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There are no trillion dollar models (yet?).

Chris Lattner is now very very rich. Once his lockup expires he will not need to work for anyone.

I'm sure Qualcomm would love him to stick around but suspect that they'll maintain mojo even if he leaves.

If you see someone incompetent being promoted then it's more likely:

1) You are wrong about them being incompetent

2) The person promoting them is also incompetent and has mistakenly promoted the wrong person.

I have literally never seen or heard of anyone promoting someone to limit the harm they can do. It's something bitter people tell themselves to help them feel better about being passed over. It's not the explanation you are looking for.

I wonder the same thing about high taxes and state run energy companies.

I don't think the UK ever really had an option to create a fund though. Deficit was too high. Doubt there would have been anything left to invest even with an increased cut for the state. UK had an IMF bailout in the 70s and was in a mess. Norway was in much better shape I think.

In the article it's suggested that Norway could award a peace prize to trump in return for regulatory approval.

In the article it's suggested that Norway could award a peace prize to trump in return for regulatory approval.

It would be nice if your local library hadn't sold their copy but I think your beef is with the libraries, or perhaps with the politicians who failed to fund them in that case.

Actually I expect that a copy of most books probably is still available in a copyright library but it might not be easy to access.

I look forward to the day that AI companies pay large advances for new books.

It'll take a while before publishing collapses due to the availability of the same information via an LLM, but once this happens new books will get a lot more expensive for AI companies and a lot cheaper for everyone else.

Elsewhere on their website:

"Jane Street has offices in some of the world’s most dynamic cities, including a presence in Amsterdam, Chicago, Hong Kong, London, New York and Singapore."

https://www.janestreet.com/culture/benefits/?office=nyc&view... (scroll down)

He's offering entertainment not investing advice.

But he is very entertaining and has more than a veneer of authority. His early educational YouTube videos covering topics like derivatives pricing are genuinely very good.

Original headline is "Jane Street suffers $15bn loss in July market ructions".

HN guidelines do request use of original title and in this specific case the change of title is misleading by implying that situational awareness directly caused losses at JS.

In the text it says "the US trading firm was wrongfooted during last month’s market ructions including the meltdown at AI-focused hedge fund Situational Awareness" so while SA is mentioned the implications of a direct link to the losses is less strong.

edit: more detail in https://www.reuters.com/business/finance/jane-street-took-15... confirms some losses linked directly to SA and some losses to their own positions.

I downloaded the game and played for a few minutes. It's pretty competently put together although not really my kind of game.

The problem is that as far as I can tell you are in a very crowded space now. There are many similar free to play games. Some of them are definitely better. This doesn't stand out.

Still deserves more than zero downloads.

Firefox provides one of two browser engines.

If there's only one browser engine the Web immediately closes up like a giant impenetrable clam. All of humanity will be left outside, doomed to scrape forlornly on the shell with our nails and dream of the pearls within.

Thanks very interesting. Can imagine it being a pain.Ten is an unusual number, hard to divide evenly across hosts.

To be honest I doubt you'll ever use them again, especially if you have dismantled the cluster and put them back in their boxes again. The cluster would be cheaper than cloud but you don't seem that cost constrained.

Why do you have ten or so 3090s sitting in boxes?

I mean obviously it's worth it just so you can flex on HN. But curious whether there was any other reason? Retired scalper?

Pencil and paper are very definitely better, until you need to carry them around or search through them.

The ease of filing/retrieving across a lot of notes is a huge advantage. Also the amount you can have with you. The sheer weight of paper is a huge pain. With this you can carry hundreds of books and search the notes you scribbled in the margins.

I think what you are describing is people being performative or superficial, not vain.

Allbirds is definitely not vanity. That's a scam.

Using AI is vanity? I've never heard that before. Why is that?

Refusing to use AI honestly seems more like vanity to me. Like "no machine could ever do what I do".

That said I would not necessarily accuse people who don't want to use AI of vanity - there are good reasons not to want to use it - but if someone else did it I'd find it easier to understand.

The link is to a really poor summary of a better article by the register.

https://www.theregister.com/ai-and-ml/2026/08/03/as-larry-el...

The register article is about this post:

https://openjdk.org/legal/ai

I found this touching. As someone who has tried to read a new kind of science, but struggled with the arrogant style, the love and respect this shows he had for his wife came as a welcome surprise. It has raised my opinion of Stephen Wolfram as a person considerably. Elise sounds amazing. He and his family have my sympathy.

Since we're (as a society) spending tens of billions of dollars to serve models like this, it's a pretty interesting advertisement.

If I'm squeezing enough margin out of my customers that I can afford to sponsor a football team with some of the leftover cash then you probably don't want to deal with me.

It's the GNU/OSS AI bros who are upset. The other AI bros are using LLVM/Clang I expect.

GCC is much less relevant than LLVM in the AI world. NVIDIA's entire CUDA compiler stack is built on LLVM, just like AMD's HIP stack.

It's a pun on "efficient markets hypothesis".

The efficient markets hypothesis says the market prices incorporate all available information and there's no such thing as a cheap stock, so there's no easy money to be made by trading.

The math equivalent is presumably that all easy problems have been solved and all open problems should be very very hard. This has turned out not to be the case as LLMs have found simple counterexamples to long held conjectures.

I don't entirely understand why they "didn't want to touch it"? Surely they were capable of soldering a new port. I'm sure they'd have had to charge a lot. There's unlikely to be much difference in cost between the repair and a replacement microphone.

But why not offer that? All else being equal I'd rather fix something than put it in landfill and buy a new one. Am I the only one?

Correct

ancient intel did 80 bit fp until your intermediate result was written from registers to memory. Since you typically have no control over when that happens, even in very low level languages like C, the 80 bit precision mostly had the effect of making your code produce different results on different compilers. If you needed 80 bit precision and deterministic results you had to write the algorithm in assembly.

I think the term in this case is marketing.

NVIDIA used to use the term supercomputer more often five or six years ago. It's now fully committed to the term AI factory. I think this is supposed to make you think of their expensive kit as a productive asset building your business rather than an expensive tool for your boffins. Your average business executive is instinctively going to question whether they need a supercomputer but don't yet have the same preconceptions about AI factories.

I don't think that Nvidia single handedly caused the move away from the term supercomputer. But I think they had a hand helping push firmly in that direction.

It's mind blowing seeing these multi exaflop single rack systems.

The world's first exaflop supercomputer was Frontier. It was launched only 4 years ago in 2022.

It's not a fair comparison of course. FP4 in Helios barely qualifies as floating point. Frontier was proper fp64, 16 times the bit width and probably 256x as many transistors.

All the same just wow. Much compute.

Pensions will have exposure, probably through private credit, and probably in the range of 5% to 10% of assets. It's a lot, and it'll hurt people. But I'm not at all sure it is enough to require a bailout.

US government direct investment exposure is not likely to motivate a bailout in my view. The government might be motivated to bail people out for other reasons but not because they've lent too much.