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Major GPU architecture changes only happen every few years.

* k80 - 2014, and this really was not that great of a chip.

* v100 in 2017, and I'd consider this the first "built from the ground up" ML chip.

* A100 in late 2020, with the first major cloud general availability being in 2021.

Even when new chips come out the old ones are still usable- you can rent k80s for fairly cheap on all cloud providers, and have kept a surprising amount of their resale value. The v100s are also very much still in demand.

The A100 is also an amazing system- the new nvswitch archetecture means the A100s work together far far better than their V100 counterparts. I was part of an upgrade project setting up an A100 cluster with infiniband and it really is amazing how well these chips work together. That communication barrier was a pretty obvious next step though (the k80s had crap intergpu communication, the v100s introduced the nvlink, and the nvswitch was the obvious way to go). There isn't an obvious next step, and I imagine the A100s to be the standard for at least the next four years (with lots of continued use after that).
Zuck has vision, especially for what people will want to use. I am looking forward to what FB comes up with here.
Queries start with FROM, it's called a README for a reason...
I guess I'll rephrase and say that they're probably not ending tomorrow, because of the historical precedent the Fed set when they bailed them out. What's a few hundred billion dollars between friends?
Brave brings:

- Native adblocker based on uBlock Origin algo

- Proxy all requests to Google based service in use in Chromium such as Safebrowsing

- Added anti fingerprinting stuff on some web techs such as webgl, canvas, plugins

- Still open source (to be noted: the ads code, server side, is not)

- Everything documented on their wiki

- Trusted binaries unlike ungoogled-chromium

If you can set aside the crypto part of Brave, I believe this is the best Chromium based browser currently.

https://github.com/brave/brave-browser/wiki/Deviations-from-...
After further review, it appears that the email may have actually been sent through Intuit using fake info with Teamnort@saless.cc as the reply-to. If you call the number, they usually answer saying they are Norton or PayPal. I've already notified Intuit and RingCentral who they appear to be using. This is the link to the "invoice" in the email which is on the intuit.com domain:

http://links.notification.intuit.com/ls/click?upn=LEV65WI9EZ...
>This is first of its kind, to this scale assuring safety would have been the first foremost for all who would have worked on this vaccine. We have to trust.

Trust the company that was fined over a billion dollars for criminal behaviour (that cost people their lives)? https://www.reuters.com/article/us-pfizer-settlement-idUSTRE...
Not sure why people downvote this comment. Web3 is essentially a bunch of tech related to decentralized apps and bitcoin is not a protocol to do that, at that point it’s just sometimes an intermediary step to move your capital into the systems that support it (like eth and others).

I have no skin in the game, I don’t hold much crypto and wasn’t building related stuff in years. So it saddens me to see people here who are generally very smart, being ruled by their prejudices,

I just did a catch-up research after missing out for 3 years and there’s literally a ton of super exciting stuff happening. DAOs blowing up, social products starting to pop up, blockchains themselves becoming much more scalable.

It saddens me to see my fellow folks here having such a biased and outdated perspective and aggressively evangelizing it.
It's crazy they stop stock vesting on parental leave, that just seems really messed up to me. I can get medical leave as that one is pretty easy to abuse/string out for a very long time. However it just seems like a disincentive to have children and a definite message being sent by Amazon by doing something scummy like that for parental leave.
The unvaccinated are getting hospitalized and dying by an order of magnitude more frequently than the vaxxed. https://www1.nyc.gov/site/doh/covid/covid-19-data.page#daily

If you're vaccinated, then it really is "it's just a flu, bro." Time to live life and end this idiotic theater. Vaccines are great. Take the win.
One of the reasons we test is for confidence. If we can't trust a test, it isn't providing value. It may give negative value due to the time required to inspect the failure or general erosion of trust in the test suite.

One pattern that we can apply to increase visibility or ownership is stability metrics. If a test must/should be fixed many times can be teased out once you can view these metrics. On failure, display that this test has passed in this configuration for the past x-amount of runs.
- Pass the last 100 runs? High likelihood the test is highlighting a bug and must be engaged on.
- 95% pass rate in the last 100 runs? It may be time to quarantine this test and add it to the remediation backlog. Your level of acceptable false-positive rates may differ depending on team velocity and suite runtimes.

"How many tests are in quarantine, what is the average time-to-fix, and what direction is this trending" are valuable metrics that we can utilize to find ownership and highlight the technical debt.

As you said, culture around such patterns isn't always there.
JWST successfully arrives at orbit around L2
"You're going to be eaten by a bronteroc. We don't know what it means."
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I think there are plenty of possibilities:

- 3d worlds with style transfer on the textures, like maybe there's a cafe with the visual style of Starry Night or something

- NPCs with conversation models that are finetuned for each NPC's personality and saves some history for each person it talks to for continuity

- Game-playing AI on NPCs that make them go around doing actual things or playing minigames with players

- The usual user tracking models, figuring out what people like to do in the metaverse and giving them more of that

- All the lower-level stuff that AI can do better - user inputs, rendering, etc.

Whether or not they can pull it off is a separate question - I think the tech is close but not quite there yet - but there's no doubt that the metaverse concept of "an expansive virtual world with lots of fun things to do" has many ways to use huge amounts of computation.
The discourse around the pandemic and the vaccines is extremely counterproductive. The choice to get vaccinated or not have become more about signalling allegiance to one of two political tribes, than about health. As someone who hates both tribes, I start to regret getting vaccinated whenever I read pro-vax arguments (including a lot of these comments), but I can then cure that regret by reading anti-vax arguments. Both are as devoid of relevant information as the other.
>You can turn off the Brave Rewards if you don't want them.

You've got that precisely backwards. You have to explicitly enable that feature if you want it.
Or..

"A computer can never be held accountable for decisions, therefore all computer decisions are management decisions."
> a word is not eliminated by a guess if and only if the result of testing the word against the solution is the same as the result of testing the guess against the solution

That's not true. Suppose the actual word is "abcdx" but the guessed word is "xefgh". The result of testing is Yellow-Black-Black-Black-Black.

Now suppose you have other words like "xijkl" that will test against the solution in exactly the same way (Yellow-Black-Black-Black-Black), but you know won't be the correct solution because in the first round the misplaced "x" already tells you "x" should be present at a different position.

So now we have a word that can be eliminated even if it tests against the solution in the way the guessed word does.
I thought the same as that's our current reality. "It wasn't us, it was the computer!" Things are only going to get worse
McDonalds provides services to other companies? that's the whole point of McDonalds?
I’m a bit out of date on FreeBSD land but tbh probably both. It references FreeBSD 11 not being out yet so the article is several years old.
FreeBSD does tend to lag behind a bit when it comes to WiFi support though so it wouldn’t surprise me if 802.11ac support is patchy.
it feels like the future of companies is to increasingly give tasks to AI. So eventually we'll have massive corps that have a couple execs and a super ai making them all obscenely rich?

I want to hate this idea, but it would be the same as hating machines replacing manual labor over the last 100 years.

im not sure what to think, nor how to prepare myself for the next 20 years.
Probably the most efficient thing is to cut out using a car for commuting and use it as sparingly as possible, and keep the car you already have and is already here as long as its possible. Any car represents an enormous amount of spent energy just in the form of converting those raw materials from where they are found naturally, forming it into a 3000lb car somewhere, and ultimately delivering it to you where it currently sits in front of you. Its going to take a lot of fuzzy math to negate that massive energy cost as well as the energy cost to bring this new car built from resources found around the world to your door, and the cost to do away with the old one. Limiting personal consumption imo means getting the most out of your existing materials and tools, or those found immediately locally, versus spending energy to bring in ever more things from around the globe.
Those are decisions for you to make for yourself when you're an adult instead of having it forced upon you as an infant.
Australians in Ukraine told to ‘leave now’ as fears of Russian invasion grow
1.5M lines of code is not an init system, it is a time bomb... and with dodgy wiring.

I think it was a ZFS dev who complained he had to update 150 files to port ZFS to systemd. Simples?

And you have to love all them binary log files, with their dynamic and spontaneus api. Yes, everything is always new and exciting with systemD.

I use devuan. A debian fork with a choice of init systems (well, everything but systemD. ;) It took the dev/devs 2 years just to swap out/revert the init system.

Also, just learned devuan's website is JS and cookie free. https://www.devuan.org/

Edit: I will concede that systemD is great for a lot of people. I honestly wish them success. The work that goes in to building, maintaining, and using it, is substantial. It must be a boon for the economy and job creation.
Pick any given feature and a FS may or not support it well. RAID56 did have a major update, but still has the write hole and isn't recommended for production.

I think the point still stands though. There has been lots of stabilization work done to BTRFS, and anyone using production-recommended features should consider the filesystem stable.
Ask HN: How did you properly market your startup with so many paths?
Working on redoing the landing page with more use cases and going to communities where our potential users hang out with Hitsnag.com. Would appreciate any advice or experience you have had.
Hey - author here:

Yeah, I kind of forgot to caveat it all with how unreasonably good I have it as a programmer, and that story refers to my programmer friends, who like to marinate a little too long in bad jobs that they could have easily changed
Why do you choose to use this term in its definition by some “btc maxis” instead of what an actual and huge community of developers mean by it? Some cognitive bias at play here my friend?

Edit: typos
Not calling you out directly as you're not responding to me, but it's really condescending to always get told how I don't understand because I levied some criticism. I first read the bitcoin paper in 2009. I've seen all the twists and turns the whole space has gone through. It didn't impress me back then and it doesn't impress me now. If I had received one good faith explanation for every time someone said "you just don't understand" then we'd all be a whole lot smarter for it and maybe I wouldn't have had to spend so much time reading these papers and getting disappointed.
If computer vision falls under AI then its pretty obvious why it would help with AR and world sensing.
As you may see elsewhere in the comments, people pointed out a number of things the author did to juice their case.

however, I'd say that the smart people who can read an article like this aren't under some sort of moral requirement to create a data-driven response. Some things are beneath us, like debating a flat-earther.

Further, you undermine your comment by going full conspiracy theory when all the questions you ask have far more banal answers than you think.
No paywall https://archive.md/WMRDD
I echo oramit's message above or below me, and will add Haiti as another datapoint to highlight the European and American difference.

France agreed to sever ties with its colonial possession but at an extraordinary cost to the Haitians who would remit payments for the next 125 years. This was only possible because Haiti was a country with its own resources.

Contrast that with the American South; the slaves had nothing to offer to reimburse their owners.

Sometimes I feel the removal of TR's statue was an overreaction, and then you recall this shit, and it gives pause.
actually, i want it backup up concurrently.

for instance, the systems better checks all memory banks and disks before it finishes booting.

Having a system boot slower is an annoynance when downtime occurs, but having a system boot incorrectly is far worse.
>it seemed like a reasonable article by a reasonable person

No, they're full of shit. They use small to moderate descripencies to argue that everything is wrong. The two that I saw before closing it:

(1). The vaccine is less effective than advertised but that doesn't mean it's ineffective. Two doses still provides good protection while two doses plus boosters provides excellent.

(2). It's still primarily an epidemic of the unvaccinated. The ~15% of unvaccinated turn into 70-80% of hospitalizations. If the hold outs got vaccinated (and everyone got boosted) we could cut hospitalizations 75-95%
>The simple math is that if you prepare a treatment and give it to 300 million people, 300 people with adverse reactions may make the entire endeavor unwise financially.

Yet other medicines taken by the majority manage fine without liability immunity, like aspirin and paracetamol. Why do vaccine manufacturers deserve a license to kill without liability?
I used to work at a university where my professor had been in automatic speech recognition for a long time, but basically gave up on that line of research about 10 years ago because he figured that universities simply cannot compete budget wise with the big industry players.

I suppose the same will soon be true for most ML-related areas of research sooner or later, at least as far as applied ML is concerned.

Already, a substantial amount of research innovation in NLP and CV has been coming from big companies in recent years.

Of course there is a discussion to be had about what that means for society at large. At this point, a lot of said companies to publish their results at conferences etc. But what if at some point they decide to be as "open" as OpenAI (ie., not)?
I'm hardly an advocate for any of Facebook/Meta's actions over the past... however long, but a lot of people forget that "Metaverse" doesn't just mean "virtual reality". VR could be a large component here, but the biggest goal of the Metaverse is really to map physical things into a digital world. That data can be used in any number of ways, not just VR/AR; it could be used to provide 3D models for common shopping goods in the Walmart app, give meteorologists an interactive forecast maps, map GitHub repositories to technology that you use every day... the list goes on. The real goal is ripping digital metadata from real-world objects, which could indeed be inferenced like an AI model for any number of uses.
By season, I am assuming you mean the Covid period (2020 to present).

Got showered with dozens of recruiter emails for various companies. As a rule, I generally do not cold apply to any company as my experience has been that doing so is a first class ticket to being ignored.

However I'm also pretty selective as to what companies I'm interested in, so the vast majority I did not proceed with.

1. First interview was with a FAANG, where I failed the phone screen largely due to the interviewer having a thick accent on top of him using a speakerphone that made things worse.

2. Next, had a friend refer me to the FAANG he works at, but was ignored.

3. & 4. Interviewed at two mid tier companies and got lowball offers, so declined. Standard leetcode questions. One of them gave me homework. These happened more or less in parallel, which is rare for me.

Got more bites from three non-FAANGMULA companies that I'd rank as on the same top tier. These also proceeded in parallel.

5. Passed the phone screen for one but failed the virtual on site. Mix of leetcode and JavaScript trivia. The phone screener was a "celebrity engineer" and apparently commented in feedback to the recruiter that I was one of the most talented JavaScript engineers he had ever interviewed. Alas I think what bombed me during the virtual on site was when I was asked to describe one of my previous projects in detail. I choked.

6. Passed phone screen and three different virtual on sites for the second, got offer. Mix of leetcode and JavaScript trivia.

7. Passed the phone screen and the homework for the second. Mix of leetcode and JavaScript trivia. On site got scheduled. But everything was moving very slowly. So I took the offer from the second company.

I'm a frontend/fullstack engineer. Interviews were a mix of leetcode and "do this in JavaScript" type problems. I would say leetcode has lost some of its dominance in my particular niche in favor of these JavaScript trivia type problems.

I'd say the fact that I was WFH due to the pandemic greatly facilitated both the logistics of interviewing and grinding leetcode/JavaScript trivia. I don't think I'm the only one, since my department at my previous company saw a massive exodus of people. I saw more people depart for greener pastures in the summer of 2021 than I saw in my entire 7 year tenure there.

Also, I did two homeworks. Generally I make it a point to simply refuse any homework assignments because they do not s cale (vs. leetcode which hugely scales horizontally). However in the case of one of the mid-tier companies, the assignment was genuinely fun so I accepted it. In the case of the other, the company was both prestigious and high paying enough that I went ahead with it. In both cases I got exceptional marks, but also took far more than the supposedly "few hours" they said.
Yes, I think we're in trouble. Walked over to friends' house over the weekend. It was a very nice, sunny weekend. Saw them through the window with their goggles on, rang the doorbell. They came to the door and I said, look how nice and sunny it it, we should go for a walk and they were like "oh, we had no idea it was so nice out because we were in Meta with our goggles on".
attacks on Big Pharma being evil, which, while obviously true in some cases

Big Pharma may be evil, but they sure like cash, and they get a lot more cash from developing a safe vaccine than an unsafe one. Look at the J&J vaccine that the CDC is specifically saying to not get if you have Pfizer/Moderna available due to the risk of blood clots.

Dangerous vaccines don't sell.
Most of Tonga is covered in ash. https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-60065767
I had COVID-19 pre-vaccines and I've received a booster. Ancedotally, I'm the only person I know at this point that hasn't gotten Omicron; though I'm not really sure that's relevant. I also live in the Bay Area, so it's not like I'm not being exposed when I go to the bar.
That's because you tried to sing in using a cell phone which is listed into a black list. Maybe your mac address or imei is being rejected because it was used to do some illegal thing.
Be careful...
> Meta’s AI supercomputer houses 6,080 Nvidia graphics-processing units ..... By mid-summer, when the AI Research SuperCluster is fully built, it will house some 16,000 GPUs

Honestly ... this is lot of GPUs ... but is it the biggest...?

> Model training is done with mixed precision on the NVIDIA DGX SuperPOD-based Selene supercomputer powered by 560 DGX A100 servers networked with HDR InfiniBand in a full fat tree configuration. Each DGX A100 has eight NVIDIA A100 80GB Tensor Core GPUs

So Nvidia used 4480 GPUs to train Megatron-Turing NLG 530B for example.
They are not the same at all. AWS has the best GPU instances right now but there's some huge differences in networking speed. The P3 instances have 400Gbps per machine, with 8 GPUs on each machine. If you were to self host a cluster using the standard DGX machines you get 200Gbps per GPU, for a total of 1600Gbps for just the GPUs. The DGX machine has another two infiniband ports that can be used to attach to storage at pretty intense speeds as well.

This makes a huge difference when using more than a single machine. I've done the math and purchased the machines at a previous company- assuming you aren't leaving the machines idle most of the time you save a considerable amount of money and get a lot better performance when building your own cluster.
There were between 80,000 and 120,000 not including the rebels that they support within Ukraine.[1]

1. https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/russia-reach-over-12000...
> I didn't flag this for being heretical; I flagged it for reducing confidence in public health measures

That is literally, exactly what heretics were punished for: reducing confidence in things that were believed to be in the public interest.

So if you didn't flag this for being wrong, or at least for being written in bad faith (neither of which you have alleged), then yes you did flag it for being heretical.
Many of the necessary fixes do end up getting pushed upstream, though, thinking especially of stuff like converting CMake projects to use the GNUInstallDirs standard, so there is a benefit to the strictness work that extends beyond even just the Nix community itself.

Of course, sometimes those kinds of changes just never get merged, for a variety of well-understood open-sourcey reasons, eg: https://github.com/pocoproject/poco/pull/3105
this highly depends on how ZFS is configured.

for instance, what is your ARC configuration in this case? It can have a massive impact of performance.

getting ZFS to perform well takes a bit of work, but in my opinion performance is on par with most filesystems. (and it has a ton of additional features).
But imagine what other delights await me in the Grand Canyon State? Who else serves ice cream by the slice?
Easy. Imagine an asshole restauranteur who kicks you out without recourse every time. Annoying, fuck that guy, but not too bad. Say he owns a few places. Still not too bad, the world's full of competition. Now imagine that asshole owning almost all restaurants and enforcing his fuck-beebman-in-particular policy.

Or, say, a bookseller delists some book for ideological reasons. If it's one private location, little harm, little foul. Amazon? Uh oh.

Size and market share do matter, and some effects depend on that.
> the supposed threat of an imminent russian invasion.

If Russia amasses several hundred thousand troops on Ukraines doorstep that’s not a supposed threat, it’s a threat since it’s perceived as a threat. Pointing a gun at someone is a threat. It’s not a supposed threat.

Also: The Russian invasion and occupation started 8 years ago!