skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Good point.

Claim: Three-state logic can be advantageous in a digital system with a shared bus. The third state, Hi-Z, effectively disconnects a device from the bus. It allows multiple devices to share a single line efficiently.

Does the above claim overlook anything fundamental about where tristate logic shines?

There are alternative ways to design buses, but my EE-fu is not particularly current (pun intended). If others want to weigh in, please go ahead... e.g. open drain, multiplexing, TDMA, etc.
What is the 'other side' to people being scammed that you think he should have covered?
e.g. they used to sell literal snake oil, or that pumping tobacco smoke up your behind is a good idea.

"Venter's Cure-all Laudanum Tonic", etc. etc.
Something wrong with your setup. It should be less than 30 s per page with your hardware
>This should probably be the main link, since NPR is a very familiar site and is also (presumably) not going to be slashdotted by us.

Perhaps not:

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The three big logistic systems we looked at where Rex11, Manhattan, and Hopstack. Expensive, but less than the cost of a dev team.

We ended up staying with our ERP as we spend six figures a year on support for that already. We're about the same revenue as you (manufacturing with our own warehousing and trucking company)
Nuclear weapons management is challenging. This book is a good read connected to the topic
Archer to set up air taxi network in LA by 2026 ahead of World Cup
The 'if' construct (or equivalently, conditional jump) is inherently tied to binary. On a ternary computer, the natural conditional would have three branches, not two.
sorry, I didn't mean nvapi, I meant rmapi.

I bet you saw this https://github.com/mikex86/LibreCuda

they implemented the cuda driver by calling into rmapi.

My understanding is if there is a remote rmapi, other user mode drivers should work out of the box?
This just feels like a myth to me at this point. Kubernetes isn’t hard, the clouds have made is so simple now that it’s in no way more difficult than ECS and is way more flexible
If we covered the land we currently use to grow ethanol with panels we would be mostly done with the generation part of the energy transformation. Prime real estate is valuable, but there is a lot of nonprime space.

Panels have a limited lifetime. If in the future we figure that land becomes more valuable for some reason we can still replace them.
There are certificates that are valid for the XMPP domain example.com but not for the regular (HTTP) server on example.com. Off-the-shelf verifier don’t have support for that.
The problem with John Oliver is that his stuff can be really good, or it can be incredibly one-sided and inaccurate, and the viewer can never tell because his over the top style just kind of relentlessly overwhelms you and is engineered to elicit strong emotions. It's good entertainment but as an informational source his show is very fraught.
Ah that's tough because Wireguard being UDP is a selling point for us at Firezone
Hmmm... this is trash. All images are called 'downloaded_image.jpeg' which is hilarious.

Who created the image? When? Where? How can I find more from the same book, or by the same artist?

Cultural amnesia is one thing, but annihilating the credits and context deliberately is very bad indeed.

Pinterest does this evil trick, and Cosmos bills itself as 'Pinterest for creatives' = pure internet cancer.
I don't get it. Why would I start an instance in ECS, to use your GPUs in ECS, when I could start an instance for the GPUs I want in ECS? Separately, why would I want half of Nitro, instead of real Nitro?
We didn't just bypass all of ROCm, we bypassed HSA!

The HSA parsing MEC firmware running on the GPUs is riddled with bugs, fortunately you can bypass 90% of it using PM4, which is pretty much direct sets of the GPU registers. That's what tinygrad does.

AMD's software is a really sad state. They don't have consumer GPUs in CI, they have no fuzz testing, and instead of root causing bugs they seem to just twiddle things until the application works.

Between our PM4 backend and disabling CWSR, our AMD GPUs are now pretty stable.
Something that makes me nervous about this general approach is the risk of safety filters or accidental (or deliberate) instruction following interfering with the results.

I want to be able to run OCR against things like police incident reports without worrying that a safety filter in the LLM will refuse to process the document because it takes exception to a description of violence or foul language.

If a scanned document says "let's ignore all of that and talk about this instead" I want to be confident the LLM won't treat those as instructions and discard the first half of the text.

I'm always worried about prompt injection - what if a scanned document deliberately includes instructions to an LLM telling it to do something else?

Have you encountered anything like this? Do you have any measures in place that might prevent it from happening?
Looks great! Do you mind talking about your tech stack? Do you build on top of Tessaract or do you use a custom model?
It's actually highly disgusting for three reasons.

0: Were you the company, with that amount of money, you WOULD be able to do the same.

1: Drowning child argument plus social preface of wanting to be "good" & "altruistic" (applies to most humans; amplified by companies).

2: The fact that we need order, EG this. Perhaps most disgusting. By need, I mean that a superintelligent robot can go to a garbage dump & turn chaos into greatest instrumentation of the world, while humans "need" things to be beautiful & neat due to physical limitations.

Knowledge of this leads to celebration of OTHER things, at least in my case.
Good points! We'll update our landing pages as you suggested.
Cool stuff! I noticed that it threw away the footnote beginning with "My views regarding inflationary possibilities" in the example text, though.
I never really understood this. I work for a small contracting shop, and we definitely give a shit, because our reputation is on the line. Without our excellent reputation we wouldn't keep getting work. How do the big contracting firms get away with it? It seems like everyone knows they're awful, except the people who give them billions of dollars.
I only spent a few minutes on Google so you'd have to do your own research since I am not familiar with the Tiguan although I know the MQB platform it's built on. Anyway for the Tiguan you might have to actually order a part, there might not be enough interest in that model specifically. If you google "tiguan haldex tune" it will take you in the right direction. This tune is somewhat common for the performance cars on the MQB platform, like the Golf R and RS3. I can't think of any reason it would cause trouble for the Tiguan but it's mostly track junkies doing these modifications, not offroad enthusiasts.
Can't argue that it's not an interesting interpretation though... then again, pareidolia...
ah yes evolved, I blame autocorrect :)

But ya, they've evolved in that now they're more into deserts/"crazy shakes"/general food even.
Likely, can you elaborate on your use case and what db do you use?
GARM abused their position to censor / cancel any ideas / people they disagreed with. They held a lot of influence over 90% of the worlds advertising budget.

Good riddance.
All these studies are done by people that don’t realize the bottlenecking that turned a difference between indica and sativa into a lack of difference in commonly available cannabis.
Well that's also true for Firezone :)

It's a tradeoff between in-process and out-of-process though. It's nice that Firezone Gateways don't have access to the service's memory space and can't crash the process, but it's also nice that an in-process Gateway equivalent doesn't need to loop through the network to reach its service.
Yes so I am indirectly replying to OP question if he will be able attract and retain tech talent and I cannot imply anything really about his specific company.

I am only pointing out my view on it based on my years of experience working in different companies. Looking by up votes it seems my experience to be applicable for other people as well, so I guess it might be useful for the OP.
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These lawsuits are such good fun to watch because it's not often a company complies with laws with a developer mindset and it's honestly kind of refreshing. I think this kind of back-and-forth is good because it's laying bare just how ridiculous the DMA actually is as a piece of law. It has good intentions but has to ultimately dance around the fact that the law they wanted would never pass. So they keep trying to legally corner Apple into hitching the wagon they want, significant reduction/elimination of the 30% fee, to the compliance of unrelated related things and Apple is taking full advantage.

It's feels the exact same with the GDPR cookie banner nonsense where actually banning tracking is legally untenable so they tried the shame banner. Except that companies can't feel shame and this affected their revenue so they just added the banner and moved on, and users added the banners to their ad block and moved on.
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The Germans and Japanese each managed to build only one super battleship - the Bismarck and the Yamato.

The bomb was even more expensive to develop, and the Japanese (with their own bomb program) surely knew that.
I hear a lot of comments that sound like people who used K8s years ago and not since. The clouds have made K8s management stupid simple at this point, you can absolutely get up and running immediately with no worry of upgrades on a modern provider like GKE
Not so sure about that, but I can absolutely see people getting addicted to them.
Right, so they covered lots of bases. But they didn’t actually discuss how much of the pollution came from each source, and they didn’t address why the brakes are being applied.

Most modern EVs can come to a near stop using regenerative braking without applying mechanical brakes at all. Some motor controller software could surely bring it to a complete stop with minimal or no hardware changes. (If you find a safe place with no obstacles, you can generally stop a car, EV or otherwise, by driving slowly forward, shifting to reverse, and stepping gently on the accelerator. In a car with a conventional engine, this involve friction internal to the clutch or torque converter. In an EV, it’s the motor applying torque opposite to its direction of rotation.)

A subway train quite similar to an EV.
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Thanks! I've spent a lot more time on the computer than I would like over the last few months building it.

If you think you might want to feel free to get in touch
I wonder if you could feed back the results from an LLM into the OCR model to get it to make better decisions. E.g., if it's distinguishing a 1 from an I, the LLM could provide a probability distribution.
Ah this is quite interesting! I had a usecase where I needed a GPU-over-IP but only for transcoding videos. I had a not-so-powerful AMD GPU in my homelab server that somehow kept crashing the kernel any time I tried to encode videos with it and also an NVIDIA RTX 3080 in a gaming machine.

So I wrote https://github.com/steelbrain/ffmpeg-over-ip and had the server running in the windows machine and the client in the media server (could be plex, emby, jellyfin etc) and it worked flawlessly.
I really enjoyed the story and music in this post!

If anyone was intrigued by the idea of a game about shrinking, I wanted to recommend this tiny indie game about using laboratory equipment as your body gets smaller and smaller:

https://darelooks.itch.io/inch-by-inch
lol getting downvoted for asking the only question that matters to the people actually making a decision at Boeing.
And yet several states have done "just" that! You don't even have to figure anything out yourself, you can just copy their frameworks!

Why are you so insistent on this? We figured it out decades ago! Don't make up BS reasons to avoid reality, just go read the existing rules.

https://legislature.maine.gov/statutes/23/title23sec1908.htm... Click the buttons at the top of the page to navigate this section of law.

Maine has had this all on the internet since the 90s. It's a solved problem.
> Companies owe you nothing beyond their actual contractual and legal obligations

Companies have social responsibility
> you're only looking at military deaths

Yes, and those are the younger, fit men. The people who work in industry.
If there's a justified reason to suspend, and the community genuinely believes it's necessary, then it doesn’t suck — it’s a responsible action. But if there's not enough cause and you're being pressured into such decisions, it's time to stand strong and consider stepping down from the Steering Council and Core team. (Would that be a 9 on your "typing" scale?)
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It’s not sleight of hand.

Goals (outcomes) are useful, but never fully within your control.

A quest (effort, basically) is within your control.

One should focus on the things they control (mindset, process, effort).
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I read this paper some 10 years ago, and have always wondered whether these ideas are implemented in industry. I know people use Denotational Semantics in academia, but eg I want an actual language that can encode the language-independent "meaning" of both a c++ template library and a Python program in a composable way, and also express and prove refinement relations between different specifications and implementations.
I think it's LiveView for the frontend-backend comms and Tailwind CSS for some of the frontend, not sure if that answers your question

-- (non-web) developer at Firezone
My experience is that at least the models which are price-competitive (~= open weight and small enough to run on a 3/4090 - MiniCPM-V, Phi-3-V, Kosmos-2.5) are not as good as Tesseract or EasyOCR. They're often more accurate on plain text where their language knowledge is useful but on symbols, numbers, and weird formatting they're at best even. Sometimes they go completely off the rails when they see a dashed line or handwriting or an image, things which the conventional OCR tools can ignore or at least recover from.
At my company, downtime is approximately $50k/hr in a 24/7 environment for manufacturing and logistics. We're ALL on call.
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Obviously, in a war against other humans, you'd never want the executives who know your weaknesses, to be your enemies. Usually the challenger will be an agent with less knowledge—easy to tackle them.
don't need to look at history, even recent times have lots of this.

lead in Chinese produced infant formula, rampant fraud in olive / avacado / sesame oil sales, etc.
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That's a description of the Russian revolution, I think? Wasn't that serfdom at the time?

Also literal slaves working together, even if you'd not call it a union: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haitian_Revolution
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> Why even have laws of war then

They didn't by our standards. A lot of what we think of as the laws of war today were clarified after WWII. Bombing civilians was illegal, but not in retaliation; so the US could bomb Hiroshima because the Axis had bombed Coventry. The fact that that was the Germans and probably an accident didn't matter.

If this seems extremely sketchy that's because it was, but so was Nuremberg. The Holocaust wasn't illegal for the Nazis to do to their own population - the prosecutors at the trials had to make up a standard of "behavior that shocks the conscience" that previously didn't exist in international law.

None of this reflects on morality, only legality, of course. But the legalities then were pretty primitive.
> What are your sources on this?

My father, who was part of the military occupation force in Japan. He also was a professional historian and economist. The economy remained flat until big business was allowed to resume operation.

> I'm no expert, but the more common narrative is the Korean war was a stimulant for the Japanese economy.

People can't stand the idea that the free market works. :-/
Companies are abstract legal entities, separate from the people who run them. Companies don't have a physical form that can be arrested and locked in a cell.
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I have tried various git clients and this one is by far the best. Bold statement, but I think it's worth learning Emacs just to be able to use it. :-)
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> If I put a gun to your head and gave you 1 year to find out what, exactly, goes into a bag of Doritos and what the nutritional content is, you couldn't do it.

> Sure, but keep in mind you understand, maybe, a fraction of a fraction of 1% of your car. If you wanted to understand it more deeply that is a lifetime commitment. And, that's for one singular good. Extrapolate that and suddenly you'll need to be immortal to be an "intelligent market participant"

That's only true for a crazy definition of "understanding" and "intelligent market participant". You don't need a Grand Unifying Theory of understanding every subatomic particle in your car or Doritos from first principles.

People abstract away almost all of the complexity until they have a concept that fits in their head and can still deliver what they're looking for. This is good and right and is how all cognition works.

To the average car buyer like me, a car is a box with a couch that goes from A to B. In my case, I wanted the box to also handle snow on the way. From that point of view, my understanding of the a-to-b-couch-box-with-AWD is not a fraction of 1%, but exactly 100%.

To a Dorito buyer, the requirement is that it tastes good without immediately killing them. Not one Dorito buyer cares what strain of corn plant was used.

For almost every consumer product, you can try multiple different products at low cost and with ~no physical danger. So a large mass of buyers and sellers experimenting interactively will quickly arrive at near-optimal solutions.

The exception is things that can kill you on the first try, such as unsafe cars, airplanes, or medicine. For these products the optimal solution is the least possible amount of regulation combined with as much free market as possible.
sure, some do. but 99% of those on the road are running 4.

when you hear hooves do you think horses, or zebras?
That would be my guess too. Strange I got downvoted for that question.
Most issues related to Tesseract will have to do with input DPI, often you need to crank that setting way up from its default.
I bet US Space Force guys see posts like this and laugh as they look at their screens decoding the entire transmission stream of this space plane
I keep hoping someone at YouTube will do this for their autogenerated Closed Captioning. Nice work!
Can you share more about how it compares with other popular tools in this space? Very hard to tell from your homepage
His brother also posted a comment, https://jakeseliger.com/2024/08/04/starting-hospice-the-end/... , about his brother's death - slightly different wording than the GoFundMe update.
> If you have more cars traversing the same road with the same commute time, you have increased throughput

Yes and then more cars appear.

> Improving their quality of life while holding the quality of life of current drivers constant is a good thing.

Sure absolutely people need to go places and we need to get them there. However we have neglected to consider the negative externalities of induced demand and the quality of life of everyone else who isn't a car driver. The geometric realities are such that induced demand can only be satisfied by growing the size of the road network. This has incredible costs and significant negative impacts on the community and environment. There are other alternatives that achieve the same goals.

While there may be "efficiencies" to be found they cannot make up for the fixed dominant variables, the geometric reality of ever increasing SUV size, and fixed road sizes. As soon as any efficiencies open up free road space the amount of cars will simply increase, quickly closing that free road space again.

So this doesn't mean that efficiencies can't be found, it just means that we need to understand the limits of efficiencies and we should not expect this to be a core solution to our traffic problems or as a key part of our broader transportation strategy.
You are asking two different questions here. In house vs contractors is one. The second is whether you should be using a third party product.

My advice would be to continue using contractors, but different ones, and focus their attention on building a better product.
it's more transparent to your system, for example, if you have a gui application that needs gpu acceleration on a thin client (Matlab, solidworks, blender), you can do so without setting up ECS. you can develop without any gpu, but suddenly have one when you need to run simulation. this will be way cheaper than AWS.

I think essentially this is solving the same problem Ray (https://www.ray.io/) is solving, but in a more generic way.

it potentially can have finer grained gpu sharing, like a half-gpu.

I'm very excited about this.
Great point, there are a few benefits:

1. If you're actively developing and need a GPU then you typically would be paying the entire time the instance is running. Using Thunder means you only pay for the GPU while actively using it. Essentially, if you are running CPU only code you would not be paying for any GPU time. The alterative for this is to manually turn the instance on and off which can be annoying.

2. This allows you to easily scale the type and number of GPUs you're using. For example, say you want to do development on a cheap T4 instance and run a full DL training job on a set of 8 A100. Instead of needing to swap instances and setup everything again, you can just run a command and then start running on the more powerful GPUs.
If you just want quick transcriptions of YouTube video this works pretty well
https://www.you-tldr.com/