skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Oh actually this missed me! I normally follow LocalLlama a lot, but just recently forgot to!

In terms of quantizations losing accuracy - this actually does happen - the perplexity seems fine, since perplexity is generally calculated from the forward pass of a model, ie not via generation. This means perplexity is the accuracy of the first token. Imagine you have 99% accuracy and 1% error due to quantization. Over 100 generated tokens, the accuracy rate is 0.99^100 = 36.6% for eg. So over long contexts, quantization definitely cause problems.

Creating quantization aware approaches where long contexts don't get affected becomes a computational challenge sadly. In terms of Unsloth specifically, finetuning is 2x faster on 16bit and quantized models :)
It doesn't even have to be Boeing. It's possible that a government agency could do it as well. For example, suppose Boeing is seen by the government as a national entity, it's possible for a government agency such as CIA to do the assignation if they think he puts the country in an unfavorable position.

But I think it's more likely that a shareholder/high stakes person connected to Boeing might want to do it.

There is no way Boeing, the company, would do it in my opinion. That would be nuts.
We just have a card with a couple of chocolates (bribe) on each bed asking that if it is used, the card is removed, and if it isn’t used, it’s left in place. If there’s any doubt, the linens get changed. Means the guests don’t have to do anything by default, the environment takes one less insult, and we save on linen hire costs.
It would be cool to be able to use the middle mouse button to pan and zoom the canvas, like most CAD software allows.

Can the units of the artboard be set - for example to mm?
When I logged out, last time it was replaced by flagged on Chrome and I couldn't read the text, but now I can, even though it's still flagged. Now there is a strange thing. Why are the other flagged comments still replaced with flagged? Your moderation is too variable.

> I unkilled your comment when I posted my last reply.

This?
SVG is a very poor format by all measures so if you can start from scratch for your use case you should definitely avoid it. I'm still glad SVG exists because it's available on the web for free, but this file format is really a mess (very hard to parse, the feature set is so broad it's never entirely implemented and the implantations diverge making it surprisingly hard to support multiple browsers).
The 70's "new ice age" scare didn't originate with a consensus of climate scientists though.

At that point the UN had already met and global agreement was in that C02 emmissions were going to result in warming and that was going to lead to some level of problem.

New "ice age" stories were the first advance of the Koch et al think tanks funded by fossil fuel moguls sowing doubt and confusion.
Also that the light and gravitational waves from colliding neutron stars can travel 100 million light years and arrive at earth within a second of each other. That's a mind-bogglingly small amount of drag.
Google maps is not a good comparison as it is so empty. A nautical chart is designed to show much more information all at once.
Thanks AWS/Annapurna/Nitro/Lightbits for bringing NVMe-over-TCP to Linux.

https://www.techtarget.com/searchstorage/news/252459311/Ligh...

> The NVM Express consortium ratified NVMe/TCP as a binding transport layer in November 2018. The standard evolved from a code base originally submitted to NVM Express by Lightbits' engineering team.

https://www.lightbitslabs.com/blog/linux-distributions-nvme-...

https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/lin...
I can't imagine that he would go through all this, and then decide it's not worth it anymore at the very end of his testimony.
The post got edited, so for the Colab which highlights all the fixes + allows you to run finetuning of Gemma 2.5x faster: https://colab.research.google.com/drive/1fxDWAfPIbC-bHwDSVj5...
It's the peak of leek season here in Northern California, and easily the biggest improvement we've made to our vegetable soups is to make a quick stock from the green tops of our leeks, finely chopped, together with the vegetable odds and ends we always seem to have, such as celery leaves and the outer layer of the leek bulbs, then use the stock in place of water in the soup recipes. Simmering the stock for no longer than takes to make the rest of a minestrone is plenty, and the leek fragrance is amazing.
I think you're interpretating the statement as "nobody can have an opinion" from "AI programming doesn't give someone a more qualified opinion on AI".

Plenty of people have interesting or valuable opinions and insights on AGI, programming LLMs doesn't have any impact into that though.

It'd be like expecting the developers of friendster to have a good idea of what the impact of social media was going to be in 2020.

AI isn't AGI.
Very nice read! I didn't know it existed. Love it.
> I didn't catch your sarcasm there, sorry about that.

No worries. It is text after all.

>If those people where aware of the safety concerns and made the choice knowingly, what's the problem? We don't need to regulate people from informed consent, do we?

I would say no, but in the same vane argue that such things shouldn't be a choice you have to make, that all planes should be some base level of safe. And since no company (at least in the US) is going to do that willingly because that hurts profits someone with teeth needs to exist to make them.
Can you please elaborate on what you consider the Universal definition of Free Speech to be?

Are you suggesting that people have the right to say anything they like, in any forum, without consequence?
Ha, I didn't know that subreddit. Thanks
I recommend you do what I am doing without spending $100,000:
Go to the doctor, ask for a prescription for a GLP1 and then take it consistently, and then go to the gym 5x a week, and not worry about it.

GLP1's are the future. The future is here. You don't need to struggle with weight anymore. The mircacle cure for insatiable hunger is here. You will never think about food again.

Hand on heart, the last few weeks i've been on a GLP1 has been the easiest time i've ever had "dieting". It doesn't even feel like a diet because I just don't give a shit about food.
I am agreeing with the parent comment that you could afford 7 minis for 4 SNs. Reasonable was an incorrect word choice.
I'm glad it worked out for you, but this is also survivorship bias.
There are a lot of shady people involved in the military industry.
If I recall the youtube slow-internet optimisation case correction, I think it is an example of Simpson's paradox. They made it faster for countries with fast internet, and faster for countries with slow internet, and then the average performance across all users/countries was slower, because now the countries with slow internet used youtube much more than before.
Those depositions are extremely stressfull. Add in years if not decades of emotional stress, prior. So yes, that can cause depression and can lead to suicide.

Another case where this happened was Therabis Edit: Theranos, obviously (my Pixel 7 keyboard and I won't become close friends any time soon): one of their lead scientists, who very much opposed cheating and their approach, developed a depression because of that and him being completely sidelined. He committed suicide the day before his scheduled depossition in a patent case.

Both cases are tragic, as is every suicide. Just because his death is convenient, doesn't mean in it was foul play...
My guess is that it's not that significant of an increase in weight. They're removing everything including the axles, and putting in their own. Guestimating based on the video, I'd say each motor+axle weights similarly to a transmission, the engine is a lot smaller but add the generator, that's probably a wash. Batteries, they're planning to be small and cheap (because they have a generator), so lets guess 20kwh, so maybe 300lbs in batteries. Fuel tank stays, drive shaft is out.
So, basically a total increase of one transmission (150lbs) and 300lbs worth of batteries, so 450lbs in all. Definitely heavier, but I think it's a far cry from 10x. 2x would be my guess, which seems well within the realm of reasonability
Daniel is of the best engineers I have ever worked with. Engineer in the true sense of wanting to know how something works and figuring out ways to improve it !
Google search can solve AP tests too. (And before that library indexes did the same.)
This isn't some new technology.
There are a lot of assumptions going on here. One of them is that superintelligent AI will arise. We have no reason to believe this will happen in our lifetimes. I posit that we are about as close to superintelligent AI as James Watt was to nuclear fusion.

The other assumption is that wealth and power are distributed according to intelligence. This is obviously false, wealth and power are largely distributed according to who you or your father plays golf with. As long as AIs don't play golf and don't have fathers, we are quite safe.
Hopefully Garrett doesn't interfere with his hard work.
Works for what? The leaderboards? BPE tiktokens, BPE GPT-2 tokens, SentencePiece, GloVe, word2vec, ..., take your pick, they all end up in a latent space of arbitrary dimensionality and arbitrary vocab size where they can be mapped onto images. This is never going to work for language. The only thing the leaderboards are good for is enabling you to charge more for your model than everyone else for a month or two. The only meaning hyperparameters like dimensionality and vocab size have is in their message that more is always better and scaling up is what matters.
There needs to be a federal law banning this crap. I use a flipper zero to enter/exit from my apartment to avoid their app for example.

Both accepting cash and not requiring the use of customer provided electronic technology should be enforced by law, even as a fundamental right.
IIRC Youtube was not an authorized "seller" for music videos and movies and Google gave them cheap dark fibre which was no match for many ISPs who complained. Youtube won.
Its the AI hype train. There is so much money flowing around this topic right now, everyone wants their share of the pie. I would guess that anyone writing articles on the topic has some stake in AI as well either as an investor or a employee.

What I find is interesting, is that the negative news regarding AI safety is adding to the hype as well since it seems to capture a lot of attention.
I love your explanation of your disk install with cryptsetup etc. I do a manual install as well as I always install with both mirrored and encrypted disks. The combination of the two I didn't find as easy install options (I think not at all) on the Ubuntu's I installed. Good to see a lot of this low level OS talk here.
The post is from 1992. Articles were much harder to get hold of back then, even if you were at academia. Your library would have had to have a subscription to the journal, and maintain an archive of it.

(The Unreasonable Effectiveness was published in a pure mathematics journal in 1960. The author of the post was a particle physicist, and seems to have read a fair share of literature in his time.)
Yes, no matter what, they have to check if there is an actual user if the application can have anonymous users. There’s no way around that.
The chimps are one thing, but it's fascinating that bees can do this with comparatively extremely simple hardware. Very cool critters.
Let's hope Jezos gets transduced first, inshallah.
Look at China.

You have arguably more STEM talent in China through a much more rigorous selection process, as well as a lot more centralized direction under a more authoritarian government, with a large amount of funding.

Yet China hasn't managed to take over the world. You would think that they if they wanted to become the worlds primary economic power, and they could throw enough compute at the problem (like an AGI would), they would have figured out how to do it by now.
Avowed Bayesian's usually leave the room the moment they sense a conspiracy tag coming. It is a very narrow, domain specific tool for analysis.
It may not be harmful overall, that is the point. You can get people to eat less of the stuff that makes them ill without requiring them to have time for or interest in science and details. Anyone with enough energy to care will pick the subset of processed foods that they feel are healthy or harmless.

What you call dumbing down is in line with how science works. Rough and inaccurate models first, refined in time or on demand.
I am not missing out on anything. Modern steel and modern tools are good. A $500-$600 dollar miter saw with a good blade makes very tight and precise cuts, better than 99% of hand made cuts made in Edo Period.

The article is specifically talking about a large saw. A modern mill is gonna do a much better job ripping large pieces of wood, then 3 dudes sawing for hours and constantly resharpening their tools. A good joint is the one that holds the load well.
A non-masochistic way of building things is not shitty, it simply means you are did get trapped in a cult thinking.

> Efficiency is not the goal.
If you are into wood cutting, then sure. Go for it. Cut it in any way you want, with any imaginable tool. But then it's wood cutting, not building things.
In the author's scenario, there are zero benefits in using NVMe/TCP, as he just ends up doing a serial block copy using dd(1) so he's not leveraging concurrent I/O. All the complex commands can be replaced by a simple netcat.

On the destination laptop:

$ nc -l -p 1234 | dd of=/dev/nvme0nX bs=1M

On the source laptop:

$ nc x.x.x.x 1234 </dev/nvme0nX

The dd on the destination is just to buffer writes so they are faster/more efficient. Add a gzip/gunzip on the source/destination and the whole operation is a lot faster if your disk isn't full, ie. if you have many zero blocks. This is by far my favorite way to image a PC over the network. I have done this many times. Be sure to pass "--fast" to gzip as the compression is typically a bottleneck on GigE. Or better: replace gzip/gunzip with lz4/unlz4 as it's even faster. Last time I did this was to image a brand new Windows laptop with a 1TB NVMe. Took 20 min (IIRC?) over GigE and the resulting image was 20GB as the empty disk space compresses to practically nothing. I typically back up that lz4 image and years later when I donate the laptop I restore the image with unlz4 | dd. Super convenient.

That said I didn't know about that Linux kernel module nvme-tcp. We learn new things every day :) I see that its utility is more for mounting a filesystem over a remote NVMe, rather than accessing it raw with dd.

Edit: on Linux the maximum pipe buffer size is 64kB so the dd bs=X argument doesn't technically need to be larger than that. But bs=1M doesn't hurt (it buffers the 64kB reads until 1MB has been received) and it's future-proof if the pipe sizes is ever increased :) Some versions of netcat have options to control the input and output block size which would alleviate the need to use dd bs=X but on rescue discs the netcat binary is usually a version without these options.
What would be interesting is that if users generate PDFs via your library, embedding a machine format that allows parsing the PDF via your library is made easy, could become a game changer.
What if they don't?
This is cool, and "Adobe Illustrator for animation" is perhaps Adobe After Effects.
So this just bit for bit dumps a NVMe device to another location. That’s clear. So all encryption just is transferred and not touched. But doesn’t the next machine go into panic when you boot? There are probably many changes in the underlying machine? (Okay, now I read the other post. The author really knows the way. This is at least intermediate Linux.)
Russia => Poison

UK => Suicide (Remember the iran nuclear inspector and the guy from mi6 found in a suitecase)

Netherlands/Other => Disappearance (Arjen Kamphuis)
A few points to keep in mind:

- Little of HN's moderation is done directly by moderators. Rather it's user actions (flags on stories, downvotes and flags on comments), and some automated mechanisms, most especially the "flamewar detector".

- HN detects flames where a story has > 40 comments and the ratio of comments to votes is greater than one. As I write this comment, the story has a ratio of 2.24:1, which is quite high. The average front-page story floats far closer to 0.55 to 0.60 (2021 & 2022, respectively, see: <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36926236>, based on my own analysis of all HN front-page archives).

(At some point I'd looked at all the "spiciest" HN stories in the front-page archive, and though I don't have that handy, a 2.24 ratio is remarkably high by comparison.)

The flamewar detector isn't perfect, but it's often appropriate, and can take what seems to be an otherwise interesting story off HN's front page quite quickly. I've seen this happen to a number of my own submissions, and until I understood the mechansism and cause (and inquired to the mods via email) it could be quite discouraging. Note that mods do occasionally override the metric (as they have in this case, see: <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39676385>).

Ironically, your best defence against the flamewar detector is to upvote the story and not comment on it.

- The story is of course possibly significant, but we've got very little information to go on presently. HN, as with other online discussion sites, has a tendency to go off half-cocked in such cases, often with regrettable results in terms of discussion accuracy or relevance. My suggestion is to absorb the report, keep it in mind, suspend judgement as to what you think may have happened, and look for further investigations or reports.
very nice!

unless i'm missing something, you don't support export to any vector and/or animated formats besides your own?
Oh, I missed that, thanks !
I agree with your points in general, though I wasn't talking about DSL generation or any specific task. I was talking about ChatGPT's general tendency to cheerfully apologize for mistakes, explain exactly what the mistake was, and then present the same mistake while claiming that it's been corrected.

You can ask ChatGPT what it means to be asked to correct a mistake, and it will give you a perfectly thorough and eloquent answer. But it is often unable to apply this concept to its own behavior. If asked, it can explain back to you exactly what correction you want it to make. You can even make it pledge to correct the mistake in exactly the manner that it just described. And then it will completely fail to do it. It reminds me of that "repeat after me" meme from Friends [1].

This makes me lean in the direction of "stochastic parrot" when I think about what LLMs are. As impressive as it is, ChatGPT demonstrably lacks a sense of self. It talks as if it understands that it's an agent in control of its behavior, but then fails to control or even recognize its own actions.

[1] https://en.meming.world/images/en/c/c2/Friends-_Repeat_After...
You don't end up in prison if there isn't anyone to testify against you.
> I often see this repeated in online woodworking forums but my experience here has been different albeit limited to kanna blades from two makers.

They are bedded at roughly 40 degrees (nothing to do with the metal, admittedly). Unless there's another factor at play, I don't see how that'd work for a smoother on 1500+ janka woods.
That's what I mean: you just learn it by being immersed in the language and hearing it every day and only knowing that language, so you learn to use it the way everyone around you uses it. So there's actual rules to the language that, as a native speaker, you're not even aware are rules. It probably took some ESL person to notice this rule even existed, and to figure out how it actually worked and write it down.
My cleaning fee is for washing the bedding, mopping the floors, wash inside the oven, was inside the refrigerator, vacuum all floors, wash all floors, clean every surface, scrub the shower, scrub the toilets, clean the sink and mirror, etc etc.

None of which I expect guests to do. So it's not double dipping.

You've been explained why you're wrong ten times now, and still drone on about it. Maybe airbnb just isn't for you? Book a more expensive hotel instead, and then those thinking my cabin is a good deal can do so and be happy.
Microsoft has to stop behaving like Microsoft to get where they are.

Instead of trying to run through show, Microsoft got ahead by behaving well & treating developers well. Making Windows a good enough place to develop from, making Azure a good enough cloud: none of these look like the old Microsoft.

Apple doesn't seem to a single play-nice-with-anyone bone in their body. They are fighting tooth & nail for every scrap of control they can keep, doing everything in their power to burn every bridge they can (ending opengl support, ignoring Vulkan).

Apple still will hold enormous power for the foreseeable, undoubtedly, but I don't see much parallel to Microsoft. I don't see any redemption ark in progress.
No, it’s adobe flash or whatever the hell they call it nowadays.
Very nice. One question: I see the submission mentions SVG animation but I don't see any way of exporting as SVG. Did I miss something, or was this just meant as a plan for the future?
Isn’t adobe animate just flash ?
Thank you, this is such an interesting and useful reply.
"Also, is it Open Source?"

No, also:

"We reserve the right to modify this Agreement or its terms related to the Services at any time at our discretion."

So it is currently free of charge, but may one day contain tracking without warning, or paid membership? The buisness plan (how to make money) is not clear to me. And this would be a major blocker for me to use if for anything serious, when one day I might loose access to my data, unless I pay an unspecified amount. You also cannot export your work to a common vector format, so will be bound by this website forever.

If you are looking for something Open Source, there is the wick editor:

https://www.wickeditor.com/

(but developement is on hold)
The probable with quitting is that you can’t change the company from within anymore.
I recently had to set up a new laptop (xubuntu).

Previously I cloned but I this time I wanted to refresh some of the configs.

Using a usb-c cable to transfer at 10gb/s is so useful (as my only other option was WiFi).

When you plug the computers together they form an ad-hoc network and you can just rsync across. As far as I could tell the link was saturated so using anything else (other protocols) would be pointless. Well not pointless, it's really good to learn new stuff, maybe just not when you are cloning your laptop (joke)!
I usually set up an initial distro and then copy over my /home. Later, I just need to install the debs I'm missing, but this has the benefit of not installing stuff I don't need anymore.

That said, I didn't know you could export NVMe over TCP like that, so still a nice read!
Are laptops not mobile?
We usually make miso soup when we make sushi. We use the fish bits and pieces to make the dashi. This adds some nice flavor abd mouthfeel to the finished soup.
How can this
work if the laptops have different hardware, cq different requirements on device drivers?