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You cannot talk about the problems with pharma pricing without talking about enclosures [1]. Consider:

1. Health care providers are largely banned from importing drugs [2];

2. Medicare is largely banned from negotiating drug prices [3]

3. The VA was allowed under Obama to negotiate drug prices, something which was promised but never delivered for Medicare. The GAO shows this has reduced costs [4];

4. Pharma companies will tell you R&D is expensive. It is but it's the government paying for it. Basically all new novel drugs relied on public research funds [5];

5. Pharma companies generally spend more on marketing than R&D [6];

6. What R&D pharma companies actually do is typically patent extension [7].

The true "innovation" of capitalism is simply building layers and layers of enclosures.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enclosure

[2]: https://journalofethics.ama-assn.org/article/what-should-pre...

[3]: https://www.healthaffairs.org/content/forefront/politics-med...

[4]: https://www.gao.gov/products/gao-21-111

[5]: https://www.cbc.ca/news/health/drugs-government-funded-scien...

[6]: https://marylandmatters.org/2024/01/19/report-finds-some-dru...

[7]: https://prospect.org/health/2023-06-06-how-big-pharma-rigged...
Very impressive!

But I can't help but think if something like this can be done to this extend, I wonder what went wrong/why it's a struggle for OpenCL to unify the two fragmentized communities. While this is very practical and has a significant impact for people who develop GPGPU/AI applications, for the heterogeneous computing community as a whole, relying on/promoting a proprietary interface/API/language to become THE interface to work with different GPUs sounds like bad news.

Can someone educate me on why OpenCL seems to be out of scene in the comments/any of the recent discussions related to this topic?
Yeah, a lot of the newer accelerators are not even available without using inline PTX assembly. Even the ones that are have weird shapes that are not amenable to high-performance work.
If for whatever reason, you don’t find traction, and/or get bored of running it, I’d be interested in acquiring it into a nonprofit entity and running it in some sort of public good fashion. But put your heart into it first. Looks great, really well done.
Very cool! Congrats on the launch!
I assure you that even in the case of an overwhelming Ukrainian victory that Ukrainians who were tortured by Russians will dedicate their lives to revenge.

What counter is there to a small quadcopter that can recharge itself with solar panels and is released near the Russian border to make it's way to the neck of a Russian war-criminal who is outside mowing his lawn?

> the resistance at that point will probably be low-level terrorism, similar to what the US experienced in Iraq.

And what was the outcome of that?

The permanent loss of social capital and soft power around the world, trillions of dollars of resources completely wasted, a generation riddled with PTSD and TBI, the opportunity cost of all those misallocated resources, and more importantly the permanent fracturing of US society.

What will happen to Russia in the event of an all out occupation of Ukraine will make the losses that the US has faced in Iraq seem paltry.
> There were many attempts, some listed in other comments[1][2].

No, these were not such attempts. A touchscreen camera is NOT what I want. The point isn't to make it phone-friendly or phone-like, but to make it open. Knobs and buttons are good.

The Olympus AIR and Sony QX series cameras would be awesome if they came with open APIs so I could program them. They came with proprietary Sony / Olympus kludges which ran on smartphones. The Olympus AIR is officially dead; the app is no longer maintained, and doesn't work on modern phones. Olympus was actually starting to try (in contrast to Sony), and released things like 3d CAD models, but the product was discontinued before it was finished.

Tossing Android on a camera is not the same as an open camera. An open camera would allow me to:

1) Write apps for it, taking advantage of what it can do.

2) Make accessories for it. This includes an open mount standard (of which MFT is the only one; I have the spec for the asking), an open hotshoe standard, open batteries, etc.

I'd be able to do things like super-resolution, custom white balance, custom autofocus systems, custom grids (rule-of-thirds / etc), and so on. I'd be able to program a handful of them to all have the same white balance, settings, and trigger, so I could shoot from five angles at once. I'd be able to use them for machine vision applications or video conferencing, for the coding. For power zoom lenses, I'd be able to eliminate focus breathing by adjusting focus and zoom together. I could make a panorama app, a focus stacking app, or an app which did smart image stacking for low light. I could toss on a machine learning algorithm on it, and have a custom shutter control so it decided when to shoot. I could use IBIS to track the stars for night photography.

That's what an open camera would consist of.

NOT a touch screen, Android, and connections to Instagram and Youtube.

> Not to mention mirrorless replacing DSLRs.

I was shooting mirrorless long before that.

Indeed, 10 years ago, you could buy a Sony A7R. Go to DPReview, and compare high ISO images from the A7R versus a top-of-the-line $6000 A9III and tell me which one is better. Or compare them on DxOMark.

10 years buys us:

- Higher video resolution

- Better autofocus

- Instead of obscenely fast shooting speed, we now have incredulously fast shooting speed

Unfortunately, the images aren't noticeably better, though.

120fps is kind of useless (unless you want to spend your life sorting through images; that's over 7000 images for a minute of shooting). Some models do give more resolution (notably, not the A9III in this comparison; the A7R had more), but that's only usable under bizarre conditions (even shooting 24MP, with an f/1.4 lens, if one eye was in focus, the other eye would be limited by DoF and not the sensor). Plus, a 4k monitor tops out at 8MP.

I will mention: If cameras used the same kind of smarts as a Google Pixel Pro, the images would be much better.
Linux is a good start but I’m really interested in when someone manages to accept the npu with an open stack. ie will a smallish model say 9B or so run at reasonable pace
Some earlier discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40969870
Prevention in the car analogy would be like adding a breathalyzer and not allowing it to start if the person in the driver's seat fails.

It's been a gimmick idea for decades but I'm not aware of any car that actually comes with that as a feature. Kinda think there's a reason with how much friction it would add - I just did a quick search to double check and found there are add-ons for this, but without even searching for it most of the results were how to bypass them.
PTX is meant to be portable across GPU microarchitectures. That said, Nvidia owns the entire spec, so they can just keep adding new instructions that their GPUs now support but AMD GPUs don't.
I'm far from an expert in formal verification, I probably should be doing more of it than I do. From my two links, the way I've seen formal verification work is to either translate the code line-by-line in an automated or manual way into a formal language, then check for possible orderings that violate properties you care about; or define a formal model of the state machine, and insert validation of all the transitions in the code.

If you were going to do formal verification from the graphical representation, it would be on the algorithm; namely does it always converge, does it ever deadlock, does it ever fail mutual exclusion. If the goal is for a computer to analyze it, it can be precisely as complex as the source code, so yes. But at that point it's not useful visually for a human to read.
Some jewelers are dealing with things of great enough value that some gold dust or small stones doesn’t matter. Most jewelry value is not in the gold or gems, it’s in the eye of the beholder so to speak. So losing the actual ring is a much bigger loss than the gold/gem value. However, a guy on the street that isn’t dealing in six figure goods, places great value in that small gold amount.

Most people would be amazed at how little, when not in a shop under bright lights, jewelry is actually worth. Let’s just say they aren’t selling gold, they are selling emotions and hype. And many customers get extremely angry when they go to resell and find out how little it’s worth. You’ll be lucky to get a tenth of what you paid for the stones.

Source; my wife ran the biggest gold buying store in northern LA county for a few years.
Just to clarify, What's the point you think I'm trying to make?
HN has actually drifted far, far to the left of where it started.

It was called Startup News at the beginning. Of course, it's gonna be interested in money and money making. Duh.
I spot checked the weird out-of-order date on the DEViANCE release, but it was roughly consistent with https://predb.net/. It seems thorough databases are not so exclusive these days, which is cool!

Also, if you want to let the technicalities of copyright get in the way of you enjoying some solid abandonware, for a product which is no longer sold and unlikely to ever be sold again, that's on you. Live life on your own terms. Cheers!
Zero cost TLS certificates might be what Let's Encrypt is known for, but it wasn't the first entity to offer them. LE also disrupted the CA market because of IdenTrust's initial cross-signing, and ACME's development and rollout, under the banner of a well-funded reputable 501(c)(3). Nothing is stopping someone from starting an above-cost 501(c) non-profit registrar, similar to the ISRG or the PIR.
I'm sure there is a fee involved.
Reminds me of my favorite story from the Manhattan project: The project needed massive amounts of wire for all the equipment, but copper was in short supply for the war effort. They ended up working out a deal with the Treasury Department to use silver instead, since it was an even better conductor & apparently more available at the time. Part of the deal involved making sure not to lose any silver & IIRC they managed to not only return all the borrowed silver, they even found some extra to return by tearing up the floors in all the mints, warehouses & workshops, to incinerate & reclaim the precious metal, just like in the article!
What do you do when a builtin doesn't exist?
Ah I was reading the 'deeper dive' section on my phone and missed it was a comparison, not a warning, thank you

I'm curious how something like this example would translate:

===

Mapping lower-level ptx patterns to higher-level AMD constructs like __ballot, and knowing it's safe

```

#ifdef INLINEPTX
inline uint ptx_thread_vote(float rSq, float rCritSq) {
uint result = 0;
asm("{\n\t"
".reg .pred cond, out;\n\t"
"setp.ge.f32 cond, %1, %2;\n\t"
"vote.sync.all.pred out, cond, 0xffffffff;\n\t"
"selp.u32 %0, 1, 0, out;\n\t"
"}\n\t"
: "=r"(result)
: "f"(rSq), "f"(rCritSq));
return result;
}
#endif

```

===

Again, I'm guessing there might be an equiv simpler program involving AMD's __ballot, but I'm unsure of the true equivalence wrt safety, and it seems like a tricky rewrite as it needs to (afaict) decompile to recover the higher-level abstraction. Normally it's easier to compile down or sideways (translate), and it's not clear to me these primitives are 1:1 for safely doing so.

===

FWIW, this is all pretty cool. We stay away from PTX -- most of our app code is higher-level, whether RAPIDS (GPU dataframes, GPU ML, etc libs), minimal cuda, and minimal opencl, with only small traces of inline ptx. So more realistically, if we had the motivation, we'd likely explore just #ifdef'ing it with something predictable.
Until someone poisons the well by returning "unused" counterfeit cards to places like Digikey, anyway. It's dirty and rotten and illegal to convert fake cards into genuine cards like this, but criminals are gonna criminal.

(My own trick is to just buy cards from one of Microcenter's house brands. Their buyers know what they're doing (Microcenter's flash memory products are both excellent and priced right), and nobody is going to bother making counterfeits of them due to a lack of broad market appeal.)
I would just get a Roomba, bling it out, and then destroy it when it ripped one of my charger cables out of the wall.

Or just get sheet vinyl or something.
Proton offers E2EE for mail, files, and calendar events. Gmail does not.
I think he lost me on "working with Meta."
Correction: It won't drain in a second. But my point is the same. We don't really have 1 HP spark plugs out there :)
On our side we have actual polls, on your side you have a bunch of snide remarks and mental gymnastics.

“In God we trust, all others bring data.” —Deming (maybe)
I doubt that the primary purpose of having memorials for and movies about the Holocaust, which happened 80 years ago in Europe, is to influence opinions on current foreign policy towards the Middle East.
Why would they use photos when they have a perfectly good corpse on hand?
Yea it’s like people that bring in their dead ancestors teeth, no one wants to buy an old tooth and certainly not one with $5 worth of gold in it.
a lot of ML researchers stay pretty high level and reinstall conda when things stop working

and rightly so, they have more complicated issues to tackle

It's on developers to provide better infrastructure and solve these challenges
To flesh this out further, consider the networking and security model around networking as an extention of this tool perhaps. I feel like there is a lot of room for innovation in the wordpress honeypot scene.

Short of that tighter integration with known quality tools/frameworks for wordpress like ACF, ACPT, Flynt, Bedrock, etc# might help.
> "Micropayments are desperately needed" - this is true.

Probably not. They've been proposed all the way back to Chaum's DigiCash, but no micropayment system has ever really taken off. Not just crypto schemes. Schemes to put micropayments on your cellular phone bill were a flop. Even 976 numbers never got traction outside of dial-a-porn and have mostly died out.

All the enthusiasm for micropayments comes from people who want to collect them. Not from consumers wanting to send them.
There is no method to amplify good parts over garbage so mostly it’s garbage but some groups and classified are decent. The implementation of classifieds is shitty but that’s where the deals are
Antioxidants are good only in certain situations. In fact, they could be detrimental in many situations. For example, they negate the benefits of exercise and impair our defense against infections. Inflammation is vital—chronic low-grade inflammation is a different story!

Autophagy is a bad strategy and reduces lifespan, as human cells (unless they are cancerous) do not divide infinitely. So, the idea is to prevent cells from becoming senescent, i.e., keep mitochondria healthy, and not consume too many PUFAs, which desaturate cardiolipin.
Here’s what’s happening and everyone is starting to realize it: the search engine is getting reduced in scope to a bookmark service and local search.

Want an answer to a question or to learn more about a topic? Use an answer engine like perplexity.

My need to go to a search engine is dropping quite a lot now because of LLMs.

I’m using Kagi as well which is nice.
Fun fact - the website used for submitting visas to come to India still uses marquee.
> a pretty much even split

that reminds me of the "mostly peaceful protests" in Portland.

Face it: not everyone agrees with you. That's our right.
I heard if you go to the edge of our flat earth, take a massive dose of ivermectin, inect yourself with bleach and dose yourself with light 1 billion times stronger than the sun you will be cured of everything.
Though that cure might be death as you fall off the edge and evaporate due to the strength of the light, but, hey your cured right.
This is an off usage of the items described above.
Curious where that was? My partner was a jeweller in the Nicholas Building in Melbs.
Mediterranean countries are not what they used to be - they eat a lot of junk nowadays, too.
I would think the latest one where SCOTUS ruled that the president was a king except in matters where the SCOTUS decides they aren't counts as a constitutional crisis.
What form of enforcement do you envision that is compatible with the First Amendment?
The lazy part of my brain screams “use this instead of dealing properly with nested objects!” In a production setting I’d be worried about consistency from the base to result layers if based on LLM transpositioning.
"Toughen up buttercup" works fine when there is labor surplus. But during labor constraint the workers have all the cards. If it costs $30k to hire a new employee like it does in tech, you better treat them nicer than something like Burger King.
> Is it weird how the comments here are blaming AMD and not Nvidia?

Not even a little bit. It simply isn't Nvidia's job to provide competitive alternatives to Nvidia. Competing is something AMD must take responsibility for.

The only reason CUDA is such a big talking point is because AMD tripped over their own feet supporting accelerated BLAS on AMD GPUs. Realistically it probably is hard to implement (AMD have a lot of competent people on staff) but Nvidia hasn't done anything unfair apart from execute so well that they make all the alternatives look bad.
Except when it turns out all the insiders are problematic, like in Dogville.
Rubies for watches are synthetic and super cheap.

And the small diamonds are still pretty cheap. He said about $100 per carat of small diamonds. It's not surprising that they're more casual with this inventory.
Thanks! I do prefer sans-serif, since it feels more techy for some reason.
How do you do 'anything' as a society?

And how do you fully disclose the ranking criteria? It's a giant pile of evershifting programs. And even if you disclosed them, that wouldn't mean normal people would understand them. Just like barely anyone understands exactly how your favourite filesystem works in the fully disclosed Linux kernel.

> and then actually discuss as a society if we want to force the rankers to rank differently.

Just don't use the services that seem to have rankings policies you disagree with. No need to drag other people in with your own choices 'as a society'.

'As a society' we already make laws about what's legal and what's illegal, and there's also some vague consensus (but not universally shared) about what's perhaps legal but still in bad taste.

But 'as a society' we don't decide on every last thing. People should have their freedom as much as possible, the freedom to make their own decisions.

Do you want to disclose exactly how you make your decisions when you are voting on HN comments? Can you even do that?

A 'society' that makes all the decisions for everyone is totalitarian.
Thank you so much! Your compliments and generosity are very much appreciated.
OK, so in the case of llm.c, if you're just including the HIP headers, using hipblasLt, etc, what would be the benefit of using scale instead of hipify?
It's OTPs all the way down.
If you took time to check out the link, you would see that this post is about the Lightning Network, which can support massive transactional volume.
You can actually look up payments from certain companies to doctors now: https://openpaymentsdata.cms.gov/

I’ve checked several doctors that I’ve visited over the years. None of them show up, with one exception: The doctor who immediately set off my scam alarms when she tried really, really hard to get me diagnosed with sleep apnea, despite not one but two very clearly negative sleep studies.

I could never understand why she was pushing so hard, until I looked her up in this system. She takes an incredible amount of money from drug companies and device manufacturers.

I don’t know if a scheme like you described would even be allowed today. If it is, the bigger medical systems are actually quite strict with doctors taking anything resembling a payment like this, from what my friends in the industry tell me.
McLuhan was right: "the medium is the message".

In this context, the "medium" is the country where KFC/McD is situated, and the "message" is the set of food standards or "the bar" as we're calling it in this discussion.

America truly has bad food standards in general, so the KFC/McD in America reflects that reality. In contrast, Italy has a much higher bar for what is considered food, and KFC/McD reflects that as well.
OT but what's the best way to find incentives and rebates given a zip code? Google just suggests 1,000 ads...
"Yes, the rubber ones!"
Lottery winner wins lottery, twice.

Together, they plunged their life savings — roughly $500,000 — into SecureIT, a cybersecurity software startup they co-founded in 1997. ... By 2007, they ... decided it was time to launch "one big company.... That company was Zscaler, which aimed to help companies transition away from outdated firewalls and into the cloud era. ... Today, it brings in $1.6 billion in annual revenue and has a market value of roughly $30 billion.

The 65 year old was 38 when the first company was founded, and 48 when he doubled down.

The interview such as it is ... doesn't add much more, though the discussion of risk and skin-in-the-game is more interesting than the headline angle.
My colleague told me a story just last week about his father's old job at Kodak working in silver reclamation. Same story as this article, they chuck everything into the furnace. They go so far as to filter the wastewater from employee showers.
20 years and 2-5B invested before any generation at all.

At which point you should just put 5B of subsidies into rooftop solar with battery backup (it doesn’t take much to make solar a no brainer, a 50% tax credit would make it a slam dunk). Do that and you can reduce peak demand by 20% in year 1.
nvcc is nowhere near that bad these days, it supports most C++ code directly (for example, I've written kernels that include headers like <span> or <algorithm> and they work just fine).
As someone doing a lot of work with CUDA in a big research organization, there are few of us. If you are working with CUDA, then you are not from the type of people who wait to have something that just works like you describe. CUDA itself is a battle with poorly documented stuff.
Congrats, it looks great, love that you have Linux app support.

Question, have you done the business analysis to know how long you can afford to run the system when giving away 500MB? Even your paid model seems really inexpensive. Do you have enough margin to immediately not go broke?

I am not trying to throw shade, I am just curious because it almost seems too good to be true since you aren’t running any ads and your price is free and/or cheap
As far as we know there is little that's economical to bring back to earth. There are quite possibly enormous iron and nickel reserves from meteor impacts (e.g. [1]). Mining them for use on earth isn't that interesting, but if you want to build large structures in space (or on the moon) having metal that far out of earth's gravity well is pretty valuable.

And then there are the unknown unknowns. We spend a lot of time prospecting earth, and haven't spent all that much prospecting the moon. This will be much easier with boots on the ground. And while the moon's lack of geological activity means it isn't good at concentrating resources, it also means remains from impact events remain much more reachable and concentrated than on earth.

1: https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2019GL08...
Bought a SanDisk microSD card recently. Came in a nice little transparent plastic case... but with no adapter!
100% thanks for saying this and im surprised you weren't flagged and downvoted

in previous crypto bull runs such statements would been censored
> An example in the UK were aftershave bottles that are banned - does this look dangerous to you? https://www.fragrancenet.com/fragrances?f=b-spicebomb

It's shaped like a grenade, so yes.