skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Intel, considering their new partnership with an also-ran Taiwanese contract fab company, has a plausible play for competing with TSMC for leading edge manufacturing in the next few years.

Beyond all the existing scaling up started based on pandemic shortages, that's the only thing I've heard of that has a chance of making a dent within 5-10 years. Of course, all that already started scaling up might already be more than enough if you're not a true believer.
TIL I'm wealthy ... someone please tell my net worth then, as it's blissfully unaware
A pile of rocks on a hill is a renewable energy source if you are prepared to wait a few billion years for plate tectonics to recharge it.
I don't know why people are so negative on this project. I already know about gsudo and yet I was still happy to see an official solution! Even if it were to never evolve, not having to pull a third-party executable in is always nice.
I mean, they have to fight. If they shut down, everyone except the most dedicated anime watchers lose out. And I'm sure anime streaming is nowhere near as prolific as TV (some of which also serve some anime).

I guess if people are fine reverting back to the 90's where they can barely share new shows with potential new friends, it's a better future. Sounds like a good way to ruin a lot of the respect slowly gained over the decades though.
ollama swaps models from the local library on the fly, based on the request args, so you can test against a bunch of models quickly
What they are highly optimized for is mixed-precision GEMM (like all other accelerator manufacturers). What distinguishes Nvidia for now (imo) is that CUDA cores are also quite good at normal code (with control flow etc). I used to think that being close to optimal in one of them would contradict being close to optimal in the other but it turns out they share a lot of resources (SRAM) and the overhead in chip surface if one or the other is laying dormant seems negligible. I'm pretty sure that AMD et al will be sufficiently successful at blatantly copying the CUDA API that we will see serious competition in the next years. The bigger source of uncertainty might actually be fabbing capacity.

I find it hard to argue that this mode supports a 1.7T valuation. I find it hard to believe that for a couple of billions + TSMC credits no one would be able to recreate the CUDA ecosystem + hardware in the medium term.
Another cool spectrum-first game was Nebulus. I remember buying it at a shop on Tottenham Court Road.

I recently learned Nintendo released versions of the game as 'Castelian'. The level design, at least for level 1, is the same as in the original Nebulus.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nebulus_(video_game)
Not necessarily; even if data backup was totally impossible, anyone you're chatting with could still be screenshotting everything you say.

One should never assume that communication won't be backed up / screenshotted / etc.
I believe the game you're referring to is Flight Control, and it came out first on iOS back in 2009.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flight_Control_(video_game)

Fun game but not at all realistic. I was reminiscing about it and the closest thing I could find today was: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/planes-control/id1015114550
I guess that makes sense but for me the equation would be a different one: since Mozilla is for me synonymous with Firefox I'd allocate all of the resources to FireFox and that would result in (1) a much more secure future for FireFox, (2) reduced loss of marketshare (so a better negotiation position vis-a-vis Google) and (3) a much lower per annum expense to keep that mission alive. By burning a ton of money on unrelated things FireFox is now actively at risk of disappearing. Google can point at Edge now and say they're not a monopoly, they may not need FireFox for much longer.
> in order to pretend to do something about ...

That basically summaries the Canadian government's history, and how we end up in multiple crisis and negative gdp per capita situation now.
You are making a strawman argument, WFH and commuting is only the tip of it, not a comparison. Modern work is a form of slavery, and it is worse than the traditional one. In the past, a slave who changed owners would be free from the influence of the previous one. But now, you still have to please (aka kiss their arses) your former bosses so they won’t ruin your future references. Slavery means having no freewill, whether you are bound by physical chains or by financial obligations. You have no choice but to accept these burdens, or you will never have access to quality education, health care, schooling for your children, or even a house or a car.
Do you know what is disgusting? Wasting your life until you are 65 years old to finally “own” a 40x40ft house that is made of wood and cardboard and was built in a few months. A house that you still have to pay taxes on, even though you “own” it, or it will be taken away from you. What is disgusting is that you - not necessarily you personally, but most likely - cannot survive more than a month, or a few months at best, without being a slave to one, a one that will be gladly to replace you in a week after wasting your youth, family, relationships, etc. The only free will you have is what kind of coffee to drink and what podcast to listen to before you go there
If your management team can't figure out how to do what you're asking, maybe you should be firing them instead. If _no one_ can figure it out, maybe you should be firing you.
The simulation hypothesis is not really about whether or not there is a master programmer but rather a consequence of a computational universe. The more interesting question is whether we live in a digital (computational) universe or not. Wolfram thinks that if we do then there should be a corresponding digital (computational) physics. He also hypothesizes that a universe's complexity should then arise from simple computational processes.
... or neither
>Like if you bought titles from the Discovery Channel on PSN, you don’t have access to those anymore.

That was cancelled.

https://www.theverge.com/2023/12/21/24011168/sony-playstatio...
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17921972
Agreed.

It is always posts repeating left/center-left dogmas. Agree or disagree, fine. It is also fair to dismiss the entire exercise as meaningless bickering. However I find it hard to describe this as "intellectual curiosity", when the discussion is narrowly limited to specific brands of sloganeering.

Entire books have been written on some of the common disputes arising on this site. There's rarely anything new added in the usual short comments here. Most commonly I read a pop culture interpretation/regurgitation of the same concepts. Perhaps it was something a talking head repeated somewhere?

When I have made the mistake of engaging, I'll cite an author or perhaps link a short article by the same author summarizing some of the points. Inevitably, posters will smear the source for having, "an agenda". As if all of politics isn't framed from within "agendas".

It is bad enough on explicitly partisan posts like this one, but I'm also noticing politics creeping into other benign areas. A discussion about Google's practices will always lead down the rabbit hole of "more regulation and government can solve that!". Observations around the business cycle, state managed economy and how these factors fuel monopolies are less welcome. Perhaps John Oliver didn't give those talking points.
Regulators are usually underpowered, overworked and short of funds. Any attempt to regulate the likes of Google effectively would be faced with such opposition that it would swamp the officials. Check out what happened when DOJ had an ironclad anti-trust case against Microsoft and how it all ended up in the longer term.
Ha! The uptrend towards Valentine’s Day - florals up from $9.99 to $14.99!

Really cool, and gives you POV like you’d get with Uber Surge.

Is this how retailers hedge and make up for losses elsewhere?

I wish we could also know tracked wholesale price.
This sudo for Windows doesn't either because it's not sudo. Looking at the docs, it's not even remotely compatible either. The choice of name here is unfortunate.
> Microsoft, Google, Amazon, Meta are all building or using their in-house chips already and are working hard to replace Nvidia as much as they can,

Is this true for FB? They just spent billions on 500,000 H100s (disclosed in their earnings report a week or two ago).
I do this for various reasons at my work.

To function in day to day tasks you need to be able to read stuff in AD. I have solved interesting problems this way like: How do I get access to X thing when the security groups are not documented? Find someone with access and recurse their MemberOf and diff your own.

I also have used it to find people leaving.
Depending on your new provider, they might just see that they have a contract with you and sign the call on your behalf with B level attestation - indicating that they "know" the end user, but not that they have the right to use the number.

As long as they managed to attach the identity header to the sip invite correctly, and are not considered to be a shady actor - downstream providers such as carriers probably have no reason to label it as spam. Spam labeling is typically done via analytics, outsourced to third parties like First Orion.

Attest levels are not in themselves proper tools for spam detection. The real meat of stir shaken is the origid in the identity JWT claim which is an opaque identifier that can be traced back to a particular user/customer/network equipment.

STIR/SHAKEN being sold as the one and only solution for spam calls was a mistake as it is only one iteration in the right direction. You have a handful of RFCs and ATIS specs that the FCC told operators to implement in a phased approach, and ultimately some gaps were uncovered in practice that reduced its effectiveness.
> Who can I sue for breach of contract? Their ghost?

The company that metaphoically changed its name but is still selling torque wrenches. Or the parent who bought two torque wrench companies and had the power to gracefully merge them together but instead cut them in half. They still inherit the contract after all

>It's the stuff of horror stories when your ex takes "but you said you'd never leave me and you'd always love me forever" to its most literal extreme.

sure but a SO isn't a company, who does indeed have a contractual agreement to "server you for X time". X time with many stipulations, but I guess lawyers will argue over that. They may be right in an absolute sense, but a judge definitely takes the power dynamic into account with cases like this.
https://venturebeat.com/business/crunchyroll-for-pirated-ani...
Yes, the idea of VATSIM is "There are people who want to play pilot simulators and there are people who want to play ATC simulators. What if there was a network protocol to link those groups together?"
I have noticed that runas is mentioned as an already existing sudo alternative, but as far as I know, runas asks you for the administrator's password. sudo asks the own user password. This is how you give a non administrator user the right to use some application/tool without revealing the admin's password.

Or does runas work differently than I thought?
Probably more than you think. There aren't that many ways to buy translated anime, since the business is effectively 2-3 companies at any given time.
That's easy enogh: just put a room-temperature superconductor on the bottom of the pieces so they can start levitating!
Thanks for posting this, I’ve been having similar thoughts lately.

Elixir is extremely overhyped, not because it’s not great but because most of the discourse is about how much better it is than other languages.

With Python, Rust, Go, and JavaScript I can find a ton of interesting projects and tools; tons and tons of examples of people doing interesting things, easily outweighing the language hype.

Elixir has a handful of core tools, tons of hype posting, and a smattering of introductory blog posts to those tools.

The community really has the appearance of lacking depth. (Granted I think partly that’s because the depth exists inside companies that don’t really talk about it)
They basically just described alphaZero, the difference being that alphaZero uses MCTS during inference too.
No, nine_k is talking about the abstract requirements that are understood by "sudo", asking how they are reflected in this implementation.

Sudo is widely understood to refer to a program which allows specific users to run specific privileged commands.
"50% of the performance at 20% of the price" is wildly implausible even if you can somehow start fabbing perfect chips for openai's workloads tomorrow. Especially if they don't have access to the fabrication processes that nvidia, amd etc are using, since more modern (read: expensive) processes reduce power draw and enable higher clocks. 80% of nv's datacenter die space is not wasted, not close to that much.

It seems more likely to me they'd get 20% of the performance at 50% of the price, and that might still work out for them if it allows them to scale faster without being bottlenecked on supply of existing GPUs. But there's no magic bullet here.

They also still need to source a bunch of other stuff, like RAM, even if they can source their own processors.
I'll be ready to go for the apocalypse too. I recently scored an abacus at an antique shop -- a Japanese soroban that looks like it was made in the 50s or 60s. I call it the most retro piece of computing equipment I own.
Don't forget about Matt Hoover of CRS Firearms being charged for conspiracy to transfer unregistered machine gun conversion devices. His crime? Advertising a trinket known as an "Auto Key Card", a metal business card etched with the outline of a lightning link, a device that--properly manufactured--can make a semi-automatic rifle full-auto.

The problem is that this device was nothing more than a drawing on a business card sized piece of steel. It amounts to an egregious first amendment violation at the very least.

https://www.justice.gov/usao-mdfl/pr/federal-jury-convicts-t...

https://www.pewpewtactical.com/autokeycard-explained/
We used to use Sametime and I’d periodically search for “Deleted - “, which would show me everyone who was deleted over the past few months, before they fell out of the system.
ITG Tracebacks https://tracebacks.org/

With enough evidence, operators are compelled to provide data and are given an opportunity to correct their action. If they refuse, FCC will eventually issue an order to all other providers to not accept calls from the bad actor.
I have not forgotten, I know him and contributed to his defense fund. Absolutely horrendous miscarriage of justice.
Yes, just awkwardly punch in your email address into this miscalibrated POS keypad so we can “only send you your receipt”*

* May also enroll you in “helpful” store newsletters and sell your email to every company on your grocery store receipt.
Once you've tested to your heart's content, you'll deploy your model in production. So, looks like this is really just a dev use case, not a production use case.
"The current round" of AI accelerators you are referring to are things that were designed 2015-2022; There are a number of startups (including my own) that are actually designing for the real bottlenecks that differentiate Transformers (plus SSMs and other emerging architectures) from "old" CNNs, RNNs, etc.

Obviously I think my company is doing this in an unique and "correct" way, but I know of half a dozen other companies founded in the past ~18 months that are focused on the memory capacity and bandwidth bottlenecks that exist... the massive failures of the previous decade do not mean that they are going to be repeated.
I realize you probably can't switch languages, but in a past Kotlin project I was able to get jOOQ working nicely with Kotlin's inline classes [0] as the primary keys. I can't remember exactly how I did it and don't have access to the code any more (I might have used extension functions somehow?), but it was exactly as nice as you'd expect—no risk of mixing up keys between different tables.

On further investigation, jOOQ actually has a feature which automatically generates PK classes, but it's not in the open source edition. It should, however, be possible to write your own extension that does something similar: https://www.jooq.org/doc/latest/manual/code-generation/codeg...

[0] https://kotlinlang.org/docs/inline-classes.html
You'd think that "preventing a large chunk of the biosphere, especially the part with humans in it, from going FUBAR" would have enough financial incentives behind it as-is (after all, the human-part of the biosphere going FUBAR would just wreck the economy which in turn would lead to no profits to be had), especially with the promise of all the possible clean-tech stuff and innovation that would get birthed from the process of trying to solve climate change.

I suppose a big part of this is that the problem doesn't seem urgent enough that it would inspire this sort of ability to raise money.
2024 Fintech Predictions by Plaid's Zach Perret
> a huge reason why we have the web we have today

Could you explain this assertion?
Nobody is able to build a chip that is competitive with NVidia's latest GPUs, not even AMD who would be next in line. Look at Google's TPU for a glimpse at a likely outcome of such an endeavor.

What it tells me is that Altman seems to believe that OpenAI can only make the next step if they can throw even more compute at the problem but that that isn't feasible at today's prices.
Who has to fight? Sony? You seem to be implying somebody else. Sony is fine though, more than fine even, since they figure they'll just do their very best to be scummy.

Obviously no business wants to roll over and just die, but if they fight super dirty and when their word is obviously not worth a dime then the consumers' reaction is predictable, no?
I'm sure the title makes sense to it's intended audience, but maybe we could have something more generic for us generalist techs?

I mean when I click to the github, there's no mention of 'PKM' or 'SSG' whatever those are, but a fairly clear explanation that it publishes your markdown personal notes as a website or something similar:

Quartz is a set of tools that helps you publish your digital garden and notes as a website for free.
Anecdotally, I've heard the common understanding of Share is "good luck".

Is the price that much lower for Share in your region?
IMO hints need to be provided out of band, that is, not in the SQL query itself. To do this it is necessary to have a way to address every table source, in every sub-query, then one can have hints as a pile of {table source, hint}. Not that this solves the problem of hints rotting, but being able to separate them from the text of the query at least keeps the query clean, and makes is possible to have different sets of hints for different contexts and different RDBMS versions.
The description of finite sequential processes
How about something along the lines of AWS and their Graviton?
Yep my family does - but it’s been our code word since 2014.
You have the two mixed up. Funimation was not a “piracy product” the way Crunchy Roll was.
NYC's Housing Crunch Is the Worst It's Been in More Than 50 Years
Invest in Purism
I bet the city will learn from this that extensive supply restrictions as demand soars causes prices to rise, and will thus reduce impediments to additional housing construction.

/s
So maybe amounts loose their meaning when they become really big. And maybe this is a bit of: Hi mom. Will you invest 10 USD in my startup valued at 7 T USD. I am making an electronic god.

But 7 T usd is about 1/3 of the US GDP. That is another way of saying the value of 100 million Americans working for a full year.

It is really ridicolous.
The gangs are making up phony shipping and customs manifests and hiding behind the rail and port authorities, who are enabling the gangs.

It's going to take some manpower, but every container going overseas will have to be inspected during loading.

The government's "solution" is putting in high tech x million dollar scanners that will take years to implement while the gangs keep stealing and shipping.
I'd agree, for 95% of projects. If you are serving web pages, or implementing something that doesn't have a lot of server side work in between requests, then sure, pick Rails.

But if you do have something active running on the server - ingesting something, holding connections open, talking independently to other systems, anything soft real time - you will very quickly run into the limits of pure web frameworks and will be forced to re-invent all manner of wheels and end up building much more than you need to. That's where elixir shines and is, IMO, the optimum choice.

Phoenix is basically "rails for when you actually need something more than build the world/destroy the world web requests". It's great for that, and those kind of projects are more interesting IMO, too. But for anything else, use Rails (or, yes, Django).
Many serial killers are said to have gentle, gracious personalities. Except while doing all the killing anyway.

It’s not hard to train oneself to act empathic, socially normal, but lack vision, ideas of your own. OP described how little it actually takes to make such a lasting impression; two conversations.

In 2015 some colleagues and myself were invited to pitch an idea for an Instagram clone. The financier was recently widowed woman who was all kinds of generous with us. But she also mentioned she feels there’s plenty of nobodies in the world, Zuckerberg can share. They can peddle products on her platform as her husband wasn’t that rich.

We learn to be a certain way publicly.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39225011

The bare essentials:

> John had a bad fall down some stairs at his house.

> He suffered extensive intracranial bleeding, was found unconscious, and the situation is inoperable.
Thanks, glad you like it! Totally agree with your points overall. Excited to keep building and compete if need be.
How the GNU C Library handles backward compatibility
The “epitaph” app that was mentioned is an internal Google web site. I always found it to be fascinating.
I am very curious about MV-HEVC. Why is the quality better, isn’t it just a container?

How does compression work vs say a side by side as a single stream in HEVC? Does either format allow them to compress based off of redundant information from the views being so similar?
Hey! I gave a talk at Code BEAM Europe this past year about our experience with a year of machine learning on the BEAM [1]. That is, the impact on our business of going 'all in' on Elixir from a more fragmented stack (Python for ML and ETL). We actually did this twice, once in 2020 from a JS front end/Elixir back end to LiveView, then again in 2022 for the ML/ETL stuff. We benefitted massively on both occasions. I recently sat down with Brian Cardarella at DockYard to talk about this and they wrote up some posts about it [2].

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HP86Svk4hzI

[2] https://dockyard.com/blog/2024/02/06/5-benefts-amplified-saw...
And if they want it outside of US control, they can't involve either ASML or TSMC (or convince both companies that they can live under US sanctions).
But they're free to design and build their own chips without such blobs, right?

Right?

<insert Padme meme>
I'd like to see her donate half the salary she took back to Mozilla, since she obviously didn't earn it. She doubled her pay several times. Did the engineers doing the work get their pay doubled? No. The only person who did that was the one who was failing in her role. It's actually quite disgusting, just a blatant money grab because no one would stop her.
A-PNT type stuff? Can I ask what the commercial application is?
Polars R Package
not to mention jobs failing to materialize, the actual processes in "new" fabs being legacy, and tsmc flat out pocketing the money by way of stock buybacks.
https://archive.is/wSxnM
very inspirational post. thanks for making this software better!
And not one mention of Frank Herbert.