skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I hate this, also. This was a "design pattern" (antipattern) at a previous company. It was incredibly difficult to navigate SQL built like this. We were also asked to write "unit tests" for each micro-function. This was essentially a pointless exercise that compared each function call to a string, copy-and-pasted from the function itself, with no regard to the correctness of the overall query. At least it was easy to make the tests pass.
"If your BIOS allows it"

Which systems enforce Secure Boot out of the box and lose functionality without it? You mention something ASUS and Intel graphics being broken without UEFI which isn't the same thing.
"In hematite"
Mimecast for Outlook is blocking (reporting as phishing...) Jira notifications from one specific coworker and I can't turn it off.

I hate everything about M$ so damn much.
Not actual monopoles but quasiparticles
The good thing is we live in a democracy - if we don't like it, we can fix it at the voting booth.
I think I agree with your broad point, but is Gemini really a feminine name? I thought they picked a pretty good genderless name.
Tesla's market valuation (market cap) is 16x that of GM despite having half the revenue, although with 33% more profit last year.

What is the bull case here? They don't have a monopoly on EVs anywhere anymore. Is Tesla really expected to capture the automobile market?
Oh they will never give up. Every new generation comes with its horde of fresh censors.

But, the fact that they're trying doesn't mean they will succeed.

And old secrets very often become common knowledge later on.
Only indirectly, but I wanted to point out that there are a lot of interesting research innovations that get implemented by Google and not some other company.
> Gas stations sell gas. They don't serve gas...

Someone's never been to New Jersey...
As someone with experience in this myself: It depends on where you want to be in the foodchain.

This comes up with companies that need to meet these standards to sell to someone in the Federal space (or someone who is selling to someone in the Federal space). They need to certify their products and maintain some level of certification.

You can be a consultant who helps companies get their products through an initial certification. You can be a full time employee who executes on designs and makes sure that no invariants get violated (which, after certification, would be a small amount of normal maintenance duties). Or you can work for a certification lab, since all of this is outsourced to a cottage industry of private companies!
And another free IDEA edition — Android Studio — might be even more popular.
You shouldn’t need to run anything more than a minute or two. If you do lambda isn’t for you.

I’ve set up multiple businesses this way. It works great. There are no lambda details to worry about, the defaults are fine. Just upload code and run. No load balancers, no firewall rules. It couldn’t be simpler.

If it doesn’t work then worry about that other stuff.

But it’ll just work 9 times out of 10 in my experience.
It's really great. It reminds me of using overlay filesystems for tests so that you can maintain a clean read-only template and then run all your tests non-destructively on the overlay.
You obviously didn't watch the announcement. They are doubling down on ethernet and open standards.
Yeah, not the best language, was just trying to get a point across, not draft language for laws or regulations.
their magnetic monopole quasi-exists

seems like some sort of virtual or model-like result based on emergen properties
While that's usually my line too, in this case it's also a nightmare if you're selling access to an AI and it unexpectedly starts barfing up EU citizens' private data verbatim that 'somehow' ended up in the training set.
with physical access to a device. anything is possible anyway
...until you reflash the BIOS.
I have a Pentel PS315 that's older than I am and it's basically the only pencil I've used for the last fifteen years. The 205 and 207 they still make aren't as good as any of the sliding sleeves from the 1970s or 1980s. The mechanism gets caught sometimes, it's much more difficult to get lead from a quarter push, and the eraser caps slide off easily on the new ones. So I just keep using the PS315.
Amazing, but that's a lot of channels for a cheap oscilloscope. I'm curious how he did that, I don't see any wiring. Also, he missed an opportunity to bring in the rudiments of transmission line theory -- a twisted pair is a continuum limit of tiny coupled capacitors. And these same kinds of waves can propagate in the vacuum, which is a kind of universal 3D grid of coupled harmonic oscillators. In which case we call the waves photons!
Or a Rudy's! "Worst bbq in Texas"!
NASA Finds Likely Cause of Osiris-Rex Parachute Deployment Sequence
But there is no real sandbox. More like playing hide and seek and cheating by trying to see through one's fingers.
Guard rails are not a security boundary, but are helpful nevertheless. You can still do that, but it becomes harder to do by mistake.
Autonomous Robot Builds Stable, Recyclable Stone Walls
That actually looks like a pretty good rebuttal of the original test.

I wonder if this also works on other 200k models like yi
Feeld's disaster of a rebrand (6th day of ongoing outage)
AMD uses Infinity Fabric, which is their NVLink. They announced today how they're opening up Infinity Fabric to select partners, including Broadcom. Meaning partners can now develop their own switches.

Also, as AMD and HPE power some of the most performant supercomputers in the world, they wouldn't have won those contracts if their networking was subpar. Those use slingshot.

You may also be interested in reading about https://ultraethernet.org/ .
It is in FIPS 186-5 which is a very recent standard. Likely the underlying implementation has not undergone recertification to include it, as NIST has quite the backlog for FIPS certifications.

See: https://nvlpubs.nist.gov/nistpubs/FIPS/NIST.FIPS.186-5.pdf and https://csrc.nist.gov/projects/cryptographic-module-validati...
they're not a car company and are not saddled with debt
Lots of reasons. Yours is one, and another is that FIPS disallows you from patching security vulnerabilities in a timely manner.
I love that OpenAI surprised Google and lit a fire under them.

Google’s task now is to think through a post-search experience that includes advertising in a much more useful and intelligent way.

I think it can be done.

This demo makes me think they’re not that far off:

https://x.com/googledeepmind/status/1732447645057061279?s=46...
Archie Bunker was a funny character who followed Poe's Law. Thing is too many Americans sided with him on the show. Mostly Baby Boomers and The Great Generation. Just remember it was comedy not real life.

South Park based Eric Cartman on Archie Bunker.
No mention of price anywhere that I've seen. I assume it will only be a slight $/flop discount vs. Nvidia.
> When those decisions were made (to shut down asylums, etc.) what techniques were intended to backfill the same need?

Generally, the umbrella term for the intended replacement is "community-based mental health services," and that embraces a fairly broad continuum of care, in principal.

Among the things that did not happen was sufficient funding for these to be adequately provided publicly, or assurance that non-institutionalized, privately-insured people would be likely to have these covered by private insurance. While some progress on each has been made since, access remains an issue, as does service delivery, especially with the unhoused. (One thing that was not provided for with the withdrawal of institutionalization was a replacement for the room and board inherent in institutionalization.)
We are headed in a direction where you will need the Google Play store or Apple's store to do groceries, read messages from the government, use two-factor authentication, pay, show your ID, order food, and much more. Web sites are being phased out and so are physical / legacy alternatives.
I'm not really sure, it's low-hanging fruit for privacy, so it's one of the first things you can do to stop leaking your history around the Web. It's quite easy to defeat a referer check, just like robots.txt can be bypassed by the robot simply not requesting or checking it.

But the things that do behave predictably or respect limitations, will. This won't fix the problem, but it lowers the amount of work you have to do to get the rest of them.

If I was that concerned about things I think I'd either stop hosting them, or put out a shared secret or something and require a password.

I can't blame people for deciding they only want positive interactions on the Web and are willing to put technical things in place to help it be possible. I'd be more interested in a lower-level approach, at the server or network level if possible, to simply isolate unwanted IP ranges and domains.

If a server has `0.0.0.0 google.com` in /etc/hosts and Google tries connecting... what happens? Timed out connection?

Selective or conditional publishing is an interesting idea that I don't think we've explored enough.
Who is your target customer? I periodically have to do this sort of mapping so it seems helpful to me, but typically they're one-off things so I can't justify purchasing a product.
I posted this comment on a previous attempt to post this story, but here's the summary:

What was supposed to be a 12-hour downtime for a launch of a total rewrite of their mobile app and backend services turned into a 48-hour full outage. Six days on, many users are unable to sign in and view or modify their accounts that are still being shown to other users. The company is not responding to support requests except with a canned response with no timeline for affected users.

This outage deserves attention due to the severity, length, and privacy implications for users of dating apps. I would love to see the post-mortem starting with how they decided to do a total rewrite of everything and launch it to everyone all at once with a planned downtime window.
It's absolutely baffling, their share price already dropped a fair bit but I'd say it's still massively overpriced. How any professional trader can justify holding Tesla shares right now is beyond me. Maybe people are thinking they're going to end up making bank from the supercharger network?
I'm not making a normative claim - I don't want a corporate mall, either.

I'm making a prediction. The unregulated internet is a risk to some very powerful interests. They cannot tolerate that. And despite what some people thought early on (me included), IT is a power-amplifier, not an equalizer.

I'm not optimistic.
Does this have any actual significant impact? If you have enough access to exploit this, couldn't you already do a lot of harm even without it?
I think their current valuation is held up by the promise of FSD. If it comes to fruition, it would be huge, but (as a beta fsd user) I don't think they will ever deliver on their promise, and as soon as they admit that I expect the stock price to come back to reality.
For some values of "nobody"; this westerner enjoys https://search.marginalia.nu (in addition to more common engines) and has high hopes for the new site browser:
https://search.marginalia.nu/site/bikobatanari.art?view=info
They are on point. Nicely done. :)
Profits and growth are way more important than revenue.

Google’s revenue is only 2x GM’s, and yet they’re worth almost 100X more.
Reaching basic literacy - sure.

Reaching the kind of mastery where you see extremely subtle mistakes instantly - well, no, I think that really does take years to reach, even if you're an expert in a similar language.

I've picked up TypeScript for $DAYJOB in the past year, and there are definitely still deep aspects of the type system I only half-understand.

Granted, my decades of JS experience didn't really prepare me for static type systems, nor did the years of Python's strong-but-dynamic typing.

Still, I'm reminded of the quote "A language that doesn't change how you think about programming isn't worth knowing."

Most languages have some corners that are genuinely unlike most other languages, and without knowing those bits you don't count as a master, IMO.
I recall reading something about it being a MoE (mixture of experts) which would align with what you are saying
It doesn't require regular people to be involved.

As long as the journalists, politicians, screenwriters, staffers, celebrities, and other cultural elites continue to use it to signal which issues matter, which ones don't, and how their various tribes respond, it'll continue to underpin the culture.

It already got as far as it has in the US with under 20% of the population. That's with >80% not participating. Getting that back to 90 or 95% won't matter as long as the most influential (including most influential OUTSIDE of Twitter) people stay.
Be sure you don't overlook the linked post at the bottom of the page: https://www.lastweekinaws.com/blog/how-to-stop-feeding-awss-... (lightly discussed a few times last month, but I didn't see it go by)
CoT@32 isn't "32-shot CoT"; it's CoT with 32 samples (or rollouts) from the model, and the answer is taken by consensus vote from those rollouts. It doesn't use any extra data, only extra compute. It's explained in the tech report here:

> We find Gemini Ultra achieves highest accuracy when used in combination with a chain-of-thought prompting approach (Wei et al., 2022) that accounts for model uncertainty. The model produces a chain of thought with k samples, for example 8 or 32. If there is a consensus above a preset threshold (selected based on the validation split), it selects this answer, otherwise it reverts to a greedy sample based on maximum likelihood choice without chain of thought.

(They could certainly have been clearer about it -- I don't see anywhere they explicitly explain the CoT@k notation, but I'm pretty sure this is what they're referring to given that they report CoT@8 and CoT@32 in various places, and use 8 and 32 as the example numbers in the quoted paragraph.
I'm not entirely clear on whether CoT@32 uses the 5-shot examples or not, though; it might be 0-shot?)

The 87% for GPT-4 is also with CoT@32, so it's more or less "fair" to compare that Gemini's 90% with CoT@32. (Although, getting to choose the metric you report for both models is probably a little "unfair".)

It's also fair to point out that with the more "standard" 5-shot eval Gemini does do significantly worse than GPT-4 at 83.7% (Gemini) vs 86.4% (GPT-4).
Humane definitely wants to be.
Pretty barebones but working web servers are possible. Example: https://randomnerdtutorials.com/esp32-web-server-arduino-ide...
That particular coffee maker starts at approximately $500 USD[0] and seems to go for closer to $1000. Maybe in Europe its cheaper (not sure where you are based) but that is not the market of a Keurig or even Nespresso customer

[0]: https://www.google.com/search?q=De%27Longhi+Primadonna+S+Evo...
So the only context I have for monopoles comes from the Ringworld books and stories (I'm pretty sure that was it).

What are the actual uses?

I can't get the article to load, if that's in there.
I got some bullshit modal about my adblocker and the last three free videos. Is the specific to this video? Do you tubers have to turn it on?
backdoor, bugdoor, tomatoe, tomatoh
Pricing at this point is almost irrelevant given that it is available in Q1/Q2 2024 and H100's are sold out until who knows when and you're still going to be at the bottom of a long line unless you have a giant order to place. Advantages, like IB, are 50+ week lead times as well, if you're lucky.
You're saying this as if the result is unsurprising, however it is significant that the performance jumps so dramatically and it is not a fundamental issue of capability, just a bias in the model to be hesitant towards providing false information. That's a good insight, as it can allow further fine-tuning towards getting that balance right, so that careful prompt engineering is no longer necessary to achieve high P/R on this task.
Connecting the ground first has been solved in many ways. Are there other significant issues here for pin order?
As a car company it makes no sense. As a tech company delivering on self driving, robots, etc. Maybe.

If it wasn’t an Elon Musk company, I would say impossible. But his companies have a way of delivering the impossible. So maybe.
Would you mind explaining your question further? The TLD looks legit and loads fine for me. I don't see how it is any different than any other TLD.
Could Transformer based models been converted to work on the NPU?
is it going to be pronounced Geminee (like the NASA project) or Gemineye?
> You seem to always pop up when there's a thread about Serbia and you always post about Serbs and Serbia in a negative context no matter what it's about. I lived in Serbia for 6 years and no, they are overall not xenophobic people.

That's bullshit, twice over. For one I don't pop up in every thread about Serbia (and a casual inspection of your comment history shows that you in fact do exactly that), for another I have not made the claim that they are overall xenophobic people, that's your strawman.

I wouldn't make the claim that people from NL (where I'm from), Germany, Serbia or any other country that I'm familiar with is "the least xenophobic places out there nowadays".

If you can prove the opposite I'll be happy to take it back. Just like those other countries I've mentioned Serbia has it's problems. Denying that doesn't make it so.
AMD's paid linux driver team is moving relatively quickly using some documentation and tools (simulators) under NDA. It is difficult to contribute usefully to the core of that effort without getting hired by AMD. AFAIK, that is why not many hobbyists are contributing.
That would be really unfortunate, if true.
Ask HN: I am ready for the next AI winter
Do people think that there is too much hype around AI these days?

I know, chatGPT is here, and AGI is almost here - they say.

But are there significant new revenue streams from AI? Or other breakthrough “added value”?

Or, as my hypothesis goes:

Yes, there is real added value from recent AI developments, but it doesn’t outweigh all the hype.

Instead, too many companies across industries (finance, pharma, government) “waste” their attention on AI, instead of focusing on higher-value areas like getting good at data management, making quality software, and improving their management practices.

Therefore, an AI winter would actually do good, and let the world focus on higher value areas.

What do you think?
> ...it's very passive. No comments, no likes...

We get a fair number of tourists from a famous western country who gush about how this is wonderful and that is amazing and have you even seen the thing over there? One doesn't need to ask where they're from; one hears them coming from 50m off. I wonder if they view their fellow tourists from more reserved cultures as being more passive?
The fundamental difference between an ECS and a struct/object layout is that an ECS is column-oriented (aka columnar), while a struct/object layout is row-oriented.

Everything else about how you might query these layouts is more superficial... you can provide the same API with either layout, the same way you can in relational database systems (both layouts can be queried with SQL, but with different performance characteristics.)
> I've thought for decades that everybody would eventually come to their senses and realize that censorship in general is impossible to achieve,

Its not, though, and if you think it is, than you don't understand what "censorship" is (a supply-side propaganda mechanism aimed at increasing the average cost of spreading disfavored ideas.)

It's true that complete suppression of ideas (or behaviors) by censorship is generally impossible to achieve, but to mistake that for censorship being impossible to achieve is like saying "making money by work is impossible to achieve" when what you really mean "making enough money to purchase all the property in the world by work is impossible to achieve."
I wouldn't want to build a business on something that could be pulled out from underneath me.

I'd start a business but the whole setup is a government scam. Business licenses are just subscriptions with extra steps.
It would be nice if Biff weren't dependent on various ad-hoc scripts (some in bash, others in babashka), since it means newcomers to Biff (and especially newcomers to Clojure in general) have to install a variety of tools without clear purpose.

Luminus, for instance, is able to handle project creation, development, and deployment all within Leiningen (a build tool) itself. All you need to get started is to install Leiningen (a single command to install on any popular package manager) then run

lein new luminus my-app
cd my-app
lein run

No Windows-specific quirks w.r.t. live reload or anything else. Yes, it sucks that you have to install a build tool, but it's still a much simpler experience IMO. Unfortunately, Luminus feels less like a framework and more like a template web app with a bunch of assumptions about the backend and frontend baked in for you. So it's not really better than Biff either when it comes to being newbie friendly or feeling like Rails / Laravel / Django.

I visited the "Getting Started" section of Biff and I am immediately met with "install Babashka then run this random script off the internet". It doesn't help that they already use tons of Clojure-specific terminology like "jacking in" and assume you are using CIDER (hence Emacs). While I use Emacs and Clojure, this documentation reads like it's intended for Emacs users with years of experience in Clojure. In my opinion, this contradicts the design philosophy of "what would be helpful for ... those who are relatively new to Clojure."

I'll admit the plugin architecture of Biff is really nice, and I welcome decisions like using HTMX. However, there is also questionable design decisions like choosing XTDB on behalf of the user as opposed to something like SQLite or PostgreSQL, which would drastically lower the mental overhead for Clojure newcomers and even Clojure devs themselves. Although this is anecdotal evidence, most people I talked with at Clojure/conj 2023 use PostgreSQL and aren't too familiar with Datomic or even XTDB. (The fact XTDB 2.0 emphasizes SQL support says enough about the situation, I think). Out of dozens of people I talked with, I met exactly one person who actually uses Datomic in production. Nobody I met used XTDB.

I could go on, but I hope I've gotten my point across about three things;

1. as someone with several years of professional experience using Clojure, there is seemingly lots of disjoint, moving parts involved

2. like existing Clojure "frameworks", it still fails to feel like a Rails / Django / Laravel and feels more like "here is a project template with a bunch of decisions baked in for you". Some decisions are awesome (HTMX instead of a complicated CLJS frontend) and others are questionable (XTDB and Babashka instead of simply using PostgreSQL and Bash scripts).

3. the documentation feels like it's written for experienced Clojure devs, not a general audience
PCIe hot swap is how thunderbolt works.
Definitely have not.
Are police in Seattle, or SF better then?
Did HN destroy the site? When I click all I see is "Bad Gateway".

Anyway, I use the app and find it helpful. I'm astonished that the microphone on my cell phone is sensitive enough to pick up birds up in the trees.
I'll add some highlights for those who don't have the time - Flash Attention 2 kernels, Paged Attention kernels, PyTorch, vLLM, transformers, ONNX runtime support, OpenAI triton support in v3, tensorflow, JAX, OpenXLA.

Also, while this wasn't in the presentation, CUDA can be translated to HIP using automated tools. and -
CuPBoPAMD is a CUDA translator that translates CUDA programs at NVVM IR level to HIP-compatible IR that can run on AMD GPUs (https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/3624062.3624185)