skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Funny. The page started at the "How to Use?" section when I posted that comment. I guess their banner "Formatting and links continue to be fixed" is very much true.

Thanks!
Just curious: what GPU model is it?
I love the Barbican conservatory, it's one of my favourite places.

It makes me feel like I'm in some kind of 1960s futuristic space arcology. Looking through the windows it's disappointing to see not the strange, alien landscape of another planet on the other side, but instead the strange alien landscape of central London.
I cant speak to content recommendations; I worked on the “backend” infrastructure storing bytes and delivering bits. But in that realm yes absolutely. Any CDNs #1 job is to route an end user request to a nearby (or otherwise optimal) datacenter, usually via DNS response. For streaming content I believe “everyone” is doing (part of) this at the streaming client/API layer these days. When you request to start playing the returned url will include/encode hints that help the CDN to send your request to the correct part of the CDN that holds your requested catalog title. ie CDNs arent homogenous and not all content will be stored in every edge location. The service API servers may/will even allocate different requests to different CDNs. eg the streaming service might use any combination of 1P (OpenConnect, CloudFront) and 3P (limelight, akamai, level 3) CDNs.
One thing that struck me about the Z1 was how closely it paralleled things I'd expect to see in a silicon implementation of a CPU:

I recall seeing: different physical blocks for different logic, a big regular blog for the memory and other blocks for ALU, etc, addressing handled by column and row selection lines, evaluating bit values by putting a signal onto the data line and seeing whether the value changes...

But all implemented with mechanical linkages (so a signal is a pull of a rod, a connection is a hooking of a rod onto some other linkage, etc.
Kyle Explains "Legacy Software" to the Aliens
A is the “host” side and B is the “device” side of that connector. A full-size USB-B connector is most commonly seen on printers; micro-B for old android phones.
Same problem if the road bends away from the town it is towards.
> > Julia is an open-source programming language with an easy to learn syntax that is well suited for this task.

> Why is Julia better suited than any other language?

Why must it be better suited than ANY other language, for the bit you quoted to be true?
We need a thing where you apply 5V to and a LED flashes the data in it, one bit at a time.
Well, it's not like I'm just going to trust a comment like this either :)

I would like to see it in action, and then I'll form an opinion.
>It won’t kill creativity, it’s just another creative tool.

I've been banging on this drum since AI's inception, and will continue do so.

Even if machines were capable of directly reading our mind and outputting a perfect representation of exactly what we wanted at the mere thought of it, it's still a mere tool bound by the creativity of its artist, even if the artist were the AI itself.

Art is dead. Art is always dead.

Did people complain when digital paintings became a thing?
> It incorporates a Raspberry Pi RP2040

... which is certainly not guaranteed for 200 yrs.
if it's important enough to archive for hundreds of years it's worth that. Your whataboutism helps nothing, champ.
Doesn't sound anything like Scarlet Johansson - https://x.com/AngelinaPTech/status/1741450012314280431/video...

Her - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ij0ZmgG6wCA

If it was a soundalike then it would be a legal issue obviously, nothing to discuss.

Looking at the HN comments they are told it sounds like Her so that's what they believe. So you can't trust the NPC's to decide, they just regurgitate media headlines.

How do you quantify it?
This would have been SO useful in school!
Mere existence of arrest warrants for war crimes against a serving Israeli prime minister has great symbolic value. This will have big impact on media discourse not controlled by the Israeli lobby.

Also, one does not have to choose sides. We can condemn both sides as barbaric.
And a paper book to explain the encoding :D
USB-B is the thing that's on the other side of cables with USB-A. A large, square-ish port that got even larger when it was extended for USB 3, with a connector that got even larger. That's the port that mini-USB and micro-USB are mini and micro versions of.

You can find USB-B ports on e.g. laser printers (where size doesn't matter) or on some older USB drives (where you'd want USB 3 speeds).
> really gives end users a lack of control of the interface

This is the case for all mobile and web apps and has been the norm for over a decade now. If you want control over the UI or functionality, use local software that doesn't check some server for feature flags.

Even if Scarlett Johansson would agree to license her voice, which is a big if, it's not her voice that's being removed. It's a different actress that some users thinks sounds like Scarlett.

https://openai.com/index/how-the-voices-for-chatgpt-were-cho...
Could just buy the chip itself for less than a dollar, connect it to Arduino or rpi and write it yourself: https://www.lcsc.com/datasheet/lcsc_datasheet_2112091730_FUJ...

Or go with the 64kb version for 6 dollars.
"Hey man how's it going?"

> replacing the asbestos lining in the boosters with a greener material, a project budgeted at $4.4M, has now cost NASA a quarter of a billion dollars

"... Jesus Christ."
Yep. Always a bit dangerous to go up against AWS and similar. My hope here is that this product is too niche for the major cloud vendors to invest in. But since Uber is building stuff themselves that assumption may be wrong.

A “golden partner” model makes a lot of sense, thanks.
Why do tech companies keep using dystopian stories as manuals? The flirty tone, the voice being awfully similar to the lead actress of Her.

Next we are getting Ex Machina?
Mixed Precision Training from Scratch
That quote would apply perfectly if Apple were a country.
I feel like it shouldn't be the classes responsibility to provide a method to return a nullable / falsey value. We should have a convenient one-line syntax around try / catch. Something like pipe operators and or pattern matching.
Ask HN: What is your company doing with AI?
What is the company that you work for doing with AI or trying to do with AI? Just trying to get a more realistic sense of how AI will affect society and the workplace.
They cannot disclose the identity of the person involved in order to protect their privacy. This is a very convenient cloak, leaving no way to know if they cloned Scarlet Johansson's voice or if it's from someone else.
Everything today has USB. The historians and collectors of the future will be able to read it no doubt. A typical computer, maybe not
> Everything from reading texts to watching videos

Video is still generally 24, 25, ~30, 48, 50, or ~60Hz, is it not?
This was a very low hanging fruit.
The premise gives good material for writing an article and yet we are not comparing apples to apples. A cargo rocket main use would be for building a moon space station, transport materials. Hence its size.
Well, we want the same thing, I guess we have opposite ideas about how to achieve it.
Apart from written down/printed well is there any other really reliable long term storage?
1000Hz is into the point of marketing gimmicks.

Higher refresh rates in general produce smoother scrolling, lower latency screen updates, more fluid motion, and a generally more immersive computing experience.

Going from 60Hz to 120Hz is a noticeable upgrade for most people, though others don’t notice much.

Higher rates offer marginal improvements in smoothness and latency, but it’s really marginal. At 120Hz you’re getting a frame every 8ms (if the GPU can provide it), while 240Hz drops that to 4ms and 1000Hz to 1ms.

Competitive FPS gamers will already push hardware and settings to 200+ fps for optimal smoothness. Add AI frame generation and you could get even higher rates, though frame generation introduces its own lag by necessity of having to interpolate between two frames.
Yes, celebrities generally own the rights to use their likeness for commercial purposes or promotions.
But that doesn't explain why they would have miscellaneous work product (emails about "fix this character's head") and a long history of under the table animation work.
I disagree. The development of petroleum made people stop whaling
The ability to use touch and drag gestures without any visible delay [1]. This dramatically improves usability as a drawing and painting tool for artists.

[1] https://youtu.be/vOvQCPLkPt4
Thanks for reply!

Fwiw - Cp2077 ran at full res internally. I've played it both with and without dlss on GFNow. I believe when I started it was 2080 for first paid tier and 3080 for the top paid tier. Now the top paid tier is 4080.
> I never understood the randomness argument against art. Wasn't there a lot of randomness in Pollock's use of paint on his canvases?

I would make a guess that what ended up being exhibited and sold was heavily curated.
I guess we should be grateful they eschewed the RPi preference for critical firmware in SD card :)
„And though the Shuttle engines are designed to be fully reusable (the main reason they're so expensive), every SLS launch throws four of them away.“

Using reusable engines on non-reusable rocket? That alone doesn’t make sense at all.
> I'm guessing they know a lot about their costs, and you know very little.

I'm curious what makes you believe the OP doesn't know about cost? They might be director-level at a large tech company with 20+ years experience for all you know...

> There's little value in insulting the team members like this.

I'd argue it's not insulting to question a claim (i.e. 'we saved $6MM') that is offered with little explanation.
Most people historically would consider a video call with the person to be sufficiently authenticated. Yeah, that has changed obviously, but it has changed like today.
You really might want to rephrase that. For example: which «wrong method»?
It doesn’t sound like Her.
> int64 epoch microseconds

surely nanoseconds is the truth.
There actually WAS a DB9 connector, that is 9 pins in the B-side shell. They were used for manufacturing equipment. They carried 4 high-voltage differential pairs and a common signal for negotiation/detection. IIRC part of the specification was that the signal pins had to be milled solid parts rather than the much cheaper/more common rolled hollow pins.
To be fair it's just SPI and a big package, super easy to read even centuries from now. I don't think we will somehow forget everything about basic electronics.
Video needs to catch up to higher refresh rates, but there are also those of us who regularly watch videos at 2x or higher speeds, so there is that edge case where a 60hz video can benefit from a 120hz monitor
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'control', 'bizarre': It's always funny to see how many condescending, imperialistic adjectives you can pack in a news story about the DPRK. Of course they arent just nice buildings that the government built for their people, it has to be "about control". They arent just an acomplishment from a socialist nation that during most of its history has been sanctioned, they are "bizarre".

Really, this is just propaganda, from both sides. The DPRK likes to propagandize its achievments (because they are constantly demonized in the West), and Reuters needs to propagandize how everything in the DPRK is 'evil' somehow. Horrible, imperialistic stuff.
I've tried Idris. J and APL are great for quick analysis once you know them. I leave J open on my desktop for engineering and stats. Frink too for effortless units work. Haskell and its ilk are good for math. Programming to learn math works really well for some, since you work through a problem incrementally, especially with dynamic interpreters and REPLs. Pluto with Julia or Jupyter with Python or Mathematica too.
https://archive.ph/BLLfl
There is also Aggregated Rendezvous Hashing[1] available, which kind of solves problem of growth of required calculations for large numbers of nodes.

[1] https://github.com/SenseUnit/ahrw
Came here to post this. It's the best critique of the whole current OpenAI strategy.
It's likely that there will be an I2C-enabled FRAM chip on there, though there are a few other devices which could hold those FRAM cells. I2C is ubiquitous, even more so than USB, and trivial to implement. There will certainly be enough information available to access those in 200 years, even if there's no USB anymore.
> On a tangential note, I frankly think 4K (let alone 8K) is a waste of money if you're still rocking 60Hz.

Thankfully it's not too expensive to have it both ways, 4K 144hz monitors are pretty affordable now.
Hard to imagine they would stoop so low a few years ago
>Plus, why would you believe that (working) systems able to read USB drives will be available in 200+ years?

This. The best long term archival media that can outlive generations has proven to be non-electronic ones (paper manuscripts, animal hides, cave paintings, rock engravings, etc).

Even if you can still find USB readers 200+ years from now when we'll all use quantum computers and wear AR headsets or neuralink implants (provided we don't extinct ourselves through war and climate change till then), there's no guarantee the systems of the future will still be able to read file systems and data formats encoded in the standards of today, but to read stuff off paper/stone all you need is your eyes, no technology.

For example, some retro computing youtubers I follow are struggling to decode 5.25" floppy data from 50 years ago because it was encoded in some niche proprietary non-standard format that modern SW has no idea about, so they have to low-level scan the magnetic flux off the things and then trial and error various encodings hoping something will stick. Meanwhile, a random small church in my country just found 500 year old books in its attic that are perfectly preserved and readable, and they have survived a church fire and over a dozen wars.

Not saying such USB drives aren't useful for a specific niche, I'm sure they are, but if you're looking for 200+ year endurance you'll definitely want to diversify your data storage to non-electronic mediums as well and not bank it all on a USB drive with new unproven technology.
Perhaps "placebo" was intended?
IIRC, ServerEngines/Matrox G200e.
Okay you. Its common for people to call the big led/oled monitor you put in ur living room a tv. And as far as I know there's no difference between them tech wise. My tv is a 65inch 4k 120hz oled panel. Everyone calls it a tv. They are also still sold as "tv"'s online. Smart tv, etc.

Sidenote the word monitor is also a pretty clear sign of age. If I hear somebody call my screen a monitor its like when my grandma calls the toilet the comode.
" As a compiler developer or programming language researcher, one very common question is how to represent the syntax of a programming language in order to interpret, compile, analyze, optimize, and/or transform it.

One of the first lessons you learn is to not represent syntax as the literal string of characters written by the programmer, but rather convert it to an abstract syntax tree (AST).
"

Note: AST does not "represent the syntax of a programming language", but represents a program written in the language.

Perhaps worth amendment given this article seems otherwise excellent.
I wrote about this a few years back on my blog, but yeah, in my opinion the general problem with a lot of digital art (generative or otherwise) is the lack of physical artefacts that come out of it.

https://www.jacquescorbytuech.com/writing/writing/irl-proble...
By that definition of "radical": painful and difficult to read, but
yielding enormous positive transformation, then for me Aldous Huxley's
"Heaven and Hell" (which contains "Doors of Perceptions"), Erich
Fromm's "To Have or to Be", Lewis Mumford's "Technics and
Civilization" and his "The Myth of the Machine". YMMV, but for me all
of these were "radical" in challenging my purely rational,
instrumental, and I think very limited ideas of knowledge, technology
and "progress" that I held as a younger scientist/engineer.
Urushi is an adhesive. So for gold leaf the (egg shell) the idea is that you put down urushi, then put the gold leaf on it while it is still not cured. I tried rankaku - egg shell - and you just build up a base coast of lacqure then start placing the egg shell on a new thin, uncured coat. That is after you have prepared the quail egg shells. Then you add thin coats, curing and sanding after each, until the level of the urushi is up to the eggshell. The eggshell leaves U shaped channels with the sides of the U formed by two adjacent pieces of shell and that has to be filled but with thin coats. Sigh.

If you want to try urushi, you can go the hazmat suit method (apron, arm length gloves, etc.) Just have situational awareness. I had a friend who tried this. Her cell phone in her pocket rang and without thinking she reached in with her gloved hand and got it out. The urushi went through the pocket and she got a horrible rash! I just bit the bullet and got the rash.

I am no expert on urushi at all - I dabbled mostly. You can mix urushi with all kinds of things and there are perhaps 250 grades, including the most refined which is clear. Urushi was and is used in sword making. So the answer is out there, but I have not done any for a long time. I sort of remember mixing rice-paste and urushi at one point but I might be making that up.

I raised bronze and copper vessels and was trying to come up with ways to complete them. I found out about Jean Dunand, art deco guy, who decorated vessels with urushi and egg shell among other things. I highly recommend finding a good museum nearby and asking them if they have work and know of anyone who does restoration. Then follow those leads.

There are people out there who know and will share knowledge but I am out of touch. My sense is that many people who are interested in Japanese sword making (Katana) end up knowing about lacquer because it was used for handles.
The issue likely is the distance between where you park the car and where the condo is. Which is likely to be substantial since most condos do not have an attached garage.
Archival quality blu-ray (such as M-DISKs) can purportedly last hundreds of years and will outlast any electromagnetic events that would destroy other magnetic/electric-based storage mediums.
As others in the thread mention, the key difficulty is reading and interpreting the etched pits on the disk hundreds of years after the spec is obsolete.
Is it an offer to become a shareholder without actually buying any shares? That would be absolutely great, but unfortunately, it doesn't work this way.
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> you could probably implement training and inference for a single model architecture, from scratch, on a single kind of GPU, with reasonable performance… with a year or so

I have implemented inference of Whisper https://github.com/Const-me/Whisper and Mistral https://github.com/Const-me/Cgml/tree/master/Mistral/Mistral... models on all GPUs which support Direct3D 11.0 API. The performance is IMO very reasonable.

A year might be required when the only input is the research articles. In practice, we also have reference Python implementations of these models. Possible to test different functions or compute shaders against the corresponding pieces from the reference implementations, by comparing saved output tensors between the reference and the newly built implementation. Due to that simple trick, I think I have spent less than 1 month part-time for each of these two projects.
This is a matter of opinion but brutalism is so hideous.
> Stunning to see a national institution evaporates like that.

The joys of privatisation..

From a consumer point of view, where the process is:

Pay stamp -> letter in postbox -> black box -> letter delivered

it's difficult to argue that anything improved at all. In fact it got worse in all the steps, and on all the metrics.

1. Stamps got awfully more expensive

2. Local post offices have closed en-masse, and_or are open infrequently

3. The delivery times have increased drastically

4. Post gets lost more often.

If at least the service stayed reliable.. Instead, we've been facing a whole lot of fines and other issues because of undelivered letters and bills.
Somehow our leadership convinced us that them facing consequences is a bad idea while they erected a police state that would throw us in a cage if we so much as had a plant they don't like in our pocket.

Leaders need to face the greatest consequences. That's the price of leadership. We have things backward.
So long as they do a gag where the dummy's suit is depressurised and he continues to protest but now silently, then I'm all for it. If Man is truly to live along the stars then vaudeville humour shall be part of it
> Breaking working functionality is not cool.

if your product relied on temu scarjo, you never had a product.
I don't recall Her being a dystopian movie
Well both things can be true at the same time.

I agree Numenta missed the boat, but it doesn't mean that book wasn't prescient. Numenta just didn't get there first, wasn't a fast follower, and blew a huge lead in AI. It may still end up the HTM is one of the final state solution,s but they are so far from ever being able to capitalize on it that it is unlikely to even matter if they invented the concept.
You are mostly correct, though I want to point out that N-dim arrays are different from matrices. In Matlab everything is a matrix, unless it is a higher-dimensional array. This means that any 'scalar value' is actually a 1x1 matrix, which you can verify by calling the `size` function on scalars, vectors, and matrices, but higher-dimensional arrays it do not fit this pattern. In fact, N-d arrays are the 'odd man out' in Matlab. The article you link to is actually a bit inaccurate in this regard.
Yeah I think the scientist just has a chip on his shoulder or the journalist wanted to sell a more interesting story. I think the real controversy boils down to this:

> But the geological record is like reading the CliffsNotes version of a book, and he was frustrated by an “unconformity” in the sediment layers where thousands of years were missing, like someone had ripped out those chapters.

It’s an island and they’re not the most reliable for dating sediment layers - they’re not exactly closed systems.

I haven’t read his book but I can totally see a case for skepticism over the precise dating. It’s a common trick/error to play fast and loose with carbon dating calibration standards and sample collection to get better numbers. It’s hard to get right in the best of times and the results have to be taken in context.
Given human instincts are so strong for getting a bit of sun you'd think there must be evolutionary advantage for doing so. Sunbathing, flying to different countries to get sun, the preference for sun tanned skin to pasty, and the whole difference in appearance between black people and whites seems to be an evolutionary response to letting more light in.

Presumably because we need the sun to make vitamin D.
General question -- what should the career-oriented student who is not obsessed with CS and programming consider studying instead of or in addition to CS?
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