skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Are you comparing tinybox red with 738 FP16 TFLOPS at $15K to Project Digits with 1 FP4 PFLOP at $3K? Or did they announce the Project Digits FP16 performance somewhere?
Lost in all this... can someone ELI5?
Mapping U.S. Dollar Funding Flows
How well do these models do at parallelizing across multiple GPUs? Is spending $4k on the 5090 a good idea for training, slightly better performance for much cheaper? Or a bad idea, 0x as good performance because you can’t fit your 60GB model on the thing?
- a stock photography collection to make your site seem full of content

- organize the labor to shoot photography and video around editorial content and empower them to sell their own assets with tooling

- as an indexer you only take a 30% which is much lower than the aggressive everyone loses shutterstock-getty cut

———

Personally I imagine a decentralized approach where contributors host the content or purchase hosting space from the indexer. The indexer just provides a search platform. Transparent costs will keep people at your doorstep and maintain exclusivity.

It is important to understand that Shutterstock does not sell assets, they sell the licenses to use the assets.
Thank you! BTW, loved you in Goodfellas.
“Press the power button, boot the GPU” describes the Raspberry Pi.
"Late" here means "arriving after the social expectation." In many places in the Americas, you can be (and are expected to be) an hour "late" for a party of any kind. That doesn't mean you are late.

In a Western business context, "late" comes about 1-2 minutes after the meeting starts.
Anything with DDR5 or above has built in limited ECC... it's required by the spec.
https://www.corsair.com/us/en/explorer/diy-builder/memory/is...
There's some academic research to the contrary; banning /r/fatpeoplehate and /r/coontown on Reddit reduced incidents of hateful speech across the platform.

https://www.reddit.com/r/science/comments/6zg6w6/reddits_ban... / https://comp.social.gatech.edu/papers/cscw18-chand-hate.pdf

"Sunlight is the best disinfectant" is a great pithy slogan, but modern society needs bleach and chlorhexidine sometimes.
Robert Moses knew it, but that didn't stop him.
Can confirm. Plus nowadays you can find 0% beers that are actually quite good and very similar in taste to a regular beer. In the past there were really only shifty ones.
> Are you implying everyone who gets in a traffic accident has full agency over the situation? Because that is laughably far from reality. It is infinitely easier to consciously avoid danger on the subway than in a car.

I would note that people can falsely believe things about how much agency they really have, and that this seems to be the case with cars vs. public transit.
I think there's a big selection bias on hackernews that you wouldn't get elsewhere. There's still "elite" software developers I see who really aren't into the whole LLM tooling space. I found use in the autocomplete and search workflows that the author mentioned but I stopped using these tools, out of curiosity for things were before. It turns out I don't need it to be productive and I too probably enjoy working more without it.
The subway was insane. Could be the snow, though.
I created an app that helps investors deploy no-code algotrading strategies
I created an app that teaches retail investors how to become Wall Street grade traders. Specifically, I have step-by-step tutorials on how to do the following:

* Create an algorithmic trading strategies
* Test them on historical data (a process called backtesting)
* Testing them in real-time risk-free

I've already received lots of positive feedback and wanted to share it with the community and ask for more. If there's any tutorial that you think would valuable, please let me know!
>but somehow people were happy spending >$2000 when the 3090 came out

Of course they did, the 3090 came out at the height of the pandemic and crypto boom in 2020, when people were locked indoors with plenty of free time and money to spare, what else where they gonna spend it on?
Is there some form of machine learning that doesn't produce horrifically bad slop that everyone who isn't me is using?

Because there are quite a few people who appear, externally, to be somewhat intelligent who think that AGI is right around the corner when trillions of dollars in hardware and hundreds of terawatt hours of electricity can't produce anything of value-- except addictive social media distractions suitable as a medium into which marketing messages can be injected.

A constant feed of LLM trash writing and deep learning garbage images isn't AGI.

It isn't even close.

If anything, all of the brains being sucked into this vortex who are chasing "dat cash" because using GPUs to trick people into buying dropshipped shit is more profitable than actual research, has set back AGI by decades.
I find ChatGPT better with UE4/5 C++ but they are very close.

Biggest advantage is the o1 128k context. I can one shot an entire 1000 line class where normally I’d have to go function by function with 4o.
>Thoughts?

and prayers!
It’s already well documented that he “bent the knee” to Biden, so you can argue about the extent but the pattern is pretty well established.
I get a reference error when I try this (chrome stable on linux)
Show HN: Taskonaut – a CLI tool to simplify ECS container management
I've been working on many desktop apps[1][2][3] using Qt with C++ and QML, and I absolutely love that combo. Can't recommend it enough.

[1] https://get-notes.com/

[2] https://www.get-vox.com/

[3] https://notes-foss.com/
DistilkitPlus: Efficient Knowledge Distillation for LLMs
i too am a command line fan.
Going through the list:

* child hunger - Global rather than US-focussed.

* veteran support - OK

* censorship - Ish. The campus free speech stuff looks OK, but there is the usual culture war "book banning" by preventing sexually explicit material been shown to young children.

* financial literacy - OK

* civil rights - a lot of it looks like the Soros-funded lenient DA stuff

* lgbtq rights - I think the main flashpoint is the "t" in that acronym

* immigration - obviously contentious, even within right wing circles
Anyway, in case of the author reads this later...

* Waiting list don't get traction here. Wait until it's launched and try again.

* Give a free chapter or something equivalent. Unles he author is very famous or has a popular blog, nobody is going to pay $200 for a unknown book.

* Say in the comments that they are the author(s). People is more friendly when the author is arround and replies to the questions.
Of course it's best to stay healthy at 75 and beyond!

My bleak answer is a refutation of the idea that merely "staying alive" is a goal. Staying physically alive is not enough.
Survivor bias. In that, you're reacting only to the images you assume are AI. It could be you're really good at spotting them, or they're really bad. But it could also be you spot a tiny proportion, or even misidentify real images as AI. Without knowing the real rate, it tells us nothing about whether picking AI images over stock images is a good tradeoff or not.
Hypothetically, would it be possible to create a legal entity to make claims against ones own videos, as a shell protection against bogus claims?
Nvidia could potentially bring us all the year of Linux Desktop.
> During rush hour, cars block the box

There's an easy solution to this: have ticket writers waiting at intersections to paper all the cars who do it. It's not like they can drive away. NYC used to be really good about enforcement, and it worked extremely well.

It doesn't solve traffic, but it does help stave off gridlock and keep intersections free for bus lanes to operate normally.
What gets interpreted under anti-nazi law is the wrinkle though.
There’s lots of mainstream media content I think is psychologically harmful and should be suppressed, such as content normalizing adultery. But I’m quite content to live in a society where the social norm favors people saying what they want and the burden is on the opponents of that to produce strong evidence of harm.
I feel drained, and sad that I forgot to feed the chicken.
GP maybe found one nit to pick too vigorously. However, their first point of asking to conduct the interview in Russian is such a big deal to me that I’ll probably not be listening to Lex anymore. Either it was a completely tone-deaf request from someone excited to practice his rusty Russian, or it was a political play to help frame Zelensky as unreasonable. Neither are good looks.

I’m reminded of an interview William Buckley gave Malcolm X in which the first question was “but what is your real name?” Its a request he knew 100% would be denied, doesn’t pertain to any important issues, and frames his interviewee as uncooperative from the first question.

Now I’m not saying Lex has any responsibility to give Zelensky softball questions. On the other hand he is just some schmuck* in a suit interviewing the commander in chief of a country at war and asking if they could use the language of their aggressors. I don’t like it

* ok maybe I’m biased against lex a little already…
100% you will be able to buy them. And receive a rock in the package from Amazon.
Yeah I always overestimate those things by far :)
They are intentionally keeping the VRAM small on these cards to force people to buy their larger, more expensive offerings.
No, it takes (1) knowing what you learn in a compilers class (or upper level math classes) and (2) putting it to work. He didn't write 80,000 regular expressions, he wrote a compiler that wrote those expressions. Commercial-quality compilers are hard to write but simple compilers are straightforward if you know the fundamentals.

It's like the problem of solving the Rubik's cube. If you look at it in terms of geometry and spatial intuition it's intractable. If you treat it as an abstract algebra problem and break it down into "solve the top of the cube, solve the middle row of the cube, solve the bottom of the cube" and then develop a set of operators that will let you permute certain parts of the cube it takes a moderate amount of skill, persistence and concentration.

CS students do exercises such as writing moderately complex programs for a Turing machine and it's an exercise like what he did.

====

Funny my project last month was a chess engine. For a long time I'd wondered if I could make a decent MCTS chess engine but someone close to me has been getting serious about chess (usually wins against the random person, usually loses at the chess club, is fighting hard to get up the bracket) so writing a program that was a match for him seemed like a fun and meaningful project and I decided to try the conventional route of alpha-beta search.

If you tried to write a chess engine from zero you'd probably struggle, but the lifetime value you get out of education (CS or otherwise) is looking things up the literature, learning from other people's experiences, and putting it to work. So this has been my guide

https://www.chessprogramming.org/Main_Page

I started out with Python with the goal of making something tiny and stylish and started out with a move generator from

https://python-chess.readthedocs.io/en/latest/

and once I got the signs right in alpha-beta negamax (when I had them wrong it discovered https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fool%27s_mate) it beat my tester several times before he regrouped, traded a knight for a good pawn structure, and got his first win.

The next goal is to take it to the chess club which means it has to respect time control. I switched to Java because its faster and because it is easy to have a comms thread interrupt a think thread. The first try wasn't faster because my move ordering was terrible. I was much faster implementing it though because I could cut and paste the test cases I had in Python and if I knew anything at this point it was the signs in negamax.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iterative_deepening_depth-firs... is not only good for time control but gets better move ordering and I'm in the middle of implementing that. It would take me years to find out that Iterative Deepening works a lot better than you might expect, the Killer Heuristic, etc. Reading is my superpower.
The market heavily disagrees with you.

"The global gaming market size was valued at approximately USD 221.24 billion in 2024. It is forecasted to reach USD 424.23 billion by 2033, growing at a CAGR of around 6.50% during the forecast period (2025-2033)"
In Manhattan ebike access is excellent -- there are tons of bike lanes and bikeshare stations. They are typically as fast as Ubers for getting around the city since traffic is so bad here, and much cheaper. The main issue is that it's not very safe. Probably this does not generalize to most other US cities.
> while there's also a push to statically link everything

could you elaborate? who is pushing and what?

dynamic linking has it pitfalls, often it's a pain, but it has big big profits as well.
> The one at Painshill, hired by The Hon. Charles Hamilton for a seven-year term under strict conditions, lasted three weeks until he was sacked after being discovered in a local pub

I mean, fair. Very bad hermit-ing.

(Terry Pratchett has a fun parody of this in one of the Discworld books; the garden hermit gets two weeks' holidays a year, which he spends in a large city.)
> Despite the HN comments complaining about it being overwhelming and a dark reflection of how awful and distracting the internet is, clearly enough people enjoyed it to get to the front page. The stimulation torture wasn't really torture, but another level to the game.
All the content creators whose inclusion at first seems like an indictment of the kinds of internet videos that lead to addiction or overstimulation also all get a pleasant shout-out which seems silly. Are these supposed to represent what's awful about the internet?

There's a literary/artistic technique called "irony" where the depiction isn't meant to be taken at face-value and instead is actually being shown because the opposite is intended. The whole game is an ironic application of Stimulation techniques, and in order to show its negative impact, one must use them ironically.
The Strangest Carrier: Southern Linc
"not engaged in a gainful occupation"[1]
"not having a job that provides money"[2]
Maybe not official as in dictionary definition, but official as in political / statistical lingo?

[1] Kagi's response provided by WordsAPI, I'm not sure if linking a technically paywalled would be the reasonable thing
https://kagi.com/search?q=unemployed+meaning

[2] https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/unemploy...
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When I say that these things are deceptively difficult to use I don't intend that as a ringing endorsement of the technology.
You're gonna need a lot more money than that when ~40% of MTA total spending goes to pay pensions and healthcare for people that don't even work anymore by ~2040.

You need ~35% just to keep the system running functioning (which does not include operations - like the actual drivers).

That's only going to leave you ~25% leftover for everything else - and a non-trivial percentage of that comes from the Federal Government - which may not be there in the future (when all of their money is going to pensions and healthcare).
No I’m arguing that NAT isn't a security feature, and wasn’t meant to be a security feature. The fact people sold it as a security feature, and the fact that it might incidentally behave like a poor firewall, doesn’t change the fact that NAT isn’t and never was meant to be a security feature, good or bad.
This is not Microsoft’s strategy, but someone wanting them to buy Bitcoin.
Sounds similar to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunbar%27s_number (in case you hadn't seen it before).
Fedora Seems to Be Dying of Neglect by IBM
Prosthetic leg, hamster and wig among lost property on trains
I was hit by a car once, due to the driver's lack of situational awareness.

I was turning from a major road into a minor road, a car was stopped at the exit to that minor road, but they failed to look in my direction, and pulled out into me.

My bike was a write-off, fortunately I was uninjured — they had started from stationary, so probably less than 10 mph when they hit me, and I always wear a helmet.
On top of that, swing state turn out was like 70%. Goes to show more people turn up when their vote could make a difference.
I meant that the Amazon basin and Amazonia are enormous geographic regions. It's highly unlikely that the rainforest itself is the result of cultivation. It does seem to be proven at this point that wide areas were cultivated multiple times in distinct eras of human habitation.
Sony and Honda's EV goes on sale this year, starts at $89,900
This is maybe a dumb question, but why is it so hard to buy Nvidia GPUs?

I can understand lack of supply, but why can't I go on nvidia.com and buy something the same way I go on apple.com and buy hardware?

I'm looking for GPUs and navigating all these different resellers with wildly different prices and confusing names (on top of the already confusing set of available cards).
DLSS4 is coming to other RTX cards, eventually. https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/geforce/news/dlss4-multi-frame-...
I completely agree that communication skills are critical in extracting useful work or insight from LLMs. The analogy for communicating with people is not far-fetched. Communicating successfully with a specific person requires an understanding of their strengths and weaknesses, their tendencies and blind spots. The same is true for communicating with LLMs.

I have actually found that from a documentation point of view, querying LLMs has made me better and explaining things to people. If, given the documentation for a system or API, a modern LLM can't answer specific questions about how to perform a task, a person using the same documentation will also likely struggle. It's proving to be a good way to test the effectiveness of documentation, for humans and for LLMs.
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Felt is building a cloud-based geographic information systems (GIS) solution and have hundreds of customers already using it to run their operations, processing terabytes of data. Our team hails from Uber, Google, Meta, CARTO, Mapbox, The New York Times and a few others. If you have used online maps in the past few years, you have used their work. My co-founder and CEO, Sam, is a former YC founder who sold his previous company [1] and I'm an early Uber engineer.

We are on the lookout for a Senior Infrastructure Engineer who will help build our GIS architecture in the cloud. Felt built the world's most advanced cloud-native GIS systems. We are able to processes almost all types vector, raster, and tabular data you can throw at it. You can throw a basic CSV or a multi-band raster file with NDVI encoding. Felt can also natively connect to STAC repositories, process data from your Snowflake installations, or download things from your Redshift.

We are looking for a senior or a staff level engineer who will help us take this architecture to next level. We are always adding support more types of files and connectors. We also have some ongoing projects to make this infrastructure more modular and work in VPCs.

Ideal candidates will have experience working with GIS tools such as Rasterio, GDAL, Shapely as well as AWS primitives such as Cloudformation, CDK, and Lambda. Experience building infrastructure of either kind is a plus!

We are well-funded and just raised our $15M Series A. You can read more about it our funding here [5], and our announcement here [6]. Our terms are employee-friendly terms such as early exercise, a 10-year exercise window and even a matching 401(k).[7]

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[1] https://techcrunch.com/2021/03/09/via-buys-mapping-startup-r...
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[3] https://felt.com/blog/how-felt-deploys-15-times-a-day
[4] https://digest.browsertech.com/archive/browsetech-digest-fel...
[5] https://techcrunch.com/2022/05/31/felt-maps-15-million-serie...
[6] https://felt.com/blog/public-beta-15m-series-a
[7] https://felt.com/careers
Is anyone testing Blender 3D 2.93(OpenCL is still the GPU Compute API on that now legacy Blender edition) on Linux to see if it works for iGPU/dGPU accelerated Cycles rendering on older Vega/Polaris iGPU/dGPU hardware! And That's with Rusticl/Mesa and that a more modern Linux OpenCL implementation on Linux!

And I'm trying out an Extracted/Non Installed version of Blender 4.3.2 on a Laptop(Mint 21.3) with Ryzen 3550H/Vega 8 Integrated Graphics and a Polaris RX560X dGPU but when I try the DRI_Prime=1(Offload to the Polaris dGPU) setting to run Blender 4.3.2 via a console session that locks up on that laptop when trying to use the Blender 3D UI! Is there some difference in Installed Blender and just the extracted version that gives the Application better access to the GPU/GPU-ID subsystems on Linux(Kernel)?

Blender 4.3.2's Eevee is nice but there's not the same level of Ray Tracing/Render Passes capability on Blender Eevee as there is With Blender Cycles.
That's the purpose of limited liability companies.
Common misconceptions about the complexity in robotics vs. AI (2024)
>Trump will not finish the wall, because Republican farmers need their slave labor.

True, which is why he built a few miles of the wall for like $20 billion (and destroyed some protected wildlife lands in the process) and claimed it was a job done, while leaving literally thousands of miles of his wall unbuilt. And then had the nerve to campaign on immigration.

Truth is stranger than fiction, sometimes.
Manufacturers made alcohol-free versions of their products so that governments wouldn't step in to regulate them. They can claim to be responsible product owners who offer low-alcohol versions of their drinks to keep people safe from harm, which is true to an extent, which means governments don't force them to do things to be safer in other ways (reduced alcohol on main brand offerings, proof-based taxation, etc.)

They don't really make these things because they're a good idea. They do them because it's cheaper than not doing them.
This is more nuanced than even the CFPB is letting on. It’s more privacy than financial regulation.

“The proposal would continue to permit creditors to obtain or use” medical information “for credit availability determinations” if “the creditor uses the information in the same manner and to the same extent it would comparable non-medical information” [1].

Sounds like there is a business opportunity in collecting medical-debt data, stripping it of the “consumer’s physical, mental, or behavioural health condition, history, treatment type, or prognosis” and then presenting it back to creditors.

[1] https://files.consumerfinance.gov/f/documents/cfpb_fast-fact...