skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Most money and most transactions aren't in Solana. Solana processes ~15B /day. Credit card companies, 15T. Solana has only ever reached 2k/s

https://capitaloneshopping.com/research/number-of-credit-car...

Come on now, you know I was referring to consumer fraud. And there is no protection, unless you go off chain.

Transaction fees in the most common coin, Bitcoin, vary wildly. The spike rose to over $100 at one point.

https://ycharts.com/indicators/bitcoin_average_transaction_f...

Does everyone just need to get out of Bitcoin and get into Solana before a stampede happens? If Bitcoin crashes, all coins will crash, because there's hundreds of them to choose from. You're playing with tulips.
cool now do something about car exhaust.
Is this in the US? Because i can’t fathom just being able to casually drop in to visit a doctor like this. Any time I need to talk to a doctor, I have phone tag with their understaffed receptionist for a few days, then we set up an appointment 4-6 months in the future.
> The Roberts balun for measurement dipoles is ... literally the reference for calibrating other antennas.

Solid gold search term right there, thank you!

> The primitive method for getting an antenna calibration is the three-antenna method.

More good stuff. Seriously, I hadn't gotten here and this is suddenly demystifying a lot of fundamentals.

Wave if you see me on the bunny hill! ;)
> You get dirtier looks and more likely to be harassed smoking a cigarette than you would smoking weed

Interesting, this has not been my experience. Certainly smoking weed is much more accepted than it used to be and cigarettes are less accepted than they used to be, but it seems like they've both ended up in a similar category. A non-smoker walking down the sidewalk might stay further away from someone smoking weed but I'm not sure it's a value judgement so much as the fact that the skunky smell seems to travel further.

Though besides giving them a wide berth and maybe causing people to scrunch up their nose, I've never seen anyone get harassed for either unless they're in a nonsmoking area or a playground or something and in that case I haven't noticed any difference in people's response.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/donald-trumps-iron-dome...
In Amsterdam, a community of floating homes shows how to live alongside nature
Smoking is still bad, weed or tobacco or crack or whatever. I think cannabis is plenty addictive.
A Missing Link Between Concussion and Alzheimer's
> I worked with a feature that used this approach once.

You work with many features that use this approach.

https://www.dbi-services.com/blog/oracle-log-writer-and-write-ahead-logging/
https://git-scm.com/docs/git-reflog
https://dev.mysql.com/blog-archive/mysql-8-0-new-lock-free-scalable-wal-design/
https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/wal-intro.html
https://www.sqlite.org/wal.html
https://www.amazon.science/blog/lessons-learned-from-10-years-of-dynamodb
very strange as I get on old i5-12400+DDR4 2 tok/sec with 14B/q8 model.
5.6mn figure is for base Deepseek V3 model. Both instruction and reasoning tuning of it has neglectable cost in comparison with it.
Just so we're clear, you're talking about weed smokers like the GP?

You've gotten passively stoned?
I wonder, if one smoked one joint per hour (like tobacco) for 30 years, what the end game would be?
I’d strongly disagree with tool vs fitness gadget here. Compare a Garmin to an Apple Watch or pebble, and it absolutely is a tool. Arguably the MIP display beats out the ePaper, ergonomics are great (I can use the buttons even while swimming), and it’s built like a brick. Not knocking the pebble too hard, but it certainly seems like an enthusiasts toy. I’m not sure what else would last me a week while tracking exercising for an hour or two each day.
> The 8KHz samples were encoded with relatively low encoding complexity PCM (G.711) at 8KHz. That gets to a 64kbps data channel rate. This was the standard for "toll quality" audio. Not 8kbps.

I'm a moron, thanks. I think I got the sample rate mixed up with the bitrate. Appreciate you clearing that up - and the other info!
I'm learning about digital signal processing and I use Desmos all the time as a scratchpad to plot the response of functions.
Yes, but too often people hear that and sub in "harmless", which it's absolutely not. "Better than tobacco" is one of the easiest bars for any drug to clear, and weed is not by any stretch of the imagination harmless:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qBRaI0ZeAf8
The calculations are also just wrong. The author basically makes up the 2W figure, doesn't take batching into account, has bogus DAU numbers.

Energy use is worth discussing, but this is worse than just guesswork.
The Healing Instinct: Plants, Animal Behavior and the Origins of Medicine
Smoking on the streets affects everyone else walking on the street. Drinking a cup of coffee on the street affects no one else.

It seems like you may have been making a more general social commentary, but I think this is pretty separate, since this is specifically about . If you're smoking in your home - more power to you.
Do you have any details on the underlying infrastructure? It looks like a useful product, but you're essentially asking me to blindly trust a new service with my entire livelihood.
very interesting, every generation foresees the same solutions somehow
Yes, I searched this too. There probably are many single round sessions, but the average length is 8-12 messages.
Sounds like you might need to turn off a few defaults to make it easier.

It should just be a case of pressing the start button, navigating to the pool swim activity and pressing start.

Use the lap button to record rest intervals at the wall, everything else is automatic
All two socket systems have horrid idle power consumption though.
Don’t forget the US administrations plan to, “win the AI race,” which includes building a ridiculous number of new data centres and methane power plants… and to drill, baby, drill.

AI tech is quickly becoming a concerning contributor to the mix of emissions driving climate change.

I realize that in some future state someone, somewhere will figure out how to make hardware that draws less power and requires less cooling. Some researcher at some point will find a more efficient algorithm. And all of it will run off of green energy. I don’t think we have time to mess around and find out if that will happen.

We’ve recently seen years about 1.5C and if we continue on this course it’s quite likely that will become the average.

AI might play a significant role in contributing to the crisis. And once VC and government subsidies run out, if these companies have to pay for the externalities, will it still be profitable?
AI = anonymous informant. I see what the judge did there :)
Also evidenced by 3B and 7B models becoming ever more capable, gaining qualities that were previously only achieved by models a magnitude larger.

Bigger models are more capable, but smaller models can be iterated on faster. For a couple months now most of the impressive achievements have been in increasingly smaller and cheaper models. Deepseek just has the perfect storm of impressive results, accessibility and international rivalry that made it go viral
In a sense it doesn't, in that if DeepSeek can do this, making OpenAI-type capabilities available for Llama-type infrastructure costs, then if you apply OpenAI scale infrastructure again to a much more efficient training/evaluation system, everything multiplies back up. I think that's where they'll have to head: using their infrastructure moat (such as it is) to apply these efficiency learnings to allow much more capable models at the top end. Yes, they can't sleep-walk into it, but I don't think that was ever the game.
> What happens to people who live in non smoking apartments and don't have private outdoor space to smoke?

They live longer?
I think this is a great idea and I do see a need in high-value freelance services that can benefit from better presentation, e.g. design / architecture studios.

That being said, 1% without a cap is still a lot! If I make $80k annually from my services, Portal would be $800 - and at that price point I have lots of alternatives that may not look as nice but can be just as efficient and WAY cheaper once the pipeline is set up - e.g. Basecamp, Notion templates for freelancers. Curious to know how you think about the pricing.
Part of that story sounds suspect. Hair is dead, besides the root/follicle. How could you remove nutrients from your scalp by doing anything to the end of your hair?

I wonder if the reporter didn't catch on and he actually had his head hanging in the water (so the water was touching his scalp).

Also the "even blasts it with UV light" isn't actually that weird. We have a well and we treat the well water with a UV light disinfector. What's stranger is why you'd need to worry about bacteria growing in ultra-pure water. What would the bacteria eat?
256 cores = much more fun than a car!
In December I did 61 images, and in November I did 121, according to Replicate's billing. Probably more like 10-20 images per session, which for me are usually 1-2 times per week?
I don’t understand this argument.

Gov should fine/tax emissions. If the emissions are too high then tax it more. End of story.

Does it really matter who is doing it and for what purpose?

This reminds me of the internet going crazy over Taylor Swift flying everywhere with her private jets.

It just smells like trying to take blame away from the gov and putting it on private people/companies who are just following the law.

As long as you’re paying a fine proportional to the damage you’re causing, I don’t care whether it’s for AI or crypto or just pumping carbon for the sake of it.

Emissions too high? Increase the fine.
Garmin Issues Warning About Watch Boot Loop Bug
pure cope. Hyperscalers already have a ton of gpus who just got 90% more efficient. They will absolutely reduce spend especially once the tariffs hit lol
Look super cool, I´m gonna give it a try
>You get dirtier looks and more likely to be harassed smoking a cigarette than you would smoking weed, regardless of place and time of day.

I think it may be just your bubble

Ive never saw someone casually smoking weed on streets
More like it isn't a proper auction, and gov't approval with potential strings attached is required for the acquisition to take place.
AMD cutting prices won't affect the biggest thing: CUDA is the software basis of machine learning, and creates an effective hardware manufacturer monopoly. You have to buy Nvidia, to get a good CUDA experience.
> Also curious if anyone still sees Intel outperformance in any context, eg relating to AVX-512 or MKL workloads.

Taking advantage CPU architecture still goes a long way. Yes, AMD is generally faster in SPEC and general purpose loads (and I root for AMD since forever), but when you write your application with a target microarchitecture, the results can be completely different.

We have some scientific applications where newer versions work slower than previous versions on older hardware, but the situation completely changes if you compile both on a period-correct hardware for the newer version.

ASM/Hand tuning is both a blessing and a curse.
> Technically, all the Nvidia stock (and virtually all stocks in the US) are owned by Cede and Co.

Technically, but they extend ownership. An ETF is a different type of abstraction. Which you already know because you spoke about that abstraction in your original comment, so why play stupid now?
AI doesn't simply use up our energy. It can also help reduce energy usage in many fields or improve energy generation. I would not be worried about energy when it comes to AI.
The question was how this person is able to function not what other environmental factors play a role.

Growing coffee also has an impact on the environment, I would argue much more than growing weed - conveniently out of sight for the consumer. But that’s not really my point here.
Intel is selling their dedicated ARC GPUs on razor thin margins to try to compete. I have one friend who got one for a Plex server which let's him support multiple transcoding streams with ease. Another friend just replaced their broken rtx2080 with one since it was cheap and they don't feel a need for cutting edge graphics.
I imagine it varies a lot and probably depends on what you have in your head and the design of custom graphics and the creation of real-world video content.

But I would assume a month of work would probably cover most new course content (and could be less)--given my experience in putting presentations together for conferences.

That said, given that assumption which I think is at least somewhere in the ballpark, typical revenues most seem to get don't really move the needle except as a very part-time hobby. Once upon a time I had a shareware business which brought in $7K/year for a bit but that only made financial sense in that it was something I enjoyed doing for a time and I walked away once I was sort of tired of it.
There are gzip variants that break the file into blocks and run in parallel. They lose a couple of % by truncating the available history.

But zopfli appears to do a lot of backtracking to find the best permutations for matching runs that have several different solutions. There’s a couple of ways you could run those in parallel. Some with a lot of coordination overhead, others with a lot
of redundant calculation.
Which open source model last January gave you similar results with the same amount of video ram?
I’m pretty sure anyone high cannabis is a danger to others while driving?

The smell of weed does not air out — every taxi I get into stinks of it constantly.

Not only that, it has a much greater range - I usually saw a cigarette smoker but I can smell weed on the street and not see them at all.

And my car air filter kept out cigarette odor when on recirculate, but some how weed gets through and I have to close and turn the whole system off to have any hope of not stinking up my car. The number of people smoking weed while driving is honestly scary

I hope Osaka’s approach spreads
Dutch LLM Taken Down Following Legal Pressure from Anti-Piracy Group
To me this line of questioning is perplexing, because the history of civilization and technological development is essentially a story of applying more energyin place of human work. We burned wood to cook food and unlock more calories from it. We replaced wagons and horses with cars, trucks and gasoline. We harnessed the sun and the atom and sent probes throughout our solar system to do research.

We have always required more energy to advance civilization. Sure we should improve efficiency and sustainability, if we don't we may cause a calamity which could take out many of us as well as lot of other critters (though on a geological scale, it'll basically be meaningless). But if we start thinking that using more energy is inherently a bad thing that needs to oppose, civilization will regress.
Less hackable in what way? I've found it's tremendously easier to write a watch face for the Garmin than the Apple Watch. I know, I've done it (and if you, like me, don't want to share your watch face, leave it in Beta all the time).
Looking around a bit the price was ~70k$USD _in China_ around the time they where released in 2023, cheaper bulk sells where a thing, too.

Note that this are the China prices with high markup due to export controls etc.

The price of a H800 80GiB in the US is today more like ~32k$USD .

But for using H800 clusters well you also need as fast as possible interconnects, enough motherboards, enough fast storage, cooling, building, interruption free power etc. So the cost of building a "H800" focused Datacenter is much much higher then multiplying GPU cost by number.

Still $400m seem unlikely.
I use AVX-512 on Alder and it does not increase the voltage above AVX-2 voltages, and even then power dissipation is considerably lower than AVX-2.
No, you’re not. They explicitly mention in the R1 paper (in the last paragraph before the bibliography) that R1 isn’t a “huge” improvement over DeepSeek-V3 in coding - where “huge” is an academic weasel word.

It’s just a lot of hype. In my coding tests it significantly underperforms o1 (haven’t tried o1-pro), often getting stuck in a reasoning loop because I underspecified something (that I don’t have to with o1).
The 5090 is 32GB out of the box. Not that that's anywhere near the top of what you can do on an Apple, but at least it's movement.
I vaguely remember someone made a blog post about it and got piled-on. I think it's now fixed or being fixed.

Edit: Found it https://ar.al/2024/06/23/fedora-has-been-shipping-with-a-bro...
See my other reply - this is not about what other environmental factors play a role - the question was how this person is able to function, not how their consumption impacts others.
lol Gen Z is wealthier at this point in their lives than every preceding generation was and not even by a small margin
> But I just find it baffling how acceptable it is to see someone publicly smoking weed at 7am on a weekday.

This isn't even socially accepted among stoners who smoke every day once you're old enough to have a job. Not sure who you are hanging out with but people who are high all day every day are one of two things:

1 addicts, and considered so even by stoners, who have crazy tolerance and like alcoholics can function under the influence better than non addicts

or 2 they have a terrible painful disease like ankylosing spondylitis and the only effect of the cannabis is a slight reduction in pain because when your spine is pinched you don't get as much of the euphoria and whatnot from pot

Hope that clears it up
Works fine for me in Brave -- neither warning nor ads shown.
> Grover Norquist

See:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Starve_the_beast
The court of public opinion has never held that standard
Also a lot of the datacentres are... just datacentres... AI is a small part of cloud
They list out what the proprietary bits are. All of it is third party gernical hardware interface libraries that they do not own. Bluetooth stack, etc. All stuff you can rewrite easier today.

The Magic of pebble was the UX of the OS and it's extensive hackability. All that magic is OSS now.
You're talking about a market where the ASP for AMD is like 450 bucks and NV has 10x the market share at a 50-60% higher ASP. Then you look at Intel Arc, which has an ASP somewhere in the 200 bucks range. I don't think these market shares are primarily dictated by economics and the commodified properties of GPUs (compute power etc.), but rather different things, like software.

In any case, AMD is clearly focusing on data center applications and is starting to enjoy some inroads there.
Thanks for noticing the domain name! The account section is currently not fully functional—currently, when logged in, it is intended for syncing configuration settings. Love the idea of using a tomato-themed favicon, I will do that!
Please consider changing the Gif in the README to a video. Not only it's a half the size (I just checked), it will also allow people to pause, rewind etc.
It's a radioactive carrot in politicsville, not sure if you get superpowers or just regular old cancer.
The headline is a lie. It doesn’t even try to support it in the article. They were asked if they can support the agenda that is literally their job to support.
Renting could be a good choice to get started. I used to rent a g4dn.xlarge instance from AWS (for Stable Diffusion, not LLMs). More affordable options are Runpod and Vast.ai.

I started with a local system using llama.cpp on CPU alone and for short questions and answers it was OK for me. Because (in 2023) I didn't know if LLMs would be any good, I chose cheap components https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40267208.

Since AWS was getting pretty expensive, I also bought an RTX 3060(16GB), an extra 16GB RAM (for a total of 32GB) and a superfast 1TB M.2 SSD. The total cost of the components was around €620.

Here are some basic LLM performance numbers for my system:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41845936

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42843313
Ollama is pretty clear about it, it's not like they are trying to deceive. You can also download the 671B model with Ollama, if you like.
Big US Tech in panic mode Did DeepSeek just pop the AI bubble?
Can't find where the A100 figure comes from, but an RTX 4090 can generate more than an image a second[0], which assuming constant power usage of 450W would be 0.000125kWh - compared to, say, 2.4kWh for a pot of coffee[1].

If you're running it as a service, you'd likely optimize the model with TensorRT and run on hardware intended for inference, instead of consumer/training GPUs, so I don't think either of these figures can be extrapolated to Midjourney.

[0]: https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/RtAnnCQxaVJNYgA4LbBhuJ-970...
[1]: https://electricityplans.com/how-much-electricity-does-a-cof...
> or I could type a paragraph to an LLM and copy paste and then edit the parts it gets wrong?

I think there's something you're missing in their description. They're not asking a model to do anything, it's automatically running and then suggests what should come next.

Also in editors like cursor I can ask for a change directly in the editor and be presented with an inline diff to accept/reject.
> Practical .NET Optimization Abuse

This is not abuse, it's intended behavior, standard library itself likes to use it a lot internally. That's also how generics work in Rust!

This can be pushed further by passing data by ref's. You can also easily allocate structs in unmanaged heap (aka malloc and free) and then pass them by `ref` without using unsafe (save for construction and alloc/free). Just don't do it for structs which contain gcrefs. C# can lean very heavily into systems programming :)

There have also been a large amount of struct optimizations across the last few versions. So it is not a coincidence that RyuJIT/ILC can trade blows with LLVM (not always but still!).

Edit: Oh god, I saw what this refers to. I take it back. There is likely a better, idiomatic and compiler-friendly way haha.
> someone publicly smoking weed at 7am on a weekday. What does this guy's day look like? How can he function high all day?

You realize the high from a joint only last a couple hours, right? He could go out to breakfast (always a fun high activity), people watch a bit (again), and then go for a walk in the park or listen to some music or whatever. And then spend the rest of the day sober. Could even go into the office fine lol.

Or keep smoking weed (that's okay too).
tl;dr

Dutch anti-piracy group BREIN announced that one of the largest Dutch LLMs ‘GEITje-7B‘ was taken offline as a result of their efforts.

This LLM was trained on ‘Gigacorpus’ a dataset of books and texts previously targeted by BREIN, including a vast collection of Dutch texts and books, some of which contained copyrighted material sourced from the shadow library LibGen.

As far as I know, this is the first time LLMs are taken down based on their training on copyrighted materials.