skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
These explanations are all very interesting, but the reality is that any good business person must decide when to invest. The conditions have been far from favourable for years in Canada. Real estate is simply too expensive. Sure commercial real estate for the plant or office or whatever facility you need is outrageously expensive, but then, when you wanted to hire somebody or try, they need to pay rent or a mortgage. People aren’t demanding outrageous wages because they suddenly think they’re worth it. They just know how expensive it is to pay the bills and groceries.

Government policy, both the conservatives and the liberals, are very cosy to large corporations. Most of their announcements, that supposedly help small businesses are simply far out of reach due to requirements for revenue or number of employees, and is essentially corporate welfare. The BDC and EDC are a joke, both crown corporations run by people very disconnected from any sort of reality.

Of course it was driven by interest rates, but the insidious thing about interest rate is it allows zombie corporations. These organizations that should’ve gone out of business being acquired or shut down, but because of their size and revenue were able to continue to borrow more and more and more money at extremely low interest rates. of course it’s coming to an end now as financial reality hits. Many of these companies are forced to cut, but they were actually hopelessly dysfunctional so over time though finally either just be bought or go to business.

all of this to say, the last 20 years has been a terrible time to start a business in Canada but a lot of markers are indicating things could be getting better soon. While it may be good for somebody starting a business isn’t good for necessarily the average person.

anyway, the thing I find absolutely laughable is that we need more education for entrepreneurs. The funniest thing I’ve read all year. there is no education that will make someone an entrepreneur, but someone may learn enough to be scarred out of taking the plunge.

finally, the idea that there’s a single definition of Canadians is completely stupid and misinformed. culture varies dramatically from coast to coast and from the south to the north. if someone thinks that nobody wants to work, or nobody wants to make money, it speaks about the people that they associate with not the country they live in. I think that is true most anywhere.
I subscribe to my own replies so I know when people reply to me. This is yours.

https://hnrss.org/replies?id=Uptrenda
>At the end of the day, no one should be forced to do business with anyone else.

In the end of the day people shouldn't punish people for their political opinions in unrelated domains like their jobs. In fact, in the end of the day, diverting political opinions should be tolerated and cherished.

The rest is noise, as if anybody held a gun to their head before to do business with him...
Are you suggesting everybody should use event sourcing instead of using transactions? Because the general consensus on event sourcing is "don't use it unless you absolutely have to."
Going through a formal CS program will give you an intimate understanding of CPUs

Please tell me you forgot the /s.

I have a PhD in computer engineering from a top-20 school in US. Took a bunch of grad level classes, passed the quals (my specialty was ML accelerators).

I do NOT have an “intimate understanding of CPUs”. I probably know a little bit more about CPUs than an average programmer. Which is very little.

Modern CPUs are extremely complex. Almost as much of impenetrable black boxes as modern neural networks.
Being able to eat less requires medication nowadays? Well, I guess my own struggles are just as fucked up, though I have different, less externally obvious vices.

Being human ain't easy, in some ways today it seems harder than ever.
I guess that works just as long as according to their discretion that you're "one of the good ones". Folks who are in the out-groups have experienced the tyranny of this "discretion" for generations. Sundown towns didn't disappear as soon as the civil rights act was passed.
I frequently travel to Toronto and the number of people driving Teslas there has increased 10X in the last 5 years. This could be a result of new Chinese money though and not native Canadians.
Tools like this allow for easy transformations and data wrangling while also keeping project history in a way that helps preserve lineage. Very valuable.
Yeah. But also those infinite boreal forest, 10 of thousand of pristine lake… There is something about it.
USA also has a significant amount of generational wealth to go around. Canadas is isolated to a few dozen families in Montreal and Toronto. Canada is at its core, a resource extraction economy. Generational wealth doesn’t really come from that these days.
This is very neat, the minimalist approach has a nice aesthetic and some of the examples here are way beyond what I thought you could do with it.
Are we still talking about Convoy?
Perhaps some folks here are too young to remember the Pentium FDIV bug[1], but it's not complete BS to distrust the calculations.

1 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pentium_FDIV_bug
If they're doing equivalent work for equivalent pay I don't think anyone involved has much of a chance for any legal claims, regardless of titles. The value of a title is far too subjective.
NVIDIA's SMs are most comparable to the 'CUs' on AMD GPUs or cores on Apple GPUs, generally speaking. The "cores" are subsets of the SM that perform individual operations, IIRC.

See this diagram from an nvidia blog post: https://developer-blogs.nvidia.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/g...

( https://developer.nvidia.com/blog/nvidia-ampere-architecture... )
How is [[F]] simpler than FFFF?
The quality is ok but their update policy is terrible.

I have a jelly one but it never got the promised upgrade. They were just like 'hey it's very difficult due to the limited storage so we're only going to upgrade the pro version' :(

And later models have been getting 1 upgrade at best too.
ng is a common shortcut for "Next Generation" (ex: syslog-ng…)
Engine.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nginx

Nginx (pronounced "engine x"...
Machine learning is a massive counter example to this trend. Specialised deep learning hardware is just supporting an even more general GPT.
15 minutes isn't a sufficient amount of time to reliably recharge a drained ICE car battery.

Ask any tow truck driver.

Edit: Cool, apparently you've completely changed your comment. No worries, it happens. The original comment read something like "I don't believe this, a 15 minute drive is more than sufficient to recharge my battery."

Edit: Shit, my bad, thank you @clippy, this is the second time I've made this mistake in as many days.
Still waiting on Asus to turn the bootloader unlock servers back on so I can use my Zenfone 8 with LineageOS :(
While this is true and arguably of more importance, the thesis of the article was something quite specific: "the economic cycle that has led to the usage of a common computing platform, underpinned by rapidly improving universal processors, is giving way to a fragmentary cycle, where economics push users toward divergent computing platforms driven by special purpose processors". This is likely to exacerbate the issue you describe, but it is not caused by it.

I don't think your observation was any less true 20 years ago either. There hasn't been a "decline", as such - more of a failure to realize potential. Office Space (1999) was full of people doing mindless busywork that could easily be automated.
Not even top 100? Total waste of time then.
Still miss Navipress and the ability to just push up a page after writing it.
This sounds like a perfect use-case for automation using recorded macros. The failure (or perhaps solutions exist) is lack of facilities in our desktop OSes.
More recently: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34907885
The Amazing Digital Circus [video]
Similar to the Black Mirror episode USS Callister, a person wakes up suddenly in a new digital world that is real to them, with no knowledge of how they really got there.

For existential reasons touched on in both USS Callister and The Amazing Digital Circus, I will never upload either my consciousness to something or take backup scans of my brain should such technology become viable in my lifetime. I cannot take the risk of either my full consciousness, a copy of such, or a rebuilt consciousness based on a brain scan being used for something without my consent. This could include unending existential torture, "AI" slavery, or any other possible nightmare scenario one could imagine.

I'm sure there are many here who are on the opposite side of the fence, where they can't wait to shed their body for virtual existence. What do you think of the idea of these risks and their implications?
I think there's a solid argument that e-bikes are essentially motorcycles lacking a variety of safety gear.

That may be an advantage where you can ride e-bikes on dedicated bike lanes, but is probably a disadvantage if you ride e-bikes on roads shared with cars. They lack the speed to match pace with cars, forcing passing, and they are more prone to being hit from the side, since e-bikes tend to ride on the right side of the lane and drivers underestimate their speed.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wM8Xli2KTzI
Interesting that you link to one of Gillian's papers, I met her in the 1980s.

From the full paper of the link you gave, regarding traditional method of abortion in Southern Arnhem Land women:

Voluntary controls are of course an important issue in any discussion of overall fertility.

A detailed survey of the available information on contraception, abortion and infanticide among Aborigines has revealed that Aboriginal women saw children as a contingent good (Cowlishaw 1979).

First there were widespread attempts at contraception by taking medicine, performing rituals and avoiding coitus.

Which poses the question, why avoid coitus if there is (as you claim) no understanding of fatherhood and conception.
Next you'll be quoting Quadrant as authorative.

FWiW I've never read or met Pascoe.

The part you've skipped over and not addressed is direct video recording of aboriginal people living traditional lifestyles talking about propagating and spreading plants.

Especially Bush Tucker Man which was a public facing documentary series running alongside the Australian Army recording traditional food practices and sources for the purposes of keeping soldiers alive in the northern territories of Australia.

This directly contradicts your position that aboriginal people didn't know what seeds did.

How you make such a statement about people that spent several tens of thousands of years in a place watching plants and animals and shaping the environment about them suggest you've not thought this through and likely never lived in aboriginal communities.
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I hope he doesn't have to work these hours. That would be awful, even if you loved it.

The risk of burnout would be very high, and not reasonable for such a profoundly knowledgeable resource.

"We all take two years to develop one generation, how come you guys can do it in one or one-and-a-half year?" And they asked if some of your customer transfer technology to you or what not? And I told him, "No," I told him that, "That's not true." I think he probably implied we steal technology from customer, the way he talk.

And I say, "I'll tell you why." I said that, "When we develop one node, basically you have some learning cycles. First, you do some simulation. And you have some idea, then you run wafers to prove that. So, you run a group of wafers according to simulation and you have some splits. The wafer runs through the fab, they come out and you measure them, you analyze them, and you try to improve and you run this again. This again, you run. So, this is learning cycle." At that time, "It takes about six learning cycle, roughly, to complete one generation." Of course, you had some short loops and not just one. I said that, "My R&D wafer in the fab run much faster than yours, because my R&D engineer works three shifts and you only work one shift. So, your R&D wafer move eight hours a day, my work/move 24-hours a day. So, my wafers go three times faster, even if you are twice smarter than me, I still beat you up." <laughter>

https://www.computerhistory.org/collections/catalog/10279267...
I don’t understand (some) people’s negative visceral reaction to vegan / plant diets.

My best guess is it’s the very small but very vocal minority who actively criticize meat eating.

The majority of vegans and vegetarians don’t really care whether other people eat meat. It’s a diet, not an ethical philosophy for a lot of people.
I’m sure FDIV-like bugs are absolutely eclipsed by typos and misclicks from doing things manually.
It's going to take them a while to catch up to CUDA, though. Even with stolen IP it's going to be tough to make 1:1 drop-in replacements. The amount of existing investment into AMD and NVIDIA architectures is huge, as evidenced by how bad the Moore Threads GPUs are - it simply isn't easy to enter the market as a serious competitor. Even Intel is struggling.
By having lived there for almost a decade and interacting frequently with the government, many different departments (taxes, immigration, law enforcement, municipalities, various ministries). I don't see what America has to do with it.
Can’t speak for OP but I moved to Exploratory.io. And the beauty of it is, it’s a GUI for R so you can export your transformation steps to R if needed.
You should add a jurisdiction because I doubt these rules are worldwide.
I would love to hear what the people who inherited maintenance of your projects might say.

There's another word for boring: stable.

The mark of a good engineer is not the ability to craft sexy, clever, bespoke, ego-boosting applications. It's recognizing there's an appropriate (rare) time to do so.

If you want a challenge, there's always golf or Advent of Code.
Treat it like somebody grading an essay. It is either pass/fail or you can grade from 0 to 100 though you probably want to develop some kind of scoring rules for the latter.

I know a lot about evaluating classification but I am seeing people struggle w( evaluating text genersators; why don’t you look up my profile, send me an email, and we can talk more.
Carbs Make You Fat Scientific Fact or Myth? [video]
But HE still could buy from ASML...

40 years ago, one only had radios to disect and fat circuit boards to etch. Access to docs was really bad. And people had to be pros at 22 to overcome these home/garage limitations.

So. Progress.
Did years of aolserver. Wrote some amazing stuff in tcl. Only python comes close lately to the power and clarity I could get with it.
Rembrandt died broke with dwindling fame
Unless in Japan where it means "no good" hence :NG emoji:
Before there was javascript for UI, embedding Tcl in an application to control a C/Motif GUI seemed like a powerful thing in the mid 1990s, but that project went away and never came back. In retrospect I wish I had kept a Tcl layer for use with each of the dozen or so GUI frameworks that came and went over the next 20 years.
For anyone that needs to know how a CPU works for performance engineering similar to a GPU, the details of the microarchitecture matter a lot even within the same ISA. I am not aware of any formal CS program that teaches anyone the nuanced internals of various microarchitecture designs. Everyone I know with this knowledge appears to be self-taught regardless of where they went to school.

I think the descriptor “intimate” is overstating the case if you don’t know how to optimize code on different implementations of the same ISA. Most formal CS programs give you a generic understanding of CPUs, more like a survey course, not enough information to do serious optimization.
I largely don't blame the specialized processors, they exist to fill a need. The transition to mobile/tablet has been very much a producer-consumer relationship. In the old days, normal users would one day "View source" and dabble in HTML and making their own web pages and journey into making their own programs. There's no parallel to this on mobile today. Perhaps the next generation that grew up on Roblox and using yet to successful end-user visual development tools will.

Is there a web-app like MS Access or Visual Basic today, maybe Airtable, others?
I have an ebike which is nice when I must go to the office. However for shorter around town trips a regular bike works great.
> Edit: Cool, apparently you've completely changed your comment.

It seems much more likely that you intended to respond to another post[0] and misclicked.

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37971474
I am fully aware of the definition of genocide. There have been three in modern times: the Holocaust, the Armenian genocide, and the Rwandan genocide.

Go look at a map of the airstrikes and tell me Israel is indiscriminately bombing with the explicit intent to kill civilians.

And yes, I am implying that ethnic cleansing is more okay than genocide. In case this needs to be stated: I do not think either are good things.

Live a peaceful coexistence? Is that really what you think this is about? Why won't Egypt give innocent civilians the opportunity to leave the area? Why won't Jordan?

I personally think Israel should do more to limit civilian casualties, and they need to get the West Bank settlers back the fuck out from the Green Line. But the rhetoric you're using tries to cast the whole thing as a Manichean fantasy. Who does that help?
It would be nice if there was a general expectation by now that people would have a sort of “intro to scripting” type class in high school. Not everyone has to be a programmer, in the same way not everyone needs to be an author, but everybody ought to be able to write a memo, email, or shopping list.
Sound Design and Creative Technology for Physical Spaces with Digital Layers
NVIDIA is intentionally being obtuse and frankly dishonest calling what’s effectively a vector lane a “core” and similarly using “thread” in “SIMT” to mean the execution of one of those vector lanes.

Yes, their architecture is different from many in that they support a separate program counter per lane (which is why they feel justified in calling this a “thread”), but ultimately it’s the rate and throughput of ALUs that matter.
Has anyone used Tcl for LLM prompt control?
This isn't a fair characterization, though. At least not as reductively as you're making it sound.

Google ALSO performs transcription/live captioning/speaker diarization on-device, for privacy, for instance.

The features being discussed here are the generative AI features, like Magic Editor and their heretofore not-yet-launch Video Boost mode.
if someone files litigation, that's obviously gonna sour the relationship, even if "retaliation" is legal or not
> How many iPhone owners know their phones cannot be turned off, i.e. a faraday bag is required to stop radio transmission?

This can be fully disabled in Settings.
How do you copy something without adding it to the clipboard history? I can't find how to do that?

Either way, I'm pretty sure it could be added if someone cared enough, e.g. by adding a new target.

It just seems to me that if someone is able to access your clipboard history you've lost already, and the entire feature seems more of a convenience thing than a security thing.
I would say it's also done for copyright reasons. Google will not do assistant read aloud if the article is behind a paywall. But the new read aloud that is done on device allows for reading almost all any website.
Ripped off from
https://news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/google-must-pay-fe...

Mods please fix link.
I think http/2 will be the odd one out (and abandoned) longer term, with http/1.1 being retained for backwards compatibility, and http/3 being more common.
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In a general sense yes. For example, if a man was unjustly denied a promotion and some random unqualified woman got the job instead (gender swapped version of the article) they might have a case. In your friends case...I dunno. Seems like if they're being paid the same it's hard to argue discrimination.
I am surprised that your physician is not giving you a topical steroid cream?

I have trouble once every few years and the steroid cream always clears it up rather quickly.
Motorcycles have a significantly higher top speed. Thus ebikes are somewhat safer, but they are not safe, wear a helmet. Probably should have a better helmet than a regular bike.
It's way too premature to say we are turning into fragmentation cycle regarding bespoke hardware. GPUs are still universal computers, they just use a different model with different performance characteristics (and applications, which stem from these performance characteristics and also inertia/maturity of tooling) than CPUs. ASICs and specialized processors have been a thing for a long time and their application towards some "new" things like crypto, hft, and a handful of cloud optimizations is hardly a new trend when seen in the larger context of their being used all the time for now-boring, once also-new technologies like networking hardware and embedded applications.

I'd argue that the last three decades have actually had massive shifts towards more generalized and ubiquitous computing that may continue even further. First, with the introduction of PCs the computing landscape shifted away from bespoke hardware and software to more standardized plug-and-play hardware and software. With the internet, everybody got a middleware called a "web browser" that standardized UI development on a single computing model. With mobile computing, we got a more restricted model of userspace that standardized what applications could do and even how (app review, software signing) you could do it. Cloud did the same things to various extents to server software. Except for at the height of Windows' PC dominance, it's never been easier to write software usable by such a large portion of the market, and the absolute number of devices and users that applies to is probably an order of magnitude more than existed during peak-Windows.

Everybody in tech knows single-core cpu performance gains are slowing down and that the remaining incremental improvements will eventually end too, so what comes next is on peoples' minds. IMO this article is jumping the gun though - it's still way too big an undertaking to use specialized computers (and I don't count GPUs as these) for all but the largest scale or most performance sensitive use cases, as it's always been.
Reversing Obesity = Getting Shredded
For my car the fix for this is to plug a cable into the aux port. I just have a plug with no cable permanently plugged in and the car defaults to aux (with no audio) when it starts. Then Android Auto will happily take over from that if I wasn't to listen to music.
>uranium and other minerals belonging to all Americans out of the ground, without paying a cent in royalties.

Couldn't you easily (try to) argue this for essentially any industry? The 'royalties' would be the taxes (both on the corporation and the future employees) that would be generated. As the writer noted themselves, they don't even own the land, they're essentially mining it for the US government.
They’re getting paid when they discover people are breaking the weird little useless rules they wrote. As Adam Smith wrote in the Wealth of Nations: “Power is money”. Remove their power and you give money back to the people.

It’s weird this is a story about the USA and not somewhere I’d expect it more like Russia.