skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's hard to imagine that corruption is a rational, or even irrational, reason to vote in Trump.

And the easiest way to reduce inequality is to raise taxes on the rich, which voters also apparently don't support if they're voting Republican.
I think a better idea would be an NPU with slower memory, or tie it to the system DDR. I don't think consumer inference (possibly even training) applications would need the memory bandwidth offered by GDDR/HBM. Inference on my 7950x is already stupid fast (all things considered).

The deeper problem is that the market for this is probably incredibly niche.
The bigger point here is to ask why they aren't designing that in from the start. Same with AMD. RAM has been stalled and is critical. Start focusing on allowing a lot more of it, even at the cost of performance, and you have a real product. I have a 12GB 3060 as my dev box and the big limiter for it is RAM, not cuda cores. If it had 48GB but the same number of cores then I would be very happy with it, especially if it was power efficient.
> Replacing humans in areas that humans are passionate about, forcing humans to compete with machines, is frankly inhuman

I don't think it's going to "force" anyone out. We didn't suddenly fire all the artists the second that the camera was invented. We didn't stop paying for live concerts the moment that recorded music was available to purchase.

> Machines exist for the pleasure of humans, not the other way around

I am not good at art. I find it pleasurable to be able to generate a picture in a few seconds that I can use for stuff. It allows me to focus on other things that I find fun instead of opening up CorelPainter and spending hours on something that won't look as good as the AI stuff.

I could of course hire someone to do the art for me, but that cost money that I don't really have. The anti-AI people who just parrot "JUST PAY AN ARTIST LOLOLOL!" are dumb if they think that most people just have cash lying around to spend on random bits of custom art.

Last time I checked, I am human. The AI art manages to allow me to enjoy things I wouldn't have been able to easily achieve before.
There are products like this one: https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/products/sku/232592/...

As far as I understand it, it gives you 64 GiB of HBM per socket.
Ah. Got it. You're talking about rigid plastics. Not all plastics are rigid. Polyester and nylon are frequently spun into thin fibers so they are flexible for clothing, and plastic bags are a thing. Plastic lids are frequently flexible so you can actually put them in the container. Rigid plastics are not the only kind that exist.
Is it true that big artists fake numbers? (2022)
110v is a lot less likely to kill you if you do accidentally touch it.
We emailed back and forth several times. CEO was on the thread, was aware of my concerns, chose not to do anything. The result of the back-and-forth was the proposal I shared in the post.
I use a .xyz for my personal domain (I could get my real name as the domain, and it was cheap). I use FastMail for email. Deliverability has been fine, with one exception - Radisson Red hotels. I’ve had two occasions in the last year when I’ve needed to email different Radisson Red properties, and both silently dropped emails from .xyz domains.
aiui this isn't inherently limited by instantiation-time error messages and is available on nightly today with the generic_const_exprs feature. It's in the pipeline.
I'm not aware of that personally, but I believe it. The revisionist history trying to paint Zuckerberg as being manipulated here is so just insulting to reality. Zuck deserves the credit for both driving the decisions between both the successes and the failures that arose here.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6959326

> Scala feels like the Perl of the modern era: there is more than one way to do it. There is value in that mode of thinking, and Perl is a better language than people give it credit for.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2603425

> This actually is one of my frustrations with Scala, too many right ways to do the same thing. Makes it easier to write but harder to read especially when people have drastically differing styles. One of the advantages of Java is how easy it is to read and use someone else's code since the base language is so limited.

---

The question of company dialects for various languages comes up occasionally. You can see it with people talking about having to learn a new LISP (or Scheme) each time they switch to a different company.

I suspect that flexibility is similar to what is seen in perl, ruby, scala, and groovy.

The TMTOWTDI Scala exists... but I want to say that it is more a reflection of the power of the language (drawing from their LISP heritage). It becomes then a question of how much does the company impose a consistent way of doing it within the company (compare the different company dialects).
From Datocms here :) We are also actively experimenting on porting our main app. We are doing progress, so far so good!
The Youth Are 'Lifeless': Economist's Speech Goes Viral in China
https://archive.today/8MJB3
Interestingly this was found by a “hobbyist tiler”, David Smith, who is the first author. He was interviewed on how he found it in this YouTube video: https://youtu.be/4HHUGnHcDQw?si=VsHLqVUdw6ihERg2
I wish more sites offered plain text versions. You can read mine with netcat:

nc apitman.com 2052 <<< /txt/feed
>In the same sense, losing limbs or entire sections of your body (aside from psychological trauma and other psychological consequences) don't affect personality that much

"There aren't any changes except for all of the changes, but those changes don't count because reasons."

I don't know how many amputees you know; you may know many. I was in the army for 10 years during the height of the global war on terror and know more than most. Not a single one is the same as they were pre-amputation. Could be the trauma that caused the amputation, could be the amputation. I'm not an amputationologist.

I do assert that a holo-techno-brain will need a shit-ton of e-drugs to deal with being amputated from its fucking body.

The bacteria in your butthole are a part of you just like your brain, maybe less, but they ARE a part of you.
Do post-tribalists even make enough children for them to survive very long? I'm reminder of the Shakers, a religious group that rejected sexual relations between men and women and were famously celibate. They did adopt children at a rate far higher than non-Shakers, but when the supply of children to adopt dried up, their numbers plummeted. Today, there are only 4 or 5 of them left, and when they die, so too will their ideology/religion. Post-tribalism won't survive either, I think.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shakers
They already do... google $INTC, stare in disbelief in the right side "Financials".

At some point they should make a stand, that's the whole meta-topic of this thread.
That's a great point. Further, there are many sizeable businesses built on top of AWS where they deliver the abstractions with compression that earns them their margin.

Case in point: tell me, from the point of view of the user, how many steps it takes to deploy a NextJS/React ecosystem website with Vercel and with AWS, start to finish.
You can write as many paragraphs of this stuff as you like but I don't think that's going to get people to retain long-term 7-8 figure liabilities on their books. If there's even a notion of a system of "noblesse oblige", everybody has been defecting from it except for King.
They're not exaggerating it. The more things change, the more they stay the same. Nvidia and AMD had the exact same relationship 15 years ago that they do today. The AMD crowd clutching about their better efficiencies, and the Nvidia crowd having grossly superior drivers/firmware/hardware, including unique PhysX stuff that STILL has not been matched since 2012 (remember Planetside 2 or Broderlands 2 physics? Pepperidge Farm Remembers...)

So many billions of dollars and no one is even 1% close to displacing CUDA in any meaningful way. ZULDA is dead. ROCM is a meme, Scale is a meme. Either you use CUDA or you don't do meaningful AI work.
This is a genuinely awful poem, and if you wrote it, you should feel bad.
When was the last time you read a book from the 1960s? Or browsed files from a hard drive from the 90s? I guess the same will happen with brains.
Do you mean on Linux and are those problems with anv? Radv seems to be developed faster these days with anv being slightly more behind.
Some fujifilm cameras support it seedms: https://fujifilm-dsc.com/en/manual/x-h2_connection/overview_.... Overall this seems better suited for tethered shooting with direct usb-c transfer.
Naive question here: wouldn't the upside of keeping this secret and trading on it's output yourself far exceed what you can make in subscriptions?
This is not an ML card... this is a gaming card... Why are you people like this?
Define "a short time." It's been in development for many many years, it didn't pop up out of nowhere like many AI open source tools.

It's solid with good documentation and does what's necessary.
Way too many gotchas with genAI tools.

Slip one of these “David Mayer” esque lines into your candidate assessment tools. Do A/B tests on pass rate and you can probably get a % of how many people use these tools blindly.
Do you think Clarence Thomas would vote against Loving v. Virginia?
They are like s3 buckets, but you write iceberg tables. They will do maintenance for you, make it available in AWS Glue for querying via Athena, etc.

Instead of $23.5/TB/month for normal s3, it's $26.5/TB/month for s3 tables. That's cheap. They charge for compactions and other table services, but are cheap.

AWS have been falling behind Databricks-Snowflake at the higher AI layers, but going low (metaphorically and literally) this puts the cat amongst the pigeons with them. At what point should the competition lawyers look at this?
Markdown supports TOC. Some flavors at least.
I think they have plenty of competition in the cloud computing space. It seems fair to say that their strategy of de-prioritizing UI/UX in favor of getting features out the door more quickly and cheaply has benefitted them.

However, I don't think it's fair to say that this trade-off always wins out. Rather, they've carved out their own ecological niche and, for now, they're exploiting it well.
Because they can’t
Ask HN: Customizations to Firecracker/Gvisor?
Those who are using Firecracker or Gvisor, what are your use cases? Have you made (or would like to make) any customizations?
So, I've seen Bredo Morstoel, the Frozen Dead Guy of Nederland, Colorado[0]. The 'tour' you could go on was ... something. But, at the end, we were asked to help keep Bredo frozen and helped pile on dry ice. So, they had to open the sarcophagus and get the CO2 in there.

And, yeah...

Bredo looks like Otzi the ice man [1]. He's just a dead body, there's no saving him, he's gone.

It was a good lesson in any thoughts I ever may have had about cryopreservation. Unless you pay someone a LOT of money, for a very long time, and somehow manage to get them to actually really truly care about you, you are just having a really strange and long funeral.

Good excuse for a party though. Those dead salmon tossers are something else.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frozen_Dead_Guy_Days

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%96tzi
It's possible that the capture wasn't taken at the exact same frame, or that the state of the light isn't deterministic in the benchmark.
I have been trying to hold my slurs in reading this thread.

These ML AI Macbook people are legit insane.

Desktops and gaming is ugly and complex to them (because lego is hard and macbook look nice unga bunga), yet it is a mass market Intel wants to move in on.

People here complain because Intel is not making a cheap GPU to "make AI" on when that's a market of maybe 1000 people.

This Intel card is perfect for an esports gaming machine running CS2, Valorant, Rocket Leauge and casual or older games like The Sims, GoG games etc. Market of 1 million + right there, CS2 alone is 1mil people playing everyday. Not people grinding leetcode on their macs. Every real developer has a desktop, epyc cpu, giga ram and a nice GPU for downtime and run a real OS like Linux or even Windows (yes majority of devs run Windows)
In theory if you had an atomic replicator you should be able to make a copy of a person. I'm not saying it will ever be practically possible. But I don't see any fundamental laws of nature that make it impossible.
I think licensing becomes a bigger issue if you try to run a radio station on YouTube with any commercial music. Even if you're OK from all copyright perspectives and fully-licensed, YouTube's copyright system is really easy to abuse.

What should be a good deal more cost-effective is an old-fashioned, Icecast/Shoutcast/Azuracast-based internet radio station.
> There's nothing astro does that NextJs can't.

That's exactly the Turing tarpit argument.
100% this -- we tried to work with JG to create and support a Markdown standard when we formalized "GitHub flavored Markdown" and got the exact opposite reaction many of us expected. Even using the name in any context was seen as a slight.

More context:

https://github.blog/engineering/user-experience/a-formal-spe...

https://github.github.com/gfm/
I would probably get a concentrated dose of existential dread knowing that by EOD I would cease to exist. Usually I'm able to delay that dread with the silly reasoning that I still have many years left before I die, but I wouldn't have that mind hack if I knew I had no time left.
Sure - but it could still be pretty relevant if we want to ask about the future of beverage making and consumption, especially if new technology enables everybody to mass-produce lemonade (and similar sugary beverages) at home at minimal cost.

I'm quite sympathetic to poetry - I actually wrote a blog post about this article last week https://gallant.dev/posts/whither-poetry/

But much like the "debate" between linguistic prescriptivism ("'beg the question' doesn't mean 'raise the question'") and descriptivism ("language is how it is used"), both perspectives have relevance, and neither are really responses to the other.

I certainly hope people keep writing great, human, poetry. But generative ML is a systemic change to creative output in general. Poetry just happens to be in some ways simplest for the LLMs, but other art is tokens and patterns as well.
Not really HTML2. Almost all current UI engines uses an xml variant, and they have a much lower number of components and a simpler foundation. And they provide you with a easy-to-use 2d context when you need to do custom components. What we need are better primitives for web applications. And separated from the web as documents.
"Obviously I wouldn't trade Spotify for it" pretty much sums the whole thing up.
If only we had something like automated calculating machines which can query a library of tax dats and calculate the amount through arithmetic and then display it.
On one hand, I wonder if a gradual transition would work. Spend enough time over the years mirroring your conscious patterns onto a computational substrate, and they might get used to the lay of the land, the loss of old senses and the appearance of new ones. There might not be an ultimate "stepping in", but something like you might be able to outlive you, on a substrate that it feels happy and comfortable on.

On the other hand, the idea of "simulating your consciousness" raises questions beyond just cognition or personality. A mechanistically perfect simulation of your brain might not be conscious at all. Spooky stuff.
Ask HN: Best Lessons from Technical Postmortems?
From "Learning from Accidents" (Trevor Kletz):

> Keep a 'black book' or 'memory book' in each control room, a folder of reports on accidents that have occurred. Do not include falls and bruises, but only accidents of technical interest, and include accidents from other plants.

Are there outstanding technical postmortems with good general lessons for software engineers?

Esp. interested in

- Incidents with software products (we all know Challenger)
- Incidents written up officially and publicly
- Fun reads
Out of curiosity, do you hand-code or do you use a tool like Bootstrap Studio?
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In Boston the college radio stations are a lovely and weird respite from the Cumulus and Iheart scourge.

Weirdly enough Canada seems to have better and less grating radio, anecdotal from my experience in BC.
I get the point, but I think the most self-consistent answer is that your conscious experience has a 100% chance of staying in the original body. (And similarly for destroy-and-remake teleporters.)
Control and freedom. You can use unharmonious models and hacks to existing models, also latency, you can actually use AI for a lot more applications when it is running locally.
Because Apple isn't playing the same game as everyone else. They have the money and clout to buy out TSMCs bleeding-edge processes and leave everyone else with the scraps, and their silicon is only sold in machines with extremely fat margins that can easily absorb the BOM cost of making huge chips on the most expensive processes money can buy.
The price for those is now $200 and $170.
The TPU is not a GPU nor is it commercially available. It is a chip optimized around a limited featureset with a limited software layer on top of it. It's an impressive demonstration on Google's behalf to be sure, but it's also not a shot across the bow at Nvidia's business. Nvidia has the TSMC relations, a refined and complex streaming multiprocessor architecture and actual software support their customers can go use today. TPUs haven't quite taken over like people anticipated anyways.

I don't personally think CUDA is impossible to replace - but I do think that everyone capable of replacing CUDA has been ignoring it recently. Nvidia's role as the GPGPU compute people is secure for the foreseeable future. Apple wants to design simpler GPUs, AMD wants to design cheaper GPUs, and Intel wants to pretend like they can compete with AMD. Every stakeholder with the capacity to turn this ship around is pretending like Nvidia doesn't exist and whistling until they go away.
Lol https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27039628
That all makes sense. But let's run with this way beyond the foreseeable tech. What if you can replace each neuron in situ one by one up to X%. Then what if it was reversible (the neurons were initially just bypassed, commented out). Someone could then dial it up to 5%.. 50% and if they still felt the same throughout and then went up to 100%. In that scenario would they have copied themselves?

I find it fascinatingly coincidental that neurons are the only cells in the body that don't rejuvenate unless there is some sort of injury [0].

[0]: https://www.dzne.de/en/im-fokus/meldungen/2021/neurons-able-...
They missed a big opportunity by not offering eu-hosted versions.

Thats a big thing for complience. All LLM-providers reserve the right to save (up to 30days) and inspect/check prompts for their own complience.

However, this means that company data is potentionally sotred out-of-cloud. This is already problematic, even more so when the storage location is outside the EU.
> I wouldn't trade Spotify for it, but I'd still be sad to see it go.

Compared to that. Or listening to any Youtube or podcast instead of listening to the radio station hosts prattle on instead of playing the next track.

Nostalgia for radio is like nostalgia for the winter I worked at a cozy cafe at age 17: I have some good memories and every once in a while when I'm stressed at work I yearn for those simpler times... but there's a reason why I will never go back. No need to glorify it just because of some fading attachment to the yesteryears.
Green spaces provide substantial but unequal urban cooling globally
Yeah, I don't buy the theory either. Markdown has always made it easy to just drop in a bit of HTML wherever you need it, and major dialects like Pandoc Markdown support even more. You can set class, ID, and data-attributes on most elements, such as links, or write any div/span placeholder you need natively. (I don't even bother to use the native syntax because writing a '<div class="foo">bar</div>' is so easy.) What 'rich' features is that impeding?

I can say that on my website, which is certainly 'richer' than most Markdown-oriented websites, we scarcely ever think about Markdown as a limitation to implementing a feature. Nor was it a serious hindrance at any point. There have been issues, sure, but pretty much never do we tear our hair out going, 'how can we possibly implement transclusion properly, when the source is written in Markdown rather than Asciidoc??? Woe is us!' That's just not a thing.

When we have issues, it's almost always related to something about the Pandoc internal API design choices (essentially unrelated to any syntactic sugar and would be equally true if we were starting from a different input type) or the sheer difficulty of implementing anything well & reliably cross-platform/device/mode. The Markdown part of our discussions usually boils down to a debate over the naming of a class. Because setting the class on whatever element is a non-problem, already solved, and we move on to the real challenges to adding a rich feature.

To whatever extent his imaginary gap exists in reality, I would bet it has far more to do with dynamics around websites which happen to use Markdown, like trying to cater to the lowest-common denominator and banning HTML fragments, and stuff like that.
Lazygit patches are a great way to do this. You can interactively select lines from commits to “pull out” making them easy to form new commits with. Takes some getting used to, but it is the exact flow you are talking about.

https://github.com/jesseduffield/lazygit?tab=readme-ov-file#...

Oh you edited to say drag and drop. Lazygit is a TUI and patches are very much keyboard driven. Still worth thinking about? It’s free!
Because you can't stack that much ram on a GPU without sufficient channels to do so. You could probably do 64GB on GDDR6 but you can't do 128GB on GDDR6 without more memory channels. 2GB per chip per channel is the current limit for GDDR6 this is why HBM was invented.

It is why you can only see GPUs with 24GB of memory at the moment.

HBM2 can handle 64GB ( 4 x 8GB Stack ) ( Total capacity 128GB )

HBM3 can handle 192GB ( 4 x 24GB Stack ) ( Total capacity 384GB )

You can not do this with GDDR6.
What if we did what others suggested was the practical limit - 48GB. Then just put 2-3 cards in the system and maybe had a little bridge over a separate bus for them to communicate?
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I’m not saying it’s practical right now, but yea the death of Perl is the only thing that can make it profitable.
With Mullvad, privacy and anonymization are the goal and with Kagi it is more of a side effect. As such, using email for accounts makes the most sense because it is the default way of doing things and the lowest lift.
It's the only thing that matters. Folks act like AMD support is there because suddenly you can run the most basic LLM workload. Try doing anything actually interesting (i.e, try running anything cool in the mechanistic interoperability or representation/attention engineer world) with AMD and suddenly everything broken, nothing works, and you have to spend millions worth of AI engineer developer time to try to salvage a working solution.

Or you can just buy Nvidia.