skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm referring to this part of the article

> That's cheap! It’s cheap in the sense that you can run Pershing Square with a relatively small staff; you only need so many analysts to pick 12 stocks. It’s also cheap in the sense that you can scale up easily: If PSUS really does raise $25 billion of new money, it will just put that money into the same 12 stocks. It won’t take any more analytical work (they’ve already picked the stocks), and it probably won’t be that expensive (these are liquid large-cap stocks so the trades have more capacity). Charging 2% management fees on a low-turnover portfolio of large liquid public stocks seems like a better business model than charging 2% and picking new stocks each day.

This is non sensical since most of the work they do is convincing board members to enact their changes and figuring out how to fix the company.

Its obvious that Matt Levine thinks they just pick stocks and sleep
Would (albeit, likely forced) interoperability of CUDA and the like sufficiently create a level market place for competition[0]?

It doesn't immediately ruin Nvidia and its moat, but it paves the way for competition that isn't thwarted simply because the leader in the space has proprietary software that everyone uses as the de-facto standard.

This would make it possible for AMD and other competitors to compete on hardware and how well they can integrate the software. It would also diversify providers and in all likelihood accelerate AI development as having the same software work across different hardware means there is more total compute available (one of the current bottlenecks as I understand it)

[0]: Kind of like how anti-trust with Microsoft ended up accelerating the market space for alternatives to their products as they started maintaining official documentation for their file formats used across Office products, as part of their strategy to stave off further issues of anti-trust. Same reason they open sourced C# by all accounts.
So even by your standard of weapons grade copium, it's always bad. Invasive species outcompete native ones by definition so they can't thrive.

Seriously, go look at the iceplant covering California's coasts [1]. Or the himalayan blackberry all over the pacific north west [2]. Or the kudzu vine all over the south east US [3]. They smother native competitors and eliminate them everywhere they go, turning once diverse ecosystems into monocultures.

The ecosystems don't adapt, they get wiped clean of any native plants whose niche overlaps even slightly with the invader. If the native species could adapt, the introduced species wouldn't be called "invasive" but "naturalized"

[1] https://www.fiscaliniranchpreserve.org/images/Photo%201%20NP...

[2] https://extension.oregonstate.edu/sites/default/files/styles...

[3] https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4c/Kudzu_on...
What other things do you mean, and why do you think it’s special?

“At this level” in context of this discussion simply means matters outside of the scope of natural sciences. Both philosophy (e.g., of mind) and religion make claims that are non-provable and non-falsifiable using scientific method. They are orthogonal to it.
I don't see what the problem is. As the article and its linked sources mention, this is according to Politico and NYT's inside sources who are not authorized to speak publicly. This sounds consistent with "US eyes antitrust investigation".

And it's as much as you're going to get until "US formally announces antitrust investigation".
The common reporting is that all hospitals in Gaza have been destroyed. I saw that written in mainstream media just today. I've seen it dozens of times. I've seen the word "bomb" used, but I am not an expert in explosives or artillery.

If you deny this, then no, you are not correct on the facts. If you want to split hairs with me about what specific mechanism Israel used to destroy those hospitals, I frankly do not think it matters. But I believe you are likely splitting hairs on that in bad faith as means of genocide denial.
> If you live purely from housing, you are not middle-class.

Someone could be a landlord and only be taking home like $50k per year as "salary". You're saying that person is not middle-class?
Is Nvidia doing anything to prevent ZLUDA or ROCm from succeeding?
It's mind-boggingly more than double. The rocket equation takes no prisoners.
Since I read about the new publisher, I've been considering canceling my WaPo subscription. Even before that, I do feel like WaPo's quality has been degrading; they've been engaging in some low-quality, disingenuous both-sides-ism, and have hired some truly awful writers.

It's so hard to know where to put my money when it comes to journalism. In general I don't pay for online journalism, because I don't really have any "allegiance" to one publication, and I consume most of my news from places like HN (that is, aggregators). So I find it hard to justify paying $30/mo to any one website when I might read only 2 or 3 articles a month there. (I ended up with a WaPo subscription after a friend gifted me one for a year, and then I decided to continue it after it ran out.)
Yeah the Proxmox limitation originally came about because I didn't find a reliable way to detect enterprise use from the CLI (But I had not used Proxmox before implementing that, so I might have missed it).

But if I see this correctly, I could call the API from the command-line with this: https://pve.proxmox.com/wiki/Proxmox_VE_API#Using_'pvesh'_to... and check the response. If that is possible I can definitely change that limitation.
Like it did for standard oil: creates a cartel all owned by the original company
US Payroll Gains Not as Robust as Reported, New Data Suggest
It might make an interesting business book--maybe I'll write it--what realistic business strategies companies that are widely viewed as failures could have followed though industry changes that boards/shareholders wouldn't have revolted about.

I'm not even sure IBM is a great example. It had a really rough stretch but is still there as a very profitable dividend-paying large corporation even if it's not considered cool.
Ask HN: Whats State of the art for Code Sandboxing? (2024)
Im curious about running User Submitted code in a way that

* Protects the host system

* Protects the host network

* Lets me constrain allowed URLs

* Lets me constrain run time resources

* Lets me accept more than one language easily.

At a quick glance it seems like theres a healthy balance of recommendations from nested virtualization (QEMU inside a locked down docker host) and WASM (this can imply many architectures).

So HN, if you were to create a sandbox system. What would you reach for?
Real-time open-domain image classification on your MacBook with Nomic Embed
I guess you can see no practical application of a robotics team that is able to build something that impresses almost every human on earth besides yourself?
You also run into issues of what do with the wings on the way up. You can't just put huge ass wings on that thing. You likely need it deploy-able.

And then the wings would also survive the flip and vertical landing. Or if you want to land like a plane, then you also need landing gear.

So there is really no way to add wings without adding a huge amount of mass. You are building a completely new thing.

There are some super cool mega-space planes designed in the 70s (I think). But of course these were never built or even tested. I remember they had some overlapping metal heat shields and a big ass delta wing. They would also start vertically and use air breathing engines.
Sounds like a great improvement to me, the 8-bit PICs have great peripherals and are easy to use but the CPU cores are garbage (slow 4T architecture, no hardware stack, bank switching necessary, forced to use Microchip's proprietary compiler instead of GCC).
Nice breakdown.

I think jasper is this, a library for JPEG-2000 images: https://www.ece.uvic.ca/~frodo/jasper/

Linked to from here: https://formulae.brew.sh/formula/jasper
Previous discussion:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40593275
U.S. clears way for antitrust inquiries of Nvidia, Microsoft and OpenAI (nytimes.com)

2024-06-06 154 comments

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40600343 US eyes antitrust investigation against Nvidia as market value surpasses $3T (semafor.com)

2024-06-06 45 comments
A common view is the USA is partly responsible through their continued supply of weapons to Israel.
AMD actually had more resources than NVIDIA for a good long while (although they did have more places to spread them over, that was their choice to do so), and the balance of power didn't really shift until the 2014-era when AMD really "took their foot off the gas" on R&D. 290X was the last time AMD could be described as "in the lead" and Maxwell opened up a gap that AMD never managed to close.

Raja actually specifically called out 2012 as being the timeframe when that happened, because AMD decided the future of GPUs was iGPUs and not dGPUs, that the latter segment was going to go away entirely as iGPUs got faster and faster. Oops.

https://youtu.be/590h3XIUfHg?t=1956
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I’m speaking abstractly, of course.
Hmm. Let's say you're looking at that 5000 TEU (Twenty-foot Equivalent Units) ship with (the most common, IIUC) 40' containers. The state space for optimization has something like 2500! or 10^7400 states. Given 24 hours to optimize it at 1ns per state, you could look at 10^14 states or 10^-7384% of the state space.

There are also a lot more constraints than weight and balance and they're constantly changing; some may rule out big chunks of the state space which is very good, but it's still a Hard Problem.

But it's not like there aren't people already doing it.

https://www.herbert-abs.com/cargomax-for-container-ships

https://www.lineroptimizer.com/
"planes and helicopters fly over your head all the time already,"

Yes, there are some incidents related to these. Keep in mind maintenance requirements, training, and restrictions are much stricter for real aircraft and thus should have a much lower mishap rate.

"and most people are not listening for tire or engine sounds to prepare them to dodge an out of control car."

This is simply untrue. The nature of the loud and unusual sound causes most people to look even if they weren't intentionally looking for it.

"I am in WAY more danger from a police car currently than from a drone mitigating the need for the police to send a car in the first place."

This is only true because the adoption of the drones are so low. If we had similar deployment rates it's likely we would see similar risk levels.

Of course you could mitigate a lot of this by having other restrictions similar to other aircraft, automated parachute and strobe/alarm for failures, designated low risk/disruption flight paths, etc.
Mario Paint "Data Over Flow" error [video]
Should be possible using AX APIs on mac, might not be all that performant, however.
When you get to the point where you realize a herbicide might be nice, but aren’t set up for spraying or dealing with potential drift (droplet size is important, a mist means chemical is floating away to touch something you don’t want), look into stem injectors which is a common method to limit risk. Keep in mind timing will be important though.

As always, take the PPE notice on the label seriously (sit down and read the entire damn thing), and always wear chemical resistant gloves and a splash guard for the face.
24/7 I've been putting cotton balls in my ears for a while now, takes a little to get used to the lower volume of everything else, but it really helps. I'm surprised at how loud things are at this point when I don't have them.
Most Musk, Bezos, Zuckerberg equivalents were similarly divisive and controversial figures while they were alive or active (say, Ford). That only went away when the people who experienced them aged out.

Steve Jobs is a nice, more recent example, being just about old enough to remember his death, I know he was very much an asshole with many strongly held opinions most people would've disliked, but a current teenager is probably only aware that he was the visionary founder of Apple.

Bill Gates is also an interesting example, he was notorious for being cutthroat back in his day, but since he has mostly just been doing charity stuff since retirement, that reputation is fading.
There is no official policy document of the entire political party, the last "official" one is from 2016. This platform is as you say written and endorsed by more than 80 organizations that represent the full breadth of the Republican coalition.

It is also written by the former Secretary of HUD, Deputy Secretary of Homeland Security, several members of the presidential transition team, CFO of the Commerce Department, Chief of Staff of the EPA, Secretary of Defense, FERC Commissioner, several senior presidential advisors, director of the BLM, director of the Office of Civil Rights, FEC Commissioner, director of the OMB, director of budget policy, and many more senior officials from the previous administration. These authors represent all aspects of the last Republican administration, and combined with the 80+ organizations they represent the entirety of the party.
Does the fairing have attitude control thrusters used during descent, or is its orientation maintained passively due to its shape?
Neat. I see words.

None of those words support the initial claim that the CDC has issued guidance to cook steaks to 160F, which is a claim that at this point I can only believe to be a fabrication that was made in bad faith.

I do not wish to spend any time at all determining which of your other claims may also be fabricated.
Everyone that got laid off, getting a shittier job does NOT improve the economy.
I initially read your comment with the opposite meaning to what you intended, since it's so well known that Israel has been relentlessly attacking and settling Palestine for over 70 years.
Zoning regulations limits what you can construct in any given location, so it's not even about who has more financial capital, but political capital in many cases.
Sorry thank you for providing a much better and accurate overview of the law. It is most appreciated.
What if they wake up and the world is a worse place?

You're making a big bet that people in the far future will look at your preserved body as a resource to cherish, not one to be exploited.
If there's a literal sound, then with sufficiently sensitive microphones it should be possible to triangulate the sound and cauterize the source? Or maybe just glue it so it can't vibrate?
I use two Ultimate Hacking Keyboards.

V1 had some issues, V2 is better.

https://ultimatehackingkeyboard.com/
A naked human can survive the ocean for 3 orders of magnitude longer than they can survive space.
If those could be fed equally well (i.e. doubled decode width, reorder buffer sizes, register file ports), not much would be different, of course, but, from what I understand, that's significantly more expensive (given that the complexity of some of those things grow at O(n^2) or so (bypass network, connecting all pipes to all others? picking out the ops to run in a given cycle from the reorder buffer?), vs O(n) from just increasing width), so we probably won't be seeing 10 SIMD ports anytime soon.
> but it also get devalued relative to USD when these coins inevitably get sold to pay expenses

Good point. It invalidates the "good" part but does not make it doubly bad IMO.

And for ETH, well, I don't think it's about protecting value, it's more about:

> In both cases, it's gonna be the amount of capital involved that decides how the rewards are proportioned, there's no way around it

Yes. The difference is, PoW requires you to BURN resource proportioned to your rewards, while PoS just requires you to HAVE (but not burn) it. This makes a huge difference IMO.

For example, I would consider it more "ethical" (whatever that means) to add a light PoW part (with constant or slowly increasing difficulty, that is chosen to reduce environmental impact) to the ETH PoS protocol as-is: the random-chosen validators have to solve a PoW in addition to make their efforts proportioned to how much they stake, instead of being mostly constant.
I have a strong tinnitus, 20 years ago I asked a doctor if he could do something about it. He put his stethoscope on my skull and told me "It's weird I can hear something". Alas, he was unable to help me.
Since today I haven't thought about the contradiction between a physical and the omnipresent mantra that "Tinnitus is not something physical, it is just a noise that the brain made up".
I can’t reply directly to that.

You have to introduce species that bridges the gap and creates those links.

To give an example with kadzu:

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/true-story-kud...

Tldr: kadzu turns out not to be as invasive as people thought, and the kadzu bug has been eating its way through them.
Vulkan was always designed to be extremely low level API and with an idea in mind, that libraries would be required to get it up to level of OpenGL/DX11 and others. So in this respect, extensively using libraries on top of it is very normal, just like you don't write your software against syscalls these days.
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I get tinnitus when it's really quiet and it feels a lot like my brain is just turning up the gain so much it picks up the noise floor.

Some audio cleaning tools can do the same if applied incorrectly.

It makes sense hearing loss would make this worse. Less signal more gain needs to be applied.
As a reminder, avian flu is risky because it cannot be isolated, and the H5N2 strains are among the most likely to jump to humans.

Here's the WHO report with details:

https://www.who.int/emergencies/disease-outbreak-news/item/2024-DON520

The patient had multiple co-morbidities and had been bedridden. It's unclear to me if H5N2 did more than contribute opportunistically. They report no contact with poultry, but some possible sources, e.g.,

In March 2024, a high pathogenicity avian influenza A(H5N2) outbreak was detected
in a backyard poultry farm in the state of Michoacán,
which borders the State of Mexico where the case was residing
I modded this up because of the discussion regarding that tinnitus in at least some form might be an actual physically observable phenomenon. As for the article itself I saw a wall of foofy "longread for elite intellectuals" style text and skipped it entirely. Looking forward to some more meat and potatoes stories on this possible phenomenon.
My understanding of the Chinese credit score system is that, unlike the US credit model, it includes your personal social media posts.

Thus the negative press in the US was specifically about that, with fear that if you ever, say, criticize the wrong person or expressed an unpopular opinion you'd end up paying a premium on your loan or even be unable to get a mortgage.

Since there's a fairly high opacity to the US credit scores I wouldn't be surprised to find these things added to the US credit score too as an opt-in mechanism to save money similar to how we can now choose to get a key fob to prove to our insurance companies that we drive within the speed limit.
This has been known for a long time, I’m not sure why it’s being reported on as if it’s a new discovery

EDIT why the downvotes? I’m honestly on the edge of deleting my account here at this point
I've been dabbling with Unit when I've had some downtime over the last few days. It's definitely compelling and I quite like that it could potentially replace language-centric (I know there are ways to bend them to your will ...) web servers like gunicorn, unicorn, Puma, etc. It's also compelling that you can easily slot disparate applications, static assets, etc. alongside each other in a simple and straightforward way within a single container.

As others have said and the team has owned up to, the current config strategy is not ideal but the Docker COPY strategy has been working well enough for my experiments.

The other somewhat annoying part of the experience for me has been logging. I would want access logs to be enabled by default and it'd be great to (somehow) more easily surface errors to stderr/out when using the unit Docker images. I know you can tap into `docker logs ...` but, IMO, it'd be ideal if you didn't have to. It's possible there's a way to do this at the config level and I just haven't come across it yet.

Also, and I know this is a bit orthogonal, but it'd be great if the wasm image exposed cargo, wasmtime, et al so you could use a single image to build, run and debug* your application. *This was a pain point for me and I got hung up on a file permissions issue for a few hours.

On the whole, though, I think it's pretty compelling and I was able to stand up Flask, Django and Rust WASM applications in short order. I'm planning to add some documentation and publish the code samples as time permits.
It's not anticompetitive to try and foster fields of software in which your competitors are underinvested/underperforming/disadvantaged. AMD is trying to do the same thing right now - AI/NPU is an area where they think they have the lead over Intel, so guess what, they're selling AI now. AI hardware, AI software...

As far as typical gameworks examples, I am specifically thinking back to tessellation - everyone freaked about Crysis 2 (despite the fact that it didn't actually use max-LOD or no-culling during actual gameplay) or Hairworks. All of a sudden it stopped being a thing, around the Polaris/Vega era, right? You know why that was?

Because AMD finally fixed their tessellation performance. Their hardware was deficient and underperforming, and the problem went away when they fixed their hardware.

The same is true of the software today. AMD's problem isn't that NVIDIA is stomping on their fingers, it's that ROCm crashes when you run the tutorial/sample programs.
What about having Apple stores, for example, perform hearing tests in a controlled environment to maximize your sound experience on Apple devices?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4SaHIYxpqc0

The clues are in the article. The tracks are called "Left Ear" and "Right Ear" and are on YouTube.
The mere mention of tinnitus and suddenly I hear the high pitched sound in my head. I wonder if it’s this way for others?
From the code and a quick test it seems relatively resilient as it saves percentage of current viewport scroll, not absolute pixels.
they're focusing on booster reuse and ship tile slash entry reliability. Ship reuse will come after.

reason they're going hard on booster reuse is those 33 engines, they cost lotsa money to be dumping them over and over.
What is the most useful-to-HN-method to remove the derailment attempts?

Downvote, flag, move on?

I just wish there were more effective tools across the web, (i.e. not just HN) to tackle the people who are trying to cause division by derailing threads with argumentative comments.