skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As usual, a useless title. This reports a lot of interesting things, but who's going to read it with such a generic title?

Overall: This one leaks heavily from the Altman/Conway camp but also from the director side, especially what must be Adam D'Angelo. The meaning of all this leaking is that the players have moved into phase 3, warring over the independent report, which will determine whether Altman stays & appoints the new board, or whether his proxy Brockman replaces him and he gets possibly a more ceremonial role like board chairman and bows out quietly (similar to his YC firing where he was going to be an advisor etc and then all that got quietly ignored). Note how Brockman has been built up as Altman's equal and has been running marathon meetings at OA with everyone possible (see his tweets - with photographs, no less) while Altman is, oddly considering how hard he worked to get back into the building, hardly to be seen.

Key points:

- another reporting of internal OA complaints about Altman's manipulative/divisive behavior, see previously https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38573609

- previously we knew Altman had been dividing-and-conquering the board by lying about others wanted to fire Toner, this says that specifically, Altman had lied about McCauley wanting to fire Toner; presumably, this was said to D'Angelo.

- Concerns over Tiqgris had been mooted, but this says specifically that the board thought Altman had not been forthcoming about it; still unclear if he had tried to conceal Tigris entirely or if he had failed to mention something more specific like who he was trying to recruit for capital.

- Sutskever had threatened to quit after Jakub Pachocki's promotion; previous reporting had said he was upset about it, but hadn't hinted at him being so angry as to threaten to quit OA

- Altman was 'bad-mouthing the board to OpenAI executives'; this likely refers to the Slack conversation Sutskever was involved in reported by WSJ a while ago about how they needed to purge everyone EA-connected

- Altman was initially going to cooperate and even offered to help, until Brian Chesky & Ron Conway riled him up

- the OA outside lawyer told them they needed to clam up and not do PR like the Altman faction was

- both sides are positioning themselves for the independent report overseen by Summers as the 'broker'; hence, Altman/Conway leaking the texts quoted at the end posturing about how 'the board wants silence' (not that one could tell from the post-restoration leaking & reporting...) and how his name needs to be cleared.

- Paul Graham remains hilariously incapable of saying anything unambiguously nice about Altman
I have personally had issues where I wanted to read the Unity source code but couldn't. And I suspect it wouldn't have been worth the cost in my case. There's really no substitute for shared source. Truly open source isn't necessarily better; modifying it is not often realistic, but having to pay just to read it is a big stumbling block.
TiPS 4km space tether (1996) [pdf]
There’s an initial version of it already up and running:

https://huggingface.co/DiscoResearch/mixtral-7b-8expert
> Isn't the recent AI regulation voted in Europe a problem for this company?

The world is a big place. And moving the talent to a place less regulation-crazy than the EU is not very hard.
Ask HN: Has anyone effectly dealt with RSI (repetitive strain injury)?
I'm having quite a lot of pain with RSI at the moment.

I was wondering if anybody had any experience with this, and experience with correcting their desk, I've corrected my desk and got an ergonomic mouse, however, it started hurting in a different place now, and I'm not 100% sure what to do.

I'm thinking of going to see a physiotherapist or maybe completely moving my desk to a new set up, although I do think it is fine. If anybody's got any details around this, for example correctly, sitting at a desk, physiotherapist, mice and keyboards, or stretches that have really helped, all of that would be very much appreciated.
why every single European citizen is dependent on US hardware, US software and US services

Mostly because US companies keep buying their EU competitors. Nokia, Skype, Spotify, ARM, ASML and countless others all originated in Europe. The ones that remain European are the ones that cannot be bought so easily, like Matrix (UK) or Mastodon (DE).
The Devs probably know this (grepping code for "vault" is trivial). The fork was announced yesterday, so it is bound to be in need of polishing here and there.
This times a thousand. None of this can possibly be understood even remotely well without the broader context of settler colonialism that persists to this day, as Israeli settlers continue colonizing land that is not theirs even now, today.

The amazing amount of historical revisionism where once it became so obvious and irrefutable that the causes of these various entities were, in fact, correct the entire time at which point colonial powers suddenly do an about face and call them freedom fighters instead of terrorists in genuinely nauseating. ALL groups in this vein commit various kinds of atrocities, because war, especially guerilla war, is itself largely an atrocity. And more war will only breed more of these groups as more people who do not belong in an area, do not share it's culture, and blatantly do not give a steaming shit about either of those things continue to meddle in their affairs.

Hamas will not do open battle with Israel, because of course they'd fucking lose, just like the Taliban would've to us, or the Viet Cong to us, or anyone else. They can't field an army and they know that, they aren't stupid. But what else would you have them do? Just waive the white flag and let the Western powers redraw their borders again, fuck up their cities and culture and treat them like brainless savages to avoid being killed?
Researchers redesign mRNA therapeutics to prevent pot. harmful immune responses
Given how much of a PITA Vault is, I think it's time for people to move on from it (especially that I'm hearing this is financed by IMB to keep their Vault competitor going).

There are other great/better options. Check out Infisical for secret management: https://github.com/Infisical/infisical

Disclaimer: I'm one of the maintainers.
> limit the concept of property to scarce goods

This is a very powerful yet very dangerous train of thought. Modifications to the concept of property were at the heart of the way communism has been implemented in the USSR, and it led to awful results.

You might have a different goal in mind, but so did many of those involved in the October revolution.
Oof. Yes, I meant scraper.

> ...concerned about the times reported

Agreed.

FWIW...

My wall time for this beast (randtest1) is ~55ms.

SELECT coalesce((select max(11- -19-f-t1.b+a) from t1 where exists(select 1 from t1 where 11-~(d)-c*a*~t1.a-t1.e-t1.e+coalesce((select coalesce((select t1.c from t1 where case (c) when d then e else 11 end=t1.f),t1.d) from t1 where (t1.d)>b), -11) | f+t1.f not in (((c)),b,13))),f) FROM t1 WHERE case when 19+c>=t1.a then t1.c when not case when not exists(select 1 from t1 where +f | b*b*19+19*13-a | case when t1.e not in (t1.f,t1.c,b) then 11 when 17>t1.c then a else e end<>e) then b when 17=t1.e then b else e end<>t1.b then a else d end-t1.b=(13)

Whereas simple statements like these are < 20ms each.

select ((select 1) union (select 1));

select a between b and c and d;

I need to add profiling metrics to the build, to (proactively) catch performance regressions.

It's fairly easy for ambiguity to sneak in. Mostly because I'm noob. But also because I'm stubbornly using left-recursion and I'm still navigating ANTLR's magical rule rewriting.

> ...python output of antlr is agonisingly slow

Still just using Java.

Edit: Now I'm curious. I'll try ANTLR's Python runtime asap.

My tool is a language translation widget. Input SQL and output templates (vs something like an ORM).

In the future, I'd like to support dynamic languages (stacks) like Python and nodejs/deno. One, just to be a good citizen ("when in Rome..."). But also to try some half-baked notions for supporting dynamic SQL at runtime. Which isn't (yet?) feasible with a compile-time stack like Java.

Thanks for your interest. I put my email in my HN profile. I can send you updates on my work. And once I get to a "beta" release (usable by other people), I intend to have weekly "office hours" on Zoom (or some such).
Google is trying and just can't? They are pretending they aren't behind despite setting a pile of cash on fire by spending exorbitant amounts on exaggerating their capabilities in basically fake videos.

Meanwhile you see Mistral casually dropping magnet links to weights with barely any instructions on how to use them on a Friday afternoon and you see reports of some very happy people finetuning on a civilian 4090 and getting GPT-4-quality performance in blind tests on Saturday morning.
> They’re just asking for actual evidence that iOS users think down on Android users.

From their reply after you commented, no. That user is asking for actual evidence that iOS users throw saliva from their mouth at Android users. Not a figure of speech, real liquid saliva.
> companies like HP started pushing out "security updates" that modified your printer to make it reject the third-party ink you'd paid for..

I figured out a Workaround for this. I install the crapware Driver-o-Software they want me to. Then I run "Double Driver 4.10 Portable" (not affiliated), I take a backup of the driver(s). Then I uninstall (or roll-back). Then the driver is still missing but I user my Double Driver folder backup (I keep in external disk), and booya! the device works without the crapware. It adds a couple more hoops in the experience, but it has worked like a charm.

(I remember Steve Gibson mentioned DoubleDriver some years back on the SecurityNow podcast - I tried it, and I never looked back)
All uses of cat are useful.

Some are useful because they actually serve a purpose in the script.

The rest are useful because trolling merlyn is hilarious.
The potential for AI is one of those things that I think a lot of people are willing to fund without a return on their investment. The nations and businesses and individuals that leverage this technology will far outpace those that don't. It has value in and of itself to have access to the most powerful model capable of existing. There is a reason governments are starting to pass laws. Clearly this technology is seen as a huge asset to anyone who's paying attention. I am not making a moral argument here. I don't know if what's coming is good or bad. But it's coming with our without my approval.

To add to this, it is a valid strategy to give away something for free so attention - and therefore power - is taken away from a competitor. A quick way for everyone to forget OpenAI exists is for another nation or business conglomerate to release a model that is "good enough". This slows growth for businesses trying to profit from it.
Apple to Apple is not MMS.
As an open multi modal we went for a flat membership scheme we are introducing:

https://x.com/EMostaque/status/1729609312601887109?s=20

$1 => $100k+ flat for all models we release depending on company size/type, then upsell support, early access, custom models, other services.

I think that aligns with growth of market as a base to cover model costs and is a strong recurring revenue stream while being predictable.

This incentivises us to release more good models of every type to drive more subscriptions, much like Netflix with hit TV shows. So we are doing a dozen languages, common models improved as well as state of the art ones.

We also have commercial variants eg our www.stableaudio.com model that per licensing we can't release open.

Usually companies have an open core business model for source code, but models are a bit different: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open-core_model

It will be interesting to see how others do it, particularly with incredibly strong models from Chinese companies coming through.
Part of the problem is that even if you know this is what you want, it's a classic hiring problem.

You're typically doing this once every what-- 20 years-- so you don't have a "default guy" and odds are you're one of maybe 3 households in your block of 450 houses who are even considering the problem, so it's not like you can ask your neighbours.

What the market needs is a national franchise, maybe implemented as a co-op model-- enforcing some basic level of "predictably not great, but not terrible", and offering a one-stop pricing and quoting system. You know they won't be the cheapest or best, but the franchise structure sells confidence. If they try to take you for a ride, you can escalate to the brand, who has leverage over them, to get satisfaction before having to duke it out with the local Contractor Licensing Authority.
"AI safety" is completely bogus.

There are people who genuinely believe in a singularity-type AI that would have the potential to wipe out humanity. I personally don't think strong GAI is possible, or at least it's not likely using any known technique or any refinement of any known technique, but if you believe this, there's no such thing as AI safety. The best and most obvious course of action is to politically organize for a total ban on AI and make the development of AI anywhere in the world a cause for war. Thinking you could figure out how to chain up such an AI so that it only does what you want is taking an insane risk, and as t -> infinity, the risk becomes 1.

But when most people say AI safety, they seem to mean rigid ideological enforcement of whatever they believe is right, even if that means censoring true facts from AI, or forcing it to abide by some set of arbitrary values that represent consensus only in their clique...while at the same time, bemoaning what could happen if the wrong people got their hands on LLMs. This represents almost the totality of AI safetyism: we can only allow LLMs to enforce my beliefs. These people are effectively aligned (or often the same people as) those who believe we have to return to broadcast-media levels of information control, which for the elites, represents a historical oddity that gave them unprecedented control, which was then weakened by the Internet.

Sometimes they will make an actual safety argument along the lines of "but what if Bad Guys ask an LLM how to make a bioweapon." Aside from this being a silly hypothetical, fortunately, doing mass damage in this way is not easy, even with step-by-step directions. All the resources you need to do so that exist are already publicly available. It just requires lots of time, equipment, material, and expertise that an LLM cannot give you. Of course, you might make the argument that it cannot give them to you yet, but then the only solution is to shut down public science, not to ban LLMs from answering the wrong questions.
To be fair, that is an accurate description of a lot of software libraries I've used at work, even some we've paid for.
What can Spain realistically do if the USA actually becomes hostile to it? The whole EU has already relinquished its full sovereignty a long time ago. The USA does as it wants and at most, the EU can expell some spies caught in the act as quietly as possible to not anger Big Uncle Sam.
Your posts here are so incoherent, it’s not clear what you are complaining about. Is it the term "Eastern European"? That isn’t a “Cold War-era classification” at all. The use of “Eastern European” in the archaeology and linguistics of the region goes back to the term Osteuropa in the foundational 19th-century literature.

If you lack any familiarity with this field enough to know that, then it would be wise to refrain from making pronouncements on the worthiness of this research. Also, the HN submission is a pop-sci article created by that university’s PR, it is not the actual research. The actual research can be found in the mentioned journal.
Apple Computer Check Signed by Steve Jobs Sells for $46,000
Retrieval-Augmented Generation to Improve Math QA: Groundedness or Preference
> But after amending it, surely it's still possible for a Zionist to hold the view that Israel (or the process of its establishment) was "flawed or unjust in some way"?

What I’m saying is that position could be either Zionist, anti-Zionist, or non-Zionist, depending on the particular reasons why one thinks it was “flawed or unjust in some way”
Further, more educated people have better prospects in life, which lead to better personal finances, which lead to buying more and pirating less stuff.
I became really interested in this topic after having my first roast chestnuts a couple years ago! Some of the interesting things I learned:
- Chestnut deforestation due to blight was a substantial portion of global deforestation in the early 20th century (IIRC half in 1920s and 1930s).
- Chestnuts were such a staple that they were considered poor people food in America. Some lamented that chestnut products (including chestnut flours) seemed to be all the general stores carried.
- The majority of all wood construction in early America was chestnut.

Wild that such a central part of American society vanished and I didn't even know beyond "chestnuts roasting on an open fire". Makes me wonder what other parts of our lives and culture will be lost with extinctions caused by climate change.
Harder how?

My company has started using Vault a few months ago - seems pretty easy for me (store secret in vault, get it during gitlab's pipeline pass it as a kuber secret)
Python is such a nightmare to package and use for users, especially for Gui, that even web apps can be better.
BWA and plink are other tools you're forgetting.
If you believe a few assumptions then foundation model companies like Mistral look very valuable even if they open their models: 1) few companies are be able to produce top performing foundation models at any given time, 2) this will continue to be true for a long time due to the required expertise, infrastructure, and cost, 3) this somehow translates into a capability commercial customers will need and pay for at scale.

That third step is a bit of a leap. I tend to think that as the open knowledge about how to train models improves the training "recipes" needed to get close to state of the art will get easier to replicate, not harder, with "good enough models" requiring less data and less hardware.
>With their feet chained, and dressed in rags, Apuleius describes the workers as having “eyes so bleary from the scorching heat of that smoke-filled darkness they could barely see, and like wrestlers sprinkled with dust before a fight, they were coarsely whitened with floury ash.

Any examples of regions of the world where things are as bad as that? I've travelled a bit and seen nothing like that.
As a couple people pointed out:

Human taste testing is the only way, if you want to up your game. I just published a paper on this on HN (sorry, one arm's in a sling, so don't ask for a link).

If what you want is Science, then this is great; don't get me wrong.
Android adds ggml lib to AICore
7B open model as a proof of 'we know what we're doing, try it yourself with zero paperwork' and 80B/220B closed, paid 'so you're serious, yes we can, here's an openai-compatible API and our account number' model.
I'm a technically minded person (and a guy) and I take no joy in being hyper-precise with my coffee making, yet enjoy coffee a lot. Good beans that I grind myself in a sub $30 grinder, measured by eye and brewed in the drip-over is better than most coffee I encounter and consistent enough. I don't see much point in getting fancier with it. I have other hobbies to nerd out about with better "returns" on the obsessing. Side note: yoga is pretty enjoyable, you should give it a go, maybe.

I'm a bit of a non-conformist generally, so maybe my view is skewed, but I think a big part of the "X people like Y" pattern you see and refer to is that many people just aren't practiced in trusting their own feelings and senses to develop their own preferences: they see people like themselves, and they align, and conform, often unwittingly. They join the [let's say] goth clique in high school, and then come to like mostly the same things as the rest of their clique, not only by nature or coincidence, but by a mostly subconscious desire to belong. It applies to things like gender and profession, too.
I have plenty of pieces of code I've written, decades ago, where I know what they do, but have NO idea how they work.

If I want to understand a piece of code, I need to read it and understand it. Modern models have billions of parameters and are trained over >10^20 computations. That's more than I can ever hope to read.

> because you checked it and threw away the ones that weren't

I know what it does under specific circumstances. I don't know what it does elsewhere. We have a pretty good understanding of how GPT-4 works on training data, but we have a very poor understanding of what it does for the countless other uses we see. Code I write, I analyze carefully for corner cases.

If we develop an AI which has a corner case of "exterminate humanity" which wasn't in the training set, that's, well, very possible.

I've trained plenty of neural networks (even once coding in machine code straight to custom hardware, back in the day). I can't say I understand how very many of them work, though.

> you can resolve by tracing it

You can't trace through 200B parameters or through 10^20 computations. That's beyond human capacity. We have no idea how it works, and we have a very poor understanding of emergent behaviors.

Evolution "trains" biological organisms to survive to have as many babies as possible. Vengeance? Love? Loyalty? Pain? Hate? Emergent behaviours.
I use HashiCorp Vault paid version to interface with an on premises HSM and for its FIPS compliance. I don’t know of any other software that is as lightweight and easy to use with an HSM as vault. We are using Vault to store the signed intermediate CA and automatically unseal Vault by storing the shards in the HSM (along with the Root CA). OpenBao wouldn’t solve this for me.
I have postulated that information is in fact a fifth form of matter in the universe. I’ve even calculated the expected information content per elementary particle. These studies led to the publication, in 2022, of an experimental protocol to test these predictions. The experiment involves erasing the information contained inside elementary particles by letting them and their antiparticles (all particles have “anti” versions of themselves which are identical but have opposite charge) annihilate in a flash of energy – emitting “photons”, or light particles.

I have predicted the exact range of expected frequencies of the resulting photons based on information physics. The experiment is highly achievable with our existing tools, and we have launched a crowdfunding site) to achieve it.

--MELVIN M. VOPSON, UNIVERSITY OF PORTSMOUTH

Seems legit. But what do I know, I'm just an NPC. Welcome to my shop, Traveler. Care to buy a healing potion?
Exactly what you're are describing is what I explained to my colleagues as "stealing runners" :)

If something fails and you don't have idle runners (hence wasting unnecessary resources), things start to snowball.
1998 article with quotes from Jim Goodnight, CEO of analytics software company SAS: One big difference is that Goodnight and most of his staff work a 35-hour week. "We want people to go home and be with their families," he says. "This will make them more productive when they are at work. I would prefer that rather than have them non-productive for 12 months while they are getting over a divorce."

https://www.afr.com/companies/fewer-rising-to-technologys-gr...
I am doubtful about these efforts because people are just guessing about how it is supposed to work since Mistral didn't release any code or information yet.