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> Our investors were especially excited about the innovativeness and uniqueness of Flow’s technology, its strong IP portfolio and the potential to enable a new era of superCPUs (CPU 2.0) for the AI revolution.

This part makes me think particularly they are building off hype - they showed a tech demo that did well for some specific case that happens to be a buzzword.

The following statements:

> A. Nonexistent cache coherence issues. Unlike in current CPU systems, in Flow’s architecture there are no cache coherence issues in the memory systems due to the memory organization excluding caches in the front of the intercommunication network.

And

> E. Low-level parallelism for dependent operations. In Flow-enabled CPUs, it is possible to execute dependent operations with the full utilization within a step (with the help of chaining of functional units), whereas in current CPUs the operations executed in parallel need to be independent due to parallel organization of the functional units.

Raise my eyebrows, more than a little bit. If to compute e.g. (assume for a second you do not have optimized instructions for this) you have E = D * C and C = B + A, how exactly you can compute E without first knowing C? You can't, not without computing all possible values of E for C (inefficient).

Introduce locking into the situation (where cache coherence issues come into play), their "excluding caches in the front of the intercommunication network." makes no sense.

You need locks to make guarantees about memory safety, saying that you have none is fine if you have nothing to lock, but then you're likely not doing general processing, you're likely doing something specific.

Which I think is a clue as to what they are really doing:

> D. Flexible threading/fibering scheme. Flow-computing technology allows an unbounded number of fibers at the model level, which can also be supported in hardware (within certain bandwidth constraints). In current-generation CPUs, the number of threads is - in theory - not bounded, but if the number of hardware threads is exceeded in the case of interdependencies, the results can be very bad. In addition, the operating systems typically limit the number of threads to a few thousand at most. The mapping of fibers to backend units is a programmable function allowing further performance improvements in Flow.

To me, this sounds like someone CPU-ified a GPU. That's the primary purpose of a gpu, efficiently run a shit-ton of threads. Except of course GPUs aren't great at processing. But it fits the use case of AI algorithms well, which stand to gain a lot from general GPU improvements.
That’s true. However…

We now have wars getting out of control and some very serious ones are escalating to the point where it can disrupt the supply chain.

Yes. I’m talking about the China-Taiwan tensions and the US is adding fuel to the fire, [0] where those who are on the island are at risk of getting caught up in the mess.

[0] https://www.reuters.com/technology/artificial-intelligence/u...
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> There are many options for other MCUs, that compare favorably to with RP2040

That's pretty interesting, could you list some?
Why do you assume it's bootstrapped? We have followed a similar path at Aidlab (although we raised a modest $2M instead of $41M), but we had a clunky prototype and a strong pitch deck with a solid team. Sometimes that's enough!
Highlighting on (atop) the open web, but are your annotations able to thselves be part of the web? Does it implement any of the relevant standards?

Why would I consider using this over http://hypothesis.is , which implements Web Annotations data model & protocol? https://www.w3.org/TR/annotation-protocol/ https://www.w3.org/TR/annotation-model/
Color cycle mode was so rave too.
[dupe]

More discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40635010
> Russia and China are doing it on a much worse level and as the language barriers are quite high we don't see and hear of what they say about the West in their media.

International propaganda behind a language barrier? That doesn't sound right...

https://sputnikglobe.com/

https://www.rt.com/

https://chinaplus.cri.cn/

They also broadcast from local stations (in their parent countries) in English at high power. I bet you can find Radio Liberty and Voice of America as well. I discovered this accidentally by messing around in websdr:

http://websdr.org/
The two aren't mutually exclusive. Those who wish to use Bluetooth headphones can happily use them, while those who prefer wired can continue to use them. There's no reason smartphone manufacturers shouldn't support both.
This was extensively discussed and criticized at the time, so presenting it at face-value, ignoring all of the criticism, does not make a very good submission.
I never heard of her before today, despite having been interested and educated, and employed in computer science for so long.

What a truly impressive list of achievements, and achieving such great things before, during and after transition gender in the 60s of all things.

I can't imagine what they would have done without being hampered by the social stigma and discrimination they must have faced.

It saddens me that I have only learned of her existence now, at her passing. RIP.
When did you meet her at this bio conference? I’m curious what aspect of biology she was interested in and whether she dove into the subject further.
Real alternatives that cover the same features and often even support the same file types are available for most Autodesk/Avid/Adobe products. Businesses, universities and individuals need to adopt a mindset of "we're willing to use anything that can perform the task at hand, and should explore all the options" as opposed to "we need what everyone says is the only tool for the job".
This appears to the the source Wikipedia is citing - http://www.myhusbandbetty.com/wordPressNEW/2024/06/11/lynn-c...
> Where you go to school matters a lot for where you start your career.

[...]

> Company prestige matters a lot.

Neither of those things actually matter much, in my opinion. Or at least, they matter a whole lot less than other factors.

But I suppose that depends on what sort of career you want to have. They probably matter more if your career goals involve climbing large corporate ladders.
"Any work you do is intertwined with politics."

This thought-terminating cliché is bafflingly popular on HN. It's a classic example of the motte-and-bailey fallacy, where the strong claim (the motte) is "everything is political," and the strong claim is "therefore, it's okay to bring politics into everything." (the bailey).

Sure, you can MAKE anything appear political, but not everything is intertwined with politics. Many activities are driven purely by personal interest, scientific curiosity, or artistic expression, without any direct political implications.
> It is very unfortunate that religion associated itself with miracles a lot, which are perfectly incompatible with science.

And yet, there are religious scientists. Just like you can separate your work and personal life, you can separate your religious/spiritual/mental beliefs from your rest of self. You don't need to "prove" the religion to be true for it to be useful.

You know what they say about models and their correctness?
You’re right on the money but it already works in chromium browsers and windows but none of the others you mentioned.
Once a colleague was able to unlock my pixel phone with face unlock - with his face. I'll never trust biometrics again.
That’s entirely rational but unless you build from source (and honestly even if you do) there’s an attack vector present. The only real alternative is to review and allow list outgoing network traffic
since adblocking no longer is easy on twitch, my usage has dropped to literally 0. I wish everyone had such a persistent stance against ads - then we wouldn't be in all this mess.
Yeah, this was a good read and definitely the kind of material I come to HN to read.
This is actually a good example, because it demonstrates how "rational" people consider (based on the debacle we just went through) probabilistic predictions to equate to binary truth. Except the problem is: if that's how one thinks, one can't see the error in it.

Epistemology and non-binary logic are not just complex, they're counterintuitive.

However in this case, your excellent "and if not why not qualifier" could possibly save the day...but then it comes down to whether the judge doesn't get it wrong.
The fact that it is JS actually implies more than just being written in a different language. You can ship Revideo as part of your website and run it inside the browser. One of the reasons we struggled with Moviepy was that we couldn't preview our changes in real-time which made the dev-experience a little tedious.
Isn’t it a bit sad to think that trips like these are pretty much impossible to make these days? The number of countries I would consider safe to live in and raise my children in is much lower today than it was in the seventies. On that metric, things have only gone in the wrong direction for the duration of my life.
Elon likely got sufficient satisfaction weirdly complaining about Apple and OpenAI's partnership on Twitter/X yesterday.
In many countries, health is not a business, but a research topic. As a result, databases, cohorts, studies and other data collections can exist without being monetised, or being monetised within some contractual bounds stricter than what happened with LLM training data. So, to get a head start, you would connections in the medical world, and cardiologists, to get access to this data (that already exists). And you would need those professionals for analysis and feedback of your product too
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Exactly. Licensing is the easy part. Deploy + run are the hard parts, IMO.

You can build something amazing like Immich, a shining example of open-source software that, after a lot of setup, "just works"....until the next release wants you to make well-informed decisions to your `docker-compose.yaml` file.

My wife, who likes Immich but has no interest in learning to code, is not going to do those things if I get hit by a bus, because she won't know how. She's gonna give up and just go with paying some service for photo storage, or else losing photos like everyone else.
The headline says 100x, but the article says the company only claimed double, 2x.

Is the journalism quality these days so low that people don't understand multitudes vs percentages?
I really hope they are going to release something in a QFP package. QFN is significantly harder to solder for hobbyists.
Discussion from the initial filing:

Elon Musk sues Sam Altman, Greg Brockman, and OpenAI [2024-03-01] (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39559966)
I understand completely. I wasn't attempting to rebut or argue the point, but to rescue the human effort that went into the specific article. Wikipedia is less run-from-the-top and more just a community with factions. So I'd say some people lean towards deletion and some people lean towards inclusion. The dissonance you are experiencing is from traversing the territory of control of this factional cold war. There is no central authority to say "we are taking the coherent position of 'ensuring no unapproved contributions' to this site".

For my part, I am an occasional contributor with just a little more patience than most, some grandfathered rights, and a philosophical opposition to the erasure of creative effort. And about as much as I care about doing is repairing lost work so I'll try to get your article back because I think it should be there. I have no position of influence in this organization and have no desire to put in the effort to gain it to change it. But it's a commons. And I intend to modify the commons within my existing power.

I think if I had experienced what you had my position would not be different from yours.
This space is heating up! One of their competitors is Anumana (based in Cambridge), and they partnered with Mayo Clinic on the data front:

https://newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org/discussion/mayo-clinic-la...

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Thanks a lot for the suggestions. Regular expression search would be cool. I was thinking to add a few color themes. But custom CSS to be honest I don't think would work well. In my experience CSS is a little fiddly especially given that the css includes some hacks to get safari on ios working properly which was a big pain.

Auto save is already done, nothing you type is every lost. It's saved immediately (and synced every few seconds).

There is a collapse/expand feature but not for subheadings. If you put --- at the beginning of a line followed by a blank line it'll collapse everything after that, as shown in the demo note.
Can you explain the ban to a layman?
Indeed. A workplace is not a family. It's a Team. If it's a family, then expect family-like drama. If it's a team, then you know there are actual leaders, coaches, and players, and if a team member isn't pulling their weight, they get "traded" to to speak. It's a much healthier analogy.
> My guess is these are the same users who would have done analysis with data scraped from terminals and printed reports 40 years ago.

Back in the early computing days, most of the work was done on the large, shared, mainframe computers. The computers were so costly, that the "computer division" was it's own, separate division of the corporation that had premises with the other divisions. For example the Western Division made products, but if it wanted computer resources, it contracted with the Computer Division, who handily had mainframes installed onsite.

Our group was a feisty, small internal analysis group using the new, "cheap" mini computers. One of our points of service was simply being much more reactive to the users needs, we could simply respond more easily because of how the funding worked.

To you point about "data scraped", we were walking through the plant and saw one of our users with one of our reports. They were cutting the lines out of the green bar report, taping them to another piece of paper, and photocopying it. They were sorting the report by a different criteria. We told them "You know, we can do that for you!" "Oh really!?"

People that need to Get Stuff Done, get it done. Our goals as service providers (which is what we in the computer systems groups are, service providers to our internal customers), is to make that as efficient as possible.

Another person was using a PC, our tablet digitizer, and Autocad to record the points on aircraft to generate radar profiles. It was an inventive use of the digitizer, not for fundamental CAD work, but simple data capture from the drawings in Jane's Combat Aircraft.
If you are American, it will be tricky, yeah. For Europeans it should be doable. I managed to get a 7 day transit visa that could be extended to 10
What open source? The VC backed ones that are split into community version and Enterprise? Computing sovereignty and open source are completely detached of each other nowadays, unfortunately.
You are missing the point. We're discussing if Apple can use their own chips more cheaply than buying Nvidia's chips.

The Max TDP is not actual peak power consumption. Gamer's nexus recorded 500w peak and almost 670w overclocked. Most reviews I've looked at seem to put peak power consumption around 550w.

M2 Ultra wasn't even mentioned and it uses more than 150w. The correct question would be about M3 Max as we have solid numbers on it. M3 Max uses around 100w when both the GPU and CPU are heavily utilized and less than that when only the GPU is used.

This means that Apple could run 5 of their M3 Max chips in the same peak power as the 4090. But wait, there's more. 4090 doesn't run in a vacuum. It requires a separate CPU setup and a couple hundred more watts.

That means we could power 7 or so M3 Max chips with that same amount of power.

Of course, this isn't the whole story. 4090 isn't a professional chip either (while Apple can bin and certify their own CPUs and know they're getting a server-grade chip) and the 4090 also doesn't have nearly enough RAM. H100 starts at $25,000 and goes up. Apple could buy 75-100 M3 Max chips for that kind of money. That's certainly a load more compute than H100 would offer. Blackwell will be even more expensive in comparison.
thanks for explaining that part
Do you only use first party applications otherwise? Any macOS application can poll NSPasteboard and extract your clipboard history and so I don’t see the particular concern with this class of applications.
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For those skimming, this is the controversy over J Michael Bailey's book The Man Who Would Be Queen. I highly recommend reading Dreger's article.

Conway (and others, particularly Andrea James) conducted a years-long campaign of harassment against Bailey. This included (among many other things) repeated attempts to get Bailey fired from his job at Northwestern, a series of vexatious complaints to an Illinois licensing board, and infamously posting photos online of Bailey's children suggesting that Bailey had raped them and asking whether his young daughter was "a cock-starved exhibitionist".

Much of this material is still on Conway's University of Michigan-hosted webpage.
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You actually can, if everyone else also decides that at the same time. That's the necessary and sufficient condition. It reduces to a coordination problem. If everyone wants to unionise, the only hard part is doing it: but that is only as hard as just… doing it.

If you think you'd benefit from a union, then either: (1) you're an outlier (unlikely); (2) you're mistaken (possible); or (3) many of your colleagues would also benefit from a union. Talking to your colleagues about unionising (over a communications channel not controlled by your employer) is a sensible next step in each of these cases.
The professionals use PCB-design software with physical modeling / FEA to calculate estimates to all of the important parameters of the circuit board (including how much trace lengths matter... but also board-capacitance, resistances, and resonance frequencies of the board itself, etc. etc.)

In contrast, we hobbyists deal with "rules of thumb", because none of us will spend $4000+ on professional PCB software that run these calculations for us. And furthermore, we aim very conservative because its very difficult to debug a PCB layout issue... as we hobbyists are functionally blind to all of these issues (ex: trace inductance, trace capacitance, or other issues).

I think spending a good bit of time on PDN / grounding / etc. etc. study is very worth your while.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ySuUZEjARPY

2+ hour talk on just the issue of good "grounding" design in PCBs, but it does relate to this issue of capacitors, trace-lengths and the like. I feel like you'd benefit from this talk.

The "correct" way of thinking is exceptionally complex, far more complex than what is taught in colleges. But you have all the basic ideas thanks to the old rules of thumb. You just need to take the next step to see what the problems are.

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And as you'll see, traces on the same side of a board are cake. Its things like vias that actually wreck you.
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AI-Powered is starting to get boring...
You're making a probabilistic argument against the existence of an American made (or designed) equivalent to a Wifi+MCU module on a chip?
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To lose a friend like that sucks. I'm sorry for your loss.
From a brief skim of the whitepaper, it seems like the general idea is something like “GPUs are <big-multiple> faster than CPUs, because GPUs are built ground-up for parallel computation. The bottleneck now is parallel memory access, let’s build a chip from the ground up that is <big-multiple> better at parallel memory access”.

Not an entirely unconvincing idea, in fairness, but what strikes me as odd is that they’re trying to patent and sell the idea, rather than the technology.
The sports claim still deserves a lot of research. People seem to continue to parrot this "impossible" view point but it really doesn't seem to be the reality. Instead organizations get pressured into making choices based on political views rather than data.

For an example of results see https://bjsm.bmj.com/content/58/11/586. A lot of the papers I see trying to support the opposing views try to use data of cis men which have not undergone hormone therapy to stand-in for trans women as if there was no difference but again it's quite apparent that this is not the case.

For many other areas, often people will use one incident to collectively label an entire group as deviant. This happened the same way with gay rights over the years and I've got many friends who got labelled all sorts of things because of it. As far as that's concerned, people love to arm-chair what is and isn't an effective course. None of these things are new, just American, or ignoring biological factors but it seems like those who would like to restrict acceptance of transgender people like to paint it as such.

Many of my friends have taught me a lot just by being bold enough to be seen as themselves. I don't think it's actually unreasonable to extend the benefit of the doubt to how trans people choose to affirm themselves.
Both! Generally more of the former.