skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A few issues with that.

One is that ROCm is the entire compute stack - driver, libraries, compilers, languages and sycl is a programming language. Sycl is more like one more language that could be built on ROCm than a replacement for it.

The second is that all the entire target market wrote all their stuff in cuda and looks totally unwilling to change to anything else. That makes HIP look like a good idea and Sycl not so much. Noone (commercially significant) is likely to port their code to Sycl to benefit from Intel's GPUs.

It's worth saying that AMD bet heavily on cross platform technology. Initially opencl, but take a look at the companies behind HSA as well. I'd say that doesn't appear to have worked at all - they've got the hassle of working with external specifications, and other companies have given up on the specs, so really noone is winning there. I think Triton is a cross company thing currently being implemented.

Finally Intel specifically is moribund. Definitely don't want to be relying on them to do anything.

On the bright side, the wide array of GPU programming languages are all very similar to each other from the perspective of the compiler stack, e.g. they all run through the same LLVM back end. So if someone decides they like sycl on amdgpu enough to write it, a lot of existing code is there to help. All open source in case it's someone outside of AMD that wants to write it.
I just want to state the obvious solution is to digitize and keep the original physical records.
From the article:

Lt. General Ion Mihai Pacepa stated that operation "SIG" ("Zionist Governments"), devised in 1972, intended to turn the whole Islamic world against Israel and the United States. KGB Chairman Yuri Andropov allegedly explained to Pacepa that

a billion adversaries could inflict far greater damage on America than could a few millions. We needed to instill a Nazi-style hatred for the Jews throughout the Islamic world, and to turn this weapon of the emotions into a terrorist bloodbath against Israel and its main supporter, the United States[12]
Just tried the link on an incognito firefox and chrome window and I was able to preview the song.
I you're gonna make this point, maybe don't use an example where the browser history is frequently busted after commenting. HN would benefit from a bit of SPA logic.
What does that mean? A video is inherently a series of frames. And using that sequential nature is critical to achieving good compression.

However, most formats allow for some parallelism at the "macroblock" level - you can usually decode all 16x16 pixels simultaneously. To some extent you can decode macroblocks separately, but "intra prediction" requires you to have the ones above and to the left available.
But it was all just racks in a data centre before the invention of the cloud.
But what would be the definition of "cloud" then? I'd say it boils down to managed services, so that you don't have to care about basic system configuration, hardware or networking. The only thing 37Signals outsourced is the hardware part and basic network infrastructure. That is pretty much what was known as "colocation" in the pre-cloud era.
Tech giant Google announced plans on Tuesday to impose limitations on the types of election-related queries that its AI-based chatbot, Bard, and search generative experience can provide responses to.
funny how they introduced wayland support in their nightly build over 5 years ago (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18465506), and people continue to complain about wayland support till date.

i am in support of pushing for newer standards this way, whether that is the intention or just a side-effect. no progress happens when people in the most impactful position refuse to adapt it. the needle moves only when casual users are made to test it.

almost 10 years ago, nvidia drivers sucked massively for laptops with hybrid graphics on x11 (sometimes not giving video out at all). they now suck at wayland. if we put up with all that in the past with the older standard, so be it today in the name of progress.
The open interest in options for the December expiration date is 65% calls and 35% puts.
Bitcoin recently recovered lost ground and is now trading around the $43,000 mark.
Data shows that open interest in Bitcoin options on the CME has hit a record high. Options open interest on bitcoin futures contracts at CME has surpassed $2 billion in the last 24 hours. Consistent with this conclusion, Velo Data reports a $2.1 billion peak in options open interest on CME bitcoin futures.

An abundance of buyers and sellers is indicated by a rise in open interest. Simply put, open interest is the sum of all unexecuted option contracts. A rise in open interest indicates more activity from knowledgeable traders, perhaps leading to the creation or addition of contracts.
So they ditched the Arch based distro to Fedora in favor off?!?!? How do we transition from the old distro to the new one?
I checked and I have it enabled. But, I don't have a dedicated GPU, just whatever is inside of i7-14700k. Maybe it's just not up for the task?
In-browser ordered dither maker
The person you’re commenting to is missing the context you’ve provided, which is the U.S. has seen an incredible number of near misses this past year.

The ATC situation in the U.S. is dire. It would be insane for an airline to reduce their safety standards especially in the U.S. right now.
Feels like content did change to me. Hard to place but almost like some key contributors left and avg IQ dropped a couple points as a result
Buddy reads and summarizes your unstructured documents such as PowerPoints, Word documents, spreadsheets, etc.

#GenerativeAI #ai #aiautomation #naturallanguageprocessing #FutureOfWork #DeepLearning #NeuralWave #ArtificialIntelligence #WorkplaceRevolution #DigitalTransformation #ProductivityHacks #AIGameChanger #EfficiencyBoost #SmartWorking #MachineLearning #LLM #LargeLanguageModel #TransformerArchitecture #FoundationModel #GPT #PaLM #ActionTransformers #generativeai #IntelligentCoWorker #AICoworker #SmartCoWorker
I'm not sure this is best done by holding on to implementations of those ideas that have serious flaws. Yes, learning is slow, and most languages seem to start with a handful of ideas someone wants to realize and then ignoring a lot of the difficult stuff others took a long time to solve.
> I'm also nowadays deleting my old (2 weeks) comments and posts

But why?
Well there was once a hardware accelerated API for 2D drawing on Windows (DirectDraw), but it died in Windows Vista when desktop composition was added in. It was still supported for application use, but it was just emulating it.

But if there was an API for 2D acceleration that was actually supported (and could be used simultaneously with desktop composition), then it could be added in to something like SDL then suddenly applications would support it.
Same, and according to Google Trends, Reddit's popularity has only been climbing.

I haven't noticed any form of death on Reddit.
I have the vague feeling that way to many manager with poor technical skill make decisions like "We're going to the cloud. All-in!" or "Use a cloud-native™ approach!" without understanding all implications or to tackle problems (like fossilized business processes) that have nothing to do with the server infrastructure as such.
<singing voice="Chris Rea">Becoming 'home' for Christmas </singing>
As if linux was so good at accessibility before that.. as one ex-X-maintainer once said: “there is only so much lipstick you can put on a pig before you question why you try to make it fly” (I may be butchering up the quote).
Pissandshittium: The Browser that doesn't give a shit
>You don't always want the whole world seeing what you're writing.

That's why you use pseudonyms or burner accounts instead of your real name or publicly known handles.
Ah, the day has come when we complain that our artificial humans aren't human enough. What would you do five years ago to get something that can do half the stuff LLMs can do?
An experiment with using GPT to revamp Google Analytics
the end result - a lackluster product.
That's assuming that the deterrent effect is a major cause of crime reduction, which is questionable.
I really like the name "dune buggy-airboat hybrid" haha.
> An alternative design would have been to have built Wayland inside X.org and tunnel the new protocol over the existing protocol, and then migrate chunks of functionality one at a time.

This is the kind of ignorance Drew was complaining about. Wayland is a fundamentally different design that cannot simply be embedded in the X protocol; and besides which, again, nobody wants to touch the Xorg code base.

Again. Every single person who knows or cares about the modern Linux graphics stack is pretty much in agreement that abandoning the X approach and starting from scratch was the correct choice. This has been explained time and time again by Drew, Daniel Stone, and others much more knowledgeable about this issue than I. Explaining it over and over again to the stubborn and ignorant is getting tiring. You want to stay on legacy, unsupported X11? Fine. Enjoy having no modern software available for your system, as toolkit and app developers remove their X code paths entirely. Red Hat is abandoning X11 already, and Red Hat IS userspace Linux.
This is a modded Robinson 44. Is the Robinson certified for unleaded?
> I'm also nowadays deleting my old (2 weeks) comments and posts.

Won't this just exacerbate the "I often encounter links to Reddit that are now deleted" problem?
Pushing hack to different layers won't solve the real problem ='(
Why is that? Does the salt foul the electrodes? I thought the salt might improve conduction through the fluid?
Er. A wire transfer like BACS? You just put in the details, click "yes, I understand this is probably a bad idea" and wait. At least in the UK.

But I'm not saying there's zero value to bitcoin's advantages. I'm saying that that in no way explains the price of bitcoin. What explains it is greater fool theory.
Of course the longer they have been brainwashed the less they have matter to think about. North Korea is an edge case now but we have plenty of countries with a forever president. Once it gets to 20 years it got so much time to shape the country to ensure further 20 years of power that's basically over. People had chances to change the president before. Some of those countries have periodic rebellions, other are silent. Even North Korea had less than 20 years of a Kim at a certain point. It was coming from a destructive war, etc, and yet...

I think that the USA have a good balance with their two 4 years presidential terms. If one of their next presidents asks to raise it to 3 terms, be prepared to get a forever president there soon and all that it means.
A couple of interesting takeaways from that

* They can charge at a slower rate, because they can average it out over the day

* They offer frequency balancing to the grid
As Marx once put it...

"I don’t care to belong to any club that will have me as a member."
I mean, it’s not?

There was inflation. And instead of increasing the budget the FAA’s budget was reduced. At a time when the U.S. Is seeing record air travel.

You don’t need conspuracies around real and fake inflation numbers to see how that doesn’t add up.
Argh, I wish you hadn't linked the video directly to the timestamp of the ad. Here's the 'right' link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fuFlMtZmvY0
I've a limited understanding of the topic, but would this allow to run an LLM in a mobile phone in offline mode? If that's feasible, it'd pave the way to lots of interesting applications, such as AI-assisted content moderation without having to phone back confidential data.
> An alternative design would have been to have built Wayland inside X.org and tunnel the new protocol over the existing protocol, and then migrate chunks of functionality one at a time

You are looking at it from the wrong direction, though. But otherwise, that’s pretty much what wayland does for backwards compatibility with xwayland — it wraps an x session into a window you can normally use from wayland.
There was a Stargate SG-1 episode in which people were entirely reliant on a network info store to act as an arbiter of truth, and to maintain a handful of other things that superseded the objective of returning a truthful representation of reality to the end user.

A government can be thought of as an abatraction that fulfills a similar purpose. The problem is that sometimes the non-mutability of dead tree publishing is a critical feature, not a bug.
This link seems to load

https://www.wsj.com/articles/uniqlos-parent-company-bets-big...
Some of ex-Yugoslavia (mostly Croatia) is doing rather well. But the Yugoslavs did have oppositional identity: it's just that their identities were the ones from before WW2 and even WW1. The lifting of Communism wound the clock straight back to the smoking gun of Gavrilo Princep, and the place tore itself apart over nationalism and religion again.
Of course, but their use of the ECS seems excessive. I'd have expected a few big systems for each area of the game, clicking on Game.Simulation.AdjustElectricityConsumptionSystem for example reveals quite a lot of things that could be within one system. I bet the current design passes and queries data all over the place, very redundantly.
This is unfortunately a discussion I've had to have many times. "Why does your CFD software take hours to complete a simulation when Unreal Engine can do it in seconds" has been asked more than once.
Hey there! Thanks a lot :) I've gone ahead and indexed the video you shared and you can try searching something like: "how does heat sink thermal calculation work" as it tends to work better with question.

You could also add more videos by clicking on the hamburger menu on the right of the search bar and click on "Index videos". However, you'll need to do a quick email sign up and you can index as many videos as you like!

Yeah the "hidden gem" problem is a difficult one to solve and I think with the current tech out there, we are getting a step closer with better solutions. The search engine still has a lot of work to be done especially for broader queries & improving accuracy.

Would love to see how the community can build on this!
Toshiba's crash from grace is the poster boy of everything that is wrong with Japan.

Lest we forget, Toshiba invented NAND flash only for them and Japan (namely the patent office) to throw it out the window for the likes of Intel and Sandisk to pick it up and create an entire industry.

There is perhaps no better time to say that, nothing of value was lost here.
even my brain has a hard time validating those ... idk {com,net,org} for international audiences and cctld for local stuff seemed enough
[spanish]Interview to Emilio Coppola Executive Director Godot Foundation [video]
Just a class (or struct or module or whatever your language has for that) that has a “now()” method which returns the current time.

And then replace all your calls that do Date.now() with clock.now() and then you can make “now” be whatever you want.
In these CUDA vs ROCm comparisons I think they mostly compare the C++ dialects. And it's not even particularly the language implementation where ROCm is weak, but rather, the whole tool chain. Am I mistaken?
Same, not seeing any change, and according to analytics sites and Google Trends, Reddit's popularity has only been on the rise.
When managing data of EU citizens, but does it still apply to UK companies managing data of UK citizens in the UK?
This was exactly my experience with it too. It's moved on a bit since then but when I looked at rocFFT a couple of years ago, the documentation was really poor and it was missing features.

When I switched from FFTW to cuFFT many years ago (~2015), the transition was very smooth, the documentation was great, and all features were supported. They even put a shim "FFTW" compatible header file in so that you didn't need to rewrite your code to make it work (leaving some performance on the table).
But the electrolysis technique gives you the opportunity to store the energy as hydrogen. This means you can use cheap surplus energy for the electrolysis and burn the hydrogen later when energy is scarce. RO does not have that property
LLMs are like the wild west. Things are moving fast and no one is really documenting things for outsiders. The only way to learn these things is by using them. If you tried out Oobabooga, you would know that each LLM needs their own template instructions to understand its input and respond correctly. More recent tools, like Ollama, have these instructions included with the models. However, there are still different types of models available through Ollama. Some of them are suffixed with "instruct" which tells you that you can use them like a chat bot, whereas other "main" models only do completions and spit out gibberish if you ask them a question.
They sometimes do. Whether that's usually really depends on what flights you take.
Why are there no native apps anymore today? Why does everyone ride the Electron bloatware?
It is part of the story. It's presumably from the Bulgarian Visual Archive, so it's unfortunate the author hasn't cited the images properly.

https://visualarchive.bg/en/
$9k for three of those? I'm affraid Your math aint mathing.

7-slot motherboards are IMO Threadripper teritory. The CPU alone will set You back at least $1k5, MB to go along with that is another $1k. Not including the stack of DDR5 that You'll likely throw into that and the PSU / case / coolers to feed it power and evacuate the heat from this monstrosity.

That's at least $3000 for the base system "before" You add any GPUs.

And at some point I'd like to read someone more enlightened to comment on what the memory bandwidth is likely to be and how exactly will You distribute the PCIe lanes...
Recently had this problem, went with option 5 indeed, passing timestamps.

This also made it trivial to replay logs to the application and get back in the exact same state, which is great for debugging of course.
C# can also manipulate memory:

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/csharp/language-ref...
Are these subsidies to end users, contributing towards retail or perhaps discount service fees? This shouldn't be how it works. Services should be given free to qualifying users (at some service tier) and providers should be paid directly to offset their cost of that service.

Providers should not be making market-standard profits, or revenue that subsidize ventures other than the services rendered to those users, like media creation or M&A.
QML uses it, but it doesn't look as good as FreeType with LCD subpixel rendering and light hinting... if that is what you like (it is what I like).
$2 for people, millions for lawyers... US has become a slave of its own legal system...
fwiw european diesel-electric submarines routinely sink supercarriers in exercises
> 3. A vocal minority of change-averse people complained with little to no factual basis

Little to actual factual basis?? 1) How do you explain the time it has taken??
2) prioritising "shallow security" over "accessibility" is a fact: see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38696891 ??

Wayland design was "OK", Wayland's implementation is a disaster..
Nearly every DE reinventing its own server implementation is a recipe for incompatibility, bugs..
The biggest difference is that I install and execute salt and ansible in order to remotely install software, and I had no expectation that establishing an SSH connection would do that.
Using the LLM to mutate the user query is the way to go. A common practice for example to take the chat history of a chat, and rephrase a follow up question that might not have a lot of information density (e.g. follow up question is "and then what?" which is useless for search, but the LLM turns it into "after a contract cancellation, what steps have to be taken afterwards" or something similar, which provides a lot more meat to search with.

Using the LLM to mutate the input so it can be used better for search is a path that works very well (ignoring added latency and cost).
It died in the same way FB did. Much of it is reputational damage. People will stop investing into it, including large corporations. It gets removed from brand and PR strategy and such. Consultants who utilize it will seem out of date. Or they'll be grouped into the bunch who deal with WordPress and PHP - it's the sewage equivalent, those who do the dirty work that the white collars won't.

Paradoxically, that makes it better. Facebook groups are just thriving now, like mushrooms after the rain. The old days of FB had people making meme groups so they could rebrand it into a fashion group and sell it off to be merged into an established fashion brand. Reddit just has plenty of people who would make jokes at your expense or ignore a post to be the first to make a joke and harvest lots of upvotes.

It becomes more 4chan and less well, reddit, people are just more genuine.

Without the people gaming these platforms, they're usually a much better place to visit. I don't visit reddit anymore though, but I might when the dust settles in a few years.

A reddit-like death may be a good thing for HN. Maybe people will stop campaigning against crypto, AI, frameworks, whatever they're feeling insecure about, and just rationally discuss their interests knowing that nobody important is reading.
It means that e.g. in H265 you can split the frame into tiles that are much larger than macroblocks: it's like the video is a set of n videos that are then composed to build a complete frame. This allows both encoding and decoding to work in parallel even inside a single frame. In addition, in VR 360 context, it allows decoding only frames the viewer can see.

It reduces the compression efficiency, but only a little, because the tiles will be quite large anyway, such as 6 tiles per frame (but can be more for 360 video applications). It can be limited by the number of decoding instances a piece of hardware can have concurrently.
For starters, it is rather rude to assume how little I know about this.

Leaving that aside, Drew is mis-characterising things a little.

Wayland is fundamentally a different __compositor__ architecture. But the X11 system is about more than that, in fact compositors are a rather late addition to the X11 system.

And the protocol architectures are actually quite similar in shape. Which is not surprising, since good ideas last, and X11 has been around for a long time and has accumulated lots of good things (along with lots of cruft too).

So it would have been quite possible, but a good deal less fun, to do it differently.
I went to a talk by a guy who worked in this space in the film industry and said one of the funniest questions he ever got asked was "Can you make the water look more splashy"
Pricing seems unclear as it always is for premium cars, but about £60-£70,000.
>They petulantly ignored it because ILS approaches take up more space in the pattern, which means less landings per hour, which means less profit for the airport operator.

Can you explain this? Do planes have choices over where to land once in the air? If not, all the landings needed to happen, so why does delaying some by a few minutes affect the total income for the airport on that evening?

I'm just questioning how an airport's overall profit motive would affect an indiviual air traffic controller's decision making like that.
Good that it has the option to link the library directly, instead of only communicating with the daemon version of pigpio. (Very slow!)
Never heard of that catastrophe, but an oil rig digging into a mine under a lake is pretty terrible.
What this piss and shit is about?
guys, don't hide your pricing and product information ("Learn More") behind a login wall.