skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> 1. Is it really only a software issue?

There are elements of hardware issues to it, but they're kinda negligible. Nvidia is really good at hardware design, bought out a huge amount of TSMC space (a-la Apple with N5) and both their consumer and server offerings are well stocked with options.

It's also important to understand what we mean by "software issue" in this case, CUDA is a de-facto leader because no other efforts are important enough to support. OpenCL was promising but got abandoned, Vulkan compute would be nice if people would converge on Vulkan, and DirectML/MLX/ONNX have all fallen to obscurity for a lack of vision. AMD can't do this alone, they need multiple stakeholders to convince themselves that standardizing a CUDA-equivalent featureset is a good idea.

> 2. What are all of the issues? Crashing? Interface compatibility with CUDA?

Here's a good example. All of Nvidia's modern GPUs support some version of CUDA, be it a weak GT 720 or an RTX 4090. AMD's software support is not quite as converged. Some mobile chipsets support ROCm, others don't, some desktop GPUs support it, many others don't, and it makes it hard to convince anyone that support is worthwhile.

> 3. What is the scale of work that would need to be done to get AMD GPU software to the level of Nvidia GPU software?

It might not even be possible or worth doing - simply getting AI to run in 2028 is a pyrrhic victory, and Lisa Su may be chronically aware of that. By then, there might be another edge compute market like cryptocurrency or Folding@Home that CUDA will take by storm.

The half that AMD can control is their GPU architecture. They can promise to commit to a standardized CUDA-like pipeline across their mobile, desktop and server GPUs to start. That would be a huge commitment and reverse a lot of the simplifications AMD is known for, but it's their choice to make.

But there's two other parts I think are worth considering. One point is that AMD might build their mansion for a ghost town, and waste billions serving a market that came and went. If CUDA ends up being a brouhaha and AMD was right to simplify all along, then trying to course correct a decade too late might be a waste of capital. The other problem is that their competitors might try to fight them instead of help them. Apple wants nothing to do with them, and AMD lost their leverage in negotiating when Apple quit needing x86 GPUs. Intel is a wild card right now and Nvidia will support anything as long as it's a selling point.

People like to accuse AMD of non-competition, but the sadder truth is that there's a general apathy in the industry towards what Nvidia did. Apple, AMD and Intel are all betting on weaker dedicated NPU hardware and not really taking Nvidia's design choices to heart. That's lead to a chronic neglect in GPU compute libraries, and the few that exist are usually domain-specific enough to be someone's CUDA pet project.
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To be fair, this kind of sounds like how Japanese schools handle cleaning tasks.
Making sense of MVP – and why I prefer Earliest Testable/Usable/Lovable (2016)
There is a job queue on the backend with statuses, just not worth breaking the streaming experience to ask the LLM rewrite broken manim segments out of order
I wonder if this is like the social media equivalent of the sims? Or a soap opera. Log in to see if jimmy works up the courage to ask out rhonda. Will ashley find out about the secret william told you? It's like a westworld where you're "safe" to interact socially in any way you feel, because they don't feel anything. As long as you click a few ads a day to keep the lights on.
Starbucks is getting increasingly hostile, for sure. It's hard to find a Starbucks anymore that has any comfortable seating at all. I went to one in the Chicago burbs recently that had no drive-thru, no indoor seating, and they were visibly annoyed when I ordered inside. Everyone was picking up mobile orders. There were a couple outdoor tables, and that was it. The outlets were disconnected too.

Where I live, I'm very fortunate to have three local chains that are very sit-down friendly. They all have 3-10 locations, so they cover the whole city without succumbing to corporate bullshit. One of them even has a storefront in their roasting/packaging facility. If you want to see how coffee is manufactured and/or you like loud white noise, that's a good place to go.
I haven’t been keeping up with Girard as much as I would like, but am I correct in intuiting that this is the next step past Ludics?

Update: I don’t see a citation, so I guess this is an exploration in a different direction.
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There's also the bizarre story of Greg Packer, a highway maintenance worker who has been quoted hundreds of times as a "man in the street" in the New York Times and other papers. He apparently just likes being first in line for events and ends up talking to the media.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greg_Packer
> Taking all newspaper and proper journalistic output and rewording it automatically and selling it on is also 'fair use'?

it would be, if the transformation is substantial. If you're just asking for snippets of existing written works, then those snippets are merely derivative works.

For example, if you asked an LLM to summarize the news and stories of 2024, i reckon the output is not infringing. Because the informational contents of the news is not itself copyrightable, only the article itself. A summary, which contains a precis of the information, but not the original expression, is surely uncopyrightable - esp. if it is a small minority of the source (e.g., chatGPT used millions of sources).

> won't be able to make a living so these important activities will cease.

this is irrelevant as far as i'm concerned. They being able to make or not make a living is orthogonal. If they can't, then they should stop.
This assumes that both GBTC and BITB have the same price movements, volatility and liquidity. This is far from true and as a result you might end up with a higher alpha in GBTC despite the fees. I am not saying it is guaranteed, but the fee is one variable.
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A strong economy makes the rich richer. (Trickle down didn't work.) That means for the rich who are beneficiaries of a strong economy, they are indeed enjoying happiness, good health, good education, and the freedom to lead a good life.
congrats on wrapping gcc!
I think what you are getting at is that life is all very similar. Most species have very similar genes. Why you can study genes in flies and yeast and worms and have it be relevant to human genetics.

In very simplified biology genes just make proteins.

There is a fair amount of software to find these similar genes across various species called “orthologs”
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sequence_homology#Orthology

I’ve run some of these tools. They can be a little rough, but generally they work.

You are right though, it’s totally amazing it works. Amazing being alive.
I agree, 50 may feel aged, but again it may vary person to person.
I used to be in the spam game and then moved to "email marketing". It's really just a numbers game and timing. If you spam out 50k bullshit cold emails, you will always get a few bites regardless of how shitty your messaging is.

Add in the drip email technique you mention above and you will attract way more bites.

They may ignore 99% of your emails but all it takes is that one time when your dripped email is right at the top of their inbox when they wake up in the morning and are checking emails or stuck in traffic and looking at their emails on their phone and etc.

tl;dr = its a numbers game. spew shit out, get a few hits.
Yeah this came as a big shock to me as I was hearing acquaintances say their solar and battery install would payback in 3-4 years compared to 15-20 years timeline I read on hackernews etc. Turns out the cost of equipment is so cheap now that in countries with cheaper labour and other costs they can get a similar system with install at 1/3 the price.
Show HN: BrainChain, a "brainwallet"/deterministic password manager for passkeys
Correct. A US google user's average value is $60 USD/month and ofcourse this is scaled up by those willing to pay who could be worth $200+ USD/month. (Napkin math)
Downvoting doesn't solve much in cases like this—all the top-level comments are political to one degree or another (mostly very political), and they're pinned to the top at this point by upvotes from politically like-minded people.

There are a bunch of downvoted comments from the less-popular political perspectives in the threads, but them being downvoted only decreases the quality of the conversation, because the greyed-out comments warn curious people off of participating in an increasingly hostile discussion.
Because what we called the "Soviet Union" was really just another Russian Empire. No one was particularly concerned about the other Soviet "states" except insofar as to worry about what Russia would order them to do. Hell, half the time we referred to the Soviet Union as "Russia" and "the Russians."

So while the "Soviet Union" is gone, Russia remains, weakened by it's loss of territories, still as irredentist and imperialist as ever. Hence why ex-Soviet and Soviet client-states begged to join.
> specific I would say that increasingly accurately predicting the next symbols in a massive set of diverse sequences, which explain a huge diversity of real world events described in sequential order, requires increasingly accurate models of the underlying processes of said events

But it doesn’t - it’s a statistical model using training data, not a physical or physics model, which you seem to be equating it to (correct me if I am misunderstanding)

And in response to the other portion you present, an LLM fundamentally can’t be alien because it’s trained on human produced output. In a way, it’s a model of the worst parts of human output - garbage in, garbage out, as they say - since it’s trained on the corpus of the internet.
Have you read https://semianalysis.com/2024/12/22/mi300x-vs-h100-vs-h200-b... ?
This is a cool concept and I love the idea but the math on the money earned from the 3276 solar panel doesn't add up. The article says the farm owner makes about $20,000 a year from the solar farm.

I'm assuming that each solar panel is 2 by 1 meter, which would mean that it produces about 400 watts (20% efficiency at 1000 watts per sq meter coming from the sun). You can use this calculator to estimate how power you can produce at the given location for a given system size in kilowatts:
https://pvwatts.nrel.gov/pvwatts.php

The system above is 1310400 watts or ~1,310 kW, which according to the calculator produces about 2 million kWh/year.

If he makes $20,000 that would mean that he gets paid only $0.01 per kW of power. And even if my assumption above about the size of each individual panel is off by a factor of 2 and they are only 1 sq meter in size (which I think they are not because the article states that the solar farm can power about 300 average households, which require the annual power output to be more than what I estimated above) that would make $0.02 per kW of power. How is it possible that the amount earned per kW is so low when the utility companies in Colorado charge about $0.14 per kW (effective rate)? And who is actually the customer here and where is the money coming from? I'm just curious to learn more.
Or "less than 49% of GenZ professionals want to be middle managers" and "some of GenZ professionals are ambivalent about it".
It’s a bit silly to consider a left morning talk show news. That’s like saying you get your news from Joe Rogan.
This! I am not going to buy the next AI magic tool because of a cold mail. I don't even know I need it and I won't read a cold mail end to end if it starts like that. If I need something I go looking and if I don't even know I need it, cold mail wouldn't help
This surveillance advertising
model wants "authentic" content for ad revenue. Natch.

It goes to assume that all statements that contradict the idea of maximum ad revenue are false. Remember "do no evil"?
Missing b-link trees/concurrency/locking, but maybe that really is more than you want to know
It's because at a certain level you have valuable relationships people want to protect, enough wealth to make decisions without it personally affecting you in a real way (i.e. homelessness, loss of medical care, etc), and information about how the company "really works" that could be valuable to the competition or a tell-all story for the media.

Basically, if you're rich, you're a "real person" and if you're not you're an ant.
Oh the 24 hr Kirkland Starbucks is still there.

https://maps.app.goo.gl/UUsVjfy9MPeF3RwT9

There's another 24 hr one in Northgate.

https://maps.app.goo.gl/RxT4vwEDsZECTu2k7

So there's 2 in the entire greater Seattle area.

But you're right, there are very few places open late even in the U-district.
Uncle Sam
At least they labeled it lol
One less thing to worry about in 2025: Yellowstone probably won't go boom
I get why it feels like that, but Greenland’s strategic importance didn’t suddenly appear because Trump made headlines. The Arctic’s been heating up (literally and politically) for a while now. Russia’s been militarizing its Arctic coastline, and China’s trying to gain influence in the region through ‘research stations’ and resource deals. The US presence at Thule wasn’t just for fun... it’s part of a broader strategy that predates Trump by decades. Trump just made it louder (and weirder), but the underlying value of Greenland has been quietly escalating for years.
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Though Trade Ideas is a product that the majority of successful traders need, the problem is they target the wrong user. Their marketing goes after the newer and/or inconsistent trader, and as a result, they have a real churn problem, have had to make mass layoffs, and continue to focus on the wrong thing—building new products instead of solving the core issue, which is retention (better support/documentation) and enterprise sales (to firms, funds, brokerages, etc.). It sucks to see it.
Haha I read the article - not surprisingly they pick lottery winners in countries that provide anonymity to winners (unlike the US where you will have a target painted on your back).

> 2019 by researchers at the University of Warwick and the University of Zurich, used a considerable dataset — fifteen years of the “German Socio-Economic Panel” (or SOEP). The SOEP has been surveying 15,000 German households since 1984.

> The second study, from 2020 by researchers from Stockholm University, Stockholm School of Economics, and New York University, surveyed 3,000 Swedish lottery winners

See this comprehensive list:

https://old.reddit.com/r/LotteryLaws/comments/v78hhy/anonymi...

>EuroJackpot Countries (Croatia, Czechia, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Germany, Hungary, Iceland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Netherlands*, Norway, Poland, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, and Sweden): 100% Anonymous if requested by the winner.

Compare it to:

>California: Not Anonymous/Only individuals can claim. “ The name and location of the retailer who sold you the winning ticket, the date you won and the amount of your winnings are also matters of public record and are subject to disclosure. You can form a trust prior to claiming your prize, but our regulations do not allow a trust to claim a prize. Understand that your name is still public and reportable”.
This is pretty much a trend across our entire government. Our elected officials legislate their responsibilities away so they don't need to make actual decisions that could harm them politically.
People like you and me found the idea of injecting personalized ads between posts by real people disturbing. It worked fantastically for the company.

Now we think AI users subtly pushing for products such as delicious Coca Cola (TM) - refresh your day with a cool glass of Coca Cola (TM) - is a terrible idea. I expect it will again go fantastically for the company.

It just keeps getting worse and worse.
Dupe? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42591221
Yeah you can really do a lot with them if you get creative.

I'm primarily using Neovim for most of my editing but am keeping a close eye on Helix as there's a lot to love about it.
That $14 per American sounds like a deal, honestly. But the tricky part is less about the money and more about convincing the people of Greenland that closer ties to the US are better than sticking with Denmark.

Economic incentives only go so far—there’s a cultural and political dynamic at play. If Greenland leans towards more autonomy, stronger US ties as a protectorate might happen naturally without needing to 'buy' anything outright. If they drift away from Denmark, North America becomes the obvious landing zone.
I sunk $30k into FNMA last time there was talk of privatization, 8 years ago. Guess how that turned out.
I think, the cartoon was probably killed because it left out many others?
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GenZ boss and a mini. GenZ boss and a mini.
That's fine, just have to become better than being middle managers.`
Plausible fake Facebook friends would make it more sticky. The elderly are already subject to manipulation, are less tech savvy, etc.

Facebook, like Google, is a surveillance advertising company that tricks you into using their products so you provide targeted ad information to them. They know when or if you poop regularly l, and what brand of TP you use. Your AI friends will help them advertise better.
Alternatives would be nice, and I'd agree the future doesn't have to be entirely one solution or entirely without certain others.

Many states have laws limiting billboards or posters to avoid obscuring nature and stop them from littering their communities. My hope is we can reign in the fraud and rampant escalation of ads, even if it means paying a bit more monetarily or trading a bit more privacy. So long as there is transparency and safety.
Yep, and it’s not as far-fetched as people think. The US tried it under Truman too. This isn't just a Trump brainwave. It’s been on the table before, and it’ll probably come up again as Arctic competition ramps up. The question isn’t 'if' the US stays involved in Greenland but how. Whether through diplomacy, economic partnerships, or something more official, Greenland’s future is tied to who secures influence there first.
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I prefer vscode+copilot. It's much cheaper and has all the functionality I want. There's access to 3.5 sonnet, and it can edit/create up to 10 files at a time.
Beautiful illustration by The Oatmeal of how “big tech” has enshittified the internet, only missing that $3,000 of that $10,000 “promotion fee” might be for your phone manufacturer because they insist. Or maybe the $10,000 promotion costs $15,000 to pay them lol.
Checkmate parasites.

But seriously, I worry about this level of parasite infecting humans one day.
You don't have to sign in or download the app is one big win
Depends on the problem the group face. Simple problem with known solutions Accountability makes a diff.

But we know there are hard problems, where the group itself doesn't have a solution or agree on the same solution. Keeping groups together is a hard problem.
Are you thinking of board-game cafes?
LOL, right? Somewhere between ‘affordable defense budget project’ and ‘sell your national debt to make it happen.’ Either way, the geopolitical value is worth more than the sticker price, and that’s the part people underestimate.
More inspired by the GPL, I think, although the sketch above doesn't force the writer to put things into the public domain.

I'm imagining a separate declaration of: "Content I can sublicense from ShittyNewsLLM--which is everything made by their model--is now public-domain through me until further notice", without any need to identify specific items or rehost it myself.

I suppose the counterstrike would be for them to try to transform their own work and argue what they finally released contains some human spark that wasn't covered by the ToS, in which case there may need to be some "and any derivative work" kinda clause.

I wonder if some organization (similar to the Open Software Foundation) could get some lawyers and web-designers together to craft legally-sound site-design rules and terms-of-service, which anyone could use to protect their own blogs or web-forums.
Innovation comes from 1% of the population or less. Their contribution to population fertility (positive or negative) is minimal.
What are the best ones in your opinion?
Honestly, Greenland’s probably tired of feeling like a geopolitical football at this point. But as long as the Arctic’s up for grabs, expect it to stay on the radar.
“They are not trying to tell people what to think, or even what the reporter thinks.”

What a joke. Literally 80% of MSM reporting is framed from a leftist viewpoint of what’s right/wrong. For years now it plays dirty by leaving out key facts or misrepresenting a situation to favor lefist ideology (e.g. “1 Killed after Tesla Cybertruck Battery Explodes” headline rather than “Explosive Device Detonated from Vehicle…”, since the media now hates Elon since he helped Trump win). I can often feel the seething hatred of the right coming off the words written by the journalist. It’s crazy to me that people on the left are blind to this. You should really re-analyze your level of objectivity if you don’t see this (or maybe read all the “Twitter Files”, etc released on X over the past year or 2).