skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm generally in agreement with all your points, but I would propose that it's not _only_ the hardware that is serving as NVIDIA's moat.

They have poured an enormous amount of time and effort into CUDA and its related libraries. All of that work—in addition to the hardware—is what makes their moat deep and wide. If AMD and/or others invest similarly in ROCm, that will be very telling. Oh, and the work that the Mojo folks are doing is also very interesting; I could also see that as a looming threat for NVIDIA!
Summary: They stopped using vector databases because the performance benefit simply didn't matter compared to how long the LLMs took to respond, and you should focus on using technology to solve problems and not pick the trendy option.

But that never got anyone promoted.
Burnout is an emotional, mental and physical exhaustion. It can lead to depression so I would treat it as your body telling you something is wrong.

Maybe start with a two-three possibly four week vacation totally unplugged and see if that helps you.

However, you need to take a step back and look at the forest rather than the trees with respect to the demands being made of you (and that you say 'yes' to). These can be family demands, work demands etc... They build and build causing stress eventually leading to burnout and possibly depression. Also a question to ask yourself is "are these demands asked of me aligned with my values?". Many times we are living the lives of other people and not our own. So you experience an emotional dissonance.

You also have to let go of the things you cannot control. You can't control the economy, you can't even control your job or necessarily the fate of your startup itself. If you stay, your company could implode. Since you have two incomes and can make some sacrifices maybe things will be ok.

Also while you are on sabbatical or vacation or just in general you probably need to learn some stress management skills. I would take up mindfulness meditation and see what that brings you. Connect with the present. Explore your mind body connection. The people really into meditation say it works so may as well give it a serious try.

Clearly something has to change and that could be something a simple as your perspective.

Also I'm not really writing to you here, but rather as a note to myself.
Quiet actuators, a proboscis, and a bit of ricin, and the world waits.
It's not like that is a unique set of IO features, even for the SoC that is used it is somewhat sparse. Granted, bolting on more IO on such a low-end chip would have limited use, but SATA and PCIe have been rather common on small single board computers for over a decade.

As for what software you can run: you can do that on any PC, that has nothing to do with this board.
Numpy is also my favorite Vector DB.
I dunno, it's pretty slimy to me if I go $3 into overdraft and then the bank denies that transaction and instead hits me with a $30 fee.

Now I'm $30 in the hole and I didn't even get my cellphone bill paid, just a fee for the privilege of having tried to do it.
After publishing this post, I was alerted to the fact that there are some AM5 motherboards that do officially support ECC.

ASRock's Rack line supports it, for example: https://www.asrockrack.com/general/productdetail.asp?Model=1...

This ASUS motherboard also claims to support ECC: https://www.asus.com/us/motherboards-components/motherboards...

Neither of those were out at the time I originally got my AM5 motherboard (which was right as they came out -- the performance numbers were so good I couldn't help but spring on one early.)
being poor means the bank manager won't speak with you, and also the bank doesn't much care to have you as a customer
Hah, you're totally right.

I'm one of those guilty of spending hundreds (or maybe low thousands? yeesh, I don't want to know) of dollars on Path of Exile cosmetics that have no gameplay impact. My justification (ok, self-rationalization) is that it supports a small company* making a really good free-to-play game that has no pay to win elements. As a gamer, I want more games like that, and cosmetics is a way for the whales who can afford it to subsidize free players, while still giving the game a large and thriving community.

That model is so much better than the typical Asian MMO (or Diablo Immortal) that are straight-up pay to win, gating progression behind various currencies that you have to spend real money on.

But yeah, at the end of the day, these are totally ephemeral things with no real value, disappearing into the ether when that game shuts down or the company goes away (which has happened with many of my favorite games, sadly, like Firefall).

*Side note: Path of Exile is actually mostly owned by the Chinese conglomerate Tencent. But development for the Western market still happens at Grinding Gear Games in New Zealand, and the monetization is still cosmetics-only in the West. I think Tencent made a separate version with pay to win for the Asian markets.
the vast majority of anecdotal experiences ive come across, those who regularly exercise also work harder than those who don't. when you spend time exercising, you make it up with increased productivity and more positive outlook on life.
Yes, it seems more likely they would do something like roll down a large boulder rather than push the enemy down the stairs. Having been up a few of these staircases recently, the prospect of something heavy coming down from above sounds absolutely terrifying.
At Tangerine in Canada, it was both— they denied the transaction and hit me with a fee.
Maybe they're easier to build that way if you're right handed?
the problem with the critique of "oh they didn't use the correct prompts" is that prompt engineering is highly dependent on the model. You could technically create an LLM that would not work with the "let's think this through step-by-step" magic prompt (i.e. exclude anything with similar phrases in the pretraining dataset).

Yes, they used GPT3.5-turbo, which would have its set of magic key phrases. Should they have used it? I'd say probably not.
Not everyone is in a position to change their life to pursue that kind of job. Others may not have the educational credentials to get such a job.
> Also the CEO (Amjad Masad) bullied and threatened a college student working on open-source to shut down their project

Rewriting it:

> Also the CEO (Amjad Masad) bullied and threatened a college student (who had interned at repl.it previously and was familiar enough to be e-mailing the CEO back and forth) working on open-source (an open-source product very similar to repl.it) to shut down their project
Thank you for sharing this link. I had no idea it existed but it is exactly what I needed for backing up my photos en masse.
Right, don't make a non-reversible connector appear reversible... I would have thought this is Connector 101.

It's so bad it takes me 3 attempts to plug in USB-A blind, at least 50% of the time.
Yes, especially at the big banks. Either they became big by making more money charging fees or they stopped caring about their customers because they’re too big to care.

Smaller online banks & credit unions typically don’t have any fees now.
From the pastoralist's point of view their hunting grounds are being raided by agriculturalists. And it is states -- which are without exception agricultural socieities -- that are responsible for the vast majority of human slavery in history.

> since most of my ancestors were peasants I believe my PoV is reasonable.

Uh, that is... quite a leap there. Not sure that one follows from the other.
You literally mentioned appealing to your long-term relationship with the bank. You know full well that your situation doesn't generalize.
I wish I could still believe that :( In recent years, it seems like playing by the book is a surefire way to lose everything you've worked for over the decades, as one corrupt party increasingly ignores norms and laws and just sets out to destroy the country for their own gain (and it's working all too well).

Wish the "good guys" had somebody like that, willing to bend the rules where necessary, but for the public good instead of personal gain.
I'm glad they settled this one; however, to my knowledge nobody thought Anti-Matter meant "Anti-gravity" w/rt Alcubierre warp drive. That's not what they meant by 'exotic matter.' But ok. sure. There was doubt that exotic matter could exist at all, and nobody had doubts that anti-matter could exist. I think there is something lost in the translation here. (No I'm not saying that warp drive still must be possible, I just think people, including the article writers, are conflating things.)
Space robot workers... How far away
My Mac Mini that I use as a server is positioned where I can't tell which port I am plugging into with any accuracy without unplugging it which I don't want to do
You can’t collect a VAT refund on services, only goods purchased and leaving the country. The VAT on your restaurant bill is non refundable.
Yeah, Light Gun games are always going to be an issue. Is it the latency (the white dot appearing too late, after the game code already checked), or the brightness that's the issue? I assume the former.
> I'm not sure if any of the community-run alternatives are as popular as Reddit is now (or was before the user exodus).

This is the key for Reddit - there are no good alternatives.

Specifically for entertainment. That subreddit about the book series you're reading, the show you're watching, the video game you play, and the sports team you cheer for is hard to replace.
I had a quick skim through the paper; but I may have missed the breakdowns by sport.

It would be interesting to see the statistics for sports that pay extremely well (NFL, Soccer, etc) compared to the Tier-2 sports (Volleyball, Track and Field, etc).

Tier-2 athletes have always had to juggle the prospect of never earning enough money with their sport and hence have had to focus on education too.

It's not surprising that after sporting careers the skills of being at the top of your sport (ambition, adversity, etc) transfer to Business and Finance.
Banks in the US must provide a way to opt out of the overdraft "service", after which they will simply decline transactions instead of overdrafting the account and charging for the privilege.
Pointing out that you're a loyal customer often fixes problems. (And being nice about it.)

It works a lot better than complaining on the internet!
Then don’t look at a hundred landscapes.

You made an argument that threads was showing people a hundred landscapes and that this decision was also ai ergo it’s an AI problem.

It might take humans a dozen hours to make a landscape but there are still thousands of human drawn landscapes and you’ll grow equally bored looking at all of those, no AI required.
Thanks so much for the info!

Another thing is that I'm a little bit confused about all kinds of "LLMs". I looked into hugging face but there are so many different models and they may have variant size or structure. Which model can be a good start? I guess gpt4 is too large to handle in a lab environment (sorry I don't really know much about LLM :).
Wild to see some actual code from the FTX repo. Laughed at the takeaway of making sure you at least hide your fraud behind some messy code.
That's exactly it. It's like a tv network disabling your mute button whenever you see a commercial. You can send me data but how I view it once it's on my network is my right. Just like mail.
There's also the light/dark/system (auto) ternary approach, which this seems to encourage the designer to ignore in favor of a binary toggle. It seems to beg the developer to treat the mode as a negation of whatever it currently is, which leads to bad results and time-dependency of setting.
That's a lot of words to say "I knew what iCloud was 10 years ago, continued to use it, and I continue to reap what I have sown."
As does counter-artillery. Fighting against a technologically-savvy opponent, you get off one shot and you're dead.
The Tree of Complexity
911? good, hi. I'd like to report a murder.
When Old Law Meets New Tech
Wild to Mild Campaign Drives Key Message to Tame Flu and Reset Expectations
https://archive.is/MTbIT
That's good to know; thank you! I had exactly the same reaction as junon!
Linux Kernel in Scratch [video]
The bank manager didn't know what my financial state was. After all, why would I be overdrafting if I was rich?
Legit plot of The Last of Us.

Sounds like plandemic 2 is going to have better writers.
> The origins of covid-19 remain unknown. Most scientists think it jumped from wild animals to humans at a meat market in Wuhan. But it is also possible it escaped from a virology research lab in the same city.

> Now a similar argument has broken out around bitcoin, the first and most used cryptocurrency.

Bitcoin jumped from wild animals to humans at a meat market in Wuhan?
I feel like potentially reflowing BGAs on a high speed I/O PCBA you want to run continuously for a decade is riskier than simply shorting a pair of diode-protected pins.

Link training can be disabled in the BIOS, which would make searching for borderline bandwidth settings a quick operation. The results would not be very repeatable, but that's not important.
> What's the tax on the individual items in question, also, because it's all variable based on what you're buying, what city you're in etc.

You're overlooking the context. Someone said it was easy to let young children go shopping in places where taxes are included in the sticker price because you can give the kid $5 and the kid knows they can buy any item with a sticker price that does not exceed that or a combination of cheaper items whose sticker prices do not sum to more than 5$.

The implication was that this is harder for young children in the US, presumably because young children won't be able to do the complicated mathematical finagling that the rest of the world apparently thinks Americans do every time they go to the store.

My point is that in the US you just give the child $5 plus enough to cover tax, and then the child can use exactly the same approach those kids elsewhere use: if sum of sticker prices <= $5 they have enough money.
Poor people change banks every year? I don't see why being poor meant you changed banks often.
If you're going to post something like this, at least mention what said elephant is. It might not be as obvious to others as it is to you. And that current so-called elephant in the room might be different depending on where you live.

That said, I wouldn't mind seeing more discussion about:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Babar_the_Elephant
The “free” plan is 5gb. Apple does not grant you a perpetual license for 5gb, you buy a plan with more space. Why would you assume that a 100GB plan gives you 105GB?

Do not rely on iCloud Drive. It is absolutely terrible and unreliable on anything except MacOS and iOS.
"Frank Chambers chose to forgo an investment of $500,000 which, if held until the stock price hit its 1987 high, would have appreciated to more than $37 million."

Oi, hindsight is great. The '87 high was about $3.50. ADSK is sitting at $210 today or $2.2B for that 500k investment.
Visual feedback influences consistency of locomotor pattern in Asian elephants
That's certainly a take.

There have been nomadic pastoralists living alongside partially and fully sedentary agriculturalists in Central Asia for thousands of years. The parts of the continent that are inhabited solely by nomads are those areas that are largely unsuitable for sedentary life and were adapted into environments suitable for pastoralists instead.

The idea of nomad communities that subsist solely on raiding poor sedentary farmers is one that gets a lot of play in historical documents (conveniently written almost exclusively by people living in sedentary communities), but it's not a narrative that's well supported as the historical norm by the archaeology in most areas. Instead, much of what we see is produced by complex economic systems involving mutually beneficial trade between these groups. You might have heard these kinds of systems called "silk roads", for example.
Showing up in person is always more effective than calling on the phone.
You can write a normal SELECT * FROM FOO query and use a tool like Pebble Reports to do the pivoting: http://www.pebblereports.com/videos/crosstab/
Yes, but the key is the RL simulation can be simple & unrealistic since it's used to train offline, not to plan & control live: a control systems approach like the Boston Dynamics requires excellent physics modeling because that's the only way it can do planning or adjust for errors while controlling the actual robot in real time, while the NN is trained to cover many possible physics during development, and at runtime in an actual robot, it just shrugs and adapts to whatever crazy scenario it finds itself in.
Jim Whitehurst is the new CEO at Unity
Reversible is overrated. what I always liked were the genderless connectors. Actual engineers probably don't like them because making a long cable by chaining a bunch bunch of short cables together is almost always a bad idea so they are very rare. The only two I have ever seen in the wild was the IBM bus and tag cables(a strong contender for the most manly data connector I have ever seen) and some unknown telephone headset cord with a seriously over engineered connector.

The bus and tag connector:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bus_and_Tag
The simplest approach is to just use a large string or array of lines. However these each suffer from poor performance as either the size or line length of text increases.

Every time this point comes up in the design of text editors, I feel compelled to mention that memory bandwidth is dozens of GB/s on modern hardware; even when it was only a few MB/s a few decades ago, text editors that used a single contiguous buffer (not even a gap) were very common and no one complained about their speed. Indeed, the benchmarks in this article confirm that.

As another popular article that's often submitted here says: computers are fast --- very fast for human timescales, and in particular manipulating text of humanly-encountered sizes. More performance is lost in unnecessary abstraction and belief that "clever" optimisations (like theoretically-optimal but considerably more complex data structures) work, when they actually turn out the opposite.

There's a lot of dogma around advanced text editor structures and what is "optimal", and IMHO a lot of that is totally unneeded accidental complexity created by those more interested in theoretical daydreaming than real-world solutions. Thus, I think even a gap buffer is "overkill", and a single "gapless" buffer is really sufficient. Don't overthink things.
Is there a good source to find DS homebrew/docs on developing for the system?
No, an antimatter black hole is literally just a black hole. They're the same thing.

> Does the total mass convert to energy? If so what happens to the gravitational effects?

Energy density and mass density are the same thing too. A kilogram of hydrogen next to a kilogram of antihydrogen gravitates in exactly the same way as ~10^17 joules of equivalently distributed photons. The only difference is that the photons won't stay equivalently distributed for long.
Well of course a bunch of ultra-tiny car manufacturers are going to use outsourced engines. The major automakers never have, outside of a few odd projects (like the Ford Taurus SHO with the Yamaha engine) and joint ventures.

Heavy-duty trucks and aircraft are very different situations.
WTF are you talking about? There were tons of ancient civilizations in the Eurasian land mass.
So, are we allowed to have a divisive political discussion about how algorithms are creating divisive political discussions, say?
Dilithium is a mediator for a deuterium/antimatter reaction that generates the fantastic amounts of power required. The warp field is generated by some sort of coils in the nacelles.
What size are your embeddings?
Indeed. https://blog.youtube/inside-youtube/new-era-video-infrastruc... , https://research.google/pubs/pub50300/ . (Search the paper title and you should be able to find the pdf itself elsewhere).

I'm not actually sure on balance how much transcode gets done in hardware vs software, since it's also very amenable to using batch compute that's otherwise idle. I'll guess that most or all live transcoding - streams, on-the-fly transcode into formats not pregenerated - are done in hardware, and transcoding new formats for the back catalog are probably done on a mixture of mechanisms where and when capacity is available.
(Source: Googler, not on YouTube though.)
It trains from scratch (no imitation-learning or hand-written policies to bootstrap off of), so it's all emergent: https://extreme-parkour.github.io/resources/parkour.pdf#page...
We can focus light waves , sound waves, x-rays, etc.

Why can’t we figure out how to focus gravity waves?
I connect my printer via USB for this exact reason. Connecting it to Wifi is convenient but just poses too many potential attack vectors. I agree that ink levels are not sensitive information, but a lot of things that you print (or scan if your printer has a scanner too) is sensitive. Given that so many printers are inadvertently accessible on the Internet [1], I'd rather just connect my printer via USB and avoid that issue entirely.

[1] https://darknetdiaries.com/episode/31/
Nah, it'd fit. Everyone knows that sales is the only part of the company that actually makes money. Everything else is just a cost center that needs to be shrunk aggressively.
Exactly. The checking vs savings thing is bogus too. I asked the banker when I opened my first account as a kid, what's the point of using the checking account at all, she had no answer.
Thanks! There is so much more to come!
I've got a few SurgeX units that I've taken apart. It's an inductor in line with the hot, and sense circuitry that shuts off a downstream relay when the input voltage rises. I don't remember sizing up the capacitance but surely there has to be some, and presumably they've done the math so that the voltage rise downstream of the inductor is slower than the relay switching speed.

> a hot-only surge seems pretty unlikely

What do you mean? N/G should be bonded and at the same voltage with exterior surges, assuming a dedicated circuit. Across L-N/G is the only place a surge can show up - barring parasitic coupling of the equipment to ground/environment, or erroneously connecting a wire to unprotected equipment.

And compared to TVS ones that pass all the lines through, relying on their ability to shunt overvoltage/current, with the active element actually dissipating much of the surge power? The series mode of operation at least seems analytically tractable.
More than anything the Zimaboard website just turns me off to buying this, ever. For an enthusiast community, start w/ raw specs up front. Not fancy picture of what's possible. We all know what's possible.

The website screams of trying too hard w/ the specs eventually listed when you scroll all the way to the bottom of the pages.

Perhaps the target is people that don't know anything about technology? Or maybe to show off some web dev skills.
>A good server adds to the experience beyond the food and ambiance and help turn new customers into regulars.

What, by acting like their best friend?
This is definitely something weird about America. Here outside America, it isn't like that at all. There's no tipping, and servers just give you what you ask, though of course they'll answer questions and such. But they don't socialize with you; I don't need to pay someone to act like my friend and chat with me. It's only in American restaurants that I've had this annoying experience.
I agree fully. It's just not a junk fee similar to the hotel ones.
I've had this happen about three times now, but every time the actual problem is pocket lint inside the connector. After I clean it out it is back to working like new. It's not always obvious that it's lint until you start scraping back there since it gets jammed pretty hard when plugging in the cable.