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> motivate everyone (Intel, AMD, ARM, Google, etc.) to try and tackle the problem by making new chips

Yes, there has been repeated efforts to chip at Nvidia's market share, but there's also a graveyard full of AI accelerator companies that fail to find product market fit due to lack of software toolchain support - and that applies even for older Nvidia GPUs and their compatible toolchains, let alone other players like AMD. This isn't a hit on Nvidia, I'm just saying things move so quickly in the space that even the only-game-in-town is trying to catch up.

Nvidia is also leading by being one or two hardware cycles ahead of their competition. I'm pretty confident AI workloads in enterprise is their next major focus [1]. I think this more than anything else will accelerate AI adoption in enterprise if well executed.

To your point, I think the industry needs to focus more on the toolchains that sit right between the deep learning frameworks (PyTorch, Tensorflow etc.) and hardware vendors (Nvidia, AMD, Intel, ARM, Google TPU etc.) Deep learning compilers will dictate if we allow all AI workloads run on just Nvidia or several other chips.

[1] - https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/data-center/solutions/confident...
Also, in case it matters to anyone: IJ plugin! https://plugins.jetbrains.com/plugin/7391-asciidoc (Apache 2: https://github.com/asciidoctor/asciidoctor-intellij-plugin/b... )
There are those who think the USA in particular has a narcissism crisis (and some data to back it up).

https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/usappblog/2017/06/28/a-rise-in-narci...

I would say that from the outside, it's really very clear that America has become more narcissistic over the last 35-40 years, but I think there's also evidence of a reckoning -- of a younger culture beginning to mix more self-effacement in with their self-expression.

I'd place the UK slightly lower on the scale of worsening narcissism, but I am sure other countries would observe it in us. Gen Z would seem to be getting tired of the whining over here, too.
BioWare hasn't been BioWare since the founders left. It's just a name now, thoroughly digested by the EA sarlacc.
I feel like hand written notes are great for people who are artistic.. I would love to take hand written notes, and be able to connect dots with lines on a page, draw diagrams, doodle etc, but I'm just so not creative enough.
I need structure. I need my lines to be perfectly aligned and spaced, I want to be able to search for things that I would have written down, because I don't remember which notebook its in. I admire people who can/do take hand written notes. For me, I need a computer (or phone) to take notes in, digitally
When I clicked through the companies listed here previously, all of them seemed to support Terraform plugins which are not part of the re-licensing. They didn't maintain downstream forks of Terraform proper. I'll look again.
Russia is not that great an example because they don't actually manufacture anything at all that we'd miss, and we can quickly get gas and oil from elsewhere (and have done so).

The Chinese and US economies are far more inter-dependent and the Chinese understand that war is unthinkable -- are are very annoyed at Russia.

The Western response to Ukraine has also put China off the notion that they could quietly take Taiwan without anyone making a fuss.

But this is very far from RISC-V.

China has long since (5+ years) taken everything from RISC-V initially done in the West that there is to take. The ISA specification itself, gcc and llvm and Linux and things like that. It is far too late to change that. They have local git clones.

At present China is contributing more to RISC-V than anyone else. For example they are doing almost all work on Android and all the parts that go into that, including things such as the Chromium browser.

All their improvements go into public repositories that the rest of the world can access.

Companies such as WCH and THead and StarFive are also at the forefront of RISC-V cores and chips that normal people can actually buy. WCH's $0.10 microcontrollers are really great (as are their $0.50 and $1.00 chips). THead's C910 core is not only in the highest performance RISC-V SoCs (TH1520, SG2042) and boards you can buy right now, it is also open source (https://github.com/T-head-Semi/openc910) with a permissive license so anyone can audit it, or take the design as a starting point. StarFive's "Dubhe" core will probably be available on SBCs in the next 6-12 months, and will be similar to Rockchip's RK3588, currently the fastest ARM chip available on SBCs.
Some of the generated models were pretty damn good but without any additional prompting I ended up with the standard oddities like multiple limbs.

I like the UI functionality though. easy to dial in what you’re looking for
Perhaps people who joined shortly before a stock rally. I was pulling ~$270k TC at 2 YoE, but it was really ~$175k TC at the time I actually joined the company. Equity is so variable, that's why it's better to compare TC at time of offer. Of course, when I negotiate I always cite the highest stock value in the last several months.
I believe rust is actually more thread safe than C#, though the other points you made are pretty true.
We need a strong localized version at least for software development that is free as soon as possible. It is such a competitive advantage there's no way it will stick around forever for as cheap as it is.
Not that it's much better, but wouldn't it be a duopoly considering that AMD is also a big player?

Hopefully Intel continues to improve it's GPU offerings
Either way, at least Baby wouldn't suffocate in the heat, as they do nowadays.
You have to distinguish between fabs and AIBs.
There was evidence that north korea specifically used tornado cash to hide stolen crypto, which is where this has all stemmed from
Yes. We agree completely on the facts here. These people built a business to profit off the provision of online privacy, and as part of they were helping teach people how to preserve their online privacy.

Some people used their tool for money laundering, just as some people have surely used encrypted messaging and VPNs for theft, terrorism, child abuse, and other crimes.

The point is that online privacy always has significant legitimate, non-criminal use cases, and developers can have legitimate, non-criminal (noble, even) reasons for building for those use cases.

And the larger point is that, if we want to have tools that give us any meaningful online privacy, we must stand up for the developers that build such tools when they are (inevitably, perennially) accused of aiding criminals and terrorists.
I don't think so. It is making egress free (up to 3 times the storage). It is definitely making cheaper for many customers.
Ah, funny. Their interface hid that box from me on my phone. Weird choices all around.
> Raising prices means you are a monopoly?

Not sure if you're intentionally choosing to ignore their point, but what they meant is Nvidia can unilaterally choose to raise the prices and customers can't do anything since they're a monopoly. You can't just say well, i'll go to the next shop and buy something for cheaper.
When was the last BioWare game that was actually excellent? ME2 in 2010?
It's not going to work because they are too late.

HPC cluster builds are complex enough due to the presence of multiple networks (2x moderate-scale infiniband chassis and 2x ethernet chassis as a minimum) without introducing unknown vendors. At that point, if you're doing IB, why not just go Mellanox since you will almost certainly buy 200GE Connectix NICs and not the 100G NICs from these guys.

UEC will - like most standards - _eventually_ work. In the mean time, Nvidia pods are the obvious choice for anyone who really cares about performance, and other vendors (Cisco, Arista) if they don't.
This is all sickening really and all pointless really.

If the company end up overpaying Person A (which they'll learn by hiring Person B,C,D and seeing their performance), they will let Person A go.

If the company end up underpaying Person A, which will be obvious from levels.fyi, glassdoor and colleagues, Person A will just not do a good job and leave.
Are you sure your large financial institution doesn’t have some group doing public cloud work? Mine does and we struggle to hire outside. I’d love to find an internal candidate who’s interested in padding their resume for a year or two.

I’d guess most big firms have some group working with public cloud; you just need to find them.
If you encode a binary digit for each biological digit on your hand you can count up to 32 on one hand.
> Jonathan Swift

Well that makes some sense. Thanks for highlighting this excellent quote.
How much cooler could it be to make such a stark difference? 0C under the ice vs 4C in the Atlantic UK waters?
Not having served (but I did help out on Operation Code for a couple years):

"Chair Force" does sound like something they would say about armchair generals. No?
I asked “So did the Epic judge ignore the ruling of another judge where Apple was accused of behaving monopolistic in regards to the App Store?”

And you bought up a completely irrelevant case that the judge ignored. She also ignored the case about Apple Music (the company owned by the Beatles) suing Apple, was that a relevant case too?
Yes I think of solutions for all my awesome work problems in bumper to bumper traffic on my hour long commute. <sarcasm>
How is this approach different from Nalir? https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/2588555.2594519
Not anything. Baklava is probably a silly question. Greek alphabet or most of Hagia Sophia, that was created by Greeks.
My point is that this site is not a good example to use for showing SSR in a good light. Logically, this doesn't mean the converse of the statement is implied (that if this site didn't use SSR, it would be good).
Honeybees aren't native to the US, but there are lots of native bee species. I see no reason to assume that every beekeeper is only in it for the honey.
Seems like cash users (everyone) and cash issuers (the government) are money launderers under this exceedingly broad definition.
Actually, with governments around the world, increasingly stepping up the war on end to end, encryption, anyone caught developing software that facilitates encrypted communication without allowing the government to execute a man in the middle attack, will be liable for anything that takes place on those networks. Whether it’s sharing, illicit content, seditious, content, or planning some sort of violent act, or perhaps sending billion dollar transactions through encrypted channels in an attempt to circumvent capital controls, or hiding their speech from censorship, thereby harming the body politic with vaccine, denial, or criticizing some war effort. The list goes on and on. The United States has literally the best protections for freedom of speech of any country in the world, and even here there are constant attacks on encryption. So yes, I think they would simply go after the businesses first, since those do The actual transactions. Every business would have to look over their shoulder every time they use paper, cash, or Z cash, or Monero. If they use an encrypted channel to communicate, they can get a knock on the door from the state. And that’s in this country. The majority of other countries are much worse.
Seems like it wasn't writing and giving away the tool but running it as a service? I don't know the facts here, was it OSS as well a service?
I wonder what the performance overhead is...
Urgent means something that requires immediate attention. It doesn't have to be a full blown emergency.

Neither family members nor friends have to be at an immediate risk of losing a limb before asking you for immediate attention.
Doesn’t help that the video they’re all cheering over is a computer rending (presumably being pieced together from real time telemetry data being received). Gives the layperson the idea that the whole thing is being faked.
It’s also fair to say the training data is probably not readily available either
I dunno, I really enjoyed Dragon Age: Inquisition... but it was also my first real exposure to BioWare, so take it with a grain of salt.
Working link:

https://www.opindia.com/2022/11/women-officers-sexually-and-...
just wait until it’s $4bn and another $3m!
> “Even if a game is protected against piracy on its PC version, the version released on Nintendo Switch can be emulated from day one and played on PC, therefore bypassing the strong protections offered on the PC version,” the company says. “This can happen with any of the numerous games available on Nintendo Switch.

Oh, so that’s why games tend to release on switch after a several month delay. I always wondered about that.
The severed feet found on beaches near Seattle and Vancouver
Kotor 2
attempting to open wide one’s mind to another in ways that go beyond words and feels more complete can… often lead to a collection of words chosen that is borderline headache-inducing.

that it is alienating isn’t surprising, and ought to be interesting. language is just a crude attempt, no matter how refined. and attempts to surpass it with… it… are, well, a bit silly. but what else is someone desperate to share, to do?

especially when the typical responses are going to judge the word selection.

at the same time, it is a blog post from less wrong being posted to here. that’s a pattern of its own.

anyone that’s squished their brain deliberately and lived to tell the tale has likely had at one point or another an urgent feeling of “better warn the others to be careful squishing their brains.” sure, there’s egotism there, the repeating paragraphs leading with “i” are more than stylistic. but there’s an intent to help.
Yes, because the government only prosecutes people who do “bad” things.
I honestly miss these days. I'm currently using Next 13 with the app directory and server components, calling a headless CMS with graphql, generating types from introspection, all to statically render HTML in a proprietary build system that takes 6 minutes to deploy. Only to find you need to build a whole "preview" workflow because you can't see your drafts with SSG - which means you need a server anyway...
The HTC Dream was released in September 2008. Only a year after the first iPhone.
Not exactly. Some candidates outright lie about competing offers or existing compensation. Less unscrupulous tactics are to give TC figures based on the peak of the stock price performance, which isn't technically a lie - you just forgot to cite the most up-to-date price.
Im a OSS founder.

This is a balanced article and I definitely agree about being clear on what constitutes competition. A few questions:

1. Does Gitlab see much competition from hyperscale providers like AWS?

2. Given that Gitlab has a thicker proprietary crust and a relatively smaller open source core (compared to hashi), is Gitlab more insulated from these types of issues?
I’ve had both. The granny’s peak baklava may be better, I’ll concede.

But the median packaged baklava blows the granny’s median baklava out of the water. There’s no contest.
No, put another way this is Nike getting punished for creating a shoe that was used to kick puppies.
I had a lot of fun with Inquisition, but the MMOish world design and the fact that so much core plot was hived off into Trespasser makes it hard to call the game truly excellent.
The complaints here are not about the existence of a CAPTCHA for that page.

The complaints are that this particular CAPTCHA is extraordinarily stupid.
Deus ex mankind divided was a great game that just feels like it ends too early. Apparently square enix is to blame for that.
Very cool. I'm checking out veezoo.com now!
The problem with Intel is:

1. They don't pay - Nvidia/Google/Apple easily pays 1.5-2x Intel before appreciattion.

2. They're cheap/beaurcratic. The office sucks, your laptop sucks.

3. They suck at software. https://pharr.org/matt/blog/2018/04/18/ispc-origins

4. They can't develop/retain talent. Half the ML-HW/FW teams at AMD/Google/Nvidia/Apple are ex-Intel.
It's a bold move to say the product your company sells is total crap, but not unheard of.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerald_Ratner#Career
I dunno, I've never really aggressively negotiated at hire time, but certainly at my industry jobs, just getting the door was the important thing, because my comp grows exponentially once I'm on the inside (all Googlers got a 10% raise one year. Just because.)

What does happen is during the first recruiter chat (before talking ot the HM), I make sure they are OK with my number (base + bonus + stock) in theory. Some jobs I've wanted have ended at that point- I asked for $270K base and they won't go above $230K, for example. it's a shame but I guess over my career I've done well enough, even with many rejections, mostly by just paying attention and moving to tyhe right place at the right time.

In my most recent role, the hiring manager had to put me in the highest eng level ("distinguished") to meet my salary expectation, and it was still a pay cut compared to my previous job in FAANG. However, my life quality more than makes up the difference. Don't always chase the biggest number.
As the person running the unofficial HN discord, what are YOUR hopes for it?
Windows 2000 was peak Windows, I agree 100%.
What you see as lacking you can achieve for yourself with self-study. Nothing is stopping you from trying things and learning outside of a current or former employer. Always be learning.

Disclaimer: Former AWS consultant, MAANG SRE/PE, once HPC/private cloud sysadmin and self-taught coder with EE/CS.
What was the ruling by the other judge, and was it brought up in Epic Games v. Apple
Those might not be common in the US or in your place but are very common in others and are at least in the country I live in, because they are just an investment.
Might as well ban cash transactions and any services that facilitate cash transactions.
New Jersey baklava is much better than Istanbul baklava actually. Try it.

Immigrants touch I guess?
Heh, I once wrote a script that disabled pretty much every darn service I could get away with on XP, and ended up with an estimated 7 hours (or so, it's been a while) of offline battery life on an Eee PC 901...
> After Jane Austen’s death in 1817, the country dance was gradually succeeded by the waltz and other “closed couple” dances like the quadrille and the polka and—later—the foxtrot and the Charleston. A century on, we are rarely offered any such lifeline. At parties and weddings, we dance like cups of Jell-o, ever-unsure with what to do with our puckered lips and T-Rexified hands. Every so often, a DJ may throw us a bone in the form of the “Macarena” or the “Cha-Cha-Slide.” Yet these dances feel curiously disembodied, with each person moving in his or her own little bubble, never to interact.

I am happy to say I've recently discovered salsa and am dancing several times a week.

Latin dance and West Coast Swing have much younger demographics than country dances, are danced worldwide, and in both quite sophisticated and in street styles. They fit precisely the embodied, highly social, and subtly sensual (or not so subtly in the case of bachata) functions the author misses. Can highly recommend.
If they treat their AIBs for their enterprise stuff anything like they do in the consumer space, they don't really have anything to worry about there (aside from the rest of them giving up on dealing with Nvidia's BS, I guess).
Large enterprises are already putting them into production. I have direct experience with it.

It's not unassailable. But it's going to take a lot to make any difference to Nvidia's volume or pricing, let alone a meaningful difference. They already face serious competitors in google and aws with TPU and inferentia, but those competitors are at a pretty big disadvantage for now (and others too). The cuda ecosystem is a big advantage. Nvidia has a lot of leverage with semi manufacturers because of volume. They spend way more on chip R&D than their competitors in the space. They have brand recognition. You can buy and own Nvidia chips v tpu and inferentia. It's... a tough road ahead for competitors.
Gotta move fast enough you can't get caught.
100 gig, that's considered cute nowadays.

https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/new-amazon-ec2-p5-instances...

3.2 terabits.
I feel the same. Discord is so closed off.
I think most baklava comes from factories, and whichever ones don't taste so good, it's probably just because they didn't use the best/freshest ingredients.
Technically it doesn't have to result in a loss of privacy (at least not much of it). It's possible to use some signature schemes that would let you create accounts from your government issued ID that can't actually be traced back to you, but this would require ordinary people manage secret keys and I don't think that's possible.
> My company does this thing where they buy some kind of market research salary analysis and use it to gauge what they should be paying us. They tell us as much, and it feels like a trap: "We can't give you more because it's not industry standard" etc. Since I'm at the top of the ceiling according to this list, my raises have been pretty much crap the last couple of years.

I worked for a company that did that too. "Our hands are tied, the book says you can make within this salary range, and [surprise, surprise] you're already making the top of that range!" Book or no book, this is a tactic I've seen from all 4 out of the last 4 companies I've worked. Every manager will say this. Oh, yea I swear, I'd love to give you a 5% raise, but you're at the top of your range already!
Ask HN: How bad is the GPU shortage for startups/researchers?
Curious how folks are faring with GPU access for training / inference? (those of us outside of big contracts / commits with the big three)

I've seen folks try to address the shortage through a number of mechanisms:
- Co-op pool for recipients of a specific AI investment fund
- Collating a transparent price book (Shadeform)
- People putting a rack under their desks?

(Full disclosure, I am thinking about renting out GPUs, trying to get a pulse on the market)
Don't forget that you have multiple axes to negotiate on: I would happily take a 25% pay cut if it came with a couple months worth of PTO. Then, when they're unwilling to budge on the PTO, you can leverage that back into getting the salary number moving again.

I find that kind of haggling to work best as a synchronous, ideally face-to-face, communication. In that setting, it's very unlikely that you can't manage to smooth over any too ambitious of an ask and arrive at some sort of agreeable number.
Does any company remain being the same company after ~20-40 years then?
I throw all my sketchbooks. I don’t have a lot of space but whatever I do like, I cut them up and keep them in a “Big A3 Book” (some terrible quality paper I bought form ASDA i refuse to touch cause it upset me)
Why is that incongruous? I bet the McDonald's CEO doesn't think you should eat it at every meal. It has a place. It would actually be a lot weirder or untenable if he advocated moving all work to zoom.
Slack’s Migration to a Cellular Architecture
The usual recommendation is to go get another offer at the salary you want and use that to make your case.

Now, I use to think that the "spiteful boss" was a myth, ie the boss that is going to be all pissy because they feel blackmailed and give you a hard time. I actually did encounter it for the first time in 2 decades a few years ago. I was VP of eng at the time and one of my reports used this technique to show that we were clearly lowballing him (which I knew, but budget was controlled by the CFO). The CTO got mad with a big M, saying that he didn't want to be blackmailed or held hostage of whatever. Threw a big tantrum and we basically lost an engineer.

As I said, it was the one occurrence in my 20 years in the industry so it's not very common. Most managers understand that it's business, you're showing them the data and they don't want to lose someone who's doing a good job.