skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hoping this is shortsighted.

It's an interesting & valuable comparison: low bandwidth low latency PCIe serdes vs high band high latency Ethernet-like serdes.

But I'm not sure I'm on board with the half-conclusion we get from this half-paywalled analysis. AI is seemingly insatiable sure & there's a relentless push to higher bandwidth, yes. NVLink seems to be kicking ass & PCIe is super struggling to keep any kind of pace absolutely, but it still seems wild to me to write off CXL at such an early stage

CXL has some really real things going for it. It's lower level than PCIe and reuses the same serdes that many systems already have, so it's a natural low cost extension of what we already have, for little intrinsic cost. There's 512GBps of PCIe on a modern Epyc (128 lanes of PCIe 5.0); the proposal of CXL is that simplifying the protocol can let us do more with those links easily. GPUs could use more efficienct protocols to talk to the cpu, with better coherency, that might let cpu and main memory work much better in tandem; not unified memory but no longer so very far apart memories. Large memory or storage pools that nodes can attach to on demand offers some interesting capabilities to disaggregate storage, which mirrors the huge success we've seen with modern disaggregated databases being able to do successfully scale.

CXL 3.1 also introduces host to host capabilities. This makes CXL a potential competitor to Ethernet at some levels of scale. Ethernet is getting around to 1.6Tbps/200GBps but via enormous nics and switches. For sure the CXL switches will also be huge but there's no nic. Imagine a Epyc with PCIe 6.0 speed (8Gbps/1TBps) or 7.0 (2TBps) that doesn't need a nic to talk to fabric, that has much much lower latency than Ethernet, that is an rdma beast. It's insufficient as a full speed AI fabric that can satisfy AI needs, but its a huge speed bump, built right into the core. It's hard for me to reject our ability to find good uses for this in the future, just because it's now how AI works today.

The article very briefly mentions Infinity Fabric XGMI, which is what AMD is floating as what they'll use to compete with NVLink. The article talks about this like it's the future, like it's what will crush CXL. But the same PCIe switch chips that run Infinity Fabric XGMI will also run CXL. Maybe perhaps CXL goes nowhere, IF-XGMI rises, but I tend to think there'll be more sympathetic growth & development among these standards. https://www.servethehome.com/next-gen-broadcom-pcie-switches...
A long time in fact. But macOS 14.3 kernel paniced on me last week.
> So, to say, I usually pick Quality and Velocity.

Velocity is what you choose when you have a runway. The most successful open source projects like Emacs and GNU Make have been sitting around for about 40 years now, being slowly and steadily maintained by their owners. I've been working on a C library of my own for the past 6 years and it's only started to gain traction in recent months. If I was doing it as a startup my project would have been laid to rest in a charnel house long ago. But since it's open source, the only thing it's really cost me is time.
If one cares about accessibility of a website to people with much slower devices, particularly living in less developed parts of the world, I guess there are more considerations:

- using more clear English with simple sentence structures should make the content more accessible to people who don’t read English with the fluency of an educated American

- reducing the number of requests required to load a page as latency may be high (and latency to the nearest e.g. cloudflare edge node may still be high)
Code _is_ the description of the behavior. Turns out describing behavior is really hard. If you cover all the cases, it’s not that far from code. Furthermore, the data structures are a huge decision space which depends on context that is hard to communicate.
Any licensed content would have to be separately licensed for streaming online.
No it doesn’t, absolutely not. It’s ironic that you say this after the post you’re commenting on spells out quite explicitly why things “in base” are hard to change and adapt.
Virtually all pharmaceutical advertising is targeted at prescribers, yet we all have to watch/view them.
Wikipedia page about swvl is fascinating: the backstories of the people behind look like something written by themselves or by their marketing department (never corrected to neutral point of view).

Then we learn that some spwcial purpose vehicle purchased it and stsrted layoffs nearly immediately? Purchase at last day of march and layoffs in may?

How was the due dilligence made? Were those people not needed?

99% loss of value too
Large South Korean Companies Withdrawing from China
Its worth trying out different browsers. In my experience Chromium based browsers are a bit faster than Firefox on really low end devices (Pinephone, ...) as long as you have enough ram (>1Gb?).

E.g. On the OG Pinephone a 720p video on Youtube is running smoothly in Chromium, but not Firefox.
Your chances of getting promoted are limited anyway. Bank on the life promotion that you already have over the imaginary work promotion that you might be missing or on. If you are creating value worth promoting, then Dell will lose you to a competitor. It’s their loss.
Yeah, there is a particularly sour taste to this case, even if it is legally sound - given how utterly broken and opaque Youtube's DMCA takedown process is, and how Bungie have themselves taken advantage of it.

It feels a lot like Bungie understands how vulnerable their reputation is already on this point, and is acting a bit out of desperation to try and scare anyone off of any further acts of protest, rather than a more legitimate defense of their IP.
Why couldn't the fuzzer be used to discover the bug in the popular browsers?
Morels are pretty safe to forage for. You just have to do your 5 minutes of studying so you know that they must be well cooked before eating.
>Shareholder profit.

This is a tired trope. They have a clear interest in user privacy, as evidenced by their actions. You're either just trolling or being intentionally ignorant to the state of the market if you're claiming their only focus is "shareholder profit". Apple isn't Boeing.

>Must be true then. Definitely not marketing.

I mean, there are countless examples. From the default encryption in messages, to the ability to double encrypt icloud backups, to a literal lockdown mode in IOS to protect against nation state actors.

https://support.apple.com/en-us/105120

>Nothing you've said suggests any different of Apple.

You've provided absolutely nothing of substance beyond a link where Apple literally states they have hard requirements around user privacy for any advertising partners.

I'm done engaging in the conversation unless you've got something of substance to provide. The low effort one liners don't really have a place on HN.
In the late 90s I worked for a vendor of CRM software. A fair bit of billing and payment-handling code was written in COBOL. Wasn't mainframe - ran on a couple of flavours of proprietary Unix. The COBOL compiler vendor was Microfocus.

I didn't have any training in COBOL, but found it pretty easy to read and understand - at least for the fairly simple business logic in a billing system. I didn#t have to write anything - just do some debugging when it didn't output as expected. Wouldn't want to do anything too mathsy or heavy string processing with it, but it seemed a good fit for the application.

I did some more work for the same company later. A descendent of that software is still running today. At some point between 2000 and the late 20-teens they migrated to Linux, and I think at that point used some sort of COBOL-to-C transliteration software, and the Microfocus compiler was jettisoned. Not sure if the decision was because Microfocus was very expensive (I have heard that, but have no personal experience of it), or just didn't support Linux at that time.

That transliterated code is still running today, but a bit of a nightmare to maintain. If GNU Cobol has been mature enough whenever that migration happened, I suspect it would have been a much better approach than transliteration. Too late for that code base though.
Yep, Linux will make mid hardware punch well above its weight class so for the right person the value/$ ratio is unbeatable. But if the highest value at any price within reason is your goal then Apple is the go-to.

Which is typically why your employer who could not give a shit about a $4k expense every five years for an employee costing them a quarter mil annually in total comp opts for them.
This article is basically unreadable for me 48 y/o on desktop). In the dev tools I added the following to the body to make it readable:

font-size: 18px;
line-height: 1.5em;
max-width: 38rem;

Now look how readable (and beautiful) it is. I read a lot of Dan Luu's posts, and each time I have to do this sort of thing to make it readable.

Seriously, techies, it's an extra 64 Bytes to make your page more readable.
> It is common for teams at Dell to be spread around the US and even other countries, according to BI's senior source at Dell, who works across the organization and has access to employee data.

> "Every team has people in at least two states, some in three or four. I can't think of one team where everyone is in one location," the person said.

> That means that even if commuting distances are feasible, many won't be able to collaborate face-to-face with their teams in the same office.

> Another Dell worker told BI: "I would support that if I actually had team members that were local and would actually go on-site. With us being so spread out around the United States, there's really no point in us going in. I'm going to be in a room with a bunch of people who don't know how to do my job or how to help me."

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This is where Dell's actions become completely unjustifiable to me.

I am a strong believer in the power of working in-person. Before the pandemic, I worked at a company of around 20 employees. After the pandemic, we went "hybrid". This setup was more convenient for sure, but it wasn't the same as occupying the same space every day.

But that's just it—before the pandemic, we were in the same space!

Once you split a team across different locations, that team will be working remotely regardless of whether employees are at home or in some satellite office. Everyone is still logging in to Zoom meetings and communicating primarily via Slack.

I think it's totally reasonable for Dell to prioritize in-person work, but they cannot do this by definition until teams are grouped according to geographic location. This is probably extremely difficult to do retroactively.
WP core isn’t bad, the problem is when you’re the ops guy and you get handed an installation with 30 plugins.

Anyway, WP was just an example. Are you 100% certain that all your software is 100% on the ball when it comes to modern security practices? We all know that not everyone takes security seriously.

> Every time they have issues, huge parts of the Internet are affected. If I wanted a WAF, I'd get it from elsewhere.

Which ‘elsewhere’ would you suggest? Every time AWS, Azure or GCP have issues, the internet is affected too.
The web doesn't scale like desktops - not even close.

Furthermore - this philosophy has made Windows worse and less responsive in all cases.

I understand that this "pays the bills" but my charge is (currently) to make things faster so I am against slowness.
I didn't mean to put you on the defensive. I used the word "perceive" in response to your comment, and only used "see" for the description of my personal observations.

I didn't downvote it, but I wasn't sure I understood your first comment. Others might have also been confused.

Anyway, it's all fascinating to me. I am inadequately schooled to know what is a novel observation, but when I hear experts talk the common theme is how little we really understand about the brain. Obviously, my "little" and their "little" are very different things.
> just not an OS engineer.

Or not just an engineer
Control Vectors have been added to llama.cpp
The goal isn't to enforce a certain query plan. The goal is to execute queries efficiently.

The planner/optimizer is good at its job. In general, better than I am. If I can inform it about a particular shape of data, all queries around that data will improve. If I tell it exactly how to execute one query, only that query improves.

Additionally, setting statistics to 10000 is really easy. Easier than tweaking a query. Creating custom statistics is more work and may or may not be worth exploring as a quick fix. But if you know the data is shaped irregularly, why wouldn't you make sure the planner knows about it?
My understanding is that cold starts on containerized Lambdas is actually better than non-containerized for some workloads, because using containers allows Lambda to do better caching of the code, as well as lazy-loading. YMMV of course based on exactly what image you use (eg if you're not using a common base, like Ubuntu or Amazon Linux, you won't get as much benefit from the caching) and how much custom code you have (like hundreds of MBs worth).

There's a very interesting blog post about it here, as well an an accompanying whitepaper: https://brooker.co.za/blog/2023/05/23/snapshot-loading.html
I must be spending too much time on HN. I recognize this exact comment from a month ago.
Yeah at this point vercel and AWS and basically everyone support serverless docker. It's probably dumb to do anything else.
From what I’ve seen, on lettering SD3 > Stable Cascade > SDXL (SD1.x and SD2.x aren't even worth considering), but none do it great consistently.
Is YT so impoverished they can't manage some sort of negotiation mechanism that includes x264 and makes it work?
Not GP. Context length for chatGPT enterprise is 128k tokens. By pasting the repo tree and readme file and maybe a couple entry points you can get help from ChatGPT to find out what parts of the codebase are more useful to you, or you can simply paste a lot of it and ask questions.
Simple is fine, I just want (A) dark mode and (B) the downvote button to not be so close to the upvote button.

Having as much text loaded at once is important, because it means I can do a browser text search for anyone already discussing something.
This has been available for a long time. I believe the paid plans are aimed at supporting documentation for private repositories, and private enterprise codebases. It's part of the long-term sustainability plan for supporting high-quality documentation for open projects.

The pricing page dates all the way back to at least 2015: https://web.archive.org/web/20150706045846/https://readthedo...

The archive version states that it's free for open projects, and that statement is still there today. I think most people just end up on rtd pages for specific projects, and never see the rtd home page (or pricing page).
How exactly would you outlaw this?

I am currently an elementary school teacher. I am not allowed to work remotely, and this is as it should be.

How do you determine, by law, which jobs can legally require people to work on-site, and which cannot?
> A key requirement is the AGI will need the autonomy

no, a key requirement for AGI is to change the definition such that impressive and non-responsive entities can claim to be it right now.

source: US State Department Gladstone Report 2024
I've got an old Roku box that has started rebooting after a few minutes of playing youtube videos.

In your case, maybe pulling the video with yt-dlp then playing it works...
Highly Gamed === It is better if users with slow devices see a white screen for 30 seconds vs an indication that something is happening, because ... reasons?
HPV vaccine is exactly the type of vaccines that made me extremely skeptical of big pharma, well before the pandemic. For the record, both my kids are fully vaccinated with every non-optional vaccine, including the first shots of COVID vaccine. I now regret getting the COVID vaccine for them and feel very guilty about it.

When my children were infants, the doctors and nurses were pushing this HPV vaccine, saying it was safe. I questioned why infants should get vaccinated for a sexually transmitted virus including boys who can't get cervical cancer, and the response was that it was the moral thing to do. It sounded like nonsense to me, and I said if they get the vaccine, it will be after they enter puberty.

After a bit more investigation, it turned out that the chances of my daughter developing any type of problem from HPV infection was exceedingly low, and the chance of getting cervical cancer was even lower than that. So the idea that EVERY SINGLE CHILD in the US should get HPV vaccine smelled like big pharma trying to make billions by getting it added to the vaccine schedule.

Big pharma greed plus the laws protecting them from any lawsuits makes vaccines the perfect breeding ground for useless but potentially harmful vaccines pushed on hundreds of millions of people. The COVID vaccine post Omicron is another perfect example of this. This article just foments my opposition to anything new because big pharma is fundamentally untrustworthy and big pharma greed has done a huge disservice to the world because people are less and less apt to trust any new medications now.
When i first moved to where i live now DSL had a waitlist, so i tried both a verizon hotspot (myfi!) and dialup. Dialup with HTML gmail (for slow connections!) took minutes to load. IRC was completely usable, but hangouts was not. danluu's website would have loaded just fine, as an example. I just remembered that after getting DSL if more than one person decided to watch a youtube video the pings went up in the 1000ms range.
This sounds like one of those TED talk sociology experiments that in the fullness of time will fail to be replicated. It's a cool idea though.
It’s pretty terrible on my phone too. Almost no margins and small font. Thankfully Reader Mode works in Safari, which fixes everything.
I agree that they should add some minimal CSS. But using your browser's Reader View also works, a click rather than multiple steps in DevTools.
I just bought a MacBook Pro with the M3 Max chip and installed MATLAB R2023b. Sonoma 14.3 is in place. As a requirement, I had to also install Corretto 8. MathWorks only supports the Java 8 JRE included with Amazon Corretto 8. I am already having several problems in MATLAB with his new setup. Can I assume that updating to Sonoma 14.4 might very well cause even more problems? I really don't understand any of this.
Not even iframes, by my memory it was regular frames (rip).

One frame at the top with a banner ad and then your site below it.
These have been pain points for me. Not saying they're impossible to solve on Linux, but it's nontrivial especially compared to Windows

Change trackpad scrolling speed

Set up suspend-then-hibernate

GPU drivers (I have a box with an AMD APU and no idea how to actually utilize it)

Many games (Proton is amazing and a huge leap forward, but om average it's still more work than gaming on Windows. eg fiddling with different versions of Proton or finding out that a game's anti cheat will ban you for using Linux)

Higher res video streaming (I think this is usually a DRM issue?)

Full disclosure: I'm posting this list because I'm hoping that someone will tell me I'm wrong and that Gnome actually has an easy way to set the trackpad scroll speed
It is also a problem, if people use my code for their stuff - and run into problems, that I for whatever reasons won't fix in time. But not my problem. Unless I make it mine.
Idk which project you’re talking about but thank you again for your work on the various APE, Redbean, etc!
what has Michael Seibel done?
platformio
>Randomness is certainly an option

Were would that randomness come from? Which would be the source of that in the universe, for it to occur in the mind?

If you mean pseudo-randomness, sure, LLMs employ that too.

>Ignoring information is an option.

Randomly ignoring information? If so, see above. If you mean intended informed ignoring of information, that's still determined on all the previous inputs.
https://archive.is/QCyVw
Most people auto update their software or they don’t at all. What they don’t do is buy a brand new laptop as soon as it’s out. And the one they have is a cheap one from HP or Dell. To know their pain, try to use one of these.
Do you have any idea of the layers of tooling you must use these days to produce those 64 bytes, and how each of those layers change and remove was was fed from all the other layers? To get exactly those bytes out the other end of the tools would be a herculean effort.

Because we can’t just go around trying to understand basic web-based development without the frameworks … can we?
I may have seen that as well -- is it vaguely like the visual noise you see when coming out of anaesthesia or after having passed out?

I've always assumed it is caused by ~"static in the visual cortex", while your interpreter "syncs up" / "tunes in" to the usual signal.

I'm sure that's another tortured computation/communication analogy, but it's all I got.
Interesting, .xyz was by far higher on my list of disreputable spam domains.

I'd be happy with that one shut down too.
That might be more on the browser that you’re using. It might be saying “yes I can play this format” to a format it can barely play.
With data analysis enabled, I’ve seen it try to use pytesseract to do OCR when you ask it to extract text from an image. (I’ve seen it fail with a timeout trying that on an image that it worked almost instantly on with a similar approach on my laptop.)
The number of luxury condos in big cities has always confused me. I guess the market is dual-income couples with high salaries? Even coming from the software world, I wonder what these people do. Finance?
I’m very fortunate to have had Michael as a partner during YC and can’t say enough good about him.

Great guy who really seems to care and wants to give back.
Vertical Deflection
Sonoma became generally available September 26, 2023.
Edibles have been a godsend to me. Have you guys tried them?
That puts you even farther away from the missile than launching from Earth. ICBMs go up to ~400km, GEO is ~35000km high. Clearing ~34500km in the required ~1-2 minutes would require the interceptor to travel much faster than the fastest things ever launched by humanity.
You just reminded me that in the mid-90s I took a TCP/IP workshop where the other attendees worked on mainframes. The chasm between what I was familiar with and what they were was impressively wide.
Probably. I remember when YouTube switched to H.264 (it might have been some Flash-based video before that). I had an older Mac mini hooked up to my TV at the time and suddenly video framerates dropped to an unwatchable level because they saved their bandwidth (and mine but I didn't have to care about my Internet service was not metered) at the expense of client-side processing.
Apple fan, but also Apple TV (the hardware device) and Apple TV+ (the streaming service).
Targeting a foreign culture with different regulations is always gonna have problems. Easier to do it once your product is built out and proven.
> This activity will deny you "the five 9s," i.e., 99.999% availability in uptime.

Which is something 99% of personal computers don’t care about even slightly. These days restarting your machine is a very inconsequential event, your browser can effortlessly reopen all the tabs you had active, macOS will even reopen all the windows for your native apps.

I don’t mean to defend Windows Update, I just think “you have to restart your computer!” is not a particularly good reason to damn it.
Our power problems today are far away from the theoretical limits you described.

But reversible computing is inevitable in quantum computers, so it's researched in that context.
Cool, realtime fuzzing of atsc 1.0 hardware that is long since supported.
Gatekeeping/exclusivity is part of the play. Strategic self-anticonformity.
"The Martyr" by Poul Anderson