skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> All of a sudden they're competitive with NVIDIA

Apple has no interconnect technology comparable to what Nvidia ships to datacenters. The larger Nvidia clusters measure their addressable memory in terabytes, the value of Unified Memory at that scale is practically negligible (if not wasted bandwidth).

You're making some pretty handwavy generalizations here without a solid grasp on why Nvidia dominates GPGPU compute.
Ask HN: Why Does BBC Maintain Two Separate Sites (.com vs. .co.uk)?
I have known for some time that the BBC has two different domains — bbc.com and bbc.co.uk—and both serve the same content, albeit with variations in layout and design.

Does anyone know the backstory here? Is this a legacy decision, a regional licensing issue, or something else entirely? I’m curious if there’s some historical or technical reason behind maintaining two sites that appear to do the same thing. Any insights?
Modularity is not a binary choice - it's a spectrum with tradeoffs.

One might maliciously (IMO) argue that the single motherboard in Framework products that you presumably find perfectly fine, could have been designed as several interconnected ones, that are individually replaceable. On the surface, it can seem like an unimpeachable criticism, but once you consider the cost in complexity, performance and BOM, then the "less modular" single-motherboard option becomes much more reasonable.

Framework went with soldered memory because that was the only way they could hir the memory bandwidth performance numbers they wanted for this product in the context of the segment it occupies. If you value the ability to replace/upgrade RAM over 256Gb/s, then this is not the product for you. If you think Framework shouldn't compete in this segment due to a confluence of ideological reasons and the technical limitations of slotted RAM, then the CEO disagrees with you, as do the future buyers of the compact desktop
We have something like this in Australia.

The News Corp masthead The Australian (https://www.theaustralian.com.au) is basically a propaganda rag for Rupert Murdoch.

Every day there are opinions, and every day the opinions are the same.
> Data races aren't usually an issue for backend services

I beg to differ unless all your logic is in the database with strong isolation guarantees.

Speaking of C# for backends that are using EF actively, I bet there are bugs in pretty much all of them caused by incorrect applications of optimistic concurrency.
Anti-Putin != pro-war

pro-Ukraine != pro-war

Defending one's sovereign territory is not being pro-war. Only a bully would say that defending oneself from the bully is being aggressive.
The Intel BunnyPeople (1997)
I randomly happened to notice this list of TMs at the bottom of an Intel web page, and was like, wtf BunnyPeople? A search took me to ... dancing "bunny people". Except that they don't look like bunnies to me.

> BunnyPeople, Celeron, Celeron Inside, Centrino, Centrino Atom, Centrino Atom Inside, Centrino Inside, Centrino logo, Core Inside, FlashFile, i960, InstantIP, Intel, Intel logo, Intel386, Intel486, IntelDX2, IntelDX4, IntelSX2, Intel Atom, Intel Atom Inside, Intel Core, Intel Inside, Intel Inside logo, Intel. Leap ahead., Intel. Leap ahead. logo, Intel NetBurst, Intel NetMerge, Intel NetStructure, Intel SingleDriver, Intel SpeedStep, Intel StrataFlash, Intel Viiv, Intel vPro, Intel XScale, IPLink, Itanium, Itanium Inside, MCS, MMX, Oplus, OverDrive, PDCharm, Pentium, Pentium Inside, skoool, Sound Mark, The Journey Inside, VTune, Xeon, and Xeon Inside are trademarks of Intel Corporation in the U.S. and other countries.
It depends.

There's more rhetoric nowadays around things like rent controls and profit caps, both of which I view as very destructive to the mechanisms of market allocation. I think it's a divisive issue though since there's no real home these days for people with those views (that is, (neo)liberal economics); the right is insane and the left have a large, very progressive segment which they have to pull back on.
If you look on the Steam page it's Raw Fury.

Steam is just the storefront. A game publisher's role varies a lot - sometimes they're just financing the project, usually they handle stuff like PR and marketing, and sometimes they help quite a bit more with the development of the game (sounds like the case in this case based on his other answers) as in programming/art/sfx/whatever else.
Wow.

I still don't quite understand what it means to run Doom in the type system. I can sort of get how you might trick it into doing some calculations and generating some ASCII art. But how do you get tsc to access the audio system or load files etc?
The islands were uninhabited until 1690 when it was discovered by an English captain. The French tried to settle there in 1764 but the UK asserted its claim to it in 1765. Since the British discovered it first, it's theirs.
Depends on the deal. Promotion and fronting of cash are the big ones (usually). They can usually also offer various development services (testing, translation, porting, getting special deals with platform holders). They can also act as a stakeholder for quality, advising on certain things that should be improved (as an editor would in book publishing).
When the National Enquirer contacted Bezos in 2019 about compromising pictures, he went public rather than play along with what he called blackmail and extortion. It cost him a lot of embarrassment and probably leverage in his divorce. But he turned the tables and put his opponents on the defensive.

Obviously he does not feel that he can do so now, with so much of Amazon’s business in the crosshairs of the Trump administration. That is a shame because if he is not willing to go public with the extortionate threats he is facing, who will?

It seems like a classic prisoners dilemma; if everyone stands up to corruption together, they can create the most protection. But who wants to go first?
For a (somewhat) short period of time, school/college computer labs were awesome to walk into. It was fun seeing tons of multi colored G3's.
It's obviously for the person who did it.
How to bring back master branch?
Not interested in flame war but a genuine concern of mine is reinstating the default branch to master, not for me, but for us as a dev culture. I can imagine a new generation unaware of the political correctness that led to this change in the first place.
So the plan is to raise endowment tax from 1.4% to 21%.

> raise the excise tax levied on certain private university endowment profits from 1.4% to 21%. [1]

[1] https://nehls.house.gov/media/press-releases/rep-troy-e-nehl...
FreeBSD 2024 Q4 Status Report
And surely there is no relation between Bezos and Amazon so the part about "This is what we get allowing mega-corporations control our media" is obviously false.
In my defence, the comment I was replying to mentioned "renderers" and "converters". Furthermore IMHO, any text editor is a Markdown reader. If you want it formatted as is it were "markup" then might I suggest converting to e.g. PDF using Pandoc and then using one of the many capable viewers.
While I agree with you as a matter of an ideal, the step from one database to two is infinitely larger than from two to more. Given budget, time and engineering constraints, sticking everything in one database is by far the sanest solution for the vast majority of code out there.
Bezos is 100% Pro-Trump.
He’s likely using APIs that only exist in macOS 15.
What? Edenist hawks in the void?
Why do you jump to the conclusion that Bezos is being extorted? It's also possible that he just thinks some of these editorial positions are bad for business. WaPo was a failing business when he bought it (and doesn't seem to be doing great yet), so it's not unreasonable for a new owner to make changes.
> The most common memory safety bug in released software is array overflow.

Do you have a source for this? I thought it was use after free.
And therefore, any argument that there is some kind of liberal bias is false (whether from Trump or Bezos). That's my point.

In reality, CNN and MSNBC ideologically agree as much as FoxNews and Newsmax in that they don't. And CNN especially invented optimizing coverage for attention over viewpoint consistency (esp between 2000 and 2015).
There's a lot of productivity gains from things like customer support. It can draft a response and the human merely validates it. Hallucination rates are falling and even minor savings add up in these areas with large scale, productivity targets and strict SLA's such as call centres. It's not a reach to say it could already do a lot of Business process outsourcing type work.
WRT github, you just skip the second line when adding your upstream origin.

If you mean the greater global consciousness... nobody cares. Main is 2 fewer letters to type, you'll sound like a madman advocating for anything else. It would be easier to bring back eight-space tabs or BSD coreutils. You should make your peace with it one way or another and find a productive hill to die on.
Bezos's letter was nice but a little wordy, I had chatgpt give me an executive summary:

> Billionaire intends to turn popular newspaper into personal propaganda outlet.
Pushing the frontier is an end unto itself. The pure excess of this endeavor is a huge feat, and I for one am happy to enjoy just witnessing it.
A lot less effort than training a massive LLM.

Also, there’s no point in designing for use cases it will never encounter. A Pokémon rpg AI is never going to have to go play GTA.
Which is impacted by perceived value:cost by customers.
How are neocons involved? They are extinct in Washington and most other places. Who is a neocon now?
> I know of at least one organization that began outright mandating war rooms after running the numbers and discovering how many incidents would have benefitted from having one.

How can you run numbers to find out what would have happened?
Who did the art work? You?

Which engine have you used?

Also, congratulations!
We recently published an open source benchmark [1] specifically for evaluating VLM vs OCR. And generally the VLMs did much better than the traditional OCR models.

VLM highlights:

- Handwriting. Being contextually aware helps here. i.e. they read the document like a human would, interpreting the whole word/sentence instead of character by character

- Charts/Infographics. VLMs can actually interpret charts or flow diagrams into a text format. Including things like color coded lines.

Traditional OCR highlights:

- Standardized documents (e.x. US tax forms that they've been trained on)

- Dense text. Imagine textbooks and multi column research papers. This is the easiest OCR use case, but VLMS really struggle as the number of output tokens increase.

- Bounding boxes. There still isn't really a model that gives super precise bounding boxes. Supposedly Gemini and Qwen were trained for it, but they don't perform as well as traditional models.

There's still a ton of room for improvement, but especially with models like Gemini the accuracy/cost is really competitive.

[1] https://github.com/getomni-ai/benchmark
Yes, everyone has their own agenda. The idea of the thing is pretty straightforward though; Companies succeed or fail on the merits of their product. The government shouldn't seek to give undue advantage except insofar as to incentivize things we as a society care about (eg. carbon taxes). Prices are the arbiter of resource allocation, and should almost never be controlled or subsidised.

That people seek to use an idea to garner support for their agenda without embodying that idea is nothing new. Just see current American politics.
The video will probably do pretty well, giving him some personal traction for his channel or reputation. Also because hackers gonna hack.
Ocean-current system is safe from climate collapse ― for now
"Need" and "want" are two very different things. Just a few years ago people were hoarding toilet paper, and that's with money as a factor limiting how much they could get at once. Sometimes there are no limits to "want".
It is literally false in this case, yes. The corporation has no control over WaPo, even though the same individual has some control over both.
I just read a better response to the parasites claim (find the second occurance of the word): https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/why-i-am-not-a-conflict-the...

So What Does Drive Political Disagreement?

If you’ve read The Psychopolitics Of Trauma, you already know my answer to this: it’s all psychological. People support political positions which make them feel good. On a primary level, this means:

\* Successful people want to hear that they deserve their success.

\* Unsuccessful people want to hear that successful people don’t deserve their success, lied / cheated / nepotismed their way to the top, and are no better than they are.

\* People want to knock down anyone who makes a status claim to be better than them.

People want to feel like their own identity group is heroic net contributors, and that their outgroup are villainous moochers.
People want to feel like their own identity group deserves more power.

* People want to feel like their preferred lifestyle and policies have no negative implications at all and they don’t have to feel guilty about them.

* People want to feel like they’re part of a group of special people poised to change the world, and everyone else is hidebound bigots who resist temporarily but will eventually be forced to recognize their genius.
People want to virtue-signal: demonstrate that they have the good qualities that their ingroup considers most important.

* But people also want to vice-signal: demonstrate their willingness to breezily dismiss the supposedly good qualities that the outgroup considers important.
>Even if you believe B, that’s still not reducing [...]

I agree.

>A does not require demonstrating doc-rank problems map to n-day problems

Of course you have to, that's pretty much the whole operation of reducing A to B. You may be doing it implicitly but you're doing it for sure.

>since reduction isn’t required to be symmetric

That's exactly my point. A <= B is not necessarily the same as B <= A, even though in some cases, at a first glance, it seems to be the case. Your choice of which one is A or B will change how you construct whatever proof you want to come up with.

I would choose to do "reduce rerank to n-day (and all others)", because it feels like it would be easier down the road, but also because one typically reduces the problem that one knows best (more general, known bounds solutions, etc...) into the one that you're studying. That's why I wrote "minor nitpick".

Think about the textbook example of 3-SAT and all other problems it reduces to: clique, vertex cover, independent set, ... one does not reduce these problems into 3-SAT, it's the other way around. That doesn't mean you couldn't, some of them may have an complete equivalences to 3-SAT, but it's just easier to work out everything if you go from 3-SAT to the rest. My argument is the same, rerank is the thing that you reduce to all others.
Monopolists never like it when their monopoly is threatened ... ;-)
You get a related result when you finetune a base model using transcripts from GPT-4 it will pick up some of GPT-4's weird political and "safety" behavior even if you carefully filter the training material.

I think it's a little like adversarial examples-- the training input is very high dimensional and so little biases can have outsized impact deep in some internal abstraction space.

Since these LLMs are trained on vast swaths of internet data my thinking is that there must be places deep inside the model which say basically "what kind of person am I predicting here-- am I communism politics troll? am I a 16 year old video gamer?". Without something like that at least implicitly the model would be a pretty poor performer. I suspect it doesn't take much bias smuggled in via noise in high dimensional inputs to flip the character.

Another supporting example is in base models using slang or misspelling your prompt setup will result in a less educated response (as you would expect from the context). Chat/instruct finetuned models are far less sensitive to changing character, but presumably the capability to do so is still there inside the model.
It is not generalizable intelligence, its wisdom of the crowds. Claude does not form long term strategies or create predictions about future states. A simpler GOAP engine could create far more elaborate plans and still run entirely locally on your device (while adapting constantly to changing world states).

And yea you could have Claude use a GOAP tool for planning, but all you’re really doing is layering an LLM on top of a conventional AI as a presentation layer to make the lower AI seem far more intelligent than it is. This is why trying to use LLMs for complex decision making about anything that isn’t text and words is a dead end.
That's all the excuse a teammate needs to never satisfy any type constraints.
That quote is referring to the credit system, not the relationship between Acquia and the Drupal Association.
Ideally, fans only have to translate a manga once and then they can publish the English version for everyone to access. Probably not the best model from your business' perspective, but there's no reason to keep repeating work when you can easily save and share the results. This is a case where community and business interests are unlikely to become fully aligned.
It would be interesting to get a perspective of how many developers are in these types of roles if you are closer to them than most? My experience definitely aligns with interviews with leet code questions being unrelated to the daily work. From this perspective, it seems that those dealing with these core projects like Go or Chrome have an outweighed impact on others. Eg, it only takes a few people solving those problems to help everyone. Where as from my perspective, loads of businesses need web apps, fairly simple backends, mobile apps etc for their very specific use case where they want to control the whole user experience.

The frustration of being asked a very specific question looking for a very specific solution under unusual time and pressure constraints I think is quite understandable. Not coming from a place of entitlement, but rather frustration that they know with high certainty that they could do well in the position, the question has nothing to do with daily work expected of them, yet its become this arbitrary pass/fail process due to people copying companies that are screening for positions working on Go or Chrome, when they just want a web app. I've been in several interviews, including on the employer side, where another technical interviewer asks these questions as a power trip. It's not helpful, and doesn't even get better candidates. Hence the frustration people are expressing.
Came here to recommend this. Also the book, "The Unicorn Project" is the SW Dev side of the Phoenix Project.
AI Cloud Firm CoreWeave Eyes Filing $4B IPO Within a Week
> year long journey of 18 hour days

I couldn't do it, even if I had the talent. I have to work to get money!
Congratulations!

This is a huge achievement and work -- although I do not know the space.

What is the stack used? Did you end up substantially switching things in the stack during your journey?

It would be great if you follow up later with experiences like the maintenance journey post-launch.
Also, what do you feel the publisher provided besides the artist and guidance?
The not-so-secret secret of software for the past 40 years is that it has, more often than not, provided solutions to problems created first and foremost by it. This is not pessimism or ludditism, I am just trying to say something simple. The spreadsheet or the database is something that is self-validating: the very innovation of the database makes it first and foremost possible to consolidate massive amounts of data in one place; the whole world can suddenly orient itself around this possibility, and then almost imperceptibly it presents itself to us as a kind of teleological end point, as a "solution to a problem." One can possibly reply here: well, people wanted all the data in one place, and they just had to figure out how to do it, so there you go, the database. But this belies, in an important (if admittedly more philosophical) way the specific character of how an innovation or technology evolves and ultimately concretizes into day to day life. This is why and how the iPhone was cool, but now most of us agree that having an app for your toaster or Taco Bell is pretty dumb. Now entire people's careers have been made around solutions to problems that only exist because of prior innovations. One might quibble that there is some kind of surplus of benefit at the end of the day, but that's not really the point.

Posts like these, along with sentiments we see from so many people now, show a kind of, if you will, crisis of identity. The plausible language black box, slop-bot, beautiful and promising proto-consciousness, whatever you want to call it, is unmoored from what was previously the fiery organic back-and-forth of capitalism<->tech. In part because it is not actually a response to problem, it is a kind of "discovery," but also in part because, it seems, it is in essence too general and too unstable to easily slot into one thing or another.

Now we have all these very business-oriented people looking at this thing, measuring the elephant, and saying "well gosh darn-it, there is something here, there just has to be." We are burning all these resources to get something, but I truly don't think people even know what they want at the end of the day, because it hasn't followed the same chain of commoditization like social media, databases, phones, etc.

This is why there is such confusion: is AI the thing itself, or the tool we use to get... something? How can something be so impressive but not, as it seems, so easily fitted into a product? I suspect this will continue to break peoples brains and empty investors pockets for a long time yet.

If I was an evil capitalist, I would work on a better narrative, or rather, work on actually articulating a problem that "was there all along," which the bots can then solve. I haven't really seen that in a substantial sense, and at this point I love the LLMs just for its resistance to such things.

Just to say, this whole blog post I think is quite exemplary of this contradiction.
>Obviously he does not feel that he can do so now, with so much of Amazon’s business in the crosshairs of the Trump administration.

Why do you assume that Bezos, or any of these tech giants, are anti-Trump? Have you considered that, like a huge chunk of the rest of the country, they actually support what's happening (to varying degrees)?

Why is it the left feels that their beliefs are the "normal" ones?
Looks good.

So I can tell it to install asw cli for example and have it control my instances and such? Cool
He wanted to do it. Didn't hurt anyone. Why criticize?
What I want: take scan/photo of a document (including a full book), pass it to the language model, and then get out a Latex document that matches the original document exactly (minus the copier/camera glitches and angles). I feel like some kind of reinforcement learning model would be possible for this. It should be able to learn to generate Latex that reproduces the exact image, pixel for pixel (learning which pixels are just noise).
Hopefully someday we will have the technology to 3d print flawless poweredge and purestorage server bezels.

Also shout out to HP with the new bezels. Being a server bezel designer seems awesome.
Godot is a game engine.
https://godotengine.org

Supabase has unofficial support.

https://github.com/supabase-community/godot-engine.supabase/...

Thanks for responding! I'm about 60% done with my current project so I don't think I'll be up to migrate( again, originally I started with Firebase), but I still definitely consider Gel for future projects.

Or if I ever interview with your team( hiring? ) I'll migrate my existing project and document the process.