skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
While there are areas where the "Fachkräftemangel" (lack of skilled laborers) is actually real, the problem for gastronomy is the minimum wage, which is ~12 Euros. Why choose being a service worker or part of the kitchen brigade in (especially small) gastronomy (where, often, all you get is only slightly above minimum wage), if there are other, easier choices which pay basically the same?

As someone who was service staff as a student, I completely understand that, to be honest. It doesn't help that many restaurants just fired their whole service staff during COVID, even though there are other instruments like "Kurzarbeit" (where the state gives you welfare, and you temporarily only work few hours or not at all, if no work is available at your place of labor) - obviously people find new jobs in this case and aren't available anymore.
HuggingChat: Chat with Llama 3.1 (70B and 405B)
We just released the latest version of the Llama 3.1 models on HuggingChat! We’re currently hosting the 405B at FP8 and the 70B at full precision. They’re compatible with our tools, so that means you can use them with web search, PDF parsing and image generation for example.

Excited to see what the community thinks of them, let us know if they work well for your use cases. The 405B is pretty good at some advanced reasoning tasks, it's quite impressive actually!

Try them out here:

- 405B: https://huggingface.co/chat/models/meta-llama/Meta-Llama-3.1...

- 70B: https://huggingface.co/chat/models/meta-llama/Meta-Llama-3.1...
An educative reply is easier to ignore than a (or multiple) replies in which you're ridiculed.

Moreover, being thought about how you're wrong about X might not necessarily translate in the subject being more careful before confidently expressing themselves on a Y topic on which they don't know anything about. Hopefully, ridiculing might make the subject reconsider that part of their character.

That said, the HN policies recommend to "be kind"... I have no idea how to "ridicule someone's post in a kind way" ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
This is the best critique of UBI I've ever seen (which is a little sad). I don't remember ever reading anything about the second-order effects before.
This DuckDB blog post on range joins might be relevant: https://duckdb.org/2022/05/27/iejoin.html
Without Meta, you would still have Mistral, Silo AI, and the many other companies and labs producing much more open models with similar performance.
> Out in meatspace, I don't wander around picking random people's locks, making smug posts about how vulnerable their houses are (along with their address). Nobody would be happy about that, no matter what color hat I have on.

Yeah, but in youtube space, there are, eg, lawyers who are into lockpicking who post smug videos showing how vulnerable various manufacturers' locks really are to common lockpicking techniques. Apparently 4.5M subscribers are quite happy being informed what the state of lock security is out there.

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCm9K6rby98W8JigLoZOh6FQ
It's totally understandable if you don't want to sell/market your business or you just don't want the unpredictability which is probably greater than with a larger company. But, oh no, I might be sued should almost certainly not be a major consideration relative to other factors.
Your comment reminded me of a cool little project I found a few years ago re: niche problems and smaller solutions - the target demo being soldiers who (very generally) have some disposable income to spend on a small app that can improve their professional QoL was kind of genius imo.

There was (still is, though the website is now dead) a really cool website/app that a fmr Air Force soldier made called AFI SWiM[0] that extracted 'Shall, Will and Must' references from Air Force publications which blew up in popularity among the target demo. The dev recently(ish) wrote a blog post[1] how it surprised him to see the app[2] had gotten around ~20k downloads, though I am unsure if the app was always priced at $1.99 (which would be just under $40k).

I like the idea of developing a problem solver for a niche market, though finding and monetizing it definitely is pretty tough.

[0] https://web.archive.org/web/20220601160702/https://swim.afie...

[1] https://willswire.com/blog/chat-afi/

[2] https://apps.apple.com/us/app/afi-explorer/id1564964107

the github repo: https://github.com/willswire/afi-swim
>As an alternative there is LanguageTool which you can install locally. We have it running on a small VM that people can configure their installs to talk to, and block the public service end-point

I'm surprised that Grammarly hasn't come up with a local service like that, I bet they have a ton of enterprise users that would appreciate it.
Lullaby Language (2006)
I think you can use an HF account as well https://huggingface.co/meta-llama
If you're in the lowest tax bracket making just above the poverty line, as I was then (as well as most people around me), it was what we all understood to be.
There are a bunch of downstream fine-tuned and/or quantized models where people collaborate and share their recipes. In terms of contributing to Llama itself - I suspect Meta wants (or needs) code contributions at this time.
Zuck pod interview: Llama 3.1 405B, Meta's open-source AI beats GPT-4
It’s useful to examine fundamentals now and then.
This isn't what Meta releases with their models, though I would like to see more public training data. However, I still don't think that would qualify as "open source". Something isn't open source just because its reproducible out of composable parts. If one, very critical and system defining part is a binary (or similar) without publicly available source code, then I don't think it can be said to be "open source". That would be like saying that Windows 11 is open source because Windows Calculator is open source, and its a component of Windows.
Don't these public clusters exist today, and have been around for decades at this point, with varying architectures? In the sense that you submit a proposal, it gets approved, and then you get access for your research?
I think you are asking what the benefits are? The main benefit is that we can trust what these systems are doing better. Or we can self host them. If we just take the weights, then it is unclear how these systems might be lying to us or manipulating us.

Another benefit is that we can learn from how the training and other steps actually work. We can change them to suit our needs (although costs are impractical today). Etc. It’s all the usual open source benefits.
When you work for a state-actor it's no different than anywhere else; you don't have exploits coming out of the sky.

You either research these vulnerabilities (and you have limited capacity and knowledge) or you purchase vulnerabilities from vendors, exchanges and "research companies".

In such case, it was an unnecessary free gift to an enemy state or a malicious actor.

The same with NSA, they do not know all the vulns of the universe (due to budget, resources, or simply focus).

You may actually have some vulns they are interested into but unless someone points these vulns to them, they will not get aware that they exists.
> Clearly by spending a bit more, or putting in more of an effort using plausible names for every alleged bot vote it could not be detected.

Not at all clear, actually. They wouldn't have been discovered by this exact heuristic, but that's not to say this was the most complex fraud the Hugo committee were capable of detecting.
I know you really want to believe it, but this is bs: look at inflation statistics in Europe and you'll see that the effect you're imaging doesn't exist. There's no excess inflation in Germany compared to everywhere else in the EU.

Also Bürgergeld is $500 a month for an adult, which is very far from "You can easily live from the Bürgergeld". Survive maybe but definitely not "easily live".

The labor market issues in Germany like in most Europe have a demographic origin, when there's not enough young people you cannot hire them.
There are certain best practices on this website. Among them are complaining about Apple’s non-user-serviceable hardware, Google’s privacy implications, AI copyright implications, WFH, and physical buttons on devices.

If you express anything that could be read by a sufficiently motivated reader as critical of these complaints, even if only a request for clarification about something unexpected, you will be interpreted as being on the side of each of those topics.

Usually, this will be accompanied with some text from the HN guidelines asking you not to talk about voting patterns and some “this is not Reddit” talk. These are the constraints of this forum.
I understand what you mean, and going for free alternatives is a possibility.

Nevertheless, for some people (who are my targeted audience), paying for a to-do list, calendar, and additional features can be quite expensive, and they are often looking for a central hub for their productivity needs, which is what I am delivering with this template made for Obsidian.
Everyone always brings up this "it's cheaper" argument and I get it from an "only financial" standpoint.

But when was the last time and when is the next time you're going to change the behaviour of the "up" button on the steering weel to something like "switch to backwards gear" instead of "volume up" (the newest Volvo EX30 has touch buttons only on the steering wheel).

This argument is so dumb. This argument does not count for any replacement of knobs-to-touch-button, because there will (almost) never exist a use case for changing the behaviour of the button.

So IMHO manufacturers take something that worked and still works, replace it with something less error prone, simply to justify flexibility nobody asked for and noone will ever actually use.

Transferred to SWE, this is just overengineering.
There’s a CLI [0] that outputs html, alternatively you can encode the markwhen text as base64 and append it as a hash to timeline.markwhen.com which will render it. Would look like timeline.markwhen.com#mw=[base64 encoded text]

[0] https://docs.markwhen.com/cli.html
One additional reason, that the enemy would have to destroy a large amount of American territory to realistically neutralize the threat. They can’t just target some military bases and subs in an attempt to cripple us while attempting to keep it limited. No half measures.
Wiz turns down $23B Google deal, says it's aiming for IPO
Generally things like front matter, footnotes, callouts, tables, figure captions, index entries, code formatting. I don't remember which of these Typst didn't support when I last checked it out.
Yes, you are correct.

It’s updated in something called “The green book”, new versions got published in 1954 - 1995 - 2005 - 2015.

So for the people having learnt the language before 1995 (like myself), had the rules change 2.5 times (the last one was a minor actualisation). Which means that most of the intuitions you developed are wrong, and people spelling words differently depending on their age.

This was quite confusing for me as a kid haha
> Everyone should attempt to start a small business or a side consulting gig. Failing that, you should strive to make it to VP-suite

Utter horse shit. I want to earn enough to live without too many worries, and spend time with friends and family.

Being able to leave at 5 is irreplaceable
Or compile, since it's usually a transformation.

I like to call that the emit phase, as in emitting byte code.

The interesting thing is that it only happens once, before the code is evaluated.
My Boomer mother is the same way. She sits around the house watching cable news and browsing the Neighborhood website - "This area is going to hell. Did you see someone had their bicycle stolen 2 weeks ago?! And someone's dog pooped on my lawn! I got them on my Ring cam!" The real kicker is the "sex offender" websites - "OMG! The kids can't go outside! There's 2 sex offenders in this area!"
Huge companies like facebook will often argue for solutions that on the surface, seem to be in the public interest.

But I have strong doubts they (or any other company) actually believe what they are saying.

Here is the reality:

- Facebook is spending untold billions on GPU hardware.

- Facebook is arguing in favor of open sourcing the models, that they spent billions of dollars to generate, for free...?

It follows that companies with much smaller resources (money) will not be able to match what Facebook is doing. Seems like an attempt to kill off the competition (specifically, smaller organizations) before they can take root.
Meta Llama 3.1 now available on Cloudflare Workers AI
A meta-comment: whether an advice is good or bad should not be assessed based on a specific outcome.

You can follow a good advice and end up with a bad outcome. Similarly, you can follow a bad advice and end up with a good outcome. This is more obvious in poker (Annie Duke wrote a few books on the topic), but I think the same principle also applies to life in general.

Sure, "I went against this sensible advice and look at what I accomplished!!" makes for good storytelling. But that does not help us decide which advice to follow now and in the future.
Indeed, fine-tuning is still possible, but you can only go so far with fine-tuning before you need to completely retrain the model.

This is why Silo AI, for example, had to start from scratch to get better support for small European languages.
Last time I had this conversation[1] the main sticking point were around semantics of private fields, but I am convinced that the maximally restrictive version can be done (only pub fields can be optional) and maybe relaxed later after we get some real world experience. The other thing was about whether the default values needed to be const, but that makes sense as a restriction to me.

1: https://internals.rust-lang.org/t/pre-pre-rfc-syntactic-suga...
Sorry - but 3.5 mm / 1/8“ jacks / plugs are crap. They are prone to kinds of contact issues / noise, are not sturdy enough to withstand lateral forces like their 6.3 mm / 1/4“ siblings. Their pull out force is either non existent or plug destroying. Unless they are of the rare threaded type I try to avoid them (just as barrel jacks). Better get a (mini-)XLR or Lemo connector…
The National Science Foundation has been doing this for decades, starting with the supercomputing centers in the 80s. Long before anyone talked about cloud credits, NSF has had a bunch of different programs to allocate time on supercomputers to researchers at no cost, these days mostly run out of the Office of Advanced Cyberinfrastruture. (The office name is from the early 00s) - https://new.nsf.gov/cise/oac

(To connect universities to the different supercomputing centers, the NSF funded the NSFnet network in the 80s, which was basically the backbone of the Internet in the 80s and early 90s. The supercomputing funding has really, really paid off for the USA)
OpenSUSE infrastructure experiencing a major outage
You never know when the file will just suddenly be all zeros.
> You get better at handling the stress as you get more comfortable with

Some people, but not many people...

> Everyone should attempt to start a small business or a side consulting gig

Why?

> Failing that, you should strive to make it to VP-suite of your company

Why?

Why take time out of your day to tiger parent strangers on HN when you can just have your own children and damage them instead?
> any public cluster would be outdated in 2 years

The private companies buying hundreds of billions of dollars of GPUs aren't writing them off in 2 years. They won't be cutting edge for long. But that's not the point--they'll still be available.

> Nvidia's profit margins on the H100 are crazy

I don't see how the current practice of giving a researcher a grant so they can rent time on a Google cluster that runs H100s is more efficient. It's just a question of capex or opex. As a state, the U.S. has a structual advantage in the former.

> far better ways to spend $1b in research dollars

One assumes the U.S. government wouldn't be paying list price. In any case, the purpose isn't purely research ROI. Like the heavy presses, it's in making a prohibitively-expensive capital asset generally available.
Chinese researchers create four-gram drone
The article is pretty clear about the root cause, for whoever is in the know:

>Sorry, we are not accepting comments on this article.

:)
Thanks for the info, I’ll have a closer look at Restic then. Borg also has a FUSE interface, but last time I tried it I found it abysmally slow – much slower than just restoring a folder to disk and then grepping through it. I used a Raspberry Pi as my backup server though, so the FUSE was perhaps CPU bound on my system.
Run Meta Llama 3.1 405B with an API
> NSF has had a bunch of different programs to allocate time on supercomputers to researchers at no cost, these days mostly run out of the Office of Advanced Cyberinfrastruture

This would be the logical place to put such a programme.
Your analogy breaks down immediately because the Internet isn't your neighborhood, it's effectively everyone's neighborhood, including the state-level bad actors mentioned above.

If someone could access those electrical junction boxes from China or North Korea, I'd want the locals finding the vulnerabilities first.
Ah, this is actually what I had in mind by "interop". So from C# I can evaluate some Lisp code and then test that the result is `PairType` (for example)? Maybe this is so obvious it goes without saying, but I didn't see any examples of that.
Decker is a "multimedia sketchpad". It's a drawing program, a database, and a rapid prototyping environment. A "deck" can be exported as a self-contained, self-executing .html file (as seen above), and there's also a non-browser-based native application. It uses a functional scripting language named Lil which incorporates ideas from the APL family. You can learn more and play with some additional examples here:

http://beyondloom.com/decker/
I see, but I’m not sure if these wouldn’t get done in a “do what you want” policy. There’s even a chance that they get done better than how they are done today. People would put in resources to improve (automate, simplify, etc.) the tasks they don’t enjoy doing.
Would you take a low paying factory job that creates an objectively addictive poison as a product willingly when you have other options? Do you REALLY know ANYONE that would? I'm not saying that number is in fact 0, there will always be outliers...
Here's another one I remember coming across on Reddit or somewhere: this guy is ex-military and sells teddy bears to military spouses/kids/etc.:

https://zzzbears.com

Pretty niche but IIRC he is doing well for himself.
Not--to my knowledge--for the GPUs necessary to train cutting-edge LLMs.
Human bird flu cases tick up; second Colorado poultry farm reports spread
I think you’re right from the perspective of an individual developer. You and I are not about to fork Chromium any time soon. If you presume that forking is impractical then sure, the right to fork isn’t worth much.

But just because a single developer couldn’t do it doesn’t mean it couldn’t be done. It means nobody has organized a large enough effort yet.

For something like a browser, which is critical for security, you need both the organization and the trust. Despite frequent criticism, Mozilla (for example) is still considered pretty trustworthy in a way that an unknown developer can’t be.
We need to be asking who the most overrated are. They are the ones who can exploit their positions to do real harm. (Lookin' at you, Sloe Mnuk.)
Out of curiosity, since you said "In the USA" specifically, is there any tax regime in these times where tax brackets don't work like this?
You are definitely allowed to train other models with these models, you just have to give credit in the name, per the license:

> If you use the Llama Materials or any outputs or results of the Llama Materials to create, train, fine tune, or otherwise improve an AI model, which is distributed or made available, you shall also include “Llama” at the beginning of any such AI model name.
>You're acting as if commoditizing one's complements is either new or reprehensible [1].

I'm acting as if calling on other companies to open source their core product, just because it's a complement for you, and acting as if it's for the benefit of mankind is disingenuous, which it is.
Had a similar experience with a friend's "10 TB" SSD. After I tested it with f3 and confirmed it was fake, I opened the case and found a 64 GB microSD card and an adapter/faker board.
Bitbucket Has Problems – The Deployment History View
Emil Kirkegaard is a self-described white nationalist eugenicist who thinks the age of consent is too high. I wouldn't trust anything he has to say.
Can the solar industry keep the lights on?
And let me guess, you are the exception?

Don't get me wrong, but you don't come across very caring from the way you write.
Kinda but not really. It actually handles type inference on string concatenation, but doesn't understand math.

type N = 1 | 2

const x1:N = 1
const x2:N = 1

const sum:N = x1 + x2

Typescript (the version running on my box) considers this an error.
> for any traffic controller you happen to find on a network

But how would one get on such "a network" in the first place? I assume it would involve physically opening a (hopefully locked) cabinet in public near the road? So just a bit of cutting/picking reveals an ethernet port, you drop in a wireless bridge, close it back up, and then hack from a parked car?
Hypothetic answer from state-actor:

"We will push an update to Flipper Zero for this, the right moment.

Thanks to the Flipper Zero, we have millions of devices in the wild that we can remotely control and send signals from.
Just wait."
Not my area at all, but having done some work on ray-tracing back in the days, it kinda reminded me of the ray-triangle acceleration structures there[1], except your entities are 1-D lines rather than 3-D triangles.

One which came to mind which possibly might be interesting would be the Bounding Interval Hierarchy[2], where you partition the space but also keep the min/max intervals of all children in each node. The "Instant ray tracing" paper[3] details some interesting techniques for speeding up construction.

Or perhaps it's a rubbish idea, haven't really thought it through.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binary_space_partitioning

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bounding_interval_hierarchy

[3]: http://ainc.de/Research/BIH.pdf
In general, one-person shops have real downsides for both owners and customers. As an employee, I've often been in situations where I simply haven't been reachable for extended periods of time which obviously isn't great for a customer either absent a fallback. Fallbacks of various sorts are available but probably not at "the SaaS is down" level.
Interestingly that’s less energy than the mass energy equivalent of one gram of matter or roughly 5 seconds worth of the worlds average energy consumption (according to wolfram alpha). Still an absolute insane amount of energy, as in about 5 million dollars at household electricity rates. Absolutely wild how much compute goes into this.
They want people to learn not to mess things up. You learn not to mess up by trying things out and messing up.