skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> If you think there is a chance that everyone gets bored of AI and moves on to some other fad that is not in Nvidia’s wheelhouse, then it’s probably down from here.

You may wish to look at history to see how things can work out: Cisco had a P/E ratio of 148 in 1999:

* https://www.dividendgrowthinvestor.com/2022/09/cisco-systems...

The share price tanked, but that does not mean that people got bored of the Internet and the need for routers and switches. QCOM had a P/E of 166: did people decide that mobile communications was a fad?

The connection between technological revolutions and financial bubbles dates back to (at least) Canal Mania:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canal_Mania

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technological_Revolutions_and_...

It is possible for both AI to be a big thing and for NVDA to drop.
> I think the statement that you were responding to would be better phrased as: "The risks of nuclear power are still largely unknown, since there have been only two major disasters over a few decades."

That was how I interpreted the statement when I responded to it.

> Insurance companies are typically okay with insuring against high cost, high frequency occurrences as long as they can quantify it.

Insurance companies are also good at specifying insurable risks and providing incentives to the insured to manage them properly, even for rare but high cost events. That includes refusing to insure people who the insurance companies judge to not have good judgment. For example, no sane insurance company would ever have insured Chernobyl given its insane reactor design, nor would any insurance company have agreed to pay a claim when they found that the reactor operator ran an uncontrolled experiment on the reactor and that was what caused the accident.

As for Fukushima, as I commented elsewhere upthread, an insurer covering a reactor in an earthquake/tsunami zone would probably either not include tsunami inundation coverage in the policy, or would require a separate rider that would be priced separately. And such a rider would also have a list of requirements for coverage, which would include things like "don't site your backup power and switchgear where a tsunami might inundate it".

In other words, as I pointed out, the risks of nuclear power are well known, because we understand how reactors work and what the failure modes are and insurers therefore know how to write policies that set the right incentives for managing risk. That is true even though we have had only two major disasters over quite a few decades; in fact, as I pointed out, the fact that we have had only two such disasters, and both of them were due to root causes that are easily avoidable in the future, is a reason to be more confident that the risks are well understood and insurable.
Windows is supported. See https://github.com/rust-lang/rustc_codegen_cranelift/issues/....
> you'll need a team of 20 full-time build engineers to get a peak C++ artifact with PGO, LTO, and post-link optimizations.

As someone working in a team of 3 with a c++ code base this statement is hilarious hyperbole.
It's often the builder's contractor. Years/decades down the line, that phone number is worth $$$.
Perhaps I wasn’t clear in my post. Templates to me means distributing them in a usable fashion, and all templates should be able to be used via invoking some binary and providing inputs/flags.

Similar to helm.

Right now, we are using dotnet new templates, which is .net’a way of creating new apps, yeoman for npm, etc.

No copying and pasting. Copying and pasting isn’t DRY and is currently ramped at my org, since we didn’t have any shared templates
Finally. Corruption prevented it from happening more than 30 years ago.
I had one come within a couple of feet of me at an open area at a zoo. Apparently I was interesting and he came over to check me out, cocking his head back and forth to get a good look. My family was quite jealous.
SSE supports long polling. You can make the server close the connection whenever you want. SSE supports automatic reconnection, and will even include the last ID seen to let the server continue seamlessly.
"small embeddable dynamic languages" are usually used to configure or program other larger compiled applications. This is bes understood by example:

https://create.roblox.com/docs/tutorials/scripting/basic-scr... - make a mini game in Roblox

https://github.com/openresty/lua-nginx-module?tab=readme-ov-... - configure and extend NGINX

https://wezfurlong.org/wezterm/config/lua/general.html - make your terminal more useful (my personal config changes the tab color based on the process name - https://github.com/bbkane/dotfiles/blob/master/wezterm/dot-c...

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=MQBr9hwf0BY - configure your text editor
How does the signature help? It only proves that the video hasn't been altered since [timestamp]. It doesn't prove that it wasn't AI-generated or manipulated.
Isn't the toolchain for the esp almost fully open source (ESP-IDF)? The only part that aren't super open on the esp32 are the radio related firmware and blobs, but those are just not even there in the rp2040 anyways and not related to the toolchain itself.
Bad evidence is not the same thing as inadmissible evidence. Evidence is admitted, and then the fact finder determines whether to consider it, and how much weight to give it. It is likely that surveillance video will be slightly less credible now, but can still be part of a large, convincing body of evidence.
> it seems quite unfair to not allow AI to learn from copyrighted examples

AIs aren't human. Copyright laws were written for humans.
> Car manufacturers fight tooth and nail to block third party suppliers of spares for their cars.

Source?

A cursory glance [0] at a few 2020 model year cars from many brands (Volkswagen Golf, Genesis G70, Ford Mustang, Toyota Corolla, Honda CR-V) show a multiple of aftermarket parts for most common items (ignition components, brake components, steering and suspension components). I’ve owned a dozen cars that I’ve repaired almost 100% by myself, and it’s very rare to be unable to find aftermarket parts; usually only in cases where the car is sufficiently old and uncommon that the manufacturer is the only one interested in making parts anymore (as was the case with my RX-7).

Some brand-new (2023+) cars may not have aftermarket parts available, but this is almost always because they’re too new for the aftermarket to have made any yet.

About the only parts that are hard to find third-party are those that are too low-volume to be profitable: modern headlight and taillight assemblies, which usually last for thousands of hours and may only need replacing in a collision; body panels that generally only need replacing in a collision; specialized controllers such as for adaptive suspension or pseudo-limited-slip-differential-through-braking. ECUs are commonly brought up as an example (“the manufacturers don’t want people modifying the cars they own!!”) but this really boils down to both the manufacturer and aftermarket companies not wanting to be held responsible by the EPA/other environmental agencies, as well as the fact that ECUs very rarely fail relative to, for instance, brake rotors or fuel pumps.

[0] https://rockauto.com
I’m really scared of my angle grinder. Checkout on YT what happens when one of those discs comes apart.
Yes, it has a dedicated tickbox for that, check out this instrumental song by Reddit's /u/Dungeon_Sand_Dragons:

https://app.suno.ai/song/5e787b34-0c3a-4790-b88a-bcd54f4f078...
Pretty much every initial Stability release has been inefficient and has resources drop a lot when optimized for real consumer hardware community engines appeared for running the model.

OTOH, with their shift to a less open licensing structure, community tooling probably won’t emerge with the same level of energy.
expression problem, tagless final, death of tagless final
Do you know how many hype trains I’ve seen leave the station? :-D
On their own platforms, yes. We need to break up their monopolies so that their choices don't matter as much.
Maybe, just maybe, it is about the sugar cravings which sugar does cause (and more sugar does cause more), and not just a matter of taste.
At a glance, Double seems to be similar to Sourcegraph Cody - but Cody is half the price. What does Double offer that Cody doesnt?
Dead Air on the Incident Call
EV Hacking: This Is How Easy It Is to Sabotage the Power Grid [video]
> root cause is well known and easily avoidable

Your belief is that American insurers carefully check not only that particular risk but all other potentially catastrophic risks for every reactor they insure? I'd like to know the basis for that belief.

> I would expect the fact that no claims have gone over the cap for decades to be reflected in pricing for insurance up to the cap being basically the same as it would be for insurance to a higher maximum liability.

I see. And what's your expertise such that your personal belief is relevant to what actually happens here?
There are in-n-out Waffle House crossover cities. Yes, I did plan one cross country trip just to have this perfect day.
Excellent. It’s nice to see a comment with more substance than “nu uh”.
What about a counterweight or a piston instead (pistons are used in pull down beds which might be a similar load)
HarmonyOS expected to surpass iOS in mobile OS market share in China in 2024
> The underlying principle is that land - including natural resources as a whole - is finite. It's a common good owned by humanity as a whole; or, failing that, at least in common by the nation-state in which it falls. Allowing individuals to hoard those finite resources is bad for society.

There's a real risk in attempting to define exactly what "socially suboptimal" uses for land are. Everyone will have a different opinion on how they want land to be used.

Worse still, your definition means that any unused land is socially suboptimal and should be disincentivized through taxes. Given that land is finite, how do we guard against eventually using as much land as possible? And where do we get all the resources to develop and maintain the land as well as all the consumables used by everyone living there.
To give context, US no-oil revenue is 92% of GDP

https://www.census.gov/history/pdf/api-082021.pdf
For training FP4 sounds pretty niche, but for inference it might be very useful.
IMO the problem with C isn’t just the horrible standard library. It’s that you can’t make a better standard library — the language constructs needed to abstract almost anything don’t really exist.
But flicking would seem to attract attention that being still wouldn't.
Yes, but the limit is different (usually much higher) and negotiated, up to maximum SETTINGS_MAX_CONCURRENT_STREAMS (which is fixed at 100 in Chrome, and apparently less in IOS/Safari.)
And it's worth noting VLIW survived longer in GPUs—where there isn't any expectation of ISA stability, which avoids that problem.
The 14900K(S) has an unlimited boost duration. It'll run those clocks until your cooler can't handle it anymore, they never give up on their own. Intel added this not that long ago to differentiate the xx900k from the xx700k.
This isn't a question of burden but of communication.

You're slinging shade but parlous little illumination here. Adjusting that balance would make for a rather more substantive discussion.
Norway's Ambitious Plan to Store Carbon Dioxide in the North Sea
> don't actually see the web site/app as a bad

Some of these bad actors actors with annoying cookie banners:

https://gdpr.eu/

https://european-union.europa.eu/

https://www.europarl.europa.eu/portal/en
Could it be made of lighter material. Ironic how the garage door is perhaps the most armoured part of a house
There are safer spring systems, such as TorqueMaster that goes into a hollow torque tube.
It depends entirely on what the paper says. If it says "we found the perfect answer to this problem!", then yes, that is shameful. But if it says something more like "here are some potentially useful calculations, but the results are ultimately unsatsifying because of the cut-off procedures requiring arbitrarily chosen parameters", then it's still a useful result.
Yes, I understand that. There is always a good reason as to why. I’m listening and measuring before we make changes.

It’s not documented and if it is, it’s not surfaced in an easy to consume way. It doesn’t matter how good your docs are if they aren’t easily accessible.

I totally agree with you, though. The new guy shouldn’t change anything for the first X time. And I won’t. I’m just developing a roadmap for the future which will change and adapt.
Tech Workers Without AI Skills Face New Reality: Lower Salaries and Fewer Roles
- Training isn’t done at 4-bits, to date this small size has only been for inference.

- Research for a while now has been finding that smaller weights are surprisingly effective. It’s kind of a counterintuitive result, but one way to think about it is there are billions of weights working together. So taken as a whole you still have a large amount of information.
Really amazing work. Wow!
Much as nobody is entitled to live from tech trained on stolen content and works, I suppose.
It’s simple comfort food consistently cooked by an often sassy staff. Sometimes that beats a Gucci plate with opaque aioli at absurd prices.

If Bourdain says my old Waffle House beats a French laundromat who am I to argue?

Cultural institutions are something to behold.
> Don't they end up the same size?

No. Float is half the size of double.
> Stable Video 3D (SV3D) is a generative model based on Stable Video Diffusion that takes in a still image of an object as a conditioning frame, and generates an orbital video of that object.

So can it actually output a 3d model? Or just images of what it thinks the object would look like from other angles?
Off topic but I just switched to hemp protein. It contains omegas, and has a hugely positive ratio of potassium to sodium, whereas pea protein has no omegas and super high sodium (apparently to isolate pea protein it is washed in a salt brine). The drawback is that the protein per gram of powder is a bit lower.
Probably this nonsense:
>It's not like the USA wouldn't do the same to diplomats from other countries if it wanted to. It's not like every pair of nearby embassies and the host country don't have various radio beams pointed at each other all the time.
That was a library bug, not a language bug. Allowing external logging configuration by default is not like having a buffer overflow issue.
I suspect it forces out people quickly which may actually help keep better qualified workers. I've personally found the average Waffle House employee a cut above other places so maybe this is the reason.
I think it is very different. IHOP is a low grade sit-down restaurant where all the food is too sweet. Denny's is sometimes better, but still decidedly low grade. The problem with both is they kinda try to serve stuff that could be better, but they suck at it.

Waffle House has no pretensions, they are unashamedly serving super simple food with zero attempt to be fancy. But they're pretty good at what they do choose to serve (or at least pretty consistent).

I love going there any time I'm in the South. I really wish we had them in the PNW. We're finally starting to get some In-n-Outs here, I'd be in heaven if we got Waffle House too. I can dream...
Sort of. It was a different world, but not quite that different!

Geocities was really dying by 2002. It had been bought by Yahoo! a few years previously, and they were intent on driving it into the ground.

Video distribution was indeed fairly rare, but Flash sites were very widespread, sometimes including video, but more often vector animations.

The Mavica was still around in 2002, although mostly in CD-R form. But cameras taking flash memory cards were also around, using a wild mix of CompactFlash, SmartMedia, Memory Stick, xD-Picture Card and MMC. SD had just been invented, and a year or so later I had my own cheap digital camera that took SD cards.
> I'd expect the generic code to lower the function parameters to primitive types (pointers, ints, floats, etc.), but the backend would then distribute those over registers and/or stack

Not sure about that. Calling conventions are defined by the platform ABI which is what the backend implements, so any conforming backend should still be mutually invokable. That's why a Rust program can emit an ABI-stable C API and why you can call GCC built libraries from an LLVM built executable. The lowering of parameters to registers is constrained by this because the intermediate representation understands that what are parameters to functions & then follows the platform ABI to lower it to function calls.
C++ is safe if you ignore most of its libraries and write everything from scratch, making safety your #1 priority, ahead of performance and everything else, and then doggedly stick to using nothing but the safe primitives you have created.
I have been using Mixtral everyday for coding and I think it has saved me days
Recently, I've been working on a new project in golang, which I haven't worked with in a couple years.

I have almost completely replaced the time I usually spend searching stackoverflow for the simple, routine stuff (like how to easily filter a list in golang like I can in python), and then adapting whatever answer I find with a simple query to Mixtral.

Usually, Mixtral gives me a direct answer to my question that requires no actual adaptation.

However, I found, frequently the code is not quite correct and seems to be a blend of programming languages.

To get around this, I started asking Mixtral for a test for whatever code it generates, and this was a game changer. To state it simply, the tests are pretty good, and require very little tweaking to get running. With the tests I have confidence in the code it generates.

Once, I even asked it to write a test for one of my own functions and it said it could do that but first I needed to know about a bug in the code, AND IT WAS RIGHT.

All of these little ventures to stackoverflow add up and I am convinced that using Mixtral has saved me one or two days just for this project that took about a week. For a project where I was more familiar with the programming language, I'm not sure the time saving would be so dramatic, but I'm impressed nonetheless.

Now, this post wouldn't be complete without mentioning that it hasn't all been roses. A couple times it needlessly complicated the code, and once it was even wrong (trying to parse scientific notation), but it still saved me a ton of time.

Here's one of the tests it generated:

func TestChunkSlice(t *testing.T) {
testCases := []struct {
name string
input []any
chunkSize int
expectedChks [][]any
}{
{
name: "Empty Input Slice",
input: []any{},
chunkSize: 3,
expectedChks: nil,
},
{
name: "Input Slice With Zero Chunk Size",
input: []any{1, 2, 3},
chunkSize: 0,
expectedChks: nil,
},
{
name: "Single Element Input Slice",
input: []any{1},
chunkSize: 1,
expectedChks: [][]any{{1}},
},
{
name: "Small Input Slice",
input: []any{1, 2, 3, 4, 5},
chunkSize: 2,
expectedChks: [][]any{{1, 2}, {3, 4}, {5}},
},
}

for _, tc := range testCases {
t.Run(tc.name, func(t *testing.T) {
actualChks := ChunkSlice(tc.input, tc.chunkSize)

if len(actualChks) != len(tc.expectedChks) {
t.Fatalf("Expected %d chunks but got %d chunks.", len(tc.expectedChks), len(actualChks))
}

for idx, exp := range tc.expectedChks {
if len(exp) != len(actualChks[idx]) {
t.Errorf("Expected chunk #%d to have %d items but found %d items.", idx, len(exp), len(actualChks[idx]))
} else {
for jdx, val := range exp {
if !reflect.DeepEqual(val, actualChks[idx][jdx]) {
t.Errorf("Mismatch between expected (%v) and actual (%v)", val, actualChks[idx][jdx])
}
}
}
}
})
}
}
Note that I had to remove two of the test cases to fit in the HN character limit:

{
name: "Large Input Slice",
input: []any{"A", "B", "C", "D", "E", "F"},
chunkSize: 3,
expectedChks: [][]any{{"A", "B", "C"}, {"D", "E", "F"}},
},
{
name: "Remaindered Large Input Slice",
input: []any{"W", "X", "Y", "Z", "1", "2"},
chunkSize: 4,
expectedChks: [][]any{{"W", "X", "Y", "Z"}, {"1", "2"}},
},
450lbs but because it is not straight up but up and back that probably gives a 2-1 leverage so 225lb or 100kg. using your legs to lift it would be in the realm of a regular male weight trainer but not the average jo or jane.
A human being creates elevator music, bland YouTube tutorial background music, commercial jingles. None of these are perceived as creative or powerful, but we would never know how much human spirit goes into it. Maybe the creator of some terrible stomp-clap music used for a corporate presentation channeled his terrible divorce, the death of his father and his frustration at 20 years of creative failure and derivative works into it, but who would ever know? Maybe him and his close friends. It's the feeling that the music inspires in the listener that gives it value.
this reads like a description dumbed down meant to be read by someone that does not know the technical details, and on top of that, with an agenda to mislead(in this circumstance) :)
>> Apple shows that owning the entire stack is immensely profitable.

Apple shows no such thing. Apple, sells pretty, reliable and safe. A car is a car, but apple is a sports car, or a saloon. Vertical integration is the way they chose to deliver that, and pretty and reliable are all normal people care about.

Nvidia is gonna have to think long and hard about the "whole stack". 20 years ago they might have been able to pull a next, but right now anything that isnt LINUX is a rounding error, and they dont want to turn into SUN (no one at nividia is smart enough to make them the next sun).

Nvidia architecture + Nvidia os is not something that I see them pulling off for the datacenter.
This helps nothing and you started whining about it.
Can you memoize across invocations so that the time spent optimizing is cumulative across all builds?
Under GDPR, your MRI example and your bank example do not qualify as consent. (For the MRI example, they might be able to claim basis b, but only if they're doing stuff that you could actually have requested.)
They don't have to know the sticker is there while on the phone, only by the time they give you the quote. Once they show up at the house to diagnose the problem they'll be able to see the sticker or not.

To be clear, this is just me speculating about how such a scam would run, I've never seen it or heard of it.
What's your point? Just because natural dangers exist doesn't mean we should go ahead and create human-made dangers of our own.

Under this logic we shouldn't have structural engineering standards because rock falls happen all the time in nature.
And column level lineage!
Have we tried genetically engineering perfect C++ programmers? I feel like that might be possible in another 50 years.
I agree with pretty much everything except for this:

>Crime is lower on pretty much every metric than it was 20-30 years ago where the last big panic set in the mandatory minimum mania and the carceral state exploded.

I see 'crime' all over now... it just isn't considered a crime now that it's been decriminalized. 20-30 years ago, I never ever saw open drug sales and drug use, open prostitution, mass looting/shoplifting, deaths from overdoses are exponentially worse, car break ins constantly, etc. And I do agree with the copaganda arguments in general, but I just can't align how much visible crime is all over the West Coast and this vague notion that crime isn't getting worse. Yeah, maybe if you're only tracking murders... but everything else is so much worse and our kids will be exposed to things we never saw until we were well past adulthood.
I’m not an expert in how springs break but wouldn’t an ejection of material require the spring breaking in at least 2 places that are close enough to not loop around the rod? I’m curious if anyone’s ever been hurt by one breaking (other than when actively working on it).