skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You can always have the compiler dump the assembly output so you can examine it. I suspect few do that.
Only more precision. But no, doubles are not faster. At best they’re the same instruction latency & throughput as singles, and that’s only on a few expensive pro/datacenter GPUs. Even if they are technically the same instruction speed, they’re still 2x the memory & register usage, which can compromise perf in other ways. Doubles on consumer GPUs are typically anywhere from 16 to 64 times slower than singles.

FWIW, I’ve never heard of shader replacement to force doubles. It’d be interesting to hear when that’s been used and why, and surprising to me if it was ever done for a popular game.
The fact she was proud of it and that at that time this form of discrimination was considered laudable is a signal that it was more likely just simple discrimination.
Okey dokey mate, you do you. Have a great one.
The title is wrong, it's about the recent Atari 2600+ and 7800+, not the original models.
> Women have been screwed over forever and still are.

The first part of this sentence is correct, the later part isn’t.

Women are now significantly privileged over men in educational and early career opportunities.

The idea that this “balances out” is obviously false, because you’re talking about different generations. Young men being discriminated against now is just as unfair as it was to previous generations of women that were discriminated against in the past.
Here is an observation from someone in a country (Australia) that has mixed public and private. In my country we are continually bombarded with news stories about how bad the public system is. This was puzzling to me, because after experiencing both I think you would be mad to use a private hospital if a public one was available.

There are two dynamics at play. The private hospital's customers aren't the patients, it's the doctors. It's the doctors that chose which hospital their customers go to. Thus if the doctor makes a mistake (or the hospital for that matter), it's in the hospitals interests to suppress the news. The information you do see about them is mostly paid advertising. The masters of the public hospitals on the other hand are the politicians. The opposition picks up on each and every failure in a public hospital, and parades it to every media outlet they can find to show had bad at the government in power is. Thus most of the news you here about public hospitals is bad, often very bad, and its a near continuous stream of unflattering news.

This means the public hospitals are terrified of making mistakes because it will be publicised. There are literally posters in every public hospital ward advising you how to get 2nd opinions, who you can lodge complains with, and urging you to discuss any concerns with nursing staff. They will follow them up, and they will discipline / exclude doctors that cause trouble. They are free after all, so if the patient can't pay the doctor has no choice. The net result is the public hospitals the standard of care from the patients point of view is usually outstanding. Meanwhile, I've had a father-in-law with heart problems literally half carried out of a private hospital, the nursing assuring us he was fine. I think they needed the bed for a patient paying higher fees. My father-in-law died from the condition a couple of weeks later.

It is true that free public hospitals are under funded, and chronically overloaded. Maybe that's probably a tragedy of the commons. The result is non-life threatening treatment can take a long while if you want it for free. But, the public hospitals do take fee paying patients. Insurance companies do pay those fees. When that happens I haven't noticed any wait times. In other words the USA system is available to those who can afford it, and those who can't wait. The major difference with the USA is they don't have the "free" option. The "wait times" thing you referred to is therefore 1/2 true, 1/2 myth.
The parent is presenting this as a thoughtful exercise by serious, experienced people. It is absolutely not that.

The sudden closure of USAID is probably the best example. You have an organization of thousands of people that operates worldwide. It does a lot of things that save lives - deliver food to starving people, provide HIV medications, etc. If all of a sudden you tell all the grantees that you're shutting everything down, they won't get any more money or support, they need to stop the work they're doing, maybe they can get an exception but nobody is going to be answering the phone when they call to ask how because the staff are all on administrative leave - that has huge consequences. For instance, it meant stopping clinical trials in the middle. So there were women with devices implanted in their bodies with no ability to get support.

There are all sorts of other effects. We provide aid to allies all over the world. All of a sudden, we pull out the rug from under them with no notice. What are the short term and long term consequences of doing that? What would be the consequences to the stability of Jordan of pulling aid - the King has been our ally but it's a tenuous situation. What about Lebanon? Now that Israel has beaten up Hezbollah, we want to use the opportunity to strengthen the Lebanese state. What happens when we suddenly pull funding? There are dozens of different countries that are affected and each of them is a very complicated situation. It's not something that people with no domain expertise are going to figure out in a few days.

The way these guys are acting - it's complete madness.
i am not the poster, but i am in a similar situation with my own blog.

just because my blog could be hosted on a static page, i am not going to go through the effort to set up a separate server just for that when i am already hosting a website with dynamic content and my goal is to host my blog with a minimum of effort on the same site. and i am especially not going to buy a raspberry pi just for that. and if i put it behind cloudflare i am just going to annoy the other half of hackernews readers asking why everything has to be behind cloudflare.
I hear this argument a lot and I have two thoughts about it:

1. USA is a rich country, and that's why it can afford helping other countries. But what if you overspend? Now your economy is weak, you lag behind, and sooner or later competitors help more than you (if it's really the best thing to do to rule the world). So maybe optimizing spending is in order? And I think one strategy to optimize an overgrown system is to just burn the old, and start from scratch.

2. Does the "soft power" work if people get used to your help? Maybe it's useful to suspend the help every now and then for all the beneficiaries to realize the magnitude of the help? I wonder how much of the negative effects are read as "evil USA stopped giving us money" and how much "oh so it was USA that was helping us all this time!" Finally, if the help resumes after a new president is elected, won't people forgive USA for suspending it, as that was done by Trump, and now there's this new president that we need to be grateful to?

Just some thoughts of a layman.
I guess it's https://zewaren.net , the content looks exactly like GP described it
The world’s richest man has been empowered by the US government to gleefully lay off thousands of federal workers with no published plan beyond “delete government agencies” and his team is using AI as part of the execution. I’m skeptical that there are people in charge who think about anything other than consolidating their own power and lining their own pockets. I think the only AI taxes that might come into play are those that steer people towards services run by those already in power and disincentivize setting up your own AI infrastructure.
You need to find the right balance between an expert IT team and cheaper employees. Using pre-baked cloud services is always easier, requires less management, but the operational expenditure is higher while the staffing cost might be lower. Where the company is based will also impact the professionals you'll have access to - there are places where you can have highly skilled people, and places where you'll struggle to even fully staff your IT operation.

> Do you propose that we should have hosted all of that on some VMs?

What do you think Amazon uses to run the services you pay for? Unicorns?
That’s a serious citation needed, starting with defining what you consider “leftism”. For example, economics departments are often criticized for being too right-wing but given their influence on public policy it’s disingenuous to try to define them as outside of academia.
I think this may be a case where people are reacting to the title rather than the content. The article seems to point out a reason why Google would publish this information.

> Google is facing a class-action lawsuit filed by women who allege systemic underpayment. And the Department of Labor is investigating whether Google pays women less.

With that context, the Google study's findings is almost comical. They're basically saying "Oh, we're not underpaying women, we're actually underpaying men."

Also the manner in which the pay gap was distributed.

> The Washington Post explains that in Google's 2018 study, "Managers had dipped into the discretionary funds more often for women engineers, creating a pay gap for men in the same job category."
Except no one made that claim. Parent comment was sharing a personal anectode they witnessed. You on the other hand weren't.
All the unionised sectors I know people in complains about unions extracting money for them and not doing anything

That's not the problem and not the solution.

Nobody speaks up because if you do you are canceled and branded as racist / mysoginist. Society is too polarised and freedom of speech is just a memory.

That said, I noticed (for the first time) people complaining and leaving 0 stars reviews at the last DEI training so maybe the times are changing.
Musk pledged $45 million per month in donations to help Trump win a second term[1], he won't have done that for nothing. He owns Twitter, the social network the President uses to talk to millions of followers, another big donor was Palantir owned by Peter Thiel who was key Trump advisor last administration[2]. I've seen people on Reddit praising Musk for "uncovering billions of dollars of wasted money already" so he has political capital for himself and Trump already from his DOGE actions.

We've seen Trump dismiss people before, sure, but we've known for years that the administration has been pre-vetting people as Trump loyalists[3], planning who will become head of what department and why, which executive orders to move on right at the start of the presidency. This suggests Musk is not a casual appointment and advisers will advise Trump not to dismiss him casually.

And, apart from literal death, what does he have to fear with hundreds of billions and two companies to fall back on? For all my criticism I am not expecting Trump to pull a full Putin, confiscate X, SpaceX and Tesla and send Musk to Camp Guantanmo or have him die by falling out a window. Are you?

[1] https://www.wsj.com/politics/elections/elon-musk-has-said-he...

[2] https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-38315682

[3] this was 2023: https://www.axios.com/2023/11/13/trump-loyalists-2024-presid... "Hundreds of people are spending tens of millions of dollars to install a pre-vetted, pro-Trump army of up to 54,000 loyalists across government to rip off the restraints imposed on the previous 46 presidents. The screening for ready-to-serve loyalists has already begun, driven in part by artificial intelligence from tech giant Oracle, contracted for the project."
Cool site! Personally, I think the weekly highlight is nice and all, but the value of an aggregator comes from categorization and searching, and I didn't see either on the site. I would love to see it's focus to be like selfh.st
I know you're trying to defend the indefensible but the Doctor of Law from Yale held a gun to a prostitute's head while smoking meth, and RECORDED IT.

He also sold his laptop full of incriminating evidence to a pawnshop.

Again, what does a depraved criminal drug addict have to offer to a Ukranian petroleum company? Well, he happens to be the vice president's son. Clear cut political corruption!

I think any intelligent person would rather hire Daniel Penny.
I think that’s only partially true. Many consequences are not foreseeable. But some of them totally are. We have the power to act on those. I think that there’s a real possibility to do a lot of good with some wise, cautious policymaking at this stage. Providing benefits to mitigate the effects of transient unemployment seems like an easy and low-risk start.
Intel ISPC 1.26 Compiler Delivers Improved ARM Support
> in turn Turks and Mongols were "Persified".

How?
To me, the problem always seemed like people who use ChatGPT and alike default into the "I don't care" mode, and copy-paste blindly.

Personally I think this is the root cause of most sloppy AI code. If you just look at the code that was generated, and you don't think "I would've come up with that", then probably the code is wrong.
This is a good analogy. Yes. Lots of potential. Squandered into evil.
Possibly, but that's orthogonal to my comment. Point is that there will still be cities that have to shoulder PG&E costs not because they have fires but because they can't afford to purchase and maintain their own grid, or don't have the political strength to get it done.
So you can add Nix packages as non-Steam games and use Nix to setup persistent systemd rules/daemons, even though this isn't NixOS?
The ground truth is chopped off into tokens and statistically evaluated. It is of course just a soup of ground truth that can freely be used in more or less twisted ways that have nothing to do or are tangent to the ground truth. While I enjoy playing with LLMs I don't believe they have any intrinsic intelligence to them and they're quite far from being intelligent in the same sense that autonomous agents such as us humans are.
Chip Architectures Becoming Much More Complex with Chiplets
> Given too many arrests, the republican majority will be able to easily pass nearly anything through congress

Source? The House isn’t close enough to a supermajority, and the Senate goes by actual votes.
Comics from 1984/04 Creative Computing Mag
The post seems to be talking about the current capabilities of large language models. We can certainly talk about what they can or cannot do as of today, as that is pretty much evidence based.
The square of the sum of two quantities equals the sum of the square of each quantity plus twice their product.

So much more readable! /s
From Engineer to Principal Solutions Architect at AWS with Prasad Rao
Do you have an example illustrating that? What happened that reflected worsened relations?

Is there any chance you're just making up everything you say?
Read up on the psych experiments where they've tested how hard people are willing to work to get a dollar they don't have, vs. how hard they're willing to work to keep a dollar that they do have.

No "male ego is so brittle" assumptions are needed, to explain why many men (and other groups) get so worked up over DEI issues.
Mock Repositories vs. Moq
> Statute law also places USAID under "the direct authority and policy guidance of the Secretary of State".[4]

Source?
I recommend Marc-André Argentino's research on the Com; he's a conspiracy researcher who got his PhD on QAnon. He leans left, if that's a factor for you.

His general overview: https://www.maargentino.com/the-pillars-of-the-com-network/

That piece doesn't get specific at all about Com activities but be aware that some of the manifestos and other material he discusses is quite disturbing.
I wonder what the environmental impact of CORS is, given that it is the sole reason to spin up a node proxy server every time it kills someone's dreams.
Well, I mean China already pwned opm.gov and got SF-86 on all fed employees a few years ago. The FBI gives people who have clearances on how adversaries will attempt to get information and what to do. Mainly it's just alerting the employers security office, and former feds get an email to reach out to for questions/concerns post employment. The security clearance process is broken and mostly BS. The head of DCSA and the FBI NYC office got caught doing illegal stuff which the process is suppose to detect.

Also, it's better to go to jail or quit for blackmail then to comply with blackmail, because it caries worst sentences and doesn't have a statue of limitations. Many people with clearances have bad backgrounds and just being honest is all they're looking for in the process. My friend and I even admitted to a bunch of CFAA felonies and was never charged. My friend got a TS/SCI with hacking within the past year of his BI.
A corporate CEO is attempting to move the power of the purse, constitutionally delegated to the congressional branch, away from elected representatives to himself.

He has broken several laws in the process including: putting civil servants on leave in violation of congressionally mandated civil service protections and shuttering a government body codified by Congress in 1998 called the USAID.

This man has not been elected to any office nor appointed by the president to any cabinet positions. His only qualifications are that he is Trump's top donor.

This is a kleptocratic power grab spelled out.
Won't someone think of the 50-year-old office workers?
I just hope they post everything they found. I don't care about their credentials and neither do I care about security -- those damned companies already had them 10 times anyway.

But it's very interesting if they can release all information. I mean it's a democracy, right?
Where did the word 'junk' come from? (2016)
When my brother was starting his career in university IT in the very early 90s, CS was still part of the math department and most places were anywhere from 1/3 to 2/3 women. Many people at the time considered operating a computer to be equivalent to secretarial work.

Such a gender disparity in tech is relatively recent and pretty much since the iPhone and the flood of zero-interest money into the industry. And yet all of the big FAANGs hire lots of women.

And as someone who has done lots of hiring across the industry, generally women don't even apply to jobs that aren't big recognized brands anymore.
Reflect Orbital: Sunlight after dark using a constellation of spatial reflectors
Krebs has written other articles about it: https://krebsonsecurity.com/2024/09/the-dark-nexus-between-h...
"Conditional move is superior on CPU" is an oversimplification, in reality it was explained in 2007 by Linus[1] and nothing changed since then. Or in fact, branch predictors are constantly improving[2], while cmov data dependency problem can't be solved. Yes, cmov is better in unpredictable branches, but the universal truth is "programmers are notoriously bad at predicting how their programs actually perform"[3]

[1] https://yarchive.net/comp/linux/cmov.html

[2] https://chipsandcheese.com/p/zen-5s-2-ahead-branch-predictor...

[3] https://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Other-Builtins.html#index...
The context missing here is that Luke is one of the principal analysts at DOGE, and the target of A LOT of mainstream media hit pieces over the last week.
No, it is distinguishable from real reasoning. Real reasoning, while flawed in various ways, goes through personal experience of the evaluator. LLMs don't have that capability at all. They're just sifting though tokens and associate statistical parameters to it with no skin in the game so to speak.
It is already. And you can access anything not readibly accessible with a Freedom of Information Act request
Good article, very thought provoking. Here are some other dimensions that affect usefulness / value of adding LLMs to a workflow. LLMs can be amazing, or worse than useless depending where you land on these - regardless of seniority.

- are you working in a domain and language adequately represented in the training data? For example, it’s a lot easier to prompt an LLM to do what you want in a React CRUD website than a Swift app with obscure APIs from after the knowledge cutoff. No doubt LLMs will eventually generalize so this stops being troublesome, but today with o3-mini, R1 et al you need a LOT of docs in the context to get good results outside the mainstream.

- greenfield codebase or big hairy codebase full of non-industry-standard architecture & conventions?

- how closely does your code formatting align to industry standard? (needing bespoke formatting, line breaks at column N, extra lint rules etc is distraction for LLMs)

Codebases should be moved toward industry standards so LLMs can be leveraged more effectively. Could be a good (if indirect) way for mid or senior engs to help their junior counterparts.
Competency indeed seems like one of the larger challenges for them in the US, especially during the sizing phase. When I had some mini-splits installed, the amount of bad information and outright lying even from established, top rated contractors was staggering. When we finally found someone that wasn’t completely stupid and quoting “fuck you” prices, they completely oversized the units. In the winter, they are reliably toasty warm even below zero, and in the summer they cool the rooms quickly… too quickly. Like, almost instantly. The result is a terrible increase in humidity, because they don’t run long enough to pull water out of the air. If I run them in dehumidification mode, it turns the room into a meat locker. So, I have to run a regular floor dehumidifier in the summer, much to my chagrin. When I look at the other quotes I got, they were all similarly over provisioned. Very frustrating.
You’re leaving out that he was ousted by Thiel and the board because they thought he was about to fuck up the whole thing. By the time they sold to eBay, he was the largest shareholder, but no longer involved with the operation of the company.
https://archive.ph/20211027162229/https://www.scmp.com/magaz...
> The US has strong free speech protection, stronger than European free speech protection.

For this to be said in the current circumstances shows either a political viewpoint or a lack of knowledge.
We should know where our tax money is going. As far as I can tell, the alleged fraud that Musk has been tweeting about was already public info. The viral tweets about Politico, etc, were showing screenshots of public dashboards.

The one place that has famously failed audits year after year is the defense department. We shall see if Musk brings his chopping-block to DoD.

Anyone operating in good faith knows to curb spending, everything Musk has been saying won't make a dent until you get to DoD, Social Security, or health care. And of course, any savings are going to be totally swamped by big tax cuts for the billionaire class.
And Breitbart lol. Might as well be citing 4chan
Quick but powerful research for AI agents with data scrapping and selenium
got curious about what software businesses actually use and how much revenue they might be pulling in, so I built a scraper to dig into it. Using Google Maps listings, reviews, and booking systems, I mapped out an industry’s landscape.

I scraped businesses across the U.S., analyzed reviews to estimate customer volume and revenue, and tracked booking software by checking subdomains and site elements. Connecting the dots between businesses and their software providers, I estimated MRR, ARR, and potential exit multiples.

This gave a solid market overview, showing which booking software is most common, how tech-savvy businesses are, and rough revenue estimates based on customer activity.

I put everything—scraper code, SQL tables, and sample data—on GitHub if you want to check it out or improve it.

GitHub Repo: github.com/alexdelbosque/data-crawler-smbs

Has anyone else done something like this? How would you make it better? Let’s swap ideas!