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by bigyabai 3mo ago
For $30/month, I'd expect it to have higher usage limits than Claude Code and Codex.
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by bigyabai 3mo ago
Money wasn't really the problem. Apple pulled OpenCL together pro-bono, and worked with Khronos to find willing industry stakeholders that would oppose Nvidia. OpenCL needed hardware standardization though, and nobody wanted to design
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by bigyabai 3mo ago
In many cases it isn't Nvidia paying for the fab time. For instance, the Nintendo Switch 2 is basically a pure-play design and support product for Nvidia, while Nintendo negotiates with Samsung for the actual SOC prices. Their IP philo
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by bigyabai 3mo ago
I stand corrected, only Google's post-Ironwood TPUs have the split as well. Nonetheless, TPU architectures are still a systolic array, and have their own limitations for scalability and flexibility. CUDA is no silver bullet, but it sat
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by bigyabai 3mo ago
People say this, like "oh you'll never get a job in this industry again!" but seem to ignore that these incidents count as professional experience. It's possible that she was screened on the Rohingya situation when she w
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by bigyabai 3mo ago
Coral and the TPUs are ASICs, and therefore are barely reprogrammable. It doesn't really compare to the complexity and flexibility of CUDA ALUs.
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by bigyabai 3mo ago
> I want the laws changed, not selective/arbitrary enforcement of them. Flock does not force cops to be less arbitrary/selective any more than bodycams do.
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by bigyabai 3mo ago
I don't have to believe. I've run KDE and GNOME on the Tegra boards, you get full-fat CUDA support without sacrificing Vulkan drivers. It's incredible. You can believe all you want that good single-core performance will corne
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by bigyabai 3mo ago
But people have been saying this about CUDA for twenty years , and we are not any closer to a replacement GPGPU paradigm today. The root comment in this thread was about Nvidia hedging their bet on lost AI market share. They recognize that
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by bigyabai 3mo ago
I don't know how people can say this with a straight face. Nvidia was selling desktop-grade ARM SOCs before Apple Silicon was ever announced, specifically for edge robotics, computer vision and ML. The absolute fastest desktop Mac GP
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by bigyabai 3mo ago
There was a time when users falsely characterized Dual_EC_DRBG as "private" because Dell's whitepapers looked good. History proved those users to be chumps.
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by bigyabai 3mo ago
Parents aren't calling on governments to regulate it. Implementations like Apple's Client Side Scanning was not a populist movement, and many savvy parents spoke up about how it crossed multiple lines that set the stage for author
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by bigyabai 3mo ago
Label margin inconsistency should really be a thing of the past, in the Claude Code era. We need 18F back, as a matter of national dignity...
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by bigyabai 3mo ago
To modify the scanner to lie? Authoritarian states don't want the truth, it threatens their totalitarian ambitions. You are making the same mistake as the author, gesturing towards the Nazis as if they were hamstrung by ethics and due
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by bigyabai 3mo ago
You're right, at Apple's scale we should forgive Tim Cook for wasting human talent and capital on failed megaprojects. It's not like those resources could have been diverted to address the other problems with Apple's ser
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by bigyabai 3mo ago
Reread my comments, I don't know how you're still confused about this. They are manufacturing a fictional scenario that does not significantly change the power imbalance of an authoritarian state, today or in their hypothetical
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by bigyabai 3mo ago
Because they are. This is a flight-of-fancy, a science-fiction diversion that has no relevance to any real world politics from the last century. Their "Nazis with a mind reader" scenario explains it perfectly; only a small minorit
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by bigyabai 3mo ago
Their argument against BCI is that it will be used in government-mandated purity tests to forcibly rally their subjects. But that's a political objective, and one that you don't need mind control or ESP to achieve. We already have
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by bigyabai 3mo ago
Lesswrong might be the only site on the internet where "mass-deployed BCI telepathy" is considered a more immediate threat to social cohesion than social media, propaganda or advertising. It's a shame that today's "
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keynesian_beauty_contest
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by bigyabai 3mo ago
Microsoft's illegal monopoly over the web browser market was also "a selling point" for many lazy customers. It was also notably illegal.
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by bigyabai 3mo ago
> the problems so vexatious (not to mention expensive) that little space is given to acknowledging them, let alone solving them. These problems will exist regardless of whether or not we get open model access. I'd personally rather
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by bigyabai 3mo ago
Value proposition is still subjective. Apple should be making money hand-over-fist from the AI boom, but Nvidia is the one that wooed over the datacenter with their high-performance ARM chipsets. Apple's unwillingness to support CUDA
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by bigyabai 3mo ago
> and the only reason for being notable is that it is a lying piece of crap That's your takeaway from the outrage in this thread, but now you should actually watch a few videos to understand why this is a silly accusation. Jeff Geer
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by bigyabai 3mo ago
Yep, there is just one account going ballistic in this HN thread, Jeff would be well within his right to ignore that kind of ragebait. All of us have watched enough Jeff Geerling videos to know that he's not a secret spy for Intel or
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by bigyabai 3mo ago
Getting sustained single-core performance requires you to push the P-cores to junction temp. It's only efficient in bursty workloads, under load it will go back to Intel-tier efficiency.
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by bigyabai 3mo ago
If they worked there recently, they probably grappled with this in some capacity: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salt_Typhoon
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Even Apple is unwilling to admit it makes sense, it's not like the App Store makes you drag the icon into a shopping cart or something. It's just poor design nowadays.
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Ideally we should just let the government write the software, and they'd be able to verify that there's no dangers to grandma anywhere in the system. It would be foolproof, maybe the most trustworthy system ever conceived.
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> And then, billions of users cry out in pain as their private data is hoovered into the panopticon in the cloud. That's not how data collection works? It's Apple's responsibility to prevent their application runtime from

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