skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I do agree with that. It's kind of a facet of the same premis. If a thing is mere equipment, then everyone knows it needs an operator. You don't start the car up and turn it loose to run down the road by itself. A thing doesn't have to have agency to be dangerous.

Except we are starting to do exactly that because too many people are not realizing that neither llms nor ai are actually ai with understanding and agency.

Or really, they do have agency because we're giving them agency, but we're giving agency to things that don't have understanding and that's the problem.
Hard to tell sometimes
I agree with sibling comments that battery life would be the real issue here, but I was astonished to see the $9 price tag on this. Incredible.
From a person making claim? That's not a common scenario. It is expected that most people won't have any claim.
That could be true. It’s a huge field, though, with many experts on interpreters or even QA not hearing of the tools I mentioned. Industry, FOSS, and academia are often silo’s to various degrees. Perhaps he’s well studied and that would be great.

What caught my eye in his replies on Lobste.rs and here is how he replies. There seems to be as much ego as technical decisions driving it. In that case, people arguing technical details are wasting time since the project needs something else. Or they should thank him and fork it if they have different ideas.
Depends how much you quantize the model. For most general-purpose LLMs, the model completely dwarfs the size of the binary code.
I knew the UK was going sharply downhill with the surveillance state nonsense, but that far already?

Wow - I have even more respect for the people who risk their lives to damage and tear down government surveillance cameras for the common good.
Jim Keller works for Tenstorrent - direct Nvidia competitor.
How is the label "conspiracy" even applicable to a theory where something is speculated to have happened by accident?

A huge group of nominally "smart" people have lost their collective minds around the time this pandemic broke out and I've yet to understand what their motivation is.

Everything is black and white; either you're with us or against us; either you're an intellectual who enthusiastically agrees with everything the "authorities" say without asking questions, or you're a nutjob who deserves to be banished from society. How did we get here?

I've seen simplistic explanations that refer to the state of post-2016 US politics, but this behavior extends far outside the US.
It can persist data to indexedDB, so web applications can use it if they want a more flexible alternative
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> Also growing it is super easy. If you can grow tomatoes then you are already overqualified.

That's a little overstated. It's easy to grow very low quality weed. Growing something capable of being on a shelf to be sold is very much a skill that takes time, even for someone with a green thumb; the girls get too stressed very easily, and attract pests like you wouldn't believe.
Yeah exactly. I think that must be part of the story. I can see how doing, like, countercultural grittiness as an act could lead to cognitive dissonance and a desire to "stop being a poser".

This is why I'm skeptical of dismissing radical rhetoric as "oh that's just talk". A lot of people have a strong desire to be "real", which will drive some of them to put their money where their mouth is, even if they started out with just some "harmless" rhetoric because it seemed fun to say edgy stuff.
Being polite doesn't mean agreeing to all requests. You can politely and firmly decline.
Nvidia has really managed to capitalize very well on multiple "Compute that does nothing important" trends. From 3D games to crypto mining, now to AI. Jensen Huang seems to have a crystal ball that can predict what people will waste compute on in the next 5 years.
Random text generator is even greener than AI and me typing. Does not mean that result is understandable or even coherent.
I think it's either a joke or misunderstanding about arxiv
$8.8 trillion - the value of open source software
Now that I think of it, I'm not sure I've ever seen a government payment site hosted on .gov; usually .com.
What does that mean in practice? It's legal in California, but the FBI might arrest you if you go to Yosemite National Park with cannabis?
I also disagree with the idea of corporations having to independently duplicate efforts instead of collaborating on a shared station.

I disagree with the idea of corporations having any interest in duplicating the ISS.

ISS was first and foremost a cash sink --- which most corporate shareholders are perfectly content to leave to government.
GPT-4 Turbo has a context window of 128k tokens, not 32k as the article says.
Yeah, I dont think any one would start a company with no incentives, but I do think the existing capitalized ones will have no choice. Once you've built a factory, you have a sunk cost and need to extract whatever you can out of the capital even if it's only 1% profit. (else you bankrupt and implicitly reduce the capital base such that it does profit)
Citation Given:

Googles layoffs in ad sales are attributed to their leaning into AI ads

https://www.theinformation.com/articles/google-plans-ad-sale...
I'm horrified to say that individual bugs we make can cost our large employer millions, yet leadership still overloads people with multiple projects on tight deadlines and loose engineering standards.

I'm talking about global control systems in the critical path of user-facing traffic. But it's not as bad as it sounds; when I've seen these done by larger teams, they indulged scope creep and had no excuse not to. We get to say no a lot, and that's often better than having the resources to build more stuff that then compounds in complexity and has to be maintained forever.

The way I've done things on specific projects is recognized a fair amount, but not yet replicated enough. I get trusted with the most mission-critical projects because I've proven I can do them with minimal risk. I've tried teaching the rest of the team how, but they still fall into bad habits again under pressure, and create a death spiral where their shortcuts taken under pressure create more pressure indefinitely.

I make my deadlines because I invest in testability first and I'd always rather refactor earlier than later so tech debt doesn't compound. I don't mean anything dogmatic like TDD, I mean whatever gets me the most ROI on time and effort for a given kind of project. When time is the most constrained resource, it would be really silly to waste it on impedance mismatch between problems and practices.
I don't use cannabis, but I wonder how much cannabis, alcohol, television, social media, etc sap energy and drive from people in general. At a societal level, is that partially responsible for the decrease in entrepreneurship? How could we tell?

Less entrepreneurship means less innovation and less jobs and less tax revenue, it's bad for society overall.
Theres a much more comprehensive list here: https://www.doctorofcredit.com/high-interest-savings-to-get/
Germany's Bundestag votes for cannabis legalization
Staff say Dell's RTO mandate is a stealth layoff, especially for women
It is CIA operation. Staff did their job. Now is time to delete history and if it will be useful in the future they will resell as "new."
I worked at Dropbox and found this tweet very shocking—even relative to other posts on Blind. Definitely wasn’t my experience. But then again, I was there during the free flowing money era. Widespread tech layoffs are creating a hostile work environment.
The growing smells are much more pungent.
> Maybe it is irrational, but at this point, it feels like the irrationality is likely to outlive anyone here.

There is no rational universe where a company can be worth almost $3T, and at the same time, investors know there is a ~% chance every year that Taiwan gets attacked or blockaded, and that company won't be selling anything for half a decade, minimum. It's like betting on the Death Star fully knowing the exhaust port issue exists. Complete with "but surely our fighters (er, US government) will prevent anyone from actually hitting that port."

At this point, I just believe the entire stock market is irrational and in the stratosphere; simply because, where else are you going to invest? Too many investors, not enough companies. But what goes up...

(Edit: I'm primarily referring to Apple here. I am aware NVIDIA primarily uses South Korea - but at the same time, if something were to happen to Taiwan, even NVIDIA will need to prioritize fab capacity.)
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Have been doing this kind of thing for over a decade to sync between my desktop and laptop(s). No serious data loss, ever.
I flagged it because when I click on the link I see:

> @shaunmmaguire
> Fuck it,
> This happened at Google
> That company is an absolute trash can dumpster fire

And that is it. If there is more content there, it is behind a sign in wall.
No, the reason is the racism.
This is Great! Saved me some hassle of searching for the prices.
S3, as you know, is a key-based object store, with a hack that allows directories ('/' is just part of the key name, and is filtered) So its less of a deficiency, more of a tradeoff they went with to get performance/uptime. Enumerating the keys on an S3 bucket is pretty slow, so it makes any kind of listing operation for a follow on system slow.

Having a metadata cache is sensible option, especially if you have complete control of a bucket and are able to be canonical. (ie everything talks to your DB to get keynames)

But! what you can't do write to the middle of a file, you need to upload the whole thing again. This is not a problem for a lot of workflows, but for POSIX filesystems thats going to cause problems. You can seek to the middle of a file, write to it, the client will upload it to S3. What happens if another system modifies that file when you are uploading? Sounds like a locking nightmare.
but executives have no clue as to what they're doing or ought to be doing.

But their marketing reports know EXACTLY what to do. Just add a blurb in any press release about "AI enabled x, y, z for our a, b, and c product lines" and the board and other execs are happy.

Meanwhile 9 times out of 10 any feature that gets rolled out will be a collection of shell scripts that simply analyzes some data and spits out an answer, any answer, and "we AI enabled."
So was I. Then, I saw a miracle that disproved all that. I was a highly-arrogant person, too. Turns out Jesus is God, we will all face His judgement, and repenting in the best thing we can do.

God made it easy on us, though. He said anyone who humbly reads His Word will, by supernatural action, know it’s true. He also provided proof. Please do look at GetHisWord.com for both. You’ll get to meet the Creator who made you and all the interesting things you love.
https://ollama.com/library/gemma/tags

You can see the various quantizations here, both for the 2B model and the 7B model. The smallest you can go is the q2_K quantization of the 2B model, which is 1.3GB, but I wouldn't really call that "functional". The q4_0 quantization is 1.7GB, and that would probably be functional.

The size of anything but the model is going to be rounding error compared to how large the models are, in this context.
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Monzo gives me 4.6% instant-access and I manage it from the same app I manage my current account in. My savings are fairly modest so it really doesn't seem worth the bother to shop around for an extra ~0.4%.
Just came to say that spending $800M on a sound recording studio expansion was literally insane even before the current AI boom.

Quite simply, there's no practical combination of top-tier hardware that you can buy which will put you even close to that number, even if replicated 8-10 times as the article implies multiple rooms.

That tells me most of the money would be poured into vanity aspects - literally gold toilets and the like - which would impact the ego, not the sound.

It's easy to spend $1M on gear. You would have to work really, really hard to spend $25M on gear. I'd bet that everything Steve Albini has in his two rooms is worth under $10M.
Because syncing a monolithic binary file is trickier and more intensive than syncing a bunch of little files, once your repo is big enough. If your git repo was corrupted, you might recover some data. If you corrupt a binary database, good luck with that. Dropbox is also harvesting your data for various purposes. I hope your code isn't valuable, because it could be leaked or stolen by employees of Dropbox. There's also something to be said about using what other people use instead of bizarre niche tools.

Disclaimer: I have used Fossil and it's a decent system for small applications where everyone is on board. But I would not recommend it due to the reasons above.
Cannabis sales and possession has been legal in Canada for, what, 6 years or so. You only need to be of a certain minimum age and pay the excise duty (and find a way to dispose of the extreme packaging).

The black market now accounts for only about 60% of the cannabis sales. Hard drug use like crack and fentanyl has become rampant as dealers lace their product to compete on a kick level (the legal stuff is relatively mild).

There's currently a shakeout and consolidation in the legal cannabis industry going on due to overinvestment. The mom-and-pop storefronts that cropped up on seemingly every street corner during the pandemic are starting to disappear. Regulatory charges and overhead eat much of the profit. There is still trouble getting financing for the legal industry because of US legislation preventing banks that do business in that country from lending money to such businessess outside of the USA, legal or not. Black market dealers do not have any of these issues.
Thank you. Do you have more information regarding this? Why do I await the socket acceptance? How do I handle the disconnect? How do I send messages into and out of the coroutine?
I really hope that this new terminal most definitely is not like that Warp terminal that was bandied about recently on HN. Anyone knows if this new terminal has telemetry baked in? Or not?
I'd argue the people of Ukraine are 'winning' compared to if Russia won. Like I really don't know what people expect Ukraine to do other than fight - get annexed and endure another Holodomor? It's not exactly a choice.
I actually had the GR II a couple years ago and sold it when I moved to a micro four thirds kit and a few prime lenses.

Only thing I missed with the GR was an optical view finder (also not on the micro four thirds I replaced it with). I had a Sony A700 about a decade ago and still miss that view finder. The thing was really heavy with a decent lens attached but I loved shooting with it.
Rudeness can feel good in the moment. After the moment passes, though, I don't really like myself after I've been rude. That's not who I want to be, even if it is deserved.

On the other hand, last night I was talking to a cop. He said that, in dealing with unruly people, you have to use swear words if you want to get through to them. It's the language that they understand.

So there may be a place where rudeness is the only thing that will work. It's probably not every time I'm rude, though...
But what kind of CUDA kernels have you written? Kernels for AI training and inferencing? Because I think that's what he's trying to say.

I doubt he's saying that in the context of CFD or other similar ones.
You know what, let's ban it all! What could possibly go wrong. /s
"are attributed"

By who? What is the source?
I kind of love the idea of feeding the text of entire books to an AI. More often than I’d like to admit, I’ll be reading a novel and find myself not remembering who some character is. I’d love to be able to highlight a name in my ereader and it would see that I’m 85 pages into Neuromancer and give me an answer based on that (ie no spoilers).

Or have a textbook that I can get some help and hints while working through problems and get stuck like you might get with a good study partner.
In instances like this, I find it pays to reserve a little energy toward being open minded and holding a 'trust but verify'. Specifically tho, trusting yourself and past lessons, but verifying, as opposed to trusting others.

People are complicated, and negative interactions do tend to have an outsized influence on molding our behavior
The code is a basically irrelevant fraction of the model weights. The raw FP16 is like 17GB.

In practice your priority would be fancy quantization, and just any library that compiles down to an executable (like this, MLC-LLM or llama.cpp)
I mean, you know this, but this is only true for the most basic, dividend issuing non-growth company. Most of the genies don't give you anything per year. Their only value is the amount you can re-sell the genie for.

EDIT: I guess I don't understand the "gives you $1" part if we're not talking about dividends.
Or maybe they'll get an office job.
This will get you started:

Tony Fisher wrote V.32 soft modem stack for SGI Indy back in 1996. York University couldnt handle hosting whole 8 megabytes of his stuff https://www.cs.york.ac.uk/news/fisher/home-page but at least they had the decency to upload it to github instead of just deleting https://github.com/university-of-york/cs-www-users-fisher/tr... Randy Rossi rewrote this project and got working V.21/23 https://github.com/randyrossi/fisher-modem

Fabrice Bellard, because of course he did :), implemented his own version all the way to V.34 with parts of V.90 https://bellard.org/linmodem/ Currently actively maintained by Osmocom project https://osmocom.org/projects/linmodem "In Late 2021 we started a project to support AMR_Modem_Riser cards via a custom break-out board (#5294) and an associated FPGA softcore to interface the AC97 master interface with USB (audio)."

V.21 modem implemented in Gnu Radio https://web.archive.org/web/20170627151353/http://aaronscher...

amodem - good source of ready made modulation implementations https://github.com/romanz/amodem

minimodem- simple radio link FSK modem https://github.com/kamalmostafa/minimodem

audsl - leased line project, not compatible with standard modems https://www.araneus.fi/audsl/ but might give some ideas.
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> Crossover predates Proton by about 10-12 years

And using Wine for games predates using Wine for MS Office by several years. MS Office has always been the primary target, but it's such a large surface area that some games were functional before MS Office was.

> The company did start their efforts as a way to make MS Office work on Macs

Wine and the Crossover company were Linux only for many years.
I'm not advocating for that, it was clearly a disaster. But I wonder if it's beneficial to discourage those things more through education, taxes, etc.
What's racist about it ? Feel free to check the official stats of any western countries, or are numbers racist too ?
Does JuiceFS allow the user to specify the hash of a file when uploaded? And then to read that hash back later?

Otherwise there’s no end-to-end integrity check.
"I'm just asking questions here guys"

No new ideas.

womp womp
> currently there are actually no modern x86 CPUs on the market. Both Intel and AMD don't actually use x86 cores, but instead proprietary RISC cores, with microcode that translates the x86 code to RISC code on the fly at execution time.

This kind of factoid does more to obscure the truth than it does to illuminate it.

The truth of the matter is that all high-end CPUs do a µop translation, whether or not their frontend is a CISC or RISC ISA. Indeed, the very notion of CISC versus RISC is way overwrought in architecture textbooks, and this probably produces the garbled thinking: since everyone "knows" that CISC can't be superscalar, this means that the Pentium (in making superscalar x86) has to somehow be RISC.

Another thing to note is that there's not really anything called CISC. RISC is the overall term for a family of computer architecture design methodologies arising the 80's that argued for compiler-centric rather than assembler-centric design and simpler instructions, sometimes to the point that you omit hardware and call it a feature (e.g., delay slots). CISC is... everything else; it's a strawman constructed for RISC to compete against rather than a coherent design methodology.

In actual practice, though, RISC v CISC hasn't been relevant for decades. Some of the RISC design ideas have won out: there's generally a high emphasis on instructions that can be selected by the compiler over hand-tuned assembly, for example. But things like delay slots have been generally considered a failure. The architectures that are the most successful--x86 and ARM--are the ones that blur the line between RISC and CISC the most.

Actually, if you scrubbed the x86 assembly away and came up with some new assembly syntax (including new mnemonics of course), you could probably sell the x86 ISA as a "compressed RISC" ISA and get many people to believe you that it was designed as a RISC. x86 doesn't have many instructions that have crazy interrupt rules or multiple memory references (the string instructions are the main exceptions here), and it's this property which turns out to be really key to making something high-performance or not. It would be better for us to be honest about what enables or doesn't enable superscalar architectures rather than trying to argue that somehow x86 cheated its way to success.
The law contains extensive book-keeping requirements for the clubs. Users don't want to be on a list. Especially with the CDU/CSU saying that they plan to re-criminalize if they win the next election. With the rise of the AfD and personal negative interactions with the state that these people had, I
can understand that they are cautious.

Also, these are not social clubs but growing clubs. You are not allowed to consume Cannabis in the club and 100 meters around it.
they are already on it. they do really important work. worth helping them out with funding.

https://twitter.com/Chronotope/status/1760755908219466017
If you've never heard of it why not Google "eu durable medium"? Looks like the claim is true and I didn't need to ask for a source to figure it out.

https://www.fca.org.uk/firms/durable-medium

https://www.lexology.com/library/detail.aspx?g=788714a1-d7b6...
Wow, that's some omission in the article. Mentioned in the very bottom, but with no disclaimer that it might influence his opinion as they're a competitor:

> His statements also imply that even though he has worked stints at some of the largest chipmakers in the world, including the likes of Apple, Intel, AMD, Broadcom (and now Tenstorrent), we might not see his name on the Nvidia roster any time soon.
Okay, I get what you're saying. Yes, hosting a PDS server behind NAT is a problem.

1. The expected scenario is that people would run PDS hosts on small VMs (Digital Ocean, Vultr, AWS, etc) where an IPv4 address is the default.

2. People running PDS hosts behind NAT would use a tunnel service of some kind (Cloudflare Tunnel, Tailscale Funnel, Ngrok, etc).

But IPv6 is something we do want to support, and it won't be a huge effort. It will just take a bit of time to get to it.
I love the potential of having such a big context window, but I'm concerned about who will get access to it (or rather who won't get access to it) and what it will cost or who will pay for it.
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What do you mean? In which use case? I use Pixelmator Pro exclusively for years now, and I don’t need Photoshop, it’s just an abomination to me.