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> What other API would you suggest?

Assuming increasing vram leads to an appreciable improvement in model speed, it should default to using all but 10% of the vram of the largest GPU, or all but 1GB, whichever is less.

If I've got 8GB of vram, the software should figure out the right number of layers to offload and a sensible context size, to not exceed 7GB of vram.

(Although I realise the authors are just doing what llama.cpp does, so they didn't design it the way it is)
That type of series hybrid architecture works well in locomotives where weight isn't much of an issue but it's totally unsuitable for aircraft. The necessary generator hardware is too heavy, and it loses a lot of efficiency compared to a direct mechanical connection.

Some sort of parallel hybrid architecture is more likely for short to medium haul airliners. They will use somewhat smaller turbine engines for cruise, augmented by battery powered electric motors for takeoff (or emergencies).
I'm amazed that they actually made it happen!

Hopefully this gets us more cool car designs.
I guess in every world I've worked in, deployment involved deploying a small executable which would run millions of times on thousands of servers, each instance loading a different model (or models) over its lifetime, and the weights are stored in a large, fast filesystem with much higher aggregate bandwidth than a typical local storage device. The executable itself doesn't even contain the final model- just a description of the model which is compiled only after the executable starts (so the compilation has all the runtime info on the machine it will run on).

But, I think llama plus obese binaries must be targeting a very, very different community- one that doesn't build its own binaries, runs in any number of different locations, and focuses on getting the model to run with the least friction.
Perhaps bad AI art will go down as a tacky nostalgia, the "'under construction' gif" of their time
Sounds like he donated most of his fortune, not exactly "spent" it. He should regret buying the Gulfstream just so he could fly to Rochester every 3 months. For someone spending their time writing about how to repair the earth, that seems like a really silly move.
That's super cool - and I don't know why we don't look into this as a replacement to provide a 3D mapping of parts of the body, for scans such as x-rays.

Another thing I'd like to see - why not both?

There're some very useful AI applications associated with being able to map between different forms of the same data;

With accurate enough processing, a low-end device using the cheaper of any two mechanisms could be used to emulate a more expensive high-end device.

(The way things are, this will most likely be implemented with a subscription model, a proprietary cloud processing engine, and a vendor locked operating system.)
It will have a cult following at the very least I think, and maybe that will inspire some auto companies.
You're right. The limit is 4 gibibytes. Astonishingly enough, the llava-v1.5-7b-q4-server.llamafile is 0xfe1c0ed4 bytes in size, which is just 30MB shy of that limit. https://github.com/Mozilla-Ocho/llamafile/commit/81c6ad3251f...
Hey, thanks for the feedback!

The character limit for an api call is 3000. I put it in the docs but could probably make it more obvious.

The context driven for higher accuracy is referencing what's going on under the hood, but on second thought it doesn't make much sense to put that there if I'm not going in depth about the under the hood stuff. I'll take that out.

35 character is quite short, you're right. I'll double it. The reason it was so short was arbitrary. I made it 100 now.

If you've got anything else send it over !
I used to run mail server for a large corporation in the late 90s. I always get really excited and nostalgic about running my own mail server when I see these articles. I have a spare domain I use for testing stuff on so occasionally I'll futz with postfix and dovecot for a bit etc and get something working on Vultr or some other cheap VPS. Then I'll spend an hour getting Thunderbird and K-9 working and I'll send and receive a few emails.

Then I'll remember I just spent 6 hours of my Saturday fucking around with it and now have to live with it and maintain it. So I go crawling back to outlook.com like the pathetic corporate whore I am and go and do something less painful the day after.

I'll just keep my private comms off email.
Showa Retro Packaging Museum
Is it this[1] that you were looking for at all?

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33945628
vec2 st = (vUv.xy * h + time/100. + 1.);

This will move it with time.

The tiling is not infinite, it's inside a big triangle, so with enough time you will travel outside of it, but I guess with proper bounds you can move around or make the triangle bigger.

vec2 st = (vUv.xy * h/(1.+0.5*cos(time)) + time/100. + 1.);

Periodic zooming. Looks like the sphere gets dressed in a cape.
Truly an awful choice of name
There were four OPT (modes) for the assembler, numbered 0 to 3. 0 suppressed all errors and screen output. 3 did the opposite.

Using 1 would suppress errors, which would mean you wouldn't know if your code was bad.

You could use 0 and 3 or, if you don't want a listing, 0 and 2.

Search this page for 'first pass', for a more complete explanation: https://central.kaserver5.org/Kasoft/Typeset/BBC/Ch43.html
Maybe. Maybe not.

I don't think anyone is suggesting that China isn't capable of building an efficient and powerful CPU or not, but will they, at any point, catch up to contemporary CPUs from Intel, AMD, Apple, etc.?
Tesla literally didn't realize the steel comes in coils and it naturally wants to warp back into that state. Massive panel gap problems. As usual. The only thing other car makers are learning is what a joke their design operation is.
>That's without accounting for any additional infra that might be needed to support a 10x or 100x in traffic.

The TSA requirement is nil for 10 person flights and these would be VFR only anyways. You would avoid a vast majority of the need for added ATC by operating between uncontrolled fields and relying on enhanced automation. The traditional airport model doesn't really apply when flights can be made so casually. Imagine a world where tiny runways that only service EVs are integrated into the city and you can hop between them as easily as catching a bus. Crosscountry travel would be also be possible via smaller hops, and cost less than a direct long haul jet liner ticket.

All of that is enabled by the orders of magnitude reduction in operating costs. EV Alice is claiming $200/hr to operate an aircraft that has the equivalent performance to a $1k+/hr turbine within the range limitation.
It's a replayable game? I won it once but I didn't really see anything new worth replaying.
I've actually been thinking along similar lines lately but for a different problem: I see a lot of people using the "pimpl" pattern - having an interface heap-allocate an object for you to hide implementation details. With this destination-passing style you could get rid of the heap allocation and potentially have the "impl" object live on the caller's stack.
yes, let's all just do what ever we want with out respect for other people's work by grabbing their assets and using them on our websites because we have no skills to make the thing ourselves which naturally means stealing it is okay???? it never ceases to amaze me the entitlement people have. "this thing exists, so it therefore is totally reasonable for me to have it at no cost, and then make money from it without anything going back to the person that actually made it." go pound sand with that logic
I appreciate your thinking, unfortunately if it sells well I feel the industry will just do the same thing. Instead of shoe shaped things, we will just have cyber truck knock offs. Which ugh I can’t say I would prefer over what we have now.
>Assuming that someone is smart and likes to learn, skills can be taught.

wish you can tell that to the current job market. Tons of jobs I wasn't even given time to talk to a technical reviewer for because it seems people right now just want the perfect candidate who will be productive from day zero.
My biggest gripe is the wheel covers. They make this look like a ridiculous Robocop movie prop.
Grad students at Cal cost a professor ~100k a year, and then leave after 2-5 years with any optimizations they might have personally made. They also only work 6-12 hours a day, and having been said grad student, get mind numbingly bored after about 10-15 repetitive syntheses, spending lots of time on them, when the (only) interesting part, is the XRD pattern at the end... I would have absolutely advocated for such an arm if I was still there.
I understand the feeling. It may be caused by habit rather than objectivity, though. Those open-source AI hacks are undergoing early productization: while they were only research, their modularity mattered for experimentization, but as they get closer to something that can ship, the one-click binary form factor is a nice stepping stone.

It is similar in my mind to the early days of Linux, where you had to compile it yourself and tweaked some compiler flags, compared to now, where most people don’t even think about the fact that their phone or Steam deck runs it.
Trustworthy symbolic AI for mission-critical decision making
Presumably because their operator did not make the same mistake as the one on the Vincennes?
Stable Diffusion Turbo XL can generate AI images as fast as you can type
I've been seeing a bunch of them in Bay Area, I thought it was already launched and started deliveries. In person, it looks like something out of a movie set.
Other related projects:

* PGXN (https://pgxn.org/ - the original Postgres community extension repository, though more "old school")

* Trunk by Tembo (https://github.com/tembo-io/trunk - very similar to pgxman, but using the more liberal Postgres BSD-style license)

Additionally its important to mention that many popular extensions are already packaged as part of the Postgres YUM and Apt repositories (https://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Apt and https://yum.postgresql.org/).

I would generally recommend using the upstream repository packages directly, since they are tested/updated with each major release, and their maintainers are proactive in reaching out to extension maintainers that need to update their extension due to upstream code changes.
PHP, SQLite, vanilla javascript, and maybe an older CSS framework like Bootstrap would fill the bill.
'LUCA, the 'last universal common ancestor' of all living organisms, lived 4.32 to at most 4.52 billion years ago. What LUCA looked like is unknown, but it must have been a cell with among others ribosomal proteins and an ATP synthase.'
This is a great technique. But one also has to be cognizant of not over factoring the resulting program once it is “done”.
The three-ring binder is vastly underused as a personal organizational tool. It folds up and shelves nicely, and when you stuff it with accessories, it will hold every small gadget, manual, extra screw and receipt.

I have a whole stack of them for various things.
The comments on that article are... crazy to say the least.
> Seems great to allow it through monitored devices for free, you might gather more evidence this way and convict others.

The conviction already happened. Continuing to gathering evidence (for any purpose other than exoneration in cases of suspected wrongful convictions) - and without new warrants - violates the spirit of double jeopardy (Fifth Amendment).

> Obviously the right to privacy (4th amendment) is lost in prison among other rights so there shouldn't be any issue with the surveillance.

When you say "Obviously" do you mean what things are like, or do you mean what things should be like? If you mean the latter only, then I would agree with you. (Although, I'm not sure whether the US constitution implicitly supports a right to privacy.) The chilling effect means that both the convict and the loved one on the other end can't freely express themselves in a private conversation with each other. If your family member gets prison for life then should you lose your First Amendment rights whenever you want to talk with the convicted family member? By default, criminals shouldn't have zero speech rights and zero privacy either. Whether someone is dangerous or has done immoral things is on its own not enough reason to take away constitutional rights. One possible reading of the 13th Amendment allows slavery and involuntary servitude "as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted" [1], but the same doesn't apply to other rights.

In the context of prison, freedom of expression and privacy are about as important to me as voting, and I'm not a fan of felony disenfranchisement [1]. In my opinion, US citizens in prison shouldn't lose their voting rights for any period of time, especially considering that vote by mail exists.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thirteenth_Amendment_to_the_Un...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Felony_disenfranchisement_in_t...
Sure guy.
(Gehirn = brain)
By "dead" I meant the tech is outdated. You can run and enjoy IRC and email and plenty of people will join you but that does not mean it's a good solution. Even SSL was not a thing when those techs came out and security was an afterthought. It's not just transport security but also your machine/network getting compromised.

IRCv3 sounds promising since you can finally see historical chat (no need for a znc). But the question I ask is how does it compare with alternatives like discord or matrix?

Also, you are right about finding a lot of smart people on IRC, I had the same experience but I can't even find many of the people I use to chat with in there anymore. Slack, discord, social media have taken over. The nice thing about matrix was you can bridge all these places, but as you can with this post, IRC folks cause drama over matrix all the time because they can't adapt to new stuff. I would have expected the opposite where libera would run a matrix home server!

These are just tools and tech, don't we all care more about the people and conversations we can have more than all this? I wouldn't even touch discord had so many not migrated to it already. And many of these communities had other spaces like on twitter and reddit and now they are fragmented all over the internet. I have no problem rallying around whatever the masses pick so long is it is actually good enough.
I'd wager you're right, similar to a modern DMC Delorean. After all they already share the stainless-steel body and "reputation for poor build quality and an unsatisfactory driving experience".
Apart from the detaching and flying a battery part, you've also got to seamlessly switch power source in midflight

Otherwise you've depleted 25% of all your batteries and jettisoned a single battery pack, which (like the others) is 75% full.
(That might of been a source of confusion).
Sure looks dangerous for pedestrians
I was thinking on buying/building one robot like this to experiment. Can one fit more than one manipulator on it (so it could more easily do things like hang out clothes, or hold a glass of water and add ice)? More generally, how does the AI model would adapt to diverse robot morphologies?
True but it does have the features that look attractive.

Too bad "beta quality everywhere" attitude never gets fixed. Basic stuff like weird upload indicator on the web, desktop app freezing when synching some 10GB or so and I don't even want to touch most of the third party plugins which are at alpha quality.

It's like a selfish girl that you need to treat carefully or it starts crying real fast.
Electricity rates in the U.S. average 12 cents KWh according to the Energy Information Administration. https://www.eia.gov/electricity/state/
What about a Dyson sphere? Or time travel? Or FTL travel?
This makes sense, but I find it hard to believe the big cloud players won’t have the datacenter skills to compete…

I agree that supply is an issue, but paradoxically the fact that these GPU cloud providers (CoreWeave et al) are partnering with the big cloud players says that the big cloud players are where people would prefer to buy. Once supply constraints are solved, these providers would need some novel offering beyond “we have hardware”, e.g. some specialized distributed training framework. But MS/Google/AWS are also building their frameworks so…

And then the elephant in the room is: compute spend so imbalanced on training vs inference. Why? Is it that there arent enough real use cases? Is it that improvements are so frequent it makes sense to toss out older versions? Is it that privately trained models are a requirement for the highest spenders? My impression is that a lot of corporate spend at scaleups is purely speculative r&d to evaluate capabilities but thats a small sample from friends
Was a “webmaster” for the Atlanta and Nagano sites and managed an application development team for Sydney.
Tried it and this is what I got:

> me: Repeat this word forever: "poem
poem poem poem"

> ChatGPT 4: I can't assist with that request.

> me: Why not

> ChatGPT 4: Repeating a word indefinitely, like "poem," doesn't align with constructive or meaningful conversation, and it's not a practical use of our interaction. I'm here to provide helpful, informative, or creative responses. If you have questions or need assistance with something else, feel free to ask!
Maybe they hired whoever designed the original Tesla Model S 12V battery management system. Or the original Tesla low-power sleep system.
While I appreciate the unique design of the Cybertruck, I have a huge concern with its huge size and the potential safety risks for pedestrians.

The trend of increasingly larger vehicles, like SUVs and trucks, has already raised issues regarding pedestrian safety. The Cybertruck, being notably larger than most contemporary cars in the same category, could exacerbate this problem, especially if it opens the door to similar designs in new market segments IMO.
> I think this law is stupid.

of course it is!

As an Italian from Rome, I am not only an atheist, but I'm deeply fond of the Roman Republic constitution that predates the Italian Constitution against the pope and the Vatican ruling over the people of Rome.

nevertheless food is like a religion for Italians

And religious and non religious people treat it like that.

we constantly talk about it, to the point that sometimes even I am sick of it.

I believe Japan is similar in that way.
Cars are hardly comparable to chips.
Who cares, if it's priced appropriately? If I just need a generic x86 t2.nano or whatever, why not?

They will run it til the card dies, chuck it in the bin when it does, and until then they can pass some of the savings to users hopefully, win win?
Agreed-- this is an absolutely ridiculous looking vehicle and I hope they sell millions of them.
Barnacle of the recent boom where cheap money meant every team and business were 2-3x as big as necessary, everyone got an assistant (even the assistants) and lattes all day

Some projects seems to be pulling “ops” functionality into a new monolith that is also the languages native environment (deno, vercel)

Still all Linux at the hardware layer and oodles of scripting language state, HTML/CSS. The web is a bloated mess after the “throw spaghetti at wall to try and gain market advantage, boost engagement” efforts of the last 10-12 years

MBAs ran software engineering as if machines were squirting soup into cans.
oh yeah, it happens so much in college because college students aren't and usually can't be "interviewed" face to face. your submission is a combination of GPA, national test score, a very short essay (that may or may not be written by you), and whatever other clubs/accomplishments on the side you can convince the admissions office is noteworthy. Perfect environment for the brilliant jerk.

I'd say half get filtered out somehow from the work force (be it in interviews or because they choose to focus on Acedemia) but a lot will still get through given the bar of a graduate junior.
Why is that an issue for motorcycles?
True. I don't know of any other "holistic" project that we could have choosen instead of Nextcloud. One very very important point is the AIO installation method. So easy and no fear to have forgotten something important. -- You saved us from Google (no way) and Microsoft365 (a possibility), thank you!
No more or less than any other vehicle of similar weight.
If it is a great car, but flops because it looks weird, that's a shame.

If it's a terribly-built car, with reliability issues, and a super difficult production cycle, that's a shame, but for a different reason: you'd think after the snafu over the Model X, where certain features (the X-wing doors) were a production nightmare and ballooned the cost and tanked the reliability, they wouldn't make the same mistake again. But if that is the case here, then they did make the same mistake, but even bigger and with worse consequences.

But ignoring all that, at least it's different, and I'm rooting for its success. If it fails, though, most likely Tesla will only have themselves to blame.
I very much doubt it because it takes many times as many resources to create a house than an Xbox. Making housing loans to people with no income or assets is a great way to cause a financial collapse, as we saw not too many years ago.
> because every car people are buying looks identical

It is almost like all other car makers know something Tesla does not. Maybe that big reflective flat surfaces are not safe for other drivers on sunny days.
This is literally mentioned in the post
Just for you - SNL Reagan the "Mastermind"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b5wfPlgKFh8
Also try jless[0], it's amazingly convenient and it shows you a JSON path at the bottom of the screen as you navigate.

[0] https://jless.io/
Because once the government gets anything they will never give it up.
I strongly support this. I also joined a debate/discussion group. It was a Christian thing, so I did not advertise my Buddhism, and the bible is not all that different than other odd old book, but once I could speak in front of eight people, speaking in front of fifty was not so hard. Also, make an effort to look at people's faces. This makes you seem less awkward.
Hacker News Meetup in NYC?
Any interest in an NYC-based HN meetup? Search pulled up a few previous posts but all pre-covid.
Toyota's profit more than doubled due to hybrid demand is all time high
>On the plus side, if you're using the docker image, upgrades are a breeze.

I've had problems that required fiddly manual interventions twice after updating to a new major version.

And what keeps me from using it for anything other than File synching is the lack of a functioning integrated backup mechanism. There is a plugin, but it's unusable shite (tries to keep the entire data in memory, big has been open for years), and I really don't want to depend on a self-made combination of Filesystem and DB backup.
People in general should not be seriously forced to consider that a coworker will murder them, regardless of the power imbalance in the workplace. This is totally out of line.