skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Very well, you think that preserving the brain, or even preserving the nervous system, is futile. But what of total biostasis, preserving the entire organism, just like the archaebacteria that live for thousands of years in ice or other extreme environments by slowing their metabolisms to a crawl?

To me, excessive negativity about the possibility of immortality smacks of weakness and defeatism. You either love life and want as much of it as possible, which makes you a friend of humanity, or prefer death, which makes you an enemy of humanity. I take a stronger line than the neuroscientist in the article. “Death positivity” like that of Viktor Frankl, anti-natalism, even faith in magical spiritual resurrections—all are anti-human viewpoints, only excusable in the past because they were copes with the inevitability of death. Now that we have reason to believe it can be averted, we owe our potential future selves every possible effort to save them from oblivion.
Yeah I've heard of it. I was put of by the removal of the staging area which I think is one of Git's nicest features.

Maybe I'll check it out. Deferring conflict resolution is definitely a killer feature.
Not sure if this was the goal, but it does work well from a product perspective that Nova is a super-cheap model that is comparable to everything BUT Claude.
Hold a tree in your mind. Now describe it aloud. You have now produced a material effect in the physical world that resulted directly from your idea of a tree. Definitionally, that means it is not immaterial- you conjured it with material and measured it with material.
Tubes have a limited lifetime, but high-reliability, long-life tubes were developed specifically for digital circuits.

One such development was a change in alloys for the filaments. It turns out that the filaments were made from a tungsten alloy containing silicon, and the silicon evaporates and is deposited on the cathode. The cathode has a special coating to help it emit electrons, and the silicon deposits would interfere. From what I can tell, the alloy for filaments had silicon in to make it easier to draw through the dies necessary to construct the filament in the first place, so there is some tradeoff between the lifetime of the tools used to make the tubes and the lifetime of the tubes themselves.

This is not entirely unlike the problems faced by semiconductor manufacturers—problems with impurities, solid state chemistry, and vapor deposition. I can imagine an alternate timeline with extremely long-lived vacuum tube circuits.
This is what I'm fiddling with. My 2080Ti is not quite enough to make it viable. I find the small models fail too often, so need larger Whisper and LLM models.

Like the 4060 Ti would have been a nice fit if it hadn't been for the narrow memory bus, which makes it slower than my 2080 Ti for LLM inference.

A more expensive card has the downside of not being cheap enough to justify idling in my server, and my gaming card is at times busy gaming.
it's almost as if your thought patterns and language are a product of your experience of being the only copy of you...

if having copies of you walking around was a normal thing, our language and expectations would reflect that.

right now if another copy of you comes by and claims your wife and your house, you'd be miffed. but the whole concept of one of you owning the house is just an artefact of how individuality and possessions happen to be right now. it doesn't have to be forever. there was a time you could steal a picture and have the only copy - now you can save a copy on your phone and you don't deprive another of theirs. some day people and stuff could behave the same.
HongShan, spun out of Sequoia last year, is reportedly struggling to invest
that isn't money laundering though.

I wonder that too fwiw, what's the exact mechanism with this banana NFT-purchase by which elicit money (from who (?)) is now being laundered as legal income (of who (?)). How does the process work?
Are we skimming the same thing here? Section II explicitly binds the management and prohibits sale of precise sensitive location data. This is a consent decree - not sure what the FTC banning a company would look like exactly - using your example, Unacast would be bound by the terms of the decree. FTC's shuttering a line of business for these companies and requiring guardrails (which sure, might create jobs for reporting but...those data governance jobs for this type of data specifically should probably exist?), seems like an ok remedy imo. For context:

> "II. Prohibitions on the Use, Sale, or Disclosure of Sensitive Location Data
IT IS FURTHER ORDERED that Respondents and Respondents’ officers, agents, and
employees, whether acting directly or indirectly, must not sell, license, transfer, share, disclose, or otherwise use in any products or services Sensitive Location Data associated with the Sensitive Locations that Respondents have identified within 90 days of the effective date of this Order as part of the Sensitive Locations Data Program established and maintained pursuant to Provision III below."
If you mean that retail trading volume and opportunities to make money from it have a healthy future then I agree. But if you mean that retail traders themselves have a good outlook, in the sense that they will end up with more money overall than if tools and access were more limited, I couldn't disagree more. Retail stock traders have a terrible track record overall, and bits of additional market information here or there will do nothing to change that. Increased access to trading results in amateurs having less money.
Godot Isn't Making It
The evolution is Gleam + Lustre (its main FE framework).

You get all of Gleam's advantages compared to TS (simple, truly type safe, errors as values, exhaustive match, etc), and Lustre is great because you get an Elm that can be run on both the client and server, using whatever fits that specific part of your website best (unlike HTMX or LiveView which are server-only).

Wrote a blog post about it:

https://blog.nestful.app/p/gleams-lustre-is-frontend-develop...
Some of it may be attributable to divisions within the company, such as between the folks during marketing/sales versus engineering/support generating docs and needing a place to put them. The organizational split becomes reflected in the tech output.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conway%27s_law
Just to add a current link to this conversation:

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/consciousness-mig...

An article suggesting that consciousness is embodied in the active fields, not the synapses themselves.
That should definitely not be the case. Did you compile it with a different edition, or different 3rd party dependency major versions, perhaps?
Low Information Voter
I believe you missed the OP's point. Poetry is to be processed. That's a feature, not a bug. Now that we're in an analytical conversation you need to process both papers and OP's words. Like poetry, there is context, things between the lines. Because to write everything explicitly would require a book's worth of text. LLMs are amazing compression machines, but they pale in comparison to what we do. If you're take a step back, you'll even see this comment is littered with that compression itself.
K80 used to be two glued K40 but their interconnect was barely faster than PCIe so it didn't have much benefit as one had to move stuff between two internal GPUs anyway.
The main problem with AI is not that it can or can't write poetry as well as humans. It's that it's the next step in a long process to divorce human experience from art so that we lose one more beautiful facet of human existence. And the reason why that's happening is because technology needs to take away the essence of human experience from production so that we can be more irrelevant and anonymous, which is essential to being cogs in the technological production machine.
> It's possible you're underestimating the open source community.

On the contrary. You really don't know how I love and prefer open source and love a more leveling playing field.

> If there's a competing platform that hobbyists can tinker with...

AMD's cards are better from hardware and software architecture standpoint, but the performance is not there yet. Plus, ROCm libraries are not that mature, but they're getting there. Developing high performance, high quality code is deceivingly expensive, because it's very heavy in theory, and you fly very close to the metal. I did that in my Ph.D., so I know what it entails. So it requires more than a couple (hundred) hobbyists to pull off (see the development of Eigen linear algebra library, or any high end math library).

Some big guns are pouring money into AMD to implement good ROCm libraries, and it started paying off (Debian has a ton of ROCm packages now, too). However, you need to be able to pull it off in the datacenter to be able to pull it off on the desktop.

AMD also needs to be able to enable ROCm on desktop properly, so people can start hacking it at home.

> especially when the competing platform is completely closed...

NVIDIA gives a lot of support to universities, researchers and institutions who play with their cards. Big cards may not be free, but know-how, support and first steps are always within reach. Plus, their researchers dogfood their own cards, and write papers with them.

So, as long as papers got published, researchers do their research, and something got invented, many people don't care about how open source the ecosystem is. This upsets me a ton, but when closed source AI companies and researchers who forget to add crucial details to their papers so what they did can't be reproduced don't care about open source, because they think like NVIDIA. "My research, my secrets, my fame, my money".

It's not about sharing. It's about winning, and it's ugly in some aspects.
Thank you for the pay comparison website link. The pay scale difference is frankly is a little challenging to even believe in some cases. Facebook pays an M2 software manager $1,426,471? Comparables at other (F)AANGs are $700,000 to $800,000. Double ??? at the same grade? That seems like nonsensical escalation. Does not seem like FB/Meta/saggy infinity symbol formerly known as Prince is getting their money's worth.
Such a condescending phrase.

We should have a similar phrase "low information expert" that has little understanding of everyday people's lives, but instead points to metrics that have little to do with everyday life of real people.
IANAL the tech developed and then laws started to form.. slow walking the laws took over due to internal law enforcement and intelligence agency desire to use the data. Tech companies brutally compete with winners emerging controlling billions in cash flows. Both US political parties are completely complicit behind closed doors. "motivated individuals" by the tens of thousands built the tech and drank the kool-aide, reaping many mini-millionaires (reading right now?) $0.02
Both! My lights go dim and deep red after sunset but very bright and cold mid-day.
But an on-package memory bus has some of the advantages of HBM, just to a lesser extent, so it's arguably comparable as an "intermediate stage" between RAM chips and HBM. Distances are shorter (so voltage drop and capacitance are lower, so can be driven at lower power), routing is more complex but can be worked around by more layers, which increases cost but on a significantly smaller area than required for dimms, and the dimms connections themselves can hurt performance (reflection from poor contacts, optional termination makes things more complex, and the expectations of mix-and-match for dimm vendors and products likely reduce fine tuning possibilities).

There's pretty much a direct opposite scaling between flexibility and performance - dimms > soldered ram > on-package ram > die-interconnects.
As of today they have SaaS company margins as a hardware company which is practically unheard of.
DuckDuckGo is written in Perl. As a business decision, it's cheaper to keep Perl working then replace it.
Exactly. The Visa fees are a percentage (sometimes plus a per-tx fee as well). Electric bills don't usually double when the customer spends twice as much.
No FM radio station outside of a college campus has ever succeeded without ads and any form of media that I cannot pay for and receive ad-free is trash to me.

And as far as college radio goes, I'm don't need a new pothead to tell me how revolutionary Kind of Blue is every time the old one graduates.

Even public radio has ads. They use a fancy word instead of "ads" though back when I dumped any form of media from which I could not banish ads Archer Daniels Midland was one of public radio's largest sponsors... for... reasons.
OK, that's a substantive comment (which I don't have the experience and knowledge required to judge), and very different from saying that people don't need encryption. It was the main thing I wanted to do: counter this statement.

Now, it would not be enough to state that fastmail is better than protonmail. It matters to me because I would like to know what to suggest to someone who'd like to leave one of the big player. The original author took the time to write a Tell HN post to advise us fastmail, but fails to give an actual reason why it is better than the rest.

I don't need a mailbox for myself but should I advise someone, I'd be inclined to suggest a local association, and then maybe protonmail because iirc it turned non profit. I'd be happy to find arguments for or against this. I don't much know about protonmail nor fastmail and the original post didn't advance me though it kinda wanted to. We just know that the author prefers fastmail and the post read a bit like an ad.
Possibly a game server? Between matchmaking, leaderboards, achievements, you'll never be updating 10k rows at once...
Good comment, we will change the timeouts.
Do u like line by line replies vs everything in single chunk ?
> It's very confusing, the docs are confusing, and the even the tools are confused.

Not to worry -- you can use Rufus...uh "Q"....uhh...Nova...to summarize the docs into a decision tree on which confusing choice to use!
The Fate books (at least several of them) are also free to download, with some Creative Commons license or similar, so you can read the rules without having to buy anything if you do not want to.
Correct for inference - the main use of the interconnect is RDMA requests between GPUs to fit models that wouldn't otherwise fit.

Not really correct for training - training has a lot of all-to-all problems, so hierarchical reduction is useful but doesn't really solve the incast problem - Nvlink _bandwidth_ is less of an issue than perhaps the SHARP functions in the NVLink switch ASICs.
What a snapshot of history

One of the things I’ve learned over the years is almost every company becomes the symbol of it’s anti-mission

Root cause almost always seems to be trying to design PM performance around metrics

Metrics are a poor framework for values
> The M4 Max needs an enormous 512bit memory bus to extract enough bandwidth out of those LPDDR5x chips

Does M4 Max have 64-byte cache lines?

If they can fetch or flush an entire cache line in a single memory-bus transaction, I wonder if that opens up any additional hardware / performance optimizations.
hah, when my grandmother wished to get a computer (she was a volunteer secretary in a few organizations doing a lot of typing on a mechanical typewriter until then) grandpa sent me out to get it, and i chose some decent machine for the time and put OS/2 on it (and LaTeX). meanwhile i had linux on my own machine, and when the opportunity arose i used my student status to buy a discounted copy of OpenStep for the PC. a few years later i got my hands on a NeXT cube and a few slabs from a university auctioning off old equipment ;-)
Even if it leads to the collapse of the society which enables them to have those rights, so future generations are back to sex-discriminatory religious rules? That's the problem. Equal rights seems like it might be a self-destroying culture.
Also, “well being of people” < “military stuff”
The mods have thankfully changed this to a Phoronix article instead of the Intel page and the title has been reworked to not include 'launch'.
OK, so the question becomes: TSMC could do it. Why can’t Intel?
The military are technically correct here.

As the constitution is written, the nullification vote doesn't directly end martial law. It simply binds the president to withdraw martial law.

In hindsight, that might be a slight flaw, there doesn't seem to be any time limit or mechanism for what happens if the president doesn't. I'm not sure their constitution was written with an autocoup in mind.

In the end it wasn't an issue. The President did eventually withdraw martial law, I wonder what pressure was put on him to do so. And by who.
I thought the same, out of the 5 domains listed, I'm not sure I have used any legitimate website using them, so I might as well block them entirely
> Google Cloud services could be used for, or linked to, the facilitation of human rights violations, including Israeli activity in the West Bank.”

You don't tell me.
If I'm not conscious, it's rather difficult to explain what I'm experiencing right now.
East Germany was a tenth the economic strength of West Germany. North Korea is a hundredth the strength of South Korea, and not because South Korea is far more advanced than West Germany.

It's one of the richest country in the world, right next to one of the poorest. Unification in any sense at this point is suicide by the South. The misery inflicted upon the southern Koreans will be immeasurable if both countries are unified. The leaders of both Koreas know this.
You’re being defeatist and ignoring the evidence presented in the article—even hospice patients want to live longer. You, too, will desire to live before (and hopefully: if!) you breathe your last.

This is because the entire goal of the sentient consciousness is simply to preserve itself as long as possible. DNA has the essential goal of replicating itself in reproduction. Consciousness, by contrast, appears to have no goal other than self-preservation. People sometimes choose to sacrifice themselves, but usually only when death is inevitable and they wish to save someone else from it (Lily/Harry Potter and Medal of Honor type situations).
People living forever will stall humanity. Generations and their old ways dying with them are necessary for civilizations to progress.
Celebrity Jet Leaderboard Sorted by Total Miles
You can run an AMD APU with 128GB of shared RAM.
https://windowjs.org is a very similar concept -- it wraps Skia and exposes it as the Canvas API, but also embeds v8 for a very small runtime instead of using Node.

It was my first open-source project, released about 3 years ago.

I had plans to also expose WebGL, audio, etc and make it a viable platform for Javascript-based games on desktop.

Life and other projects happened instead, and development was discontinued. Happy to see this project also making Canvas accessible outside the browser!
There is ROCm and Vulkan compute.

Vulkan is especially appealing because you don't need any special GPGPU drivers and it runs on any card which supports Vulkan.
Intel's Board of Directors
District court ruling can't also be appealed?
"Where is the Life we have lost in living?
Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge?
Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?" - Choruses from "The Rock"
>using 18 bit instructions, it could be rented for $12,000 a month.

Release of the IBM700 utilized 6N3P diodes, that tend to burn out due to voltage alterations, until the 7000 series, with System 360 was transistorised.
Plot a graph of the companies against their revenue and profit numbers and you'll end up with 2 massively skewed incline curves. Plot a graph of their companies which are public, and they're mostly trading below their debut.

YC did do the right thing (investing in super early stage startups) at the right time (ZIRP environment), but now with the proliferation of too many startups and applicants, I'm not so certain on how much of a future it has with getting the next best thing. Already seeing quite a few startups that either bootstrapped or raised without YC, while a number of YC companies are stuck in pivot loops.
There's a Brainfuck relay computer: https://hackaday.io/project/18599-brainfuckpc-relay-computer

Its author is now building a rack-mounted vacuum-tube based computer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2HAf52AKt7Q
Instantly ctrl-f'd to see if anyone would mention transporters. I believe in some circles this has been dubbed "The Transporter Problem". It's a thought experiment that already exists.

Invincible also tackled this problem, with someone cloning a new body, and copying his brain to a new body. For a brief moment both bodies perceive the same thing before their experiences split into the two bodies. The copy wakes up, says goodbye to the original, who is dying, and says "I'm sorry it wasn't you."

This is also IMO related to the ship of theseus problem. Are you the same person you were 20 years ago? Are you the same person in the morning as the person who went to sleep? Are you the same person as a minute ago? What if you add in concussions/memory loss/degenerative disease?
Show HN: Checklist for Diagnosing Model Overfitting
Yes, and a ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.

No one is stopping you from being celibate or monogamous if you so choose. But that changes noting about the logic of the situation.

It is impossible to avoid cause and effect:

Celibacy = 100% success against STIs
Non-monogamy = 79.85% Chance of catching an STI (Using numbers from the NYC STD CENTER)

Play stupid games, win stupid prizes.
If the image quality is good enough for you - you could try out an iPod touch.
Considering how HN professedly struggles to use non-reversible cables, it wouldn't surprise me if someone started to complain about getting skillchecked by a Molex or SATA.

And that CPU, with the little gold tab you gotta line up? That's a whopping three ways you could go wrong! Forget about it, might as well just phone Dell or Apple and pay the idiot tax.
It’s not inelegant, it’s just unfamiliar to you.
I think that “most people are alive now” is not true (although it is often repeated).

https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-16870579

> So what are the figures? There are currently seven billion people alive today and the Population Reference Bureau estimates that about 107 billion people have ever lived.

> This means that we are nowhere near close to having more alive than dead. In fact, there are 15 dead people for every person living.

So it is not wildly impossible that you’d be alive now, but it is fairly unlikely.

Also, hard to say what’s in the future of course, but even if population growth levels off, you’d expect to be born in the future, right? Which brings up another question, why not?

If we are going to go along on the fully ridiculous implications here and reinterpret all probabilities as conditioned on your immortality, why weren’t you born in the far future? I’d expect people born in the future to have easier access to immortality.

Maybe birth rates will go way down if we discover immortality (lowering your odds of being born later). Or maybe pre-immortality minds will be seen as more interesting and worth preserving (increasing your odds of being kept around).
I don't think this is a great analogy because computers don't have consciousness (yet).

But I usually move the hard drive (or at least its contents) between machines when I get a new computer, and that's enough for me to think of it as the "same", even if I reinstall the OS on the new machine and just copy my home directory onto the new one.
Cool idea, but it's science fiction.

If this intrigues you, try some really good science fiction on the topic, like Neal Stephenson's "Fall; or, Dodge in Hell".
At some point the reduction of what is to "blame" becomes ridiculous.

Getting stabbed wasn't dangerous. The blood loss was. The blood loss wasn't dangerous, cerebral hypoxia was.