skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> If you can process "offline" for an hour and then cache the results, CPU inference is fine.

> GPUs are expensive.

Depends on the GPU. I've found T4 GPUs to be cheaper than CPU compute on AWS when testing throughput per $ of spend.
Some do assembly, some don't. Depends on the house and each one will have slightly different constraints on what they'll assemble. As for costs, it balances out with the costs of slower iteration. When EEs don't have fast turnaround (or too short schedules) they start loading all their little experiments onto the iterations they do have and you can end up with bloated BOMs, overspecified parts, and "good enough".
Not usefully. Language models are terrible at spatial reasoning, and PCB design often involves cross-cutting concerns which interact with physical layout (e.g. requirements that the PCB have a specific size/shape or that connectors or user interface components be in certain places, thermal requirements, EMI, etc).

None of the engineers that I've talked to have been impressed with the current state of automated design or layout tools.
DarkGPT
Nice. Web browser exploits at the speed of GPU driver bugs. A fount that will never run dry.
YouTube in India is in the government's pocket. If you have a channel that speaks against the government you are automatically pushed down in the search results, notification of your new videos suppressed for your subscribers etc.

And if you somehow manage to still gather enough Indian audience and you're doing sufficient damage then they block you in India entirely.
Thankfully it seems to be mainly just Mazda and Alfa Romeo in currently on sale cars doing the disable CarPlay touch screen while moving thing? There are probably other outliers, but those two are the primary culprits who made it a brand policy.

In some 2024 Mazda models they are finally letting you choose to keep the touch screen working while moving, letting you use either the wheel or the touch screen. I don't think either company will still be disabling touch screens/wheel only inputs for CarPlay for very much longer. Similarly, the new infotainment platform for Lexus cars has done away with weird input devices ("Remote Touch") and you can just poke the screen with a finger.
Wait. What? A company shouldn’t review if the technology it’s selling is used for mass murder? That’s the most batshit point of view I’ve heard in a long time.
Valid! I think the disparity is that the article appears to be written for a fairly technical crowd but the expectations appear to come from what these particular models are marketing. Most that are fine-tuning LLMs or aware of LongRoPe for extending context windows are probably consumers of research/white papers rather than marketing material.

Having read some of your other comments it appears that part of the issue is that you were marketed a 1 million token context window and research has shown that's not quite the case. That said, the article doesn't do a good job of painting that picture - it is alluded to with "all fail at this task despite having big context windows" but I think it's worth being crystal clear here that the marketing says 1m and that is disingenuous in your experience and backed by research findings.
How on earth are they losing ~ $300 M / pa ?

Seems like an insane amount for what is at this point a consumer-electronics company.
Reminds me of Angkor Wat in Cambodia when I visited. There was a constant, really load sound like singing bowls everywhere. First I thought it's some Buddhist monks but then I realized it was cicadas. It was really bizarre.
They have the same heritage.

https://www.drpetter.se/project_sfxr.html

https://www.bfxr.net/
I have friends that have a lot of money, and they pay for "VIP service."

This usually entails separate lounges, and boarding the plane long before other passengers do.

They can afford it, and I suspect it costs quite a bit. They also travel a lot for business, and it really sounds like their trips are grueling, even though they have top-shelf lodgings and whatnot.

In any case, one aspect of my forced retirement, has been no more traveling. I used to travel overseas, all the time, and haven't, for quite a few years.

I thought that I'd miss the experience, but find that I don't miss it at all. I traveled all my life (since I was a child). It's nice to set down some roots.
The Ars writeup is blogspam, the linked original post has much more detail: https://cohost.org/ghoulnoise/post/5286766-do-not-buy-hisens...
Discussion [0] (67 points, 23 hours ago, 24 comments)

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40127483
I'm pretty cynical about LLMs, but I just got five good answers in a row. An "about" link would be nice!
Did anyone else think Clear was some Scientology front the first time you saw it?
This! Cars should be dumb and use physical buttons for all functionality I might use while driving. The entertainment system should just be a larger screen and better speakers for my phone. I have zero interest in dealing with a infotainment system developed by the car maker that's built-in. This way I can upgrade by buying a new phone, it's synced to my phone because it's my phone and everything works the same in rental cars and I don't need to sync any of my data to rental cars. I'm pretty happy with my car, but I'm sometimes annoyed when it thinks it's ok to use the display or speakers for things that aren't coming from my phone. It's the same issue as stupid "smart" tvs!
They should ban the TSA, too. Completely useless. Flying used to be so much more pleasant.
Yeah RHEL has had a gratis developer license from their website for maybe a decade now?

Before that I would pay $49 a year for it.
All because "equity" or something.

"It's a basic equity issue when you see people subscribed to a concierge service being escorted in front of people who have waited a long time to get to the front of TSA line," Newman told CBS MoneyWatch.

"I do understand the frustration stated in Senator Newman’s bill," Nguyen, who sits on the transportation committee, told Politico. "It becomes a haves vs. have-nots where those who can afford it jump in front of the rest of us. They even cut in front of TSA Pre-boarding pass travelers who have been screened by the TSA."

What this legislation boils down to is that the government and government unions are trying to eliminate a private company that is doing the job more efficiently than the government and making a profit off of doing it. The PreCheck system allows travelers who pay $70 to $80 every five years to enjoy an expedited screening process by submitting fingerprints and a valid ID. Nobody is forcing anyone to use the TSA PreCheck or Clear's system; customers voluntarily pay the fees for the benefits of not waiting in a long line. It is the same thing as most amusement parks charging a hefty fee for the perks of bypassing long lines at their parks.
> but we need to be frank about the fact that the business layer above us (with a few rare exceptions) absolutely does not understand the limitations of AI and views it as a magic box where they type in

I think we also need to be aware that this business layer above us that often sees __computers__ as a magic box where they type in. There's definitely a large spectrum of how magical this seems to that layer, but the issue remains that there are subtleties that are often important but difficult to explain without detailed technical knowledge. I think there's a lot of good ML can do (being a ML researcher myself), but I often find it ham-fisted into projects simply to say that the project has ML. I think the clearest flag to any engineer that this layer above them has limited domain knowledge is by looking at how much importance they place on KPIs/metrics. Are they targets or are they guides? Because I can assure you, all metrics are flawed -- but some metrics are less flawed than others (and benchmark hacking is unfortunately the norm in ML research[0]).

[0] There's just too much happening so fast and too many papers to reasonably review in a timely manner. It's a competitive environment, where gatekeepers are competitors, and where everyone is absolutely crunched for time and pressured to feel like they need to move even faster. You bet reviews get lazy. The problems aren't "posting preprints on twitter" or "LLMs giving summaries", it's that the traditional peer review system (especially in conference settings) poorly scales and is significantly affected by hype. Unfortunately I think this ends up railroading us in research directions and makes it significantly challenging for graduate students to publish without being connected to big labs (aka, requiring big compute) (tuning is another common way to escape compute constraints, but that falls under "railroading"). There's still some pretty big and fundamental questions that need to be chipped away at but are difficult to publish given the environment. /rant
You didn't read me. I'm against giving human rights to AI, because they don't suffer or have human needs.

I didn't claim materialism, or that everything is a robot. I didn't claim AI is the greatest of machines.

What I claimed is that

1. some humans call themselves robots

2. those humans tend to depend on technology in a profound way

3. we should give those humans access to the technologies they need to have quality of life

Again I'm not arguing that AI is the greatest of all machines or that all things are machines. I'm arguing that technologically dependent humans deserve access to technology and quality of life.

For an example of a right that you probably agree with: all people should have the right to a good internet connection, since we all depend on it for quality of life.
> but it's an inconvenience that costs them money

Does it? It’s not like they have to hire someone extra, they just call up someone from the crew that walks over as slowly as they possibly can, and projects as much attitude as they possibly can. That agent’s highlight of the day would be making opt-outers wait.
Ralph Lauren had a lock on my friend cohort in 10th grade. If you didn't have the polo logo on your shirt, you were ridiculed. If you had a logo that looked a little bit like the Polo logo but wasn't you got cast out. My parents said "but this other shirt we bought you is superior in every way and doesn't break our budget" and I said, "I need the Polo or I'm killing myself."

Kids care what their friends think. A lot. Green bubbles are the same thing and so parents get their kids iPhones instead of Galaxies and the lock continues.
Ah, so that's how you do it. Having a template for WebGPU projects is a good idea. I'll have to do the same so I don't waste time setting up web graphics projects.

Cool project btw! Adding this to my long list of graphics blogs to read.
Sublime is so bloody fast, so so fast.

I also like Vi.
I got married and over-engineered everything
So let's stop creating music, painting and writing fiction books because GenAI can do it. Also no cooking at home because restaurants do it. Also no point playing chess.
it really is sad that i can actually believe this could be a realistic outcome.
Intent following is flawed when it comes to hard novel schemes or impossible asks because LLMs can't distinguish them and always oblige in ways that seem to satisfy. But if you know it knows what to do then why not just ask for code directly? A declarative language for LLMs feels like a way to polish the turds that come out of legacy LLMs as if LLMs won't ever get better.

We don't really need a declarative language to be in the same position as asking for high-level description, fewer lines means more places to hide hallucinations. We need an hallucination alarm to show where difficult but legitimate requirements are being squirmed out of without reason.
> The effective default is to grant patents. Why? Because the examiner has a finite amount of time for each application and has to have some sort of justification for a rejection.

The path of least resistance makes appearance once again. If we don't understand that this guides the default final state, we would argue about nothing constructive.
Seagate Technology to Sell Assets to Broadcom Subsidiary for $600M
> unrealistic expectations

From my (admittedly limited!) experience, unrealistic expectations are often set only when you want to push a senior off the team, and then as the new exec comes in, they'll "re-evaluate" the trajectory such that goals are much more realistic for their teams.
I guess it could be worse.

I'm pretty sure that the Taliban ban all music; regardless of the tempo.

They tend to be rather ... strident ... in enforcing their rules.
> ... it seems to be good enough as they have no recent cracks.

challenge accepted
You don’t like paying $300 for a map update? On my car, Nav + traffic was $3k. CarPlay was $300 and I get multiple map choices like Waze or Google maps. Only infotainment that comes close is Tesla yet map data is always out of date with construction road closures.
Man, unless its dramatically improved in the last 5 years Sydney and Melbourne were around the same level as hell as LAX/SFO are. Sydney was particularly bad the 3 times I had to move through it haha. My average LAX traversal is much smoother than Sydney ever was.
Nature can be extremely loud. I’ve been in places where get insects louder than the freight trains going by the other side of a fence.

Some people are really clueless. I had a neighbor who didn't realize dry leaves could burn. It would be funny if they hadn’t made a really good attempt to burn their entire lot to the ground.
He probably had a cannon to make sure the birds were in the air during the eclipse :-)
Toyota offering a V8 (both gas and diesel) in its trucks would change the market in a big way.
It works mostly but sync is slower and you have no idea of progress.

The best value is Google. The best sync is still Dropbox, but it’s expensive and they nag you.
> I paid for it so I don't have to go through the PornoScanner™

Are you sure you are a Clear member? You seem to be missing some basic information about Clear membership. Clear members go through the same scanners as the commoners.

Only the people who did not get scammed into paying for Clear and instead paid for TSA Pre, get to skip the slow scan lines.
I've been permanently banned on reddit as well for no apparent reason before.

I also sometimes express controversial opinions, but I try not to be rude.

You will eventually get banned from Reddit if you express anything that doesn't align with the hive-mind. If you disagree you are banned. Expressing dissent will get you banned. The rules don't actually matter.

If you post in a subreddit that the subreddit you are posting in does not like, you are banned.

That's the most ridiculous thing in my opinion. It's literally mods denying users access to other parts of the site.

The only way to stay unbanned is to not engage. Downvote and move on. That's not a great way to create interesting conversation and a useful site though...

Reddit is still a great resource, but it's shooting itself in the foot.

It's too big. There's no dang keeping an eye on everything and keeping things civil.
(paid user of Kagi here)

FWIW, Kagi is built on top of Google search, so yes it's "replacing" (for you and me) a dependence on Google search, but it is categorically not a from-the-ground-up replacement for Google search.
You remember ... wrongly. It's just another particle accelerator, its intention was not to produce micro black holes for study.

You shouldn't use "theory" when it comes to science unless you know what that means. Gravity is a "theory." "Theory" means that it has a working model, comes with a ton of observational evidence in line with predictions, and it has yet to be replaced by anything better. Outside of math, nothing is ever proven. Any leading scientific theory is, at best, "yet to be disproven." And it stays in the lead until something better comes along: more accurate, extending over a greater domain, etc.

Hawking radiation has yet to be observed.

And if you're worried about micro black holes, well, even an iron atom has a non-zero chance of tunneling to a micro black hole state. No collider needed.

Cyc isn't secretive, it's proprietary, the way the Microsoft codebase is, the Adobe codebase is, and so on.
That fewer patents are filed is not evidence that fewer innovations are taking place. Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.
looks like in the US, Mercedes sprinter vans start at $50k and e-sprinters at $72k.
Thank you for this great post.
Kadyrov is the “primariest” source imaginable, since he basically runs Chechnya. If he says it’s for Chechen music only, that’s how it’s going to be. Seems like it was misinterpreted by Russian press first, and then uncritically picked up by the Western media.
Brooks and Ditches: A Transcendental Look at Education (2008) [pdf]
Soyuz Globus Mechanical Navigation Computer
Ban flying too. And road trips. Ice cream. Music

Everything used to be better.

And while I am here... Get off my lawn.
Came to the comment section in search of this.. I want to see a 3D projection of this manifold!
This could be submitted as a Show HN.
> the PornoScanner™

What part of the airport experience are you talking about here?
How much did a cabaret license cost?
Pretty much any modern architecture could be called 'better' than x86 by now! Loongson has a surprisingly high amount of compiler and toolchain support which is pretty interesting. They also have quite a lot of kernel code upstreamed and in the main branch by now. Windows is unlikely to ever support it for obvious reasons though :P Minor note: Loongson does not use MIPS anymore, they switched to LoongISA, which to my understanding (correct me if I'm wrong) is not very different, but adds instructions for faster binary translation for ARM and x86.
I think most of us are upset with the enshitification that Clear brings. They should make TSA and TSAPre less frustrating and not have some crappy private company that gathers tons of biometric data and makes life miserable for regular flyers.
Global Entry is only when you come into the country and have to go through immigration. It does nothing for when you have to board a plane.
My 1990 Nissan pickup made 380,000 km on its original clutch. 2.4 liters of 4 cylinders totally underpowered will do that. At least a starter every 100k and alternator every 150k though !
If it mattered that much, I think Porsche could still just use their classic gauges with 1 being a screen (as they currently do on most of their cars).

Probably unpopular opinion, but I preferred mechanical gauges anyway.
Peter Attia's book on longevity is really wonderful, as is his public discourse and research.
<https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40137135>
I'm disappointed that TFA has no recording of the noise!
Retro-tech HP-25 Calculator
Transmissions tend to have a lot of things that move around. Gears might be ok for a long time by themselves, but when there's gear selection, you get extra wear and tear when things don't meet up quite right. And everything gets hot, so you need lubricant/cooling and that can get gunked up by the wear and tear...

And then sometimes things aren't built as designed. The ford HF35 hybrid transmission should be pretty reliable as designed, but many of them were built with bearings (or something) that went bad, leading to an early salvage date for many C-Maxes.
As there was for every version of Windows before it. The results used to be shared directly in iso form, which made the subculture illegalish, and required you to hang around in the right places to learn about them.
May be ban TSA which requires you to open jacket, shoes, put laptops and phones in separate bins, open belts even if pant is loose.

TSA has made everything so inconvenient.
If a formal system isn't consistent, then it shouldn't work.
It is bad for a state - at least in relative terms - if it has a good thing and suddenly every state has that good thing. It means that people that might have once moved to California for its laws will no longer do so.
There's a Peter M. McIlroy as well!?!

All this time and I thought it was just Doug, I'm guessing Peter might be the son of the father of pipe?
They are loud but always present in Atlanta. In more rural areas it can be deafening. My kids were asking what the loud noise was at a rest stop last year. They fly all over my backyard and leave their shells as they grow. Their flying alone is pretty loud.
156500 employees.

I'm sure there's a few PR/Marketing people in there. It's not all "Good computer thinking people"

Google isn't a plucky startup with just a few dedicated engineers.
Exactly. A simple data point: the first version of RoboRock had SLAM-like technology to map out the area to vacuum. There is simply no excuse for iRobot to not have that capacity for so many years.
Congress won’t instantly have written laws to cover every regulation currently enforced by the federal government. Reasonably, it could take many years for those gaps to get filled. In the meanwhile, that means the courts are the key decision makers for large areas of government policy.
Stationery*
YT Shorts itself is kind of a mystery to me. It's an objective degradation of the interface; why on earth would I want to use it? It doesn't even allow adjustment of the playback speed or scrubbing!
yes, sure, its a democracy, but remember the politicians are scummy salesmen essentially LYING to get elected. Even with the relaxed attitude towards false marketing for products, they would have been shut down LONG ago if they were selling regular products.

Would they get away with the lies they spout if they were selling medical products? I think not.

So yeah, they WANT to wield power over you, and those who seek to do such, are the least qualified.
If a legal system doesn’t have some flex, it doesn’t work.
Lovely! HCL is a pain and barely improves. Thank you!
This is one of the common arguments that show the people who tell me I'm wrong to claim there is no problem with being single, and it is demonstrably wrong so, no, I won't stop with the “you can be happy single” thing.

Where in my post did I say I was lonely? Not having a relationship partner does not imply being lonely: I spend plenty of time with friends, family, and other people in my hobbies. Being single does not necessarily correlate with being lonely, in fact loneliness is a common problem for people in bad relationships. So while some single people are undoubtably lonely and many people who describe themselves as lonely are single, there is a huge pile of nuance between the two concepts.
Yes, 100 percent. These dipwads pay themselves 100x salaries. The only way to defend that is that they take 100x responsibility for screwing things up. I would say differently if it was just a rank-and-file IC but this individual has enriched himself greatly. He can endure a little bit of scrutiny for that.
Solution #1: don’t buy trash hardware.

Solution #2: don’t give any IOT stuff access to your network. Internet access is plenty, use a VLAN.
What's odd to me is how everything is so metricized. Clearly over metricization is the downfall of any system that looks meritocratic. Due to the limitations of metrics and how they are often far easier to game than to reach through the intended means.

An example of this I see is how new leaders come in and hit hard to cut costs. But the previous leader did this (and the one before them) so the system/group/company is fairly lean already. So to get anywhere near similar reductions or cost savings it typically means cutting more than fat. Which it's clear that many big corps are not running with enough fat in the first place (you want some fat! You just don't want to be obese!). This seems to create a pattern that ends up being indistinguishable from "That worked! Let's not do that anymore."