skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Some highlights reading through:

> I fly Spirit to Chicago, where all my friends are too busy buying property or accepting professorships to try the ketamine a guy gave me for letting him suck my dick.

> At the end of the shoot, I’m $40k in debt and severely constipated.

> There’s the explanation: Blaze broke Hollywood’s dick off, and now he’s dead.

> My therapist suggests I take a trip to see friends because I keep calling myself an incel. I have a feeling she’s sick of watching a grown man cry about how hard it is to poop and wants new material.

> I tell them God will use the bone to create a third gender.

> Even if it doesn’t work out between this new being and me, I’m able to autofellate. I now have half an hourglass figure and, naturally, am starting an OnlyFans.

I feel like I know so many people with 1/10th the spunk/pizzazz/personality/attitude of this author. How did one person luck out and get such a "concentration" of unique-ness?
The rise in AI generated content affects us all, generally negatively, sighted or not.

There are a vast number of sites that are largely LLM generated that exist to deliver adverts. Basically, the old school link farms have evolved into automatically generated content farms.

For example, if you search for a few IT technical terms you will often get a lot of blog style returns. They will often look like a Word Press site with a selection from a colour and font scheme. With luck you will find some Stack overflow posts and with the Good Lord (pick your deity) looking down, you might get some real content.

The situation for finding and engaging on the internet is pretty dire and if one or more of your faculties are a bit shag ... really dire.

Perhaps what we need is some sort of Open Access to add to Open Source. I have deliberately picked Access even though its been sort of taken by https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_access

The Access I envisage is actual ability to access something. The other effort might consider Open Research or similar instead.
I didn't read it super closely but it doesn't seem like he's blaming anyone but himself (and chance) for his various problems. For that, I can respect it. Even if I have a very hard time imagining what it would take for me to choose it.
And yet people are still allowed to have more than two kids. Humans are truly insane.

Edit: Downvote me all you want, it won’t change the fact that we’re consuming resources at a significantly faster pace than the planet can provide them and people having three or more kids are a huge part of the problem, especially in developed countries. Deal with it.
Don’t worry, they’ll make up for the losses on volume.

Yes, that’s a cynical joke. Or perhaps an indirect reference to not yet having found product market fit for this tech.
As a kid, and indeed as a young adult, eating a teaspoon of Vegemite was something I did fairly frequently. It was just a snack, with no mucking about, just instant food. A sort-of after school thing.

It was way better than a spoonful of peanut paste, which was just over-the-top, way too much, and left your mouth and teeth gummed up and gagging.

Milo was also not unknown, albeit a smaller teaspoon, because it too was pretty intense.

But the king of the "instant spoonful of food" category was powdered milk. You had to more-or-less hyperventilate first, because you weren't going to be breathing for a while without making a lot of mess, but the gummy, sweet, mouthful of saliva-mixed-with-milk-powder was good enough that the difficulty of doing it successfully was kinda worth it.

I'm somewhat tempted to try a teaspoon of Vegemite now, you know "for science", but perhaps it's better left as just a memory.
If it could support the pgvector extension it would be a super fast vector database with all the power of Pg - the relational aspect brings the ability to add and query using rich domain specific metadata usually contained in relational databases.
Thank you for this reminder to buy Digital Vegan. I’ve had an open tab on the checkout page for about a year now.
That doesn't seem true to me. But say more about this.
Thanks, looks good... doesn't look like there's a SoX though.
I would recommend a pilsner. Vegemite itself has stouty tones. The pilsener would provide some contrast.
Yeah, there is no way the kids can meaningfully participate in all those lessons if they are in constant distress.

It does however improve the "potential" for academic achievement on paper, because schools can advertise how many daily lessons their students take. Number go up and all...
>I would rephrase it: mastodon is full of cliques.

It's social networking. Of course there are going to be cliques. That's what happens when you put a non-trivial number of humans in one space (be it virtual or physical).
It happened in the middle of the transition period between uncontested communist rule and EU's unicorns and rainbows, and was not characteristic of what communist period's steady state looked like. It was characteristic of its failure modes, I would not contest that.

The fact that you've used this transition period event as your prime example suggests you cannot solidly back up your claims about communist period.

I am ready to be corrected but you will have to actually make your claim.

In case you water it down to "simple" forced assimilation: so did Denmark (in Greenland) and France and of course Turkey. If they'll all repressive by your standards then all right - not the worst company to be in. If only socialist Bulgaria is repressive to you then you're employing double standards.

In fact, it would be interesting to hear your assesment of Turkey v.s. Bulgaria W.R.T. repressiveness. Kurds et al.
It just sounds like an artist who is trying really hard to be an artist and forgetting that real artists don't try, they just do what they like and someone else loves it.

But also the compulsive lying, the drugs, the weird lack of self awareness is cringe inducing here.
Did he speak your language?
I really don't know what to think. Sure, there's 8 billion people on Earth, the chances that I am the main character are tiny. But at the same time whenever I try treating people the same way I treat myself, I quickly get into misunderstandings and disappointments, and navigating the world with an assumption that most people are NPCs while just a handful are actual sentient beings has proven way more practical.
What's the alternative here? Make laws so that people aren't allowed to use AI to replace X job?

If AI replaces my job, I'll accept it. I don't want to do a job that could better be done by a machine.
> If customers come with requests for high volumes of chips for very large installations, Groq will instead propose partnering on data center deployment. Ross said that Groq has “signed a deal” with Saudi state-owned oil company Aramco, though he declined to give further details, saying only that the deal involved “a very large deployment of [Groq] LPUs.”

What? How does this make sense?
Dumb question but on mobile, how do I actually read the article? All I see is the abstract and a bunch of MSN spam.
That's interesting, something that I've been really wanting to get into as well, but where I am there is literally no venture capital to raise for this at the moment. I'd be interested to know more and/or bounce some ideas though.
True. Nevertheless, if one believes in what many environmentalists and scientists say they believe, and one understands math, one must also support an immediate and massive expansion of nuclear power -- on their front lawns, if need be. The fact they do not is suspicious.
I'm not doubting your experience but mine is different. I'm doing business in the Köln/Düsseldorf area and while the experience could be nicer, it is far from terrible. I have been involved in founding five companies (four GmbH and one GmbH & Co. KG) and closing one down in the last 10 years and I would have no qualms to go for another one. Each founding took about 6-8 weeks from first filing to entry into the registry. Getting a VAT ID can take a few weeks longer -- or in one case months longer -- but you can do business with your normal company tax ID and sort it out at the end of the year. If you are really in a hurry, buy a shell company for a few grands plus corpus and you can be running within a week or two. Notaries are really helpful in that case.

From my point of view there are also not many fees and none of them are recurring. IIRC, you have to pay the notary, the registry and the tax office for services rendered. Once you are registered, there are other fees, e.g. IHK (trade association) membership or insurances, but that is not part of the registration, that is cost of doing business.

Liquidation on the other hand takes 12 month (a transitory period required by law) and a few weeks before and after the liquidation for notary appointments. That's it. All in all it took maybe 18 month from decision point to deletion from the registry and the main part of the extra 6 month was deliberation what needed to be done before the transition started.
That was a great video. That was a gonzo nuts rocket engine but it worked for reals and not just calculation.
Other countries that see immigration as an opportunity have systems that are far far superior to that of Germany. In Germany it's often not clear what status a process is in and no way to get updates. There often is no web portal or anything like that, it's nuts. For instance you submit an application for the retention of your German passport and then basically wait 2+ years for the answer to come back. No one answered my questions. It's very frustrating. On top of that I got threatened with the BKA if I didn't surrender certain documents without ever having been asked to in the first place. Straight to escalation. It's just very unpleasant. Maybe that should be their motto.
> reduce immigration (done)

Lol.
If you read on, Groq said they would only sell hardware to US companies and outside companies would get cloud services, not the LPUs. I think the US government told them to keep the LPUs in-house since they could be the secret sauce for scale.
> However, to what extent is this lifestyle necessary as an artist?

I have a stable career and lots of disposable income and I've been to 1/10th the places this guy has been to / done 1/10th the things / probably have 1/10th the stories/life experiences/friends
Sounds like they're looking to get bought up to me. I'm sure they could monetize their current hardware, and build to sell just like other niche hardware vendors. Anyone remember the hype around big "cloud" storage boxes 10 years back?
That’s exactly how it has worked at every place I’ve ever lived in California.
open this url，https://app.suno.ai/
It's not really a lie though. They require 20x more chips (storing all the weights in sram instead of hbm is expensive!) than Nvidia GPUs for a ~2x speed increase. Overall the power cost is more expensive for groq than GPUs.
Given that their hardware is different I can kinda see how they don’t want to deal with supporting customers.

> what do you mean I can’t just drop a CUDA docker image in?
The obly aspect they are consistently ahead is single thread performance compared to Snaodragon. GPU has been behind for a few gens.
In certain parts of Germany the German equivalent of "You really can't complain" is the highest form of praise.
Summed well.
enjoy it！
Is defending freedom of speech a waste of time?
>But seriously, it’s true that since health care costs aren’t classified as a tax in the US, the taxes in the US appear to be lower.

At $51,284 the US has the highest household net disposable income per capita in the OECD <http://www.oecdbetterlifeindex.org/countries/united-states/>, where "disposable income" <https://web.archive.org/web/20220520114512/http://stats.oecd...> accounts for both healthcare and government benefits and taxes. Canada is $34,421. <http://www.oecdbetterlifeindex.org/countries/canada/>
I am 100% with you. I have infinite admiration for von Neumann's talents. He was the genius of the geniuses. I wish I could have a 10 minute chat with him. He'd blow my mind, I'm sure. I'd love to explain some of the research issues I'm working on to him, I have a feeling he'd nail them to the ground. His resume is absolutely insane. The dude invented merge sort and it's an effin' side-note to his work. Like, WAT. His achievements could fill the resume of 50 Nobel Laureate scientists. Plus apparently he had a CHARACTER, like a real one. Would have loved to shoot the sh&t with him.
> We should really have three bins: organic waste, recyclable waste, everything else

This exists in some US cities, at least.

Green, Blue, and Black bins, respectively.
It can be lossy and not just because of truncation. Convergence is somewhat finicky in Fourier analysis and was not well understood mathematically before the 60's. Engineers made great use of it anyway.

Remember that it is an integral transform. Basically, any data on a set of vanishing measure can be lost or corrupted. Unfortunately it can even be the case the deviation around some points is unbounded.
that or if you put chips in the hands of your customers, they may start to benchmark it against other equivalent solutions
These exploits are fascinating. I like the examples in the GPT-4 System Card paper (https://cdn.openai.com/papers/gpt-4-system-card.pdf).
Well, that doesn't really work. There is only so much electrical efficiency you can crank out of these motor. Essentially, there is a relationship between the current you pump through them, which is limited by their thermal characteristics, and the inductance of them. So you are trading off building more inductive motors that are more powerful but less reactive, and current draw which you can increase by putting more material in the motor and making it dispose heat much better but also bulkier. There are diminishing returns in many places in this process, and at a certain point you have to consider switching to hydraulics if you more force at a high reactivity, under essentially much less energy efficient conditions.

Maybe you could make a model that sizes motors correctly per application? But you are still much better hiring an engineer that knows what they are doing that can explain what is going on and trouble shoot things when they go wrong. At a certain point you are trying to figure out how to completely replace an engineer with a machine learning model, which I would like to think is a bad idea.
I was thinking more in terms of processes. I actually don't think that Kubernetes represents "peak nonsense" at all.
You would be wrong, but that is fine. Been working with attention since 2018.

Why assume I know little and leave snarky comments (and basically a repetition of the prior joke at that, subbing RNN for transformer)?
I'm not questioning the deployment strategy, I'm wondering why Saudi Aramco wants to access so much compute power that is highly specialized(?) for generative AI workloads. Or is it more general than that?
They’ll find a problem to pretend it’s a solution for someday.
That’s a non-sequitur, because violence is required to maintain any kind of society.
Gave linkedIn my phone number for 2fa. After that I get weekly phone calls from recruiters. They still think I live on the east coast and the calls are always at 6am.
They lied. If you can see the texture of the toast, it's not thick enough.

I'd forgive them though, perhaps. They might have been thinking to convert you slowly. The big reveal can be overwhelming over the age of one.
This is an absurd take, to say the least. It offends the intelligence of virtually everyone involved in the bomb development. Plutonium usefulness would be noticed eventually. Implosion of fusion fuel using X-Rays thermal transport would have been discovered as well. The world does not have a single point of failure based on a single person, like you paint it.
Off the top of my head: Air Canada, shopify, ikea, car dealerships, ... It's common enough I'm sure I've seen more than that, those are just the ones I remember because they've either personally annoyed me or been in the news.

Health things around here have legal restrictions that definitely prevent them from using GPT, thankfully.
Being a white, middle-aged, middle-class male in America I can say I have no productive things to say about how my local, state, or federal government has benefitted myself or my family beyond the things everyone else also benefits from. I don’t get assistance for anything, I don’t get breaks on anything, no free services, etc.

If your first reaction to this is “well you don’t need anything!” you must be one of the people that was astonished at how the 2016 election went.

No I didn’t vote for the guy and I hope he loses this time.
Curious what are the features you are seeking?
Or, at the rate of $0.30/kWh in California for residential use, $2.70/year. Lowering power usage on embedded devices is important when you're producing thousands, but for a hobbyist it doesn't really matter.
Unsurprisingly, von Neumann was one of The Martians. <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Martians_(scientists)>
I think that's the VB "flavour", a by-product of the original recipe.
if you're a hardware startup that doesn't sell hardware, what are you?
That sucks. I wanted to save up for a couple years and get some hardware for home, but I guess the "AI" space moves so fast you barely get a couple months
cost effective in what sense? groq doesn't achieve high efficiency, only low latency. but that's not done in a cost-effective way. compare sambanova achieving the same performance with 8 chips instead of 568, and with higher precision.
Worked in one. They are safety nightmares. They give safety bonuses if “nothing is reported” so nothing gets reported. Working conditions suck.. you spend your time begging for AC in a metal can in 100 degree heat (outside) on top of that the craziest thing was how subcontractors made money. I was in test so we wondered why certain runs of cable were way out of spec. Turns out subcontractors are paid by the foot to install cable so it would take the longest route through. Nuts. Never work there.
Why is the database easier to work with than just looking at $PATH and either putting your executable in an existing directory or adding a new directory?
That’s really cool. I never thought of it like that.
Funny you should mention that. ;-)

https://www.reddit.com/r/LocalLLaMA/comments/1bpgrdf/wanted_...

I've got about a dozen people signed up. Just working through some hardware issues right now (see above about high rate of failures), and hope to have this resolved next week, so that I can get people onto them and doing their testing.
> If you have to sell the hardware and support people buying it, that is a world of trouble.

What is the difference between this and having to sell the cloud access and supporting the people who buy a subscription?
> latency optimized solutions would be faster - in particular for time-to-first-token sensitive applications

Do you have any idea how fast Groq is? Go try it. Consistently over 400 t/s for most of the models that they support, and extremely low latency.
I'm guessing you're Brazillian? I'm Portuguese and we're very strict about freedom of speech, almost like the US. Sad to see what's happening to my brothers & sisters.
What they should actually do is allow anybody to register a company in any EU state and then operate in any other. Then the member states would have to compete, and Estonia would be the European Delaware. This may be theoretically possible now, but practically it's not so easy.
On the contrary, I think using expected value to explain the value of insurance from the perspective of an insurance holder is a misunderstanding of insurance. People don't buy insurance to optimize the average case; they buy it to optimize the worst case. But an insurance policy that doesn't redistribute wealth has both negative expected value and negative value in the event of a payout. At which point it is just a personal rainy-day fund held in a savings account with a negative interest rate.
In what way(s) does karma distort HN's dynamics?
> if you're a hardware startup that doesn't sell hardware, what are you?

A hardware startup that sells cloud access to its hardware. :-)
We're a startup, open-sourcing was as easy as getting the rest of the team's approval.
What if some scientist has a breakthrough thought while reading this?
From all the comments in this thread it seems like everyone is in agreement Denmark has less bureaucracy.
Is it also a better place to set up a company? Do more companies get acquired from Denmark than Germany?
Extremely capital intensive, but also requires relationships in the industry at many levels. Luckily, I happen to have both and they are crazy enough to put their trust in me. I feel very grateful for that.
Postgres uses multiple processes, shared memory etc. The single user thing that OP referenced is single user because of that...
Yep, it was basically something for us kids and teens to do to make some cash, and iirc there were a decent amount of people who did it that lived nearby the zoo
Part of the reason is the green card queue size for US is much larger than that for Germany.

The USCIS website also shows your status and gives a rough timeline.
> I'm wondering why Saudi Aramco wants to access so much compute power that is highly specialized(?) for generative AI workloads. Or is it more general than that?

For vanity reasons and because AI is the future (not every company acts that rationally for huge buying decisions).
LibreELEC is indeed slick: Their motto is, IIRC, "Just enough Linux to run Kodi."

It is absolutely ideal if what one wants to have is a dedicated media player appliance and -- like any other cromulent video playing appliance -- it Just Works.

But there's a ton of other ways to get Kodi running on Raspberry Pi hardware.

For instance: There was a time when I was running Kodi under RetroPie, so I could combine antique console emulation and video playing on one [at the time] Pi 3.
Maybe Saudi doesn’t want to rely on OpenAI and other APIs and wants to run a fine-tuned Mixtral model on the cloud or their hardware. International companies will probably opt for an open source model since the data is sensitive and OpenAI could pass that to intelligence.
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https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39931228
> Delaware’s corporate law is more developed so investors have more certainty of what they are getting

Delaware courts are also efficient, which makes litigation less likely to turn into a multi-year and multi-million dollar affair.
> Every piece of technology on offer today seems to work for someone else.

You can buy a commodity PC and install Debian on it. Some people do.

> Even as the hardware requirements to run AI locally go down, we'll never compete with companies like facebook, google, and microsoft in terms of the size of the datasets they have to train with.

Most of these datasets are public.

> Worse I think we're starting to see efforts by corporations to push for laws that limit the ability for people to use AI. They'll say it's too dangerous to let regular people use AI, and that only they can be trusted with such power.

Of course they will. But the "AI is bad" rhetoric only feeds into that. What do you expect an "AI is bad" bill to look like? It will be the one that restricts access to only large institutions.
But the idea is that people make better decisions the closer they are to the effects of said decisions. You're promoting a dangerous idea that allows people who don't live near you to erect 10-story apartment buildings next to your house and extract the economic lifeblood of your neighborhood back to wherever they live (probably a place with zoning).
Do you have 7,513 unread emails in your inbox? Research suggests that's unwise