skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The best of the mainstream arguments against software patents has always been: What does Intellectual Property and Copyright not cover that patents do when it comes to software?

I only have a few friends I trust on such a topic, and my understanding is between IP and Copyright laws from them (ones a public policy researcher, the other a lawyer), it would be more than sufficient for protecting companies work and patents were lobbied only because their enforcement is more heavy handed, IE, it can stifle competition under the guise of "patent infringement"
Not really, I'm talking mobile phone and near OpenAI quality.

My workstation has allowed me to dabble - I'm familiar, a unified pool of memory does very little for me.

The experience with self-hosted stuff leaves a bit to be desired, both in generation speed and content.

The software needs work, I'm not saying we won't get there... just that we haven't, yet.

With a ridiculously beefy system I can eek out some slow nonsense from the machine. It's neat, and I can do it, I just don't find it very useful
We absolutely did.

H.265 took many years to gain traction, precisely because h.264 hardware decoding was widespread but h.265 hardware decoding wasn't.

Codecs simply don't take off in a big way until the hardware decoding becomes widespread. And video sites will maintain dual streams for many years, to continue supporting older hardware.
Netflix Research: AV1 at Netflix
Can someone help me understand how big of a deal this is?

Is this a global ban on using HEVC to stream UHD?

What does Netflix use to stream 1080p?

Assuming Netflix turned HEVC off tomorrow how would UHD streams happen on a random smart tv from almost a decade ago?

Feeling very confused because I wasn’t even aware that this was something on the horizon and video codecs isn’t a topic I know anything meaningful about honestly.
Nvidia at SC23: H200 Accelerator with HBM3e and Jupiter Supercomputer for 2024
Interesting patent, the "Near Eye Wavefront Emulating Display".

> "..tapered optical waveguide light emitting layer and piezoelectric-driven decentered microlens array"

Sounds similar to "Magic Leap Fiber Scanning Display" ?
I love diamondssuck.com, but it seems the article they link https://www.theatlantic.com/doc/print/198202/diamond/ is 404-ing (not available).

Likely De Beers did what cartels do and threw their lawyers to take it down?

diamondssuck should instead link to https://web.archive.org/web/20130522104756/http://www.theatl... which is a working link.

The long article is truly worth a read.
> Mediocre teams compromise on their ways of working to avoid conflict; sacrificing their team’s potential on the altar of individual autonomy.

Order the team to work from office 996. Unlock their potential, don't compromise! Kill the individual autonomy.
They don't have anything to withdraw?
Not as Infra as Code but you could think of it as another stack with its own architechture and programming language. Also runs on jelly instead of electronics.
Fucussing on microplastic in the ocean might be a bad idea. Most people don't overly care about the ocean, but they care a lot about their own health. If there is evidence that inhaling or ingesting microplastics poses a serious health risk, governments would be a lot more motivated to ban synthetic textiles or synthetic car tires. So research on the effects of microplastics on human health would be potentially a lot more effective than getting the world to care about animals in the oceans.
He is factually wrong since he claimed that it is impossible for pistachio trees to use more water to get more yields.

> No, that's impossible. Too much water makes it rot.
Not all of us, "we" are not. If it works for you great, but "we" agree to disagree here.
While I really like Blake3, for all reasons mentioned in this article, I have to say it does have one tiny disadvantage over older hashes like SHA-256: its internal state is slightly bigger (due to the tree structure which allows it to be highly parallelizable). This can matter when running on tiny microcontrollers with only a few kilobytes of memory.
> What would make you happier?

Just having a good life.. and if so, doing good things for me, whatever scope of fellows around me (could be whole humanity), and improve anything what I can influence somehow, like the near future.

That some lifeform in a far away future may have a shot colonizing Mars? Could not be more indifferent ;)
Same. Doing it that way then gives motivation to enable it in other areas as you find yourself wanting to do things with nix more and more.
This is a great point. I suppose my hope is that by being less shutdown-offended yourself, you can have an open heart to those that are shutdown-offended. Because engaging with such people is crucial to understanding what’s actually going on (rather than just lobbing facts and conflicting histories back and forth). Trauma is real!
Styli
It’s not just the pistachios. They’re the second largest farming company in the US, also growing oranges, pomegranates and other crops.

Their water use is across all their businesses.
How to decrease your empathy and stop caring about your users
I mean, I work at Amazon
If we must, let's talk about safety (2022)
Show HN: GPT Bot for API Security
> Why can’t we tell management that a question they asked is non-sensical?

You should absolutely do that (I tell my team to inform me if what I'm asking doesn't make sense.) If I'm coming to someone with a request, it's because I think they're the right person to address it. Just tell me if I'm off-base.

FWIW, I encourage everyone to not care about the hierarchy, so that may not work in every place.
Come on. People like that always have one price in mind for what they're willing to pay: zero.
From another thread:

> On my machine with sha extensions, blake3 is about 15% faster (single threaded in both cases) than sha256.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22237387
First: You are absolutely correct to note there a lot of grifters jumping on bandwagons. I've seen artists hate on AI that they see as ripping them off — and the example given by one artist I know personally, clearly looks like someone took one of their actual images, fed it into an img2img mode with a very small strength, and then tried to pass the result off as their own.

Second: Transformer models (and diffusion models) are merely the latest hotness in a long series of increasingly impressive AI models. There is no reason at all to assume either are the final possible model, not even the final word by OpenAI specifically.

Third: There is a direct correlation between the quality of output and the combination of training effort and example set size. This is why both image and text generators have improved significantly since this time last year.

Caveat 1: It may be that, as all the usual sources have responded to ChatGPT by locking down their APIs and saying "no" in robots.txt, they are already at the reasonable upper limit for training data, even though more data exists.

Caveat 2: Moore's Law is definitely slowing down, and current models are about (by Fermi estimation) 1000x less complex than our brains. Even though transistors are faster and smaller than synapses by the factor to which wolves are smaller than hills and faster than continental drift, the cost for a 1-byte-per-synapse model of a 6E14 synapse brain is huge. Assuming RAM prices of €1.80/GB (because that was the cheapest I found on Amazon today), that human-scale model would still cost in the order of a million Euros per instance. Will prices go down? I would neither bet for nor against it.

Will they (or anyone else in the next decade) create AGI? I think that's an argument in terms. Transformer models like the GPT models from OpenAI are very general, able to respond in any domain the training data covered. Do they count as "intelligent"? They can score well on IQ tests, but those are only a proxy for intelligence.

Given the biological analogy would be:

"Mad scientists take a ferret, genetically modify it to be immortal, wires up its nervous system so the only thing it experiences is a timeless sequence of tokens (from Reddit, Wikipedia, StackOverflow, and random fan-fic websites, but without ever giving the ferret any context as to what any of the tokens mean), and then spend 50,000 years rewarding/punishing it based on how well it imagines missing tokens, this is what you get."

I don't know what I was expecting, but it wasn't this.
Good, terse article that basically reinforces everything I've seen in my research about cryptographic hashing.

Context: I'm building a VCS meant for any size of file, including massive ones. It needs a cryptographic hash for the Merkle Tree.

I've chosen BLAKE3, and I'm going to use the original implementation because of its speed.

However, I'm going to make it easy to change hash algorithms per commit, just so I don't run into the case that Git had trying to get rid of SHA1.
Precisely.

The argument "but if you spin off this major part of the company, it wouldn't be profitable enough to survive on its own" is the whole damn point. Using your monopoly in one area to prop up an otherwise-unprofitable arm controlling another area is exactly the kind of behavior antitrust law is designed to combat.

Too many people (especially around here) seem to forget that.
Lots of people do, including myself.
Based on what reasoning? I don't think the US has signed a treaty with the EU regarding it?
I've known two converts to Judaism. One was a folk musician who came to believe (whether it was true or not I have no idea) that his grandmother had been a Sephardic crypto-jew. He taught himself Hebrew and Yiddish at a high level - the guy was honestly a genius, last I heard he taught at the synagogue - and married a Jewish woman from the US. He wouldn't talk much about middle east politics, but when pushed a bit on it (not by me) he did emphasise that you don't have to approve of everything the state of Israel does just because you're a Jew. He certainly loved Arabic culture and music, and expressed regret that he'd failed to teach himself Arabic.

The other guy was an evangelical Christian, and he definitively approved of everything Israel did, and then some. If anything, he was disappointed they didn't do enough to claim land in Judea and Samaria. He got some sort of official position at the Israeli embassy and defended Israel in the newspapers. No matter what, of course. I don't know exactly when he decided to discard Jesus from his beliefs, but honestly it didn't change much.

I'm guessing this trend is a bit of A but mostly B. Maybe a few people deciding to "get into their heritage" to say "not in my name", but probably more people excited that a country is bloodily living out ethnonationalist fantasies and getting away with it.
Netflix is known to experiment and use different codecs. They can switch it in Munich in theory
carmack and friends getting sprites to work on DOS machines was a technical feat. I think they used it for commander keen.
Sure. Unfortunately people already thought of this long ago.

Drugs often have more than one active pharmaceutical ingredient in them. For example, rybelsis vs mounjaro. The average senior citizen is taking four medications.

Pase 1 trials test doses of therapeutics far above what ends up on the market. In general there is a trade off between safety and effectiveness. Note that safety is evaluated in the context of the underlying condition. So worse side effects are tolerable for treating something cancer or HIV, than for treating something like a common cold,

The drug in the example given by the author, Alopurinol, is very hepatotoxic so cranking up the dosage is not something you can do without risk of killing someone. Or you could just use rasburicase - recombinant urate-oxidase - instead.
People might disagree strongly, but my recommendation for you is to look into lambda calculus for this.

There are two important concepts that can be generalized:
- Substitution, the method of renaming and replacing variables
- Abstraction, replacing a variable with another term (function) that can also serve as output

This should give you a more natural feel to concepts like parametrization or what it means that the solution to one function may be another function. Perhaps you might even look a bit into the simply typed lambda calculus which has given me yet more perspectives on the fundamentals of mathematics.
Bangladesh as a whole is a good case study on a few things:

1) Capitalism is the only reliable route for a nation to escape poverty. Bangladesh has socialism as one of the central tenants of the 1972 constitution, but abandoned it in the 21st century. And economic growth has increased dramatically since then and transformed the lives of people.

2) Government can play a significant role in a capitalist society through investing in public health, education, and infrastructure. The Bangladeshi government has been active recently, thanks to Russian and Chinese funding, building railroads, power plants, etc. This is an economic approach to development—combining a free market with an active government that facilitates business and builds infrastructure—that goes back to Abraham Lincoln in the US.

3) The government can play a large role in eliminating shady business practices, violent political extremism and crime, and generally making a society where people are safe to engage in commerce and build things.

The fourth leg of the chair is government efforts to wipe out corruption, as in China. But Bangladesh isn’t there yet, and may never get there.
These GPUs aren't going to heat themselves!
I used to work in the government, and we actually didn’t have this problem. A senior might ask for something, but —

- We seldom got imprecise questions.

- When we did get imprecise questions, we would ask a series of follow-up and clarifying questions until the task was correctly scoped.

It was only after leaving the government for the private sector that anyone was treating their superiors like infallible god-emperors. No one seems to think they can question a directive, even when the purpose of that question is to better fulfill the directive. It’s as bewildering as it is sycophantic. And worse, I don’t seem to be able to explain how crazy this is to anyone who has been in the private sector for a long time.
I'm in a place where we need more specific details on what is expected. This comes due to a lack of clarity in each ask, a lack of clarity in vision, a surplus of ego from management, and a lack of autonomy given to employees. Every time I think I know enough to make a decision on my own (or even within my team) and move forward, 6 months later I'm told to re-do it, because that wasn't the plan. I was never told the plan, and when I ask, I'm ignored. I don't think they know what they're doing either, which is why there is no clarity. They just know that it should be their decision, not mine, so I'm always wrong by default. It wasn't always like this, new managers, new style, and a lot of political nonsense.

Just a month ago I was on a call with 6 VPs. I wasn't invited, but someone added me, because I wrote all the code for the thing they would be talking about. It took me a good 40 minutes to get some very simple questions answered. I had to ask over and over again, in many different ways. At the end, I thought I had clarity. I did exactly what they asked, and then when it was done, and I explained exactly what I did (because I thought it was stupid), I was told to change it. My saving grace, was I knew it was stupid, so I made it very easy on myself to flip the logic, so that only took about 2 minutes. Before I spoke up on the call, they were going to ask someone to manually do some extra work at the start/end of every automated run, instead of just asking me to update the automation. It was like they weren't aware the whole process was automated end-to-end and it could be modified to make it whatever we want.

Some organizations are so dysfunctional there is no way to win.
Apple only added hardware AV1 decoders to their new laptops less than a month ago, and to their new phones two months ago. The M2 laptops released in January don't have it. The Apple TV doesn't have it yet, but unlike many set top boxes, it is powerful enough to decode some AV1 streams in software.
Optus says Australia outage was after software upgrade
Thanks for the reply! For what it's worth. After reading what I wrote again I think that this is a better way to put what I was saying: (I was going to edit my original, but I'll post it here since you've already replied.)

In terms of improving discussion by differentiating between disagreement and offense:

I think that in order for that to work, it is important that offense is treated as valid and worth addressing. First because, as the article points out, offense is often based on valid fears and concerns. Second because otherwise people will feel the need to present their offense as disagreement in order to get it taken seriously.
I think they would prefer HEVC for mobile devices and some TV models that don’t support AV1
It's not about stopping someone from cheating, it's about a social display of a big part of your life. For the same reason people get married - it's just a social display. For women it can have the added bonus of stopping men from approaching them so much
don't say it loud, otherwise people will try to glue themselves on your TV
The price is fixed by the editor, there is no state mandated price.

The purpose of the law is to have the same price for a book in every bookshop (with a 5% discount possible). This was supposed to help small booksellers, who could not compete against big corporations. And it kinda worked, as there are more than 3500 independent bookshops in the country.

The split up is not linked to the uniform price, I think it's more a cultural thing.
I think at the team level most individuals do want to make change and work in the most efficient way possible it's just at big multinational corporations what you can modify about your environment can be extremely limited.
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By hiring an accountant that can handle global taxes for us?
No, my best source is the writer Rob Henderson who first coined the term. The Tory ex-Home Secretary is entirely irrelevant.
Are you saying Google is currently trying to offer more value to society and they can't find the funds?

My core stance probably comes down to: I don't see how putting money into payroll can be considered a waste to society. It's distributing money directly into the bank accounts of the working class.

They are in a position to provide value to society. They have as large a team of vetted professionals as they can. A bit cliche, but the horse has been lead to water
> The best of the mainstream arguments against software patents has always been: What does Intellectual Property and Copyright not cover that patents do when it comes to software?

Instinctively, that’s where I think it should be, agreed.
Thanks. I have a physics background and actually work on the medical imaging side of pharma now.

But while I might be able to understand the technicalities, I guess what I'm looking for is something that explains (without much hype) what the excitement and challenges are.

For instance, for my field, a great broad intro is Eric Topol's Deep Medicine https://a.co/d/242xgSC
Ask HN: How to write a configurator for deploying a multi-service system?
Say you have a working service that has compute servers, a bunch of queues (Kafka, say), a distributed database, Redis etc. Most of the computation is fairly parallelizable.

Suppose your product manager says, package this system in such a way that we can sell our system to another customer. It will involve scaling down to varying levels (from demo version all they way up to a smaller multi-DC version for fault-tolerance), but significantly less scale than yours.

Now, although you have the experience to advise your customers about a system to achieve a specific scale, you don't want to be stuck helping them through their deployment. So you start writing a configurator that takes in a desired input transaction rate, and outputs a smaller clone of your architecture that can handle that load.

I'm looking for ideas/papers/advice on how to write such a configurator. The problem is that there are still a lot of variables, such as how many hardware servers, how many of each software server (keeping fault-tolerance in mind), their placement etc. Because each of these systems have different demands on cpu/memory/disk/network, they are inherently unequal in their effect. It is analogous to a recipe generator that spits out a recipe for a given number of people, where different components scale differently in terms of amounts and cooking time.

It is easy to describe a minimal system. Starting with the fault-tolerance criteria, one will need a minimum of a three-box cluster. One can start all the required services manually and arrive at a configuration that maximizes the TPS. Is there a nice way to compute how many of each will be required to handle double that base workload? I am thinking I'd put in as many hardware/software servers as the number the most performance bottleneck components require, and then do some elementary bin-packing of the rest of the components depending on their resource usage. If you have some guidance, pointers for me, I'd be most grateful. Thanks in advance.
> Optimising for individual happiness can result in less of the joy that people find in teams that achieve great things together.

I'll take the happiness thanks. You can keep the joy, let me know when you can share in the rewards of those achievements more robustly and I'll consider sacrificing for it.
> Everyone needs to operate in good faith. I've observed leaders ask their direct reports for something off-hand, without giving it more than 5 seconds of thought. I've watched direct reports operate as a "human command line", requiring precise syntax before they'll act. Don't be either of these type of people.

Do you think people in either of those situation would agree they acted in bad faith? The leader could say they were trying to avoid bikeshedding on what was clearly a quick and simple task. The direct reports may bring up multiple past interactions where imprecise requests led to a waste of their time and negative feedback. Telling everyone to just "don't be these type of people" is not very likely to be helpful.
I would assume that such algorithms falls in the "schemes, rules and methods for performing mental acts, playing games or doing business, and programs for computers".

https://www.epo.org/en/legal/epc/2020/a52.html
Or you can easily split between stable and unstable with an overlay to get the best of both worlds.
If ChatGPT just feels like casually mentioning how amazing the latest Fiat Panda is, and how great it's priced, and how cool you would look when driving it, and how the current model happens to come in your favorite shade of puce, all whilst having a nice little chat with you about parsing JSON with Python, is that really problematic?
I guess the closest thing is METAPOST?

Wishing I could find a more interactive environment for using it than a lualatex document open in a TeX IDE and getting a preview as a PDF which can't be interacted with.
I'm not contesting the legitimacy of YT fighting ad blockers. I'm merely pointing out that the claim here is that they are doing so using illegal means (by using what can be legally seen as spyware without the user's consent, which is illegal in the EU, according to the plaintiff).

In other words, the issue is not that YT fights back, it's how they do it.
Leading Semiconductor Industry Players Join Forces to Accelerate RISC-V(2023-08)
I agree with both your reactions.
This is one of the big problems with relying on the price system exclusively as a mechanism of allocation and regulation. It doesn't work well for regulating externalities when people's budget sets vary across orders of magnitude.