skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's always been fascinating to me that a physics geezer (Freeman Dyson) took the idea from more ancient geezer Olaf Stapledon's 1937 'Star Maker'. It is a quasi-spiritual story that has our protagonist wrestled from his humanly shell for a tour of the cosmos and he gets to meet the Maker and Creator who is, for all intents and purposes, a nerd!

The best way to easily get a handle on Stapledon's works over deep time is to look for a compendium hardcover "To The End Of Time" which has always been a treasured book in my family.

Also of note in adventure/fantasy, did you enjoy Verne's "Journey to the Center of the Earth" as a kid but were a bit disappointed that the narrative elements moved the story along a bit too quickly and so much of the underworld was left unexplored? Try an edition of "Etidorhpa" with the Knapp illustrations. Lots of imagination fuel and exploration in a hollow Earth setting.
You may have written this yourself, but it totally sounds like a ChatGPT answer. If you stare too long into the abyss, the abyss stares back into you.
Classic "I have a PhD in economics, so I ALONE understand nuclear physics" not-even-wrong gibberish.
You can do this through COM. I forgot which Python library I used but once you have an Excel application object you can do

Data = xl.range('a1:a3')

Sum = xl.worksheetfunction.sum(data)

Xl.range('b3').value = sum

Any library enabling the COM link will do.

(sorry, typing this on my phone so formatting and capitalization are screwy)
IPv6 Loopback Addresses (Equivalent to 127.x.x.x) – Server Fault
You can't map neovim stuff to zed stuff if the foundations ("the data structures to represent text, the CRDTs, the render pipeline, the custom Async Rust runtime" FTA) are different.
Dug into A100 sale prices using Ebay's Terapeak analytics. I found several recent sales for $2000 or less:

https://www.ebay.com/itm/335392812272?nordt=true

https://www.ebay.com/itm/335408349837?nordt=true

https://www.ebay.com/itm/335414821299?nordt=true

Too good to be true? Perhaps. For $2000 I might trust Ebay's buyer protections...
>All car companies, including Toyota, are currently 'struggling'.

Tesla won't exist in a decade if they continue on current trajectories.

Their situation is completely non-comparable to Toyota, VW, Hyundai or any of the other larger car makers. None of them have it easy, but none of them are in the situation Tesla is in, just look at their recent financials results.
> unless you think all their subscribers are stupid

Ah, there’s the capitalist’s circular religious belief, if it’s profitable it must be good, and it’s good because it’s profitable.

Except some of the best things in life are not profitable, and some of the most profitable models are not good (such as Facebook/Google’s privacy invasions and the ad-driven model).

To think that subscribers pay money because they see a “reasonable value exchange” is to be completely blind to the incentives behind many big ticket software purchases. Managers pick IBM/Microsoft/Slack just so they can’t get fired for failed boondoggles or because they don’t care about anything except maintaining the status quo. Startups choose certain SaaS tools because they’re part of the same VC-funded slosh-it-around party. There’s just so many millions to be made by selling to fly-by-night startups or clueless bureaucratic enterprises or government that you don’t actually need to be innovative or useful to “make it” in todays tech world. You just need to know how to play the game. There are exceptions and true innovators of course, like OpenAI or Apple or AirBnB but those are rare.
So they are giving Musk ~8% of their current market cap.
I guess the logic from shareholders is "if we don't approve the package, the stock is likely to drop more than 10%".

I don't know exactly how the vote was carried out... but I do wonder if the vote was manipulated in any way.
That would be very helpful - I also find it hard to trust without seeing code! I've been using Paste which charges something like $20/year. Maybe you can set up a donation link/Github sponsor or so.
None of this is responsive to what I wrote or accused you of, which is pretty typical for my interactions with you.
The whole startup industry is a bit silly but that isn’t really actionable from any one person’s point of view.
Also the forests with their ancient (and huge) trees. Britain pretty much got clear-cut in the Industrial Revolution. Those ancient forests must have been a sight to behold.
They mistake the civil legal system for a fine imposed by the gov't, no need to be. obtuse about it.
Its weird that you're choosing a nerf'd part and sticking with it as a comparison point.

The article is MI300X, which is beating NVidia's H100.

> Do you have benchmarks for when AMD doesn't nerf Blender performance?

Go read the article above.

> Notably, our results show that MI300X running MK1 Flywheel outperforms H100 running vLLM for every batch size, with an increase in performance ranging from 1.22x to 2.94x.

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> Why does AMD nerf RDNA3 when they're so far behind Nvidia and Apple in Blender performance?

Nerf is a weird word.

AMD has focused on 32-bit FLOPs and 64-bit FLOPs until now. AMD never put much effort into raytracing. They reach acceptable levels on XBox / PS5 but NVidia always was pushing Raytracing (not AMD).

Similarly: Blender is a raytracer that uses those Raytracing cores. So any chip with substantial on-chip ray-tracing / ray-matching / ray-intersection routines will perform faster.

Blender isn't what people do with GPUs. The #1 thing they do is video games like Baldur's gate 3.

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It'd be like me asking why Apple's M3 can't run Baldur's gate 3. Its not a "nerf", its a purposeful engineering decision.
Your claim was:

> The US is unable to refine the oil it produces

This is just entirely factually incorrect. The US can and does refine light, sweet crude. It wouldn't be a massive effort for more US refineries currently set to handle heavier and more sour crude to switch to it. More and more refineries have been making the switch especially since the time WTI went so low it went negative.

Most of the rest of the world has a harder time processing heavier and more sour oils. The US led the world in refining technologies, so we have the knowledge and equipment to refine it. This is partially due to the US being so involved in Venezuela's oil industry growth, the US essentially built the refining technology to make Venezuela's oil filds useful and why they were so crushed when relations with the US went bad. Few other refiners are set up to process Venezuela's oil.

So, it makes sense we buy the cheaper stuff we can easily process and sell the easy to process more expensive stuff on the world market. Cheaper refined products for us and we make more profit selling the easier stuff.

You're still just wrong stating "The US is unable to refine the oil it produces". It wasn't until the Obama administration that the US could export oil on the world market. Have you ever stopped to wonder what we were doing with all that oil we were generating for so many decades?[0]

Have you stopped to consider what we're doing with those 8 million barrels we produce every day that don't get exported today?

[0] https://apnews.com/united-states-government-united-states-co...
Isn't this just the STAR comms model?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Situation,_task,_action,_resul...
>The rocket equation is what gives rise to the suicide burn being optimal

Nitpick, but this isn't strictly true.

Even if you don't count the vehicle getting lighter as it burns fuel (which is all the rocket equation does here), a suicide burn will still be optimal.

The real reason is because a suicide burn minimizes gravity loss.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gravity_loss
I would like to warn people away from taichi if possible. At least back in 1.7.0 there were some bugs in the code that made it very difficult to work with.
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This is game theoretic inevitable, as the first one to implement is at a disadvantage in battle.
Oh, it’s real, and goes down exactly as GP describes.
“what the company is worth”

Market cap is $560b. That’s how much the company is worth. Like it or not.
Is it possible to make it work offline without an account? Or at least allow to register with email?
+1 the OP hasn't offered anything resembling evidence for their position anyway. It's worth noting that 3 of the supreme court justices who voted to lift this ban were appointed by the president who ordered the ban. Is this an example of the famous "4D chess" we've been hearing about?
New Transformer architecture for powerful LLMs without GPUs
I think there is a lot of cargo culting in presentations. Title slide? But of course we must have a title slide, that is the way. And an introduction, and motivation... everybody else has one!
In my opinion, Professor Patrick Winston's lecture (MIT) is likely in the top-5 when it come to advice on how to give presentations. I have used his framework multiple times, for both technical and business presentations in groups of a few to hundreds of people and have always had good results. Well worth watching.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Unzc731iCUY
Every timw you get the head of some governmental three-letter agency joining the board of a major tech corporation, it's almost always related to that corporation going for some major government contracts.

Case example: General Keith Alexander joins Amazon, 2020

> "The high-ranking appointment of the former commander of the US Cyber Command comes as Amazon Web Services continues to dispute the Department of Defense's award of a $10 billion military cloud contract to rival Microsoft"

https://www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/news/former-nsa-head-k...

Result (2022):

> "An AWS spokesperson said: “We’re honored that after thorough review, the NSA selected AWS as the cloud provider for the Hybrid Compute Initiative, and we’re ready to help deliver this critical national security capability.”"

https://fedscoop.com/nsa-re-awards-10b-wildandstormy-cloud-c...

A good bet is that OpenAI is going full-tilt for major government contracts in the secrecy world as a means to bump revenue as their private sector business doesn't really seem to be booming. This is not unusual in the tech sector - IBM for example survived for at least a decade during the Depression by running the government's Social Security program - but this means OpenAI is now in the mass surveillance business.
Couldnt the construction of a ds be detected by ending fog channels? As in, the interstellar medium has channels or tunnels in it where solar winds blow it aside, so at the end od such a tunnel where there is no sun, there be a sphere.
They’re also frequently weird blends like hemp/poly/cotton and those can’t be cheap to produce.
Next: animation packs for your JIRA ticket events. Only $5.99/mth/pack/user
In the mid 70's I wrote a 2D vector graphics moon lander game for the Adage graphics terminal. You came in fast horizontally and had to use push buttons for the LEM side thrusters and main engine to slow down and land horizontally, resulting in either a crater if you were too fast, or if you ran out of fuel, otherwise you saw one or more planted American flags depending on the quality of the landing.

Years ago I threw out my only copy of the source code, thinking it had no value and would never be re-used, something I regretted later when I realized how early a graphics game it was historically, and how easily it could have beeen resurrected with a simple emulation.
I don’t know what the Sentry guy is really saying - I mean you can write whatever code you want, go for it man.

But I do have to “pip uninstall sentry-sdk” in my Dockerfile because it clashes with something I didn’t author. And anyway, because it is completely open source, the flaws in OpenTelemetry for my particular use case took an hour to surmount, and vitally, I didn’t have to pay the brain damage cost most developers hate: relationships with yet another vendor.

That said I appreciate all the innovation in this space, from both Sentry and OpenTelemetry. The metrics will become the standard, and that’s great.

The problem with Not OpenTelemetry: eventually everyone is going to learn how to use Kubernetes, and the USP of many startup offerings will vanish. OpenTelemetry and its feature scope creep make perfect sense for people who know Kubernetes. Then it makes sense why you have a wire protocol, why abstraction for vendors is redundant or meaningless toil, and why PostHog and others stop supporting Kubernetes: it competes with their paid offering.
As I said, I could be mistaken and I'm willing to defer to your expertise. What I'm trying to understand is this. Is it possible for a company--say a tech unicorn--to have a high gross margin and a low COGS, and yet pay some of its employees--maybe engineers in R&D--astronomical compensation that somehow isn't reflected in the gross margin and/or COGS? While we're at it, is it further possible for such a company to have a high gross profit margin and yet fail to make a profit? I ask because I'm trying to square the claim about the high gross margins and I guess efficiency of San Francisco tech companies, with reports in the popular press about tech unicorns like Twitter and Pinterest losing money quarter after quarter.
Sounds like a good idea with some hard challenges. Cloud storage, browser history, bookmarks, and blogging/notes will generally be easier. Fitness won't be unless you're using Apple Health or Garmin. It sounds a lot like IFTTT with some AI thrown in.

What have you done so far?
Why? Do you experience memory issues? If you can do that for years and not go insane or break down you must be built different. I know people like that and envy them, but this is not typical.
The one they have invented for themselves.
Yes but the issue is that Vercel has all the core Svelte maintainers on their payroll too. My Q is why would we expect Vercel to not interject as well? I mean we have evidence they did this in one community library, why not another? That is the risk.
I'm the same. I use my phone for tracking consulting activity, notetaking, banking, parking, PayPal monitoring blood glucose, navigation, instant messaging (three apps) authentication, whether hiking maps, town notifications for trash pickup, email, birding, astronomy, away from home charge point,

I also have a half-dozen apps I shouldn't have on my phone like YouTube, streaming services web toons, Craigslist, medium.

If I move the distraction apps off of top level visibility and access as well and mostly turn off all notifications, it becomes much more reasonable tool to have.
You don't even need nix-darwin per se. You can get by just with home-manager and do a lot with it.

Here's a template config to get started:

https://github.com/juspay/nix-dev-home

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That said, nix-darwin is still useful for doing system level things, like enabling Touch ID for `sudo`. I use that in my config: https://github.com/srid/nixos-config
Numberphile video on the topic:
https://youtu.be/d8TRcZklX_Q?si=t9x2HLWYOpPiTbn4
Do you have any evidence that redirects are bad for SEO? Redirects are a normal part of the web and Google tells you they are fine with it https://developers.google.com/search/docs/crawling-indexing/...
Do you have any more specifics about these limitations? I'm considering trying Taichi for a project because it seems to be GPU vendor agnostic (unlike CuPy).
> State pensions are anything but "lavish".

Nit-picking words is the lowest form of rhetoric. They're unaffordable, as you well know.

> The social security welfare state predates the baby boom you speak of and also exists in countries which never had it.

True and entirely irrelevant.

> Below replacement rates are a problem, yes, but that can be solved if you work towards not making "having children" be a luxury not affordable for the proles.

You people "working towards" your goals is what got us here in the first place. If you all had any way to raise birth rates, it would have happened somewhere by now. But you don't. Getting rid of your "work" is likely the best thing we could possibly do to raise birth rates. Vastly reducing the benefits of Social Security, for example, would make having children much more attractive. If you rely on your kids to take care of you in old age, suddenly you can't afford not to have kids. This is how it worked for all of human history, by the way, until you all started farting with the incentives.

> On your other topic, let me point you to a certain western country which has always had a torrent of immigration from all around the globe and has not had the cultural downfall and obliteration in fire and flames that you vaticinate: a certain United States.

This is an old argument which made sense historically, but has taken a serious beating over the last 20 years. For more than two hundred years, America boasted a unique political culture, born of the frontier, which was proudly individualistic, decentralized, and enterprising. But that culture is being obliterated as a direct result of mass immigration. Polling data show that heritage Americans continue to support the old ways (free markets, limited federal power, low taxes, free speech, gun rights, etc), while recent immigrants and their children are far more likely to eschew the frontier spirit and embrace the nanny state (in other words, they support their old ways, not ours).
Germans keep complaining about the loss of Russian gas and refuse to see the war as an opportunity to scale up their military industrial complex, arm themselves to the teeth, sell weapons to Eastern and Southern Europe. Poland and Romania are buying tanks and howitzers from the US and South Korea, the French have their own industry.
I am not arguing the market cap. I am pointing out that Musk doesn't get Money, he gets shares. And pretending this isn't about power over the company is completely misleading.
Vanguard vote switch helped pass Tesla CEO Elon Musk's $56B pay package
> Before web apps were common, 3rd party applications on Windows would break all kinds of things.

I use Windows since the 90's and would only agree with you in the context of buggy drivers or malware.

Even today I don't use the Windows Store (except for one time I when I installed a Bluetooth audio "bridge") and all the "apps" I install work just fine.

> The hardware manufacturer needs to ensure that software doesn't break the device.

The software manufacturer must make sure the software doesn't break the device, whatever "breaking the device" means (sounds almost like "don't brick the wifi chip").

I mean, it's also the responsibility of the user to not install shady software.
Of, if you actually read the opinion of the court in it's own words:

"There is a simple remedy for the disparate treatment of bump stocks and machineguns. Congress can amend the law—and perhaps would have done so already if ATF had stuck with its earlier interpretation. Now that the situation is clear, Congress can act."
I’m a huge Taichi stan. So much easier and more elegant than numba. The support for data classes and data_oriented classes is excellent. Being able to define your own memory layouts is extremely cool. Great documentation. Really really recommend!
Apple set to be first Big Tech group to face charges under EU digital law
https://archive.ph/1WQu3
Don’t forget JAX! It’s my preferred library for “i want to write numpy but want it to run on gpu/tpu with auto diff etc”
In many cases, I would not say that the subscribers are stupid, but I would say that the company's decision to use the software was stupid. Often (usually?) the decision is made entirely by people who aren't involved in the day-to-day of the work that the tool will be used for.

The people who will be the ones using the software the most would oppose the decision if they were involved, but they weren't. They begin using the software, and it becomes clear that there are numerous problems - either bugs or, more common and insidious, incompatibility and inflexibility. But now there are high-status people in the org that have reputation staked on the success of the adoption, so they continue to shove a square peg (or just a bunch of shit) through a round hole. The software becomes embedded in the org's operations, and the costs to disentangle it become high. This is how software that does not improve things can be "successful".

I have seen this happen over and over. It is of course the fault of the org for allowing this to happen.
LLMs produce non-reproducible output in response to prompts, and this puts the endless stream of articles about 'the biased LLM said x when I asked' in questionable territory. If the article making the claim doesn't provide the explicit prompt(s) they used to get the output they're so upset about, then it shouldn't be taken seriously.
This only works if the kid lives somewhere with robust public transportation between their and their friends houses, or if they own their own vehicle.

Assuming neither, they're probably getting picked up and dropped off by a parent or other family member, with dropoff/pickup schedules arranged in advance.

It's less, "I don't need a phone cos I can go where I want until dinnertime," and more, "My mom will be driving 25 minutes to pick me up at 4PM, and my friends spontaneously decided to go bowling. I can only ask her when she gets here, but that would mean she needs to drive another hour and fifteen minutes."
I don’t think the general wisdom is to hit those PRs week after week when you move to advanced lifting anyway. As the weight increases that becomes far too taxing on the body (which is their point). You could do waves based training like 531 that moves forwards and backwards through a 3-4 week period, only hitting a heavy set that nears your max once in that period. Unless people are talking about pushing to their ultimate limits which still usually doesn’t involve hitting PRs every week. Hitting PRs every week is a linear progression thing that people newer to lifting experience since the body is actively creating muscle and neural pathways that were somewhat deficient previously. Correct me if I’m wrong!
Zuckerberg's year of efficiency has spread to the companys upper ranks
> If the United States’ economy were an athlete, right now it would be peak LeBron James.

They're not saying it's "pretty good during a pandemic", they're literally saying it's the GOAT.