skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They can't make them fast enough to satisfy hype-driven demand; they are not scaling like a tech company, but their market cap is being inflated like one.
Large corporate customers like Microsoft and Meta do not use CUDA. They all use custom software. AMD doesn’t have enough GPUs to sell them yet, that’s the real bottleneck.
> The DAX is made of the 40 most valuable German companies.

Not to be too nitpicky here but these are only the publicly traded companies. You have a number of pretty large German companies that are still entirely private such as Aldi, Schwarz Group, Boehringer or Bosch.
> Yes, Germany is slow to adapt to new tech

Like renewable energy? 1st quarter 2024: 58,4% electricity from renewable energy. Up from 48.5% last year.
It may be unintuitive to you, but "the biggest" in many cases means "most populous" and Germany is that - we don't count Russia (because it is not entirely in Europe) or Turkey (for a similar reason) really.
This is a developer's answer to a business problem. Scriptability added to a non-developer's tool is usually just enough rope to hang them on IME, and often ends up in a whole arsenal of footguns.
I have been thinking on something along these lines as well. with the professionalization/industrialization of software you also have an extreme modularization/specialization. I find it really hard to follow the web-dev part of programming, even if I just focus on say Python, as there are so many frameworks and technologies that serve each little cog in the wheel.
Alfred is a good software, but I miss the possibility to resize the clipboard history window to see more content in the preview panel. Same issue (for me) in Raycast. If someone knows how to enable such possibility, please share with us.
Large POV discussion from the other day: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40643207
How is this article worthy of the front page of HN? It must be simply the click-bait nature of the title as there is nothing of substance beyond that.
I think it's been sort of useful at least that LLMs have helped us have new ways of thinking about how human brains are front-loaded with little instruction sets before being sent out to absorb, filter and recycle received language, often like LLMs not really capable of analyzing its meaning. There will be a new philosophical understanding of all prior human thought that will arise from this within the next 15 years.
I've worked for six companies, won the lottery once, and it was life-changing. I'm not bringing this up to brag or to suggest that it's common, but to point out that it is possible.

And frankly I think as time goes on it has become and will become more possible for more people. In part because of people like you who bring up all-too-common stories of how their founders got big payouts, but their employees only saw breadcrumbs. As more and more employees become educated on this stuff, the more pressure it puts on companies to offer better deals to their employees. We have a loooong way to go before my experience is common -- if we do ever get there -- but I do think it's possible that we could get there.
This is just another reason to tax externalities and be done with it.

Guilt tripping on totally arbitrary things just isn't going to work.

We already have a mechanism for managing scarce resources, it's called price, so let's just use it.
No one can predict what innovations will come. So a more accurate answer would be "I don't know, but not likely soon". But it should be pretty clear by now that the current driver of AGI talk (LLMs, possibly by extension, NNs) is not going to get us there. It might be a component of some future AGI, but not the basis
Or just the biggest in the EU.
I'd agree with you, but ever since mobile devices have taken off, aren't we much worse than before? In the last peak PC years, say, before 2011, I was under the impression that hardware vendors were starting to play ball, but now things seem super locked down and Linux seems to be falling behind in this tug of war between FOSS - binary-only.
This is a common practice at many large companies, though it isn't explicit, and it's rarely transparent. Managers try to find roles on other teams for their worst performers in order to get them out of their organization, because that's frequently easier than using a PIP to fire someone. Unfortunately, the way you get another manager to accept your poorly-performing employee is to talk up their skills and talk about how they have career development dreams that would be perfect for this other role.
Nvidia is a fabless chip designer. They design chips and software to go with the chips, but contract out the actual manufacturing.
https://apnews.com/article/china-chatbot-xi-jinping-thought-...

What will the Chinese ai be able to discuss?
dlclose is only when invoked with RTLD_NODELETE
Thanks, fwiw, Russia is still #1 by population if you only count population in Europe.
thumb-2 is from 02002 and should therefore be off patent, but presumably this is arm64
> Would be nice to read how do they collect/prepare data for training.

By literally opting everyone into their training data set and making it very cumbersome to opt out: https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1794863603964891567.html
> Europe has almost no real tech companies

How do you define "tech"? Europe's domestic markets are jam-packed full of local tech companies.
I agree on Perl's choice. But Perl5 was granted as an stable platform, kinda like AWK, pretty much unlike Perl6, which wasn't the future of the current Perl5 at all, except for the hype.
Going off the GP's points alone, they said GPT-3.5T vs. GPT-4, where T I assume stands for "Turbo". If that's the case, then the video must have its timelines wrong - GPT-3.5 Turbo came out with GPT-4 Turbo, which was some time after GPT-4, and OpenAI put a lot of work in making GPT-3.5 Turbo work much better than 3.5. I can sort of buy that someone could find the difference between 3.5 Turbo and 4 to be not that big, but they're making the wrong comparison. The real jump was from 3.5 to 4; 3.5 Turbo came out much later.
Among world-firsts that happen in contemporary India, this is probably one of the coolest.
(The page displays fine with ublock-origin + blocked 3rd-party {scripts,frames} + "cookie notices" filter lists)
I wonder does Gerald Sussman do TDD :D:D
(for TDD'ers: the tone of this comment is ironic)
The model code is comparatively tiny compared to pytorch or CUDA itself. Translating models from CUDA/C could be laborious but not a barrier.

Making AMD work effortlessly with pytorch et al should make the switch transparent.
Sharing local websites and files with zrok
AMD has better seemingly better hardware - but not the production capacity to compete with Nvidia yet. Will be interesting to see margins compress when real competition catches up.

Everybody thinks it’s CUDA that makes Nvidia the dominant player. It’s not - almost 40% of their revenue this year comes from mega corporations that use their own custom stack to interact with GPUs. It’s only a matter of time before competition catches up and gives us cheaper GPUs.
https://archive.is/oy4fW
Announcing TypeScript 5.5 RC
I suspect it's going to boil down to whether any of the IP Nuvia had access to but Qualcomm did not made it into the cores. But it could also easily come down to some details of the wording of the contracts in terms of how that license is granted. Either way, this request for the destruction of laptops at the early stage is clearly a negotiation point: if the court grants it, which seems unlikely, it'll be a strong bargening chip for a negotiation a settlement in cash/royalties/etc, not the actual goal of ARM.
When Kids Talk to Machines
Yes, and it's doing a mediocre-at-best job of it. You can remove tariffs and harmonise regulations, but the EU is trying to unite countries with cultural borders older than Christianity.
With all the self flagellation and dogma recitation in order to become a humanities professor, didn’t they realize this is the goal?
I don't mind to pay for a software. Most of the software costs like two cups of coffee. The only feature I miss in Alfred/Raycast is that I cannot resize the clipboard history window to see more content in the preview panel. I copy large text and source code files. It's hard to quickly look at the source code in a small preview panel.

Maybe it's just me and I didn't find a way to resize the window. If someone knows how to do this, please share with us.
https://vippsmobilepay.com/en/news/2024/03/12/new-app-in-den...
The Hemlocks Movement
Musk's X demands money from laid-off employees, claims they were overpaid
Anticipate – Augmenting thought by uncovering hidden assumptions through AI
Student creates custom AI device for cheating university exam, gets arrested
I think another issue with lockstep is that for it to work, each client needs all the input data from all the other clients to be able to simulate the next step, otherwise the simulations become out of sync. So how does the simulation handle both your input, and another clients input that comes in 100ms later? If you just pause until you get their input, your game is effectively pausing and running at 10 steps/second. For comparison Starcraft 1 ran at 42ms a step, or ~24 steps per second. You'd be playing in slow motion.

Games like Starcraft 1 would handle it by adding an artificial delay to your inputs (and all your opponent's inputs). Putting it into a buffer for future steps instead. If anyone remembers the latency option for "Extra high latency", this would increase the delay on inputs so that simulations did not have to pause while waiting for inputs from other clients. And then if any network fluctuations causes your input buffer of other clients to empty, you have to pause again.

In fighting games this is usually called delay-based netcode, and people hate it. It makes your inputs feel unresponsive, and in games that require fast reactions (like fighting games) gives you a smaller window to react.
I tried the model the article links to and it was so refreshing not being denied answers to my questions. It even asked me at the end "Is this a thought experiment?", I replied with "yes", and it said "It's fun to think about these things, isn't it?"

It felt very much like hanging out with your friends, having a few drinks, and pondering big, crazy, or weird scenarios. Imagine your friend saying, "As your friend, I cannot provide you with this information." and completely ruining the night. That's not going to happen. Even my kids would ask me questions when they were younger: "Dad, how would you destroy earth?" It would be of no use to anybody to deny answering that question. And answering them does not mean they will ever attempt anything like that. There's a reason Randall Munroe's "What If?" blog became so popular.

Sure, there are dangers, as others are pointing out in this thread. But I'd rather see disclaimers ("this may be wrong information" or "do not attempt") than my own computer (or the services I pay for) straight out refusing my request.
No it isn't? It's the list of the biggest blue-chip Germany-HQ'd companies trading on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange. If you're a German company with exclusively German employees trading in London, or Paris, or New York, you don't qualify.
Hope, despair and CRISPR – the race to save one woman's life
How much of Nvidia's value do you think comes from the chips? Chips are a commodity, AMD's chips have been better and cheaper than Nvidia for many years.

The reason Nvidia's value has been so inflated is the software stack and the lock-in they offer. CUDA, CuDNN, that's where Nvidia's value lies.

And obviously, now that all relevant ML frameworks are designed for Nvidia's software stack, Nvidia has a monopoly on the supply. That's why their value is being inflated so much.

And Nvidia doesn't have produce the chips themselves, that's all contracted out as well.
> Well, yes, but Not all models need to be "super large." Smaller models, specialized in specific tasks, working together - and then reporting to a slightly larger model is the way to go.

I want to believe, but I'm still yet to see this kind of set up being anywhere near GPT-4 level.

The weather example seems quite contrived. Why not just display the alerts for your area? Why is a complex system of smaller models reporting up to a slightly larger model necessary?
- Linux it's just a kernel.

- Vanilla Linux it's propietary.

- GNU/Linux-Libre it's the proper libre one, rebased from GNU maintainers.

- There's no proper 'Vanilla distro' as LFS or Gentoo. Every one since 1993 has been an external bundle made from volunteers.

- The closest vanilla distro from the GNU project would be Guix as it works as a distro and a universal package manager to ship libre software.
WeWork has emerged from bankruptcy. What's next?
Depends. How would that "free distribution" of "free compute" translate into profit for the company with the compute-bill?

Only via conversion of users to paid OpenAI accounts?
If you train it on a belcurve, you will be able to fix the left side with it after.
Most of the population of Russia is in Europe and it was always considered European country, just like Britain, France, Spain or Portugal of the colonial period.
Looking forward to see the experiment results in a few months.
Extending a little understanding helps. Many people would think of this more in terms of the field of play which is 100yds (300ft). By that measurement it would be nearly a field length.
For what it's worth, four years old seems too young for a phone or an AI companion. Parenting is an active role that shouldn't be outsourced.
Sure, renewable _electricity_ is up. But up alone is not enough. When talking energy, you should use gross energy, including e.g. transport.

Take this chart [0] from wikipedia [1]. Doesn't look too amazing. Now, being a gross exporter, the numbers are obviously skewed, but I didn't really mean EVs or electrical production specifically. German bureaucracy famously still runs on fax and emails are printed, there are lots of small-ish villages to small cities with _really_ bad internet connection among other things. It's a big country where politicians seem to be really afraid of change. It's not that the country is stuck in the 70s, but some things just take more time to arrive in Germany, or at least in parts of it.

[0]: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/timeline/8v6gc06xa...
[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Renewable_energy_in_the_Europe...
> Most businesses are not big enterprises that need a programming layer.

Your assumption is that having a programming layer in a CRM is only for big businesses. But that's not true at all.
> Availability of software and firmware updates

> (a)

> The latest available version of the firmware shall be made available for a minimum period of eight years after the placing on the market of the last unit of a certain product model, free of charge or at a fair, transparent and non-discriminatory cost. The latest available security update to the firmware shall be made available until at least eight years after the placing on the market of the last product of a certain product model, free of charge.

(b)

> Information on the minimum guaranteed availability of software and firmware updates, availability of spare parts and product support shall be indicated in the product information sheet as from Annex V of Regulation (EU) 2019/2013.

https://eur-lex.europa.eu/eli/reg/2019/2021/oj

I can't find all of it, but part of it (Samsung also did the same thing) is triggered by EU environment protection directives.
Is there much point in enumerating them, considering the paper makes it clear these are just potentially “taboo” polarizing issues for which no actual conclusions or consensus exist?
You can't guarantee industrial customers won't just increase their sales prices with supply. Consider normal EV chargers: They just spike the price for the user. And depending on the market, wholesale prices might be locked in for 24h or more so industry knows its day-to-day costs before it incurs them. Smashing up the prices for tomorrow can generate usage spikes today. Good controls for weather-based supply but not a feature in a national emergency.

Above all of this you still need to be able to prioritise physical circuits for healthcare, security, groceries and homes, and be able to cut off others.

That said, Gogoro seem to be more about overselling contracts so spiking price probably would make shut down themselves.
Robotic vehicles to fight with enemy forces in Army training event
Flipping the script on pig butchering scams – $45M is just the tip
Big companies means efficiencies of scale. Small companies that succeed and grow inevitably become big companies. If they don't, it means the qualities that make them effective don't scale to the rest of the economy.
Build the scary stuff: Bryan Cantrill (Oxide)
Did you make sure you agreed on what was meant by "AGI"?

I ask because ever since InstructGPT I've been noticing that people not only don't agree on any letter of that initialism, but also sometimes mean by it something not present in any letter.

So for me, even InstructGPT counts as a general purpose AI; for OpenAI, it's not what they mean by AGI (they require it to be economically significant); and it definitely isn't superhuman (which some people need, I'd call that ASI not merely AGI); and we still can't agree on what consciousness is let alone what it would take for an AI to have it, but some people include that in their definition of AGI and I never have.
Like digitalization? Like Solar Panel building (in 2022 like 80% where imported)? Or like in the past about credit cards? ("we don't want plastic money" moment)

> Like renewable energy? 1st quarter 2024: 58,4% electricity from renewable energy. Up from 48.5% last year.

Generation, not consumption* (but still great!!)
> but not the production capacity to compete with Nvidia yet.

thats just a question of negotiating with tsmc or their few competitors

(also didn't tsmc start production of some factories in the US and/or EU?)

I mean, nvidia use tsmc, so does amd.
Startup Claims It Can Boost CPU Performance by 2-100X
Close, but not quite. And guess who's triggered it, it's the usual suspect, the EU:

> Availability of software and firmware updates

> (a)

> The latest available version of the firmware shall be made available for a minimum period of eight years after the placing on the market of the last unit of a certain product model, free of charge or at a fair, transparent and non-discriminatory cost. The latest available security update to the firmware shall be made available until at least eight years after the placing on the market of the last product of a certain product model, free of charge.

(b)

> Information on the minimum guaranteed availability of software and firmware updates, availability of spare parts and product support shall be indicated in the product information sheet as from Annex V of Regulation (EU) 2019/2013.

https://eur-lex.europa.eu/eli/reg/2019/2021/oj

I can't find all of it, but part of it is triggered by EU environment protection directives.
> Just like humans, algae are constantly breathing—but they intake carbon dioxide and release oxygen

Yeah this isn't great.
The bar is not as high as you describe. Something like llama.cpp or a wrapper like ollama can pull down a capable general-purpose 8b or 70b model and run on low-to-mid tier hardware, today. It'll only get easier.
How We Hacked Billion Dollar Companies in 30 Mins Using a Fake VSCode Extension
Even as an 9 year old I'd be pretty insulted if someone talked to me like that.
I've worked at seed, series A, and series B startups, and I think... it just depends. Only one time (a series A) did I feel exploited. That wasn't because I was an early employee at a startup; it was because the founders were sketchy and lied to us about what was going on with the company's fundamentals.

I frankly don't mind the idea that a founder is going to see orders of magnitudes more cash from a successful exit than I will, though I do think it would be great if that gap were closed a bunch.

Ultimately I worked at startups because I thought the work would be interesting, challenging, and educational (it was), because I wanted autonomy, influence, and impact (I got those), and because didn't want to deal with bureaucracy and many layers of management (I mostly didn't have to). In contrast, working at a FAANG sounds not particularly enjoyable to me. But I've never done that, so maybe it would be more ok than I think. Then again, I did join a 50-person startup and stay until it became a 10,000-person public company, and was pretty unhappy there for the last few years of my tenure, so I think it's pretty reasonable to expect I wouldn't be happy at a FAANG.

I say this to point out that not everyone is looking for the same things out of their employment experience, and that's totally fine.
>Like, it has absolutely zero security,

Wait until you discover exploits for the rust Runtime

>no accessibility

AtSPI, speech-distpacher.

>no fine-grained permissions system,

ACLs.

>no normal cross-application communication

DBUS did that.

>No userspace resource control (cgroups are cool, but they are not exposed)

Unless you use Plan9/9front, every Unix and even NT it's like that.

Inb4 sandboxing and X.org easy eavesdropping, upon running any unsupervised malware as your user account, you are powned under every OS (by default) as you can just tgz the Chromium/Firefox/SSH profile from $HOME and rsync+netcat/NNCP the whole pack over the net. Everything else it's snake oil.
> The RTX 4090 is a ~three slot beast when using air cooling and needless to say rigging up something like the dual slot water cooled 4090s I have at scale is another challenge altogether... How are people going to wire this up? What do the enclosures/racks/etc look like?

A few years ago, if you wanted a lot of GPU power you would buy something like [1] - a 4/5U server with space for ten dual-slot PCIe x16 cards and quadruple power supplies for 2000W of fully redundant power. And not a PCIe riser in sight.

I share your scepticism about whether it's common to run >2 4090s because nvidia have indeed sought to make it difficult.

But if there was some sort of supply chain issue that meant you had to, and you had plenty of cash to make it happen? It could probably be done.

Some of the more value-oriented GPU cloud suppliers like RunPod offer servers with multiple 4090s and I assume those do something along these lines. With 21 slots in the backplane, you could probably fit 6 air-cooled three-slot GPUs, even if you weren't resorting to water cooling.

[1] https://www.supermicro.com/en/products/system/4U/4028/SYS-40...
Economy does not come from the geographical size, it comes from the people inhabitating it.
The more he talks about fun, the more seriously he should be taken
I'd say it's uncommon but you'll often use Elixir wrappers around OTP stuff or Erlang libraries. Sometimes there isn't a wrapper for the library you want so you'd just call into the Erlang library directly, which is much easier and "noob"-friendly than FFI:s usually are.

For sets it's usually recommended to use Elixir MapSet. There is a Queue-wrapper around the FIFO-queue in OTP as well. For fun and learning you can also implement your own queues, or things like process pooling around the tooling already available.
> DAX is made of the 40 most valuable *listed* German companies

https://www.famcap.com/top-500-german-family-businesses-the-...

Not all of those are listed, or listed in Frankfurt
People shouldn't be dishonest, yet we can't just outlaw lies.

But we can outlaw lying in advertisements and product information.

It basically comes down to the scale and context. Things don't need to be completely morally black and white for us to see that something is generally bad.