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by atty 4y ago
I am an American and not knowledgeable about how energy pricing works, so I am curious, how do we square this with the rates that Europeans have been paying for energy and natural gas lately? Are utilities making off like bandits? Or were t
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by atty 4y ago
Awesome thanks for pointing this out!
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by atty 4y ago
Sorry, on my phone at the moment so I don’t think I can really type some decent code right now! I actually think that torch’s ShardedTensor looks very promising. Essentially you can initialize a sharded tensor from an already initialized te
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by atty 4y ago
Just looking at commit frequency in the main branch, and activity on the relevant RFCs in GitHub issues. I have no visibility into what’s going on at Meta of course so it could just be there’s a lot of currently internal development, maybe
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by atty 4y ago
Maybe “TF 3” or whatever they call it will be ergonomic and a pleasure to use, but that was the promise of TF 2, and unless you wanted to use Keras it was anything but. I’m glad I have been able to work only in PyTorch and Jax. Maybe TF wil
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by atty 4y ago
Every browser on iOS is essentially safari but reskinned. Apple forces browser apps to be WebKit based. That means supporting other codecs, and different types of web technologies, etc, only happens on iOS when WebKit supports it, because a
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by atty 4y ago
If you’re ok spending 1 minute turning off their weird crypto-powered ad stuff (or if you’re ok with it), I personally think Brave is the best Chromium browser available, and I believe they have said they will not be removing Manifest v2 su
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by atty 4y ago
What about this is healthy exactly?
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by atty 4y ago
They keep on pushing on the power of the iPads. Out of curiosity, does anyone really use their iPads for something they’d consider really compute intensive? I find that the best use of a tablet is reading and watching videos. Any time I wan
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by atty 4y ago
I work for an automotive OEM, and when a car has a serious recall, I don’t get to say “gee it’s frustrating to see the whole of my company get smeared for one engineering mistake I wasn’t a part of.” There’s no reason for customers or the p
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by atty 4y ago
It can’t stop me from accessing index 1 when I meant 0 on a 3d array, so I think the claim doesn’t make much sense. Rust can stop me from accessing index N+1 though, which is useful for security. Of course almost every language also has sup
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by atty 4y ago
I worked at a Kroger (grocery store chain) for 7 years, and each time they brought in consultants to modify workflows they made our lives (stockers and baggers) worse, with no measurable improvement in efficiency. Needless to say, I am not
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by atty 4y ago
Crap like this makes me wish RISC-V was the dominant ISA. Unfortunately it seems like the big players really don’t have any incentive to switch once they get their architecture licenses, since the ARM ecosystem and toolchains are so much mo
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by atty 4y ago
I see a big mix of positive and negative in the comments, I’m gonna take a slightly different tact, and say I’m extremely bullish on the GPU market in the near-to-mid term on the consumer side. Obviously, a coming recession and relaxing of
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by atty 4y ago
From investor calls (where they actually can’t lie, at least not without fines and losing their jobs), they’ve had test samples of meteor lake for awhile already, which uses Intel 4. They’ve even had successful power-on samples for their 20
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by atty 4y ago
Both AMD and Intel have released some truly impressive CPUs lately, and this month both of them are releasing their next-gen products (ryzen 7000 and raptor lake respectively, I believe). The new ryzen chips are looking very impressive, and
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by atty 4y ago
This is pretty tangential, but my company just rolled out a new HR system. I don’t like the term Human Resources very much, because it implies a level of fungibity that isn’t really true, but the new one is simply astounding - they call it
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by atty 4y ago
I was actually wondering if someone could explain where that cost increase is coming from. I know the design rules get more complicated as the process node shrinks, but I thought most of those design rules are essentially “taken care of”, b
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by atty 4y ago
It seems like a ton of these prefab projects show up on HN, but does anyone know of any that produce houses/structures that actually… look nice? It seems like everything I’ve seen on here have all the aesthetics of a shipping containe
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by atty 4y ago
I’m rooting for both Intel and Samsung. It sounds to me like Intel is ever so slowly getting back on track with Pat there (good interview on the Decoder podcast with him recently, if anyone is interested), but I’d guess we won’t really be a
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by atty 4y ago
The irony of the CEO’s t-shirt in that photo is… staggering.
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by atty 4y ago
I strongly suspect you’ve never been on the end of an internet doxxing/hate brigade if you can’t imagine how this could be used to make someone’s life a living hell. I’ll explain again that I think they can be used for bad actions, and
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by atty 4y ago
I believe you misunderstood my post. (Or I have misunderstood yours) I was not arguing that the models should not be released. I was pointing out that the statement that no harm has been done with them was false, and that even though that i
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by atty 4y ago
There is a difference in ease of use. I could never use photoshop to fake something like that even if I wanted to. Further, we have seen harm come from some of this already, there’s a pretty big online community that uses deepfakes to put p
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by atty 4y ago
There is a clear risk from these sorts of models as they get better - I mean recreating specific individuals’ likenesses in compromising images (or even worse, video). We’re not at that point yet, but these things are getting better fast, s
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by atty 4y ago
On the other hand, real world performance is really the only useful metric for matrix multiplication. I don’t really care about the theoretical performance, or the number of operations. Not disagreeing with your take that the claim is grand
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by atty 4y ago
That’s because C and Fortran also continue to benefit from all the compiler research?
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by atty 4y ago
The kernel can’t fail to complete its operations, because then the entire system crashes and no logs are created. Instead, you can finish the operation and check the result.
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by atty 4y ago
Somewhat tangential, but at my work we have found WebEx’s background noise removal to be absolutely amazing. So many times we’ve had someone in a meeting say “sorry about X/Y/Z, it’s so noisy”, and the rest of us won’t hear a thin
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by atty 4y ago
Considering basically all of modern technology has been invented in the last 150 years, and just how far we have come in that time, i think it’s relatively safe to assume that in 100x that time (say 15000 years in the future) we will have e

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