skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Its certainly not altruism. Given that Facebook/Meta owns the largest user data collection systems, any advancement in AI ultimately strengthens their business model (which is still mostly collecting private user data, amassing large user datasets, and selling targeting ads).

There is a demo video that shows a user wearing a Quest VR headset and asks the AI "what do you see" and it interprets everything around it. Then, "what goes well with these shorts"... You can see where this is going. Wearing headsets with AIs monitoring everything the users see and collecting even more data is becoming normalized. Imagine the private data harvesting capabilities of the internet but anywhere in the physical world. People need not even choose to wear a Meta headset, simply passing a user with a Meta headset in public will be enough to have private data collected. This will be the inevitable result of vision models improvements integrated into mobile VR/AR headsets.
Calling that “open source” renders the word “source” meaningless. By your definition, I can release a binary executable freely and call it “open source” because you can modify it to do whatever you want.

Model weights are like a binary that nobody has the source for. We need another term.
All that is required for the skeptics to be right is for the selectively bred cow to be the most efficient bioreactor for beef, wasteful as it is, and I nevertheless consider that to be a very realistic possibility.
This is genuinely insane. No, millionaires want people to work, because more people working depresses wages and more people working allows growing the economy.

If people don't want to work, they have to pay the leeches and they have to pay more to get people willing to work. Your economics are insane.

>It's a useful policy hack for people "who pay millions in taxes" because it disincentivizes their workers from pushing for a pay raise.

No, it incentivizes them, because there are fewer people working, meaning the supply of labor goes down. At a constant demand that means the price for labor goes up. Literally economics 101.
Of course the courts are biased against males! Males are much less eager to take on custody. And I claim that without even checking, because it's in plain sight and also a main thread of the article we comment under. I'd be very surprised if you would show otherwise. That to me explains but of course does not excuse the bias in courts.
Look, absolutely zero people in the world should trust any tech company when they say they care about or will keep commitments to the open-source ecosystem in any capacity. Nevertheless, it is occasionally strategic for them to do so, and there can be ancillary benefits for said ecosystem in those moments where this is the best play for them to harm their competitors

For now, Meta seems to release Llama models in ways that don't significantly lock people into their infrastructure. If that ever stops being the case, you should fork rather than trust their judgment. I say this knowing full well that most of the internet is on AWS or GCP, most brick and mortar businesses use Windows, and carrying a proprietary smartphone is essentially required to participate in many aspects of the modern economy. All of this is a mistake. You can't resist all lock-in. The players involved effectively run the world. You should still try where you can, and we should still be happy when tech companies either slip up or make the momentary strategic decision to make this easier
FB needed to differentiate drastically. FB is at its best creating large data infra.
Wait til you learn how many people can't do simple percentages like 10% of 150 or how many people can't do basic arithmetic like 19+15.
quantize to 0 bit. Run on a potato.

Jokes aside ~ 405b x 2 bytes of memory (FP16), so say 810 gigs, maybe 1000 gigs or so required in reality, need maybe 2 aws p5 instances?
There is a middle ground between "all certs" and "a few certs". An example would be https://community.letsencrypt.org/t/revoking-certain-certifi... (2.4% of all certificates). This needs a full list of affected certificates but is too small to revoke the intermediate.
It's fine in that I'm happy to use it and don't think I'll be breaking the terms anytime soon. It's not fine in that one of the primary things that makes open source open is that an open source license doesn't restrict groups of people or whole fields from usage of the software. The policy has a number of such blanket bans on industries, which, while reasonable, make the license not truly open.
What would be the alternative? I think Unicode is pretty great.

You can pretty easily imagine a world where we had a bunch of different encodings with none being dominant.
DataChain: Open-source tool to prepare and curate data for AI/ML
IMO they do exist, but the popular attitude that it's not possible anymore is the issue, not a lack of genius. If everyone has a built in assumption that it can't happen anymore, then we will naturally prune away social pathways that enable it.
Sure. But not for a project which for a while has only this agency as a customer.
You can already run these models locally with Ollama (ollama run llama3.1:latest) along with at places like huggingface, groq etc.

If you want a playground to test this model locally or want to quickly build some applications with it, you can try LLMStack (https://github.com/trypromptly/LLMStack). I wrote last week about how to configure and use Ollama with LLMStack at https://docs.trypromptly.com/guides/using-llama3-with-ollama.

Disclaimer: I'm the maintainer of LLMStack
I wanted to try it. But sharing my phone number before I even know what the app does? No way. I also don’t see why you would need it.

I think “Riffusion” is a cool name.
Yeah, the specific AI/ML-focused program is NAIRR.

https://nairrpilot.org/

Terrible name unless they low-key plan to make AI researchers' hair fall out.
This wasn't an "honest mistake" conviction. Trying to turn a complete embarrassment of a legal process, driven by a racially biased witch hunt into a moral win is like saying that "in here we rape you with lube and a condom".

What's even better than correcting mistakes and feeling warm and fuzzy inside because you're better than some of the worst is to not make them in the first place, at least when they're as avoidable as this one.
I learned about txtai later and it definitely seems cool, maybe I'll rewrite it later.
> but you aren’t going to be writing code to read every web page a user visits by accident

No, instead you're just reading all files on the filesystem, including the browser's cookie store or whatever. The data you are, or can be, handling is just as, if not more, sensitive since it's literally a superset of what the browser has access to.

> The lack of sandboxing in desktop applications is bad

Some sandboxing would be nice, but the Google/Apple approach of needing to beg the vendor for every little permission isn't the way to go, either. I'd rather have software that can actually do things as opposed to only having useless sandboxed "apps".
It is even easier to just say, given a fixed area of paper, and a finite printing resolution, there is a finite number of symbols possible?

Say you have a 1 in by 1 in area of paper and a printing resolution of 300 DPI then there are 300*300 total dots. If the printer is monochrome and each dot is either black or white then there are 2^(300^2) possible symbols.
The purpose of Code Reviews is not to find bugs. The purpose of code reviews is:

- Verify unit tests have been created, have passed, and have sufficient coverage

- Ensure the code addresses requirements/bugs

- Ensure adherence to coding guidelines (I don't like coding guidelines, but most teams do)

- Ensure documentation is present, if needed/required

A code review should not take long, and the purpose is not to find bugs.
How can they make a Nintendo-labeled product like this without being sued?
That's just not true. Bürgergeld does not cover real rent costs for example. There is ceiling that is unreachably low. Heating is also not included,so in no way is everything else covered.

To others: This thread is full of propaganda from the neoliberal and extreme right like this. Don't believe a single bit, they do not describe the state of the country nor how the policies work. It is a common wave of propaganda though and maybe interesting from that side.
It sounds good that they're making more effort to address this, though I only recently read about the Baird enquiry on Greater Manchester Police in which some women reporting abuse to the police were being arrested, strip searched and left in solitary confinement if they annoyed officers. There was some speculation that it was related to trying to fill arrest quotas.

https://news.sky.com/story/greater-manchester-police-report-...

> A damning report has found officers at Greater Manchester Police are abusing their power - making unlawful arrests, unlawful and demeaning strip searches, sometimes treating victims as perpetrators, and traumatising those who have suffered sexual abuse or domestic violence.

...

> She says: "Each case illustrates a gross and perplexing imbalance between the police response to the complainant's behaviour and the response, if any, to the perpetrators abuse."
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I don't have a link, but I thought I saw that this was happening with name brand drives from third party sellers on Amazon as well. And given that Amazon co-mingles product, it's a crapshoot.
US firms are hampered by labor laws, hiring quotas, and government contracts that make it difficult or impossible to fire/cycle out underperforming managers and employees. This is doubly, maybe triply true if they're publicly traded.

If you want internationally-competitive chip manufacturing companies based in the US without using foreign talent, they needs to operate like SpaceX/early Google/Facebook/Amazon, etc.--brutally competitive, outrageous salaries on the promise of massive expansion, long hours, as close to zero barriers as possible between merit and responsibility, etc.

Businesses on the cutting edge of innovation and manufacturing cannot survive the lack of work ethic, competition, and stifling managerial cultures embedded into legacy US institutions.
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You can always listen to the investor calls for the capitalist point of view. In short, attracting talent, building the ecosystem, and making it really easy for users to make stuff they want to share on Meta's social networks
I misread the title and I thought it was some sort of hardware to identify vegan meat
Mapping the Analogy of Institutions as Organisms
>One other nice thing is that instead of restricted stock you get actual money.

Stock at FAANG is basically equivalent to cash. You can sell it as soon as you get it.
I don’t think even that is true. I conjecture that Facebook couldn’t reproduce the model weights if they started over with the same training data, because I doubt such a huge training run is a reproducible deterministic process. I don’t think anyone has “the” source.
Hooolaa
This is relevant for me today since we are designing a new house. To go with an architect is looking like between $50k - $100k for basic building schematics and not the build plans. This seems like a lot to me. The route I'm going down now is finding houses I like on Zillow and hiring a Designer on Fivrr to basically copy them and create a 3D model in Revit that can eventually become building plans. So far the Fivrr Designer costs $100 per Zillow house to model into pretty good Revit plans that I could take to a Draftsman in my area to turn into building plans. It feels a little like cheating, but I've been seeing good results so far.
My setup does not deviate from that. As the sibling comment points out, `ls` responds everywhere (even powershell on Windows), it's just nicer on my local machine.

Coworker machines are whole different issue though - most of them have American keyboards (I do not), most of them do not use editors with vim bindings etc.
The analogy doesn't work well. Sure Steve Jobs and Apple shareholders got rich, but everyone that bought a Mac, or iPhone, or iPad was able to benefit from the innovations they brought.

As far as I know, a raider doesn't share or enable others.
the only Polish person I know of that mentioned Warsaw recently said "no way - stay away from it" .. no idea why
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> it is not used very commonly.

Is this a problem of multi-tenancy in k8s specifically or something else?
You've been brainwashed.
Yeah, I think they are confusing the (far more limited) issue with RedHat that CrowdStrike triggered last month, with the Windows issue. Based on https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41033579 Windows does not have ebpf yet and even once they do have it, it will not have as complete of coverage as in Linux for a while, so would not necessarily prevent this.
Fun story, I grew up on an incredibly steep street which dead ends - it gets too steep - and then continues again at the top of the hill.

Well, one edition of some Thomas Guide had this street connecting.

Every 5 or so years, some poor, poor, truck driver would get stuck on the hill, and need to carefully reverse down this tiny street and its ridiculous hill. One year, a giant semi hauling glass windows got stuck at the top of the dead end. He was unable to reverse, and so we had to call every neighbor to move their cars off of the hill to give the driver room to turn around. Took most of the day.
TLDR: Lessons from 1 year of building with LLMs
I really think the value of this for Meta is content generation. More open models (especially state of the art) means more content is being generated, and more content is being shared on Meta platforms, so there is more advertising revenue for Meta.
That's how the math works out in general unless you think some kind of soul exists.
I don’t see much evidence of actual experience in this comment. Maybe you have a lot of experience and aren’t very good at conveying it but honestly, it sounds like you have thoroughly drank the startup koolaid.

> Believe it or not you get over this.

This screams either a lack of experience or a lack of meaningful social relationships. Many people never get over this - it is incredibly risky and stressful being a solo founder.

> You get better at handling the stress as you get more comfortable with where your business lies and what value you offer, et cetera.

Again, not true. Some people can do this and others can’t. Fundamentally, it depends on actually providing value, being aware of the value you provide and being able to quantify that. Those are three difficult skills and many people cannot acquire them.

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

Absolutely no. Many people should not attempt this. In fact, I’ve been doing this for around thirty years and I think the majority of people should avoid it. People with young families, credit card debt and spending problems have no business going out on their own.

> Failing that, you should strive to make it to VP-suite of your company where in most cases you’ll be tasked with running an arm of the business - the risks are there but it’s more of a simulated environment as well.

No, people should strive to make a living, pay their bills and find something approaching happiness.
Zuck made a bet when they provisioned for reels to buy enough GPUs to be able to spin up another reels-sized service.

Llama is probably just running on spare capacity (I mean, sure, they've kept increasing capex, but if they're worried about an llm-based fb competitor they sort of have to in order to enact their copycat strategy)
You talk about it like there’s a vibrant community of websites out there. There’s streaming sites and social media, and then a bunch of apps that are delivered through the web. All of them are sophisticated web operations.
Whenever I play a video game (Monster Hunter World comes to me immediately) and see an establishing shot with moving camera (like the ones demoed on their web site) I think the game really wants to run in an a VR headset where you can walk around and see different angles.

(Funny there is a VR mod for Monster Hunter Rise which makes me think just how fun Monster Hunter VR would be)
maybe, but for the last half decade nearly my entire social circle cannot sit still for movies and just won't go out of their way to do it anymore. I'm big into cinema, but they are not. Treating this like the fidget-spinning surrogate that a large portion of the population relies upon could potentially make it a hit for some viewing experiences. Its a thesis I would pursue, for money, at least.
Protobufs are an interesting hybrid. They assume a common, linear history of schema versions, where all data generators had access to an arbitrary version in that history. The schemas define field ids and types, but not which combinations of fields can show up.

If you can upgrade all the data then you don’t need to worry about versioning,

Or you can do it like HTTP headers and hope for the best.
We have nationals/citizens of every major US adversary working in those companies with looser security practice than security at local warehouse. Security check before hiring is a joke (mostly checks that resume checks out), laptops can be taken home and internal communication are not segmented on need to know basis. Essentially if China wants weights or source code, it will have hundreds of people to choose from who can provide it.
Background: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2022/03/21/have-chinese-s... (archived: https://archive.ph/5xUkU )
for some reason I absolutely love the name
I'm talking about traditional small long short funds, private equity, and under the radar very elite hedge funds. Its different for quant shops like citadel or two sigma. Those treat you like a commidity programmer that they pay a 20% premium on over FAANG
> code is a liability

3rd parties are also a liability. Pick your poison. Trust in unknown individuals, trust in megacorps, or trust your own people. Choosing wisely is why people get paid the big bucks.
There is also IT-Tools and CyberChef. Selfhost-able projects to create your own instance of "online utilities tools"

https://gchq.github.io/CyberChef/

https://it-tools.tech/
I'm not talking about the physics calculations. I'm talking about it navigating, adapting and coding using my own patterns, coding style and structure within a context that is completely custom. It understands the framework I've built, what functions to use when and writes code looking and working as if it was my own.
Looks useful. Does it export as a video file itself (e.g., mp4)? Thanks.
> Why are (some) Europeans surprised when they are not included in tech product débuts?

Why do you think he is surprised? I think very few are surprised.
will give this a try for our analytics, looks v smooth
> Android used to have a network permission but Google removed it.

That's because google is in the ads business and wants apps to always be able to exfiltrate data to google (google analytics, google ads, etc) & display ads without needing additional permissions.

Having a network permission means there is an incentive for apps to not have the network permission which means they can't load ads. And Google wants you to look at their ads.
Accepts the job.
Is that counterintuitive? There's a finite number of electrons in a human brain (which fits in a space of size 1m^3), and information takes time to propagate across any distance, and humans die before 150 years; this all gestures at there being not only finitely many personality types and ways of thinking, but finitely many human mind states.
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These are for very under the radar hedge funds that chip their programmers 500-2 Million for just writing basic software. I'm not talking about sweat shops like citadel. I'm talking about places that hire very rarely. The fund manager makes 25-150 million. Rest of the employees are in the low millions. Their employees are always a reflection of the firm, and to their outside investors. Its about more than technical ability. Jobs are never posted online, minialist linkedin profiles, no public footprint
It's not as simple as "start a business".

You have to find a business that makes sense for you (you know it, you want to put up with it, etc). You then have to execute. All the while hoping that you don't get struck by lightning (something kills your business), while also hoping to get struct by lightning (you become wildly successful). God forbid you need job security (family, health care, etc.).

Contrast this to going into a job, where what you do is laid out for you, you just have to execute. With insurance. With job security.

Even as someone who has run a startup and still has the itch, it's a no brainer.
Or 3: We need to think more for what those datacenters are used, make our programs more efficient, ...
as podcaster, yup. chucking 2hrs of audio in descript and removing 700 ums is golden
If you get or do a full build of MAME they’re just in it. Try the `dn3500` system. ROMs will be wherever you get MAME ROMs and Domain/OS install tape images are on Bitsavers.
Please don't bring relativity into this except as a fun side note. It doesn't make a meaningful difference for actual objects in space, because they all share basically the same reference frame.
Rural/conservative person maybe?

My sister lives there with her husband and two kids, she likes it, it’s expensive though.
(if you are running windows)

you might want to check a tool called PBO2Tunner (https://www.cybermania.ws/apps/pbo2-tuner/), you can tweak values like EDC,TDC and PPT (power limit) from the GUI, and it also accepts command line commands so you can automate those tasks.

I made scripts that "cap" the power consumption of the cpu based on what applications are running. (i.e. only going all in on certain games, dynamically swaping between 65-90-120-180w handmade profiles)

i made with power saving in mind given the idle power consumption is rather high on modern ryzens.

edit: actually made a mistake given that PBO2Tunner is for Zen3 cpus, and you mentioned Zen4.
It’s a disadvantage if you require proprietary licenses, but an advantage if you leverage open source licenses.
Median filtering with large kernel can be pretty ugly as it gives pixels who are far away the same weight. I prefer weighting them (for example with a gaussian) and using a weighted histogram, use the weighted median value (interpolated between two values). It gives a result even more interesting (for some uses) than a simple gaussian blur and you can also configure the weights to make it edge preserving like a bilateral blur but better

There is also no way to split up the median computation

What does this mean here ? Seems like we could have a rolling window by adding and subtracting pixels on the way. I’ve coded this before, although it’s not O(1) like the algorithm described at the end
I got as Lytro Illium off Ebay at a reasonable price but it is a bit of a white elephant. I was hoping to shoot stereograms but I haven't been able to do it with the stock software (I just get two images that look the same with no clear disparity)

I've seen open source software for plentopic images which might be able to generate a point cloud but I've only gotten one good shot of the Lytro which was similar to a shot I took with this crazy lens

https://7artisans.store/products/7artisans-50mm-f0-95-large-...
For a second, I thought median filtering was going to be about riding motorcycles down the median of a road to filter through traffic.....
You can rent H100 GPUs.
If the model is already pretrained, there's no need to pretrain it, so the cost of pretraining is zero.
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Never waste a crisis. MS is already on the attack, seeking to leverage this crisis for its own ends. Machiavelli would be proud.