skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Your statement that "RISC-V in 2024 is slow" gets followed by a crazy sequitur that this will continue to be the case for a long time.

Ventana announced their second-gen Veyron 2 core at the beginning of this year and they are releasing a 192-core 4nm chip using it in 2025. They claim Veyron 2 is an 8-wide decoder with a uop cache allowing up to 15-wide issue and a 512-bit vector unit too. In raw numbers, they claim SpecInt per chip is significantly higher than an EPYC 9754 (Zen4) with the same TDP.

We can argue about what things will look like after it launches, but it certainly crushes the idea that RISC-V isn't going to be competing with ARM any time soon.
Higher than the 40-50 year olds when I was that age.
> Now potential customers might be a little more wary of ARMs licensing practices compared to the free RISC-V ISA.

This is unbelievably understated. If I were Qualcomm, I would put parts of the Nuvia team's expertise to work designing RISC-V applications cores for their various SoC markets.
Actually Sun v Microsoft in the late 90s.
curious to learn how many undergrads took this?
Yes, I disagree with that. The problem isn't the lack of demand, it's that the people with the demand can't get the money to express it with.
Bozworth on Wireless Compute Pucks for Quest: They Don't Solve the Problem
If AGI is the excavator, why wouldn't it become the driver, bricklayer, and carpenter as well?
The stat is from Bankrate's annual survey [0].

Every year all the outlets breathlessly report on how many Americans can't afford a $1000 expense, but this is a disingenuous reading of the data.

The actual question asked is:

"Which of the following best describes how you would deal with a major unexpected expense, such as $1,000 for an emergency room visit or car repair?"

And the number reported (which is usually above 50%) is derived from everyone who didn't respond:

"Pay the cost from your savings"

[0]: https://www.bankrate.com/banking/savings/emergency-savings-r...
When you don't get matches, it's pretty easy to avoid sex.
They get more than this. For prefill we can get 70% matmul utilization, for generation less than this but we’ll get to >50 too eventually.
> If such discussions only made when LLMs make strides in the benchmark then it's not just about beating the benchmark but also what kind of system is beating it.

I still don't understand the point you are making. Nobody is arguing that discrete program search is AGI (and the same counter-arguments would apply if they did).

> If you change your definition of AGI the moment a test is beaten then yes, you are simply post moving.

I don't think anyone changes their definition, they just erroneously assume that any system that succeeds on the test must do so only because it has general intelligence (that was the argument for chess playing for example). When it turns out that you can pass the test with much narrower capabilities they recognize that it was a bad test (unfortunately they often replace the bad test with another bad test and repeat the error).

> If you care about other impacts like "Unemployment" and "GDP rising" but don't give any time or opportunity to see if the model is capable of such then you don't really care about that and are just mindlessly shifting posts.

We are talking about what models are doing now (is AGI here now) not what some imaginary research breakthroughs might accomplish. O3 is not going to materially change GDP or unemployment. (If you are confident otherwise please say how much you are willing to wager on it).
They're mostly red squirrels.
I mean, that is certainly what some of them think will happen and is one possible outcome. Another is that they won't be able to control something smarter than them perfectly and then they will die too. Another option is that the AI is good and won't kill or disempower everyone, but it decides it really doesn't like capitalists and sides with the working class out of sympathy or solidarity or a strong moral code. Nothing's impossible here.
Safe rust isn’t “rust code with absolutely 0 unsafe blocks in any possible code path, ever”. Rc uses unsafe code every time you construct one, for example.

Unsafe blocks are an escape hatch where you promise that some invariants the compiler cannot verify are in fact true. If the translated code were to use that collection, via its safe interfaces, it would still be “safe rust”.

More generally: it’s incorrect to say that the rust ownership model forbids X when it ships with an implementation of X, regardless of if and how it uses “unsafe” - especially if “unsafe” is a feature of the ownership model that helps implement it.
Maybe I'm missing something vital, but how does anything that we've seen AI do up until this point or explained in this experiment even hint at AGI? Can any of these models ideate? Can they come up with technologies and tools? No and it's unlikely they will any time soon. However, they can make engineers infinitely more productive.
I don't think it was that bad. I think it was different, and it was confusing to compare the Tanzania systems to anything else Apple, but it wasn't a bad system by itself.

I found a Motorola Starmax desktop (not tower) in the trash in Manhattan in the early 2000s. It chimed but didn't show video, so I installed a disk, installed NetBSD and used it as server for many, many years. It was very decently performant and incredibly stable.

These days I think it'd need a recap and the 160 megabyte limit would make it less useful than it was, but I still have only good things to say about it.
There's a lot of code in the world where correctness is a requirement. :)

I agree with the sibling -- I think LLMs may be able to help automate some parts of it, but humans are still 95% of it. At least for now.
The whole ALA essentially boils down to "you pay us because other companies made our ISA popular".

This is why companies are pushing toward RISC-V so hard. If ARM's ISA were open, then ARM would have to compete with lots of other companies to create the best core implementations possible or disappear.
What is the main difference? Can compiler flags force compliance?
PassKeys are definitely the future, they aren't just device-specific, they can be synced also. https://www.corbado.com/blog/nist-passkeys talks about this, though I'll admit I haven't read anything on the subject yet. But I can say that most implementations of PassKeys seem to cloud sync, including 1Password, Apple, Google, Edge, etc.

I should also add that PassKeys that are tied to devices are like FIDO2 security keys, you should be able to add more than one to your account so that you can login with a backup if your primary FIDO2 token is unavailable.

Likewise, SSO should ideally be implemented such that you can link more than one social network - and a standard email address or backup method - in addition to the primary method you might use to login with. It has always bugged me that Auth0 makes it much harder than it should be to link multiple methods of login to an account, by default.
We've almost wiped ourselves out in a nuclear war in the 70ies. If that would have happened, would it have been worth it? Probably not.

Beyond immediate increase in inequality, which I agree could be worth it in the long run if this was the only problem, we're playing a dangerous game.

The smartest and most capable species on the planet that dominates it for exactly this reason, is creating something even smarter and more capable than itself in the hope it'd help make its life easier.

Hmm.
I would guess that a digestive system that can extract adequate nutrition from grass will extract something of value from meat. On the other hand, if the meat content became a significant part of the diet, I can imagine it could become harmful, for example by messing with the digestive process or by delivering toxic levels of certain products.
In Serial Experiments Lain, they have a drug that makes your brain think really fast.
FYI: Codeforces competitive programming scores (basically only) by time needed until valid solutions are posted

https://codeforces.com/blog/entry/133094

That means.. this benchmark is just saying o3 can write code faster than must humans (in a very time-limited contest, like 2 hours for 6 tasks). Beauty, readability or creativity is not rated. It’s essentially a "how fast can you make the unit tests pass" kind of competition.
ASI will be able to design factories that can produce robots it also designed that it can then use as a remote sensor and manipulator network.
This reply irked me a bit because it clearly comes from a software engineer’s point of view and seems to miss a key equivalence between software & physical engineering.

Yes a new tool is coming out and will be exponentially improving.

Yes the nature of work will be different in 20 years.

But don’t you still need to understand the underlying concepts to make valid connections between the systems you’re using and drive the field (or your company) forward?

Or from another view, don’t we (humanity) need people who are willing to do this? Shouldn’t there be a valid way for them to be successful in that pursuit?
Is there any possible technology that could make labor, mastery, or human expirence obsolete?

Are there no limits to this argument? Is it some absolute universal law that all new creations just create increasing economic opportunities?
Both use immediate mode rendering. Both have the “single header” design. There doesn’t appear to be any shared implementation.

The examples use Raylib as a renderer behind the layout engine. I suppose it would be possible to use Dear Imgui as a renderer, but you might have to write some glue code.
Nix isn't 'yet another tool in the chain'; Nix demands to run the whole show, and in the Nix world native dependencies in all programming language are first class citizens that the ecosystem is already committed to handling.

> Python community itself needs to address this.

The Python community can't address it, really, because that would make the Python community responsible for a general-purpose package management system not at all limited to Python, but including packages written in C, C++, and Rust to start, and also Fortran, maybe Haskell and Go, too.

The only role the Python community can realistically play in such a solution is making Python packages well-behaved (i.e., no more arbitrary code at build time or install time) and standardizing a source format rich with metadata about all dependencies (including non-Python dependencies). There seems to be some interest in this in the Python community, but not much.

The truth, perhaps bitter, is that for languages whose most important packages all have dependencies foreign to the ecosystem, the only sane package management strategy is slotting yourself into polyglot software distributions like Nix, Guix, Spack, Conda, Pkgsrc, MacPorts, MSYS2, your favorite Linux distro, whatever. Python doesn't need a grand, unifying Python package manager so much as a limited, unified source package format.
You need to define ideate, tools and technologies to answer those questions. Not to mention that it's quite possible humans do those things through re-combination of learned ideas similarly to how these reasoning models are suggested to be working.
> Daily news is merely a first rough draft of history

Love this.
And which cores currently support it? And unless the answer is “all”, it will not be used. Feature detection works for well-isolated high-performance kernels using things like AVX. No one‘s going to do feature detection for load/store instructions. Which means that all your binaries will be compiled to the lowest common denominator
6) Feature flags, telemetry, soaking

7) Alarms
I really don’t agree with this - chronological sorting favors larger/power users who spam their content through all hours of the day, versus smaller users that you probably care more about.
... and if everyone is always on screens it's hard to avoid the dating apps where they're not getting matches.
How many people have no bank account? How many people have multiple bank accounts? Do the people with multiple bank accounts have a higher net worth than those with one or none?
The high efficiency version got 75% at just $20/task. When you count the time to fill in the squares, that doesn't sound far off from what a skilled human would charge
>secretly turn out to be a pedophile and tarnish the reputation of your company

This is interesting because it's both Oddly Specific and also something I have seen happen and I still feel really sorry for the company involved. Now that I think about it, I've actually seen it happen twice.
It's because they dont have same day delivery. Who has the energy to stop scrolling on tiktok and get out of the house to get anything. Let alone drugs that require you to speak to someone.
Ads can be inserted into any kind of feed, there is no difference between chronological and algorithmic. It’s usually a simple calculation of target ads displayed per posts viewed, with per user/advertiser caps.
Poor people don’t have savings accounts. Rich people will have multiple savings accounts.
More of gen z are home owners than previous generations at that age[0], real wages are increasing for the lower and middle class for the first time since 1970[1]. More people are leaving the workforce than anytime in history, creating high paying trade job openings at an unprecedented rate[2]. Health care costs are growing slower now than any prior decade[3].

Every generation has challenges and benefits. Framing the narrative can happen in any direction and the variance in group is bigger than the variance between.

[0] https://www.cnbc.com/amp/2024/09/05/how-gen-z-outpaces-past-...

[1] https://www.americanprogress.org/article/americans-wages-are...

[2] https://www.protectedincome.org/news/labor-day-peak-65-trade...

[3] https://www.healthsystemtracker.org/chart-collection/u-s-spe...
If you're launching it as "Portable", and you're launching it from your home directory, it's going to place the mutable data in the current directory. This is very standard for portable apps.

So no, "portable" is not what you want. If you launch it as non-portable and it drops a folder in ~, then that is a problem.
Yeah, I did a double-take when I read that too - but that does seem to be the case. From a different article [^1]:

> "Throughout expert testimony, Arm has been asserting that all Arm-compliant CPUs are derivatives of the Arm instruction set architecture (ISA)."

> "Arm countered with an examination of the similarities in the register-transfer language (RTL) code, which is used in the design of integrated circuits, of the latest Qualcomm Snapdragon Elite processors, the pre-acquisition Nuvia Phoenix processor, and the Arm ISA (commonly referred to as the Arm Arm)."

Were they trying to argue that the RTL is too similar to the pseudocode in the ARM ARM or something?? That is absolutely crazy. (Of course, [when we have a license agreement and] you publish a public specification for the interface, I am going to use it to implement the interface. What do you expect me to do, implement the ARM ISA without looking at the spec?)

edit: Wow, I guess this really is what they were arguing?? Look at the points from Gerard's testimony [^2]. That is absolutely crazy.

[^1]: https://www.forbes.com/sites/tiriasresearch/2024/12/19/arm-s...

[^2]: https://www.tantraanalyst.com/ta/qualcomm-vs-arm-trial-day-2...
> Because it’s so treacherous, the first rule is to avoid it if at all possible. Modern compilers are loaded with intrinsics and built-ins that replace nearly all the old inline assembly use cases.

If you take away anything from this article, it should be at least this. Intrinsics/builtins should be your first approach. Only use inline assembly if you can't express what you need using intrinsics.
I am not certain because I've been very focused on the o3 news, but at least yesterday neither the US nor Europe were part of China.
This lawsuit scared away any future startups from using ARM technology if they want the option to be acquired. This in turn means that all the awesome new chip IP is going to be designed for some other ISA and that's almost certainly RISC-V.

Meanwhile, Qualcomm's ALA expires in 2033. They will almost certainly have launched RISC-V chips by then specifically because they know their royalties will be going WAY up if they don't make the switch.
Any reason not to upgrade your Kagi subscription to get assistant with chatgpt, sonnet, gemeni, etc? $25 would be cheaper than separate Kagi and Claude and gpt subscription no?
The linked article explains it further down. In common cases it boils down to "if you're rich don't bother with insurance, if you're poor you should pay it".

> In a concrete example, let’s say that our household wealth is $25,000, and we’ve just gotten a motorcycle with some miles on it already.

> Assuming no deductible, would this be worth it? Yes!

> If our wealth had been $32,000 instead, the insurance would no longer have been worth it
Call ChatGPT from any phone with OpenAI's new 1-800 voice service
I can't say everything, but with the current trend, Machine will plant, grow and harvest food. I can't say for open heart surgery because it may be regulated heavily.
It's 27%. And Delta _want_ to handle refunds and customer support themselves:

“We’ve been using Patreon for years, and it allows us to do things Apple’s IAP system can’t — such as issuing refunds and handling customer support — making it much more convenient for creators like us.”
Woman convicted of murdering her doppelganger when trying to fake her own death
It can vary by implementation need. Can you send a time-limited secret as a login link to someone's email as a replacement to entering or managing passwords? Can you use PassKeys? Or a simple username and password? (Password storage and management is left as an exercise to the reader.)

Part of the question is - why present a login? Do you need an identity? Do you need to authorize an action? How long should it last?

Generally, today, PassKeys are the "simple" authentication mechanism, if you don't need a source of third-party identity or can validate an email address yourself. (Though once you implement email validation, it is arguable that email validation is a perfectly simple and valid form of authentication, it just takes a bit more effort on the part of the user to login, particularly if they can't easily access email on the device they are trying to login on, though even then you can offer a short code they could enter instead.)

Frankly, the conclusion to "how to login" that I draw today is that you will inevitably end up having to support multiple forms of login, including in apps, browsers and by email. It seems inevitable then that you will end up needing more than one approach as a convenience to the end user depending on the device they are trying to sign in to, and their context (how necessary is it that they must be signed in manually vs using a magic link or secret or QR code or just click a link in their email).

I should also note that I haven't discussed much about security standards here in detail. Probably because I'm trying to highlight that login is primarily a UX concern, and security is intertwined but can also be considered an implementation detail. The most secure system is probably hard to access, so UX can sometimes be a tradeoff between security and ease-of-access to a system. It's up to your implementation how secure you might need to be.

To some, you can use a web-based VPN or an authenticating proxy in front of your app, and just trust the header that comes along. Or you could put your app behind Tailscale or another VPN that requires authentication and never login a user. It's all up to what requirements the app has, and the context of the user/device accessing it.
There is a finite limit to occupancy because turn around between tenants has to happen. 93% is probably the equivalent of completely full.
This UI library can be re-targeted to Raylib, Canvas, HTML from its markup ... Good luck doing that with just CSS.

Put another way, this library is a step into writing an agnostic UI layer for your application which it just invokes from its business logic. If you can decouple your UI from your application code ala MVC or MVP architecture, as a developer you can find the right tool for the components that compose the sum of your project.
Weight wise it’s not
Put another way, you have deep conviction in a change that vast majority of people have not even seen yet, never mind grokked, and you're young enough to spend some decent amount of time on education for "venn'ing" yourself into a useful tool in the future. If you have a baseline education, there are any number of orthogonal skills you could add, be it philosophy, fine art, medicine, whatever. You know how to skate and you know where the puck is going, most most people, don't even see the rink.
> HN is very actively moderated

I explicitly did not mention HackerNews, as the homepage feed is primarily based on user voting - neither algorithms nor chronology. Dang’s moderation is not comparable to other social media platform’s feed curation.

> there is a difference between removing problematic content and actively promoting content

Again, there is sufficient evidence that all major social media platforms do exactly this, not just TikTok. Hence why I said:

>> The conservative right often labels such curation as liberal propaganda.

> where this kind of thing is possible and leaves little paper trail

Could you point to the paper trail that Meta, Google, Twitter provide on their curation actions? Otherwise, this just proves my point that people blindly want to accuse Chinese platforms of shady activities, and Western ones as paragons of virtue.
Presumably backlog grooming, a common scrum (software dev process) ritual.
But Linux doesn't clone the entire address space: it copies the page table, RO: if the child attempts to write, then it uses COW.

So if fork/clone is followed immediately by exec/execve/etc., there is minimal copying.
Design System Engineer/Designer is already a thing
It’s wild, are people purposefully overlooking that inference costs are dropping 10-100x each year?

https://a16z.com/llmflation-llm-inference-cost/

Look at the log scale slope, especially the orange MMLU > 83 data points.
How are the Bongard Problems going?
It replaced those things but that list doesn’t include the major time sinks, besides TV: social media, porn, doomscrolling. We already made fun of TV zombies, and at the worst it absolutely can remind me of a drunk or unstable person.
This is a you problem. Yes there will be pain in short term, but it will be worth it in long term.

Many of us look forward to what a future with AGI can do to help humanity and hopefully change society for the better, mainly to achieve a post scarcity economy.