skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
China won't do anything drastic to Taiwan/TSMC in fact they will prob keep their elections going just like with HK.

The thing however is TSMC will suffer because once the US recognizes it as Chinese controlled territory, TSMC will be unable to buy EUV machines so their production will basically freeze at its current spot
> stories that almost nobody is talking about right now

It is being talked about non-stop in military and international relations news. The point isn’t that drones are being ignored. It is that self-destructing drones are best thought of as a new niche of missile, one that is cheaper and more manoeuvrable than a conventional missile at the expense of speed. (As opposed to drones' traditional framing as tiny planes.)
> Cyc was used by the Cleveland Clinic for answering ad hoc questions from medical researchers; it reduced the time from as long as a month of manual back-and-forth between medical and database experts, to less than an hour.
When I did contracting in this space, my AWS based customers invariably needed far more of my time for similar sized setups than the non-cloud customers. The assumption that the non-cloud users will need to pay for any extra people is the opposite of my experience actually running both types of setup. I used to offer to cut their costs by moving them off AWS, but didn't push it very hard because I made far more money from the ones that insisted on using AWS. Some of them had good reasons. Many were just cargo-culting.

You don't need to build datacenters, or rack servers yourself, or even own servers, or even ever having seen your servers in order to have racks of dedicated bare metal colo racks of servers. Plenty of service-providers will rent you those services by the hour, and plenty of server providers will rent or lease-to-own hardware for you, so you get monthly bills.

I started working in this space in 1995, and while we've often had servers actually on prem, I've also managed racks worth of servers I've never seen in person, in data centres I've never seen, with the help of "remote hands" provided by colo provider employees I've never met.
Sorry, but no. Responsibility for action is always with the side that is acting.

Israel is fully responsible for the murder of 40000+ of Palestinians and for starvation (simply due to being in full control of what can be given to Palestinians - if they don't want this responsibility, they can stop playing the occupation game) and massive property destruction of millions others. That's their state policy and result of their direct action. It's a democracy after all, as everyone is repeating ad nauseam.

Hamas and PIJ, and whoever else was in on the Oct 7 attack is responsible for killing most of those ~1200 people and not much more, I guess.

It's ridiculous to put blame on one side for what other side is doing to them in a carefully considered premeditated and well organized manner. This is not some personal heat of the moment self-defense, where the victim just reacts and tries to survive. You can't compare state action to that. Everything is premeditated and carefully planned.

If you go the route of blaming state action on the other side, we can go as far back as you like, to find some reason why something is other sides fault, lol.
> many/most states have laws that the seller/buyer must disclose, not the price the house is sold for, but how much of a loan was issued for the house.

As far as I know, this is usually not true. Neither the buyer nor seller must disclose the existence of a loan on the property. For example, many loans are between family members who would prefer to keep them private, and the law allows that. Practically, however, any commercial lender (even a seller who offers financing) will record a mortgage with the county recorder so that he has priority in a foreclosure.

The sale price, however, usually is disclosed at least to the county assessor for property tax purposes. The exceptions would be where an heir inherits a property and the value is not reassessed.
Such a table can't exist. Pronunciation is varies, so your choice of articles adds character to your text in much the same way your accent does for spoken words.

Take "herb," for example. In some dialects, the "h" is vocalized, while in others, it's silent. Both "an herb" and "a herb" are valid. Your choice in your writing conveys identity. An author who opts for "a herb" helps paint a vague picture of the individual behind the words, perhaps someone from England.

You could make your own personal table, but it would be for you and only you.

Also, although there is a concrete rule, it's not something we're thinking about as we talk--using the wrong article just feels wrong. Most of us aren't consciously "running an algorithm," as you put it; the correct article just comes out.

Most people will find that they develop the same skill with writing over time. The subset of people who have trouble developing that skill and learn best by memorizing a table of words is going to be quite small. I would never write "a LLM" in the same way that I would never say "an history" out loud.
This is the mildest possible clause they could have included short of making the whole thing public domain. Heck the MIT license has similar requirements ("The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.")
Truth, I spend every free second in an Airbnb analyzing their trim, electrical, flooring, et c work. Spotting where additions were made. Can’t turn it off.
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I'm probably in a tiny minority, but I just flat out disable third party fonts. Everything looks equally good to me and I save bandwidth. The only expression are image fonts, which render as squares - I share the author's frustration.
It said levels off not declines. Most of the west has been leveling off and prices still increase. Although I was surprised that the US growth rate is lower than Canada
Curious what state did you leave for, and why the exit back?

Reason, live on NoCal and plotting where/what next options. Also know that for us at this point in life that leaving CA is a one way ticket.
That's not failing the marshmallow test, because the reward is obvious at the start of the test.

Is the reward obvious for reading any random article? No, but it may be there. But I sincerely doubt that you, or anyone, devotes themselves to consuming 100% of the content they come across on the internet, in hopes for a payoff(which may never come) in the end.
How does it make monetary sense to release open source models? AFAIK it's very expensive to train them. Do Meta/Mistral have any plans to monetize them?
Doesn't work for me, I'm in EU.
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But from an output quality standpoint the total parameter count still seems more relevant. For example 8x7B Mixtral only executes 13B parameters per token, but it behaves comparable to 34B and 70B models, which tracks with its total size of ~45B parameters. You get some of the training and inference advantages of a 13B model, with the strength of a 45B model.

Similarly, if GPT-4 is really 1.8T you would expect it to produce output of similar quality to a comparable 1.8T model without MoE architecture.
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Yes, the US would want to do that. But as things stand currently this would have to be balanced with the existence of alternatives to TSMC. This why the US want TSMC to build fabs in the West and affiliates.
I think its almost certainly using at least two experts per token. It helps a lot during training to have two experts to contrast when putting losses on the expert router.
I live by just writing down every idea I have in a list. No particular order, I just append them on a piece of paper or a text file.

Ideas rarely appear when you need them, but come throughout the day as you do other things, and at least in my case, I can never remember if I don't jot them down.

Then when it's time to get something done, I just cross things off one by one. Never have to wonder what to do next, never run out of ideas, which allows some pretty spectacular bursts of productivity.
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> If you're Asian American (like me and a large proportion of White Collar Workers) your options are very few and far between.

Off topic, but do I take it that you've tried living elsewhere and it didn't work well for you?
What are lists?
I have been told from a Realtor that this is happening in the East Coast anyway. A lot of millennial couples/families buying their first house with a gift/inheritance from boomer parents. The parents sold their house and used the money to help their children buy their first house. Sometimes all cash, but more often a big down payment (over 20%) to avoid having a large mortgage payment.
I mean it sounds great, until you spend everything you have on rent so you can't actually save up 20% to put down on a house during a crash (remember those times when prices fall and banks tighten up and stop giving out loans). Oh, and those same crashes are the times that people tend to lose jobs in mass, so getting a loan for a house would be impossible.

Anecdotes are cool and all, but they don't work when you apply them to mass population trends. In the meantime you have to have somewhere to live.
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I particularly like this second quote, I appreciate them taking the time to explain "what is a graph" in a scientific paper!
What sort of hardware is needed to run either of these models in a usable fashion? I suppose the bigger 70B model is completely unusable for regular mortals...
They are not exposing their super secret trove of data here. Meta can easily control a what the model can or cannot use.

It may have given it the ability to crawl the web and use datasets but only on the hosted version since it would be using tools through func calling.
You're asking for something that doesn't exist yet. Command R+, WizardLM-2-8x22B probably come closest.
Norway is not in the EU
If anyone is looking to try 7B locally really quick, we have just added it to Msty.

[1]: https://msty.app
Do you have a blog? If you do, please drop a link. If not, you should. You just put the thoughts that I had about this comment into writing more eloquently than I ever could.
Instead of downvoting - could you point the line where I was mistaken? :)
You mean just like in Florida and Texas too...
GPT-3.5 rejected to extract data from a German receipt because it contained "Women's Sportswear", sent back a "medium" severity sexual content rating. That was an API call, which should be less restrictive.
The word “might” is doing most of the heavy lifting in your argument. And I agree, there’s no certainty that someone will get beaten. The problem is you are only applying that to one side of the equation. There’s also no guarantee that someone will get scammed if you hang up. My contention is that when there is uncertainty on both sides, you should defer to the side with higher risk. So if you agree that the consequences of human trafficking carry greater risk than the consequences of scamming, it follows that you should err on the side of the person in bondage.

I would concede that if the probably between the two sides gets highly skewed, that could change. But nobody has made that argument (and I doubt they could given the lack of data)
Brute forcing a single 32-bit input has also been usefully performed in some cases, such as for single-precision implementations of special functions[1].

[1] https://randomascii.wordpress.com/2014/01/27/theres-only-fou...
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Big military subs are platforms for icbms. They don’t need to be in the South China Sea. They don’t need to be anywhere. They just need to be hidden.
Of course it will introduce complexity and latency, but if durability is so important that you need 11 9's, then you don't have a realistic choice unless all you care about is the appearance of it.

Put another way: I was around when WorldCom went bankrupt and their datacentre in half the building we were also in was locked down by administrators. Had a server fail? Tough. You wouldn't get in. They were not Amazon of today sized, but they had $20bn/year revenue.

That's one of many failure modes that can take you out if you rely on one provider. I'm uneasy about relying on one provider for far lower durability projects - I usually ensure we at least have backups somewhere else.

But if you care enough that you pick AWS due to a need for 11 nines, and you don't include the long list of failure scenarios that include anything from a bankruptcy (yes, it's unlikely), to them kicking you off intentionally or by accident, or you failing to pay a bill, or any number of other scenarios, they might have 11 nines durability, but you don't have a guarantee you'll get access to it.

I'm not arguing against using AWS. It's expensive, but it has its uses. I use it at my current employer because our customers want it, and it's not a const-sensitive product. Picking it as part of a strategy to manage risks is entirely valid.

But it's certainly not going to save you from complexity unless you cut corners because they get you to ignore risks.
Wild! So if this indeed holds up, it looks like OpenAI were about a year ahead when GPT-4 was released, compared to the open source world. However, given the timespan between matching GPT-3.5 (Mixtral perhaps?) and matching GPT-4 has just been a few weeks, I am wondering if the open source models have more momentum.

That said, I am very curious what OpenAI has in their labs... Are they actually barely ahead? Or do they have something much better that is not yet public? Perhaps they were waiting for Llama 3 to show it? Exciting times ahead either way!
Halo 2's online multiplayer introduced (or popularized?) party-based matchmaking. So instead of having to coordinate all your buddies joining the same pre-existing server, you'd join up as a party and then drop into a matchmaking queue, which would set up a game against opponents, optionally taking a skill-based ranking into account. They even did a bunch of marketing around this, since it was a new concept at the time: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YGSuPZVgxLg
>that said, if this was an actual issue wrt to budgeting and such, I'm sure the bean counters would have already lobbied internally for external lobby for universal healthcare, if that makes sense. The silence from the big players on this subject tells me they're more than willing to pay for their employee healthcare, otherwise they'd already have eliminated this cost center. So, they do have an incentive to maintain the status quo.

On this specifically, what I have read on the subject suggests that most businesses simply aren't evaluating this to begin with, even big ones, but the ones that have, such as the big 3 Automakers, are actually for universal health care (since it significantly reduces their costs for employee benefits, especially for retired workers) and other big businesses with manufacturing interests. Many large employers like state governments would really benefit from federally implemented universal healthcare as well and they do lobby for this.

I simply think that the insurance and adjacent industries have such targeted lobbying on this that other lobbying is more easily ignored, since GM for instance, isn't spending millions to specifically lobby for universal healthcare, while insurance companies and adjacent industries that benefit from the status quo directly lobby consistently spending millions against it, quite specifically
Those schools still charge you $50k and take 4 years of your time, so I'm not sure how that comparison makes sense, particularly for working folks looking to uplevel their skills.
I hated my career in computers, my biggest failure was in not convincing co workers and supervisors that programming errors had consequences. I never worked in big well run departments tho, and I know that theres areas in computing that really work on solving problems, but I just never got to work in them.

My last job with computers I had to deal with a programmer that said since "product" was not actual money, accuracy was optional. I'm so glad I don't work in computers anymore lol
Surprisingly, looks like Mark Zuckerberg is listed as a contributor in the Model Card [1]. I thought since its a pretty big effort, most executives would be added to it as well, but that does not seem to be the case at all. In fact I was surprised that Soumith Chintala was left out here [2].

[1] - https://github.com/meta-llama/llama3/blob/main/MODEL_CARD.md...

[2] - https://soumith.ch/about/
Meta: What is the purpose of hacker news? This really doesn’t seem relevant at all, yet I am seeing more and more posts like these that are not related to hacking or startups and only relevant to a portion of the community. Should they be flagged? That feels extreme. Yet these types of posts don’t feel in the spirit of this forum at all.

When I visit hacker news, I want to leave having learned more about computers and staying up to date with the tech industry. I’m not sure this post (and others like it) contribute to that feeling, but perhaps others feel a different way.
I agree that it is the best AI podcast.

I do have a few gripes though, which might just be from personal preference. A lot of the time the language used by both the host and the guests is unnecessarily obtuse. Also the host is biased towards being optimistic about LLMs leading to AGI, and so he doesn't probe guests deep enough about that, more than just asking something along the lines of "Do you think next token prediction is enough for AGI?". Most of his guests are biased economically or academically to answer yes. This is then taken as the premise of the discussion following.

Having said that, I do agree that it is much better and deeper than other podcasts about AI.
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That’s all cope. If you were on a desert island you’d lose weight, plain and simple. No amount of dancing around the issue or nonsense “scientific” studies will refute this fact.

Furthmore trying to normalize obesity is absolutely morally evil and wrong. You are killing people with one of the top killers of humanity - heart disease caused by obesity, lack of exercise, and poor diet. Trying to explain away obesity as a “medical issue” and ignore the 100% self caused aspect is atrocious and part of the reason why so many are sick and dying of this 100% preventable malady.
Totally agreed. I've always liked this concept, and TIL there's a good name!

Also, now I know there's a link! Sometimes you have a new hire or team member who's a little too eager to criticize and fix everything they see, and you need to sit them down and explain this strategy. Now thanks to Bennett, you can back it up with a link.

I'd caveat that while a "two week" waiting period might work well for Bennett as a senior engineer moving between similar-enough teams, a brand new hire or a junior dev might do better with a longer delay.
From the faq

> Does Msty support GPUs?

> Yes on MacOS. On Windows* only Nvidia GPU cards are supported; AMD GPUs will be supported soon.

Do you support GPUs on linux?

Your downloads with windows are also annotated with CPU/CPU + GPU, but your linux ones aren't. Does that imply they are CPU only?
People say this, but there's a lot of feedback you can still get along the way when baking— this batter is too runny or lumpy or stiff or tastes not sweet enough, or whatever else.
> It provides a meaningful performance improvement for at least one popular platform (realistically, on the order of 5%).

At first it will not provide a large boost, but it will set the foundations for larger gains in subsequent releases. They link a list of some proposed improvements already underway, with quantitative estimates, at https://github.com/python/cpython/issues/115802
The TL;DR is:

> Stop using the "large" code model.
(...)
Benchmarking runs suggest that this change will give us a ~1-3% performance improvement, depending on platform.

> Remove zero-length jumps when tail-calling between templates.
(...)
Benchmarking suggests that this change will give us an additional ~1-3% performance improvement.

> Use LLVM's ghccc/preserve_none calling convention when tail-calling between templates.
(...)
Benchmarking suggests that this change will give us an additional ~0-6% performance improvement (no wins on aarch64, moderate wins on x86_64, and big wins on i686).

> Split hot and cold parts of the templates.
(...)
Early experiments suggest a ~1-2% performance improvement with this approach.

> Cache top-of-stack values in registers when tail-calling between templates.
(...)
No idea what this will win us, but it should be good given the amount of memory traffic that's being reduced to and from interpreter frames.

So, beyond the expected base boost of 5%, there's 5 near term improvements planned, 4 of which with estimates given. I compounded the estimates to see how far we should expect them to take performance together:

Python 3.11.2 (main, Mar 13 2023, 12:18:29) [GCC 12.2.0] on linux
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license()" for more information.
from itertools import accumulate, chain
from operator import mul
from statistics import mean
base_boost = 1.05
estimated_bounds = [(1.01, 1.03),
(1.01, 1.03),
(1.00, 1.06),
(1.01, 1.02)]
worst_mean_best_cases = [map(min, estimated_bounds),
map(mean, estimated_bounds),
map(max, estimated_bounds)]
f = lambda iterable: list(round(e, 3) for e in accumulate(iterable, mul, initial=base_boost))
for line in chain([('worst', 'mean', 'best')], zip(*map(f, worst_mean_best_cases))):
print(*line)

worst mean best
1.05 1.05 1.05
1.06 1.071 1.082
1.071 1.092 1.114
1.071 1.125 1.181
1.082 1.142 1.204

So, if all short-term planned improvements are implemented, I believe we should expect a 8% performance boost in worst case, 20% in best case, with average around 14%, not counting the effects of caching top-of-stack values in registers when tail-calling between templates, for which no bound estimates were given.
This is essentially my note-taking strategy with Apple Notes and Notally (on Android). Life's too short to organize notes. I'd rather just jot down everything and rely on the reverse-chron and search to find stuff later.

The irony is that, while I know I have a treasure trove of amazing ideas, at my age I don't think I care enough to execute them like I would have in my 20s. Oh well!
Ok, so I conclude from this that touching is not an exact science.
Halo 2 was basically synonymous with Xbox Live and everything that came with it when it launched (for better or worse). For example popularizing voice chat (including proximity!), rapid matchmaking, persistent parties between matches and gamemodes and player ranks and levels. They talk it about it a bit in the second half of this video.

https://youtu.be/YGSuPZVgxLg?si=cQZRaXJGaGFaKuL-&t=172
> nothing to fear

Except any executive or employee not willing to bend the knee and gargle will be fired or perhaps a re-education retreat.
The article says "mind clearing and reprogramming" is the sense we all usually think of, and that doesn't apply to advertising, even if it's totally dishonest like astroturfing. So although we could agree to call it brainwashing now we've established what we mean, in conversation with a general audience, we shouldn't, because that would be misleading. But anyway, it's been nice brainwashing with you today, I'm glad we had this opportunity to brainwash each other.