skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree with your assessment as far as Ukraine is concerned.

However, I hope it's not a strawman to assume you're arguing that there is no progress in warfare in the sense of harm inflicted upon civilians. What would you prefer as a civilian: living in a country being conquered by Julius Caesar, Gengis Khan, occupied by Nazis in WWII or living in any of the countries occupied since WWII (including Ukraine)?

We even used to have a different word for it: "conquered". What was the lastest country in history, where this word would be appropriate?
The tone from the author is less complexity. It's a backend vs frontend debate. GraphQL can be magic from the client side but on the server side you have tons of boilerplate weighing you down.
(a novice here who knows a couple of fancy terms)

> ...lately we have been augmenting it with GPU support.

Would you say you'd then be building an equivalent to Google's JAX?

Someone even asked if anyone would build a C++ to JAX transpiler [0]... I am wondering if that's something you may implement? Thanks.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35475675
It wasn't that well hushed, there were persistent rumours for years. After all it was the running joke that apple were going to launch a VR headset each WWDC.
Do you need breadth (cover many APIs with basic functionality) or depth (a few APIs but advanced functionality)? If depth, which segment of APIs, email/calendar, CRM, ...?
Other points to note: this is a lot like evolution strategies or CMA-ES if you're familiar with those, so inherits their strengths and weaknesses; it's sample/compute-inefficient because it doesn't use real gradients, but that also means you can use non-differentiable tools, so this might be useful in a RL context or a tool/API context, which are increasingly big deals for LLM usecases.

And it's a lot less sample/compute-inefficient than you might expect from such low-quality optimization applied to such highly-parameterized models; so this is another example of the blessings of scale, and how very large neural net models are, in some sense, simpler, more linear/interpretible, more generalizable, and more efficient than they 'ought' to be.
Is the Neural Engine/CoreML used in "normal" desktop apps on macOS, or is it limited to specialized ML centered apps? In other words, where should I expect performance improvements if there was a hypothetical Mesa for compute accelerators? Spontaneously, I can only think of image editors like Photoshop offering AI-based tools.
Cool but that was over 40 years ago. Who cares, and why hasn’t it been improved since then?
ethereum ASICs existed - at least a few were publicly known (antminer and other brands had a few) but others likely existed on the down-low as well. They were never about optimized compute but rather a cost-optimized way to deploy a shitload of DDR/GDDR channels reliably at minimum cost.

Ethereum is designed to bottleneck on memory bandwidth (while being uncacheable) so at the end of the day the name of the game is how many memory channels can you slap onto a minimum-cost board. You won't drastically win on perf/w - but as mentioned by a sibling, 30-100% over a fully general-purpose gaming GPU is likely possible, because you don't have to have a whole general-purpose GPU sitting there idling (and it's not a coincidence that gaming GPUs were undervolted/etc to try and bring that power down - but you can't turn everything off). "ASIC-resistance" just means an ASIC is only 1-10x more efficient than a general-purpose device, so general-purpose hardware can still stay in the game. It doesn't mean ASIC-proof, you can still make ASICs and they still have at least some perf/w advantage.

However, if your ASIC costs $100 to get the same performance as a 3060 Ti, that's a huge win even if you only beat the perf/w by 50%. Particularly since your ASIC is likely way easier and more stable to deploy at scale, and doesn't require a host rig with at least a couple hundred bucks of computer gear to even turn on.

Only plebs were buying up GPUs from retailers or sniping websites, buying from ebay was for the chumpiest of chumps. Gangsters were buying them from the board partners a truckload at a time, true elites just pay someone to engineer an ASIC and do a small run of them. Eight-figures (as mentioned by a sibling) is plenty, a $50-75m run of ASICs is quite a lot of silicon even on a fairly modern node (and some mining companies were publicly known to be using TSMC 7nm and other very modern nodes). And when you invest that kind of money, you don't flash it around and scare the marks.
Please don't post like this here. It's not what this site is for, and destroys what it is for. You can make your substantive points without snark, flamebait, or name-calling, so please do that instead.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
No, it is technically correct for nondiscoverable mode. Naturally, there should be low value in breaking the opacity of the stored key as it should be a private key only used with the server that holds it. (But it would still mean many sites requesting that you replace any token found to have such a defect.)
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Predator?

Hunting tourism is a thing.
https://arxiv.org/abs/2305.17333
The anger and backlash in some of these comments is confusing to me.

I love eating meat, and would love to continue doing so without ethical qualms or anxieties.

Unfortunately the more we learn about sentience, sapience, and the horrors of animal farming (both from their treatment, and the climate impact of raising them), it's impossible to ignore that the line between "Human" and "All other animals" is not as thick and clear as we'd prefer it to be.

Vegetarians and vegans will roll their eyes, because this is table stakes for so many of them, but I personally would love to find a way to continue consuming animal protein without worries that a sentient species felt pain, harm, or fear that was unnecessary. And that the climate impact of this is somehow managed or offset, and is SUSTAINABLE.

This is both a logistical and a philosophical challenge for humanity. I'm well aware of the arguments that billions of people depend on animal protein not to starve.

But it's shocking to me to see how angry some folks in the comments are about being prompted to stop and consider the ethical impact of these choices. Some are acting as if a deep-seated religious belief is being challenged.
"does the NSA collect any type of data at all on millions or hundreds of millions of Americans?"
"No, sir."
"It does not?"
"Not wittingly. There are cases where they could inadvertently perhaps collect, but not wittingly."

So, do people lie to Congress all the time? Not wittingly, but in the sense that this phrase means "absolutely yes, all the damn time."
I didn't say you were
Very impressive! How far are we from having this sort of thing in VR? The paper says the model render time was 0.9s which I guess means very far if that is per frame?
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Any? https://wiki.postmarketos.org/wiki/Lenovo_IdeaPad_Flex_3_Chr... is dirt cheap and runs PMOS quite well. Actually Chromebooks in general are a good bet when combined with PMOS - or even not combined with PMOS, if you can work with a normal Linux VM on top of ChromeOS.
What about killing? If their interests are to be valued then surely we shouldn't kill them. I'd much rather be declawed than killed.

This isn't to say I think killing lobsters is wrong, I just think the moral reasoning is fatally inconsistent.
That's what they did with Alien Blue, before killing it
For example my corpo hit manufacturing issues (production capacity) with flash memory, with clock oscillators, with auxiliary fpga. But main chips production was fine all the time during chip crisis as far as I know. So yeah, small critical components totally can be a blocker. Some specific voltage controller is unavailable and suddenly your whole design is paralyzed.
Design features and screenshots for Apple Vision Pro
The whistleblower claims, crash retrieval programs exist which are reported by very believable people in the government to have craft of non-human origin.

Your depiction of the story is clearly misleading. This here is a mere step in the direction of uncovering such "material evidence" as you would like to be presented right now, as if reality ever worked that way.
Sounds like something a HN moderator would ask to identify spammers
The eye and your brain are easily fooled. So are instruments.
Aliens just seem to love the USA, don't they? Just like giant prehistoric sea monsters seem to love Japan. It's totally not a cover-up for another black project.
Citations:

https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2013/07/02/198118060...

https://youtu.be/QwiUVUJmGjs

https://www.theguardian.com/world/interactive/2013/jun/06/ve...
Hell, try using the Twitter web app on something with 8GB of memory or that's older than 5 years old.
https://www.propublica.org/article/five-trump-cabinet-member...

There's many, many more.
I (personally) think the value towards openness of platform and source is rooted in the fact that a lot of inbound leads come from direct recommendations from independent developers that work for the companies looking to buy. In other words, the weekend hacker/home automation geek gets their company to use the enterprise offering of the ecosystem or platform they discovered.

Additionally, as a new company, it’s hard to convince someone that you will be around for the 5 years of a contract term when you’re not even 5 years old yet. Having a lot of your stuff open source gives them the off-ramp they would need to feel comfortable signing a deal with a younger company.

This works as long as the value you bring is with the team and a breadth of knowledge and experience behind it along with the incentives to continue to improve upon the product. Considering the amount of IoT devices there are and how much of it lacks interoperability, I’d say there’s plenty of value to be sold yet.
One thing that wasn't always clear to me: how many of these examples crash due to bugs in the compiler/verifier, and how many because the type system is actually unsound?

Sometimes it is mentioned; a Rust example and a Java example were fixed years ago. So it seems... a little unfair? Obviously all software has bugs; compilers are no exception. Examples where the type system itself is unsound, and can't be fixed without a redesign, are IMO the only interesting ones.
> Crypto has legitimate use as a rebel medium.

This only applies to literally one or two cryptocurrencies, stuff like Monero. They're very much the exception to the rule. Most cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin and Ethereum just publish the entire ledger which is constantly being pulled in by the PLA, the SEC, the FBI and myriad other law enforcement authorities the world over. Not to mention Chainalysis.

If the government that's oppressing you is capable enough to oppress you they're more than capable enough to, in the fullness of time, deanonymize your transactions and send you directly to jail for them. You're not just defending against the current start of the art tech but all future improvements - against an adversary with dramatically more resources than you have.

Illicit transactions on public ledgers are simply prosecution futures. People get jail time constantly for crypto transactions.

If I were a dissident in a country like the PRC hypothetically, I'd run like hell from crypto. Talk about asking for trouble.

That's before we even get to the point of how you plan to acquire these currencies without the government noticing.

They have a use: gambling and speculation at a massive decentralized offshore casino. Coinbase and Kraken are the cage. Binance, for example, and DeFi are the table games.
How the narrative changes depending on which side you are https://www.iwm.org.uk/history/the-incredible-story-of-the-d....
China drilling 1 of world’s deepest holes in hunt for discoveries deep in Earth
I'm very eager to see what Bitwarden does here, they're the first big[0] name that's actually Open Source that's on board. It's hard to take passkeys seriously when the vast majority of implementations are completely proprietary.

Seeing what Bitwarden comes up with and seeing whether or not the process for self-hosted Bitwarden accounts is actually seamless and works on platforms like desktop Linux -- to me, that's going to be a really big test of whether passkeys can credibly be claimed to be actually cross-platform.

[0]: I do think there have been some smaller proof-of-concepts, but... there's a difference of scale here.
> This is of course the standard argument against every instance of “the users just don’t understand how complex the backoffice is” ever

Except in this case the ones in the “back office” are volunteers and not staff.

I’m amenable to your argument in most other contexts. But it strikes me as an awful argument to apply to volunteers.

In that context, if you don’t like it then you have to step up and do it yourself. If someone is doing work for free, you don’t get to complain about the quality. Instead, you pick up a broom and do the sweeping yourself.

Which isn’t to say that Reddit mods are beyond question or reproach, but if there’s a concern shared by all moderators, it strikes me as wrong to say “that’s a backoffice issue”. If you don’t like it, go back into the office.
I remain motivated. I applaud all of the work that has been done so far and I also demand much more. Not only do I think this is a useful perspective, I think it's the only realistic path forward. To take the alternative perspective - that anything other than massive change is worthless - is a far more effective way to demotivate people and get them to give up and clock out.
Came here to post exactly the same link. Not just that, but 1 exaflops of sparse FP8.

In comparison, Frontier is 1 exaflops of dense FP64. Try to run this Nvidia system as dense FP64, and it performance will degrade two orders of magnitude.

Don't get me wrong, the machine is really impressive, but the advertisement is quite misleading.
And there are excise taxes when goods are created.
I feel really good with a sleep rhythm going to bed later each day and getting up later the next day.

I think many people do the same sort of thing, and then monday -- they have to cut their sleep short to get up early and sync with the rest of the world.

I can see how this would be the stressor you allude to.
I'm reminded of an episode of Masterchef where the cooks are given live crabs to prepare a dish with (as part of the meal, not as an assistant). Most contestants left the crab alone until it was time to boil them. One starts ripping the crab apart. Gordon Ramsay had to come up to her and explain that the crab was alive and what she was doing constituted torture.
Why would he have such "first hand evidence"? That makes no sense at all.

Do you suppose, he could have carted one of the vehicles out the facilitie or something?
He also could just be mentally ill and doesn't believe he's lying. It doesn't mean what he's saying is true.
https://qz.com/911990/the-cottingley-fairy-hoax-of-1917-is-a...

'nuff said
I'm no body language expert, but I did notice him shaking his head when he says something to the (opposite) effect that "we categorically have non human craft".

Games within games. Insiders playing credible dupes.
> most successful streamers -- measured as "they don't need a day job"

I think it's closer to 'Streaming is their day job'...
Alliums are delicious and their flowers are quite nice as well.
https://archive.is/R03bp
I have desks at home, work, at parents' house, etc. So i have a physical desk in all places to place a keyboard on.

The issue is that all those desks are different, and I am not carrying the same setup everywhere. I am not going to bring my monitors and cables and the rest on a flight to visit parents. Or if I am working from a hotel. And I am not carrying my entire setup every time i switch between working in the office or at home.

But just a headset + kbm? No problem, especially since consistency of the setup being the same is guaranteed, and the setup time is zero.
God I hate this rhetorical style - to lead with the conclusion ("The era of Artificial Intelligence is here, and boy are people freaking out. Fortunately, I am here to bring the good news: AI will not destroy the world, and in fact may save it."), to title the post with a question (which conventional wisdom says the answer is always "no").

It's been what, 30 years since Netscape, and Marc's brain has been pickled by infinite wealth, and it shows. And I say this as someone rather bullish on LLMs.
I wonder if the test was "crafted" to carefully avoid classing some species as sentient.

For example, what if chickens suddenly went off the food market?

(many bird species exhibit really intelligent behavior - would they fit the bill?)
Or destroy it. One of those two.
Or somewhere in the middle. Which is how things usually land.
They learned from the best:https://www.iwm.org.uk/history/the-incredible-story-of-the-d....
Incidentally, in case it wasn't clear.

For there to be a choice, the person must accept and make a decision of their own free will with sufficient knowledge and without constraint such as coercive or malign influence.

Very few real choices actually exist these days since corruption by dependency and outright coercion robs you of your agency and choice, in an attempt to manufacture your consent which the law deems as necessary.

This occurs often without your knowledge because they don't teach this stuff in compulsory education (by design). Anytime you've simply clicked through one of those software EULAs, you've given consent but not necessarily had a choice.

I hope you re-examine those paper-thin limiting beliefs you hold.
Thank god its Tuesday!
Once again the use-case for crypto turns out to be... large scale criminality and fraud.

Shocker.
I see it the other way around. Newer generation aren't being imposed a codified uniform by older generations anymore and have a lot more freedom to express themselves through clothing, I think it's much less infantilising actually
They didn’t.

Grace is a trade mark.
Hopper is a trade mark.

Hence each term having it’s own TM.
That's a pretty accurate take.

Amazon/Azure's IoT solutions are intended for device manufacturers who need to move data back-and-forth between devices and cloud infra. We don't play at all in this space, but a friend of ours, Jonathan Berry, has a company doing exactly that (https://golioth.io/). Many hardware manufacturers need help/tools to connect their devices and some very interesting companies will be built in that part of the stack.

Tuya is trickier to explain. It's... a lot of different things, really. It can be just a firmware + cloud if that's what you want (see countless devices on Alibaba with Tuya built-in). It can also be an entire white-labeled device that you can brand to whatever you'd like. They'll even give you a mobile app to go with it.

Seam is much higher up the stack for now. We mostly focus on device cloud integrations and occasionally a few on-prem systems.
I'm not sure I'd use a VPS. Cloudflare Stream does both live streaming and on-demand video. $1 per 1,000 minutes. Not a lot better than your estimate, but it includes the server costs as they handle transcoding too. I haven't tried their player to compare with YouTube though.

https://www.cloudflare.com/products/cloudflare-stream/
What would those logical inferences be ? I’m not sure i got your point right
I checked the wikipedia article on World War I [1] and fail to see how it can be attributed to Germany individually.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_I

> The first decade of the 20th century saw increasing diplomatic tension between the European great powers. This reached a breaking point on 28 June 1914, when a Bosnian Serb named Gavrilo Princip assassinated Archduke Franz Ferdinand, heir to the Austro-Hungarian throne. Austria-Hungary held Serbia responsible, and declared war on 28 July. Russia came to Serbia's defence, and by 4 August, defensive alliances had drawn in Germany, France, and Britain, with the Ottoman Empire joining the war in November.
I see your point, although some of the symptoms are quite subtle. Most people with sleep apnea don't know they have it until they get tested. Same for other symptoms.

What's really normalized is metabolic syndrome. 88% of adult americans have some degree of metabolic dysfunction. High blood pressure, obesity and other ailments are very often a direct result of that. So much so, that the 'normal' range of indicators such as uric acid has been revised and adjusted over the years, because "normal" people had higher levels and still appeared to be fine. Thankfully, we are starting to question that (eg. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/24867507/)

First order of business for anyone watching their blood pressure creeping up over the years (even more so if A1C, triglycerides, liver enzymes and uric acid are rising too): cut sugar in all forms. Not just the sugar you personally add to food, not only what's specified as 'added sugar', but all food containing sugar - which is basically all ultra processed foods. It does include sliced bread which is easily broken down into sugar( and is often laced with additional sugar, check ingredients). Leave your sugar 'allowance' to be used by a reasonable amount of fruits.

That may not reverse the problem (although, in my case, it did) but should help tremendously.
Not west coast by an ocean, but in my experience there's no specific dress code as you try to cast it, instead there's a dismissal of suits in particular.

You can dress up in Goth fashion and play it Cyberpunk if you want, people will whole fully accept it. And it's also not unspoken at all, startup culture is straight pitched as disrupting traditional business, which makes suits a faux pas.

I'd compare it to wearing a Jonny Walker cosplay at a Anonymous Alcoholics meeting. It's not the dress code, it's what you're trying to convey.
You can tell it to not be so descriptive. It's a staple of prompt engineering to specify terse responses, or at least what style of response is wanted.

Remember what it is - a language model. You can be really specific about how you want the responses, because not everybody will want the default style.

If you wanted them in Haiku format, just tell it that all responses should be in Haiku format, and that's precisely what you'll get.
It’s not a great analogy because it’s easier to understand crypto without using it, mainly because you can’t use it in most instances.

XR on the other hand needs to be experienced in order to understand it. Otherwise, you’re not going to know or even understand all of the benefits and problems. I see this time and time again online. Ie you can read about scuba diving all you want, but until you actually do it regularly you’re not really going to know enough to comment like someone who actually does it. Given the low cost and availability of modern VR headsets, there’s not really an excuse for techies unless you’re a student
> The only plausible route feels like a massive neutral DMZ

How is that even remotely plausible? It would be absolutely unprecedented in scale, Ukraine would have to cede protection of massive amounts of its territory in exchange for Russia doing what? Stop trying to unsuccessfully advance frontlines and be saved from counteroffensive?

It makes no sense to me.