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If the crypto wave was any indication, llm asics will gain popularity as general purpose devices like Nvidia gpus get phased out.

I'm hoping the rise of Asics leads to hardware agnostic representations of ML models, or at least seamless conversion from Cuda to other target hardware.

With LLMs standardizing around known instructions, I'm bullish about this family of hardware. Now, they may just get acquired given the infinite money Nvidia has. But, I see their IP being valuable by itself.

I've used Groq, and it's been one of my few 'oh wow' moments of the recent llm cycle.
LOL, I just meant that as an exemplar of the the ridiculousness of it all, given that the price for the warranty would have come to more than the cost of the cable itself.

Aside from that, the staff being pretty low on product knowledge, generally tending toward pushy if not outright rude, the nickel and diming and the attempts to capture every shred of value they can pull out of people while they have them cornered in the store just make it a very unpleasant experience to shop there compared to other retailers or the online shopping options.
If it goes to court, it will be an interesting case and may have big ramifications.

I believe the person used was selected because she sounded like Scarlett. If guilty, will it be illegal for people sounding like famous people get voice work ?

I have heard ads with people sounding like various US Presidents over the years, could doing that be illegal ?
> What popular SQL databases need is an option/hint to return an error instead of taking a slow query plan.

You can run ANALYSE on Postgres.
I imagine the mining of materials, waste from discarded car, etc. makes up for these things but I don’t know. I do think overall we are a very wasteful society and we cause way too much pollution.
TikTok offered an extraordinary deal. The U.S. government took a pass
Good for you, Michael. Congratulations on a successful product, a successful exit, and an approaching baby!
Ah yes, efficiency is the ultimate goal, right comrade? What is a little state threatened violence (there is no way to say that 10s of years of forcible incarceration is not a threat of violence, there is no way to say that an increased security classification due to sentence length, and therefor incarceration at a much more violent prison, is not a threat of violence) for the waiver of 2 little rights (plea's include a waiver of the right to a trial and the right to an appeal)? Imagine the efficiency if we could allow the state to use violence to get 'citizens' to volunteer to waive their right to remain silent? So much efficiency comrade. It's not like Constitutional rights are important part of this country, we should treat them like China treats the ones enshrined in the Chinese constitution, just look how efficient that makes China, right comrade?
> If you can't isolate and articulate the problem without referencing your tech stack and tooling, or your explanation gets all muddy and convoluted, you haven't actually identified the essential complexity of a problem

100%. I don't have much to add but I've really enjoyed our discussion.

Have you seen this talk by Mike Acton? If you haven't, it might really resonate with you. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rX0ItVEVjHc
It won't be long until Microsoft offers "backing up" your Recall data into OneDrive, where LEO will be able to easily subpoena it.

For instance, WhatsApp strongly suggests backing up your data to Drive, where it's easy to obtain a copy if you're a cop.
Like the stash of midget donkey necro porn, at some point there are going to be botnets which exist in order to be caught, thus drawing attention away from the better hidden botnets — compare Obi Wan distracting Vader while R2 escapes...

(did the Allies ever leak a story that Normandy would be the target of the D-day landings, but so crudely done that it was "obviously" a plant?)
This reads like a combo of Mr Logic and Major Misunderstanding, from the Viz comic.

When was the last time you met someone in the pub?
I am not sure. I think you guys in the UK have your own bill regarding EtoE coming up.
>Antisocial elements in many states was dragging the rest of the country down and due to increasing federal power we were able to override them.

Not to pick on you, but I want to point this out: this sort of thinking is a vulnerability which can and does get exploited in politics. It is a fallacy that Progress is inevitable and that The Right Thing always plays out, and that the one holding a perspective on this always was born in the fully legitimate and righteous branch of events. Nature is not just; nature simply is.
So people classifying as hybrid, aka a group who is meant to come into the office sometimes, are mad about a policy where the highest ranking asks them to only physically be there 1/3 of the time? From the article, the best rating is for showing up 39 days within a quarter. Show up even less if you only want a green flag. Seems perfectly reasonable to me if you are classified as hybrid and not as remote.
According to the indictment, the operators tried to elicit money/property from authors/publishers. I didn't bother looking up the referenced emails to see what was actually said.

https://www.justice.gov/usao-edny/file/1553496/dl
"When OpenAI released ChatGPT in November 2022, the board was not informed in advance and found out about it on Twitter."

Why the hell should a company have to announce products to the board before launching them?
i wonder what engineering breakthroughs would be required to build a typical single staged implosion style nuclear weapon with the explosive yield of your typical fire cracker. The pit would be very very tiny and then the HE lensing and detonation circuitry would also have to be very tiny. Assembling it would be harder than assembling the movements in a watch I bet.
What happened to the other post about this, with many more comments?
You’ll need 44GB just for the weights

By default only 75% of unified memory is available to GPU if you have >36GB. So with 48 total only 36 is available for GPU with is lower than 44.

tldr; without quantization you will not be able to run it.
Every Tom, Dick and Harry's DCF (using FCF) analysis on the market says they're overvalued, so if you wanted in, you'd better do your homework on what you think is an acceptable MC value.
The "lying" I referred to would be pretending that you're actually interested in a non-remote job for anything other than the money you need to survive until you can find a remote job. Even if you don't come right out and say you see them as a "take it and keep looking", that's still going to be obvious unless you're at sociopath levels of skill in lying. And if you're somebody who wouldn't still be in the industry if remote work hadn't become the norm, you're not going to be genuinely interested in any non-remote job for anything other than money until you can get something better.
https://archive.today/4SclL

https://archive.today/pJqzD
Back before documentation became available online, the technical books section at this store was perhaps the largest repository of technical documentation available in town. The selection was in a part of the store bigger than most mall bookstores, entirely technical books on the tall shelves from top to bottom.

I bought dozens of O'Reilly books from that location over the years.
Annual Google Play 2023 revenue: $45.63 billion USD.
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Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40506582
This looks like it's written in Elixir (the docs are using ExDocs, Elixir's documentation toolset).

This can't possibly be the actual search index rules (which is probably code that's decades old, my guess is either in Python or Java?) – unless they rewrote all of it in the past few years?

Can anyone else confirm this?
There are times and places where banks are not operating. In those places you work with cash.
Your mortgage holder will still expect repayment under the terms of the contract, of course.
This ship has sailed to be honest. This post is just a rant and it seems nothing will stop this this time.
Hi, I’ve just bought the app, congratulations on your release! Wishing for real time de-squeeze for anamorphic lenses users. And one more thing. If there’s any way to make it compatible with various gimbals and I mean like actually compatible with zoom/focus controls etc, it’d be a killer feature.
Older cars are massively undervalued in the USA because of social norms, which is a massive opportunity to anyone willing to exploit it to get reliable transportation for nearly free. People are afraid that older cars are dangerous, unreliable, or (worst of all) will make you look poor, but all 3 are just misinformation.

Boats and airplanes are just as reliable when old as new because they're maintained well- and cars are the same. If you maintain an old car well, it doesn't really ever wear out, and stays as reliable as a new car.

It's also massively cheaper to maintain an old car well then to buy new ones even if you pay someone else to do it. People complain when they get a $1000 repair bill every few years for an older car so they will say "it's getting unreliable" and then consider paying up to $1000 a month for a new one. There is a middle ground where you pay maybe $1000-2000 every year to stay on top of stuff, and it stays reliable indefinitely.

Moreover, an older high end car is just so much nicer than a new car in the same price range. You can buy a well maintained low mileage older but high end Porsche, Audi, etc. for well under $10k on Craigslist these days and you'd have to be a car nerd to know it's not a new model. Is it cheap to maintain well? Not exactly, but it will be 1/10th the cost of a car payment on a new low end economy car, and you're driving a high end car. Plus, when you buy a 20 year old high end car and maintain it well, it will appreciate rather than depreciate in value. My daily driver is an older Porsche, and in 3 years of driving it, it has probably appreciated in value enough to make all of the maintenance, insurance, etc. free- basically a free car if you don't count the space in my garage it uses to keep it nice.
> Read: if you'd ever find yourself victim of a nuclear blast, you're on your own. Probably lucky if you die instantly.

Emphasis on "lucky if you die instantly."

There seems to be this pervasive belief about nuclear weapons that they just wink people and cities out of existence, and all the millennial and Gen-Z nihilists blithely proclaim "Oh, I live in [XYZ City], I'm screwed anyway haha I'll just get vaporized!"

The "instant death" radius is a LOT smaller than most people realize (~1/2 mile radius for a 10KT warhead)[1] (shown in link as "Severe Damage" radius").

If you seriously believe there's a threat of a nuclear detonation affecting you, don't expect to just painlessly disappear. Be prepared.

[1] https://remm.hhs.gov/zones_nucleardetonation.htm
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Then these corporations will pay for idiosyncratic/specialized machine learning software, and a lot of it will be useful to clients.
Surely there must be precedence here. This can't be the first time people hired sound-a-like voice actors for something.
Cisco replaces Microsoft as world's most valuable company (2000)
At very first glance this would be much closer to neon, with the separated storage and compute.

Crunchy Postgres for Kubernetes is great if you're running Postgres inside Kubernetes, but is more of standard Postgres than something serverless. Citus also not really serverless at all, Citus is more focused on performance scaling where things are very co-located and you're outgrowing the bounds of a single node.
Yes, historically it is most of them, and I am saying that is now no longer a technical necessity, but an artistic choice.
Articles like these are cheap clickbait. Most short interest in Nvidia are hedges. Nvidia shareholders are sitting on huge untaxed gains. People want to sell but can’t because January is still 6 months away. So they hedge with puts. And market makers then have to short the stock in order to stay market neutral.

Everybody and their dog is long nvidia.
True, true. But in a gold rush once everyone has a pick and a shovel the gold tends to get mined out extremely rapidly and 95% of the people go home with the same nada that they started with.
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Maybe that is the kick in the guts needed to really move to a decentralized chat application that literally cannot be compelled to provide data since it doesn't have any.
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Nvidia's got umpteen patents and will keep coming up with more. How is that not a durable moat?
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Why is it that no sort of eye exercise can encourage a reversal of myopia?

Most of the research I see is on preventing or slowing down the progression of myopia.
You're not asking, but in case anyone is curious - the Nicolas Cage shot is from Con Air.
Expensive housing markets are very unhealthy. A median home is considered affordable at 5x median income. Most of the expensive areas (San Francisco, New York, Seattle, Los Angeles, etc.) are at 10+x.

The other metric is median rent as a percentage of median income. Nationally it has hit 40% when the affordability mark is 33%.

Just because what you are experiencing has been a norm for a while does not make it good, or the goal.
So HAProxy has a bit of a love/hate relationship in Kubernetes, the problem really being UDP and the mess(?) that is proxying stateless traffic. The Gateway API kind of expecting UDP proxying support doesn't help.
The increase in total loss designations by insurance companies is due to the extremely high costs charged by the shops contracted by them to do repairs.

The designation of a car as "totaled" is often an illusion and there is a thriving parallel market of auction houses, repair shops, salvage titling companies, and resellers who take the "ruined" cars, fix them, and sell them on the used market.

Insurance companies could deal directly with the lower cost shops but just like the Concur Travel cancer that is spreading across corporate America there are extremely perverse incentives between executives and boards to keep the system the way it is with all of the major players dealing only with each other.

There is probably an auctioneer within 30 minutes of where you are right now who will sell you a "total loss" car that you can repair, or have repaired, for a minuscule fraction of what an insurance contractor will charge-- often for less than the insurance payout (to both you and the adjuster).

Like all things fucked in our economy, the trend of exorbitant repair costs took off when private equity started buying up the regional insurance repair contractor near-monopolies like Service King (Carlyle Group) and Caliber Collision (Leonard Green).
China-Taiwan conflict could be a trigger. If the chips stop flowing, lot of tech will go down. And they could drag rest of the market with them even if those are less affected.

Other possibility is something finally snapping even without that sort of trigger. But that could take rather long time still.
Which is a good thing! It's great that we've eliminated certain classes of bugs through protocol design.
Zuckerberg is a Zionist and FB / IG are there to help the Zionist agenda, not to work against it.
I also liked it better than Fury Road. I thought the action sequences in Furiosa were easily the best choreographed large action I've ever seen, but it's also a much more rounded film with some absolutely masterful shot choices.
I’m very much describing a Fortune 500 company that nearly went bankrupt due to a combination of this and drinking the Jack Welch Koolaid.
Even if Nvidia were to crash 75% (which it probably won't) - there have been 2 worse crashes in the last 25 years.

It wouldn't even come close to comparing to the Great Depression.
There should be generally a VAST xml that gets returned by your browser making a request for ads, which should contain media url.
Soon we'll see this headline again w Cisco replaced by Nvidia. Different bubble, same pattern
CUDA is propertiary, NVIDIA recently changed it's license terms to forbid implementing CUDA translation layers for non-NVIDIA devices: https://www.techpowerup.com/319984/nvidia-cracks-down-on-cud...
I didn't make any prediction at all.
I was worried, given these kind of story-behind-the-story prequels are usually a bad idea, but was pleasantly surprised. It delivers Fury Road style action of a similar (so, exceptionally high) quality both in raw action-excitement and in use of the scenes to convey story and (especially) characterization and character arcs, while being very differently-structured and not at all feeling like just the same thing again, or like it’s just trying to fill in every single gap in the setting left by Fury Road.

It also feels thick with influence and fluency in cinema per se, in a way that Fury Road didn’t to me, and I think it may mean this one rewards repeat watches to an exceptional degree.
Sure, clear them off the bridge, arrest any that refuse to move, etc

But the emergencies act? Freezing bank accounts?

They didn't blow up the bridge did they?
I've seen the same. It will sometimes prefer to swap rather than evict the disk cache.

I don't know how Linux does this in particular, but intuitively swapping can make sense if part of your allocated RAM isn't being accessed often and the disk is. The kernel isn't going to know for sure of course, and seems in my case it guessed wrong.
How does one even go about implementing quines like this?

Is there a certain iterative kind of method that people use to achieve these?
I had the same thought. Apple has a lot of "stickiness" for their customers - whether you think this is due to superior technology or just marketing is debatable. Meanwhile, raw computing power is fundamentally fungible and there's a lot of incentive to undercut NVDA's offerings. The only question is how long it will take to do so.
Can't mlock be wrapped out in a safe API?
Blocking image ads seems like a relatively well-solved problem. I mean, speaking as someone who can't stand ads, I don't see very many of them anymore when I'm on desktop.

The harder, more pernicious type of ads are the modals that pop up when your cursor moves toward the back button, or when you scroll down a certain distance on the page. "Wait! Before you go, take a moment to give us your email address!"

Those can be blocked, but by the time you've seen them, they've already done all the damage they can do—which is to say, they've annoyed you.

I wish somebody could come up with a way to detect and stop them. I spent an afternoon trying to come up with reusable techniques to detect these popups, but there are just too many possibilities.
> If guilty, will it be illegal for people sounding like famous people get voice work ?

It continues to baffle me that people formulate this issue as it just being about the similar voices as opposed to OpenAI's efforts to capitalize on ScarJo's likeness by making explicit references to ScarJo and her work, in combination with using a similar voice.

Obviously, it is not against the law to have a similar voice as someone. Obviously, it is against the law to capitalize upon another person's likeness without their permission. I don't understand why people pretend it's hard to distinguish between the two categories, it's not.
Unless AI demand increases? Which seems likely, or at least possible.
A pension fund is a conservative entity interested in stability above all things, with longterm planning, rulebooks, almost like a small state. The line between public and private is very blurry by now and that blurryness goes both ways. Get public funding long enough and you loose your agency to become a bureau of everything nihilitary gone.
That was an easy call to be fair.
Looks like the Chinese counterfeiters are winning. If BBY goes then it is one less place to get authentic goods instead of playing russian roulette on Amazon.
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(I develop client SDKS)

It could make sense for first-party SDKs for an API to block http access to the first-party API domain, but that should be unnecessary – typically users would use the default base URL hardcoded in the client library, and only replace it if they're going through some other proxy.

When they _do_ go through some other proxy, it's commonly in an internal network of some kind, where http is appropriate and should not be blocked.
Is that “ballpark”? It’s a 3x multiple.

I do agree that growth will cap out. A lot of the massive growth is due to the previous fiscal year being effectively a crash. It’s impressive that they’ve recovered but the same quarter next year will not have the benefit of a bad quarter to compare against.
> focusing on series and creating a range of small royalty streams that pay the bills.

This is a variation on some valuable business guidance I got a long time ago: it's better to get one nickle each from 100 sources than to get 100 nickles from one source. It spreads risk (losing 1 out of 100 nickle sources won't break you) and it also prevents any source from having too much control over you.
I always enjoyed your annual reports (and the website redesign story). This looks like a happy ending to that whole saga.
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My real, true first exposure to programming was Qbasic on a Windows XP machine, followed by real BASIC on a Commodore 64, then Java. But I don't count any of that, I never really built anything, just plugged in examples. I consider my true native language to be C#. It was the first language I ever built anything real with, and my first taste of what being a Real Programmer was.

It absolutely has flavored my programming in any language. The way I name and structure things is ""bad"" C++ programming, but I'm fluent in C# concepts in a way I'm not with other languages.

I've also developed a deep distaste for non-C languages. Or maybe I'm just getting old and curmudgeonly.
Employer-offered plans tend to be extremely good value, so the vast majority take advantage of them.

I was paying <~$300/mo on that plan. I now pay over $700 on a directly-acquired plan. So that's problem one.

The bigger problem, IMHO, is that quitting means changing your insurance, which isn't just a financial change. It can also end up requiring you to change medical providers, which is no small deal!

This adds massive friction and stress to the act of quitting/changing jobs, a major source of leverage on the employer's side.

And that's to say nothing of the fact that it's effectively an overly burdensome tax on new entrepreneurs. It's a reinforcement of the concept, "you have to have money to make money".

JMHO on the topic; for reference, I'm a new entrepreneur very early in the process. I'm just lucky enough to be able to risk the attempt.
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What if I look like a famous actor/actress or model? Should I not be allowed to act or model professionally?

Or if I sound like a famous singer, should I not be allowed to sing for profit?

What if my paintings have a similar style to a famous painter, should I not be allowed to paint for a living?
Some people reading this might get the impression that the EU Parliament is not a popularly- and directly-elected legislative body with votes every 5 years...

That aside, what kind of democratic input would you like? Swiss style?

Do you write to your MEP~s?
Coming across that early in my freelancing career, I create indexes on foreign keys by default now via auto-configuring it with ORM.

It's almost always needed, and it's easier to remove them if they somehow become a problem.
That is sort of what I have now, a script using pillow and osxphotos to export my albums.
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