skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
nevertheless, both AMD and Intel refuse to warranty processors operated outside of the spec, including when done via XMP/Expo. AMD has gone so far as to add an e-fuse in recent generations that permanently marks processors that have been operated outside the official spec.

https://www.extremetech.com/computing/amds-new-threadripper-...

As much as enthusiasts would like this to be "normalized" - from the perspective of the vendor it is not, they are very clear that this is something they do not cover. And it will become more and more of a problem as generations go forward - electromigration is happening faster and faster (sometimes explosively, in the case of AMD).

But it is quite difficult to get a gamer to understand something when their framerate depends on not understanding it.

https://semiengineering.com/uneven-circuit-aging-becoming-a-...

https://semiengineering.com/3d-ic-reliability-degrades-with-...

https://semiengineering.com/mitigating-electromigration-in-c...

> GD-106: Overclocking AMD processors, including without limitation, altering clock frequencies / multipliers or memory timing / voltage, to operate beyond their stock specifications will void any applicable AMD product warranty, even when such overclocking is enabled via AMD hardware and/or software. This may also void warranties offered by the system manufacturer or retailer. Users assume all risks and liabilities that may arise out of overclocking AMD processors, including, without limitation, failure of or damage to hardware, reduced system performance and/or data loss, corruption or vulnerability.

> GD-112: Overclocking memory will void any applicable AMD product warranty, even if such overclocking is enabled via AMD hardware and/or software. This may also void warranties offered by the system manufacturer or retailer or motherboard vendor. Users assume all risks and liabilities that may arise out of overclocking memory, including, without limitation, failure of or damage to RAM/hardware, reduced system performance and/or data loss, corruption or vulnerability.
Is there a name for that? "wishful purchasing" maybe?
Very interesting!

The way analog chips work should approximate more closely the way brains, and nature in general, works, right?

I suppose quantum computers would be even more accurate, but we're decades away from getting any practical applications out of them. Whereas this technology existed in 1989(!).

Have there been more modern iterations of this technology, specifically in the area of AI?

...

Reading through Wikipedia on the topic, it seems like analog chips are used in neuromorphic engineering[1]. The article lists many more recent advancements. Why are these projects still seemingly stuck in the research phase?

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neuromorphic_engineering
If AI/ML home systems become significantly common for consumers before the onboard technology is capable, I could see home cacheing appliances for LLMs.

Like something that sits next to your router (or more likely, routers that come stock with it).
I wasn't as optimistic that there would be a broad adoption of some of the more advanced techniques I was working on so I did figure back in 2013 that most people would stick to the GEMMs and Convs with rather simple loss functions - I had a hard enough time explaining BPR triplet loss to people. Now with LLMs people will be doubling down on GEMMs for the foreseeable future.

My customers won't touch non-commodity hardware as they see it as a potential vector for vendors to screw them over, and they're not wrong about that. In a post apocalyptic they could just pull a graphics card out of a gaming computer to get things working again which gives them a strong feeling of security. Having very capable GPU cards as a commodity means I can re-use the same ops for my training and inference which roughly halves my workload.

My approach to hardware companies is that I'll believe it when I see it, I'll wait until something is publically available that I can buy off the shelf before looking too closely at it's architecture. NVidia with their Tensor Cores got so good so quickly that I never really looked too closely at alternatives. I'm kind of hopeful that AMD SoC would provide a good edge compute option so I might give that a go.

I had a look at tenstorrent given this article and the Grendel architecture seems interesting.
Absolutely, yes.

It can also misbehave without any hardware bugs due to glitching. Rates of incidence of this must be quite low or that would be considered a HW bug, but it's never zero. Run code for enough hours on enough machines collecting stack traces or core dumps on crashes and you will notice that there's a low base rate of failures that make absolutely no sense. (E.g. a null pointer dereference literally right after a successful non-null pointer check 2 instructions above it in the disassembly.)

You will also notice that many machines in a big fleet that log such errors do so exactly once and never again, but some reoccur several times and have a noticeably elevated failure rate even though they're running the exact same code as everyone else. This too is normal. These machines are, due to manufacturing variation on the CPU, RAM, or whatever, much glitchier than the baseline. Once you've identified such a machine, you will want to replace it before it causes any persistent data corruption, not just transient crashes or glitches.
Well yes. it gets nuanced. The answer is anyone involved in raising the child. Both parents, grandparents that are still working even. Neighbors, aunts, uncles.. We are both WFH/hybrid which allowed us the flexibility to work crazy work hours and swap hands to take care of children. My wife works 50-65+ hours 6mo of the year and 40 the rest so having that flexibility between 3pm and 8pm really helps. If you have to RTO that flexibility disappears and just crushes work life balance because it's not acceptable to just leave the office at 2:30. If everyone you know if stuck at the office or in a commute till 6pm there is no shared community to help with the child.
https://archive.ph/2024.02.23-171345/https://www.bloomberg.c...
Do you not understand the separation of powers between the executive branch and the legislative branch?
Computer History Museum – Oral History of Laurence "Larry" Boucher [pdf]
Now you can spend 10% of your day reviewing AI written code!
I have had maybe 10 UPS units over the years but I would never buy another one. I was once severely poisoned by an APC unit with a leaking battery. It released an odorless vapor, had me in the hospital twice before I figured it out. Not a fan of APC quality anymore either. I don't trust the product, don't want to plug it into my equipment. Most everything I use now has a battery or will just reset on power failure anyway.

The model he is referring to is the last UPS I owned and had some very serious QA issues;

https://www.eevblog.com/forum/dodgy-technology/apc-ups-now-w...
There is a reasonable argument that Tornado Cash is a money laundering service. Agree/disagree?
Satoshi’s emails to Martti Malmi, (published recently), include words like, “sceptical.” Unlikely written by an American.
I do the same. I'm not really here for the articles - they're secondary - but for the excellent discussions by the community
I always wonder if they would have sold more minis if they made them more expensive than the standard model, rather than the discount option.
There was a lot of resentment towards bailouts at the time and making an alternative system

Many people would have been passionate about their quests towards a solution. Many people still make redundant things without knowing the hurdles involved and are just as passionate. I have a client thinking they are going to “bank the unbanked” with a mobile app not using crypto at all, in 2024

One reason why Satoshi would have been extremely passionate is because they had solved one of the unsolved problems of computer science up until 2008 which was the Double Spend Problem, and 2009 was his first production implementation of it called Bitcoin

so you have a person that was seeing everything that the field of computer science had touched over the last half century, and knowing a solution for a unsolved aspect that prevented it from touching other industries and seeing how expansive that would be
Competitive in this space is also SeaweedFS, which I've taken out for a local spin. It feels kindof like "memcached-for-fs/s3"... you add 30GB chunks of storage and it coalesces them for you without much ceremony. ~20 bytes storage overhead per file and performance seems pretty decent.
I asked from ChatGTP how many people would be required to lift 1000 ton block (if we consider slaves).

“It would require approximately 19,753 people to lift a 1000-ton granite boulder, given the assumptions made regarding average lift capacity and efficiency factors. This is a theoretical estimate and assumes perfect conditions where all individuals can contribute equally and simultaneously, which may not be feasible in reality due to the physical space required and coordination challenges.

1. *Weight of the Boulder*: 1000 tons (US tons) = 2,000,000 pounds (lbs) since 1 ton = 2,000 lbs.

2. *Average Lift Capacity per Person*: The average untrained adult can safely lift about 135 pounds (deadlift, which is a reasonable approximation for lifting something off the ground) without training. However, for trained individuals, this number can be significantly higher. Let's use the untrained capacity for a conservative estimate.

3. *Safety and Efficiency Factors*: When lifting heavy objects, especially with many people, not everyone will be able to lift their maximum capacity due to the awkward shape of the object, grip issues, coordination, and safety concerns. Thus, we might apply a safety factor to ensure we're considering a realistic scenario. Let's assume 75% efficiency to account for these factors.”

But you can’t fit that many people under the rock. If you wanted to use chains to help lifting it would require something better than wine ropes. Even chain made from copper wouldn’t hold it.

That fallen Ramses statue is rose granite.

Another mystery is how this statue was created. Because it’s so symmetrical and smooth we would have to use machinery in order to do it.
I think that’s the opposite of how to think about it: groups with money are going to lobby no matter what, because there’s simply no way those groups won’t want to influence what’s happening. Budgeting to hire people who report to the congress person costs a little bit (by national government standards) upfront but it avoids all of those conflicts of interest and pushes things out of the shadows into the government hiring process where there’s more of a paper trail and basic conflict of interest rules.
Scuttlebutt social network: a decentralised platform
Good point, and we know the current crop of AI does make mistakes, is not perfect by any means. AI needs more training.
This is super cool. Postgres is slowly overlapping on every part of the data stack, even SQLite isn't safe!
I'm pretty sure Satoshi is German.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6562461
> It's interesting that...

Not really, hn is full of reactionary posters champing at the bit to connect loose threads, as your own post testifies to
Intel Performance Maximizer is from Intel so I'd hope it has good tests.
I used 4v professionally for a number of years. Probably would to be using it if the devvvvs focused on more platforms than just Windows.

The best part of 4v is the community and the node festival. Lots of amazing techno artists.
Is 14 years a lot still? I'm 35 with ~14 years (but really coding since middle school); just trying to figure out if I'm officially old?
ArriveCAN was used for sorting out your COVID vaccine requirements before traveling to Canada.

Folks had to provide proof of vaccination, travel plans (like where are you going and what's your quarantine plan), etc.
Yeah. Intel advertises the ability to overclock, but that doesn't mean overclocking is in spec. It just means Intel allows you to run it out of spec if you so choose. The spec says you can set the clock multiplier, it doesn't say anything above the stock range will actually be stable.
The prices of BTC and ETH dropped by about 15% between Nov 2 when the Coindesk story about FTX balance sheet came out and Nov 11 when FTX went bankrupt. And some others like Solana dropped more.

But you’re right that crypto already had a much bigger crash before that.
Nah, Google is just racist. Jack Krawczyk is on record making a bunch of racist remarks (against white people) and Youtube was sued multiple times for racial discrimination (against whites and males).

It just permeated the culture and produced a self censorship effect. Who's going to stand up, in a company they know to be racist, and flag racism in their product as an issue? Nobody.

And so even if anyone noticed the problem before release, they didn't report it.
I've watched a few in the past and I'm not convinced the more complex interactions are "real" language use instead of operant conditioning combined with confirmation bias. Too many of the videos will have button sequences that seem random get assigned a meaning, and even non-request button presses will get attention.

Buttons for "food", "water", "pet me", "play with me", "outside" almost definitely work. Before I lived with a cat again, I was skeptical of those as "well, duh, any of those buttons get a reward, they don't care what it is", but our cats ask for those specific things without buttons.
To be non-interacting with anything... and that makes them rather foreverish.

The problem is that the structure of the PFAS (a fluorocarbon chain with an OH at the end) looks a LOT like a hydrocarbon chain with an OH on the end... that's a saturated fatty acid which is crucial for body metabolism.

Compare the structure of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myristic_acid and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Per-_and_polyfluoroalkyl_subst...

This allows the body to accidentally substitute a PFAS (which does nothing) for a fatty acid (which does something - and often important things).

https://www.vox.com/2022/8/25/23318667/pfas-forever-chemical...

So yes, it had one job - and it did that job well. It also looks like something that has another job... and does that job really poorly when substituted.
| Proud boys was originally created out of the need to protect people from the likes of Antifa, which is a facist group.

Even Gavin McInness says you're wrong here.

https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2021/06/the-secret-history-o...

| McInnes, an avid boozer, has consistently maintained that he started the Proud Boys as an outlet for harmless fun: an Animal House-style drinking club for male buddies.

https://web.archive.org/web/20190209020443/https://bedfordan...

| "It’s a men’s organization, sort of like the Odd Fellows,” McInnes explained. “It mirrors the Knights of Columbus in many ways”–another organization that he belongs to. Only in this case,the Proud Boys subscribe to an ideology of “anti racial guilt,” that, to me, seemed to evoke white pride.

| Actually, McInnes wouldn’t describe it in explicit terms like “white pride” or “white supremacy.”

| “Our motto is that, we’re Western Chauvinists who refuse to apologize for creating the modern world,” he said matter-of-factly. “That’s really the only tenet.”
> Biggest thing is that you can now at least legally possess it.

I really want this to be true for a lot of drugs and even other criminal activities. Not because I necessarily support these things, but because we've seen that when we don't do this, prosecutors put far more of their time and energy into going after the users because they are much easier to go after. But if we do consider these things problems, we need to go after those distributing and manufacturing. It's like trying to put out a fire by removing all things that are flammable. Sure, it can work, but you're going to have a hard time doing this if you're in the woods. Main focus should be on the fire.
Well, one of the theories I fancy is that we know that Dorian Satoshi Nakamoto worked on a classified defence project, now it is almost impossible that he was the creator of btc, however there is a chance that a group of security service hackers who interacted with him while he worked there were inspired by this eccentric persona and thus decided to adopt his name as a joke when they were thinking of made-up moniker.
I had a teacher who told us that when we took notes, we could not just transcribe what the teacher said - we had to take the ideas and write them down in our own words, because we would actually be thinking and learning and not just brainlessly writing it down.
At the risk of being snarky, it's interesting that Llama.cpp was a 'grassroots' effort originating from a Bulgarian hacker google now launches a corporatized effort inspired by it.

I wonder if there's some analogies to the 80s or 90s in here.
the problem is we all have macs with no hard drive space and we need thse services
I would not invest long term using margin. The interest rates would likely eat any profits unless you got lucky on a bet.

Short term, though? Nah, you should absolutely trade on margin.

I started investing in 2020 immediately after markets hit rock bottom from COVID. Margin multiplied my gains as I bet on the market bouncing back.

You could certainly argue that I was just lucky. I could have easily been wrong and it's possible markets could have taken a longer time to recover than I expected. But tbh, the market recovered significantly FASTER than I expected.
Cubans were literally starving and caloric intake is estimate to have been reduced by 38% in the period you are talking about before food imports resurged. [0]

Another great example case, thank you for pointing that out.

0: https://s3.amazonaws.com/oxfam-us/static/oa4/OA-CubaGoingAga...
A lot of things don’t require 100% accuracy, and raging against the worlds outdated practices doesn’t solve problems faced in the immediate present - and after spending 30 years of my career rating at those practices to absolutely no meaningful effect, a more effective bandaid that has a semantic understanding of the content is probably as good as you get. And GPU cycles are meant to be wasted.
I guess the question I'm really trying to get at is "What is the worst that hypothetical Usk can do?"

I think I have a handle on it for Mastodon; the answer is "not much" or it's going to be pretty hard. While the deeply decentralized nature of Mastodon makes it harder to find a good "feed," it strongly protects against this; he'd literally have to seek out the individual instances and start trying to control them, one by one.

But it looks like Bluesky is closer to Twitter (I ain't callin' it X, idgaf) than Mastodon for purposes of what matters to a bad actor. Instances dropping off the map doesn't matter if you have a hand on the control of the relatively centralized recommendation algorithm?
GAS: Gear Acquisition Syndrome, at least photographers call it that.

Not to be confused with collecting, which has no notions of taling better pictures and is purely concerned with acquiring things for the sake of having it. GAS always has this underlying assumption of being a better photographer if only the gear was better, as in the latest and highest priced.
> a foole and his money is soone parted — JB

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Bridges_(bishop)#Quotes
What?

Edit: Microsoft insecure maybe. When/why would it ever sell out to China when there’s way more money to be made from US aligned countries?
You may want to do some "AND NOT" matching on the description, e.g.
https://www.ebay.com/itm/235440904571 which has "title_cleaned": "MSI RTX 3070 Ti Ventus 3X 8G OC" but the description is "MSI RTX 3070 Ti VENTUS 3X 8G OC Graphics Card Support Bracket"

And, up to you, but doing money math with floats is a well known road-to-ruin: "price_with_shipping": 18.990000000000002,
Generative AI can accelerate study time, research shows
It really just depends on your local distribution hubs. My semi rural address regularly gets serviced by two different FedEx hubs, if I see it go to X hub I'll get it that day, but if it goes to Y hub it'll most likely be late.
https://amp.theguardian.com/money/2023/oct/23/bookingcom-cus...
> > I had an electrician run two 20A Dual Function (AFCI+GFCI) circuits

> Don't do this. This is a terrible idea if you intend to run a UPS.

Can you please elaborate why someone shouldn't do that? (not who you responded to, I'm just curious about the reasoning behind that statement)
It's particularly bad when they stop telling you what clock speeds are achievable with more than one core active. At best these days you get a "base clock" spec that's very slow that doesn't correspond to any operating mode that occurs in real life. You used to get a table of x GHz for y active cores, but then the core counts got too large and the limits got fuzzier.

And laptops have another layer of bullshit, because the theoretical boost clocks the chip is capable of will in practice be limited by the power delivery and cooling provided by that specific machine, and the OEMs never tell you what those limits are. So they'll happily take an extra $200 for another 100MHz that you'll never see for more than a few milliseconds while a different model with a slower-on-paper CPU with better cooling can easily be more than 20% faster.
I didn't downvote you but if I was to guess. It's not clear what your idea is. A bad government will be bad, period. Surveillance or none. The solution is not therefore zero government.

I don't think people from 1984 would be shocked at all. In fact I think the further you go back, the more surveillance. Or at least in thinking about "small towns" where everyone watches everyone else and the police know everyone in the town, people accepted that everyone knew what you were up to.

As another person mentioned, people need be safe from crime. Crime has victims and those victims suffer. If your car is stolen you can't get to work and you have to replace the car. If a traffic violator crashes into you again, you can't get to work, and you have to replace your car, and you have to pay medical bills to recover, and you might be dead. Even the non-victims suffer indirectly from higher prices (to cover the crime) and higher insurance (to cover the crime).

There's a balance and right now, at least in SF and LA, it seems to have shifted to "unsafe". Some amount of surveillance seems like a possible solution. As a first step, I think I'd like people to be able to send in video of infractions and have them prosecuted.
Wow. What would you use?

We had a bunch of Cyberpowers and they were absolutely crap. The failed at a high rate and had terrible software.
Decompression failure immediately went to a far grimmer failure mode in my mind..
It generates money for the contractor.