skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm 35, got my start in FOSS by working on Handbrake at 17 when ffmpeg was added.

There, I learned that you're supposed to credit projects you depend on, especially ones you depend on heavily.

I don't know why you keep finding ways to dismiss this simple fact. (really? spelling? on Saturday morning!?!? :D).

Especially with a strong record of open source contributions yourself.

Especially when your project is a classic example of A) building around llama.cpp and crediting it. I literally was thinking about llamafile when I wrote my original comment, before I realized who I was replying to.

I'm really trying to find a communication bridge here because I'm deeply curious, and I'd appreciate you doing the same if I'm lucky enough to get a reply from your august personage again. (seriously! no sarcasm!) My latest guesses:

- you saw this post far after the early tide of, ex., exaggerating for clarity, "anyone got the leak on the deets on how these wizards did this?!?!?! CUDA going down!"

- You're unaware Ollama _does not mention or credit llama.cpp at all_. Not once. Never. Google search query I used to verify my presumption is `site:ollama.com "llama.cpp"`. You will find that it is only mentioned in READMEs of repos of other peoples models, mentioning how they quantized.

- You're unaware this is an ongoing situation. Probably the 3rd thread I've seen in 3 months with decreasing #s of people treating it like a independent commercial startup making independent breakthroughs, and increasing #s of people being like "...why are you still doing this..."

For those unfamiliar, this is how jart's llamafile project credits llama.cpp, they certainly don't avoid it altogether, and they certainly don't seem to think its unnecessary. (source: https://github.com/Mozilla-Ocho/llamafile)

- 2nd sentence in README: "Our goal is to make open LLMs much more accessible to both developers and end users. We're doing that by combining ___llama.cpp___ with Cosmopolitan Libc into one framework"

- 21 mentions in README altogether.

- Under "How llamafile works", 3 mentions crediting llama.cpp in 5 steps.

- Announcement blog post: 4 mentions, Justine co-authored it. https://hacks.mozilla.org/2023/11/introducing-llamafile/
It seemed like Sam Altman was trying to do this himself. That may be some or all of why he got fired from OpenAI in the first place.

Doing the chip making thing under OpenAI's auspices reads a bit differently than Sam Altman trying to do both separately. It felt to me like trying to start your own thing while also working for OpenAI would be fraught with impossible to juggle conflicts of interest.
Very cool. I always find doing these kinds of toy projects is a great way of dipping your toes in the deep end of a new subject.
Same experience here. The Web’s excellent for a handful of (important!) topics but kiddie-pool shallow for many others. You quickly run out of Web resources and have to hit interlibrary loan or books stores to keep going.

It’s telling that probably the single most-valuable store of knowledge on the web is… a book piracy website. And even that’s missing tons of stuff.
If you have the resources to run a model locally, you can try ControlNet with a reference image. If you dial the strength up enough, it will coerce the model into spelling correctly(at the cost of the generated image looking an awful lot like the reference image: font/size/etc.)
Except that LLMs are going to eat into everything white collar. Law, medicine, writing, common office tasks, etc. Beyond that, a function calling chat interface enables a class of application that couldn't exist without it.
Will Ladybird make an appearance in Web Engines Hackfest this year?
I taught the course during the initial part of Covid, so the material ended up not being organized - split between different systems. But here are some of the books/papers that I sourced class readings from

* Brian Winston - Media technology and society a history: from the telegraph to the Internet, Routledge (1998)

* James Gleick - The Information A History, a Theory, a Flood (2011, Pantheo)

* Michael G. Raymer - The Silicon Web: Physics for the Internet Age, CRC Press (2009)

* Simon Singh - The Code Book: How to Make It, Break It, Hack It, Crack It (2003)

https://www.jstor.org/stable/43737424
I only know of YC because of HN. I know nothing about YC except it seems to be one of the many incubators where you pay them handsomely one way or the other in the hopes they can get you off the ground. I guess like the self help section of an old bookstore.
You replied directly to a comment about currency, and replaced the word "currency" with "gold". How is that not comparing gold to a currency?
See my answer here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39728134
> I theorise that dreams are more garbled than we realise [...] and that memories of dreams are actually post-hoc reconstructions formed at the point of waking

I theorize that our experience of life is more garbled than we realize, and that memories of life are actually post-hoc reconstructions formed at the point of recall.
I've been at software companies where similar usability issues commonly came up because they weren't treated as a priority. Based on my experience, this feels like a lack of user-oriented testing/qa more than a lack of hardware consideration.

That being said, I know the testing cycle is way more tedious to actually do with devices, so it makes sense corners get cut. It's so much easier to send QA a URL than a custom flashed device.
> people talk about the screen display being “not great”

That's not what the reviews I have read had to say.

> The Vision Pro can produce a virtual external display for any modern Mac...
The virtual display feels responsive and works with connected keyboard or mouse peripherals. The text is highly readable.

I don’t have any complaints about how the virtual display itself works—it’s great.

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/03/i-worked-exclusively...
The article reads in a very weird way. Like padding out an essay or LLM.

They say piracy has moved on to being streamed. So why isn’t web torrent bigger?

https://github.com/webtorrent/webtorrent?tab=readme-ov-file
It's the dataset most of the images that were tagged don't have the text shown in the captions. We do a lot of car loras and if you tag the shown text as an example on the numberplate you can prompt/replace it in your prompt without problem.

Newer models like cascade or SD 3 are using multimodal llms to caption images including text. Dall-E was at the forefront because they had access to gpt4-vision before everyone else. You will see that all new models will be able to spell. The problems we see are still mostly because of gigo.
I went to grad school.
> The author points out that for binary machine code, the only notion of a quine that makes sense is for the executed code to output its own binary.

That’s not really true, though. A quine is a program that outputs its own source code, not a program that outputs itself in binary form. I’d therefore argue though that a “proper” quine should in this case output not the actual ASCII bytes, but the hex code for the bytes. After all, that is how they were typed in—the source code, so to speak. We wouldn’t expect a C quine to output anything but the actual C source code that was typed in, so why is this any different?

The normal recursive flow for a quine is source code -> (interpreter | compiler) -> execution -> source code. A program that literally outputs an executable version of itself doesn’t really meet that definition. I’m not sure what it is, but I don’t think it’s accurate to call it a quine.
Do you not think your view of Bitcoin is a bit fogged when a fintech dev gives good criticism and your response is "educate yourself"
Hackintosh is almost dead
> 1st Iphone did extremely well

Citation needed. The 1st gen iPhone sold 6 million units over two years. The Nokia N95 (not a super mainstream device, but in a similarish price category) sold 10M. Other Nokia phones of the time period sold 100+ million devices. BlackBerry, LG, and Sony/Ericcson was in the tens of millions per device model.

Let’s not forget:

1. The iPhone didn’t support 3G, which essentially all other phones of a similar price point had

2. Was only available for AT&T customers in the US (then still known as Cingular Wireless)

3. Cost significantly more ($500-600 w/ two year contract) than the average consumer paid for phones (almost always under $150 with contract, but usually “free”) at the time.

4. No App Store

5. No cut and paste

6. No removable battery

7. No physical keyboard (a positive for me, but was a deal breaker for so many back then)

That’s not to say the original iPhone wasn’t amazing in many ways, but let’s also remember the past accurately.
triton the DSL.
Unless you're stuffing orbit to the point of having an interceptor within every couple of sqkm (so millions if not billions of them, with active navigation of course), orbit is not a great place to put interceptors. They can't just sit over a location, so any given interceptor would on average be ~45 minutes away from the missile.

On the other hand, if you're talking about having Starship launch interceptors in response to an incoming missile, it's entirely the wrong kind of rocket for the purpose. Being cryo-fueled makes it unrealistic to keep it sitting ready for launch, and it has way too low of a TWR for missile defense purposes. Missile defense systems need very high TWR, and hypergolic or solid fueled rockets, which can sit around fueled for years on end.
In my experience you need a pretty high tolerance and smoke pretty regularly for it to start preventing dreaming. When I intentionally reduced my tolerance to very low levels I started having dreams again.
There's very little incentive for an OTA broadcast station to offer a stream. These stations are always claiming to work on constrained budgets (what company doesn't?). They can't just air the same ads on the stream they do OTA, so there's that loss of revenue on top of the additional cost of hosting the streams. Replacing the ads in the stream with streaming friendly ads comes at an additional tech cost too, plus you need to either hire people to run it or pay someone to manage it for you. Also, you can typically find all of the content via other streaming platforms, so the station may not even have streaming rights for the content they have broadcast rights for
Fifty Things you can do with a Software Defined Radio
I’m just telling you what he told me.
zero cost abstractions exist. doesn't mean all abstractions are zero-cost. or being zero-cost somehow invalidates their abstractness/genericness. but maybe we differ on the definition of abstractions.
If that's not your argument then please explain yourself instead of shy-ing away from your argument. How are gold and currency related?
This isn't a scientific answer, but it feels pretty intuitive to me that writing and drawing are very different skills.

If an AI that could draw was also able to write, that would be artificial general intelligence. And pretty much everyone seems to agree we don't have that yet.
> An appropriate analogy is an illiterate artist.

Or tattoos with Chinese/Japanese characters. More often than not they use the "wrong" character (even if it is technically correct) and the calligraphy is considered not artistic by native speakers.
Zero shot is wrong, but that definition is commonly used.

Zero shot is testing out if distribution, not just "a task" not trained on. The later is ill defined.

The original definition comes from a few papers. But the classic example is a clarifier recognizing zebras but having never been trained in zebras (but may have been trained on horses). There's are out of distribution. But importantly, out of the implicit distribution, not the target distribution.

The common improper usage usually confuses these two. A simple example might me training in 256x256 images and testing on 1024x1024. That's still in the implicit distribution (as long as the classes are identical). A very common example is training on a large dataset like LAION and then testing on coco or image net 1k. This is not zero shot because the classes in ImageNet are in LAION (and in Coco). Basically, this is a useless definition because then any validation or test set is zero shot because those were never seen in the training data and thus out of the training distribution. But remember that data sets are proxies for larger distributions.

Where is can get sometimes tricky is tasks (emergence has entered the chat). For example, you may not intend to train a generative model to do clarification but you probably did (it's very clear -- in the math -- if you're training density models (KLD, score, etc)). This can get hairy because it's very easy to train a model to do things that you aren't realizing you are and later find out. Some people can get upset about this but it's the nature of frameworks that have low interpretability. There's still a lot of mathematics we need to learn and it tends not to be an explicit focus in ML but there are plenty in the community focused on this.
> Should we as humanity stop right here? Draw a line in the sand and not do anything new?

Maybe someone with the knowledge of hindsight in a few generations will say that, yes, we should stop and draw a line in the sand.

We are still used to the idea that we can treat externalities to the systems we build as infinite and boundless, while it is getting increasingly clear that they are not. I am not saying we should stop working on LLMs. I just say we probably should factor in (that means: assign economic value to) downstream consequences of said high energy consumption if we don't wanna destroy our own habitats. And that then would probably lead to a world where LLMs are used for actually important problems instead of furthering the goals of the few who truly profit from surveillance-capitalism.

But hey, let's continue wasting a years worth of energy on training LLMs on cat pictures, they are cute after all.
A portable and affordable braille reader would be great. I had a couple of blind students in my calculus course a couple years ago, and screen readers are just not a good substitute (too slow and hard to understand when there are a mix of words and equations). This is especially the case in timed assessments like exams and quizzes, but even for homework it is a serious obstacle for the students.

Now, if there were only a FOSS tool to compile tex into Nemeth...
See also Piratensender Powerplay for a fascinating... documentary... on the topic.
It's too easy to create an impressive demo right now, yet be very far from solving the problem. Humans set the bar on driving ability incredibly high. Humans achieve 500k miles between collisions on average. The tesla FSD tracker https://www.teslafsdtracker.com has been showing that most versions of FSD are well under 200 miles between critical intervention with one version achieving up to 300 but dropping back down in the next release.

We don't have data on 12 yet, but it seems exceedingly unlikely they've been able to close a 3 order of magnitude gap in one release to match human ability.

I say this as an owner of FSD. It has moments where it does amazing things and moments that make me shake my head. I like it for highways, but driving in a city is too stressful to be more than a toy right now.
Gold has always been a currency, it is a currency right now and it will be a currency for all future. That's why central banks deal in gold, while the serfs pay interest for fake paper money. Not the entire world is shackled and under military or police threat. You could also free yourself, if you research how to. Even without using any bitcoin nor gold.
Isn't this some sort of Dunning–Kruger effect?

I.e. BS:ers don't think the listeners understand they are full of BS, so they are more likely to push BS.
Groveling over a core dump from deep space! The old timers are in heaven.
> The brilliant pebbles were supposed to be stationed in orbit. What I'm talking about is simply an upgrade of the current ground based missile defense

How would that work?

Starship uses cryogenic fuel, and thus isn't something you can keep on active standby for years at a time, ready to be launched with a few minutes notice. It takes hours for a Starship to be loaded with liquid oxygen and prepared for launch. By the time you finished getting it ready for launch, it would have been nuked by the other side's second wave.

The only way Starship could be practically useful for missile defense is by launching some kind of defense system stationed in orbit.
These days, in large non-coastal cities, I've heard that it is often other than you would expect. In cities where there are large international airports, fish is flown in daily, to the point where the fish served in nicer restaurants will not be much less fresh than on the coast. The Denver Post article linked below goes into how fish is flown to Denver within hours of being caught, every day.

https://www.denverpost.com/2009/01/26/how-does-fish-get-from...
Maybe its ignorance then...
Good question! Things that'd help:

• a founders-duration copyright term – at most 28 years from date-of-creation

• absolute statutory & precedential immunity for any copies made, or DRM-circumventing-technologies created/used, solely for non-commercial preservation – that is, only competing witht the rightsholder in the commercial market would be prosecutable

• whatever extra protections/enforcement options available with formal copyright-registration also come with the duty to deposit/escrow full-quality unencumbered versions with multiple responsible preservation institutions, from the Library of Congress to NGOs, who are free to release those versions at end-of-copyright
Since it doesn't say it anywhere on the linked page or in the headline, from Wikipedia:

Capture the Flag (CTF) in computer security is an exercise in which participants attempt to find text strings, called "flags", which are secretly hidden in purposefully-vulnerable programs or websites.
Since RISC-V has also its roots in mips, maybe loongson should move to RISC-V for good with a x86/arm hardware translater.

All that to run binary distributed x86 apps...
Have you ever done your own projects at home? I had developed several applications at work but still had a bit of a learning curve when I set up my first personal project. I don't mean a toy project running locally, but something actually running on the web with multiple environments, databases, etc. Knowing how to do that end to end is pretty helpful. You might be surprised what you don't know.
Overcoming the Iotlb Wall for Multi-100-Gbps Linux-Based Networking
The fact your indication is very close to the original comment makes me wonder if this is alt-account behavior.
frankly i don’t really feel like all that much has changed since 2020 except for scale
It might be about buying time - if our side develops some dominating technology before they manage to reach parity in chips, then they won't have time to catch up.
I have never once encountered a piano keyboard in a dream with enough octaves to actually play. My dream self will now reliably recognize this and voice frustration at being stuck in a dream, unable to practice.
Hacking with Ramzi was great
PipeWire camera handling is now happening
It's not just "progress" vs "no progress". Some technical innovations, like leaded gasoline, have had more of a negative impact than a positive. It's not a binary, and not all technology is without cost.

The argument against current AI progress isn't anti-technology, it's pointing out that these things can have a hugely negative impact that's mostly being shouted down or swept under the rug in the name of "progress". The climate crisis is pretty serious business, and the AI power consumption is making it worse, not better. The risk of huge amounts of unemployment are being mostly handwaved away as "yeah, that's not gonna happen, we always make jobs out of somewhere".
Thanks, missed that detail. So the plane, when it becomes available, would be almost long enough for blades deployed off-shore today. (e.g. Siemens-Gamesa SG 14, 108m and 115m)
How would this work if I am turning left? I might not be behind another AV. Will the AVs see that I’m there and intend to turn left and yield? What if there is a non-AV in the oncoming lane?
Why do you bring up the authors like they're the primary ones being harmed? Most aren't making money to begin with because they get such a small piece of the pie. A typical contract might see them get 20-40% of the cut if they do the distribution and marketing themselves. The vast majority of authors are not professional writers as a result, it's just a side gig on top of other jobs. Authors also can't set their own prices (publishers and marketplaces have a big say) and depending on the terms, they may not get any meaningful royalties. This is common in academic publishing for example.
This isn’t ad hominem. I read every single thing they ever posted to HN (in context) before making that, quite frankly generous, assertion.
Its a perfect attack vector for Chinese hackers.
>I theorise that dreams are more garbled than we realise, filled with pseudo-language and incoherent vague impressions, and ambiguous images, and that memories of dreams are actually post-hoc reconstructions formed at the point of waking, and are not to be trusted.

This seems more like a post-hoc rationalization than a theory. If you can't trust memories of dreams, how can you even know you dream at all? What do you even base your assumptions on?
> Apple is going to force people to use its crappy AI models for some BS reason. Some bullshit about privacy or whatever.

Ah yes, I too dislike privacy or whatever.

/s

> In fact, what piece of software of theirs do you like to use that you aren't basically forced to?

Let's see, I use Mail, Calendar, Notes, and Books because they're good enough that I don't want to switch to something else. Final Cut Pro is excellent, I use it on both my Mac and my iPad.

My favorite piece of Apple software has to be Freeform I think. If I'm on a call with someone and need to sketch something out, I can just quickly open Freeform and do it from there. Even neater, I can open the same drawing on my iPad and use the Apple Pencil, which will sync in real time with the app on my Mac while on the call. And yeah Excalidraw exists, but Freeform has all of the nice Apple Pencil shortcuts that you can't get in Excalidraw.
Juicing isn’t extrusion.
It's a 497 MB file that compresses down to 83 MB with zstd. Is 83 MB so huge to transfer?

> not trivial to install

It's a single binary, there is nothing to install. If this isn't trivial to install I can't imagine installing anything else.
He just made it on-topic: https://github.com/mozilla/ichnaea/issues/2065#issuecomment-.... For real, that's acceptable to you?
Molecular index for biological age identified from the metabolome and secreteome
"Heuristic Analysis" kinda says it all. Antivirus like Kaspersky likes to block websites for whatever reason they like.
You can get a great control of all users entitlements to services onboard Azure, AWS, GCP, SAP and so on. This is not solved by IAM.
Yes, I know about flake.parts (didn't know about the other one).
But I'm not aware of the kind of libraries you mentioned.
There's FlakeHub[0], which is like a package index for flakes, so maybe we'll start to see there reusable stuff.

[0]: https://flakehub.com/flakes
So you mean that the AI ethics debate is in danger of being captured by charlatans...

I don't have an answer for this very legitimate concern. I agree it's an example of a wider category of problems. I hope the most recalcitrant audiences will take the matter seriously before we get to a situation where they need to deal with RoboCop in person.
Binary crisis!
Ron from flox.dev here, the note brought a lot of smiles across the team. We've been working on this for a while now and would love to hear if there is anything we can prioritize or do to keep making it better.
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