skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'd love to see more sidewalk and less road here. The pandemic-induced trend of sidewalk/street seating at cafes and restaurants and closed streets (like St. Marks in manhattan and Vanderbilt in Brooklyn) really make the spring/summer/fall here a joy, but it's silly that we have to sit in little huts in former parking spaces. Make it official and permanent. NYC sidewalks are wide as for America, but pretty narrow compared to the rest of the world.

I was in Berlin recently, and some of the more posh neighborhoods have enormous sidewalks, full of people walking, or sipping espresso and chatting. I'm jealous!
Please tell me ... success at what?
10^-8 compared to -16?
Saying that 60km "can be easily done" is quite a stretch. After 30-40km, even on flat, most people wouldn't do it easily at all.

And I walk about 10km daily in one session and often do 30+km hikes.
Yeah, a bunch of dudes created a book (which costed a fortune or two before typewriter age) to tell everyone to be good just for the sake of it. As plausible as it can get. /s

It’s a medieval gaslightenment and it would be great if people kept it private at least.

PS. purpose is different from meaning, the latter is just a medium for purpose and may be arbitrary.
It sounds like it will happen, and it's just a matter of when. My finding a new job is not really dependent on this.
> We have opensourced the models in Hugging Face and ModelScope to you

We are unfortunately now in a place where this falsehood has travelled the world while the truth is probably still half-asleep in its underwear.

It is a shame that people who are working on what is probably the pinnacle of computing can so blatantly disregard the real meaning.

Imagine if Microsoft starting announcing everywhere that Windows, because all its EXE and DLLs are right there for you to see, is actually open-source!

I suppose all we can do now is to keep asking "is it open-source or like true open-source?".
That already exists. Built into Google Photos, for example.
depends on your bubble.

my X is full of leaking flaps.
That's some piece of history right there
Not in shipping but in high volume manufacturing it's generally expected that anyone on the shop floor, or creating systems for the shop floor, is exerting at least some gray matter toward optimization. In most places of decent size, there will be at least one "manufacturing engineer" or "operations lead" whose primary job is to focus on optimization.
Idolatry: noun; the worship of idols.

It has a decent number of up votes, so clearly some people think it worth posting. As I said, you don't have to read it, and I don't really care if you do. I'm not sure how linking to something with a reference is worship, but ok.

You seem very angry.
Even if that were true (it's not; arch and dataset differ considerably from model to model) the release of new foundation models has a lot of other important factors to consider (e.g. performance, license, size).
We are plateauing with respect to compute. Unreleased llama 3 400b has significantly better benchmarks. Also Zuckerburg said that llama 3 continued to improve even after 15T tokens.
10BedICU uses OpenAI’s API to improve India’s critical care infrastructure
or even the "Sword of Damocles"
It is/was a real bug IMO, and agree they presented all the necessary details. In hindsight it was probably excessive to add so much personal context, since it invites 'help' from well meaning passers by.
Has SpaceX shared plans on where Starship goes from here? Other than the minor hiccups (a couple of engine misfires; a damaged flap), this looked like a wildly successful test. I'm especially curious to know when they'll start successfully recovering the booster and Starship.
> Never underestimate the bandwidth of a stationwagon loaded with tapes.

I don't. I know it has amazing bandwidth and it might be a lot faster than network transfer.

> Arguably, your position is bogus.

That's not nice.

> Why cause a bunch of extra copying around to move a server. "Back up" indeed - to what? Another disk? It's turtles all the way down.

Yes, to another disk, in the same data-center or in another one. If the data is encrypted end-to-end, it might be better to transfer it to another data center than to move the data between data-centers on physical disks for security reasons. It's less likely that an adversary is able to execute an attack where it is able to pin-point the exact moment and the exact data they want is being backed up between data centers. On the other hand, organizing a heist of a few trucks filled with physical storage leaving the data center might be easier to pull.

In these two scenarios we expect the encryption to be equally hard to crack for data at rest and data in transit, which is usually not true for performance reasons.
ht uses asciinema’s avt as the underlying terminal emulator, so there wasn’t much re-invented here really. It was mostly glueing avt, PTY and JSON RPC together.
I don't follow. You can source the chips, in large quantities, right now, and have them delivered to any non-embargoed country in a matter of days.

That they're in limited stock at a particular outlet in China means very little, no? And conversely, that STM32 chips happened to be in stock in 2018 meant very little in the following four years.

If you want the chips right now, you can have them. If you want long-term availability, either buy ahead of the time or sign a contract with the manufacturer (and hope it doesn't fall apart due to a geopolitical crisis or whatnot).
Just an observation based on my searches.
I'm a long time Amethyst user, but going to try AeroSpace out!

Based on the documentation the toml syntax is stretched quite a bit to implement some logic and callbacks. Have you considered some scripting language to make it easier to do, or is the need for this kind of advanced use so little that it's not really a problem?
If you haven't seen the video yet... it's amazing. The re-entry in particular had amazing footage. Looked like something out of a sci-fi movie.
You can use it for speculative decoding for example, this would increase the speed of larger models.
This is a nice side effect of the NVIDIA stock boom: lots of smart people getting funding to try interesting new chip designs.
Google partners with RapidSOS to enable 911 contact through RCS
It's really not an excuse. This has directly led to decades of wasted time/money/effort searching for a cure of a very prevalent disease.

It does lend to an interesting thought experiment, though.

Imagine the researchers were right after all. They just needed more time, and so they faked some results. We might have ended up with an underdog/feel-good movie about how the researchers bravely persevered in spite of the drying up of their funding.
Twitch announces a program allowing DJs to split revenue with record labels
> From what I have read articles in the past, "Freeze Europe" is not quite what the headline indicates.

Without the AMOC, western europe likely will have a climate more similar to NA at the same latitude. That means freezing in winter and burning in summer.

London is on 51N, that's about the same as Calgary, compare the weather between the two. Calgary goes way, way colder in winter.
I'm an American, and I like to think that I can comprehend liters, but I think for enormous volumes like this it's easier to visualize distances cubed.

Like for a million cubic miles, I know that's a cube with 1,000 mile sides. That's like New York to Miami (don't ask me about cities in Europe...okay I'll go out on a limb: Paris to Rome?). I can visualize that cube of water on a globe.

But how many liters or gallons is that? A lot! But billions? Trillions? I probably would instinctively say billions, but with a tiny bit of mental arithmetic I'm suspecting it's up in the trillions.

edit: I came back to confess that indeed I am an ignorant American who has no intuitive sense of exaliters. My SI volume comfort zone doesn't extend much past teraliters.
+1! the Picos have been an absolute joy to work with, and take me back to my C coding start from.. gosh.. 38 years ago. :)

Mix in some I2C components and a few jumper wires, and you basically have my whole childhood distilled down and reborn -- legos and code.
The only thing the Pico-W beats the ESP32 on is power consumption. ESP32 costs the same as Pico non-wireless. ESP32 has double the clock speed, ram, and flash, plus wifi and Bluetooth, at the same price.

Plus ESP32 has a huge ecosystem of software and hardware, the same way the original big Raspberry Pis are much easier to develop on. Pico ecosystem isn't nearly as big.
Do you extend that rule to toothpaste?
It seems as if there are shared ideas, but to call it a copy/rewrite is quite a stretch.
Maybe but I don't see how this release would support that conclusion- their 72B model surpasses Llama 3 70B on so many metrics by such a wide margin I find it a little hard to believe.
I daily drive this and my verdict is: it's the best way to manage windows on a Mac, but falls short of i3/sway. In particular, support for re-arranging windows by dragging them to positions relative to one another is extremely limited in that it's not able to create new vertical or horizontal splits the way you can in sway, which forces me to take awkward detours with keyboard commands to get to the window layout I want most of the time. Like, say I have two windows side-by-side, and I want to split one of them vertically. In sway I'd pop open the new window, then drag it to the top or bottom half of the window I want it to share horizontal space with, and bam, all done. With aerospace the best way I've found to do this is to open the new window, then switch all three windows into a vertical stack, then focus the window that was originally on the left and invoke the 'move left' command on it.
The ISS is situated safely deep inside the Earth's magnetic sheath which protects you from a lot of high energy radiation though. You can use mass for shielding but you also desperately need that mass for cargo too and most cargo isn't going to be as dense as water which makes good shielding. The ISS has some fancier lightweight shielding but has issues with secondary radiation from particles hitting the metal skin of the modules which we'd expect to see on Starship too but higher since it'd be in interplanetary space instead of nicely close to Earth like the ISS.
They have speed cameras all over Europe too, but the speed limit is often 130 km/h (about 80 mph). Most of the population of the US lives in states where the speed limit is 70 mph or lower.

Obviously this is an oversimplification, Switzerland and Spain are 120 km/h (75 mph), Germany often has no upper limit, a few places are 140 or higher. But in general it seems like most of Europe sets the limit at the speed Americans actually drive.
This looks awesome! Does anyone know of something similar but for 2D games?
After Microsoft eroded Windows users' trust with bad practices for years, Recall
Europe is a great place to start. I did the Camino de Santiago the year before going to China and that was what gave me the courage to go to China.

I'd love to hear an anecdote of your own!
A few weeks ago I was looking at albums in Apple Music. I read the blurbs on several albums in a row from a particular artist, and I noticed that they were all overly wordy, banal, and extensively reused the same rare words. So I searched on the subject and of course all the album background blurbs were AI-generated. Apple bought some company specifically for that purpose a few years ago. So now I know to not waste time reading the album blurbs on Apple Music.
Well, there's six grand I'll never get back. At least I know for the future.
Chromium Team Marks JpegXL Support Ticket Obsolete / Wontfix
Elon Musk Accused of Insider Trading at Tesla
I just owned a cheap bicycle that I wasn't afraid to lose. There's loads of used steel-frame bikes from the 90s that ride just fine after a tune-up and cost less than $100. The U-lock and the slightly beat-up exterior seemed to put off any would-be bike thieves here in NYC. But if/when it finally gets taken I won't be too upset.

Depends on where you live, of course.
Eh, I don't know. It seems like most of the people enjoying life now are people who either make thier money off of others, or offload the externalities of their actions onto others. Seems like my life and level of enjoyment is pretty average.
A heuristic using problem specific structure can beat Gurobi which is for solving general mip.
I'm suspicious that a rights holder would be submitting an AI thumbnail. Still, anything that Amazon puts in Prime is something they should be willing to stand behind.
that was a scary read.. i guess reform is needed but not like that
I agree. I personally don't have high hopes for the 0.5B model.

Phi-2 was 2.7B and it was already regularly outputting complete nonsense.

I ran the 0.5B model of the previous Qwen version (1.5) and it reminded me of one of those lorum ipsum word generators.

The other new Qwen models (7B and up) look good though.
Overgrowth is a normal process in the development of the fetal brain. It is followed by a reorganization, which means the pruning and migration of neurons to the right locations in the brain.
I never meant to accuse you of a personal attack, only of not following this forum’s guidelines. I am guessing that you must have become accustomed to some really horrible forums, since you seem to read accusations and underhandedness into every post. But I assure you that this is not what I am doing, and it is not what this forum is supposed to be.

I could not show evidence I did not have, which is understandable since I was wrong. You did have a reference, which you showed, and so you did resolve the issue. And after some further confusion about the actual issue (the “will” vs. “will try”), the issue is now resolved.
I agree, mostly, but I've also seen (and been in) situations where the PE acquired a company for it's customer base and knew going in that it was going to gut the current leadership and install all new systems & processes [that would support 10x scaling]. This doesn't make PE bad or evil, but it's not accurate to state that PE overlords are always hands-off.
> the underlying Windows Desktop

I think I found the problem
Too bad you didn't tweet this. You could have got 100k likes!

https://x.com/AuthorJMac/status/1773679197631701238
Indeed.

This is why in a society free from theft, one must build or make something for exchange to get things you want.

I don't see why buying two plots and building two houses entitles someone else to one of them.
This sort of right is closing the barn door after the horse leaves.

In fairness, so is the right to deletion.

Once your data is in some of these systems, it's sold on to other systems immediately. (Most of the "sell side" market is set up on the basis of subscriptions). So, for instance, your data gets written to some merchant system or whatever, and it's slurped out in the pull that happens 15 minutes later by data subscriber 531962. Unless you get your request to delete your data to the merchant customer support within that 15 minute time period, your data has already been pumped out into the ether.

Make it so you have to give affirmative consent to opt out of right to deletion? Great idea!

Of course, most of these companies slip the opt out language into the Terms of Service and Privacy Statement.

You, uh, you did read them before you clicked 'OK', right?

(BTW, you likely suspect that it doesn't take 15 minutes for these automated processes to slurp up new data. And, yeah, your suspicion is correct, on most of these systems, it takes far less than 15 minutes before one of their subscribers pulls new data. So. Yeah. Fun Times!)
Sshhh. Noone tell the proles that it's perfectly natural to have a bit of slack where many individuals in complex systems are doing nothing and, far from being a leech on society, it is actually essential to keeping the overall system alive.
> China-bashing is naive - most of the world's electronics are produced there for a reason.

I didn't say that China didn't have most of the world's production. What I said is that a large number of Chinese chips are counterfeit. So when we're talking about discussion points like:

> Even then, outside of launch-time near-shore marketing-land, the chips currently cost double the old ones.

Well, have you done the QA to assure that these "old chip lots" are actually legitimate AVR ATMega328pb or are they some king of counterfeit chip? I know the STM32 chips in a lot of Chinese shops are just clever replicas, and that's key to their lower prices.

I don't fully trust prices, especially of old stock in China.

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China has enormous potential in terms of electronics manufacturing. But the supply chain problem / counterfeit problem certainly exists. No matter how clever their replicas get, there are minor concerns about power-delivery differences or minor differences to the ADC (or whatever). Maybe the counterfeit chips are good enough for your projects, or maybe not. But its still a concern that floats in the back of my mind, especially if the prices are much cheaper than the legitimate sources.

Like: maybe the chips don't sleep quite as low power as a legitimate chip, or the ADC is slightly less linear than a legitimate chip. Etc. etc. Minor differences that with good testing you could actually work with the counterfeit and get a usable product, but a risk nonetheless if you have an old design that depends on the specifications of the original.

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Here's a Hackaday on some STM32 counterfeits they found: https://hackaday.com/2020/10/22/stm32-clones-the-good-the-ba...
Get the bag!
again, you can't simply reject a book that has dominated europe for two millenia. whether it is nonsense or not. if it was pure nonsense then it would never had a chance at dominating our culture for that long.

the legitimacy of the bible or of christianity has also been confirmed in the koran as one of the religions of the book.

i agree with you that this book and others are not suitable for our modern day society. hence the need for reform or replacement.

but the interesting part is that the replacement has been announced in the bible itself. in it jesus states that he will return.

and in the past 200 years some people have made the claim to be the return of jesus. it is now up to us to investigate these claims and find out which of these, if any, is genuine.

the primary goal of education here is that everyone needs to learn and understand that they need to critically investigate and search for the truth. all of us. and that search is not done as long as there are conflicting ideas of what the truth is. so we need to keep searching.
The model seems to be Apache 2.0 yet the training data remains private, so even if you had the resources, knowledge and ability to train it yourself, you wouldn't be able to.

So no, Qwen 2 isn't open source, but they happen to release the models publicly. Guess "pseudo-open source" might make sense as a label.

I agree, I'm not a super fan of people/organizations using "open source" as a marketing term which seems popular in the ML field right now.
I call this phenomenon One Fed Per Child. Now we can have a synthetic government agent monitor every man, woman and child on the planet. If we don't have that already, we soon will...
The state claims state secrets and prevents jurisdiction/standing when these laws are challenged. It doesn’t work.

There is a large body of history about these unconstitutional laws at this point. It would be wise of anyone willing to make such claims to orient themselves with the current status quo and how we arrived here.
> if you’re not dogfooding what you’ve created, you either don’t believe in it or you didn’t have a need for it (i.e., likely a solution for a nonexistent problem)

That entirely depends on what sort of thing you're programming. My current job is programming for industrial equipment. I certainly don't, and won't ever, personally have a use for the software I write, but that software is 100% addressing a real problem.
Prime Video has consistently had the worst quality subtitles of any streaming service I've tried. I'm surprised they haven't been subject to a ADA-type lawsuits over it.
Money is the only thing that matters, remember that. Getting the bag is all that matters, so go get the bag!
The only thing that realistically could would be to go to China or Taiwan and live there for a few years. No Google translate.
Ok, but there are (at least) 4 people in my country with the same name as me, so either it's going to be some shitty name.name4938 deal or someone is going to be disappointed.
How do you figure that? You can set a MX record on a domain, but it still has to go somewhere.
> the wave of suicide bombing attacks by Hamas that came as a response to the peace process

The Hamas suicide bombings in 1994 were in response to the massacre committed by Jewish terrorist Baruch Goldstein in February. The first bombing of the "wave" happened in April.

[1]

> This was the first suicide bombing attack to be carried out by Palestinian militants against Israeli civilians in Israel, and was carried out in retaliation for the killing by a settler of 29 Muslims while they were at prayer in the Ibrahimi mosque in Hebron on 25 February.

> I.e. the root cause of this was Palestinians, not Israelis.

I.e. This is grossly disingenuous.

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Afula_Bus_suicide_bombing
No, not really. Packing itself is a mostly solved problem. This is a combination of packing + traveling salesman, where the combinatorics of the traveling salesman part are highly variable since there's no requirement that any given ship must hit any given terminal.
Discussing Gödel in terms of "truth" immediately brings about deep philosophical discussions about what that actually means in the context of mathematics. If the "true" nature of the (standard model of) arithmetic is unknowable in full, does it even exist?

I like to be pragmatically classical in my mathematical outlook (I don't worry about LEM), but when we come to foundations, I find that we need to be a little bit more careful.

Gödel's original proof (or rather, the slightly modified Gödel-Rosser proof) avoids notions of absolute truth - it says that for any consistent model of arithmetic, there must exist undecidable sentences. These are ultimately purely syntactical considerations.

(I'm not claiming that there is no relation to "truth" at all in this statement, just that things become less precise and more philosophical once that's how we're going to frame things)
As someone from a country that uses subtitles over dubbing, I'll let you know that subtitling movies/tv shows is an art form. Good subtitles are more akin to interpretation than translation. You have less space to fit, timing is important, you need to translate idioms, etc.

Probably an art form that's going the way of the dodo, but nevertheless...
I haven't seen the price of milk or eggs go up all that much but I've seen the price of soda and chips increase by more than 50% in the past few years. I'm fine with our farmers not having to compete with hormone infused milk.
People have been saying that GPUs randomly happened to be good at ML since at least 2014 when Nervana was founded. It was clear 12 years ago to anyone paying attention that DL was revolutionizing the world and that NVIDIA GPUs were at the center of the revolution. Whatever random chance factored into NVIDIA's success is outweighed by the decade+ of pedal-to-the-metal development NVIDIA has undertaken while its competitors decried AI as an overhyped bubble.

I have been there for this history, working on ML on GPUs at NVIDIA for a few years before Jensen decided to productize my little research project, CUDNN.
No, that's the point: It's a significant technological advancement for some unreliability/imprecision to not mean critical failure.
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Speech-to-text in this case