skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We have found at least one critical real world use case for AI – to be an easy scapegoat for all of a company's bad decisions, layoffs, lack of profits, shortage of funding. Are you a shit businessman? No, it was all AI's fault!
There is nothing inherent in the ISA. The moat of x86 is purely backward compatibility and decades of experience of ARM and Intel in building large systems.
The main benefit comes from knowing what you have if you grow it vs. buying something that looks like weed from the guy on the street.

Also growing it is super easy. If you can grow tomatoes then you are already overqualified.
Most companies don't like rewriting their code. If it ain't broke, don't fix. (Weird password issues don't count as broke.) There's no guarantee, after all, that the rewrite won't have major edge cases and mistakes of it's own.

The upper layer might change now and then, to give a veneer of modernity. But just like Windows being built on 90s technology, the stuff underneath could be even more ancient.
And the Shawshank Redemption movies will stop being made. Or if they are being made, they will be ignored.

I read a blog today and it was high-quality long form tech journalism - something I haven't seen for a long time, tucked away on a no-mark site in a far corner of the Internet.

I didn't agree with all of the content, but it was so good to see something written at that level. 50 years ago it would have been normal for tech publishing. Today most tech journalism is gossip and clickbait. It's not thoughtful and referenced long form analysis of where the industry may be heading, written with original critical insights.
Tolerance for everything but intolerance?
I feel that's true for everyone in many creative fields, until a slightly different, more personal voice emerges.

Louis CK talked about this extensively, especially in relationship to Carlin, Bruce, etc.

Keep doing it!
Remember that you run a lot of untrusted code on your single-user desktop through Javascript on websites. Javascript can do all those side channel attacks like Spectre and Meltdown.
Story time, I had to dive bomb out of the way of a car that lost it brakes and had ran onto the sidewalk. I am alive today because I keep my head up and pay attention to the world around me.

It's not victim blaming to be aware of one's surroundings and act accordingly. Too many people are passively going through their day and lack complete situational awareness.

Wake up and pay attention when there are 2.5 ton steel death machines around and no I'm not going to click your link.
Retool has sure, but I'd expect the Form to DB homepage to be validating this product rather than the team behind it.

I said this in a sibling comment too, I may just be unfairly nitpicking here but these "trusted by" marketing blocks just rub me the wrong way when the product is brand new.
In the UK banks will create a new high interest savings account and then after a few years quietly reduce the interest rate and launch a new one. So you waste lots of time applying to open new savings accounts every few years. Not sure its worth the hassle unless you're loaded enough that the interest will offset the wasted time.
T*former or T-star
Average life expectancy was highly skewed by the huge number of infant and child deaths from infectious disease and accidents. People who survived to adulthood had a reasonable chance of living to old age, even hundreds or thousands of years ago.
I thought too, I watched part of the debate and submitted evidence, I now know it isn't in scientific circle, it's pretty much closed.

Prior to the debate I thought it was likely a specimen leak (couldn't be an engineered virus, it used previously unknown, and inefficient, means to enter human cells, also to much randomness in its DNA). The debate was a schooling in statistics (which is sad cause I have an applied statistics bachelor), I know believe it was zoonotic. I don't really care either way now.
I can’t think of any database that doesn’t support the ' character in their varchar.
Everywhere that I know of requires a real, specific, individual to sign off on the purchase order, charge it to their card, send the bill to accounts payables, etc...
That would be argued in cross-examination. A witness can be shown to be not a good witness. Perjury is very specific to knowingly lying while testifying under oath. We really don't want to expand it to areas of ignorance or disagreement; that way would stop people from testifying entirely.
> "The research found that 52% of tree-planting projects in Africa are occurring in savannahs, with almost 60% using non-native tree species, which also brings the risk of introducing invasive species."
I don't understand this, how can these projects be managed so carelessly ?
well once KOSA[1][2] passes and every website requires KYC stuff like uploading a copy of your ID just so you can get access to potentially dangerous/offensive ideas, we might need an AI agent to automate that deep level of privacy invasion for us :-(

[1]: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/02/dont-fall-latest-chang...

[2]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39446355
It's the combination of many sexual partners and abandoning one's offspring - the latter is taboo almost everywhere and they're both characteristic behavior of psychopaths.
You cant use it as an argument, just like you cant use a fiction book as an argument.
This is basically how the world works, except usually there is no data to use.
It's one of my favorite books. For those of us that came of age during the golden age of Usenet, there are a ton of jokes related to the communication throughout the galaxy. Because communication is so slow, it resembles Usenet, with it's relays, etc.

The AI stuff in the book is also really interesting.

Also, let's not forget that Vinge coined the term singularity.
What you're describing is not laziness.

Burnout reduces your maximum productivity.

Working to the full extent of this reduced capacity, even if it is a reduced output compared to your ideal capacity, is not laziness.

You are in fact working at 100% capacity ... which is hardly lazy.

Calling this laziness is just playing into the bullshit corporate power games that drive people to health failure.
> I've never seen them fail due to lacking features or capability, and I haven't heard stories of it either.

I've seen a mix of both for years. For the last 6 years the story has usually been some combination of "X program technically supports it, but you'll get 20% of the performance you'd expect given the hardware and/or you'll need to go through a bunch of hoops, and even then you'll have to troubleshoot tons of random errors and/or it'll crash the program or system"

That's on top of the "nobody supports ROCm, or if they do it's because of a single person who amd the PR - you're on your own though because none of the core contributers have amd hardware" which I'll admit is a chick-egg problem.

But given these two factors, it's always meant "if you want buy hardware to do data science, you have to go nvidia if you don't want to write the support yourself, and/or an insane headache that often resulting in switching to nvidia hardware anyway"
Total non sequitur and snark.
I've read so much hand-wringing German coverage of this issue, and while sometimes comparisons are made to other countries, it's almost never mentioned that cannabis has been legal for half of the US population for years now, and the sky hasn't fallen.

The system set up by this law is extremely dumb, but at least small home grows are legal, and the government is still exploring a path to commercial sales that would be compliant with EU law.
The only parts of movies or TV that this will be useful for is non-character-driven filler that doesn't move the plot along. It will be great for things like action scenes and car chases, or staring wistfully at the ocean. But they still need actors and a story, and to tie those together seamlessly with whatever is generated. We're very far away from doing that in a way that will look or feel good.

Special effects are nothing new. But we all know special effects don't make a good movie.
> and the state removes that opportunity from them

does it though?
canabis still cant be sold, legally. from a realistic perspective, this only made the black market more valueable, as the dealers no longer have to worry about prosecution as long as they're carrying <25 grams.
The legislation is definitely a step in the right direction, but I dont think that it'll have a significant impact on the black market.
Yeah that sounds sustainable
"50% success rate delivering packages" is a totally different level of risk from "automated system gives your garage access code to anyone who claims to live there"

i mean in the first case what's at risk is the five-dollar trinket you bought off amazon
No I have not, I would also be interested in an answer from someone knowledgeable. It might be worth asking on the Free Pascal forums.

This suggests GTK3 support is not going to be great any time soon.

https://forum.lazarus.freepascal.org/index.php/topic,63867.m...
Just brainstorming about this thought a bit I'm thinking like. Aggression can invite aggression more quickly than neutrality does. Rudeness invites rudeness easier than politeness does. Also, politeness is not kindness or even being nice. People in the UK are good at showcasing the difference. Politeness is closest to simply being civil.

When someone is rude to me and I have strong reason to believe they will continue to be rude to me, the first thing I'm thinking off is whether it's feasible to cut them out of my life entirely as fast as possible. Being rude back will only delay and overcomplicate that process. Being polite while immediately cutting them off won't.
It makes perfect sense that AI would be perfect tool for same content produced by students. After all we expect thousands if not millions of students to produce same or very similar output from same input. Now feed this secretly to some model and no wonder it can be all produced by AI.

Undergraduates are not and never will be doing anything original. And most of the work is getting them to point where they can produce at least something in pretty standard style and format.
Ultimately, that incentive is the legal system, which can legislate against allowing fraud and forcefully impose penalties for it. (And operating it is a socialized cost, such that your first sentence is still correct.)
Also consider how the size of the UPS affects the battery replacement cost. I purchased my most recent UPS, refurbished by CyberPower, from its eBay store <https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_ssn=cyberpower>. For a few dollars more I could have bought a larger size, but

* I didn't need more capacity (the one I bought will power the server it serves for an hour, far more time than I need or want) and, more to the point,

* The larger-size model has two batteries to replace, significantly increasing the cost.
This may be culture specific but I wouldn't consider the cold shoulder response to be impolite.
Exactly. Every startup these days is shoveling "AI" in their summary or description, trying to attract some VC money. Reminds me of the crypto/blockchain bubble a few years ago. Guess, Nvidia again was the main beneficiary :)
I didn't understand P/E in 2005, and to be honest, I still don't fully.

All I know is that it's been one of the terms being thrown around during the past 20 years as a reason why Apple's stock price will plummet to the ground and why I'm stupid for investing a large portion of net worth in it.

At this point, my upside is immense so unless something absolutely catastrophic happens, odds are it seems I'll be having the last laugh.
> If dealers are making lot of money from cannabis

from i've read cannabis is not a money making product for "dealers". cannabis is used to introduce customers to other much more profitable drugs.
I'm using a standard T-Mobile prepaid plan with my name on it, auto-paid monthly using a CC with my name on it. The silly part is that this same phone is what they: a) registered my account with a few years ago, b) send their 2FA codes to for normal account login. But it is unacceptable to their support system, I guess.

The "unspecified reason" turned out to be me trying to transfer some money to a business checking acct that I have. That's against their ToS and could have probably been a quick reversal (when I finally got through to the right person it took about 5 minutes), but the phone verification thing gummed stuff up for a few weeks.
What's the point of Elon Musk's AI company?
> All the major tech companies are laying off due to their ambitions/utilizations of AI.

Citation needed.

Tech companies are having layoffs because they spent the last decade under the assumption that money was free and profits were optional. Now they are hitting reality and investors/shareholders are demanding returns. AI has nothing to do with it. Heck the wave of layoffs started well before ChatGPT even launched. If anything AI is actually fueling another bubble and extending the charade. Look at the tens, maybe hundreds of thousands of people that suddenly work "in AI" now.
I've been tempted for years now this buy a digital rangefinder for exactly this reason. The prices even for old Fuji range finders still run keep me from pulling the trigger, but I have always been a fan of single use tools that do the job extremely well rather then a multi tool that does a bunch of things okay.
It analyse the transcript, but there is no way to get back the video clip without building your own video infra. We at Videodb are solving the exact problem.
He's a hypocrite, he says he's scared of the impact of the industry. But he IS the industry. He's gonna be putting set designers, sound stagers, et al out of work if he opts to use AI.

AI is just going to make the rich... richer. We do need some protections in place.
Your examples are strange. Why do you think crypto or NFTs are actual problems I was referring to?

Why shouldn’t health insurance exist? Most lawyers make terrible money. Doctors don’t make a lot of money in most countries.
Seller did great. They have a university named after them just a few miles off of Nvidia HQ.
Any weighted Nasdaq ETF will have a large component of NVDA.
Nvidia's valuation is perfectly reasonable if you expect that they'll manage to grow at a similar pace for the next couple of years and will retain their obscenely high margins. Of course for that not only does the AI hype need to continue but their competitors need to fail so bad they wouldn't even be able to offer anything even with 2-5x lower margins.

OTH Especially Apple is not doing that great at all (and if above assumptions hold they are much more overvalued than Nvidia is). Their revenue this year is estimated to be lower than in 2022 while Nvidia's more than doubled and Microsoft is growing 5% or so per year.
> Not the first. I grew up in the 70s and 80s and we all thought there was a very high chance there would be global nuclear war, followed by nuclear winter, within a decade.

I wasn't aware. Thanks for sharing.
I think the discourse is converging on A/B testing being a big company thing, where I think it is very useful.

Not because it finds new knowledge, but because it keeps your product teams honest.

It's really easy to delude yourself and others about your project when your promotion is on the line, and A/B tests let you actually evaluate whether the change helped or not.

At small companies, you're not trying to find 2% effect sizes, anything that small is already a failure, so you don't need statistics to tell you what worked.
The rules of evidence govern what is admissible in court and I don’t recall any rule pertaining to NIST guidelines. I think what you might mean is that the guidelines are a learned treatise which, while it would be hearsay for me or you to quote as a fact witness, is nevertheless something an expert witness can refer to.
We have the same check for silent data corruption in ClickHouse. After it detects a checksum mismatch, it also tries to check if it is caused by a single bit flip. If it is, we can provide a more precise diagnostic for a user about possible causes: https://github.com/ClickHouse/ClickHouse/issues?q=is%253Aiss...

Then the natural question arises: if we detect that it is a single bit flip, should we "un-flip" that bit, fix the data, and continue? The answer is: no. These types of errors should be explicit. They successfully help to detect broken RAM and broken network devices, that have to be replaced. However, the error is fixed automatically anyway by downloading the data from a replica.
It's not being constantly in fear. It's called being situationally aware around 2 ton death machines and being mentally prepared to act accordingly.

The reason people get hurt is because they aren't paying attention and react poorly. I said it elsewhere but I almost got hit by a car whose brakes failed. I dove out of the way and live to tell about it because I walk with my head up and look forward. Too many people live with their head in the clouds (or their phones) and act surprised when freak accidents happen.

Situational awareness goes a long way to keeping one safe and it frankly doesn't surprise me that a site like this is filled with people who would rather safety pad the world than pay attention to his surroundings.
CUDA/etc is certainly a pain.

A good number of years ago I wrote my own Torch-like C++ NN framework using CUDA (cuDNN, cuBLAS) for the GPU, and one of the annoyances is that cuDNN has incomplete coverage of even the basic operators needed. Add/Sub/Min/Max/Sqrt/Negate are all provided as part of cuDNN, but if you want other common NN building blocks like Div/Exp/Log/Pow/Inv/InvSqrt then you have to write them yourself in CUDA and either forgo cuDNNs tensor-descriptor layout flexibility or re-implement that yourself too.

Of course frameworks like PyTorch support all the operators you'd expect, since they've written their own kernels in CUDA where the functionality is missing from cuDNN.

It's not clear exactly what Keller is referring to there. When people say CUDA they might be referring to the entire ecosystem (nvcc CUDA C/C++ compiler, CUDA API's, higher level cuBLAS, cuDNN, etc), or maybe just the base compiler (which lets you write your own kernels) and API for allocating memory, queueing kernels, etc.

The cuDNN kernels (convolution, etc) are highly optimized, as is cuBLAS (e.g. matmul), and I doubt anyone is going to do better writing these themselves. Does Keller consider using cuDNN as "writing CUDA" ?

As far as I'm aware the higher level, performant, CUDA libraries, as well as specialized components like TensorRT are written in CUDA, although that could mean a combination of C/C++ & PTX pseudo-assembler (ptxas is really a compiler, not an assembler). The alternative would be they they were written in hand optimized SASS assembler which afaik is only available outside of NVDIA via the Open Source CuAssembler.

I believe Mojo support for NVIDA is based on PTX. I'm not sure if that would be really be considered as "CUDA" or not if they are not using nvcc at all.

Most people, outside of framework vendors, would have no reason to use CUDA anyway, since it's just too low level. The only sane use case would be where writing a custom kernel in (e.g.) PyTorch or Mojo doesn't get the performance you want and you write than one kernel in CUDA. The hope would be that the Mojo compiler is good enough that this would not be necessary.
> Don't act like every form is 5 simple text inputs.

Well to be honest 99% of forms are 5 simple text inputs with a select. What was the last time you had to implement a "choose up to 5 locations in the radius of 10km", really?

> What about form fields like "pick a point on a map"?

Same thing: of course there are rich forms for which you need JS, but they are the exception, not the rule.
What do you mean it "CAN" be retrofitted? Based on what?

The fact is there is NO infrastructure for any of this. It's also a fact that there are MAJOR (and unsolved) challenges with building out a hydrogen collection/storage/transport (regardless of the source) infrastructure at scale. It's why it hasn't been done even though many governments throw billions into non-fossil fuel initiatives (and even close down working nuclear reactors).
Everyone loves a little shot of schaudenfreude in the morning. It's why r/amitheasshole is a very popular short-fiction subreddit.
Am I reading this right? A 55x improvement while also going from an M2 Air to an RTX 4090?

If so this doesn’t seem like a logical comparison and the 55x claim would likely not translate when using the same hardware.
> According to the proposal, to use legally you had to be a member of s club, so no anonymity. The club could only sell what it produces and could only have a couple of members.

This is basically how it works in Barcelona, Spain as well. I don't think it's legal/illegal nationwide, but we have invite-only social clubs where you can only become a member if you know existing members. I think (but I'm not sure) there is a maximum number of members per club too.

And you don't "buy" weed there, but you contribute money to the organization, and you may withdraw this contribution in the future as weed.

Seems to work out just fine here.
If you don't know who (like I didn't) it was Leland Stanford.
Indeed, that's the endgame. End-to-end DRM, and there's enough money behind it that it will happen. I've been advocating heavily against DRM for many years now and nobody cares. Occassionally when somebody has a need in the moment where they are annoyed, and I explain "you can't share <thing> with your spouse/sibling/friend because DRM" they will say something like, "oh yeah, that's annoying" but just continue paying for DRM-ed media.

Unless perhaps people boycott, but that sure ain't gonna happen (in anywhere near large enough numbers to make a difference), Apple, Google, and Microsoft will build it into their platforms, and anyone not on the big three will be unable to consume more and more as time goes on, including most web browsing. It won't happen overnight. It will be an iterative/progressive encroachment where just a little changes each day. Boiling frogs and all that.
If my grandmother had wheels - oh, what's the use?
In terms of hardware , they absolutely could scale up higher in the same way Nvidia does: more chips with interconnect on a blade.

Given their power efficiency, they could just go wider and come out on top.

And in terms of software, metal compute is the only real competitor to CUDA backends. Between their PyTorch backends, MPX, and large memory, a lot of ML engineers are going with a combo of Macs locally and NVIDIA in the cloud these days.

Intel and AMD don’t factor in at all comparatively for ML use because Intel doesn’t have a GPU backend for most things people want, and AMD has repeatedly made a mess of rocm
Congratulations, you have rediscovered https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradox_of_tolerance
The author of this is presenting their view and you have hours of content to watch about this if you want to dig into it. One problem is that "lab leak," as Peter says, means a bunch of amalgamated theories. It's hard to discuss this without going through in depth, which is what this debate tried to do.
Ive just started flagging stories that are a single tweet with the rest of behind the login wall. The value isnt there.
What do you think the US wants? Attrition Russia’s army?
Gas stations do the cash discount for a particular reason - to get you inside the building where you might buy profitable convenience-store items, which you won't if you just stay at the pump. (Though yes, the differential might be less than the kickback from a card rewards program.)
onomatopoeia - a word that does not sound like it means a word that sounds like what it means.
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