skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
from the paper: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2310.08659.pdf

"LoftQ aims to solve the problem of the discrepancy between the quantized and full-precision model in the context of quantization and LoRA fine-tuning for Large Language Models (LLMs). By simultaneously quantizing an LLM and finding a proper low-rank initialization for LoRA fine-tuning, LoftQ significantly enhances generalization in downstream tasks."

Bard: https://bard.google.com/chat/31e0a3bb74b29b3b

"Based on the abstract, LoftQ aims to solve the performance gap observed when applying both quantization and LoRA fine-tuning to a pre-trained Large Language Model (LLM).

Here's a breakdown of the problem and LoftQ's approach:

Problem:

Quantization: Reduces the precision of model weights to save memory and computation, but can lower accuracy.
LoRA fine-tuning: Improves accuracy on specific tasks by adding a low-rank adapter, but can struggle with quantized models.
Combined approach: Applying both quantization and LoRA fine-tuning often leads to a performance gap compared to full fine-tuning.
LoftQ's solution:

Simultaneous quantization and LoRA initialization: LoftQ proposes a novel framework that quantizes the LLM while also finding a suitable low-rank initialization for LoRA. This helps bridge the gap between the quantized and full-precision model.
Improved generalization: This approach improves the model's ability to generalize well on downstream tasks, especially in challenging memory-constrained settings.
Evaluation and results:

LoftQ is tested on various NLP tasks like question answering and summarization.
It outperforms existing quantization methods, particularly in low-precision scenarios like 2-bit and 2/4-bit mixed precision.
Overall, LoftQ tackles the challenge of combining quantization and LoRA fine-tuning for LLMs, leading to better performance and efficiency, especially in resource-limited environments."
I don't think many cities that have Comcast as a provider are building municipal networks. Most of them are in places that have NO options
Determinisim is impossible because randomness is baked in; knowing position and momentum isnt a thing, and as far as we can tell the only closed systems are light cones.

Odd that the article didnt mention Heisenberg.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21253267
Python-oracledb 2.0 for Oracle Database introduces asyncio support
Python-oracledb 2.0 for Oracle Database introduces asyncio support

Python-oracledb is the Python driver for Oracle Database.

The main changes in 2.0 are:

- Support for asynchronous concurrent coding
- Support for ‘Success With Info’ warnings
- Support for configuring the SDU in Thin mode
- The future `oracledb.__future__.old_json_col_as_ob`j has been removed
- New Connection object attributes
- New SQL Domain and Annotation attributes
- Some obsolete, long deprecated parameters like `encoding` and `nencoding` have been desupported
- Support for the obsolete Python 3.6 release has been dropped
(you can use Python 3.7, 3.8, 3.9, 3.10, 3.11 and 3.12 !)

Check the release announcement: https://cjones-oracle.medium.com/python-oracledb-2-0-has-asy...
While not my profession, graphic design has been a hobby of mine for the past few years and I have to say that Adobe is hitting their stride these days. I do think their design language has shifted more towards casual users from power users, but that's okay. One thing they mentioned in the article was how the 'brutalist' designs of their software wasn't inviting to potential new users.

I completely agree; there's a steep learning curve to creative cloud, and the design language doesn't make it any easier. I' excited to see the spectrum 2 rollout but I do hope users will be given an option on how simplified they want the desktop programs to be. The images on the blog post suggest Adobe might start hiding features behind menus and toolbars, which would only slow down power users. And FWIW I could consider just about every professional who pays for Adobe as being apart of that camp.
Maybe Hinton isn’t going far enough - what if free will is just autocomplete too?
Using the convert.py script in the llama.cpp repo.
1000% guarantee the billing system is A Very Enterprise Level database like Oracle or SAP and not postgres or MariaDB
> They arrived just like everyone else.

As I understand the sequence of events, the flight crew informed ATC that they couldn't execute a visual approach...when ATC cleared them for a visual approach. If they really couldn't do a visual approach due to company policy, one would think they would inform ATC of this earlier, to at least give some time to try to accommodate them. (Other commenters have said that this information might be filed with the flight plan, which if true would put more of the onus on ATC.)
> I assume the hard disks that came before worked more like the floppy and their controllers did more work too.

You nailed it. The first hard disk interfaces for IBM PCs were basically identical to the floppy disk controller just faster/bigger.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ST506/ST412

The ST506 interface between the controller and drive was derived from the Shugart Associates SA1000 interface,[5] which was in turn based upon the floppy disk drive interface,[6] thereby making disk controller design relatively easy

But as they started wanting to make disk reads faster and faster, the drive part had to get smarter and smarter

The ST412 disk drive, among other improvements, added buffered seek capability to the interface. In this mode, the controller can send STEP pulses to the drive as fast as it can receive them, without having to wait for the mechanism to settle. An onboard microprocessor in the drive then moves the mechanism to the desired track as fast as possible

At that point the drive is starting to getting smart enough that you might as well integrate the whole controller on there.

The original versions of IDE/ATA were basically just an extension of ISA, and the first "IDE cards" were just a bridge to the ISA slot they went in.

You also had "hard cards" where the hard disk itself was integrated onto the ISA card... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hardcard
Not art, historical artifacts. There’s tons of info that a picture wouldn’t capture. Type of paper and ink used, isotopic analysis, etc. Who knows what questions future historians or archeologists will want to ask?
All of that information is published ahead of time by KSFO (and every other major airport) including runways in use, traffic patterns, minimum separations, available approach types, and how things will change in bad weather. Everything is available to the pilots and dispatchers ahead of time and in updates during the flight.
They're absolutely not cities. They're small wealthy villages with a tiny population that exist in rural California.
PKM [1] concepts seem to have taken root in the mid 90s at places like UCLA and MIT.

I think in a way social media is the PKM backdoor. People share near-everything about their personal lives in exchange for likes. On the flipside, you have a pretty good record of what you've done, where you've been and your feelings at the time.

I think LLMs will give new breath to PKM.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personal_knowledge_management
> This wouldn't have happened at any of the other many busy airports in the US.

I'm not aware of any other busy airport in the US that has the same parallel runway situation SFO has, with two parallel runways only 750 feet apart both doing landings. Plenty of other large US airports have parallel runways, but they're further apart and they're staggered between landings and takeoffs.
A tiny spark of hope in another soul-crushing round of CRTC hearings
Comcast was an @Home provider (as was AT&T Broadband, which merged with Comcast in the early days)

It's entirely possible that as a Comcast customer parent OP was on @home
doas

I’m surprised ‘doas’ has not been mentioned.

It’s essentially a safer version of sudo, created by the OpenBSD folks (and has ports for other OS).

https://man.openbsd.org/doas.1
Weird that the only Bluetooth codec supported is old, low-fidelity SBC. Might as well not even implement BT (with its associated battery drain) if that’s all you can offer. Quality Bluetooth amps support high-fidelity codecs like LDAC, implemented in Linux’s BT stack for years now. Is this a deficiency of the Tangara’s Bluetooth hardware or computing power?

Also, the device might support SD cards up to 2TB, but browsing a huge music collection with only a clickwheel is painfully cumbersome. Even in the Rockbox-on-iPod days, I sometimes felt like I was scrolling down my Artists and Albums list more than actually listening to music.
> that is not for the on-the-radio approach controller to calculate

In that case they should not have given an estimate in the first place if it's just made up
That's true. We know how to make GI organically. It's the inorganic kind which is proving elusive. Your faith that training over giant corpus of text is the path, is frankly touching. Bless.
Sure if you could clarify specifically what you mean.
I wonder how much of the model you can avoid loading before you start to see a real performance difference.

Let’s say you want to maintain 90% of everything-in-RAM performance.

Can you get away with only using half the memory? Do you need 90% of the memory? Maybe 95%?

Basically how fast do you lose performance compared to the maximum by cutting RAM. The charts are comparing their algorithm vs a basic one for the less RAM case, which is a different (but good!) question.

If you can get good performance by NOT loading an entire eight gig model into memory of a cell phone that’s obviously a very useful thing.
Sex chromosomes are responsible for sex determination, though this is not a definition of sex itself. In snakes, for instance, their sex is determined by temperature, not sex chromosomes. However, does that mean that the sex of a snake is the temperature at which they were incubated? Of course not; this distinction is straightforward. In other words, although there can be multiple variants of sex chromosomes, they determine each individual to be one of two sexes, both sexes (hermaphroditism), or indeterminate. In other words, sex is fundamentally binary.

Have you carefully evaluated what you've read? What does a "traditional male" even mean? What would a "non-traditional male" be like? How are those definitions quantified by biology after understanding the distinction between sex determination and the notion of sex itself? This is frankly just language games and newspeak.

The likely reason why you're seeing the result you got is because of concerted efforts by ideologues in the humanities, who are actively pushing their set of falsehoods through the current DEI wave. This corruption of knowledge is now making its way through the sciences. Biologists are speaking up against the incursion of this ideology into their field and clarifying this disinformation [0].

P.S. I've added an additional source [1] that directly disputes your source. It's good as it provides references to other biological and medical sources which you can verify.

[0] https://skepticalinquirer.org/2023/06/the-ideological-subver...

[1] https://www.theparadoxinstitute.com/read/karyotypes-are-not-...
Ah, that makes more sense. I rather like the phrase.

I got confused because the topic of typography has something called Left/Right Side Bearing, which I guess I was trying to cram together with the implication that page "load"ing was affected somehow.
If you want to communicate, you just have to agree on some protocol for communication. That's why we need standards and standards bodies. Having to agree on a protocol level is much better than everyone having to agree on a single entity who provides the apps and runs the servers.
Yes! I hadn't managed to sit through and read the thing until now, though I've seen a number of interesting excerpts quoted.

Two that really stuck out to me was-

Even columnists with impeccable leftist bona fides recoiled from tackling subjects when their point of view might depart from progressive orthodoxy. I once complimented a long-time, left-leaning Opinion writer over a column criticising Democrats in Congress for doing something stupid. Trying to encourage more such journalism and thus less such stupidity, I remarked that this kind of argument had more influence than yet another Trump-is-a-devil column. “I know,” he replied, ruefully. “But Twitter hates it.”

Trying to be helpful, one of the top newsroom editors urged me to start attaching trigger warnings to pieces by conservatives. It had not occurred to him how this would stigmatise certain colleagues, or what it would say to the world about the Times’s own bias. By their nature, information bubbles are powerfully self-reinforcing, and I think many Times staff have little idea how closed their world has become, or how far they are from fulfilling their compact with readers to show the world “without fear or favour”.
Shares at least some overlap with a "ritual of common knowledge": https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1116212.Rational_Ritual
just to emphasize: it is crazy to me that at this moment of frenzy over AI/ML, that AMD is not making better use of their iGPUs. The Vega iGPU is really powerful compared to its contemporaries, it's not WMMA or DP4a capable (iirc) but it still can brute force a lot more than you'd think, it certainly is capable of doing at least a little bit of inference.

Remember that the "AI core" in the new meteor lake and hawk point stuff is not really all that gangbusters either... it's a low-power sidekick, for the same types of stuff that smartphones have been doing with their AI cores for ages. Enhancing the cameraphone (these cameras would be complete shit without computational/AI enhancement). Recognizing gestures, recognizing keywords for voice assistant activation.

AMD's pitch for the AI core is enhancing game AI. Windows 11/12 assistant. That type of stuff.

Vega can absolutely just brute-force its way through that stuff, and it gets more people onto the platform and developing for AMD. It is crazy that if nothing else they aren't at least making sure the APUs can run shit.

And again, it's pretty damn unethical imo to be pulling support from products that are still actively marketed and sold. That's a cheezy move. AMD dropped support for Terascale before NVIDIA dropped support for fermi, and NVIDIA went back and added Vulkan support to all their older stuff during the pandemic too. Then they dropped the 28nm GCN families, while NVIDIA is still supporting maxwell. And then they dropped Polaris and Vega, and NVIDIA is still supporting Maxwell (albeit I expect them to drop it very soon imo).

The open driver is great under linux because it bypasses AMD's craptacular support. But AMD doesn't support consumer GPUs in ROCm under Linux, and de-facto they don't seem to support ROCm on the open driver in the first place anyway, you have to use AMDGPU-PRO (according to geohot's investigations).

This is such a crazy miss. Yes, it's not a powerhouse, but in the era of Win12 moving to AI everything, and games moving to AI-driven computer opponents, etc - Vega can do that ok, and it at least would give people something to open the door and get them developing.

If there's a contender for breakout against CUDA, sadly it really seems to be Apple. They've got APUs with PS5-level bandwidth and unified memory, and that's just M1 Max, and they have Metal, and it's supported everywhere across their ecosystem. It lets people dip their toes into AI/ML if nothing else, and lets people dip their toes into metal development. That's the kind of environment that NVIDIA spent a decade fostering, and it's also not a coincidence that the second stop for all these data scientists playing with models is not ROCm but their apple laptops. llama.cpp and so on. Everyone likes the hardware they have in their gaming PC or in their laptop, and it's an absolute miss for AMD to not make themselves available in that fashion when they already have the market penetration. Crazy.

https://twitter.com/Locuza_/status/1450271726827413508/photo...
I did a quick look and found this, had to find something that would work on KDE/wayland, the Asahi Fedora default. Could you give it a try and report on it? I’m the same boat and this is important for me as well.

https://toshy.app/
I know myself through a series of connections as well. ;) ;)
It might also be a highly targeted attack on someone with precious information wherein someone was able to hack a simple router and in order to get access to their actual microsoft.com account, they simply setup a phisherman's clone on the router and captured the login/password/2fa and got into the account.
For me, its stuck at Installing package and extracting docs...
with a nice toaster GIF
We may perceive the same pitch (perhaps with a different timbre) even if the fundamental frequency is missing from a tone [1].

It seems to me like wikipedia agrees that even if the fundamental frequency is missing we could still use some kind of FFT to find the fundamental frequency being played (and therefore the perceived pitch). I might be missing something this is very far from my area of expertise :P

1 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Missing_fundamental
I feel like people are drawing the wrong conclusion from this.

LLMs aren't perfect, but I would vastly prefer to be assisted by an LLM over the braindead customer service chatbots we had before. The solution isn't "don't use LLMs for this," but instead "take what the LLMs say with a grain of salt."
That's easy to mitigate, though, if you have money. Like the parent comment said all you have to do is buy all your property through a shell LLC (or Canadian equivalent), put all the utilities in the name of that LLC, and have your lawyer's lawyer file all the incorporation papers and it's very, very difficult to trace back the actual owner
Reminder that most people consume content, very few curate, and even fewer create.

Responding to your comment directly: I would argue that the opposite is happening. Things are becoming more samey. An individuals interests may be an unique amalgamation, but the pieces that make up the whole definitely are not unique.

> Will it be good for us or society?

I would say that it would be mundane or not as impactful. Not everything in life is going to be a pivotal moment for humanity. I would even argue that too many things in life are treated as if they are.
Jest has pretty robust time mocking, it's a breeze to do time related testing if you're writing JS/TS: https://jestjs.io/docs/jest-object#fake-timers
Ah, I suspect you refer to Henlein? His digressions into mid-century philosophy can become tedious.

On the other hand the Gateway series (Frederik Poul) is still one of my favorites. And Wasp by Eric Frank Russell is in my top 3.
If you click on the top right "Try Perplexity", it brings you to the main page where it shows more information. On that page, (bottom right) theres a ? button where you can find help articles that tell more about what it is.
> Traffic is up on X 22% YoY

Bots gonna bot. So far they’ve not caught any of mine I setup this last year.

Each bot sticks to a context, simulates some time wasting doom scrolling at random to look human, posts affiliate links otherwise with AI generating the message payload in response to a Tweet by its mark.

I love how easy the internet made it to fleece potato brains
Until then there is Nix/Guix and Bazel/Buck.
Whilst Firefox may support hardware video decoding, Mesa since March 2022 disables patent encumbered codecs by default[1], and distributions such as Fedora and OpenSuse do not explicitly enable these patent encumbered codecs to avoid possible legal problems. Even Gentoo (built from source code by the user) requires the user to explicitly enable a USE flag (proprietary-codes) to use patent encumbered codecs.[2]

The thought process is that AMD, NVIDIA, Intel and the likes are not providing a patent license with their hardware.[3] They are instead just supplying part of an overall system that together with operating system kernel, display manager software, video player software, etc allows the decoding and encoding of patent encumbered video files. Open source software projects and distributions are concerned they'd be found to be infringing patents by enabling a complete solution out-of-the-box. Hence they put some hurdles in place so that a user has to go out of their way to separately piece together the various parts to form a complete system capable of encoding and decoding patent encumbered codecs.

edit: To clarify, if your Intel or AMD GPU/APU supports a patent-free codec such as AV1 (most GPUs/APUs available for sale?), Firefox on a standard Linux distribution will use hardware video decoding out of the box by default for the patent-free codec. The issue is really one of whether you're sourcing content from a provider that uses a good choice of codec like AV1. The good news is that patent trolls are doing a good job of pushing laggard content providers down this path.[4]

[1] https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/mesa/mesa/-/merge_requests/15...

[2] https://github.com/gentoo/gentoo/commit/1265a159743d7f07185a...

[3] https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@lists.fe...

[4] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38249527
I'm familiar with Milgram experiments. To refer to recent facts, hundreds of thousands of Russians fled the country after the start of the war in Ukraine [1] Reasons vary but I think both of us remember the wave of male migrants when Russia called for mobilization in October 2022. Some of them probably didn't want to get killed, others didn't want to kill people.

I'm not merciful about this: the people of a country are responsible for who governs them, sense of normalcy notwithstanding.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_emigration_following_t...
> vkGetPhysicalDeviceVideoEncodeQualityLevelPropertiesKHR

how to exceed the character limit on your super wide screen with just one function name
Toshiba? Lost a lot of good men there.
I'll take bug reports anywhere I can get them. I'll see if I can reproduce it—and thanks for the heads up! A dedicated Android version is also on the way.
Make a profile and follow people you’re interested in.

Twitter is like a custom huge group chat comprised of every super specific niche you’re interested in.

You don’t have to post anything, most users are spectators. But when you do post, you can build your own niche community.
> What was SFO going to do if it clouded over, close the airport?

No, land planes at a slower rate (about half) because they can no longer land two planes side by side on the parallel runways. On a day when the weather is known to be cloudy and that is factored in up front, that's not a huge problem.

On a day when the weather is clear and planes are landing at the higher rate, it is a huge problem.
No, it's not: Mode 7 can only zoom, translate and rotate the layer in 2D. For example, the Bowser fight in Super Mario World is a typical use of mode 7: Bowser moves around, sometimes rotates and between rounds flies around in "3D" by zooming in and out.

The cool 3D hack comes from co-processors in the cartridge: Games like Super Mario Kart use extra chips than can quickly compute new mode 7 parameters per scanline: If you change the zoom and translation of mode 7 on every line (but keep the rotation the same), you can get the typical tilted 3D look by having the upper lines zoomed out (smaller) and the lower lines zoomed in more (bigger).

This "change the zoom on each scanline" trick is very different from what modern GPUs do and not an arbitrary transform, e.g. with the scanline trick you can only rotate the plane around the horizontal axis, but not around the vertical one.
If you know yourself through a series of connection then that's a false you.
You can use SKIP LOCKED normally. That’s how popular queue implementations usually work. I believe pg even calls this out in their docs
I attempted to build this a number of years ago but quickly got frustrated with the inconsistency of how packages are laid out and the unreliability of the information in package.json. Good job if you sorted it out though.