skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
To be honest, most of the world outside the West is more like Alex Jones than you might think. It's been interesting how similar the core desires of many communist movements or anti-imperalist were to conservative ideals, all to protect themselves from the encroachment of liberal western "degeneration". I recall the leaders of Al Qaeda got similar conclusions when they visited america and didnt like what they saw.
This is because you terminate employment, hopefully not people. Services do get shut down. It's the correct term.

As a non-native speaker writing for non-native speakers, I use idioms, expressions and euphemisms very sparsely. They obscure the message and increase the mental burden on users. This is fine when you want to entertain your readers, but not when you want to communicate important information clearly.
https://archive.is/qik6y
I exclusively use external hard drives. If I need to transfer data, I'll use a cloud service like Google Drive or Dropbox. However, I would like to start a Blu-Ray collection because I like the visual aspect seeing the collection, and also owning the media. But for backups, no.
It'll help, but GPU crunch isn't caused by people running 6-8bit inference on a single card, but by all the large scale pre-training + fine-tuning runs.
There is a pg_hint_plan extension. I think the danger with hints is that they might only be correct when written. If the table sizes or data skew changes, they might make things worse. I don't have a link to hand, but last time I recall a discussion on hints there was no general objection to them, providing the implementation could be done in a way that didn't force the planner's hand too strongly and still allowed it to adapt to the underlying data changing. For example, indicating there's a correlation between two columns, rather than specifying a given predicate matches 10 rows.
I think most people are quite aware google prints money with ads, and quite reasonably deride google for all the rest their bewildering product decisions
This has been my perception of AMD for the past 20 years. First against Intel, then ARM, now NVIDIA. "If only ..."
Can you link to an actual performance analysis on this?
I also get this very strong feeling of having forgotten something when I get into my car.

It used to happen almost daily. I would get into my car reverse out of my driveway. I would drive towards my workplace for about 2 to 5 minutes until I hit first red traffic light and as I'm waiting at traffic lights I would get this sinking feeling that I'd forgotten to close my garage door.

This is despite the fact I do not have a remotely operated garage door it is manual. I have to reverse out of garage, get out of my car, manually close the garage door and get back into car and reverse out of driveway.

I would wrack my short term memory while sitting at traffic lights and have no recollection of closing the garage door. It was as if my journey (in my memory) would always begin with turning out of my driveway.

Nowadays I force myself to look over shoulder and check the garage door as I turn out of my driveway and onto the street.
> Saudi Arabia's GDP is only 833 billion, but Saudi Aramco's market cap is 7.43 trillion.

Wrong currency. Saudi Aramco's market cap is around 2T USD.

But in terms of investment power Saudi Arabia's Sovereign Wealth Fund seems more relevant & that is only 776 Billion
Another one is local admin account is only temporarily assigned via tickets, with tracking tools every time one needs to log in as admin.

And on UNIX, I have worked plenty of times where no one gets root on the shared development servers, other than IT folks themselves.
There are lots of small listed companies. Bar to IPO is not high
Palladium magazine was founded by Wolf Tivy and Jonah Bennett. It is funded by Peter Thiel. Jonah Bennett previously worked at The Daily Caller and he resigned from Palladium when it was discovered he had authored some racist messages and was friends with various white nationalists.

Palladium skews towards genteel neoreactionarism. It won't be as overtly racist as moldbug's website. Its authors will use big words, write fine sentences, and have some academic credentials (though tend to be outside the mainstream). There's an obsession with planned economies and China, a mixture of anxiety that the US remain dominant with a certain longing for China's policies, and an inability to see those two things can never be consistent.
You don't necessarily want "self-improvement". Improvement is a vector; you need a direction. You should focus on the scalar aspect, moving around, without direction.

All religions start off tackling spirituality and morality. Sit and think about everything and you have Buddhism. Focus on relationships and virtues and you have Confucianism. Focus on second chances and forgiveness and you have Christianity. Focus on serving a single dominant God and you have Islam and Judaism.

You can and should explore all of these, at least on a surface level. There's a lot of good ideas out there and people have literally sat around their whole lives debating and refining these ideas. Ideas that are not good tend to get lost to time.

There's a popular painting, The Vinegar Tasters, which depicts three men tasting vinegar representing life. Buddha thinks it bitter. Confucius thinks it sour. Laozi thinks it sweet. As a pseudo-religious, you could be unattached enough to understand and appreciate the perspective of these men.

Why not do all of them, understand why all religions are what they are. Religions are developed over thousands of years. Cults usually revolve around a common mystical experience. Religions often successfully translate that experience into a book and replicate it hundreds of years later.
If you have the ability to raise trillions why do this. Why not get that money into tech to reduce global warming which is more of a threat than not having GPT 6 quadrillion parameter model or whatever.
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Well said!

Due to family circumstances i had to take "retirement" from the industry for the past decade and focus my life on care-giving. So w.r.t. studying Philosophy/Science/Technology/etc. i have been in this mode for a while and it has been quite enjoyable intellectually. Nassim Taleb in one of his books calls himself a "Flaneur"(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fl%C3%A2neur) which i think perfectly embodies this mindset i.e. a intellectual stroller/dilettante interested in anything/everything, cursorily exploring/diving deep into whatever takes his fancy and in general being an observer rather than a participant. The goal (if any) is knowledge for knowledge's sake and not money/job/status/etc.

One suggestion i have for your retirement is to buy lots of books on any/every topic that catches your fancy. Books are cheap, last forever, helpful to the next generation and intellectually rewarding at many levels.
In the grand scheme, these are remarkably unsophisticated devices. It's almost a meme in RF circles to excitedly buy one and then immediately realize it's just a Girl Tech IM-me with NFC.

If you want to do real damage there are portable SDRs that can jam GPS and transmit just about any arbitrary radio signal from DC to 6GHz for less than $500. This is a mildly powerful toy that has a large, intelligent and curious community around it.

The reality is RF stuff is wildly under-explored right now outside of military spaces. On the consumer side I'd guess we're somewhere around the early 2000s internet in terms of security posture. It's probably best to consider the flipper community to be a gift of minimally destructive pentesters relative to what they could be if someone wanted to actually dish out real electronic warfare.
The article says “Virar”, which is just outside of Bombay, reachable easily via the “local train.” We used to go there for picnics and team retreats.
Toyota – and other car brands – accused of collecting and sharing driver data
It’s already under import ban and I know somebody who got their order seized by customs. It’s a hacking tool and customs flips out about those even if an actual security professional is buying them.
Correct. They're an LLM team, not chip designers.
That's the press secretary.

A better contact is Dominic LeBlanc, and your local MP.

https://www.ourcommons.ca/Members/en/dominic-leblanc(1813)
Right. We should stop funding openai and wait for project to happen in 10 years.

Of course someone will make breakthroughs. Everyone stands on the shoulders of giants.
Meta question - help me understand how to parse the title of this post? Is this memesque phrasing? Old people want to know.
Yeah, I cannot count how many times I've seen it claimed that the virtual DOM is the secret to why React(or another framework) is fast, completely missing the point of the virtual DOM.

The virtual DOM is not faster than performing direct mutations of the actual DOM, the virtual DOM is a tool that allows the normally slow approach of "blow away and rebuild the world" to be fast enough to put into use.
You've got to love the bravado of rich men and how easily they can take other people's money and flush it down the drain
It's far from perfect though as some games to able to be sold again are modified to remove certain licensed content like music. This is in detriment of who ever owned the game before that as the game gets a forced update which caused the previous owners to lose access to the original version.
FFS what kind of utter assholes think this kind of thing is remotely ok.
Ya, I’ve given up trying to seriously introduce Erlang anywhere.

Lovely language whose community and vm taught me an absolute ton that still resonates with me today.

But for a bunch of “cats” that need to be herded, engineers tend to be fairly packish in some regards so looks like it’s Go, Java, Typescript, and TypeScript/HTML/CSS(in JS)/React for the foreseeable future
Interesting choice of name

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spectrum_analyzer
> If you have the ability to raise trillions why do this.

I mean this should be obvious but the "ability to raise trillions" is because those people think they will get X returns on the money. Your "ability to raise trillions" will quickly evaporate if you offer to throw the money into a pit and set it on fire.

If national governments offered a $10T bounty for solving global warming, then sure, you could raise $1T to moonshot it... but there needs to be an incentive.
My mortgage was 3 times my gross household GDP.
Those folks fail to understand that if that ever happens, it will be a macOS UNIX like experience, or Android/Linux, or ChromeOS/Linux, not a Stalmman's GNU/Linux one.
I don't think they would be willing to wipe off their entire economy, reserves and history (sort of) in exchange for some fancy chips that will go obsolete in a few years.
Most of the companies trying to make their own chips will most likely fail. There are 15 year lead times at foundries and the equipment makers. TSM and ASML still retain almost global monopolies at what they do for a reason - it's highly highly specialized
Wait, you really think multiple nation states will commit their entire GDP?
You are not the only one thinking so. There is already a thread on OpenBSD's tech@ taking swipes at the obvious naming collision:

https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-tech&m=170742832804260&w=2
I use the built-in 16” display on my laptop only for coding, and other developers can’t understand that I don’t want multiple monitors. I try to explain that I don’t want to crane my neck and plug and unplug monitors, and that alt-tabbing between windows is just as easy for me than looking at another window. Maybe it’s something to do with being old and learning to code on a tiny screen.

I’m not saying that other people can’t prefer multiple monitors (I’m definitely in the minority when it comes to programmers), I just don’t understand why they can’t understand my point-of-view.
solid sentiments.

i get a massive distaste on what bulky behemonth of a mess nextjs is along with the ssr etc. i fucking hate it. this bleeding edge stuff is whack.

but one thing these geeks got right is how mature the developer tooling is around react. it just all fits well along with eslint, stylelint, vite, tailwind, etc. this cutting edge stuff is good.
I feel like it's incredibly likely that we find an algorithm 100x as performant for less than 10 trillion dollars. I say that mostly because we built an algorithm playing around with math and plugging in different functions and it seems to work in a way that we fundamentally don't understand.

As evidence - if I learn a new game, like chess, my rate of mastery per game is going to be orders of magnitude higher than an AI (which will take millions or billions of training sessions). Granted my brain has more synapses than GPT4, but it's unclear how many of those I use playing chess (I wouldn't be surprised if it's less). And regardless I don't think that anybody's arguing that adding more layers accelerates training but rather increases the peak.

So perhaps a place to start is studying cases where AIs learn much slower than humans and trying to understand better algorithms of training/reinforcement that may come closer to what the human brain does.
Good thing the feds are taking distracting billboards on too!
This is great. I rewrote it in my own words and sent it to my local Canadian MP, as well as Dominic LeBlanc who is the Minister of Public Safety.

Here's my template:

I am a Canadian citizen in your riding (A1B 2C3) and multiple business owner in the technology sector.

As an expert in the field of electronics and information security, I am concerned about the ISED’s initiative to ban Flipper Zero and similar devices, announced at:
https://www.canada.ca/en/public-safety-canada/news/2024/02/f...

The Flipper Zero is a general-purpose tool for engineering and information security research. By banning the device, we will be doing a disservice to our country’s practitioners in these fields, while doing little to thwart car thefts.

If possession of a device like Flipper Zero is the enabler for car theft, then it leads me to believe that such cars had negligently insecure encryption from the day they were manufactured, and a recall of such cars would be more appropriate.
"Have all the good theories been taken?"

Philosophically, I'd say yes. We don't quite have the philosophical manpower to work on these much. We haven't even seen any new social or economic ideas, despite things like software coming in and wreaking havoc on Adam Smith. Everyone knows what Marxism is, yet nobody has read Marx.

The past was quite different. Before paper, books were memorized, fully. People had to travel to libraries. They met the people who owned the books and studied under the past owner, directly, without any cliffnotes to distort the meaning. Muslim scholars not only memorized the entire Quran, they'd memorize every thing done by the Prophet Muhammad as well and build on top of that.

I always recommend people read Al-Ghazali, because he had access to the entire depth of Islamic knowledge from the prophet's time, the neo Islamic stuff that was built to deal with situations not covered by those laws, and was also totally familiar with Greek philosophers enough.

Technically, we could do stuff like that but at further depth, but personally, I'd rather be debating the virtues of SQL vs NoSQL. I did have a teacher who went in really deep into the philosophy, and I end up with whole pages of notes each time, even from one hour sessions.
The problem with your argument is that, for decades, congress has been passing and failing to update laws under the understanding that the courts would apply Chevron deference.

If the courts decide to get rid of that, they're intentionally misinterpreting the laws that congress has passed over that time. They're also effectively rewriting a large fraction of US law, despite the fact that the constitution is carefully designed to prevent such a small group of (unelected or elected) people from modifying US law that quickly, and without safe guards.

The current Supreme Court has repeatedly undermined separation of powers, and they're explicitly doing so against the wishes of the electorate. Their behavior is fundamentally undemocratic.
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> I think the danger with hints is that they might only be correct when written. If the table sizes or data skew changes, they might make things worse.

they will work in prod in the way engineer is expecting.
Current planner also can change its mood in unpredictable way and often generates sub-optimal plans for complex queries, because can't reason about what specific subquery will return exactly, and you learn about it when queries start work very slow in production in the middle of the night.
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Totally. I expected to feel this intense love that would help with the difficulty of it all, and it didn’t happen.

I also didn’t get any kind of surge of extra energy driven by this great new responsibility- you’ll have to make do with what you have folks.

I do love the baby a lot but I barely think about her when I’m not with her, unlike her mom which thinks about her all the time
NVidia can't keep up with demand because ASML and TSMC have huge backlogs. Unless you can just buy up a competitor's slot in the queue, you are left with re-building an infrastructure pipeline that has been developed over decades.
IMO, it sounds like total vaporware to me. Like, maybe this is their concept, which they hope to deliver in five to ten years.

I'm not going to believe one word about this product until I see it in the real world hands of multiple users.
> In theory sure but have you been following Congress for the past decade?

On one hand, fair. On the other hand, you can only coast along on the old post-cold war bi-partisan consensus for so long without getting new consensus before institutions lose their legitimacy (you can already see this happening a bit).

We can default back to the last time we had consensus for some things, for some time, but you do need to get it again before big changes happen. If you get to the point where the last time we had consensus is before the majority of the people in the system were alive, you either need to hard pivot your society to focus on ancestor worship, or you need to focus on something you do have consensus on.
There would only be a lawsuit if the at-purchase license agreement for some reason didn’t cover revoking.
Some places I've lived in the US made me wish to return to Canada, others made me thankful I didn't. If you've never lived there long-term of course it won't feel like home. I know it's tempting to make excuses for the place you live, but I think you're downplaying the damage that Trudeau's government has done to the country. The US has its issues too, but greater state independence and a stronger constitution help.
Everyday it seems like the tech bubble has burst again. I was too young during the dot-com bubble to remember how long the recovery took, but for those who were working at the time, how long did the recovery take?
Also the Gemini Lounge, where Roy DeMeo and his crew killed and dismembered people targeted for hits by the Gambino family.
Nope. It simply meant "We like owning things and renting them out indefinitely." It has nothing to do with trust.
Fred Brooks wrote in The Mythical Man-Month that it's harder (more time-consuming) to produce the software that corresponds to a given hardware. In 1975.
Point made, I meant this take threw me for a curve (not that it this too was spicy), re your point 3. I didn't make that clear. I just know your other takes so I was being cute about it. I don't know you that well so 1-4 are valid, and I am famously not a Mac user in my personal life. I know I am full of anecdata and that shit doesn't matter, but I appreciate the detailed follow up to confirm: 616c, your choices are great but not so empirical, here is what I think.
I'm 39. I'm enrolled full-time. I'm taking (mostly) online classes.

However, I start a math course that meets two days a week in person soon.

I look relatively young with a hat on, that will keep me from feeling insecure about my appearance. I'm bald as Dwayne Johnson.

Remains to be seen but I won't let anything stand in my way of finishing. Just going to put my head down and do the work. Not socialize.
"I know how machine learning and statistical computing works, therefore I am an expert in hardware design" fallacy.
This person is not saying success -> more success. I think they’re just pointing out that Altman is smart and is surrounded by smart people and a company that understands the demand because they make up the majority of the demand (and they have a strong thesis).
Been very pleased with the Husqvarna mower I bought six years ago. No real maintenance, lives in a shed. Runs well, cuts well, and the self-propulsion is just right—I've used garbage mowers that could only pull themselves across a concrete pad with a downhill grade, and others that I couldn't hold back even by force, so it's nice to have something in the middle.
Yeah, their credit list does look repetitive, and I made that opinion known all the time myself. To be fair, look at a Scorsese credit list, and you'll see a list of repeated names too. Not saying anything FUNi ever did is near that level. If you know that backstory of FUNi, it makes a lot more sense though
>They don't get blacklisted because what they're doing is explicitly allowed, and very widespread.

Compliant converters can exists, but the upstream can tell that there is a downstream device using HDCP 1.x
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"Time pass" is a common enough phrase expressing having no intent and doing nothing. Obviously, evenings are the best for it in the cities/towns
The point is to get away from gas, you do the opposite with a gas powered heat pump. Sure you'll have gas peakers for the foreseeable future but that's very different from a gas line into every home.
They are definetly putting a lot of effort into ROCm & HIP, but definetly accelerating.

ROCm 6 was out Dec 16 (2023), 5.5 was May (2023). 5 was Feb 10 (2022). 4 was Dec 19 (2020)
A house is an asset which can be liquidated for ~the price of the note (black swan dependent).

Moonshot R&D has a long history of leaving unlucky investors bankrupt.
I apologise if my response was a little snarky.

Even granted that OpenAI are not able to build a chip that is competitive with NVidia's latest GPUs for running LLMs right away (which is an opinion - not backed by any direct evidence, but I agree that it is plausible as they are going up against a lot of prior R&D) is it not possible that:

a) The unit economics could be so much better that the result is still a major win, e.g. 50% of the performance at 20% of the price.

b) OpenAI is decoupled from existing supply constraints and is able to grow faster and deliver more value. A "worse" chip that you can actually get (in insane volume) may be strategically better than a "superior" chip that is limiting your growth.

c) That the plan might include some elements you are not expecting - at the $trillions investment level they might be looking at doing some surprising things e.g. (I am just making this up but there are a lot of possibilities) buy a memory manufacturer and work directly on increasing memory bandwidth.
And all but one of the studies are by the same lead author.
Yes: https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/i-accidentally
If this is the best Google can do 1.5 years after GPT-4 finished training, then OpenAI surely still has a big lead.
Requires != facilitates. Why be so dismissive?
One of the reasons I get immediately turned off as soon as I see a service (VPNs, etc.) being offered with a "one-time lifetime subscription cost." Nope. Not going to happen. Either they'll change the terms down the line, shut down, or be acquired by someone else who'll change the terms.

With a monthly or yearly subscription, at least you can calculate how much you're spending per unit of time. For a 'lifetime' you have no idea how long that single purchase will be spread across.