skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This sort of thing honestly feels like the historical state of affairs with Wikipedia... paying too much attention to it early on was probably a bad idea, but as things progressed, many folks who had ossified into distrusting it were making the opposite mistake of paying too little attention.

I'm definitely trying to balance it out! Apologies to all for the mistake here!
that's not how car problems are solved in California.
The thing is, "AI art" and the like aren't meant for creative people, they're meant for those who consider the act of creativity itself to be "tedious, complicated, error-prone bullshit." People who can't even comprehend it being fun and meaningful in and of itself, but who can only see the inefficiency of a human process which needs to be optimized and automated away so that a commercially viable product can be delivered to market as quickly and efficiently as possible. So that they can "be a writer" without knowing how to write, or "be an artist" without knowing how to draw. "Make a game" without being able to write a line of code. And most importantly at all, not have to pay writers, artists or coders a dime.

This is why AI, for all of its potential good (and I do believe that potential exists, no technology has an inherent moral or ethical axis) can only inevitably be a cancer on society, because those developing it, putting up the funding and pushing the research, want the ends without the means.
Luckily there is another AI for removing the background (:
well, you can keep using containers if you want. docker sucks really bad on macos, but if you're not using that, you might not care.
That's not really how registers or speculative execution works. Intuitively, you can think of assembly as trying to describe a graph of instruction dependencies. Having 16 registers in the ISA allows you to have 16 live outputs at any given "time". Speculative execution allows instructions to execute out-of-order, and to enable this, it has ~140 registers that allow it to have 140 live outputs at once, so that it can run some code while a really long load is waiting for its data.

From the ISA perspective, however, adding more registers means you have to spend more bits naming a register. With 16 registers, you need 12 bits of your instruction just to name the operands of a typical 3-address instruction (rA = rB op rC). With 128 registers, that is now a whopping 21 bits, which means code density is a more pressing issue.
Tech predictions for 2024 and beyond
IRL ad blocking is the only use case that would make me consider using AR
oh, right. let me talk to the devs of imessage, which is one of the notifications hinted at the origin of this discussion last week
So it is "Generally" Available.
The distinction I remember from the paper, is that discrete data (text, DNA) could be modeled effectively with only real-valued components, while continuous data (audio, video) benefited from complex numbers -- in their state. Evidently summarized from the authors statements characterizing existing work, preexisting wisdom on SSM/S4 models.

https://youtubetranscript.com/?v=ouF-H35atOY (same video, I'd watched previous to seeing this hn post)

other model details the authors note
that most prior State space models use
complex numbers in their state but it
has been empirically observed that
completely real valued State space
models seem to work fine and possibly
even better in some settings so they use
real values as the default which work
well for all but one of their tasks next

just following this, another impressive snippet

it succeeds on test sequence lengths of
up to a million tokens which is 4,000
times longer than it saw during training
while none of the other methods compared
to generalize to Beyond twice their
training length
This is really cool!

I do want to say though, if you're considering using this for a production system: it's worth also considering ZeroMQ inproc sockets[0]. They allow for very similar semantics to this, with the added benefit of trivially being able to migrate to an inter-process / network channel, by just changing the URL to bind / connect to.

[0] http://czmq.zeromq.org/
AOL Feedback loop... Hey, someone from your domain sent someone on our domain an email they classified as spam. Who? We won't tell you. Don't do it again, or we will refuse all mail from your domain. k thx bye - AOL
One of my parents were German. Such tortured pronunciation with German.
I mean yeah, but thats the cost of hiring consultants.

VMware (wasnt) that hard. How many VMs do you need? work out the storage requirements, triple it, plumb it in, get the right licences, and go.
Even when we repeatedly reject these technologies, tech companies just won't stop trying until we finally give in and the world is made a worse place permanently. I used to think I was truly blessed to live at this time, but I absolutely hate this moment in history, and having to live through it.
They can. I'd just offload that to my clients/employer. Just like you offload your taxes and bills to them.
Physical books compete with digital versions - that would be a reason for LESS budget for the paper cover. Some has to be devoted to the digital marketing.

Some authors have the luxury of going all in on the artistic. That does exist. For most though, the book needs to sell or there won't be a next book. Constraints like that are what a marketing or design brief is supposed to explain. It's stuff the publisher understands long before they call in the cover artist or layout designer.

I'm with you on the surprising choices we often encounter. But then these problems were common when paper was king. The distractions of the move to digital won't help. For example, far too little margin next to a stiff binding. For example, ebooks with ludicrous epub rendering (on book readers that don't sit on the publisher's desk). Puzzling.
I lost a close relative to MM about a year ago, but he lived an almost normal life with it for about 16 years. It seems like the recent advancements in car-t therapies are even more promising than some of the stem cell treatments, so there are lots of options out there and more are coming online rapidly. Sending good vibes to you and your dad.
> > We’ve had companies with astronomical market caps and the wealthiest government in the world for a long time, both with the capability of laying fiber and none doing so

Maybe because they are looking at the trends and are seeing that the number of people living in urbanized areas is increasing year after year constantly?

People are moving to cities for reasons that are totally unrelated to internet speed, or internet access, hence maybe, just maybe it makes sense to have them do so and then see how many people remain in the rural areas and then decide much to invest?

> > Much of the world

Much of the world, 90% lives in urban areas, they will always use 4G-LTE and 5G and Fiber because the density is such that the aforementioned technologies are and will always be superior
And the mainstream, even Threads users generally, says.. "Masto-what?"
most of those examples don't even have a webapp or website.
Is it phenomenal? Not quite. In my experience speeds vary and brief dropouts are frequent. It's great to be able to access high speed internet from anywhere, but it has its limitations.
It is not obvious that even level 5 FSD will require either self-awareness or a theory of mind: adequate modeling of the possible behaviors of nearby actors in the immediate future may be "all" it takes, and current systems are struggling with that.

Of course, if one were to define FSD in terms of being so capable that it could also likely pass the Turing test (or whatever better replacement we come up with as a measure of AGI), then, by definition, it would be close to as hard a problem as AGI itself.
> Wait, I think I'm misunderstanding.

Yes, and you are being snarky about it

I already have an AI development workflow and production environment based on containers. Technically, not ML executables inside the container, rather a Python runtime and code. This also comes with an ecosystem for things you need in real work that are general beyond AI applications.

Why would I want to add additional tooling and workflow that only works locally and needs all the extras to be added on?
> not how car problems are solved in California

Stop trying to solve the problem for California. Focus on the narrow problem. Universities everywhere operate as a parallel population.
The transfer speed is slower than using Bluetooth. Free users would have dumped the tool immediately. What DB did was throttle the speed only after I had uploaded a set of files, and then bug me to upgrade to paid.
iCloud Not Upgradable
Oh sweet, manmade horrors beyond my comprehension.
At the same time, Reddit exists, and this is a community of people created by a VC company explicitly to have wonky tech discussions with other professionals called "Hacker News". It's fine every once in a while but I don't want this to be filled with generic human interest stories.
Google, save the marketing fluff, just let us play with the toys.
There is a slim sliver of coast that has farms, then mountains, then the valley.

The mountains are sparsely populated and heavily forested. Driving up and out of the valley you enter into a different world complete with legends of murder cults.

Its a car and motorbike mecca. Drive down the coast from San Francisco. Climb up the mountain at San Gregorio or further south, stop at Alice’s to look at the superbikes and super cars, and drive back down into the valley.
docker is not the only container runtime, no issues using mac as a daily development machine
Absolutely fantastic, thank you for sharing that! The follow-ups look great too.
This all assumes the one thing IT cannot have, under any circumstances.

The budget to pay for it.
Actually, there is evidence that removing signs in some conditions make streets safer.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/feb/04/remova...
Even if one accepts your premise, the key question is: composition of what? I think people underestimate the volume and variety of "training data" that humans are exposed to over a lifetime. It's not just text and images - it's feelings (pain, cold, heat), emotions, sounds, smells, and other experiences that originate within the human body as well.

Human innovation can arise by using these experiences as source data for composition of text or images. LLMs, by contrast, are limited to training on text and images/video exclusively.
Part of the issue is that some of these companies are the only companies in the US capable of this scale of manufacturing, which is expensive to maintain, and only the government really uses. In other words, they're too big to fail. If we penalize them, and they go out of business or even just downsize, and then we need something urgently, we're SOL. And so we keep ponying up so that, should we need it, we keep their manufacturing capabilities.
It sounds to me like you don't personally need llamafile then.
> as you've stated was a success since customers like it, it would be dumb to not include it.

So... carmaker includes (successful) feature x, y or z in their new car. And not willing to seem dumb, for competitors the tendency is to include x, y or z as well?

That turns x/y/z into checkbox items. And every new car model will feature them. Exactly what I complained about, right?

As opposed to going your own way. Or choosing a select subset of features & stick to that. Even if some % of your customers disapprove.

Do all cars need motorized windows? Hand cranks used to do the job. But good luck finding a modern car whose designers think so. Clearly not a design choice that varies between brands, but one of those 'checkbox items' for modern cars.
Historically, I went to the mat arguing that I won't let my departments even create new accounts unless the "new account" form is used. This is PHI, we get 1 chance to get it right.

There has been pushback, but I'm always willing to walk away from jobs that insist on stupid.
Yeah, it’s GOST not GHOST. maybe they spell the acronym as GhOST or G(h)OST to add to the number of skipped characters.
When might we see this in consumer VR? I'm surprised we don't already but I was suspecting it was a computation constraint.

Does this relieve the computation constraint enough to run on Quest 2/3?

Is there something else that would prevent binocular use?
I meant the title of the article probably should have used the term "update". To someone like me who doesn't know anything about vehicles, I was totally confused to see Tesla "recalling" vehicles over software.
the article references a team from Oklahoma State University
Sure, but wouldn’t it make sense to extend the instruction set to allow the compiler to use these registers instead of reserving them for speculative / out-of-order execution? It was just a thought i had after watching a talk by a compiler guy: https://youtu.be/2EWejmkKlxs?feature=shared&t=2409
> Ubuntu leaps forward with frame pointers by default

Yeah it's more like "...will stop omitting frame pointers by default".
I wish I could read the rest of the memoir, alas I do not speak Japanese.

I'm unable to determine if the rest of it was published somewhere.
>Running traditional wired service is the more practical and permanent solution

It's permanent but it depends on what the word practical means. Often the cost of setting up infrastructure for such low density population means the infrastructure will never pay for itself, or that the same money spent elsewhere would service many more customers, so its not necessarily practical.
I have a specific thing in mind, but I think I lack sufficient knowledge of what's out there to make the best trade off for my specific use case. To be honest, I lack basic knowledge of different system components. To give an example I know redis is a key value store. But i wouldn't know the drawbacks of using it and what usecases its best use is for. I would like to broaden my knowledge in order to answer such questions as my job requires me to go from a data scientist to more of a solutions architect
Has anyone written a shell script before that uses a local llm as a composable tool? I know there's plenty of stuff like https://github.com/ggerganov/llama.cpp/blob/master/examples/... where the shell script is being used to supply all the llama.cpp arguments you need to get a chatbot ui. But I haven't seen anything yet that treats the LLM as though it were a traditional UNIX utility like sed, awk, cat, etc. I wouldn't be surprised if no one's done it, because I had to invent the --silent-prompt flag that let me do it. I also had to remove all the code from llava-cli that logged stuff to stdout. Anyway, here's the script I wrote: https://gist.github.com/jart/bd2f603aefe6ac8004e6b709223881c...
And I'm probably gonna die before any of these theoretical DNA privacy risks becomes real.
> Healthier to salt after

It's not. Unless you have hypertension or some other medical condition around salt, there's no reason to restrict your salt intake.

For the average person, the level of salt in restaurant food has no unhealthy effects whatsoever. Amounts in excess of your daily requirement are simply excreted in urine.
Long ago I was the assistant to the movie tie-in editor at Tor Books. One day we're going through the mail and there's the script for Being John Malkovich. I read it, and I'm like, holy shit, we have to do this. But wait, how are we going to do this? So I show it to the editor, and he says, yeah, this is great, but how are we going to make this a book? I mean, I could think of ways, but no way that Tom would pay for. So I spend the better part of year just blabbing to people about this great script, but no one has any better idea of what do with it. Still disappointed.
Australia to ban engineered stone
If your friend is screwing up their life and you are enabling them by validating their bad choices, you're not being a good friend to them. Close friends are pretty much the only ones who are in a position of trust to be able to deliver harsh truths to someone in a way that actually gets through (unlike internet strangers, media, authorities and in many cases also family), so it's the duty of friends to actually do so when needed.
At this point, it 's more likely that we should actually just get rid of most of the social safety net and instead concentrate on severely limiting market power abuses so stuff doesn't get so insanely priced that people can't afford it.

When you have as much government as we currently have, we need to very seriously consider getting rid of government as the solution to a particular problem, rather than more government.
The problem is the max path size. There was a similar problem on Linux, where you have a max number of symlinks you can follow before the system gives up. Macos works because finder resolves symlinks and opens the target directly.
I lived on an island (not in the pacific) where billboards are completely banned, the height of business signs is limited, and where very, very few public places had any advertisements, even in the "city".

It was wonderful and it's one thing I really miss.
Can a transformer represent a Kalman filter?
I wholeheartedly agree. Furthermore, we now have ads that are giant flashy LED screens at the busiest intersections.

The most distracting thing you could think of (flashy ads) at.the.busiest.intersection... really gets on my nerve

Also, I think this is also a matter of accessibility: these ad vendors are endangering drivers with various health or mental conditions/disorders (e.g., ADD, ADHD, AS).
Not exactly common, but it's not unsurprising. $8,000 computers have got really, really good!

If you made a living as a plumber you would spend a lot more than that on tools and a pickup truck.
Finland too. I would've liked to read it though.
> "Where is her community?"

You could ask the same of homeless people, drug addicts, people with mental issues, people from foster care, criminals, the elderly. Some people lose their community, and don't have the tools or capacity to build a new one. Single mothers are one of those groups that can quickly be kicked out of, or need to escape from, their community, and have a hard time building a new one.

Growing up in the USA, I don't think it's the West that has a problem with community - I think it's the Caucasian West. Latin/Hispanic families are highly connected, as are Asian, Indian, Middle Eastern, etc. Some cultures are highly collective and have strong support structures for extended family. Immigrant communities also tend to have stronger bonds as they may depend more on each other in a new land. OTOH some cultures are more individualist, having expanded the concept of the "nuclear family" in the early 20th century, weakening extended family bonds. In the conservative caucasian West, the nuclear family is now seen as the "traditional" family structure, which is odd, because everywhere else in the world it's non-traditional.
Sure. I get that AI doesn't "know" things.

My specific suggestion was about leveraging the parsing and response loop of LLM AIs to analyze free text, parse what's useful and the reply would be collating the data.

Thanks for taking the time to reply!
Yeah seriously this is a joke by now. Good research, but product wise they are like the slowest behemoth, impossible to contact, extremely convoluted in their communication and their interfaces like a kafkaesque maze.

Open AI really shows us how it's done, or the way Mistral just dumps a torrent on everyone. That's marketing i can respect.
The class was essentially just the project in that repo plus some video lectures. Supposedly these lectures from MIT [0] are similar. Alternatively you could just read the course textbook [1] which I think is pretty good.

Here's the course page [2] if you want to see more details, the syllabus, etc., and some student reviews [3] if you want more context. Many students found the course difficult -- it's one of the hardest rated courses in the program and rated it rather unfairly IMO -- it's a difficult subject but the course itself is about as approachable as you can make distributed systems.

[0]: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLrw6a1wE39_tb2fErI4-W...

[1]: https://book.mixu.net/distsys/

[2]: https://omscs.gatech.edu/cs-7210-distributed-computing

[3]: https://www.omscentral.com/courses/distributed-computing/rev...
He can do whatever he wants, as long as he's not helping enemies of America.

Ok let me rephrase my comment:

Maybeeeeeeee Musk shouldn't be helping America's enemies?
> It's 2023 - even MSVC has supported C11 and C17 for a while now. C89 is no longer a feature to advertise

There are plenty of constrained environments where this is indeed a feature to advertise, namely older machines and embedded systems.
I echo the experimentation comment.

Also, often choosing the 'right' technology is less important than designing an architecture that is both simple enough and capable enough.

When doing this in my career, I am always considering can it be more simply (i.e. less complexity is easier to grok and is usually less prone to fail) and can it be done more clearly (i.e. such that the intended use of the architecture is obvious).
I never understood someone so determined to ignore all the evidence. Yet when confronted doubles/triples down with excuses.
If you’re in charge of graphics in a “commercial setting”, you 100% couldn’t care less about text and likely do not want txt2img to include text at all. #1 it’s about the easiest thing to deal with in Photoshop, #2 you likely want to have complete control over text placement/fonts etc., #3 you actually have to have licenses for fonts, especially for commercial purposes. Using a random font from a txt2img generator can open you up to IP litigation.
NASA and Boeing weren't doing exciting new rocketry though. What rocket scientist would prefer to work on SLS to Starship?

> Google/Waymo was doing self-driving around that time

I was talking about Tesla's electric car origins. When they started they were the only ones making electric cars that you'd actually want.
Yes, every year the landlord must "recertify" the tenant which entails listing everyone living in the rental and what their incomes are. Rent is 30% of this income minus medical expenses.
> Is it? Why do we need to visually see, basically permanently, a ring or string of lights in the sky, unwittingly, just because of some billionaire?

There are upsides also.

> You can predict where the satellites are going to be and avoid them.

You could for example not collect from the relevant photosites during transit, we're not using photographic plates anymore. This is not some sort of insurmountable problem, I'm not claiming it's not a problem, but it is not an astronomy ruining problem.
As an indirect result of starlink we have also vastly decreased the cost to put an telescope in space.

> That's not true. You can see them with your own eyes.

You absolutely can't see them in the earth's umbra, they're only 500km high, the umbra represents a significant portion of the sky.
Are you really comparing "inability to receive government subsidies due to not meeting requirements" to violent physical crimes?
Could the 'central dogma' of biology be misleading bioengineers?
It takes a 2/1.5bit model, groups parameters together then exploits a lack of entropy in the parameters to compress it a bit like text compression. It was only below 1bit for the ultra large model, guess the smaller ones weren’t quite as random.

It’ll be interesting to see if it works on the new mistral moe model, which is less sparse and probably trained more per param than these.
Average users don't want to figure anything out: adblockers, torrents, cloud sync, you name it.

It's only when they get screwed by the vendor that they realize that having a non-commercial, non-enshittified alternative is crucial to counterbalance tech company malfeasance.