skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I start it with neoliberalism which really picked up steam with Nixon. But even Clinton and Obama were neoliberals every president since Nixon was neoliberal just with different social issues (divide and conquer the plebes). Globalization and exponential consumerism.

before 1990 you buy a phone like corded even cordless and they still work today if you have a landline.

Now I need a new phone every 3 years. All electronics are made to be replaced not to last and that just makes business sense but not very good environmental sense.
Correction: I wrote ‘without approximately doubling…’ where I meant ‘while approximately doubling…’ - and then one must take into account sidewndr46’s interesting point.
>You know, if Elon buys it at the same levels of inflated values he did for Twitter so that the creditors get paid,

He paid $44B. He probably could have got it for less at the time, but if you think it's not worth that, I'm not sure what to tell you. It's literally where all news gets broken. All of it. And he's using it to influence global politics.
Lithium-Ion Battery Pack Prices See Largest Drop Since 2017, Falling to $115kWHr
Coinbase App Gets Left Behind as Memecoin Craze Drives Traders On-Chain
As a longtime Rails developer who has experimented with Python but knew little about Django, I read this article with interest. Something that jumped out at me was the author's description of the "models.py file, which contains all the application models (multiple models in a single file)". I did some quick research and I gather that this approach isn't maintained as you move beyond the scale of a toy application. I kind of think he's doing Django a disservice with his current wording there, as my immediate reaction was that it sounded nightmarish!
I stream JSON as a series of closed JSON documents. Parsing incomplete JSON just seems like a minefield of errors.
The focus on kg/m2 (BMI) I cannot understand. Surely the lowly “body fat percentage” should be a better variable than kg/m2? Bodies are three dimensional you know!
Wait, we're actually reading the article now instead of making jokes?
Nicotine might be one of the least harmful things in cigarettes compared to tar, carbon monoxide, benzene, formaldehyde, cadmium, arsenic, etc. Nicotine by itself isn't too different from caffeine.
There are a few problems with your comment.

1. "Religion" is not a monolithic category. It is effectively synonymous with "worldview". The content of a given worldview matters. So, pace modern doctrines of "tolerance", not all worldviews are equal. The notion that they are is simply absurd, as they all vary and differ and make different claims.

2. Doctrine is inevitable. As the Chestertonian quote goes, there are only two kinds of people: those who accept dogma and know it, and those who accept dogma and don't know it. A person cannot function without doctrine. The trouble is that the liberal order has managed to convince us that its doctrines aren't doctrines at all. They're just taken to be "obviously true" or "obviously neutral", which they are not.

3. Since doctrine is inevitable, then all schools at the very least insinuate the doctrines of the governing worldview in the manner things are taught and structured and in the way the school is run. In state schools, these are typically liberal doctrines. That is obvious: why would the state propagate doctrines of a worldview other than the one that it is governed by? It may demonstrate a certain tolerance for other worldviews, but the limits of this tolerance are determined by the doctrines of the governing worldview. This is inescapable, and it is dishonest to deny it.

4. Teaching doctrines is not opposed to knowledge. In fact, if a doctrine is true, then learning it is learning knowledge.

5. Now, among schools we classify as "religious", Catholic schools certainly teach both religious subject matter as well as all the sorts of subject matters you might expect to be taught in a school. We're not talking about some weird American Protestant sect here. Fides et ratio.

Too many lean into the crude caricatures of their imagination.
You have to either postulate randomness or describe how it arises from determinism. I don't see any other logical possibility.

BTW, see this:

https://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/9906015

for a valiant effort to extract randomness from determinism, and this:

https://blog.rongarret.info/2019/07/the-trouble-with-many-wo...

for my critique.
You’re assuming the model is purely for generation though. Several of the Gemini features are lookup of things across data available to it. A lot of that data can be local to device.

That is currently Apple’s path with Apple Intelligence for example.
It shocking to me too. I can't understand how people are 'both sides-ing' this or just supporting him under some free speech argument. Free speech has limits and a court found Jones went too far and that cost him his business.
A new framework for measuring developer productivity
Just make a non null checking version: GetPixelUnsafe()
and let the responsibility onto the user to do the null check before the loop.

All of these 'problems' have simple and straigtforward workarounds, I'm not convinced these UB are needed at all.
FCC opens entire 6 GHz band to low power device operations
Their offering is just so... bad. Even the new model. All the data in the world, yet they trail behind.

They have all of these extensions that they use to prop up the results in the web UI.

I was asking for a list of related YouTube videos - the UI returns them.

Ask the API the same prompt, it returns a bunch of made up YouTube titles and descriptions.

How could I ever rely on this product?
> They're just acting as agents that derive the logical consequences of the code.

In a particularly pedantic, uptight, and sometimes un-helpful way, yes.

Compilers don't have to be designed this way; in fact it is a relatively recent development in the history of such tools.
Nicotine on its own frankly isn't that harmful outside of addiction. Not great for you, but it's orders of magnitude more healthy than being obese.
Maybe some of these tasks are arguably not aligned with the traditional applications of CV, but Segmentation and Edge detection are definitely computer vision in every definition I've come across - before and after NNs took over.
Random question about how those compounding pharmacies work. Can you order a higher dose and then just stretch it out by taking the minimum dose to save cost? Do they automatically bill you monthly or can you skip months?
You can connect M.2 NVMe, it just doesn't have a dedicated slot. If you're looking for a cheap device to plug a bunch of different PCIe devices into a RISC-V development board is probably not your ideal pick, look at a normal computer.
Well, is Wordpress.org even managed according to law?

Please see this very recent verdict by a California district court: https://techcrunch.com/2024/12/10/court-orders-mullenweg-and...

I agree with the question "is Wordpress.org GDPR compliant?", but I think that the scope can be widened: "Is Wordpress.org subject to illegal management?"
Please keep to the HN guidelines:

> Be kind. Don't be snarky. Converse curiously; don't cross-examine. Edit out swipes.

> Comments should get more thoughtful and substantive, not less, as a topic gets more divisive.

> Please respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says, not a weaker one that's easier to criticize. Assume good faith.
This is effectively an industrial dev board not a product for normal users. They are usually expensive because of low volume
Yet, google continues to show it'll deprecate it's APIs, Services, and Functionality at the detriment of your own business. I'm not sure enterprises will trust Google's LLM over the alternatives. Too many have been burned throughout the years, including GCP customers.

The fact GCP needs to have this page, and these lists are not 100% comprehensive is telling enough.
https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/deprecations
https://cloud.google.com/chronicle/docs/deprecations
https://developers.google.com/maps/deprecations

Steve Yegge rightfully called this out, and yet no change has been made. https://medium.com/@steve.yegge/dear-google-cloud-your-depre...
I don't know what it is. It's an investment, it carries risks with it. That said, if I were one of the Sandy Hook families, turning Infowars into a gun safety site would hold more value than any money you could pay me. Classic case of "maximising shareholder value" not being the same as "maximising revenue".
I'd be interested to see Gemini 2.0's performance on SWE-Bench.
It is much easier to measure, and is a good enough proxy for the vast majority of people.
Air temperature is not the issue and is not how 3D printers catch on fire, I should have clarified in my previous comment.

Nozzle clogs can happen frequently, and if left unmonitored, can quickly turn into a disaster. If your nozzle is clogged it can essentially destroy your printer and cause an electrical fault that can set the printer on fire.

Printer fires are a lot less frequent in recent years than a decade ago, but it can still definitely happen.
well, the ratio of admin to teacher has nothing to do with the $$$/seat.

Moreover, giving more money does not prevent admin bloat.
China, Iran, Russia, ISIS and others would be happy to get their hands on this tech and kill you.
How does gcc infer anything about memcpy? Can't I replace the c-library memcpy with my own, so how does it know that dest == NULL can never be true?
The first two are tasks which involve making images. They could be called image generation or image editing.
>given several chances to comply with discovery requests

The Jones side claims that these discovery requests were for documents that don't exist. The linked judgement provides no detail on what the specific discovery requests were that went unanswered.

Do you know what the discovery requests were for specifically?
Register behavior is what you want essentially all of the time. So we’d just have to write `register` all over the place for no gain.

“Don’t optimize this, read and write it even if you think it’s not necessary” is a very rare case so it shouldn’t be the default. If you want it, use the volatile keyword.

There’s no need to reword the standard to assume the register behavior if the variable’s address hasn’t been taken. That’s already how it works. In this example, if you escape the value of `&x`, it’s not legal to optimize this function to always return 1.
How should I go about arranging a demo?
Google's new Project Astra could be generative AI's killer app
> Each version is severely memory bandwidth bottlenecked, the CUDA version suffers the most with its practical 11.8 GB/s device-to-host bandwidth due to its PCI-Express 3.0 x16 interface.

PCIe 3.0? What?

https://cowfreedom.de/#appendix/computer_specs/

> GeForce GTX 1050 Ti with Max-Q Design (PCIe 3.0 x16) (2016)

> Intel Core i5-8300H (2020)

This is a low-price 8 year old GPU and a 4 year old CPU. And he seems to be including loading the data to GPU. Newer cards have wide PCIe 5.0 or some faster interconnect, like Nvidia Grace-Hopper.

Also he is comparing his own CUDA implementation. He should use one of the many available in CUBLAS/CUTLASS. Making a good CUDA GEMM is a very difficult art and very hardware specific
> I mean, first registers are anyway saved on the stack when calling a function

No, they aren't. For registers defined in the calling convention as "callee-saved", they don't have to be saved on the stack before calling a function (and the called function only has to save them if it actually uses that register). And for registers defined as "caller-saved", they only have to be saved if their value needs to be kept. The compiler knows all that, and tends to use caller-saved registers as scratch space (which doesn't have to be preserved), and callee-saved registers for longer-lived values.

> and caches of modern processors are really nearly as fast (if not as fast!) as a register.

No, they aren't. For instance, a quick web search tells me that the L1D cache for a modern AMD CPU has at least 4 cycles of latency. Which means: even if the value you want to read is already in the L1 cache, the processor has to wait 4 cycles before it has that value.

> Registers these days are merely labels, since internally the processor (at least for x86) executes the code in a sort of VM.

No, they aren't. The register file still exists, even though register renaming means which physical register corresponds to a logical register can change. And there's no VM, most common instructions are decoded directly (without going through microcode) into a single µOp or pair of µOps which is executed directly.

> To me it seems that all these optimizations were really something useful back in the day, but nowadays we can as well just ignore them and let the processor figure it out without that much loss of performance.

It's the opposite: these optimizations are more important nowadays, since memory speeds have not kept up with processor speeds, and power consumption became more relevant.

> To me security is more important than a 1% more boost in performance.

Newer programming languages agree with you, and do things like checking array bounds on every access; they rely on compiler optimizations so that the loss of performance is only that "1%".
WhatsApp has certainly been a boon to those at the SEC who care about collecting scurrilous fines.
Anyone with a link to the paper?

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S01641...

Not spending $55.20 on it.
i wonder how they get around the heavy censorship that most flagship LLM use. I was assuming that they were outsourcing to lower-wage countries
Jones will create his own new brand once this is settled.

So it is more of a question to the bankruptcy court itself, as I would agree that there's no value in Infowars without Jones. So my opening bid to the court is $1.
I don't disagree with you.

As much as I'd personally enjoy never hearing from or about him again, I agree that 1A is an extremely important right that should be defended, even if you hate what the person is saying.

But free speech does NOT mean freedom from consequences. Taking away infowars does not stop him from continuing to speak his nonsense.
> The intent was not to get restitution, but rather to destroy the business. That seems unethical

Sometimes destruction of the business is restitution. Nothing unethical about that.

Someone saying publicly that you faked your child's death is an unforgivable insult. Money is beside the point here.
If the time slices are 1-2 and 2-3 (or 3-2), will the timing of event 2 introduce a bias?

Currently its:

1-2 vs 3-4
7-8 vs 5-6
...

If event 2 is being used as common, would it then be:

1-2 vs 2-3
4-5 vs 3-4
...

And so with this second set, you can see that 2 is common to both times of the first bit and 3 is common to the first and second bit (and 4 is common to both times of the second bit).

If there is a systemic error in the system, having those be common timing events might make it worse? And I'm guessing there.
Sell Yourself
Well, this is excellent news. I can start smoking again!
Tesla has been mass producing bespoke AI hardware for four generation.

It's not a hardware problem for Tesla. They are a trillion dollar vertically integrated manufacturing powerhouse.
Question from someone who doesn't know enough about GPUs:
Recently a friend mentioned his workstation has 384 cores using 4 processors. This is starting to approach some of the core numbers of earlier GPUs.

Is there a possibility that in the not too distant future that GPUs and CPUs will just converge? Or are the tasks done by GPUs too specialized?
I'm working on a Rails and on a Django project for two different customers and I've been doing that for years now. I'd pick Rails over Django any time for every single feature.

The absolute worst Django feature is the templating language. It seems to be designed to slow down developers to the like of old time Java web apps, almost mandatory templatetags et all.

The query language is moderately bad, quite verbose (Model.objects every time) for no good reason.

The lack of common project structure means that every project is different.

There is no Capistrano to deploy. I wrote something like that myself and we have been using it for maybe 7 years.

I'm sure I could go on for a while if I keep thinking about it, but you got the gist of it.

On the Rails side, sometimes I'd like to have a talk with some of the previous developers of the Rails app, which hid some important functionality in a before save callback in a different module for no particular reason, but one can be too clever with Python too. However the language (Python) is quite dull, which can be a good or a bad thing. It's very subjective. It's a Ruby gone bad at design time to me.
AIUI cancer cells are also metabolically inflexible; they like glucose, not ketones.
I mean...they literally have people waving Nazi flags among their ranks and don't denounce them.
The stories feature is actually the most used stories product in the world (more than IG or Snapchat)
use skipvids.com instead of youtube
This is a good analysis. Thanks.
We need something to describe a behavioral element in business processes. Something goes into it, something comes out of it - though in this case nondeterminism is involved and it may not be concrete outputs so much as further actioning.

Intelligence is a characteristic.
Dude you are uninformed! Jones profited off the sandy hook families, elevated people like halzig, and accused the parents of being crisis actors which directly led to harassment. Jones is the one with the platform spreading these lies and that is why he got sued.

Also he certainly may have won the defamation cases against him. Too bad he totally made a joke of the process which led to the default judgement. Maybe he thought providing the discovery info was worse?

Listen to his depositions yourself if you don't believe me. Jones is a sociopath.
I think they try to conserve costs by only using Claude when needed.
>Paying ongoing reparations in royalties or whatever the onion proposes doesn’t accomplish this.

Sure it does, the Onion would be paying the royalties, Alex Jones already doesn't own it, it's essentially owned by an estate that is selling it off to cover Alex Jones' debts.
The benchmark is called "random circuit sampling". https://blog.google/technology/research/google-willow-quantu... I call it a benchmark because a random circuit is probably not useful, but quantum computers are useful for simulating quantum systems including materials science, particle physics etc. This result is separate from the error-corrected qubit result and did not use error correction. There is a third result in the paper, which is a repetition-coded qubit that was stable for almost an hour. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-024-08449-y
> Designers came up with nifty animated menus

Those user-hostile abominations were a great reason to have DVDs. They were slow, made starting to watch a movie more complicated than it need be, and frequently committed the cardinal sin of showing spoilers.
> The creditors already own the asset.

The parent comment, quoted above is misinformation.
Yeah, I think the part that makes this so controversial isn't that they exercised their discretion to screw him, which is absolutely expected, but that the court chose a total amount so large as to be newsworthy and garner sympathy for Jones and make people question the actions of the court by itself. The idea that some singular kook running a talk show could get a judgement that we rarely ever see levied upon major corporations that pour far more man hours into far more definable evil makes people who've never heard of the guy ask WTF.
I imagine the missing spatial dimensions are correlated with weight, for any given height.
I have stopped wearing my Apple watch other than for workouts and occasionally get phantom vibrations.
Putting your head in the sand is a noble way to tackle novel problems. Just look at the noble ostrich... lol
>the judge simply doesn't like the guy

That doesn't inspire a lot of confidence in the US justice system.
I don't really see the incongruity here; somebody doesn't like helping people kill people, while that is mandated in other countries. What's your point?
Photons, most of the current efforts for quantum entanglement pairs transmission is using good old lasers over optical fiber
Inflated values was Musk's own words, not mine. To the point, he was forced by a court to honor his original higher price than what he wanted to pay after re-evaluating it. Not sure why you're quibbling over the fact that everyone thinks Musk paid an inflated price.
A movie adaptation of a book is a retelling of a story for a completely different type of audience, so it's an apples to oranges comparison always.
Power concerns aside, individual chips in a TPU pod don't actually have a ton of vRAM; they rely on fast interconnects between a lot of chips to aggregate vRAM and then rely on pipeline / tensor parallelism. It doesn't make sense to try to sell the hardware -- it's operationally expensive. By keeping it in house Google only has to support the OS/hardware in their datacenter and they can and do commercialize through hosted services.

Why do you want the hardware vs just using it in the cloud? If you're training huge models you probably don't also keep all your data on prem, but on GCS or S3 right? It'd be more efficient to use training resources close to your data. I guess inference on huge models? Still isn't just using a hosted API simpler / what everyone is doing now?
Unfortunately I think a lot of people seem to have taken Ankaios' joke as an actual claim about the research.

(ex: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42388734 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42387291 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42385397)
> We used Trillium TPUs to train the new Gemini 2.0,

Wow. I knew custom Google silicon was used for inference, but I didn't realize it was used for training too. Does this mean Google is free of dependence on Nvidia GPUs? That would be a huge advantage over AI competitors.
Actually, the default judgement doesn't go into any specifics about what he failed to produce in discovery.

The Jones lawyers argued that the discovery requests were for documents that don't exist, and that's why they were not produced.
I don't think anyone has managed to write down a super deterministic model that can violate bell inequalities and contain computers. The computer bit is key here because it's what let's me create ludicrously difficult to solve setups, like picking measurement bases using sha1 hashes of starlight.
They aren't claiming incompetence and you're being rude.

Ironically there is some projection here about playing dumb since you're pretending you don't understand why getting and spreading sexually transmitted disease is a poor analogy to "using json".

A good analogy needs more than just a slight parallel - it should have lots of significant parallels (and few significant misses) that help you think about the shape of the topic being discussed.

You can hate json but pretending it is similar to infectious disease in cause, usage, value, solution, or expression makes it really ineffective at bringing people to your side since it's really hard to see any useful similarities which makes it seem like the whole point is just fluffed up "json bad" and "people not me are dumb".

If you're actually happy to help in any way you can then stop being patronizing and either walk back your overly incendiary first shots or take a good faith attempt to clarify after someone pushes back on an intentionally extreme example.
That I believe. Let's fix that before we start taking away money.
I ran mitigations=off on my Zen4 until I saw that phoronix article and realised that in most workloads it made essentially no difference, and even harmed performance in others. I no longer run mitigations=off. But on my old i7 7700HQ mitigations=off improved performance by 10-20% depending on workload.