skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> remind me of the average, mediocre, soul-lacking content

This model is just the equivalent of GPT-2 for music. It's not the GPT-4 yet. Music is trailing a few years from language. Used to be that language was about 5 years behind vision. Now language is the top.
Why do you need to be Jeff Dean? Might as well say you’re not going to be Tom Brady by being smart.
M2, M2 Pro, and M2 Max are different dies; they aren't binned versions of the same die. Apple showed "photos" of the dies and you can see they are different sizes with different stuff on them.
Lovely insight.
We are holding this discussion on a classic, centralized, web1.0 forum which - from my vantage point - is one of the most valuable and enriching forums currently online.

What's wrong with HN ? What's wrong with metafilter ? What's wrong with letsrun or doom9 ?

The problem is the mistaken notion that these can be big businesses.

If you can let go of the economics there is no technical - or usability - hurdle.

We know this because we're already doing it right here.
We need you to stop using HN for ideological flamewar. You've been doing it a lot, and breaking the site guidelines a lot in other ways too, such as by crossing into personal attack:

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and failing to edit out swipes:

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I don't want to ban you because I don't get an impression of malice or abuse from your comments, but we need you to review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and stick to the intended spirit of this site. Ideological battle, political battle, and flamewar are very much against that spirit. We want curious, thoughtful, substantive, respectful conversation. Please do that going forward, and refrain from posting when you can't.
We should just ban private vehicles in the city as well, bringing back more cyclists, walkers, and generally increasing metro usage.
Since 2001, it seems: https://github.com/python/cpython/blob/3.11/Lib/doctest.py#L...
webrtc is such a complex technology still after so many years. I wonder why web standards didnt decide to just deprecate old tech and create something that is usable out of the box without stun/turn servers and all the other complexity that i don't even know. In the year 2001 it was much simpler to set up an all-to-many video chat with Flash and an open source media server. it feels like this tech has been chasing its tail
In minor traffic a week or so ago, I ended up next to a Tesla for a few minutes where the driver had zero hands on the wheel, and her eyes were buried in her phone, with her head angled downward. Whatever system was running seemed to be totally fine with that situation; if that's the most advanced driver attention monitoring system available, we're in a lot of trouble. Tesla caring so much about safety is so obviously a bad joke.
Life isn't magic, it's nanotech.

If the statement was 100% true. Why isn’t nanotech magic ? If nanotech is the only thing that gives rise to the beautiful thing that’s life and experience. Why is that not magic ? How did such a thing come to be ? Do you think we’ll get to the bottom. of it a one day and say, “oh not magic”?

Why is a butterfly not magic? Can you not see that ?

Not sure you’ve looked at these processes under a microscope but if you can’t see some magic in there, then I’m sorry for you.

For me the tragedy is we can’t see the magic in it, we go on all macho and pretend it’s not magic and continue to destroy the magic through our attitudes towards the natural world being some type of “silly machine”. Where’s the respect ?
Feel similarly about my Moonlander!
Post your specs you dinosaur
Also pretty bad. Might get somewhere in a few years but currently this is only noise.
The idea that creating music has had a huge technical barrier is laughable. It has not existed for ~20 years. Artists like Tinashe have learned to produce music themselves with programs like ableton, not a lick of mastering instruments or graduating from this and that art school. Just a general sense of what sounds good to you. Unlike visual art, there's no mechanical barrier either, no mastering of techniques. You can genuinely fiddle around with knobs and buttons and create something that sounds great to you - soundcloud is filled with these.

So there isn't going to be an increased level of profound self expressions because of this. Quite the opposite, more pure noise for the purpose of farming ad revenue.

What's worse, and an aspect many proponents of AI generations ignore, is that by ushering people into this specific channel of caring more about prompts than all else, we are doing a real disservice to potential people who could have become serious masters of their realm. After all, "why learn how that music program works when I can just generate it?"
I think the interesting question is: can you combine the benefits of in-office collaboration and social connection with the advantages of remote (lower real estate costs, larger hiring pool, and better focus time) with a hybrid model?
The new default seems to be trending toward hybrid with 1-3 days in office per week and the rest remote for this reason. The other model that seems to work well is fully remote with quarterly offsites at the company and/or team level.
It is most definitely my experience that being able to all stand around a whiteboard and socialize together creates better work. On the other hand, no company will ever pay enough to compensate for the lack of affordability and poor livability of the Bay Area, Seattle, or NYC. The only people who love RTO are new grads with no life or execs who already cashed out.
Note that without the `Output:` line you can silently not be running these tests - https://github.com/golangci/golangci-lint/issues/3084 covers when this can be problematic and there's now a golangci-lint integrated linter for catching it
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Who is using Cerebras chips for training or inference of foundation models at large scale?

This seems a bit like a placed puff piece. My understanding is that most of the training and inference happens on Nvidia chips
If you buy anything labeled as "workstation", you're paying twice the price already.

The article describes the M2 being blown out of the water by a 4080 and a 13900KS. That's about $2000 + RAM, motherboard, and power supply. Plus you can use the built in GPU in your CPU for acceleration things like transcodes.

You can get a pre-built gaming PC with a 4090 for about $4000, that'll crush the M2 in compute if you use any kind of GPU acceleration.

Of course the M2 has some other advantages (the unified memory and macOS) and some other disadvantages (you're stuck with the amount of RAM you pick at checkout, macOS, you have to sacrifice system RAM for GPU RAM) so it all depends on your use case.

I think the M2 still reigns supreme for mobile devices, though AMD is getting closer and closer with their mobile chips, but if you've got a machine hooked into the wall you'll have to pay some pretty excessive electricity rates for the M2 to become competitive.
If you are so poor with a car but can afford gas that a few dollar toll will wreck you, you really should just take public transportation. There will be rare legit cases but when was the last time they made everyone happy with decisions?
> He targeted people like me and you, and would probably kill you in person if he had the choice.

Yeah. I initially came into this news ready to edgelord out with everybody else, but, synthesizing from some other comments I've read on the internet today:

Thinking of the dads that owned their little computer stores in the 80s getting their fingers blown off and dying in their parking lots while reading these comments.

> Friends recall Hugh as a man who embraced life, a gentle man with a sense of humor who had traveled around the world, climbed mountains, and studied languages. He cared about politics, was “fair and kind” in business, and was remembered as “straightforward, honest, and sincere.” He left behind his mother, sister, family members, a girlfriend who loved him dearly, and a circle of friends and colleagues who respected and cared for him.

Kaczynski’s account of the killing:

> Experiment 97. Dec. 11, 1985. I planted a bomb disguised to look like a scrap of lumber behind Rentech Computer Store in Sacramento. According to the San Francisco Examiner, Dec. 20, the “operator” (owner? manager?) of the store was killed, "blown to bits, on Dec. 12. Excellent. Humane way to eliminate somebody. He probably never felt a thing. 25,000 reward offered. Rather flattering.
This feels like a straw man to me. We are continuing to automate feeding, housing and clothing ourselves as well. These two things are not mutually exclusive.

I would like to make music, video games and movies, too, and AI lets me do that. I don’t need millions of dollars or years of training to make something creative anymore.
You are a legend.
Google wouldn't increase my quota unless I talked to a sales person. I wanted 4 GPUs. 4. That took at least a week to achieve.
They don't need fancy AI and all that. At some point someone will realize that there is a discrepancy between who badged and who is actually there, that 3 people badged and only one crossed the door, or maybe an employee will be caught red handed by a security guard.

It will be treated as a serious security incident. Slacking off may be tolerable if the slackers otherwise bring value to the company, handing out one's badge, potentially letting unauthorized people in is something else. It will result in people getting fired on the spot, maybe even lawsuits.

Engineers doing that would be anything but clever. And the "epic battle" will most likely be hopelessly one-sided and the movie will be about a bunch of people struggling to find a new job. If you don't want to commute, just stay at home, make up all the excuses you want, but don't play shenanigans with badges. If you bring enough value for the company despite "slacking off", you will get a pass, but if you mess with security, you won't.
The article states that the capital investment cost of an electrolyzer and pipeline is lower than that of a cable and a substation. But what if you want electricity? If you include a fuel cell and grid connection at the end of the pipeline, is the capital investment cost still lower?

Edit: A fair comparison needs to keep the electrical power input to the grid constant. This means the calculation needs to account for both the losses in conversion to and back from hydrogen, as well as that offshore electrolysis would be able to make use of a greater share of the power during peak wind turbine output.

I want to see the math, not only an opaque claim of lower cost when one set of infrastructure delivers electricity and the other delivers hydrogen.
> That's one I like actually, maybe something like the blue book value of the car?

Suppose two people make the same amount of money. One chooses to buy a cheaper car and pays higher rent for a nicer apt. The other, the opposite. Under your pricing scheme, you're unjustifiably charging two persons of equal means different rates.

You can adjust this many ways. One person gets a cheaper car but spends more on luxury vacations or invests more aggressively or spends large sums eating at nice restaurants often or buys expensive clothes or or or etc.

Edit: Lastly, why should we be charging expensive cars more? A BMW M4 is, by all measures, much less irritating to have to share the road with than a large SUV or Ford F-250 (god forbid it's also lifted). Tolls should scale with vehicle size and weight and when vehicles have poor fuel efficiency, not the sticker price.
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Measured as one percent lows and again, most GPUs under most Conditions simply don't saturate PCIe enough for that to make a difference. Der8auer and GamersNexus on youtube have plenty of examples.
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Yes, thanks, I forgot to mention that as an option. I’d like a solution that doesn’t involve patching SBCL, but I’ve been following that project and it’s exciting!
Agreed. So, in a word, Emacs. It's just Emacs buffers everywhere
I don't know why this is particularly contentious or controversial. The FBI played a huge role in the Chicago 7 incident in the 70's, which hit progressive democrats. They did the same thing with many other progressive movements in the 70's and 80's. Incitement of riots using informants and undercover agents is a time-honored tradition for the FBI.
It's possible that AVX512 sort does better on newer architectures, no? Author's machine is a 3 generations old cpu.
Pretty sure voices like that are here to serve as the naloxone to the hopium everyone else is shooting up. :)
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It has a lot to do with your personality and the way you developed early in your life.

There is a lot going on in your brain before the age of 3. A kid that is left alone in front of a TV or in a tiny space with plastic toys all the time or lives in a toxic home will develop differently to one that grows playing with other kids, pets, has space to move around, that can go outside and experience nature and has an overall richer childhood experience.

Good nutrition, a healthy childhood, low exposure to pollution (lead, PFAS, phthalates, etc), genetics, etc. have significant impact.

You can train hard but if you had early life experiences that turned you into a neurotic person, your "equilibrium" will always take you back to being a neurotic.
>ludicrous amount of power and cooling

>big honking machines

Buy an all-in-one water cooler for the CPU https://pcpartpicker.com/product/2PFKHx/arctic-liquid-freeze...

It's easy to install and you have a quiet, well-cooled CPU.
That's two dotfiles and two directories each for my setup, which i just rsync over if I feel like. Are you talking about installing necessary depencies or something? I can't think of a ton of examples but maybe a language server? Not that it's strictly part of nvim. Some details perhaps?
There's nothing wrong with them, but reddit's size lets it gather a lot of extremely specific knowledge that, were all subreddits separate forums, would be lost. Sure, many of these communities are strong enough to run their own infrastructure, but more of them are not.
IMO driving down power consumption should still be a goal even for desktop machines. It means that the overwhelming majority of users get cooler, quieter, less bulky machines, while the fringe who need raw power at all costs can overclock to the moon if they really want to.

This also pushes more "desktop like" performance to both ultraportable and reasonably portable laptops, allowing these machines to fully replace desktops for the overwhelming majority without all of the caveats that come with "desktop replacement" laptops (workstation laptops, heavy duty gaming laptops, etc). A lot of people who previously wouldn't have seen laptops as capable of being their primary machines are doing exactly that with M1/M2 Pro MBPs.
Agreed. And I'm in the same boat. But I've taken the "best time to plant a tree was 40 years ago" approach and have started working in my community to bring about those changes.
Nope. Local police and prosecutors have no authority to make decisions on liability. Their authority is limited to criminal matters. However, police reports can generally be used as evidence in civil trials where judges and juries make decisions about liability.

There may be some circumstances where a driver operating a Mercedes-Benz vehicle using Drive Pilot could be committing a criminal offense. For example, I think sitting in the driver's seat while intoxicated would still be illegal even if you're not actually driving. But that is separate from liability.
What makes this important lesson harder is that the image of a founder has become an identity for so many young and talented people. Getting past that and wiping it out to start again, is really hard.
I had not run across this. Thanks!
I'd like to add that looking at sybil attacks as just a network attack would be a mistake.

These type of attacks apply broadly at many different levels, for example the minimum thresholds for amplification/de-amplification can be significantly lower than the 51% that's normally attributed by definition to these type of attacks.

Any decentralized moderation system would run into issues with a sybil attack distorting reflected appraisal within a community. Some benefits of such an attack might be dropping the post out of view/delisting it, using generative ai to create harassing/malign responses attacking volunteer psychology (where they stop contributing/volunteering when it costs them).

Useless/mindless generative chatter that is akin to jamming a communications channel, but indistinguishable by most people which in the absence of a clear signal causes isolation (thanks AI).

Some of these challenges also don't have a good answer because they are fundamental problems where a solution would break automata theory/determinism. So you are left with only a bad, potential liability from an approximate solution.

Most propaganda and political warfare focuses on attacking various parts of communications with the intent to either isolate, or destroy/debase personal identity, which is largely determined by reflected appraisal.

Once isolated, with their belief system destabilized it makes people vulnerable and does dangerous/weird things to people's psychology. This has been known for quite some time though hasn't gotten much attention outside certain academic circles, and by quite some time I mean roughly generally known between the 1920s-50s.

The main driving component was formalized under the Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis (1929), though it was in common use by governments prior to that.

Since most social media already has these issues (but they don't communicate about them in public regularly if at all), internally they do recognize these issues and take a Signals and Systems approach, but the result is as you've seen.

If you cant exceed parity vs. competitive solutions you wont be able to increase marketshare/market penetration.
Steps to build a fast, highly adaptive AVX-512 sorting algorithm in C:

- Clone fluxsort (https://github.com/scandum/fluxsort)

- Replace the partitioning code in flux_default_partition and flux_reverse_partition with the obvious AVX-512 version using a compare and two compress instructions

- If you're feeling ambitious, swap out the small array sorting, or incorporate crumsort's fulcrum partition for larger arrays.

I know why I haven't done this: my computer doesn't have AVX-512, and hardly anyone else's that I know seems to. Maybe a couple Zen 4 owners. I'm less clear on why the tech giants are reinventing the wheel to make these sorting alrogithms that don't even handle pre-sorted data rather than working with some of the very high-quality open source stuff out there. Is adaptivity really considered that worthless?

Fluxsort makes this particularly simple because it gets great performance out of a stable out-of-place partition. It's a bit newer; maybe the authors weren't aware of this work or started before it was published. But these algorithms both use (fairly difficult) in-place partitioning code; why not slot that into the well-known pdqsort?
It's not unreasonably high for a TDP, and the idle consumption of ARM is de-facto lower than power an x86 package.

That being said, it's pretty obvious that Apple's mobile-style solution isn't really working out on the desktop side of things. The new iMac feels starkly pedestrian compared to the old ones, and the Mac Mini/Studio are both neat but not unprecedented. The M2 Ultra represents a lot of engineering effort going into flipping that status quo, but its still slipping behind by a considerable margin. Don't forget that a second "Ultra" style SOC with 4x M1 Maxes was supposedly cancelled for drawing too much power and being too hot. It's just not effective or efficient to force that much silicon that close together.
NVIDIA still beats Apple even in efficiency, or so I have read. If you care about wattage that much, you can just underclock and undervolt your GPU. It is free and the police can not stop you.
"Design for spatial input": https://developer.apple.com/videos/play/wwdc2023/10073/
You’re having this discussion on a marketing forum.
You've misunderstood. I'm not talking about the meaning of the inputs and outputs of a creative process. I'm talking about the very experience of doing the thing. Hence the prayer comparison.
I made a tool to help me do exactly this! I even made a HN post about it, after making some HN comments about how well it is working for me.

(It's https://github.com/lelanthran/frame/blob/master/docs/FrameIn... in case anyone is interested).
I always used to think that but with tech I really think that fashion and herd mentality is a bigger driver of investor behavior.
I don’t understand why this has been downvoted. The article is clickbait fear-mongering. It claims 17 deaths in 3 years is a “shocking” toll yet and focuses on a couple of nasty accidents, yet has no opinion, comment, or issue with the 40,000 people that die _each year_ due to human error (a figure quoted nonchalantly in the article).

Articles like this prove how irrational humans are. Wanting to ban a system of driving that is quite literally orders of magnitude safer than a human driver, because very occasionally it makes a mistake a human wouldn’t make.
Sounds like the "is DJing an art form" debate. :o)

Unlike classic "hiring a musician", here it's practical to "hire" the (robot) musician 10000 times with a feedback loop between the model and the prompt writer, iterating and picking the best output(s)... which looks like a similar process to other exercises considered art forms.