skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Increasing clocks tends to have a greater-than-linear cost on power, as you need transistors to switch quicker so often need a higher voltage, which causes more leakage and other losses on top of the switching cost itself (that all turn into heat). Higher clock targets also have a cost for the design itself, often needing more transistors for things like extra redrivers to ensure you get fast switching speed, or even things like more pipeline stages. Plus not all area is "transistors" - it's often easier to place related units that need a lot of interconnectivity with shorter interconnects if an adjacent, less interconnected unit isn't also trying to be packed into much of the same space, routing on modern chips is really difficult (and a place where companies can really differentiate by investing more).

For tasks that tend to scale well with increased die area, which is often the case for GPUs as they're already focused on massively parallel tasks so laying down more parallel units is a realistic option, running a larger die at lower clocks is often notably more efficient in terms of performance per unit power.

For GPUs generally that's just part of the pricing and cost balance, a larger lower clocked die would be more efficient, but would that really sell for as much as the same die clocked even higher to get peak results?
Or seal the garage, trap and poison them, and keep accumulations of cozy nesting material to a minimum.
This service isn't really for me (I have no interest in tracking any famous people), so my opinion is likely not useful. But regardless of the topic, just tracking wikipedia entries doesn't bring anything useful to the table (for me). More useful would be tracking more timely news sources.
Here is the paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.01143
At least squirrel droppings aren't a hantavirus vector (right?)
They could make a new spec for graphics cards and have a 24v/48v rail for them on a new unique connector.

I guess the problem is not only designing the cards to run on the higher voltages but also getting AMD and Intel on board because otherwise no manufacturer is going to make the new power supplies.
I agree with this stance. Junior developers are going to learn faster than previous generations, and I'm happy for it.

I know that is confronting for a lot of people, but I think it is better to accept it, and spend time thinking about what your experience is worth. (A lot!)
Indigeneity generally refers to the descendants of people who inhabited a territory prior to colonization or the formation of a country, often those who are disadvantaged as a result, and who continue to inhabit the land. Connection to the land is a fundamental element of indigeneity, as is the specific condition of dispossession by colonization: indigeneity, as it is understood today, emerges in relation to colonial processes.

So, although all distinct ethnicities may originate from specific places and times, indigeneity as a political and social identity is meaningful only in the context of colonial domination and resistance.

Not every engineer is engaged in an ongoing struggle for sovereignty against colonizing powers.
I wouldn't have expected tape infused with capsaicin to have any deterrent effect on mice given Mousetrap Monday's video evidence to the contrary [1]. Is it possible that the high price of the tape mentioned in the article isn't entirely justified?

[1] https://youtu.be/LBWskgp-G00
> Even new innovative products generally boil down to the same database fetches and CRUD glue and JSON parsing and front end form filling code.

The simplest version of that is some CGI code a PHP script. Which everyone should be writing according to your description. But why so many books have been written to be able to do this seemingly simple task? So many frameworks, so many patterns, so many methodologies....
don't you follow the news? Amazon is bidding on nuclear power plants. We will just build more energy sources. We have way too much leeway to go.
Also optimizations are being built both in hardware and software. There is no foreseen barrier. Maybe data to do training but now the models have pivoted to test / inference compute and reinforcement learning and that seems to have no barrier except more compute and energy.
That's what stargate is, UAE princes building datacenters in France is, etc… it's all in the news. So far, it seems like a straight line to AGI

Maybe a barrier will appear but doesn't seem like it atm
Reminds me of the theory that wheat domesticated humans.
Mind Uploading And Continuity
The real hardcore experts should be writing libraries anyway, to fully take advantage of their expertise in a tiny niche and to amortize the cost of studying their subproblem across many projects. It has never been easier to get people to call your C library, right? As long as somebody can write the Python interface…

Numpy has delivered so many FLOPs for BLAS libraries to work on.

Does anyone really care if you call their optimized library from C or Python? It seems like a sophomoric concern.
A plausible theory is that "IBM" has been coined in such a way so that each letter was superior to the corresponding letter from "NCR", its main competitor in the past.

National => International

Cash => Business

Register => Machines

So each word in IBM was more generic and more widely encompassing than its correspondent in NCR.
I find it very surprising how well Xorg still works considering it receives essentially zero funding. To me this is a sing of a very robust design.

I'm also not surprised at all how bad Wayland is. The protocol makes wrong abstractions at the lowest level which causes problems everywhere else. The worst being massive fragmentation. It wont ever be good despite receiving big amounts of funding. But this is obviously by design.
Curious to hear if anyone have experience using Svelte together with LiveSvelte [0], as described in this blog post [1]?

In theory, it sounds like this could be the sweet-spot for using the Javascript ecosystem where its required where LiveView fall short.

[0]: https://github.com/woutdp/live_svelte

[1]: https://dockyard.com/blog/2024/03/14/harnessing-liveview-and...
> without bothering the real user, who won't be shown one.

bullshit
I'm not saying humans are peak intelligence.
I don't think this is something that warrants such a change, but if I had a choice I would prefer to be able to completely avoid using comma, maybe just by using an extra pair of parenthesis. I this would break in more than one way, but one can dream.

SELECT (a b c) from sometable where id in (10 20 30)

This would be quite useful when doing exploratory work and you want also to copy/paste values from somewhere else.

But to be fair the main issue in this case is handling of the WHERE clause, because (un)commenting parts is never straightforward

select foo from bar
where
x < y -- cannot just comment this
and (
z = 10 -- neither I can comment just this
or baz is not null
)

Yes, one could put AND and OR on their own like, but similarly one could put a comma on a line of its own...
They are holding back the higher vram models of this card. GPU makers always do some nerfing of their cards in the same product line. Often times there’s no good reason for this other than they found specs that they can market and sell simply by moving voltages around.

Anyway, expecting good earnings throughout the year as they use Battlemage sales to hide the larger concerns about standing up their foundry (great earnings for the initial 12gb cards, and so on for the inevitable 16/24gb cards).
This kind of error doesn't really matter in programming where the output can be verified with a feedback loop.
Fully agreed, though your examples are twenty-five years out of date. :-D
ah, yes, the spooky similarities of hilbert spaces and probability theory
I had a look and didn't find one where they melted. Do you have a link to the specific review?
The cool thing about Christianity is that scriptural material may be found to support a variety of perspectives and opinions. It is similarly straightforward to collect bible quotes to support conservative political outlooks as it is to support liberal political beliefs. This is one of the reasons it has persisted in its popularity for thousands of years.
At a minimum, aren't the consequences that the owners will never be able to visit the UK again without getting jailed for the rest of their lives?
UL is a private company. There're no laws requiring it or penalizing violations. I would think the only legal consequences would be through civil product liability/breach of warranty claims. Plus, like, losing the certification would mean most stores would no longer stock it.
Oh, I thought they were advocating for something new. Yeah, the split in/inout/out is nice, but doesn't sound particularly better than what we have in Rust. In particular, in my book, return values instead of `out` clearly win in terms of readability.

Also, yay for contracts in Rust :) Looking forward to seeing them proven by model-checkers, too!
This is what I saw most recently: [0]. Whether or not it could be vaguely considered to be congressionally authorized (the executive branch has leeway in the execution of said laws) is more or less irrelevant to whether it's wasteful and/or fraudulent, but it looks like those examples were not documented in law anyway.

I imagine it will be thousands and thousands of examples of "small time corruption" with a few million here and a few tens of millions here that in no sane world should be spent. And for some reason, people prefer to hate billionaires that create wealth when instructed by multimillionaires who siphon wealth from taxpayers but happen to own newspapers.

> You have no reason to believe Elon is either competent, nor independent, nor well-intentioned on any of this.

You could say the last two about anyone, but to deny that Elon is competent, especially coming from an anonymous internet commenter... okay.

[0] https://x.com/ricwe123/status/1887562751364481290
Ok, you got me to look: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicago_Bridge_%26_Iron_Compan...
It's more that its a lot of developer focus to take away on a very, very niche market. It may be fun, it may work really well, but hardly something to focus on for the games initial release, especially a Civ game where they've got a history of launch problems.
I don't buy the "but good scissors cost too much to make today" argument.

> Labor has never been more expensive than now.

Each hour of wages is amortized across dozens, hundreds, possibly thousands of scissors. You could double the wages of everyone involved from manufacturing to fulfillment to logistics to sales and it'd translate to maybe multiple pennies' worth of a per-scissor cost increase.

> Raw resources have never been under more competition than now.

As the other commenter pointed out, steel's still plenty cheap and abundant.

> We as a species are more numerous and consume more scissors than ever before.

That's more than offset by our increased ability to make scissors at scale.

> Supply chains have never farther separated end user from producer, as now.

The whole point of that separation is to drive down costs.

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All in all, the available information points rather squarely to manufacturers being greedy rather than costs somehow forcing their hand.
I've never had airport security confiscate food, only beverages. Unless you're packing soup for lunch, I guess? Or flying somewhere with specific customs prohibitions that for whatever reason does it at the origin instead of the destination, like flights too/from Hawaii maybe?

But I've never had, like, a sandwich taken from me.
If you want a different connector then just use a different connector.

Moving 5% of the mass and 1% of the heat outside the case is a bad thing. One of the main purposes of the case is to be one big hunk of mass.
Do you have any legal concerns? I see Mario, Sponge Bob, Spiderman, and more on your front page.
And many more: https://linguisticmaps.tumblr.com/post/120857875008/morpholo...
My fear is that it will be used for scams

https://archive.ph/uMRXa

Ordinary people have trouble seducing other people because they can't deliver perfect mirroring because of their own self (e.g. they are uncomfortable adapting to another person's emotional demands because of the needs of their own self or aspects of their self that are unappealing to the other person manifest) Sociopaths and people with narcissistic personality disorder do better than most people precisely because their self is less developed.

An A.I. has no self so it has no limits.
> A Nvidia Geforce RTX 3060 card with "only" 12Gb VRAM can be found around €200-250 on second hand market

1080Ti might even be a better option, it also has a 12gb model and some reports say it even outperforms the 3060, in non-rtx I presume.
I'm happy to see JetBrains focussing on IntelliJ / Android Studio instead. I was really scratching my head when they announced a standalone KMP IDE based on Fleet just 4 months ago. [1]

[1] https://blog.jetbrains.com/kotlin/2024/10/kotlin-multiplatfo...
That already happens. Maps directs you to odd nonsense detours somewhat frequently now, that you get better results by overriding the machine. It's going down the way of web search.
Back in the day when I worked desktop support, we would use a lot of canned air. And when they added bitterant to that stuff in order to keep kids from huffing it, it became almost unusable for its intended purpose because it turns out that nobody wants to have to breathe the bitter air after they clean out a PC. So, I went to the office supply store and sampled some different brands to see which ones didn't add a bitterant. The irony that their anti-huffing measure led to me (essentially) huffing canned air at the store was not lost on me.
The app screenshots shown in AlStore are quite sfw: https://cdn.fastpixel.io/fp/ret_img+v_8beb+w_2000+h_1125+q_l...
I had to go out of the country, so I overpaid my AT&T internet bill so it would cover 2 months and rounded up by ~10 cents to the nearest dollar amount.

First month bill, no problem. Second month bill, no problem.

Third month bill should be $amount -credit, nope. They took my credit, listed it as an underpayment and applied a fee.

So I go to the store; they can't help with account issues, you have to call.

I call, sit through the waiting music, get a rep who get a rep is quite obviously doesn't care. No "Sorry for our obvious billing mistake" or anything. They correct the account and ask if I will pay right now, I decide that I will since I don't trust their system to update in a timely manner.

The rep then has the audacity to talk about how AT&T charges a convenience fee to pay via phone but they are going to waive it this time.

AT&T fiber and Xfinity cable are the only options in my area....

I still can not understand how they made that error in the first place. It's not like accounting, credits and balances are a new thing. The bill even showed the credit transaction correctly, showing it coming out of the bill balance owed.
Not like it's going to happen for me, but how did you reach such comp.

I'm a simple man. If I hit 2 million in net worth I'm done working. I don't plan on having a family, so I'm just supporting myself.

If I really made a ton of money I'd fund interesting open source games. Godot is the most popular open source game engine, and they're making it happen off just 40k a month.

I'm a bit surprised Microsoft hasn't filled the void here. What's a few million dollars a year to get new programmers fully invested in a .net first game engine?
https://usetrmnl.com/

This was recently shared here on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42137513
We will see both: lots of poor code, lots of neutral code (LLMs cranking out reasonably well written boilerplate), and even some improved code (by devs who use LLMs to ferret out inefficiencies and bugs in their existing, human-written codebase).

This is no different from what we see with any tool or language: the results are highly dependent on the experience and skills of the operator.
It's designed for 5 amps. In this context, that's close enough to "not carrying power".

If we're considering the bigger voltages that allow higher power on USB C, then the existing GPU plugs are fine because we can deliver 600W using the same current as a 150W 8 pin plug.
Punchline of https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/the-talk-3
I bought a Mac M4 Mini (the cheapest one) at Costco for 559 and while I don't know exactly how many tokens per second, it seems to generate text from llama 3.2 (through ollama) as fast as chatgpt.
Vance, in First Foreign Speech, Tells Europe That U.S. Will Dominate A.I
> Code is a liability

This is so true! Actual writing of the code is such a small step in overall running of a typical business/project, and the less of it the better.
The images weren't loading for me and there was a login gate the second try. :(
Would this be a good deterrent for cats? One of my cats has gnawed through several USB cables too in range to its mouth, destroying keyboards, webcams, ...
Would be wonderful if so!
> LLMs are a GPS, not a highway.

I love these analogies and I think this one is apt.

To adapt another which I saw here to this RoR thread, if you're building furniture then LLMs are powertools while frameworks are ikea flatpacks.
Building Large-Scale Image Search Using VectorDB and OpenAI Clip
Others are nicotine, caffeine and cocaine.

What else?

EDIT: and morphine!
Co-ops are great, but they don't really work for any business that requires a large capital investment. Like farming might seem simple, but if you want to make it cost effective then you need a lot of expensive equipment like a $800K combine harvester. Where does that capital come from? It's tough to find members who can contribute that much money to join.
> Instead, those programmers will be starting their own companies and competing with you

If so, then why am I not seeing a lot of new companies starting while we're in this huge down-turn in the development world?

Or, is everyone like me and trying to start a business with only their savings, so not enough to hire people?
>shit all over the yard everywhere

They do that in any case
are you using a finetuned model of flux or similar or just some prompting-foo?
> most modern meters are two-way

That said, people are generally using whatever meter came with their house, and few older meters were two-way. If you have an older meter and you start backfeeding the grid, you will end up paying for that electricity as if you had bought it off of the grid. The meter isn't smart enough to know which way the current is flowing, it only knows how much current is going past and assumes that all current flows into the house, not out.
But the nice thing about carefully designed products is that they can be built by people who don’t care.

Not sure if that’s possible when building software systems.
You do understand equity scales with the success of the startup right? It's not cash.
Vance Warns U.S. Allies to Keep AI Regulation Light
I personally love this. I have a pretty strong distaste for bright screens everywhere and rather like the look of e-ink screens. I'd love a future where we move away from putting up LCD panels on every surface we can advertise on.
When the AI dust settles, I wonder who will be left standing among the groups of developers, testers, scrum masters, project leaders, department managers, compliance officers, and all the other roles in IT.

It seems the general sentiment is that developers are in danger of being replaced entirely. I may be biased, but it seems not to be the most likely outcome in the long term. I can't imagine how such companies will be competitive against developers who replace their boss with an AI.
you might not be aware of things like LoFiGirl[1], which is especially designed for such a use-case and not distracting at all. In any case you could always just minimize the tab and listen, that wouldprobably also cound as "watching" in YouTube's statistics

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jfKfPfyJRdk
Good question and I have no strong answer today. But I think we'll find a way to tune models to achieve this very soon.

I see such a difference between what is built today and codebases from 10 years ago with indirections everywhere, unnecessary complexity,.. I interviewed for a company with a 13yo RoR codebase recently after a few mins looking at the code decided I didn't want to work there.
> This is (…) mostly ignored by the youths.

> We’ve seen (…) and would prefer (…) making money.

You think “the youths” don’t care about making money? That’s got to be in the top two reasons why people get into coding for at least the last decade. It’s also one of the top two reasons everything is shit, too many people only care about a quick buck.
It's silly because we already have something for showing off unique displays: Bad Apple!!

I still think it's cool to display Doom in unusual places, but I do agree with you that it's technically different than *playing* Doom in unusual places.
What irks me the most about AI is the black box mutability. Give it the same question of reasonable complexity and get a slightly different answer every time.

I also dislike mass code generation tools. The code generation is basically just a cache of the AIs reasoning right? So it's sort of pre-optimization. Eventually, once cheap enough, I would assume the AI reasons in real time (producing temporary throw-away code for every request). But the mutability issue is still there. I think we need to be able to "lock-in" on the reasoning, but that's a challenge and probably falls apart with enough inputs / complexity.
This kind of reminds me of a story I heard about how they passed around raw function pointers between servers as an RPC mechanism at Yahoo back in the day. They'd disabled ASLR to make that possible. I guess there were few enough segmentation faults :).
https://www.cpsc.gov/
Or you can do none of that razzle dazzle which, if you stop to actually think about it, doesn't really bring in any security. Yeah, "let everyone have the keys for that", that's sure much more secure against some vaguely imagined threat connected with people already running arbitrary stuff on your internal network.
So I can kill you and take your house? Or do you just apply this standard to the Native Americans?
Can someone maliciously work around this by saying they're selling merch with Hindu symbolisms?
Sure I can clear it up.

What happens is once they are into a potential deal, they go into exclusivity with the buyer, and we get brought in for a wack of interviews and going through their docs. Part of that period includes NDAs all around, and the agreement that they give us access to whatever we need (with sometimes some back and forth over IP). So could they lie? Technically yes, but as we ask to see things to demonstrate that what they said is true, and it would break the contract they've signed with the potential acquirer, that would be extremely risky. I have heard of cases where people did, it was discovered after the deal, and it retroactively cost the seller a giant chunk of cash (at risk of even more giant law suit). We typically have two days of interviews with them and we specifically talk about tech debt.

Our job is to ask the right questions and ask to see the right things to get the goods. We get to look at code, Jira, roadmap docs, internal dev docs, test runner reports, monitoring and load testing dashboards, and so on. For example, if someone said something vague about responsivness, we'll look into it, ask to see the actual load metrics, ask how they test it and profile, and so on.

I got into because I had been the CTO of a startup that went through an acquisition, knew someone in the field, didn't mind the variable workload of being a consultant, and have the (unusual) skill set: technical chops, leadership experience, interviewing and presenting skills, project management, and the ability to write high quality reports. Having now been in the position of hiring for this role, I can say that finding real devs who have all those traits is not easy!