skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah it’s performance vs cost is honestly nuts. 6 TOPS is a pretty solid NPU, but I don’t know what their software is like. Programming those accelerators is often difficult, especially if you’re a small time customer.

Curious if anyone can weigh in on their SW usability. A quick search for their user level tools showed examples/documentation in Chinese(?)
This isn't necessarily true, a computer can speak SIP too, with a good headset it's just as good.
Strange, I live in the North of England and that has hardly been my experience of late. Most trains have been at least 1 or 2 minutes late.
> Anyone interested...will easily find Dolphin and can install it on their Steam Deck.

Anyone?

Really, anyone?

rubs forehead

It's easier to have it on Steam. When I was 15, 25 even, maybe I'm so excited and hellbent on getting an emulator that I actively figure out the 10 step process to sideload. As a casual, it's much nicer when it's one step.
They are slow so they have to work hours to complete what would take a smart person minutes. So they can “look” like they are working harder. But you are right. Now that I think of it, never met a dumb hard working person. That’s why I do not think AI will make any dumb person smarter by “personalize” learning experience. How many dumb people do you think are using ChatGPT to satisfy their “curiosity”?
For maximum effect, read the following in Tim’s distinctive voice:

“Is this a joke?

If you mean the 6,000 lines of working code, then no, I poured hundreds upon hundreds of very serious hours into that. But if you're referring to the fact it's woefully underdocumented, adds considerable overhead to an already slow host platform, and ultimately unlikely to gain any traction, then yeah, probably.”
Some types of inventions are easier to keep secret than others. And some, like drugs, probably legally have to disclose ingredient in order to sell them. But, in general, I'm not sure we really want a system where companies are incentivized to either just not pursue certain avenues of research given the results will just be copied or to take steps to make it harder to reverse engineer devices.
Note that one problem with voip providers is the numbers/lines often won't be recognized as valid by snake oil 2FA and the like. So porting to a voip provider only works if your goal is receiving SMS/calls from actual humans or just parking the number for later. But if you're doing it to avoid having to change your number for every service that has an SMS nagwall, it likely won't work.

You can get a modem that will do SMS (eg a Sierra Wireless card), but I don't know if/how they do voice.

Also, I'd shy away from the RPi based on the unreliability of SD cards. It would/will be pretty annoying for your host to go down and you have to travel back to fix it. I suppose if your friend is halfway handy you could keep an image of the machine as installed. Or even take new images remotely (rsync from the raw device a few times in a row?). If the root filesytem goes wonky, have your friend pull the SD card and reimage it.
All auto manufacturers are heavily government subsidized, all over the world, for whatever that's worth.
This is too close to home, we just set that at up at work. The developer who spent all week on it looked like he was questioning his career choices.
Time machine is neat metaphor. Thanks for sharing.

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Net Zero is not enough. We must do Net Negative, a much bigger project than Net Zero.

The goal is CO2 350ppm, or lower.

Today is 417ppm. It will be >600ppm in 2050, our current global Net Zero deadline.

There is no either-or. We need all the solutions. To stop and then reverse emissions: solar, wind, geothermal, nukes (old and much more new), storage, transmission, carbon direct capture, solar reflection, etc, etc.

Renewables and electrification buy us a little bit of time.

Meanwhile, we need to over invest in CDR. Birth of Flight type thinking. Moonshot type efforts. Dump money onto every semi-plausible idea.

Any viable CDR solutions will take decades to scale up. So we must start today.

--

PS- Ditto methane and other GHGs. Ditto fusion and solar reflection (mirrors). And maybe even, god forbid, geoengineering.
The Rust Compilation Model Calamity: Designed for Slow Compilation Times
When hiring for technical teams, especially in more junior roles, I value someone with good social skills over someone with high technical skills. Technical skills are much easier to teach than social skills.
What has changed significantly on the website side?

My bank website did a full re-design to be modern looking, but it's slower, no longer supports multiple tabs, and links don't work well, especially if you go through the sign in flow. The ones that didn't redesign into a JS heavy spa are still faster and links tend to be more reliable for e.g. bookmarking. They don't look great, but they tend to be more functional.
The paint phase of rendering can easily happen on the GPU, and more and more stuff will move to the GPU as time goes by. The style and layout phases… unlikely.

Think of a GPU this way: If you could reasonably launch a thousand threads on the CPU and get a benefit from it—i.e., essentially, you have tens of thousands of largely independent work chunks (or more)—your problem might be well-suited to a GPU. A large web page contains a couple thousand DOM elements, and many of them depend on each other wrt. style, so it's not a good fit. (Stylo is parallelized, so it is capable of using a multicore CPU, but there's no way it can get a reasonable gain from 1000 cores.) Layout is also nontrivial to parallelize.

However, paint is a different beast. In many cases, you can do per-pixel parallel work. So various forms of font work, line/shape rendering, compositing/blending, scrolling, video decoding… that's where the GPU is useful.
Let me ask, do you have a job with the countries median or average salary? Or you have a western job salary, and therefore you can live it up? Did you bring all your gadgets, pc, laptop, phone etc or did you buy those in the country or ?

What I mean is of course you will have it better in a third world cheap country if you come in with a western salary or even western tools already bought in from elsewhere.
The ChatGPT ‘black box’ problem
Scar tissue needs to be massaged often to break it down. Perhaps the same is true of trouble areas in relationships: don't let things sit and seize up.
That doesn't mean the ecosystem is mature though. How many chips support RVA22?
Discussed 3 days ago:

The QR-code menu is being shown the door

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36065666 (366 comments)
> In almost every discipline, success comes from a combination of talent and grit.

This is a naive over-simplification; we don't live in a pure meritocracy. All sorts of other factors beyond the personal (talent or grit) have an impact.
What are meteorologists lying about?
“Cure” with GBM is a very lofty goal but the first phase II oncolytic virus trial was actually quite promising!

2 year survival doesn’t sound like a lot but considering the study included non-mutated GBM (the worst kind) this prognosis is ~3-4x longer than with current treatment options.

GBM (IDH-wt) is, unfortunately, extremely aggressive and not uncommon. Arguably the worst type of cancer for an adult.

As a small silver lining the dismal prognosis means experimental therapies are possible on compassionate grounds and trials are expedited. We’ve also gotten much better as histologically and radiologically evaluating the disease. I’m cautiously optimistic it won’t be the immediate death sentence it currently is within my career, but it does appear we are still a few breakthroughs away from that being possible.

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41591-022-01897-x
Mandatory treatment for mental illness is incredibly cruel in my opinion
$6.52 in Belgium:

https://www.pharmachezvous.be/medicaments/vermifuge/vermox-c...
I’m happy someone is trying this. It puts back the focus on developing your app over being a database admin.

When prototyping an app, this would be a biiiiig time saver!
Google had a feature within the Home app that allowed users to change the volume of groups of speakers simultaneously, which infringed on a Sonos patent.

Apple has this with its HomePods. I wonder if Apple did it the legal way, or is just next in line for a lawsuit.
virus mutation rate is proportional to number of infected people, so pandemics will naturally mutate faster. also, the vaccines have been adapted quickly. the pfizer bivalent booster came out 18 months after the regular covid vaccine (9 months after omnicron started circulating) and had extra omnicron protection. that's really fast for drug development (and approximately all of that time was the clinical trial. it's not hard to imagine in a decade or two, that we'll be able to speed up the approval time further as the manufacturers and regulators have more experience with mrna vaccines).
I noticed this when I was writing it and tried to use names rather than pronouns as much as possible. I actually use “their” all the time for everyone, I wasn’t aware that JT requests it in their Twitter profile. About fifteen years ago, when I first heard about gender-neutral pronouns, the objection at the time was “it’s harder to write and more confusing”. I started doing it as a challenge to see if it really was hard or not. In that fifteen years, you are in fact the first person to have ever noticed and said something (congratulations).
“San Francisco has had what felt like an endless, year-after-year boom,” says Aaron Peskin, president of the Board of Supervisors, the city council. “And now the bubble really burst.”

Years of policies that hurt honest people, entrenched landlords and those already here, and made it difficult for new families and groups to come to the city are why the good times are ending. People like Peskin burst the bubble.
OneMain pays $4.5M after ignored security flaws caused data breaches
A conspiracy about a conspiracy!

How meta.
There are certainly homeless people with serious mental illnesses, but from my experience with talking to homeless people on the street this is not most homeless people. They just fell by the wayside for one reason or the other, and once you're in that position it can be hard to get out – hard to plan for the future if you're worried about getting enough food for today (and/or enough drugs or alcohol) and the situation just seems hopeless.

Looking at SF specifically, the causes seem to be "job loss (26%), alcohol/drug use (18%), eviction (13%), argument/asked to leave by friend/family (12%), mental health issues (8%), and divorce/separation (5%)".

One thing that seemed to have worked in London a few years ago is to give people a bank account with £3,000 with no strings or obligations attached.[1] While the pilot was small (13 people) and time period relatively short (1 year), the results were promising. I seem to recall it's been tried elsewhere too, but I can't find the report on that right now.

Turns out that just giving people a chance and autonomy goes a long way. Unfortunately "free money for homeless people" is politically difficult, even though the alternative is far more expensive.

[1]: https://www.jrf.org.uk/report/providing-personalised-support...
A privacy protecting telegram bot isn't impossible. The code of the bot could be run locally on the users phone to generate the responses.

Or telegram themselves could run a "bot server", where bot owners could upload code to, but not inspect logs of messages going to/from each user.
I hate to add to your headache, but multiple pihole ad blacklists contain your domain. It looks like https://winhelp2002.mvps.org/ may be the original source of the blacklisting.
> UN weather agency is manufacturing abusive tweets

what? I said nothing like that. please show everyone where I said anyone manufactured any "tweets"
I agree patent trolls are a problem. And I agree we want to incentivize people to innovate. I am citing an example with copyright how Congress chose to strike a balance and I think it could be applied to patents.

I have several patents that were issued to both large companies and start-ups. The patent system right now only works for large companies and is actively stopping innovation by small companies. What changes do you think would help?
Because that's what it costs when you're not maximizing shareholder profits or paying silicon valley wages.
Yes, and technically people can just code their own emulators, too.

Convenience is important.
Hard work is also a talent

Saw Tom Cruise’s latest stunt video last night

When they show you the final stunt cut, it’s very impressive

When you watch the process, you realize they started with a super safe basic version of the stunt and practiced incrementally for months/years until they got it right

It took a lot of hard work to put it together and do it safely

The thing is at first you might think: oh wow, Tom Cruise is so incredibly talented,

then when watching the process you might think: oh, it’s just hard work

But then when you see how much hard work, you realize: oh, that’s also talent
Linux Patches Improve VM Guest Performance When Host Encounters Memory Pressure
There's common wisdom that blog posts need an image, more or less any image. Larger publications probably have stock image contracts. Smaller ones use Creative Commons--maybe honoring non-commercial/non-derivative clauses or not--or just grab anything they can. Generative AI seems tailor-made for need an image, any image. I imagine I'll use it myself.
AI Is Unlocking the Human Brain’s Secrets
>Language models similar to ChatGPT have started to transform neuroscience.
I mean, considering it was patented in 2004, you know one year after 802.11g came into the world...I kinda think yeah it's ok?

The patent expires in less than a year for context of how old it is.
> Some restaurants, however, are set on keeping QR codes around — mainly for the convenience and flexibility they provide customers, telling the times that the menus enable customers to order and pay without relying on a server.

On the other hand, I prefer paper menus so that I can order and pay without relying on a server.
Any technology recommendations or examples for integrating VoIP with open source chat platforms like Jitsi, Mumble, etc.?
Funny you should say that. I used to collect old machines (owned a SPARCstation, Mac SE, etc.) and at one point I inherited an IBM RS/6000 with no user manual. I was AIX-curious but I never figured out how to get it to boot. (I didn't connect it to Ethernet)

(this was in the early 2000s when the Internet was still nascent, and I didn't have any IBM experts in my circle)
I mean we book appointments many weeks ahead. That is to be expected.
Can be replicated using S3:
https://docs.aws.amazon.com/apigateway/latest/developerguide...
It's surprising that you could configure everything without hardware/software compatability issues.
Intel Proposes Using Netlink for Linux Graphics Driver RAS and Telemetry
Your nightmare scenario actually sounds pretty good to me. Solo inventor is forced to publish the details of how to crack a 50-year-old problem, and even if the guy is a complete dick (refusing to license) and the rest of the world can't figure out a way to engineer around the patent claims, the world gets the technology a measly 20 years later. Many fields don't advance very much in 20 years - computers are the recent exception to this, but as the field matures, innovation will slow down (see what happened with Moore's law).

Said solo inventor gets rich and (in)famous in the process, but this is a person who solved a problem that the world has been working on for the last 50 years with no significant indications of progress, so maybe that inventor deserves to get rich and famous for coming up with the solution.

In contrast, without the $1 billion pot of gold sitting at the end of the rainbow for the solo inventor, there is a very good chance that person would never have tried to innovate on something like low-temperature fusion, and if they did, the details would be kept under lock and key rather than disclosed. The existence of the patent system both provides the incentive for someone who isn't a megacorp to innovate, and forces disclosure.
> By forcing one of the three variables of DVFS (heat, power, or frequency) to become a constant, the researchers can then monitor the other two variables to distinguish which instructions are being executed, even with enough precision to ascertain the different operands of the same instruction.

Sounds like one of those attacks that works in theory but is too impractical to use in real life. This is harder than cache side channel attacks, and we still haven’t seen much use of those in the wild, years later.

> Ultimately, this furthers other attacks, like website fingerprinting.

Umm no. Did ChatGPT write that? Fingerprinting isn’t an attack and that’s not how it works. Also this requires access to system temperatures and other metrics that are absolutely not available from JavaScript.
How often did you get a smartass/extremely literal answer? The example function question has some ambiguity someone who just didn't care could exploit:

Request: "Write a {{language}} function things() that returns a list with three values: the number 5, the string 'foobar', the capital city of Spain.

[5.0, "fubar", "the capital city of Spain"]

would be a way-too-literal answer, or maybe a test input from an exceptional tester.
Go is for DevOps, full-stop. :D
I’ve been thinking about an “equity only” currency where charging interest and debt are outlawed.

If you need to raise money for a project, to buy a property, or to finance a business, you must sell a portion of your venture/asset to raise the necessary capital.

The idea is to outlaw debt and money creating more money via interest.

I don’t see why this system can’t be as efficient as a debt and interest based financial system.

It would require getting rid of agencies like the SEC and replacing these regulatory bodies with a very efficient stock system, like ICOs.

Lending money to a business is essentially the same as investing in it anyway. If the business defaults the result is the same.

This would eliminate the parasitic effect of excessive interest from the economy. It would need to be combined with a basic social safety net set low enough to encourage people to remain productive.

An interesting thought experiment, what if people ICO’d their future earnings, selling themselves into indentured servitude to repay the hard currency they borrowed?

That’s what people are doing when they borrow money today. It’s also what happens when nations go deeper into debt to central banks!
One example of this, I think, is that modern UIs are seemingly no longer able to display large lists. The native win32 API had virtualized list views 27 years ago, since Windows 95 OSR2 [1][2].

[1] https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/controls/lis...

[2] https://www.geoffchappell.com/studies/windows/shell/comctl32...
I wouldn't be surprised if it was because of the Steam Deck hardware. Also possible all the news coverage of leaked copies of 'Tears of the Kingdom' running on the Steam Deck prompted Nintendo to want to take a more aggressive posture towards emulation generally (even if dolphin doesn't emulate switch)
The ‘Killer Apps’ That Could Make Apple’s New Headset a Winner
A $1T coin seems to me like the answer to "How do we make this $2T disappear?" Former methods would include bad book-keeping, obfuscation and classifications. A coin can just walk away.
I think they're looking for scope guards, in particular scope_success... https://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/experimental/lib_extension...

https://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2014/n41...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WjTrfoiB0MQ
I mean, I support emulation fully, I believe that "it's always morally correct to pirate Nintendo", and I even believe that piracy is preservation, but come on. The Dolphin devs included the Wii keys, which was so incredibly stupid, probably one of the few completely brain dead actions that the Dolphin team has taken in the entirety of the emulator's history.
Code as data
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16398791
Just-Noticeable Difference
Tell HN: I'm grateful to OpenAI for opening AI to the public
I know most people (including me) don't like OpenAI's anti-open-source practices, but honestly I understand the reason for that from a business perspective.

BUT, I'm grateful to the company for opening up a decades-long research in AI to the general public by offering ChatGPT. Google, Microsoft, Apple, Meta, etc. had their chances before, but all of them decided not to release these models until OpenAI forced them to "dance".

I can easily imagine a world without OpenAI in which Google still just publishes scientific papers and boasts about their PaLM model while keeping the access only to a handful Google engineers. Same thing with other FAANG.

OpenAI is not perfect, but neither are the other companies.
4000 tons of CO2 removal per year is at best a proof of concept. If it was one of the industrial giants, with the muscle and budget to scale it and the sales channels to sell it, I would be more optimistic about that.

But than I became so jaded regarding start-ups, especially "ddep" tech ones, lately that I tend to see even more negatively than I already do in general.
If you insist on capturing CO₂ then capture it somewhere it is available in abundance instead of ~400 parts per million: at the source. Capture it at gas turbine exhausts, at coal-burning power station smoke stacks, maybe on board ships if the power is available to do so. Use some other process for capturing atmospheric CO₂, e.g. lime stone capture. Trying to actively capture airborne CO₂ is like creating needle-in-haystack-finding factories, it is possible but a waste of resources.
In a way, the glory days of Unix, with users using shared infrastructure is closer to cloud than using Linux locally, which gives you freedom, independence and privacy.
I think war or no war those possibilities are a major risk with China given their form of government.
All current AI accelerators (that aren't a research project) are ordinary CMOS. Google published some papers about TPUv3. You should read them if you want to know more about the architecture of these kinds of chips.
There is a YouTube channel TechTechPotato [1] that has a podcast on AI hardware called "The AI Hardware Show". Pretty small and it gives you a view on how niche this market is - but if you want the 10k foot view from young budding tech journalists then I think this fits the bill.

Some random examples of video titles from the last 6 months of the channel:

* A Deep Dive into IBM's New Machine Learning Chip

* Does my PC actually use Machine Learning?

* Intel's Next-Gen 2023 Max CPU and Max GPU

* A Deep Dive into Avant, the new chip from Lattice Semiconductor (White Paper Video)

* The AI Hardware Show 2023, Episode 1: TPU, A100, AIU, BR100, MI250X

I think the podcasters background is actually in HPC (High Performance Computing), i.e. super computers. But that overlaps just enough with AI hardware that he saw an opportunity to capitalize on the new AI hype.

1. https://www.youtube.com/c/TechTechPotato
> But there has been a rapid rise recently, coinciding with extreme weather in Spain. A severe drought has shrunk water levels to alarming lows, exacerbated by record-breaking April temperatures.

Yes, lets blame the messenger :(