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>Ferret: A Multimodal Large Language Model

What I thought when reading the title: A new base model trained from the ground up on multimodal input, on hundreds to thousands of GPUS

The reality: A finetune of Vicuna, trained on 8xA100, which already is a finetune of Llama 13b. Then it further goes on to re-use some parts of LLava, which is an existing multimodal project already built upon Vicuna. It's not really as exciting as one might think from the title, in my opinion.
Sure, but i don't think it really has anything interesting to say thematically either.
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> I’d love to see how iptables actually works.

If you're actually interested in iptables the old packet filter how-to is great:

https://www.netfilter.org/documentation/HOWTO/packet-filteri...

But iptables is turning into just a legacy interface for nftables in modern Linux. See eg:

https://wiki.debian.org/nftables

https://wiki.nftables.org/wiki-nftables/index.php/Main_Page
You can select the region the search applies to in Kagi, and that will bias the results towards pages from that language/country.

But yes, it definitely misses some results that Google doesn’t in that regard.

That’s probably different in other regions, but it’s been my experience with pt-br
Feel free to actually list a couple so we can dive into the specifics.
It’s probably why autocomplete got drastically worse, to the point I’m considering turning it off entirely.

Most “AI” features are so incredibly fragile they’re not worth deploying.
The only way to do it is to be more efficient than the others. You need to be able to do in 20 hours takes others 40. If you can do the work in 20, with a high level of quality, they won't mind paying the 40 hours they have budgeted. If you say it'll take 40 and then bill them for 60, or bill them for 40 but are a week late, they'll be upset.

If you can do that you can be very successful. If you can't, don't try, get good first on someone else's dime.
I find this very useful as someone who's just learning how to play the guitar. My knowledge of music theory is still limited, and it'll take me years to get to a place where I can express myself in a way I'd deem "satisfactory". I just visited this page and plugged in my lyrics, and it arranged them into a beautiful song for me. It did it just how I imagined it, and that's terrific. Now I can ask my guitar teacher if the chord progressions make any sense, and if so, then we can transcribe it. I don't know who else this would be useful for, but I could see myself paying for it depending on how they develop the tool.
Thank you - will check them out.
Christopher Mims has been writing at the WSJ since 2014.
I'm on my nth account. 12,13 submissions year and barely a few this year isn't going to feed the masses. Produce more or accept that others will submit articles not up to your standards.
Microsoft BASIC for the Macintosh was quite nice, actually!
The proliferation of fascist messaging, on the other hand? Breakdown-proof.
But payment processors won’t penalize you for promoting Nazism?

I do understand that this may not be the fault of Substack, but they could clear this all up by noting why they have to make an exception. Perhaps they do and I haven’t seen it?
It literally has 1988 in the title.
This happened to me and I was able to collect after 6 years, I finally got the crook to pay me this year.
> It turns out that refusing to build housing

Refuses to build? If there is demand and nobody builds the market sounds broken.
So important. Very underused and underappreciated. Even more important for talking to people as an Autistic person and for talking to Autistic people.
It came down to one person’s signature. If the industry had that much control, it would have stalled in the legislature. Seems pretty risky to let it come down to one person.

Edit: If anything, the big tech companies did a better job in Washington by allowing the non compete ban to pass for only jobs under $100k per year salaries. That way, political support is neutered in the future for any broad non compete ban that would actually affect them. For context, the legal minimum annual salary in Washington will be $90k in a few years.
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I realize it's radical to say in today's post-truth world but Nazi content is bad, no scare quotes necessary. And censoring it does work, whereas "shining a light on it" only causes it to spread more aggressively.
One of the advantages of a classic BASIC for a beginner was its very small feature set. It was easy even for a kid to get it all in his or her head. Python not so much, especially the idiomatic stuff. BASIC is very clear:

10 PRINT "HELLO"
20 GOTO 10

If you understand that the computer will execute lines in numerical order, it's very easy to understand that. The equivalent in Python of just that simple thing would not be so clear.

It's great as an introductory language IMO. I disagree with Dijkstra that it will do any permanent damage -- if anything it will help the programmer appreciate the advantages of structured or object-oriented code when they are ready for it.
Has anyone actually run this yet?
Exactly, many businesses require this anyway, like if you lease an office.
because there's no alternative to assembly, whereas for higher order languages there is
You are correct. Government regulation has resulted in less free speech, but that's hardly Substack's fault.
Those are supported by ads
Why Gibiru attempts to take the canvas image data of my browser?
Firefox has blocked their attempt for canvas, why would they need it while most sites don’t ?

n.b. Gibiru is a supposedly private search website based on Google..
The press loves a clear winners and losers story. The reality is more complicated. Tech was never zero sum and it turns out the tech population within the Bay Area is growing again [1], while other metro areas also see tech growth.

The only real zero sum game here remains real-estate, the bulk of the people missing out from all this growth are lower middle class non-tech workers getting pushed out of metro cities.

[1] https://fortune.com/2023/12/20/san-francisco-population-rise...
I had one for the first time in 20+ years for my last gig out of a Midwest state. Said I wouldn’t take the job if it was forced. They folded.
Imagine a world where there are 13 billion videos and truly only 10 worth you watching.

Are you sure you live so far from that world?

My experience of YT is totally different, FWIW.
Most 16-year-old don't have rich parents.
It's great to see big-o opinion coming back, rather than the wishywashy on-one-hand-on-the-other congenial dreck of a lot of internet content. Author thinks it sucks and you sure end up knowing it as a reader.
It doesn't need to be rewritten at all. I can ask Dall-E for a picture that conveys the meaning of the Sermon on the Mount, say, or of Einstein's 1905 paper on special relativity. Whatever I get will not convey the content that the sermon or the paper convey - not even close.
That's pretty simple to manage though. If you're going with say... 2/10 net 60, you charge them at a 3% higher rate. Clients might perceive this as charging interest, which it is, and they'll be perfectly happy with it. If you have cash flow issues, you borrow to cover the float —net 60 billables to large companies tend to make you not a credit risk; even with high interest rates of today, you'll come out net ahead.
Hamas is a strategic asset to the current set of hardliners in control of the Israeli government. They are "the town murderer" pointed to by the authorities, but conspicuously done nothing about as a justification of why they are the only sane choice to run things. Hamas and Israel's government are thus in a symbiotic relationship.
Some 10+ years ago on a small LAN party, we hooked up a tower PC to a projector to show some stats, last few lines of an IRC channel, those kind of things. For some reason, we directly started the application in X (the display system), but at regular intervals, the projector would stop working. Of course! Screen blanking. Having no window manager or other means* of controlling this, the projector would of course keep on displaying our lovely application if we would move the mouse once in a while, or type on the keyboard.

Instead of tasking someone to move the mouse once in a while, we taped a wired, optical mouse to the tower PC at the front. At the time, CD/DVD players were still abundant, so this PC also contained one. We did know about the eject(1) tool, as well as its option to close the tray again (eject -t). From that moment on, the solution for our screen blanking problem was fixed:

while true; do eject /dev/cdrom; sleep 5; eject -t /dev/cdrom; sleep 30; done;

(this would eject the CD/DVD drive, wait five seconds, then close it again, and wait 30 seconds before starting the same sequence again)

This would cause the optical mouse to detect movement, send this to the PC, and in the end keep the projector on.

* we would later discover the xset(1) tool and its DPMS/screen saver settings. But that would've eliminated the periodic, comedic noise of the CD/DVD drive and the wired mouse bumping on the tower PC, so we kept the while loop intact during the rest of the LAN party.
George Hincapie was also kind of a physiological freak. I remember watching him at junior nationals one year just completely decimate the field. It was a criterium and he had a slow leak on his front tire and still won the race. A really strong and talented rider long before he was a doper.
It does compile, even with `-std=c17` under GCC. With a few warnings about implicit `int`s, of course. Even `-Wall` only adds a single warning (about !0<t not meaning what you could think it means.)
I kept forgetting to track FIRE goals, stay motivated, and educated.

FIRE + Data analytics + AI = ai4fire
You appear to be moving the goalposts(?) of a strawman argument (that the US was involved in the creation of Covid).

This is not a dubiously sourced report. This is documents released by the federal government, through official channels, that outline a laboratory blueprint of the Covid-19 virus that was eventually found in the wild (and then suggested to be of likely natural origin).

What any of that has to do with “anti-science”, or with lifesaving vaccines is beyond me
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You can be maximizing your hourly rate AND maximizing leisure at the same time.

You're confusing max pay with working more hours, whereas in reality no one actually wants to put in more hours, and in many cases those employees that put in most time is a negative signal showing their inefficiency.
I was going on the comments made. They appear to be talking about any sex worker who posts about their work or issues around sex work.

I’m trying to find out if this is the reality. Apologies if it is not, but there are more than a few people commenting on it.
Yes, Kia, Hyundai, and Genesis all share a lot of common tech.

This is especially true for their EVs built on the E-GMP platform [1]. You'd never guess it by looking at them, but the Hyundai IONIQ 5, Kia EV6, and Genesis GV60 are all built on that same platform, with different bodies and interiors, along with some different suspension tuning.

The driving assistance features do vary with the trim level. In the EV6, the Wind trim has a more basic system, the Wind with Technology Package has more, and the GT-Line gives you the works.

I think the high-performance GT has the same assistance features as the GT-Line, but the GT-Line has a nicer and more comfortable interior than the GT.

My AWD EV6 GT-Line with the optional fake vegan suede seats (instead of the standard fake vegan leather) is by far the best car I've ever had.

(These trim level names are for the US models; they vary a bit in other markets.)

The only complaint about its driver assistance is that it can be a bit twitchy compared with how smoothly I can drive manually when I'm paying 100% attention. But it is great to have in case I get distracted for a moment!

[1] https://www.hyundai.com/worldwide/en/brand-journal/ioniq/e-g...
>The program is smaller than even the 'compressed' form of its output,

>and thus represents a new departure in text compression standards.

7z and gzip disagree with this statement.
In most of these places it’s basically illegal. Housing is run as a cartel to benefit existing homeowners and landlords.
The big unsolved problem in QC is the lifetime of the QC itself until decoherence. Imagine a computer where you can execute a maximum of 1800 commands (IBM Heron) and then it is broken. That is the status of QC at the moment. A QC might store TB of data and do searches with O(1), but there is no way (at the moment) to upload a TB database to the QC. What we need is a quantum processor that lives for hours or days in a coherent state, but what we have is milli seconds.

Just my 2 ct.

edit: IBMs Roadmap shows a QC with 1 Billion commands (gates) after 2033. With that machine they could (in principle) upload a 100MB database and do searches.

source: https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/quantum-computing...
Related: https://www.mcmillen.dev/sigbovik/
I was under the impression it started in line with the USA passing FOSTA. This could be spurious correlation on my part though.
Personally I find the "social" aspect of Strava off-putting.

Running for me has always been a solitary pursuit. Making it "social" and letting you know that BigDave69 ran that segment faster than you or whatever totally jars with the whole ethos for me.
Instead of attempting to offer a distinction between algorithm and program, how about the following relations?

spec -< algorithm -< program -< executable

where each (a -< b) says both that b implements a and that there are almost always multiple valid potential bs for any given a.
What resources would you recommend to implement an A/B test evaluation framework using a Bayesian approach?

I would love to embrace (or at least try to) such a new approach, but it feels like without a PhD in stats it's hard to get it started.
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I usually just use Figma. Whimsical is nicer for mockups IMO, but using Figma for everything is just easier.
The SF policy is 'We are full, go away'
Make it mandatory to have a "student machine driver" sticker on them.
I couldn't agree with you more.

The reality is that owning a business is effectively monetizing your creditworthiness (not unlike being a landlord), which is a pretty easy way to make a living, assuming you start out with a decent supply of capital/creditworthiness.
I think you just put a smile on Tim Anglade’s face by mentioning this.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14636228
both :) yeah no we picked it. It’s … perfect. :)

See https://connect.gladly.com/docs/help-documentation/article/i... for other on hold “songs” provided by twilio
There were non-compete clauses in every employment contract I saw when I started my software career (east coast circa 2005). Companies even tried to weasel them into the independent work contracts they signed with me when I did independent contracting for a while.
Don’t underestimate the gullible economically illiterate who undergird the support for anti-development policies. Without them, the NIMBY bloc wouldn’t have staying power.
Most people also have zero say. A few people complain that Teams locks up their machine? Time for a batch of 500 new laptops!

It happens a lot.

And I can't blame people for complaining. I blame the bad Electron apps.
As scape goats.

John Oliver did a piece on Mackensie recently:

https://m.youtube.com/watch%3Fv%3DAiOUojVd6xQ&ved=2ahUKEwjbw...
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I've been through several of these engagements from the inside. They're usually hired so the leader who is about to be fired (whether they know or not). Then when they get fired or it goes south they can just say they were doing what the expert consultants told them to do.
The reason is you can kill a group of adult males and later claim they were Hamas. This same tactic doesn't work with children (not that it hasn't been tried, "No innocent civilians in Gaza").
I learned BASIC at age 7 and then shortly thereafter tried to learn C and failed because I couldn't seem to grasp pointers. Then I took a detour to x86 assembly language and then pointers just became obvious.

The beauty of BASIC is that everything is so concrete. Every line has a number, and you just keep going down the page unless you hit a GOTO. It's easy to reason about what's going on inside the computer. Abstractions make a language powerful, but also harder to learn. This is why spreadsheets are still the most popular way of programming a computer -- they're concrete and you can see exactly what is happening in every cell.
As someone who's been in tech in Texas for nearly 25 years, I've always had to sign a non-compete as a full time employee. It's all state/locale dependent.
I don't think its just skeptics. Afaik most researchers (other than those who are trying to attract investments) have been very clear that we are still a ways off from practical quantum computing, and even then the applications of QC is limited to specific domains.
I think it's a comfy Christmas must watch...
So the mother should just shut up and accept that her children are not to be spoken about?

How about on the other hand, the IDF does care again, where their bombs explode?

"Israel's defense minister said he has "released all restraints" on the Israel Defense Forces' troops in their fight "

https://edition.cnn.com/middleeast/live-news/israel-hamas-wa...
I wonder if ChatGPT suggested PHP, because that is a very bizarre choice.
Great post, it's a shame the fedora tippers of HN can't handle it.
Its a story driven walking simulator, think Stanley Parable or Firewatch (minus all the depressing stuff). If you dont like this type of games you probably wont like Invincible.

Visuals are comparable to Forbidden Planet (1956) or The Silent Star (1960), pretty time period correct.

Its a prequel to the book. Biggest change is introduction of two superpowers, Cosmosolidary Alliance and Interplanetary Commonwealth. Book couldnt put you in shoes of dirty rotten capitalistic pig, and neither could let glorious mother russia appear weak despite all its might and powerful machines. Poland was under russian occupation, that simply wouldnt fly with censorship.

Main character can afford to be chatty and whiny, they represents evil western Interplanetary Commonwealth and wont be send to kolkhoz for discrediting special mili^^^space operation.
" But it turns out that this wasnt the case because the grant application was denied. "

They are basing that on the rejection of the research by DARPA, which of course they didn't tell us about to begin with until it got leaked by a whistleblower.

First, it's a major lie of omission that they didn't mention that they proposed doing research to make the virus in a laboratory in the city they say the virus naturally arose in.

Second, they were shopping the research to multiple agencies for funding.

Third, they may have already done the research in anticipation that they were going to be funded; this is apparently a common practice in biological research. We can't tell, because their records were taken offline a couple months or so before the pandemic started.

I'd like to recommend, for background information on this, Matt Ridley and Alina Chan's _Viral_.
> Until i see the data

What do you think the “percentage change in the largest 100 metro areas’ share of digital services jobs, from 2020 to 2022” may is?
Love it, thanks for compiling this list, it feels like those “awesome list” but with nice UI!
Semi-retired engineer interviewing for a job again
Overfit*
I suggest also providing og title and og image fields for social media.
Markets are at best a tiny piece of the question on housing. It has more to do with zoning, infrastructure planning, incentives among the various roles involved in building, the foibles of real estate sales, the voice of incumbent residents who moved there because of the state of affairs that now has insufficient possibility for housing...

At the far end of that you have a market for what is there. It's nearly impossible to buy a well designed, well built house in many places because there aren't any. But the invisible hand of the market largely just skyrockets prices for limited, poor buildings because it doesn't have much real effect on the rest.
Housing in San Francisco, the Penninsula and Silicon Valley is constrained by the fact that it's rich, already built out and there isn't anywhere else to expand to at the edge of town because of water or hills. People commute from outlying areas such as Tracy and Modesto where there's been massive construction of housing over the last 30 years.
https://www.sfchronicle.com/sf/article/housing-permits-san-f...

"To build housing in San Francisco, developers must first receive planning approval, known as entitlement, to ensure the city supports the type, size and design of housing proposed for a site. This part of the process took an average of 450 days over the last 18 months, according to recent data from the state."

Housing in the SF bay area is broken, largely due to the efforts of entrenched interests (developers and people who bought 50 years ago for an inflation-adjusted tiny fraction of current prices).
I mentioned it in the comment and it's all over the giant list of moderator commentary about this - it's your opinion about what's important in the piece. You don't get to put that in HN titles.
Frequentist is the default. People don’t promote it. They just teach it as statistics, use p-values, and look funny at anyone who does otherwise.

It’s like how you wouldn’t hear people in the US promote imperial measurements for home baking. When you dominate, you don’t have to advocate.
I had a similar problem with Nvidia drivers. My boss purchased some laptop with 3D glasses and drivers and wanted me to get our custom software working on it for a cool demo.

I read the docs, implemented the right calls, but no matter what I did, I never could get the stereo to kick in. Finally, I renamed our app to doom.exe based on an obscure forum post somewhere, and it immediately worked.

I think the driver had whitelist of games it worked with, and only enabled for them.
Right: the market is broken, because local government policies make it too hard to build.
How did you get into chanting? It sounds like fun. Any resources you can recommend?
> stopping at 120 instead of 130

Maybe that’s somewhat reasonable (?) given the last nine are epigram epigrams, not directly about programming…

If there are epigrams, there must be meta-epigrams.
122. Epigrams are interfaces across which appreciation and insight flow.
123. Epigrams parametrize auras.
124. Epigrams are macros, since they are executed at read time.
125. Epigrams crystallize incongruities.
126. Epigrams retrieve deep semantics from a data base that is all procedure.
127. Epigrams scorn detail and make a point: They are a superb high-level documentation.
128. Epigrams are more like vitamins than protein.
129. Epigrams have extremely low entropy.
130. The last epigram? Neither eat nor drink them, snuff epigrams.
First micro-processor MP944 (1970) had 5360 transistors. (73k transistors with memory).

Quantum computer with just 1123 qubits released this month. However, it doesn't work properly yet, because large systems doesn't work as quantum systems, so error rate is high. Large quantum computer is like Eniac at earthquake.