.

It's only $100 and it looks very cute. Could be a good entrypoint for many!

https://shop.8bitdo.com/products/8bitdo-retro-mechanical-key...
Said Ars comment comes from someone whose history is openly pro Tesla, pro Musk and denigrating of any competitors, offers no sources, and is in contradiction to numerous other sources.
The AI safety cult has some true believers. It's still fundamentally a grift.
Dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37673413
Sorry, that should be

./configure && make && sudo make install
I think the point of TFA is, unless you have hundreds of on-prem services, one service going down for hours will significantly move the needle in your monitoring.
*Sorry for typos- you can't interact with tweets on Nitter.
SSRI are way better tolerated than irreversible MAOIs.
Ideally it won’t stop until computers are something we rarely think about. For me I love the CLI but having to use a mouse is a drag and causes serious wrist pain at this point in my life. Typing on a keyboard and clicking with a mouse are not the end all, be all of interacting with information systems.
"Being originally created to simplify building web services, Go has a number ..."

Um. No. Go was originally created at Google in 2007 by Robert Griesemer, Rob Pike, and Ken Thompson.

Some key reasons for its creation include:

Improving productivity of Google engineers - The creators felt existing languages like C++ took too long to compile and had other productivity issues. Go was designed to be simpler and faster to compile.

Supporting concurrency and multi-core machines - Go has built-in concurrency features like goroutines and channels to allow easy parallelism and concurrency on multi-core machines. This was becoming increasingly important with multi-core CPUs.

Improved code readability and maintainability - Go was designed with a clean, minimal syntax that avoided complex features like inheritance in favor of simplicity. This improved code readability and made programs easier to maintain.
Better performance than interpreted languages - While Go is a compiled language like C++, it was designed to provide performance closer to those languages while maintaining some productivity benefits of interpreted languages like Python.

Supporting networked systems and servers - Go has good built-in support for networking and servers, making it well-suited for building networked systems, web servers, and other server tools.

References:
https://go.dev/talks/2012/splash.article
In on-prem, at least one part of the business can raise alarms and if it is a big chunk of the revenue, then the rest of the business tends to sit up and take notice. Here, unless your business is Uber or DoD, it's too small for the cloud providers to sit up and take notice.
Rust async story is still playing out. Go green threads approach is pretty solid.
My go to stack for personal projects:
Go
SQLC for db access
https://github.com/a-h/templ (kinda JSX for go) for templating
HTMX
Postgres
I have a feeling Mojo will ship 1.0 before Rust finishes sorting out async
As a pedestrian in an urban area, my main purpose for communicating with drivers is to figure out whether they're going to actually give me the right of way that I (by law) have at stop signs. This is necessary because ~30% of human drivers choose to break the law and go first anyway. I'm optimistic about autonomous vehicles because (I assume) they're programmed to give pedestrians right of way 100% of the time.
I'm using a mix of 7B and 13B models that have been fine-tuned using LoRA for specific tasks and they work fantastically depending on the specific task at hand _after fine-tuning_. Generally they're kind of garbage in my experience without fine tuning but I haven't tested the base models directly for tasks besides the statistics at the beginning of the training run.

As for performance, I'm generally seeing 40-50 tokens/sec per model on a Tesla family Nvidia GPU but I keep multiple models loaded and active at a time so that estimate is probably a bit low for overall throughput (I also realized that our monitoring doesn't have any cumulative GPU token rate metrics just now thanks to this question hahah).

Interesting anecdote others may be interested in... I'm rate limiting the output from our streaming API to 8 tokens/sec to artificially smooth out front-end requests. Interactive users will wait and even prefer seeing the stream of the response, and non-interactive users tend to base their performance expectations on the what the streaming API does. It's kind of sneaky but I'm also artificially slowing down those API requests.
26% of the top websites are now blocking GPTBot
Worried? Sure. But it sucks being basically at the mercy of some people in silicon valleys and their definition of moral and good.
Except the doctors ordering and performing and evaluating these tests are not CEOs.
Thanks for the suggestion! I will modify it!
> So strong typing doesn't help you there at runtime, it just blows up differently.

It really does, though. Not with the Java-type of strong typing (still allows null) but with the Rust type of strong typing. Simply because it moves all this to the edge. At the point where you read the CSV/database/HTTP-response/user-input.

Everything inside of this edge (a strong boundary) doesn't need to to deal with "can this be nil" because it can't. Your `the_outlier(items: Vec<Measurement>)` will simply not compile if the type-checker sees that `items` can be nil, `items` can contain a nil, or, internal to that function an items[].measured_at might be nil, or maybe items[].measured_at is a Date instead of a DateTime.

You don't need a bazillion tests to deal with this situation around `the_outlier()`. That doesn't mean that the part that reads a Vec<Measurement> from a CSV (or json, or database or whatever) is covered by this typechecker. But it means this layer, the edge, the boundary, is where you put the protection. Validation, whatnot.