skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Kids this days (shakes fist)

tl;dr there's a non-unsubstantial # of people who learn a lot from geohot. I'd say about 3% of people here will be confused if you thought of him as less than a top technical expert across many comp sci fields.

And he did the geohot thing recently, way tl;dr: acted like there was a scandal being covered up by AMD around drivers that was causing them to "lose" to nVidia.

He then framed AMD not engaging with him on this topic as further covering-up and choosing to lose.

So if you're of a certain set of experiences, you see an anodyne quote from the CEO that would have been utterly unsurprising dating back to when ATI was still a company, and you'd read it as the CEO breezily admitting in public that geohot was right about how there was malfeasance, followed by a cover up, implying extreme dereliction of duty, because she either helped or didn't realize till now.

I'd argue this is partially due to stonk-ification of discussions, there was a vague, yet often communicated, sense there was something illegal happening. Idea was it was financial dereliction of duty to shareholders.
AI can already do a bunch of math. So "AI will not do math for us" is just factually wrong.
Im reviewing linear algebra now and would also love to know that book!
Wait, so if it’s accurate, interesting, new to most of us, and adjacent to the topic… that’s a bad thing?
>But renaming symbols throughout large projects without an LSP? Nah, been there, done that, for decades, and I'm glad that's over.

There is a trick -- never renaming anything. If the name is minted, that's it. It's canon.
I love old manuals. I partially answered that question here: https://passo.uno/why-collect-read-old-computer-manuals/
There are different levels of debugger. I use language ones all the time. But this article is talking process debugging. If you dev native compiled apps then that's probably second nature. But if you do dev on a scripted or runtime language then it is, as I said in my previous comment, rarely applicable but occasionally very helpful.
Yep, but still as a user I'd prefer the simpler way, since it will be more clear what's happening ("ok, curl-minimal is being replaced by the full curl when I install this package"). And there will be fewer little splinter packages.

I wonder if there's a place for an additional level of abstraction here, so that the user would just see something like "subcomponent X of the curl package is being installed"...
You can't compress liquids that waters gonna stay there
Oh, i know him... it's me!

I do "computer stuff" as my profession for about 20 years and always for rather small companies. I do everything from wiring a network, any level of supported, programming and administrative stuff... oh yeah, and in my current job I sometimes drive a forklift in the warehouse.

I work now for about 10 years for the same company and have built significant parts of their software ecosystem, and in my professional opinion: Its a Rube Goldberg machine fixed and extended with duct-tape, hotglue and tons of wishful thinking. Nothing, absolutely nothing in the system I had to build was carefully planned, implemented or tested. Most new feature requests were handed in by an stressed out boss on a Friday afternoon telling me that we need feature X / solution for problem Y / bugfix Z ABSOLUTELY URGENTLY because something went terribly wrong. Its not uncommon that this visits were the result of some prior hotfix backfiring.

And I build it. And it works.

I have often told my boss that it would be best to drag the whole system behind the warehouse and shoot it to relief it of its misery... but, well, it works...

Perhaps I should work on having this 'Pete skill' of leaving ship for the raise and promotion thing ;-)
I believe the distinction is that if you have to manually browse the docs and navigate to the method of interest, you might see something else interesting along the way.

Whereas if your editor takes you directly to the method in question, you miss that opportunity.
Ask HN: Is Synthetic Data Just Repackaged Knowledge?
I often see synthetic data conflated as if it were equivalent to new real-world samples. In reality, when a model generates synthetic data from its own learned distribution, isn’t it just rearranging the information it already captured?
Could an expert explain—using principles of information theory—why synthetic data might still improve a model’s performance despite not providing genuinely ‘novel’ information
Last time I checked (eager to buy after reviews) not "there" yet. Let see next year.

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Ubuntu-24.10-Snapdragon-X1E
https://www.phoronix.com/search/Snapdragon+X+Elite

EDIT: someone on reddit
https://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/1gu31bp/daily_drivin...

What's broken? Well still quite a lot...

Camera

Audio

Displayport alt mode

Lid switch and EC support (screen stays on when the lid is shut)

Bluetooth (tested with a patched kernel and had huge issues with audio stuttering which I suspect are firmware/driver related but haven't investigated).

Probably more??
This is the comment I was looking for.

You would aim to use CQL expressions inside of a PlanDefinition, in my estimate. This is exactly what AHRQ's, part of HHS, CDS Connect project aims to create / has created. They publish freely accessible computable decision support artifacts here: https://cds.ahrq.gov/cdsconnect/repository

When they are fully computable, they are FHIR PlanDefinitions (+ other resources like Questionnaire, etc) and CQL.

Here's an example of a fully executable Alcohol Use Disorder Identification Test: https://cds.ahrq.gov/cdsconnect/artifact/alcohol-screening-u...

There's so much other infrastructure around the EHR here to understand (and take advantage of). I think there's a big opportunity in proving that multimodal LLM can reliably generate these artifacts from other sources. It's not the LLM actually being a decision support tool itself (though that may well be promising), but rather the ability to generate standardized CDS artifacts in a highly scalable, repeatable way.

Happy to talk to anyone about any of these ideas - I started exactly where OP was.
So, like, why doesn’t Louisiana just, you know, get rid of the standing water?

I’m reminded of the old “I don’t see why cholera is such a problem when everyone has chlorinated tap water” geniuses.
Not a year, but I did take 3 months once due to working extreme overtime on a project (made the company I was working for a lot of money). It was paid time off so did not have any financial stress and 3 months is likely very different from a year. In any case, the energy and creativity I came back with after that was incredible.
Coming from me as a hiring manager, not a financial advisor: seeing a gap year has no effect at all on me except maybe a bit of jealousy. If you did something interesting and relevant in that time, bonus points.
I presume that AI is NOT replacing sales execs!

SalesForce is not dogfooding AgentForce ?

Perhaps it is just more enterprise shelfware.
If you read the relevant docs you will see how this is implemented and maybe realize that locking your entire database for a write transaction isn’t something that works for a whole lot of cases. Of course multiple readers are allowed, but multiple writers even to different tables still contend for the same lock (that doesn’t work on all file systems). There isn’t table-level locking, let alone row level locking.
> vouching for less regulations and more exposure is simply irresponsible.

We let people buy 6,000 pound vehicles capable of traveling 100+ mph.

We let people buy sharp knives and guns. And heat their homes with flammable gas. And hike up dangerous tall mountains.

I think the LLM is the least of society's worries and this pervasive thinking that everything needs to be wrapped up in bubble wrap is what is actually dangerous.

Can a thought be dangerous? Should we prevent people from thinking or being exposed to certain things? That sounds far more Orwellian.

If you want to criminalize illegal use of LLMs for fraud, then do that. But don't make the technology inaccessible and patronize people by telling them they're not smart enough to understand the danger.

This is not a "fragile world" technology in its current form. When they're embodied, walking around, and killing people, then you can sound the alarm.
Sorry you're dealing with cope. Deal with it fast, things are happening
Intel is in a vastly better shape than AMD, they have the software pretty much nailed down.
> Tinygrad was another one, but they ended up getting frustrated with AMD and semi-pivoted to Nvidia.

From their announcement on 20241219[^0]:

"We are the only company to get AMD on MLPerf, and we have a completely custom driver that's 50x simpler than the stock one. A bit shocked by how little AMD cared, but we'll take the trillions instead of them."

From 20241211[^1]:

"We gave up and soon tinygrad will depend on 0 AMD code except what's required by code signing.

We did this for the 7900XTX (tinybox red). If AMD was thinking strategically, they'd be begging us to take some free MI300s to add support for it."

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[^0]: https://x.com/__tinygrad__/status/1869620002015572023

[^1]: https://x.com/__tinygrad__/status/1866889544299319606
That is impressive, any examples that I can see, maybe something you followed or learned from?
I personally am also not that huge fan of Excel, a small reason to name it like this was also to try to challenge that concept a little :) . With something more structured, declarative, immutable and exact:

* For example, what if Excel wasn't an endless canvas, it would seem conceptually clearer if one sheet was exactly one table with known shape (and you can of course create multiple tables in the same workbook).

* whole column should have the same "formula" and the row for sums / averages and other aggregate functions is not positionaly determined but is more declarative and always on the end.

* header columns are a specific row, not just the first of the rows, or missing

I'm not saying such limited "Excel" would be a better Excel, but maybe it would make more sense, be safer and more predictable, for a subset of users. Anyway ... it's just a sub-experiment.

What negative connotations of Excel do you see?
People should be able to make their own decisions. Everything is so expensive already and now eliminating soda in snap. What are they going to take away next?
I mean even polio has its defenders, who seem to be winning (in the sense that you only need to convince 5% of the population to avoid vaccination to break herd immunity for the rest of us).
Seeing this comment a bit late... thank you so much for the kind words about the service!
It's been called a casino for kids. There's decent reporting around this. I wouldn't let my kid near this, or anything that has a game currency tied to a real-world currency.
Correct. You cannot have concurrent writers even to two independent tables. That page also clearly states the limitations of even this global lock system. I should have been more precise with my language in that while it’s possible it functionally can get to being useless pretty quickly.

SQLite is a wonderful database engine. But it isn’t the end all be all and no it doesn’t scale in the same way as something like Postgres. You cannot stretch it but you hit diminishing returns fairly quickly.
How often do folks venture off the happy path with Rust dependencies? Personally I’ve never once found myself in that situation.
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It had to destroy itself. These companies do not act on their own...
I started with an API called Pwinty which turned out to be pretty expensive so I ended up basically recruiting a print shop partner based in the US.

I've actually been looking at releasing a 4"x6" photo printing API of my own since we've developed some pretty neat shipping tricks as well as the ability to print on both sides of the photos.
Counter argument - I did this for years with neovim in all my side projects, and now I have a fast minimal autocomplete set up I enjoy it a lot more. Turns out I never did memorise the entire API surface of rust, and enjoy the editor suggesting functions.
""Top 10% of the Internet""

What is the top 10% of the Internet that isn't part of some publishing arm of existing media? And, how can you tell? Some dudes blog about vaccines verses Harvard? Which do you believe.

Where are the self funded scientific studies that are occurring outside of academia? And thus not 'biased' by the 'elites'.

For internet only writing. There aren't a ton of "Astral Codex Ten"'s to draw upon as independent thinkers. And even then, he didn't sprout out of the ether fully formed, he has a degree, he was trained in academia.
Their beliefs seem not to be religious but founded in reality , at least to me.
There is of course evidence it is likely happening.
Sealnotes – Open-Source Lightweight Encrypted Notepad
I concede that the specifics of what I said were wrong, but the larger point was not.

If you buy a single DGX H100 rack and run LINPACK, you automatically get TOP500-grade numbers. Infiniband is a solid product, if not the best commercial offering for AI/ML, but no one buys it for an HPC cluster separately from the DGX boxes.
I’ve recently took a year and a bit off for my mental and physical health. I did have to give up on good income for a while, but I figured my well being was much more important than having a larger house deposit.

Job-wise, I haven’t really stressed that much because I figured it wouldn’t too hard to get a software job as an experienced dev (and I was right)

During the break, I did try to build some for-profit projects so that I could prolong the break as much as I wanted. But in
hindsight, it was a mistake if I were to do it again I would just focus on what makes me happy instead of trying to make something that can make money.

All in all, I’d recommend it. I’m in a better place mentally and I hope I can do it again in 5-7 years.
I find myself mashing escape regularly in PyCharm to get rid of dialogs that interrupt my view and/or train of thought.
Based on the title I thought this was about Glitch, the chat app that was semi-popular in OSS projects. Or maybe I’m misremembering the name
Tip: copy-paste our entire exchange as a Gemini prompt and ask "who's correct?".

(I did that yesterday and was very satisfied :) )
It's so evil that it defies spelling
> If I can save someone else from wasting $100,000 on hardware and six months of their life then my post has done more good than the AMD marketing department ever will.

This seems like unuseful advice if you've already given up on them.

You tried it and at some point in the past it wasn't ready. But by not being ready they're losing money, so they have a direct incentive to fix it. Which would take a certain amount of time, but once you've given up you no longer know if they've done it yet or not, at which point your advice would be stale.

Meanwhile the people who attempt it apparently seem to get acquired by Nvidia, for some strange reason. Which implies it should be a worthwhile thing to do. If they've fixed it by now which you wouldn't know if you've stopped looking, or they fix it in the near future, you have a competitive advantage because you have access to lower cost GPUs than your rivals. If not, but you've demonstrated a serious attempt to fix it for everyone yourself, Nvidia comes to you with a sack full of money to make sure you don't finish, and then you get a sack full of money. That's win/win, so rather than nobody doing it, it seems like everybody should be doing it.
OK but it's still an incredible stretch to compare murders of prisoners to some company that isn't giving you all the wildly expensive benefits you think you're entitled to. There is also a big difference because most Germans were unaware of what concentration camps were doing, whereas everyone with basic awareness knows what an insurance company is and can choose to not do business with them.

Health insurance is a modern invention. People lived for thousands of years without it, and even in recent times most of the world does not have it. If you don't like insurance, you have the option of saving and investing your money to pay for whatever you can. Some people cannot afford to pay their expenses by saving, but those people cannot afford insurance either. Someone has to pay for whatever is on offer. I don't think insurance should be used for common health care, only for catastrophic things that you can't anticipate. Imagine how expensive car insurance would be if you insisted on having it pay for oil, tires, carwashes, etc. That is how people treat health insurance and it's stupid.