skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It depends on what you're doing. For writing FP32 number crunching code from scratch (meaning you don't care about something like Torch, or even cuBLAS/cuDNN), I haven't encountered cases where I couldn't match CUDA performance and if I did, I could always just use a bit of PTX assembly where absolutely necessary (which OpenCL lets you do, whereas Vulkan does not). This also gets me good performance on MacOS without rewriting the whole thing in Metal. There is no native FP16 support and there are other limitations that may matter to your usecase or be completely irrelevant.

I'm definitely not saying OpenCL is any sort of a reasonable default for cross platform GPGPU work. In truth, I don't think there is any reasonable "general" default for that sort of thing. Vulkan has its own issues (only works via a compatibility layer on MacOS, implementation quality varies widely, extension hell, boilerplate hell, some low level things are just impossible, etc.) and everything else is a higher level approach that can't work for everything by definition.

It's a pretty sad situation overall and every solution has severe tradeoffs. Personally, I just write CUDA when I can get away with it and try to stick to OpenCL otherwise, but everyone needs to make that choice for their own set of tradeoffs.
Paid classes of X never have been or ever will be third places. Because you have to pay a determinate amount to participate. One of the requisites for a place to be a _third_ place is you aren't obligated to spend money (or not a significant amount of it) to stay an amount of time where you can chat and make friends casually. That doesn't mean you can't make friends here but when we talk about third places we mean something else.
I think maybe youre missing your own point here?

The US got rich from primarily three sources:

First it was agriculture specifically tobacco and sugar both of which are cultivars I believe qualify as plunder.

Next it was oil, which came from from land taken as plunder. This oil was primarily consumed domestically and contributed to the building up of the large industrial manufacturing economy then and later in the 20th century.

Then finally yes the US had a large manufacturing economy which lead to the innovation and information economies of the late 20th and 21st centuries.

It is clear to me that much of the United States' wealth comes from the plunder of the conquered peoples of the continental US, Caribbean islands and Pacific islands.

https://pressbooks-dev.oer.hawaii.edu/ushistory/chapter/the-...

https://www.worldhistory.org/article/1681/tobacco--colonial-...

https://www.britannica.com/place/United-States/Industrializa...
There really aren't that many platforms that 'everyone' uses. So yes you regulate them. Just like we regulate the thousands of bars in the country from allowing minors in
Ask HN: Looking for a Trademark Lawyer
I received what I believe to be a wrongful cease and desist letter for a domain I own and despite trying to find a solution I am continuing to receive threats.

I’m not looking for pro-bono work, btw, and would prefer to pay a fair price for a consultation eg just 1 hour not a flat rate package or anything, and take it from there.
We can't just make the tests hard enough so preparations will have diminishing returns? When I look at the exams in elite universities like Tokyo University, JEEs, and etc, I'm not sure how preparation can help the students in different talent pools. An extreme example would be those selective STEM summer camps. For instance, students in SUMaC will pick a subject in number theory, abstract algebra, or algebraic topology to study for three weeks. I don't think everyone can even understand the topics no matter how hard they try.
Most of of FIs That See Increased Fraud Reject Open Banking
Experts' early analysis of the proposed American Privacy Rights Act
I'm so tired of bots. A certain bot from Singapore started pulling all of the product images across multiple domains. Ok, whatever... Then we realized it never stopped. It made enough requests to download them 4-5x over and was still going. The AWS bill was not nice.

We added them to our robots.txt, but traffic didn't stop. I complained to their provider, who happened to also be AWS. Oh, the shock - they didn't care and recommended using robots.txt! AWS was making good money on both ends with this bot that apparently had more money to burn than we do.
Yeah, on further reflection, I recall my parents having a 286 with a hard drive. Still don't get why they couldn't find a 5.25" floppy. Then again both types of floppy drives are still quite obsolete....
Isn't this just the same tech as the first Nintendo Power Glove had? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3g8JiGjRQNE

They put light down a tube and then measured the light to trigger a key press. That's why bending your fingers/hand did anything. The revised the mechanism in the later generations.
This being published by 'Apollo magazine' is bound to get some riled up considering his supposed involvement in the faked moon landings.

Here is a nice write up on how he apparently encoded his confession into his films.

https://www.aulis.com/deliberate_errors.htm
The Semantic Web (2001)
On another hand, people that don't take precautions get COVID maybe once a year, while the flu is more once every few years.

So even if the dangerosity of an infection was of similar magnitude, COVID would be more impactful because of its higher ability to infect and reinfect people.

But that doesn't mean we shouldn't talk about other post-infection syndromes; if long COVID can raise awareness on those there's a small silver lining.
I don’t share your distinction, but it does make me curious: how would an interface representing a state machine fit into your mental model?
Yes, Nvidia, Apple and in past days many monopolies, abetted by IP or copyright have acted badly = making profits while their regnum lasts. Often they get careless, sure of their dominant position, and some become so arrogant they crash/burn = Kodak/Xerox.
Nvidea looks smart enough to stay on it's feet - but you never know.
Honestly I agree that the current user interface of Udio and Suno is pretty lame. But it shouldn't take much imagination to see that it won't always be this way. Now that the core capability of generating music is there, a better UI will come. It will be interactive, it will be fun, it will be powerful and sophisticated. It's only a matter of time.
Some mad hybrid that doesn’t really fit the neat little capitalism-good/communism-bad binary that is very comforting and beloved by tech workers here on HN? The modern world is complex and doesn’t often fit into neat little simple boxes, attempts to do so will fall flat and they shouldn’t be the crux of a discussion like this.

The article in question is relating to crime and capital punishment. It is worth analyzing and understanding, not merely swatting aside as a mere “Leninist” political purge.
Ouch

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Earlier today, a public relations firm working with Sisense reached out to learn if KrebsOnSecurity planned to publish any further updates on their breach (KrebsOnSecurity posted a screenshot of the CISO’s customer email to both LinkedIn and Mastodon on Wednesday evening). The PR rep said Sisense wanted to make sure they had an opportunity to comment before the story ran.

But when confronted with the details shared by my sources, Sisense apparently changed its mind.

“After consulting with Sisense, they have told me that they don’t wish to respond,” the PR rep said in an emailed reply.
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A lot of terminals let you adjust the characters that break words. I’ve always configured my terminals and editors to treat `-` as a word character.
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Keeping a transit system that is relied on by millions of people running seems like a very useful endeavor.

The problem, for an engineer considering this path, is that the gig ends before you want your career to end.
What kind of company names are this?
So, IRL NFTs?
How Retrieval-Augmented Generation Works
Life at the sad café: Carson McCullers
Almost certainly a ticket from a for-profit speed camera that for all practical purposes is nowhere near a school/park.

They invariably end up in places like this * , large multilane road with minimal pedestrian access and a park/school within whatever maximum statutory distance of the park/school. You never find them an actual neighborhood next to a school, because they wouldn't make money ...

* https://www.google.com/maps/@40.6680393,-73.9959523,3a,75y,3...
This is exactly why we need to move past “the Web” to precisely pay for storage and hosting with micropayments. It is the requester who should pay!
Also, people just generally being outside less often
That EPA site more than obtuse. It's impossible to find a company that has a service that will mail you a container, have you add the water to it, then send it back to them to have them test it.

The closest I found was: https://www.meritlabs.com/sample-bottle-order but there are not even prices and it appears that you have to be more or less an industry expert to even fill out the order form.

Someone should make a startup like 23andMe but for water. Lots of us would pay $500 to have water accurately tested. Especially if the data could be aggregated and made pubic.
Why would it be necessary for everything intelligent to consist of animated matter?

It may not be necessary --- but at this point in time, we really don't know enough to state this as a fact.

What we do know is that our only working examples of "intelligence" are all organic and mostly analog --- not digital. Suggesting that real "intelligence" is possible without "life" --- is unsupported by any evidence and is a pure leap of faith at this time.
This is religious nonsense. Treason is about wars between states, not changing your religion.
There's actually no such thing as good "content" for kids, sorry.
I think it would make sense in VR as a standalone system with multiplayer which people could use for any type of game or work.

I actually think this sort of thing will become typical within 5-10 years as the systems become faster and we get comfortable VR and MR glasses.
The power supply is becoming less special over time. My first result for "usb c power supply" on amazon is a $25 anker 317 that supports PPS and will do 5 amps at any voltage. Not that that's an amazing price, but the feature is spreading.

But I agree that the price to get a happy Pi is pretty harsh compared to a tiny PC.
> [...] I don’t know what to call these countries

Marxist-Leninist, Communist. It's what they were always described as. There's historical context here. You have offered no objection to the use of the term "Leninist" other than it being what these states describe themselves as. What's wrong with that? Does "Leninist" have some other competing meaning that would be confusing? (Like with the "Democratic" of the DPRK?) Accepting self-terminology does not endorse it. Or everyone who called the USSR Communist back in the day was accepting that they were, in fact, on the way to communism. (That's not usually what someone means when they called these states communist, and such people aren't usually being naive or dishonest either. Nice dichotomy, by the way.) Would you have preferred capital-C Communist? That's basically a synonym for Marxist-Leninist.
Its largely a variation of delta encoding (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delta_encoding) which is using xor to determine the variation between values. Both are exploiting the fact that in certain kinds of series/samples the range (relative entropy) between values is far less than the range of the underlying value representation.

Whether or not the resulting ranges are encoded in a space saving manner (as this algorithm is doing) or used as input into a BW transform/Huffman/etc sorta depends on the resulting value sequences.

Much of this though should apply the understanding that data being compressed can frequently lead to data specific preprocessing that can significantly increase the compression ratios over generic encoders. Just taking the output of this routine and running it through deflate might yield another couple percent if it were tuned. Or put another way, all the bit prefix/shifting decisions might be redundant for certain cases because the 0's would end up being single bit tokens in a Huffman encoder.
Visualizing Elias Canetti's Crowds and Power 1
I try to explore Elias Canetti's Crowds and Power in this series of posts in my new newsletter. I have used p5.js to visualize the initial theory of the fear of being touched by Elias Canetti. Had too much fun doing this. Any notes on what you would like to see or on the writing style or anything else is appreciated.
With young people it isn't a matter of running them tired and bypassing the problem. Most aren't actually mentally ill, rather for the first time in their lives they don't have someone telling them how to live their lives on a daily basis. So they are given structure until they can work that stuff out for themselves. Extra work is often part of that structure. For instance, I know of one 19yo who was basically bored to death at work and hitting the bar every night (not in the US). So his boss put him on the unit "safety committee", which is extra work. He then had to interview people and write a monthly report to be read by the CO, which is very scary for the average 19yo kid at his first unit. That little bit of responsibility, extra work, turned him around real fast. He came to my office to have me edit his first report. He was nervous, but prideful nervous rather than scared. He didn't have bags under his eyes anymore.
Yeah one was murder and the other wasn't. Of course there are different reactions. The car aspect is irrelevant.
IMO it's also important to understand the context of when GoF said that - Stroustrup's C++ book was advocating for things like "class WindowWithButtonAndScrollbar inherits from Window, Button, and Scrollbar" at the time!

The GoF book itself is full of examples that use inheritance, but somehow the bumper-sticker-sized advice has taken on a life of its own.
Here in the Washington DC area, our metro still has two series of rolling stock that date back to 1982 and 1987 (2k and 3k series). At the earliest they won't start retiring them in 2024 and 2025 at the earliest...
How do you browse this snapshot? I'm interested in this solution, too
ble.sh: Revolutionize the BASH user experience
Clearly they've made a product decision that they don't want anonymous reviews shown on the site any more. You'd have to ask them why.

Only applying this rule to new reviews would still mean deleting or hiding their existing anonymous reviews, which they don't want to do.

I think this is a really bad policy, personally.
I worked with a rather conservative person who didn't like "README" as he thought that computers should never be aggressive or yell at their pilots. Smart guy, but had some strange tendencies.
I want a PA at all times, but cannot afford one, but I can afford to spend a few thousand on a laptop.
I still remember getting vertigo the first time I played.
You're quite right. Thanks for the reminder, I confess I DID forget about that.

That being said, I think it was Firefox introducing them that caused the shift in the way people used a browser. I remember people asking me to set up Firefox because IE didn't have tabs. Nobody ever asked me to set Opera up for me.

But yes, absolutely credit where credit is due.
I was speaking from some lived experience, so I'll be a bit more clear about what I meant by "underlying problems":

There were little activities to do on my base other than drink. I was paid very little, little enough not to afford a car. The cities I was stationed in were sounded by all kinds of loan sharks as a result. There were very few activities funded by the military that weren't somehow childlike or oriented for people with families. I was forced to live in a very old barracks that at times, frankly, barely functioned. While living in the barracks you can be summoned for duty at any time, unlike people who live off-base (married people). My life was as a Marine, so I'd be curious to hear an Airman's perspective. The services also tend to attract people who are actively attempting to leave home, so read from that what you will. None of these things are really unknown to the military or military leaders.
Well, my impression when I looked into OpenCl a few years ago was that it was certainly real and used for things but it was absolutely nothing like a Cuda replacement. Basically it's constructs are low level and processor specific - workable for graphic engines but not for general purpose gpu programming.

This is explains the rise of ROCm and DPC++ as systems having equivalent higher level constructs to Cuda.
Yeah. I'm just lucky in that I don't want food very often.
thankfully that's becoming a thing of the past
Depending on the font, it can collide with underlining (as in hyperlinks). I also once had a case where the dashed line a document viewer displayed for a page break hid underscores that happened to be on the last line of the page, causing the recipient to misinterpret the documentation.

In proportional fonts, underscores are generally wider than spaces, creating larger gaps between the underscore-separated parts than between the surrounding space-separated words. E.g. in "AAA BBB_CCC DDD", "AAA"/"BBB" and "CCC"/"DDD" are closer together than "BBB"/"CCC". In some fonts the difference is quite substantial. This makes for incorrect/unintuitive visual grouping.

You have to press Shift to type them. On mobile keyboards, underscore is usually one extra layer removed. For voice dictation, it's also longer than "dash" or "minus".
> This makes total sense but does it? Does Apple really have an application roadmap to ultimately utilize these tensor cores?

Apple always does things in a holistic way. They wouldn't put these AI cores in their devices if they didn't also have a software strategy to go along with it.

Unlike with most companies, AI won't be bolted on; it'll well-integrated into the operating system.

For example, they've been working on LLMs[1]:

> We demonstrate large improvements over an existing system with similar functionality across different types of references, with our smallest model obtaining absolute gains of over 5% for on-screen references. We also benchmark against GPT-3.5 and GPT-4, with our smallest model achieving performance comparable to that of GPT-4, and our larger models substantially outperforming it.

And it's not going to require a terabyte of RAM either.

You can read the details: "ReALM: Reference Resolution As Language Modeling" [2]

There's also evidence of an AI browsing assistant for Safari. [3]

[1]: "Apple AI researchers boast useful on-device model that 'substantially outperforms' GPT-4"--https://9to5mac.com/2024/04/01/apple-ai-gpt-4/

[2]: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2403.20329.pdf

[3]: https://www.macrumors.com/2024/04/10/ios-18-safari-browsing-...
I mean the topic of this thread is basically on how we have a bunch of well performing, pretty fast Chinese companies. This is happening despite these companies having a lot of buy-in from the state (down to outright ownership).

One might start trying to say "well a bunch of money from the state isn't enough to consider it a state owned enterprise", but then the contention is a bit more specific than just about being state owned.
I agree that the most compelling applications are more than six months away. But I hope that a computer I buy now will last a lot longer than that. I don't upgrade my computer every two years anymore like in the 90s, and I don't want to go back to that. Three or four years from now I think you'll be feeling pretty left out if your computer can't run much AI.
When I see pig butchering I thought of Cambodia/Myanmar. Mostly doing telephone/electronic scams while also kidnapping people to work for them and sell underperforming employees to human traffickers.
My parents got some of those new ones for my son a few Xmases ago. They don't seem to be quite the same. I had the originals and they were a lot of fun.
I agree, that is annoying. It doesn't work for me either. Nice that they specify "secret" in key name though to help prevent pasting the wrong one.
Do you actually not know/want to discuss why that is or are you just pushing your narrative which is that "the particular special brand of White People™ who happened to become dominant in the US were very good and very smart and so invented factories and made the US rich and therefor the riches of the US have nothing to do with plunder but with the virtue of these very good very smart very special White People™"?

Because I think its clear that the reason the rest of the Americas didnt become wealthy like North America is because of the same habit of plunder that made the US rich but instead of that wealth being sent to Boston or New York or wherever, it was sent back to Europe. How the oil rush in the US was primarily consumed domestically and enabled a huge buildup of industry or how the US has long had a strong domestic supply of steel those places either lacked key resources such as oil or steel while being rich in others or had their social and political structures destroyed by the legacy of colonialism. This combined with terrible governance shows us pretty clearly why the rest of the Americas didnt become rich like the US.

https://focus.bse.eu/colonial-settlers-economic-development-...

https://cod.pressbooks.pub/westernworlddailyreadingsgeograph...

https://read.dukeupress.edu/hahr/article/50/3/583/152678/The...
I mean, if you're just going to ignore the core point then I guess feel free. The disconnect seems to be that you think it's somehow reflects poorly on Elon that he's good at his job! Being self serving is good, controlling information to maximize your leverage is good, these are good things. Especially in a competitive market! The stupid decisions I'm referring to tend to be ones like buying Twitter or tweeting nonsense that causes him to lose control of the narrative. I don't care whether he actually thinks that not having trade barriers means Tesla will be wiped out, all that matters is that lobbying for trade barriers is the right move for the business. Also what's your obsession with trusting people? Why would you trust analysts? Or any source of information? Every source of information is biased, incomplete, and useful.
I’m not being flippant when I write, therefore a government whose legitimacy is maintained primarily via threat of violence.
I mean I’m mostly objecting to dismissing it as just something that happens in “Leninist” countries. No interaction with the story, no attempt to understand it - just the same old “ah that’s what happens in the nasty foreign places we don’t like” that is just as wrong as it is boring. We’re talking about a property tycoon for god’s sake, that really should make you pause and question your understanding of the situation.
"Researchers from security firm Binarly have confirmed that the lapse has resulted in Intel, Lenovo, and Supermicro shipping server hardware that contains a vulnerability that can be exploited to reveal security-critical information. The researchers, however, went on to warn that any hardware that incorporates certain generations of baseboard management controllers made by Duluth, Georgia-based AMI or Taiwan-based AETN are also affected.
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BMCs are tiny computers soldered into the motherboard of servers that allow cloud centers, and sometimes their customers, to streamline the remote management of vast fleets of servers.
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In general, BMCs should be enabled only when needed and locked down carefully, as they allow for extraordinary control of entire fleets of servers with simple HTTP requests sent over the Internet."

For personal computing, any recommendations on motherboard manufacturers who take security seriously?