skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Looks like an HGX drawer, so there’s only GPUs on this. The heatsinks towards the front are probably on NVLink switches.
In 2021 they spent $1.6B to buy WetaDigital (founded by Peter Jackson among others)
Maybe it's a lack of technical understanding.

Are you familiar with keggerator systems with usage quotas? ("Free as in beer")

How can a computerized keggerator system (or a bartender) limit a person to a specific number of drafts from the tap? Is that spyware, or what you agree to when you draw from their kegs?
I played with this for a bit and found it too simple. If you don't draw the example shapes exactly, it confuses them. I recommend playing with "delete" versus "x" from the example shapes to see just how poorly this does. I could not get it to consistently differentiate between different drawing techniques.

This would certainly get you started for gesture interfaces, where drawing a shape the same way every time is expected. It would not be a good fit for the use case here of diagramming.
This is incredibly boring to me. Create an environment where people feel safe and empowered to speak up and show them you value their judgment and are genuinely receptive to feedback, hire great people, manage out the bad fits, practice basic empathy as a matter of habit, and this will not be a major issue, just correct deviations from expectations with careful nudges. A healthy culture is the highest leverage tool in your toolbelt.

What the article describes isn’t wrong, but is duct tape over a poor work culture. Just fix the culture. Doesn’t that sound more fun?

(If you aren’t in a position to influence the culture and can’t afford to leave the job, then absolutely deploy the duct tape. My heart goes out to those in this category)
You lucky. I always dreamt of one, that and a TARGA graphics card. The last one not only for the looks but speed as well. Converting a *.TGA to a indexed color took a considerable amount of time.
The very first sentence of section 8: "The Congress shall have power to lay and collect taxes, duties, imposts and excises, to pay the debts and provide for the common defense and general welfare of the United States"

If education and welfare programs aren't "general welfare", I don't know what is.

Your comment reads like a trump legal filing. Literally citing cases that disprove your point.
I don't have to clean up and slog through fecal matter, which I've done. I don't have to pull electrical wire and get shocked, because it was still live, which I've done. I don't have to work in a kitchen that's 100 degrees and hope that I don't slip and spill 300+ degree oil on me, which I've done.

My friend almost got Hepatitis C, because he was trying to save someone's life. My other friend got Covid during the pandemic, because he was trying to save lives in an emergency department.

My career isn't over, because I broke my hand too many times and I can't lift a 14 inch skillet. I have heat, because I make more than $12.00 an hour. I have health insurance (I'm American).

Yeah, I count myself really lucky.
He's also very specifically said that he would like the world to slow down so he can finish stories before they're obsoleted by reality. This is why Halting State got one sequel rather than two: http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2013/12/psa-why-...
Also, the NSA is currently recommending to change SHA3/Keccak inside Dilithium and Kyber into SHA2-based primitives... https://groups.google.com/a/list.nist.gov/g/pqc-forum/c/SPTp...
There's a workaround - if a table has an "electric_user_id" column then a user with that id (based on their JWT) can only read rows which have the same id. It's basic but it works for us. https://electric-sql.com/docs/reference/roadmap#shapes
Reminds me of this is how the police behave on getting hardware:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uo63QQsm5Dw&t=72s
If you really believe that humans can or do operate "rationally" about any significant part of their lives, you should probably step back and re-examine your own behavior and that of those around you. Your definition of "rational" and the assumption that it could be universal is itself irrational. The fact that you spent any time typing a comment on this site is wildly irrational.
That form says that out of 570M loss, 250M was from repurchase of stocks, but maybe they then spend it on RSUs for employees.
> These days I only buy CPU's with math coprocessors.

...is there any other kind anymore? Unless you work with microcontrollers, at least.
At least they haven’t tried to do a Tesla S, 3, X, Y progression.
A couple reasons just on the performance side:

- SHA-256 has hardware acceleration on many platforms, but SHA-512 mostly doesn't.

- Setting aside hardware acceleration, SHA-256 is faster on 32-bit platforms, like a lot of embedded devices. If you have to choose between "fast on a desktop" vs "fast in embedded", it can make sense to assume that desktops are always fast enough and that your bottlenecks will be in embedded.
Kinda crazy that despite this transmission devs are acting the way they are
"Hey Exec team, my other portfolio investments have real estate exposure so I need you to sacrifice the performance you clearly witness from WFH employees and your own personal bonuses that are tied to that performance for the benefit of my other investments."

I don't buy it.
This is really an incredible piece of read!
The concept mapping between Linux and switch ASIC can't be more elegant.
They name their architectures after scientists (Maxwell, Pascal, Turing, Volta, Ampere, Lovelace, Hopper). Thats what the GPU initial stands for.

As for the number, the die name counts down to 100 (with GA107, for instance, being a small GPU die and GA100 being the big one), and the big datacenter GPU as a product inherits the 100.
One problem is that "web components" is not a thing, you don't make "a web component". "Web Components" is the name a stack of three things that, taken together, make up the Web Components API.

You don't really make "a web component", what you make is a Custom Element, which might use a Shadow DOM, and might use an HTML template. Three things of which the most important one is the custom element.

With the core concept being that you're just making "more HTML elements", everything you can do with those, including which attributes and JS API they support, is up to you, and the way you put them on a page, the way you interact with them, the way you listen for events on them, etc. etc. is the exact same as any other HTML element. If you known how to write web pages the "old school" way, then you already know how to use custom elements. You just need to learn how to declare them.
I don't think that type of question or logic applies when predicting stock markets.
My previous office was like that. The individual offices were around the exterior wall. The cubes were in the interior. Only managers got to see daylight. It was fucking depressing.

Wife's previous office was better. Offices were around the interior, so cubes go light from the windows. Those offices had windows, so they too could get some natural light during the day.

Current office is open plan, which is kinda dumb. Seating chart has me and another middle manager next to each other. Of the people who come in regularly (no forced RTO), we're the most frequently there AND the most frequently on calls. Le Sigh.
I see point (2) very often combined with a higer-up also bypassing hierachy. I even get the feeling that the higher-ups feel like they are helping because they are so hands-on.

What happens in every case is that the priority of that task for the assignee is the highest. Sometimes this is a help, because often people have to multitask a lot of tasks with the same priority.

But in even more cases it might be a huge distraction.
There are several pictures of DJI products in the article.
It is payday
Their salaries are in the $250k to $500k range.

The rest is stock. Unrealized gains that may or may not be realized in the market.
It says they made a loss of $125 million this past quarter. That would have been fine a couple of years ago, when interest was zero and cash basically free. This is not ok in 2023 (and actually most points in history).
same, after 1h of technical descriptions of how they did it,
I didn't find out WHERE / HOW we as users can use this feature!!
Most people on HN who speaks about how good tech is usually live in the US or Eastern Europe, where tech salaries are relatively high for relatively little upfront requirements.

On an unrelated note, I've had a former coworker who lived in the UK and was contracting to mostly US companies for this exact reason.
Not the original poster, but here are some examples:

- Paste a bunch of log code about which I have no idea. Ask to identify and explain the problem.

- Wireshark / dmesg / OpenWrt configuration pasting, ask to fix the problem. For instance, I fixed a Wi-Fi issue in a heterogeneous setup, which turned out to be caused by a stray DHCPv6 server.

- Paste C code, along with an error log, and ask to fix the problem.

- Paste my program and a sample. Ask to extend my program.

- Proofread and format Markdown nicely.

- Paste government letters, asking for a response that includes <what I want>.

- Paste a chat log and obtain documentation.

- Paste a tax declaration, and ask to check for consistency.

- Paste my code and ask for critique.

When discussing versions, people often confuse versions 3.5 and 4. I am always referring to version 4.

Keep in mind that ChatGPT has been seriously and intentionally downgraded since March.

This debate frequently leaves me wondering if I'm encountering a coordinated effort by bots. The examples I listed above come very naturally to me. I can't understand why people don't try to paste whatever they're working on and check the results. If it's too complex, asking it to critique instead of create, because that's easier. It feels as though there's an effort to shape public opinion into viewing these tools as "immature" and suitable only for edge cases.
Even the act of parading in general is questionable in its effectiveness. What is the intended goal? That somebody has a more favorable view of you? I don't think it does that, at all.
Is this surprising? This is the direct result of raising minimum wage. After few years, the spending power will be decreased again and it will need to be raised again.

Workers shouldn't be demanding a minimum wage increase. They should be looking for ways to increase their value to businesses, which will always increase their wages, regardless of government intervention.
this is less precise than the perf numbers as I don't really have a way to measure power directly, but with rerunning the benchmarks above locked to a cpu core, it boosted ~the same level for all 3 commands (about 5.5ghz), so should be ~the same power usage.
The difference would be that the fee you have to pay is scaled to the value someone else can get from the patent. So if you have a patent which is not valuable to you but is valuable to someone else, then you either have to sell the patent to them or pay a tax based on what value they could get from it.
Slow-Scan Television
Wrapping every third-party library in defensive code doesn't make a lot of sense since this isn't the most dangerous kind of bug. To make a one example of a million: a third-party database library that corrupts your database is infinitely more dangerous and that there's no form of wrapping that will save you.

Bad code is bad code. Bugs are bugs. This issue is not a major source of problems in Go code.
Okay, so I have this idea. And by idea I mean effectively a fever dream: Separate building connected by underground tunnel with one of those moving sidewalks and the building is filled with personal bathrooms for each employee.

Each employee is given a small budget and menu where they can decide what amenities their bathroom gets stocked with. You can decorate it according to your whims.

There's so many logistical and even geometric problems with the idea. But just imagine the retention numbers if someone was actually able to pull it off. You have your own personal bathroom overlooking a serene wooded area, wall mounted TV doing sports ball recap, small private library, and scented candle with that sent you can't get enough of.

[Although, honestly, I would be happy if they just made the toilet stall dividers go from the floor to the ceiling.]
The above actually plays into the heart of the first criticism (although the first criticism has some problems).

People more able to effectively play the valuation game will arbitrage the people that aren't, which will concentrate assets as the game is played over time and create more market power abuse, which isn't really what we want as a society in at least a residential property market. From a society perspective, we probably want a property market that makes it easy and affordable for the average person to get enough house to form a family and support offspring in a location that doesn't put undue stress on that family (i.e. through long commutes, unsafe streets, etc). I don't see how this tax system gets us to what we probably want and see lots of ways it gets us toward higher prices, market power abuse by sophisticated operators and all the problems that come along with that.
Grids have many-many consumers and many generators. So switching on a single AC does not have a noticeable effect. There are however correlated events like the famous East Enders peak in the UK (daily TV show at the end of which a large number of britons go and make tea with their 2kW electric kettles).

But weather can span large areas and the solutions can be roughly categorized as:

- some form of energy storage: batteries, hydro (can be pumped), flywheels, etc

- dispatchable power - gas fired turbines, coal or wood fired thermal plants, nuclear, etc

- demand side response - time of use pricing (like nordpool spot market prices) or getting paid to switch off your AC during peak hours, etc.

Traditionally we have had a grid management mindset of "generation adapts to load", everyone uses as much and when they need and grid/generation adapts to it.

With only renewables the mental model of "load follows generation" could make sense, people (or rather peoples devices) get a signal when it is most beneficial to consume and when not to.

I think the reality will be some combination of all of the above. Mostly renewables but also diverse set of renewables that are somewhat anti-correlated, like wind+solar plus distributed. The shortfalls could be filled with natural gas fired power plants. Some nuclear when/if built/available combined with smart cars and devices. V2G will get there eventually as well and then the car battery will have much more energy available than a typical home uses in a day.
One of my favorite books on the subject - "Down and Out in Paris and London"
AMD is trying.

https://seekingalpha.com/article/4650521-amd-set-to-deliver-...
>ia64 could've served the niche this article is catering toward

No it can't. Itanium is a terrible design due to combining both static scheduling and pointless complexity. The worst of both worlds.

If you really insisted on static scheduling, you would implement an EDGE [0] architecture. The idea is quite simple. Programs consist of instruction blocks with a finite size. The CPU performs some very basic scheduling on the block level so the expectation is that the compiler optimizes one block at a time. Additionally, these blocks can reference other blocks and form a graph to make up a complete program. The processor then schedules the instruction blocks dynamically.

Tachyum built such a processor and it turns out they built it out of order anyway.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Explicit_data_graph_execution
Bluetooth is a running joke around our house. When I'm talking on the phone and my girlfriend gets in the car and suddenly my phone call gets teleported to the car that I'm not in. When we go to watch a movie and the sound decides to come out of the projector instead of the speaker system. When I want to listen to a podcast outside and it start coming out of the speaks in the basement. Just give me a wire.
Why does the topic of individual couple negotiating decisions some people don't agree with make people so uncharitable and derisive? The person you replied talked about something critical to functional relationships which is the open communication about wants, boundaries, implications. Both individuals likely had unspoken thoughts or motivations. This is a relationship success story where people identify and share what is important to them. There's undoubtedly areas of the relationship where the roles are reversed, and I am sure you have your own "legos" too.
CMO is the best paid by far, and while it's still a big number, it's only $500k in salary - about the same as a senior Netflix engineer. All the rest is equity, which is only valuable if anyone wants to buy it.
It's not like someone else is going to provide them something better; everyone else is subject to the same limitations.

For example, I don't see any Apple users blaming anyone for not providing native browser engines by respective browsers on iOS. Or not being able to purchase Kindle books in-app. Or similar, Apple-induced limitations.
yeah, sure you cannot hang out with top models but maybe there is a space for you somewhere.
There already is no H.265 in practice. It exists, brilliant people spent loads of time on it, but it's useless. What's the fucking point?

AV1 is a clear example that non-patent incentives are clearly enough to make markets invent superior media codecs. And at this point, if AV1 succeeds, it will have succeeded in spite of the extremely hostile environment created by patents. If it fails, it will fail because of patents.
And spend 20 mins less waiting in there rain for them
It turns out that Steve, in this scenario, is functioning just like a manager. He has outsized influence, and you have to be careful what you ask of him. With Steve, there are no free looks, and he has the power to stop whatever line of effort you're pursuing. On the other hand, he can activate your efforts, give them the needed bit of polish, and get them in front of the right people.

But Steve is an informal manager, so he better be sure that he has the tacit approval of the actual manager for the team, or his actual manager's manager. Otherwise he's not doing his job, and this will eventually put him in conflict with exactly the people who have control over him.

And if Steve is your direct report, you better keep the situation under control, or Steve will eventually have to be let go and you will be made to look stupid for letting a talented contributor fall out of step with the team.
Thank you I’ll look into that.
If you’d like to see more regular patterns, I’ve built a browser app for creating and visualizing waveforms: https://merely.xyz/waves

It lets you explore the relations between shapes and ratios, less ferro and more Fourier.
Linux Desktop Usability
I was blown away how sharp an Apple ][ display is in person. It’s really hard to get across how cool it looks.
Lots of companies get tax breaks, and a city can threaten to take them away if they don't bring employees back to the office.

"Of the billions in tax incentives granted to US companies every year by cities and states, many agreements require workers to come into the office some of the time, or at least live in the region. For companies receiving these incentives, relaxing in-office attendance could be costly."

"New Jersey paused its on-site requirement when Covid hit. Last summer, though, the state announced that companies receiving those benefits must bring employees back to the office about three days a week — a lower bar than before, but still challenging for firms struggling to hang onto workers in a red-hot labor market."

"The state [of Texas] said it will revoke benefits granted under the multibillion-dollar Enterprise Zone Program to companies whose employees no longer work on site at least half the time."

The article does go into pushback the states are getting from companies for imposing these, to be fair, but it's clear they have some levers to pull in order to coerce companies to bring employees back to the office.

[1]: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2023-02-21/another-t...
Hacking Google Bard – From Prompt Injection to Data Exfiltration
it'd be nice if they picked them in alphabetical order
Patient Portals Are Finally Surging
I just don't get the point. They are cumbersome to use, so now you need a lightweight framework on top of the built in framework such as Lit (which btw is larger than Preact). Then they solve none of the real problems like state management, routing, etc... so you'll likely need to pull in more.

Sure you can get re-usable components. But are you going to pull in a re-usable web component that might use say Vue underneath when you use React? It just doesn't make any sense.
Fragment: The Database for Money
>Notably this was a physical object and not maths

Why is that notable?
actually i dropped out of high school a bit later and became full time sysadmin / programmer. destroyed my health working insane schedules and work loads for nonprofits, wound up in debt and disabled. Left that to start a family and been hobbyist since.

I still can't seriously contemplate the though of being responsible for someone else's systems without physical pain. But I can write software that does things I want, and share that to others for any use they can make of it, without worrying about it.
I've both worked with infrastructure as code, Pulumi, and was a grad student researcher in bioinformatics for several years, and I've developed the following take:

Biology is messy, tangled, and sloppy system built over a billion years under evolutionary pressure. There's no clear analogy to intelligently designed software, and anytime you make an analogy, like DNA == Source code, there's a mechanism which would destroy it's predictive power to explain biological phenomena. Like with DNA, computer software doesn't create the machine it's executed on, code is 1d, while DNA is definitely multi-dimensional, where it's folding, epigentic modifications, and other modifications matter a lot.

All the interesting biology for complex animals happens during the first few stages of development. There's no computational equivalent to this recursively constructive process. Additionally, biology has a single guiding principle through which we understand everything: evolution, and using computer analogies really diminish that.

Therefore, biology is biology. It's not analogous to a Von Neuman architecture machine, or any other computing device we've created. The first principles are simple different.
What happened to the H100 NVL?

https://www.anandtech.com/show/18780/nvidia-announces-h100-n...
This might be interesting for you:

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

> Nuclear latency or a nuclear threshold state is the condition of a country possessing the technology to quickly build nuclear weapons, without having actually yet done so.

> There are many countries capable of producing nuclear weapons, or at least enriching uranium or manufacturing plutonium. Among the most notable are Japan, Canada, Germany, the Netherlands, and Australia.

> Taiwan and South Korea have both been identified as "insecure" nuclear threshold states—states with the technical capability to develop nuclear weapons and the security motivations to seriously contemplate such an option.
"We developed a variation on the Ramer-Douglas-Peucker (RDP) algorithm, which is a curve simplification algorithm that reduces the number of points in a curve while preserving its important details. It achieves this by recursively removing points that deviate insignificantly from the simplified version of the curve."

This reminded me of an old side project, which others may be interested in. I applied Douglas-Peucker to Picasso for a talk at Strange Loop 2018:

Picasso's Bulls: Deconstructing his design process with Python
https://rrherr.github.io/picasso/