skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"forward" doesn't mean anything, please specify ? But I'll complete for you, by "forward" you meant producing energy free of greenhouse gases (and ideally pollution), all-year round, and all-day round, and unless there are breakthrough in electricity storage, that's not solar, not wind power either.
Those are two different problems. And this is just research for now.

But to address leakage there are already the gate-all-around transistors [1], which are in semiconductor companies roadmaps [2].

[1] https://www.asml.com/en/news/stories/2022/what-is-a-gate-all...

[2] https://www.anandtech.com/show/16823/intel-accelerated-offen...
“We in computer science”! I interpret that as people doing research, not the rest of us who mostly do bean counting programs. For those that pay our salaries, not losing any beans is way more import than how much fun we have, or how much we stretch the possibilities.
A real-world video looks a lot scarier.

Linked downthread: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2tgfkGiHhxs

Especially if close to the ground.
AI and the Death of Student Writing
Turns out more than one opinion exist here ;)
So you're saying, because it can't be done perfectly, it's not worth doing at all?

Seems wrong. Although otherwise I feel the same way about LLMs.
> can do inference as well as the H100 is something the market hasn't priced in.

I think probability of that would still be priced in. Not sure what the exact probability is, though.

But if say it was clear that AMD can come up with a competitive option, then NVDA stock would drop. But if it was clear the other way that AMD can't do it, NVDA price would increase.
Yeah, it's not like the utility of opposable thumbs is exactly a mystery
Did Beethoven Usher in the Romantic Period?
I'm guessing what they meant is that they use toolchains that are retargetable to other GPUs (and typically compile down to PTX (nVidia assembly language) on nVidia GPUs rather than go through CUDA source -- GCC and clang can both target PTX). For example XLA and most SYSCL toolchains support much more than nVidia.
It looks a bit more intense in real footage.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2tgfkGiHhxs
I am both amused and in horror about this, it really shows the decline of what passes as a conspiracy theory but I am deeply amused how it does follow the canon of the show faithfully and if King of the Hill was to be made in todays time, I can see this and just having this difference in times really is amusing -

It makes it much clear what is healthy paraonia and what is unhealthy paranoia. Granted what is healthy paraonia and how can there be a spectrum but - geez.

I just can't tell anymore. Maybe I could never tell.
It's definitely successful, and I was probably too harsh there. But I genuinely think the barriers that are left are damn near insurmountable. An awful lot has to change before a Greek tech workers can move to Sweden as easily as a Virginian can move to California.
> It kinda bothers me that airlines are still placing orders for new Boeing airplanes.

Are they? Boeing had almost nine hundred 737 MAX orders in 2023; in 2024 they have 66:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Boeing_737_MAX_orders_...

Three hundred 787 orders in 2023; 10 in 2024:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Boeing_787_orders_and_...

One hundred 777s in 2023, twenty-seven in 2024:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Boeing_777_orders_and_...

Their numbers are down bigly.

And who else are you going to order from? Airbus? How much capacity do they have to build more?
Perfectly ok? The protests against cutting down the Hambach forest were among the fiercest environmental protests in German history, activists camped out in the forest for years and it took hundreds of policemen to resolve that situation, one person died in an accident and the media covered this for many months.

And to be frank electric cars don’t solve the climate crisis, right now they’re little more than expensive toys for the affluent, it’s cool to drive around in a Tesla but don’t believe you save the planet doing that.
Before you go drinking the kool-aid here, read the sponsoring list. Then go back and read peer reviewed studies on masks that occurred before the COVID pandemic. Or read the disclaimers on the masks. Bottom line, masks, even N95, offer limited mitigation. Numerous studies have demonstrated that. As for the vaccine, personally I know more people that died of vaccine side effects than died of COVID. In fact, I know exactly one person that was deemed a COVID death, despite dying of a hospital acquired staph infection. The government paid more for COVID deaths than dying with COVID. If you spent any time dealing with hospitals during the pandemic, the abuse was obvious. And since it's an election year, it's time to round the sheep up and scare them to death once again. Having lived through numerous pandemics down through the year and seeing how the sheep behavior was stimulated during COVID, my suggestion is that Fauci and the rest of his fascist cabal spend the rest of their lives rotting in jail, especially now that he has essentially admitted that he was making it up as he went along AND that the lab leak theory has gained more traction. Fool me once, shame on you, fool me twice, shame on me. Never again.
I wasn't aware she was controversial. Can you elaborate? I'm genuinely curious
Saving energy has been long a goal. More efficient technologies are being deployed all the time.
I wonder the same, there's a bunch of budget electric bikes out there, I'd love something small that I can get around in the winter with!
https://archive.is/2024.06.07-190442/https://www.chronicle.c...
.... while all of the content is hosted on Linux servers, and you're listening to music through a Swedish app. That is running on silicone made in Taiwan. Using equipment that can currently only be manufactured in Belgium and Germany. On a Mac you are using a British instruction set.

Also in terms of tech innovation: What part of the US-based tech innovation couldn't have been (and actually were) achieved with open-source solutions many many years earlier for a fraction of the cost, if we didn't have copyright?

Honestly, a significant chunk of the "innovation" seems to relate directly to maximizing advertisement opportunities and inducing increased consumption. Who cares if a website takes a second to load rather than 0.1 seconds? If it has content I want, 1 second isn't a big deal. If I don't care about the content, I lose nothing by being distracted by something else in that 1 second.

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More importantly:

European Economic production isn't high enough... by what standard?

https://data.oecd.org/lprdty/gdp-per-hour-worked.htm

GDP per hour worked is 74 in the US vs 69 in Germany and 54 in the EU. And the EU includes many large countries that emerged from communist dictatorship only 35 years ago, and are very much still in the process of catching up. Incidentally, the German economy is the result of the West German economy with 63 million people absorbing a failing economy hosting 16 million people in 1990.

The idea that the US is some promised land of economic prosperity while Europe is falling is entirely absurd. It's a narrative built on small relative differences and a US system that pressures people into working a lot more than Europeans do.

More importantly, even GDP per Capita wise:

https://data.oecd.org/gdp/gross-domestic-product-gdp.htm

EU per Capita GDP in 2022 is the same as USA 2016. Was the USA in 2016 struggling but now isn't?

This is all bullshit. Economic output is more than high enough and rising steadily. The problem remains solely in the distribution of
Can you actually point to a specific harm you envision from acknowledging the US atrocities in LatAm or elsewhere? What do you actually think is the problem? It's so weird how people seem to come out of the woodwork with random concern trolling anytime the empire gets called out
Is it not possible that subsequent layers have additional refusal directions and hence end up producing the censored outputs?
> While being perfectly ok with Coal strip mining.

There were protests against coal mine expansions as well.
I have some trauma built up thanks to POVRay and countless hours wasted trying to render computer graphics exercises in a sh* computer.

Recently I tried to render an animated scene that took me a weekend to render properly in 2003. It's still slow :D

https://fernandomeyer.com/microblog/2023-07-29-1107998078355...
https://fernandomeyer.com/microblog/2023-07-29-1107998901402...
It remains to be seen if AI is a net positive or not. I think it will be positive on balance.
This is all way above my understanding, but:

Recently I’ve been playing Arma Reforger with friends online on a dedicated server, and when driving vehicles the collision physics are off, especially when driving fast, making the whole scene “teleport” forward, with frames lost and the vehicle reappearing in unexpected positions.

I wonder if this is related to this type of code. The game is technically out of early access, but there’s lots to be added still on the roadmap.
This seems to really under-sell the severity; the real-world example someone else linked is much more dramatic. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2tgfkGiHhxs
Every extremism is bad. Period. ;-)

Yet it is very conforting and comfortable if you are inside its echo chamber.

So all the output of those thought leaders are not to be applied to the letter, but should be part of a whole educational process that also evaluates all the limits of that thinking.

But that takes time to think. Which our modern society has almost outlawed, in its rush for "fastfood for thought" that enables selling more ads and hype
It's better for Germany since the Swedish power production is cleaner and cheaper. The demand from Germany makes it more expensive for Swedish customers.

I guess it's fine that they want to import but don't block nuclear in Sweden then.
Login screen ads will have such low latency you’ll be able to see home mortgage loan prices live in the quicken loans ad
"Following recent regulatory changes in Russia, we received persistent requests from Roskomnadzor demanding that five add-ons be removed from the Mozilla add-on store,"

so you as an american wants mozilla to not honor russian authorities' order to block access to a store addon but you allow google/apple/microsoft to build china specific sites/infra and regularly block

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/23/technology/bytedance-tikt...

so USA law can ban foreign apps all they can want because "its the law" but god forbid if someone does the same outside.

https://www.techradar.com/news/us-bans-major-chinese-apps-in...
i guess it depends on how old you are
You telling me a country initiating a war has the right to then ask for reparations for the damages and destruction they caused on the country they initiated the war against? That's so freaking absurd that it is actually funny!

I can only guess the wikipedia article is only a summary and the real convention could be around who is to blame for the war and other factors. Otherwise that's just so ridiculous that it actually encourages declaring wars on countries!
where can I rent a H100 for 4-5 dollars an hour?

AWS doesn't let you use p5 instances (not getting a quota as a private person), lambda cloud is sold out.
""every time a person tries to artificially make something similar using AI, people feel some interest and decide to fund research into it, but often a so called AI winter comes — and there are two AI ‘winters already (1974–1980 and 1987–2000)""

In hindsight, the winters don't look as long as they seemed living through them.

IF we want to say the last winter ended in 2000, that was 24 years ago now.

It does seem like right now, if there isn't any breaking news for a couple weeks, people think a new Winter is starting.
some people emit llvm ir (maaaaybe ptx) directly instead of using the C/C++ frontend to CUDA. that's absolutely the only optional part of the stack and also basically the most trivial (i.e., it's not the frontend that's hard but the target codegen).
But then we would have to deal with expensive and problematic nuclear. It's much more efficient to scale renewable energy, then deploy old technology like current nuclear powerplants, which are extremely costly with lots of unsolved problems. If you look at the countries which deploy nuclear, they have/use mostly government run industries. That's not our goal. Germany also has no nuclear weapons, where other countries use their nuclear industry to have that option.
> 10% to a founding engineer almost never happens. You’re in cofounder territory.

Morally/ethically, if you're building everything single-handedly from the start, you are a cofounder. Obviously the original founders have no legal obligation to compensate you as such, of course.
Treating AGI as gods is another example, yes, though I'd forgotten that one. Same direction as ASI but moreso.
AMDs deep learning libraries are very bad the last time I checked, nobody uses amd in that space for that reason. Nvidia has a quazi monopoly, that's the main reason for the price difference IMHO.
Tha name is believed to be borrowed from an ice skating term:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dutch_roll

https://www.iceskatesmuseum.com/e-disc-schoon.htm
This seems to be missing the most obvious optimization that Google are clearly doing. When you see an AI answer to your question on Goole I guarantee that Google hasn't gone off and put your query into an AI. What it has almost certainly done is stick your query into the same processing engine that all the other queries go to, and found a flag that says "Oh I have a pre-computed AI answer to this" and returns that. It's probably of the same order of magnitude as serving that little wikipedia summary that it shows for prominent people. Google isn't in the game of hand crafting answers to your queries so the one-off cost of putting that query into the AI is amortized over billions of answers it serves.
There are a variety of motivations to believe in nonsense.

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/09637214177182...

Also worth noting, higher levels of education tend to correlate with lower belief in conspiracy theories. I've encountered a large number of self-proclaimed autodidacts here on HN, so that could help explain it, too.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5248629/
fyi the biggest country in europe is afaik ukraine, your point holds if we talk about eu in europe to ignore france's external territories
Stop trolling and throwing around wild accusations. Here are your words:

>You need big companies with scale that pay huge wages as those mean a lot more tax revenue.

Now provide proofs that we need some big corps dodging taxes, including FAANG, and not more small and middle-sized business.
Elon fired half the staff and Twitter is still running.

Tells you just how much wasted staff there is at most big companies.
Ja die Tage der Gleichschaltung sind glücklicherweise vorbei.
I thought those two examples weren't built into MySQL.
To be fair more than half of that laptop hardware is made in China+Taiwan, including a lot of the IP that goes into it.
If you look at phones and tablets, there is a bunch of components/IP from European companies also, such as ARM, Bosch, STmicroelectronics, Infineon, NXP etc. Intel has famously struggled and failed multiple times to get into that market. European semiconductor companies are also strong in automotive and other industries that use modern embedded systems.
In another consumer electronics niche, a majority of wireless mice and keyboards are build on Nordic Semiconductor chips - from tiny Norway.
I thought Meta Horizon and the sales number of Vision Pro[0][1] already proves your thesis wrong. Even Zuckerberg stopped talking about it.

[0]https://www.macrumors.com/2024/04/23/apple-cuts-vision-pro-s...
[1] https://www.macrumors.com/2024/04/22/apple-vision-pro-custom...
Probably intentional as a flex that they didn't use a GPT to write or proofread the article. XD
Say more if you don't mind. What logic did I use that isn't right, and why can't it specifically for a health situation?

I'm guessing the argument here is that you can't expect someone to have the chance to make a nuanced decision or to turn down care because of the terms a hospital requires you to agree to. That's simply not true. Beyond the obvious, but unreasonable, fact that one doesn't actually have to get treated there if they don't like the terms, it's a contract and contracts have to be agreed to by both parties.

A patient doesn't have to sign intake papers as-is. It's a contract, scratch out what you don't agree to and add your own terms if necessary. Include "Under duress" with your signature and make sure the person at the desk is aware. You aren't trying to be difficult or fight with them, you simply don't agree to some of the contract and are making that legally clear while signing in.
I think this is an important point that the folks gazing into their crystal balls overlook.
Perhaps, but that was not the question. After all, these chips are not made by one company. There's a fab too. Not exactly unimportant.
How is it a step in the right direction? If anything, it just sets a precedent - this is how much you should expect to pay in fines for committing atrocities.
1) There's 80 million germans, some hold different opinions.

2) The 'reasons' are real, the factory is Grunheide is dumping all their wastewater into the water system, it's literally ending up in people's homes. As you can imagine, Musk thinks he can just wrestle and bend opposition, so they keep denying and refusing to fix the issue and create an appropriate waste system. Tribunals are slow in Germany, that doesn't help. Also, Tesla has required to expand the factory and take down 250 acres of forest, another thing that is disliked.

3) Agree on your coal criticism.
We aren't exclusively talking about big tech here, just tech. Companies like Monzo dominate the local markets because they executed on ideas no-one else tried before. We forgot that huge, international tech companies are pretty much an exclusive American phenomenon, they don't really exist anywhere else.
AFAIK the protest surrounding the tesla factory were more related to the horrendous work culture that is present at tesla and the amount of pollution that has reportedly been found dumped by tesla factories. 'Because reasons' seem to imply that allowing a tesla plant to be constructed in your country is a resounding net-positive for that country but I think Germany was correct in assessing that the "tesla mindset" isn't completely in line with (West-)European ideals.
I'd note Airbus is seeing the same pattern. The 737-MAX's A320neo competitor, for example:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Airbus_A320neo_family_...

1,689 orders in 2023, 154 in 2024.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Airbus_A220_orders_and...

141 orders in 2023, negative 12 in 2024.

As a result, I presume the explanation is less "no Boeing" and more something like "orders have a reporting lag" or "2023 was a big year for airlines post-COVID".
The problem is prices. People want to buy EVs but they cost nearly twice as much as conventional cars, it's crazy expensive (which to me smells like racket by the car companies, China has been doing it much cheaper and from what I hear, which good quality too)... it's a bit more competitive in some countries where the government give really high bonus for people buying EVs (Sweden was giving like 50,000 SEK bonus for each EV which was just enough to make it affordable for the richer people, but without that bonus only taxi drivers, environmentally friendly people who believe EVs are really great for the environment - despite their manufacturing being less than green - and people who drive a lot and can save a lot on fuel can justify going for EVs - and as a result EV sales fell for the first time in decades last year).
this video posted elsewhere here seems dramatic enough

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2tgfkGiHhxs

Imagine you are in the cockpit at the top of the plane and your view/perspective - for a layman like me this would seem and feel like the flight is completely out of control. Even the passengers are bound to experience dramatic movements similar to severe turbulence I guess.
To be honest, I'd like to ask you about stuff beyond the tutorials. Do you do this full time? How long did it take until you got to make enough for a decent living?
Do you see any opportunities to start a self-funded business in this space, ideally related to software?

For context, I'm well aware of the success odds. And I'm quite risk averse. The reason I'm looking into this domain is because I want to start some kind of business. What exactly? I don't know yet. What I do know is that I struggle to stay motivated working on ideas that don't genuinely interest me.

Also to be totally transparent - I'd love to continue the conversation over LinkedIn / a call and buy you lunch / a beer (somehow?). But I can't afford paying the rate you're probably entitled to ask.
There isn't any because it doesn't work. There are two groups of people this argument appeals to:

1. Politicians/bureaucrats and legacy media who have lost power because the internet has broken their monopoly on mass propaganda distribution and caused them to lose power.

2. People who don't believe in democracy but won't admit it to themselves. They find a way to simultaneously believe in democracy and that they should always get their way by hallucinating that their position is always the majority position. When it is made clear that it is not a majority position they fall back to the "manipulation" excuse thereby delegitimizing the opinion of those who disagree as not really their opinion.
it's not just that. EV's are simpler and a lot of knowledge about making ice cars is not transferable to ev, meaning if germany accepts this, a lot of ppl will remain out of their jobs there
Let's put it this way. Opposable thumbs are such a massive fitness advantage, in so many ways that are obviously massively more impactful, that such a factor, if it even exists, would be utterly negligible.

So the only conceivable reasons to raise such a bizarre topic all involve you being a very unpleasant person to converse with -- the most generous I can think of being an unearned sense of intellectual superiority simply by the fact of raising an idea you see as taboo.
Leopold Aschenbrenner – Situational Awareness [pdf]
I thought it was extremely thought provoking. Are you overconfident in your weights perhaps?
In other news Volkswagen is heavily investing in energy storage from used car batteries,

e.g. https://www.heise.de/en/news/Volkswagen-s-first-green-energy...
I can't relate. Sure these are problems, but definitely not the most important problems in the World.
Does this make Risk V more attractive?
Is there a name for this phenomenon, where with limited resources humans get more creative? There are still some astonishing technologies that are ongoing today, but much more limited to the early era of computer science.
What would you change if you could? The EU already offers freedom of movement to EU citizens. Of course the US being a country instead of a connection of countries offers a more streamlined experience and surely the shared language plays a huge role too. But when I want to come up with examples such as a Greek person having completely different retirement, health care and legal schemes in Sweden compared to Greece, it seems the US is not so dissimilar there either given that states sometimes have very different approaches to health care, taxes, labor laws, etc.
Ask HN: If the universe started from a single point, how can there be no center?