skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They express their cost in terms of GPU hours, then convert that to USD based on market GPU rental rates, so it's not affected by subsidies. It's possible however they lied about GPU hours, but if that was the case an expert should be able to show they lied by working out how many flops are needed to train based on the amount of tokens they say they used vs the flops of the GPUs they say they used.
Which is ironic since it's the proprietary stuff I have to use that is least likely to work on Wayland at this point...
In said gold rush scenario, the price of gold itself would have collapsed.
The bigger correction will be in tech stocks that are overly exposed to datacenter investments to accommodate for ever rising AI demands. MSFT, AMZN, META they are all exposed
The use of LLMs to understand human-written content and extract structured data is something that has been long overdue. This will allow us to build more efficient and intelligent systems that can leverage the content already available on websites or printed material.

You add into the mix the shift from chat interfaces to agents that work with structured data and you're now talking about an ecosystem that is very compelling. It feels like a very logical progression. Instead of having simple question-answer interactions, we can build proactive systems that genuinely help users make decisions. The potential for more personalised and tailored user experience, as highlighted by the healthy food search engine example, is substantial. I think this will redefine how we interact with the web.
AMD does not have a PE double of NVIDIA. PE is high because of amortisation of an acquisition. People on hackernews talk a lot but have no idea what they talk about. You might know how to write javascript or some other language but clearly you have not read the earnings reports or financials of AMD and probably alot of the other companies you talk about. So please stop spreading nonsense.

Just for those that clearly have no idea https://old.reddit.com/r/AMD_Stock/comments/1d2okn1/when_wil...
Nothing magic or particularly reliable, but a few things stemming from the basics - layoffs happen because the accountants say there isn't enough money, and [Function X] seems to cost more than [Profit/Opportunity Y] that is assigned to it. Then a bunch of people have no job the next week. So to avoid being picked up in a layoff, it is helpful to talk to the accountants, figure out what Y is and what X you are in, and if the numbers aren't promising work to get re-categorised as a Z, increase Y or negotiate to change how things are measured.

Most product teams are organised around the idea that someone tells them what to build, then they build it. That means they never talk to anyone who cares about profit. Short-circuiting that and being in people's ear about "is this going to secure income?" can be good for everyone.

Is that sort of thing guaranteed to work? No, sometimes the hammer is too big and heavy to divert. But a lot of the time software people show no interest in whether the plans they are signing off on are going to be viewed as leading to more money.

Eg, in the original article I see things like "Occasionally, the VP of Product would message me directly to ask if a feature was feasible to implement". Cool. The VP of product isn't politically aligned [0] to put old mate on profitable features. He is going to potentially put old mate on features that are hard to implement, moonshots or potentially get someone to stop bothering him. So old mate build up a reputation for technical excellence (aka on track to Staff Developer), but not a reputation for being essential to making the accountants happy. Eventually parts of the business that aren't under VP Product's control sack him.

If an accountant thinks you are responsible for 1% of a companies revenue and your salary is less than that, your job is secure. Iron clad. Really have to screw up to get fired. So proactively talking to them and associating with things that push revenue up is a strategy. Negotiate to make it so.

[0] If he's a good VP he will be, but that isn't something that can be assumed.
Come to Germany and try Deutsche Bank. Those monkeys are just throwing !@#$# at the wall. Moving from the US to Germany is like taking a time machine to another era when it comes to online banking.
Sounds more like a way to not call it an act of war, but why would a ship drag an anchor like that? And why does this happen so frequently at a time of hostility between Russia and Europe?
I’m sure the geniuses at the neighboring health authorities are perfectly capable of monitoring nearby conditions without falling back on federal intervention.
the article says steering, suspension and headlights.

headlights are fairly normal, but suspension and steering are dangerous failures and expensive repairs - higher weight jumps out to me as a likely root cause. especially when many of the others are hybrids with much smaller batteries and motor power.
> Clearly the cable breaks are not accidents when previously there weren't any for years and now in the last year we've had so many that I've lost count.

Has there really been no other accidents like these? It feels like this is something that been happening for a long time, but not until recently the news started reporting on it.

I seem to remember some event back in 2022 already, around Bornholm I think. I'm sure there are more as well, damaged communication lines seems to happen all the time.
Part of the issue is that there's not really a convention in C. If it's not documented, you should probably read the source code to find out. (C programmers often think there's a convention, but that's because there's one option that's obvious to them but then other programmers will have a different 'obvious' option, which is why this is so often not documented at all)
> Layoffs were uncommon when I started working, and being a developer felt like an incredibly safe job. In most professions, the unspoken rule was simple: if you performed well and the company was financially stable, your job was secure.

You hear this a lot but it's the result of developers from sectors that did well during this time period whistling past the graveyard as rolling layoffs hit more mature sectors and firms, such as networking (Cisco) and storage. It's surprising to me that people who are paid to try to imagine how systems perform in different scenarios, and are presumably good at what they are paid to do, fail to apply the same thought processes to the systems that provide them their salaries.
No, the point of NATO was/is to keep the Soviets/Russians from trying to invade. Remilitarization of West Germany happened very quickly after the end of WWII and only after the fall of the Soviet Union and German Reunification did Germany seem to conclude that history was over and lost their vigilance.
Why doesn't it just automatically use the brakes every now and then if that is required to keep them working? Seems like a trivial software fix.
Only one was obvious in the hindsight: management stopped caring and sometimes attending product demos, but really cared about India's part in the deliveries (justified as we want them to level up quickly).

Everything was subtle:

Managers distanced themselves from the team, had more meetings between themselves ("for efficiency - team grew so we cannot include so many people in the meetings anymore"), they were looking at each other often when making decisions (which to me looked as if they were trying to think how to handle requests knowing the team will be laid off soon).

In the final weeks management started suddenly taking/reassigning tasks out of US team's hands in ways that didn't make sense.
Shrug at HN.

This comment is correct & shouldn't be downvoted.
The whole AI valuation was based on being able to rent-seek a significant chunk of all white collar salaries, with a permanent monopoly moat because nobody else would pay hundreds of billions to train models.

And yet again a cheaper Chinese product turns up and everyone loses their minds. Expect a ban incoming to preserve the AI valuations.
Lay off is great if economy is booming(some 2012-2018 and then 2021) but nightmare if economy is screwed(2024-present).

I recall commenting few days back that, the job market is so screwed now that even senior engineers with decades of experience are not trusted these days if they are missing minor experience in some minor tool.

In 2021, I remember everyone with ability to type some code(regardless of quality) land great jobs, remote contracts etc. Everyone I know currently looking to change or were laid off since mid last year are suffering(real bad) and all of these are highly qualified people whom I’d really trust with most critical work.
I agree.

Mismanagement of funds is one of the worst things. Is it pure incompetence?

Or is that they don't give a damn and that "let's get together 500+ people for a fully paid weekend" is too cool to cancel?

...like better an egg today than a hen tomorrow. I mean, they don't get affected anyways, they do get the egg and hen...!
It was for a university assignment, I am not sure if I could or should share it.
> I feel like the main thing would be discoverability.

"Hey everyone, big update! I'm leaving YouTube and moving my channel to PeerTube. You can follow me at @myusername@myserver. My last video on this channel will be a quick tutorial showing how PeerTube works and why it's better than YouTube. See you there soon!"

> If they’re not showing up in people’s recommended they’ll have significantly lower viewership which could ultimately affect their Patreon income over time.

Why? If they already have a substantial amount of patrons, surely they are not worried about pleasing the algorithm. They can live off solely off their fans who support them directly. Right? Right??

> I feel like the best approach if they were interested would be to set it up as a mirror and see how it goes with traffic.

Ahem, which part of "Some of them won't mind creating the Peertube channel and distributing their content as well, but no one will leave YouTube, because they all know that YouTube is still the platform that enables all the economy to exist." did you miss in my original comment?

Sorry about the caustic response. I'm just tired of wishful thinking passing for grounded reasoning. When/if you find me one creator brave enough to put moral principles over their own livelihood by leaving YouTube, then I'll accept that Patreon alone is a viable alternative. Until then, it's just signaling and posturing.
NVDA is a totally manipulated stock. The company beat earnings in the last three quarters and the stock dropped 15% to 20% immediately after the results release.

Every single time...
Outside of the US this optionality does have some value to deserve at least some premium.

Hire an extra dev for the same money looks good on paper, but employment being the trapdoor function that it is in some jurisdictions does muddy the water.

(I do understand that there's a historical context to keep in mind, and that the relationship is often asymmetric in the other direction as well)
At least in Norway, the underwater electricity cables are extremely controversial - to the point that the sitting gov. might lose the upcoming election partly due to how they’ve handled it the past years.

Skyrocketing electricity bills is something ordinary people feel.
MSFT is down 7%
For sure NVIDIA is priced for perfection perhaps more than any of the other of similar market value.

I think two threats are the biggest:

First Apple. TSMC’s largest customer. They are already making their own GPUs for their data centers. If they were to sell these to others they would be a major competitor.

You would have the same GPU stack on your on phone, laptop, pc, and data center. Already big developer mind share. Also useful in a world where LLMs run (in part) on the end user’s local machine (like Apple Intelligence).

Second is China - Huawei, Deepseek etc.

Yes - there will be no GPUs from Huawei in the US in this decade. And the Chinese won’t win in a big massive battle. Rather it is going to be death by a thousand cuts.

Just as what happened with the Huawei Mate 60. It is only sold in China but today Apple is loosing business big time in China.

In the same manner OpenAi and Microsoft will have their business hurt by Deepseek even if Deepseek was completely banned in the west.

Likely we will see news on Chinese AI accelerators this year and I wouldn’t be surprised if we soon saw Chinese hyperscalars offering cheaper GPU cloud compute than the west due to a combination of cheaper energy, labor cost, and sheer scale.

Lastly AMD is no threat to NVIDIA as they are far behind and follow the same path with little way of differentiating themselves.
I agree, also I see this mostly as a tool. Sure there are more reports that don't necessarily have the highest quality. But just omitting those doesn't seem the correct approach.
Indeed:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jevons_paradox

In economics, the Jevons paradox occurs when technological progress increases the efficiency with which a resource is used, but the falling cost of use induces increases in demand enough that resource use is increased, rather than reduced.
I understood the claim to be that if you are at the bottom of the social points scale then you are sufficiently vulnerable for it not to matter. That the people who really benefit from Germany's strong labour laws are those with kids, disabled people, old, etc... but not just a standard young person.

Germany is just a strange country IMO. Lots of "nice" stuff like this that sounds great but really only works for the older generation and doesn't really work for young people, who are already hugely disadvantage by the German boomerocracy (probably one of the worst boomerocracys in the world).
It would have been nice if KDE and Valve could (would?) work together to reimplement KWin's features on top of wlroots. That would have basically made Gnome the sole holdout, and I imagine they'd eventually have switched to the extended wlroots as well, or at least forked it.
Huggingface is reproducing it live on their blog…
Why replace? Inspect on time and use car’s warranty to get free replacement with newer (and probably a bit better) part. I mean it’s well known issue with early Teslas: https://www.reuters.com/business/autos-transportation/us-age...
I was excited as soon as I saw the domain name. Even after a few months, this article[1] is still at the top of my mind. You have a certain way of writing.

I remember being surprised at first because I thought it would feel like a wall of text. But it was such a good read and I felt I gained so much.

1: https://youtubetranscriptoptimizer.com/blog/02_what_i_learne...
> Do we? For what?

Because when the gap gets too large, you get an oligarchy. Like here in the US. And I don't think you want a homegrown Elon Musk to run your country.

Also it makes the economy a sham held up by billionaires. I literally cannot start a company here in the US because even my engineering salary is not enough to bootstrap a company without licking VC boots. I'm currently looking to instead get a visa in another country for starting up a business.
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I did web dev for many one-off projects, and very often this is the case - that the people are non-existent. When having an altercation with a customer, one of my guys even fired the non-existing support person, and then another non-existing support person took over, apologized, and made amends with the client.

So yeah, at least this guys is somewhat transparent. And with services like my primary email address, I only trust longstanding, reliable services, nothing fresh, nothing beta, nothing with the bus factor of 1. But with the custom domain, at least migration is not super hard maybe? Just hope that it doesn't happen during a 2-week vacation or something.
In this sense I meant hodl as in “hold”, “refuse to sell”. Completely unrelated to the lost Atlantean technology hidden under the ice, which can compute hashes 100x faster.
I find uv to be a great way for installing and trying different Python projects. It comes with the uvx command, which makes a temporary venv, installs the right Python version and all project dependencies, and starts the program. It uses the PyPi index, so it's not the only option, but I think it's better than pip/pipx.

For instance, running `uvx --python 3.13 Bagels` made a temporary environment and installed all dependencies in 1.01s on my computer, and it took less than 10 seconds for the program to start after creating a database etc. Next start takes less than 2 seconds since it's cached. If I decide I want to keep using it, I can install it using the uv tool command, if not I just do nothing.

https://docs.astral.sh/uv/guides/tools/
The people writing market commentary are simply making it up. The news about DeepSeek is not new and doesn't reduce the value of ASML. People are selling now because they are scared because the number went down.
This was literally a quote by a nato secretary general

https://www.nato.int/acad/conf/future95/rodman.htm

> Lord Ismay, the first Secretary General of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), reportedly observed that the purpose of the Alliance was to keep the Americans in Europe, the Russians out, and the Germans down.
I’ve worked for the smallest startups (2 employees) to the biggest company (100k employees).

Everything can bring you burnout if the management is toxic. It’s independent on the size of the company. I’m now working for a small company that feels like a family even if they don’t say it.
My son is 4 and we read books to him that are a lot simpler than the Oz book(s). I'm impressed that your kid can handle them.
I attempted the approach of having an AI write the code while I casually audited it, but the results didn’t work out well for me. It kept adding bugs and logical errors that were hard to find. I was using Cursor along with Claude 3.5 Sonnet, and perhaps my use case was too complex. What have you built using this methodology?
Verifying FPGA using Free OS tools and frameworks
> their whole persona has already been built around their job

Maybe this is one of the unspoken goals of bringing people back to the office.
Well this is very bad for the private AI companies but Big Tech will be fine, especially Meta and Apple.

Everyone else who over-leveraged into the private AI companies (Anthropic, OpenAI) are going to have their valuations under scrutiny.
I wonder if they could be buried under the sea floor, deep enough that they couldn’t be damaged accidentally.
Germany has issued an arrest warrant for a Ukrainian man they're alleging did it. Meanwhile Swedish and Danish investigations were closed without any public accusations, which would be strange if they thought it was Russia but not strange if they thought it was Ukraine (or a NATO country.)
A library exists, correct.

Good luck using it as your graphics subsystem.
How are there suddenly lots of these kind of accidents out of nowhere?

I understand pro-Russian outlets want people to believe that, but I find it very hard to believe that intelligence agencies would honestly believe that.

Personally I think nations on the Baltic should simply ban Russian or Russian-originating ships from their waters. And if they really want to pretend these "accidents" are caused by a sudden use of inexperienced crews, set some standards for crew training and expertise for ships sailing through their waters. Require them to hire experienced crew that know these waters well. Inspect them at the very least.

Just allowing the sabotage to continue is a bad idea.
> The current governing parties will probably lose the election next month because they made costly infrastructure fixes.

Germany is heading / has bet on a completely different direction than actual real world out there is moving to. The unability to admit massive failures and adapt is glaringly obvious even from outside, and literally fucks up whole EU left and right. Germany and its population has tremendous potential, we all know it, yet it looks like headless chicken running around yard with no positive future that I can see.

I don't care who will rule there, nobody outside understands nor cares about detailed internals of Germany. But, for a change, please put there somebody competent who can steer country and a bit whole continent as a consequence, has respect of peers and adversaries and can do necessary changes to keep it all afloat. Current and past leadership was and is... don't have a nice name, so better not describe it. Massive damage across whole EU. Weak EU then invites dictators to try to test its strength.
27/25 is still younger, isn't it? "Interesting" outcome is that the war will simply wipe out male Russian and Ukrainian millenials.
Well the price has a built in presumption that the earnings will keep growing. That's why PER is not that relevant for them, it's been over 50-70 since forever, but the stock went up 10x, which means earnings went up as well. DeepSeek might be good for their business overall, but it might mean earnings will not continue growing exponentially like they have been for the past two years. So it's time to bail.

You shouldn't underestimate the fact that a large amount of these trades are on margin. Sometimes you can't wait it out because you'll get margin called and if you can't pony up additional cash you're basically getting caught with your pants down.

Disclaimer: I am not a trader, so could be way off
I think people need to rethink destroying long term human survival with stupid wars. Coal is reliable. And the costs are not to be paid immediately. But in the long term we would far way better with projects like Desertec.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desertec

Because yes, their main disadvantage are instable human societies. Some terrorists longing for stonge age, are enough to destroy it.

And sure, nuclear also works. But the more nuclear there is, the more targets you also have for the idiots.
2000-2005 is the sweet spot. Cars had immobilizers but not keyless entry. Basic electronics: airbags, electric windows, radio. Engines were naturally aspirated with port injection.
> For SSH forwarding you could have SSH ask the X server for a new socket for forwarding purposes - so remote clients can't snoop on local clients.

SSH pretty much already does this. Per default (using -X) X11 forwarding is in untrusted mode, which makes certain unsafe X11 extensions unavailable.
So remote clients already cannot snoop the whole keyboard input.
You are right, it is a Jevon's paradox thing. We were already going to spend all the gigawatts on AI, it is just more AI.
agreed but ASML has been chronically undervalued forever.
Not a good day for those who decided to hold 3x Nvidia ETPs - down 40% earlier.
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>... The ban, effective from Saturday, aims to ensure individuals' free will remains uninfluenced...

As a happy worldcoiner I'd much rather be able to use my free will to sign up with who I like rather than having ill informed government officials try to ban transactions between informed, otherwise happy adults because why not stick your foot in other people's business?
The clones are limited though, are they not? Like, they don't have the directional stuff and all that do they? I may be misremembering what I've read elsewhere.
This. I’d be more than happy to pay (a reasonable price to) Google. I don’t want to give them any personal information, especially financial.
Again that may reasonable but it’s a completely different argument. Whether there is a bubble or not and whether NVDA is overvalued is irrelevant to the subject at hand.

If it’s cheaper to train models it means far more customers that will try their luck.

If you reduce training requirement from a 100,000 GPUs to a 1000 you’ve now opened the market to 1000’s and 1000’s of potential players instead of like the 10 that can afford dumping so much money into a compute cluster.
How and why to properly write copyright statements in your code … very detailed