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boroboro4··on Trump administration is suspending Microsoft from a green card program
The way you expose fraud is important. If you go vindictive against particular companies rather than administer policy it’s bad, as simple as that.
boroboro4··on DeepSeek v4.1 Flash
I think the biggest architectural change here is them doing different compute for prefill & decode, with pretty much architecture from this microsoft research work from 2024 https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.05254, very exciting stuff!
boroboro4··on Attention Decode on AMD MI450 GPUs: A Gluon Kernel Optimization Guide
For production loads? No one will run DS without expert parallelism so it’s not important for model to fit on one gpu.
boroboro4··on GigaToken: ~1000x faster Language model tokenization
The issue is it’s cpu compute which is underutilized in gpu clusters anyway, so practically it’s not really 1/1000.
boroboro4··on GLM5.2 on AMD MI355X at 2626 tok/s/node at over 2x lower cost than Blackwell
It's very unclear what's special in Rubin to be optimized for inference? I can see disaggregated bit (with having separate prefill and decoding nodes), but what else?
boroboro4··on Performance per dollar is getting faster and cheaper
What does it mean it's better at nvfp4 training? What's different between training and inference to make this true?
boroboro4··on Supreme Court expands Trump's power over the federal bureaucracy
It’s crazy something which basically changes the way US government works on a such a deep level is not even on a main page of hackernews.
boroboro4··on Project Valhalla, Explained: How a Decade of Work Arrives in JDK 28
The core insight there is to separate value semantics (no identity) from reference (itself) semantics (nullability). While this particular change can bring very limited amount of improvements it’s still does some - probably smaller to no object header + more guaranteed optimizations for variables on stack.

It’s when they land next part (nullability) it will shine fully - particularly on the intersection of not null and value. Alternatively if they introduce tearable semantics it will also shine - it would be possible to still optimize array of value classes, even if they are nullable (for example by having correspondent nullability mask).

So they are taking right step in a right direction. They are just trying to land this incrementally.

boroboro4··on SpaceX to buy Cursor for $60B
There is obvious proxy to the amount of training data - revenue. And I think anthropic is way ahead of them.
boroboro4··on Garry Tan, the CEO of YC, accused me of unethical reporting
DOJ puts an accusation with clarifying text in semi private document? They don’t do this, they do much worse things (and get, rightly, much worse response).

This document isn’t great, but comparing it to Trump administration actions isn’t great either. As well as focusing on it rather than on a substance of the article in question (which is, about Garry Tan accusations in a first place).

Thank you for your comment though it made me go back and reread the linked text more critically.

boroboro4··on Garry Tan, the CEO of YC, accused me of unethical reporting
I somewhat agree that the whole document is sloppy, but I also think this conversation overemphasizes what is wrong with it. It is not as if the document simply accuses the journalist and leaves it there; it actually elaborates on what it means by “violated HIPAA” in that context (and please don’t make me start comparing it with current administration behavior).

There is also a broader question of how to properly handle what are, quite honestly, likely bad-faith actors — the journalist in this case. Should the office simply ignore the smearing campaign and the lies? Maybe. But this is already an issue even before accounting for the significant amount of money — pushed by a very small number of people — being spent against the attorney’s office.

boroboro4··on Garry Tan, the CEO of YC, accused me of unethical reporting
But this particular one does?..
boroboro4··on Garry Tan, the CEO of YC, accused me of unethical reporting
This is what great reporting looks like: well-written, transparent, and rigorous. It’s sad to see how hatred toward progressives can distort people’s judgment.
boroboro4··on I asked Claude for 37,500 random names, and it can't stop saying Marcus
It's unclear why the most probable next token given the context "please pick random number" won't be distributed uniformly across all the possible numbers (in the end it's totally possible for LLM return 10 logits of around same value for numbers 0..9 for example).
boroboro4··on US Immigration on the Easiest Setting
My bad.

However billionaires don’t own tiny part of US wealth, more like 5%-10%. And top 1% (and grandparent was talking about rich people) own 1/3 of US wealth.

boroboro4··on US Immigration on the Easiest Setting
Total US wealth is ~170T so obviously it will be enough to cover federal and state government for a year (and more like 20 years).

Even considering obvious issue of wealth going down like crazy in such hypothetical scenario in its ends this would be enough. Because in the end it’s all part of same economy.

boroboro4··on We tasked Opus 4.6 using agent teams to build a C Compiler
While I mostly agree with you, it worth noting modern llms are trained on 10-20-30T of tokens which is quite comparable to their size (especially given how compressible the data is)
boroboro4··on Data Processing Benchmark Featuring Rust, Go, Swift, Zig, Julia etc.
This https://github.com/niklas-heer/speed-comparison/blob/master/... and this https://github.com/niklas-heer/speed-comparison/blob/master/... from parent comment
boroboro4··on Data Processing Benchmark Featuring Rust, Go, Swift, Zig, Julia etc.
It's not an issue of warmup time, it's an issue of jit compilation.

On my server (AMD EPYC 7252): 1) base time of the java program from the repo is 3.23s (which is ~2 worse than the one in linked page, so I assume my cpu is about 2 slower, and corresponding best c++ result will be ~450ms 2) if you count from inside of java program you get 3.17s (so about 60ms of overhead) 3) but if you run it 10 times (inside of same java program) you cut this time to 1570ms

It's still much slower than c++ version, but it's between rust and go. And this is not me optimizing something, it's only measuring things correctly.

update: running vector version of java code from same repo brings runtime to 392ms which is literally fastest out of all solutions including c++.

update2: ran c++ version on same hardware, it takes 400ms, so I would say it's fair to say c++ and vectorized java are on par (and given "allows vectorization" comment in cpp code I assume that's the best one can get out of it).

boroboro4··on Data Processing Benchmark Featuring Rust, Go, Swift, Zig, Julia etc.
This one doesn’t even have warmup for Java, which makes results complete non sense.

Those benchmarks should be just forbidden for their misleading nature.

boroboro4··on How ICE knows who Minneapolis protesters are
He’s not a king to do whatever he promised as is, he’s bound by laws and constitution (which are passed by congress).

Also as you were corrected there is constant goalpost moving in terms of whom exactly should be deported and how.

If you’re really interested in public opinion people don’t support ICE and especially how do they do what they do.

boroboro4··on How ICE knows who Minneapolis protesters are
You can find stats including pending charges: https://bsky.app/profile/reichlinmelnick.bsky.social/post/3m... the main uptick in recent arrests is mostly people without any criminal charges including pending.

You can see that a lot of charges aren’t that “criminal” too - it’s traffic violations or immigration itself.

boroboro4··on Trump says Venezuela’s Maduro captured after strikes
There might be more than one reason for an ongoing crisis, and different takes on who’s responsible. However Maduro is responsible of huge number of refugees fleeing Venezuela, and we (and some other countries around) have some obligations to help asylum seekers.
boroboro4··on Trump says Venezuela’s Maduro captured after strikes
Obviously the one which sets the law, also the one which has first article dedicated to it.
boroboro4··on Terry Tao: "LLMs are simpler than you think"
Language is just a form, what exactly is encoded inside of the model can be very different. And to encode logical reasoning inside of the weights with activation functions is more than possible.

Models solving IMO level problems imo proves it.

I also think you greatly overestimate human intelligence, the fact we got AGI is nothing but barely side effect of evolution.

boroboro4··on LeCun calls Alex Wang inexperienced, predicts more Meta AI employee departure
This being said in this setup of 2-4 h100 you’ll be able to generate with batch size of somewhere around 128 ie its 128 humans and not one. And just like that difference in efficiency isn’t that high anymore.
boroboro4··on Lottocracy: Democracy Without Elections
Issue with your original statement is that it implies negative correlation between intellect and being good politician. All the issues you describe (both being self serving and power seeking) apply to anyone regardless to their intellect (and I still think they apply less to people of high intellect just because they see bigger picture, but I might be wrong).

We need to optimize for less self serving and more integrity but we should strive for smarter people up there too.

boroboro4··on Lottocracy: Democracy Without Elections
In my opinion even charisma implies higher than average intellect which is already something.

We should put more pressure on elected politicians around competence and integrity, sure, but it doesn’t mean random person is going to be better.

In the original comparison second category of people have much higher intellect than average.

boroboro4··on Lottocracy: Democracy Without Elections
Would you rather be treated (medically) by the first 2000 people? Do you think code will be written better by the first 2000? I get being unhappy about current political class, but this kind of claims is wild to me.
boroboro4··on Tesla’s 4680 battery supply chain collapses as partner writes down deal by 99%
Mechanics is exactly the same - it's not Tesla revenues driving returns for investors, it's new investors putting their money into the stock at very high price.
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