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Ask HN: Anyone know what a "HPE Dreamfyre" is?
Does anyone know what a "HPE Dreamfyre" is?

There's an (Nvidia Mellanox) "HPE Dreamfyre" switch on Ebay:

https://www.ebay.com.au/itm/134604252621

"Dreamfyre" sounds like some internal project name.

The photo's of the item show what looks like high bandwidth connections to a backplane, so maybe the Dreamfyre is a blade server chassis or HPE rack server or similar?

https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/1wwAAOSwbPtkgbsb/s-l1600.jpg
If you only eat food without chemicals, you'll never eat again.
The image captions are a fun touch.
And the planes will smell delicious
If the software still sucks with what CUDA can do, in graphics tooling, polyglot support and optmized libraries, across at very least Windows and GNU/Linux, than whatever the card is capable of doing isn't much relevant.
I use Fossil every day for all my projects and it works great for me. Super easy to self host and has integrated Wiki, bug tracker, ticket system and a server. Very intuitive CLI too.

Highly recommended for indie/small teams.
PyMonkeyPatch? MonkeyPatch.py?

I would quite like a short and distinctive name!
So their argument is that since Gobekli Tepi is old (by sediment layer analysis), therefore the pyramids at Giza are older yet again? That's just bluster and whataboutery.
> What is the "Archive" icon even supposed to depict?

It looks like a labelled archive box to me.

<https://www.google.com/search?q=archive+box&tbm=isch>
It's always fascinating when someone building something yak shaves a project of major skill on the way. Both git and fossil would be notable on their own, but the respective authors simply needed a tool for Linux and Sqlite.

Really raises the boundary for what a software engineer can do. Very inspiring.

TeX was also built for TAOCP. Crazy stuff. Really makes me want to write code. Love it.
If you have another machine at hand and the wire. A pendrive fits in a wallet and works even in the middle of nowhere. Both solutions have their pro and cons.
Noyb files complaint against EU Commission over targeted chat control ads
Poverty is the default state of humanity. There's no unspeakable violence in it. Not to mention that "poverty" in the US is a luxurious lifestyle by worldwide standards (source: I'm an immigrant, and not even from the poorest country by far).

It would be really strange if observing the default state of humanity would make humans sick.

Ditto for punishment - historically punishments have been much more harsh (the only modern innovation that I'd really support for violent and property crime is dealing with is reducing false convictions; 3-strike type laws deal with that well, I wish they were more widespread).

The mental health / politics correlation in the US, especially in recent years, seems to indicate that it's being excessively bleeding-heart that's making "us" sick.
Nah, it is still the same old business only rebranded for new folks, timesharing systems.
Everyone electrocutes themselves for 8 hours every day because the society demands it. Cognitohazard warning (a.k.a. depressing read): https://slatestarcodex.com/2014/07/30/meditations-on-moloch/
Protobuf has a JSON canonicalization [0]. All our gRPC servers automatically accept HTTP/JSON traffic with the procedure name specified in a header. That's what I use when I'm writing a script.

https://protobuf.dev/programming-guides/proto3/#json
I don't, though. I'm not saying he sucks, or that this doesn't look good, or anything. I'm saying that this could be improved by having the animations looking more real by behaving more like they would in reality.

Saying something can be improved is not the same as saying that something is crap.
Early-Stage Biotech Value Creation (2018)
I've used Redshift for many years and really like it, especially as a user. I'm following the development of DuckDB and one aspect that's nice about it is how predictable prices are when you run it on dedicated servers: https://fet.dev/posts/costs-of-analytics-on-dedicated-hardwa... .

If you don't have huge amounts of data I would take a look at it. Also, Cloudflare R2 might be a good alternative to S3 because there are no egress costs.
The "Beware the Alan Turing Fetish" link doesn't point to an existing page anymore.
In the US, diesel cars are rare, to the point that most gas (petrol) stations offer just a single diesel pump.

But yes "clean diesel" took off on the EU (somewhat) but in the US diesel means dirty smelly trucks/buses
I'm surprised by how often programmers coming from software engineering background do this wrong. I started programming in science and there it's absolutely necessary to think about this stuff. Doing for loops in a wrong order can be the difference between running your simulation in one hour instead of one week.

With this background, I instinctively do small-time optimization to all my codes by ordering for's and if's appropriately. Code that doesn't do this right just looks wrong to me.
Truth is not defined. First author equates truth with details of reality, which is doubtful already. Then jumps to examples like

> Is drug prohibition justifiable? Was Napoleon an admirable figure?

Question of opinion can't be answered with truth. Or if you want any answer to it is truth, because it is truly your opinion.

It's a lazy take with a poorly chosen analogy at the root.
And this is why even if Windows is gone tomorrow, it will be a phyrric victory for the usual anti-Microsoft crowd, Microsoft will continue to matter in domains nowadays much more relevant to society.
Conservatism has no coherence whatsoever, unless you want to argue Republicans aren't conservative. It's more about whatever the person calling themself a conservative happens to want at this particular moment.
No. A dead tree log does no longer bind any more carbon.
Capitalist countries have this too. You can say "free Israel", but if you say "free Palestine" you get doxxed, fired from your job and maybe evicted from your home. It's more subtle, because instead of immediately getting taken and sent to a gulag for your speech, the path is somewhat indirect, but still just as clear.
> A toddler has a life, and learns language to describe it. An L.L.M. learns language but has no life of its own to describe.

That's an interesting insight that seems true for now.
Are there attempts to create LLMs that "have a life"?
It happens quite often actually, it is sometimes called a framework, can become a SaaS, ...
I'll second spending money on a chair. Spend as much as is required to find one that works for you.

After years of compromising and not wanting to spend what looks on the surface like silly money on a chair, I splashed out on a Herman Miller Mirra 2.

It's so comfortable that I'm pretty sure I could sit on it for the rest of my life and I'd never be in any pain, and it's in its 10th year of service without anything breaking, degrading or wobbling.

Best investment I've ever made!
Interesting. I've been running that for years in my diesel truck. A mechanical diesel will run basically whatever you can pump through its fuel system. I assume jet engines are roughly the same. However they have some major standards, and can't risk running recycled fryer oil from the Chinese restaurant down the street.
Thank you. Essentially, it is a library created to somewhat automatically produce video content with advanced direction, such as captions and scene switches using multiple cameras. We plan to enhance the samples on how to create such videos.
Why should the type of car matter? It's just an engine, you make it a bit more compact and it will fit in a sedan. Voila, you have a diesel sedan. Sales of diesel sedans have been slowly decreasing in most European countries Inn recent years, but it wasn't that long ago that more than half of all passenger cars (in some countries) were diesel. Of the 4 cars I've owned, 2 were diesel.
Everyone uses OpenCV5, yet the Crowdfundingcampaign for a new version doesn't go anywhere.
It's a shame really
We have the Mirra 2s at the office and I'll second this. Great chairs!
There were definitely some interactions but of course Eichmann tried to keep social activities to a minimum just so much that he didn't give rise to any suspicion.

I assume that people don't want to talk to reporters because of the bad image cast on them. I mean having a mass murderer in your community and not identifying him people may think that you're either dumb or you were actively ignoring it. After the war people mostly tried to forget about the Nazis as a coping mechanism for their common guilt.
Just under half, 42.3%. Detailed statistics: https://www.acea.auto/files/report-vehicles-in-use-europe-ja...

(I checked as I didn't believe it was half, but I see there's significant variation by country.)
Yes, I am familiar with it. Thank you for mentioning it. It's really cool that in the comments we have a lot of options for similar projects.

As mentioned earlier with Stone Soup, there is an interesting point. Most tracking libraries were developed by labs connected with the military and were primarily in MATLAB, due to the long history of the topic. Now, with the growth of autonomous vehicles and robotics, interest in this topic is returning.
To compare the monk vs the city-dweller. Hmm. I think I’ll go with monk.
Sorry it took me a while to get back to you, but I watched your channel and loved your performances. I especially liked the "red/blue" cards one, a very clever idea to use a dividing line to make it much more visually obvious what's happening (I don't think I've seen that used in any of these style of tricks before!)

I wish you'd upload some more things :)
> It's hard to directly compare things to 20 years ago; "real-time collaborative editing of a document (with automatic saving and unlimited undo) over a video call" wasn't done because we lacked the internet speeds and computing power to make that viable, not because UI paradigms improved.

But that's not true. 2003, 20 years ago, happens to mark the launch of both the first modern collaborative real-time editors (SubEthaEdit and MoonEdit) and a major video calling service (iChat AV).

Sure, hardware progress since then has helped. Video calling got much better due to internet, camera, and codec improvements, along with webcams becoming a ubiquitous component of computers rather than an external addon. Collaborative editing really took off once it started to work in web browsers, originally with EtherPad, but more importantly with Google Docs. That's partly due to the UI paradigm of the URL, but the ability for collaborative editing to work in web browsers can also ascribed to faster CPUs, as well as browsers getting more efficient (which is not hardware but also not a matter of UI paradigms).

Still.

Ignoring the calling part (which really isn't essential, IMO), collaborative editing isn't necessarily very resource intensive (depending on the algorithm). The technical conditions for it to work were satisfied as soon as Internet access became a ubiquitous feature of computers in the late 90s. Yet it wasn't until 2010, when Google Docs gained collaborative editing, that it even started to take off. I'd say that's definitely an example of UI paradigms improving over time.

By the way, a form of collaborative editing was shown off in 1968 in the Mother of All Demos, with video calling! It used analog video.
How many times does it run inference per screenshot? Looks cool!
Inserts ought to be able to run at the storage mediums write speed.

Ie. If I insert 1 million records of 1 kilobyte each. And my SSD can do 1GB/s of writes, then I should be able to do it in 1 second.

How close are we to that?

Transactions shouldn't slow this down (it's possible to write all the data to new areas of diak, and then the final 'commit' is a metadata update to say those new areas are active).

Indexes might slow it down depending on the index design. But it's possible to design an index where updates are coalesced, and therefore the changed parts of the index are only written once as a single bulk write. Assuming the inde. Size is only 10% of the data size, that's a 10% slowdown.
Until the Windows developer community actually cares about ARM, they will continue to be nice to have laptops that most consumers won't care.

Microsoft isn't Apple or Google in this regard, dragging developers into new worlds, and it is quite telling that they had now to put up some kind of ARM advocacy action.

https://blogs.windows.com/windowsdeveloper/2023/10/16/window...
Another Canadian here. I've seen plenty of stations that don't have tap to pay. A few that don't have pay at the pump enabled and require you to go into the store. I refueled at a few this summer that couldn't automatically refund unused prepaid balance; you had to go back to the store for the partial refund.

Not hard to find them, but you're not going to stumble on one if you never leave the city or deviate from the major highways.
It's been 10 years and I still need to look up the most basic things in git. It's just not intuitive to me at all.

Had fossil recommended to me. Also read their fossil vs git page, and I found myself agreeing with everything they said.

https://fossil-scm.org/home/doc/trunk/www/fossil-v-git.wiki
It's specified by IATA: https://www.iata.org/en/programs/environment/sustainable-avi...

Apparently they have identified seven different ways to produce fuels that meet this specification. Including bio fuels and synthetic fuels.
Reality has a left-wing bias, right?

Jokes aside, the left wing has a reality bias. Left-wing people have a greater propensity than right-wing people to adapt their views to fit reality. Right-wing people have the propensity to make reality fit their views. IIRC this has been shown in scientific studies, but you'll probably say those are controlled by the left.
"But if you meet another person while alone in the middle of wilderness, try not talking to them... you may easily be considered rude even if you really just need a breather"

Not my experience. Just nod and go on your way if you don't feel like talking. No person from the woods would be offended by this. (Unless it is their forest and they would like to know who wanders around their turf)
I don't think it's intentional but I'm definitely giving him a pass since even AAA movies get this stuff wrong.
Sadly it seems to be down for me.
“And it’s a word that ChatGPT or Llama can use in an English sentence better than billions of humans worldwide.”

I think the whole point the article is making, though, is that overvaluing LLMs and their supposed intelligence because they excel at this one axis of cognition (if you’re spicy) or mashed-up language ability (if you’re a skeptic) doesn’t make sense when you consider children, who are not remotely capable of what LLMs can do, but are clearly cognizant and sentient. The whole point is that those people—whether they can write an essay or not, whether they can use the word “consciousness” or not—are still fundamentally alive because we share a grounded, lived, multi-sensory, social reality.

And ChatGPT does not, not in the same way. Anything that it expresses now is only a mimicry of that. And if it eventually does have its own experiences through embodied AI, I’d be interested to see what it produces from its own “life” so to speak, but LLMs do not have that.
Respectfully, I don't like to pry into the why's and how's of the deceased, especially on the internet. If the family didn't feel comfortable giving out that information, I will respect that decision.

I'm under a loose pseudonym so I can empathize wanting to keep some sense of privacy on the public web.
The irony being, they might even all be running some flavour of an UNIX clone, and it won't matter to the general public.
Previously on HN:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12673229

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24643200

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19006036
The Aeron actually works great for me, but I realize each person's body is different. In my case, it relieves pressure on my lower back, where I've had a lot of bone density loss due to a medical condition.
You misunderstood me. I’m saying instead of being a GUI, this could be a ChatGPT plug-in. That way the developer can focus on providing a smart API that does what the user wants, and not wasting time writing a GUI.
I have noticed that bio-diesel cars smell like burning french fries... so maybe you're not that far off...
I had always assumed it was part natural formation, part carving. I mean, Mount Rushmore has heads carved into it. It wasn't "built" for that purpose.
Exactly! Using a pre-made sign language is missing the point entirely...
I would love to use Fossil, but I'm afraid it doesn't have its Magit...
Ah, but that isn't the only law that restricts speech. Many people already got fired for expressing support for Palestinians, because the law says you can get fired for that.
Tracking people is awful, except when we want to promote our agenda.
As an Aussie I've had the odd amusing chats with my GP on this topic. His response it usually a flat "antibiotics fix a problem which you don't have. Right now they will most likely make you worse by destroying bacteria which are helping you. Do you want to get worse?".
You need to be aware that these invocations are going to blast your cores full throttle as you obviously don't have fine grained control. But as long as your data is easily parallelized on a vector with computations that don't depend on each other, it's a game changer. I use it all the time to multithread things with literally a single line of code.
It's a shame they don't use a SQLite database for version control. I know it's probably the least efficient way to store code changes but it would bring a whole new level to bootstrapping processes. Each code change would be inserted into the db by the code produced by the prior change.

It would be exciting as it is stable.
The ultimate bare metal Amiga,

https://retrogamecoders.com/mister-fpga-amiga/
I agree, it's massively undervalued. Sure the syntax isn't for everyone but out of the box it has much of the stuff in it that on Linux I'd be reaching for awk, jq, etc. Not to mention being able to pull in stuff from .net and other windows things. I can't fault it.
Yeah, like a thermal transistor. When temperature transfer is blocked, outer surface of that transistor should pretty fast go to ambient air especially with moving air. Remember that transistor is only several atoms thick and can switch at megahertz speeds.
This is a good video on it https://youtu.be/o_AIw9bGogo?si=nC0MYSfzbfKibHoU
A Valvomo Netsurfer chair - made work comfortable again
What truck do you have, how did you modify it, and whats your opinion on why it's not more common?
MiSTer is quite successful FPGA in the retrogaming scene though.
The author has some valid points, but let’s not forget that people used to critizice those old UIs at the time as well, ever since the first GUIs appeared to replace command line interfaces.
Fossil does use SQLite as its storage engine.

See point 7 on the "about fossil" page:

https://fossil-scm.org/home/doc/trunk/www/index.wiki
Fuzzy_Ruby_server: A Ruby language server for large codebases
Well it appears that ridicule from the German tech nerds isn’t a good predictor of product success then
I downvoted this one because your thread had literally zero value to me (or any of us) as a reader. It had zero comments and it contained the exact same link as our current thread.
Agreed, I use command line for basic tasks, then git-cola for committing for a basic UI.

Before git I used svn, and must say the main thing I'm happy about git is how easy it is to just push a repository wherever, and GitHub having perfect timing to help it become a staple (at the time they didn't have private repos, but was still good).

I have a whole bunch of shell aliases for my day to day use, mostly around branches (where I work we use GitHub, and opensource projects who use git use branches for PRs/MRs/etc).
This seems to be an article written for neurotypical people and I envy them somewhat in this respect.

I live my life in the detail and while it has benefits for my career, it has been a source of exhaustion and frustration when communicating with people who don't live in the details i.e. the majority.

It seems much easier to live at the high level and choose to drill down into the details than to live in the details and remind yourself to step back, but I could be wrong.

For example: I edited this brief comment 8 times.
Anyone got links for what this "ban" is? The internets don't mention it...
"Nod" is direct interaction/communication and explicit acknowledgement of another human-- the opposite of solitude and definitely not required in a big city.
> Highly recommended for indie/small teams.

Realistically, though, the better choice for small teams is going to be gitlab or github.

Using anything that isn't "boring technology" is going to introduce unnecessary friction and effort, which would be better spent on creating the product, especially given small team size.
Watch out for a visit from the premature optimisation police!
A tricky question in the context of this: why doesn't vector have a constant time pop_front? By just incrementing the begin pointer
Well we can definitely start doing that from any movie in that case because all of them include totally unrealistic stuff regardless if it about physics or narrative. In that case, voluntary or not it give that bigger robotic feeling.

But guess what, that is also part of what makes movies interesting.
Sadly the UI isn't even the worst part of Windows these days. It's the ads. It's beyond belief that I should get ads in software that I paid for, yet here we are. I got so sick of it that I switched to daily driving Linux. It's not perfect (I'm a gamer and games can have issues even though they mostly work great), but at least I don't have ads on my desktop.
Actually, DeepSORT doesn't use a hypothesis tree, which is common in many hyped CV tracking algorithms. I believe this is due to the abundant contextual data available in dense images. However, in self-driving scenarios, where other sensors are involved and the data (like sparse point clouds) is more challenging, these algorithms might not be as effective. The tracking requirements in such cases, often dealing with small and sparsely distributed data and frequent missed detections, necessitate improved and different tracking approaches.
Not including "pass" in a function definition in Python makes the code not compilable, and if we're using VSCode, PyCharm, etc. our IDEs will complain about this whenever the code is viewed. Is this an intentional design decision?
In Germany and Austria many gas stations do not have attendants... (Avanti, Turmöl, etc.)

I have never once experienced an issue with these in my entire life.
Microsoft Ignite 2023: all the AI news from Microsoft's IT pro event
The article says "The new CarePod modules are being deployed in malls, gyms, and offices starting in the San Francisco Bay Area, New York, Chicago and Philadelphia.", and yet the only video posted by the company is a 3D animation?

I'm confused, do these pods exists or not?
Thx, I am agree with you.
> Wow. I can barely make a rectangle in Blender.

There's your problem, try making a cuboid instead.
Slightly off topic but how is NZ lamb so insanely cheap (in Europe)?

How does the economics of shipping frozen and refrigerated lamb to Europe work out for this to make business sense?
The thing with complex software is that yes, you have to explore it for some time before you could use it to accomplish your tasks. But after you did explore it, you'll have memorized where the actions you need are located. And probably their corresponding hotkeys too.

Technology requires education and getting used to before it can be used to achieve one's goals. It's perfectly normal. For some reason, no one questions the need to take driving lessons before being able to operate a car.
There is such a thing as suspension of disbelief, though, so I disagree with you.