skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A unit based on the average size of the human foot is not "weird".
Babbage is wrong!

He is answering what a computation engine will do, but not what a "wise" person would do, which is the _the_ test of AI.

The goal of wisdom (and good teaching) is to first correct the faulty assumptions of the questioner that leads them to ask a bad question, and then once they ask a good question, then and _only_ then, provide the answer to the question.
nothing to do with DRM

we can just copy a regulatory regime seen in other industries: non-compliant offerings are outright illegal and anyone trading in it can be sanctioned outright, while compliant offerings have this feature set.

the feature set can have a standardized way of tracking provenance, which the user can look at and revoke its compliance if desired, by signing a cryptographic signature that produces the expected address that approved consent to begin with. the same address's public key would be used for royalty payment. there are many examples of this working in standardized ways in some networks.
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did you see this https://x.com/devinjacoviello/status/1862495554628198738
Since the brightness seems to be the issue, the only way I his makes sense to me is:

The US limits the brightness to X, the EU limits the brightness to Y, and Y > X.

Porsche could just make every car globally use X, but they’re a luxury brand so they probably try to use Y where they can, even if it is a bit of work to differentiate between markets.
> I’m more frustrated that Debian has such a stranglehold on packaging decisions and it effectively refuses to experiment or innovate on that in any way.

What Debian has is not a "stranglehold" but an ideology, and Debian continues to matter to (some) upstream projects because lots of users identify with Debian's hyperconservative, noncommercial ideology.

Your complaint is basically, "it's too bad that the userbase not sharing my values is large enough to matter".
what index types does it support?
> Stop making reactive decisions. If something bad happened on a total, extremely unlikely lark, don't act like it's going to happen again next week

I hate this, like when there's an outage and the outcome is 100 half baked ideas that must be implemented, that just make things worse to work with
Is it even certain he was fired vs just deciding to retire? I understand how it may look like he was fired, but this article is all predicated on something that might not have happened.
I love it! I'm going to show this to my 6 yo tonight. I know for a fact she'll enjoy it.
> There are buyers who would essentially like a cheaper VMware clone today. But I'm not at all convinced that's a good business model for a company like Red Hat to invest in going forward.

Yes, they're buyers stuck in the past. If RH can bring them on and take them on a modernisation journey, it could be very lucrative (even if very time consuming).
Western society (or at least USA society) seems to me to foster the idea of "not my responsibility". My example would be, going to a fast food place and not cleaning your table even though there are trashcans and places to put your tray. Spilling something and not even attempting to clean up after yourself.

Unions have this in spades. "My job is X, I don't do Y, in fact I'm not allowed to do Y as that takes a job away from whoever is supposed to do Y"
That's why I hate things like auto-rotating image/news carosels or Windows "live tiles". Having them manually triggered is fine but a) I may be half-way through reading a headline; and b) if I'm reading something off to the side it draws my eye for a moment, disrupting my workflow.
Yeah I completely agree that a lot of structures work actively against this. Lot easier for me to write a bullet point about it than actually implement it at a company with an existing way of doing things. And I think it's almost impossible to implement from the bottom up, as it often requires some real process (and culture) changes.
A new home for Python-build-standalone
There is currently literally 1 comment disagreeing with some of the points in the article.

Are you saying you wouldn't want to work with anyone that agrees with the points in the article? If so, it would be interesting to hear your thoughts.
Omg this is amazing And hilarious and he should keep making games. I love that it’s both a silly fantasy game and math. Well done.
Not just police... the NSA as well.

https://www.cnn.com/2024/01/26/tech/the-nsa-buys-americans-i...
Was an interesting discussion, but lost me with the sort of pointless Musk bashing near the end.

I remember back in the late 90's and early 2000's it was similarly cool to bash anything related to Microsoft.

I spent a good bit of time writing a lengthy comment on slashdot about "Why to code". It was fairly poignant and well-received, except at the end of it I took a low effort pot-shot at Microsoft - because it was cool to do at the time.

Someone replied and (rightly) called me out on it. Why muddle an otherwise interesting talk / piece with a cheap, drive-by swipe?

That was nearly twenty years ago, but let's call this comment me paying it back (if the author reads HN).
Yeah, I'm facepalming on that one. Thanks!
I have 15 year old vehicles. I listen to the radio in all the cars I drive as does my spouse. The receivers in our vehicles are too old to have Carplay and with the removal of the audio jack in phones there's no way to connect them to the audio system. We do have one vehicle that can stream over Bluetooth but it can be a hassle and distracting in traffic so we usually only use it on road trips. Locally it's easier to turn on the radio and use presets (you can feel them!) to change the channel when it gets annoying. It just works mostly.
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Maybe some kind EE can explain here why they want this.

As I understand it, their is a limit to how much solar they want on the grid because they want to keep it stable. The solar follows the voltage (ie, syncs with the phase) or an inertial generator, which is a coal fired power plant or synchronous condenser. I'm guessing if there spinning iron there is nothing to follow, and the grid becomes unstable [0]. So they don't want solar forcing all inertial generation off the grid.

But, don't home solar inverters shut down once the grid voltage exceeds some threshold? In which case, they will remove themselves automatically if there is too much generation. So why do they want to add a manual override as well?

[0] That's a wild guess. The counter argument to that is these inertial governors are "just" analogue computers communicating through the grid to agree on what the phase / frequency should be. Solar inverters are also controlled by computers. Yes, they are digital computers not analogue, but today's digital computer any emulate any analogue system - including spinning armatures weighing many tons. The answer is probably "we don't trust the programmers to get the simulation right". I'm a programmer, and neither would I. But it's not hard to test and certify.
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I love them, discovered when I lived in Seattle. Now I've got a crazy little one WJOP-LP but some of the DJs play local little bands and more obscure artists. Must be a teaching/training type thing.
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Soil microbiomes show consistent and predictable responses to extreme events
>This data really is awful because the subjects aren't interested in reading difficult poetry.

If the results were the opposite, would the data still be awful?
It was the first api library I encountered that was built on/for Python3 optional types and Pydantic, which really gave it a lever for generating schema and validation from a model class and It Just Worked. It also supported async, and there was tooling around it early for shoving it into a lambda function. Well written and well documented, and well abstracted (Starlette, Strawberry etc).

I had spent the last 5-10 years building Django and django-rest-framework applications, and the amount of yak shaving with Serializers and Viewsets was really annoying. Bonus points to FastAPI is it didn’t try to own every layer, by providing an ORM like Django, which is great for a small app or if you really really love Django, but as we scaled and had to cascade every field change through seventeen layers from Table to Template it became a real burden. Not all djangos fault of course.

FastAPI was a breath of fresh air, somewhere between Django and Flask on modern kit. I was able to PoC something fairly complicated that ran on serverless components in a weekend. Its still running in production years later.
Hey - I totally get the single-threaded CPU fixation, but it's such a narrow slice of what matters in computing today. We really need to look at the whole picture: power draw, heat output, physical space, AND speed. Cherry-picking just one metric doesn't tell you much.

The biggest compute demands right now are all about GPU power, especially with the AI boom. And Intel... well, take a look at those DirectCompute benchmarks. You'll need to scroll past 100+ other cards before you even see them listed (https://www.videocardbenchmark.net/directCompute.html).
They make great CPUs, no doubt, but they've got some serious catching up to do in the GPU space if they want to stay relevant in today's parallel processing world.
Which part do you think is wrong? Are there not Wagner mercenaries in Africa? Is Russia not working with Iran? Were Russian operatives not caught sabotaging infrastructure abroad?
I would like to see action against car makers like Honda and Subaru and Ford for selling location data from the car’s GPS
That's hilariously evil turning it into a maths game.

Be fun to add some music to this.
That's exactly what I'm saying. If you've got something novel/hard to replicate, it's a no-brainer for them to pick up at any price. If not, that's good to know too.

Btw, Coca-Cola bought Minute Maid Lemonaide in 1960. :)
There are plenty of cultural institutions in the modern world that are basically run as a charity. I think the elite understand this just fine they just don't view some random rock radio station as a cultural institution.
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>So are the US and EU both saying that each other's way is wrong and too dangerous?

Real life disagreements on minor technicalities between competing bureaucracies are not zero sum or conducted in breathless hand wringing internet rhetoric. It's more like a disagreement on a FOSS mailing list.
> Splitting the model up between several GPUs would add a third much worse bottleneck – memory bandwidth between the GPUs.

What if you allowed the system to only have a shared memory between every neighboring pair of GPUs?

Would that make sense for an LLM?
Love it.

In terms of constructive feedback: I would like to know when the various weapons are "charged." It doesn't seem like we can tell from looking.

Also it might be interesting to see what question the opponent is working on and what his answer is.
Yeah. And all the time spent on those 100 half baked ideas take away from time that could be spent working on the most likely cause of the next outage. (Real forward-looking risk reduction work.)
If you put in work only to the extend that it's fun, then it is probably something with very clearly delineated scope (kudos for sticking to that!) or not really one of the projects that are so critical that companies should be expected to chip in money for support.
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> instead of just vaccinating them.

Cost. And the low likelihood of the bat actually carrying the virus.

> But while it is essential for survival, the first treatment alone can cost more than $15,000 in D.C., leaving patients with unexpected bills and medical debt.

https://wamu.org/story/22/04/14/dc-rabies-treatment-cost/
It's too slow and not very compatible. Most BIOSes also don't allow sharing that much memory with GPU (max like 16GB).
I have a question for you, since I’m somewhat entering the HPC world. In the EU the EuroHPC-JU is building what they call AI factories, afaict these are just batch processing (Slurm I think) clusters with GPUs in the nodes. So I wonder where you’d place those cards of cards. Are you saying there is another, perhaps better ways to use massive amounts of these cards? Or is that still in the “super powerful workstation” domain? Thanx in advance.
There isn't one correct way to do anything.

Engineering is about making tradeoffs and then you're entirely in the realm of communication. You can pretend otherwise but you'll be wrong and all of the decisions will be made without or around you.
Deprecating "legacy APIs", from the perspective of the API users, _is_ breaking core functionality. Functionality that existed previously is now gone, that is a breaking change.

Additionally, bumping a major version because a dependency changed isn't a common practice to my knowledge. In fact I'd say it's incorrect. You bump a major version if _your_ API has breaking changes. If one of your dependencies changed but you've adapted in a way that is transparent to your users, that is a patch not a major.
Is there a video of the talk somewhere ?

I prefer recording over slides.
Or even using the top as a kind of progress marker so you know where you are (or just reading from the middle of the page) only for the text to turn grey as you read it.
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Sadly, content negotiation has fallen out of favor
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This is a good example of Dunning-Kruger, no offense. Sentiment analysis has been used as a tool to guide investments since the late 90s and there are companies out there who have been doing it for decades. LLMs didn't really break any new ground here, they just made this more accessible for the masses.
The memory controller would be bigger, and the cost would be higher, but not radically higher. It would be an attractive product for local inference even at triple the current price and the development expense would be 100% justified if it helped Intel get any kind of foothold in the ML market.
P.S.: Some evidence in opposition to this "shrinking" theory might be the history of life on Earth: In general, both life and intelligence have been breaking new ground via larger and more-complicated systems.

This is especially true if you relax "intelligence" into something more like "computation." For example, your immune system is in a long-running cryptographic (or at least combinatoric) struggle against most other nanobots on the planet, not just in terms of inherited traits, but also during your own lifetime.

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He actually says it is a counter-example of “does one thing well”.
He'd hopefully make a better Maine themed Sven from Swiss Cottage.
Are these Lina Khan’s final days?
So yeah, it needs to use a headful browser, and I’m not able to do that for now. It’s too much work for a POC, but really good case at least I learned something :) thank you again
Yeah I can see the benefit of pandas for those reading the code. I think they learnt from kdb that both backwards and forwards was needed. Kdb had to create a new aj0 function. But your point is valid that kdb may be over optimising for first writing code.
Arguably 1440p is the sweet spot for gaming, but I love 4k monitors for the extra text sharpness. Fortunately DLSS and FSR upscaling are pretty good these days. At 4k, quality-mode upscaling gives you a native render resolution about 1440p, with image quality a little better and performance a little worse.

It’s a great way to have my cake and eat it too.
AMD GPUs aren't very attractive to ML folks because they don't outshine Nvidia in any single aspect. Blasting lots of RAM onto a GPU would make it attractive immediately with lots of attention from devs occupied with more interesting things.
Mostly, I think, we don’t really understand your argument that Intel couldn’t easily replicate the parts needed only for inference.
Is there documentation for how you calculate the Risk Score?
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Weird that the article frames the chips as “ Powered by Austin’s Annapurna”. It does say further down that Annapurna was an acquired Israeli company. But I wonder if the framing and emphasis on an American location is meant to avoid antitrust scrutiny from the new administration.
This seems a bit extreme. Chemotherapy and its effects can be a very temporary thing, and your quality of life can go back to normal after you've finished your course and the cancer has gone into remission. Certainly there are aggressive cancers where you'd be fighting a painful battle of attrition, but there are many cancers where prognoses are good, and quality of life once treatment is done is more or less the same as before. A blanket personal ban on chemo is reckless and shortsighted.

The prohibition against amputation and sensory organ removal is a bit nuts too. You'd rather die than have someone remove one of your eyes or ears, or say a hand or arm or foot or leg? That is profoundly sad, and intensely insulting to anyone who has had to deal with that sort of thing and has nonetheless lived a full, rich life.

I get that many medical interventions do actually have a terrible, permanent effect on quality of life, but these seem like pretty extreme views that ignore reality.
Very interesting. What camera/lens/lightbox did you use and around what DPI you achieve?
Yeah, I was having the same issue. I couldn't tell why the weapon was not charged up. But sometimes on the second click it would work.

But well done!
My 2024 pet peeve is people exposing their illiteracy to me by using "nx" (n = a number) as a verb...

"to 2x" = "to double"

"to 5x" = "to quintuple".

Just noticed his blog's tagline... I think terrible grammar is poor UX too. =]
> even operated by people who have no clue how the underlying mechanism functions are still far more empowered than anything like the primitives of the 80s enabled.

I'm still not convinced about that. All the """studies""" show 30-60% boost in productivity but clearly this doesn't translate to anything meaningful in real life because no industry laid off 30-60% of their workforce and no industry progressed anywhere close to 30% since chat gpt was released.

It's been released a whole 24 months ago, remember the talks about freeing us from work and curing cancer... Even investments funds which are the biggest suckers for anything profitable are more and more doubtful
Let's do it :)
How does something like this scale for more than 10 people? 100? 1000?
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It's when an administration that thinks that any and all regulations are job-killing and burdensome takes power, with a Congress and SCOTUS to match.
Is it? Every solution has some advantages, switching between them is relatively easy (especially if you can tolerate some writing downtime), and IMO it's not that confusing if you have at least some experience in the space.

Otherwise if you're just staring from scratch, I'd pick provisioned aurora if your load is steady and serverless v2 if not. Then IO optimized if the db doesn't fit into memory and non-IO-optimized until it does.