skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The term "open" has no agreed-upon definition in the context of AI

I'm pretty sure "open" is not clear because those big corporations decided to blur its definition. They decided that "open" sounds good and used the term liberally. They could have built a strong definition since they use the term, but they didn't, because it's just marketing for them.

Facebook is especially guilty for using "open source" to qualify something that should have a restricted number of users, however big this number is. With all the brilliant people and lawyers they must have, it's impossible they didn't do this on purpose.
GOSUB definitely popped into my mind too. Nice to see the other reply that goes into a bit more detail and the part about showing the "stack" in screen-memory.
We are finding there is a trade-off between model performance and hosting costs post-training. The optimal outcome is where we have a model that performs well on next-token prediction (and some other in-house tasks we've defined) that ultimately results in a model that we can host on the lowest-cost hosting provider rather than be locked in. I think we'd only go the proprietary model route if the model really was that much better. We're just trying to save our selves weeks/months of benchmarking time/costs if there was already an established option in this space.
I generated a song in 30 seconds from getting on the site, and generated a song that is crazy relatable, funny and sounds good. Made the whole family smile. This is going places.
That's either a lucky coincidence, or use of a pre-generated ./configure script, not Autotools.

If you're actually running the steps to regenerate the Makefile.in from Makefile.am, and configure from configure.ac, and all that, then you run into the version or version range checks.

For instance, I have working repo of GNU Make. In the generate Makefile there are lines like:

AUTOMAKE = ${SHELL} /home/kaz/make/build-aux/missing automake-1.16

The generated script missing is a wrapper for the program such as automate-1.16, which prints an error if it is missing. This version requirement comes from the file boostrap.conf:

# Build prerequisites
buildreq="\
autoconf 2.69
automake 1.16.1
"

These prereuisite versions are also mentioned in configure.ac:

AC_PREREQ([2.69])
# [ ... ]
AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE([1.16.1 foreign -Werror -Wall])

Literally, the Autotools source is asserting it must be processed by a certain version of the tools.

Needless to say, these lines change in the git history.
Babe, new cover of GNU General Public License v2.0 just dropped!
It's a concern even if you're using some other kind of ledger.

Absolutely. With no insight or verification, the ledger type doesn't much matter.

But the mere fact that they choose blockchain as a marketing gimmick makes this even more suspect in my mind.
It's a non-human algorithmic mish mash of a bunch of stuff, there is no human quality to it or years of effort to reach new heights. AI will not make "new" music in the sense that it will make a trumpet song that escapes our current understanding of a trumpets limit like how a once in a generation player will come along and move the ceiling up.

It's an omellete. There is no Dolly Parton behind an AI Jolene or a Michael Jackson turning a 4 track tape into a musical masterpiece. The journey and personalities are what contextualize the sound, without AI that context is gone. That's why I think it will just be used for cafes and things like that where they want to escape licensing fees.

As for consumers - I believe people will see AI music consumption as a way of supporting the new technological powers that be, and the act of listening to human-made music will have an element of counter-culture baked into it. I'm a professional musician and I have a very physical reaction to sound. Once I know it's AI my goosebumps fade.

Another lame incarnation of a tech that will also fade like crypto and everything else. The types of personalities who will leverage this tech are not the same personalities that make the greats.

I'm not worried.
I will never buy a car without CarPlay - it's that simple. I will likely buy an EV at some point but I will never buy a Tesla, Rivian or GM EV since they lack this essential feature. I like that all of my phone's relevant data is accessible and I don't have to do any sync. I listed to podcasts with the Overcast app on my iPhone - the CarPlay interface is excellent. I like having access to a choice of maps on the display.
exactly the opposite for me - i love pretty much everything she has written, but the earthsea cycle is by far my favourite. it captivated me from book 1, and just kept going from strength to strength (the second trilogy is somewhat different in feel from the first one, but just as good in its own way)
Song lyrics (generated by ChatGPT) based on the The Declaration of Independence.

https://app.suno.ai/song/a693c847-7ce6-475c-adc5-0328786b901...

Haha this is amazing!
>There is no percentage for proteins and yet nobody would argue that it's a trick from big food so clearly there must be a reason why some rows have no percentage?

Yeah it begs the question for sure. According to the Dietary Guidelines for Americans [1, pg128], the research shows that Americans have no problem consuming lots of meats that contain protein, and so it's probably not listed for that reason. I've even been taught simply that we eat too much protein as a country. Generally, the only major group that struggles with protein would be those aged 71 and over, because their requirements are higher than a middle-aged average adult.

IIRC the FDA picks and chooses to list daily %ages for things that most(?) Americans will struggle with, but there's also some voluntary options for manufacturers that might want to flaunt added vitamins - a good example is Vitamin C because no one struggles with this but when it's added to a children's gummy nutrition facts voluntarily it then gives them a slight marketing advantage.

[1] https://www.dietaryguidelines.gov/
That does make sense though.
Yes. You use twice as much electricity to go the same distance.

Gas cars lose efficiency in the cold too, but it’s less drastic. Only stats I can find are 15% loss at 20F (which is a lot warmer than -4F).

Also, charging tends to be much slower in the cold as batteries need to be warm to accept full charge rate. If you’re cruising on the highway it’s usually not too bad, but if you start from an overnight stop and then try to immediately charge the car you could be waiting for the battery to warm up.
Are you suggesting blacksmiths weren’t compensated for providing solvent?
Three-year-old's drawing posted on refrigerator: outsider art or not?

It seems that "outsider art" only really makes sense as "work produced by someone not participating in a certain socio-economic structure that some people have erected in connection with their art-related interests", which is a remark that has no value.

Someone doing "outsider art" is an outsider to something, but that something is not art itself.
That socio-economic structure is not art itself. The "outsider art" designation doesn't say anything about the art itself, only the circumstances of one who made it; it is a form of ad hominem. There is no such thing as "outsider art" just like "logical proposition uttered by a known liar" is not actually a real category of logical propositions, like "true proposition".

Art requires no membership in any club, or conformity to any shibboleths. Because art is a basic human expression; it doesn't require education, or discussion or anything else.

"Insider art" is not any more valid than "outsider art", because art doesn't require any conformance to a code. It's not like "outsider residential wiring", where someone who is not a trained and licensed electrician can make a code-violating mess that is unsafe. Becoming part of some millieu in connection with doing art is entirely optional.

The literal interpretation of "outsider art" is nonsensical, like this: "You may have produced a natural smell out of your anus, but since you have no formal education in it, don't follow influences of notable farters, and don't receive feedback on your work from connoiseurs of flatulence, it is 'outsider fart'."
I'm interested in the midcentury modern ones because they have lots of vertical rules. I'm active on the subreddit for LaTeX and there is a religion common there that even one vertical rule is an unforgivable abomination.
> Maybe I am missing something

I think you're missing something. Think about it.

Here is the White House's social media: https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/blog/

The US government is in the governing business. They are not a social media company and don't have the desire or resources required to become a social media company and attract the substantial user base they'd need to get people to pay attention.

> Is there anything about the bureaucracy that stops their some small team to setup a Mastodon server on "social.whitehouse.gov" and make this a reality?

I'm sure they've looked at doing that and probably decided that Mastodon is a relatively miniscule player and their efforts were better spent on the existing commercial social media platforms.

And they presumably get Mastodon coverage by hopping on Threads. (if that promise ever came to fruition. I don't know because I don't pay attention to Mastodon anymore, aside from looking at their MAU stats.
Summary:

This article is about a Python library called “Great Tables” that is focused on the display of tables for publication and presentation (not for interactive browsing).

The article does not specify which output format it supports.

Also you get some bonus historical context on tables.
Not necessarily unheard of though. Tesla is planning a 52 stall site at O'Hare. That will probably be ~6MW at peak.
There's nothing special in "AI". Open AI is just like all open source/free software: Publicly available complete training data, public weights, public training source code so that the weights can be replicated exactly, public inference code so that the weights can be used. All of this under reasonable free software licenses (i.e. FSF/OSI-approved).

Conceptually, the training data should be considered part of the source code. The weights are provided for practical purposes, because they are difficult to "compile".
Any company as big as Meta have teams working on optimisation (eg optimised kernels), usually with direct engagement with NVIDIA engineers.

These kind of things are usually only selectively shared.
Our findings are that RAG does not generalize well when critical understanding is shared over a large corpus of information. We do not think it is a question of either context length or retrieval. In our case it is very clearly capturing understanding within the model architecture itself.
How many hotels have sufficient charging capacity to charge EVs while people sleep?

A lot of hotels around here have 110v outlets in their parking lots for fishermen to charge their bass boats but I haven't heard that a similar ethic applies to EVs. :-)
I'm in the negative for my opinion but I'll still bite.

People don't live in houses on interest only mortgages, they use them as leveraged investment vehicles to speculate, rent out, and then roll them into even more leverage as time goes on.

I have nothing against classic mortgages where you pay the principle off, I have one myself, but I will maintain my opinion that interest only mortgages shouldn't exist despite the unpopularity.
well its been 5 hours and it doesn't seem like it has happened (yet).

But trust me, I understand the sentiment. Housing becoming increasingly unattainable is a issue on many levels, I just think that there are other, worse, contributing factors to the overall situation. Compromising on fire safety or other reasonable safety factors effectively won't help anybody when there still is an ever increasing amount of institutional investment hiking prices on the market.
Nicely done.

I need to admit the second step in the tutorial took me a while. It's not obvious the mixing tiles accept incoming colors only at some of the sides. I.e. you need to go further with the blue and make a U turn.
That's interesting to know. Unfortunately I don't have a microwave oven. Just a traditional one. I do make lots of dishes that need sauteeing and slow cooking in a French oven. How does that work with a microwave?
Why does this make me picture a bunch of GPU company execs in big leather chairs cackling around a conference table with a dead goat in the middle?
Why burn subtitles into the video, when you can use the vtt or srt file that whisper can output?
There might not be a clear place to draw the line between richie rich and starving orphan in 3rd world country, but Kylie Jenner is easily one of the most obvious examples of not-self-made out there.
A project I worked on donated compute cycles to LSST- it was a full scientific-grade ray tracer that takes star catalogs and uses them to render the image on the camera. It worked well enough, and early enough, that it caught a design error in the physical telescope. That work was done 10 years ago, I think they are wrapping up LSST's assembly now and they will have imaging going next year.

It's very exciting because it's a survey which produces statistical quantities of information about a wide range of objects, and also it's great the US and other governments were willing to fund something at this scope for so long.
That's pretty typical for hardware development. You software people have it too good!
Qlora + axolotl + good foundation model (llama/mistral/etc, usually instruction fine tuned) + runpod works great.

A single A100 or H100 with 80GB VRAM can fine tune 70B open models (and obviously scaling out to many nodes/GPUs is faster, or can use much cheaper GPUs for fine tuning smaller models.)

The localllama Reddit sub at https://www.reddit.com/r/LocalLLaMA/ is also an awesome community for the GPU poor :)
Orange Meets – a demo application built using Cloudflare Calls
Thank you we have been exploring this.
Yes - or you could pipe it into one of the Claude 3 models, or probably gpt-4-turbo as well.
Umbrel, citadel, start9, MASH playbook.

Sorry, on mobile right now, but these are great alternative projects
We had someone plug their rental EV into a 15 amp outside circuit on our house on a friday night. We thought it said that it would be charged by 10 am the next day so we just drove them to their rental. Next morning when they showed up at 11 am we discovered that the charger hadn't said 10 am Saturday. No, it said 10 am Monday.
I own an EV, I wouldn't rent one except: single day, and don't make me recharge it. The infrastructure sucks. I don't install charger apps on my phone; the number of chargers that just take a credit card and don't require an account -- even my local power utility requires a special card to access their network!

With my own car, in my home town, it isn't a problem. My garage has a lvl1 charger for grocery getting; I know a few account-free fast chargers around town, and that's all I need. A multi-day trip, or a rental company putting the onus on me to return it full, just isn't worthwhile.
That's great because lawyers can't either.

You can't retry a case if you had a bad lawyer, only if procedural mistakes were made.
That's just trivially true given all these languages are Turing-complete.
That advice — given in many forms by many people — to me almost seems immoral to at this point. It manages to pack so much into a brief assertion, that people who don't achieve something just don't want it badly enough. It's meaningless and insulting to everyone who finds themselves in circumstances beyond their control, in whatever ways that might be obvious or subtle to other people not in the situation. It blames victims, it enshrines survivorship bias, and it relies on a sort of nondisprovable assertion, which in itself speaks volumes about its validity.

Of course, the author adds the end bit, about "do you want to be happy or do you want to achieve what you want", which ameliorates it a bit and makes it more accurate. But by the same token it makes it softer and murkier and less useful.

Then again, the whole essay is predicated by "these are simply the lies I tell myself to keep on living my life in good faith". I can understand where that statement is coming from, but then what use is it?

I appreciate the desire to put advice into the world, but too often I find it completely useless out of context. Or maybe even actively harmful. They're like Barnum statements that can be interpreted in all sorts of ways in any given situation.

I guess I just feel like we as a society need to stop taking advice from people based on their own personal philosophies, which have all sorts of self-justifying biases (regardless of how their life goes).
> An employer can fire employees for literally no reason, right?

Not where I am located, no. In some places, sure.

> The real solution here would be that you can't fire someone just because someone else is more productive...

Is it? We also already have the no email/calls law on the books here. In fact, we have all kinds of labour laws. By the same logic, if you can't fire someone for charging too much you shouldn't need minimum wage, but we have that too. If you can't fire someone for refusing to work in unsafe conditions, you shouldn't need workplace safety laws either, but we also have those. And for good reason. It is not the threat of being fired, at least not exclusively so, that creates these competitive conditions.
These programs operate by placing the burden on the vendor who inflates prices and thus even people who pay in cash pay for the programs indirectly. So even if you don't want a card, or can't get one you still pay for it.
My experience with HR has changed significantly in the past 10-15 years for the worse at my previous two positions, and the behavior was consistent. They usually left me and reports to fend for ourselves during disputes, and when they did get involve they often made things worse, in some cases violated our own guidelines. They always side with management (which while unsurprising, makes their existence and our employee handbook superfluous) or a favored employee even when demonstrably wrong. They were obsessed with bad progress reports, even suggested I wasn’t doing a very good job as a manager if my progress report didn’t have any negatives, and had no interest in improvements or generally good performance. I’d have a report that was a strong performer, but I make one comment and it gets blown out of proportion and all the sudden they’re talking about PIPs, denied or reduced bonuses and pay increases, or push them up the list for reduction in force. I was stupid enough to believe them about things being told in confidence once or twice and they absolutely used it against me. Meanwhile, they spent a lot of time spamming and hustling employees into meetings to shovel shitty services and products to help offset payroll. They felt like secret police, and we avoided and mistrusted them accordingly.
Give Me Liberty or Give Me Death:

https://app.suno.ai/song/d67a4c29-9f2a-41b0-9ff8-2c8138a1a7a...

https://app.suno.ai/song/89a48c01-c7e5-487a-b825-4a3978b7259...
Thank you! and yes huge fan of r/localllama :)
Suno.AI is very fun. I find that asking ChatGPT to create lyrics and then feeding it gives some great results, although half the generations tend to have a bit too much static, so you have to keep generating.
I love the saying "living rent free in your head".

Musk, like a child, seeks attention. He does not care if you are happy or mad just that you say his name.

People hate him, and cant stop talking about him. He is living rent free in so many peoples heads.
Amazon's "Just Walk Out" checkout turns out to be 1000 workers watching you shop
My guess is that it was a spec house that he built with the intent to sell it before the payments jumped, but he wasn't able to do it for whatever reason.

Redfin says property values in Longmeadow, MA are down 8.6% this year.

You can certainly make money in real estate, but you need to plan for what happens if the music stops and you're the one without a chair.

A 9,000 ft^2 house with an indoor basketball court makes it pretty clear he's not the average 79-year-old retiree.
I don’t have a source. It just seems obvious to me they wouldn’t bother with the cost of maintaining that infrastructure.

Do you have any reason to believe car rental companies maintain onsite fuel stations? Have you ever seen one? Why don’t they let customers use it?

There are already gas stations near airports. If a car needs gas they pay someone to drive it there and fill it up. That’s the source of your inflated prices.
"Abuse" in this context would probably mean intentionally getting a credit card in the US and then making a bunch of purchases in the EU with the specific intention of screwing over your bank/card company with the interchange fee difference, which obviously not many people are going to have the will, time, or money to do, especially not "consistently."

Even just using the word "use," US cards are designed for and promoted to people who live in the US, and are likely to do most (if not all) of their shopping in the US. Absolutely, there's nothing morally wrong with getting a US card and using it a bunch in the EU, but the point is that the number of people doing that is low enough for the banks/card companies to just subsidize the fees.
Twitter Under Elon Musk
I think historically every time someone says that the solution to an ai problem is more structure, the truth turns out to be an issue mostly of data and scale
And increase the bloodshed by, apparently, configuring your staging environment significantly different than your production environment. An instigating the bloodshed by doing something first in production and then testing it in staging (sure, the first time staging wouldn't have caught it, but maybe then you could look to see where you misconfigured staging...)
TypeScript is definitely statically typed. It is not a 100% “sound” type system, but very few languages actually are (Haskell, Reason, etc)

And in your example of loading data from a server, if you have appropriate lint rules set up your editor and linter will warn you when you pass “any” typed data (such as that returned by fetch’s response.json()) to something expecting another type. You can use something like zod or yup to validate the data is the type you expect before passing it the rest of your typed code, thereby containing possible type errors to a known location where you can gracefully handle it.

This is a problem with any language that accepts typed data from an external system, certainly not unique to TypeScript.
They mention the cost was ~80,000k USD so for 32,256 hours it comes to ~2.48$ an hour.
Amazing how cost effective the compute actually is.
This is great, but a similar thread [1] was so recent that I think we should wait until the current post is no longer a follow-up (about which see https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...)

Can you email hn@ycombinator.com so I can arrange to send you a repost invite for this after some time?

[1] Low Cost Robot Arm - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39902205 - April 2024 (245 comments)
> It only uses public datasets for training, and the code is open-sourced

Looking at the repo, there is no training or data processing code.
Celebrating 25 Years of Active Directory
One of the main benefits of using an FPGA is that you can compensate for trace length mismatch with timing constraints
Yes, the ruling is straight up judicial perjury. It deliberately misstates the statutory language to create a regulatory conflict where non exists.

Indeed, the court is taking a non-binding FAQ on the EPA website, and treating that as more legally constraining on the EPA than the actual regulations they issue. That's f'ing ridiculous.

And to make things more ridiculous, they created a binding implication, where non actually existed in the proposed language that the 2015 exemption would not apply to ongoing uses.
Power-integrated, wireless neural recording systems for deep-brain analysis