skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think the expectation from the early days of the internet was that information could be contained, and the realization from recent years is that the expectation no longer holds. So creators either have to make their own contents accessible or someone else will do it anyways, possibly poorly. Gary Larson might have arrived at this realization relatively late, but I don't think he is the last one.
I was you about a decade ago... I can't stress enough that if you don't have serious money in the bank or rich friends, you need to keep your day job and bootstrap. One approach I've seen work well even though it may be slow and frustrating - use the proceeds from your day job to hire a developer to do the work. You create the work plan, let someone else fill in the gaps. You focus on marketing / customer interaction to grow the product. Alternatively, keep burnin the midnight oil.

I do not recommend anything that smells like a "loan." This is speculative stuff you are doing, and a loan means you'll be on the hook to pay it back regardless of how it works out.
Maybe I’m a slow reader, but reading, understanding, and paraphrasing the response seems like it would take enough time to be awkward and obvious as well.

I’m not sure why anyone would want a job they clearly aren’t qualified for.
In the future only billionaires will have access to beaches.
If a number is too low to make a good headline, multiply it by some large number, e.g. 86400 (seconds per day), 300 million citizens, ...
Mistral AI is incorporated in Paris, France. IANAL, but I think these[1][2] may qualify to protect these weights.

While there is a discussion to be had on sovereignty and international reaches of local laws (such as DMCA for instance), I think it's disingenuous to consider only US legal point of view.

[1] https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/HTML/?uri=CEL...
[2] https://www.legifrance.gouv.fr/loda/id/JORFTEXT000000573438/...
23andme wasn't offering blood testing every year, though, right? Nor claiming to detect new mutations in subsequent saliva tests, AFAIK.
> Like using “natural” to market stuff.

Also, because people are idiotically afraid of E-numbers, some manufacturers figured they can find whatever fruit or bean is naturally rich in the relevant E-compound, and use that in the process, allowing them to replace E-whatever with ${cute plant name} in the ingredient list (at some loss of process efficiency).
When people describe their diets they have enormous biases and subjective considerations.

So yes, people's experiences told by themselves are unscientific
We will have to start studying people's eyes to see if they are moving as if reading text.
Consider... it might be. Seriously, I work for a company very protective of its IP.

And I can still use ChatGPT and similar tools for some of what I do. It is a huge force multiplier.
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You can either modify the model weights in a way that doesn't cause any real differences (change a few bits somewhere should be enough), or you could watermark the actual text output.

Here's a list of research for watermarking LLMs.

https://github.com/hzy312/Awesome-LLM-Watermark?tab=readme-o...
Yup, I think this is it. Economies of scale haven't kicked in yet, and if they continue in the same path it doesn't look achievable.

Think differently is again the way forward.
Playa del Carmen replenishes its beaches every few years. If you go at the wrong time, the beaches are like 7 meters wide, come back six months later and they are 30 meters wide.
ChatGPT gushes apologies if you contradict its answers, that would probably be a reliable tell for now.
Snowflake uses foundationdb as their metadata store to find files in S3, though I believe the actual queries are run on separate nodes.

https://www.snowflake.com/blog/how-foundationdb-powers-snowf...

But yeah you're right for the most part. Turns out pretty much any database can be written in terms of transactions of KV pairs, which is what foundationdb gives you, so it means you can write your database query layer as a stateless, scalable service.

There have been attempts to write a SQL RDMS layer for it but it isn't maintained.
That's a sick pun though - I'd definitely consider that a success
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The top comment to an LMSys leaderboard link on HN is always a variation of this song.

And it's always not even wrong, in the Pauli sense of the phrase.

OP, your assignment, if you choose to accept it, is to look into how the LMSys leaderboard works and report back what its metric(s) are.

[SPOILER]
There's a really absurdly narrow argument you can make where all of its users are engineers, making engineer queries, and LLM makers are optimizing for it thus it's bad. But...it's humans asking queries then picking the better answer, blind. You can't narrowly optimize for that when making an LLM and it's hard to see how optimizing for "people think the answer is better" is the wrong metric here. It's just ELO. Might as well argue chess/checkers/pick your poison is bad because ELO optimizes for wins but actually talent is based on more than winning.
I'm exploring a similar project, having a "decentralized" website (hosted on github) which saves users' data in the blockchain itself and then provides that same data to other users through public APIs and/or from actual blockchain clients.

Wonder if there is actual use or need for such thing.
You can buy a good GPU and quickly come below cost for GPT APIs depending on your workload. I’m doing millions of tasks, so eating $8k on a custom build for ML up front is a long term cost savings. Not least of all that every other month there’s an even better model.
Disrupting the botnet is so far so good... but what actually needs to be done is that the ISPs need to be notified and the affected customers be disconnected from the Internet until they replace the compromised/out-of-life devices.

Internet access is a privilege, and being a threat to others in this shared space should lead to said privilege being revoked until the threat is gone.
While Justice Clarence Thomas suggested a rethinking of Lawrence v Texas in the Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization decision, it hasn't yet been overturned.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lawrence_v._Texas
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Nope! It’s actually for adults to make their own choices and not some SV public relations firm nerfing it.
I know when the data first started being published, there were projects to make sense of it all. I can't imagine they all failed, though I don't have any sources to back that up right now. I remember seeing a few on HN back in the day, but I can't seem to find any of them now(not that I tried very hard).
That's why you look at what it says with a critical eye.

I think of ChatGPT like a pretty smart co-worker. Just because they are smart doesn't mean they are always right.
Oh yes, I even had a free IPNS pinning service (for community members mostly) built with a friend.

https://dwebservices.xyz/
Pirates of the Caribbean
and
Pirates Of The Caribbean

are different apparently, maybe add some logic to merge these
What developers need to be productive
Don't worry - the conversation in the anecdote does not reflect the true position in the major common law countries at least. The public shareholder model is not doomed or flawed on this account.

If an acquirer wants to acquire shares in a public company (or any company actually) it makes the offer to the shareholders and they are the ones who decide to accept or not. The proposed transaction is between the acquirer (who wants to buy the shares) and the current owner of those shares (the shareholder). The Board manages the company but is not itself an entity (it's a group of people) and cannot therefore own shares (tho individual directors can and usually do).

The Board can make a recommendation to its shareholders about whether it thinks the offer is fair or not (based on their usually greater knowledge of the company and its worth), but it is the shareholder who decides whether to accept.

The underlying suggestion that a Board or CEO is essentially forced to do something bad for the company because of some underlying obligation to make shareholders money etc etc is false. Directors owe fiduciary duties, but they are proscriptive, not prescriptive in this way. One of the most commonly repeated falsehoods is that the Board is under some duty to maximise profits etc - that is proved wrong not least by the existence of non-profits...

The closest analogy is someone owns and investment property being managed by a real estate agent. A buyer approaches and says "I will pay you $x for the land". The agent can say "Hey I rent this out all the time, it can earn $z over t years, so I think it's worth $x + y, or $x - y" but it's up to the owner to say yes or no.

The above ignores eg competition law issues (laws that prevent an acquirer buying companies where there is likely to be a substantial lessening of competition), potential conflicts for share-owning directors, and the myriad statutory considerations etc but is the basic underlying position.
True P2P networks don't scale, because every node has to store an (accurate if partial) representation of the whole network. Growing the network is easy, but growing every single node is virtually impossible (unless you control them all...). Any attempt to tackle that tends to increase centralization, e.g. in the form of routing authorities.

And if you try to tackle centralization directly (like banning routers or something), you will often create an anti-centralization regulator, which is, you guessed it, another form of centralization.

So your decentralized P2P network is either small and works good, medium and works not so good, or large and not actually decentralized.

The best P2P networks know their limits and don't try to scale infinitely. For human-oriented network, Dunbar's Number (N=~150) is a decent rule of thumb; any P2P network larger than that almost certainly has some form of centralization (like trusted bootstrapping/coordination server addresses that are hard-coded in every client install, etc.)
He likes bravado, but the startup bro faction has succeeded in the majority of political fights it’s engaged in so far. This shouldn’t be all to surprising either: a lot of these local elections are decided by a couple hundred votes. Sustained attention can have a large swing in outcomes.
I share your perspective and couldn't agree more.

Have a plan to fail, before you plan to start.
This is one of the better tools (an actually-academic friend of mine complained that one of the other ones gives an 8-hop path to one of their immediate coauthors - but notes that csauthors does seem to have occasional trouble assuming the same name means the same person.)
> It sounds like your experiences were before the existence of algorithmic feeds.

What does that have to do with "children harmed online"?
You still have to transfer that data through the network pipe to the end user no? How the server itself accesses the files to do so seems irrelevant to me.
The resource descriptions are pretty parsimonious; they're binary-encoded MsgPack integers, for the most part. But the cryptography eats up a lot of bytes. They're bigger than JWTs, but probably by a factor less than 2 (I don't know the median JWT size). Basic take: unless you can golf your tokens down to a single terminal line, it doesn't much matter how much bigger or smaller they are. These are all smaller than X.509 documents.
> some ccTLDs in the EU require you to be a citizen in any EU country. (So .fr or .eu for example)

I don't know about .fr but the .eu ccTLD is literally the European Union's TLD. The same exact requirements are applied: you need to either be a citizen or have a business there. If you attempt to register a domain with the .eu TLD you must provide an European ID card.

It's the same thing.
I wonder if you could make it even more "beautiful" by gradually easing between the various curvatures rather than having the discontinuities at the intersections of the curves. Kind of like the difference between a square with rounded corners and a "squircle"[1].

1: https://webflow.com/blog/squircle-vs-rounded-squares
Seriously?

First of all, Teslas aren’t drive by wire, other than the accelerator, which is the case for almost every car built in the past 20 years.

Secondly…okay, you have an EV. Where do you charge it? What will your range be when you arrive at a destination? Do you have enough charge to make it back, or should you stop by a charging station? Is it cold; does the battery need preheating?

I don’t know what your issue is with Tesla, but nobody outside of a few “purists” would want to drive an EV without the trip planning features. As for Autopilot…just don’t use it. Nobody is forcing you to use cruise control.
Seems like they have inferior secops on their end. I tried to give it a go and got "an error occurred" in both brave and firefox. Some message about a cookie wasn't found even though I was logging in with my google id which I use flawlessly with a bunch of other services. I have too many other fires to put out so I'll pass on this one I guess.
I got wasabi by adding fire to sushi.
Pretty much this. Having worked in biopreparedness...the instructions aren't the hard part. Both creating and deploying a biological threat are wildly more difficult.
Feels too simplistic to blame the Internet, as the linked article does (positing that the none camp took off after 1992, when Internet started to gain higher adoption). After all, the chart shows consistent stats for non-Christian religious adherents who youd expect to be impacted in the same way.

Perhaps its the relentless drumbeat of awful, truly awful abuse scandals. Eg in the Southern Baptist Church:

When the Right Ignores Its Sex Scandals https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/28/opinion/pressler-sex-scan...
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I like when a person admits they don’t know something in an interview. It shows they aren’t afraid to admit when they don’t have the answer instead of trying to lie their way through it and hoping they don’t get caught. Extra bonus points if they look the thing up later to show they are curious and want to close knowledge gaps when they become aware of them.

People who are unwilling to say, “I don’t know, let me look into that,” are not fun to work with. After a while it’s hard to know what is fact vs fiction, so everything is assumed to be a fabrication.
China overtakes Japan in auto exports with boost from EVs
Norway + Darkness = Black Metal
Another factor is they monkey around with GPT constantly. The GPT you get on Monday may be totally weird on Friday. Whereas for a local model it doesn’t change unless YOU change it.
Minecraft can be good for learning, it encourages creativity, especially with things like redstone. It probably depends on the type of video though
Delegating Tasks to Fly Machines
Dirty, dirty cheater! Sounds like they would have been able to perform the job duties so I'm not sure why one should care.
Looks like you're referring to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quasicrystal#Applications, marketed as Cybernox.

But 5 to 13 is a huge jump.

https://www.technologyreview.com/2011/10/12/190784/the-quasi... says "They closed the production line because they had a few problems in the reaction of the coating with salt. If people cook with a lot of salt it will etch the quasicrystalline coating. People didn’t like it, so they did not continue."

I see comments about Cybernox from 2001, so the patents might've expired by now.
Squeezing Last Bit of JavaScript Performance for My Automation Game
On the contrary... way too many people see "AI can do X", "AI can do Y", "I can draw an imaginary line between X, Y and Z", "therefore AI can totally maybe do Z". The fact that we "just don't know" doesn't mean anything. You just don't know if Jesus will return tomorrow and bring the rapture.
Discord’s CEO, Jason Citron, really showed his inexperience when he was being grilled by Lindsay Graham. At one point he snickered at a question regarding his company’s support of one of the bills. Literally laughed about the CSAM Act with the parents of hundreds of victims sitting right behind him.
It isn't. Unless you want a long incomprehensible string.

Someone is always going to want a short, unique, and memorable name. And when two people share the same name (McDonald, Nissan, etc) there needs to be a way to disambiguate them.

If people die and are unable to release a desirable name, that just makes the whole system less desirable.

I know one of the canonical hard problems in Computer Science is "naming things" and this is a prime example!
Sadly there's some very intrusive corporate DLP borderline-malware that we're obliged to run, so this wouldn't fly. It makes me sigh a lot, but the rest of the job is a lot of fun so I put up with it.
> They're pinning memory to VMs in their FaaS infrastructure, which in turn is memory consumed on their physical servers

The paper doesn't say this anywhere. There is no reason why idle VM could not release significant amount of its memory, or it to be paged on disk, or some hybrid in-between. Especially in Linux you have this whole virtual memory, disk cache, and memory mappings tightly coupled together so there is all sorts of things that could happen. It would be naive to just assume that a VM uses some static amount of memory, especially when the paper doesn't actually indicate anything like that.

> This relatively small amount of memory per VM becomes enormous at tens-of-millions-per-second scale.

Not really. a single firecracker vm has memory overhead of <5MB. even thousand VMs on a host is still just few gigabytes of overhead, not exactly enormous. Its very unlikely that they have anywhere near thousand VMs on single host.

> The resources are pinned to the memory by the first function initialisation, so that if there's a second request for the same Function, it can be executed on a pre-warmed VM, without going through the time-consuming steps 1-7. A trade-off between memory-consumption and time, both cost money.

That just explains why you want to have the VM running, not why you'd have some fixed resources pinned on them. They are two very different things. And it especially doesn't explain why you'd stop the VM on time basis instead of e.g. based on memory pressure.

Honestly, this feels like talking to AI. Not sure why you fill your comments with elementary basics of FaaS and making a whole lot of unfounded assumptions, while not really giving much of any real substance.
I always recall turbulence.
Wikipedia rides its old reputation but it has long been taken over by ideologues. It is still great for information on math, physics, engineering, comp sci, etc. But anything politics, political science, history, and partially philosophy is very biased and this bias is practically impossible to offset.
In the benchmarks, are they using the base GPT-4, or are they using a GPT like Grimoire which will be better at coding? If they aren't using Grimoire, isn't it unfair to compare their fine tuned model to base GPT-4?
Even if you have the data you can't do that stuff any better. The makeup of the training set doesn't really define the behavior in any tractable way. If anything I think it's a distraction and even when it is available people probably pay too much attention to what's in the training data vs actual behavior.

Edit to say that I see benefits to having the training data, just that I don't think it's needed to exercise enough freedom to qualify as open source in an analogous way to software.

Also to add, training on GPUs is not generally reproducible anyway because of execution order.
There is also https://www.fluvio.io/ https://knative.dev/docs/ https://github.com/faasm/faasm
> So your IPv6 would be 1.2.3.4.5.6.7.8, and old routers would just see 5.6.7.8 and route to the place where that IP should go.

Thats absolutely not what would happen to an IPv4 only router though. You're fundamentally misunderstanding what IPv4 actually is.

That IPv4 router getting a packet with a source address of 9.10.11.12.13.14.15.16 addressed to 1.2.3.4.5.6.7.8 wouldn't know to route it to 5.6.7.8. That packet would be parsed as a source of 9.10.11.12 and a destination of 13.14.15.16. The real destination would have been spilled over into the Options header or payload of the packet. This is because in IPv4, bits 128-159 are the source address, 160-191 are the destination. Having a 64-bit address mushed into an IPv4 packet would just lead to those bits spilling over to the next location.

An IPv4-only router would not be able to route your theoretical IPv6 packet.
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Everybody has their Far Side favorite... here's mine: https://www.pinterest.com/pin/54184001740077889/
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That’s the PR line yes.
> The Master System was kind of a bust in North America so I don't carry very much nostalgia for it.

Not sure if that's true in most places, but at least in Brazil, the Master System was incredibly popular... I don't live there anymore, but around just 10 years ago I remember seeing it still for sale (though IIRC they used a different name then - but it was clearly the same) as a low cost game console (average people just can't afford a PlayStation). I had a Master System in the late 1980's and then a Mega Drive, and really loved them both... the Mega Drive was definitely a huge upgrade from the Master System (I was upgrading to Master System from Atari, which was a similarly big upgrade).
I never upgraded again, to the Saturn, just because I stopped gaming almost completely for a while (I started playing in a rock band, it was the 1990's, all the cool kids were doing it)... and I got a PC (also Windows 3.1, classic Pentium 100MHz!) and started doing my gaming on it.
Growing up my best friend and I loved The Far Side. In many ways it was the basis to the quirky humor we both shared, and would continue to explore throughout our youth. In elementary school we had countless Far Side books between us, and by middle school a few shirts too (I remember having "Midvale School for the Gifted").

Well he turned 40 just a few weeks ago, and I needed to find a present. I don't know why, as The Far Side hadn't crossed my conscious in quite some time, but I thought "I'll get him 'The Chickens are Restless'". After some quick searching, he ended up with the Complete Works containing every thing from The Far Side.

Wrapped, he didn't have a clue what I'd got him or why it was so damn heavy. The first glance as he opened in and realized what it was instantly brought a smile to his face. It's amazing how small things bring people together, and The Far Side will always be one of them for my best friend and I. I'm sure there will be some new comics we'd missed and there will be some new chuckles.