skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I couldn't parse the tile until I read the article.
Twitter AI Trending Tab Believes NBA Klay Thompson Is Throwing Bricks at Houses
After a bad shooting night in an elimination game between NBA teams Sacramento Kings and Golden State Warriors, Klay Thompson did not score a single point. This led to an outpouring of comments about all the bricks he put up. AI interpreted it a little different.

Mirror:

Klay Thompson Accused in Bizarre Brick-Vandalism Spree

In a bizarre turn of events, NBA star Klay Thompson has been accused of vandalizing multiple houses with bricks in Sacramento. Authorities are investigating the claims after several individuals reported their houses being damaged, with windows shattered by bricks. Klay Thompson has not yet issued a statement regarding the accusations. The incidents have left the community shaken, but no injuries were reported. The motive behind the alleged vandalism remains unclear.

image: https://imgur.com/a/uk0dNv3
$1500 each, plus the server they go in, plus plus plus plus.
There are always Americans with a deep-seated belief that US society needs radical change; many of those are journalists. From about 1975 to about 2015 however US society was stable and radical change was very unlikely, so the radical journalists focused vast amounts of their attention on Occupy Wall Street because for a few years it was the movement most likely to cause radical change (that the journalists knew about) even though the actual likelihood was very low.

Again, some journalists (and others) are constantly hoping for radical change; during periods of societal stability, that constant hope will result in their focusing on very slim hopes for radical change -- resulting in ridiculous exaggeration in the press of the importance of movements like Occupy Wall Street.
Not bad, but also not the big jump over fine-tuned SD1.5/SDXL checkpoints that some expected.
Thanks for the link on the trillion row challenge, interesting read! I'm looking at queries and indexes next and I'm hoping to include Clickhouse in that comparison.
If we’re using NN’s to get fine motor skills right, like final steps in an assembly line, the simplest and most abundant source of training data are humans. :shrug:
Wasn't there a paper yesterday that turned context evaluation linear (instead of quadratic) and made effectively unlimited context windows possible? Between that and 1.58b quantization I feel like we're overdue for an LLM revolution.
Unrelated to anything in the article, but I'm curious as to why there haven't been OLED or LCD panels manufactured specifically for general-purpose CRT emulation in hardware + software (via curved panels, artifacts unique to CRTs such as pixel blurring, phosphor persistence, scanlines, etc) for retro video games, film preservation, and artwork.
MailJet has an okay free tier.
Store bought blueberries are garbage. Even the frozen “cultivated wild” (wtf is that) ones.

If it’s not bought from the side of the road in northern Ontario or Quebec (and probably some other places), you don’t know what you’re missing.
> OBJECTIVELY CORRECT DON'T YOU DARE GO CHANGIN IT English

Your point is well taken, but this attitude toward the orthography and grammar of English emerged several centuries after the 1500s. There was nothing resembling an accepted orthography when the personal apostrophe emerged. Everyone was winging it.

Prescriptive grammar peaked in the mid to late 1900s or thereabouts. Linguists are more relaxed about their approach to language these days. Most publications have a style guide, but if you don't have an editor, there's no reason to cargo-cult it.
Yes. In previous times that was known as cooperation, debate, and compromise.

Unfortunately, it's been rebranded as collusion and the deep state to a certain segment of the population.
Foodie magazine jelly of competition much?
Just because of the pace of innovation and scaling, right now, it seems pretty natural that any new model is going to be better than the previous comparable models.
Possibly because the future of humanity itself is in question?

"We're not going to make it, are we? Humans, I mean." --John Connor
Throwing my hat into the noise…

Just try things people. Blueberries are awesome. I know a lot of yall sit at a desk and work on a computer. I personally find blueberries to be an amazing snack and fuel for that kind of work.

Driscoll Berries - thumbs down

Twin Rivers - thumbs up

Farmers market - thumbs up
"I don’t work for Google, but I do know that most big companies have established channels for addressing employee grievances"

If you read any of the articles coming out of this event you'll see that the protestors tried for months to get a dialog going with management in half a dozen different capacities, all of which were denied or swept under the rug immediately. Due to this behavior from management, many of the employees engaged in this cause had decided to quit, but if you were one of them why not try to protest one last time? This was basically the last option they had prior to leaving
With its performance quantized by the fTPM stuttering xD [1]

[1] https://www.phoronix.com/news/Torvalds-fTPM-RNG-Woes
When you say “X is just a simplified version of the truth, a poor mental model”—well, so is everything else in physics.

Everything is a model, if you look closely enough. Atoms, electrons, strings, fields, waves, what have you. The only ground truth is “if we try X, then we observe Y reliably”; we naturally tend to make up models (stories) that make sense to us humans as a shortcut to that truth—that’s just how our minds work—but the entities that appear in those models themselves do not gain absolute existence in some objective reality merely from that.

Tomorrow there will be a better model that may look nothing like the current one; there can be multiple conflicting models that fit different purposes; and if the incompleteness theorem is right then it shall continue forever as we cannot ever build a single provably correct and complete model of the system from within that system. The point of a map is that it does not span the entire extent of the territory.
Probably because 8 GPUs is a common setup, and with 8 experts you can put each expert on a different GPU
For anyone that likes to read about the games of that era, The Digital Antiquarian has covered the Dune story in 3 parts:

- Controlling the Spice, Part 1: Dune on Page and Screen [1]

- Controlling the Spice, Part 2: Cryo’s Dune [2]

- Controlling the Spice, Part 3: Westwood’s Dune [3]

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[1] - https://www.filfre.net/2018/11/controlling-the-spice-part-1-...

[2] - https://www.filfre.net/2018/11/controlling-the-spice-part-2-...

[3] - https://www.filfre.net/2018/12/controlling-the-spice-part-3-...
Then I suppose China will stop complaining about the US and the West cutting them out... any day now.
You argue with someone and police makes a visit. Searches your criminal history and sees one line "investigated for murder". Guess what might happen. Nothing right? Because we live in a perfect world.
If we're sending these robots to buy cigarettes at the store, then we've failed horribly
Very few people will incur debt anywhere near that for an undergraduate degree from UC Berkeley. 71% of undergraduates graduate with no debt. For those who borrow the average debt at graduation is around $18k.
This is why protesting and opposing these things is a flawed strategy and destined for failure. You have to win every time, whereas they only have to win once.
I personally never really cared for this setup, as on most keyboards that pattern is staggered and tilted while trying to emulate the straight number pad layout. The straight lines of the number pad are kind of the whole point to me for having a separate number pad area.

Meanwhile all the numbers are still there on the regular keyboard just one row higher than you're normally typing. Plus, for a lot of typing a typist is already pressing the symbols on the number row anyways, so it's not like a typist is having to stretch to locations they're not normally pressing anyways. I'm not an accountant or mathematician or whatever so I tend to eschew number pads, so I'm probably a bit biased.
Yes, I have a side project that uses local whisper.cpp to transcribe a podcast I love and shows a nice UI to search and filter the contents. I use Mixtral 8x7b in chat interface via llamafile primarily to help me write python and sqlite code and as a general Q&A agent. I ask it all sorts of technical questions, learn about common tools, libraries, and idioms in an ecosystem I'm not familiar with, and then I can go to official documentation and dig in.

It has been a huge force multiplier for me and most importantly of all, it removes the dread of not knowing where to start and the dread of sending your inner monologue to someone's stupid cloud.

If you're curious: https://github.com/noman-land/transcript.fish/ though this doesn't include any Mixtral stuff because I don't use it programmatically (yet). I soon hope to use it to answer questions about the episodes like who the special guest is and whatnot, which is something I do manually right now.
Yes, how much I hated them, they're just written so well!

And your other point also hits home, I've read or listened to pretty much all of the discworld books at least three times by now and I love it when I come across a character without a name who is just used as a throwaway joke in an earlier book, and then to realise that they are fully fleshed out in the later books.
I think both statements are be true.

IIRC, some people pitched college as a panacea (some guidance counselors, some well-intended government officials, some parents, etc.), and others made the French-fries quip.
They’re ignoring the time to cure and process resin prints though so doesn’t seem all that fair.
The progress since the 2015 DARPA challenge (where robots succeeded mostly in falling down) is impressive. Less than a decade!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g0TaYhjpOfo

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DARPA_Robotics_Challenge
When the GP said "basic medicines", they probably meant all the generic stuff that can be had without insurance for a few dollars; all the stuff that is on the WHO list of essential medicines[0], that is.

I'd venture that drugs that cost hundreds of dollars or more per month in the US are all cutting-edge stuff. I mean, sure, you have stories of people getting charged $10 for a pill of acetaminophen at a hospital, but that's a separate matter unrelated to the fact that you can get a bottle of 500 pills for single-digit dollars at your local Walmart.

> The uninsured. The underinsured. People on the "wrong" insurance plan.

Plenty to criticize about the US healthcare system, but let's remember that countries with nationalized medical care also suffer from their own ills, mainly in the form of long wait times. Ultimately, no place has enough doctors per capita that every sick person can be treated promptly and cheaply; so care must be gated one way or another. In America, you pay with money; in most other countries, you pay with time.

[0]: https://iris.who.int/bitstream/handle/10665/371090/WHO-MHP-H...
Tell me you don't know history without telling me you don't know history.

If the government has the power to override the First Amendment by declaring an emergency, we'll always have "emergencies."

IOW, even if state interests are "narrowly tailored," the government will always tailor the situation to match.

Oceania has always been at war with Eastasia.

She knows this. She is still "concerned." And this is about a pandemic where the government lied and censored people.
Plenty of laptops still have SO-DIMM, such as EliteBook for example.

People need to vote with their wallet, and not buy stuff that goes against their principles.
pythondoneright.md
> How to recover from messed up python installation on mac, and never have to mess with apple's shitty python confusion factory
Thank you! I've relied on that USGS Projects manual multiple times haha. Working with satellite data some of it was in somewhat obscure projections and the manual always told you how to convert back to latitude-longitude.
Typically 2-3 handfuls (~5-8 berries per handful). A lot, actually. Sometimes I can't stop eating them when I get started, haha.

Maybe it's placebo, I don't know. But I had occasional stomach issues which seemed to have gone away once I started consuming berries.
They do but only if it's with sound on. I really wish there was a browser that would simply treat <video> as an unknown tag unless you explicitly allow that particular website to play video.
If you were around when CRTs were popular, the high pitched squeal is probably not much of an issue for you anymore :P
Has anyone tried MoE at smaller scales? e.g. a 7B model that's made of a bunch of smaller ones? I guess that would be 8x1B.

Or would that make each expert too small to be useful? TinyLlama is 1B and it's almost useful! I guess 8x1B would be Mixture of TinyLLaMAs...
Me too. I was stuck underwater in a creek, tumbling end over end for multiple minutes, fighting for dear life and the only coherent thought in my head is "Fuck, I'm going to be that guy in the newspaper."
> So far it is Command R+

Most people would not consider Command R+ to count as the "best permissively licensed model" since CC-BY-NC is not usually considered "permissively licensed" – the "NC" part means "non-commercial use only"
Why should I not just use the official Tailwind UI? https://tailwindui.com/components

Are there more components in Easyfrontend? Better ones?
The latter. Yes, it all needs to stay in memory.
I'm excited at the yet unexplored military applications.
Or because Nick Bostrom is a hack. Together with Max Tegmark. Not to mention Ray Kurzweil.

Initially wrote wrong surname.
Pedophiles.

Everyone hates the enough to justify anything up to and including public executions.
just about everything today refreshes when you breathe on it, it's so irritating, especially when it's not there any more and you were just looking at it. right-click, save-image-as... "let's reload that..." WHY? I'm looking right at it.
Not a scam, just bad product execution.

They want a AI world where that becomes the UI but it turns out to look like a pain in the ass to use. Maybe in 5 years and if they add an AR google. You still need visual input and reading on your hand is worse than holding a phone, you need AR
Curious as to why they didn't explore independence, moving from Oxford to a separate non-profit org. Getting funded doesn't seem impossible given the amount of high-profile e/acc advocates.
DHS Secretary Mayorkas talks campaign to keep kids safe online [video]
I'm baffled by the parent comment being downvoted.

We're talking about factors leading to irrational choices about college costs, and the parent comment (correctly) describes one of the factors present in 1990's USA.
Do we even know if Humane developed their own laser technology and it's not just an off-the-shelf, or custom-ordered part from another company?

The one thing Humane seems to have done good is make a nice piece of hardware with a sleek, Apple-like industrial design. It's functionally a paperweight that can read some LLM hallucinations to you from the convenience of your sagging shirt lapel, but it IS nice-looking and reviewers have said it feels sturdily-made.

Aside from that, it seems like the main things that might have made this thing seem impressive or stand out aren't even developed by them. I haven't seen any indication the laser is anything revolutionary they made themselves, and as much as they'd like to pretend they've developed some crazy AI, it seems to be OpenAI doing all the heavy lifting and everyone and their grandma has been using this technology for over a year now.
I really disagree with the idea of loser pays systems and binding arbitration being some kind of acid tests for honesty. They both have their problems. Depending how they are set up loser pays systems can encourage harassment suits or make it even harder for the poorer party to win. Note that in a loser pays system you are potentially liable for the other sides legals fees, but you do not get to choose their lawyers or watch over their lawyers to ensure they are being cost effective. If you are fighting a much richer party, then they will choose lawyers you cannot afford and yet there will be a chance that you will have to pay for them. If you are personally liable for these costs and there is a chance that you and your family will lose everything, you will think twice about suing even if you have a strong case.

Arbitration has a lot of problems. The biggest one being bias. Arbitrators tend to favor repeat business. They tend to favor clients, lawyers or classes of clients or lawyers that bring them repeat business. There is nothing dishonest about a businessman or anyone for that matter avoiding binding arbitration.

The entire article is very preachy and simple. Those are two very important subjects and they do not have a simple answer.

If the main concern is that the vc will sue to take over the company, hen the best answer is to make clear provisions in the contract that prevent him from doing that. If you are afraid of not getting your prototype done within six month put one year in the contract. Same thing with government approvals.

Well written clear contract provisions may allow the case to be decided at the demurer stage, before discovery - this is both fast and cheap even in ordinary court.
I... what... are you even talking about?
The previous mixtral is 8x7B
When someone says to me "this summer" I tend to think they're meaning the end of the year. For me, that's when summer is.

Many of the websites I visit use that same assumption too. It's the unusual ones (to me) that have a different meaning.

It's not a huge deal or anything, it's just a super idiotic mistake for a "global map" company is all. ;)
Most inference servers are OpenAI-compatibile. Even the "official" llama-cpp server should work fine: https://github.com/ggerganov/llama.cpp/blob/master/examples/...
Not really. The “expert” term is a misnomer; it would be better put as “brain region”.

Human brains seem to do something similar, inasmuch as blood flow (and hence energy use) per region varies depending on the current problem.
Why people want more censorship and surveillance.
That's not an outlandish hypothesis. I'm from a family of medical doctors and entrepreneurs. They are all very conservative, while I'm more of a classical liberal.

I gave up working in the tech industry to pursue a PhD with the hopes of becoming a professor. Considering I research NLP, I could be making top dollar in industry, but have opted for the academia route. My family mostly don't understand and view the PhD as a diversion. Despite securing a postdoc at Cornell, they still ask me to reconsider working in industry so I can become rich and powerful, which they equate with fulfillment in life.
> You couldn't even use input type="date" until a couple of years ago because of Safari support.

God, that was such a pain. I recently ripped 20k(!) SLOC out of a project that was finally allowed to drop support for those old Safari versions. All just to display one single datetime picker.

The entire rest of the project is less than 2k SLOC.
I think we fear the implicit judgement that we feel is being made about us. Imagine that everyone knows that the fair price is £7. The restaurant sells it at £9 - what does the make that purchaser? A fool for overpaying - even if they can afford it, even if they actually want to support the restaurant financially, the purchaser will feel judged as a fool. As is often the case with shame, nobody else might even have noticed, let alone actually be judging, but that doesn't negate the feeling!

My theory is that a large amount of 'luxury' commerce is simply giving the customer an excuse not to feel shame, because no longer do they feel a fool, but now they are a special customer with discerning tastes.

I've fallen for that fallacy many times. Only in very few cases does luxury imply higher quality; usually the illusion is formed by the addition of almost worthless decoration (such as folded napkins in a posh restaurant, bought wholesale for literally two a penny).
Indeed, which is why I suggested an eDSL rather than a full-blown DSL. C# is decent at embedding domain-specific languages (fluent APIs are simple eDSLs and are fairly common). You can see the need even from their simple examples:

https://github.com/leap71/PicoGK/blob/main/Examples/Ex_Boole...

I just noticed that they also support defining objects via implicit functions, so that's neat:

https://github.com/leap71/PicoGK/blob/main/Examples/Ex_Impli...
Except... the problem is: this is not a problem that needs fixing. If Google was doing something illegal, then the employees would have every moral (and legal) right to protest and demand a change of policy.

Google has protocols for appeals and complaints that employees can use. Even if those are just for show, the right course of action would be to use the advertised protocols, then, if they don't work, the employees would have a legitimate claim against the company.

It's labor-intensive, time-consuming and expensive to follow such protocols. And, I can "understand" the protesters in the sense that I would, too, be discouraged by the prospects of doing things the right way... But, realistically... all these protests are going to accomplish is the workplace ethics violation on the part of the protesters, and, probably a boot.

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As an aside: for someone living the events it feels surreal that people who are completely out of touch with the reality of the events become so enthused about the subject. Often times it's actually nice / conscientious people who get trapped by the most brazen lies about political / humanitarian issues far, far away...
Are you suggesting compressing the data using like Fourier series or wavelets? I know some of the variables have sharp gradients, especially variables like precipitation, which probably wouldn't compress super well. And some applications of the ERA5 dataset, e.g. closing heat or moisture budgets by accounting for every bit of it, cannot be done if the data has been compressed since you lose some data. Curious if this is what you had in mind or something else.
"Do you ever buy eggs at the super market? Well, here's how eggs are secretly racist, and the facts of egg economics disproportionally affects minorities."
For people who are confused, NBA fans use "shooting bricks" or "throwing bricks" as an euphemism for a terrible scoring performance. It seems like Grok saw these live tweets and couldn't understand the context, resulting in this truly bizarre trending story accusing him of vandalizing Sacramento.

We live in wild times.
Domain Modeling Made Functional – Scott Wlaschin [video]
It did, but they've crowd funded at least one new episode through patreon subscriptions.
Hard disagree with utilitarian interventionism. It violates core liberal fundamentals. People have the right to be as involved of parents as they see fit, and to raise their children with values of their choosing. Economic and social outcomes are not universal moral values. The collective has no right to impose their utilitarian best-guess on the individual. People should have a right to reject them and raise illiterate children in forest school.

Free society is a liberal ecosystem, where participants are continually succeeding and failing. The authority required to mount a collective response to these inequalities is too susceptible to corruption, and represents injustice in its departure from liberalism. Not to mention that well-meaning interventions by federated authority have an abysmal track record.
Funnily enough, yes! Though my care in Anchorage, AK was also great. I didn't realize it was unique enough for you to name the location on a guess though.
You get points from me because that's a clear reference I missed despite having heard both songs.
You think people want more censorship and surveillance because they're worried about pedophiles?