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> The reason Stitch is slightly faster than Wasm3 on Mac, but slightly slower on Linux, is likely because Stitch has more variants per instruction compared to Wasm3, which puts pressure on the instruction cache. I suspect this gives Stitch the edge on the Apple M2 Pro, with its large instruction cache, but Wasm3 the edge on the Intel Xeon E312xx, with its smaller instruciton cache.

What means "more variants per instruction" here?
Going linux on older machines is a great way to revive them. Totally agreed with rbanffy up with his comment.

If you want to play around, learn linux or try your hand at distro swapping, old machines make a superb tool.

there is a yt channel called action retro that had posted a video tutorial on installing ubuntu to intel macs that you should check out imo
5 days ago:
https://www.reviewjournal.com/opinion/editorials/editorial-g...

> Late last month, Germany’s energy regulator said the country needs more coal power.

If you want a less biased source, here is bloomberg: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-04-30/germany-s...

> Reserve plant capacity needs to double by 2026, regulator says

> Power stations on standby are mostly coal-, gas-fired plants
a generation of consultants is already doing that- look at the ruckus around PWC etc in Australia. Hell, look at the folks supposedly doing diligence on Enron. This is not new. People lie, fib and prevaricate. The fact the machines trained on our actions do the same thing should not come as a shock. If anything it strikes me as the uncanny valley of truthiness.
It seems that the "Global South" much prefer moral relativist than moral purists that cant stop lecturing others
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As I wrote only yesterday, "the usual critics will point out that LLMs like GPT-4o still have a lot of failure modes and suffer from issues that remain unresolved. They will point out that we're reaping diminishing returns from Transformers. They will question the absence of a "GPT-5" model. And so on..."[a]

Gary Marcus is one of those critics. He's always ready to "explain" why a new model is not yet intelligent. In the OP, he repeats the usual criticisms, making him sound, ahem, like a stochastic parrot. He largely ignores all the work that has gone into making GPT4-o behave and sound in ways that feel more natural, more human.

My suggestion is to watch the demos of GPT4-o, play with it, and reach your own conclusions. To me, it feels magical. It makes the AIs of many movies look like they are no longer in the realm of science fiction but in the realm of incremental product development.

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[a] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40346080
The same furniture store had an AR app 4 years ago: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gu7iOtCR0xA

They seem pretty tech savy! Wouldn't be surprised if they had some things to say about AI.

P.S. it's funny to see that same Corperate style from the 90s updated to 2020s.
Yeah, I think him leaving was a huge blow to OpenAI that they have maybe not yet recovered from. Clearly there is no moat to transformer-based LLM development (other than money), but in terms of pace of development (insight as to what is important) I think Anthropic have the edge, although Reka are also storming ahead at impressive pace.
> The device itself is neglected, underpowered, unresponsive, unreliable , sluggish with a terrible UI.

UI is great! I can easily read on the thing. What is “terrible”? Who cares if the device is underpowered or whatever? I tap on the screen and things happen. I’ve owned nearly every kindle ever released and never had any of the complaints you do.

It’s great for reading, I’m not mining bitcoin on the thing.

It’s an excellent single-use device.

What exactly do you want the Kindle to be?
I'm actually in the first camp. For I believe that our brains is really LLM on steroids and logic rules are just in our "prompt".

What we need is a LLM that will iterate over its output until it feels that it's correct. Right now LLM output is like random thought in my mind. Which might be true or not. Before writing forum post I'd think it twice. And may be I'll rewrite the post before submitting it. And when I'm solving a complex problem, it might take weeks and thousands of iterations. Even reading math proof might take a lot of effort. LLM should learn to do it. I think that's the key to imitating human intelligence.
You can't just say that without context! What does the code do? How did it end up in DB? I'm really curious now.
Datteln 4 is not new?
Yes, though perhaps I'm not using the best terminology. English doesn't have "grammatical gender", so a noun like "table" or "wisdom" doesn't have a gender like it would in French or German, but there's a distinction in pronouns ("he" and "she") which many (perhaps most) languages don't have.

Unfortunately, Wikipedia doesn't seem to have a list of languages that lack gender in the sense I'm thinking of. It would be nice to have such a list, or to refine the list at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_languages_by_type_of_g... so that it contains that information.

Finnish and Hungarian lack gender in the sense I'm thinking of, and so does spoken Chinese or old Chinese: I'm told that gender was introduced into the modern written language by Europeans. (I have often heard Chinese people say "he" instead of "she" or vice versa when speaking English. I don't think I've ever heard a French or German person make that mistake. I'm thinking of cases in which the speaker knows the gender of the person being referred to but is making a language error. I don't mean cases in which people incorrectly guess the person's gender, which is also interesting, but a different kind of error.)
The 3 year solar capacity includes every reactor ever build in germany, including those decomissioned _before_ 2011.
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"clearly stalled" -- how do people make such quick jumps?

I for one have no idea what the future holds, but I also realize that GPT4 was released a year ago, in that time there have been a number of updates that have improved different attributes of the model. Hard to really say one way or the other without being on the inside.
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I wonder if maybe they have implemented the touch bar in a much more useful way? The mac one was pointless and only served to reduce utility but with the right software it could have been fantastic. Some 3rd party software hacks even gave it haptic feedback (by activating the trackpads haptics) and that alone made it a million times better. Interested to see what Dell have done with it.
Just include transcripts from Congressional hearings, there's plenty of "I don't recall" written there.
Having asked these questions myself you can find out through Sal at WHATS GOING ON WITH SHIPPING on YouTube.
It is kind of amazing that a corporation can get a deferred prosecution agreement based on a monetary penalty.

If I had killed someone, would I be allowed to buy my freedom?
It is not Oracle who are using terraform, it is their customers. Terraform is the underline tech that powers the tooling suit that the customers use to manage their oracle cloud.

It makes perfect sense for them to push their customers to move to the more permissive licensing to avoid any legal issues.
Or if they had gone full nuclear like France. From the article:

"While Germany's power carbon intensity vastly exceeds the roughly 45g of CO2/KWh of France's nuclear-heavy system, the 166g reading at 1 p.m. on May 13 was below the 170g of CO2/KWh emitted during the same hour in Britain, which on an annual basis has a far lower carbon intensity than Germany."
The size of programs (as opposed to libraries, which could be easier because their code is not nearly as self-interacting) that has been end-to-end verified with semi-automated deductive proof systems like Coq is quite small. In fact, the size of programs that can be verified in this way has grown at a slower pace than the growth in the average size of programs overall. While sound software verification (i.e. a 100% conformance to a spec) certainly has its place (usually to prove the correctness of some core algorithms), it doesn't scale well, which is why there's been a shift in research into unsound methods because the cost of 100% assurance can be 10x that of 99.9999% assurance, and the difference in probability may fall below that of non-software failures (after all, a physical system cannot be proven to conform to a spec) or the probability of a spec that doesn't conform well enough to reality.
plus, Russia was a large supplier of uranium

https://www.politico.eu/article/europe-just-cant-quit-russia...
tokenization is not the issue - these LLMs can all break a word into letters if you ask them.
> Unless you are referring to something like NVLink

Yep

> an H100

H100 NVL is the SKU for HPC.
Would love to understand more about your last statement.
Coal produce 10% of the energy of Germany right now, it's 60% of the emissions.
5% of nuclear would reduce by a third the Germany emissions by reducing coal usage.

> Wouldn't change much if any at all.
The point is these characters are not doing the work for people, it co-authors the work with them. It's just like working with someone highly educated but with next to no experience - they're a great help, but ya gotta look at their work to verify they are on track. This is the same, but with a collection of inexperienced phds. The LLMs really are idiot savants, and when you treat them like that they respond with expectations better.
Why is the Hyper-V backend so much slower?
Is that nameplate or actual usable solar? In Texas or Spain the solar capacity factor is about 0.2, in Germany it's probably 0.15 or less.

So if it's nameplate equivalent but with nuclear capacity factor of 0.9 or more you'd have to 6x the solar to produce the same amount of energy to the grid over a year.
> I ignore the "limited liability" bs since it should not shield you from criminal behaviour.

It doesn't. That's not what "limited liability" is for.

> Limited liability is a legal status in which a person's financial liability is limited to a fixed sum, most commonly the value of a person's investment in a corporation, company or joint venture. If a company that provides limited liability to its investors is sued, then the claimants are generally entitled to collect only against the assets of the company, not the assets of its shareholders or other investors. A shareholder in a corporation or limited liability company is not personally liable for any of the debts of the company, other than for the amount already invested in the company and for any unpaid amount on the shares in the company, if any, except under special and rare circumstances permitting "piercing the corporate veil." The same is true for the members of a limited liability partnership and the limited partners in a limited partnership. By contrast, sole proprietors and partners in general partnerships are each liable for all the debts of the business (unlimited liability).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Limited_liability

(emphasis mine)
We have run that test.- generate random string(not by llm) names of values- ask the llm to do math (algebra) using those strings. Tests logic, 100% not in the data set GPT2 was like 50% accurate, now we up around the 90%.
Nuclear is dead in EU.

It's a capital intensive project that should run 24/7 to recupe the cost.

What will happen when solar is cheaper than nuclear 50% of a year(that is going to happen, we can charge batteries for a day and solar will have enough capacity)?

Thanks to electricity pricing, it won't be bought and thusprice from nuclear will have to be double in remaining time.
Previously https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39113879 (92 Comments)
Comparativly, Netherland's weather is excellent.
I wish Debian/APT had first-class support for having multiple versions of the same library.

On a large system it's inevitable that packages will be upgrading at different rates, and a bit of duplication can be a way out of complex system-wide dependency chains held by the most outdated package.

Despite lack of tooling support, Debian still does not completely avoid duplicated packages. They merely manually move the major version number to the package name (foo v10.0 and foo11 v11.0), causing package names to vary between distros and Debian versions. This seems like the worst solution, since APT can't automatically do it where it would be useful, and renamed packages complicate use of tools like pkg-config, ansible, and providing install instructions to users.
>Crypto currencies has the potential to grow the world economy by about 1-3%, as banking fees go down.

Bank fees don't disappear into the ether when they're collected, so I doubt they have this much affect.

Oh, made my very first retail purchase with Bitcoin the other day. While the process was pretty slick and easy, the network charged $15.00 in fees. Long way to go until "free".
Does that mean DCT(DCT(image)) == image?
Why is it so hard to get a clear story on nuclear power on Havker News? The threads below devolve to: “you’re lying!”, “no, you’re lying!!” Yall pretend to be geniuses and turn into raving flame wars at the slightest mention of nuclear.
Electrolysers are under $300/kW in China. This is acceptably cheap.
LOL I'd put prechecked boxes into injection too.

You see a social media post of something that's free - a 10 step ebook perhaps but then there are 55 checkboxes prechecked of $5 or $10 each lol

not so sneaky but injection nonetheless
2000 is #7, 2001 is #19. Guess what they mean. Oh wait, it was in 2012.
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Why? If a word has a perfectly workable definition that everybody is already familiar with, why do we “need” to hijack it with a new, different definition?
I don't find a single, reliable German source for all of that fuss. That might make you think about it again...
You'll notice that, if you read the original messages, nowhere did they suggest anything concrete. They're just offering to investigate what would need to be done to continue operation. This is just blown out of proportion and thus far has had no relevance in the German political landscape. It's rightfully ignored.
The numbers are too low. We have seen a surge in solar panels on balconies (~10% in this higher income neighborhood), which isn't taken into account. Also several people in my family have their roof full for their own consumtion + EV, this also not taken into account.

We recently went on the Autobahn for a 1000km journey, and you can see some solar farms, but very few. There is still a huge potential.

Solar will also kick into second gear as soon as batteries get cheaper or EV batteries are recycled into house batteries.
this seems very interesting! thanks, i will check it out!
With abombs for weapons systems design they needed people who just got huge kicks out of explosions (not kidding here). I guess it’s partially about personal internal motivations, and it might be more of a chance wether the thing you are intrinsically motivated to do falls under engineering or science (in both cases you get the feeling the greats did stuff they wanted to do regardless of the categorizations applied to their discipline - you get more capital affinity in engineering ofc).
I run ultramarathons and whether true or not, we sometimes joke about this. We'd say that the typical Springbok would fall down from exhaustion after 30 km and that's why we runners hit that metaphorical wall after 31 km; we evolved because we needed to outrun the gazelle by only a bit. From there on, it's a tough grind to complete the race.

Very tongue-in-cheek, but too good of a story not to tell.
GPT-4o has no problem on my computer. Here is the output. (read past the first line)

The first elephant to "swim" (not swing) across the English Channel was Jumbo the elephant. Jumbo, an African elephant, gained fame in the 19th century as a star attraction in the London Zoo and later with P.T. Barnum's circus in the United States. However, it is essential to clarify that Jumbo did not swim across the English Channel in the literal sense. Instead, he traveled by boat from England to the United States in 1882, marking a significant journey in his life and adding to his fame.

The idea of an elephant physically swimming across the English Channel is a myth or a playful exaggeration rather than a historical fact.
For a lot of things you need to pay more for more speed, so that's why I specified both.

Otherwise they could probably make it way faster but also much more expensive by doing less batching, speculative decoding, etc.
festivals are also generally great fun and provide a welcome change from the otherwise often monotonous daily life :)
If you have an evaluation function which does this accurately and generalizes, you pretty much already have have AGI.
Take the perspective that software is a tool to get something else done. The last couple decades, people were creating and selling software for its own sake - that era may be over. So stop focusing on the tool and start focusing on what people are doing that needs the tool in the first place. Focus your business there.
Bison, not cows...

At least until they figure out that Bison are edible too.
I'm at a law firm, this is in use with attorneys to great success. And no, none of them are so dumb they do not verify the LLM's outputs.
I pray for a Linux on a Dell XPS 13 with the battery duration of a MacBook Air 13/14" (and solid, without a fan). I Don't care too much about the raw power but something that doesn't feel slow.
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I honestly don’t mind so much if it detects “ai-generated” vs. “human-generated”—the key thing to detect is whether the page is full of irrelevant SEO junk. GP suggested several attributes that ought to be detectable. Even if we don't eliminate the AI content, but succeed in promoting "better" content, maybe it's an improvement?
Don't read too much into that, tons of places are quietly xenophobic while publicly they project a different image. There is huge difference big cities vs rural areas, don't expect simpler folks living few decades in the past to be very welcoming towards unknown.

Its slowly fading away from the face of the earth, but don't let some virtual bubbles like HN or physical ones like say SF or NY or western European big cities make the impression that this is how everybody there thinks.

People generally don't change their set-in-stone core opinions, critical thinking and self-reassessment is a privilege of relatively few, but they for sure learned to keep it to themselves these times.
I'm genuinely curious: what do you expect an "AGI" system to be able to do that we can't do with today's technology?
Germany shouldn't have closed the nuclear plants.
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> full nuclear like France

The France that regularly has to shut down its reactors in the summer because there's no water for cooling left? Great idea!
Parties like AfD still have their place on national TV and regional news, just as Orban does. I don't agree with them but I don't think they should necessarily be banned from Twitter if they still have the right to be on TV and radio.
Oracle Linux has been a thing for decades.

It's largely because a lot of Oracle DB products where performance mattered (eg. Exadata) needed some sort of a base OS that Oracle could manage and optimize as needed.
So, two Flight Technical Pilots and that's it?
Is there a good layman’s explanation of higher dimensions as they relate to this type of problem? I’m trying to envision what that means, which is probably a wrong approach…
It is interesting to me how quickly people jump on the negative bandwagon. "companies are wasting money", "there is no value in LLM", "peak llm"....the list goes on. There is a lot of value to these models and the timeline they are improving is impressive.
The cheaper insurance can offset this. If you pay $30/month for minimum coverage , versus $300 for comprehensive, that’s 3200/year. If you get totaled only once every three years, you’ll have 10k toward a new car.
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Yes, I was referring to the opening of the article which ridicules (trolls) Aristotelian physics.
No, I did not only read the beginning. I also skimmed over the rest.
Russia is part of the uranium supply chain (not the source of the raw material), because the greens closed off the research&plants in EU.

A well known example: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superph%C3%A9nix

UK stepped up and started to invest in the supply chain and replace Russia one day.
If it can't run Linux or the *BSDs, it's a closed device no different than a cell phone.
Which apply to crimes committed in the country asking for extradition.

E.g. Artem Vaulin didn't commit crimes in the US by running a torrent website from his home in Ukraine, yet he was extradited and sued by a court in Illinois, instead of a court in Ukraine where his alleged crimes took place.

Random guys kidnapped by the CIA didn't commit crimes in the US either.
Here's an old (14yo!) BBC Earth documentary about it:

> Human beings are a particular type of mammal. In this compelling clip, we see a tribesman runner pursue his prey through the most harsh conditions in a gruelling eight hour chase.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=826HMLoiE_o

8 hours of something more akin to trail running than marathon, interspersed with game tracking. I wouldn't describe the running parts as "sprinting" though.
So buy the computer you want. There's a glut of different options out there. No point in getting upset when a company makes something that isn't for you.
Yeah, and if you have any problem estimating the golfball carrying capacity of a schoolbus, Google are your go-to guys.
…people are generally drinking for the immediate effects, not the hangover.
Tell it you will give it tips for kWhrs.
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Like Toyota's car with a “simulated stick shift”? https://www.caranddriver.com/news/a45754176/toyota-manual-ev...

> The prototype was convincing even when we tried to fool it. De-clutching leaves the car coasting, and selecting lower gears increases the regenerative braking, simulating the feeling of engine braking. When downshifting, it's possible to rev match by blipping the accelerator in the brief moment when the clutch is fully depressed. The penalty for letting the clutch up too abruptly when selecting a low gear is a bump of shift shock—momentarily over-revving the electric motors—and a similar lack of finesse when trying to pull away without sufficient revs results in a virtual stall.

Sure, simulating the stall characteristics of an aeroplane is several orders of magnitude worse than simulating the stall characteristics of a car, but… still.
I was thinking the other day if lab grown wood would be viable, like lab grown meat.

Maybe genetically engineered trees that all grow in nominal dimensions like Minecraft trees.
Installed capacity is a silly metric when you want to compare intermittent energy sources like solar and wind with baseload ones like nuclear.
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If anything I’ve noticed it’s faster than it used to be. I figured it had to do with optimizing the latest model checkpoints or the switch to gpt-4o or something. Definitely not slower for me though.