skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Correct, but I'd claim that there is a "freemarket" ethos in the US, despite the lack of them. People here often say they want freemarkets and hold it as an ethical and idealized system. Their government behaves very much in contradiction to that though.
KDE is fine with little to no padding. Their problem is often that they have inconsistent padding/spacing, which just throws everything off as death by a thousand cuts.
The US government is constitutionally prohibited from taking down web domains which contain "ideas... actively causing harm".

You're conflating multiple issues into one. The US has jurisdiction to seize domains being used in furtherance of crimes; sure. But ideas aren't crimes in the US. The US isn't able, legally or practically, to use this power to censor opinion or information on the basis of its content: the US courts do not permit it.

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Your other question ("What do you do...?") is much more interesting to me, but it's too big for me to be able to give it a respectful treatment. This is my shortest answer: we entrust democracy to decide whether to start a war or to a end a war*; whether to build nuclear weapons or abolish them. It's implicit in our method of government that we trust the civic deliberation process with our lives. The fact that our collective deliberation can make mistakes, and kill a million people with its "whoopsies!", is part and parcel of what it means to function as a republic. (To lay the responsibilities elsewhere is to have a different method of government). Most political ideas are capable of causing immense harm in a democracy (except unimportant, frivolous ones)—there aren't many important, but safe, ideas.

*(I think it's remarkable that much of the First Amendment jurisprudence involves censoring opinions about wars, in one direction or another: an acknowledgement that "ideas capable of killing millions" is at the heart of this civic question).
Nah. It should have been grandfathered in as planet 9.
Distributed, shared memory machines used to do exactly that in HPC space. They were a NUMA alternative. It works if the processing plus high-speed interconnect are collectively faster than the request rate. The 8x setups with NVLink are kind of like that model.

You may have meant that nobody has a stack that uses clustering or DSM with low-latency interconnects. If so, then that might be worth developing given prior results in other low-latency domains.
That's astonishingly terrible, has GitHub gone public to address the issue? Can't seem to find GitHub's response in what happened
TYFYS, doing your part to Stop The Spread of dis-and-or-misinformation!

I usually accept any given internet comment as unimpeachable truth, and was just about to fire off a bunch of angry hate mail to Nueva Pescanova because of this specific thing!

Gosh, would I have felt silly to find out that they're not literally building cages for this particular species!

Do you have a source for your claim that nobody in this company is currently planning to build cages 10,000' underwater for a species that was just discovered?
The speed part or the being swallowed part?
Maybe stopping the war is the solution?
The weights are quantized to FP8 when they're stored in memory, but all the activations are computed at full FP16 precision.
Maybe, hard to say because I never followed up / tried to use their claimed "services".
Hi. Are these ASICs only for LLMs or could they accelerate other kinds of models(vision) as well?
This reads like one of the fake headlines that used to scroll across the bottom of the screen while playing SimCity.
This is despite Israel’s sizable defense sector making out like bandits. Elbit Systems has never had to fulfill so many orders for Hermes drones.

They’ve been really hindered by the dysfunction on Capitol Hill. I imagine when the USA gets around to injecting 14 billion (more) taxpayer dollars into Israel’s extermination^H self-defense campaign at least a few billion of those won’t be in the form of credit towards purchases from the US defense sector and the Israeli economy will see some sort of bounce.
I’m not sure how many fintechs have found success with a “part time” anything
That's why we stopped innovation of programming languages at C89? Why use sql at all if you can also do it in C?
They still come with 64k (or so) of L1 cache.
As someone who doesn't know a lot about distro work, what exactly did you have to do for Fedora? Fix packages that weren't building anymore with this change?
There's a kernel of a good idea here, but banning someone from a platform isn't defamation by any reasonable interpretation.
What Are the STIR/SHAKEN Attestation Levels and What Do They Mean? (2022)
Not really. It’s because the government of Taiwan poured a lot of money into these chip companies. Which is the smart thing to do.
Models can't understand anything but the dataset they are trained on. This is very obvious from the plausible looking wolf cubs moving plausibly while behaving in absurd ways when it comes to real life wolves, or real life anythings for that matter. Models are compressing huge planet scale datasets and spitting out plausible instances of bytes that could belong to the training dataset, but very obviously fail to grasp any real world understanding of what is represented by those bytes.
AWS Operations Lead brags about removing State of Palestine name from reportings
Definitely not, but even with a comparison to 500 GPUs Groq will still come out on top because you can never reduce latency by adding more parallel compute :)
You have it wrong -

The assertion that Cloanto harbored concerns over potential market loss to Hyperion's AmigaOS 3.2 for use in emulators doesn't hold up when considering Cloanto offers ROM images at a nominal cost—essentially a dollar—whereas AmigaOS 3.2 is priced significantly higher, making the former a more accessible option for enthusiasts looking to legally emulate.

It's important to correct a misconception here: the developers behind AmigaOS 3.2 volunteered their time; they weren't financially compensated. This fact shifts the narrative considerably, especially in light of the ongoing legal battles, which, contrary to some perceptions, have predominantly been instigated by Hyperion. Given that Hyperion's management includes legal professionals, their propensity for litigation isn't surprising. Moreover, there are rumors suggesting Hyperion's litigation efforts are financially supported by an entity with a direct interest in Cloanto's failure to retain rights—a speculation that adds another layer of complexity to the dispute.

My experience in the Amiga community spans back to its golden years, allowing me a unique perspective on its evolution. Throughout this time, it has become evident that the situation is far from straightforward, entangled in a web of legal, financial, and emotional factors. The narrative isn't just about one entity's actions over another; it's about a passionate community caught in the midst of corporate and legal maneuverings, each with its own implications for the future of Amiga.
I don't find it super surprising. I mean these are luxury products during a period of severe inflation and economic trouble (some are doing just fine, but sectors (hi video games) are experiencing extreme economic trauma).

Is this really just an EV issue or are luxury cars in general seeing headwinds? I'd be interested to see data on that.
They'll continue to toss a half-assed chatbot on their site but add a disclaimer that the chatbot's decisions can be overruled.

Replacing human labor at scale will take a generation to work out and this is day one. They'll be happy to go through pain points like this for the next decade in order to learn how to make it work.
ML Platform Orchestration and Experimentation at Expedia
This one is close to useless, no filtering.
Surely you can think of all the reasons a sparse population is easier to maintain. Also you'd only be our 4th largest state so I wouldn't call this "enormous"
I’m kind of a jack of all trades and consider my motor learning skills to be equivalent to my symbolic reasoning skills - not that I’m excellent at either.

The thing about motor learning I like the best is just “getting better with time” despite not practicing. This would be kind of a muscle memory concept over long periods of time.
Whereas I don’t feel that really happens for symbolic reasoning
In my MIL's case it was L858R. T790M also present, effectiveness of drug dramatically increased with presence of both. Osimertinib shrunk the tumor from baseball to golfball, and then her left most lung lobe was surgically removed. She was stage 2 at intake and without metastastis. The drug was not approved for that case in 2021 and she was admitted to an ongoing case study for it.
> Sounds like the Overton window shifted to people using less plastic too

wasn't the whole point of the article that people in fact use more now, also political self-segregation/echo chamber seems to be worse than ever so as much as people talk about overton window shifting it's mostly just partisans being blind to the people that don't share their opinions
That looks a lot like several levels of the first Portal. That conveyor system didn't run on GladOS, did it?
There's a high probability they weren't even on site and had a coworker clock in for them, or something like that. They might still be enjoying the wedding of a 3rd grade cousin somewhere in the countryside, oblivious to what has happened ;-)

At least that's what my turkish coworker told me last week
Fractal zoom videos are worth infinite words.
Wouldn't that more or less be a company town?
Subprime Intelligence
Here is the underlying study: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41550-023-02164-w
It is going to 4 times over budget and take 6 times longer to implement - don't believe anything the consultants predict.

We were promised the same thing when we replaced our in house ERP system - the consultants NEVER left , they just cycled in and out from the same firm and the total cost were about a billion in our local currency.

One of local retailers SPAR just implemented EWM - Warehouse Management - stores could not order goods from the DC of the KZN region because of it , they had to order from outside the region at greater cost.

It tanked their results for the financial year.
Right now we use plausible for analytics and don't have something for A/B testing, but if we had the bandwidth to add it then it would seem like this would work well. It's great that it is written in actix as well since that is also what our primary backend uses.

We use Astro for our landing page so I guess that to use this we would have to write some build step for getting multiple index.html files to server within the API. That seems very possible and not too difficult though.

I don't know, I think a polished version of this could work. I don't see any real reason for why it wouldn't, it seems objectively useful.

My main concern would be that most people who aren't baby unprofitable startups like Trieve (lol) are probably using WordPress, Ghost, or some other CMS and would want their A/B testing to work by plugging into that rather than needing to create multiple index.html files. I don't even know if people with those kinds of websites could do that at all.

Anyways, I guess the question there is whether or not Qpackt is useful when you have a CMS instead of a packed file for your site?

Then secondarily, would companies/projects without a CMS pack multiple index files and use Qpackt or switch onto a CMS with A/B testing functionality?
Portable code couldn't use VLAs anyway, it was never supported in MSVC.
> eg: cars with 100% US made chips,

Isn't this about being able to build military aircraft and guided missiles w/o any foreign dependencies, not cars?
I also will keep my ICV until it catastrophically fails because there's far more repairs one can do on the cheap with one than with an EV, I speculate. Besides anything involving the clutch packs in the transmission or critical components internal to the actual engine, there's a lot you can do to maintain your vehicle if you own a floor jack and stands. One of the things I like about owning a decade-old 4 cylinder, as opposed to a bigger engine or an EV, is how relatively straight forward the entire drive-train is. Get your hands on the mechanic shop manual for your model, and often times it's clear that a trip to O'Reilly and an an hour underneath the vehicle is all you need, and no labor cost required.

For example, my Hyundai Elantra kept showing the engine light, and I don't remember the exact OBD-II code, but I think it was something like "too lean on bank 2" or something like that. Didn't really make sense because the engine was performing just fine and the injectors weren't clogged. So I went down to the auto parts store, got a new oxygen sensor for $130, replaced the old downstream one, and that code never came back. I'd have paid way more taking that into even a good shop.

I'm not saying that there's no good reason to get an EV because they're less repairable, but I'm the type who doesn't want to give up the kind of independence my current car gives me. I like that I have far more options for replacing the head unit in my car. I like that I can do wacky and kind of pointless things to it like converting it to being flex-fuel and running it on moonshine. But most people aren't like that. It's nevertheless a bummer that we are trading freedom for something that, hopefully, will be more convenient in the future – I'm not exactly sure how an EV is actually more convenient today besides being able to charge it at home.
Tried gpuprices, it's not good. if you search for 24GB RAM minimum, it doesn't return a single 3090.
If I understand correctly, you're using specialized hardware to improve token generation speed, which is very latency bound on the speed of computation. However generating tokens only requires multiplying 1-dimensional matrices usually. If I enter a prompt with ~100 tokens then your service goes much slower. Probably because you have to multiply 2-dimensional matrices. What are you doing to improve the computation speed of prompt processing?
Ask HN: Remember "Acquisitions"?
oh yeah this is a great question, I get this a lot when I do my talks about RAG stuff

the way I see it is if you have a small amount of data (<10,000 vectors) then it's all the same and you should stick with the technology you are most familiar with

once you get more than that, you may want to consider a vector database

the reason that vector databases exist is because vector search is a highly compute intensive task, in regular database settings, you almost never have to run compute, the database is primarily looking to do an exact match

however, because vector search is predicated on the idea of finding similar vectors, and because exact vector matches are unlikely, you find yourself in the situation of having to optimize that

if you're building on a sql/nosql database you find yourself having to manage indexing, computing distance metrics, and load balancing

pgvector manages much of that for you, but due to the structure of SQL, it doesn't manage it in a very efficient manner - because it wasn't built to, an extra system needs to be built on top

as many experienced software engineers will tell you, adding complexity doesn't necessarily make something better, and adds more points of failure

purpose built vector databases like the ones in the article (eg milvus, chroma, weaviate) are built with this compute challenge in mind, and this becomes useful as the amount of data you have expands
https://preview.redd.it/jrb4e1wr9ll31.png?auto=webp&s=ccb5a8...

https://i.imgur.com/Jkdtlox.png
I asked it "What is the oldest known written recipe" and then asked for that recipe. It seemed to repeat the same response a bunch of times (very quickly!) before stopping. Is this abnormal behavior?
It's made up, but definitely a better estimate than both 2^100 and the current number of known species. I imagine one way to obtain a coarse estimate would be fitting the number of known species over time to a curve like N-e^-kt curve and then using N as the estimate. Coarse, but not terrible if you can quantify the expected error.
Then its not the one I remember maybe.
This is fun! Might have to try it at some point.
Get rid of all EV subsidies.
Redirect the funding to charging infrastructure that is priced properly. Charging should have a cost and the chargers should be made in the USA with the Tesla standard plug. Chargers should have a state tax per kw equal to equivalent gas tax for an ICE vehicle to support the road network, adjusted for weight.
This network can be financed and bonds on the profits yield sold.

Subsidies support Chinese battery manufacturers. EVs can easily float on their own, no engine to make, only batteries to build!
EWG finds little-known toxic chemical in four out of five people tested
If you don't believe that is true, how can you explain programmer recruitment? If discussing something cogently is showing real understanding, any 10 minute discussion would be enough to make a hire decision.
Accidentally mixed the IDs!
"One China" is the same policy that ALL presidents have agreed to, blue or red including the current one. This is not a political debate, this is the state's position (meaning the state of the USA) to agree to "One China".

Taiwan can make assertions all they want, but you are really spreading some falsities around.

If you don't believe me, what is the Biden's administration current position on the "One China" policy? Will you start calling Hunter Biden a CCP plant for consistency's sake? Why or why not?

Try again.
They aren't selling less YoY, they're selling more. And as a percentage of all cars they're selling a lot more.

Car sales are down all around. https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/03/business/economy/auto-sal...

No car retains its value well, but for a long time the Model 3 retained more of its value than any other mainstream car. That's eroding now because prices are lower and the subsidy is back.

You can't have it both ways. Either we want cheaper cars or we want them to keep their value longer.

For one, I'm happy prices are down, it will help with adoption. It's ok that my car is worth less. I don't plan on getting rid of it.
Yes, these are the suggested playlists. As well as the popular pre-fab playlists. A notable one mentioned was their "Ambient" playlist -- which favors in house ambient artists with much less generous royalty deals than someone like Brian Eno -- who is be the best known artist in the field apart from maybe Aphex Twin -- but easily replaceable with a no-name for some people apparenty.
This could be a remnant of the switchover from SD to HD resolution in home TVs. The nicer TVs that could use the new resolutions also suffered from burn in, so you wanted something in the margins for the content still in SD.
My home insurance requires proof of theft.

Often you use a police report. My local police department is on an unofficial slowdown strike because they don't feel appreciated post-BLM. Possibly also because if they "forget" to file police reports or they "get lost in the system" then the official crime rate goes down. It took me over a month to get a police report I could send to insurance for a simple break in, and spent more of my labor by hourly wage trying to get that report than the cost insurance reimbursed.
Because the third definition is the strongest plausible interpretation of the original statement (that can be found in that particular dictionary at least). [1]

And: selectively leaving out part of a quote that appears to (partially) contradict your thesis might be seen by some as an attempt to mislead. Best to err on the side of caution!

Though -like I said- dictionaries are possibly the weakest source of definitions you can find. Dictionaries need to keep things extremely short, so they're unlikely to have much nuance.

Even Encyclopedias (including Wikipedia) are more accurate and reliable, simply because they have more space to expand on a concept in detail.

Books or papers are best.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html "Please respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says, not a weaker one that's easier to criticize. Assume good faith. "
Nobody is asking you to change. OP is just asking a question.
Filled the form for API Access last night. Is there a delay with increased demand now?
From my own experience, most medical software is sold in the USA and must be certified by the FDA which is equivalent to the CE process.
Seems like there's a lot of opportunity with those unused treatments, if you can get the right arrangement of capital. If the company gives up on pursuit, perhaps the'd sell it for less than the R&D cost. Someone could go scoop up 'losers' and find a better way to match them to ailments.
Pluto needs to up its game and become GRAVITATIONALLY DOMINANT!!!
> The trouble is that this is an intensive manual process.

And the other problem is that even when it works perfectly, this process as described can only produce non-lameness at best.

I have a suggestion based on something I did at Google 20+ years ago: compute Page Rank on commenters. I did this 24 years ago in the Google Translation Console, which was a (now long-since-retired) public interface for volunteers to translation Google's site content into other languages. Translators would not just input their own translations but also rate the translations submitted by others. Translators whose translations were upvoted more often were deemed more reliable raters, just as links from highly ranked web pages are weighted more highly when computing Page Rank. This successfully prevented any translation spam from ever making it through to the public site (as far as we could tell). It never reached the scale of HN, but it's a lot easier to implement such a thing nowadays too, so I think it might be worth a try.
Why doesn't the company pursue it for other purposes? Sounds extremely narrow, as per the comment above. There may be related stuff where it works as a treatment depending on the endpoint?
To my knowledge, x86 is just more energy inefficient than the later ARM architectures.

That being said, AMD chips are absolutely more power efficient than Intel chips, by a huge margin
One of the reasons why I stuck to Intel CPU's all these years - they just work out of the box - no memory profile weirdness or chipset issues.
What ever happened to companies being acquired?

Seemed to happen non stop in ye olde days.

Now it’s rarely mentioned.
The idea of a black hole starship is that you carry the black hole around, just like any other engine. If you want to beam power from it, there isn't anything at all there to gain compared to beaming power from the Sun.

And if you want to carry it with your ship, it weighting 2 Earth masses is kind of a drawback.
No idea what that means, it seems you sidestepped my question.
It is a roughly 20% improvement to speed and power per area. And about 20% density.

So you get more, faster cores/units, in the same footprint.

sram.is the exception as it scales poorly, so don't expect much. If anything, this is the largest and most important hardware issue facing all the chip gains, since so much of performance is memory dependent.
Simon Schneegan's "Kandu" cross platform pie menus, as well as his older "Fly-Pie" and "Gnome-Pie" projects, let you create and edit your own pie menus with a WYSIWYG drag-and-drop direct manipulation interface.

Kando: The Cross-Platform Pie Menu (github.com/kando-menu)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39206966

https://github.com/kando-menu/kando

A first glimpse at Kando's Menu Editor!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rLJ1-z9i3cI

Development Update for Kando's Menu Editor!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FIF6k9OxQ80

Item labels in Fly-Pie!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yyl5nMPI1f0

Fly-Pie 10: A new Clipboard Menu, proper touch support & much more!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BGXtckqhEIk

Fly-Pie 7: GNOME Shell 40+ and a new WYSIWYG Menu Editor!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sRT3O9-H5Xs

Gnome-Pie

https://vimeo.com/30618179

Gnome-Pie 0.4 (12 years ago)

https://vimeo.com/35385121

https://schneegans.github.io/gnome-pie