skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I’m surprised not to see fused multiply-add here:

FMA(x,y,z) ~ x += y*z

You see it all over the place in numerical computing and deep learning.
TSMC (and AMSL) are the bleeding edge of semiconductor manufacturing. There's a long tail of other semiconductor manufacturers that don't operate at that bleeding edge.
Why Companies Are Ditching the Cloud: The Rise of Cloud Repatriation
a water test is the only reliable way to know if the lead pipe to your house is a problem. typically they get coated internally, and barring water acidity levels a la Flint, there is no leaching.

But either way, testing the water itself will give you the real story.
Does this mean it runs faster or better on multiple GPUs?
Good, related thread on where the MLB gets most of their infield dirt from: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40619311
The hyperloop lives on as a 1/12th scale model in Switzerland
Americans have been getting richer and richer according to most recent studies. At the same time, other socialist countries are getting, on average, poorer. I think you may be confusing social inequality with overall wealth.
Relevant well water map: PFAS Testing

https://mdh.maps.arcgis.com/apps/MapSeries/index.html?appid=...
Fred Wilson – Former Lawyers
Ea loves using generic systems across all their games. When poking around at Madden I found they have a common backend called blaze that has generic web and tcp endpoints. We built out a tool to call these endpoints (having to upload xml) and only later found out that every time we made the call it was crashing their servers but since we were grabbing a new server each request we were crashing all of their madden servers one by one. They ended up building an API to discourage people poking around
The Biggest Clue That the Supreme Court Has Lost Touch with Reality
Our house was built in 1931, when they didn't pay attention to that sort of thing. The District has long since replaced the mains, and now household can get the pipes replaced at the city's cost.

People do tend to stay in air conditioning in late summer.
drawio and its vscode plugin supports the same
aka Mullvad, wich got raided by the police, if you know you know, if you don't, well, you don't
Definitely not trained on Nvidia or AMD GPUs.
> A "Professional Engineer" is just a Bachelors level engineer who took one extra test

At least for mechanical, it's 4 years' working experience, documentation of sufficiently advanced projects, and sign-off from 3 other registered professional engineers who are familiar with your work.

A guy I worked with took the mechanical design variant. I don't know how the HVAC variant is. The test is over the most advanced stuff you learn in your degree; the "specialist" portion of the test (what your concentration is in, e.g., HVAC, thermal/fluids, or machine design and materials) is ~25 questions and you have 4 hours to complete it, in addition to the other 4 hour comprehensive portion that's the same for all takers.

On top of that, to keep your license, you need to complete some amount of classroom education every year.

As far as coursework goes, the coursework for some of my upper-level mech E classes was usually identical to a graduate-level course, the only difference being graduate students do a research paper+experiment for a final exam and undergrads do a traditional written exam since they had access to funding and we did not.

imo this comment is dismissive and glosses way too heavily over the rigor that goes into even the "lowliest" of engineering programs.
Heh, now they have two yields to worry about. What's stopping them from doing this with the various commercial-off-the-shelf system-on-a-chips?
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Location: Niagara Falls, Ontario, Canada.

Remote: Yes, open to remote, hybrid or in office.

Willing to relocate: Yes.

Technologies: JavaScript/TypeScript, React, HTML, CSS/SASS, MYSQL, Firebase, Azure, C, Python, Node, Express, Storybook/Chromatic, Pub/Sub, NoSQL, Material UI, Next.

Resume/CV: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1NfRxILJO7wqj4SX_W85SgYK3...
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Email: keeganbond123@gmail.com

I have a YOE working as a Founding Software Engineer at the startup company mfg.parts. I was the Frontend team lead developing the vast majority of our web application.
If your looking for a young eager junior engineer with startup experience, reach out!
Forest Service says it's showing signs of decline due to "... a lack of regeneration, along with insects and disease."

https://www.fs.usda.gov/detail/fishlake/home/?cid=STELPRDB53...
I think they are referring to the author of the article losing their job because they weren't focused on AI:

> the Dean of my college told me...that I should look for long-term academic employment elsewhere. My research and practice was not centered enough on “AI” and “emerging technology” to fit within the institution...
But that would have required spending money. And why would the engineers be liable? They weren't being paid to fix it.
> and there's no long term entanglements.

Well, except for our crippling lifelong dependency on index funds.
How do you know this?

Apparently 20% of Nvidia's quarterly revenue is booked in Singapore where shell companies divert product to China:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42048065
There isn’t a point. It is useless security theatre for those who do not understand how tor works.
> . As long as you don't copy text/images/svg, the only issue is going to be "trade dress" infringement since CSS styles are not copyrightable. (not a lawyer so this isn't legal advice)

I am not lawyer as well, but this is highly unlikely true.

It is like saying that C syntax is not copyrightable so I can took their code.
What matters is the end result; what did you do with it? And particularly, is monetary gain involved? If you use tools like this to replicate innovative design, and you don't have permission to use it, it is much more complicated. Especially, if you use that in commercial setting.
What sort of tests are available?
You're sort of right but for the wrong reasons. Early withdrawal penalty is not the only problem.

People only need to crack open the piggy bank when shit hits the fan. During those times (layoffs, etc.), the value of what's in the pig is probably depressed to begin with. So your hypothetical scenario is actually worse than you're suggesting, since you pay a 10% penalty on depreciated holdings.

If you legit need the 401k money, they do allow some circumstances for hardship withdrawal penalty free. You just have a higher tax liability that year.

But yes, don't use your 401k for general savings. Depending on your credit you are better off taking out a loan against it.
Reminds me of in 2004-2005, I had my typical Hotmail account with 4MB storage, but Microsoft was rolling out a free upgrade for everyone to 250MB. For some reason they were taking an incredibly long time with my account, and I emailed support several times over a year or two about it. Each time they assured me that Microsoft was upgrading accounts as fast as they could, but it was just such a big job that it took years.

Eventually I read on a forum somewhere[1] that you could partly trick the system by temporarily closing your account and re-opening it, which got you a slightly larger 25MB. But still not the promised 250.

All this 2-4MB for existing accounts, 25MB for new accounts, and years-long rollout to 250MB gave the impression that finding spare storage was a huge struggle for Microsoft. Then a few months later they were having to compete with Gmail and they decided that everyone should get 2GB, which was rolled out to every Hotmail account including mine all at once! I can only assume aliens landed and delivered a UFO full of hard drives.

[1] Here's an example of an old forum post about the trick - complete with reply praising the brand new GMail: https://bimmersport.co.nz/topic/5232-hotmail-upgrade-2mb-to-...
The problem with naming the language "go" is that my initial interpretation of your comment was to think that "go look" was a valgrind-esque tool for finding such things.

Too bad it's not.
Your choices were "this guy doesn't know what if means" "he's lying / trolling" or "it wasn't clear". I understand as a fellow human why you went with A, but, beyond that, not quite what I'm used to on HN, for obvious reasons.
In Tarski's axiomatization of plane geometry, there's a betweenness triadic relationship, Bxyz, point y is between x and z.
The readme mentioned H20 GPUs. Nvidia's "China compatible" card (41% Fewer Cores & 28% Lower Performance Versus Top Hopper H100 Config)
Check out paragraph 3 of the Discussion section.
Not open source. Even if we accept model weights as source code, which is highly dubious, this clearly violates clauses 5 and 6 of the Open Source Definition. It discriminates between users (clause 5) by refusing to grant any rights to users in the European Union, and it discriminates between uses (clause 6) by requiring agreement to an Acceptable Use Policy.

EDIT: The HN title was changed, which previously made the claim. But as HN user swyx pointed out, Tencent is also claiming this is open source, e.g.: "The currently unveiled Hunyuan-Large (Hunyuan-MoE-A52B) model is the largest open-source Transformer-based MoE model in the industry".
At least bugfix versions could have kept Enum behavior the same. Postponing breaking changes until the next minor version. Some Enum features work differently (incompatible) in Python 3.11.x versions.
Struggling to compare it to k8s but maybe that's just my lack of knowledge on k8s.

However, to the general HN crowd my question is what would be the correct abstraction for something that wants to replace k8s to make one think that this new abstraction is simple enough.

In my naive understanding, I would think that if I don't have to think beyond a docker-compose.yml that would be the right level of simple. To clarify, locally I work with the docker compose file to bring up my services, and I should be able to just deploy it to AWS for example.
> But American cops were just born bad and are taught only to shoot the black people

Black people have lower chances to be shot during a police interaction than White people.
401k is taxed at the time of withdrawal, but that's usually at a lower tax bracket.

500k in income 1 year is ~$162k in income tax.

500k in income split across 2 years is $68.5k each year totalling $137k.

It's not massive but it's still a decent chunk of taxes people can avoid.
In a such large corpo no one gives a shit about it. It's just a job, to get a paycheck. They all are expendable resources, why to be invested emotionally into the job?
> This crate is in development, and breaking changes may be made up until a 1.0 release.

When will this happen? I imagine a lot of people who want use it might just forget about it if you say "do not use this until some unspecified point in the future".
Show HN: Add human approval layer to monitor and guide LLM agents in production
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In the past month, I have been building Phantasm. Phantasm offers toolkits to create a human approval layer for AI agents which allows teams to monitor and guide the workflow of their AI agent in real-time. It is fully open-source and comes with a server and a custom web-based dashboard.

I built this because I was working with a team building AI-powered CRM with a feature to update a deal data based on a sales call automatically using LLM. We received feedback that the result was not satisfying which lead us spending weeks to build similar system internally.

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this seems really....inefficent

Inefficiency is probably why the company is employing people to do the work.

Estimating is exactly the practice of obtaining prices for material and labor contained within a bill of materials. The more accurate the information, the more accurate the estimate.

Efficiency is only a result of meaningful experience doing tasks inefficiently but correctly.

On the other hand, if the company is an ongoing concern, it has institutional knowledge and practices and vendor relationships. That is where you should start because whatever HN tells you is not what your boss will expect of you.

Give yourself time to learn and have a beginner’s mind. There are complex considerations that you simply don’t know (vendor relationships and the CEO’s expectations for example). Good luck.
> I have a feeling it may be extremely hard to prosecute for something more substantial than a fine low enough for a french exec have it a as a guaranteed expense

I know nothing about French law, but this whole thing gives me “organised crime” vibes. In many jurisdictions the punishment dramatically increases when a crime is commited as an organised group whose purpose is to commit said crime. As i said i know nothing about French law so i don’t know if the same concept is present there, let alone if the letter of the law would fit the situation.

But yeah i agree with you they won’t care unless they are sitting in a cell with the chance of sitting a lot more in a cell.
Also, you might want to create a hash table from a million values in a column, so you can use this for a join.
A younger me was not so bright. At the time I needed the few extra bucks and retirement seemed a lifetime away; I had all the time in the world to make up for it.

Years later I got a mortgage and learned what compound interest is.

I'd been underfunding for most of my career. You overestimate collective intelligence.
No. But you said "searchable", and it has a search bar, and it works pretty well. Actually better, because the filters ("from:user", "in:channel-name", "has:image", etc.) sometimes work better than google's filters (Discord's are simply logic-based, no AI to screw things up).
Sarcasm is a valid theory.
that's not the argument I responded to. They asked "why shouldn't I (let them do the thing)". If they were going to do it regardless, there would be no need for them to ask for money.
Mozilla Foundation lays off 30% staff, drops advocacy division
>I suppose you can summarize their positions as the right is in favor of self-determination, whereas the left appears to prefer to let others determine their fate.

I mean, no I really don't summarize it that way at all.

>Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition, to wit: There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect

Is a better, but much more politically charged saying.

Moreso, self determination is more of a libertarian thing rather than right directly.
I think there's a pretty big difference between committing to semantic versioning and saying "do not use this until some unspecified point in the future." Maybe I'm just not clear enough in the note - I just mean that the API could change. But as long as a consumer doesn't use `version = "*"` in their Cargo.toml, breaking changes will always be opt-in and builds won't start failing if I release something with a big API change.
This appears to be the indictment:

https://www.justice.gov/usao-dc/media/1352191/dl (pdf)

Some related coverage:

https://arstechnica.com/security/2024/05/arizona-woman-accus... ("Arizona woman accused of helping North Koreans get remote IT jobs at 300 companies")
How to hire the best talent with scalar interviews
I’m not sure what you’re asking here.

If big tech are rational actors—and I see no reason to believe otherwise—then they must have compelling reasons to think that their future growth of AI data centers can’t be met by renewables alone.

At least not cost effectively. Why?

It’s not proof that renewables aren’t enough but it’s compelling enough evidence to investigate further.

Finally: I also don’t know who “most of us” is; who do you believe you speak for?
Not strange at all. The company basically wants the PIP employee gone but puts them on a plan instead of firing immediately, so that they aren't sued. But its bad for the company having someone on a PIP who is liable to be disgruntled and poisoning the well. A PEP gets the employee out so they can't do damage.
Etching your own PCBs has been a common electronics hobbyist activity for 50 years or more. Un-etched one-layer and two-layer PCBs were a standard stock item at every Radio Shack. Local electronics stores stock ferric chloride etchant.
> Imagine if I had to contact an independent committee before I could... ignore your comment...

I can imagine an orange when we're talking apples, sure.

> We can already see that the New York Times Tech Guild does not seem to want careful application of these rules if their website doesn't even mention any evaluation of worker productivity or value, all their study apparently did was to look at pay difference without looking at work difference.

Come on, it's an adversarial negotiation. You seem to really want to argue the side of the employer, and for some strange reason seem also want everyone to argue that side as well.
(postgre)sql has lots of quirky stuff that kinda qualifies. For example

substring ( string text [ FROM start integer ] [ FOR count integer ] ) → text

at a glance you might think that as just a normal function call, but the arguments do not follow the regular function call argument syntax, instead it has this special sauce ternary syntax.
What is the reason for restrictions in the EU? Is it due to some EU regulations?
Sure, but that doesn't preclude crappy government tax policy having an impact on markets.

Consumption and supply is not fixed and taxes aren't a free lunch.
We accept it culturally as we have driven away the narrative of labor having an equitable stake in the economy. That much is clear.

I'm not a fan of the status quo. Things should change.
Sure, maybe it’s selfish, but so is voting. That’s not a sin.

Voting someone into office is inherently about electing them into a position of power. Generally that means voters are going to prefer someone who is aligned with their interests. If you examine a ballot and determine that that is no one running, then it is fine to draw the conclusion that you would prefer to skip this election.

Voting also has consequences. If your world view is not developed enough to determine who that person would be, it is also fine to wait until you’re older before you begin voting in elections. Elections are recurring, it isn’t necessary to vote in every single one of them, and on every single item on the ballot until you have an interest in doing so.
What you can do with tiny (1B/3B) LLMs in a local RAG system?
the paper with details: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2411.02265

They use

- 16 experts, of which one is activated per token

- 1 shared expert that is always active

in summary that makes around 52B active parameters per token instead of the 405B of LLama3.1.
You can still scale up the Power Game/Noita mindset to larger games, with pretty good results. Teardown is a very fun current-gen title that combines physics and voxels to create a sort of fully physical world to interact with: https://youtu.be/SDfWDB1hGWc

There's still a ways to go, but I don't really think AI will be required if game engine pipelines extend PBR to destruction physics. The biggest bottleneck is frankly the performance hit it would entail, and the dynamic lighting that is inherently required.
yes, and cheating in tournaments get you thrown in jail
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Central DC often empties out when the legislature is in recess. It's a great time to visit because the restaurants are empty and the hotels are cheaper.
For decode steps it depends on the number of inputs you run at a time. If your batch size is 1 then it runs in line with active params, then as you get to like batch size 8 it runs in line with all params, then as you increase to 128ish it runs like the active params again.

For the context encode it’s always close to as fast as a model with a similar number of active params.

For running on your own the issue is going to be fitting all the params on your gpu. If you’re loading off disk anyways this will be faster but if this forces you to put stuff on disk it will be much slower.
> Actual Windows 9x machines were sluggish, took forever to boot, and constantly froze up or crashed.

And now, kids, we are looking at the typicalest personal bias.

Things were different those times and you could had a stable platform (for weeks) with a carefully selected components or have a BSOD shitshow running a cheapest soundcard on some chinesium PSU.

Do your personal experience translate to everyone's?
I am amazed that I somehow didn't use the word arity once in the email.

That said, I don't believe I'm using the terms unary and binary wrong. "Unary" historically meant "a math operation that takes one parameter" and "binary" meant "operation that takes two". An algebraic group, for example, is defined as a set and a binary operation that follows certain properties.

arity is a way of generalizing unary/binary to arbitrary parameters. It is equally correct to say that `+` is a binary operation and to say that it is a 2-arity operator. It's like how "nth power" generalizes "square" and "cube": "9 cubed" is the same as "9³".
> Some Enum features work differently (incompatible) in Python 3.11.x versions.

I wasn't aware of that, that's actually insane. It's odd to me that it took so long to get f-strings and Enums right in Python, I assumed those would be pretty easy language features to implement.
Discussion (29 points, 16 days ago, 8 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41895928
> Territory” shall mean the worldwide territory, excluding the territory of the European Union.

Anyone have some background on this?
This looks like a very similar project to "Diffusion Models Are Real-Time Game Engines"[1] that circulated on HN a few months ago [2], which was playing DOOM. There's some pretty interesting commentary on that post that might also apply to this.

I'd like to do a deeper dive into the two approaches, but on a surface level one interesting note is Oasis specifically mentions using a use-specific ASIC (presumably for inference?):

> When Etched's transformer ASIC, Sohu, is released, we can run models like Oasis in 4K.

[1] https://gamengen.github.io/

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41375548
Ah, to live in a world where people say what they mean and mean what they say
Polymarket paid US social media influencers for election content
>Ticketmaster’s Terms state they may be changed without notice and changes apply retroactively.

This is a really strange thing, because to me a Swede, that means that whatever has been signed is not a contract at all and is, well, who knows what.

To me a contract is an agreement. If it is not specific, then it is not a contract at all, and if it's changeable, then it's very obviously not a contract at all.

I've heard of more of this kind stuff with US healthcare, although I'm not sure I even want to understand the ideas there, but when people start messing up the basics of laws, refusing to rule that things which are obviously not contracts at all are not, or accepting other weirdness, then they start destroying the law itself, because people will try to build on these things and it'll become a completely arbitrary mess, where almost anything is suddenly allowed. I don't understand how US lawyers etc. could make this. One would imagine they'd want contract law to be a thing, but apparently not.