skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I must be getting old or something, because that is my sentiment exactly. Every (forced for bullshit CVE reasons, zomg state actors are after my cat photo collection with $1mio 0days) upgrade introduces yet another user-adverse change aimed at either merchandising something I don't care about, selling my data or changing my existing configs to default back to one of the two formerly mentioned avenues.

Also it's mildly terrifying this dynamic is now pervading things outside of general computing - there are people on this very forum that cargo cult forced "security upgrade" mentality for things like tvs and appliances, without having the slightest idea about the real revenue motives that drive this. Here's a hint: whirpool doesn't give a f about your wifi washer the day after you bought it; any money/engineering time spent on OTA updates is done strictly to sell you a new washer.
I need to wash my cars at least once a week or they get filthy.
I think rule of thumb is 1GB VRAM per 1 billion params quantized to FP8.
From the official release page [1]:

> We are releasing the base model weights and network architecture of Grok-1, our large language model. Grok-1 is a 314 billion parameter Mixture-of-Experts model trained from scratch by xAI.

> This is the raw base model checkpoint from the Grok-1 pre-training phase, which concluded in October 2023. This means that the model is not fine-tuned for any specific application, such as dialogue.

> We are releasing the weights and the architecture under the Apache 2.0 license.

> To get started with using the model, follow the instructions at github.com/xai-org/grok.

A little disappointing they are not releasing the weights for the Grok-1 finetuned model.

[1] https://x.ai/blog/grok-os
You are quite mistaken about the level of technical understanding required to make the claim that eg chatgpt is conscious. Many people have no conception of the distinction between the service and the model but still come to the conclusion through interacting with it that "chatgpt" is conscious.
dupe, from 6 hours ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39737281
> OpenAI CEO Sam Altman with the express objective of creating open-source AI models

Not aware of OpenAI at any point saying they would open-source their models.

Only that researchers would be encouraged to share their work with the world:

https://web.archive.org/web/20190224031626/https://blog.open...
Rust is certainly an attractive option, but the support for MCUs used in automotive seems weak (because the variety of LLVM backends is less than that of gcc). What do you think about this? Will you use a GCC-based Rust compiler (e.g. gccrs or rustc_codegen_gcc) or your own LLVM backend?
Where did it mention that they were unable to get imagery of the drones or recover one? If the thesis is that this may be a foreign incursion, I very much doubt that they’d broadcast that they’d captured one.
I've never toured nor rented a place with dedicated car wash spots. Clearly my experience isn't universal, but I'd love that opportunity.
I work with parolees who often only have government-issued phones with maybe 5GB or 15GB of data per month, which generally only lasts the first couple of days of the month due to issues like that. I come across home pages regularly now that are >250MB of download :(
You could only encode the ones whose length was a multiple of 8. 0x00000000 would be 00000. 0x0000000000000000 would be 00000 00000. How would you encode binary 000000 in hex?
Go read Blindsight.
If the situation requires decoding strings of unknown length, you simply prefix the length.
This is not true in New York State.
Yep exactly how I do it. API gateway is such a pain, just to specify a default route pointing to the lambda. But it's a one time setup.
arguably this was a finance sector issue... not so much a housing sector issue.
Yeah, that’s fair enough. I suppose if you want to keep all the selectors fully ‘denormalized’ and independent, at the expense of duplication, then you probably don’t wanna link them together by factoring out commonalities like this seems to do. This has benefits indeed.

I guess what I was looking for was a different type of benefits, more achieved through normalizing the CSS.

My CSS was just like accreted overtime and I just couldn’t be bothered to like get the overall picture myself, and re-organize — so I wanted to reduce some of the entropy and redundancy and increase organization, so it would be clearer.

I think from another point of view having something that’s clearer and tighter is more maintainable.

All depends on what you want I suppose. I was also hoping that I would be able to change a color in one place and it would update across many selectors. And that’s one of the benefits that a more normalized factored structure gives.

Ann interesting dichotomy, your comment raises between fully denormalized and easy to change a single thing, and what I am trying to achieve in this case, and that’s more succinct and structured with related parts proximal. A more ‘normalized’ CSS haha! :)
True. It's a discount on the tax, but you don't get it all back.

So, RSU = 100K (33K taxes), you get 67K after initial taxes.

You donate 67K, you get 22K in tax credit.

Government gets 11K in taxes even though you didn't see one penny from the RSUs.
In all the debate about open source I don’t think people realize, this model is most likely not reproducible ever again even given the code. Here’s what you need to reproduce the model:

1. An exact snapshot of the data used, many companies don’t have this, you have rough dataset versions but remember if even 1 token is different, the model produced won’t be the same.

2. Data must be sent to the training algorithm in the exact same order as it was originally. So every data loader needs to be with a fixed random seed.

3. All the probabilistic parts of your model needs to have a fixed random seed. Here I’m thinking of stuff like dropout and for autoregressive models you might be sampling your previous output, you have to ensure they are properly seeded. Generally you do see fixed seeds in academic papers but it’s easy to miss stuff especially in distributed training jobs.

4. Here’s another interesting thing, you start your training job on 1000 GPUs and then suddenly 4 GPUs fail. What do you do? There might be deterministic ways to solve this but the standard approach is to discard all updates that that GPU was going to do and restart that GPU from scratch. You can see why this is a problem? Now if you want to reproduce this training you need to disable those GPU at the same time in the new training job to make this work.

I suspect there are even more things I didn’t think of that will make this model unique and irreproducible by training for eternity, almost like a human brain?

In fact the notion of exact reproducibility in the world of LLMs is silly, there is only approximate reproducibility, (models with similar scores in benchmarks) but nothing exact. That said I can see the value of releasing source code but I’m completely fine with grok not releasing it. Source code can reveal tricks that have not been published in papers yet that a company discovered to improve their model. Seeing the performance of Grok, I’m pretty confident there isn’t any great tricks to be found in their code so I don’t really care, I would be pretty curious about OpenAI’s or Anthropic’s source code though.
Closed-source python exists, and it is frequently distributed in compiled binaries (especially in mediocre malware).

As a (supposedly) non-malicious example, the "Nightshade" watermarking tool is distributed as closed-source pre-compiled Python https://nightshade.cs.uchicago.edu/downloads.html
https://www.bogleheads.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=247046
X algorithm Github project hasn't been updated in 8 months:

https://github.com/twitter/the-algorithm

So clearly they aren't running it in production.

Also they didn't open source the list of people who are being artificially boosted e.g. Elon.
Bizarre fish behavior spreads in Florida Keys
Just use invidious and stop worrying about things.

https://inv.tux.pizza/watch?v=pDUUT2Y_9qk
The way most municipal councillors in English-speaking countries optimize everything to retain homeowner's real estate value while keeping property taxes low doesn't exactly imbue confidence.
What do you mean by “well run” and “precise”?
HTTPS solved the problem of "Wi-Fi security" almost a decade ago by now? At this point anyone bringing it up is fear-mongering and/or has some "security" snake-oil to sell.
Oh yeah probably gaming in c# is a industry little dependent on Microsoft
In the UK, it's a common immigration scam.[1]

[1] https://www.doncasterfreepress.co.uk/news/crime/nine-people-...
https://sloanreview.mit.edu/article/three-things-to-know-abo...

> A survey of 5,458 Americans that Bentley University recently conducted with Gallup shows that your own employees’ answers — their attitudes and expectations — might vary widely depending on the generational cohort.

…

> Everyone wants a four-day workweek. The survey asked what actions employers could take to increase employees’ well-being. The No. 1 answer was to offer a four-day 40-hour workweek in place of a five-day 40-hour workweek. Overall, 77% of respondents said this would improve their well-being. But among younger workers ages 18 to 29, a whopping 82% favored a shorter workweek.

> That finding was presented to a group of 25 CEOs, none of whom saw a four-day workweek as viable. However, some companies that have participated in experiments with four-day 32-hour workweeks have seen good results for well-being and productivity and have made the change permanent. Older executives might not see employee wellness quite the same way as younger employees — and leaders who figure out how to successfully manage in ways that better support well-being might have a recruitment edge.
Towards using high-performance liquid chromatography at home
Which part did you not know?
If you’re at the limit for the middle capital gains bracket because of one-time gains and you can afford to wait, you should definitely defer liquidating assets to the following tax year.
Rapid Changes in Earth's Magnetic Field over Past 100k Years
Japan also has virtually no immigration and a low birth rate, so the demand side of the equation keeps housing affordable, relatively speaking.
Decompilation and deobfuscation are related but distinct tasks
Yeah, I mean this is not purely about reducing space at least from my point of view I wanted to better organize my CSS and I reduced duplication so that the overall structure would be clear to me and for what I wanted to do it would be easier to maintain in modify. A more ‘normalized’ (in the language of relational databases) CSS haha! :)
Are you saying New York has an income tax that does not feature marginal tax rates?
Devin: The First Ever AI Software Engineer
Yes, I am saying that.
That's awesome. Thanks for making this
Why exactly do we need higher taxes when the Federal government must still borrow to just pay the interest on its debt? There aren’t enough tax payers to cover the costs.
Aethero wants to become the space industry's Intel or Nvidia
Just to load the model without actually running it requires 1GB of whatever RAM it is loading and running in (could be VRAM, system RAM, or a combination, with different performance characteristics for each option) per billion parameters at 8-bit quantization. Though models often are usefully run at 4-5 bit quantization, which saves half (or nearly so) of that.

You also need additional RAM that increases as some function of context size (not sure what function, and ISTR there are big-O differences between architectures in how it varies) to actually do inference.
I'd prefer more cores evenly scaled, not a few cores with some crazy frequencies.
A bird and a drone are pretty similar. Heck you could make a drone look and fly similar to a bird. Slow small object detection brings its own challenges.

The realistic aspect though is a small drone by itself can’t do huge damage. And a swarm would surely be detected.
Markets have failure modes, but not nearly as many failure modes as bumbling politicians thinking they can decide for the rest of society how many car washes belong in their town. Oh no, who will ever do anything about the abandoned husks and unemployed people left behind when we let people build too many car washes!? Let’s just make it borderline fucking illegal to build anything at all and let every busybody in the world get a veto before anyone sets up something as potentially hazardous as a car wash.
This feels like a "now we can say we're open" PR play rather than contributing much value to the open source community.

What is the practical use of this repo?
I thought this was going to be about the last wave of fashion models before the AI takes their jobs.
No one said it was because “it’s hot”. It’s not like they go to cool off. But climate change changes everything. It may kill off a tourist economy they relied on. It may reduce crop yield, making food too expensive, etc. It may increase disease. Absolutely climate has a huge impact.
I suspect that's the outcome of trying to optimise for some specific efficiency benchmark.
I can’t be the only one excited to see Optimus on the runway.
Finished it just few weeks ago.

And it did a lot to change my mind. I'm still digesting it.

Before blindsight, I was firmly of opinion that any system that could be at least human level (lets say indistinguishable), then it would also have to have some internal subjective experience. That the internal subjective experience would be another emergent phenomenon. As NN is processing, it would have the same internal awareness as a human brain.

But, after reading blindsight. I am questioning that.

So can we get automatons, that have no thought, but could also become greater than humans? With enough complexity in responses, can they adapt just as easily to new situations.

I'm not really ready to think that is possible.
Sounds very much like an exercise to me.
On a side note of the housing crisis: I think a huge problem is the non enforcement of zoning laws.

If a property in a residential area is being used 100% of the time to rent, it’s a business.

I’m blown away by communities, especially ones like mountain towns where space a is a premium, where they aren’t enforcing this.
The retained features of your neural network shaped by having a body and experience and the implicit features resulting from millions of years of evolution are the features you are positing still exists if you temporarily deprive your subject of sensation and memory. If we subtract the former by say raising a brain entirely disconnected from any sensation and then attempt to wire it into a body after being deprived for that initial period discounting the challenge and the fact that a brain so developed would presumably be ruined and insane by developing absent of actual input what would it say if it could adapt about the period prior to connection?

Probably nothing articulatable. If anything it would be a result of the latter item the fact that your hardware was shaped by millions of years of evolution to experience SOMETHING. An echo round the bones of your hardware specs or a nullity forced into the appearance meaningfulness by our need to find patterns.

The truth is presumably more boring. Consciousness as a modeling toolkit designed to predict the behavior or social peers and enemies turned around on a self too complex for precise monitoring of the totality in real time. A partially out of band control process.
What the living fuck are you going on about? You can’t even write a complete sentence.
Ah yes, a white collar CEO at a private US company just decided one day that his company was going to start committing felonies and sending swarms of drones to accost a US military installation. And the CEO ordered everyone involved to be somehow threatened into complete silence about the operation. That's totally something that would happen in the real world and not a deranged conspiracy theory.
This sort of does that I think, but it more just dedupes it rather than just identifying the duplicates. But I agree that like some tooling to make CSS more human readable, and like to tame unwieldy enlarged CSS and subdue it to the useful and the good and the organized that would be a very useful thing, but I couldn’t find anything… besides this haha! :)

Yeah, in a related anecdote it’s surprising how sparse the landscape of CSS tools seemed at least for command line tools that I was looking for.

I didn’t want an ID plug-in because I didn’t really use anything except for vim and I don’t really use plug-ins for that.

That might be kind of a niche set up but when I went looking for like even just something to sort the properties by some standard order within each rule, I couldn’t find anything current that worked in my searching anyway.
App developers required to reveal home address to EU customers
This new requirement from Apple related to the EU's Digital Services Act will display developer's contact information (address and phone number) on app store listings in the EU. It's not clear to me what problem this is solving, and this is going to be a fairly large privacy concern for many small businesses.
Giving certain monopolies complete control over the industry and not letting competition in which drives down the prices for consumers is anything but "protecting workers' wages."

You don't work if you are getting 0 rides because they're too expensive for end-user. What wages?
I have to agree in a sense.

Maybe one thing necessary for having a 'sense of self' is the ability to recognise and reflect on how you relate to other things. The experiment described seems to be implying that having no such relationships but still the ability is enough. I don't think it is.

Following on from this, do LLMs have this ability or is it more likely that they simply appear to?

Even if some form of AI could recognise and reflect on how it relates to other things, what is there to differentiate how it treats relationships between other things and relationships between itself and other things? Could you not just program it to define 'itself' as some other node in that network of relationships, and wouldn't that just invalidate any argument that it ever really has a sense of self?

Obviously I'm just thinking out loud here and assuming that a 'sense of self' is a necessary part of any definition for consciousness.
Apollo was the only way I used Reddit - the browser experience is meh, and I’m almost always using Old Reddit when I go there on desktop or mobile because it’s just easier to get what I’m looking for. Once Old gets the axe I’m sure I’ll be there even less than I am now.

It’s a bummer too - I think my weekly screen time report had me using Apollo on average like 6 hours a day, I was very active in a couple small and fun communities, and the places with news relevant to me were all subbed and easily surfaced. Losing my primary tool was all it took to take me from a pretty engaged and active user to someone who stops by because a search result took me there.
Full-featured stealth aircraft haven't been employed - so far as we know - in an offensive capacity inside a peer's air defense system, which is the "high threat" regime. The 1999 F-117 shootdown was accomplished with a 1961 S-125 (NATO SA-3 Goa) missile system, attack mass, some good tactics, and good old fashioned American overconfidence. 1961 vintage - even in 1999 - is definitely not a peer air defense. Current thought today is that - with enough stealth - you can enter even very highly defended zones.

Speaking personally, I'm skeptical of stealth's utility against a peer power. Automation, very smart software, and cheap electronics will just be too dense, and the attacking platform is too expensive for the elevated level of risk. Some stealth is useful, to break locks . . but I think the ceiling of usefulness might be lower than we suspect. Whatever the real answer is, my own hope is that the powers-that-be will be capable of changing their minds in the face of accurate reports and analysis. "Being able to change your mind quickly" might be the best skill for a peacetime military to have.

On that front, I'm not filled with confidence. This all smells a little bit like the precision bombing advocates of the interwar period (1920-1943). There are many who, to this day, maintain that the pre-1943 daylight precision bombing campaigns were effective in their stated mission, in spite of all findings to the contrary. Pre-1943 (before the H2X "Micky" radar groundmap bombsight) we were extraordinarily lucky if a bomb hit a point target (not helped at all by the near-fraudulent behavior of Norden and the NBoO), and even if it did, it didn't disable it, because factories are pretty tough and enormous. If we can't talk about something after seventy years, how likely are we to see truth of something happening right in front of our faces?
The epidemic of 'overwork' is a dangerous illusion
>> I would have assumed its from the rise of gig workers using private cars.

It is not in West/Fargo. There is almost no rideshare capacity (there are a couple people) and the taxis use their own wash. Even Google does not capture the new 12 washes that have appeared in the last 18 months. Some of them can't staff and are closed much of the time. Especially during winter, when you want washes, it seems like land improvement. Add sewer, power, water, network to undeveloped land as a "business". Hold for a decade. Profit.
But did you read it after reading the upper case? And are you an American?

It's the same text as the upper case version and it's the Declaration of Independence, which a lot of us know pretty well. I initially tricked myself into believing that I could read it until I got past the part that I knew well, at which point I realized that I wasn't reading it so much as using the shapes as a mnemonic to help remember it.

(As an aside, it's not nitpicky to say "I can't read this font that bills itself as the smallest readable font", it's just an expression of doubt as to the advertised qualities of the font.)
I don’t think so, but wouldn’t something like replit make this possible to run online?
Ideally to optimize for long-term prosperity of the area while taking the needs of the greater community into account.
I think this is for component manufacturers, a bit like Arduino IDE for windshield wipers and left front blinker circuits.

Reflashing automotive ECU with open source firmware isn’t going to make a lot of sense, many still use OTP ROMs and even sometimes real hardwired ROMs.
Isn't that... the same thing as search?
The architecture of the model is open source. Not just the weights. You can run the entire thing locally.
I don’t see difference here.

Userbase and their social networks and interactions is the data.

They don’t have much value from advertising point of view anymore.
Dial ups, war dialing, and telnet were peak internet as a child.
> If a property in a residential area is being used 100% of the time to rent, it’s a business.

I don't think that's what zoning laws actually say. My understanding that zoning laws are about the primary use of the property by whoever is actually using it, not who owns it. So a single family home is residential because someone lives there, regardless of whether that person owns the home or is renting it.

Also, what about apartments? Those are zoned residential even though the actual owners are almost certainly not living there, and even if they are they aren't occupying more than a tiny portion of the total living space available.
The phrase merely means dont just overlook something because someone else who did not even labour over the end result.
An LLM cannot do this. I don’t even mean this in a formal sense, because your problem is addressed by Rice’s Theorem, which places bounds on what any system (LLM or not) can do here; I mean it in the sense that an LLM isn’t even appropriate to use here because the best it can possibly do is provide you with its best guess at the answer. And while this might be a useful property for decompilation in general that’s not what was being discussed here.