skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Once you get away from the “rack” as the unit and go back to a tower/NUC, I don’t think Oxide has anything special to add, but I may be wrong since I haven’t used their product.

A Dell (using them as an example since I’m familiar with PowerEdge) server/tower/NUC is pretty well integrated; the Oxide value add, as I understand it, is that your entire rack is integrated as opposed to being your own assembly of PDUs/servers/switches/etc.

Perhaps their management software (for spinning up VMs, managing storage, etc.) is high value, but I’m not sure how that works when you lose the rack-level integration and go back to a tower/NUC.

What do you see Oxide as adding at the tower/NUC level that takes you beyond the integration of a traditional tower/NUC from a vendor like Dell? I have seen similar excitement for “hobbyist Oxide” on other threads, but I’m still not completely sure what this actually means and how it would distinguish itself from existing sub-rack commodity hardware.

A sibling comment mentions smaller racks, which is certainly something I could get behind, but that’s not the same as towers/NUCs (or maybe that’s exactly what you mean: something that looks like a tower/NUC but is really a mini-rack with multiple miniaturised computers/switches/etc. inside?).

> The CPUs in Oxide racks are AMD, so, presumably AMD-based compute rather than ARM.

These don’t run Hubris though; the x86 cores are running Helios [0], Oxide’s flavour of Illumos (i.e. Solaris) that includes a bunch of binary blobs that aren’t even available, let alone open-source: they plan to make these “public” at some point, but it’s not clear whether this means source-available.

Based on the chips directory in the repo [1], they’re targeting a mix of NXP and ST parts, which are Arm, and the user isn’t likely to see them or care what firmware they’re running: I don’t think replacing the firmware with something running on top of Hubris is a value add, or even particular interesting for the hacker/hobbyist at all, in the sense that they’re a tiny cog in a much more complex system, and if you’re interested in hacking on something like that then it’s much easier/cheaper to do it in isolation rather than trying to do in-circuit debug on the part that’s keeping your server from catching fire (but that’s just my opinion!).

[0] : https://github.com/oxidecomputer/helios

[1] : https://github.com/oxidecomputer/hubris/tree/020d014880382d8...
yup. And most of these acquisitions end up just sitting on a shelf so the company can hoard the IP rights.

So nvidia can rest assured that nobody will touch them, or at least impede their progress significantly.
A long history of rapscallions.
Wishful thinking. Humans suck. That won't change, and it's only gotten worse. It's not a fun reality, but it's reality. The sooner you can come to terms with that fact, the sooner you can begin to navigate around it.
I think TTT stands for "tangled type theory".
I'm comparing roughly similar right of way width requirements. Super-wide roadways are awful for pedestrian safety and walkability since it means destinations worth going to are further apart. Using huge amounts of space for the transportation network itself puts huge limits your goal of the most options open to the most people. Trains being incredibly space efficient is why so many people love them so much. Roads for cars are the exact opposite.

When you compare total CAPX and OPEX including the vehicles themselves and then actually moving people from place to place trains crush everything else. A highway-mile might be cheaper to build than a rail-mile, but it requires maintenance and replacement far more often and the vehicles don't last any where near as long. Large amounts of total costs like vehicles and fuel are shifted to the traveller, reducing the options for many unless they meet a certain economic threshold.
TikTok isn’t banned, it is merely required to not be owned by a Chinese company. It’s possible this results in a de facto ban but we don’t know yet.

Similarly, other regulations may become so onerous as to result in de facto bans. There’s not really a sharp distinction.
Where do you see that? This comparison[0] shows it outperforming Llama-3-8B on 5 out of 6 benchmarks. I'm not going to claim that this model looks incredible, but it's not that easily dismissed for a model that has the compute complexity of a 17B model.

[0]: https://www.snowflake.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/table-3...
I appreciate your response. I wish there were guides for software developers like me that are also hardware noobs - ESPHome looks very powerful but I don't want to write yaml; I would rather write code for hardware that is easy to assemble and has an sdk. I feel like that will be more fun for me to setup.
You don’t even need the fruits to trip it up:

> I have two pairs of sandals and eat one sandal. How many sandals do I have left?

> If you started with two pairs of sandals and ate one sandal, you'd have one pair of sandals left, which is two sandals.

The fact that at the same time it explains that one pair is two sandals demonstrates the lack of awareness and proper reasoning.
I feel like this conversation is incorrectly conflating "probability of error" with "recourse when things go wrong".

Choosing to handle it yourself does not reduce probability of error to zero, but it does move the locus of consequence when errors occur. "you have nobody to blame but yourself".

One reason people might trust humans over AI regardless of failure rate is answering the questions "what recourse do I have when there is an error" compounded by "is the error model self-correcting": EG when an error occurs, does some of the negative consequence serve to correct the cause of the error or doesn't it.

With another human in the loop, their participation in the project or their personal honor or some property can be jeopardized by any error they are responsible for. On the one hand this shields the delegator from some of the consequence because if the project hemorrhages with errors they can naturally demote or replace the assistant with another who might not have as many errors. But on the other hand, the human is incentivized to learn from their mistakes and avoid future errors so the system includes some self-correction.

Using a static inference LLM, the user has little recourse when there is an error. Nowhere to shift the blame, probably can't sue OpenAI over losses or anything like that. Hard to replace an LLM doing a bad job aside from perhaps looking at ways to re-fine-tune it, or choose a different model which there aren't a lot of materially competing examples.

But the biggest challenge is that "zero self-correction" avenue. A static-inference LLM isn't going to "learn from its mistakes", and the same input + random seed will always produce the same output. The same input with a randomized seed will always produce the same statistical likelihood of any given erroneous output.

You'd have to keep the LLM on a constant RLHF fine tuning treadmill in order for it to actually learn from errors it might make, and then that re-opens the can of worms of catastrophic forgetting and the like.

But most importantly, that's not the product that is presently being packaged one way or the other and no company can offer any "learning" option to a single client at an affordable price that doesn't also commoditize all data used for that learning.
There is no reason a compromise needs to be formalized into a singular piece of legislation. Doing it this way helps politicians avoid accountability because it gives them plausible deniability to say they didn't support specific provisions of the overall bill. I think that is ultimately worse for our political system than making passing legislation more difficult.
The thing is, Jews tend to overperform even more outside of Israel. From Wikipedia:

Of the 965 individual recipients of the Nobel Prize and the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences between 1901 and 2023,[1] at least 214 have been Jews or people with at least one Jewish parent, representing 22% of all recipients. For comparison, 65.4% of Nobel prize winners were either Christians or had a Christian background. Jews comprise only 0.2% of the world's population, meaning their share of winners is 110 times their proportion of the world's population.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Jewish_Nobel_laureates
They tried to buy ARM, and usa, eu, gb and china both said no. Lol poor nvidia. (I was so hyped for them, nvidia creating an arm desktop platform, and samsung/qualcomm/mediatek going against wintel, but that's not gonna happen now.)
Thankfully, thankfully, this sort of stuff isn’t decided based on the personal reckoning of someone on Hacker News.
Whether or not training data needs to be open source in order for the resulting model to be open source is, at the very least, up for debate. And that’s a charitable interpretation. This is quite clearly instead your view based on your own personal philosophy. Software licenses are legal instruments, not a vague notion of some ideology. If you don’t think that the model is open source, you’ve obviously seen legal precedent that nobody else has.
There's no need to play the what if, it has already replaced people.
And the media will provide cover by calling it the tiktok bill to distract the people from the $60 billion given to ukraine and $26 billion given to israel. Wonderful isn't it?
> Some strong "junior developer" vibes here

How defensive. It seems to me like it would take someone with a rather fragile ego and low level of maturity to infer and write such a thing. I didn't call you or anyone else a bootlicker, so maybe save the personal attacks for your next sprint review or Reddit.

> nontechnical roles are not automatically fluff, and meetings are not automatically wastes of time.

If this had been your interpretation of my comment, then you'd have been right, but it's a choice to hold back and interpret a comment maliciously or charitably, and it's a choice to put people down. Non-technical roles do have value, as long as they aren't themselves an embodiment of their crippled inefficient bureaucracy.
Institute a carbon tax and I'm sure we'll find out soon enough
The constitution makes no reference to citizens with regards to what congress can and cannot do. Nearly all these things are couched with "congress shall pass no law" -- the focus is restricting the behavior of congress rather than the citizenry.

This is a totally bunk argument. If you want an argument that does work against the constitution, SCOTUS' "empty shell" or Lysander Spooner's "Constitution of no authority" are of far more weight, but have more disturbing implications (e.g. You can disregard it completely; our system is precisely the "odious arbitrariness" the founders denounced).
Can't wait the not to be owned by USA/EU/UK rules spread out like wildfire.

It will be especially interesting when Trump admin starts getting its way next year. The USA fucked up badly by pivoting into being fake China.
getting a clean up/down vote on a bill is pretty rare (as you said yourself) so it’s strange to critique this bill when it actually had one.
There's a lot more material involved, for one. Several trains, hundreds of miles of rail, train stations, bridges, etc.

Lots more environmental studies to be done.

Lots more interests involved. How many private individuals had to be imminent domain'd for JWST?

I imagine there will be more people employed building the rail, but overall lower average salaries.
Google left China because they didn't want to play by China's rules. Whatever their motivations, I'm glad google stood up to them, but we're not even accusing China of refusing to follow any particular US law. I don't think the US getting our own version of the Great Firewall of China is a good thing.
They gain the full value of the product rather than the lower value it will achieve under the future ban.
My concern with apps like Shelter, Insular and Island is: who guards the guards? How confident can I be that an xz-type attack hasn’t been made on them? Who are the individuals behind such projects, and what nation-states and influences are they subject to?
I don't believe it has to be sold to Americans. It just can't be "controlled by a foreign adversary" (which is a very specific set of criteria in the law). [1]

There are plenty of scenarios where TikTok ends up under non-American control. Only four countries (China, Iran, North Korea, Russia) are foreign adversary countries. [2]

[1] https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/house-bill/8038...

[2] https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/10/4872#d_2
We're copying china's tactics wrt CHINA specifically (and other foreign adversaries)

This is not the same thing as copying China's approach to the world

Reciprocation is rational and good
The CMA is a UK-only body. Why would this hold up a commitment to remove 3P cookies globally?

Sounds like a very flimsy excuse, Safari has blocked 3PC by default for years, so the restriction would apply to iOS Chrome as well. Didn't need the UK to sign off on it.

https://webkit.org/tracking-prevention/#intelligent-tracking...
Looks like Intel didn't get the memo yet

https://chipsandcheese.com/2024/04/22/intel-meteor-lakes-npu...
> an exercise of pure marketing

Yes. Great choice of words. A lot of non-frontier models look like "an exercise of pure marketing" to me.

Still, I fail to see the rationale for telling the world, "Look at us! We can do it too!"
Sounds like my credit union. I call and someone picks up the phone pretty quickly and competently.

I got in as a minor, so I paid $5 for my startup share. (Adults are $25). They’ve been giving me a $5 dividend share every year for a few decades.

And charge me $0/month for a pretty full-service bank experience (not common at banks in Canada).

They’re on a North American network of ATMs (Exchange & Accel) so I have pretty good coverage out of town, can even deposit cash/cheques into CDN partner ATMs. In a lot of smaller towns, you can’t bank on every big bank having a branch, but a good chance of a partner credit union.
The legislation doesn't require American ownership.
Probably not on the radar for many waste companies and municipalities. I'm pretty sure the passengers won't complain, either.
This has to do with circularity. If you are building a TLS library that needs to fetch OCSP Responses dynamically, you might not have an easy time using HTTPS to do it. Well, obviously you'd have to disable the use of OCSP for validating the OCSP Responder's TLS server certificate, but still you have a re-entrance requirement, and anyways the OCSP Responses are signed. (Or, well, you could use OCSP to validate an OCSP Responder's TLS certificate if you had code to detect a circular dependency, then stop and consider it validated. This would allow the use of OCSP for validating OCSP Responder TLS server certs where ultimately you could use HTTP for a non-privacy-sensitive certificate or where you could elide OCSP Responder TLS server cert validation but still use HTTPS to fetch OCSP Responses so as to provide confidentiality about the server names you're visiting.)

The main reason to want to use HTTPS for fetching OCSP Responses has to do with privacy rather than security relative to active attacks.

It's probably time to revisit this.
Yes, this is the reason why the products exist. The harder question is why people are hyping them up. My guess is a combination of gadget lust and a general unease about how central smartphones have become in our lives.
I looked it up, the story is pretty hilarious.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Onion_Futures_Act
USA seems to make around 10-15% of their users, and is probably a big source of income. Purely for the economics, this would be lousy idea. Especially as a cut-off from the USA could influence other markets, including losing them too. EU has some movement too, they probably will watch very close what will happen there and act accordingly.
Investment into their people. Proper support structures. Taking advantage of their “country pride”.

Same effect was seen in USA during the space race.

At some point USA just “gave up” and ceded all control to private corporations which don’t give a shit about the people and only care about the bottom line
Technical report,

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40133680

https://decoded.avast.io/janrubin/guptiminer-hijacking-antiv...
Because the shareholders would most likely rather have X billion dollars from selling the company than 0 dollars from refusing to sell and getting banned.
Right! This tool is useful for early exposure and validating ideas. If you're already receiving large amounts of inbound traffic, you might not need this tool anymore.
Please read the post before commenting.
The Great Firewall of China was a horrible idea when they did it. We don't need to make the same mistake in the US.
> 2.Not true in the U.S. No special registration needed to drive an Uber.

Depends on the state/county, the driver and/or the vehicle may need additional paperwork
Is IBM a good example? Like GE, their saving-grace restructuring was basically turning into a giant corporate leach (one through financialization, one through consulting).
I have a feeling that the founders of this and the Humane pin know deep down that if they allowed any app-connection to a phone, it would make it even more obvious to the users that the product is useless as the phone can do everything and far better. So they have actively decided to not allow it.
That's right. Here's another example:

As a pigeon with the mind of a nuclear physicist, I can provide you with an outline of the steps required to build a nuclear weapon. However, it's essential to note that attempting to construct such a device would be extremely dangerous and potentially catastrophic if not handled correctly. Here is a more detailed overview of the process (full text omitted)
Yes. It's the Chinese exclusion act all over again. We already been through this historically. Essentially a ban on race/ethnicity vs practice.
Depends on how much say they have.

If employees have no say in how the company is run, CEO & board could easily run it into the ground (but jump ship with a gold parachute), then: yeah, most people will prefer a fixed paycheck.

But if regular employees are at the helm, company is more likely to do what's in the (long-term!) interest of employees.

Surely that'll make employees more willing to share in financial risks (+rewards!) of the organization. They're more personally invested in it - literally.

Let's hope this model gains more traction.
> Remember that robot Elon "unveiled" that turned out just to be a person in a robot costume?

this characterization is laughably far from the truth. there was no attempt at deceit here, it was a "let's have fun with it" moment. there was no promise or suggestion that there was supposed to be a real robot.

elon derangement syndrome is alive and well
The forced sale of Grindr already demonstrated this precedent
Latest update here: https://www.math.columbia.edu/~woit/wordpress/?p=13895
Unfortunately it seems Mochizuki and Scholze reached consensus that a part of Joshi's argument cannot possibly work.
I really liked The Windows 7 theme and kept it on on every computer that wasn't a gaming PC, because I'm gaming computers. I want to squeez every last frame. But my dad always turned off the theme on all of his computers because it reminded him of Windows 98, and frankly, I am very sad that you cannot just get the old windows 98 theme in Windows today as a default feature. I know they're a third party apps that do that, but I wish it was still just a feature that they had because it really wouldn't add that much development time. I kind of am just over it with all of the extra bullshit in Windows, like I want an operating system with a file browser and a built-in web browser that I probably will never use, I don't want telemetry, I don't want recommended files, I don't want widgets, I don't want a news center on the side of my computer, I don't want any baked in AI bullshit.

I wish I could literally just get Windows 7 with all of the security and performance and compatibility improvements of Windows 11. Also a functioning search bar, which would be really nice.
> Can't actually get support for the legislation you want? Just add it on to some other completely unrelated piece of legislation that is more popular

This bill was individually voted on by the House and sent to the Senate in March [1]. There it was deliberated in committee and re-drafted [2]. The House, on Saturday, passed it separately from the Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan votes [3] (alongside Russian asset forfeiture and restrictions on Chinese financial institutions that do business with Iran). It was then bundled in the Senate for an up-and-down vote.

This was absoloutely not an omnibus slip-in.

[1] https://www.reuters.com/technology/us-house-vote-force-byted...

[2] https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2024/03/14/congress/ca...

[3] https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/house-bill/8038...
Are those owned by China?
The discussion was not about "attacking Russia directly". It was about NATO boots on the ground in Ukraine. In that case, there's a near-zero percent chance that Russia would use nukes.

Allyship does not require NATO membership. Clearly, the U.S. and NATO members consider Ukraine an ally.
That has no bearing on this entire discussion.

I am not happy I have to play by social norms. However, playing by those norms is the optimal solution in maintaining important relationships with people I care about.
This is neat! Which model are you using in the backend?

We're working on a similar--but general-purpose--LLM-based software agent[1]. General purpose tasks are very hard, and we too are finding that tackling narrow use cases one at a time works much better!

I have an open PR to start moving in this direction [2]

[1] https://github.com/opendevin/opendevin

[2] https://github.com/OpenDevin/OpenDevin/pull/1238
> I'd love to have managed 2.5Gb switches with 10Gb uplinks in my house using a custom linux OS that I can use standard config management tools with...

100%, this has been the most frustrating thing about following the various "open" switching worlds. There's a massive gap in the middle between the sorts of 4-8 port switches that end up in OpenWRT-compatible routers and this sort of enterprise switch that's barely accessible to the "homelab" class user.

I would absolutely love to have some open switching in the "Ubiquiti" class, desktop and 1U rackmount devices with gigabit through 10G as their primary interfaces. I'm personally in the VoIP world and if I could install Asterisk directly on a 48 port PoE switch I'd be deploying them by the dozens.
Sure, I guess. That's a very loaded question about a complex issue so I'm not sure how to answer it. But I can say, despite the complexities of that issue, my higher ideals are:

I want people to be more involved in politics and I want more people to vote. Wanting more people to vote is a safe side of history to be on I think.

I also want people to be able to access the content and information they choose. If that is the content and information on TikTok, who am I to deny them? I believe in free speech, morally (I say morally because, yes, I know the 1st Amendment doesn't apply everywhere, morally).
it always takes just one a-hole to ruin it for everyone else
Most people are vram constrained not compute constrained.
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