Best of Hacker NewsApril 2023

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    TabbyML/tabby: Self-hosted AI coding assistant

    TabbyML/tabby is an opensource / on-prem alternative to GitHub Copilot. Tabby is still in the alpha phase, with no need for a DBMS or cloud service. The easiest way of getting started is using the docker image: # Create data dir and grant owner to 1000 (Tabby run as uid 1000 in container).

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    Astral: Next-gen Python tooling

    Ruff is so fast that sometimes I add an intentional bug in the code just to confirm it’s actually running. Sebastián Ramírez Creator of FastAPI Why is Ruff a gamechanger? Primarily because it's nearly 1000x faster.

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    Minigpt-4

    The recent GPT-4 has demonstrated extraordinary multi-modal abilities, such as directly generating websites from handwritten text and identifying humorous elements within images. We are currently preparing a lighter model runnable on a single 3090 GPU, which you will be able to run on your own machine.

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    Replacing my best friends with an LLM trained on 500,000 group chat messages

    A model trained on 500,000 group chat messages tl;dr: I trained an uncensored large language model on the college-era group chat that me and my best friends still use. The dataset for this project is, of course, my Group Chat, which has remained active over the past 7 years.

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    GitHub Copilot Emits GPL. Codeium Does Not.

    GitHub Copilot Emits GPL, non-permissive code, and how they relate to AI-powered code assistants. There are legal ramifications with a company’s developers violating GPL licenses, independent of intent. The argument to not do so is perhaps less clear - researchers say LLMs rarely spit out training data verbatim.

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    The LLama Effect: How an Accidental Leak Sparked a Series of Impressive Open Source Alternatives to ChatGPT

    The Sequence Scope brings a summary of the most important research papers, technology releases and VC funding deals in the artificial intelligence space. Next Week in The Sequence Edge 281: Our series about federated learning(FL) continues with an overview of FL, Google’s research about FL and differential privacy and the FedLab framework for FL simulation.

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    The “Build Your Own Database” book is finished

    The “Build Your Own Database’s’ book is finished 2023-04-20 01.org. The whole book is available as paperback or ebook.

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    Spinning Diagrams with CSS

    Spinning Diagrams with CSS don't use any JavaScript or animated image formats, just HTML and CSS. The original math thing involved a few other tricks, to embed the diagrams in LaTeX and generate their geometries. Each diagram is embedded in the LaTeX as a numeric ID, then replaced with generated HTML by a Python script.