skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I'd really not call the Radeon VII a "fantastic card" by any stretch of the imagination

An argument about whether the Radeon VII was a "fantastic card" misses the point, it could have been another GPU. OP's main point was that AMD had a years-long policy of not officially supporting any of their consumer-grade GPUs for computing applications, as a result AMD had lost critical opportunities during this time period - even a small market share is better than none. OP mentioned Radeon VII because it was the only exception, and it only happened because there was strong support from some groups within AMD - which didn't last long. After RDNA was released, computing support on consumer GPUs was put on pause again until several months ago. There's a big difference between "not optimally designed for computing" and "no official support of computing at all".

The outcome is that it created a great barrier of entry for developers and power users with desktop GPUs. You have to figure out everything by yourself, which is not supposed to be particularly difficult as it's the norm in the FOSS world. The problem is that, in a community-driven project, you would have received help or at least a hint from your peers or project maintainers who's familiar with the system. Not so for AMD. if something doesn't work, no AMD developers will provide any help or even hints - and by not providing support, the "community" is never really established. The ROCm GitHub Issues page was (is?) basically a post-apocalypse world abandoned by AMD, full of user self-help threads with no input from developers. Almost nothing works and nobody known why. Even if the problem reported is a general one, it would still be ignored or closed if you're not running an officially-supported system and GPU.

One time, I needed to understand a hardware feature of an AMD GPU, I eventually had to read ROCm and Linux kernel source code before finding an answer. For most users, it's completely unacceptable.

> Sure, if those things are relevant to you, it was a killer card

Disclosure: I use the Radeon VII for bandwidth-heavy simulations so I have a pro-Radeon VII bias. But I don't think my bias affected my judgement here.
Sure, we will not be able to verify anyway. Whatever garbage the LLMs are throwing at us, we have no clue if they are truthful.
Or donate your own GPU time for kudos, which lets you skip the queue!

This is what I do. I sometimes run llm inference on my 3090/2060 for the horde, and use the kudos to impulsively generate images on mobile when I need them.
it was a group effort.

started with ISP selling your mistyped dns queries to google or whichever search engine they could sign a deal.

from there there was a race to capture as much mistyped domains until google had the end-game idea to pay Firefox to send non-standards domains to google directly, not even wait for it to fail dns resolution.

when later google launched Chrome, initially as a cost saving for the firefox deal, they dialed the dns to search hack so aggressively that they broke the internet (search for chrome type ahead incident).

all search engines (called portals at some point in time) goal was to be the dns replacement. AOL had "keywords" which they advertised heavily in their tv channels like TNT ("we will be back with Terminator. see more at Terminator keyword on AOL")
I got really into the genealogy thing when I got long covid and had nothing better to do. I kept branching outward and down all the cousins, etc... hoping that sooner or later I would find out that one of my friends was a 5th cousin or something.... but the newer records tend to be private, so that didn't happen.
If it happens systematically and in a way that effectively creates one big multilaterally maintained and honored private “no fly” list and a corresponding chilling effect? Absolutely. Otherwise, I’m afraid we’ll quickly have such a list for people exercising their legitimate EU flight compensation rights or anything else inconvenient for airlines.

Airlines should on the other hand be free to set their own restrictions on filming in their planes and publishing that material – clearly communicated at the time of booking. I’ve been on a flight with a Youtube “personality” just looking for drama with the airline, and even as a bystander I found it obnoxious (and I didn’t want to end up in that video myself).
I would imagine all the other sys admins were evacuated?
I disagree to a point. We see millenials/Gen-Z expecting promotions and large salaries for little to no work history and at most normal productivity. There is definitely a connection missed between effort and reward.
When looking for CEOs, they don't look for top notch engineering talent, they look for top notch CEO talent, where talent means capability. CEOs do need deep technical understanding, anything else and you have an enviroment that scares away engineers, but they don't need to be the best engineer in the entire company.

If you've been to Harvard, you are on a first name basis with highly ranking finance people. It's not a coincidence that among all the dot com carnage, Amazon emerged as the ecommerce champion: they lived thanks to Jeff Bezos being able to get continued funding despite making continued losses. For that, you need, among other things, good contacts into the finance industry and know how they work and think.

A membership in the exclusive club of Harvard graduates gives you the ability to find customers, advice, funding, employees. Stuff that makes it more likely that your company is more successful.
Use its likeness to summon Disney trademark lawyers in a shamanistic ritual.

=)
Was there a copyright reason for Disney changing their opening logo sequence to the steamboat willy thing? Some kind of "it's now our trademark" claim?
Spinal cord stimulator dramatically reduces phantom limb pain
Why? Use Vinci for everything?
The US doesn't need to cancel any debts that are denominated in dollars--which means all of the debt that is causing all the ruckus. The US can print dollars. That amounts to devaluing the debt, i.e., it favors debtors at the expense of creditors. Historically, that is exactly how the US has dealt with its debt once it went off the gold standard and dollars were purely fiat money.
Certain types of requests (like loras or less common models) can make the queue much longer.
https://archive.ph/nNAir
It seems like gibberish because of time dilation.

It's a warning not to trust Matt Damon in space, he's either going to try to kill you or steal your poop to grow potatoes.
(u/dang already said as much an hour before your comment, not sure there's a point making more accusations and adding fuel to the fire.)
To be fair, the original article was rather terrible. Like what the heck is with the "modern embellishment"?
Cast iron does wash differently from other things, but in my experience it's less work. Most of my cooking is on cast iron, and when I'm done I rinse it under the tap, rubbing a bit with a scrubber if food is stuck to it. I don't use salt. Then I put it back on the stove for a minute until it's dry. It takes me about 30s to clean a pot, less time than something I need to rinse-soap-rinse, and I end up with a clean pot on my stove ready for the next use.

Our stove almost always has a 10" dutch oven, 6" pan, and 10" pan sitting on it, ready to use.
This strategy, while is worth mentioning as another separate post, can only be applied to simple interfaces. A whole API can be much larger and can't avoid allocations inside. There are some cases where the whole API was carefully designed to avoid such allocations, but it is difficult and not always suitable for users.
Where is the indication that Google is “killing waze”?
Maybe I'm missing something huge here but a blind controlled demo where the subject committed words to paper and then compared the results afterwards would be persuasive. Unfortunately, the demo as presented in the article seemed achievable by professional magicians and mentalists.

I'm sure we're close to brain interfaces, but something seems off about this one.

Let's say a couple years from now, someone invents an airport scanner that "detects" evil thoughts, except there is no way to verify it, and no accountability for false negatives. The result is whatever the operator says it is. If enough people accept it enough to not resist it, and even turn on the ones who are detected by it, it doesn't matter what's real because it's just a participatory ritual of sympathetic magic. I feel like there are examples of similar dynamics in recent memory.
The Death of Caspar Hauser
If you stick around, you should regularly get topped up so that dilution doesn't completely destroy your stake.

Your salary should also increase to become competitive with the market as your company continues to raise.

If the founders know what they're doing and you are bringing outsize value to the company, your salary should far exceed the market salary as your company gains success.
Why is the title changed? Is HN now editorializing researchers Arxiv Papers!?

Here are my suggestions... /s

"Attention Is All You Need" - HN: "A New Twist on Neural Networks for Text Tasks"

"ImageNet Classification with Deep Convolutional Neural Networks" - HN: "A New Way to Classify Images"
Plus a context pointer and old size, as the OP pointed out.
Which part is that? I don't recall this bit being in the book.
> Whatever garbage the LLMs are throwing at us, we have no clue if they are truthful.

We handle this situation with fellow humans. Why do you imply we cannot also handle the situation with (an) AGI(s)?
I like GitHub issues because I can link issues to releases.
Thanks for clarifying. I read it as a general question rather than a specific one.
The nose is only lit up for Rudolph…

Well, all the childhood cartoons show Rudolph’s nose glowing red.

Of course, with a bright glowing red omnidirectional light source directly in front of the eyes, it’s a bit strange he or anyone else in the sled could see where they were going!!! (Nobody talks about that)
Claude Shannon Demonstrates "Theseus" Machine Learning Bell Labs [video]
Recently, a Swiss-French team made the communication between the brain and the legs possible, and the device looked relatively mature. I think patient had nerves damaged in the vertebral column. What do you think about it ? Looked like a promising development.

https://actu.epfl.ch/news/thought-controlled-walking-again-a...
What founders need to understand is that VCs are generally risk averse (which is surprising because they are supposed to be “venture”) and are momentum / fomo driven. Very few VCs think outside the box and can act independently (though they act like they can).
You can also run koboldcpp on a Mac (or pretty much any PC with a small dGPU) to generate kudos running LLMs.

The diffusion/llm kudos is interchangeable.

Its literally a 1 click download + GUI on Windows, and a nearly zero dependency compile on OSX/Linux, and it takes the same Horde key artbot takes that you can register here: https://aihorde.net/register
What's interesting to me is that apparently a lot of people see nothing wrong with this[0]. That whole thread is wild and I'm just showing a small portion.

Also, @dang, can we ban links to iflscience? They're a trash publication that entirely relies on clickbaity misrepresentations of research works. There is __always__ a better source that can be used.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38565424
I'm not sure why you feel religion is important to mention.
Yeah, MTG twitter is really mad about it, but people at WoTC often have fairly narrow skillsets, so I would not be surprised that at some point they want to rebalance the set of skills that they have access to to do something different.

I found out they fired a community manager... and I had no idea who that person was without a bunch of googling, which tells you a bit about how effective that spending was for wotc.

Not to say that I think wotc corporate is at all infallible, they are clearly not very good at doing anything besides designing the cards themselves, and even then, they have largely inherited a very good game rather than really doing anything amazing.

Wotc could really use a shake up that raises the standards of what they produce to the level of eg riot games, but that's unlikely to happen any time soon.
The three most important resources I've used:

- https://tldp.org/LDP/abs/html/

- https://mywiki.wooledge.org/BashGuide

- https://www.shellcheck.net/ (can tell you if there's a Bash-specific replacement for a POSIX mechanic)

I'll be reading this book over the break: https://fabiensanglard.net/bash/
Onboarding customers 1:1 is something a lot of SaaS still do. That's fine, just build it into your business model. Hire account managers, etc.

It's also fine to do things that don't scale, that's how most startups launch. It might not keep up with the pace of growth, just have a backup plan for that.

Also just saw the last question. No, probably don't charge them yearly for a product that hasn't been around for a month. We see a lot of products where the site keeps breaking down after a few months. You need a lot of trust that you're willing to commit. Many get it with a 100% money back guarantee or even 110% money back.
I think it's also important to give the context, for those like me who just saw your comment and were wondering why exactly they would even think of doing that:

> On 2 October 2020, women on planes on the ground at Doha, including 13 Australians, were subjected to the examinations as authorities searched for the mother of a newborn baby found abandoned in a plastic bag in the departures lounge at Hamad international airport.
If you're going to quote the juicy bits of the article, it might be helpful to provide the full context as well.

> women on planes on the ground at Doha, including 13 Australians, were subjected to the examinations as authorities searched for the mother of a newborn baby found abandoned in a plastic bag in the departures lounge at Hamad international airport.

While I personally don't think this justifies their actions, I do think it matters that this was not a completely random "let's inspect some vaginas".
An unamicable divorce can certainly be bad, but don't under-estimate how bad it is for a child to grow up in a marriage where both partners hate each other, but can't leave.

Forcing marriage seems like a terrible way to achieve the same thing.
Can it be argued that work is miserable for everyone, including children? Current trends doesn't only seek to abolish child worker, it aims to free it from everyone.

Of course, whether it'd actually be better for everyone or it'd actually be stable is another can of worm entirely.
Is there any public data how the "autopilot jail" decision was decided? I.e. - 80% of the prior accidents were caused by drivers that got >5 autopilot disengagement strikes?
Could you please stop posting unsubstantive comments and flamebait? You've unfortunately been doing it repeatedly. It's not what this site is for, and destroys what it is for.

This has been a pattern for a while, including recent example like these:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38506362

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38229052

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38208427

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38203300

If you keep posting like this, we're going to have to ban you. If you don't want to be banned, it would be good to review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html, stop posting flamewar-style comments, and stick to the rules from now on.
I read in Arctic Dreams (Barry Lopez) that polar bears are hard to detect in the visual (white on white) and infrared (very good thermal insulation) spectrums, but that they are easily detectible in the ultraviolet spectrum due to the particular qualities of their fur. I'd suggest this is a reason that UV vision has developed in reindeers. Polar bears are the largest land predator in that region, and being able to see it in the only spectrum it's really detectable in would be a major benefit for reindeer.
This may surprise you, but people were in fact greedy previously as well
I’m not sure why you feel it isn’t.
A good API can use only a single ABI-level function, but it needs more parameters than that. I imagine 4 arguments, at least 2 of which are themselves composite:

auto utopia_alloc(Allocation, AlignAndSkew, Size, Flags) -> Allocation;

That said, while "one function" makes interposing easy, it does mean significant branching cost compared to single functions. There's probably a way to get the best of both worlds (support several functions in the ABI, but forward them all to `utopia_alloc` if interposed).

more details at https://gist.github.com/o11c/6b08643335388bbab0228db763f9921...

Aside: I really hate how the nullprogram site linked seems allergic to type-safety.
If only there were any less invasive way to determine biological relationship between a mother and a newborn. (It's not even obvious that I do or should support DNA testing for this, but if there were only two options, I'd sure as hell support that over forced gynecological examination of all women of potential child-bearing age.)
As far as middle-eastern countries go, Qatar seems to be a particularly bad apple.

I never understood the "let's suck up to them, because maybe they will improve then" mindset that led to the world cup beind held there. If it was up to me we would have boycot the whole thing.
> The standard library allocator keeps its state in global variables. This makes for a simple interface, but comes with significant performance and complexity costs

Thread local allocation buffers?
2.5% of the US GDP ($26 trillion in 2023) would be 600 billion. At its peak in 1967, the Apollo program budget was 3 billion, while the US GDP was about 850 billion. So 0.35 percent. US government spending in 1967 was about 112 billion, so closer to 2.5 percent of the federal budget, not the GDP. Converting to today’s 6,000 billion federal budget, about 150 billion today, or not quite 20% of the defense budget, the largest federal expenditure after Social Security (the defense budget is essentially tied with Medicare).
My 4090 came with a bracket for this reason.
I should be more specific that I'm talking about a modern residential neighborhood in an industrialized society.
Can you show that this behavior did not exist in previous generations? I saw plenty of that with gen-x working its way through the lower rungs of the workforce.
"Thought leader", along with the phrase "whitepaper", has been diluted to mean almost nothing these days. Companies publish marketing documents and call them "whitepapers" to acquire undeserved legitimacy; same goes for self-proclaimed thought leaders.

To me, a thought leader is someone at the top of a legitimate field and leading the way. Not some guy who was wronged by an airline and spent an epic amount of time crafting a tirade against them.
Why would you think handling it with another person has any resemblance or relevance to handling it with an LLM or an AGI?
Such a scheme (which I don’t think would be workable in any case) could only bind Congress if it were an amendment to the constitution.
Op didn’t enable anything. These places are oil economies and they do not care if you come visit.
We also see CEOs getting paid a ridiculous amount of money. They get incredible bonuses even when their companies underperform. The golden parachute is real. It's easier to blame the kids, but they see many examples from the top. Not to mention how their children - the nepokids - are being rewarded by their proximity to power and a network they had no hand in building.
Not supporting 8 bit quantizations is not just some minor optimization missing. An 8 bit quantization of a model is half the size of a 16 bit model. You can load a model with twice the number of parameters using 8 bit quantizations as compared to loading a 16 bit model. GPU ram is always in demand and since 8 bit quants give you <1% performance degredation re: perplexity there's no reason not to.

That's before getting to any potential 8 vs 16 bit processing speed differences the two companies are arguing over here.
I think it was to mirror Marvel's intro showing the history of the brand.
Disney is both the best and worst when it comes to the public domain. It shows what you should do with it: take something that exists, remix it, release it, and even create a successful media & entertainment company. But efforts to aid extensions to the term of copyright expiration will – if they haven't already – have a deleterious effect.
Sorry, I meant that you can fuzzy find the filenames, not the contents.

For the latter, explorer top right search bar can do it surprisingly. As for a tool with an index, recoll comes to mind.
On the other hand, I’m somewhat tired of paying for free business class flights, hotel stays, meals etc. of influencers that expect to just get all of these things for free in exchange for a positive shout-out deceptively labeled a “review”, or (as in this case) to avoid drama by a person that appears to be seeking it out, judging by their Youtube page.

There’s a reason traditional restaurant critics usually pay for their own meals.
Is dna testing instant?
I was asking the person to justify their dog-whistly birth-rate statement.
Here's a much better photo[0] from the Wikipedia article[1].

Importantly, the map is "upside down", since it's oriented to have south at the top.

[0]: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/1b/FraMauro...

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fra_Mauro_map
Yup! It's since been renamed to the AI Horde, but same backend service.

https://aihorde.net/
I looked into these choices in detail from a heavy metal contamination point of view recently.

* Cast iron: this site implies that cast iron may not be safe, but it is the safest option if you need a little iron in your diet- most people do and an iron panel will tell you if your iron levels are too high. Safer than cast iron may be wrought iron- it is less likely to have accidental contamination issues [1]. Darto sells wrought iron pans at a reasonable price [2].

* Stainless steel- also a great option and this site does mention concerns of nickel leaching out. Nickel is not as concerning as lead contamination, but it is a concern for cooking acidic food. This site refers to all low nickel stainless steel as low quality, but there's a potential health advantage here to having a no nickel or low nickel pan even if it doesn't hold up as well.

* Rivets and other issues. I just bought a Noni no nickel stainless steel pan. It's made from a single piece of stainless, including the handle. [3] Rivets in pans can be contaminated with lead.

More details from XRF testing of cookware are here [4]. I also saw some other Century Life articles. They recommend silicone utensils but most silicone is contaminated with low levels of cadmium [5]. Undecorated wood is a safer bet. Century Life also mentions Le Creusset and enameled products without a discussion of lead contaminated. [6]

[1] https://www.eng-tips.com/viewthread.cfm?qid=302979
[2] dartointernational.com
[3] https://www.solidteknics.com/solid-products/
[4] https://tamararubin.com/2021/01/i-want-to-buy-some-nontoxic-...
[5] https://tamararubin.com/?s=silicone
[6] https://tamararubin.com/category/le-creuset-cast-iron/
Note that libc-style `free` often has to do work to walk through all possible arenas/buckets/whatever to see which one contains the given pointer. If given a size (even just a hint) it can do a much shorter walk without reducing security.
Cue you me in on Democratic, Respecting Human Rights, Modernist, Islamic Countries?
You're not kidding. Not even a billionaire's kids today could run around the woods with rifles and do the same.
This evokes in me a distinct feeling of applying a crack to run a pirated game.