skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I suspect your comment is meant to imply his role at a NoSQL company invalidates his opinion.

With a resume and history like his, he can get a role as a technical advisor pretty much anywhere he wants at any time.

The fact that he chose a NoSQL firm is an extremely strong vote of confidence in NoSQL.
The word iPad is already overloaded:

iPad
iPad Mini
iPad Air 11/13, USB3
iPad Pro 11/13, USB4
iPad Pro 11/13 1TB+, USB4, 16GB, extra CPU core, matte [Ultra?]

Optional Pencil, wired thin keyboard, wired magic keyboard+trackpad, wireless (less secure) 3rd party keyboard cases, external display with Stage Manager, virtual desktop with Sidecar, Lockdown mode for more security, HDMI input as standalone monitor, USB ethernet, realtime audio descriptions of live camera feed, Center Stage auto-follow human during video conferencing, ... the list goes on.
I appreciate how you laid this out. I would most likely fall into category one and I don't see a huge need for the chatbots for myself, although I can imagine I might like an Alan-Watts-level companion more than many human friends.

I think I also worry the most about two, almost asking their human friends, "Why can't you be more like Her (or Alan Watts)?" And then retreating into the "you never tell me I'm wrong" chatbot, preferring the "peace" of the chatbot over the "drama" of interacting with humans. I see a huge "I just want peace" movement that seems to run away from the messiness of human interactions and seek solace in things that seem less messy, like drugs, video games, and other attachments/bonds, and chatbots could probably perform that replacement role quite well, and yet deepen loneliness.

As for three, I agree it may help as a short-term solution, and wonder what the long-term effects might be. I had a great aunt in a home for dementia, and wonder what effect it would have if someone with dementia speaks to a chatbot that hallucinates and makes up emotions.
I still don't understand the advantage of NoSQL over just defining a JSON column and additionally defining columns for the fields you want to query. Postgres lets you do queries over json documents too iirc.
The killer use case here, as I think most people have figured out, is figuring out where your stuff is when it's in a system you don't have visibility into. Like if UPS says it's "on the way" from NYC to LA or something, and especially if the airline isn't sure where your luggage is. It's just spectacular for that.

And of course where did I leave my keys and is my backpack in the car or at work stuff, but that's the obvious/advertised use.
Intel was chosen because the DoE wanted to foster an entire ecosystem of GPU vendors, because having a single vendor is a MASSIVE bottleneck.

Intel, AMD, and Nvidia were all vendors on Exascale projects [0]

> Intel is dog shit

Intel has issues with execution, but their engineers are still top notch. They are the last American company to actually do semiconductor fabrication, and only fell behind TSMC and Samsung in fabrication only 6-7 years ago because they didn't choose to invest in EUV lithography instead of other methods.

[0] - http://helper.ipam.ucla.edu/publications/nmetut/nmetut_19423...
GPT-4 passes most of the 297 written Polish Board Certification Examinations
That doesn't mean it's permanent?
this comment makes me laugh
Clicking that link made my browser and system freeze with 100% core usage.
What’s the reference here? I feel like I’ve seen this before.
This feels like a submarine article for Couchbase.

https://paulgraham.com/submarine.html
Pushing CSS:has() to its limits – highlightable parentheses, variable bindings
> People who drive cars are not victims.

Sure they are. They're victims of the entities which killed public transport so they could profit more, and the oil companies who lied and funded disinformation about climate change.

> As for oil company research, anybody could do research.

Many have? Even long before the 70s.

That does not absolve oil companies of their crimes. They've spent untold millions promoting doubt for 50+ years, lobbied politicians for subsidies, infiltrated regulatory agencies, targeted activists, smeared alternatives, etc etc, all in full knowledge that they were putting us on a catastrophic course.

> You can also blame the activists for preventing nuclear power generation.

"Activists" are not a monolithic entity. Nuclear isn't perfect either - there's only so much fuel in the world.

Also, I would instantly bet you my life savings that Big Oil money promoted the anti-nuclear campaign.

I think you need to think much, much deeper on this.
Hardware-Friendly Databases (with DuckDB co-creator, Mühleisen)
https://youtu.be/pZV9FvdKmLc?si=kSVCzJ2rQrTN8IMb
They are admitting that is the im-also-a-good-gpt2-chatbot. There was 3....
Don't ask me why.

The "gpt2-chatbot" was the worst of the three.
Anecdata: I have a 2022 Prius with radar cruise control and lane guidance. During my first road trip, I discovered that the lane guidance actually did steering through curves (I don’t know how tight it handles, but certainly, it handles the kind of curves that are typical of interstate-level highways.¹ Similarly, the cruise control will slow the car down to a full stop if necessary.

Of course, while magical by the standards of my previous cars, it’s still rudimentary. It doesn’t do a good job of catching people merging in front of me and slowing down appropriately and while I often use it on surface streets as well (giving me more consistent acceleration and better gas milage), it will happily drive right through a stop sign or red light if there’s no car in front of me coming to a stop.

This puts the automation into the danger valley between manual operation and pushing a button in an elevator. Really, anything short of elevator-level automation, especially without high-level training (consider the accidents that happen with jet autopilot even with that training) is ultimately going to be more dangerous on balance because it can lull the operator into a false sense of complacency.

⸻

1. It also gets very upset if it detects your hands not on the wheel as I discovered when I decided to see if the car really was steering itself through the curves.
Yeah I agree on not being overly opinionated on this. SQL, NoSQL, for most applications as long as the data is stored somewhere reliably it doesn't matter.

Although, he's kind of losing me on this SQL/C++ hybrid, not sure I can get behind that one.
JSON in PG is vastly inferior to MongoDB, that being performance and query friendliness from code.

Something that most people don't know, any time you add a new field in a jsonb doc, PG has to rewrite the entire document.
> Even if it's not accurate for everyone, it's accurate enough for vast majority of people.

It has to be accurate for everyone. You're talking about imposing a restriction that amounts to house arrest for anyone who can't afford a city apartment or a chauffeur.

> Even if you talk about someone cutting you off, that doesn't happen often.

I see that you have not experienced the wonders of New York traffic.

> You aren't going to get 5 "coin flip" accidents in 5 years.

If you flip a coin 5 times in a row, the chances of it coming up tails every time is 1 in 32. Against a hundred million drivers that's a lot of people.

And that's assuming it's fully random and not e.g. you have the first two falsely attributed to you at random, at which point investigating officers see your record and become biased to finding you at fault in any case going forward.

> If you really think that fault will be attributed to you incorrectly that often, then your insurance will surely go up, so you already have a dash cam to protect yourself from this existing reality you are peddling?

People don't think it will happen ahead of time, they realize it can happen after it already has.

US motor vehicle laws are also (presumably intentionally) designed to let the police come to any conclusion they want as a pretext for searches or revenue-generating citations. For example, hardly anybody follows the speed limit, so if you drive below the speed limit then you're impeding the normal flow of traffic (nominally a violation), and causing a (real) hazard because other cars will bunch up and perform lane change maneuvers to go around you. It's also "suspicious"; the people who do it are disproportionately drunk or in possession of contraband. But if you drive with the flow of traffic then you're speeding which is also a violation.

A dash cam might then help you if an accident is caused by the other driver doing something egregious, but if it's caused by e.g. bad road design and the officer is nonetheless expected to assign fault to somebody, now you're handing them a pile of evidence from which to identify common violations. It's not obvious that it helps you.
Learn, or relearn, proper search skills.
what do you mean what happens to them? the process of automating away jobs is ongoing for quite some time. so in that sense it's a political question. the solution is also not new, negative income tax (a form of UBI).
The comment isn't saying that the benchmark isn't useful. They are saying that there is no 'barrier' to be broken.

The sound barrier was relevant because there was a significant physical effects to overcome specifically when going trans-sonic. It wasn't a question of just adding more powerful engines to existing aircraft. They didn't choose the sound barrier because its a nice number, it was a big deal because all sorts of things behaved outside of their understanding of aerodynamics at that point. People died in the pursuit of understanding the sound barrier.

The 'exascale barrier', afaict, is just another number chosen specifically because it is a round(ish) number. It didn't turn computer scientists into smoking holes in the desert when it went wrong. This is an incremental improvement in an incredible field, but not a world changing watershed moment.
"I don't want to lose everything if I get pickpocketed"
As someone from Wisconsin, I can say with certainly that you can in fact get great cheese at Piggly Wiggly. I have no idea if they exist in other states though, and if they do the cheese is no doubt worse.
Vote of confidence in NoSQL to do what? There will never be a "winner" between NoSQL, SQL, NewSQL, etc, because they each fulfill a different purpose and have different trade offs.
https://fav.farm seems like a cool service at first, but it doesn't actually do a whole lot. I'd just assume inline the one-liner they mention (similar to https://css-tricks.com/emoji-as-a-favicon/) and avoid the external dependency for the price of 117 characters.
Blade Runner

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vrP-_T-h9YM
> my understanding correct

Yes

> why is it important to build supercomputers with more and more compute

A mix of

- research in distributed systems (there are plenty of open questions in Concurrency, Parallelization, Computer Architecture, etc)

- a way to maintain an ecosystem of large vendors (Intel, AMD, Nvidia and plenty of smaller vendors all get a piece of the pie to subsidize R&D)

- some problems are EXTREMELY computationally and financially expensive, so they require large On-Prem compute capabilities (eg. Protein folding, machine learning when I was in undergrad [DGX-100s were subsidized by Aurora], etc)

- some problems are extremely sensitive for national security reasons and it's best to keep all personnel in a single region (eg. Nuclear simulations, turbine simulations, some niche ML work, etc)

In reality you need to do both, and planners know this fact, and have known this fact for decades
We have that rule here near Santa Fe, NM.

This year, this year the day before Mother's Day saw a hailstorm that decimated much of our cold-weather early crops (arugula, peas, spinach etc.)
Not for long, since cross compatibility with android is apparently coming.

IIRC, they need you running macos to get the data via a plugin for apple mail. If you only needed an appleID, it could likely be done in a web browser.
"give me the man, and I will find the crime"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Give_me_the_man_and_I_will_giv...
I wonder how long until we see a product that's able to record workstation displays and provide a conversational analysis of work conducted that day by all of your employees.
Good point, yeah, generally the basic survival topics are still in play even when we're busy with finer details! Still, giving an intelligent species the credit for (perhaps) engaging in the final details seems like something generous to leave on the table! Like whale dating apps, exactly.

Maybe the trees would show something useful to GTP
Bigger systems when utilized at 100% are more efficient than multiple smaller systems when utilized at 100%, in terms of engineering work, software, etc.

But also, bigger systems have more opportunities to achieve higher utilization than smaller systems due to the dynamics of bin packing problem.
I started to watch video but had to stop after a few seconds. It is way too cheesy.
Quite amazing performance, however ironically the output for RTL languages doesn't read very well.

You might want to add `direction: rtl` to your `.text-right` CSS class. The punctuation marks etc are all off for RTL languages.
Are you using a compiled language? IF so, what are you building with? That is the part that bazel optimizes. Once the build artifact is created, you can containerize it with dagger, of course.
What generates more subscription revenue?

Do app sales (multitasking = new apps) generate 30% store fees?

Do device sales correlate with subscription sales?
That's the same as slurring at someone in a language they don't know. They don't understand what you meant so it doesn't matter right?

The point is not the animal's comprehension of the term but the implication that the animal gave consent to have their organs harvested by saying "donor". If you argue that the pig cannot understand English so can't be offended the same applies that they can't understand English so cannot give affirmative consent.
When a Google engineer was let go because he believed the AI was 'real', we all had a good debate over it.

Now openAi, who was supposed to be the 'free mans choice' is making advertisements selling the same idea.

This is a natural progression, audio is one of the main ways we communicate obviously, but it feels like they're holding back. Like they're slow dropping what they have to maintain hype/market relevance. They clearly are ahead, but would be nice to get it all, openly. As they promised.
How do you hail an Uber or Lyft upon arrival?

Endpoint navigation is not optional for me. I suppose you could pre-login to only those apps, but still, there is nothing that interesting on my phone that I want to spend the energy to wipe, restore, and re-login to a hundred apps.
there’s also Bell Prize submissions, which is the only time some machines get completely reserved
> Unfortunately missing in ECS is RISC-V, which QBE supports

Well, the Tensilica ABI only took a few weeks to implement; so I assume that when enough people ask for a RISC-V backend, there will be one in reasonable time. Personally I consider ESP32 and ARM32 support more useful.
I used make as a task runner for probably 30 years; using all the tricks to do most of the things you want in that use case (arguments, help, portability, reliability..). I worked around all the idiosyncracies continually. That's enough time sunk into wasteful friction for me. Now just is here, and the people pushing it are right. For this job (task/script manager for more than trivial commands) it's better enough and reduces cognitive load enough that it's very often worth the install requirement and new learning curve. In time it will be more installed-by-default and I'm certain it'll acquire some form of make-like dependent building as well.

[Apologies for contributing to the slightly off topic discussion. makext sounds great for people still using make for this and I totally would have used it in the past.]
> Donald Chamberlin, who first proposed the language with IBM colleague Raymond Boyce in a 1974 paper [PDF], explains that NoSQL databases and their query languages could help perform the tasks relational systems were never designed for.

So the news is that a database expert, in the employ of a noSQL database company, is saying not to use SQL databases for the things they aren't made for?
The Linux kernel giving CVEs to all bugfixes is sort of predictable
If this hash was used as checksum, how would it compare to CRC?
Yes. I'm not sure if you were being sarcastic, but I'll assume not.

I don't know if anything is genuinely always positive and even if it were, I don't know if it would be very intelligent (or fun to interact with). I think it's helpful to cry, helpful to feel angry, helpful to feel afraid, and many other states of being that cultures often label as negative. I also think most of us watch movies and series that have a full range of emotions, not just the ones we label as positive, as they bring a richness to life and allow us to solve problems that other emotions don't.

For example, it's hard to lift heavy things while feeling very happy. Try lifting something heavy while laughing hard, quite difficult. It's hard to sleep while feeling excited, as many kids know before a holiday where they receive gifts, especially Christmas in the US. It's hard to survive without feeling fear of falling off a cliff. It's hard to stand up for what one wants and believes without some anger.

I worry that language and communication may become even more conflict avoidant than it already is right now, so I'm curious to see how some of these chatbots grow in their ability to address and resolve conflict and how that impacts us.
Weird. The background on the signup form should be white. Could you maybe provide an image of what's happening?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZRcpnM26nJM
But at least that would make the AI easier to detect :).
Can someone here define what "EQ" is since the author broke the rule of defining the acronym during the first instance that it is encountered? The entire context of the article is lost without this definition and makes no sense.

https://www.mcc.gov/resources/story/section-writing-guide-go...
I feel like a lot of the big GPU clusters that companies like Meta are using would score highly on the benchmark, even though Linpack seems to be based on fp64 which the H200 is kinda sucky at. However, there's only one GH200-based machine (Alps, with 2688 GH200 nodes) in the top 10 even though I'm fairly sure it's quite a bit smaller than whatever Meta is training Llama 3 on. Is there any reason why we don't see those show up in TOP500?
Gestaltzerfall
I have no problem with disagreement when it's at least coherent and based on actual fact.

But I can't see any legitimate criticism in the entire post, just a load of people jumping to conclusions and even attacking the author. Misunderstandings, misinterpretations, and disturbing assumptions are all over the place. It's weird.

So many people very obviously missed the entire point, and are mad about stuff they invented entirely.
In the same way SQL encourages you to normalize your data for DRY representation, NoSQL encourages you to denormalize for fast retreival. I wrote about this more than a decade ago, and the basics haven't changed: https://web.archive.org/web/20160312130429/http://blog.couch...

[Note] I'm a cofounder of Couchbase, my new project is a realtime embedded JavaScript database with local-first sync: https://fireproof.storage
IANAL, but as a green card holder my lawyer told me they cannot deny you entry without an order from an immigration judge (likely if travel was not brief - more than 180 days, or they engaged in illegal activity after leaving the United States as defined in 8 U.S.C. 1101(a)(13)) - you only have to answer questions about your name and status, nothing more - though, obviously it will likely cause delays.

Still, give them the code if you want.
It is definitely not incremental. If you watch some talk on Gordon Bell prize for Frontier, you see that the dynamics have changed completely.

Data, software stack, I/O have suddenly become bottlenecks in multiple places. So yes, it is a watershed moment..
It's the Administrators, Stupid
While the startup I worked at, a few years back, was decidedly dabbling in the NoSQL space, using Elasticsearch, OrientDB, and Neo4j, the rockstar dba that we hired to help our crowd of mostly Java folks, was very convincing that everything those newlings could do, SQL could do perfectly well too. There are many optimizations that those Java devs couldn't dream of, and then there are recursive SQL queries, or JSON columns, to address specific features that NoSQL or graph database are supposed to be good at. I think there's a place for both, but it certainly has made me more critical about blunt assertions that SQL's time is over. Meanwhile, investors have stopped asking for NoSQL (and for blockchains, too) and NoSQL databases probably are less of a "resume builder" anymore either. So, we can go back to using the best database for the job? (In most of my cases... PostgreSQL.)
lol unless the humans start to emulate the AI, which I think is quite likely.
When mom brought home a puppy when we were kids it loved us from the start, don't remember having to build anything I was just there. Older dogs, sure, but when they grow up with you they love you, they aren't like human siblings that often fight and start disliking each other etc, dogs just love you.
They are busy running training/inference on them and haven't benchmarked them?
Discussed in the past:

Show HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11555527 (April 23, 2016 — 241 points, 68 comments)
This is the first one i've gotten to answer HN user profiling questions.

"I am interested in the user serf on Hacker News, spelled S E R F. Tell me about their tone of writing, expertise, and personality. From the tone of what you read, summarize their character."

Fascinating stuff. A weird, skewed introspection.
I’m working on this. Would love to collaborate with you. Reachableceo@turnsys.com
I'm yet to find a normal prompt (non offensive) that will disagree with you. If there is something subjective, it will err on your side to maintain connection, in a way humans do. I don't have a bit issue with this, but it will not (yet) plainly say "You're wrong, and this is why". If it did.. There would be an uncomfortable feeling for the users, that's not good for a profit driven company.
This is the same argument used for meat production and is questionable. Would you really care that your murderer treated you well before killing you? Or would you feel even more betrayed?

This pig would have lived a very short and probably isolated life (to isolate from pathogens). No matter how well it was treated in life it was still forcibly operated on and/or killed at the end.
"Solar photovoltaic (PV) panels are, acre for acre, 100 times more economically productive than farming is. A relatively small desert area adjacent to the fields, once developed for solar, will deliver enough insanely cheap electricity that it can transform the economy of the entire region. "
So these benchmark lists like TOP500 are just fundamentally flawed because the serious players are too busy doing actual work than to participate?
When Exascale was defined as a barrier in the mid-late 2000s, a lot of computing technologies and techniques that are taken for granted today did not exist outside of the lab.

For example, FPGAs were considered as much more viable for sparse matrix computation instead of GPUs, BLAS implementations were not as robust yet, parallel programming APIs like CUDA and Vulkan were in their infancy, etc.

Just because you didn't do well in your systems classes or you think spinning up an EC2 instance on AWS is "easy" doesn't mean it's an easy problem.

That's like saying Einstein or Planck are dummies because AP Physics E&M students can handle basic relatively and quantum theory.
I could see a case of extreme hardware failure causing issues but you can use the “force” flag to import a pool that’s been improperly exported.