skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The amount of open source stuff Facebook (Meta) has given us over the years is astounding. pytorch, dall-e, react, react native, graphql, cassandra, tor. Commoditized VR, love my quest 3. Just an incredible track record. We're lucky they release all this stuff for free. The Zuck is one of a kind.
> Meta AI isn't available yet in your country

Sad this geofencing
Part of the fun of publishing is having readers. But even if you're OK nominating specific readers rather than letting anonymous ones find you, you wouldn't believe how skills like clicking a link have atrophied. You can send someone a URL, and they won't actually click on it because it arrived on their phone, they wanted to look at it on a laptop (because it's your kid's grandma who can't see well anymore), and they can't remember how to scroll back in SMS history, let alone send themselves a link.

So what do they do instead? They type <granddaughter's name> into their browser, and then call me asking if they should buy McAfee because the computer says they have a virus.

I agree that search engines are not the only way to reach content on the web (web != social networks). But for most people today, they are.
At that size his points (assuming they are true) are still valid.
To do what? People want to post, share pictures, share video. The gardens arose to do this more easily than setting it up yourself. There's no driving force to work outside these gardens.

Let's take LiveJournal or MySpace… those services arose out of an interesting time when the metaphor of daily posting on the web was novel to a lot of people. Sharing photos on the web was novel so Flickr was created. During these times, folks are figuring out the design patterns of the web that get crafted in HTML/CSS/JS and now they've all but been standardized and commodified by Meta et al.
Today "supercomputer" translates to "really high AWS spend".
I'm confused by the emphasis on an "all-cash offers". It conveys images of buyers lugging a suitcase full of cash to open houses, but as far as I know, it just means that the buyer isn't asking for a "financing contingency". Which is to say, they aren't asking for the ability to scuttle the deal without consequences if some 3rd party says they don't want to make a loan. The buyer still might be borrowing the money, they just aren't making the deal dependent on their ability to get a conventional mortgage.

Avoiding contingencies like this can be a good thing, since depending on the other contingencies it might make the deal more likely to go through, or to go through more quickly. But in most cases the buyer still has contingencies for inspections and probably a whole bunch of other things that will let them back out if they really want. Whether it's an "all-cash offer" or a standard mortgage, unless they are providing seller financing (rare), the same amount of money gets wired to the seller's back account at closing.

Am I missing something? Or is "all-case offer" in a headline indeed an empty phrase that usually signifies that the article is probably selling a false narrative based on misconceptions?
While that's true when you're dealing with a domain that's well represented in the training data and your return type isn't complicated, if you're doing anything nuanced you can burn 10k tokens just to get the model to be consistent in how it answers and structures output.
Yes, license plate scanners are recording your plates
Also if you listen to the fired Googler's demands [1], second of them was stopping the existing harrasment and intimidation of arab and Palestinian workers.

I don't think demanding to stop toxic behavior can be called toxic.

Otherwise what you're doing here is toxic, too. ;)

[1] https://www.notechforapartheid.com/dayofaction
Totally false. I've been on ACA silver plans and all expense paid corporate plans. At the end of the day the true costs are pretty equivalent - $20K for a family of 4 per year in cash going to insurance/healthcare. With ACA, that is subsidized massively downward for lower incomes. And the employee pays some. And if you are truly poor (in most states) you get free medicaid plans.
Programming Functional Fabrics
It's also extremely long. Assuming a 3 year residency the average Doctor doesn't even start practicing until 31.[1] So you've not just got a house's worth of debt without a house, you've also lost a decade to training.

I'd love improvements in care, but nobody is going to fix this problem. It's too lucrative for everyone else involved.

[1] https://averagedoctor.com/the-average-age-of-doctors-graduat...
There are a number of factors with cycle safety. Going slowly can have a similar risk level to going faster with a helmet. You can wear a helmet and still end up like Schumacher.

I just got off my bike in London, no helmet but typical speeds of 10 mph or so. Most cycle deaths here are crushed by trucks where a helmet doesn't help much.
- Going bankrupt in the US is a black mark on your future in the US, unless you're wealthy (which is ironic that you can go bankrupt and remain wealthy). Student loans are not dischargeable in bankruptcy in the US, they stick with you for life.

- I'm speaking from the point-of-view of a US citizen in the US. Education is, on average, fairly limited/poor without money. Getting an education, without money, even with grants/scholarships still typically burdens a person with significant debt before they've even entered the workforce.

- Networking can be done at any age, but if my father is a CEO I'm going to have access to other CEOs, if my father is a welder I'm going to have access to other welders. Neither of these things are bad, but one of these things provides significant advantages when it comes to future employment opportunities and avenues for early investment.
$8K sounds like a lot more than "free".
YIMBY will have to happen (and is happening) at the state level.
Can generative AI only get better from here? It's complicated
Currently in the US (and I'm guessing most everywhere with high housing costs) the problem is that we don't build nearly enough housing. So simple supply / demand takes over at that point. There is way more demand than supply.

Add in the mortgage interest deduction (this raises prices because people can spend more than they would if they had to pay the tax on the interest); add in idiotic zoning laws / parking requirements in most urban areas of this country (40% of the buildings in Manhattan could not be built under the city's current zoning laws https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2016/05/19/upshot/forty-....) and viola, you have super high housing costs.

The problems are easy to fix. Places like Tokyo have low housing costs compared to other cities of the same density. It can be accomplished, it's simply a matter of IF we'll do it. Given that homeowners and landowners have a gigantic portion of the assets in our world economy, I'm not hopeful that they'll ever willingly lower the price of assets for the good of society.
What is "source" regarding an LLM? Public training data and initial parameters?
Or Tether. "We realize - but hope you don't - that 'financial attestations' do not remotely resemble 'audits', but we're going to call this financial attestation an audit". And "If you don't fall for the first, we're going to tell you that we have had audits done but we won't release them because they're in Mandarin Chinese."

I wish I was kidding.
> There is insufficient information to answer the question

You're right. The context can make a lot of difference. I purposely shared the situation in a more generic way to receive less biased responses and help me ponder.

The replies I've received from this thread have been really helpful for me to determine how to handle this and similar situations fairly.

Thanks for your input!
Lived in So Cal since the 70s, every real estate cycle we hear "it's different this time", but things always come down or crash.

The annoying thing is these cycles are so long that they can stretch longer than people's lifetime events like marriage, kids, etc.

It sucks but for example I was like 40 before I bought my first place, but it was worth it since it was in a down cycle.
Sorry, still too sexy. Can’t have that.
It is not the building cost (materials and labor) it is also things like...

- Impact fees (example California wanted to charge a $23,000 traffic impact fee for placing a manufactured home on a lot. [0])

- Permitting and development timelines

- Regulatory requirements

[0] -https://calmatters.org/commentary/2024/04/housing-constructi...
Now this is what I’m here for!

Thanks so much for taking the time to write this

Yeah if they do release an API I’m totally done. I honestly thought I’d have 3-6 months before they did but that’s not the case.

Do you see a world where I might be able to reconcile and have a positive outcome?
Brave Search is adopting AI to answer your queries
Got the same in the Netherlands.
Llama 3 is the open source model while this is a product offering competing w/ ChatGPT, Claude and Gemini. Not a dupe imo.
A spam detector that just kills anything from people new to the site, + it not ever being reviewed/revived, is pretty uncool IMO.
I keep a WTF notebook (2021)
It's by Facebook, currently hidden behind the veil of Meta, so what's the catch?
Salaries are also much higher now.

The average salary for an RN in LA is around $90k, a dentist around $300k, a SWE at around $150k, Aerospace Eng at around $115k, Pharma Researcher at around $140k, etc.

If you've been working in a white collar industry for a decade, and your partner has as well, you'll end up being able to afford a pretty large down.
They also stated that they are still training larger variants that will be more competitive:

> Our largest models are over 400B parameters and, while these models are still training, our team is excited about how they’re trending. Over the coming months, we’ll release multiple models with new capabilities including multimodality, the ability to converse in multiple languages, a much longer context window, and stronger overall capabilities.
It's more that their respiratory system is kinda circular. When we exhale, there's still a bit of gas in our lungs, and that reduces how efficiently we can extract oxygen. But the oxygen extracting parts of a bird's lungs are more like a heatsink, with air rushing past it in a consistent direction, rather than back and forth.
There's a NASA funding line called Tipping Point used to commercialize NASA tech. I bet you couldve buttered up the managers of that fund during the defi hayday and gotten a small pot to work on it.
Optimized for the average person is somehow wrong?
Journals and publishers facing issues from fraudulent sites
Not in the EU though
Conversation with Groq CEO Jonathan Ross [video]
Tesla Semi charging project is still alive despite Biden admin funding snub
Along this theme, one could also list James Joyce and Robert Graves.
Is it decentralized? You can run it multiple places I guess, but it’s only available from one place.

And it’s not open source.
is a feather a discovery or an invention? (am actual philosophical inquisition)
It could be just the lack of contingency as you say. But a quote from an agent is about not taking a loan, and I’ve personally seen that as well. All cash, meaning wire the whole amount from a personal account into escrow.
Is the matzo (vs other unleavened bread) actually required, or just traditional? Like, _nice_ unleavened bread is a thing.
Quick thoughts -

Major arch changes are not that major, mostly GQA and tokenizer improvements. Tokenizer improvement is a under-explored domain IMO.

15T tokens is a ton!

400B model performance looks great, can’t wait for that to be released. Might be time to invest in a Mac studio!

OpenAI probably needs to release GPT-5 soon to convince people they are still staying ahead.
So this would be a step before feeding the outputs to something like one of illumina's machines?
I don’t think saving people from themselves is a good way to frame the problem. To me, it’s more a question of whether we’re going to allow businesses and even the government itself to prey on vulnerable people.
> I’m not using their service.

You're not scraping Mj results generated with other people's credentials? You're going to have fun convincing a judge of that.
It could be a narrative building thing...

The biggest takeaway really is that people are likely leveraging existing equity, so there's likely a generational and class element to the purchases.

(ie. people are "all cash" because they sold their old highly valuable house, and buying a new one)
Initial observations from the Meta Chat UI...

1. fast

2. less censored than other mainstream models

3. has current data, cites sources

I asked about Trump's trial and it was happy to answer. It has info that is hours old

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Five jurors have been selected so far for the hush money case against former President Donald Trump ¹. Seven jurors were originally selected, but two were dismissed, one for concerns about her impartiality and the other for inaccuracies in his responses during questioning ².
Cloud Marketplaces are going to transform how b2b sales happen.
Tesla Co-Founder JB Straubel Built an EV Battery Colossus to Rival China
I was curious how the numbers compare to GPT-4 in the paid ChatGPT Plus, since they don't compare directly themselves.

Llama 3 8B Llama 3 70B GPT-4
MMLU 68.4 82.0 86.5
GPQA 34.2 39.5 49.1
MATH 30.0 50.4 72.2
HumanEval 62.2 81.7 87.6
DROP 58.4 79.7 85.4

Note that the free version of ChatGPT that most people use is based on GPT-3.5 which is much worse than GPT-4. I haven't found comprehensive eval numbers for the latest GPT-3.5, however I believe Llama 3 70B handily beats it and even the 8B is close. It's very exciting to have models this good that you can run locally and modify!

GPT-4 numbers from from https://github.com/openai/simple-evals gpt-4-turbo-2024-04-09 (chatgpt)
It means at the very least that the buyer is affluent enough to have that kind of liquidity available. That's out of reach for a lot of people, but yeah, it does summon this image of suitcases full of cash unnecessarily. Maybe its the modern equivalent of that, with less criminal overtones?
It's primarily land. And there are (some) areas in the US that geography/etc. makes it hard to basically commute out of high cost of living areas (especially if you want to live urban). I live about an hour out of the nearest major city on multiple acres and my propery isn't Midwest cheap but it's pretty sane.
Models are mostly fungible, if meta decided to play games it's not too hard to switch models. I think this is mostly a CYA play.
In the Seattle market, it's common for competitive offers to waive the financing contingency, but to also include lender pre-approval info in the bid packet.

Not sure if I would consider that a cash offer; financing can still fall through and scuttle the deal.
I had this same debate here a few months ago, about people living out of their truck/van in Seattle, and the "choice" of it. There was more than one person that could (or would) not see the distinction. "I've seen plenty of social media and YT videos talking about how much they enjoy the experience".

Uhh, when people talk of living out of a vehicle in the context of homelessness, they're talking about people parked in the back corner of a Walmart lot with their laundry and many earthly possessions beside them, not social media creators making YouTube videos for "#vanlife".
You can see this clearly in the detail of hazard insurance for expensive homes.
> Known abusers of the TICO machines have been charged

Yikes. Is it reasonable to expect people to resist the temptation to use a free money machine?
That's the entire point, right?
Pay money to an ad agency and they will affect the thoughts of your target demographic.

Maybe its benign brainwashing, or you'd choose a different word because brainwashing has a lot of connotations. But that is factually what it's trying to do
Depends greatly on the AA capabilities of your adversary. Slower moving, larger drones with guns are easier to detect and shoot down than missiles, and probably more expensive than the average missile as well.

The only way a gun might be more efficient is in a situation with total air supremacy like Iraq or Afghanistan, and the targets would ideally be in the open.
I wonder if as population growth levels off in the U.S. over the next few decades the “not enough housing problem” sort of resolves itself. How’s the housing market in Japan?
Yes, my parents helped fight off something like that in their neighborhood recently and I talked to them a bit about the dynamics of what was going on. Ultimately they felt like they wanted to support their neighbors who really didn't want this change.

I can't say I really blame them; they chose to live in the neighborhood because they liked it the way it was, and I've talked to other people who have similar feelings.

The want-to-be developer also came out looking like a villain to me after this, so I can't say that anyone really ends up looking good.

In the process of all this I did learn that the SFH they occupy now is actually zoned for up to 33 units in a multi-family situation, so I told them that as soon as I inherit the place, it's getting sold to the highest bidder.
You can switch to 100% carnivore diet and lose 2lbs/week, like with Ozempic. Must be 100% though which is annoying.
I don't see any explanation for why they trained 8B instead of 7B.
I thought that If you have a 16GB GPU, you can put 14GB(7B*16bits) model into it, but how does it fit If the model is exactly 16GB?
From data warehouse to data science: adopting Arrow Flight SQL
Actually I don't like Brussels that much, too crowded, dirty and overpriced for me (sorry if I offended anyone). I liked Ghent and Antwerp far more when I visited, felt more chill and laid back, easier to get places by cycling and walking, while being cleaner and less rough.

Don't know the tech market or how the population feels about non-Dutch/French speaking local. I would of course try to learn the language and integrate but it will take me a while.
Most of the examples are web dev, but some are from iOS and Android.
I have a similar injury and I'm honestly not sure how you can not have a PTSD with a brain injury of this magnitude. So there's no need to write "in addition to". The PTSD is part of the symptoms of this kind of injury.

The first year was especially tough, with a lot of suicidal thoughts and constant self-doubt.
FWIW, I would not trust seL4 on x86. Last time I checked, seL4’s interaction with the x86 architecture was not formally verified and looked quite buggy.

Even a microkernel has three things that form part of the TCB: the part that interfaces with the even-lower-level stuff (interrupt and exception handlers, paging, memory model, etc), the interface it provides to its clients (syscalls and whatever it provides via syscalls), and the code that glues the first two parts together and implements the microkernel’s internal logic.

The latter two, in seL4, are straightforward and formally verified. The former, on x86, not so much.

AIUI, the situation on ARM is likely better.
Standard Bay Area tech salary for someone with around a decade of experience: 150k-500k

With an SO in the Life Sciences space: $100-300k

That's why a lot of Californians can afford it. A lot of us marry peers in the same income brackets.
Ask HN: Help – locked out of longstanding Zoho Mail account
I've used a Zoho Mail account for years as my primary email. Last time I attempted to sign in after not doing so for a few weeks, I was prompted to enter an OTP from SMS to a long-defunct mobile number, though I had not activated 2FA myself. No recovery options or alternatives are offered. I contacted customer support and was advised to re-activate the mobile number, which is impossible.

Relying on a free email account and failing to update the associated mobile number were stupid blunders on my part – lessons learned. I had years of (to me) valuable correspondence, contacts, and other data in there. Anything I can still try?
What use is your 3d printed house if you can not legally put it somewhere that people want to live (near real jobs, schools, amenities)? What are you going to do with it when the local, county, and state government decide there are only a handful of lots you can place one?

The price is mostly scarcity created by severely limiting what can be constructed through many layers of laws. You can’t cut through that with innovation.
It would be cheaper to just send them all on a month long training course than re-hiring.
all-cash is standard lingo that means the buyer isn't taking a loan, which is what the majority of buyers do in a "normal" market

the whole article is about how the high interest rates aren't having the effect the fed wants on buyers bc buyers don't have a mortgage payment if they just have the cash available
ML Twitter was saying that they're working on a 400B parameter version?
My humble home purchased 6 years ago for $200k is now supposedly worth $350k. Ridiculous.

I'm drowning in offers from banks begging to refinance my home, but I got a ridiculously low rate during COVID and I refuse. Also I don't want to be underwater if the market ever comes to it's fucking senses.
How is that working for Canada?
That pattern seems to be repeating for a lot of country subs. I guess for most people from $country, the general topic of $country is so broad it becomes a bit meaningless.

You end up with lots of expats whining about that it is hard to find new friends and the tax system is not the same as they are used to.
Think they meant it can be used without login.
That paragraph appears to be plagiarized from an Infoworld article [0] but with nonsensical changes to the punctuation (e.g. some of its semicolons changed to "– meaning"), which is why it makes no sense.

[0] https://www.infoworld.com/article/3714933/jdk-23-the-new-fea...
>That average ACA insurance plan also covers almost nothing. All health insurance is not equal.

That's absolutely the case. I have an ACA plan and in order to get decent coverage (as well as a $600 deductible and $5900 annual out-of-pocket costs) along with significant co-pays for hospitals and durable medical goods, I pay nearly $15,000/year.

And premiums just keep going up and up -- something like 15-20%/year, while more and more stuff (all radiology[0], many drugs and pretty much anything other than routine care and consults) requires pre-approval from third-parties engaged by the insurance company who generally take several weeks to make determinations, which can significantly delay urgently needed care.

Even worse, many providers refuse to accept plans sold on ACA marketplaces, which, in many cases, leaves the providers who are accepting Medicaid[1] and Medicare[2]. Those are generally not the top tier, despite the huge premiums (in my case, nearly USD$1100/month -- just for me) charged by the insurers.

Here in the US, we need a single-payer solution in the worst way. The profit motive for healthcare distorts things in so many ways -- with patients getting poor coverage/care and providers getting squeezed by insurers to tweak their quarterly numbers. It's disgusting.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radiology

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medicaid

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medicare_(United_States) (not to be confused with the AU program of the same name -- they aren't similar)