skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This seems to be competing directly with Google's TPU pods. Looks like TPU v4 has a 300 GB/s interconnect, and 32 GB HBM per chip * 4096 chips = 131 TB (which is all HBM, so higher bandwidth than the LPDDR in Nvidia's system). So yeah, Nvidia's interconnect seems better. However, TPU v4 was deployed in 2020 (!) and Nvidia's thing won't be ready until next year. I've gotta imagine that TPU v5 has already been deployed internally for a while now, but hasn't been disclosed yet. Who knows, TPU v6 might even be deployed before this Nvidia thing.
One more recent novel that tackles interplay of epidemic, politics around it is "Nights of Plague" by Orhan Pamuk.
Other than the holographic projection, it feels like we're in reach of the holodeck - you ask for a scene with a character or general backstory, and you go in. Fun times. Now on that energy to matter and holographic projection part...
Not to be rude but you obviously don't follow any of the technology so why even comment on it?

Huge advancements in zero knowledge cryptography have been made in the last year. Ethereum activated Proof of Stake in September. New DeFi primitives are released regularly.

It's actually hard to keep up with all of the research and releases which is why your comment is so perplexing unless it was made in bad faith.
Only 13 had over 500ppb, the threshold was 5ppb (as correlated with ADHD), which is what 25% are over.
Also basic computation can just be done via basic lookup tables. It's a principle that even FPGAs use. One the basic building blocks of an FPGA is a LUT. If you want to make a configurable basic gate just have a mux address a table of 4 bits, and you can then configure that to be any 2 input logic gate. FPGAs also have the word programming in their name.

As for an ML model it's basically a table of weights each connected to each other. In a sense we use "training" to find the weights to program into each node of each layer of the network.

I would still say an ML model is a program, just that humans did not directly specify each value this program. If we go back to an FPGA people rarely manually instantiate the raw building blocks instead it synthesized and routed most often by other software. Although VHDL and Verilog and such are closer to a program than training. Even with normal software code is compiled to machine instructions instead of directly specified. We still say your programming a computer even your using a compiler.

Just because the end results are based off of statistics and your input data I would still say training is a form programming. Just training tells you it was very indirect.

That aside I would agree that model or tools, and creator were under no oath so the reason here makes sense.
Retired city planners never envisioned a world where we were so collectively anxious/antisocial that waving and inviting someone onto your porch 20-40 feet from the sidewalk would be considered a “sad” state of affairs. Is it the planning that’s in a sad state?
AI Transcribes a Conversation Between Tom Cruise and AI
What kind of exercise(s) are you doing? I find that when I return to a routine after long absences (like the COVID pandemic) my body loves to complain that I had the audacity to make it move. That feeling subsides if I stick with it and afterwards I'll only be sore or tired if I actually overexerted myself.

Something low-impact like yoga can be great for getting back into a routine. I highly recommend Yoga With Adrienne on YouTube as there are no ad breaks in the middle of the videos, and there's something for everyone. Anything from 10 minutes to an hour+ with plenty of suggestions for alternative poses if you have an injury or limited range of motion.
I don't think the officer was over-reaching in this case. Kids are a complicated matter since if you "abducted" your own kids the first thing you'd do is run out of the country. Of course, no officer will want that to happen on his watch.
Database 2023 Predictions
Link to section that got stripped: https://christianscott.io/blog/container-inferencing/#exampl...
Still is the thing with Polo between Polo and Indonesia Polo. Yes, Ralph Lauren Polo. The story is pretty funny. https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/risk-management-how-ikea-lost...

Other companies too. Ikea isn't that big but the linkedin makes it that big.
How would using common words suggested by ggp avoid this issue? It's a usual occurrence for terms of art to be repurposed words having somewhat related usages elsewhere. It all sounds like an empty complaint.
Yeah, it was more a remark about our values as you say, than on the action taken here.
As far as I can tell the old Metroliners top speed was 125mph, and the Acela is 150mph… seems like a lot of money to be spent for 20% increase in speed
It's a good and well-explained rule. It's worth reading regardless of prevalence, and one judge making one procedural change to start with is one of the ways in which the Law can start to evolve and change to adapt to new circumstances.
Actual people are vastly outnumbered by entropy fluctuations in the long run, according to any number of valid cosmological models. Their total population is greater than 10^35 by far, and does not depend on whether superintelligence is possible or likely to destroy the actual human race. That question makes no difference to almost every human who will ever have a thought or feeling.

You could say, well, that's just a theory -- and it is a dubious one, indeed. But it's far more established by statistics and physical law than the numbers Bolstrom throws out.
We will never simulate the entire brain atom-by-atom, we won't need to, the same way we never simulate atom-by-atom and we don't even place structural atoms by hand when we build a bridge, a rocket, or a tree house, we can be way more intelligent than that [1]. In the limit, the entire thing could be even more simple than we currently can imagine [2]. But yes, before we start leveraging equations, we must find the principle of gravitation for collective intelligence first [3].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hodgkin%E2%80%93Huxley_model

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reaction%E2%80%93diffusion_sys...

[3] Michael Levin | Cell Intelligence in Physiological and Morphological Spaces, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jLiHLDrOTW8
Well, I'm not going to tell you what's good and bad for your business, but for what it's worth Ledger supports all of those things. Whether it's right for your business or not is up to you and your customers, but you're selling Ledger short by describing it as "hobbyist accounting".

Tax quotas, reverse charge taxation, the various date types, notes, links are all totally supported with Ledger's primitives as they are. SKR04 just looks like a list of account classifications, which is totally fine. You can either make that 1:1 with the account list you use, or you can tag entries in a transaction with metadata indicating that it's associated with that SKR04 classification.

Again, not attacking your decision to use your own format, it's the right choice in many situations. But ledger is literally the primitives of accounting – it's up to you to superimpose your system of rules and regulations on it, but since it's just double-entry accounting with metadata and tags, it almost certainly can.

Here's an example transaction, where somebody pays $20.00 for 20 tons of scrap metal, with links to the invoice, an invoice and transaction date, a mark to indicate that it's settled, and a $8 VAT liability that accrues at the end of the month.

2021-01-01=2021-01-03 * ACME Supplier
; invoice_num: 123
; invoice_link: https://invoices.widgetsandthings.de?id=123
; service_date: 2021-01-02
; notes: John said he'll charge us more next year.
Liabilities:CreditCards:Chase:XXXX $-20.00
Liabilities:Taxes:VAT $-8.00 ;[=2021/01/31]
; reverse charge tax, accrues at end of month
[Quotas:Tax:VAT] $8.00 ;[=2021/01/31]
; you'd use a "virtual" account to express "quotas" or "budgets".
Expenses:ScrapMetal $28.00
; I'm bundling the VAT and metal expense into a single entry.
; But if you wanted to record them separately, with their own effective dates, you can.
Assets:ScrapMetal 10 tons ; skr_code: SM2201 (I'm making this up)
Receivables:ScrapMetal -10 tons
Instead, it would be more socially acceptable to integrate scales into the jetbridge or aircraft entry that anonymously calculate final load weight.

Doing something like this by making it either optional or "optional" isn't a very good strategy for being either consistent or useful.
Tune in at 11 for our hard-hitting expose "people who want to take away a large group of other humans basic rights are not liked by the group of people who's rights are being taken" and other shocking cause-effect scenarios /s
And for literally no improvement or benefit over normal toothbrushes.
Better than nothing but this is still a clear screw job for the employee. Ideally it would be 100% of their wage at a market rate - not the rate set by the previous company. Most people get a pay bump when changing jobs, so the previous rate is generally below market value. But also having to take 1-2 years off from work makes landing your next job a really pain in the butt. Would you want to hire someone and then wait around for a year before they start? Makes it harder to forecast and it means a project takes an extra year to ramp up? Good luck trying to join a start up.

An outright ban on anti-competitive/anti-labor policies is just much simpler for everyone involved.
Moore's original article on the topic in 1965[0], and the same with additional context interview form 2005[1].

> "The original Moore’s Law came out of an article I published in 1965...I had
no idea this was going to be an accurate prediction, but amazingly enough instead of ten doubling, we got 9 over the 10 years, but still followed pretty well along the curve. And one of my friends, Dr. Carver Mead, a Professor at Cal Tech, dubbed this Moore’s Law. So the original one was doubling every year in complexity now in 1975, I had to go back and revisit this... and I noticed we were losing one of the key factors that let us make this remarkable rate of progress... and it was one that was contributing about half of the advances were making. So then I changed it to looking forward, we’d only be doubling every couple of years, and that was really the two predictions I made. Now the one that gets quoted is doubling every 18 months...I think it was Dave House, who used to work here at Intel, did that, he decided that the complexity was doubling every two years and the transistors were getting faster, that computer performance was going to double every 18 months... but that’s what got on Intel’s Website... and everything else. I never said 18 months that’s the way it often gets quoted."

Anyways, See slide 13 here[2] (2021). "Pop-culture" Moore's law stated that the number of transistors per area will double every n months. That's still happening. Besides, neither Moore's law nor Dennard scaling are even the most critical scaling law to be concerned about...

...that's probably Koomey's law[3][5], which looks well on track to hold for the rest of our careers. But eventually as computing approaches the Landauer limit[4] it must asymptotically level off as well. Probably starting around year 2050. Then we'll need to actually start "doing more with less" and minimizing the number of computations done for specific tasks. That will begin a very very productive time for custom silicon that is very task-specialized and low-level algorithmic optimization.

[2] Shows that Moore's law (green line) is expected to start leveling off soon, but it has not yet slowed down. It also shows Koomey's law (orange line) holding indefinitely. Fun fact, if Koomey's law holds, we'll have exaflop power in <20W in about 20 years. Which should be enough for people to create ChatGPT-4 in their pocket.

0: https://www.rfcafe.com/references/electronics-mag/gordon-moo...

1: https://cdn3.weka-fachmedien.de/media_uploads/documents/1429...

2: (Slide 13) https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/937966/0001193125212...

3: "The constant rate of doubling of the number of computations per joule of energy dissipated" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Koomey%27s_law

4: "The thermodynamic limit for the minimum amount of energy theoretically necessary to perform an irreversible single-bit operation." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Landauer%27s_principle

5: https://www.koomey.com/post/14466436072

6: https://www.koomey.com/post/153838038643
Ergonomics matter

F# always came across as very weird in the syntax area
Is the Quantum computer hypothesis dead?
Why is it fundamentally inconsistent?
This is shorthand pseudocode referring to a story that she has previously written up: https://rachelbythebay.com/w/2016/02/21/malloc/ . I suppose one could write `malloc(__builtin_bswap32(*(uint32_t*)"HTTP"))` instead but that seems overly verbose for an aside that's not meant to be compiled.
Stacking transistors increases density per square inch if it can be done on a single wafer of silicon, because its "per square inch of fab wafer silicon"
This first paragraph is simply untrue. You are always holding a valid signature to spend the latest funds.

The additional assumption vs simply holding your own funds is a throughput requirement: that miners not censor your transactions for some (up-front-chosen) period of time.

With normal funds there is a non-censoring requirement, but it's more vague since the miners may have to censor you forever to make your funds useless.
Do you have an example question/answer?
> $40 million

Given enough inflation, it's pretty doable! It only would take 70% inflation a year, in the 7 remaining years, given the current price is around $1M.
https://archive.is/JrY5l
Heat issues are very valid. But the "per square inch" density is relative to a square inch of fab wafer. So if it can be done on one wafer, it counts. If it's stacking discrete chipsets, not so much.
In your world, wouldn't every tax cheat just conceal money by routing it through their law firm? Then the government can never find out how much money you have because it would be illegal to subpoena the firm, right?
I host two events. In fall, I’m the pancake breakfast guy and then in spring I’m the crawfish boil guy. I just put flyers on people’s doors before each event. I just think it’s fun and missed the sense of neighborhood community I had as a kid, had my “be the change you want” moment. My kid on the other hand gets a kick out of having everyone know his name and being a hyper local celebrity lol.
Do you have any stories of how AI/DL has ignored foundational scientific problems?

I do know that my old EECS professors who have pivoted toward AI and coming from adjacent/tangential research areas, are specifically interested in theoretical and scientific clarification properties of neural networks. One of them basically has been trying to start Theoretical Machine Learning as a new discipline and approach that is sorely needed.
Sports. I live in a gated community. Saw some people playing Cricket. I was hesitant to ask if I could join because I hadn’t played the sports in 15 years but decided to try. Everyone was very welcoming and now I play every weekend and have made good friends. We handed a WhatsApp group where we discuss cricket matches. It’s fun.
This is way more impressive than the following, but here are computer terminal options:

ttyquake (requires digging for the source) and aaquake

https://www.jfedor.org/aaquake2/

There's also aalib: https://sourceforge.net/projects/aa-project/
Don't be sad. This is definitely a skewed perspective from a single person which makes it worse than useless as a way to gauge a random persons competence.

I'm sure you could find a person who would claim this same exact thing for any language if you searched around a bit.

To derive a useful conclusion you would need to control for all of the factors involved in the interviews and objectively measure their performance compared to other people's, anything less than that is completely useless at best.
The quote given on Wikipedia is:

> The complexity for minimum component costs has increased at a rate of roughly a factor of two per year. Certainly over the short term this rate can be expected to continue, if not to increase. Over the longer term, the rate of increase is a bit more uncertain, although there is no reason to believe it will not remain nearly constant for at least 10 years.

If he was talking about the area of a single transistor, there would be more concise ways to put it.
As a bachelor who lives alone, it would actually be very motivating if I overheard my appliances making hushed comments about how I "look a little more plump than usual."
I was just in an acquisition convo where we decided to wait on an acquisition because it would likely be much cheaper in even 6 months.
> The problem with Kappa architecture that other commenters here are highlighting is that this results in holding a large m in memory at all times (fragile, expensive), and handling out of order events by re-doing the live operation on them - if you do (m, d_505) and then d_504 drops in after, you have to do ((m, d_504), d_505).

This is true for time-sensitive workloads, and most business applications do not have such a requirement and typically have some leeway to tolerate the untimliness of the event arrival. Provided the event has an epoch associated with it that can unambiguously reference the point in space and time when the event had occurred, the time ordered sequence of events can be reconstitued by using tumbling (or another window type) windows (e.g. Kafka and similar) or database window functions. The now time ordered sequence of events can then be flown into a new topic (Kafka) or a DB table/document collection and ingested out of that one in the ordered sequence.

RE: batching and real-time. The only real difference is that real time data is constant vs burst, i.e. a trick flow of data vs a scheduled at regular intervals surge. But a batch can be de-batched and unwound into a series of isolated events at the ingestion point – to become more «real-time» and to not require to be processed as an atomic unit. Therefore, if the untimeliness can be tolerated to a certain degree, there is no real need to treat real-time and batched up data separately.
A long, long time ago we used to have two-phase commit protocols and XA.
I am afraid most of sagas are 2PC in disguise - just requiring a programmer to explicitly implement rollbacks.

The situation is similar to the whole "database inside out" hype that drives application programmers to re-implement proper DBMS.

I am pretty sure the IT hype wheel will turn around and someone will sell 2PC as a new shiny thing.
Elizabeth Holmes Reports to Prison to Begin More Than 11-Year Sentence
But Camus was a big witness of the misery in Kabyle region where he intelligently and objectively reported about the difficulties of the population.
https://www.usenix.org/system/files/1311_05-08_mickens.pdf

"... All of these people will play a role in my ultimate success
as a dystopian warlord philosopher. However, the most important person in
my gang will be a systems programmer."

It's right there in the intro, truly a classic.
>You don't know anything at all about this person.

I know what he wrote. No personal experience, no credible sources, his reply was a bunch of twitter links. As such, all I do know about this person, is he has no personal experience with the matter, as per his comment.

>Pure ad-hominem and absolutely against site guidelines.

He literally keeps posting one-side of the news, and random twitter links. If you feel attacked by facts, it's time to go vote for trump. stating facts, is not against site rules. In addition - you're not in charge of site rules, and you should eff off with your spam.

> it doesn't make you an "expert" about anything

and as I've said to the other guy, you should read the thing to which you are replying instead of making up a strawman. nowhere did I say I'm an expert at anything. I shared rare personal experience so people can form more balanced opinions, based on extra information.
I'll take your word for it and check it out! This post has me excited to dig into his work again.
Useful, I guess, but that seems to be inverting the responsibility. The code needs to have comments inserted into it referring to the state of Jira, rather than the other way around.

The thing I'd like to see is that ticket "Write the login page" is automatically marked complete when the codebase contains a working login page, there are unit and integration tests for the login page, and maybe (depending on how you do your documentation) a set of comments on the API methods involved describing their use in the login process. All without those code elements ever needing to know the ticket exists.
A bit self-serving but GPU scaling supposedly follows Huang’s Law (from Jensen Huang of Nvidia) which claims GPUs more than double (~1.7x) every 2 years

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Huang%27s_law#
The K1/K2 taxonomy is… not great, precisely because MK-4 and MK-7 can work quite differently. There are also forms of K not falling into either category, because microbes love to partitially hydrogenate the chain leaving you weird in-betweens.
I'm a data engineer, it's a fairly new role so it's not well defined yet, but most data engineers write data pipelines to ingest data into a data warehouse and then transform it for the business to use.

I'm not sure why using a static language would make translating data types difficult, but I add as many typehints as possible to my Python so I rarely do anything with dynamic types. I guess they're saying for small tasks where you're working with lots of types, when using a static language most of your code will be type definitions, so a dynamic language will let you focus on writing the transformation code.
> I think that - unlike many gyms and other fitness communities - it's very welcoming to non-conformistist and people who don't look like typical gym junkies.

In my experience you see this quite a bit in BJJ as well. I wouldn't say it's nearly as diverse as climbing, but it's definitely not all young athletic men. My son's classes were about 4:1 boys vs girls, and the adult classes had fewer women. But I got to experience being choked out by a 70 year old man and a 16 year old wizard on the mats. There were all sorts of fitness ranges, but typically those improved rather quickly for the folks who stuck with it. We only had a couple guys who I'd put in the religiously works out strength category. Those guys are legit scary when you know they have the same skills as the skinny 70 year old who just put you through your paces and can also just physically twist you into a pretzel on top of it just through raw strength. All were super friendly and inviting to new folks though.
We include multi-story buildings when we calculate population density, why not include multi-story chips?
These days, not much. In the past I've done a lot of different things like biking, weight training, assorted fitness classes, etc. Tried running but it was too much on the tendons and doctors said it was a bad idea for me. Even had a personal trainer for 18 months or so before Covid. Always attached to portion/nutrition control tracked using an app (log everything). Boredom, lack of progress, and/or some injury or the other would cause me to stop.

My handle is accurate. I'm at an age where I can just maintain at a sub-optimal but far from dangerous weight and fat level. The time and money I used to spend on exercise, I can devote to other things. Like naps and hanging out here learning things from you whippersnappers.
Figured it out. I'm craving more Discord.
Scuba diving - many divers are engineers of some sort and being under water for couple of hours really clears your mind for a good talk. There's also a ton of subjects to talk about as there's just so much happening under water - flora, fauna, technique etc.
Did supercomputers ever produce something meaningful or did advancement usually come out of more "scrappier" setups?

I remember hearing a lot about rankings of supercomputers, but less so about what they actually achieved.