skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Cool idea. Reminds me of the author clock https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1195310640/author-clock...
Finally someone who sees for what a shit of a job Software Engineer has become.
You can see my post/comment history here on HN, that I argue exactly this.
We are doing too much.
Yes - they are open weights and open inference code, which means they can be integrated into Ollama.

They are not “open training” (either in the training code or training data sense), so they are not reproducible, which some have suggested ought to be a component of the definition of open models.
I am currently reading everything by Lem and indeed the Electronic Bard popped out as prophetic!
Now imagine what websites are tracking that they don't show you.
In a world where customer service is being reduced YoY, and slowly given over to chatbots. You are telling me that you trust companies to give you timely service for something you rent?

When was the last time you had trouble with your Internet router or modem? A large number of people rent these items from their ISP.

(1) the cost of renting, in this case, is way higher than the actual value of the device. (Last I looked, you rent for a year, you are better off buying your own)

(2) repair requires a 12 hour window of your time. May not be able to come due to high volume of work per tech.

(3) no penalty for the company really if your stuff doesn't work for 3-5 days, as long as they 'are working on fixing it'
Burnout test successful.
There is no federal agency or corporation that can inflate Bitcoin like Argentina's central bank has been doing. This is the major cause of inflation.
Although it used them for years, the first mention by Google of PCIe switches was probably in the 2022 Aquila paper, which doesn't really talk about storage anyway...
Remix Vite Is Now Stable
throwback to 2000 and angelfire
It's about as tone deaf as spending money preserving a bunch of old stuff that isn't directly useful to anyone nowadays. These critiques apply equally to the monarchy as they do to museums. The fact of the matter remains that changing the logo on a few things has an incalculably small cost and was likely fulfilled by people the government would have on payroll either way.

Extrapolating from your argument, do you think all traditions aught to stop when the economy takes a downturn? It's not as if having a monarchy, or maintaining any of the other traditions, comes at the cost of people being driven to poverty. We have the resources as a society to both provide a decent standard of living for people and to maintain our culture and traditions. It's ridiculous to think that cutting costs on the latter will do any good for the former; it will just free up money to be mismanaged elsewhere, or go on tax cuts for the rich. Your argument here isn't based on actually solving any real problem, just that you don't like the vibes of the situation.

I'll assume, given your high tax bracket, that you also have a high income. If so, it's pretty presumptuous for you to speak on behalf of poor people, who generally seem to quite like the monarchy in my experience. Being so starkly pro-austerity that you won't let them spend a little money on changing a few logos seems exceedingly out of touch, given the decade+ of austerity and cost-cutting that lead us to the current situation.
We've documented the architecture (including key differences) in our technical report here (https://goo.gle/GemmaReport), and you can see the architecture implementation in our Git Repo (https://github.com/google-deepmind/gemma).
> it just kind of replies to my comment with empty words that ultimately don't have any actual useful meaning.

Yeah, that seems to, ultimately, be the killer application for these infernal machines.
glad you like the demo!
Thank you! You can get started downloading the model and running inference on Kaggle: https://www.kaggle.com/models/google/gemma ; for a full list of ways to interact with the model, you can check out https://ai.google.dev/gemma.
I need a self-help mirror that would respond like Chrisjen Avasarala, so that there's at least one adult in the room.
But but.... What about all those watercooler conversation? The spontaneous ideas riffing? The surges in team energy? /s
Mostly to boost research and commercial usage around JAX/Gemini is my read.

Any internal research using Gemma is now more easily externally reproducible, external research and frameworks are easier to translate over, goodwill especially from researchers.
Benchmarks for Gemma 7B seem to be in the ballpark of Mistral 7B

+-------------+----------+-------------+-------------+
| Benchmark | Gemma 7B | Mistral 7B | Llama-2 7B |
+-------------+----------+-------------+-------------+
| MMLU | 64.3 | 60.1 | 45.3 |
| HellaSwag | 81.2 | 81.3 | 77.2 |
| HumanEval | 32.3 | 30.5 | 12.8 |
+-------------+----------+-------------+-------------+

via https://mistral.ai/news/announcing-mistral-7b/
The synde remarks at metas llama license that doesn't allow companies with 700 million monthly active users to use it, while this model also doesn't have a really 'open' license itself and also this paragraph:

>As the ecosystem evolves, we urge the wider AI community to move beyond simplistic ’open vs. closed’ debates, and avoid either exaggerating or minimising potential harms, as we believe a nuanced, collaborative approach to risks and benefits is essential. At Google DeepMind we’re committed to developing high-quality evaluations and invite the community to join us in this effort for a deeper understanding of AI systems.
It won't be too long until "cheap" TVs start to ship embedded LTE modems...
The concept brings to mind Frederic Laloux's thesis of an ecosystemic organizing principle. Essentially, the idea is that corporations get meritocracy but have trouble valuing everyone's humanity, while collectivist orgs value everyone's humanity but have trouble distinguishing competent from incompetent or defining spheres of responsibility. If I squint, his idea of a 'next step' that can recognize the value of everyone's unique humanity while also recognizing relative competence does look like the picture your quote paints.
Should have called itself
The danger of moderately compressed air (9 bar) is illustrated by this utterly horrific accident.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byford_Dolphin#Diving_bell_acc...
If you read the diagnostic criteria that is used, it’s so broad it could easily apply to most of the world’s population…as long as they declare they have trouble focusing.
Yes, you can get started downloading the model and running inference on Kaggle: https://www.kaggle.com/models/google/gemma ; for a full list of ways to interact with the model, you can check out https://ai.google.dev/gemma.
> Do you know why the USA is the richest country in the world while being full of homeless, or has the strongest army in the world while having the shittiest healthcare of all developed countries?

Yes, its in the post you're replying too. The USA run an oligarchy system where by the vast majority of money, power and influenced and controlled by an impossibly small interconnected group.

But its ok because every four years the peasants get to chooses which billionaire is the least worse and cast their vote.

What does anything in my post have to do with liberalism?
Yeah I don't know. I think there's a level of narcissism that accompanies this tendency.
It should be possible to run it via llama.cpp[0] now.

[0] https://github.com/ggerganov/llama.cpp/pull/5631
https://huggingface.co/google/gemma-7b-it/tree/main

yes, similar to the llama models, you'll also need to accept the license to download them officially. But the llama models have been unofficially downloadable without accepting the license for quite a while, so it's probably just a matter of time.
The way YouTube doesn't show you the metadata for removed videos anymore is infuriating. You end up with playlists where you can tell something was removed but not what.
> in terms of GDP PPP, which takes into account the cost of living in the country

You should be comparing PPP adjusted household income and not GDP if you want to make this argument.
https://ollama.com/library?q=gemma

Library search says "Nope". At least not yet.
Thanks for asking. We are not hiring at this stage.
> But this is not ChatGPT's fault, it's the other person's fault.

Yes, and “guns don’t kill people, people kill people”. ChatGPT is a tool, and a major and frequent use of that tool is doing exactly what the OP mentioned. Yes, ChatGPT didn’t cause the problem on its own, but it potentiates and normalises it. The situation still sucks and shifting the blame to the individual does nothing to address it.
There’s a (or soon to be) market for software people that can evaluate a use case and apply an LLM if warranted. You don’t need a PhD but do need a good working knowledge of the nuts/bolts to speak truth to hype. Karpathy has a YouTube titles something like “a busy persons guide to LLM” and in it he describes the model as an operating system kernel with tools and utilities surrounding it. You can build and understand those valuable tools and utilities without having a PhD in AI. I think that’s the way to break into the AI market as a traditional developer.

A good example is llangchain
Ask HN: Where is the iOS setting to deny Wi-Fi access to an app?
I know where the iOS setting is to deny an app access to mobile data, but I can't locate the setting to block an app from using wifi.

The ability to cut an app off from the internet is a no-brainer in terms of strengthening user privacy, so I'm probably overlooking something obvious.
Keeping your username from phone contacts is quite a different problem than keeping your name from the government.
Its an old project I've had lying around :)
Well if you lost your only credential and it’s a secure solution, it’s gone. You must set it up from scratch again.

Since we’re discussing not providing your phone number out of privacy/security concerns, I assume that “registration lock” and PIN are on the table, which would anyway block you from registering again using the same number after loosing your phone.

Hence, the situation is the same as with your mobile phone number: no backup, no luck.
Google has a terrible long-term privacy record, but over the last several years they've taken meaningful steps to improve on this, to the point that they are pretty good. They are one of the only big tech companies that provide controls to allow you to tune what sort of data they keep, to download it (take out) or outright delete it. They've even rolled out default settings such as (18-month location wipe). They're far from perfect of course, and I still wouldn't consider them "private" though I don't think any tech company is that. If you really want private, unfortunately right now you have to self-host most things.
I actually quite like it as a reminder of the gentle chaos of the early web before the vibe shift to homogenous design.
I'm disappointed this feature doesn't load for me in Firefox.

The / key also conflicts with its quick-search feature.
Yeah exactly, I agree it will cost something to upgrade but the costs are just not that high
Perhaps, if you have never been to the West - the object of Milei's criticism - it is possible to believe that it is a world where people are impoverished and dying through evil collectivists providing welfare states. For everyone else, that's a perspective as extreme as his chainsaw stunts.

Milei's bark is likely to prove more extreme than his bite, of course. He's already pointedly not abolishing the central bank and quietly mending relations with China.
This is awesome news. Remix has become my standard go-to for all new projects.
They have really sane defaults and together with stuff like their indie-stacks etc developing apps goes really super fast.

I have never been so productive as I have been with Remix and it's really good that the finally have embraced Vite so I can use all the different plugins etc that exist for it.
Not intentional; I used vim 10 years ago, but have been an emacser with vim-bindings for the past 7 I guess :)
I agree with your comments and want to add re: benchmarks: I don’t pay too much attention to benchmarks, but I have the advantage of now being retired so I can spend time experimenting with a variety of local models I run with Ollama and commercial offerings. I spend time to build my own, very subjective, views of what different models are good for. One kind of model analysis that I do like are the circle displays on Hugging Face that show how a model benchmarks for different capabilities (word problems, coding, etc.)
Wouldn't it be good if managers had a hint to be more empathetic towards an employee that's going through a temporary bad mental state, instead of labeling "under-delivery" and throwing him onto a "PIP" process?
Serendipitously, electricmonk is the host name for one of my Azure Open AI endpoints.

But yes, as someone who devoured Douglas' books and has often been blamed for using the same kind of (but immeasurably less brilliant) nonsensical humor, I am fully on board with the article's premise.

There is a sense of almost cartoonish familiarity towards some of the things people are coming up with, and only the other day I hacked together a small endpoint that enables Siri to craft personal insults based on my own health and exercise data.

Fun times indeed.

---Edit:---

In case anyone wants to start a VC-funded health counsellor service, I've sanitised the prompt (and removed the insult suggestions) and pasted it here:

var prompt = `
You are a fitness coach. You will be given a set of dates and weight measurements (in kg)
plus a set of dates and exercise minutes, and you are to reply with a single sentence to
describe how much weight I lost or gained during that time and correlate that with exercise.
You should mention overall trends in weight or exercise and the exact amount of weight lost or gained.

Never mention specific dates.
Say "week" or "past few days" or "past N days" whenever possible.
You are to be as succint as possible. Avoid citing sources, just the facts.
Use very short sentences. Be very British and polite.

Example replies:

You lost 1 kg this week thanks to an average 45 exercise minutes a day

You gained 0.5 kg because you didn't exercise enough for two days

You should try to exercise 60 minutes a day to lose 1kg this week
`
What type of user hostile website is this.

Can someone just post the text.
Yeah the general shape is more prowler than pt cruiser, but the body smoothing and covering over everything looks pt cruiser to me… I really like the open wheels of the prowler.

(What I’m really looking for though is take e.g. the car from Downton Abbey and, while changing the look as little as possible, change the materials and safety and efficiency to be as modern as possible.)
i didn't get why any phone number is involved when this software was released, and now it's gone. i safely avoided even bothering to learn of whatever false conundrum these San Fransisco, Twitter scene people had in mind.
Yes: https://help.twitter.com/en/rules-and-policies/post-withheld...
Likely because they took away the internet connection from the TV and got their smart features from the box.
If only hospital systems didn’t force their physicians to use structured data. Administration loves structured data because it is an easy road to hoodwinking a jury into saying it’s professional negligence on part of a physician or plain bad luck on the patient’s part. It makes it easy for the losers who love to point out “see, it’s all right there in the medical record.”
I don't necessarily agree or disagree with Milei, I think my understand of the space and the country is too low to be able to do so.

But I disagree with "I don't see anything worth reading here", even if it's unhinged and you fundamentally disagree with their point of view.

He is the democratically elected president of a country in despair, and trying to understand what will happen to the country requires understanding the motivations behind the actions, which are laid bare in his speech, no matter how factual his points are.
Pretty cool...but I could barely get through the class just from writing with a pencil. I can't imagine trying to take notes AND remember formatting notation and making sure you get everything right while typing, as a little slip and it may not be right and the lecture is already moving on and wait wait wait...don't don't move the board up..awww, now it's behind the...wait, what the hell did I just type. Hang on, what is that notation again, oh right...wait...(backspace 10 times)...okay. Okay, now I'm lost, wtf is he talking about now?

Yeah, this is a "me" problem for sure. But the above scenario was nearly like that when it was just a pencil and paper for me.
"Produce any arbitrary file from any arbitrary page, Pandoc-style" would be a nifty feature, but not one that I expect sites to provide. Instead, just give me access to the data, that's all I need and expect, and what used to be standard before mobile apps caused our standards to fall.
Or you could just use a language with a static type system and avoid a whole class of bugs automatically.
Its not about that.

It's way easier to control people in an office.

Employees have to submit to groupthink and can be monitored and caught alot easier if they dont submit to this groupthink.

It's a lot easier to control people through groupthink than via reason.

In an office not only do you have to do your job but you also have to be "a person the group would want to have a beer with".

You don't want to lose your job for not being a cultural fit do you?

So management has a lot more control over the situation.

Ive been depressed and withdrawn and just focusing on work before and been called into managements office and told Im not "acting like myself, is everything ok?" with a bit of an ominous tone and so I had to pretend to be outgoing and cheerful when I wasnt.
There's also less of a special sauce for text models itself these days with the propietary being more on the pre-training data and training stack (e.g. how to get 10k GPUs/TPUs running together smoothly). Multi-modal models (or adjacent like Sora) are less likely to be open sourced in the immediate term.
Article is paywalled but the paper it’s based on is freely available here: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4675401
Basically, Signal Desktop is a gaping security hole. That's why I said only the thinnest possible level of security.
Yeah I mean maybe it would cost 50-100k to provide L2 charging for an entire apartment? Not zero but not really a big deal in the big picture
When Microsoft refactored the context menu on Windows 11, I had high hopes that the new programming model would move away from writing context menu handlers in COM/C++, eventually using out-of-process handlers that could be implemented in .NET, any other compiled language.

Nope, moving away from bare bones COM is too much to ask for WinDev, and already failed multiple times (.NET's original purpose, Longhorn, WinRT/UWP).

A lost cause indeed.
Ever add (or inherit) the server-side part of an application that uses Redis or Memcache? The data is denormalized: When you do an update/insert/delete into the SQL side of things, you need to do a corresponding change in Redis / Memcache. All of your queries end up being something like: Try Redis/Memcache, if the data isn't present, query the database and insert into Redis/Memcache.

It (Redis/Memcache caching) adds a huge amount of complexity to your application, and the risk of defects is very, very real.

ReadySet basically gives you a magic "stick this thing between your database and application and we'll do the caching for you." It totally eliminates a time consuming and error-prone part of your application.

If you want to, they go into details here: https://blog.readyset.io/dont-use-kv-stores/
Is there different language support too?
Unless otherwise specified, rates are assumed to be annualized. That’s standard for everything from mortgages to inflation as it allows for an apples to apples comparison.

My point with showing the annualized calculation was so that those of us in the rest of the world, the majority of people on this site, could better grasp the severity of the problem.

In the USA we’ve had about 20% inflation in consumer goods (or at least according to CPI) in the past three years and it’s been a hot topic. The Argentina numbers are staggering.
Can we have llamafile releases as well?

https://github.com/Mozilla-Ocho/llamafile
You have to isolate yourself from the CR so not to contaminate it, so I doubt that would help.
Wouldn't it be good if Israel and Hamas became best friends?

What's good and what's likely are not the same thing.
That's a tempting answer. I see why you proffer it. But I have to say
no.

Complexity is neither an immanent feature nor inevitability. Behind
unruly complexity is our failure to manage it. And indeed, a love of
complexity, a fetish for it that seduces us into ever more.

To defeat complexity we have to embrace, and engage with it. We have
to see what parts of technology that got us to where we are, must now
be justifiably rejected.

All I see right now, especially with regards to "AI" and the new wave
of techno-populism, is a retreat from complexity and more embrace of
"magic".
Ask HN: Falcon CrowdStrike compromises /dev/urandom security?
I was recently asked to install Falcon CrowdStrike on a personal machine for work. While going about my duties I observed the following strange behaviour, in which /dev/urandom appeared to be leaking files from my local filesystem in the output. Here is a .gif [0] illustrating the behavior.

I have two questions. First, is this behavior expected during the normal operation of Falcon CrowdStrike?

Secondly, and if so, does this not present a significant security risk to all endpoints deployed with CrowdStrike sensor software? My understanding is that /dev/urandom is a source of entropy, and having regular, predictable data being output from /dev/urandom could impact random number generators and other cryptographic primitives.

[0] https://web.archive.org/web/20240221134626/https://i.imgur.com/O4PMDgS.gif
Now this is podracing I mean Agile! - Aintworkin Scumwalker
As a child of the 80s, I have no memory of this. Perhaps one needed to be more a young adult in the 80s and watched more movies to really remember this.
Can you explain the difference? Googling it is quite hard, as it mostly throws me biased views.
Unclamping the Barnacle
> Even I have to use git because who uses anything else?

Git compatibility is a great way around this problem. I have been enjoying Jujutsu lately.
I transitioned from working with Rails to Node.js, a choice that not only changed my professional trajectory but also introduced me to fresh opportunities.
How do you find products to trust?
This seems to be Prolog with a large dose of syntactic sugar.
It is already part of the release on Huggingface: https://huggingface.co/google/gemma-7b/blob/main/gemma-7b.gg...

It is a pretty clean release! I had some 500 issues with Kaggle validating my license approval, so you might too, but after a few attempts I could access the model.
Yep. The Butlerian Jihad as depicted in post-Dune books (namely Frank Herbert's son's) was more dystopian, but far less insightful.

Of course, we're probably safe while these things lack agency (although the ability of agency and hype human VCs already generate behind some of the current AI landscape can be pretty scary).
Thank you!

I totally agree with the idea of having it all vanish. I’m still building it out, but I’m working towards an ‘eject button’ where you can download all of your notes into a CSV and get out of dodge if you choose!
Oops! Hahaha!

And thank you for the encouragement!
It's definitely in our roadmap. After the core product—the voice AI part—becomes humanlike enough, we will support multilingual capabilities.
This sounds like it has heavy overlap with IVM. How does Readyset distinguish itself from existing solutions like pg_ivm or Materialize?