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Full title: "Google Cloud demonstrates the world’s largest distributed training job for large language models across 50000+ TPU v5e chips"

Summary from Bard: "This article is about training large language models (LLMs) on Google Cloud TPUs. It discusses the challenges of training LLMs at scale, and how Google Cloud TPU Multislice Training addresses these challenges. The article also details the results of a recent experiment in which Google trained a 128B parameter LLM on 50,944 TPU v5e chips. This experiment is the largest publicly disclosed LLM distributed training job to date."
Cant your ISP reverse lookup the IPs you connect to based on your IP headers anyways?
Median housing was smaller 50 years ago and people had more kids then.

Poor people have smaller houses than rich people yet have more kids.

Very few people are dying to have a baby but they just need a little more money or a state stipend before they can afford it. The problem isn't money although it makes for a convenient excuse. The fact is that for young people today, there are too many competing interests. All of the 26 year olds I know want to go to Italy next summer not change a diaper. The average age of average and first time motherhood is higher than it's been in the history of the human race. It really is uncharted territories.
> At least with Python3, there was eventually Python 2.7 to permit a compatibility layer to move over. [...] IPv6's hard break with IPv4 means that the switchover likely won't happen anytime soon.

There was no hard break. The same way you have compatibility layers between Python 3.x and Python 2.7, we have compatibility layers between IPv4 and IPv6. For instance, 6to4 meant that anyone with an IPv4 address automatically had an IPv6 network, and could talk to IPv6 hosts; I used it for a while, and it worked nicely. Another one was Teredo, which worked even if your IPv4 host was behind an IPv4 NAT. Nowadays, the preference is for newer transition mechanisms, like NAT64/DNS64 and 464XLAT. On the software side, IPv4-mapped IPv6 addresses allow software written for IPv6 to transparently use the host's IPv4 stack to connect to an IPv4 address; this last one is very similar to the preferred approach of writing Python 3 code and using a compatibility layer to make it run on Python 2.7.
> So far as I'm aware IP addresses exist out of a functional need, not a moral imperative, but if you have a source with regards to that I'd love to read it.

OK

https://www.theverge.com/2017/12/19/16792306/fcc-net-neutral...

"For Licklider, this wasn’t just a new technology, but a new way for human beings to exist in the world."
Me neither. It's a shitty business model, depending on deceiving and preying on consumers.

Only problem is, media infrastructure costs $$$. How else you gonna finance it? I'm seriously open to suggestions -- I'm fresh out of ideas myself.
Could the system that disables a vehicle when impairment is detected also be triggered remotely in vehicles that are always "connected"? If so, under what circumstances could this take place?
In my city in Germany they are now doing exactly that - no show must pay. While there is no flood of bots we have trade fairs and too many people hosting a group guests started reserving seats in Chinese, Italian, Steak etc. restaurants to later offer their guest a last minute choice.
NYC Doctor fined $100k for fake reviews
Cribbing off [another comment](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38222198), there's as much as 72kW of lighting being focused on a few square meters of the plane's skin. Direct sunlight at noon at the equator is roughly 1kW/m²; the artificial lighting here is well over an order of magnitude brighter than the sun.
What about one senior engineer working as senior for a few years in company X and then joining in parallel company Y but working as non-senior (it’s easy to hide working experience in your cv). Doesn’t sound that stressful.
It would be much better, and more effective, to have police everywhere so you could ask their permission. Or, this would work, prohibit cars so nobody would ever die.

Stupidest law ever.
I am surprised that there isn't a more niche advertising provider for the more controversial sites as there are abundant products and services that cater to the Jezebel demographic, from political fundraising ads to particular wine brands to clothing marketed for the body positivity movement.

Quaker Oats would steer away from their kind of content as Republicans/pro-life people also eat oats, but others should be quite happy with that demographic.

> A well-run company would have moved away from an advertising model

Is this working anywhere, for anyone? I keep seeing people bring up moving away from advertising, but to what? Even Alex Jones was built on advertising crappy supplements and overpriced water filters.
Hey Luca, thanks for all your work on Deno! Deno Deploy's KV runs on FoundationDB rather than SQLite like this open source version. Are there any plans to support Foundation as a back end for the open source version?
i always figured it was a shortcut to explain why there's only a few wizards instead of everyone being (or training to be) a wizard.
Because you can edit the title after the fact?
For me (Firefox on Android) the navigation does happen but the menu has to be manually closed.
I'm very sorry to hear that. It's almost an evolutionary bug to make shortcuts and consider all members of a misbehaving group evil. There's very little anybody can do about it.
Access Denied
You don't have permission to access "http://www.census.gov/library/stories/2023/11/world-populati..." on this server.

I guess, I'm in the part of the world that shouldn't know this.
That could very well be.

On the other hand, I feel like others are missing out on those moments where one of my friends calls and says "Hey I'm in this and that part of the city and I'm hungry. What do you do?". And I'm like "I'm sitting in a cafe in that other part, drinking coffee, tinkering on my laptop. How about we meet in 30 minutes in this and that restaurant?". And they are like "Deal. I also have my laptop with me. Have you seen the new OpenAI API? I just cobbled something together with it that I would like to show you.".

Most people seem too entangled in job and family for this.
ARM's Cortex A72: Aarch64 for the Masses
Fuses don't help with overheating cables/sockets that run well within the specs. Schuko is rated for 16A peak, still most chargers only run it with 10A or 13A. I had a nearly melting socket already with 10A.

Most electric car charges nowadays can sense overheating by a decrease in voltage (i've seen a voltage drop from 225V to 205V within a few minutes, and the charger immediately limited the current to 6A). And a lot of them also monitor the temperature of the cables and the plugs.

Now the real issues enters the game: extension cords. If the temperature issues happens on the other side of the extension cord, maybe 20-50m away the charger still measures perfectly fine temperatures on the plug. But the socket the extension cord is plugged in may be already burning.

That's why you should never ever (!) charge an electric car on a Schuko extension cord. Even if everything is in perfectly working condition and rated for 16A.
It bothers way me more that the same glyph can differ within the same word than it satisfies me that the glyphs are very slightly more proportional. The third "m" in the "minimum" example being narrower than the "m"s adjacent to the two "i"s makes my brain itch. Same for the "i"s in "miniature". Makes me feel like I'm looking through a fish-eye lens, or that my glasses prescription is off.
Also, I picture a person fleeing an abusive partner having their car decide it's better to pull over and let them be killed.
This is a false dichotomy. Vast resources have been poured into the development of COVID vaccines - and it worked!

There are 8 billion people on this planet, we can do more than one thing at a time.
I will never understand why it isn't simply called The Crabula.
Yes, see my reply to the other commenter above.
https://archive.vn/Nmk3g
Star Control II / "The Ur-Quan Masters" might count as well.
The laws are already in place to convince (most) people against impaired driving. The threat of losing your license and being fined is already there. Increase the punishment along with naming and shaming the criminals publicly. Imprison second time offenders as they clearly have a drinking or substance problem that needs treatment and they can't be trusted to operate motor vehicles.

This is just a slow creep towards total governmental and manufacturer control of vehicles under the guise of ~safety~. I hope I can still buy offline vehicles for a bargain well into my life but with society and the law pushing people towards electric vehicles, I feel like that window is slowly closing because electric vehicles are even more guilty of this.

I hope the government will force these companies to release the algorithms used to determine whether someone is driving impaired so the public and other auto companies can work together to improve reliability of systems and also help up-and-coming automakers to implement these systems without another expensive barrier to entry to get past.

But they won't - and we'll be stuck with sub-par programming that doesn't account for edge cases, dirty sensors, broken cameras, electrical problems, and requiring expensive first-party repairs at your "authorized (st)ealership" whenever a part of the system has a slight problem.

Owning things is getting more and more expensive - no need to tack on more governmentally forced features that would really only prevent the die-hard drinkers and drug users from driving when they should be locked up in the first place.
There are types of restaurants where reservations are essentially, if not literally—mandatory. And maybe this doesn't appeal to you, but I can't imagine you'll have many chances to dine at a three Michelin star restaurant with this kind of approach.
By "strict" I meant nothing negative; rather, I meant that I thought "Occupied" was mindblowing, so I naturally would like suggestions from someone who thinks it is "ok."

The recommendations of others oftimes guide our choices of what to watch. "Breaking Bad" = "Mindblowing?" OK. How about a few more of that caliber. Thanks!
From experience developing with GPT4, minutes would be too long for me.

I use it for exactly this use-case, converting mockups to code, but you need short feedback loops.

It will get things wrong. There'll be things it misunderstood, or small tweaks you realise you need after it's done its first job. Or maybe it misunderstood part of your design, or just needs extra prompting (ALL CAPS for emphasis, for example).

Even after multiple iterations it will extremely rarely be perfect, which is fine, because once it has a decent readable solution, you can obviously take ownership of it for yourself.

Where minutes might be fine would be in a "handoff" workflow, where designers do design and then handoff to devs. 10 minutes in between of AI processing to get something for the dev to start on would be acceptable, and the dev could then take that first attempt and using GPT4 refine it a bit. But I don't really like handoff teams anyway..
Who wants to read ‘mostly harmless’ 8 billion times though?
Eltanin Antenna
> 1. Add v4.1 support, but keep using 32-bit addresses. 2. Start using >32-bit addresses when ready.

When who is ready? Different people/organizations will be ready at different times.

Some people will not be able to get IPv4 addresses so will be 'stuck' with being IPv4.1-only.

Given the finite IPv4 addresses, some will move the IPv4 addresses to revenue-generating areas and will go IPv4.1-only internally—which is what prompted Microsoft to be IPv6-only/first internally: their IPv4 addresses got sent to Azure:

* https://www.arin.net/blog/2019/04/03/microsoft-works-toward-...

And once that happens, which it would inevitably too with IPv4.1, we're at:

If you have a IPv4-only network elements/devices, they cannot talk to IPv4.1-only devices/services (and vice verse), so you have to create translation mechanisms because some devices may not yet have the update 8B-capable network stack. And sometimes an IPv4.1 network is an island in a sea of IPv4, so you have to have tunneling. Of course some may have both IPv4 and IPv4.1, and want to talk to something has also has IPv4 and IPv4.1, so now you have to have code for source/destination selection.
> Are there others like me, who never reserve a table at a restaurant?

Yeah, I don't really like needing a reservation or appointment for everything; for specific events like birthdays or graduations it's probably good to make one, though.
Yes, it certainly could be; however, it would be up to the maintainers of that project whether to accept contributions. "Competition" is good for everyone though. Maybe they'll adopt some of our ideas. :-D
TI has had the opportunity to engage the RISC-V community for several years and has, so far, declined to do so.
Because there are no countries super pro-baby. Some countries have better policies, but still babies are really expensive to rise. Of course if you want them to grow in decent environment, with separate room for each child, good school, hobbies etc.

Year or two of maternity leave helps, but parents will struggle untill school starts.

Few hundred euro per month will help, but not too much, will not cover the difference in rent of bigger apartment.

Career? Forget about promotions for few years.
At work, the m1/m2 airs are exactly what we buy for most employees. The base spec is absolutely fine for most of our staff, and they’ll get 3+ years out of them.

Edit: devs get 32G pros though, and we loathe the extra RAM pricing on those. Cheap compared to the cost of a developer, though!
To push waste heat to a building across the street, it's usually necessary to add heat at the source n order to more efficiently transfer the thermal energy to the receiver.

OTOH other synergies that require planning and/or zoning:

- Algae plants can capture waste CO2.

- Datacenters produce steam-sterilized water that's usually tragically not fed back into water treatment.

- Smokestacks produce CO2, Nitrogen, and other flue gases that are reusable by facilities like Copenhill and probably for production of graphene or similar smokestack air filters.
That Denmark treated Iceland as a colony (and very poorly for a long time) isn’t exactly news despite there being common lineage all over Western Europe.
The Unix timestamp will begin with 17 this Tuesday
Yes it'll actually have to more than double, since the high-value users (from perspective of advertisers) will more likely opt-in to the ad-free plan. The opportunity cost will be insane otherwise.
I am glad you have recovered from that 15 year coma - welcome to the world of 2023.

There have been a lot of technological improvements since you have been away but I am afraid JavaFX didn’t make it.
Oracle Cloud does. Linode did, I don't know if they still do. I believe Vultr may. It would take some time for someone to research all cloud providers.
Scrolling and attention are the product that’s sold though.

Can ads on the platforms in question be opted out of?

I mean google lets people get out of YouTube ads. YouTube is practically unusable with ads once you’ve had adfree.
Many people get mad if these things are made too explicit.
Are you serious? Bjarne Stroustrup Lives in New York and Linus Torvalds lives in Portland, Oregon. They are my examples, not yours.
Thanks for the original source. This is pointless nonsense, but it’s exactly the sort of pointless nonsense I want to read on a Friday evening!
Yup, the EU is aware and complicit.
I support this public shaming campaign and hope Apple listens this time. They do listen sometimes (hello ports in new MBPs!) but usually they do it with a delay, so I'm not sure about M4 but M5 should have 16 GB in the base model.
Very few countries have positive birth rates anymore. Literally all of South East Asia was below replacement in terms of birth rates in 2022. All of Latin America was below replacement in 2022. For the first time, there are countries in Africa that have now fallen below replacement.
Thanks for this clear explanation
Robotics will be ready well before then
So they didn't vote for him but they also don't revolt... With the russian military bogged down in Ukraine seems like the right time to throw one.

Edit: Clarity
Depth-of-Field Simulator
Some (maybe all) of these are backed by CRIU: https://criu.org/Main_Page
What purchase under $1000 has changed your life the most?

Most of the first x86_64 PC's that I loaded Linux onto. They were a hobby and that hobby turned into a career that I was able to retire from. It's still a hobby and the machines are still affordable.
Fair enough. My point was, in developed world, if you’re poor you might not have kids because of its costs. If you’re rich, why would you have a kid if they might experience extreme problems in the near future? And it’s also hard for me to imagine to have ~3 kids, even though that’s needed to sustain the population.

But yeah, might be a big problem in the future, appreciate your input.
Can you use that in Azure Flexible Server for Postgres as well?
AI can't pour concrete
Thanks!

Yeah, the GPT stuff was just a fun easter egg. :-D
Le Pen has toned down her anti-EU stance a lot since Phillipot left the RN. Leaving was no longer part of her program for 2022, for instance.
Ask HN: Modern Treatments for Hydrocephalus?
Is there some new treatment for adult hydrocephalus? Asking for a friend. Installing a shunt seems very invasive and risky.
AI assistants that are able to do routine phone calls are only going to get better, though.
So the secret to building a viable AI business... is to build a viable business, with AI?
Yeah, around the same time a decent wage used to be $20k.
These lights date from the 60's, and were, and continue to be, the cheapest and most reliable possible way to throw boatloads of light at something. They are also flexible in that you can load them up with very narrow bulbs, as used here, or wide, or many choices in between.

It's hard to overemphasize just how much the film industry values reliability over everything else. These things are stupidly reliable. There's probably a big case somewhere on a truck nearby with a bunch of replacement bulbs of different zooms, and that's about the only thing that can go wrong here.

I've written the software stack for two different high-performance theatrical LEDs, and the hardware side is near rocket science to be ultra reliable and ultra performant. It's possible to get the same qualities of light out of LED's as from a tungsten bulb, but it's expensive and difficult, so most LED's lights are ether noticeably different, stupidly expensive, or both.

On the other hand, the maxi brute here costs 1/10th as much, and has been battle tested by generations of roadies.

Plus, the warm glow is nice.
This is the and Apple is mystify given that they are very focused on image and advertising. However I tolerate that more, as fixing formatting in my job is actual hell, people are tying to get work done and the tools are objectively broken and it’s a de facto standard.
IPv6 is a privacy nightmare, no privacy technology designed to fix IPv6, fixes it.
With the difference that it keeps the font monospaced (in average), and usually kerning doesnt change shapes
It looks like it's also switching between variants of the same letter which are different widths, not just varying the space between characters.
I've been dreading this about my 2007. You probably have some time ;)
I’m not stopping you from being wrong and I’m certainly not stopping you from amending the Constitution.
https://jwt.is is also fully client-side
Well in the US there is at least the hypothetical of becoming the next Jeff Dean. In Sweden, not so much. I think it’s disingenuous to pretend there’s not a difference.
How is it any worse than IPv4?
Sorry, but that is moving the goalposts. Quick prototyping was mentioned, but now we seem to be talking about some undefined balance between typing and no typing for prototyping. It seems :any solves the problem.
This is a great advertisement for a VPN.
Sanctions have failed - the Ukraine counteroffensive this summer failed, and Ukraine's allies are running out of war materiel to give, especially given current threats in Israel and Taiwan, while Russia successfully scaled their manufacturing up. It's time to negotiate with Russia for peace before they decide to seize more of Ukraine's territory, and remove the sanctions in favor of a war indemnity against Russia to pay for the damage to Ukraine.
I worked on 3 different fantastic teams at Google for my 7 year tenure there. It's a big company so you are going to find outliers on both ends of the spectrum but at least on the teams I worked with we were all productive, competent, and pretty chill.
The birth rate of Bangladesh in 2022 was 1.75. That's below replacement. Feel like a lot of people have not checked the numbers lately and are just assuming global birth rates haven't changed since 1993.

Birth rates are no longer a Japan and France problem. It's an everywhere problem.
The Gentoo bug tracker has a specific meta-bug for tracking packages that break when built with LTO. The vast majority of the bugs are "failed to compile". It seems like that is the most common issue by far.

There are cases where it causes runtime errors as well.

Sometimes software is written incorrectly and has "undefined behavior" (you probably know this already). The thing with UB is that it may or may not cause a visible bug at runtime. Sometimes these bugs go unnoticed for a long time.

It's really common for code with UB to run without visible errors when compiled without optimizations, but when you compile it with optimizations it segfaults at runtime. LTO is adding another form of optimization and sometimes the transformations the compiler made just happen to cause already existing UB to "surface".

This is what I meant by LTO "causing" runtime issues to appear!

There are cases of this happening in the Gentoo bug tracker, and in the Linux kernel!

https://lwn.net/Articles/512548/
> So if someone asks, you have to produce proof of ownership

I mean, I don't think EA can barge in and demand you prove you bought a copy of Dungeon Keeper back in the day (or since), just because you're running KeeperFX.

I think the practical matter is mainly that KeeperFX can't redistribute the artwork and levels themselves. So, as another user said, you need to copy over the files from GOG or a CD, etc.
No? the purpose of a job is to create value.