skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I see a number of responses about "I want less". I come at this from a different angle: I have been around. Like, a fair bit. Lived on a tropical island, transited the Arctic by ship, multiple multi-month stints away from wife and kids. I just submitted my travel estimate for this quarter, I have 9 trips. This quarter. And that's with pruning.

Every time I go somewhere, something breaks. Not the machine, but some element of VPN, satcom, everything (i.e. no network, and definitely no internet), latency is insane, bandwidth is trash, whatever. I responded to Fukushima and my Cr-48 (the original chromebook for beta testers) became bookend despite having wifi and built-in 3G.

I know my life is better with the machines and the networks. I mean, I have tested and lived that too many times. But there's definitely some (a lot of) love-hate in the relationship.
HN lives in different reality so here it's scam for over a decade. But in real world yes Bitcoin is not a scam.
Calendar App rejected from App Store due to not including email functionality
CogVLM is very good in my (brief) testing: https://github.com/THUDM/CogVLM

The model weights seem to be under a non-commercial license, not true open source, but it is "open access" as you requested.

It would be nice if someone trained a CogVLM-compatible model from scratch under an open source license.
While I generally agree that in the real world you never get close to the theoretical max bandwidth, it is worth pointing out that 7 is significantly faster than 6E, so in laboratory condition you will definitely be limited by the 2.5 GbE bottleneck. With a single MIMO stream WiFi 7 provides 2882 Mbit/s (320 MHz or 160+160 MHz channel, 4096-QAM, 5/6 coding) vs WiFi 6 which provides only 1201 Mbit/s (160 MHz channel, 1024-QAM, 5/6 coding). So a single MIMO stream can exceed the 2.5 GbE capacity, and multiple MIMO streams would exceed even further.
Aspen. He splits his time between Austin and Aspen. Not a bad existence if you can get it. His hometown is Plano.
The M1 is kinda innovative but Apple did “just buy companies”.
Which one do you use? Llama (1/2) and ChatGPT 3.5 are the ones I've tested so far and they're both kind of terrible at logic.
I'm going to exercise my n00b-privelege and ask for a recommended YouTube primer on said basics - anyone, por favor?
Yeah, that's the other main argument that we'll never have a definitive answer to. Maybe in 300 years we'll have enough distance to evaluate the evidence without all the cultural biases and baggage, but I doubt it. Every time I read more info about the Manhattan Project and US nuclear policy in the 1950s, my opinion changes. And then when you read about how Truman acted AFTER the war in regards to nuclear weapons employment, I can easily understand that he was going to use nukes no matter what.

Japan's political environment during the war was incredibly complex, and trying to view their rationale and motivation through a Western lens is very dangerous. And I don't think the Soviets were anywhere close to an imminent invasion of the Home Islands. I don't think they had the appetite for doing more than grabbling the Kuriles and Sakhalin Island, instead preferring to let the US suffer the casualties.

While the Soviet declaration of war surely had some impact, the Emperor said there were three primary factors in his decision to accept the Potsdam conditions; his lack of confidence in Ketsu Go plans to defend Kyushu. The increasing devastation caused by the conventional and nuclear bombing campaigns, and finally, concern about the "domestic situation" meaning internal revolt. Later in private letters he referred to Nippon's deficiency in science, meaning a lack of nuclear weaponry. Hirohito and PM Suzuki realized that with nuclear weapons, the US didn't need to invade Japan.
Same! And it's been an absolute delight!
> I’ve met nobody like this in the industry.

nobody is going to admit to other people they know that this (slacking off) is what they do. You only get this on an anonymous forum like HN or reddit. Of course, some of them might be lying, but where there's smoke, there's fire imho.
It's a FANG.
Sounds like we might be coming from different perspectives. I honestly don't use any DF libraries often, and really only Pandas. I used to use pandas a fair amount, but that was years ago, and now I only have to reach for it a few times a year. So maybe the docs are good for people that already have deeper experience. Because I think just the fact that you have used datafusion and duckdb illustrates that you're more skilled in this domain than I am, because I haven't used those haha.

But I do think making good docs is quite hard. You usually have multiple audiences that you might not even be aware of. Which makes one of the most important things to do is keep an open ear to listen for them. It's easy to get trapped thinking you got your audience but you're actually closing the door to many more groups (unintentionally). It's also just easy to be focused on the "real" work and not think about docs.
Last year I built a MiSTer FPGA connected to a Sony PVM that I bought from a friend. I have a bunch of old games I purchased on a Wii U that I’m now playing on the MiSTer. It’s been a refreshing experience to have a dedicated gaming machine that is its own device.

I also began using a film camera and really love traveling with it. I’m taking much better pictures with constraints!

Next, I purchased a turntable and a bunch of my favorite albums for it. It’s really fun holding a huge album cover in your hands and deliberately flipping records. I love those little type of repetitive activities. It’s oddly comforting for me when I perform.

My other favorite device is a Kobo eReader that I read a lot of books on. I have been reading quite a bit more now that I have a distraction free device.

Finally, I eschewed streaming services and built my own home media server on Jellyfin with content that I have purchased.

There’s something about analog and/or dedicated devices that gels really well with me. They help reduce decision paralysis, and I feel like I’m able to appreciate each activity more. I haven’t tried to be intentional with any of these switches. They just felt like the right thing to do at the time as new tech has lost my interest with changes that I view as hostile.
My friend. You cannot make people like R. We all know about and study data.table, so it’s not neglected, we just don’t use that implementation.

Mainly because R sucks for anything that isn’t statistics.
Show HN: A website for collecting Chinese music lyrics, pinyin and translations
I’m a fan of Chinese music, and I know how tricky it can be to get the pronunciation right. That's why I made a website that I think could help us all out.

It's called Lyrics with Pinyin. The idea is simple: help everyone enjoy singing Chinese songs by making the lyrics, pinyin, and translations easily accessible. Also the song list on the site gets updated every single day!

You’ll find:

- Daily updated list of Chinese songs.

- Lyrics with pinyin for easier singing.

- Translations in 30 different languages.

And, if you have any favorite artists or songs you’re struggling with, just let me know in the comments. I’ll make sure to add them to the website.

It’s a small project from one music lover to another. Check it out and see if it helps you with your singing. Any feedback or suggestions are more than welcome!
Hillary lost, simple as that.

So much for the manipulation being cut-and-dried…

No, I didn’t support her opponent either…
OpenAI: Impossible to train leading AI models without using copyrighted material
Pulley is what has been recommended in the past.
>> He’d have been mediocre off the sauce in a clean field

In a multi-stage race like the Tour, yes. He was phenomenal for a single day race.
I work for Google Cloud on the sales and consulting end.

We’re hiring exclusively in Canada and India. We have a handful of US positions open, but leadership wants us to prioritize Toronto. Now we’ve been asked what teams could operate 100% in Toronto without customer being the wiser. I don’t expect we’ll have a functional team that isn’t primarily leadership in the United States by the end of 2025.
just move around

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Fi6xco5UUAAYbqJ.jpg
This seems to fit nicely with the other research that explores the rejuvenation effects of "young blood", but specifically purified and concentrated extracellular vesicles. Harold Katcher's research especially — except he doesn't yet know what it is exactly in those EVs that triggers the effect he observed in rats.

Here's one of those papers: https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.08.06.552148v1....
If you are looking for a new job, how many companies are there which didn't have done any layoff.
Is this a model that can be run using Simon Wilison's LLM tool? I cannot find any mention of Mixtral in the issues nor in the discussions. Is there an easy way to play with this model from the command line other than that?
Considering that almost every creative work strives for copyright, that does complicate things…
It would be a more authentic competition than what we have now. Which is pretending it’s clean and finding out a few years later it wasn’t.
What about an excel sheet?
Maybe give ibis with the duckdb backend a try, though personally I quite like polars. The devs are pretty fix to respond to issues overall.
That was when they almost burned down the White House Jefferson Church. Was a dark day for our sacred Democracy.
As far as physical size goes, I use the Palm Phone:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palm_(companion)

https://palm.com/cdn/shop/products/Palm_inHand_1024x1024_2x_...

Despite its marketing, I do not use it as a companion phone, it is my sole mobile device.

It's an Android phone with a 3.3" 720p screen. It's very light (2.2 oz. / 62.5g) and fits in my pocket easily. I can also effortlessly swipe-type on the bottom of my screen and swipe-gesture from the top of my screen with just one hand.

It doesn't have that irritating yellow/green light that tells me when I've missed notifications, although I have most notifications disabled, including voicemails. To my delight, even that presidential alert test did not seem to reach my phone. I also have a great excuse for not installing corporate software on my phone (literally unsupported in many cases).

But it is a device from 2018 and sadly they do not seem to be interested in making a new one. I don't need it to do anything it didn't do when I first got it, but sadly, software companies specialize in making consumer UIs slower and updates in general are no longer an optional thing, so they have no incentive to improve. Even loading my texts, answering my phone, and checking my email is becoming noticeably slower (and it is not an old battery issue as I have replaced a broken Palm phone within the last 12 months).

I'm not sure what I'll replace it with when it becomes impossible to use. The Unihertz form factors are strictly worse, smaller screens with bigger phones. Hoping someone comes up with something similar within a few years.
I wonder if Apple will ever make a waterproof laptop or tablet.

It seems like they could easily make the macbook air waterproof at this point, if they were so inclined.

What do people who want use their macs out in the field do?
The VRAM usage is closer to a 47B model - although only 2 experts are used at a time for inference, all experts are needed to complete it.
I use old Raspberry Pi 1B as FM transmitter
I usually just press the Windows key as well. That said, Windows + S displays recent searches.
No. Watering the garden doesn't have to be done at an exact time. It can wait til the end of some other task. It can wait til tomorrow. Hell, depending on where you live it can wait a week.
People are allowed to ask for recounts and present arguments and evidence following the legal process in that state. They are are not allowed to pressure local officials to “find” votes, try to avoid leaving office, or encourage their followers to commit acts of violence against government employees fulfilling their legal duties.

You might not personally be willing to accept that your guy did that but it’s a matter of public record, and he notably had ample legal opportunity to produce evidence or question the state evidence in the many cases he lost. You aren’t entitled to personal facts because you find the real ones politically inconvenient. Many of the officials he railed against and the judges who found his claims unconvincing were Republicans, but they were also Americans who took their duties seriously and found against him.
The insane machine that conquered Antarctica for the USSR [video]
I've had my fob fail to work multiple times while walking away from my car, so I take it out of my pocket and put it near my lower back and it works (even though I'm now even farther away because I'm walking).
ChatGPT 4 is vastly superior to ChatGPT 3.5 in my experience, although it still fails at logic sometimes.
But at that point a person has to take some responsibility. I don't think one can spend a hundred hours learning on Duolingo and not get beyond Hola.

Can a person find a way to waste hundred hours on Duolingo? Sure. I got perilously close :). But after a tenth of that I could generate sentences for friendly emails and at beginning meetings etc when I actually tried to learn.

Has the "100 hrs and not gotten beyond hola" been your personal experience or somebody you know? Trying to understand if I'm arguing with a strawman / straw scenario, or actual occurrence. If latter I'd be genuinely extremely curious to hear a lot more! What were the 100hrs spent on?
> consciously not buying new and ... using older machines with a modern OS.

Part of tech's maturity is devices lasting longer: We replace them because they (almost) wear out, instead of getting outdated.

When I was 9 my family bought a fancy 27" tube TV. We had it for 15 years until it was replaced by a flat screen. When my dad got rid of the tube TV, he told me it was the longest a TV ever lasted him.

In general, I try to keep my phones and computers until they break. Then I buy the best I can afford. I don't replace things just because there is a newer model: I like using my things, not constantly re-setting them up. I also prefer spending my money on other things.
Driving my 1972 VW. I've learnt a lot over 2+ years. Did some repairs myself. For example, starter didn't crank at one point of time. Removed it, disassembled, cleaned, installed back. Works. Installed new, programmable distributor instead of old one. Did some basic electric work.

I think it's essential to do this kind of stuff, so you won't get dumbed down by "you don't need it" narrative one day, finding yourself helpless and dependent on "experts".
The idea here is creating tentative events in one's own calendar, not tentatively accepting someone else's events. This is to prevent overbooking oneself. It's a simple feature and I'd personally use it a lot.
This paper details the model that's been in the wild for approximately a month now. Mixtral 8x7B is very, very good. It's roughly sized at 13B, and ranked much, much higher than competitively sized models by, e.g. https://www.reddit.com/r/LocalLLaMA/comments/1916896/llm_com.... Ravenwolf notes that the model slightly outperforms some of its benchmark testing, and this is my experience. It's surprisingly good for a model of its size, and a very capable daily driver on a Mac for chat, code input and other uses.

Something that has come to light since the release of the weights, and not mentioned in this paper is that it looks like fairly likely that the 8 experts were all seeded by Mistral 7B and subsequently diverged. This has generated a lot of experimentation in the local LLM community with cloning models as a way to cheaply generate experts.

It was generally thought likely that training an 8x7B network would be as much work as training 8 7B networks, but this seems not to have been true for Mistral, which is super interesting.

There's still a lot of rapid innovation happening in this space, with papers like Calm from DeepMind this week, and a lot of the adhoc experimental layer combining happening in the wild, (see, e.g. Goliath-120b), I think we're likely to see some pretty interesting architectural improvements this year in the LLM space.

Calm seems to point the way to a next step after MoE, and models like Goliath seem to indicate that even a really really lazy version of Calm (no Linear layer combination, just literally alternating layers at full weights) can be very impactful. Overall I think we will see really, really strong models that are performant on consumer hardware in 2024, likely first half of this year.
It does for the vast majority of things. If anything, due to very aggressive compiler settings, polars in python can be faster.

It does use pyo3. Though basically anytime you use a python lambda (the equivalent of pandas apply) on a row basis, it will be limited by python speed/the GIL.
Yeah, it will be interesting if they can deny a claim based on the above.

I once received an iPod I sent to Apple with grass inside when it was returned to me and have never trusted them since.
If anyone wants to try out this model, I believe it's one of the ones released as a Llamafile by Mozilla/jart[0].

1) Download llamafile[1] (30.03 GB): https://huggingface.co/jartine/Mixtral-8x7B-Instruct-v0.1-ll...

2) chmod +x mixtral-8x7b-instruct-v0.1.Q5_K_M.llamafile

3) ./mixtral-8x7b-instruct-v0.1.Q5_K_M.llamafile

[0] https://hacks.mozilla.org/2023/11/introducing-llamafile/

[1] https://github.com/Mozilla-Ocho/llamafile#quickstart
Well we need to know what do eunuchs do with the extra 20 years?
Not sure about the T480s, but I'm posting this comment from a T480 with 64GB ;-)
Sounds like a job for a userscript, or the IA browser extension.
They mention paralleling them, so it's only as expensive as the slowest write.
I run a competitive product if anyone wants an honest run good business alternative
What is the FM transmitter?
Should we worry about a radio transmission powered by a 3 volt battery while taking on our phone?
It's hard to say that without having inside information. That Ukraine has managed to keep any of their aircraft flying in the face of far superior numbers is astounding. They are still managing to launch SCALP from SU-24m frequently (as frequently as the limited supply of these missiles allow). Considering they're probably outnumbered 5 to 1, that's either indicative of operational excellence on their part, or Russian inadequacy.
I've rediscovered how wonderfully usable AmigaDOS is, and had some fun exploring real world usability in 2023 and now 2024.

An Amiga 3000 with the original 25 MHz m68030 / m68882 is barely functional, but I can ssh with it, I can load modern SSL sites, I can write, print, et cetera.

An Amiga with an accelerator and m68060 is comfortable, and it actually snappier than most modern Windows systems.

An Amiga with a PiStorm makes modern computers feel sluggish and drowsy. It's not easy to explain, but there's an immediate response to practically everything that's not from a floppy (although it's amazing how quickly things load) and isn't loading over the Internet (can't help the speed of light).

The more I play with these systems, the less I want to run a modern GUI OS. Give me the AmigaDOS GUI on a NetBSD machine, and I'll consider using a new machine.
That’s totally fair, I haven’t tried to use it in more than 5 years and it’s probably a lot more than I remember. It didn’t work for me though and I just wish I had found Assimil a long time ago.

If people find it a useful tool and it has helped them gain fluency though that’s great!
I have a competitive product and excel is a very valid option but if you want automation for anything like this, you really need something like us hit me up on DM if you want a demo
The good news: Each employee only asks for 30% of what your onshore resources want.
The bad news: You need four of them.
After credibility hit, Carta announces it is exiting the secondaries business
And taking selfies and TikToks
Huge appreciation for both this and the API.

I wonder if the API is still running off the developer's personal Nintendo account?
People in my network have recommended both Pulley and AngelList.
It’s not written for you and that’s fine. This is a library targeted at a very specific subset of people and you’re not in it.
vs holding it out at arms length but same height? Ground interference is a thing.
"The reason why service A can't connect to service B and is giving you a crypto PKI error is that you've misconfigured the chain on service B; please fix it by sending your intermediate"

"But it works from the browser."

"The chain is misconfigured, I promise you. Look, here's some OpenSSL output that proves it."

"But it works from the browser."
You can also run Mixtral, at a decent token rate, on a post-2020 Apple Macbook Pro M1/M2/M3 with 32GB+ of RAM. 16GB RAM also works, sort of ok, which I suspect is the same quantization a 3090 is using, but I do notice a difference in the quantization. On my M2 Pro, the token rate and intelligence feels like GPT-3.5turbo. This is the first model I've started actually using (vs playing around with for the love of the tech) instead of GPT-3.5.

An Apple M2 Pro with 32GB of RAM is in the same price range as a gaming PC with a 3090, but its another example of normal people with moderately high performance systems "accidentally" being able to run a GPT-3.5 comparable model.

If you have an Apple meeting these specs and want to play around, LLM Studio is open source and has made it really easy to get started: https://lmstudio.ai/

I hope to see a LOT more hobby hacking as a result of Mixtral and successors.
Once you get past a handful of grants, every Excel cap table I've seen has been an absolute disaster. Use a software product. Both Carta and Pulley offer free versions, until you exceed certain limits (e.g. for Carta Launch, until you exceed $1M raised or 25 stakeholders). If you are over those limits, even more reason to use a software product and not Excel.
Same reason everything doesn't turn into a predator or a parasite. We get ecosystem collapse as soon as that happens.
You absolutely rock. Thanks for taking a look at my project. It's currently on the back-burner right now, but I do have future plans. The ¯2 is specifically something I'm hoping to get rid of. It has to do with some specifics of handling leading sigils, but it's slightly broken and the ugliness of ¯2 signals to me that it needs to be fixed.

Hoping to hear your thoughts in the future once the project is more in shape!
My cr48 did not have built-in 3G.
I use 4K Dell U2723QE monitor as USB-C Hub, charge my laptop, connect two laptops at once, RJ-45 ethernet, and 3.5mm plug
An argument can be made that developing an LLM or running an LLM for personal use (or academic research, etc.) could be fair. Making money off of it by selling access to an LLM based on copyrighted works (whether the LLM is open or not) isn’t.

If I use BT to download a music album I have bought off Bandcamp after Bandcamp goes out of business, that should be fair. If I set up a business that makes money by helping people download whatever albums they want, not caring whether they paid for them, that is obviously illegal.

This leads to my position on derivative models, if they are based on models that themselves are trained on copyrighted works without proper licensing.
It's a general usage term, you are free to use the images exactly how you want because they are yours! Thank you for this feedback, I will add this to the F.A.Q. now
They can be dangerous, properly administered they tend not to be. In the early part of the epo era, a number of lesser pros and amateurs killed themselves by thickening their blood with epo. Most of the serious dopers are still incredible specimens without much in the way of negative physical effects, they all had doctors monitoring them though.

The psychological aspects have possibly been more dangerous than the chemicals,