skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Another interesting thing to explore would be colinux which was a bit similar to WSL but third party.
The part of Meta research that worked on LLaMa happened to be based in the Paris office. Then some of the leads left and started Mistral.

Complex/simple is not really the right way to think about training these models, I'd say its more arcane. Every mistake is expensive because it takes a ton of GPU time and/or human fine tuning time. Take a look at the logbooks of some of the open source/research training runs.

So these engineers have some value as they've seen these mistakes (paid for by Meta's budget).
Yes. I’ve also driven a rented Renault Twizy in San Francisco 15 years ago.

I found 25 mph to be dangerously slow when other vehicles are moving 30-40mph, like on Oak, Fell, upper Market, etc.

Not to mention its punishingly harsh ride.
> Executables should be cross-compatible

So cosmopolitan? https://github.com/jart/cosmopolitan
Would you read a Russian newspaper article about bad treatment of Ukrainians in the west? I mean, sure but I hope you wouldn't actually give it any credibility. To me this is similar, considering how blatant France is about 'Franceafrique' and how unapologetic it is about wanting Africa to be its own little backyard.
If you are even slightly interested in its history, I recommend the book Masters of Doom. Easy read, full of little anecdotes.
Not just Perl. Any Linux process can do it.

https://www.man7.org/linux/man-pages/man2/prctl.2.html

> PR_SET_NAME

> Set the name of the calling thread
> LLM models are usually modified by changing the model weights directly, instead of retraining the model from scratch. LLM weights are poorly understood, but this is an unavoidable side effect of the development methodology, not deliberate obfuscation.

They're understood based on knowing the training process though, and a developer working on them would want to have the option of doing a partial or full retraining where warranted.
This. Sibling llama.cpp comment is standard "I know llama.cpp, I assume that's 80% of the universe instead of .8%, and I assume that's all anyone needs. So I know just enough to be dangerous with ppl looking for advice".

You'll see it over and over again when you're looking for help, be careful, it's 100% a blind alley in your case. It's very likely you'll be disappointed by MLC as well, simultaneously it's your only real option. You definitely won't hit 1 tkn/sec, and honestly, id bet 0.1 tkn / sec
Definitely agree with your last point, but regarding games with endless possibilities. Mm I rather have a game that is created by someone with a clear goalbin mind. One with boundaries. A good single player experience. Like for example Alan wake 2.
But both are completely wrong! And technically the Google example is closer to correct than any others.

The Yi 34B eBay and Kodak examples are both (wrong but) very interesting because it does seem to get the idea of changing one letter.

Of GPT4 examples, the Qatar example (replacing "Q" with "Q" !?) is the only one that is internally consistent. The Pinterest and Tumblr examples are wrong in very odd ways in that the explanation doesn't match the spelling.
Yeah java isn't really used for Consumer apps and this is one of the reasons. The ones that do evade this problem by bundeling their own JVM.
Thanks! I was just following the thread about their recent addition of the OpenCl support and was on the verge of trying it out last weekend. I’ll definitely continue once I’m home again!
I mean something is better than nothing?

Climate change is one of those things where asking for perfection is the perfect way to ensure nothing happens. This is a common lobbying tactic aimed at preventing change. If that’s not your intention, I recommend a different approach – encouraging anything that might help.
SaaS is like a subscription for a multiplayer game.
Did Xbox gold dropped or world of warcraft monthly price? Afaik no.
Is that why they started relentlessly colonizing the west bank the moment the west bank stopped the armed struggle? What a peaceful neighbor indeed.
Dan Aykroyd's Trading Places watch is worth much more than $50
Please, expose your RSS
As much as free market capitalism can exist when China completely dominates the RISC-V market.
Totally.

I don't want to derail the conversation too much but when I look at what Notch has become since he became a billionaire it's frankly pathetic.

Princes & Kings

Isn't it strange how princes and kings,
and clowns that caper in sawdust rings,
and common people, like you and me,
are builders for eternity?

Each is given a list of rules;
a shapeless mass; a bag of tools.
And each must fashion, ere life is flown,
A stumbling block, or a Stepping-Stone.
― R. Lee Sharpe
Because business owners don't have the time and resources to keep changing vendors to save 10% costs. Time is money.

Switching cost is more than you think. For example, I don't like Zendesk it's expensive and over-engineered. But I stick to it because I know how hard it is to port my docs over and re-setup the live chat. It's half a day work. To save $50/mo, it's not worth my time. My focus is growing my company, not to save $50/mo.

I run SaaS and spent alot in SaaS products.
Why would cloning something be untrustworthy?
Coherent was published by Mark-Williams, who also had their own C compiler (MWC), which was also available for CP/M86 and the Atari ST. It's a K&R compiler, so expect some trouble with compiling modern code (unprotoize might help a bit here).

The final releases of Coherent (4.2 is the last one IIRC) also fully supported the iBCS COFF binary standard, so binaries compiled for e.g. SCO Unix might work.

You could also try to build an old gcc version with the provided K&R compiler:
https://www.autometer.de/unix4fun/coherent/coh_prog.html
A lot.

There are many countries to which the US is actually hostile, and which are much weaker than Spain. Venezuela, Cuba, etc. Places like Russia and China also of course exist.

Spain could start trying to compete with the US in South America, they could push some kind of EU South America expansion, some kind of EU analogue of BRICS-for-South-America-but-not-BRICS; and of course, if it truly became a problem they could decide to go much further than that and start being actually hostile themselves, joining with the whole RIC part of the thing.
I question the "making money hand over fist" notion. Aren't the vast majority of SaaS companies burning VC money to stay afloat?

Like others have also said, trust plays a key role. Companies usually like to stick with a tool that already works and where they know what they're going to get vs taking a risk on a copy-cat to save a few bucks.
The main thing SaaS companies do is navigate the politics of selling into businesses. The software is an implementation detail. So you can replicate the product, but you still have to do the (much harder) work of selling.
Absolutely, the inference is based on a set of heuristics and is often just plain wrong.
>> No SaaS provider is building their own datacenter. They usually don't even run their own servers...

True, but SaaS still runs on cloud infrastructure so the costs are still there: you are either Amazon, Microsoft, etc. and build the infrastructure yourself or you pay them to rent time/space from them.

The base costs for the infrastructure do not go away which makes it unlikely for SaaS costs to race to the bottom.
Checklists are great if you use them properly: to make sure you remember. Checklists are dangerous when they are used improperly: to replace or shut-down critical thinking.
This worked cause the milliondollarhomepage was the first website to do this. I don't think copycats really work.
Marketing cost increase with competition. Usually a SaaS starts at loss, then when competition increase it make loss because higher cost per acquisition.
I like this.

That said, I doubt we'll ever escape towards subscription-based social media models due to the prohibitive costs of CDNs, bandwidth, and storage for video/images. But I suppose it's a question of ends: do we want everyone on social media?
> Is there a centralized list somewhere that tests "use this for x purpose, use that for y?"

Yeah, "don't use these models for production, use OpenAI for production, ignore Claude/Gemini/etc.".
Feel free to give everyone your suggestions to learn UI design.
It puts into perspective just what a spectacular amount of bloat we have in modern software.

A lot of it comes from diversity though.

GEOS was a tightly coupled system with one design, API, and programming paradigm. Same goes with classic macOS and other old school desktops. You had no more than two or three languages in use (usually ASM, C, and something like Pascal), one GUI library, one set of runtime libraries, etc.

Today your typical desktop hosts apps written in dozens of languages using dozens of graphics libraries and rendering layers. Since different apps use different versions of these things each app often ships the entire stack with it, meaning you may be running three or four versions of a dozen things. To make all that interoperable requires a Byzantine mess of APIs and interfaces and across the whole system. There are tons of shims and hacks and duplication of effort.

I remember a silent paradigm shift happening in the 2000s when we abandoned the question of what the “best” language or OS was and instead concluded “we’ll just run everything all at once.”

So now we need 16 gigabytes of RAM for a desktop.

I wonder sometimes if AI could get us out of this mess. Could future much more powerful coding models do things like reimplement the entire desktop environment in our language of choice at our command? Could they consolidate and refactor code at industrial scale? The thing that makes it impossible to get rid of all this cruft is the cost of doing so, something automation could cut.
It also assumes that an exponentially self-improving AGI is possible. An AGI that is stuck at human level is probably not a threat against 8 billion humans.

So, yeah. There are quite a few assumptions in there that are a long way from experimentally prove.
You could say the opposite is true as well. How do you know after hours workers are not rating their productivity higher than actual? How do you know that the 9-5 workers aren’t rating their productivity as lower than usual?

All data in of itself is useless. A sample pool of 10,000 volunteers is pretty good in the realm of statistics.
Are you comparing a 8x7b model with GPT-4? Come on...
> RFK was running on the ticket

As a non-American, who's RFK? Not the long-dead Robert F Kennedy, of course, but my ability to search that acronym pretty much only brings him up
> yet they seem easily replicable

At a former job, we had a rule that if someone claimed something was easy or trivial or the like, they were assigned to accomplish it.
No, but thinking a bit about it, it might be I am misremembering and it was on Xubuntu before I switched to mac. Or just fixed.

Currently, the problem might be gone, I will try that out. Thanks for your answer!

Edit: I also don't have these stability issues, but I did have issues with my suspend mode on that laptop, no matter the os (win/ubuntu)
You're 100% right and I apologize that you're getting downvoted, in solidarity I will eat downvotes with you.

HNs funny right now because LLMs are all over the front page constantly, but there's a lot of HN "I am an expert because I read comments sections" type behavior. So many not even wrong comments that start from "I know LLaMa is local and C++ is a programming language and I know LLaMa.cpp is on GitHub and software improves and I've heard of Mistral."
Show HN: Facet – Declarative Web Components in HTML
Facet is a single-file web library that allows for the easy, declarative definition of web components. By making use of template elements with special attributes, Facet makes it possible to define useful and effective web components with no JavaScript boilerplate, so you can focus entirely on the structure and behavior of your component.
Because most Saas products are much harder to replicate than you think, and the market for Saas is 95% B2B where cost to acquire a customer is insanely high.

If your market is businesses with employees, the difference between $1/month and $100/month for a piece of software is a rounding error. This means even something that only saves the business an hour each month, is worth it for $100. Even if you buy 100 of these apps, it’s still cheaper than the all-in cost of a single employee.

Conversely, you could ask the same question about anything. For example:

A lot of [employees] are making money hand over fist yet they seem easily replaceable. Furthermore most [employees] don’t have network effects or large switching costs. Given these dynamics, why haven’t we seen a race to rock bottom in [employee] prices?

Either the market is persistently inefficient for some reason (usually isn’t the case) or there’s something you’re not accounting for in your assumptions.

If you’re one of the people who say things like "Intercom? Pffft! I could spin up a clone in a weekend!," I would say you're in the latter.
We've seen some in shared web hosting for example. Where switch is easy costs go down.
Thanks, I’ll look into it! Especially if the llama.cpp route is a dud, like the other response says it will be. My little qnap clunker handles all the self hosting stuff I throw at it, but I won’t be surprised if it simply has met its match
Interesting use-case: We recently started using ast-grep at CodeRabbit[0] to review pull request changes with AI.

We use gpt-4 to generate ast-grep patterns to deep-dive and verify pull-request integrity. We just rolled this feature out 3 days back and are getting excellent results!

Comments such as these are powered by AI-generate ast-grep queries: https://github.com/amorphie/contract/pull/100#discussion_r14...

[0]: https://coderabbit.ai
jmitalum.org. Sorry about the typo.
Read about the Victorian workhouse, the Irish potato famine, and Rawanda in the 1990s. In the latter example, the average person had less than a backyard worth of land to work on for subsistence. Jared Diamond discussed the case of Rawanda in his book, Collapse. Joseph Tainter provides many examples in his book. It has happened before, just not within the limits of experience of those living through all of the exponential growth we have lived through, so it is hard to imagine.

From a summary of the relevant chapter: “In the Northwest Rwandan region of Kanama, population densities were higher than in Bangladesh, the most crowded nation on Earth. With nowhere to move and set up a home, most women and all men in their early 20s lived with their parents, putting further loads on each tiny farm until the average person lived off one-seventh of an acre. By 1990 40% of Rwandans were consuming calories below famine levels.”

https://www.supersummary.com/collapse/part-3-chapters-10-13/
Somewhere between shiny Google releases and Mistral's magnet link tweet, there's gotta be a sweet spot where you release the model but also have enough decency to tell people how to use it optimally. Mistral, if you're reading this, I'm talking about you.
Do they usually know or are there just a handful of very high profile cases where they did?

It seems like everyone's go to example of this is the oil industry and global warming and tobacco and cancer.
Oh sorry, yeah I shouldn't have gone with initials there! Yes that was referencing Robert F Kennedy
Man, I liked OpenRouter but most models run so much slower on OR that I had to switch to other solutions. Is there a reason for horribly slow Meta Llama 2 models?
Because my personal ethics are that I would not start a new online business by directly cloning someone else's. I think that's a poor sign of character.

You may well disagree with me on this, in which case you won't factor this into your own decisions as to whether a company is trustworthy or not.

I should clarify: I'm not talking about services in terms of "we built a new Git hosting service even though GitHub already exists" - I'm talking about direct copies, where it's clear that someone has tried to replicate the exact same feature set at a lower price.
This has absolutely ANYTHING to do with the article. The customer is not complaining, the customer is the criminal here. But somehow, “Amazon bad”
Of course they do. There are countless legitimate uses for a hidden camera. The only thing a visible camera is good for is to ensure that nothing bad happens in front of that camera.

And even a towel bar or clothes hanger does not automatically mean bedroom or bathroom either.

Closets and towel bars can and do exist anywhere, like kitchens, laundry rooms, front and rear entrances, mud rooms, workshops, offices, stock rooms, really anywhere.

They are even legitimate IN bedrooms, if it's your own bedroom. It's wrong obviously to peeping-tom on a guest or tenant, but if I want to monitor my own bedroom when I'm not in it, I certainly can, and that means the product can't be automatically invalid to exist.
Something to add: if your NAS-Server is advertised with it's dual 4K capable HDMI ports, you know you're looking at a consumer toy targeted at people who hoard (pirated) media and not for serious stuff.
Except for the artifice that is copyright, things don't work like that for anything else. Reality doesn't work like that.

> Once someone posts something, you don't have a right to it in perpetuity

On the contrary, once someone posts something, they don't have control over it anymore. You can't make me unsee what you wrote, or unhear what you said. You have no right to stop me from writing it down, and even if you can stop me from republishing it verbatim right now, you generally don't have the right to do it indefinitely.

> And once I don't or change my mind you can't.

To be clear, I'm not dogmatically firm about it, but I believe that a word in which you get to distance yourself from past views, or mark them mistaken, and people accept it, would be much better than the world in which you're free to gaslight everyone else by pretending that something never happened, even though it did.

(All that on top of the usual point that it's neither the author nor their audience that can judge what's archive-worthy - only future people can.)
I think that’s precisely what is unclear

What exactly is so powerful that you can do this way, that you can’t do by having a more specified prompt?

I read the whole thing but didn’t see anything that stood out
Thank you for this. It was exactly my point in the talk, of course -- but in reading the comments here, I was very much beginning to doubt my own sanity...
> Most people go to college for training; they could not care less about receptivity to ideas

And they come out of it disappointed that they don't actually know how to do anything.

> There is this myth that college is about expanding one's mind and worldview.

I used to think that was a myth too. So much so I did it twice. College is wasted on the young.

It took decades of experience for me to recognize how much of my college experience consisted of being fed blatant lies meant to foster critical thought.
From that page:
"What is the first thing you need to work on?"

I would say, a page that is usable without scripts. ;)
Heard those moisture sensors rust. Anybody have insight into whether that’s true ?
I’m of two minds on this a. It depends if we are building or thinking - building definitely benefits from more time, and feel like I get momentum (as you described), implementing something over 12+hr sprint is hugely productive for me. On the other hand if I have a problem to solve I’m completely unproductive trying to do it at 3am.
Autopilot does well more than just adaptive cruise control.
probably too mainstream, there was other hacked ways of running linux on windows using debuggers and other memory map hacks...
Maybe share some chats?
The question however, is a) whether what's conceptually possible is actually possible, and b) whether what's possible will become factual before we hit a hard limit. It's small consolation that having a Dyson sphere around the Sun would solve our energy problems if we've already run out of fossil fuels to run our logistics networks, and maybe we should have scaled back on the growth-seeking wasteful expenses and focused more on the bare essentials.
Thanks. Yeah I’ve noticed that llama.cpp is definitely the recommendation du jour, but this thread gave me hope: https://www.reddit.com/r/LocalLLaMA/comments/13p8zq2/update_...

Sorry for reddit link.
100% I feel like a lot of the time after hours work is driving by lack of productivity / prioritization / understanding “good enough”
In my house we have a rule that if someone proposes some 'easy or trivial' labor in addition to the current workload, the other can say 'Have at it.'
Compiled binaries (gcc and more) and VMs with Coherent 4.2 installations can be found on Udo Munk's site: https://www.autometer.de/unix4fun/coherent/ftp/
Probably not. It's probably similar to windows AVs saying they can catch empire or meterpretor. They can, but it's also not too hard to change the signature away from default
The tone of this author... Very... "neckbeard"-esque. This is an incredibly obscure feature only 3 nerds use, not the the Immovable Ladder of the Church of the Holy Sepulcher. The fact that some unpaid maintainer changed it slightly without consulting you first does not necessarily constitute "breaking master." It's master we're talking about, not stable or a tagged release. Good god.
> Of GPT4 examples, the Qatar example (replacing "Q" with "Q" !?)...

That appears to be from vizzah's testing of Mistral-8x7B-Chat rather than GPT4.
The way I see it is that we don't need to imagine any sci-fi scenario to see how any device with a computer (so basically anything from a phone to killer robots or power plants) could go rogue or severely malfunction.

Stuxnet was developed by skilled humans and was pretty successful. Personally I cannot see why a superintelligence wouldn't be able to put together Stuxnet^10.

Depending on the use case, the development could be 100% digital--the AI could either work it out in its mind, or run/rent a VM. And if there's a need for physical hardware that the superintelligence cannot emulate because of undocumented bugs and issues, it could hire someone with a garage to put the hw there and plug it--it doesn't require a factory and 10s or 100s of people.

If you don't think it's a plausible scenario because I'm missing some step(s), then let me know!
They do mention it in passing, but there is no way to statistically control for that without a randomised controlled trial (or Mendelian Randomisation).

There is no reason to think that working outside hours is the cause of the problem. It could be a consequence of an individual struggling outside of work that then leads to having to try to catch up.
See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38595055 and https://arduino.stackexchange.com/questions/8938/do-water-se...
They aren't acting "as if" French colonialism never happened.

Are you saying that because someone was born in country X, which committed Y misdeeds ~100 years ago, then that person is not free to draw attention to current misdeeds that are like Y happening now by the hand of others?

That's absurd and ungrounded in any real system of ethics or morality--and also untenable, given that every country/religion/group/whatever has at some point done pretty fucked up shit.
High performers don't need to put in extra hours, in other words. Big surprise.
I dont suppose you have coherent 8086/80286 at all? I should have ordered it as a kid but I'd been told so many times to never trust mailorder. It still bugs me I didn't send in the $99.99
Better question. Why haven't prices for everything dropped?
These types of things always give me a sad, disconnected feeling. What have we lost over the years in local culture? What traditions are forever gone?
In 2040 we will have lenses with 32k displays and gpus with 10 trillion transistors and 1 petabyte of memory. Its hard to predict what you can do with that. The real world would be empty by then.