skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Check their terms of service I almost bet that includes a binding arbitration clause for disputes. Send a notice that you would like to avail yourself of binding arbitration in this matter. Depending on how bad you want it back hire a lawyer to do this in a harass them. Generally when you start forcing them to adhere to their own terms of service they back down and reconsider.

But really what this goes to show is this was never your YouTube account to begin with. As we come up on our presidential elections they all hem and haw about idiotic things that will never change but ask yourself which candidates talk about this kind of nonsense that companies do. Which candidates campaign for the protections of normal people using these services that have become so large that they are the underpinning of many of the things in our society nowadays.
and I'll bet most of them are like "TotallyJoeMcNuggets" with .ru emails and <10 repositories that are either scraping or CTF tasks or anti-malware tools.
Windows Explorer can't even sort files in a timely fashion most of the time. It's pathetic.
I always subconsciously interpret the word 'modern' as 'in fashion,' probably because the word 'mode' means fashion in my language. I don't associate it with something good or advanced, but rather with something vain and ephemeral.
I have several "open" models sitting around for experimentation and occasional use, but I don't think downloadable weights solves the underlying issue.

First off, none of the good models are FOSS in the sense we normally expect - i.e. the four freedoms. At the least onerous end of the scale, Stable Diffusion models under the OpenRAIL license have a morality clause[0] and technical protections[1] to enforce that clause. LLaMA's licensing is only open for entities below a certain MAU, and Stable Diffusion 3 recently switched away from OpenRAIL to a LLaMA-like "free as in beer" license. Not only is this non-free, it's getting increasingly more proprietary as entities who are paying for the AI training start demanding a return on investment, and the easiest way to get that is to just demand licensing fees.

The reason why AI companies - not the artists or programmers they stole from - are in a position to demand these licensing terms at all is because they're the ones controlling the capital necessary to train models. If training from scratch at the frontier was still viable for FOSS tinkerers, we wouldn't have to worry about OpenAI reading all our GPT queries or Stability finding ways to put asterisks on their openness branding. FOSS software development is something you can do as a hobby, so if a project screws something up, you can build a new one. That's not how AI works. If Stability screws up, you still have to obey Stability's rules unless you train a new foundation model, and that's very expensive.

You see how this is very "copyright-like" even though it's legally contravening the letter and spirit of copyright law? Barriers to entry drive industrial consolidation and ratchet us towards a capitalist, privately-owned command economy. If I could train models from scratch, I'd make a decent model trained purely on public domain datasets[2], slather Grokfast[3] on it, and build in some UI to selectively fine-tune on licensed or custom data.

[0] To be clear, I don't have much against morality clauses personally, that's why I've used OpenRAIL models. But I still think adding morality clauses to otherwise FOSS licensing is a bad idea. At the very least, in order to put moral values into a legal contract, we have to agree as a community as to what moral values should be enforced by copyright. Furthermore, copyright and contracts are a bad tool to enforce morals.

[1] e.g. the Stable Diffusion safety filter

[2] Believe me, I tried

[3] An algorithm that increases the speed of grokking (generalization) by taking the FFT of gradients and amplifying the slow ones.
Do you have a 401k or any kind of ETF investment? It’s highly unlikely you have zero investment in NVIDIA.
The question is if they are impressive for a company worth $3.1 trillion. Annualizing this quarter's earnings it has a P/E of 45. And earnings "only" grew at 60% annualized, slower than in the past. (Revenue growth is also a bit slower as a percentage)

So market likely sees decelerating growth which can't justify such a high P/E. e.g. if growth fell to say 30% YOY in a year, nvda would be seen as overvalued today.
It's worth noting too the fiscal year varies greatly between countries.
Of course they are :)

Military Vendors lap up Gov. money like a Camel in a desert at an oasis. Without that money, the US economy would collapse over night.

I hope the Military is allowed to repair their equipment. In a war, that ability is mandatory.
When a shop votes to unionize, the vote is binding on all the in-scope employees; you can't individually opt out unless you're in a "right to work" state. Allowing some employees to negotiate their contracts individually is seen as basically defeating the power of collective bargaining; right-to-work states are more conservative and business-friendly.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Right-to-work_law
Copilot is just Clippy II+.
I was impressed with chatgpt in many a situation where it could understand me better than another person ona forum would. Will present me with a solution without creating an environment where I need to be careful how I'm gonna come across.

I've enjoyed finding answers to things and suggestions on how to do them differently of how I was thinking of doing them

I've enjoyed receiving answers to questions I asked google with no match from what I'm asking.

Can't bring myselt to use it to code for me though, but all the above leads me to believe it shouldn't far now until I'm on board too
Yes, people talked and joked about it. I had a couple of friends with PET's and they would not let you near them if you joked about it. I doubt it impacted sales, but it was definitely part of the culture. Most 8-bit machines had some well-known locations that you could poke values to and make them crash in spectacular ways. My ZX-81 sure did ;-)

By the time the Apple IIe, Commodore-64 and IBM PC came out, they were just a lot better and/or cheaper and that's what really killed the PET..
The Simplest Bootloader
NeuralRack – Affordable GPUs
Hi HN,

We're launching https://www.neuralrack.ai/, an affordable datacenter for AI applications. Neuralrack specializes in affordable but powerful GPUs like the RTX 4090, which can outclass professional GPUs in specific tasks, for example, image generation or inference with small LLMs.

The main benefit of using Neuralrack is that the data center operator and his team will support you. Unlike marketplaces that outsource rentals to unverified third-party hosts, Neuralrack builds, owns, and operates every piece of equipment in North Carolina and (coming soon) Texas.

Neuralrack offers Tier 3 compliant infrastructure with 10Gbps unmetered internet, 25Gbps LAN and high performance Nvidia GPUs coupled with EPYC CPUs.

You can also request custom HW configurations. If you plan to rent a custom machine for at least 3 months, we're happy to build one for you.

The software is provided by https://faircompute.com/, which is on a mission to make computational resources available to developers with any budget.
- Compatible with any cloud: AWS, GCP, Azure, Lambda
- Leverage your home machines or your friends to reduce your reliance on the cloud. Fair Compute is supported by any major OS and will work alongside your other applications.
- Use container images from Runpod and other marketplaces without friction.

Please join our Discord at https://discord.gg/8RAHAPcTUq. The first ten people to join and request credits will receive a $20 promo code. We will grant much more generous perks to active community members and long-term customers.

Sincerely,
Rohith (NeuralRack) and Dmitry (FairCompute)
Note that while 64x64 is the default, it is not the only size - you can configure the dock to use "icons" (dock/window/etc blocks) of sizes from 24x24 up to 240x240. Though in practice most dockapps are limited at 64x64 (there have been some in recent years updated to allow other sizes from people who want to use Window Maker in HiDPI monitors) and using a different size has them centered (it might be possible to use the X11 composition extension to scale them in the future though, Window Maker already uses it to make previews for "miniaturized" -aka minimized- windows).
It's an interesting thought experiment for how Jack would handle the financial crises. I don't think it would play out in the same way. Maybe I'm too much of a fan boy, but Jack would have seen the writing on the wall far sooner than Jeff and had more time to pivot.
I'm also on the free plan, and it has everything I need, in sync between all my devices and platforms.
hate how all YoY commentary completely ignores recession years like 2022 or boom years like 2021.
'Normally' IIRC you would still be a party to the lawsuit.

Might get out of it depending on specifics but you'd be a party.

OTOH, I -thought?- that part of at least enterprise Copilot was that they would defend in such cases.
Everyone wants a cute domain but there are good reasons to go with .com or with your country's national domain extension.
The two examples that make my blood boil are:

1. “Modern web app”, also known as a polyglot monstrosity with ten thousand transitive dependencies of which at least a few dozen were written by kids from Eastern Europe now pushing up sunflowers somewhere along the Donbas front.[1]

2. “Modern auth” also known as designed-by-committee standards documents that no human being can fully comprehend because it is almost entirely written with just six words, most of which are synonyms in the English language.[2]

[1] This was the specific reason that forced an enterprise customer of mine to rewrite most of a newly developed Angular app.

[2] Paraphrasing only slightly: “Token code cookie authentication ID code token code.”
Most people in the world are not American. We have differing retirement plans and invest in local markets, or all sorts of international markets. The NASDAQ is one of many.

Most people reading this will indeed have zero investment in Nvidia.
That's not the correct interpretation. Earnings will likely be higher next quarter.

It's just that the rate of growth is slowing and when nvda is at a 45 P/E, you need high growth to justify its market cap.
I kinda miss travel agents. They knew some amazing tricks looking for flights.
Access/Reviews on Henrik?
Seems odd to attack my news sources, as if you know which ones I use instead of the argument itself. Under no circumstance should a Judge accept money from anyone even remotely involved in any case. It doesn't matter what they call it after.
CHERIoT chips will be available early next year from SCI Semiconductor iirc. I have heard of some samples floating around
I built a rules engine around SQLite queries for the last product I was working on. This article was the reason.

You can run an unbelievable # of select statements per unit time against a SQLite database. I think of it like a direct method invocation to members of some List<T> within the application itself.

Developers who still protest SQLite are really sleeping on the latency advantages. 2-3 orders of magnitude are really hard to fight against. This opens up entirely new use cases that hosted solutions cannot consider.

Databases that are built into the application by default are the future. Our computers are definitely big enough. There are many options for log replication (sync & async), as well as the obvious hypervisor snapshot approach (WAL can make this much less dangerous).
Do you buy from Amazon?
I used UltraSearch [1] a few times and I think it does a similar thing to Everything, access the NTFS data structures directly so that it provides essentially instant search results and directly after installation without the need to build an index first.

[1] https://www.jam-software.de/ultrasearch
Exciting to hear, thanks for the information! You guys rock!
I'd love to work at Atomic Semi, pushing what I suspect is essentially the on demand "3d printing" of ASICS. I'm not up for it health wise.

If I could, I'd love to be in a machine shop, making gears, learning CNC, etc. I want to figure out a way to do Power Skiving of Bevel Gears, mostly because it's supposedly impossible.

PS: Power skiving is amazing stuff -- it takes a 10 minute process and cuts it down to 30 seconds. check it out

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EefFxEGVbWo
You can definitely implement all of that in iced. The `text_editor` widget offers cut, copy, paste off-the-shelf and undo/redo would be a matter of keeping a stack of the "input changed" messages and popping off changes to undo/redo them.

The library is pretty low level so there's a bit of legwork that the developer needs to do in order to implement things that you get for free in, say, a browser. It's a tradeoff, but I think one that tends to provide more advantages than disadvantages.
Coq, specifically Gallina, is absolutely a specification tool. It's not only that, but it's one of the big use cases it's explicitly designed to support.
I tried Window Maker because I liked the aesthetics of NeXTSTEP when I'd used it. On Linux though, I just couldn't get used to the left-side scrollbars. It was ok on NeXTSTEP because that's how that always was, but seeing my Linux like that was one STEP too far.
twenty-four years

(2022)

Some discussion then: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32245136
say no more fam https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d3Zixe_ooQc
Boiling Point: Tech companies clam up about AI's climate costs
This seems to be a politicized piece suggesting that war profiteers are driving us towards war with China.

That framing is stupid and dangerous, and incorrect. China would love to convince us to roll over and let them invade anyone they like in the pacific.
China is the one driving us towards conflict by preparing to invade Taiwan. The question of US involvement in defense of Taiwan has already been settled. We will defend them. Investing in businesses that are prepared to help that effort is probably a sane bet. If China doesn’t invade, everyone will be happy. If they do invade some military suppliers will get rich assisting in the defense. I don’t begrudge them that. If you wanted you could make the same bet. Nothing like an adversary who publishes their intent to invade years beforehand.
You've moved the goalposts. GP specifically said "directly tied to". You're discussing indirect investments/earnings/impact.
EPS is $0.68. forward P/e is 43.5 based on after hours pricing ($118)
I have a hunch this is what's going on at Atomic Semi. Making custom chips one gate at a time, instead of using lithography.
I don't know if it affected sales or not, but I'm going to guess not. Ordinary people would never have heard of it, and Commodore nerds kindof enjoyed that it existed.

I don't remember people talking a lot about it, but it was widely known. The only time I ever heard it being brought up was as a counterexample to the assertion that "you can't actually break a computer by typing the wrong thing at the keyboard". That was said a lot to reassure normal people who were afraid to touch computer keyboards out of fear of breaking expensive equipment.

In practice, the "killer poke" didn't really live up to its name. What it did was set the monitor sync rate to something the monitor couldn't handle. That would eventually damage the monitor, but you had to let it sit in that state for a long time (putting up with the terrible squeal it caused) for that to happen.
I've used that pattern to write tools to e.g. re-encrypt all whatever millions of objects in an S3 bucket, and examine 400m files for jars that are or contain the log4j vulnerable code. I had a large machine near the bucket/NFS filer in question, and wanted to use all the CPUs. It worked well for that purpose. The API is you provide callbacks for each depth of the tree, and that callback was given an array of channels and some current object to examine; your CB would figure out if that object (could be S3 path, object, version, directory, file, jar inside a jar, whatever) met the criteria for whatever action at hand, or if it generated more objects for the tree. I was able to do stuff in like 8 hours when AWS support was promising 10 days. And deleted the bad log4j jar few times a day while we tracked down the repos/code still putting it back on the NFS filer.

The library is called "go-treewalk" :) The data of course never ends back in main, it's for doing things or maybe printing out data, not doing more calcualation across the tree.
the fizzbuzz repo hurt. It is oh so true though.

I often wonder if, unbeknownst to me, I am writing similarly over-complicated software. People seem to be unable to tell, so I doubt I can either. It makes me second-guess my code a lot.

Is there any reliable/objective/quantitative way to evaluate such a thing? The repo is a great example of what not to do, but it's so extreme it's hardly useful in practice.. (nor it should care to be..as a joke)
Six sigma's main push in the 80s was to drastically reduce defect count by diving deep into manufacturing processes, the opposite of the quality issues discussed in the article. It sounds like your experience is similar to what happens to a lot of management philosophies when they get popularised into airport books and watered down.
bing. bang. buck. 2024?

er. heard this somewhere before. much before.

embrace. extend. extinguish. ?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embrace,_extend,_and_extingu...
No one who draws Mickey Mouse for personal use is getting prosecuted or litigated, big or small.
> The difference is that on actual HN, it takes more than one flag vote to hide a comment. (I suspect it's in the range 2-5, but I don't actually know.) So one person can't make a post they don't like disappear.

I don't know, but I would suspect if the user who wrote the parent comment flags a reply, it would be less weight than if another random user flagged it.
Depends...

But frankly one could ask whether this would be closer to 'Sampling'...
This can happen when some of the interface operations have added logic, but others (like Validate here) don't, so just get delegated as-is.

One typical example is a tower of wrapped streams, where each layer applies additional transformations to the streamed data, but the Close operation is just passed across all layers to the lowest one (which closes the underlying file or whatever).
What I find offensive about this post is using "neo"vim and neomutt. what, was original AgentSmithMutt and TrinityVim not good enough? ...Is it because they're old?

Well anyway, I mostly agree with this post. Another similar thing I hate to see is things like "Really? In 2024?" and im just like that's the laziest critique of something ever.
At my current Seattle-area house I have an area laid out with paving stones instead of the deck and it's great!

Another pro-tip for Seattle is never buy house on the bottom of the hill or on top of the hill (yes, this only leaves hill-side). On the bottom you'll always be flooded during the winder, on the top you'll get crazy winds and rain banging during the storms.
(2021)

if you're going to submit old stuff, put some dates on them please

Discussion then: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29924020
Murder and torture, you mean.

If the consciousness possesses a capacity for suffering, torture as you say, the taking of its life is murder.

Both are immoral…
Sending channels over channels (i.e. chan chan) is a common pattern for publish-subscribe systems, e.g.

https://github.com/twpayne/go-pubsub/blob/master/pubsub.go
I think they were talking about the “Status: Suspended” part more than the NS records.
Give it a rest already.

First, Welch never worked at Boeing. If you're going to blame someone for what happened at Boeing, blame someone who actually was at Boeing. Even if they tried to follow Welch's approach, blame them for trying to do what they couldn't, or couldn't do there. Welch didn't do that.

Second, GE ran into problems at least a decade after Welch left. But no, it couldn't have been Immelt's fault! It had to be Welch's! Really? Why?

If you're going to say that Immelt tried to continue Welch's approach, fine, but blame Immelt for either not being able to pull it off, or for continuing with it after it no longer worked. When Welch did it, it worked fine. It worked fine for five years after he left, too.

Finally, climate action? That's Welch's fault, too? Really, people?

Get over Jack Welch. He's not to blame for what goes wrong decades later.
I pay $7/month to backup my machine with BackBlaze. I've learned the hard way to turn off the default exclusions for video files. 8(

I download things from the phone to my PC periodically, so I don't have to worry about those photos either.

I've got multiple copies, including a lot of things on old DVD-Rs.
Modern programming language like Rust
The warning notification/ appeal processes from tech platforms are a joke; the fact that their process lacks any specificity whatsoever is plain consumer abuse. I'm surprised consumer protection agencies haven't made a bigger issue of this.
I would love to read such a blog post as well!
Just delete some code and see if it still works. Bonus points if you can delete abstractions.
Chicago PD Hid Nearly 200k Traffic Stops from City Oversight in 2023
None of those things has successfully built a platform in the way nvidia has with CUDA, although Microsoft is well-positioned to do it eventually.

The reason you’re confused is you are thinking of the peers of NVIDIA as being AMD and Intel and not Apple and Nintendo and Sony, or mainframe vendors, etc. The reason they are different from AMD or Intel (or I think we can throw Xbox into this pile too too) uses AMD or intel because they want to use AMD or intel, they use them because they are a convenient compile target for code that you’ve gone to the effort of making very portable. And that’s a commodity market, where the other things are platforms with an organic userbase that’s not just there because it’s the cheapest thing.

(this is true of gaming gpus too btw, other than AMD APUs being very compelling for handheld and laptop gaming, and maybe Lunar Lake. whereas people want to use nvidia - that’s the actual meaning of “mindshare” and not the “mind control field” AMD fans assume mindshare to be. People who use the product for the product’s sake and not just pure cost expediency.)

The other thing I think people are sleeping on is the mediatek partnerships. They already announced three different markets (some are already launched) - automotive, smartphone SOCs, now monitor controllers too. They will almost certainly be the vessel for Nvidia’s desktop chip next year too - functionally they are partnered with /oem for nvidia now. Nvidia already has PNY to be their Foxconn/Sapphire, now they have Mediatek to do the boring plumbing work in their designs. Nvidia simply doesn’t have the staffing to tap these markets and staffing up with a bunch of boring suit and tie workers would destroy what makes nvidia tick, now they can go tap these other markets.

I think people really really overstated Nvidia’s unwillingness to license their IP etc. Buying ARM was a play for getting GeForce as the default graphics IP for basic smartphones and shit, and giving CUDA access to that market. Well, getting your IP into mediatek is the next best thing. Thinking Jensen wanted to buy arm to sell more tegras is pleb tier thinking and ambition. Nvidia didn’t pony up $40 billion to burn it all down. That’s fucking stupid.

There’s obviously a point where it gets stupid, but nvidia is genuinely still a company with a huge amount of growth potential and thinking they can sustainably lock in most of their current earnings isn’t too crazy. The real counterweight is that it’s a one man show and Jensen is getting old. But it seems like maybe Catanzaro is being positioned as a potential heir, what with him being the public face of dlss as well as the AI effort as a whole there. He seems like a logical choice of heir.