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> It is weird to see the industry invent yet another standard to do effectively the same thing just because Nvidia is using it.

This is a misstep for all involved, AMD included. Even if AMD is following everyone else by jumping off a bridge, AMD is still jumping too.
https://www.mckinsey.com/capabilities/people-and-organizatio...
I am a lifelong (40+ years of daily coding so far) programmer and it brought me good things. I actually think I am working on my last project, which indeed is to replace programmers. Not all, just for things we as a company do. We are very far with it. My biggest, existential, revelation is that my goals and successful products have always been around replacing programmers. My first sale of a product company (that made me rich enough to retire, which I did not) was a nocode tool I built in the late 90s. As that has been my work and hobby ever since the early 80s, I cannot imagine what I would build if, indeed, I would no longer need to program but can just say what I want. I want nothing, but to program.
Yep. If there’s one thing that Big Tech is doing even remotely better at in 2024, it’s letting the self-interest of the increasingly aging top brass guide the ship into making products that don’t assume that everyone is 20 years old with perfect vision.

It’s one of the few things that Apple is doing well at, but they’re doing really well at it.
There is no single video or audio that covers the life of a call, and likely never will be?

Additionally, body cams have extremely limited fields of view compared to humans. They’re fine for covering what is going on in the immediate vicinity, but useless for describing overall context.

That said, cops are notoriously terrible report writers, so meh.
Promise the world and AGI.

Deliver just another 2021 flavored GPT chatbot.
It’s not going to know what tastes good by being able to regurgitate recipes from 1000s of sites. Most of those recipes are absolute garbage. I’m going to guess you don’t cook.

Also how is an LLM going to fold laundry?
Every goal is equally arbitrary, I'm speaking to the assumed ideology of the AI fanatics.
Try jj out on an open source Git repo -- I think it will both be very easy to pick up, since you're used to Sapling, and quickly make sense.

You know how sl amend and sl fold/squash are two different commands, right? Well, jj amend is actually an alias for jj squash. And that's just the beginning.

Regarding uploading, yeah, you'll likely have to have some heuristics, but Mononoke is generally built for very high throughput. The heuristics might just be around local debouncing and aggressive expiry of uncommitted snapshots in the cloud. But in general, it's worth thinking about the local moment-to-moment UX independently of commit cloud considerations.
Back in the day, there also would have been one's complement systems where there was no sign bit and checking a negative value makes much more sense than "whatever the highest bit is" in that. Thankfully those are mostly dead and gone.

The sign bit has much more defined semantics regardless. You can sign extend it. It's guaranteed to be the MSB, rather than dependent on how your compiler does struct layout and every ABI will agree on where it lives. You don't have to worry about a mismatch between the language semantics of the payload and how any particular ISA treats the "integer". Etc.
Every sheet I open lately wants to turn my data into a "table". What the fuck? It's already a table.
And medieval monks in heaven are all gasping in unison
Which "small Android" is the size of iPhone mini? The ones I have encountered were basically feature phones running Android that I can't remember a single model name. Android went big a lot earlier than iPhone did (iPhone 6/Plus). [Remember "phablet" was a word?]

Just the goddamn top bar in Android consumes (used to?) 30% of screen in landscape.
It’s possible (maybe even likely) that “AI research” is “AGI-hard” in that any intelligence that can do it is already an AGI.
> But for the same reasons that we can't train the an average joe into Feynman, what makes you think we have the formal models to do it in AI?

To quote a comment from elsewhere https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42491536

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Yes, we can imagine that there's an upper limit to how smart a single system can be. Even suppose that this limit is pretty close to what humans can achieve.

But: you can still run more of these systems in parallel, and you can still try to increase processing speeds.

Signals in the human brain travel, at best, roughly at the speed of sound. Electronic signals in computers play in the same league as the speed of light.

Human IO is optimised for surviving in the wild. We are really bad at taking in symbolic information (compared to a computer) and our memory is also really bad for that. A computer system that's only as smart as a human but has instant access to all the information of the Internet and to a calculator and to writing and running code, can already be effectively act much smarter than a human.
Least load scheduler alternative to work stealing scheduler
> reflected more what people wanted to happen rather than what was likely.

I think that is true of most predictions.
its happening right now, its just demo quality. it's being worked on now
Thread-over-Matter mesh networking
UWB in door locks
Unlicensed 6Ghz spectrum
Apple room panels (AI/conferencing/control)
Apple security cameras, door locks
Apple iPad-on-motorized-pole
In-home AI/media servers (Mac Mini/Studio, Tinybox)
Speech interfaces based on open-source stacks
There is probably one employee - either a direct report of Su's or maybe one of her grandchildren in the org chart - who needs to "get it". If they replaced that one manager with someone who sees graphics cards as a tool to accelerate linear algebra then AMD would be participating more effectively in a multi-trillion dollar market. They are so breathtakingly close to the minimum standards of competence on this one. We know from the specs that the cards they produce should be able to perform.

This is a case-specific example of failure, it doesn't generalise very well to other markets. AMD is really well positioned for this very specific opportunity of historic proportions and the only thing holding them back is a somewhat continuous stream of unforced failures when writing a high quality compute driver. It seems to be pretty close to one single team of people holding the company back although organisational issues tend to stem from a level or two higher than the team. This could be the most visible case of value destruction by a public company we'll see in our lifetimes.

Optimistically speaking maybe they've already found and sacked the individual responsible and we're just waiting for improvement. I'm buying Nvidia until that proves to be so.
Similar experience here. These tools are so good for side stepping the one or two day grinds.
Problem is the funding. I can't really afford to risk at the bare minimum of $300K and try to grow it from there myself. Maybe one day, or if I find someone who shares the passion. If only there could be some weird AI angle to throw in to get some funding, am I right?!
" teaching a course on how to do all this..."
Can you provide some notice of this so I can schedule my vacation time to fully participate? Let me know when registration is open.
There's a huge amount of info available about the CAPTOR radar, its E-CAPTOR successor, and the common European radar successor. There are Wikipedia articles, promotional videos, marketing materials, and so forth.

This video[1] gives enough info that a game dev could make up a basic simulator for a game.
But that's just the basic mode. The thing has an large number of modes. Apparently it mostly manages them by itself, which is the clever part. It can act as a search radar, a targeting radar, a jammer, an RF weapon, a ground target mode, and even a bistatic mode, where one plane sends and another receives, so the attacker can get in close while not emitting.

Now that's a really hard user interface problem.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FpUhIwGjI7U
We do pair programming for new hires, works well. I'm
currently frustrated because our code reviews are both mandatory due to security certifications but also completely worthless to our team structure except Slack spam asking someone to click the approve button.

* The work that is done is decided beforehand, the code in every PR corresponds to a card that's already been discussed.

* There's no incentive whatsoever to "sneak something in" and if you do so maliciously you'll be fired and maybe prosecuted depending on the damage.

* Your code goes through integration testing and QA so you'll never (immediately) take down prod.

* I have backups coming out my ears that assume the code running on our app servers is actively malicious so you couldn't cause data loss if you tried.

* Norms are all enforced in code, which makes discussions about style pointless. If it passes CI it's good enough.
Indeed someone predicted vision pro will be wildly popular.
Plenty of people regard it as one of the first options. I assume you mean that you and I aspire to better, and if so I agree.

Violence can change things very rapidly in a superficial way: change who is holding the gun mostly.

More substantial and lasting change generally requires ideas framed by compelling words and cemented by personal sacrifice.

That’s the sort of change I’m signing up for.

Any idiot can kill someone.
"buying the hardware from a retail store." Never buy wholesale and never develop on immature hardware, I have seen c** with multiple 9 y.o. dev servers. I could shorten the ROI to less than 6 months.
AI Computer Interface (ACI)
Hi Hacker News,

What do you think about "AI-Computer Interface"?

Let me explain a bit. "Human-computer interface (HCI)", was first developed around WWII. Since then it evolved so much and today we have very sophisticated and intuitive interfaces.

It's the AI era, and there are so many projects and products trying to automate various tasks that humans are doing. However, main approach is to try to adapt their LLM-based products to current HCI, which is developed for humans, not LLMs. This approach actually works with some workaround, such as taking screenshots to understand what actions are available, etc.

Example project: https://github.com/OpenInterpreter/open-interpreter

I wonder if creating UI specifically for LLMs/AIs instead of adapting LLMs into human-friendly UI can make it possible to achieve more efficient automation processes.

Do you know any of such projects or products?

Happy holidays!
So they have reached human level intelligence :D
[dupe] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42483500
document.getElementById("divA").textContent = "This text is different!";

from:

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Node/textCo...
I found out the hard way what happens when you take them with your boat across a river with a chicken and leave them to pick up grain.
> Don’t you already need to know the people before you are part of the Stammtisch?

You do. And the classical eponymous Stammtisch isn't really inviting to newcomers. I've spent time in German Wirtshäuser (but maybe it's more extreme in Bavaria) sitting at a table next to the Stammtisch alone but they would never invite you to their table.

It's just not how it works, at least in Bavaria. Usually the Stammtisch is an extremely tightly-knit group of locals that frown upon everything new. Somehow over many years you might earn your right to an invitation.

Also if you go to a Wirtshaus it is easy to spot the Stammtisch (the actual table - it always has a bell) and even if it is empty you may not just sit there without permission just like in some kind of religious ritual.

Of course everyone is free to use the term to their liking and you call a regular meeting in different locations a "Stammtisch" but that is not how it is traditionally.
I gather from your text that you perceive images to be presentation and monochrome monospace text to be content.

Isn't all expression in a nutshell an act of presenting content?

Is emphasis content, or is it presentation? What about lowercase and uppercase? IS THAT CONTENT? Or "simply" presentation?

All expression is an attempt for our content to be perceived as we intend. All expression is a presentation of our content, including the very text of it. The text itself is simply one of the dimensions of our content's presentation.
Exactly. Every time I see a new spreadsheet SaaS with the data density of a non-spreadsheet SaaS I immediately dismiss it as a toy.
Nice, any time optimization is welcome :)
Gaza was heartbreaking, but the story was amplified in the US to suppress progressive turnout. I think I saw the same fingerprints on both sides.

Either way, the Battle of Oil is mostly over. The ME is increasingly irrelevant. Arab leaders predicted this long ago [1].

[1] https://www.oxfordreference.com/display/10.1093/acref/978019...
Most readers presumably keep showing the last valid response when they get an error, so that the user doesn’t notice. Returning a fake ok response, explaining that the reader is dumb, will lift attention to the user. Not that I would advocate for this solution, except for desperate moments.
Show HN: YPerf – Monitor LLM Inference API Performance
Our team operates several real-time AI applications, where both latency(TTFT) and throughput(TPS) are critical to most of our users. Unfortunately, nearly all of the major LLM APIs lack consistent stability.

To address this, I developed YPerf—a simple webpage designed to monitor the performance of inference APIs. I hope it helps you select better models and discover new trending ones as well.

The data is sourced from OpenRouter, an excellent provider that aggregates LLM API services.
Of course it's an Electron app that unzips to about half a gigabyte for the Linux version thanks to having to bundle a whole Chrome browser runtime. Totally insane for a streaming video application. If only there was a Qt version, that respects keyboard and mouse focused desktop UI conventions.
Well, I happen to like that any service I subscribe to using my phone can be unsubscribed in one click, without jumping backwards through hoops while standing on my head begging customer service to cancel and no I don't want to extend my trial at a special discounted rate. And the iPhone market is big enough that companies have to offer signup in their app. But if companies start drifting to only offering services via other stores or payments, then they will inevitably fuck up the cancel option again, and I will lose something.
Let's say you have a lookup table and your algorithm looks up a value and returns it. O(n) space O(1) in time.
I wish there could be a way for me to live through these times. Like world of warcraft classic, but for real life. I know that we're like years away from stuff like these.
> But I guess you could say it acts more like the person that makes stuff up at work if they don’t know, instead of saying they don’t know.

I have had language models tell me it doesn't know. Usually when using a RAG-based system like Perplexity, but they can say they don't know when prompted properly.
This would be an interesting thread if you asked users to support their predictions with evidence or substance.
Sometimes when you find yourself annoyed by stuff like this replace "Apple" with "Microsoft" and "iPhone" with "Windows".

It's a useful way to check subconscious bias.
AWS was built on hordes of VC backed startups drowning in heaps of cash and very little operational expertise.
I'm glad you agree. Because it's not about libre anything.

I don't believe I should "lose some of my standing to complain" after buying any product whatsoever. Cheap, expensive, "luxury", you name it. I believe I should gain standing after paying for something. I believe should fully own the thing after buying it. Especially $1000+ "luxury" smartphones. I believe I should never end up being a serf in the corporation's digital fiefdom.
both you and another highlynupvoted poster have said some versioj "never going back" or "dont want to go back" or "the tools that exist now are already insane"

And while I'm happy for you, I don't see the relevance? this post was not about "going back" or "stopping the use of AI tools" at all?
Many large sub reddits are insufferable at this point but I still see great value in smaller niche topics.
It’s a little funny that we have heard concerns about AI eliminating jobs but now we’re hearing they’re concerned AI hasn’t taken this particular job.

Makes me wonder what the number of people is who also have this job who don’t want this lawsuit to happen for exactly that reason - that their job will be eliminated.

120 people out of how many? Tens of thousands globally?
Having scanned the codebase, I think this is about quickly and safely launching and managing risc-v binaries as sandboxed processes? Which is useful, but has nothing to do with virtual machines in the usual sense of there being a hypervisor with hardware support for isolation.
In 1996, IBM's AIX with the web browser packages installed (NCSA Mosaic or Netscape, I can't recall which) silently sent telemetry back to their mothership without any clear notice or opt-out mechanism. They just sent data back home every few hours without telling their customers what they were up to. I discovered this because it was constantly keeping an ISDN router dialing at all hours, racking up telco bills for a dial-on-demand connection. Fixed by deny listing that particular IP to be un-routable.
I feel this so strongly. same story as you, and the postal code idea is brilliant.

I've traveled to the Northeast US a fair bit and am so surprised at how many drinking establishments those towns can support (or not, if the bars are in decline).

Take Manayunk, a town that got amalgamated into present day Philadelphia. It's on a commuter rail line that leads to Center City. A pretty little town with humble homes on small roads nearby. The name of the town means "the place to drink" in the Lenape language. You couldn't design a more idyllic small-town so close to a heavily urbanized area, in my opinion. But I digress.

While walking around with a tomato pie I was trying to finish before taking the train downtown, I counted about 12 bars full of who looked to be regulars, all on a weeknight. laughs a plenty, no banging club music. just the sound of life from townsfolk who probably go back a few generations at least.

in contrast, the PNW has always had transient worker populations, but even homeless people here often exude friendliness and a willingness to talk to strangers. it may be because they rely more on networks of goodwill than those with salaries and lease agreements. it may be because their living quarters are closer together, whether in the shelter or on the street. whatever the reason, there is a noticable dearth of that human connection with my life in the PNW, and it's such a recurring point of conversation that the horse has now been beaten to a pulp.

the way you long for the pub culture of the Northeast US is all too familiar to me. it's my Disneyland, because it's basically a fantasy when our cities are designed the way they are.
It is more likely a gimmick for the 8-track release.
> None of this matters because AMD drivers are broken

Do you honestly think the MI300 has show-stopper driver bugs, or that Meta/Amazon doesn't have a direct line to AMD engineers?
https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Censorship_of_the_Bible

Plenty of info here starting from the section From the Printing Press until the Revelation.
Well, the boundary between the host and the guest, the system call API, is always going to be the biggest vector of attacks no matter what the solution used is. But, if you find a problem and fix it, you're back to being safe again, unlike if you don't have any sandboxing at all. You can also put the whole solution in a jail, which is very common nowadays.
Great news to hype up the average Redditor and the video-addicted normie, but it won't change the outcome of the war.
Interesting. I implemented something very similar (if not identical) a couple years ago (at work so not open source). I used a simple grammar and standard parser generator. It’s been nice to have the grammar as we’ve made tweaks over the years to change various behaviours and add features.
Show HN: A faster and compliant way to scrape the SEC
The SEC rate limits you to 5 requests per second. The SEC has more than 16 million submissions, with each submission having multiple documents. For example, Tesla's 2021 10-K SEC page has 14 documents.

Scraping every SEC submission document by document would take about 200 days.

There is a faster approach. Submissions to the SEC are stored in Standard Generalized Markup Language in one file. That means that if you have a SGML parser, you only have to download the submission .txt file. Scraping every SEC SGML submission takes about 40 days.

There is a much faster approach. SEC data is stored in SGML in daily archives accessible here going back to 1994: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/Feed/1995/. Since the SEC rate limits you to 30mb/s of egress and there is 3tb of data, downloading every archive takes slightly more than a day.

I've written a fast SGML parser here using Cython:
https://github.com/john-friedman/datamule-python
Interest paid on treasury bonds is a policy choice. There is no default risk, and the govt could easily implemnet ZIRP forever and run the economy without monetary policy entirely.
My favourite was Happy Computer: https://archive.org/details/computermagazines?tab=collection...

There's so much enthusiasm and playfulness in these magazines. And it's a great mix of "serious" computing (spreadsheets and all), games, hardware and type-in listings (hey, you get a game for free! or increase the resolution of your homecomputer with just some hundred lines of machine code :)
Fun fact (from wikipedia):

> The largest JumboTron in use was located at SkyDome (now Rogers Centre) in Toronto, Ontario, and measured 10 m tall by 33.5 m wide (33 ft × 110 ft), with a resolution of 672 × 200 pixels, or 134,400 pixels.[9] Its cost was US$17 million.
Apparently Eric Whitacre (a choral composer popular with high school choirs around 2001-2003) originally wrote Sleep to the lyrics of “Stopping by…” but was sued by Frost’s estate. He can’t release the original until 2038. https://ericwhitacre.com/music-catalog/sleep
I’m also bullish on this.

It looks really cool and revolutionary. And doable.

But it also looks horrible in how this will force us to lose what remaining control we had over our privacy :(

LLMs are really cool but we really need to make them work locally.
* Guatemala starts a major war over Mexican espionage in Petén

* Donald Trump is revealed to be the true identity of Satoshi Nakamoto

* President Nelson (prophet of the LDS church) dies and is replaced by Dallin Oaks

* Dugin writes a sequel to The Fourth Political Theory, titled The n+1'th Political Theory

* New microscope finds the words "God was here" etched into every molecule in the universe

* People become at least 5% cuter as estrogen/testosterone ratio continues to tip in that direction
Read The Deficit Myth by Stephanie Kelton and watch the film Finding the Money to find out how this "debt storm" is neither debt, nor a storm.
Do you put any weight on any factors beside the technical capabilities of the tools you're working with? Like, say, how easy they are to pick up or use, etc.?

The way your comment reads, it's like you're saying you'll never hire someone who rejects speaking to you in Esperanto unless they offer a good critique of its grammar.
All the cloud providers list MI300x as more expensive than H100. So if you compare performance/cost it is even worse.