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by subharmonicon 3y ago
The Navajo Nation agrees re: depositing human remains on the moon: https://www.npr.org/2024/01/07/1223351685/some-people-are-pa...
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Why your car will never drive you places [video](youtube.com)
4 points by subharmonicon 3y ago|0 comments
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EFF Urges FTC: Address American Resellers of Malware on Android TV Set-Top Boxes(eff.org)
2 points by subharmonicon 3y ago|0 comments
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by subharmonicon 3y ago
Past discussions here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38801275 And here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36154455
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by subharmonicon 3y ago
Retrieval-augmented generation: https://aws.amazon.com/what-is/retrieval-augmented-generatio...
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by subharmonicon 3y ago
My father also grew up in Detroit and also told me about goiters being common when he was young. Apparently Michigan helped normalize the ionization of salt in the US: https://www.michiganradio.org/show/stateside/2
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by subharmonicon 3y ago
I’ve been using C++ since the late 80’s and for the last 15+ years it’s been reluctant and only due to the projects I’ve worked on and the people I’ve worked with. I’d love to be in a position to work on a new project using Rust or Haskell
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by subharmonicon 3y ago
From: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK62591/#:~:text=On%20av... . > On average across all population subgroups, people who survived to age 50 were expected to live over 8 years longer in 2000 than in 1940,
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by subharmonicon 3y ago
For a really deep dive into these sorts of tuning systems: https://en.xen.wiki For examples of people playing them, search for Lumatone on YouTube, or “microtonal”, or “xenharmonic”.
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Modular Partners with Nvidia to Bring GPUs to the Max Platform(modular.com)
12 points by subharmonicon 3y ago|0 comments
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by subharmonicon 3y ago
Emergent capabilities are interesting but at the moment I don't think anyone has any idea how interesting they really are, or if they are truly a gigantic leap in the direction of AGI . I've skimmed a handful of papers trying to
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by subharmonicon 3y ago
> We're so far away from AGI Although I personally suspect this is correct, the issue seems to be that there are a lot of people who feel otherwise, whether right or wrong, including some of the people involved in the research and&#
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by subharmonicon 3y ago
> Much current C code is somewhat safe-ish because of Herculean efforts to not screw it up. Came here to post this but you beat me to it. We have reasonably safe C/C++ code in some places because of a combination of a huge amount of
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by subharmonicon 3y ago
Related: I was shocked when I tried to get a COVID booster in NY State and they told me they didn’t have a registered nurse on staff that day so they couldn’t do any vaccinations. In California, all of my vaccinations have come from phlebot
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by subharmonicon 3y ago
Honestly I’m surprised the number isn’t already much higher. For at least the last 15 years most healthcare providers I deal with try to get you into a nurse practitioner or physicians assistant, and most have quite a few more of those than
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by subharmonicon 3y ago
Presumably this includes much of the software team as well although I don’t see them mentioned. Given the number of layers of management I see on LinkedIn, it seems like they could go through a serious flattening and housecleaning and still
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by subharmonicon 3y ago
Their “CUDA core” is not warp-wide, it’s a single lane. If you’re talking about FP32 rates, they double it because of FMA (floating-point multiply-accumulate). Everyone does that.
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by subharmonicon 3y ago
Agree, with the caveat that I think finding the balance here is really the hard part, and projects that don’t pay down technical debt eventually fail, if only because people decide to replace them because of the debt.
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by subharmonicon 3y ago
> Unger said the reason for choosing this particular server and software is that according to the World Wide Web Consortium, it is more secure than its counterparts. According to the Consortium's published reports on its findings, M
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by subharmonicon 3y ago
As an Apple user since the launch of the original Mac, I guarantee there have never been any perfect Apple products. Every Mac OS until OS X crashed continuously on even moderate use. Thankfully Steve did manage to build better systems at N
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by subharmonicon 3y ago
Most execs at most companies really are driven by very short-term planning and thinking, as it benefits their career to do so. They just need enough good quarters/years to justify their promotion from VP to SVP or SVP to CEO. Nobody ge
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by subharmonicon 3y ago
Can you cite a reference explaining this ability to re-form new warps from existing threads? I ask because I’ve seen posts from NVIDIA support saying that divergence is still very expensive and I’ve also seen benchmarks that force divergenc
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by subharmonicon 3y ago
NVIDIA is intentionally being obtuse and frankly dishonest calling what’s effectively a vector lane a “core” and similarly using “thread” in “SIMT” to mean the execution of one of those vector lanes. Yes, their architecture is different fro
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by subharmonicon 3y ago
> Or rather what it will become once the VCs who are paying for all this start the squeeze. How do we know that squeeze isn’t already happening? The mojo launch was extremely underwhelming, and I wonder if it was forced by early investor
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by subharmonicon 3y ago
> It’s not just weird, it’s an intentionally dishonest evaluation to build hype around their language. Not too dissimilar to Swift, which was launched as being faster than C/C++.
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by subharmonicon 3y ago
What if it’s less his choice and more about convincing investors that it makes sense?
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by subharmonicon 3y ago
Just paid $30k for a variety of tests and a surgery for my dog. I have insurance, but the yearly coverage limit is $5500. Some insurance claims to have no limits, but then turns around and denies many claims. I’m just glad I could afford th
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Driver hits woman in SF, then Cruise driverless car runs her over(sfchronicle.com)
56 points by subharmonicon 3y ago|196 comments
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by subharmonicon 3y ago
I have no idea what you mean by “how any of this works”. I didn’t bring up solving the phase ordering problem, you did. I’m simply pointing out that if you have a compiler where you have multiple IRs or dialects of IR, and you have a pass t
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by subharmonicon 3y ago
> You realize this is only feasible if you have one team working on a compiler for one domain right? It sounds like you think I’m advocating for something. I’m not. These are all just engineering trade offs that depend on your goals. Reg

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