skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Nvidia is moving up the stack. They announced NIMs today. I liken it to Docker for AI.
I guess the problem I find with using these statistics is that there are a whole lot of people who are... I guess to put it frankly... doing things completely wrong.

For example, I regularly use my table saw but and I see accident videos on Instagram/YouTube where people are doing something inherently dangerous, dumb, and obviously wrong on a table saw that I'd never imagine even trying to do, and then I read replies and everyone is like "oh that's an honest mistake and it could have happen to anyone," which is a complete farce because they should have NEVER even attempted doing it that way to begin with. And if you attempt to explain why this method is dangerous and say something like "oh, you shouldn't do it this way because of the rotation of the blade's spin and the direction that you pushing the piece in means that you pulling your fingers into the blade," they'll attack you and tell you that it's a mistake anyone could make.

I guess it bothers me that people don't try to learn how something works, get into accidents, write it off as honest mistakes, and then thinks everyone makes mistakes as often as them. It's like a major disconnect between learning how to do something and learning how to be good at it and not having imposter syndrome.
I just wish they had something like this embedded into Azure App Service, so it wouldn't be necessarily to use a remote service for caching.

For reference, something commonly used with IIS for ASP.NET apps was to have an out-of-process "session state" store, so that if the web app process restarted, users wouldn't lose their sessions and have to log in from scratch. Sure, you can put this somewhere central like SQL Server, but then every web page request sits there waiting for the session state to load before it does any processing at all. Session state is also typically locked in some way, which has all sorts of performance issues.

The typical current solution is to use Redis for both caching and session state, and this works... okay-ish. Throughput is high, sure, but Redis is a separate resource in Azure and is stupidly expensive. I really don't want to pay Oracle DB prices for something this simple. It's also a bit of a hassle to wire up.

In this article they talk about 300 microsecond response times, but that's irrelevant in any zone-redundant design because all Azure load balancers use random zone selection. So you'll have a web server picked in a random zone, then it'll contact a cache server in a random zone in turn. That server in turn may not have your key and have to contact yet another random zone to get your cache data! Your traffic ping-pongs between data centres. This introduces about 1-3ms of delays, up to 10x higher than the advertised numbers for Garnet.

The ideal scenario would be something like what Microsoft Service Fabric does: it has a "reliable collections"[1] service that runs locally on each host node and replicates to two other nodes. A web app can always read its cached values from the same physical host. The latency can be single-digit microseconds in some cases, which is thousands of times faster than any naively load balanced external service, no matter how well optimised.

I don't want 30% faster than Redis. I want 3,000x faster.

[1] https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/service-fabric/servi...
I have a copy of this and have used it a few times. Love this sort of stuff.
Wanna tell us some specific lies? I'll watch this later this week.
One can learn to think like Fermi. Perhaps not at his level of intelligence (this is to some extent genetically fixed, after all) but with the same qualities.

A good start is asking what the fundamental uncertainties are and which ways there are to resolve them. Try to formulate these uncertainties in terms of physical, mathematical, or otherwise experimentally established laws.

From what I understand, this is one thing Elon Musk is decent at, answering "is there any world in which this would even be physically possible, given no constraints on the innovation we can do"?

In a more fluffy example, I started out on a project recently and realised that if I improve on the state of the art along only one dimension, I don't think the product will be good enough to gain traction. So I need to outperform the state of the art along at least two dimensions -- this is significantly harder and I now doubt my ability to do this with the resourcew I'm willing to spend on it. That reasoning requires no technical knowledge, just thinking about the fundamentals of market adoption and what the end product could look like under no constraints on innovation.
And then you learn all of those media orgs are owned by the same billionare.

There will be no way to say something is true beside seeing it with own eyes.
You're not allowed to buy these without an NPI number. And while ultrasound is relatively easy, it's still not really usable without some training. I think there have been some studies of training users to do ultrasound at home for a limited set of views, but it's not really a "pick it up and look around" sort of thing.
Yes, they still require gel. That's just a matter of physics. Changing the transducer technology doesn't change that.
The experience I have of working in C# and .NET is that you use everything from Microsoft, even if it sucks. It's like a rule that goes through every "Microsoft shop" out there.

They are as much of zombies as the apple fanboys are. It doesn't matter what the company do, they will buy it and lick it up like they were a cat licking cream from a platter.
Ah, but it's psychoactive — that's even better than nutritious!
The title does say that it can work with existing redis clients but it's unclear if they mean full compatibility.
I was initially impressed with the landing page, but it does look a bit suspect when things are claimed to be 100x faster without much info on the HW acceleration or the model sizes.

My best guess is that they're using two approaches to get this running faster:

- structured generation techniques from sglang (https://github.com/sgl-project/sglang) that allow them to generate faster JSON (with look-ahead / pre-fill) with strong guarantees on the output (i.e. 100% reliable, without requiring any retries).

- distilling a gpt-3.5 turbo-esque model from GPT-4 JSON outputs, and using it in conjuction with above to give the additional performance boosts on inference.

It doesn't seem like they're deploying on any custom silicon, nor have they optimized GPU kernels to suggest that the speed ups came there.
SD3-Turbo: Fast High-Res Image Synth W Latent Adversarial Diffusion Distillation
Observation of diamagnetic strange-metal phase in sulfur-copper codoped lead
“In contrast to pixel-based ADD, LADD utilizes generative features from pretrained latent diffusion models. This approach simplifies train- ing and enhances performance, enabling high-resolution multi-aspect ratio image synthesis. We apply LADD to Stable Diffusion 3 (8B) to obtain SD3-Turbo, a fast model that matches the performance of state-of-the-art text-to-image generators using only four unguided sampling steps.”

Basically they get almost all of the quality of stable diffusion 3 in 4 steps instead of 50 steps. Seems like a major efficiency win.
Dell says remote workers must go hybrid if they want a promotion
Truth in 'advertising' is important.

>> 17th angle - AI Generated vantage point based on existing 16 videos (reference links). <<

Would be • Alters footage of a real event or place
It wasn't dead when I replied. I know this, I show dead since I often find my comments to be flagged or killed since I have some unpopular opinions. Just watch the my history and view the sea of down votes I've collected. ;)
Thanks. Have estimated this as 3B tokens as a round number at 8:1, but if you have a firmer number I'd love to know it.

Added to the Models Table (a few 'small' and 'tiny' models there, too):

https://lifearchitect.ai/models
If you do research, you may have access to descent HPCs.
Sorry, that part of the comment was probably not clear - I was comparing "plain old polling" (stateless request-reply with no delay) with "push", ie long polling
Oh, it lost that a long time ago. (e.g. string formatting methods).

However, this was around 2005 or so and at the time, Python was significantly smaller (conceptually) than Perl. Atleast to me.
Alternatively there's also ImGui: https://github.com/ocornut/imgui
You can add multiple, but practically speaking you're better off with used 3090s which you get 2 for the price of one 4090.

I have 3090 Ti and I can run Q4 quant 33b models at 30t/s with 8k context. A 4090 would allow me to do the same but with ~45t/s, both inference speeds are more than fast enough for people so 3090 is the usual choice. In my tests on runpod, H100 with 80GB memory is around the same speed as 3090, so slower than a 4090.
Aliexpress link to buy one?
I get that. My gold standard for technical writing was (and mostly still is), the C programming language by K&R. Brief, to the point and not missing anything. It's what I expected from the Perl book but didn't get.
How do they plan to enforce this?
I have an M1 Max with 64GB and 3090 Ti. M1 Max is ~4x slower at inference for the same models than 3090 (i.e. 7t/s vs 30t/s), which depending on the task can be very annoying. As a plus you get to run really large models, albeit very slowly. Think if that will bother you or not. I will not give up my 3090 Ti and am rather waiting for 5090 to see what it can do because when programming, the Mac is too slow to shoot of questions. I use it mostly to better understand book topics now and 3090 Ti to do fast chat sessions.
analogies are even less useful when you make it to a widely regulated sector and seek anti-regulation analogies.

I am sure the construction sector is overflowing with grumpy people who feel like aspestos is the best form for isolation.
Well you are prohibiting others free speech by protesting in that way. I do not agree that prohibiting others from speaking is a form of speech. So in that case, you are only using your voice in order to destroy others. If you were protesting in the hallway outside trying to convince people of your opinion, that is just fine but don't prohibit other people from speaking their minds.

But yes I do believe in some processes, you can host an event on the campus as well to tell everyone how he is wrong.

I won't read any book recommended by people like you, sorry.
Found one. How useful is this at home? Is the main issue with interpretation?

https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005005664149090.html
>Software with 99.999999% uptime [0] may be the gold standard

No one seriously has that many nines as their "gold standard", because that's almost always too safe, which has costs:

>We strive to make a service reliable enough, but no more reliable than it needs to be. That is, when we set an availability target of 99.99%,we want to exceed it, but not by much: that would waste opportunities to add features to the system, clean up technical debt, or reduce its operational costs. In a sense, we view the availability target as both a minimum and a maximum. The key advantage of this framing is that it unlocks explicit, thoughtful risktaking.

https://sre.google/sre-book/embracing-risk/

see also: The optimal amount of fraud is non-zero https://www.bitsaboutmoney.com/archive/optimal-amount-of-fra...

In this case though, other commenters have pointed out plausible reasons for why the cohort studies can't be trusted. There's also lack of evidence for the casual mechanism behind the effect, so on the whole it seems fairly reasonable to demand better evidence.
Arxiv (2023 paper w/ similar title&authors): https://arxiv.org/abs/2212.13881

Summary by co-author (of the above): https://twitter.com/dbeagleholeCS/status/1627819164906975232
The name seems to cut off on mobile. I see twstalke.
Even 32GB would be great for a gaming card, any more and you're never seeing on sale as it will be bought by truckloads for AI, so of course they're not gonna balloon the VRAM. I suspect we'd still be at 16GB but they launched 3090 on Sep 2020 with 24GB, before all this craze really, and lowering is bad optics now.
Australia also probably has some of the worst deployments of asbestos in the developed world. Drive around even nice neighborhoods in Sydney and you’ll see plenty of cracking and breaking “fibro”, a cement asbestos sheet. Canberra is full of asbestos. They had to completely remove an asbestos mining town (Wittenoom) from the map because it was so contaminated.

There is a ton of asbestos currently in Australian households. Plenty of aussies drink water collected in tanks off of asbestos cement roofs.
Apple may hire Google to power new iPhone AI features using Gemini–report
And of course the Nick Metropolis mentioned in this story is the first author of Metropolis, Rosenbluth, Rosenbluth, Teller, and Teller (1953), which went a step farther and introduced MCMC. See just above equation 4 of (https://bayes.wustl.edu/Manual/EquationOfState.pdf).

Farther down, below equation (6), we see the understatement:

“The above argument, of course, does not specify how rapidly the canonical distribution is reached.”

on which about 7 decades of further research would be done!
Agree about the name, it's quite well done and could be a decent alternative for xitter submissions on HN (else IMO they should just not be allowed anymore). They don't seem to say who they are, there's just a contract form https://twstalker.com/pages/contactUs
https://microsoft.github.io/garnet/docs/commands/api-compati...
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When I said "stack/strategy", the _strategy_ part implied this build-for-each-platform approach.

The question still remains then of which to use for each platform.

On macOS there is Cocoa (Swift or ObjC(++) or pure CPP) and Swift UI.

On Windows there is .NET C# or CPP and a bunch of other stuff.

Any thoughts?
As a toddler my wife was known for lifting up rocks and just picking and eating all the crawling things.

It’s our culture that removes these tendencies :). We still have the occasional good laugh about this story.
I have world record legit
Just read the spec

Clients will reconnect if the connection is closed; a client can be told to stop reconnecting using the HTTP 204 No Content response code.
These folks don’t get paid enough
Alternates:

https://www.wsj.com/finance/currencies/crypto-gets-blamed-fo...

https://cc.bingj.com/cache.aspx?d=3389647990467&w=K1Bqgu_aaa...
Sorely disappointed this wasn’t about Gravis UltraSound
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This is unfairly downvoted. They launched 3090 on Sep 2020 with 24GB which was more than AMD's 16GB 6900XT launched on that same month. Maybe before blaming Nvidia, blame AMD for lack of trying to compete with them? Of course they're not gonna release a gaming card with loads more VRAM because a) competition doesn't exist nor has gaming cards with more VRAM b) it would all be bought up for AI workloads c) games don't really need more as parent said.
> Garnet’s storage layer, called Tsavorite, was forked from our prior open-source project FASTER

Would be interesting to know why it was forked, why the changes can't be incorporated and wether FASTER continues to be developed
You have high expectations for something that is not a scientific paper.
This. The problem isn't accessibility or the ADA. The problem is the US tort system and the way it is abused.

If your font is slightly too small or an alt-text is missing, or whatever? A lawsuit should have zero chance of success, which would then eliminate the blackmail game of "settle or we sue".
This is sort of already a reality. Their vGPU functionality (partitioning a single physical GPU into multiple virtual GPUs) is already separately licensed - https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/data-center/buy-grid/

And that's once you've bought an expensive Tesla/Quadro GPU too.
> I keep getting invalid token error but it works when run locally. Any ideas? Sorry to post this question here.

Invalid token error while executing what?
Heres what you can do with Claude-3
That one is not going to be particularly useful at all. It's a linear probe, which means it's really only for imaging things near the skin. It's one-third of a typical set of probes: https://stanfordmedicine25.stanford.edu/the25/ultrasound.htm...

It's different from the MEMS-based devices this article talks about, which have the novelty of letting you do everything with a single probe. Though of course that comes with trade-offs.
> Okay, they also have side effects, and it is possible the disease burden caused by the side effects may (in the long-run) turn out to be worse than the disease burden they prevent. But, while that's a possibility, it is only a possibility, a possibility which could easily not come pass to

This is very unlikely to happen. This isn't like other obesity drugs that were first in class, glp-1 agonists have been around a long time and have a great safety record.
I'm so glad I work at a company with culture like one of the former and not the latter.

As someone that has worked in real life high stakes physical scenarios (people can and have died in companies I worked with), being able to blamelessly own your mistakes is critical. Lowering the stakes doesn't change that. As long as your intentions weren't weren't intentional or knowingly and needlessly reckless, you will keep your job. Even when people did exceptionally stupid or willful things we allowed them to leave with all earned pay and some semblance of fairness. Nothing makes a situation more dangerous, or harder to manage than when people hide things.
Desktop as well
> It would be pretty darn annoying if an accidental key press could just delete a file! :
- Isn't the 'Bin' made exactly for that purpose? And also, just like any other accidental delete, Undo is always there. Very easy!

> The problem is, where does a file go in between the time you cut and you paste? :
- It doesn't have to go anywhere, it's just "marked for" 'cut', just like a file marked for copying doesn't go anywhere until you paste it. All other Operating Systems have got it exactly right for eons. If you accidentally copy something else, that mark is removed, and the file is still happily sitting where it was. (Windows even shows it visually in their File Explorer). No safety hazard. I don't understand your other point - be it my entire life's work, it's always at one place or the other. It can't go to a third place, and in any case Undo and Bin are always there. At least in Windows moved files go back to their previous places on Undo. This is a much more intuitive default, making sure a recovery option is always there for exceptions.

> `View` → `Show Path Bar` :
Yes, that's what I had done, but imagine having a proper address bar which both tells you where you are, and is editable so can be used to paste a new address to go to. That will be much more intuitive, and that's what other OSs have done.

> Click the gear in the toolbar → `paste`. :
I don't see a gear icon, but sure, I can also do it using Cmd+V and also from the Edit Menu. But a 'Paste Item' is still there in the Context menu that is unusable in a lot of situations. Wasn't Steve Jobs really particular about pixel perfectness? I don't see that here.

I didn't even talk about my other problems with this OS especially when you use non-Apple hardware. I just want to point out that unlike what a lot of people believe, Windows (and even modern Linux) UI is much more intuitive and arguably causes less repetitive strain injury to our hands with more frequent OS operations made easier. The only thing I had found great in Mac's UI was Spotlight (though even that leaves a lot to be desired), but Windows now offers that too under their new PowerToys fleet of applications (less capable in some places but it should only get better) and I think people should give it a try.
Most serious hardware is not going to be open. I think this is mainly because hardware companies need higher margins, because working with physical things costs money. For most companies that use FPGAs, the custom stuff is the secret sauce, kept under lock and key. Most open source stuff out there is either hobby, or effectively serves as an advertisement for design services.

I'm not that familiar with OCP but certainly driving commodity hardware costs down is a valid object. My interest is more in specialized hardware at the board level. I believe CERN and other high-energy physics labs collaborate on designs, but I've been out of the field for a long time. Much of that sort of hardware doesn't have use in the industry at large; historically speaking, if there is demand, the model has been to spin out a small company to sell equipment to other labs.

The only category of core with what I'd call a big open-source impact is RISC-V processors, as you mentioned above. This is because a small processor is often useful on a non-SoC FPGA. But there were already free-as-in-beer microprocessors available from the FPGA vendors, so RISC-V adoption is really more of a political/philosophical choice.

When people talk about someday having an OSHW scene approaching the vibrancy of the FOSS scene, I'm not so sure there are parallels. People talk about having open tooling, but the existing tooling is already free-as-in-beer (for the device types most people could afford, anyway). The cost of the vendor IPs is already baked into the cost of the device, so you'd still be paying for it. The argument is that open source tools will be easier to use, but I haven't found that to be the case at this point in time.

I think that hardware is just a fundamentally different medium from software, and attracts different kinds of people. It's a comparatively smaller crowd, who tend to be lone wolves. Maybe someday there'll be a critical mass.
Got a 6 digits, too, starting with 1. so I'd say your one sounds about right.

I remember that ICQ was the "hot new thing" on Christmas and New Year in the phreaking scene back then. I signed up pretty early, dunno if it was late November or early December though.
But not an Enigma ciphertext, as it cannot map back to the same letter.
The NSW government controls the number of taxis and set the fares. I have some sympathy for the drivers, but if anyone should be compensating them it's the government, not Uber.
I’m not religious but my fav “that’s oddly convenient“ fact is that just by going fast enough you can cross the universe in a human lifetime because of time slowing down. As a biologist I find that much more fascinating than all those poor “irreducible complexity” anti-evolution arguments. Perhaps a physicist feels the other way around.
Not that I care about downvotes, but it’s interesting that posting actual facts, correcting a highly upvoted false comment, gets you down-votes.
but this gives room to also abuse the uncertainty to censor anyone without recourse - by arguing such and such video is "AI" (true or not), they have a plausiblely deniable reason to remove a video.

Power is power - can be used for good or bad. This labelling is a form of power.
Man, that's a very good explanation of DDCG.

I've actually tried to understand the original paper at one point and translated all the complicated greek pseudo-code into, umm...pseudo-code to use at some future point. I spent a little time pondering on how to combine it with global value numbering (if that's even something worthwhile to pursue is still an open question) for an added 'cheap' optimization and to manage a java-like local variable heap(?) but haven't done anything with it yet.

A little off topic but props where they're due...
It may not have been the dream, but the reality is many COBOL systems have been binary-patched to fix issues so many times that the original source may not be a useful guide to how the thing actually works.
That is far, far most likely an RF signal used to power espionage devices. Both the US and the USSR played with putting passively powered espionage devices. The idea it was done to injure embassy staff at this point is a conspiracy theory.