skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Star Trek's lore includes some technobabble about transporters operating in "quantum" mode to assuage concerns that the person at the transporter destination is not the same as at the source.
quiet, Dean
I'm not sure if hosting it in the EU will do any good for Amazon, there's still the US CLOUD Act: It doesn't really matter where the data is located.
Agreed, my focus is on data released during trading hours, intentionally or inadvertently.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ag14Ao_xO4c

EDIT: To those suggesting extended hours trading, check out what the order book looks like and who the market maker is.

https://www.finra.org/investors/insights/extended-hours-trad...
I build Vacuum tube audio amplifiers, mostly Push-Pull class A's with EL84s. This is next level. Absolutely awesome!!
Related. Others?

The Last Viridian Note (2008) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33674735 - Nov 2022 (5 comments)

Bruce Sterling: The Last Viridian Note - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=383591 - Dec 2008 (1 comment)
On other hand considering Geforce is 3rd loop of base 10 maybe it is not so bad...
Radeon is on other hand a pure absolute mess... Going back same 20 years.

I kinda like the idea of Intel.
Make life easier and carry a Super 8! I dread to think what it’d cost to get that developed though.
How about not watching tv
Got to shout out to VueScan for making obsolete scanners usable on modern operating systems. It's not free, but is reasonably priced. If you can physically connect your scanner (scsi2usb is an exercise left to the reader), then it's likely to let you use it.
The part about intentional team values is very good:

• Digs ditches. Nobody is too good for any task.
• Returns shopping carts (even if nobody's watching). We leave things better than we found them.

It's amazing how most teams don't set norms/values at all!
Localised bans are possible. Those threaten not only present userbase and revenue, but open up niches for alternatives favoured by that logal regime to become established.

Weibo would be a prime example of that last dynamic, in China.
Yes, but you can still trade pre-market and after-hours.
Also, cooling.
> Isn't it insane to think that rendering triangles for the visuals in games has gotten so demanding that we need an artificially intelligent system embedded in our graphics cards to paint pixels that look like high definition geometry?

That's not _quite_ how temporal upscaling work in practice. It's more of a blend between existing pixels, not generating entire pixels from scratch.

The technique has existed since before ML upscalers became common. It's just turned out that ML is really good at determining how much to blend by each frame, compared to hand written and tweaked per-game heuristics.

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For some history, DLSS 1 _did_ try and generate pixels entirely from scratch each frame. Needless to say, the quality was crap, and that was after a very expensive and time consuming process to train the model for each individual game (and forget about using it as you develop the game; imagine having to retrain the AI model as you implement the graphics).

DLSS 2 moved to having the model predict blend weights fed into an existing TAAU pipeline, which is much more generalizable and has way better quality.
you can trade post hours
Your trading way after the fact in some cases.
You are misunderstanding. 1080p, 1440p, 2160p refer to the number of rows of pixels, and those terms come from broadcast television and computing (the p is progressive, vs i for interlaced). 4k, 2k refer to the number of columns of pixels, and those terms come from cinema and visual effects (and originally means 4096 and 2048 pixels wide). That means 1920×1080 is both 2k and 1080p, 2560×1440 is both 2.5k and 1440p, and 3840×2160 is both 4k and 2160p.
Maybe it's because I code Python professionally, or because I use an autoformatter (ormolu) for Haskell, but I have literally never had an issue with the indentation rules.
I threw a towel to it and moved it outside. It got pretty stuck to the towel so I left it in the garden.
Interestingly, the thoughts on boosters have shifted a lot and the recommendation to receive every ten years may soon be dropped, since the vaccine is considered to have a longer effect than originally thought.

Since Clostridium tetani is anaerobic and in fact can't survive in the presence of oxygen, a lot of the things people suspect could give it to them likely can't. Unless you cut yourself while digging it's pretty unlikely you've been exposed to tetani.

And not to downplay your fears too much, but untreated tetanus is ~7% fatal versus 99.9% with rabies.
In the short term economic growth is largely zero sum. China's rise is due in part to its separation from the West, while Europe's stagnation is largely due to its interconnectedness with America. Money and smart people in Europe easily come to America.
Part of personality lives inside of our stomachs as well, apparently, and so much of who were are is driven by our interaction with our nerve endings. I think even with a perfect copy of consciousness, it's pointless without a perfect copy of our bodies as well.

I think that AGI, when and if we ever reach that stage of technological innovation, will enable us to live in a utopian world where our bodies are impervious to biological defects or age and we have little to no reliance on food and water — where we can control all aspects of how we feel with a slider, or a thought.

Like the Lotus-eaters from Homer's Odyssey, some alien tribe will eventually show up and decide we're imperiled instead of living a perfect life in blissful stasis, and kill us to stop whatever afflicts us from spreading to them.

Anyway, I don't want the brain preservation thing, thank you.
Really resonated with this, reminded me of the journey I went on over the course of my dev career. By the end, my advice for every manager was roughly:

* Don't add process just for the sake of it. Only add it if seriously needed.

* Require ownership all the way to prod and beyond, no matter the role. (Turns out people tend to really like that.)

* 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.

* Resist the urge to build walls between people/teams/departments. Instead, build a culture of collaboration (Hard and squishy and difficult to scale? Yup. Worth it? Absolutely.)

* Never forget your team is full of actual humans.
HBM is kind of not fair lol. But 4096-line bus is gonna have more bandwidth than any competitor.

It's pretty expensive though.

The 500GB/sec number is for a more ordinary GPU like the B580 Battlemage in the $250ish price range. Obviously the $2000ish 4090 will be better, but I don't expect the typical consumer to be using those.
No embedding endpoints?
> I don't have business documentations (some of them require that)

There are some exceptions, but registering a business is not difficult in most of the world. It's one of the more common government interactions.

No one is going to let you take credit card payments without some sort of assurance you're a real business. Fraud is common, and it costs them money when it happens.
I'm the person who originally called out the response. The issue I had with it was related to the "Implying a joke should not be made", but one step further. It's this common pattern I feel like has popped up in the last 10 years with social media that I find really annoying and manipulative.

The person in the post was implying that the joke shouldn't be made because some theoretical person somewhere might be offended by it. They aren't saying they're offended by it because most people don't care if they offend some random person on the internet. Instead they try to find a group that is disadvantaged and frame their offense at the joke as a attempt to protect that group. They're trying to create a scenario where either you agree with them or you're punching down. It's manipulative and gross and it's become such a staple of social media debates that I don't even think people realize when they do that.

I would actually have no problem if that person said, "I think it's offensive to make jokes about Enron and you shouldn't do that", but that isn't what they did. They're essentially trying to guilt trip people into agreeing with their opinion.
It doesn't really remove the discretion within the executive branch agencies. They still have to do some level of interpretation of what Congress really wanted.

Removal of Chevron effectively means a judge then gets to second-guess that interpretation. Previously, they were supposed to defer to the SMEs in the executive.
There is zero advocacy for systemic change here, just lecturing individuals to adopt solutions that only present themselves as choices to the privileged, to say nothing about the gobbledygook about 'guarding your psyche' by 'abstaining' from viewing ads. None of this sounds like leftism, just liberal idealism. Not especially bold to know what one is talking about, but thx.
There's no real problem here. Infinity - Infinity is not 0; it's probably best to simply call it Infinity as well.

[ok] 1. Infinity + 1 == Infinity + 2

[ok] 2. Infinity + 1 - Infinity == Infinity + 2 - Infinity

[wrong] 3a. 1 == 2 (assumes Infinity - Infinity == 0, which is false)

[ok] 3b. Infinity == Infinity

So starting from Infinity + 1 == Infinity + 2 gets you nowhere interesting.

And that quote is a great example of what I hate about
every pop-sci treatment of mathematics:

> Because infinity in mathematics isn't actually a number, it's a direction

Any time someone says "actually, in mathematics, ..." they're talking out of their ass. No matter what comes after, there is a different system of math that makes their statement false. There are plenty of branches of mathematics that are perfectly happy with infinity being a "number", not a "direction". What even is a "number" anyway?
Yeah, I find the need to live forever kind of.. juvenile? You can’t let go of your ego for long enough to realise that at some point it’s better to make room for a new human with new perspectives and new ideas?

I like to think of it this way: if life was a game would you want to play the same character forever? No.. if you’re gonna keep playing the game it’s more interesting to start from scratch now and then. I don’t believe in reincarnation. There’s no need to. What you really are deep down is an instance of humanity. Almost all your genes and all your culture comes from and is shared with other humans. Any new instance (new human) is you playing a new character, essentially. If you’ve contributed to shaping the world you’re leaving behind this is even more true.

Unless you’re believe in a soul in the christian/jewish/muslim sense I guess, but then why would you fear death?

IMO the pursuit of immortality is far more dangerous and far more likely to kill humanity than AI. At least it may make us deteriorate to insignificance. Humanity is a super organism and we have a name for the phenomenon where parts of an organism figures out how to die and yet still replicates: cancer
diago is getting traction and one of topic is mostly I see integrating with third API like LLM, STT, TTS to achieve New AI VOIP agents.
This is due to reason you need control streams outcome and without it things are more complex.
It's not that Angular isn't cool, it's not productive and very cumbersome.
Rxjs gets in the way and ngrx has too much boilerplate.
It's for large teams and companies that can afford to move slowly.
CCD is an analysis, not a development method.
Typically, you won't be able to make any trades for hours after the info is released anyway.
$1,961.19: H13SSL-N Motherboard And EPYC 9334 QS CPU + DDR5 4*128GB 2666MHZ REG ECC RAM Server motherboard kit

https://www.aliexpress.us/item/3256807766813460.html

Doesn't seem like 20x to me. I'm sure spending more than 30 seconds searching could find even better deals.
Random comment: slide 10 talks about using Twisted and then adding a twisted middle layer. 2010 me (or earlier) liked Twisted a ton but not sure I would have foisted this technology on a development team. As a single dev doing all kinds of crazy shit it (sort of) worked but was pretty hard to debug or understand.
It makes no difference. If it’s possible for the two versions to meet (they exist simultaneously) then what you’re describing is simple deceit.

A world where two of me exist is fundamentally and irreconcilably different than a world where I simply go to bed and wake up each day. It makes no difference if I personally am aware.
This comment breaks the site guidelines and especially the Show HN guidelines (https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html). Please don't do that.

This is especially important when kids or students are presenting their work. The last thing they need is to run into a bunch of internet jerks—and it's not who we want this community to be, either.

If you wouldn't mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and taking the rules more to heart, we'd be grateful. You've unfortunately been breaking them in other places too (e.g. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42285885).
I'd avoid LemonSqueezy because the payouts fees if you're outside of the USA are too high (check out https://docs.lemonsqueezy.com/help/getting-started/fees ).

Paddle may be an option, depending on what your SaaS will sell, but if they start pretending that your business falls into a high-risk category they will demand 3 months of processing statements before allowing you to use their platform.
This case kind of depends on your priorities. If your goal is the Cupertino, Sunnyvale, Mountain View lifestyle and lateraling between the various companies in the area, then it's an opportunity cost. Has other positives also: low crime, wealthy neighbors, investment money, startup opportunities, mountains and hiking in the area, ocean nearby.

Has it's downsides though. Having visited NASA Ames over in Mountain View because of space agency work, it has a lot of the same issues as Aspen. Lot of sameness, lot of architecture that's McWealthy pseduo-Pueblo, lot of expensive blast plain suburbia, lot of people that start with "you're leaving money on the table" mentality, San Jose and San Fran traffic nearby can be nightmarish, and the crime of Oakland doesn't have that far to walk.

With many family in the Portland, Hillsboro, Beaverton area, that area also has it's positives: relatively low crime in Hillsboro / Beaverton (Portland's not great on the East side)[1], wealthy neighbors, huge amounts of hiking / outdoors / mountain climbing / biking / botanical gardens / parks, much less of blast plain suburbia, somewhat private feeling / hidden housing developments, ocean nearby, Columbia River nearby, significant art culture, lots of breweries / restaurants / food trucks / foodies, decent public transit, if you want dry desert wealth like Cali then Bend is not that far away.

Comparing the shows Portlandia vs Silicon Valley and Weeds is not a bad approximation.

[1] https://www.thetrace.org/2023/02/gun-violence-map-america-sh...
"can now take" isn't really accurate.

You could always appeal the rulings from federal agencies in court and that's how we lost chevron [1].

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loper_Bright_Enterprises_v._Ra...
How big is NVIDIA now? You don't think breaking into that market is a good strategy? And, yes, I understand that this is targeted at gamers and not ML. That was the point of the comment I made. Maybe if they did target ML they would make money and open a path to the massive server market out there.
It actually exists. It’s called Plustek Opticfilm 120, though not particularly low cost, and I have one for sale.
Intel sold their GPUs at negative margin which is part of why the stock fell off a cliff. If they could double the vram they could raise the price into the green even selling thousands, likely closer to 100k, would be far better than what they're doing now. The problem is Intel is run by incompetent people who guard their market segments as tribal fiefs instead of solving for the customer.
For me, the relationship is non-transitive.

If you tell me this will happen tonight, I would right now call both "me". Both of them after the event would agree that I am them. Both of them would agree they are different people to each other, even if they say so in perfect stereo unison.
Tricks from Product Support
I don't think that's the thought experiment. We're not talking about physical bodies, we're talking about consciousness. When you go to sleep, does your consciousness cease to exist, to be replaced with a new one, with all your memories and behaviors and attitudes, when you wake up?

I have memories of being me and doing me things yesterday, but was that really me doing those things, or was that a different consciousness that doesn't exist anymore, and my memories are just the high-fidelity recorded experiences of someone else?

And on top of it all: if that's the case, does it matter?
Tastes are tastes and as such are subjective and can't be contested. But Supreme Commander looks like almost a different genre to me. I like SC2's format to this day.
Sure, robotics help many jobs, and some level of the current deep learning boom seems to have crossover in improving that - but how many of them are running LLMs that affect Nvidia's bottom line right now? There's some interesting research in that area, but it's certainly not the primary driving force. And then is the control system the limiting factor for many systems - it's probably relatively easy to get a machine today that makes a Starbucks coffee "as good as" a decently trained human. But the market doesn't seem to want that.

And I know restricting it to the US is a simplification, but so is restricting it to Nvidia, it's just to give a ballpark back-of-the-envelope "does this even make sense?" level calculation. And that's what I'm failing to see.
More context https://kagifeedback.org/d/5445-reconsider-yandex-integratio...

Apparently they have been using yandex for 5 years as one of the search backends.
+1000 for VueScan. And they have perpetual licensing -- take that, Adobe.
The BSD Daemon [video]
U.S. officials say they still have not expelled Chinese telco hackers
GP was responding to a hypothetical situation where the military does not care about the law and supports the president unconditionally. In this situation does the 2nd amendment make sense?
Film photography just became prohibitively costly for me around ~2018. When a roll of 120 was costing £20/25 in the UK. A lot of the good labs over here (Peak Imaging for example) went bust too.

I poke fun at film shooters today who heap praise on e.g. Kodak Gold or the cheap Fuji equivalents because it's all they can really afford/get their hands on. I wouldn't have even considered shooting it 10 years ago
Creating a Proxmox or QEMU ChromeOS Flex VM
This is a digression, but I really wish Amazon would be more normal in their product descriptions.

Amazon is rapidly developing its own jargon such that you need to understand how Amazon talks about things (and its existing product lineup) before you can understand half of what they're saying about a new thing. The way they describe their products seems almost designed to obfuscate what they really do.

Every time they introduce something new, you have to click through several pages of announcements and docs just to ascertain what something actually is (an API, a new type of compute platform, a managed SaaS product?)
> Could someone link me to a poem that an LLM did that they personally find in some way remarkable or beautiful or moving? Something with a bit of truth and/or beauty in it?

A lot of people couldn't link you to _any_ poem, human-written or ai generated, in response to that question.
GPU inference is always a balancing act, trying to avoid bottlenecks on memory bandwidth (loading data from the GPU's global memory/VRAM to the much smaller internal shared memory, where it can be used for calculations) and compute (once the values are loaded).

Splitting the model up between several GPUs would add a third much worse bottleneck – memory bandwidth between the GPUs. No matter how well you connect them, it'll be slower than transfer within a single GPU.

Still, the fact that you can fit an 8× larger GPU might be worth it to you. It's a trade-off that's almost universally made while training LLMs (sometimes even with the model split down both its width and length), but is much less attractive for inference.
> One of my favorites was Stunts which came with a built-in track editor!

In case you didn't know it: the games of the TrackMania series can be considered spiritual successors of Stunts:

> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TrackMania

> https://www.trackmania.com/
Let’s say for the sake of argument that you could build such a card and sell it for less than $5k. Why would you do it? You know there’s huge demand in the tens of billions per quarter for high end cards. Why undercut so heavily that market? To overthrow NVidia? So you’ll end up with a profit margin way low and then your shareholders will eat you alive.
Most devs use windows (https://www.statista.com/statistics/869211/worldwide-softwar...). Reddit llocallama alone has 250k users. Clearly the market is bigger than 1000 people.
Why are gamers and Linux people always so aggressive diminutive of other people’s interests?
>> It's inevitably going to be a mere copy of you. You don't get to experience any of it.

> You can make the same argument for 'you before you went to sleep' and 'you after you woke up'. The only real link you have to that previous consciousness are memories of experiences, which are all produced by your current body/brain.

Except I know, empirically, that people go to sleep all the time and wake up, and remain the same person. And I know (for practical purposes) I do the same. I -- my mind/body composite -- lie down, and get up the next morning. I remain the same person.

Simply 'copying' or 'uploading' my consciousness, like a computer file, is impossible even in theory, because I'm not just a conscious mind, but a conscious mind which is also a body. Consciousness cannot be split from the material body, even in theory. Somebody upthread said that he'd seen many amputees undergo personality changes as a result of their operations -- this is an informative (if very sad) example.
I believe that's the crux, though I don't have a dog in the fight either way so I'm just guessing.
I want local copilot. I would pay for this.
Hmm. There is a lot of money that exists, doing nothing. I consider that stale money.

Edit: I can’t sort this out. Where did all the money go?
> we mentioned a concept that Go uses to implement its unique map feature: the “weak pointer.”

I assume that's just a redundant way to say that the map doesn't allow duplicate keys. If the author means it is a novel data structure, then I'd point towards java.util.WeakHashMap from 26 years ago.

Other fun variations (depending on your memory mechanics) are "soft" references (hints to GC to avoid collecting them if possible) and and "phantom" references (detect an object has been GCed.)
I'm not very familiar with Nuxt or SvelteKit but this is exactly what React and NextJS provide with server components. Any JS related to server components isn't shipped, only client components which effectively represent the islands. The only real difference is you're not mixing technologies, it's all React.
Isn't 2666 MHz ECC RAM obscenely slow? 32 cores without the fast AVX-512 of Zen5 isn't what anyone is looking for in terms of floating point throughput (ask me about electricity prices in Germany), and for that money I'd rather just take a 4090 with 24GB memory and do my own software fixed point or floating point (which is exactly what I do personally and professionally).

This is exactly what I meant about Intel's recent launch. Imagine if they went full ALU-heavy on latest TSMC process and packaged 128GB with it, for like, 2-3k Eur. Nvidia would be whipping their lawyers to try to do something about that, not just their engineers.
If some developer out there has adopted a stenography keyboard, I suspect they write Java code with it.