skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sure, CUDA has a lot of highly optimized utilities baked-in (CUDNN and the likes) and maybe more importantly, implementors have a lot of experience with it but afaict everyone is working on their own HAL/compiler and not using CUDA directly to implement the actual models. It's part of the HAL/framework. You can probably port any of these frameworks to a new hardware platform with a few man-years worth of work imo if you can spare the manpower.

I think nobody had the time to port any of these architectures away from CUDA because:
* the leaders want to maintain their lead and everyone needs to catch up asap so no time to waste,
* and progress was _super_ fast so doubly no time to waste,
* there was/is plenty of money that buys some perceived value in maintaining the lead or catching up.

But imo:
1. progress has slowed a bit, maybe there's time to explore alternatives,
2. nvidia GPUs are pretty hard to come by, switching vendors may actually be a competitive advantage (if performance/price pans out and you can actually buy the hardware now as opposed to later).

In terms of ML "compilers"/frameworks, afaik there's:

* Google JAX/Tensorflow XLA/MLIR,
* OpenAI Triton,
* Meta Glow,
* Apple PyTorch+Metal fork.
What can't you run? Unquantised large text models are the only thing I can't run

Stable diffusion, stable video, text models, audio models, I never had issues with anything yet
Therefore, what is the main usecase of this model? Generating cheap 3D assets for videogames?
This is a follow-up to this ShowHN from December: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38669781

We've just released version 0.2 of NowDo, including a variety of new features, many of which were suggested by HN users:

* Batch task management: Select and modify multiple tasks simultaneously.

* Task status colors: Use color coding to quickly identify the status of your tasks.

* Time tracking: Record the time when tasks are marked as Done.

* Task sorting: Organize your tasks efficiently by sorting them in various columns.

* Quick task deletion: Easily remove all completed tasks with a single click.

* Shortcut customization: Tailor keyboard shortcuts to fit your workflow.

The next version of NowDo will do everything the current version does for free, but will add additional features like cloud storage integration for a reasonable one-time purchase (no subscription!).

Happy to answer any questions!
I mean, we had this stuff for pets for a long time. The basic idea is that yes, it's a lipid-soluble neurotoxin. Because it is fat-soluble, it spreads throughout various tissues and lingers for a good while, which is these pet formulations last for weeks or months.

And yes, it is technically a mammal neurotoxin too, although our bodies are better at compartmentalizing and managing the risk. Similarly, you don't drop dead if exposed to caffeine or nicotine, even though they are insect neurotoxins produced by plants to kill bugs.

But it cracks me up that we are flipping out about herbicides such as glyphosate or 2,5-D - both of which are plant growth regulators that have no real mechanism to cause obvious harm in animals - but we're a lot more flippant with actual animal neurotoxins such as permethrin.
Star Trek: Phase II
They still have to announce you can send an email through their platform.
That's the sanitized on-the-surface naive explanation of why China wants to control the social media (and search) landscape. The 'laws' you refer to are that Google was required to take down things that were unfavorable towards the Chinese government. So quite obviously the Chinese government simply doesn't want to be undermined by foreign entities, right?

This isn't too far from the US governments motivation to not have it's political power undermined by a foreign entity, and the propaganda situation is different between a democracy and an autocracy. It's politically impossible (and would be inconsistent) to ask specifically TikTok to remove all political content that could either bolster support from one party, or detract from another, as the US has the tenet of free speech enshrined in constitution. But instead of making up some nonsense law that social media companies must yield to coarse-grained censorship by the government, the US are at least being honest about their intentions.
Political will doesn't directly equal majority vote, for better or worse. There are factions within an electorate that matter that can imbalance even with a small contingent of the population changing their support. A guy's district has 5% who work at some steel mill for example, and he wins elections with 52%, and those steel workers support him. He might not be able to do something that all his supporters would want that they wouldn't, or to do it he might have to do things to win over another contingent to ensure his reelection. Also he needs patronage from businesses to fund his reelection, he has to think about that too. So political will is quite a bit more complex than just more than half of people wanting it. Objectives that people want have to align and not interfere with each other.
Brazil probes Chinese dumping as cheap goods flood global markets
> What makes you think it would matter if you had cash, when the payment systems go down?

Because then you pay cash, to state the obvious.

Even here in silicon valley the local convenience stores every so often have a sign that they're only taking cash today because their network/computer/payment-processor is down right now.

No big deal, pay cash.
I'm interested to see this as well. I know some who do Patreon and crypto, but none are just crypto.
The real difference is in the possible optimizations. If you consider the full scope of JIT compilation in for instance a web browser or the JVM, you could use copy and patch as a tier 0 compiler, and once really hot paths are identified, trigger a complete compiler with all the optimizer steps. Some optimizations are more complicated to implement with copy-patch, esp. if you can't use all the tricks described in the paper (for instance they use the ghccc calling convention to get a much finer register allocation, but from the documentation I don't think it's going to make it for PostgreSQL).

But as you say, yes, this enables people capable of writing C and reading assembly (or you have to be perfect and never have to go into gdb on your compiled code), and it makes the job so much faster and easier... Writing several machine code emitters is painful, and having the required optimization strategies for each ISA is quickly out of reach.
> asbestos containing fiber-cement board from some time in the 70s where evidently they just tossed it all into a section of retained wall and buried it

I wonder if they did this out of habit or because regulations made it difficult to dispose of otherwise?
I grew up in an area with pervasive cattle ticks. I've pulled them off of myself, and pulled thousands from our dogs. My father claims to have once seen a lizard with a tick on its eyeball.

Our solution was a bit of sulfur powder in the dog's food, and around the edges of the verandah, which was a home remedy suggested by the grey beards in the area. We never had any problems after that.
Ask HN: How to decide what's the best career to pursue?
Is there any proven methodologies to determine what’s the best career to pursue given my interests?
Fairchild Semiconductor
It's not just via the GUI. I have a script (which uses their API and SDK) that I run every month to delete the next batch until it runs into the deletion limit and a calendar reminder every month to run the next batch.

AWS limits are weird both up and down.
or midi, and god forbid exploit some bug in a local only 30yr old sound driver
Maybe they need to fork a version of C++ that doesn't have all the dangerous features and forces developers to write only safe C++. It could be called C++--.
I design chips in similar technologies. What these binned parts are fast-fast parts, meaning both PMOS and NMOS transistors have lower threshold voltage than typical due to stochastic process od production or intentional skewing of the process during fabrication. You can run them at faster clock speeds. If you stack higher voltage on top you can run quite a bit faster. For a while.. The transistors age. Aging is an exponential function of voltage level and temperature, and lunear function of clock frequency. With aging the device threshold voltages increase rapidly, so the devices get slower. On top of this there is electromigration (EM). With EM the interconnect resistance increases. These effects combined, you have a horrible product lifetime at those cobditions. After failung to work at 5-6 GHz at 1.4V, it would most likely still work at a lower clock frequecy, because in essence it becomes a slower chip.

Now the answer your question: A fast binned part operating at nominal conditions will perform exactly the same as the same sdries typical chip. The power consumption would be like 10% or so higher due to higher dynamic power and leakage. The lifetime would be muuuch more longer than a typical device though. So, in short, wouldn't be outperforming anything.
The AI hype articles and people subsequently hyping up how good ${thing} will eventually be are, themselves, starting to feel like a type of grey sludge, like a more potent form of semantic satiation which washes over the entire brain.

I just can't get enough of that grey, training-data flavoured content. In years to come many of the top creators of this type of content will be creating content with this. This will democratise creation of this type of content for amateur content creators who will be creating wholly unique pieces of this content in seconds. How many years until we see a larger, personalised piece of this content created with this content generator in the place where people consume larger pieces of this content? Maybe this is actually how our brains work? But what _is_ intelligence? Made you think. Sure, it sucks now, but zero to one to infinity is how things work, it's going to be amazing. The letters are starting to blur together. Please invest.
For it to happen just means 3 days without power/internet. 100% certainty.
I don't necessarily have a problem with technologies like these, but it irks me that they're all being enabled without proper security prompts. Accessing GPUs/USB devices/MIDI devices should come with the same security boundaries downloading executables comes with, at least until sandboxes catch up.

WebUSB is pretty great when it's used for the right things (updating the Google Stadia controller, flashing ESPHome, that sort of thing) so I sort of see the value in that, but the risks of these technologies are being ignored, especially on the GPU side. GPUs are absolutely terrible at separating application code because they're designed for performance above all else.

Is a security warning for this stuff really that much to ask? Surely, clicking OK on the two or three websites that actually have a use case for WebGPU should be an acceptable trade-off?
I tried it and failed. I managed to convince most of the people I care about to install Signal, but not all. Also, where I live it's used for many day to day things like bookings.

What I have ended up doing is bridging WhatsApp to Matrix, and I only interact with the WhatsApp network through my Matrix client (schildi chat).

I'd love to properly leave WhatsApp, as I think giving a for profit company the monopoly of all our non-in-person communications, which is what has happened in my country, can only bring bad things to society. But for now, it stays mission impossible.

I hope the DMA can at least give me the ability to interact with businesses from outside WhatsApp
Tbh, Ubuntu’s only pull is the support and breadth of users. As a desktop, it’s let down by Unity, which IMHO is basically a port of Windows 8 tablet UI.

If they defaulted back to a menu and taskbar-based WM, it might actually be more approachable to users who are more familiar with macOS and Windows.
Yes. You install and run postgres.
My dad would do anything, with confidence.

This is the one thing he wouldn't touch.

Me too.
Death rate is just one measure for safety, there are also other ways of harm like evacuation.

Another way risks of nuclear are underestimated are compound effects over long durations. A million years and a thousand years are easily grouped together under very long, but at a incidence of once per thousand years it's the difference between 1 and 1000.
We're all sorry for the other guy when he loses his job to a machine. When it comes to your job, that's different. And it always will be different.

That was 1968. Plus ca change...
> In the US, the federal government provides a massive subsidy in the form of free insurance

While I'm no fan of this act on general principles and would be fine with seeing it repealed, to call it a "massive subsidy" ignores the fact that, as the Wikipedia article you link to notes, the secondary insurance provided under it has never been used. Every claim has been within the amount of primary insurance coverage, which is bought on the open insurance market at normal rates. This is strong evidence that nuclear power is in fact an ordinary insurable risk and the government does not need to take measures like this act.
A lot of the worry about glyphosate is about its effect on microbes in the human gut.
It's probably overkill. The other way of looking at it is that if you put all that content in the visible text, does the page still read correctly? If the image is only used to convey the word "Github", then that's probably all your alt tag needs to be.

The best way to figure it out is to use the screen reader in your operating system. It's hard to judge usability without actually using it.

Aria-label, and the rest of the HTML (like just the text content, or label attributes, etc) all build up the accessibility tree which is what screen readers read out. All browser dev tools should have a way to view this. If putting a <title> inside an SVG doesn't result in that showing up in the accessibility tree, it's next to useless.
Yes. But it is still promising. Things are getting incrementally better.

(I dream of the day when this can be used to automatically create paper-craft templates.)
> then you generate novel stuff

There's a lot you're glossing over here. That's the part that AI simply can't do.
Is the site showing as a bunch of JSON for anyone else?
the counter?
Spent brewer's yeast as a biosorbent for metal recovery from polymetallic waste
Anyone got a can of liquid death and some drain cleaner who wants to prove this?
He kept it legal.
https://apnews.com/article/ea3d87fb8ef741c3bc255f1921892c9d
Personally, I want a processor agnostic platform.

I don't want to invest in one processor only to find out later that I needed USB2.0 instead of USB1.1, and then needing to read 500 pages of datasheets to move to a different platform.

Reading datasheets was nice at one point, but now it feels more like filling out tax forms.
This is the type of thing Uber used to get involved in:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8622403
How is building a dataset easier than using a prebuilt dataset?
Fraud is a very specific thing.

Namely it requires payment under false pretense
You might have heard of this thing called "responsive web design," (RWD) it's pretty popular. RWD is all about it not being better to make two websites (in that case, "mobile" vs. "desktop") instead of one.
On swaying culture in any meaningful way: I thankfully learned that lesson early. It's one of the reasons I'm grateful for having worked here. As someone building a product on the side, it's been very useful to see how much influence executives can have on the business' culture. I've spent a fair amount of time reflecting on the problems my own personality might cause.
> Because current electronic money are too centralized and gated.

Electronic payments are by definition centralized and gated, because someone has to operate them. That someone(s) is the gate.

(Sure, blockchain.. I don't see that happening.)
Said no epidemiologist ever.
Yeah, I think what it comes down to is AI can be another tool in the artist's toolbox to create novelty, but by itself it is incapable of doing so.
Yearly added renewable generation (not capacity, but actual generation) is already much larger than added nuclear power ever was.
I’m a programmer but appreciate CircuitPython. I used the KB2040 to build two bespoke mini keyboards. It took just a few dozen lines of Python. Couldn’t be happier with it.
This seems true as far as incentives go. But how much of that cost driver will be due to efficiencies driven by companies like NVIDIA? They seem well poised to benefit from a lot of the increased (non-hype) use of AI. Seems like we spent a decade or more of stalled CPU performance gains chasing better energy efficiency in the data center, same story could play out here.
The question is whether this actually "creates a 3d model based on the picture",
or if it "finds an existing model that looks similar to the picture and texture map it".
What about sound types? And I think having dynamically sized arrays in the language rather than standard library is an improvement in general because it removes extra cognitive load. Same for "print()." It just makes the language easier to write. The same way we never really need to pass functions as arguments because we can always pass an object that is guaranteed to have that function defined for it via interfaces. This is what is generally done in Java and it is awful.
Oh that's a nice one. I think you are on to something that if you want to go beyond push button output you really need to think holistically about what you want to achieve.

My experiments taught me that it is an instrument that is easy to approach but hard to master right now at least.

It's kind of weird because you have to play it through writing text, which is super strange.

Everything I have done previously has been very in the moment with keyboards or guitars or whatever. With this I had to put a lot more thought in ahead of time, and try to put myself in the position of the generator and how it might take my prompts and convert them.

There is certainly quite some thinking that has to go on. How to describe the sound you are looking for is a little bit unusual.

I am finding it quite fascinating anyway, and I really believe it can be tasteful if done right and as the tools improve.

As far as covering specific artists, it isn't something I am attempting, it's more about the feel for me. I imagine people who do that have their own tricks and techniques.

As far as I know, Suno blocks any mention of specific artists. Probably you can jailbreak it, but I don't know about that.
I wish people could understand that creatives actually enjoy the process. Artists enjoy creating art. Writers enjoy writing. Having a computer rewrite your sentences for you reduces the art of writing to a merely mechanical process, which is not only dehumanizing but which strips the work of the author's unique signature and tone. You could train an LLM on everything Stephen King ever wrote, but the end result is only ever going to come across as a parody of what he's already written.

Yes, it's more efficient, and more productive, but not every job is like software where the only relevant measure of quality is how quickly you can get a minimum viable product to market. Some things are worth the effort and craft.
Very similar to the experience recounted by this engineer YouTuber[1], who is partly known for modifying his iPhone to add a headphone jack[2]. It's incredible the harmful effect that incorrect medical treatment can have.
[1]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gs790JOeN3Y
[2]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=utfbE3_uAMA
> However, it seems clear that DARPA, which has an annual budget of $4 billion, is seriously interested in lunar commercial activity. The areas of interest cited above are all important precursors for a sustained presence on the Moon. So if US companies can step forward with innovative solutions to these technical problems, federal dollars would likely become available, and we might really take some meaningful steps toward developing the Moon.

the areas were

- Centralized heating and cooling:

- Lunar prospecting.

- Silicon wafer manufacturing

- Microbial biomanufacturing.

- Low-gravity resource extraction.

- A lunar GPS system
Is there no native support for M1-M3 Macs currently, and no Windows support either?

Unclear what the roadmap is there, as this update from the most active contributor is inconclusive:

> Windows support has been omitted for now. And for macOS currently on supports x86_64 as Apple invented their own calling convention for arm64 for which variadic functions can’t easily be implemented as hack. If you are using an M1 processor, you could try installing the x86_64 version of rustc and then using Rosetta 2. Rosetta 2 will hurt performance though, so you will need to try if it is faster than the LLVM backend with arm64 rustc.

Source is from Oct 2023 so this could easily be outdated, but I found nothing in the original article: https://bjorn3.github.io/2023/10/31/progress-report-oct-2023...
imho, lack of hints makes PG just dangerous to use in prod, since DB can stuck in poorly optimized query any moment, and shutdown whole site/system. It would be priority #1 if I would be product manager of this project, and all your bullet points would be naturally resolved.
Exactly.

Even if Uber had "Uber" funding, using Uber is a far better experience than using our Taxi services. Paying for and knowing how much your ride is going to cost before hand, using an app to be able to hail an Uber and see in real time as they're coming.

Just the basics they never had
expect browse/os to ship models and website llms will be just like font/colors in the 90s.

web-safe-models heh.
Try https://www.paulgraham.com/love.html (2006). If that isn't enough, https://paulgraham.com/greatwork.html (2023)
Because it was important for the students to have their names on a published paper, we did not abandon our calculations immediately. We finished them and wrote a long paper that was duly published in the Physical Review with all our names on it.

Isn't that shameful for the advance of science? Publishing something that you know is most certainly wrong.
Why would a Gen z kid care about this conference?

It's not a hipster event.

And the pauses are clearly his style of presenting. Having a artificial pause to tell the audience it would be a good time to react.

You clearly don't like it, I don't mind it.

But just to be clear: we see peak human ingenuity. This right now will be history on how we as humans build AGI, full human robots etc (in case we don't nuke ourselves).

You can read the conference results easily at any it news portal.

There is no requirement from Nvidia entertaining you or your kid.
> A rather small motor with a lot of mechanical advantage can easily open a close a garage door, and if a DC or low voltage AC motor is used, it could do so quite a few times even if the power goes out.

Garage doors are actually fairly heavy. By balancing the weight with a spring, you do a lot of favors to your mechanical advantage systems. (Eg: less wear, less advantage needed, the door can open in a reasonable amount of time…) You also do yourself a few favors for when things fail. (Eg: you pull the safety release and it’s possible to open the door without the motor.) Finally, power isn’t free and motors aren’t either; A spring is a really cheap way to reduce the cost of both of these things.
One study did identify heavy pesticide use due to concerns about Zika virus and measured changes in people’s brains before and after their trips to Cuba:

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/havana-syndrome-neurotoxin-en...
First symptom of Lyme is very distinct red oval on a place that got bit, if you see it then evaluating the tick is kinda pointless at that point.