skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Given that Jensen completely omitted ANY MENTION of rasterization performance, I think we can safely assume it's probably WORSE in the 5000 series than the 4000 series, given the large price cuts applied to every card below then 5090 (NVidia was never happy charging $1000 for the 4080 super - AMD forced them to do it with the 7900xtx).
This whole article just feels like analysis paralysis. Maybe it's me, but I don't think being a good person really requires that much thought.
Then who else will be "Co-Creating a Feminist AI Alliance for Climate Justice", "Exploring sustainable intersections between climate change, environmental data and digital inclusion" and fight "the spread of harmful content like hate speech, misinformation, and synthetic media"?

People making fun of such events held at African luxory resorts do not understand that after the event ended, Zambia's tech literacy increased measureably.
FoundationDB entity persistence, messaging, batch and actor layers
The claim was made in sworn testimony in a Congressional hearing by a Twitter executive.

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/08/us/politics/twitter-congr...

On video, if you like: https://twitter.com/Acyn/status/1623357770933145607
Steam already has Steam Input, a translation layer that converts between various input events to whatever the game expects.

It is how i got to play the original System Shock 2 on my Steam Deck even though the game was designed with a keyboard and mouse in place.
Thats the funny thing, Its hard to tell which side has more motivation for fraud.
Translation: we had data loss and had to change storage provider to one that works.
Does a laser printer need to be connected to a UPS?
Years ago we were in Bologna. The ragu was splendid, but I would wake up in the middle of the night feeling absolutely parched. If it wasn't a lot of salt, I don't know what it would have been.
You mentioned prompt injection, now when you talk about larger time horizons, that sounds like a AI alignment issue.

I'm sure there will be actors who don't care at all about "security", saying the positive outcomes outweight the negatives.
> My personal believe is that with enough compute, anything is possible.

Dunno, we're already at ridiculous amounts of compute and progress has slowed, a lot. I think we need another technological breakthrough, a change in technique, something. LLMs don't seem to be capable of actually learning in the way humans do, just being trained on data, of which we've reached the limit.
Cue the evergreen "there's a reason why the HN UX ia the way it is" conversation.
Sure I could pay for a $40 uber one way at todays rates without vc subsidy. Or I can take a little longer riding the bus and only pay like $2.
I really love Anthropic, I'm building a business around it, and chat with Claude almost every time I go out for a beer after a long day... But having a valuation equal to _Stripe_ seems a bit insane. Either they've got some secret sauce or AI hype is a bit much or Stripe is undervalued.

Especially considering I pay for Claude, the beer, and my business _thru Stripe_!
Maybe it’s not Trump.

Maybe the people elected Trump in a historic GOP win with demos that Reagan wouldn’t have won with… and Zuck sees the writing clearer than most?

The way you put it leaves out the cause and only gets the effect.
The monitor is AI generated in the product photo.... Nvidia please

https://s3.amazonaws.com/cms.ipressroom.com/219/files/20250/...
You can be a good person by minimizing being objectively evil. If you can't see things you can't optimize things, which the title suggests, but the content itself is lacking in proper support while not covering certain obvious aspects, not lacking in volume. They were quite mistaken about a number of things.

Objectively, evil people (at least in the past) is characterized by a willful blindness to the consequences of said person's evil actions. Evil acts being objectively destructive acts.

Altruism and its derivatives as belief systems are evil.

They are value systems where a person's worth is only based upon what they give up to others. Under such belief systems, if you aren't selfless, you are evil and have no worth.

People use false claims and false justification under these systems, of all sorts, to blind themselves and by extension result in destructive acts towards the ideal of what the system considers good.

To be selfless, and impose that on others, eventually to the point of destruction (others), and eventual self-destruction (self). Its all quite wrong.

You can't optimize towards truth or beneficial outcomes, if you don't recognize the truth or those outcomes. Generally speaking, there are far more things that you can do that are destructive, than there are those that are beneficial.

Its also of primary important to retain an objective grip on reality. Blindness leads to delusion.
> If that company is the first to create ASI then you've won the game as we know it.

You can have as much intelligence in a model/system as you want, and it can well be ASI, but as long as this intelligence doesn't have the resources it needs to run at its full potential, or at least at one higher than the competition, you're still not over the hill.

Ultimately those companies or countries which will have the most resources available for an ASI to shine will be the ones which win.

Once ASI has figured out how to obtain energy (and ICs?) "for free", or at least cheaper than the competition, it will have won.
Still baffles me how unnerving the Ravenholm level is even today. It's got a creepy, unsettling vibe, 20 years later, entirely due to really decent art direction.
I truly feels safe on the NYC subway.

You know what's more dangerous than riding the subway? Driving in a car.
I play video pinball (the Williams packs in PinballFX), and I own a machine (Elvira’s House of Horrors).

Video pinball is better than no pinball, but real pinball has it beat, hands-down. Cost and bulk aside (and those are big asides, yes), there is no comparison.

Sound is an underappreciated difference. Even the best simulations don’t come close to capturing the punch of a real machine.

I do wonder how close we could get if you were able to go all-out: best simulation, running in the best AR goggles (AVP?) superimposed over an empty pinball cabinet. It wouldn’t be enough (real physics differ greatly from the best simulations), but it would be real fun to see.
Which is why EVGA stopped working with Nvidia a few years ago... (probably mentioned elsewhere too).

https://www.electronicdesign.com/technologies/embedded/artic...
Visually it looks like an indie videogame cutscene.
I legitimately dont know how to reply, bc by this point llms co-own all aspects of my life and jumps between gpt4->claude3->claude3.5->o1 have all been very noticeable
>mainstream people will see through the facade at some point

do you read reddit? lots of people see through the facade now. the only people excited are shills
It's also not offensive in English, even though some virtue signalers insist on taking offense to it.
Definitely disagree with your binary of options, but if I do accept them, why would scenario 2 justify investing? That scenario sounds to me like a likely societal collapse, rendering any investment moot. Even it it’s not some terminator or paperclip maximizer situation, and the first team to build ASI is able to keep a handle on it, I’m not sure our economy or civilization could handle that much intelligence, let alone concentrated in the hands of a for-profit corporation. The knowledge of such a thing existing would make securities markets collapse instantly - can’t really compete with an ASI agent there, so might as well move everything to real estate and gold.

More alarmingly, such a thing would be more dangerous than a nuclear weapon, and might reasonably merit a nuclear first strike.
its a much less severe response than there would gave been, compared to say, ottawabs torching the trucks along with anyone in them
so whats the question?
Wouldn't there be so many more possible futures though? Geopolitical conflict, economic crisis, the clime crisis, civil strife, demographic collapse, the end of globalization, an unexpected black-swan event, etc. Any one of these, even a pandemic, could push back, if not utterly prevent us from reaching these.

Endless growth and technological improvement isn't the only option, and seems to me like the least likely. The other option means that there will be a peak somewhere.
Read the alt text. I can’t grab it on mobile, but it basically boils down to: never say never, and in service of that future possibility, we actually should explore it until such time that conflicts of interest naturally resolve.

If your tech friend says everything sucks in tech, then why should their judgement even be taken at face value? They’re part of the problem!
It's mostly the sugar that's the killer. Fat isn't necessarily a problem, depending on the specific type. Part of what made the "standard American diet" so deadly is when packaged food manufacturers replaced fat with extra sugar based on junk science that appeared to show a correlation between fat consumption and heart disease.

https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/price-we-pay-9781635574128/

And even extra salt isn't necessarily a problem for most people with typical genetics, either. The issue with hypertension is more to do with osmolality than absolute quantity. A lot of people have taken the "low sodium" fad a little too far.

https://peterattiamd.com/rickjohnson/
LTT made a video about installing SteamOS on a big machine: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tdR-bxvQKN8

You need a Radeon card though
FWIW - the convenient stores near me sell the Core Power Elite Protein drinks. I have picked them up and it helps make my protein goals on days where I come up short. They do taste pretty good but more expensive than a soda.

It's possible people are depressed and looking for the most tasty option.
If you're wanting to claim that `Cancel Culture` never happened, then I'm afraid, at this point in history, the burden of proof is on you, not me. lol.
whispers to self Don't trip over Poe's law... Don't trip over Poe's law...
I'm reminded that it did offer https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serial_Copy_Management_System
There's not exactly a good descriptive term, but the vibe I got was beyond, "Markets are the best tool to solve exchange problems," and ventured more into "Markets are an inevitable fact of nature, provide the most utility, and efforts to intervene produce worse outcomes." Let me know if I got that wrong.
You can see the fibers clearly in this teardown video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Spa_pAn871c
The only thing that "turns out" is they wish to curry favor with the incoming administration. FB hasn't been censoring much of anything as far as I can tell; there are all kinds of vile, nasty comments all over it. Just unfriendly, unkind stuff, not even political things. It's probably one reason it's kind of struggling as a platform - that kind of thing isn't much fun.
If you don’t have fact checkers, a debate loses all its value. Debates must be grounded in fact to have any value at all. Otherwise a “debate” is just a series of campaign stump speeches.
I have been having a fine time with a 3080 on recent Arch, FWIW.

HDR support is still painful, but that seems to be a Linux problem, not specific to Nvidia.
Is that your example? It's not a very good one.

If you read the article you linked to, you find that 1) Twitter blocked tweets about the WP story, not banned users, and 2) they reversed that decision and unblocked the tweets 24 hours later as they realized their mistake.
The blog post is lacking critical details stating what exactly the problem definition is. But making some assumptions, I believe the objective is to find a decently short path using less computation time than A*, rather than to specifically find the shortest path.

I will direct the author to any number of references in the field of robotic motion planning. These are algorithms designed to deal with continuous spaces, which is the limiting case of the author's problem with too fine grained a resolution in the A* search graph.

Checking the textbook on my shelf, Principles of Robot Motion (2005), I find an algorithm called "Tangent Bug" within the first 30 pages, which is similar in spirit to the author's proposed approach. The textbook goes on for 500 more pages to develop a host of more sophisticated techniques, including "sampling-based planning," which the author may find extremely useful.

Edit: Just recalled this excellent blog post of Casey Muratori on using one of the sampling algorithms, "RRT", for The Witness: https://caseymuratori.com/blog_0005
I get that but I mean they are talking about plastic bottles floating in the ocean they are observing. Like intact bottles not stuff broken down into microplastics like most of that "run off" plastic waste. Assuming they aren't boating around the mekong delta I'd guess what plastic trash they do see boating (probably near shore not far from a recreational marina with a lot of other recreational traffic) is probably from other boaters just pitching it over the side. Occams Razor and all.
Microsoft disguises Bing as Google to fool inattentive searchers
Does the "I can always go back whence I came" also lower the perceived risk? If a domestically-born founder fails they aren't apt to have anywhere else they can go, thus having to stick around to deal with the fallout.
What's the problem? It's almost perfect on android, for me.
Well yea, two major advantages of public transit over driving is that it is safer and less expensive. So if you are going to discount people with those opinions, of course the people remaining are more likely to align with you.
Devising a collaborative workflow for a small team
I don't mind transferring euros to a bank account, it's more about american systems doing fraud detection and deciding I can't pay with a german address and a dutch bank account (stripe illegally (https://www.acceptmyiban.org) rejects that for example, can't pay for DeepL...; or paying for food with a german credit card and Dutch IP because my mobile data routes through NL, also gets rejected), german credit scoring being mandatory to force a "pay later" scheme on you when you just want to pay up front (involves either phishing you or validating your phone number), paypal simply having a broken UI that goes "something went wrong", etc.

Everyone with a bank account can transfer money online, merchants just need to accept it and not try to use dumb schemes that charge extra fees on top of the bank fees to "support more payment methods", that's my problem...
I think your biggest takeaway should be that they person writing the blog post is extremely well-known versed in programming and has labored over code for hours, along with writing tests, debugging, etc. He knows what he would like because it's second nature. He was able to get the best from the LLM because his vision of what the code should look like helped craft a solid prompt.

Newer people into programming might not have as good of a time because they may skip actually learning something fundamentals and rely on LLMs as a crutch. Nothing wrong with that, I suppose, but there might be at some point when everything goes up in smoke and the LLM is out of answers.

No amount of italic font is going to change that.
no, you're missing the point. the subwoofer is not connect to a wall that vibrates, so it wouldn't miss the signal. the surround speakers and possibly the front and surround speakers tend to be attached to a wall. The floor doesn't shake enough for the sub to loose alignment is the point.
I planted garlic this year. Thanks for documenting! I can’t wait to see what I get harvest time.

I like the Llama models personally. Meta aside. Qwen is fairly popular too. There’s a number of flavors you can try out. Ollama is a good starting point to try things quickly. You’re def going to have to tolerate things crashing or not working imo before you understand what your hardware can handle.
The problem is not that + calls a function. The problem is that + could call one of many different functions, i.e. it is overloaded. Zig does not allow overloading plus() based on the argument types. When you see plus(), you know there is exactly one function named “plus” in scope and it calls that.
You can pretty much get that experience today. Go build yourself a gaming PC and install Bazzite. It is a bit focused on handhelds but also works on more desktop form factor but controller focused PCs. Steam Big Picture works as well so it is a lot of the same interface as what you'd get on SteamOS.

https://bazzite.gg/
The best AI model will not win the AI wars, it will be the most cost effective model at scale that wins.
How close does any of that get a person to having Ubuntu 24.04 running on their board?

(I guess we can put aside the issue of Nvidia's closed source graphics drivers for the moment)
GPT-2 was generating snippets of HTML ten years ago. Was it valid? Not always, but neither is the current crop. It's been incremental logarithmic gains approaching an asymptote for ten years now. Since before "Open"AI stopped being open.
Elon Musk's 'disinformation' endangering me, says UK Minister Jess Phillips
Yeah, but that requires Steam to add support for those input events. It doesn't have an API for you to feed it input events. There's not exactly a standard for random input events for Steam to hook into either.

That's why distros like Bazzite and ChimeraOS have an additional translator[0] to take input events and output a controller that Steam supports, Dualsense edge or Steam Deck's controller, to be able to add support for gyro and back buttons.

[0] https://github.com/hhd-dev/hhd or https://github.com/ShadowBlip/InputPlumber
You probably don't, but your opamp might.
https://www.analog.com/en/resources/technical-articles/to-ch...

Technically you probably could do it externally in most cases but it would require a bunch of extra stuff, and be a pain, so usually it's best to use the stuff built into the amplifier itself.
again this is not the same thing has allowing a USB cable to connect from a PC to another device that is expecting a device that would present itself as a mass storage device
Bazzite is the first time I feel like PC gaming on a TV is as convenient as a console. And you can put it on a 150$ mini PC from AliExpress and play pretty much anything that isn't an AAA game from the last 3-5 years or a competitive online game with unsupported anticheat, including most emulators. It's truly an amazing achievement.
I also like DLSS, but the OP is correct that it is a problem. Specifically it's a problem with understanding what are these cards capable of. Theoretically we would like to see separately performance with no upscaling at all, then separately with different levels of upscaling. Then we would be able to see easier what is the real performance boost of the hardware, and of the upscaler separately.

It's like BMW comparing new M5 model to the previous gen M5 model, while previous gen is on the regular 95 octane, and new gen is on some nitromethane boosted custom fuel. With no information how fast the new car is on a regular fuel.
The dark side of the moon on continuous loop would be an interesting project.
I read it more as "here's a page I wrote and printed-out on my nephew's computer during the holidays" unserious rather "I'm joking serious". It's not a page in book of collected opinions Fed official keep, it's the cover page for the public release. Like, "this old thing? It's kind of out-of-date and unimportant but you can take a look if you want".

IE, there's a little effort to hide the significance of the document "in plain sight" here.
The right trackpad is absolutely a killer feature.

Rollercoaster Tycoon, FTL, point and click games are games the trackpad has vastly improved for me.
I think you misunderstand what Meta is doing here. They’re not stopping moderation of posts.

Meta used to pay third party company fact checking companies to put disclaimers on “misinformation” posts on Facebook. They’re going to stop that now.

They’re still going to continue their other more traditional moderation where you’ll be banned for making an obvious tongue in cheek joke or whatever.
Fact checkers are the technocratic solution, they're a panel of experts to Community Note's jury of our peers. Fact checkers are a much better product feature than community notes if we want a feature that best serves people who care about facts. That's not our world, though. People don't care about facts, we are humans, our lives are lived based on vibes. The average person would rather listen to their idiot friend's uneducated thoughts about transgender women in sport than listen to a lecture from an expert. Community notes is probably a better feature for the real world, but it's still junk, "effective" is not a label the feature deserves, because the majority of misinformation on X goes un-noted.
There’s seems to be constant conflict between, one must be able to criticize a concept (H1b visa’s) even if that concept is commonly associated with a specific group, and the fact that many people who see that a specific group associated with a concept they don’t like will bleed over there animosity for the concept to the group.
> rate of progress in the past two years

This took me down a memory lane:

- Dragon Dictate speed recognition improvement curve in the mid-90s would have led to today's Siri sometime around 1999.

- The first couple of years of Siri & Alexa updates...

- Robots in the '80s led us to believe that home robots would be more or less ubiquitous by now. (Beyond floor cleaners.)

- CMU winning the DARPA Urban challenge for autonomous vehicles was a big fake-out in terms of when AVs would actually land.

Most of the benefits of computing come from relatively small improvements, continuously made over many years & decades. 2-4 years is not enough time to really extrapolate in any computing domain.

> with enough compute

"enough" here could be something that is only measurable on the Kardashev scale.
This is different than the fact-checking, and has to do with automated moderation algorithms (which generally suck), which are continuing (because advertisers want them).
404 on your St. Louis link.
Are you a traveling man?
It looks like this algorithm is solving for whether the graph contains at least one triangle rather than counting or listing all triangles.
The Digits device runs the same nVidia DGX OS (nVidia custom Ubuntu distro) that they run on their cloud infra.
Intel does have https://www.clearlinux.org/
It's baumol's cost disaease no? rising wages in one sector, have a side-effect of bringing up wages in another.
A lot of folks complaining about the valuation. It's important to remember that investing in an AI model company isn't the same as investing in most other businesses.

You're not investing hoping that they turn into a big business with a nice return. You're investing because you assume the value will either be zero or infinity.

If they achieve AGI first, then the valuation you invested in doesn't matter because the value will basically be infinite (or will completely change society in a way that money won't matter anymore).

If someone else achieves AGI first, the value is basically zero.

And if AGI isn't achieved, well, there probably won't be any exit. But if there is, it's a nice bonus if it still has any value.
It's not connected to the UPS directly, it's causing voltage dip on the circuit tripping the UPS.
> "Move our trust and safety and content moderation teams out of California, and our US content review to Texas. This will help remove the concern that biased employees are overly censoring content." - like people being in Texas makes them more objective?!

The FB office in Austin, Texas is a moderately left-leaning area. Their office in Silicon Valley is about the most extreme left-wing place in the country. At the very least, teams at their Texas offices will have more overlap with the median voter than the ones in California. If their Texas offices were in rural rancher country, then I'd agree with your concern that it would just be swapping one bias for another.