skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Zen 6 is supposed to add FP16 AVX512 support if AMD’s leaked slides mean what I think they mean. Here is a link to a screenshot of the leaked slides MLID published:

https://overclockers.ru/st/legacy/blog/428111/424644_O.jpg

I have been working on doing inference on a Ryzen 7 5800X lately and I have had good results:

https://github.com/ryao/llama3.c/blob/master/run.c

Running on a GPU like my 3090 Ti will likely outperform it by two orders of magnitude, but I have managed to push the needle slightly on the state of the art performance for prompt processing on my CPU. I suspect an additional 15% improvement is possible, but I do not expect to be able to realize it. In any case, it is an active R&D project that I am doing to learn how these things work.

Finally to answer your question, I have no good answers for you (or more specifically, answers that I like). I have been trying to think of ways to do fast local inference on high end models cost effectively for months. So far, I have nothing to show for it aside from my R&D into CPU llama 3 inference since none of my ideas are able to bring hardware costs needed for llama 3.1 405B below $10,000 with performance at an acceptable level. My idea of an acceptable performance level is 10 tokens per second for token generation and 4000 tokens per second for prompt processing, although perhaps lower prompt processing performance is acceptable with prompt caching.
Do you find that vegetarians, the religious, and people that are mindful about littering frequently take vocal pride in being "free thinkers"?
That would be really cool, let's chat!

Can you email me brandon [at] outerbase [dot] com?
If you believe that PiS doesn't have a strong base to count on, you're naive.

All it takes is another term of pain, and they'll be back.

Case in point, America. A former president who by all counts should have lost the election a year ago, was literally begging on Truth Social for donations, facing numerous criminal trials and convictions, just retook the hot seat.
Uniffi for React Native: Rust-Powered Turbo Modules
"React Native apps rely on a single JavaScript thread, which can slow things down when handling complex tasks. Developers have traditionally worked around this by writing code twice – once for iOS and once for Android – or by using C++, which can be difficult to manage. Uniffi for React Native offers a better solution by enabling developers to offload heavy tasks to Rust, which is now easy to integrate with React Native."
It's a good question. I think the fact that it's a state-funded institute lends credence to the idea that Chinese are collectively responsible. Also, it feeds into paranoias around secretive biological warfare and Chinese desire for world domination.
Software Architecture with Grady Booch
Is it only in the software fields that people who 'They work enough to get the job done, but typically no further' are coasters? Someone who gets their job should be an excellent employee.
“Find some way to present the data so the bigger number is actually worse”

PPP is cope.
I guess you mean UnReal World (and Finns).

I see Errka has recently released "Ancient Savo", which looks somewhat like a rewrite of URW:

https://enormous-elk.itch.io/ancient-savo

Here he is celebrating the release.

https://www.enormouselk.com/sites/default/files/styles/w730/...
Please dive into the literature on inequality. You will discover that inequality in itself is problematic.
Are you saying that for people making median level of income, the US is a horrible place to live compared to the rest of the world?

As someone who was able to experience both perspectives (immigrated to the US and became a citizen) I cannot agree at all with this statement.
“may not need any to have options”. I hope you’re right, but hoping the EU continues to prosper over the next 20-30 years is not what i’d call a plan. The future is unpredictable.
This nested loops microbenchmark only measures in-loop integer division optimizations on ARM64 - there are division fault handling differences which are ARM64 specific which introduce significant variance between compilers of comparable capability.

On x86_64 I expect the numbers would have been much closer and within measurement error. The top half is within 0.5-0.59s - there really isn't much you can do inside such a loop, almost nothing happens there.

As Isaac pointed out in a sibling comment - it's best to pick specific microbenchmarks, a selection of languages and implementations that interest you and dissect those - it will tell you much more.
I think they just hate tech and AI and post every article they can find critical of those
[dupe]

Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42317968
Could someone give me a quick run down on what Astro is good for please? Looking at the website it seems to cater heavily towards "marketing sites, blogs, e-commerce websites". I'm wondering if this is reflected in the design and dev experience or if it could be used for "generic" websites too.
Framework's AMD laptops open sourced their Embedded Controller, which is neat as hell on its own. The ability to significantly modify your platform is sooo enticing & interesting, is such a system-below-all-systems to really enable some amazing tinkering. https://community.frame.work/t/open-source-ec-for-amd-based-...

Wish it had Bluetooth or wifi of it's own. It'd be awesome to build a remote controlled laptop!

Super notable, the Embedded Controller runs Linux Project's Zephyr. Love to see it! Not just an open source platform, an open source platform based around an absolutely top of class embedded OS.
Yes, that's the essence of social contract theory. Which, it should be noted, is a historical falsehood, in that we're pretty sure no ancient tribe ever really started with people sitting down and saying "It is mutually beneficial if we curb our violent inclinations for the safety and security of blah blah blah"... but is a useful shorthand for the observed notion "A government lasts only as long as it provides a better alternative to picking up a 2x4 and settling your own scores for most people who support it."

"You rule because they believe," in essence.

(This is why, historically, you'll often see societies keep their pattern of government until, say, famine comes along. Because if you're going to starve to death, the likely outcome calculus on picking up a 2x4 starts to change drastically and quickly).
Amazon invested in Anthropic using billions in AWS credit and I guess it would be covered in contract that some percent of the credit could be used only for this chip.
True, my comment was ignoring the fact that America's per-capita GDP is higher even after controlling for PPP. People can move for a lot of reasons. Having a much more transparent and predictable justice system is also one of them. For instance, my money would go a lot further in Russia, but then I'd have to live in Russia.

But the point stands that market-exchange GDP matters more when it comes to comparing the relative strength of countries, rather than individuals, since it endows the government with greater purchasing strength. An era of trade wars might test this theory, but the ramifications of absolute isolationism would be far more complex than that.
Congratulations on the launch! This looks like a really powerful framework.

One trend I’ve noticed is there’s a really heavy focus on pre-deploy tests which makes a lot of sense. But one big gap is the lack of ability to surface the scenarios that you don’t know are even occurring after deployment. These are the scenarios that human agents are great at handling and ai agents often fall flat: in a sales context that can have a direct impact on a customers bottom line.

I think rather than attempting to deploy a perfect agent, having a mechanism to surface issues would lend much more peace of mind when launching ai voice agents. Would be happy to chat more if additional context/real world examples would be helpful. Congratulations again on the launch!

Background: have worked on contact center unstructured analytics for several years.
I don't think most Americans perceive health insurance organizations as evil, nor do they condense the fault to a specific person (like the CEO). Maybe the entire system is at fault, but individual greed isn't a major failing, it's virtually expected.

On the internet, all conversations about health care will garner comments mocking the US system, but as a resident it's not like we have a lot of choices.
OP was ignoring the point and basically implied the reason banks have issues hiring these days is because they're banks. While in the past they didn't have these issues. Why? Because tech stack matters for a lot of people.
Yeah maybe if you abide by a god given ideology where you cannot question the distribution of resources with respect to one's relation to the productive organs of an economy on a microscopic level and instead only focus on re-distributive tax policies or reorganization of the political super-structure on a macroscopic level, without interrogating the underlying mechanisms.
For posterity, what's the current ballpark? I enjoyed that when I looked for it I found his comments from 2013 on HN talking about it.
> This particular article points to housing supply. Again, this is a simple choice. For example, my city of Portland, which is very high on this list, makes it impossible to build anything (tree planting requirements, years long waits for final premits, rent control, urban growth boundary, high tax state gov't, etc). It's terrible. At the end of the day though, Portlanders are Americans and will experience the same outcomes should the state just be normal

That isn't a democrat problem, indeed the unwillingness to build new things is, by definition, a conservative tendency to "leave neighborhoods as they are".

Historically Seattle's city council was full of "conservative democrats" who didn't rock the boat much and who worked well with local businesses. The city council may be willing to build bathrooms for any gender, but no way in hell are they willing to rezone "historic" neighborhoods. However they've had no qualms about building large amounts of shelters in minority neighborhoods, devastating many of them. Likewise the police don't bother shutting down open air drug markets in Chinatown, but I'm pretty sure if a few dozen dealers and several hundred customers congregated on Queen Anne the crowd wouldn't last long.

Show me a republican candidate who is willing to run on the platform of "extreme property rights, get rid of all zoning except for heavy industry, do whatever you want on your land." The reality is outside of a few places in Texas, republican controlled cities are just as heavily restricted and zoned as democrat controlled cities.
It’s not so much synthetic bodies as synthetic brains. Once we can move into thermodynamic neural systems or something similar in effect, -anything- can be a body. You could be a spaceship, or a power plant, or an anthropoid robot. I would imagine that one would need enough sensory diversity to keep from going mad,
But I would imagine that corporeal flexibility would be one of the major perks.
Nietzsche is a very interesting example since there is a very obvious shift in his philosophy from The Birth of Tragedy to, say, The Gay Science. I understand the argument that the style of writing noticeably changes, and I'd be okay attributing that to "automated writing," but a lot of the shift in Nietzsche's work feels like a pretty drastic shift in ideology. I'm not convinced that shift entirely, or even largely, comes from the shift in medium.
I'm confused... Are you saying the future value of the copyright is priced into the retail sales price of the book and/or % of that paid back to the author (or their estate) as royalties?
You seem to think TV companies wont show ads on non-idle TVs but people have already seen their TVs used to show ads while playing console games or watching movies on bluray

As long as people keep paying for ad infested products the ads will get more annoying, aggressive, and invasive until people stop
Email seems like a no-go here. It would feel like spam. If you wanted a something more conversational, I'd consider doing this over text messages.
Is the bridge something that was necessary to translate framework API from one language to another?

The rest being handled by pure translationnof language constructs?
When first appproaching a "Big Ball of Mud" architecture, figuring out its weak components is not a bad place to start.
this is economist-brained and about the same as using CPI as the only measure of inflation.

They are models.
Claude 3.5 Haiku on AWS Trainium2 and Model Distillation in Amazon Bedrock
> So you haven't read Aristotle, you've read about Aristotle.

Incorrect. It's just easier to explain why the teeth thing is wrong than to explain why, for example, Aristotelian ethics is an ex-post-facto justification for slavery.

> It's a stack of hundred dollar bills just sitting on the sidewalk, which you can pick up any time you want.

If we're exchanging rhetorical blows instead of any sort of logic, then I'll note that when you pick the bills up they have Jesus' face on them instead of Benjamin Franklin's, and the back is religious proselytizing. It's a good idea to pick it up, but only so that you can dispose of the litter properly.

> If you'd rather feel superior to someone from the ancient world, because you were taught things he didn't know (and own none of that insight yourself), rather than gittin gud, that's up to you.

Nice ad hominem, but I don't feel superior to him. In his situation I likely would have made many of the same mistakes, in addition to a few mistakes all my own. That doesn't mean we need to pretend they weren't mistakes.

I'm less concerned with the ownership of ideas and more concerned with whether those ideas are true and/or useful. The fact that Aristotle was given very little foundational knowledge on which to build his ideas is all the more reason to ignore his foundation-less ideas.

> You can lead a horse to water but you can't make him drink.

How confident are you that you aren't the horse in this metaphor?
Senators say the Department of Defense is failing to secure its communications [pdf]
Our healthcare system, to the extent that it was intentionally designed at all, implicitly prioritizes consumer choice and immediate access over cost efficiency. While there are certainly gaps in access and affordability, the typical middle-class voter can still get elective care quickly from a variety of local providers. Most other developed countries have longer queues or certain services are less available. We also subsidize drug development costs for the rest of the world. Whether those are good reasons for paying more is a matter of opinion.

Of course there's also a certain amount of waste, fraud, and abuse that inflate our costs.

https://peterattiamd.com/saumsutaria/
Seems somewhat likely to me. They probably even trained a model to do both frame generation and upscaling to allow the hardware to work more efficiently while being able to predict the future based on user input (to reduce perceived latency). Seems like Genie is just that but extrapolated much further.
Some of the most loyal and connected colleagues I've had have been autists. I have a lot in my family so there's probably some amount of "safe person" vibes I give off, but in my experience, many autists realize the value of someone they can feel comfortable talking to and confiding in that can comfortably navigate social situations and professional communication. Lots of "I just don't understand why they reacted like that-- what's your take?" kind of conversations. Most of these folks have been younger than me, though, so there could well be some other cultural factor at play: some way that young people are getting different experiences/skills/comfort levels now, or maybe their interaction style/strategy will change as they get older?
The same thing can happen in the US- People may be able to get a job, but it will then prevent them from receiving any aid that may still be needed.
Does this lower the protection iCloud offers ?

Currently you need to use biometric or password to access your keys.

If you use the extension will it make a copy of the passwords locally, or does it still require biometric on every password access ?

Also would be nice to have logs and see exactly which passwords re being retrieved by the add on. I know it’s apple made but still feels like an extra vector.
Over time I have become more and more skeptical of Harberger taxes, which I first encountered somewhere in the works of Heinlein.

The idea is that you are taxed based on your own estimate of the value of a thing, with the estimate being public and binding as a sale price.

This sounds incredibly simple, with a natural mechanism of enforcement; if you undervalue a thing to pay lower taxes then you risk losing it at that price.

But I don't think this would work in reality. Pricing things is super hard. In a very liquid market it is difficult but doable, in an illiquid market (of one non-fungible asset) it is practically impossible. At what cadence do you update the estimate? How long is it binding for? If the value suddenly changes, how long a grace period do you have before you have to update the price?

You can try to patch this by saying that you have a right of first refusal -- that if someone offers to buy the asset at the price then you can accept their valuation as the new estimate of the price, and pay taxes going forward on the new value.

But then this defeats the point of the process because effectively the valuation is non-binding. So you have to put in all sorts of structures to prevent abuse -- maybe levy fines for past underpayment when the pricing is adjusted, or limit the number of re-pricings per time period.

And it incentivizes nuisance bidders, because owners will defend their property. So you have to put in restrictions like forcing escrow before the sale, or limiting bidding by a single entity.

Not to mention the difficulty in maintaining this registry of ownership of these assets, along with how to deal with more complicated deals about the rights involved -- film rights vs. tv rights vs. print rights, rights to individual characters, temporary licenses, etc., and all of that needs to be mechanized to allow a certain fixed list of the types of rights that can be granted, which right now is as extensive as a contract can contain -- if Sherlock Holmes were still in copyright, what if I just wanted to license Watson or make a film about Moriarty?

This is all just hopeless technocratic pie-in-the-sky dreaming.
Nobody’s asking for a “handout”.

Money is power. Elon Musk would be a cringe lord if he wasn’t rich. But because he’s rich he gets to play government.

That’s the point of taxation. It’s not to fund anything. The government doesn’t need your money to fund anything.
More discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42317968
You can save your house in a medical bankruptcy.
We are dependent on imports, and that's a good thing, but it doesn't mean we can't influence how they are created.

> TVs, phones, computers, household appliances and automobiles (both foreign and domestic) are filled with imported components. Even half of our food is imported.

TVs: don't need 'em

Phones: arguably necessary, but are also great vectors for our foes (cough I mean economic partners) to spy on us

Computers: ditto

Household appliances: all suck anyway and break a day after their warranty expires

Automobiles: Massively overused

Food: Huge problem, but OTOH we throw away at least a third of all the food we buy anyway. Lots of room for optimization, so maybe we can live with more expensive Takis.

So I sort-of see where you're coming from, and I also understand that if we're to progress as a species (which honestly nobody has given me a viable reason why we should) we all need to come together and share a world economy, at least to some degree.

But what nobody has said is why we, the richest and most powerful country in the world must rely on other countries' slaves to get 'er done. We do have influence here, and we can use our clout to buy slavery-free products.

One answer nobody has given is that the U.S. itself employs slavery today, right now, and nobody cares because the slaves are criminals.[1] [2]

We've had our share of economic upheavals in the 250 odd years we've been here. We can survive those even if it means a radical change in lifestyle. But if the real reason is that we're just a species that enslaves then let's just admit it.

[1] https://www.aclu.org/news/human-rights/captive-labor-exploit...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penal_labor_in_the_United_Stat...
I would have thought so. But on the other hand, it seems to me like there is a lot more appreciation on the part of EU for laws to be enforced more in spirit than in letter. That might not be a good legal environment for businesses.
Global Robot Density in Factories Doubled in Seven Years
I believe that's consistent with the author's "coaster" description. "They work enough to get the job done" which is sometimes very little, but can sometimes be a lot if that's what's necessary.

They're also a good source of slack -- "They’re also good for teams that have a lot of last-minute requests or questions". Coasters can do more work when that's what's needed. OTOH, a grinder always working at 100% can never give more.
Part 2: https://hntrbrk.com/plug-power-failure-part-ii-is-plug-the-n...
I have lived in Europe all my life. I cannot name a single person I know, nor anyone that they know, that has ever been remotely affected by Islamic terrorism.

I can however name a hundred other things that affect most of their lives daily like inflation, racism, corruption of both the media and political organs by corporate interests, degrading of public infrastructure and institutions that are not aimed at churning out a profit, declining quality of the education system to systemic stress imposed on teachers, etc.
Yes, that's what I meant with pure Dart. I've created cli's with it and a little api-only server.
> Dreams aren't continuous throughout sleep

What do you base this assertion on?

> so this seems pretty irrelevant to whether there's a discontinuity in the first place

Have you proven there is one? Or are you just saying "sleep is really weird so that must be a 'conscious discontinuity.'" I'm pointing out the obvious flaws in this logic.

> you're just saying there may be multiple during a given night's sleep.

No, you're saying that, and I'm asking you to define it.
IMO this will be the differentiating feature for the next generation of video game consoles (or the one after that, if we’re due for an imminent PS6/Xbox2 refresh). They can afford to design their own custom TPU-style chip in partnership with AMD/Nvidia and put enough memory on it to run the smaller models. Games will ship with their own fine tuned models for their game world, possibly multiple to handle conversation and world building, inflating download sizes even more.

I think fully conversational games (voice to voice) with dynamic story lines are only a decade or two away, pending a minor breakthrough in model distillation techniques or consumer inference hardware. Unlike self driving cars or AGI the technology seems to be there, it’s just so new no one has tried it. It’ll be really interesting to see how game designers and writers will wrangle this technology without compromising fun. They’ll probably have to have a full agentic pipeline with artificial play testers running 24/7 just to figure out the new “bugspace”.

Can’t wait to see what Nintendo does, but that’s probably going to take a decade.
Companies like Lockheed are rather famous for blowing time and budget estimates in spectacular fashion. I don't know if the engineers are to blame but not necessarily a great example.
There is an XML feed for the hourly forecast, essentially an API...

https://forecast.weather.gov/MapClick.php?lat=38.579&lon=-90...
There is no such thing as unlimited immigration