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I think really there are two types of "free market" supporters.

The first is what you're arguing, a version that includes "free of monopolies" in the definition. A market full of competition. A market that has no choice but to serve their customers to the best they can because otherwise a competitor will take their customers.

The second are the anarcho-capitalists. They have the naive belief that corporations that do bad things will be punished by the market, making regulations unnecessary and stifling. To them, if one business is winning due to deceit, then the blame lies in the customer for being deceived. They think the decision that leads to the most profit is the best, side-effects be damned. They're insufferable and would gladly destroy the planet for an extra 5% profit on their quarterly reports.
Looking really cool. The preorder stripe page says $300 but it says deposit. What’s the actual price when available?
> Is there a possible way to unblow the fuse?

Maybe, but it's also possible that it wouldn't do anything. Other Nvidia boards (like the Tegra in the Switch) also come with arbitrarily disabled "dark silicon", but enabling the extra SOC hardware only causes the board to crash when using everything at once. It wouldn't surprise me if this was a binning measure, even though I also wouldn't be surprised if it was an arbitrary limit.
I think they went bankrupt, so hope that's some consolation. I heard that an attempt to buy them by DTV got rejected on antitrust. But in the article it said they went bust
General reciprocity is a bad idea, because many laws suck and are a net bad for the country implementing them. Reciprocal tariffs are common, but harmful to the countries that implement them — if you're in a boat and the other guy shoots a hole in it, you don't get back at him by shooting another hold in the boat, and the threat of reciprocal tariffs usually doesn't work to get the original tariffs rescinded.
Trump in term 1 was the most hostile to legal immigration President in decades and that was before he started slandering Haitians with legal status
Underrated comment. I was thinking exactly the same thing.
That's not what they're suggesting.

They're noting that digital services have come to look more like traditional goods, and reasonably warrant analogous trade policies. If a foreign market bans or regulates some good on import, reciprocity just suggests applying an equivalent measure on their exports.

Here, China restricts many US social media products, which a free market advocate would call an unfair distortion of the market, that deserves to be balanced by reciprocal restrictions on their social media products. (perhaps in the hopes of pressuring China to stand down their restricitions and "play fair")
The comment you're replying to already said it's unenforced.
That's just motor reflexes that don't even enter higher cognitive processing. But daydreaming probably does process at the same rate as normal language, as was explained in the other comment. Try doing algebra in your head while running an obstacle course you've never seen and you'll be much slower at everything.
AI = jobs move to eastern europe or Asia.

you see it with a lot of tech companies acquired by PE or massively funded by VCs that on their careers page - most positions are either India or Eastern Europe.
Near as I can tell, it’s similar to ‘don’t talk about salary at work’ stuff - technically maybe if you can prove it and complain to the right person, but it’s everywhere.
Congress plus the President's signing authority have massive power and broad latitude to make decisions. I don't think TikTok stands a chance really. I wonder if there is a place I could bet on it.
ie. good luck, you will be remembered
This should be a Show HN, not an Ask HN
whether it did or not,

HCQ (among other things like methylene blue from which it is derived) can’t be given to people who are g6pd deficient.

That will indeed cause the side effects of hemolytic anemia (loss of red blood cells, heart attacks, ICU, anemia) we see giving the drug to certain populations for say, malaria. (Or HIV when they tried that.)

you won’t find many g6pd
Deficient people in china, however you will find g6pd adaptations for malaria that we don’t have. so HCQ may work differently in their bodies than it does ours. a study that says “HCQ did something a certain way in their bodies” doesn’t mean it will mine.

G6PD deficiency - Prevalence of 0.6% - 2.0% nationwide in china depending on who you ask. So may be easy to dish it out and say no one had deadly side effects.

In the USA it’s about 7%, and then in black males it’s 11%. You can’t give out hcq like candy here without testing for g6pd deficiency. Because even if it did “work,” it would be deadlier than Covid for these populations.
It is very well defined. I can summarise it in one sentence: "In 1989, the European Communities banned the import of meat that contained artificial beef growth hormones,[a] although they were approved for use in the United States."

you can read about it in more depth here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beef_hormone_controversy

That is about the beef. There is a different controversy about poultry meat. There the controversy is that under EU law, cold air and water are the only substances that can be used to decontaminate poultry. In the US chlorine rinses are also permitted.

In other words artificial beef growth hormones and chlorine rinsed chicken are the two points which is what we mean by 'substandard' in this conversation.
Get DOGE to examine the failures.
Yeah the number of tpus google has alone massively dwarfs the compute anybody else has.
You aren't arguing with Tom's use of the term here - you are arguing with a semiconductor teardown specialist who pointed this out. They are extra chunks of silicon with no logic or transistors that are glued on. Hence, by every single definition of the term, they are dummy silicon.
I think it’s a better written and more earnest comment than most I see on this site.
Your comment made me wonder if any of my old AWS accounts were charging me after I shut everything down. Come to find out they have been charging me ~$2 for the last 24 months.
…in UK (and EU) I assume?
If you’d just had a business controller, you’d have x*$10M saved and have more time for your PM-role.

Yes, calling BS on leadership running their own SQL. Bring strategy and tactics, find good people, create clear roles and expectations and sure don’t get lost in running naive scripts you’ve written because you can do all roles better than the people actually occupying those roles.
It won’t happen by other company coming up with faster chips. It will happen by other company coming with cheaper chips and less energy demanding, dominating the low end and then reaching higher.

While Nvidia might have won the training market, it’s inference where the real money is.
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Human's can transfer up to 39 bit/s during normal speech, so I highly doubt that it's accurate to describe human "throughput" as being only 10 bit/s.

https://www.science.org/content/article/human-speech-may-hav...
Dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42449503
That's a great idea! We thought about in the context of elder care where they could ask the robot to perform a task for them, but we first need the models to be a little better - hence why we start here, to collect the data before it spreads further.

And by the way, we already have the app that you can use to control the robot at distance, so you can use the skills you taught it remotely as you make it navigate your home!

On the fact it would get bricked if the company goes under, note that our agent runs on other clouds so it's very easy to run if the company goes under - we would open-source it. But if you're not in the US we can't easily ship it to you for the first batch anyway :)
Meta is still GPUs. Amazon Trainium 1 was a failure and is trying an upgrade with Trainium 2. Google is a TPU shop but still busy GPUs for cloud.
It will take a much bigger nuke than a backpack to make a big city "just gone" in the modern world.

Every now and then, ships full of explosive material blow up in a coastal city, with yields much larger than what a small nuke like W54 can produce. Texas City. Tianjin. Beirut. They were tragic accidents with many casualties, but nowhere near strong enough to wipe a big city off the map. Reinforced concrete is incredibly tough. There's an old building in Hiroshima that survived only 150 yards from ground zero. WW2-style firebombing is much more effective at rm -rf'ing cities than most nukes we have today.

Whether or not the man at the top will take the explosion as an opportunity to attack another country, now that's a much more serious concern.
Thanks for the citation of 'Chapman v Brown', it's an interesting case that I hadn't heard of: https://law.justia.com/cases/federal/district-courts/FSupp/1...
My outsider's understanding is Google is the only one whose custom silicon is the primary compute for their flagship foundation models. I didn't see any messaging about the Nova models being trained on Traininium (AWS), and Meta still talks about the number of H110's training their Llama models.
If you don't know what something is, then how do you know it's not a threat?
> mostly CAN

CAN is just the physical and framing layer. The data that goes over it is a whole different matter, and it's proprietary to every vendor, incompatible and generally undocumented.

For a lot of cars you can't even swap the exact same ECU between vehicles (due to bullshit like the VIN being written into it for no reason, and often no official way to change that other than "buy a new module" - so you have to hack around with reverse engineering & EEPROM programmers), let alone mix and match completely different parts.
Try suing LOBNDX for their faulty charger you bought on Amazon.
The public comms around this capability has been terrible, at least towards a technical audience. It all focuses on the "key stored on phones with proprietary OS" model, completely hiding how it actually works. I'm sure that's fine for a general audience, but as someone who doesn't trust these big companies with my whole life, it's an extremely repelling message.

Like the very first sentence on the official passkeys website is, "A passkey allows a user to sign in to apps and websites with the same process that they use to unlock their device (biometrics, PIN, or pattern)." I don't use any of those methods to unlock my Linux laptop! What does unlocking my personal device have to do with logging in to websites? Is it reading my /etc/shadow? What's going on here?? Just terrible.

Oh, it's just a keypairing system. Okay. Why don't they just say that?? How you unlock the private keystore is just an implementation detail, not an inherent property of passkeys.

Thanks again for the Bitwarden link, I'm going to play around with it this weekend and see if I can figure out how it actually works without all the offputting, misleading marketing speak.
I have a hard time believing that this supreme court, congress, or presidency, will have any interest in taking away corporate speech rights.
'He kept going until he couldn't': why do boomer men refuse to slow down?
It also says $2,000 on stripe and on the website right?

Thanks for the comment though, means that we should make it clearer maybe?
Yeah if you're looking at this from a 'who has more compute' google beats everyone by a mile.
I hope it says that they remain above 50%
Meta is Nvidia shop for training and AMD for inferencing. Strict seperation between vendors.
I linked to the cited case in my comment; it's an interesting read, and I suggest that you check it out https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42452760
I have no idea, it seems quite weird that they weren’t made to shut down.

What’s Trump have to do with? I don’t like him or his policies, but I don’t think we need to trace all bad decisions back to him or anything like that.
I am very very annoyed by many of the shallow "it's obviously wrong" comments on this story. And thank you to those rebutting more politely than I feel inclined to.

It's a fascinating paper and something that I have been interested in since before [0] and ties in to a strand of work in my PhD research. Also see for example [1].

[0] Stevens, M. Sensory Ecology, Behaviour, and Evolution, OUP Oxford, 2013, ISBN 9780199601783, LCCN 2012554461

[1] Coupé, Christophe and Oh, Yoon Mi and Dediu, Dan and Pellegrino, François Different languages, similar encoding efficiency: Comparable information rates across the human communicative niche, American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), 2019-09, Science Advances, volume 5, report/number 9, ISSN 2375-2548, doi:10.1126/sciadv.aaw2594
What is NAC?
V0.dev from vercel is pretty powerful for creating from scratch. Haven’t used it for improving an existing design
Consider normal text compression and you're left with a few bits at best for most of those "fast talkers/listeners." And the human brain is very good at compression.
TPUs are like the NPU of the training world. You take a bunch of extra time, money and dedicated silicon and end up with an ASIC that barely competes on equal terms with a similarly priced GPU. Unless you've got access to Nvidia's TSMC supply, you're probably not going to make a dent on their demand.

Additionally - TPUs are completely useless if AI goes out of style, unlike CUDA GPUs. The great thing about Nvidia's hardware right now is that you can truly use the GPU for whatever you want. Maybe AI falls through in 2026, and now those GPUs can be used for protein folding or crypto mining. Maybe crypto mining and protein folding falls through - you can still use most of those GPUs for raster renders and gaming too! TPUs are just TPUs - if AI demand goes away, your dedicated tensor hardware is dead weight.
I think you meant to say "local maximum". If they were in a local minimum, moving out of it would improve conditions rather than worsen them. The situation where you can't improve without going down is a local maximum.
We will still talk about AI in five years because AI is still massively behind what the general public thinks of as AI

Think skynet or HAL. All powerful and all knowing systems that run every aspect of our lives.

Even our concept of VR is so far behind what people have expected from sci-fi movies for decades. Until we can jack in and get full sensory feedback, VR will continue to get talked about out as more than fancy 3D glasses.

In the 80s we all wanted the hoverboards from back to the future. We never got them but we keep calling things with wheels hoverboards because these ideas are too good to die and the general public still wants them.
They are overhyped and not as performant as Nvidia regardless of marketing.
> When your brand evolves to a different shade of green

This is such a funny line to read. I just can't help but imagine a brand like a small bulbasaur that evolves into big, strong venosaur which of course involves changing its shade of green.

> An interesting question would be: "how much does it matter that the visual language is consistent across a company's assets?"

An even more interesting question would be "if we keep changing the colours/shapes/general theme/etc. of our brand's logos every nine months or so, do they even matter, really?"

My suspicion is that the answer is "no, not really, that's why we can afford to meddle with them since it's a mostly consequence-free environment, and it distracts busybodies from breaking some actually important aspect of the business".
I was writing a comment saying the same thing when your comment appeared. Yest, Meta, Google, and Amazon all have custom silicon, and it seems Microsoft's similar efforts came later. None of these companies want to give Nvidia all of the money, so going forward, I think Nvidia isn't going to see more competition from these efforts. The big players aren't going to sell their chips to others (I don't think), but they'll make them available to cloud customers.
There's nothing bad about what AMD is doing here and the resulting product is amazing. I would like to see a similar teardown for Arrow Lake Foveros though.
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He ran on a platform of easier legal immigration.
I always assumed firing one of these things was a suicide mission, but some NATO guy on Quora has suggested otherwise, and it seems pretty convincing.

https://www.quora.com/Would-the-Davy-Crockett-tactical-nucle...

Basically, even though the W54 had a max yield of a 1kt, the Davy Crockett used a warhead with a far lower yield, as low as 10 tons
Yet even more ways for corporations to underpay native, domestic workers.
The byzantine US immigration system absolutely is an impediment to people coming and staying here, and in my (admittedly anecdotal) estimation is a major competitive disadvantage, and a big part of the reason the UK, EU, Canada and China are making progress towards becoming tech hubs.
I think most democratic nations have a similar principle of separation of powers, so... almost all of them?

The US is rich because it's well functioning.
SCMP is a propaganda rag now. Their unnamed source conveniently omits what the investigation found, or SCMP is reluctant to report it.
Show HN: Let a Vision Model Roast You
Hey everyone!

I've been experimenting a lot with vision models over the past few days and came up with this fun concept.

Upload your profile picture and let Qwen2-VL roast you! Life's always better when we can laugh at ourselves. Laughing at myself has always been a great way to step back, reduce stress, and just enjoy being alive.
Sorry to be a pedant, and I also want to confirm my understanding is correct (yes, I've attempted checking definitions, but.. :)

In this case I think firing the device upwind would be ill-advised, as then the fallout will be blowing back to you.

Edit: thank you for the correction @erikerikson! Noted, and best wishes!
Given the obvious context, that shouldn’t be something that needs clarification.
>It is wild that the number of GPUs purchased by a company has become, like, an infrastructure investment or something. Like the count itself is worth reporting.

An estimated count is newsworthy for the journalists and the readers because it's an indirect proxy for outsiders -- who are not privy to the internal plans of FAANG companies -- to try and figure out what's happening. Basically trying to "read the tea leaves" of the AI industry.

Demand exceeds supply. NVIDIA has limited number chips to sell and TSMC factory time is overbooked. In the current zero-sum situation, NVIDIA picking and choosing who to sell to may be a signal of something. And/or Microsoft/OpenAI's willingness to spend billions on 2x the NVIDIA chips is a signal of something.

https://fortune.com/2024/02/21/nvidia-earnings-ceo-jensen-hu...

https://fortune.com/2024/09/12/nvidia-jensen-huang-ai-traini...
Show HN: Bodo – high-performance compute engine for Python data processing
Hello HN,

I’m excited to share Bodo, an open-source compute engine designed for large-scale data processing in native Python. Bodo is powered by an auto-parallelizing JIT compiler and an HPC backend, enabling it to generate highly optimized, parallel binaries (MPI) for Pandas and NumPy code—all without requiring any code rewrites.

Our latest benchmark demonstrates 20x to 240x speedup over traditional distributed computing frameworks like Spark, Ray, and Dask (code and details in repo).

The inspiration for Bodo came from my background in HPC, when I saw how extremely slow and hard to use Spark was (has gotten better over the years but still not great). Of course, a compiler has its own limitations (e.g. not all Python is compilable), but I think it’s leaps and bounds better.

Let me know what you think.
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I very much doubt cars with a lot of electronics and reliant of software and increasingly network connected are going to last that long anyway. The manufacturer stops updating software after 10 years if you are lucky and then its EOL and increasingly unsafe and insecure.
I think this is a vast understatement. Google has been using their own TPUs for a very long time now. I think they still have some GPUs from Nvidia, but it's marginal compared to their own silicon. Other big players are behind the curve on this front, but very much working to close the gap. These are companies with nearly infinite pockets, Google has shown that you can make it work without Nvidia, it's only a matter of time before others do it too.
Africa is a static large site of habitation where the disappearance of 99% of evidence would still leave easily findable evidence. In GP’s scenario the habitation would be transient. Not really comparable.
The effort by the nuclear nations to hunt down these weapons is likely significant. As it their efforts to stop proliferation in general. It is also something the US, Russia and everyone else can agree on.
Just consider the number of Iranian physicists that have driven off the road under tragic circumstances… How would non-state actors be hunted, no doubt intensively.
You can test clothing for flammability, then again if the design materially changes.

Food doesn't work this way - each jar has a low chance of contamination, so spot testing won't catch the problem. Small changes in manufacturing procedure can result in big changes in safety.

source: worked in the wholesale food industry, across 300+ categories.
Oh that's really interesting! I imagine there could be a reason for it, for instance the data is distributed differently in the micropartitions so different where values could result in different data lookup patterns as you may skip more/less blocks. But overall this makes a lot of sense!
Here's a blog series where I get her program running on a modern computer using a simple transliteration to C:
https://pairdebuggingwithlovelace.hashnode.dev/
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before when I was naive - I thoughts courts were impartial or I believed they were.

but now court rulings lean politically depending on who appointed the judge or the judge's personal beliefs.
Another way to put it: try to perform a skill you have never practiced. For example, if you've never played the piano or tried to read sheet music, see how long it takes you to play a few notes correctly. It's complex enough that you'll very likely find yourself limited to around 10 bits per second. You shouldn't count the bits handled by visual processing, basic motor control, and other things you have practiced all your life. If you practice the skill, the skill moves out of your conscious processing and no longer counts toward the 10 bits per second.
As an Atheist (formally Orthodox), I think I can adjudicate this.

The problem with the First Council of Nicaea was that it was decided wrong. The whole "there are three gods, but only one god" is inherently confusing. There's a reason why Arianism keeps recurring over and over again. All the new nations who have been introduced to this aspect of Christianity find it bizarre.

If the decision would have been more along the lines of Islam (i.e. Jesus is super holy, but not God) then it would have been easier to maintain unity. In fact, Islam's adoption of a form of Arianism is one of the reasons it replaced Christianity so quickly in North Africa and the Middle East. (Well, that and the sword.)
A flat percentage means exactly that - everyone pays the same percentage. Everyone derives the same value from the government, ie. the same percentage of their income.
Also TPU v1,v2 and v3 were ASICs, but since v4 they have added some new features so they have a lower performance/watt which is quite near Nvidia's power draw. I think Hopper is at 700W and TPU are around 600W.
Meat safety is a USDA thing, not FDA. It doesn't make sense, but this is only an FDA failure in that they didn't try to move in on USDA's territory.
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