skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Their benchmark results seem roughly on par with Mistral 7B and Llama 3 8B, which hardly seems that great given the increase in model size.

https://huggingface.co/tiiuae/falcon-11B

https://huggingface.co/meta-llama/Meta-Llama-3-8B

https://mistral.ai/news/announcing-mistral-7b/
As proven by Ken Thompson, unless you are a security guru, having source code won't help.
It was because there was a lot of difference between the systems then, unlike today where they are all the same technology with a different sticker on the front of the case.

If you cared about games, the system you bought would be completely different than if you cared about business.

In the 8-bit era, if you wanted business you got a CP/M system with 80x24 text. If you wanted games, you got an Atari 800 or Commodore 64 with colors, hardware scrolling and sprites.

In the 16-bit era, there was the IBM PC for business, the Mac for people who wanted ease of use, the Amiga for games, 4096 color graphics and stereo sound, and the Atari ST (512 colors, mono sound) if you couldn't afford an Amiga. That said, they could all do games but obviously some were better than others, and they could all do business, but the perception was that game systems weren't good at business so business apps weren't made available.
Technically it is, of course, but the experience is completely different, and I get the feeling people call it that to downplay it.
They're a (quite sour) eating apple.
Bramleys are better cookers.
Parents are more aware of the sexual developmental of their children.

I have heard many clients over the years talk of their first unwanted sexual experience with their siblings because they slept in the same bedroom.

Especially so when the family are living in squalid and cramped housing and the children have to share the same bed.

The lack of social housing increases this problem because families are stuck in poor unsuitable housing.

Here in Airstrip One, it is not illegal, but advised, that children older than 10 years of different sexes should not share a bedroom.

It is only a recommendation for those living in cramped poor quality housing and as a guide for what housing you are likely to be offered if you are considered living in an overcrowded environment.

The NSPCC consider that girls puberty begins at age 11 while boys puberty begins at 12 years of age.

In my experience as a play therapist and children and families therapist this is totally wrong!!

Girls in particular start their periods much earlier, some a young as 8 years old. This for me is the beginning of puberty and the law should recognise this.

I personally think that all children should have their own bedrooms.
I'm left wondering what AI everyone are using. I can prompt copilot and it gives me exactly what I need. Sure, if I barf out a lazy, half-baked prompt it yields a waste of time.

My problem is running into it's limitations, mostly around resources. I have tried giving it larger tasks and it takes bloody forever.

"Given this unstructured data, create CSV output for all platforms, with each line containing the manual, and model, ignoring the text in parenthesis."

Works great except for God-awful performance and stopping half way through. I had to break out each section and paste it into the prompt and let it work on small pieces. We need to get to the next level with this, especially for paying customers.

More concerning is that I see a clear pattern in smaller companies of hiring seniors and turning them loose with AI assistants instead of hiring junior devs. The prospect is attractive to nearly every stakeholder and the propensity to put off hiring "until next quarter" in light of this is a constant siren song. There is a lot of gravity pulling in this direction with the short-term thinking and distractions that are thoroughly soaked into the business world these days. Supposedly, one third of Gen Z (20-25 yrs old) are sitting at home, up from 22% in 1990.

I'm one of those seniors happily putting off hiring, but I find the situation and it's wider impact on the future very unnerving.
You won't generally find the best in the supermarket--probably either in the US or Europe. There are actually some pretty good more artisanal chocolate bars you can get in many supermarkets to my tastes. But they're still by definition mass market and (often) not as good as what some specialty maker with a small store has.
no most indians that come to US are from middle upper strata of indian society. They don't "have" to send money to parents for sustenance, maybe for luxuries.
The worst excesses of "modern" web presentation, coupled with a complete lack of actual gardening info...I'm completely baffled. 1% "here's your zone", and 99% "your zone is almost no use for gardening"
I found that curious too.

I don’t stay up on the benchmarks much these days though; I’ve fully dedicated myself to b-ball.

I’m actually a bit better than Lebron btw, who is nowhere near as good as my 3 year old daughter. I occasionally beat her. At basketball.
Astronomers discover how energy escapes the galactic center
Not the first time they did some license shenanigans (happened with Falcon 1). I applaud their efforts but it seems they are still trying to figure out if/how to monetize.
> So no matter what you think of their current AUP they reserve the right to update it to anything they like in the future, and you'll have to abide by the new one!

I'm so curious if this would actually hold up in court. Does anyone know if there's any case law / precedence around this?
This gave me "Press F to appeal ban" images.
Maybe it's thin enough that you could squeeze it onto the back side of the motherboard? It would be annoying to build that way, but there's plenty of space there.
"It literally blew his mind" doesn't mean what people nowadays think it means :D
Your comment prompted me to take a step back and look at these terms with new eyes. That made me smile, because you're so right.
Our last big snowstorm was in 2016. Afterwards we were in a snowfall drought for years (well below average)

We had a few close calls for big snow, but they never materialized. This is unheard of.

Even during strong El Nino patterns, the east coast is supposed to receive good snowfall. It did not happen. Even with a -NAO, -AO, +PNA!
I remember reading magazines when the Amiga 1000 was introduced, and even then the general conclusion was: amazing hardware, but doesn’t run PC software.
Anecdotally I was in country not too long ago and the exchange rate meant fantastic dining was around the same cost as some fast food in the US.
I guess that’s fair enough, I didn’t say that. I suppose I was looking more for something like: I bought this, I like it because that, but it is bad because of some other thing.

I haven’t really specced it out, I just like the aesthetic. But I suppose: off road, some equipment (bikes, etc), can sleep in it.

Btw cool username !!! Haha :)
Still took 9 years to get to 7 chargers.
So this article is complaining about a 450% increase in rate of charger building.
It has 38 TOPS of INT8 performance. Not very remarkable compared to consumer Nvidia GPU’s which are like one or two orders of magnitude faster.
It just sounds a little dry. I think environmentalists have done a good job drilling the fact that it is a bad thing into us, but in the face of it “climate change” sounds like a sort of generic and neutral process. Global warming was a little better (I think? Or maybe I just grew up knowing it was a bad thing).

Climate Instability sounds sort of clearly bad (I think most people consider instability bad).
Anecdotal, I know, but in my experience Gemma is absolutely worthless and Llama 3 8b is exceptionally good for its size. The idea that Gemma is ahead of Llama 3 is bizarre to me. Surely there’s some contamination or something if Gemma is showing up ahead in some benchmarks‽
Estimating the disk space needed for a VACUUM FULL on PostgreSQL
My point was: do these laws mandate that you have to take care of them? Or is just pay a percentage of your income, like alimony?
They’ve got Saudi oil money behind them no?

Falcon always struck me more as a regional prestige project rather than “how to monetise”
Principles of Heading Construction
I was about to go start the transfer process. How bad of a time am I in for?
This is incredible, this means a lot for game preservation.
> I've been able to capitalize on so many opportunities because of that.

This is so true for me as well. I started and ran my own business for a number of years, and I've resigned from jobs multiple times before I had something else lined up. Being able to take those risks has absolutely helped me in my career, and there's no way I could have taken them if I didn't have an implicit safety net beneath me.
That’s not the exchange rate, but the relative prices. Exchange rate in Argentina right now is 1000 pesos to 1 usd.
In 2021 it was between 200-300 or so to 1, and it’s almost twice as expensive today as it was in 2021.
It's a good thing that the average person doesn't think of the web in terms of historical eras with arbitrary date cutoffs.

Web3 was never part of the Internet in the public consciousness. Nothing that requires logging in with a crypto wallet ever was.
The problem here comes from poor experiment design. Seeing how many sales you get from 100 cold calls has no control, and produces a single datapoint. No matter what number you get, be it 0, 2, or 37, will be useless for predicting future sales.

First, you need a sample size that will produce a statistically significant result. Cold calls are expected to have a low success rate and be highly variable. 2 in 100 could very well be a massive success. 0 in 100 wouldn't rule out its viability. If instead you had a sample size of 2000, then you'd get a very good signal to noise ratio.

Then, you need controls. Look up statistical design of experiments (DOE), you'll find efficient ways for finding how much various different factors affect your results. Basically split up those 2000 calls into groups and vary things as you go, so instead of testing whether a specific cold call technique is working, you can see if cold calls in general work.

Finally, understand what success means. A business does not need to rigorously prove that it's methods are optimal, it needs only to find an adequate strategy to achieve its objectives. You should know what it costs to make 2000 cold calls, you should know how much revenue is generated from a sale, there should be a specific threshold where the number of sales justifies the cold calls. You should be doing a process capability study that you are sufficiently over this threshold that, given expected variation, you will remain above it most of the time. What is your Cpk? How much does it vary among the different sub-experiments you performed?

At the end of the day, you're still going to need to make decisions with incomplete information, but don't pretend that you're making a data driven decision when you're not. The worst thing is not an inconclusive experiment, the worst thing is an experiment with an erroneous result you mistake for conclusive.
Funny I'm seeing this now, I've finally ade the first tentative steps into making a website, and noticed that pandoc has an --email-obfuscation option and the whole topic was on my mind. I don't remember the last time I received an actual spam email (not counting desparate marketters trying to remind me of that one website I tried ages ago). Funnily enough, the new frontier seems to be what's app and SMS of all things. A month or two back I got a job offer from an indonesian phonenumber from what's app, and then something similar directly to my SMS. I didn't publish my phone number anywhere online, the closest thing to making it public was joining my college's what's app group and giving my phone number to a bank for a student credit card, and honestly I wouldn't put leaking them to some spam agency beyond either.

I'm using voice over on MacOS chromium and I have the same experience as the NVDA user, although if I interact with the "link" I'll eventually find the email. If I wasn't aware of the ofuscation however I probably would just think the webpage was weird, saying "this is an email" but actually giving a mailto: link. In general, if you're doing something special to improve accessibility then odds are you're doing it wrong, and if it's anything web related the odds are at least 90%. Most accessibility issues on the internet are developers trying to be smart by using ARIA labels or such which usually just make it worse. The example I have to deal with most often are manpages on man.openbsd.org. All of their cross references to other manpages say something like "openssl, section 1" instead of "openssl(1)", which is what's displayed on the screen and what the browser's find command sees while searching.

For completeness, I also tried the page with various terminal browsers, specifically lynx, felinks, w3m, and edbrowse. None, and I mean NONE of them could display the svg properly, they couldn't even recognise it as an image.
Prisoners of Parole (2010)
Another counterpoint is the mismatch between the intended use of languages. Languages are designed for many types of goals. The language you’re building should be tested against the goals it’s designed to achieve.

Whereas, some languages are really good at making compilers. Then, some tools are specifically designed for program transformation and analysis. Using those languages can dramatically improve your compiler which might indirectly increase the number of goals the other language hits.
Make the App of Volleyball Enthusiast
The 40b model appears to be pure apache though
Considering that the majority of the interviewees lied under oath, I would suspect the "investigations" were meant primarily to convince average retail apes that institutional investors had been bad, but wouldn't be bad again — WE PROMISE.

Disclosure: I own a small amount of GME. Meows and moons.
I propose “Web 95”
What should I call a program that generates SQL, executes it, and stores the result in a tuple, object, or whatever data structure in the programming language that I'm using? Does it magically stop being an ORM the second I use a tuple instead of a class instance, or is it now an ORM plus another nameless type of program? Are tuples also objects?
When it is backed by the UAE the muscle you have to contend with is not simply legal muscle, it also includes armed muscle of questionable moral fibre (see support for the RSF).
Life is not a contract.
So basically you can never use this for anything non-trivial because they can deny your use-case at any time without even notifying you.
Like Sears and Hertz?
This post is both helpful and appreciated.
I've found zstd --long=31 to be an excellent replacement for lrzip. Mentioned it in the github issue as well, cross posting for context. I'm not associated with either zstd or lrzip, but would still be curious to hear if you find any remaining usecases in favor of lrzip.
> Outperforming Meta’s New Llama 3

I know it's hard to objectively rank LLMs, but those are really ridiculous ways to keep track of performance.

If my reference of performance is (like the vast majority of users) ChatGPT-3.5, I have to first know how Llama 3 compares to that to then understand how that new models compare to what I'm using at the moment.

Now, if I look for the performance of Llama 3 compared to ChatGPT-3.5, I don't find it on the official launch page https://ai.meta.com/blog/meta-llama-3/ where it is compared to Gemma 7B it, Mistral 7B Instruct, Gemini Pro 1.5 and Claude 3 Sonnet.

How does Gemma 7B perform? Well you can only find out how it compares to Llama 2 on the official launch page https://blog.google/technology/developers/gemma-open-models/.

Let's look at the Llama 2 performance on its launch announcement: https://llama.meta.com/llama2/ No GPT-3.5 turbo again.

I get that there are multiple aspects and that there's probably not one overall "performance" metric across all tasks, and I get that you can probably find a comparative between two specific models relatively easily, but there absolutely needs to be a standard by which those performances are communicated. The number of hoops to jump through is ridiculous.
Maybe, but would you risk trying?
From my limited understanding, the specific performance benefits in the article come from it being DDR5X memory. LP (Low Power) DDR needs to be very close to the CPU (short traces) because of how much less power it consumes. DDR5x should have the same bandwidth as LPDDR5x, it would just consume more power. Up until now, there wasn't a way to have "socketed" LPDDR, so it was soldered to the motherboard or even placed in the same package as the CPU (Apple M-series CPUs have the RAM in the same package as the CPU). Now they have a standard way to basically strap down a BGA chip that will live right next to the CPU.
Looks like they're working on it:

https://www.haiku-os.org/guides/building/compiling-arm64/
Archive: https://archive.ph/Qtkke
MinoanLoop: Can GPT Translate Linear A?
Apologies friends, this might be a really dumb idea for lots of different reasons, but sometimes you have to put even dumb ideas into the wild.

The basic premise is this:
1. We provide a dictionary of Linear A
1. We provide a bunch (ideally all) of the Linear A sentences to GPT
2. It attempts to guess the missing words in a sentence, given the context of the time, and the words it does know
3. GPT reviews, and approves/disproves the translation
4. The process repeats

What am I missing? Given infinite time/compute, isn't it possible GPT could guess the correct translation? And we'll know it's correct when most of the sentences sort of sound correct?

Forks, thoughts, and death threats are appreciated. But ideally in that order.
You'd be surpised.
Indeed. We have a very limited winter. There are often more warm days than cold days.

The last time I had to use my snowblower was in a mega snowstorm during the winter of 2015/2016. That is simply unheard of! (at least here)
Any tool that treats spaces and tabs differently is not sane.
I welcome open models, although the Falcon model is not super open, as noted here. I will say that the original Falcon did not perform as well as its benchmark stats indicated -- it was pushed out as a significant leap forward, and I didn't find it outperformed competitive open models at release.

The PR stating an 11B model outperforms 7B and 8B models 'in the same class' feels like it might be stretching a bit. We'll see -- I'll definitely give this a go for local inference. But, my gut is that finetuned llama 3 8B is probably best in class...this week.
> Why wouldn't the "script" be all of the necedssary commands to create the entire database?

That pre-dated me, so I have no idea. It's also why I simply jettisoned the schema migration script altogether, since the dacpac covered both migrations and creating new databases.

Some other "fun" things in the database were "expansion columns" just in case new columns were needed. Many tables had "int_1", "int_2", "int_3" etc that were not used, but ready to be used should the need arise.
I’ll add one more benefit to using languages like C or Java for output or building. That is their tooling ecosystem. Almost all research in static analysis, code generation, etc was for these languages. Using them means you can use all their tooling. Talent, too, for contributions and reviewers.
Send for the cobrador: business booms for Spanish debt collectors (2013)
Have you done much AI work against AMD products? I'm not going to plunk down $2500+ for an RTX 4090, but have been considering an RX 7900XTX for playing around with, or at least getting started. Just curious how well it will or won't work in practice, or if saving a bit more and getting a 7900 XT over the XTX might be a better option, and how much less vram might impact usefulness in practice.
Linktree became the go to because social media networks only give you a single link to display on your bio.
For anyone curious about notebooks, here are some recommendations:

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So you don't trust data from 2024; got it.
That mouth-watering aroma of fresh food cooking? It may be degrading air quality
Cloud models will always have edge compared to local models. Maybe in 2030 your iPhone would run GPT-4 on your phone but cloud GPT-9 will solve all your kids homework, do 95% of your job and manage your household.
I don’t doubt that those records lacked quality due to inconsistent measuring equipment, standards, and practices. It has nothing to do with the beliefs of people at the time, though.

This was a time period in which scientists actually improved these technologies and practices, and we stand on the shoulders of that progress. They were doing the best they could with what they had.

Geocentrism was also well on the way out 300 years ago.

My point is mostly that people in the past did some great work, and having weird beliefs didn’t diminish that. People in the future will think we were similarly clueless for all kinds of reasons. You just do the best you can with the information and environment you’ve got.
Similar thought, but also thought this is setup for a lawsuit - I mean, I get lifetime unlimited video storage for $9 a month? I can already think of several ways to abuse that and then complain.
Why isn't "downloading an app to help us have a more unpredictable romantic relationship" also thinking about her and caring about her wellbeing?
Having lived in regions that use both, I have to say that there’s not much difference in everyday experience once you’ve gotten used to it. I don’t think I’d like to be dealing with Kelvin (the actual SI temperature unit) on an everyday basis, though. Or maybe I’d get used to it just as easily as switching between C and F.
Joost Klein Story at this point covered by the NOS
A charismatic figure, Joost Klein in the middle of a controversy and a court case in Sweden apparently for a threatening gesture he allegedly made to a camera person. At this point we seem to only know that the story is that Joost has allegedly made a threatening gesture to the camera, but nothing is being said about which gesture it actually was. Apparently it has been said that there is strong evidence to support that, but it hasn't been shown to the public yet and given that the exact story still didn't came out and Joost was disqualified and didn't participated in the final because of that, there is a growing frustration among fans. The story is also being placed into a collage of other negative stories that have been told about the EBU. It is a developing story.
Only that the protocol is an accepted standard. Very, very, very little of what's shared over Facebook is E2EE.
Wax-coated apples are generally safe to eat but I do not like it too. Just washing them in hot water.
Sounds awful. How much of this is networking with high net worth investors (nepo shit).
The problems that need "solving" in this space are 99% politics. Making something become a standard and/or popular is a fundamentally different task from making something good.

The answer to your earlier question, of course, is that—to some people, anyway—trying to make something good is far more satisfying than trying to make something popular.
What does "after … gas savings" mean? Is there some way to actually get spendable money here, or is this basically the same as saying my yacht was free because I saved so much money on not buying a bigger yacht?
..and fire people

...and have more site downtime
Of course, projects change their licences all the time, why wouldn't it be legal? There's a long history of startups who started with open source/open core gradually closing off or commercialising the licence. This isn't anything new at all.

This is why it's good to read licenses before adopting the tech, especially if it's at all core to your business/project.
If you follow them on Twitter, you might actually be repulsed by some.
It does say how long on Huggingface:

> The model training took roughly two months.