skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> no one that works in this area agrees with you or the lowbrow/peanut gallery "NVIDIA has no moat" takes.

Can you source that? That seems like a hard claim to source.

Everyone in the area agrees that they'd rather be using Nvidia hardware. I'd rather be using Nvidia hardware, indeed I switched to a Nvidia card. But that is not because I see Nvidia as having a long term defensible position, but because AMD's compute drivers on consumer cards appear to suck. It was implementation details and AMD's weaknesses, not Nvidia's strengths. Important details, but nothing that can be realistically called a moat and certainly not anything to do with CUDA itself. The issues were far more foundational.

Honestly it'd be interesting to have some real expert takes on what the problem with AMD is, because the major one I'm aware of was geohotz's and he didn't get much further than I did. Blockers came up much deeper in the stack than CUDA. ROCm would have been good enough except that it was running on AMD kernel drivers.
I heard Astro is good
There's absolutely no reason to believe that fusion power is impossible. It being very, very difficult and very, very expensive to reach a practical system is the problem.

But you're right about better alternatives. Right now that alterative is a combination of solar, wind, hydro and storage, with perhaps a bit of more exotic systems (wave power? solar towers?) in the mix.
Nelson's HMS Victory gives scientists DNA for battle against deathwatch beetle
That’s what was in the author’s mind as well. He added a footnote:

” Worth noting that these comics fell within/adjacent to the Franco-Belgian comic tradition (Bande dessinée or BD for short), which have a very different reputation from their American comic book counterparts. Superheroes are, thankfully, approximately non-existent and BDs are generally respected as an art form, and their appeal cuts across a much broader age range.”
Developer experience: What is it and why should you care? (2023)
Yes I'm not sure myself if what I say makes sense when thinking it through again.

I was thinking something like

<WithPromises asyncProp={promise} asyncProp2={promise2}>
{(resolvedValues) => children(resolvedValues)}
</WithPromises>

But that's already possible to do yourself I guess, but better in different way.

E.g. not using a function prop as "children" etc.

Many libraries also provide nice and clean interfaces to provide async state (e.g. react-query) and then of course there's good old useEffect.

I think I see why they use a different approach.

Guess I'd mainly just love a streamlined API for data fetching built into the core.

Right now it's a lot better to just have async code outside of react change prop values.

Love the section on client data fetching in the react docs though.
Depencies within the project didn't refer to third party libraries, but to the knowledge how changes in function A or structure B affect the rest of the software. Changes to code can seem to have zero side effects and three months down the line it turns out that those changes caused huge security issues.

And btw: If using open source software is only an option when I know all the languages needed to write all the stuff myself, then the whole thing just lost its meaning.
...as a mortality benefit for ordinary people. If you are going through various diseases it is absolutely something that a doctor will order, and there's plenty papers to prove positive effects versus sham therapy. Right now I am taking B12 to help with neuropathy and anosmia after a horrible bout of Covid for example.

What I still don't understand is why everyone is talking in 'servings' of vegetables and fruit, instead of cups or ounces.
Loras in general have been a game changer. I especially like the VantaBlack Loras.

Also controlnet is so useful.

I also generate 512x512 with 1.6 and then upscale to 1024 with iterative upscaling - adds a ton of detail. Then I can easily upscale to 4K.

If I do iterative upscale to 4K right away it takes like 20h on my m1. But that adds even more details.

And there are negative embeddings which are great eg badhandsv2

So those 4 have been the most impactful for me
I don’t think OP said that agencies have to make flawless regulations. They said that congress can literally make the Chevron Doctrine law. Giving agencies the power that they had before this ruling
That is the contentious part. These are not easy questions.

People talk about data, but individual data is as useless as they come for many companies. Data is only useful in aggregate and that too after reaching a certain scale. Counter intuitively, individual data (w or w/o PII) is more likely to be used for nefarious purposes compared to aggregated data. Aggregated data can lead to better user experiences, better utilization of our time, and can deliver more value to us (while delivering personalized ads). No one should create a blanket rule which bans aggregation given how it can ban Google Maps and Google search and Google ads in the same breath if interpreted broadly.

With generative AI, the paradigm has changed and it needs a rethink. That was my original point. We don't have a clear answer yet.
I wonder wether it is possible to keep on the right (dev) track? One could argue that when becomes shit, sooner or later it is going to be abandoned at the end
Running signed binaries neither is as long as the corresponding keys leak all the time [1].

Anyone can just get their malware signed by just throwing some dollars at it.

[1] https://bugs.chromium.org/p/apvi/issues/detail?id=100
for context it's all by and about the former German Post Office bank, "die Postbank", that came up with the slogan "die Passtbank" which is a somewhat funny / not so funny way to contort from "post office bank" to "the bank that fits you". It's been sold off to Deutsche Bank, which at the time meant that one of the few financial institutions that were separate from hardcore financial capitalism got sold straight to the people at the very center of hardcore financial capitalism. They still try to keep that old image but it has become quite hollow after they shut down literally hundreds and hundreds of locations in several waves over the past years. One commenter of the YT video wrote, "Warum sagt die Postbank nicht offen das sie Privatkunden nicht mag", and they're right. At least that would be candid and I'm sure among the customers fleeing the crumbling building there would be some who'd stay for them just for that.
The bike appears to have 2 front brake levers, only one fork, and she is holding the left handlebar the wrong side of the switches.
Then I employ the white guy. I'm running a company, creating a product, not changing the school system of my country.
I would like to see a fullstack framework like next for Webcomponents. And one thing is missing for all fullstack frameworks: A CMS. Astro and next is very good but I can not offer markdown or jsx for a client
>> And finally, a thermal store to release energy when the sun goes down to allow the solar-powered facility to operate around the clock.

> This actually IS new and interesting in this application

Yes, it's a nice thing to have. But it is a major research and engineering project just in itself. It is by no means a solved problem where you can buy a working solution from someone.

> This bit smells like trying to shoehorn in an application of "AI" where it's not really needed - what's the actual improvement using "drones and AI" over just pre-calculating a tracking curve based on latitude + time of day/year? Or just putting down twice as many mirrors and not bothering to make them track?

Open loop (just pre-calculate) is pretty inaccurate in a system like this. Especially over time as the mirror positioning degrades with accumulating inaccuracies.

So there might be a business case for their AI drone calibration system. But just that part in itself is also a major undertaking that requires a significant investmet over a long time to make it a production system.

"Just add more mirrors" sounds like a better business proposition, coupled with a much simpler autocalibration. Perhaps an off-center bullseye target where each mirror periodically aims itself, and a central vision system figures out the azimuth/elevation offsets?

> This is hyperbole

I agree in that I'd be very surprised if they ever get to the point of mass production.

But I agree with the point that generating synthetic fuels from the sun in a 100% renewable way would be very significant.

Sure, in 30-50 years electrical transportation might meet 99% of our needs. But we're not there yet.
Literally. My experience with routing tools is that it's often easier to implement it from scratch perfectly suited for your use case instead of integrating existing general solution.
The benefit of the soldier/police/... system is that you get education for another job on the side, so if your career breaks down for whatever reason you got a simpler transition into a "normal" job.
It has fp8 support. Not sure whether fp8 on MI300x is supported by vLLM yet.

Also, many of these comparisons use vLLM for both setups, but for Nvidia you can and should use TensorRT-LLM which tends to do quite a bit better than vLLM at high loads.
The entire premise of this article is complete rubbish.

Companies have been pushing for more women and minorities to be in leadership positions since well before 2015.

And nobody was doing it because there was some tenuous connection to profits.
Extremely close but not exact copying is already not allowed. Human artists have tried that.

Just because AI threatens to produce equally valuable material for much lower cost doesn't mean that's wrong. It just means those people got out-competed in the market. That's what the free market is for - to serve the consumers, not the producers.
CUPS is the most horrible measure in the world
Given the seriously negative sibling comments, I thought I'd weigh in with my own experience. I'm unaware of anything behind the scenes, but I've always enjoyed the user experience in Firefox on Android, at least for the last couple years before the rewrite. I don't like browsing the web on my phone, but it's made it bearable.

I can't speak to the problems behind the scenes though, and they certainly merit attention.
> can you replace the screen

Yes. It is designed so that end users can do that: https://guides.frame.work/c/Framework_Laptop

> could a third party produce a new screen module for it?

Yes

> Can third parties produce any modules for it,

Yes

> [third party modules ...] or is there some kind of licensing/patent that blocks that?

No
What about SvelteKit?
> You still get solar power on cloudy days, it just takes more panels to generate some specific level of power.
That is wrong. On cloudy winter days the inverters often just stop. Source: have 20kW of panels on a house in the south of France.
Never forget the “Swirl Society of Netscape”

http://totic.org/nscp/swirl/swirl.html
Slow and a lot censored
Thanks for responding. That is interesting. I guess you also have the advantage that current "state of care" is sharing a few radio messages with other aircraft with lots of subjective judgements.
Sugar is everywhere, cheap, legal and culturally important (birthday parties, weddings, farewell parties, etc). Very difficult to create isolation environment, unless one goes full Ted Kaczynski.

I don’t want to discourage the author, but i am old, so yeah been there, done that. But avoiding sugar like its evil is not healthy. Nor is it sustainable.

It appears that the author is probably young and single. That may help with this regimen. However, it is best to adopt a less extreme strategy for stress free happiness.
Very nice. Also recommended reading is Eugenie Cheng, The Joy of Abstraction[1] which emphasizes diagram chasing to visualize abstract relationships.

[1] https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108769389
If a person had drawn or painted it by hand, or put it together in Blender, I would say they were aiming for a realistic style, and they'd done an impressive job.

Sure the motorbike handlebar is messed up, as is one of the hands. And the torso doesn't quite match up with where the thigh is. And the reflections on the arms, the face and the cleavage all look differently lit. And the hair isn't behaving like wet hair. And the face has an uncanny-valley airbrushed look about it.

But those are all easily overlooked. Chuck this into a Facebook news feed and I think 70% of the general public would believe it was a photograph.
I'm not familiar with the Sierra Club. I assume it's an American-specific organisation. Here in Europe we have "green parties" in most parliaments.

But as most wide interest groups, environmentalists are not a homogeneous community. There is no general 'agenda' even though subgroups might have one. I'm sure there's subgroups that use environmentalism as a false flag to further their own goals.

I'm personally against nuclear as I feel it externalises the problems into the future (waste management) which is exactly how we got into this situation we are in now. But I'm very much in favour of really renewable energy and public transport instead of private cars.
The proposal described was using methane from biogas. But the microbial decomposition of carbohydrates that creates biogas also creates CO2, in equal molar quantity:

(CH2O)2 --> CH4 + CO2

So, if you want to get as much fuel as you can out of the carbon in biomass, you want to use extra hydrogen (and in this case, it would mean they wouldn't have to separate out the methane in the biogas; just add hydrogen and reform the whole mixture). That extra CO2 is available without the need for expensive direct air capture: the plants already captured it. You could even directly hydrogenate biomass (or, perhaps, molecules derived from aggressive depolymerization of biomass) instead of going through biogas. This is Virent's approach. It avoids the need to break all the C-C bonds before recreating them in the synfuel.

There have been efforts to use solar energy to directly gasify biomass. A company called Sundrop, out of Colorado, was trying to commercialize this 15 years ago. But then fracking dropped the price of natural gas and it all collapsed; the remnants of the company were bought by Chesapeake Energy (a natural gas producer) not long after.
1,500 C sounds like it's way past what any normal metals can handle?

But in this case, maybe it is enough to have just a small part of the central reaction vessel handle 1,500 C? Maybe using ceramics?

Or can you 3D print an Inconel chamber with builtin cooling channels that makes it possible for the Inconel surface to handle the incoming heat?
Yes, that's the idea, dudebro!

When the market does not meet your needs - you meet the market.
I'm not talking about distributing the model, just its output, which won't be something the user can non-creatively transform into a Jay-Z sample.

However, if the model really can't regenerate its training data no matter how hard you try, then that would be fine too. I don't think anyone can really guarantee that now so that might be a problem, but it isn't necessarily a problem.
Many Germans didn't live in Germany at that time either, Hungary, Romania, contemporary Poland etc had very big German population.
A violent gang's ruthless crypto-stealing home invasion spree
> and it was put on the web so that it can be used, without any restrictions on what for

No, this is not true at all. A lot of things are put on the web with plenty of “restrictions on what for”. That’s why licenses exist. Creative Commons being an example of licenses with well defined limits on what you can and cannot do with the content.

Furthermore, a significant portion of content on the web was put there without permission: think piracy or revenge porn. AI systems have been trained on tons of pirated books.

> Since it's on the web, there really is an implied permission to use it privately for whatever you want.

There really is not. It’s just that if you’re using it privately then by definition no one else knows and thus no one can complain. It doesn’t mean that the creator condones whatever you’re doing.

> Some artists assume they have more rights than they really do and that other people aren't even allowed to mimic their style.

We’re not talking about “other people”. Another person mimicking your style is, to an extent, harmless because they’re also making a time investment to replicate your style. With the AI tools you can reproduce hundreds of knock offs in minutes.

We have to stop with this comparison of “what these AI systems are doing is fine because humans could also do it by hand”. It is not the same thing. Scale matters.
I used Next.JS awhile ago and it was great. Then I switched to Remix and it was great. Then I went back to Next.JS and I couldn't understand where things went wrong. From the routing model to the deployment model, it all felt so broken that I couldn't convince myself to continue using it.
Been working with React for the past 9 years and I hate what Vercel's influence has done to it. I hate what they've done to Next as well, but at least that one is theirs.
Not ever had Firefox for android be slow and buggy for myself! I've been using it in place of chrome on my phone for a good year. Honestly everyone keeps talking about how FF is "slow and buggy" and it has NEVER given me issue :/ why is my subjective experience so different to your subjective experience?

Meanwhile chrome/chromium is the one which is most likely to cause me GPU driver crashes, but that's because I use it for fun VR and "let's see how big I can make textures" experiments. Generally it manages a higher frame rate than FF in that context with stability as tradeoff.
that won't stop them suing you into oblivion. they can afford the lawyers. you waste a decade of your life.
Some people do have six fingers.
This is a good reminder of how thankful we should be for the many contributors to Free software.
I'm not a fan of Svelte's cryptic syntax and constant changes. They started with something simple, which is why I decided to build upscayl.org's simple website with SvelteKit but now it's simply too much of a hassle when I compare it with Next.js.

They changed their whole state management system. It's like using a totally new framework now and it looks very much like React which is strange because Svelte was supposed to not be like React and offer simplicity in code.

I think the best contender right now Solid.js but it needs some financial help and the fanciness of Next.js to attract a larger developer base.
Battery prices are falling very quickly this year, so EV sales globally are set to explode.
What was wrong with Express.js? No, what is wrong with it right now? Because all I see is Next.js just being a wrapper for what Express.js does.

Also, Next.js is becoming like Angular: The progress from Angular.js 1 to Angular 18 was necessary for solving the problem of very hard front-end web development. So I'm guessing this Next.js contender is trying to become the Angular of the back-end. They're basically turning into the theoretical computer science constructs that they must become. Script kiddies and non-computer science students need not apply.
There’s https://vike.dev/ though that still feels a bit rough to me compared to Next.
Silicon Valley is full of Indian and Chinese engineers and executives for a reason.
The only ones who believe in Western exceptionalism are biased Westerners who lack exposure to the rest of the world and a solid education in world history.

Of course we could ask all sorts of "what if pigs could fly" questions and then redesign our farms as if pigs could fly. But those farms will go bankrupt sooner or later because they won't be competitive. Just like how the West will decline if they keep chasing these false ideas. Meanwhile Asia keeps building and Asian companies keep hiring based on merit. The West won't be able to compete in the long run, not only because of DEI policies but other self-imposed handicaps that stem from the same ideology.
Yeah Loras killed that
Everyone likes deadlock when it is stopping laws they don’t like
If you prefer the video version of the theory....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6akmv1bsz1M
I think a line from the end of the article - part of the bear case - "fusion is just another in a long line of energy technologies that boil water to drive a turbine" - should be at the start.

The entire premise of fusion generation is based on world view where the limiting factor for generating electricity was the cost of providing fuel for combustion to generate heat. This thinking was pretty natural if you looked around the world in the first half of the 20th century when coal and steam engines were still kings of energy. This was a pre-semiconductor and pre-plastic age. That's why they ended up using long of fairly primitive technologies: a chemical (combustion) process to generate heat, a heat capture process to boil a tank of water, a mechanical process to convert the steam pressure into mechanical energy, and an electro-magnetic process to extract usable electricity.

But in an age of advanced materials and semiconductors, it feels more and more that fusion is an attempt to solve a problem that is no longer really relevant. Working towards a "better" heat source for an electricity generation process which still involves steam-age tech is akin to trying to breed faster/cheaper horses to improve modern transport.

The cost of fuel is almost negligible for fission - non-fuel operating costs are killing off perfectly functioning nuclear plants like at Indian Point[1] - so the problem that fusion will "solve" is not actually a significant problem.

I'm convinced that we have moved beyond boiling water and generating heat, etc. in electricity generation. We no longer need massive steam engines to generate electricity. Modern technologies like wind, solar and batteries dispense with all this cost and complexity and the shackles of Carnot efficiency.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_Point_Energy_Center
Vitamin D is worth taking for most people in Northern north America a above southern Europe in the Internet, absolutely. Specially people who work indoors.
What the Ancients Knew – Rediscovering the breadth and depth of formation
Tell that to all the StackOverflow clones out there.

It's really crazy. If I search for any of the things I have posted on SO, for the last dozen years, I get multiple hits.

There are quite a number of sites that just full-on scrape SO, strip out the attributions, then republish, wrapped in their branding.

I suspect that this is done for many, many other content-rich sites.
And that's a good thing

Or maybe people got softer. Do we remember the 90% of time where humans roamed this planet barefoot without painkillers, or healthcare, or a guaranteed source of water that does not carry those roundworm parasites that love to swim inside your eyes, or anti polar bear sprays so they didn't tear you off and eat alive?. Those were hard deaths.

The 120% of the times, being alive is the smartest option, even if this carries a cost.
I never understood this fad, as a diverse person myself. It is hard to believe that a profit-driven organization would not hire minorities or women if it truly helped advance their business. The fact that they have not suggests the market has priced the value of these classes of people accurately (or those classes of people are self-selecting into different occupations).