skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Cerebras is the only platform to enable instant responses at a blistering 450 tokens/sec. All this is achieved using native 16-bit weights for the model, ensuring the highest accuracy responses.

As near as I can tell, from the model card[1], the majority of the math for this model is 4096x4096 multiply-accumulates. So, there should be 70b/16m about 4000 of these in the Llama3-70B model.

A 16x16 multiplier is about 9000 transistors, according to a quick google. 4096^2 should thus be about 150 billion transistors, if you include the bias values. There are plenty of transistors on this chip to have many of them operating in parallel.

According to [2], a switching transition in the 7nM process node, is about 0.025 femtoJoule (10^-15 watt seconds) per transistor. At a clock rate of 1 Ghz, that's about 25 nanowatt/transistor. Scaling that at 50% transitions(a 50/50 chance any given gate in the MAC will flip), gets you about 2kW for each 4096^2 MAC running at 1 Ghz.

There are enough transistors, and enough RAM on the wafer to fit the entire model. Even if they have a single 4096^2 MAC array, a clock rate of 1 ghz should result in a total time of 4 uSec/token, or 250,000 tokens/second.

[1] https://github.com/meta-llama/llama3/blob/main/MODEL_CARD.md

[2] https://mpedram.com/Papers/7nm-finfet-libraries-tcasII.pdf
https://www.ycombinator.com/blog/two-hn-announcements
Elevation of MLsec: a threat-modeling card game for machine learning systems
But we are. The world is moving rapidly there. 66% of daily electricity in Germany is renewable.

California is building batteries at neck breaking speeds:

https://www.gov.ca.gov/2024/04/25/california-achieves-major-...
Yeah but come on. Everytime someone says "There needs to be a regulation or a certification" forcing cyber hygiene this whole site rises up in arms clamoring that checklists mean nothing and prevent nothing.

This is what you get when there's no checklist enforced. I would like to see all those people pour into the conversation jumping up and down with glee that their plan worked.
>and incentivizes good service

Does it?

I think for most folks getting lots of tips they find that he tips feel more like they're going to be... whatever they're going to be. Meanwhile their day to day job is more about other things going on, or if the food came out cooked wrong ... not so much something they control like a light-switch enough to make changes.

I'm not sure that incentivizes much at all.
US three-phase power is mostly 208V, 240V, and 480V. The 208V is what normal residential 120/240V split-phase was made from. 240V is high-leg delta three phase and I think was old alternative to split-phase. 480V is used for light industrial that needs more power.

There is nothing in US power system that is 220V.
tips incentivize to be white, young and female - there is almost no correlation between service quality and tip size:

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S036233199...
It's a far more plausible accounting of the facts than either mainstream narrative (there are two different ones being pitched to the pro- and anti-Trump camps in this case), but you're not going to accept that because of the level of cognitive dissonance it would generate with your existing perceptions of how the world works (particularly the idea that you're too smart to be fooled).

"Flat Earth" isn't an organic thing either, clearly an astroturfed movement meant to give people like you a handy example of why all such questioning is badthought.
Talon Eye Tracking and Voice Demos [video]
Royal Mail 4-State Customer Code
It's about in-house development on large companies...

So, that would make it about 2x worse than normal. What IMO, sounds way too good to be true.

(But then, I've seen AI projects being determined complete successes by having the same kind of result that would be considered failures on a normal product: being complete, but nobody using them.)
What's insane about it, exactly? I mean, almost the entirety of the post is actually just a recitation of observable and verifiable facts.
> That's probably about the time when your development pace goes downhill.

Oh, absolutely. But at this point, your team is probably around several dozen people and you have a product with paying customers. This naturally slows the development speed, however you organize the development process.

> I think it's an interesting idea to consider: If some team interfaces with something outside of its control, they need to have a mock of it. That policy increases the development effort by at least a factor of two (you always have to create the mock alongside the thing), but it's just a linear increase.

The problem is, you can't really recapture the actual behavior of a service in a mock.

To give you an example, DynamoDB in AWS has a local mock in-memory DB for testing and development. It has nearly the same functionality, but stores all the data in RAM. So the simulated global secondary indexes (something like table views in classic SQL databases) are updated instantly. But on the real database it's eventually consistent, and it can take a fraction of a second to update.

So when you try to use your service in production, it can start breaking under the load.

Perhaps, we need better mocks that also simulate the behavior of the real services for delays, retries, and so on.
Theoretically, it's like difference between a race car driver and a pit stop mechanic. However, coding & programming are much closer to each other than many other similarly associated occupations. I would go so far as to say that they rely on the same skillset, but different models and approaches. The practical differences between the two roles usually come down to the associated responsibilities attached to a project and the ability to fulfill them.
Brain clocks capture diversity and disparities in aging and dementia
Malware infiltrates Pidgin messenger's official plugin repository
Surely digging a reactor-sized cave a mile below the surface is the exact opposite of "cheap".
In many ways, anybody that leaves an management port open to the internet is to blame. It's not even security 101, it's sysadmin 101.

It's like leaving a BMC open to the internet: these things are built with no security in mind, and can be rooted as soon as they can be connected to.
I mean, EE’s often go and design toys and other little frivolous things that aren’t safety critical. I think we should not pin the Engineer title on something like safety or importance, that is probably why people wanted to be Software Engineers in the first place. Because it sounds important.

Having done the EE curriculum and then gone to program instead (to make my bias apparent), IMO the engineer’s distinction is that they work in a model, the bounds of the model are well known, the model isn’t all of physics, and the model is simplified enough that work can be checked within it. The brilliance of engineering is that you can do productive work, on hard tasks, without being brilliant.
TFA is about the historical distinction, which is absolutely not pointless, and has nothing today with demo scenes or modern self-adopted nomenclature.
Nah. They jumped on a rare opportunity to present themselves as the proponents of the free speech. And surely there is an ulterior motive to gain more control over Durov and Telegram.

Telegram's premier feature are channels and there are multitude of popular ones deeply critical of the Putin's regime (and there are a lot of pro-government or state-controlled ones).

Telegram is de facto the biggest (meta) source with at least a modicum of free speech in Russia.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/N-po_generation
My experience is that a list of employees ordered by (compensation/contribution) is created, sorted highest to lowest. Those nearer the top of the list are most likely to be let go, those lower on the list are most likely to stay. And, contribution != performance. Profitability (margin) and revenue growth of the product and team affect contribution as much as individual performance.
Your modems already have a backdoor. Your wifi password is stored on their servers and modems already will execute arbitrary code through the management interface.
> Coding is one area where AI has been successful.

I have my doubts about this. Do you have actual good data for this? Most devs including streamers like primeagen and others seem to think Devin is a joke.
Makes sense financially!
> the programmer he calls what he does "engineering" which he deems equivalent to what rocket engineers do when they "engineer" a rocket that flies into space, but instead of a rocket it's some website.

Bingo. The (very American) dilution of the title "engineer" has been sad to see.
Not depending on industry specialists that have to retain talent & tools for a 15 year gap in their order books probably helps competing with complex containment structures. They can buy some fairly premium drill bits and still be the lowest bid, if only they can be trusted to promise more realistic service entry date than contemporary "13 years behind schedule" designs.
The general problem with "racism" online is that people tend to use the word for things that they don't like hearing. E.g. there is an issue of some sort, let's say unemployment caused by subsidized temporary foreign workers being brought in to act as wage suppression for corporations. Saying that you have a concern with policy can often result in a response of "that's racist!".

This is a variation of the little boy who cried wolf. If "racism!" is cried for every single little thing that needs discussion, then one day it actually is racism and nobody will be listening.
I disagree with your characterization of why I called the HN crowd, or technology professionals, far right. Having read my God how many comments, articles, tweets etc over the years. I see extremely conservative policy positions. No better example than asking a software engineer, developer VC there opinions on whether "gig" workers should be treated as full time employees with benefits, unionization etc.

The former use technology to do things economically to workers we haven't seen since Upton Sinclair's The Jungle. Like preventing a driver from getting new deliveries if those 10 minutes put him over 1 hour of work. It's robber barron extreme right wing economic policy.
I dislike this proposal. Just like I'm not a fan of $20/hour minimum wage for fast food in California. I don't see why we should hold service workers that get tips, and in California's case, those that work at fast food, above other wage earners.

It feels degenerate that the government is signalling to us that we should e.g. work in fast food and as a waiter over preschools and child care.
interesting. The only thing I was doing was:

import os

import uuid

from elevenlabs import VoiceSettings

from elevenlabs.client import ElevenLabs

running a python script with those inports in the directory. The python script makes a file but it's just a normal ascii name
> like they're the only ones who can cause an industrial accident. But what about Fukushima?

One is an accident, the other is a natural disaster. Most countries don’t have earthquakes and tsunamis, so it’s not relevant.

But more to your point, if we paid fair compensation to everyone harmed by fossil fuels, I doubt would it cost any less.
> The vast majority of the failed projects fail at the planning stage.

This is my experience in 20 years of SWE as well.

The biggest project failure debacles were obvious from the get-go to all the senior ICs on the team. Generally managers were pushing them for "reasons", and in some cases even wink-wink about the fact they too didn't believe in the project but.. "reasons".
FFS people, the title includes the word "historical". TFA is not about the use of these terms today, other than tangentially.

Understanding why there even were two terms is actually quite interesting, and of value for all those pontificating on what they think current use of these terms ought to be.
When we do prompt engineering for humans, we use the term Public Relations.
Teenage Maurice Sendak illustrated his teacher's 1947 pop-sci book
Call it what you like, if you can't distinguish between doctors and quacks then you shouldn't be banning people you think are quacks because you aren't qualified to do so.
Isn't that essentially already the case in the USA? The standard deduction for a single person is $14,600/year and the federal property level is very close to that at $15,060/year.

It's kind-of weird how these levels are set equal nationwide... as there are regions where this is a decent living and one could own a small single family home or condo, an older but reliable car, and eat well on that salary... and places where you would be homeless and have no day to day security or stability required to even keep a job.
Well, you still have to pay the estate tax, but you are probably arguing that is independent as it would need to be paid regardless of the step-up in basis.

Yeah, the real loophole is step-up in basis with no corresponding tax event. What should really happen is that every step-up in basis should correspond to a tax event or, somewhat more speculatively, only net changes in basis should result in tax events. Incidentally, this would also give everybody access to reduced taxes due to unrealized losses (tax loss harvesting) instead of just people with accountants.
Not taxing tips will increase the reliance on them rather than remove it.
* Significant loss of moderation, core contributors and goodwill of power users since 2020 [Monica incident, firing Community Managers, Code of Conduct changes]

* LLMs
I was referring to this:

https://makemusic.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/258438881308...

“Will my software continue to function?

Yes! Your existing authorized Finale installations will continue to work as long as your current computer is working.”

BTW, I did make the mistake of saying ‘forever’ in another comment, but FWIW ‘indefinitely’ doesn’t mean forever. Also, it doesn’t matter what I say, I don’t work for MakeMusic, just read the whole FAQ.
GFNI only does 8-bits and sticks you with a single modulus. But for some reason I'd forgotten it completely, you're totally right to give me a mystified response.

(FWIW, it's possible to project elements from one field to another isomorphic field, though it takes enough operations that for fast code like RS decoding the conversion is probably performance limiting).

For hybrid codes GFNI should be sufficient, though for things like using RS at 16/32 bit sizes it's not.
Further, there is already precedent that this is in fact, a first amendment violation.

The Biden Harris government is guilty of censorship via a third party.
No, for calling someone who doesn't "insane".
Surveillance states and intelligence agencies.

Or maybe a MMO with a town of NPCs.
> ecause bit rot scares me.

Use WinRAR/RAR recovery record for the important things.

There is one site what still mandates 5% RR for the archives because before the ubiquitous HTTPS the trashed in transit archives were the norm.
In some cultures, people "tip" teachers, police officers, doctors, politicians, judges... you know where I'm going with that...

I'm not saying tips should be banned but there certainly is a "cultural aspect" to tipping...
I would, but then I'd have to read comments that peers on this site have decided aren't worth my time, and more often than not they're right.
There was some post about Israel the other day (might have been Google's relationship to Israel or something) where every comment about the war starting last year was highly visible, while every comment about what happened prior to last year was dead.
This is why, after a lot of experimentation, I decided to stick with paper as well. All of the other alternatives bring significant friction and other downsides, with very nearly no benefit to me.
Any reading resources? I’d love to learn better the techniques they’re using to get better parsllelism. The most obvious solution I can imagine is that they’d just try to brute force starting to execute every possible boundary and rely on it either decoding an invalid instruction or late latching the result until it got confirmed that it was a valid instruction boundary. Is that generally the technique or are they doing more than even that? The challenge with this technique of course is that you risk wasting energy & execution units on phantom stuff vs an architecture that didn’t have as much phantomness potential in the first place.
Some context on a user (bigbacaloa) who made one of the dead comments you've referred to elsewhere:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37421874

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37381905
> the dam doesn't bleed radioactive particles into the atmosphere

I would urge you to look at https://xkcd.com/radiation/ and compare the lines:

Living within 50 miles of a nuclear power plant for a year (0.09 µSv)
Living within 50 miles of a coal power plant for a year (0.3 µSv)

https://isnap.nd.edu/assets/255639/radioactivity_lecture_18....

https://inis.iaea.org/collection/NCLCollectionStore/_Public/... (which concludes with "Thus, Malaysia needs to consider the possible future study of radiological impact from airborne routine discharges of coal-fired power plant.")

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S09698... - "Detailed studies on naturally occuring radionuclide emissions due to a 2420 MW coal-fired power plant in Malaysia."

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I'm personally much less worried about the radioactive materials from a uranium nuclear power plant than I am from coal or bad decisions on how to dispose of radioactive waste products.

We'd likely lower our radioactive footprint by completely switching from coal power to uranium.
This seems of a piece with trying to directly address the concerns of those who are opposed to nuclear power. This does not work, because most of those folks actually are not interested in nuclear power at all, and they will never lack for reasons not to do it. This is true of almost anything: It's always pretty easy to come up with reasons not to do something.

Those who oppose will simply keep coming up with new reasons not to do it. They will only accept a reduction in usage. Anything that allows us to maintain our existing level of energy consumption will not be tolerated.
Finally, a job title that I can get behind. Self-directed key puncher.
A coder, as the name literally implies, is essentially a human compiler. We long ago moved to using machines to do the coding, so it's not really a thing people do anymore (certainly not as a profession). The term has stuck around in modern times as a pretentious way to say programmer, but means the same thing in that context.
The key to understand what started in the 70s is obviously the Vietnam War.

The fact remains that nuclear opposition is rooted neither in safety concerns nor in environmental impacts. If you ignore that, you are condemned to always miss the point - which is often happening when people discuss the nuclear question to be fair.

This is not a battle of reason but a confrontation between two incompatible moral frameworks.
Boolean Is Not Your Friend [video]
> Censorship, beyond what’s required by law, is doomed to fail.

The opposite. Online communities can't be healthy without moderation. Cf. Twitter.
I absolutely would. Spending a couple hundred for a class to read through Plato/insert interesting topic here with an expert and a few other interested colleagues is well worth it in my mind. If after a few of those I get a degree to show off I completed this and have some baseline knowledge is worth it. I enjoy school for the most part.
VByte is a weird baseline to compare to: it is a byte-aligned encoding scheme, so it trades off some space efficiency for speed of decoding. The proposed method is bit-aligned, so it should be compared against bit-aligned encoding schemes.

For large integers, it is hard to beat Elias Delta coding [1], which asymptotically uses log(n) + o(log(n)) bits, and in practice it breaks even with most other encoding schemes quite early on.

More importantly, Elias Gamma and Delta are complete, meaning that there is no redundancy (another way to look at it is that any sequence over the alphabet is decodable). VByte is complete over the byte alphabet.
Any complete code is optimal for some integer distribution (see "implied probability" in the Wikipedia page).

So if your integer distribution is heavier on the large integers, there are already plenty of complete encodings to pick from, and almost certainly one that fits well the distribution.

The scheme proposed here, instead, is not complete, as mentioned in the README ("this method does introduce some redundancy, particularly when sequences must be padded to prevent unintentional "101" patterns"), so it cannot be optimal for any distribution.

The Wikipedia page on the Kraft–McMillan inequality [2] explains this in more detail.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elias_delta_coding
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kraft%E2%80%93McMillan_inequal...
Add a server side hook listening for the change

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/36327382/git-precommit-h...
Falling on a Grenade
I think we agree. If hardware was perfect, we wouldn't need ECC in RAMs. The reason to do this is we are poking the walls of compartments here.
It's just Reddit now.
If the comment is not a comment that should be dead, then the shadow-ban is not helping HN.
Easier way is to put a cap on how much you make. Let’s say 70k. Make more you don’t get the exemption prevents the rich from gaming the system.

Also define tips by industry. Service sector. End of story.
Those are different claims, though.
You can't see which users Dan has down-weighed. Their posts are not autodead, but their comments decay rapidly to the bottom of threads.
It’s somewhat more complicated than that (& presumed your hot path is floating point instead of integral), but that can be a consideration.
It's difficult for newcomers to get their answers accepted there, or their questions not closed/merged with irrelevant ones. As a result, the new contributors the site needs to stay relevant are not sticking around, and not replacing anyone who moves on.

And that's something just about every site and community and social media platform has to deal with. People don't stick around forever, and you can't rely on the same old people who've been there for the last decade to keep things going for the next two. So you need new users to get involved and become active, and for that you need a community that's somewhat welcoming to them and their efforts.

Feels like Wikipedia is going down a similar path to StackOverflow as well.
I've seen a video of an African elephant being killed by a mob of people throwing spears at it. From one of those old exploitative Italian documentaries.
Please don't project your own opinions of a staple that people eat sometimes 3 meals a day onto others.

I'll beat your blind taste test everyday of the week just by rolling the rice around in my mouth

EDIT fwiw you can vaguely bucket 1.4 billion people into "eat basmati" 673M+1.4B people into "eat jasmine" and 150M+50M into "eat short grain" rice which is well over a third of the planet
> HAD been a Russian propaganda operation

But it wasn’t.

And everyone who looked the videos of Hunter smoking crack, and his text messages discussing Joe Biden involved in business dealings, and his relationship with his 24yo niece knew it wasn’t “Russian Disinformation”.

It was obviously real, and hidden from everyone in order to influence the election.

It was censorship at request of the government and election interference.

We don’t need the WHAT-IF it wasn’t.