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by adrian_b 5mo ago
On HN almost every day there are complaints from various people about how Claude or even Codex have refused to perform some normal program development tasks, because they believed that their user might attempt to do something illegal. This
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TFA mentions that until now special very expensive hardware like Cerebras was required for reaching this kind of speeds, and it emphasizes that what is novel in their results is that they have obtained over 1000 token/s for a model wit
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by adrian_b 5mo ago
The alternative IF expression or statement, in the form introduced by John McCarthy in 1958 (which he used in early 1959 to define his version of AND, OR and NOT), is one of the possible primitives for computation. There exist several equiv
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by adrian_b 5mo ago
The last time when I have used RHEL was decades ago, so I do not have any idea about what happens there. On the other hand, I have been using XFS since 2005 (since when I have transitioned from 32-bit Linux to 64-bit Linux), on a great vari
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by adrian_b 5mo ago
XFS filesystems do not have a "/lost+found" directory in their normal state. In the very rare occasions when one has to run "xfs_repair", it will create a "/lost+found" directory, if it is required fo
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by adrian_b 5mo ago
For many properties, boron has an intermediate behavior between carbon and silicon. For a few properties, boron resembles more phosphorus than silicon or carbon (mainly because of a closer ionic size, which makes borates somewhat intermedia
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There is no improvement in the CPU or GPU, except for minor increases in the clock frequency. The memory interface is a little faster, but the greatest improvement is +50% in the memory capacity, both over the old Strix Halo and over NVIDIA
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by adrian_b 5mo ago
As TFA explains and other posters have also mentioned, they did not violate any code of conduct. Only the organizers have violated the code of conduct. A conference for the members of a medical association has the stated purpose of providin
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by adrian_b 5mo ago
Others have already quoted TFA, which rightly points that the distributing (by some of the coauthors) of an article published in the journal of a medical association, at the conference of the said medical association, a conference which has
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Their so-called "protest" was just distributing an article already published in the journal of the medical association to which this conference is attached, which probably discussed matters of interest for the attendance, like the
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by adrian_b 5mo ago
True, but following the early documentation from around 1990, from companies like Microsoft, most programmers use the term "font" even when they should say "typeface". Many of those who know the difference between "
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by adrian_b 5mo ago
The error-correcting codes used by HDDs/SSDs correct or detect the most frequent errors, but sometimes, when there are too many erroneous bits in a sector, they can mis-correct the data and then the HDD/SSD returns a corrupted sec
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by adrian_b 5mo ago
The idea about various fads that "not envisioning use for it is just a past bias", is seldom true. What people want has not changed for millennia and it is unlikely to change soon. Most of the things that are useful have already b
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by adrian_b 5mo ago
The competitor for this NVIDIA CPU will not be the now old AMD Strix Halo, but its successor (launched recently), which supports up to 192 GB of unified memory. Thus 128 GB is no longer SOTA. While this NVIDIA system is inferior from the po
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by adrian_b 5mo ago
It may not have attacked intentionally the EU yet, but a week ago there was an incident when a Russian drone apparently strayed away from whatever Ukrainian target it may have had, and it hit an apartment building in the city of Galati, in
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by adrian_b 5mo ago
Branch prediction is indeed necessary for any pipelined CPU. It does not matter whether the CPU also has other more modern features, like being superscalar, having out-of-order execution, etc. That is why the simplest kind of branch predict
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by adrian_b 5mo ago
I do not agree to call "exceptions" the cases where branchless code is preferable, because they can be quite frequent in certain application domains, like sorting and searching. The difference between the cases when branches are w
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by adrian_b 5mo ago
This is true, but TFA argued that the network services themselves should not use /etc/hosts or other similar translation database, so a not yet updated file should not cause a network outage. TFA proposed that /etc/hosts
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by adrian_b 5mo ago
Yes, the description from TFA does not match the traditional Thunderbolt networking protocol, whose performance may be as low as that of a 10 Gb/s Ethernet interface. The description from TFA matches what the poster above you said abou
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by adrian_b 5mo ago
Anthropic themselves have explained that the harness for Mythos has a very important role in finding the vulnerabilities, because the model does not start from scratch, but the harness runs the model many times on each file of the code base
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by adrian_b 5mo ago
In these cases of the TI parts, some of their most important specifications, like maximum supply voltage, noise and slew rate, have been changed, and not by a few percent, but by even a factor close to 2. For so great changes, it is really
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by adrian_b 5mo ago
The model is expected to be published today on Huggingface.co, where there should be more information. For now, this is what NVIDIA says: Nemotron 3 Ultra is NVIDIA's largest open model: 550B total parameters with up to 55B active
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by adrian_b 5mo ago
For now, US not only exports a lot of oil, but it also imports a lot of oil, and those quantities cannot be compensated, because it is not the same quality of oil. Thus there can exist oil shortage in US, simultaneously with exporting great
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by adrian_b 5mo ago
Some meteors do explode. The meteors made only of iron alloy and/or silicate rocks do not explode, but they may fragment into many smaller bodies. The meteors that contain great amounts of volatile substances (water, carbon compounds a
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by adrian_b 5mo ago
Some meteors really explode, because water and other volatile substances contained in them transform from solids into high temperature gases that expand quickly and cause the explosion of the body. This is the same like how many kinds of wa
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by adrian_b 5mo ago
I do not agree that the thesis of point 2 is about plagiarism. Plagiarism is a minor concern in research papers. Plagiarism means that the paper has 0% new content and everything in it is extracted from older works and combined. However, ev
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In the research papers of any branch of science and technology, crediting the previous work is not some social convention, but it is very useful information for readers. Despite the fact that there are some dishonest researchers, who attemp
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I consider attribution very important, less because it were associated with some merits for the humans quoted as the sources of certain new ideas, but more because it facilitates going backwards to the historical documents where those ideas
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by adrian_b 5mo ago
I agree with most of what you said, but I am puzzled about your claim about RAII. Whether it is good for any kind of resource acquisition to look the same like an initialization is debatable. On the other hand, I cannot see any counterargum
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Tomorrow NVIDIA will publish Nemotron 3 Ultra, which will be the biggest open weights LLM from a US company (550B parameters). The early testers have confirmed that it is much better than all earlier US open weights models, but it is not as

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