skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I own an 8 GPU cluster that I built for super cheap < $4,000. 180gb vram, 7 24gb + 1 24gb. There are tons of models that I run that's not hosted by any provider. The only way to run it is to host myself. Furthermore, the author has 39 tokens in 6 seconds. For llama3-8b, I get almost 80 tk/s and if parallel, can easily get up to 800 tk/s. Most users at home infer only one at a time because they are doing chat or role play. If you are doing more serious work, you will most likely have multiple inference running at once. When working with smaller models, it's not unusual to have 4-5 models loaded at once with multiple inference going. I have about 2tb of models downloaded, I don't have to shuffle data back and forth to the cloud, etc. To each their own, the author's argument is made today by many on why you should host in the cloud. Yet if you are not flush with cash and a little creative, it's far cheaper to run your own server than in the cloud.

To run llama-3 8b. A new $300 3060 12gb will do, it will load fine in Q8 gguf. If you must load in fp16 and cash is a problem a $160 P40 will do. If performance is desired a used 3090 for ~$650 will do.
On the contrary, Azure has a much better security culture than Windows business unit.

Most stuff is built with .NET, Go, Java and Rust, while the hypervisors are based on Windows (Azure Host OS[0]) it isn't the same as regular Windows, and most workloads are Linux based, officially > 60% [1].

Finally, starting this year, Azure has new security guidelines, all new software is to be written in managed languages, if a GC is not an impediment, Rust otherwise.

Writing code in either C or C++, is only allowed for existing products, with the related security guidelines in place[2].

[0] - https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/windows-os-platform-b...

[1] - https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/products/virtual-machines/...

[2] - https://x.com/dwizzzleMSFT/status/1720134540822520268
I'm totally blind so don't use a mouse. Isn't this pretty obvious to detect? My understanding is that it'd be obvious if someone was moving a mouse around with an abnormally low level of clicks?
The earth too it seem, but on a longer timeframe.

Does someone here know more about this?
I fear they would riot. :)
Super late response, but I play Jumbline 2 these days which is the exact same thing. Only a phone app currently I think though.
I was really excited about Cloudflare Pages when it first launched, but back then it seemed a bit barebones compared to what Vercel was offering (in terms of the admin dashboard GUI, ease of managing previews, seeing logs and function runs, next/image optimizations integrations, ISR support, etc.). Like all of those things were possible on the Cloudflare system, but would've required manual setup across a few of your lower-level services, as opposed to a 1-click deploy on Vercel. (Which is understandable, since Next is their framework after all).

Is it different (more integrated) these days? I'm a frequent customer of both Cloudflare and Vercel, but would love to see more fully-managed frontend services like Vercel.
I see the lies of Communists have now expanded from our public schools and infected the population as a whole. These US companies did massive amounts of good in terrible environments they worked in and now that has been twisted around.
Yeah this is strange. If they are using, lets say $1000 in credits per day, then they will be charged $700 starting tomorrow. Like you said, they might not even see the email yet.
Ah that’s quite an interesting use case. I have never used Google Maps as extensively - very point to point usage for me. But I’ll check their API out! Thanks for sharing!
The report in question is very scarce on details why there is such a stark tumble. I am not sure how much trust to put into a random incubator's ranking.
Azure is much more secure than regular Windows.
You're not necessarily wrong, but I can't help but think that it may cause further frustration for me if I'm trying to convey a certain sentiment of frustration (for the sake of the argument, let's say that I'm not being an outright asshole at this point) that may be lost on the rep that I am talking to, resulting in a misunderstanding, which would further irritate me and escalate the situation.

There's genuinely something to be said about honesty and accurately understanding someone.
H.262 has a long future too. New DVDs and OTA broadcasts (at least for ATSC 1.0) will probably end at some point, but the discs won't go away for a long time, even if disc players are less and less popular.
Critically the material is still titanium. Some of the paperwork is counterfeit so there’s concerns around quality control etc not what it is.

> Spirit is trying to determine where the titanium came from, whether it meets proper standards despite its phony documentation, and whether the parts made from the material are structurally sound enough to hold up through the projected life spans of the jets, company officials said. Spirit said it was trying to determine the most efficient way to remove and replace the affected parts if that ended up being necessary.
Here you go:
https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Pierre-Marie_Robitaille

Astrophysics is not a matter of personal opinion. It requires a lot of detailed knowledge and careful practice. Legitimate authority is relevant.
It is pretty sad to hear - we've had solid results with Oracle's Grapeshot (segment audiences and brand safety for programatic advertising).

We were meant to meet them in person next week but got cancelled at the last minute.

I've heard all products will run normally, and everyone still has a job. However, they don't know what will happen in the near future. I assume Oracle is trying to flip off all parts of the business; if not, they'll shut them down.
It does by convention,[1] though not your second feature.

You could of course submit that as a request to the mods / dev team at hn@ycombinstor.com.

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Notes:

1. See: <https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...>
> what’s the big deal?

Titanium needs to be processed carefully, to conform all specifications. Tiny impurities from atmospheric nitrogen can be fatal for a plane made from this titanium. So the supply chain must be known, certified or whatever.
Salvy, the only Latam YC W24 company, was born in a thriving Brazilian ecosystem
Successful companies don’t appear out of thin air. They need a community.

Just ask Salvy, the sole Latin American company in Y Combinator's Winter 2024 cohort.

Based in Curitiba, Brazil, their journey highlights the vibrant Brazilian startup ecosystem and the power of the Multiplier Effect.

Salvy founders Maria Eduarda Kumlehn, Lucas Rosa, Artur Negrão, and Hudo Assenco are all veterans of successful Brazilian startups and Endeavor companies like Conta Azul, EBANX, and Pipefy.

Their journey began with crucial support: Latitud, co-founded by Endeavor Entrepreneur Brian Requarth, provided the initial pre-seed funding in 2022. Recently, their seed round was led by SaaSholic, created by Diego Gomes, CEO of Endeavor company Rock Content.

After forming Salvy, Maria, Lucas, and Artur’s first clients included leading Endeavor companies such as Maria’s former employer Pipefy as well as RD Station, and Beep Saúde.

This vibrant ecosystem thrives thanks to the pioneering spirit of previous entrepreneurs.
> By launching Spotify only in the EU, and launching early, Spotify wasn't exposed to so many hurdles.

Spotify downloaded mp3s from Piratebay and pushed them without the labels' or artists' permission.

Spotify also made the clients upload songs to each other. So you could argue it was a specialized Kazaa.

The dudes running the place were just lucky the music industry folded to them and played ball.
I watched a documentary that said Spirit came when the Boeing bean counters divided up the company to make a quick profit and be able to shift Blake to Spirit. They replaced vertical integration with circular blame.
>They explicitly are releasing this to help generate synthetic training data

Synthetic training data is basically free money for NVidia; there's only a fixed amount of high-quality original data around, but there's a potential for essentially infinite synthetic data, and more data means more training hours means more GPU demand.
Cloudflare also has an OSS sponsorship and I don't see them giving a 1 day termination notice.

Ps. They aren't a monopoly. There are plenty of cloud services competing.
Perfect. We'll just build an AI to translate things into a "genuine" tone for the customer. All problems in society will be solved by adding a layer of AI indirection.
Even if credentials matter more than ideas there’s more than enough credentialed people to go around and soak up funding

Plus, tech isn’t the only startup dimension. Boston has a ton of medical stuff too.
i've never understood why free will fits into discussions about deterministic vs random universes. in either situation, there isn't room for free will -- if things are deterministic your decisions are made by the state of the world at t-1, if things are random your decisions are made by coin flips.

the more i've thought about this over the years, the less clearly i've been able to define what precisely 'free will' would mean in terms of a physical system or causality
You want something to make it easier to find the sun?

Anyway the sun's magnetic fields is ridiculously weak on earth.
I'd agree that going from a free plan to a discounted plan but with unlimited potential for additional charges is an extremely problematic change. I would even suspect that any additional charges would not be enforceable here directly after the switch, but simply putting open source projects into a position where they face this danger if they didn't read their inbox for a day or didn't want to just shut down their infrastructure immediately is a rather hostile move.
Don't know about windows, but they have jailed people for as much as liking a social media post.
Thank you, I really appreciate this response. I need to read all of this. However, the most recent compromises did happen on Azure, and not Windows, correct?

edit: and of course that's where the threat actors put their focus, because that's where the data lived.
I know it sounds like a terrible idea,but next time you wait for the tab to restart how about looking into the sheets api docs? And the next time,try to write a quick script that just makes updating the cells you need to update a bit easier. At the end of it,at least you won't have to suffer.
FYI, before you go digging too far, the shift to on-device Timeline storage was recent (last month or so), so I don't know if they have a public API for interacting with it yet. Prior to that, it was a proprietary in-app thing that lived only in the cloud and could only be accessed via the web or mobile apps.

I am not sure what format that on-device data is, or if it might be accessible via Google Takeout (their data export platform) instead of an API.
Yeah, or you can get a gpu server with 20GB VRAM on hetzner for ~200 EUR per month.
Runpod and DigitalOcean are also quite competitive on prices if you need a different GPU.

AWS is stupidly expensive.
> The U.S. military is prohibited from targeting Americans with propaganda, and Reuters found no evidence the Pentagon’s influence operation did so.

This is a moronic caveat. They were posting on instagram, facebook, and twitter. I have it on good word that Americans read those. I suppose that they'll be able to post any sort of lie as long as they say they were targeting Turkmenistan or Bolivia.
There is a huge whole in using spans as they are specified. Without separating the start of a span from the end of a span you can never see things that never complete, fail hard enough to not close the span, or travel through queues. This is a compromise they made because typical storage systems for tracing aren't really good enough to stitch them all back together quickly. Everyone should be sending events and stitching it all together to create the view. But instead we get a least common denominator solution.
here's the information — https://tryimpel.com
IIUC, the paperwork is a major part of the part.
Whooooaaa that is mind-blowing. Thanks for sharing. <3
Per one of the ars Technica articles, All the information collected was stored locally completely unencrypted, and would be accessible by anyone with local administrator rights.
https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/msteams/forum/all/tracki...
Why? Is it because the poles are aligned with earths, complimenting our own magnetic field?

It appears the magnetic poles are in continuous rotation [1], that sometimes aligns to the rotational poles and sometimes doesn't, with a "flip" event being the binary classification from the slow and smooth traversal over the equator. I feel silly, but I always assumed it was from some more fairly sharp step in the rate of change!

[1] https://www.stce.be/news/211/welcome.html
They're totally waiting for the negative press to die down, then they'll try again.
Then you install one of those slimmed down builds of Windows that removes almost everything that isn't required to run win32 software.
Exxon Valdez?
> Most big models and APIs have clauses that ban its use to improve other models.

I will never get over the gall of anything and everything being deemed fair game to use as training data for a model, except you're not allowed to use the output of a model to train your own model without permission, because model output has some kind of exclusive super-copyright apparently.
Gwern's website offers sidenotes in HTML, which I find a wonderful affordance:

<https://gwern.net/scaling-hypothesis> (Scroll down to "Meta-Learning" where the notes start coming fast and furious.)
Marshaling is an issue as well as concurrency.

Simply copying a chunk of data between two libraries through Python is already painful. There are so-called "buffer API" in Python, but it's very rare that Python users can actually take advantage of this feature. If anything in Python as much as looks at the data, that's not going to work etc.

Similarly, concurrency. A lot of native libraries for Python are written with the expectation that nothing in Python really runs concurrently. And then you are presented with two bad options: try running in different threads (so that you don't have to copy data), but things will probably break because of races, or run in different processes, and spend most of the time copying data between them. Your interface to stuff like MPI is, again, only at the native level, or you will copy so much that the benefits of distributed computation might not outweigh the downsides of copying.
Filtering and distortion of communication. Suits well the age of appearances we live in.
> According to the cybernetician, the purpose of a system is what it does. This is a basic dictum. It stands for bald fact, which makes a better starting point in seeking understanding than the familiar attributions of good intention, prejudices about expectations, moral judgment, or sheer ignorance of circumstances.

— Stafford Beer, 2001 (via Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=The_purpose_of_a_...)
Taking a look at Boston in this report and it is dominated by startups in categories like agriculture, drug research, and fintech.

I don't think these are "startups" like a couple of guys and a beer keg - they are looking at well-funded business ventures.
> This is a very cynical take.

I think it fits reality.
> not really feasible to fake something like a raw metal

Metals come in various grades. That comes down to chemical purity, in case of commercially pure, and consistency, in case of alloys. But also crystal structure of the metal.
They target this model at generating synthetic data. Data is the lifeblood of LLM training; quality synthetic data means more training can occur which means more demand for GPUs.
We know so much and yet so little. The writing is in the article stating how mathematically they have no model, therefore they cannot truly understand it yet (researchers/academics).

This is true for climate change and it's own challenges along with many other applications of similar nature where models are incomplete or entirely missing large portions of data needed to further true understanding of a given process.
"In alignment with our commitment to an open and accessible internet, Mozilla will reinstate previously restricted listings in Russia."

"Our initial decision to temporarily restrict these listings was made while we considered the regulatory environment in Russia and the potential risk to our community and staff."
A Bill to Abolish the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System [pdf]
The killer app would something with the general ease of use of spreadsheets but with the audit-ability and change management rigor of code development.
I will try it out, curious to see how it will work with 8gb of memory haha. Thanks for the heads up!
I am looking into renting Hetzner GEX44 dedicated server to run a couple models on with Ollama. I haven't done the arithmetics yet but I wouldn't be surprised to see a 100x cost-decrease compared to OpenAI APIs (granted the models I'll run on the GEX44 machines will be less powerful)
Should divorce be more difficult?
No, you don't need that much

Here is a calculator (if you have a GPU you want to use EXL2, otherwise GGUF)
https://huggingface.co/spaces/NyxKrage/LLM-Model-VRAM-Calcul...

Also model quantisation goes a long way with surprisingly little loss in quality.
"hi, I'm x, I work at y, and have had an interest in/experience with z" is ussally good enough.
People really ought to learn that pointing out a fallacy doesn't suddenly make it false. I mean I could point out that that is known as the fallacy fallacy, but then I'd be doing the same thing myself.

Really a fallacy represents a particular weak argument. The way to defeat them is not to name the correct fallacy but to point out the weakness.

If that doesn't work then you likely have the wrong fallacy, or the argument isn't fallacious to begin with.
x265 has a specific "--tune grain" mode specifically for video with a lot of film grain.
Screen and print formats can be defined via @media rules. There are also media features which can be specified or queried of a user agent.

<https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/@media>

Depending on the accuracy of the client, this could well give differing behaviours for desktop, mobile, and print output. HTML is flexible, very few designers seem willing to embrace this.
You can run normal diesel engines on kerosene (which is what jet fuel mostly is); the issue is that kerosene is less lubricating to the mechanical parts in the fuel-delivery system than pump diesel. This was a bigger issue back when mechanical injection was the rule. The solution is to pour a pint or two of automatic transmission fluid into the tank with every thirty gallon fill up.

Of course, the EGR, SCR & particulate filter were never designed for this setup, so when you convert a modern pickup to run on kerosene, those systems are blocked off, removed (w/ a sawzall for the dpf), a new exhaust is fitted and the ECU can be remapped with more appropriate settings.

This will also about double your mpg.
Or at the very least, every other week when your computer forcibly updates itself as Windows likes to do, and you go through your 127th iteration of the onboarding process to your own computer that you've owned for 4 years, one of the new steps will be "Enable Copilot for an improved experience!" with a big "Enable" button and a tiny little piece of text that you wouldn't know was clickable for "More options" which spawns a button labeled "Leave off for now (not recommended)"
APKEditor: Edit APK's Attributes, change package name, targetSdkVersion etc.
Given they have performed the strategy of user-hostile rollouts time and time again, why would you think they would behave any differently?

Relatedly, do you like ads in the OS?
Nah. People who get het up about free will are just making some conceptual error, which I think goes like this;

1. Machines don't have free will.

2. If my brain is explained by conventional physics, it's a mechanism.

3. But I have free will!

4. So there's something wrong with physics.

But the mistake is in step 1, machines can have free will - at least, we do, so QED and STFU.

Why can't free will be deterministic? What does randomness have to do with anything? This is about thought.
Maybe they will have AI kids too to replenish the population
True, however that statement sort of makes the assumption that engine braking is the same ablative system as friction braking. with the same wear characteristics.

I have to admit I don't know the exact wear characteristics of an IC engine in breaking operation but I don't think it is any different/more than it's normal running wear.
On a smooth function, it is.
OpenAI adds former NSA chief to its board
Yeah, and if you do that long enough, eventually there will be generation of consumers which think that it is totally normal.

I remember a time, when I set specific firewall rules for each application. A time where I would never allow to share my location. A time where I would never link my google account to other services. But as I grew older I stopped caring because I have other stuff to do.

The problem is, that those companies have time on their side. They can do whatever they want, back out, constantly rebrand stuff and confuse their users until we eventually give up. And at some point a large part of the population stops caring, because it's a fight, which is very hard to win. I hate it, but I have not the strength, time and will to push back.
No, a primary purpose of the paperwork is also to guarantee safety.
I love Figma but I agree that proper vector tools are lacking. Illustrator is complex but very powerful.

Would you say that AD is enough for your needs regarding vector design? (I'm looking at ending my Adobe sub this year, would like AD to be a suitable replacement).
Southwest Plane Plunged Within 400 Feet of Ocean Near Hawaii
LLMs are also good at tasks that are roughly "linear" in the sense that a group of input tokens corresponds to a group of output tokens and that translation moves from left to right.

In a hard programming problem, for instance, you have a number of actions that have to take place in a certain dependency order that you could resolve by topological sort, but in a problem like the above one bit of English corresponds to one bit of Python in basically the same order. Similarly if it couldn't translate

take the sine of...

to

Math.sin(x)

because the language didn't already have a sin function it would have to code one up. Similarly, translating between Chinese and English isn't really that hard because it is mostly a linear problem, people will accept some errors, and it's a bit of an ill-defined problem anyway. (Who's going to be mad if one word out of 50 is wrong whereas getting one word wrong in a program could mean it doesn't compile and delivers zero value?)

LLMs can do a bit of generalization beyond full text search, but people really underestimate how much they fake reasoning by using memory and generalization and how asking them problems that aren't structurally close to problems in the training set reveals their weakness. Studies show that LLMs aren't robust at all to the changes in the order of parts of problems, for instance.

The biggest problem people have reasoning about ChatGPT is that they seem to have a strong psychological need to credit it with more intelligence than it has the same way we're inclined to see a face inside a cut stem. It can do an awful lot, but it cheats pervasively and if you don't let it cheat it doesn't seem as smart anymore.
Vala - I really wish it had more support on Windows

Pike looked interesting at some point

Crystal

Haxe
What if I'm allergic to soy?
A day later, I can't find that text on that webpage.
What kind of setup were you able to do for so cheap? I'd love to be able to do more locally. I have access to a single RTX A5000 at work, but it is often not enough for what I'm wanting to do, and I end up renting cloud GPU.