skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Come on, that's not reasonable to expect from a company, or useful for indie hackers. Having weights that can be used however you like is enough for most people, even large companies.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Permutation_City
I'm a little out of touch, is there a way to see how Grok measures up to other models?
The lowercase "s" is only 4 px tall. The "f" and "y" add 2 px above and below, so the total reserved height must be 8px. Then 2 more px for whitespace, so 10.
You learn to read it, or at least I did as a child trying to use a small font on the c64 when connected to BBSs, so I could see ascii art without wrapping. It takes reminders like this to realize how awash in high density pixels we are now.
It’s a simple any easy way to donate which you can start and stop and any time without handing over any financial details. You could, for example just decide to crank it up when your solar panels are generating an excess and the export rate is low.
A drone can’t carry a missile as big as a typical SAM.
The problem is always hubris, which leads to a distorted
conceit of "progress" which can actually be regressive.

Whether it's weapons or civilian technology like smartphones,
automobiles, or a "cashless society" we know there are side effects,
and unknowns. But we choose to focus on only the rosy, optimistic
side.

For most of us that is pandering to laziness, convenience, low-effort
and less thinking. For those involved in making money, the negatives
are far away in space and time, so they can always kick the can down
the road.

This is how supremacy becomes weakness.

Money buys a louder voice and drowns out cautious minds with
better vision of the long-term future and marginal scenarios. They are
Cassandras. Luddites.

Those with experience are dismissed as old and irrelevant.

Hubris leads to absolute dependency and complacency.

In a long enough time-line we'll always encounter an accident or
enemy using older "low-tech". The greatest threat to our security
is always our own hubris. Sadly I see buckets of it here on HN.
> I've twice exported my password database to try other password managers.

Have you done that on just an iPhone? Last I checked you need a Mac. So iPhone users have to by another Apple product to leave the Apple ecosystem in way that doesn't require you to unlock your password settings multiple times to transfer each password.
I know about OpenCores, but it consists of, well, cores. I’m looking for fully realized projects, with controller, glue logic, external interfaces, test benches, multiple hardware realizations, all the tedious stuff you have to do to make a working version>1 device. That is, what do you do with the cores? To me it seems analogous to the difference between a B-tree library and PostgreSQL. White Rabbit looks great, thanks for the pointer!
How are people's experience with this model? Having the most weights is one thing but being a better model than the 70B models is another.
The great thing about torrents is that you (or anyone else who cares) can single-handedly solve the problem you're complaining about by seeding the torrent.
GitHub have a soft repository size limit of 5GB, documented here: https://docs.github.com/en/repositories/working-with-files/m...

Soft size limit means "If your repository excessively impacts our infrastructure, you might receive an email from GitHub Support asking you to take corrective action." - I know people who have received such emails.

Most model releases happen through Hugging Face which does not have such a size limit.
> The only apps that require a bit more work / expertise are apps that require integrity checks (ie. google wallet).

"A bit more work" but only for now... There is a loophole (spoofing the device fingerprint with the one of an old model where non-hardware attestation is still accepted) but Google is starting to ban those models and it's only a matter of time until they're all banned.
Only if you are really lucky with the lab. The overall academic culture is toxic, especially to people without academic credentials.
CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md has only five words. :)
People will put up with a lot of bullshit if they think the bulshitter is wealthy and they may benefit.
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Business seems like a logical place to transition to.

You don't like how business is done in your sector? Start a private company and change how the game is played.

I've been listening to some interviews lately with Todd McFarlane[0]. He talks a lot about why he created his various companies and why he could never take any of them public. In one example, he bought a $3m baseball as a loss leader to get into making toys for MLB. He made back his money many times over, but he never would have been allowed to if he had been accountable to shareholders.

[0]: https://tim.blog/guest/todd-mcfarlane/
That still means a fairly low concentration overall. It's not as if it's going to make a solid lead mushroom.
The interface between analog and digital signals is weird science
Does this include the difference in CO2 emissions in replacing heat pumps vs furnaces over different life expectencies..?
Funny, we're going the other direction, for much the same reasons. I suppose different organizations have different needs and Dell is moving in the wrong direction for us, while SuperMicro seems to deliver in the areas we value.
> Even among pirates, file-sharing is no longer as relevant as it once was. Most pirate sites today are streaming-based and BitTorrent lost pretty much all of its ‘market share’ there too.

It seems like having a NAS full of music and movies is starting to become “Grandpa Technology.” To people who have become utterly reliant on streaming, I’d ask: what happens when the pirate stream is taken down, or the (legit) Netflix removes it from their library, or your Internet goes down, or any other event that causes a denial of access? To me, “files on disk” is still the simplest and most reliable way to collect/consume media. The apocalypse could come, and as long as I have a power source, I’ll have access to my 80’s New Wave Hits playlist.

It seems so weird to voluntarily replace that with something as fragile and inter-dependent as streaming, but maybe I’m just an old man set in his ways.
Well if nothing else, this one might be significantly less nerfed. Very interesting to compare to the others.
Midjourney bets it can beat the copyright police
I want to point out that the Genmitsu 3018 desktop CNC that their $4400 microscope is based on is $330 on Amazon. It's hard not to recognize.

I think one could assemble the remaining optical path and camera for less than the remaining $4070.

Well, I know so, because, I did exactly that several years ago with a telecentric lens form Edmunds and a industrial C-mount camera back and an even cheaper 3018 CNC for automated inspection and archival scanning of PCBs. (telecentric lens due to the boards being populated with components, this helps capture them without focus stacking and without perspective).
It is unsightly and structurally unsound.
Yes, I've got the camera bodies, the macro lens, some historical experience stitching the pictures together to form panoramas, and I've just gotten into microscopy and am pretty sure I've got the microscope base he's using too. So I can see an alternative universe where I wrote this xD.

One of the first things I thought when I started was "how can I get the big camera onto the microscope" and the embarrassing conclusion I came to, is if you've got an expensive phone you can get cheap plastic adaptors and just attach it to the microscope body. Basic stereo microscopes are incredibly cheap these days, as are the phone attachments. I use droidcam obs to stream video so I don't even have to physically look into the microscopes any more. The main thing is going into the phone and getting some practice getting everything on manual so phone photo software doesn't do funky things.

My use case is slightly different, but the underlying principles are the same and I'm pretty sure the microscope hardware is identical to that in the post, so rather than rigging up a custom attachment to the expensive camera, I just rig up the phone camera to the already existent hardware of the microscope.

See crab spider for example of one of my earliest tests: https://imgur.com/xLS07WY
I've mainly been a full stack dev for most of my career, though I do have a some experience in low-level domains. Lately, I have been mulling over if I want to jump into different field of development.

I know Rust is gaining traction, and I have always found languages like assembly, C/C++ to be more enjoyable than the higher level languages. So, I might try and take a stab at Rust and see where it can take me. I'm just so fatigued from all the web dev stuff. The whole field feels too scatter-brained to me.

Instead of trying to solve useful problems, I feel like much of web dev's frameworks are just focused solving an already solved problem with slightly differing and dogmatic opinions.
"Be excellent to each other."
Sorry, but as someone who has had to use them, lead-free solders are garbage. They are difficult to work with, require higher temperatures to use, don't last as long, whisker and destroy equipment they're used in.

This is all well known, it's not a mystery, and lead in solder is the least of the problems with lead in the world today.
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Obviously school puts you further ahead. Human development is based on writing, teaching, and then expanding from there.

The entire point of having a structured approach to teaching (and this includes apprenticeships and the like), is to accelerate the process of learning.
my french grandmother used to say that girls whistling made the holy virgin weep
They’re from “Bill and Ted’s Excellent Adventure”
I've found it to be significantly better for code than GPT-4 - I've had multiple examples where the GPT-4 solution contained bugs but the Claude 3 Opus solution was exactly what I wanted. One recent example: https://fedi.simonwillison.net/@simon/112057299607427949

How well models work varies wildly according to your personal prompting style though - it's possible I just have a prompting style which happens to work better with Claude 3.
Would seem more obtuse to me to assume that a gain of 14% for mice in a lab-situation would translate to a similar gain for humans in a real-life situation.
People who BS well are unfazed by the implausibilities in what they are saying, and that's probably because a good chunk of them don't think it through that far: they remain cool not just by adopting that attitude as a strategy, but also because they actually don't perceive the implausibilities.
I'm working on a project that is meant to provide a migration path for people like you: https://github.com/mushroomlabs/fediverser.

The idea is that Lemmy instance admins can use this service alongside their Lemmy server to provide two things:

- "Login with Reddit", to make it easier for people to create an account on the Lemmy server.
- A reddit-to-lemmy community map.

The idea is that when someone logs with Reddit OAuth, we can get their list of subreddits, and then auto-subscribe the user to the corresponding Lemmy communities, solving the onboarding issue and the content discovery in one go.

There is also a website, https://fediverser.network, where I'm crowdsourcing the data to make the mapping between subreddits to lemmy communities.
... and now you have Mojo::Base which is kind of like Moo lite with batteries included. Last week I was concurrently programming some Mojo::Base stuff and some python stuff with cached properties, and I way more enjoyed the salience of my intention in the perl code.
You wouldn't. As the originator of the prompt, the human user is the best judge of whether the prompt accurately captures their intent.
I've noticed that conversations about "consciousness" tend to go in circles because the participants are using different definitions of the word without realizing it.

Some people use the word "conscious" almost interchangeably with terms like "intelligent", "creative", or "responds to stimuli". Then people start saying things like LLMs are conscious because they pass the turing test.

However, others (including the authors of this paper and myself) use the term "consciousness" to refer to something much more specific: the inner experience of perceiving the world.

Here's a game you can play: describe the color red.

You can give examples of things that are red (that other people will agree with). You can say that red is what happens when light of a certain wavelength enters your eyeball. You can even try saying things like "red is a warm color", grouping it with other colors and associating it with the sensation of temperature.

But it is not possible to convey to another person how the color red appears to you. Red is completely internal experience.

I can hook a light sensor up to an arduino and it can tell me that an apple is red and that grass is not red. But almost no one would conclude that the arduino is internally "experiencing" the color red like they themselves do.

While the paper is using this more precise definition of consciousness, it seems to be trying to set up a framework for "detecting" consciousness by comparing external observations of the thing in question to external observations of adult human beings, who are widely considered by other adult human beings to be conscious entities [1]. I don't see how this approach could ever produce meaningful results because consciousness is entirely an internal experience.

[1] There is a philosophical idea that a person can only ever be sure of their own consciousness; everyone else could be mindless machines and you have no way of knowing (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solipsism). Also related is the dead internet theory (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dead_Internet_theory).
He also called permissively licensing Tesla's patents "open sourcing" them. He's at the forefront of misusing the term.
When it says "based on open source"
does that mean that they used open-source tools (in part)
to build a close sourced proprietary operating system?
If you have electricity you are not really in realm of low tech. I would consider mechanical human powered(not bike with generator) to be low tech. And those might make sense if you value that type of thing and don't want easiest way out...
Of the recent deaths of my friends and family (a middle age thing) 90% of them were due to a heart attack no matter what other problems they had. Some seemingly had no health issues other than old age.

Of the people I know of who live well mid and old age all are active daily. I've gone from an active job to a sedentary office job so I am in mortal danger. I'm in the worst shape of my life at an age when that is very bad. Motivation is zero. I had gone to the gym for 20 years but for social and work reasons I an anxious to go back. I just do some light biking (20km to 30km x 2 or 3 days/wk) in the summer.

Even my Dad with terrible lung capacity was active; hockey games, light home repairs, fishing, grocery shopping, visiting family and friends. Even with his oxygen generator that barely got him there in the end. When he lost his mobility it was a quick downturn and he died only about six months later.

Be active daily at all costs.
citation needed (other than 'vibes')
The desktop version is still much more usable on mobile than the "mobile-friendly" version.
What's the magnification that you can get with such a setup?
I was hoping it would be "do not be an asshole", but I guess this is fine too.
They are refusing because of the previous over-pumping.
My favorite is SQLite's code of ~~conduct~~ ethics: https://sqlite.org/codeofethics.html
LLM evals on labeled data
Not yet, but once the bridges are set up, you will be able to find the content on the Fediverse (it's stored in the mirrors) and you'll be able to reach the people no matter where they are.
The footnotes for the article are in the first comment. The author put a humorous footnote about being pedantic.
The Ugandan adventures of two hyper-realistic biorobots
Any idea if this helps with carpal tunnel syndrome?
Claude > GPT4. Anyone using these models on a daily basis knows this
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Most benchmarks use GPT4 as the grader. What does your benchmark use and do you believe that this causes any bias in the results?
Aftering watching the SpaceX launch video, I couldn't help but expected the burner itself to be on a gimbal. Of course, it makes more sense the way it is, but I'm part of me is still a bit disappointed.
I am always excited to hear about new operating systems
because we desperately need to move on from where we are
stuck now.

Just the other day we had several stories about a new
interesting operating system DBOS that was closed source
proprietary for profit.

This also seems to be closed source proprietary for profit.

Nothing inherently wrong with it, but I wish i could play with
them at home.
Opens sourced operating systems seem t obe losing ground.
tbh, I've never seen anyone share anything interesting produced by Grok. I see plenty of posts on X and reddit of people sharing amazing things that GPT-4 and now Claude 3 Opus can do. Grok can roast people. That's pretty much all I've seen.

I'd love to proven wrong if someone cares to share something interesting produced by Grok.
Supermicro does offer board variants without the IPMI feature. I'd argue that most people who are buying the variants with IPMI are planning to utilize the feature..

The sideband feature also tends to be associated with an interface on the board that is considered the non dedicated IPMI "management" interface. Use one of the other onboard NIC ports or an PCI-E NIC like x550-T2, etc.
> I've come to believe arguments from analogy are pretty much inherently fallacious.

Good luck with that. Pretty much all arguments are by analogy. That's how you determine if a generalized rule applies to a specific instance.
Maybe it should be called something else? "Openly-licensed"?

Just because the model weights are not really "source" (either as a matter of intuition or for example following the OSI "preferred form in which a programmer would modify the program" definition).
XAI's Grok's weights are finally open
Edited, I did mean the Grok in the article not the inference chip.
Once they're faster and cheaper, it'll probably end up a standard pattern taught in school.
No git would be impossible. I’ve never seen a repo even a few GB in size, if you are uploading non code files you really should not be using git. Git is a version management software for code. I often see repos which images and even videos checked in, please don’t, there are so many far better and more performant solutions out there.

The other approach would be to use AWS S3 or other cloud providers which would cost them money every time someone downloads their code, which is not their prerogative to pay for when they are releasing something for free. Torrents seems like the only good solution, unless someone hosts this on the cloud for free for everyone.
After build you have bare metal, no rust remains.
> Remember when ads on Google were highlighted with a big yellow block?

https://kagi.com/signup
Sing it with me: ♫ Cal-i-forn-i-a! No doubt about it! ♫

I think you need a notarized document from the county in order to simply gaze at your property in this state.
Nice rhetorical device.

Now, could we try some strategic empathy, learn about other people around the world, why they despise us, and maybe try to arrest the collapse of the West?

Or are we ok with just snarky mismanaged decline?
Realtors have a lot of power.

In many states, they have enough power that they have outlawed a-la-carte brokers, but they can save you a lot of money.

An a-la-carte broker charges fixed fees for specific services instead of getting a commission. We sold our last house that way, and paid a flat fee for MLS listing. We still had to pay for the buyer's agent commission to entice buyer's agents to show the house to their clients.

This settlement will hopefully help with this. It's too bad the settlement didn't require flat fee for service instead of percentage, but I won't have to worry about paying the so called buyer's agent anymore when selling.
If they are so behind they could make it open source instead of open weights and get some help.
This is no different than "my grandmother smoked a pack every day and lived to 130."

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On a related note, I love posting this study https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamanetworkopen/fullarticle...

Look at Figure 2C in particular. The hazard ratio of smoking is 1.41. The hazard ratio between "Low" (<25th percentile) and "Below Average" (25th-49th percentile) cardiovascular health is 1.95.

In other words, it is better to be a smoker than in the lower 25% of non-exercisers. By far. It's not even close.
I mean, it's why the poor people I know can't get bank accounts; in fact, it's the only reason I know why the system exists. Ever wonder why so many places advertise check cashing services (for a fee obviously), a service that your bank gives you for free? Those payday lender places don't just do predatory loans, they also have things like prepaid debit cards (also for a fee) that those who aren't able to use the banking system (usually because a few overdraft fees get out of hand) can use to interface with modern society. As I said, I've had to navigate friends/family through this, so I've got a pretty practical grasp of the system.
Most likely it's a MoE of Grok-0 which would be 8x33B + 50B for the router.
A minimal Alpine Linux install is what — 10MB?

A minimal Debian/AlmaLinux install is closer to 1G.

What did we gain with 100X the space, larger attack surface, and configuration complexity?

Even hardware is this way…

Look at the weight and power requirements of a SFF PC.

Then look at a blade server… Still requires heavy steel case, heavier than SFF PC because it’s larger, only job is to fit into heavy steel enclosure. Enclosure requires beefy steel rack to handle weight.

Every layer makes logical sense but the end result does not!!

Older NAS servers held multiple 3.5” drives (heavy), requiring big power supply. Now a plastic clip holds NVMe drives onto a motherboard — no steel!
>> What's the best way to exit tech?

Harakiri!! :))

Otherwise getting serious the best approach would be to take a few alternative jobs part time, just to get a taste of the other side. Stacking shelves at Target. Truck driver, butt in the seat for 12-16 hours (illegal technically but if you don't do it you're out of the job), piss in a bottle, away from home for weeks at end. Sales, not hearing a word of kindness your entire existence only how you're missing targets and hang on a thread. Become a hermit and go live in the woods for a while.

You might be dreaming of grass being greener on the other side but my point is that it's mostly brown. Shitty brown, that is.
"Base model trained on a large amount of text data, not fine-tuned for any particular task."

Presumably the version they've been previewing on Twitter is an instruction-tuned model which behaves quite differently from these raw weights.
Just wait until you hear about most ecommerce platforms doing `SELECT * FROM` just to display 2 columns.