skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
AMD's use of chiplets matters here. There is overhead, but they also not only get higher yields, but also have many more chips that can hit their highest target clockspeed meaning they can ship far more high-end chips.

This is the same reason why they were so successful with EPYC. It's easier to find eight small 8-core chips with high clocks/low-power than to find one 56-core chip with that same high-clock/low-power set which is why Intel sold so many cut-down chips while AMD just sold their small amount of defective chips as 6 and 12-core consumer chips.

Nvidia will have a harder time shipping defective because everyone wants the best chips with the best performance/watt to save money and do things fast. Outside of that, there's not a huge market for defective 800mm2 chips and the massive GPU the come on. AMD can sell their defective units a couple chiplets at a time to non-AI customers in laptops and workstation cards.
Alright - thanks for letting me know! I will take a look at this
> Most of the replacement motors were actually refurbished units and the problem there is that Tesla didn't know the real issue so it didn't know how to properly fix the motors. Some of these replacement motors failed very quickly.

I'd be trading my car in for a different brand if this happened to my car!
It's just an UI issue. The plot looks fine (as in, correct Y-axis) when I opened the website on a landscape monitor.
Sorry, I had to click on a GDPR before I could read this so I clicked away.
> Before you submit your data for genetic testing please realize that you are giving away a portion of the ultimate family heirlooms, the genes that run in your family and that this decision could easily come back to bite others.

I wish my mom had read this. She would have understood the implications, and not done it.
It is quite insane how Apple filters entitlements and denies usage of them in a seemingly arbitrary way...
I think I covered Seattle.

And so have Eindhoven (ASML), London (Revolut, Monzo, Wise and Deliveroo), Paris (DailyMotion, AppGratis), Berlin (Soundcloud, Mister Spex, Zalando, Helpling, Delivery Hero, Home24 and HelloFresh) and Amsterdam (Sonos (ok, technically Hilversum), Booking.com, TomTom) etc, etc. So what?

Tech companies exist the world over. The specific kind of tech company that requires a mountain of free cash and that can monopolize a whole segment is a SV anomaly and Microsoft is the exception simply because of when it started.
Love the idea of millions of diamond atoms traveling multiple paths through the quantum realm.

I wonder what the maximum number of atoms will be 1000 years from now...
I assume they care most about the IP and less about the studio?
Not a remake: a PvP "extraction" shooter, which is apparently a term that means something to folks who like to play FPS games online. I, on the other hand, love offline, atmospheric FPS games with deep lore, like the Marathon games I grew up playing on my family's Performa 6115.

https://blog.playstation.com/2023/05/24/bungie-unveils-marat...
We've put an awfully lot of effort into figuring that out, and have some answers. Much of the problems in exploring the brain are ethical because people tend to die or suffer greatly if we experiment on them.

Unlike LLMs, which are built by humans and have literal source code and manuals and SOPs and shit. Their very "body" is a well-documented digital machine. An LLM trying to figure itself out has MUCH less trouble than a human figuring itself out.
I just did this responding to another comment. My late night / slightly drunk brain wanted to know:

"What is that annoying thing where I have to click on on all the websites. Because of cookies and Europe"

Google:
Links to things full of SEO and ads and maybe answer the question eventually.

ChatGPT:
The "annoying accept" button you often have to click on websites, particularly in Europe, is related to the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). The GDPR is a regulation in EU law on data protection and privacy in the European Union and the European Economic Area. It also addresses the transfer of personal data outside the EU and EEA areas.

Websites are required to get your consent before they can store or retrieve any information on your device, such as cookies. Cookies are small data files used to remember your preferences, login information, and browsing history. The GDPR mandates that websites must inform users about the cookies they use and obtain their consent before placing these cookies on their devices.

This is why you see those cookie consent notices – websites are legally obligated to ask for your permission to use cookies, and you must actively agree to it, usually by clicking an "Accept" button. This process aims to protect your privacy and give you more control over your personal data online.
You're being MITM'd by a McAfee product. That cert isn't being served by the website.
One great resource for GIF-related explorations is Matthew Flickinger's "What's In A GIF" project:

* https://www.matthewflickinger.com/lab/whatsinagif/index.html

The original version is apparently from ~2005 and is used as the basis of the giflib docs referenced by the original article[0]. (The giflib docs do expand on the content of the original, so are still worth reading.)

But Matthew Flickinger's original version has continued to be updated as recently as 2022[1] and now includes two helpful browser-based GIF tools:

* GIF Explorer: https://www.matthewflickinger.com/lab/whatsinagif/gif_explor...

* GIF Encoder: https://www.matthewflickinger.com/lab/whatsinagif/gif_encode...

GIF Explorer displays the "interpreted" bytes of any GIF file in an almost "literate" style and has an UI/UX which I'd be really interested to see used in a generic reverse-engineering/binary viewer tool.

GIF Encoder enables you to create an image in the browser & see how it is GIF encoded.

I have a rant about how modern GIF usage could be so much better than it is (and still be within the original specification) but instead of subjecting you to that I'll subject you to this project of mine instead: https://audiogif.rancidbacon.com

[0] https://giflib.sourceforge.net/whatsinagif/index.html

[1] https://github.com/MrFlick/whats-in-a-gif
I guess we have to deal with a bunch of this kind of reporting again now that BTC is recovering its value.

While I’m certainly no fan of the environmental impact Bitcoin had in its last bull run, I like Lyn Alden’s point that having access to a stable banking system and a currency that isn’t subject to massive devaluation at the whims of your government is a luxury that many of us enjoy, but that many in the rest of the world do not. Many are stuck saving in currencies that could have their values wrecked at almost any time, in bank accounts that could realistically be frozen or drained by their governments unilaterally with little recourse, especially if they’re a suspected dissident. Obviously, BTC’s value is far from stable, but its future value is at least not certain to be much lower, and it gives people an escape hatch from almost certain financial repression, basically being forced by their government to fall back the financial ladder that they’ve been working for a large portion of their lives to climb up.
Or the added requirement to file additional TPM reports, possibly.
What prevents 23andMe from simply deleting the opt-out emails they receive and claiming they never received anything, in case someone did sue them?
Do you want a law that says people can't publish their own DNA SNPs?

Sounds like a free speech issue.
I actually wrote it for my mom...

It's very annoying how these companies sucker people in to do things they might come to regret later, there is absolutely zero transparency here. Besides the potential for massive privacy violation there is also always the specter of future uses against your interests.
I maintain nonetheless that yin-yang dualism can be overcome. With sufficient enlightenment we can give substance to any distinction: mind without body, north without south, pleasure without pain. Remember, enlightenment is a function of willpower, not of physical strength.
Bullshit. Read DMA text: https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/PDF/?uri=CELE...
Apple uses “privacy” as a marketing term. They market themselves as protecting your “privacy” from advertisers unlike Google.

Apple open complies with all data requests from government agencies and law enforcement. It is not a hard process for law enforcement to get someone’s iCloud data with a warrant.

https://www.apple.com/privacy/government-information-request...
Llama.cpp is great but I have moved to mostly using Ollama because it is both good on the command line and ‘ollama server’ runs a very convenient to use REST server.

In any case, I had fun with MLX today, and I hope it implements 4 bit quantization soon.
Which day is between today (Thursday) and tomorrow (Friday)?

There are no days between today and tomorrow. No things _between_ this thing and the next thing.

I find your mathematics pretty confusing.
"Ok, I don't know why do I have to specify this but I meant the slave labor if hundreds of thousands..."

Because they didn't do anything substantively different in this regard? Pointing out that the Romans had slaves as if it somehow differentiated them seems misleading.

The number of people living under slavery, or near-slavery, was probably quite similar before and after the Romans took over any given territory. In some cases, less, and other cases more.

"Well it's tangential anyway and has little to do with Caesar's motivations."

We can't read his mind but it seems very believable that he genuinely wanted to eliminate a threat to Rome, among other things. Most big things like this have more than one motivation. He could have chosen to go east to do his conquering, but he chose Gaul.

At one point he refers to the defeat and death of his father-in-law's grandfather, at the hands of the Gallic tribe he was engaged with. There's a good chance he sat at a dinner talking with his father-in-law about this. It wouldn't be surprising if they both agreed that it was time someone do something about the threat they posed.
I don't know why he rails against English.

Computer programming uses a small subset of English in code and the industry nearly always uses the American socio-cultural kind of English.

English is the fullest language we have, with all the infamy of pilfered concepts from the European continent.

The language/natural language distinction is reductionist, halving all language, when in reality it is a structure that cannot be halved.

He recommends reducing languages down to their most basic elements. This is a mistake that doesn't go anywhere. You end up with a pile of sticks.

All his crictisms of English (one voice, limited understanding, ect) can be leveled at any living, breathing human.

I wonder where the experiment goes. His criticisms of English should be better.
Wouldn't the sender have a time-stamped copy?
It could be specific to a family, or with this broad a DNA + meta data dataset, it could be enough data to wipe out much of an entire group. Choose the common traits in people who self-identified as a group. English, Jews, Slavs, Native South Americans, non-Han, etc.

The problem with bio-weapons has always been "blow back." Narrowing the scope of the weapon would help a lot with that.
I'm on Nvidia (2070 super), Arch, X11... It's been literally years since I've had to worry about drivers. Install the proprietary drivers (follow the arch wiki) and they "just work" in my experience. I'm not trying to say you couldn't have had issues, but I am saying I'd caution people from seeing that and assuming that they will have issues if they try this.
The quantum/classical limit is a function of temperature and not size, though it's generally harder to bring a large system sufficiently close to ground state to avoid decoherence.
I think the important takeaway is such a weapon could potentially target a DNA profile while ignoring others.
I did this the other day. For some reason, I was trying to think of a word for nationalism a-holes and it was something like Django, and I thought, is it Jengoism, but that didn't sound right...

So I asked ChatGPT:
"There’s a word that sounds kinda like Django but it’s like jingoistic"

Turns out I was right, it's "jingoistic", but then I could go on and ask:

"Give me the definition of the word, then."

"The term "jingoistic" refers to a form of extreme and aggressive patriotism, often characterized by a belligerent foreign policy. It denotes a belief in the superiority and righteousness of one's own country, sometimes leading to the denigration of other nations and the advocacy of aggressive political and military actions."

"Where does the word come from?"

"The origin of the word "jingoistic" traces back to a popular British song from the 1870s. The song, with the refrain "We don't want to fight, but by Jingo if we do, We've got the ships, we've got the men, and got the money too," was sung during the Russo-Turkish War (1877-1878). It expressed support for the British government's aggressive stance towards Russia.

The phrase "by Jingo" in the song is believed to be a minced oath, a euphemistic expression used to avoid swearing. "Jingo" here stands in for a stronger word, likely a reference to God. Over time, the term "jingoism" evolved to describe an aggressive, belligerent form of patriotism and foreign policy, and "jingoistic" is the adjective form used to describe someone who exhibits this attitude."

Fascinating! For anyone who is interested in learning, there hasn't been a tool like ChatGPT since the internet itself!
I'm typing this on Firefox. It works, I'm not going to stop using it, but it's not as polished as other browsers.

I'll give you an example that annoys me because I look at it every day: the bookmarks bar still uses the same margins as it did in Firefox 3, even after 2 major UI redesigns. Then we have things like windows from Firefox 3 for some stuff with pages that open on tabs and have a different UI. Like, pick one and stick with it.

CTRL/CMD+Click on a bookmark has a different behaviour than CTRL/CMD+Click on a link. No other browser does this.

Profiles are there, but there's no user friendly UI... and no, containers can't do the same things as profiles.

Then you have things like battery use on platforms like macOS, which is still worse for me than Chrome or Safari.

So yeah... it works, but it's not the best browser. I tolerate it mostly because of extensions like uBlock Origin.
A bigger problem is that iostream is still the only C++ way to read and write files. Yeah, you can still use `std::fopen` and so on, but the modern C++ strives to minimize type-ignorant C functions right? The introduction of `std::format` made the formatting aspect of iostream obsolete, but iostream still has no standard alternative for other aspects.
Show HN: Mamba-Chat – A Chat LLM Based on State Space Models
Hey everyone! Many of you might have come across the Mamba paper a few days ago, which introduced an LLM based on a state space model architecture. The Mamba architecture is quite useful as its complexity scales subquadratically with input length and is therefore way more efficient than transformer models: https://github.com/state-spaces/mamba

I got really excited about the paper, so I decided to fine-tune the model on a chat dataset. It turns that this actually worked quite well! The model is quite suitable for casual chatting, which honestly surprised me given that it only has 2.8B parameters and the base model was only trained on the Pile. It's quite exciting that we might have a serious candidate for an architecture that could dethrone transformers.

You can find both my fine-tuning and inference code here: https://github.com/havenhq/mamba-chat
Given the size and abuses by the existing ad tech giants, why do you say they last thing we need is more competition. wouldn't more competition mean they have less money and get away with less and have to behave better?
Various estimates put the US’s entire energy supply as requiring enough solar panels to fill a square between 100 and 150 miles on a side. If efficiency goes up (which has upper bounds) and panels are integrated into buildings, solar being that virtually limitless supply doesn’t seem far-fetched.
For me interest, that I remember Windows 95, special, pan-European edition, which was really better suited for usage in Europe, with right coding tables, with better fonts for European languages, with more possible keyboards.

It was possible to add many of these things into American edition, but sure, was convenient to just buy pan-European and have all things already done.

After that I switched to programming, and I don't hear much on localized versions (sough, exists versions, much more localized, with all interface and help non-English).

But now I feel some care from EU, as they pushed on standard interfaces (begins with micro-USB/USB-C for mobile chargers) and on exclude some programs from standard distribution, etc.

Admittedly, this EU activity is not always good, it has to be constantly monitored, but overall it looks like a more realistic way to slow down corporate lawlessness than through non-governmental organizations or through legal procedures.
>CuPBoPAMD

They really couldn't come up with a better name than whatever that is?
It seems really straightforward to suggest that the better way to solve this is with standard protocols and self-hosting, but I do realise that's quite hand wavy and often not very accessible.

SMTP is an example of this succeeding, as problematic as that protocol is.
Yes, exactly. And that DNA profile could be more or less specific as well to the point where you can commit genocide. Think 'final solution', not 'James Bond'.
You are completely wrong. The courts encourage this. Specifically, Republican appointees to the supreme court favor arbitration, because it is better for corporations.
They could still inspect the messages on the 2 ends
https://www.gsb.stanford.edu/insights/why-binding-arbitratio...
You have options that don't use cgo. Disclaimer, I made the second one.

https://modernc.org/sqlite
https://github.com/ncruces/go-sqlite3
I know it's triggering to you. But it's just choosing to be nice to people. Not a bad thing. You're comment just comes across as vice-signalling.
Checkout this recently released function calling model, apparently it beats gpt4 by 7% https://huggingface.co/Nexusflow/NexusRaven-V2-13B
The hype video should be taken with a grain of salt but the level of capability displayed in the video seems probable in the not too distant future even if Gemini can't currently deliver it. All the technical pieces are there for this to be a reality eventually. Exciting times ahead.
If you get a dev kit they'll usually have a usb-serial interface for power and data.
There's a youtuber called DeSync who has provided quick tutorials on how to do accomplish this in the game, as well as in real life:

- In Game: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gm9lE97sIJo
- Real life: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_tU93mWvR6I
No, we need them to go away. Like the dinosaurs or the Dodo. Because competition between ad tech giants means the public is collateral damage in the ensuing war. That's because the advertiser money flows to the ad tech company that is most efficient at extracting dollars from their audience. Even a .1% increase is enough to swing the battle, and that arms race has been running since 1994 or so, the results are there for all to see.
> Most 40+ people

So born 1983.

> I don't think Labour will win simply because too many voting people exist who went through hard times under Labour rule and will use their vote to prevent that happening probably for a few decades more.

Have you seen a poll lately? How old are you, if you have any functional memories of 1979?
Mine is the lack of TKL keyboard. I need those navigation keys.
Any by "extraction" they mean "extracting as much money as possible from whales."
Wtf. Are these still down there???
…I wonder if this could be used to implement AWDL (Apple Wireless Direct Link) for use with AirDrop… if I recall correctly, the blocker on normal WiFi chipsets is being unable to send the ACK frames, which this should enable?
Right now (2023-12-07 evening) I get a popup that advises me that ad blockers are not allowed. In the upper right corner there is a timer that turns to a check mark so I can dismiss the popup and watch my video.

Thing is, I've watched YT on my phone and it seems like the ads take a lot longer to stream than the time before I can dismiss the popup. The popup is a minor annoyance but better than a couple ads.
Lecture 16: Secrecy and Security in the Nuclear Age
We're just gonna have UBI
It's more vice-signalling. His complaint is a reaction to try and show others he doesn't care about the thoughtfulness behind the original statement.
While I understand that looseness of your "common law" phrase, it's precisely the newness of the field that leads us to the lack of historical precedence (ie "common law").

So I would argue that we don't need "common law", we need "actual law".

The problem is that "law" is a subject that is very, very specific. Don't want them yo sell "your data" - well then first you need to define what data is "yours" and what is "theirs". That might be harder than you think. (Do you own your docile security number? Or find the govt lend it to you? Are public records considered to be public data?)

Privacy is just one corner. What about finances - can a service cut you off? What if you never oaid for it? Can you delete posts? Can quotes from deleted posts still exist? Can advertisers target specific demographics?

The problem being that writing actual law gor this stuff is hard. Writing law that will satisfy even a majority of people is near impossible.

So I hear your call, but I suspect you won't be happy with the law when they make it.
Because instead of spending minutes to hours collecting, sorting, filtering, parsing, and synthesizing Google results, chatgpt provides a near instantaneous answer that is often correct. It's then trivial to validate via Google.
The article points out that the mass-sent email used a different email address than that of the ToS. arbitrationoptout@23andme is the email in the ToS.

Jury is out whether this hyperlink mix-up was intentional...
Does Ollama let you set server parameters? (e.g., temperature, max_tokens)
Yeah seems like a case of zombie IP, a “remake” in name only in service of the lucrative genre of the month.

The very same thing happened to Starsiege recently:

https://youtu.be/EAB4vDhCHf0
You just... Blew my mind.

So, but wait... Is the genitive "of water" functioning like an assertion? "All of the contents of the cup are water."

And wouldn't that assertion, in the case where the cup has no contents, be a vacuous truth?[0]

In other words, a cup of water, if it actually has water in it, cannot also be a cup of magma. But there's nothing stopping an cup with no contents at all being "of" both.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vacuous_truth
My mom forwarded me an ad from our neighborhood listserve while I was in college. A couple middle aged guys wanted to build an app, and were looking for someone young to mentor. The app didn’t end up going anywhere, but I learned a ton, and found out from my first job that offices are pointless.

For my first “real” job, I got it indirectly thanks to winning a hackathon. A teammate got a job from that and then he hooked me up when I graduated.

I’d definitely recommend hackathons for networking. I think they are dumb as an actual exercise, but you can meet a lot of interesting people and show off to them.