skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
MSSQL is an OLTP based db (going to preclude discussion of its fancy column index stuff it’s capable of). OLTP db’s definitely, definitely have a different role.

I’m talking about the false difference between the likes of ClickHouse and Snowflake, where they’re both column oriented already. I’m asserting that the fundamental differences between “classic” column db’s and “data warehouses” is far less fundamental than the marketing would have us believe. Some of the db’s in this space have slightly different architectures and trade offs, and some deliberately operate at different scales, but they are built for, and operate in, basically the same purpose.
The cons that come to mind:

Size: The more externals you drag in, the bigger and less efficient the apps will get. An extreme version of this are the deployment packages like flatpak and snap - you drag it a substantial copy of an OS! Bigger needs more storage, slower startup, etc.

Difference: Every library does things a little differently - uses different init schemes, different serialisation, different naming conventions, etc. Makes for steeper learning curves (for users and programmers), incompatabilties, etc.

Knowledge: over a few projects, you'll need fairly detailed understanding of many libraries. Makes sense to consolidate this into one place (the OS). It will be less than perfect for some apps, but realistically, so are the libraries.

Bugs: Really a by-product of the above - but bigger systems (more libraries and/or more hand-cut low level code) invariably have more bugs.

I'm afraid the only pros that comes to mind:

Potential performance: low level stuff gives you the option to fine tune. But: #1 for almost all apps, a better design gives performance more easily than low-level coding, #2 the industry default is to accept poor performance and buy a faster machine ;)

Familiarity: using a new paradigm involves changing thinking and skills - uncomfortable and time consuming.
Your list feels a bit like r/WhereDidTheSodaGo, that is those silly infomercials that make it seem like putting dishes away in the cupboard is some monumental task. I mean "find the scanner apps"? Are there phones nowadays where the code scanner isn't just built into the camera app? I don't think I've used a dedicated scanner app for at least half a decade.

I find QR menus annoying when you're at a place where you specifically want to forget about your phone, like a nice restaurant for dinner, but I don't think they're some huge amount of work.
> and then combine LoRAs

How do you combine them?

> but you distribute training based on subject

Perhaps this could work like a set of hashed and trusted data sets split but subject and topic? Each node downloads one at random and trains against that single subset of a topic or something.
tmux and screen users would say that one can use the roff-based man system and still do that. The key is, rather, in what M. Bernstein wrote: "Much more effort has gone into web browsers than into roff readers."

And this is true. I just recently fixed a bug in a 2018-ish man command that prevented it from displaying Japanese manual pages, because it defaulted to 7-bit ASCII instead of UTF-8. Any WWW browser that couldn't have handled UTF-8 in 2018 would have been junked by most people. That sort of stuff was fixed years before for WWW browsers.

Indeed, there's been the reverse process going on. The effort that has gone into roff readers has sometimes even been actively suppressed. Did you know that your manual pages actually contain italics for emphasis and denoting certain syntactical elements, and have done pretty much all along? groff got the ability to display them, like troff originally could, long ago, as well as colour; but these abilities have been explicitly disabled in most operating systems.

We'd laugh at WWW browsers that couldn't do all of <i> and <em> and <u> and suchlike, or (of course) their CSS equivalents. But we suppress the ability of free software roff readers to reinstate what Unix text processing could likewise actually do in the 1970s.
I’m interested in that too. There are a lot of simulators out there, but they tend to be either under-featured or very user-unfriendly.
Couldn’t agree more. Dissent alone is usually not helpful, you should also want to collaborate on solutions. Be solution-oriented.
US scientists make breakthrough for long-range EV batteries
For quality, GPTQ-for-LLaMa repository README is already updated for comparison with this work. See under "GPTQ vs bitsandbytes".
Pfft. You're just a young whippersnapper to those of us old enough to have used mailx on SunOS as our primary mail client.
No need to mass produce the nukes, dummy payloads will do just fine. A single ICBM could deploy dozens-hundreds of credible looking warheads. These are inherently cheap relative to building independent missile interceptors.
Neat. Funny enough I've recently considered writing sort of the exact opposite of this - a FUSE FS that maps every package and symbol of a running lisp image into the filesystem, so that the value of variables could be read/written from outside, fbound symbols would be marked executable and "callable" from unix by running them (via some weird shebang hack, I guess), etc.
Comma didn't fizzle out.

https://twitter.com/comma_ai/status/1578517666632900608
> But you do need to be fluent in Roman culture to understand Latin jokes, puns, similes, metaphors, and all the other things that go into meaning.

You need to understand Roman culture to understand Roman jokes, but that is a property of Roman culture, not the Latin language. You could translate American jokes into Latin, and then a hypothetical American who can speak Latin but doesn't know anything about Roman culture would be able to understand and find them funny.

Of course, you can't understand the full meaning of an utterance that someone utters in a particular context without understanding who that person is and what the context is. A Roman who somehow spoke perfectly grammatical English would still probably be hard for us to understand. But that's a property of an utterance, not the language itself.
Flowx.ai raises $35M for its AI-based approach to application integration
It's interesting that Alibaba cloud and Huawei are ahead of Snowflake
Thats just one method...

- bitsandbytes was always used for on the fly 8 bit quant, just like its being used for 4-bit now.
- llama.cpp (and derivatives) quantize ahead of time, but its not resource intense.
- mlc llm (vulkan/metal llm inference via tvm) do require lots of ram for their quantization
They support specific devices:https://microsoft.github.io/devicescript/devices
AssemblyScript might be what you're interested in, it's a typescript-like language that compiles to WASM code: https://www.assemblyscript.org/
This is wild. I didn't know anyone was seriously working on this let alone it being this far along.
'the frore system'?
Not familiar with that one. Thanks for the pointer.
> So why not just fix AMD accelerators in pytorch? Both ROCm and pytorch are open sourced. Isn't the point of the OSS community to use the community to solve problems?

Because there's no real evidence that AMD cares about this problem, and without them caring your efforts may well be replaced by whatever AMD does next in the space. Their Brooks language[1] is abandoned, OpenCL doesn't compare well, ROCm is like the Sharepoint of GPU APIs (it ticks boxes but doesn't actually work very well).

> So why not just fix AMD accelerators in pytorch

Why not just buy NVidia? They care deeply about the space, will actually help you if you have trouble, etc etc.

Even using Google TPUs is better: Google will help you too.

While everyone using NVidia isn't great for the market as a whole as an individual company or person it makes a lot of sense.

Read "The Red Team (AMD)" section in the linked article:

> The software is called ROCm, it’s open source, and supposedly it works with PyTorch. Though I’ve tried 3 times in the last couple years to build it, and every time it didn’t build out of the box, I struggled to fix it, got it built, and it either segfaulted or returned the wrong answer. In comparison, I have probably built CUDA PyTorch 10 times and never had a single issue.

This is geohot. He knows how to build software, and how to fix problems.

Note that "Our short term goal is to get AMD on MLPerf using the tinygrad framework."

> There's a clear difference in how AMD and Nvidia measure TFLOPS. techpowerup shows AMD at 2-3x Nvidia, but performance is similar. Either AMD is crazy underutilized or something is wrong. Does anyone know the answer?

From the linked article:

> That’s the kernel space, the user space isn’t better. The compiler is so bad that clpeak only gets half the max possible FLOPS. And clpeak is a completely contrived workload attempting to maximize FLOPS, never mind how many FLOPS you get on a real program

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BrookGPU
Or, if the other country is not ran by fools, they'll notice that you're building enough interceptors to break MAD and pre-emptively strike you.
You guys have some intriguing ideas here.

I've been in this space for 15+ years now, worked with most of the main players that have on-prem and SaaS solutions, and deployed and run solutions at scale at a few of the largest companies in BigCo land for multiple years now.

I would be cautious on focusing too heavily on the 'developer as the customer' here. Most buying decisions in this space are not made by IT, they are made by CMOs, CXOs, CDOs, etc as that is who owns the budget (and results) tied to this type of solution.

At almost any scale, when you look at total cost of ownership, licensing from one of the main solution providers is usually quite a bit cheaper than building out a whole proprietary stack that one then has to maintain in house via their IT org that likely is not an expert at this kind of stuff.
I do something similar but with HAProxy and a micro GCE VM which acts as my edge which hits a Tailscale subnet router and routes to my MetalLB install. Works _really_ well.
It's extremely possible to have never run into an Oracle DB in an entire career (in the depts you worked in), and moreover it's quite possible to use one database in finance and another in engineering or operations (Postgres or cloud). It merely means you haven't worked at the type and size of organization that tends to license Oracle, or more specifically only in some depts. And sometimes the org didn't voluntarily pick Oracle for technical reasons, it was mandated by the end-user, or for compliance, or application stack, or Oracle's sales team beat out technically superior/more cost-efficient competitors.

None of that is denying Oracle exists.

And that isn't even an 'issue', just an observation. I imagine this used to be similar with encountering IBM DB2 or SAP or Amdahl or melamine deskphones and partitions, but I assume you wouldn't say those are issues.
This part made me a bit mad on behalf of restaurant owners:

> paying for the QR menus on top of printed menus can be costly — especially if customers aren't using them.

I mean, hosting a low-volume static website and printing out a URL as a QR code are nearly free. So many tech businesses take advantage of restaurant owners (and restaurants are already an extremely low margin business) solely because most restauranteurs are not tech savvy.
> or have an easy button to remove threading

I'm confused. Can't you just hit the "Display message threads" button to toggle threading on and off?
Id rather not hijack this thread and make it about the bible so this reply is only for the purposes of clarifying my original comment, and will be my final reply. There are many denominations of christianity, my interpritation of the bible shows heaven and eternal life as a reward for those who follow jesus. The bible says in black and white that those who live in sin do not inherit the kingdom of heaven. If you point a gun at me and tell me to sin, i wont. If you shoot me, i go to heaven. A HN comment section is not the place to form your opinions about the bible. I recomend reading the bible and bringing your questions to a priest.
Doesn't Brian Shul talk about the time Regan had them fly figure 8s over some foreign city during negotiations just to remind them with the sonic booms that we can touch them? https://youtu.be/3kIMTJRgyn0?t=1044
> your original ISP assigned IP will be quickly linked to your new VPN IP by every single shady data broker out there

Are you aware of anyone actually offering this service? If so, hit me up, my email address is in my profile.
> losing that green status means HR will be asking you to leave or sending you a box for your equipment by the end of the day

I genuinely never had that fear in any of the places I worked at (or heard of one!). If that is a cause for termination or being written up, I'd probably look for some place else.

> Fake meetings are fine until it is discovered you did a fake meeting

My meetings are titled "focus time". It’s purely there to communicate to other team members why I may be unavailable during those time. If people need me during that time, they just ask me beforehand and I’m happy to oblige.
Did you have previous experience in the construction industry or why would someone hire an inexperienced desk worker for such a job? (not trying to be demeaning, just curious)
And how did you find/get the job?
I will try that, but a quick look at the error page makes me think it tries to run a javascript blob.
I'll second the sodium alginate.

It forms a raft which physically stops the acid from rushing up.

I use life extensions esophageal guardian, which are chewable tablets. (Don't confuse it with esophacool, which is just an anti-acid)
How?
CO2 is hard to get for plants there is only a tiny amount in the air (0.04% or 4/10000) and carbon is the building block for life.

Through history plant have consumed all the carbon they could in the air and much of it ended up stuck in the earth crust (mostly coal but also gas and oil)

As we raise the level of CO2 plants thrive, especially in dry condition where the plants loose water as they open their pore to get CO2. So more CO2 = plant that grow in more dry condition aka desert. Everything is getting greener and as a result CO2 get captured.

Now that doesn’t mean we should be stupid about it, at some point it’s a crazy experiment, but it’s not the end of the world as the media like to report.

With Solar, wind, EV all on exponential path of growth there is nothing to fear about climate change anymore, maybe if we could find a way to slow down China expansion of coal plants that would make a dent, but I understand that they need it.

Look into Tony Seba (for renewable growth) and Bjorn Lomborg for intelligent priorities for the world.

If we are really concern about the earth and the poor there is far, far better way to spend our money and time, but maybe it’s not as catchy as "climate change".
You'd still know what syscalls a cryptographically obfuscated userland program was making.
> Google is not a private company though.

The distinction I’m making is between public sector and private sector, not privately held versus publicly traded

>> if you really care about the impacts of boom and bust don't worry about what the private sector is doing

> This makes zero sense.

No it makes 3 sense.

The private sector will always boom and bust. If you try to solve that with regulation you a) can’t and b) just make it harder for smaller businesses to compete.

Only the government can offset the whimsy of the private sector and prevent the inevitable boom and bust cycles of private investment from destabilising society.
I think abnormal psychology or perhaps criminology would be helpful in understanding the current Twitter decision making process.
YouTube Search: “Moire Superlattice”
Intel is keeping MINIX alive. If you have an Intel chip there is a remote access to your disk even when the machine is "off'. Foreign governments leverage this to spy on USA, all vulnerabilities in the Intel ME are totally accidents and not intentional.
One of my favorite GTP4 moments shows good understanding on its part.

I was talking to GTP4 about the Adam optimization algorithm and it was teaching me how it works (this sentence was surreal to type). At one point we were talking about a mathematical term of the form [ A * (B / C) ]. I was casually fishing for it to make a mistake and I said "I see, and the A term can be moved to the denominator, right?" GTP replied "yes" and then gave me [ B / (C / A) ] -- I guess A can go in the denominator after all. :)
If only restaurants actually did that. All I've ever gotten from these are broken websites. Pictures are generic stock pictures (hiring a food photographer every time you change the menu is expensive), ordering is still done the old fashioned way as a means to get some overpriced drinks on your table as soon as possible, and "out of stock" is something you get told when you order because asking the kitchen to update the website as they cook is just unnecessary overhead.

In theory this can be nice, but in practice restaurants seem to use these as a way to mess with prices on the fly or save on printing menus.
Chinese Businesses Fueling the Fentanyl Epidemic Receive Millions in Crypto
Usage First, Implementation After: A Principle of Software Development
Radiolab has a great episode about how this more broad application of the first amendment sort of came about due to Oliver Wendell Holmes changing his mind about what actually constitutes a "clear and present danger" between two Supreme Court cases in 1919.

https://radiolab.org/podcast/what-holmes
Are you sure it was a Joro? They are relatively new to North America. Believed to have come first to Georgia via a shipping container from Asia in 2013-14.

This article suggests that if Joros are in Florida at all, it is a recent phenomenon

https://www.wesh.com/article/east-coast-parachuting-spiders/...
> you want tender meat.

Not me, I prefer it when the meat is somewhat firm instead of a greasy mess that slides off the bone.
> You are in complete control and have to trust no-one.

I mean, you have to trust the VPN for reasons you enumerate in (1):

> This will do virtually nothing for pseudo-anonymity as your original ISP assigned IP will be quickly linked to your new VPN IP by every single shady data broker out there as you lose the benefit of "being lost in the crowd" when you share VPN exit IPs with hundreds/thousands of other people.
This only applies in America where fixed rate mortgages are incredibly cheap. The risk is transferred to the consumer in other countries by making them substantially more expensive.
The poor are affected now by our current energy policy.
We should save the poor now instead of the hypothetical poor impacted in the future.

In fact the climate change policies reveal that we don’t care at all about the poor as we would save far more if we were concern about them instead of CO2.

The more you research this the more you will find the whole movement disingenuous at best.
Why? It's not a trash title. Explain yourself, and give us some substance instead of being inflammatory.

Indistinguishability obfuscation (plus one-way functions) implies basically every cryptographic primitive there is, including public key encryption, NIZKs, and MPC. It gets close to giving us FHE (open question, I think). In some sense it is a "unifying primitive". Absolutely a holy grail to cryptographers, even if it isn't for you.
In contrast, censorship requests by open, freedom-loving governments are so obviously a good thing and in the best interest of their citizens, that they don't even merit mentioning.
News in Lights: The Times Square Zipper and Newspaper Signs (2018) [pdf]
A recent digression I'd made here lead to the question of relay-controlled incandescent-light displays popular in the mid-20th century.

The first of these, the New York Times "Zipper", installed in 1928 in Times Square, was a "Motogram", created by the Motogram Company, founder Francis E.J. Wilde, died aged 45 of heart disease as noted in a 1940 NYT obit: <https://www.nytimes.com/1940/10/10/archives/francis-wilde-45...>

This was the precursor of many of today's display devices, particularly for outdoor / advertising use, see: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Display_device>
Red Robin has terminals at each table that can take NFC payments. No need to enter an email address. Too bad they seem to be going out of business.
From that article:

> Even more recently (2018), the GNU C Library glibc-2.28 adds Python as a build requirement

I’m surprised they went with Python and not GNU software (e.g. Guile).

Edit: clicking through the link it sounds like this might be intended to replace other accumulated dependencies (Perl?) and stop supporting old versions of Python.
Wow I've been waiting for this for so long. This is literally my #1 most requested windows feature.

Imagine one day having a proper permissions system on windows and NOT having to worry whether that fancy calculator you downloaded is going to compromise your computer or whether a rce bug in CS:GO is going to steal your credit card information from the browser.

I've been looking around the repo, but I see no mention of whether and how this works with programs that need GPU access.
This work introduces a new quantization scheme, NF4, for 4-bit NormalFloat, based on previous work on quantile quantization, so it's not a simple truncation, but it's also not a GPTQ-like optimization method. Figure 3 of the paper shows accuracy improvement of NF4 over FP4.
The TCC step seems unnecessary. If you've got a SectorC C compiler sufficient to compile TCC, it can probably compile the bootstrap compiler used in GCC's 3 stage build process. The bigger issue is probably getting the ancillary tools up and running (a shell, make, coreutils, ...)

https://gcc.gnu.org/install/build.html
Hosting is cheap, but people who can write HTML and CSS aren't. You need some kind of SaaS and that's where you need to know that you can use Squarespace/Wix/whatever free tool you prefer and just print out a QR code, but that's not something restaurant oriented SaaS providers will tell you.

Printing menus costs a few cents, laminating them a bit more. That's a tough price to beat.
> you forget the usual disclaimer "Ukraine says" and instead state it as a fact

It’s been corroborated by the U.S. and allies [1]. The Kremlin hasn’t disputed the charge.

(The U.S. also said a PATRIOT battery was damaged while Kyiv claimed no such thing. As others have speculated, this was probably a radar unit that was targeted and damaged.)

[1] https://www.businessinsider.com/patriot-kill-shot-impressive...
Yay. Spin up the Mastodon instances for the K-Street exodus.

Because there will be board and campaign meetings on platform risk after this.

Give them their branded snowballs to launch at the other instances.

"Capitalize" on the resulting fallout with naming and identity solutions. Ironic the names we use.

Or maybe something else happens. I'm blind or something. Snowballs may be too jokey.
I just had my AMD-based machine crash - repeatedly - every time I tried to use Google Maps inside Firefox for longer than a few minutes.

I haven't confirmed, but I strongly assume that either their graphics drivers or something Ubuntu does with Wayland are not fine.
Perhaps my favorite thing in all of computing is the authors of Lisp bootstrapping by writing an (academic) interpreter for Lisp in Lisp, and then realizing they could just compile that by hand.
This thread is exactly such examples.

What would “not alone” mean? Do you think someone is passing it the answers? Of course it was trained, but that’s like cheating on a test by reading the material so you can keep a cheat sheet in your brain.
They're slowing burning through their VC money trying to make a business out of the hobbyist market while Cruise and Waymo have fully autonomous cars deployed in SF and are scaling up.
I wasn't proposing we purge -only- the hyperwealthy.