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tikkun··on Eclipse Timing Information
Go here, then click "go to local timings and animation" (I assume it's IP address based) and then there'll be a neat animation you can adjust showing the level of eclipse by time
tikkun··on GoFundMe for Lasse Collin, xz maintainer
Perhaps also one for the person who discovered the vuln.
tikkun··on If you had no concern about market fit and funding, what would you work on?
> it should significantly enhance the human civilization in one or multiple domains (so things like rendering Mandelbrot set infinitely faster does not cut it IMO

I feel compelled to note that "greatness cannot be planned" [1] and often things that significant enhance human civilization didn't seem like that at first.

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dKazBM3b74I

tikkun··on Ask HN: Taking a year off to go deep on ML/AI
This is good advice!
tikkun··on What is AGI?
See Table 1 on Page 6 in this paper https://arxiv.org/pdf/2311.02462.pdf
tikkun··on Attending industry events and its impact on product awareness / customers
Not OP but this is helpful. What other advice can you share for maximizing conferences?
tikkun··on Ask HN: Where is Apple? They seem to be left out of the AI race?
Apple seems to prefer to enter a space late, and then do it well after they've seen what works and doesn't work for others.
tikkun··on Ask HN: Advice for a new father?
Ignore advice and trust your gut (and your wife's gut) on most things. Most of the parenting decisions I regretted were the ones where other people or books told me I "should" do something, but where my gut said otherwise. Knowing when to trust your gut is key, but my general rule is as long as I'm not acting out of urgency or stress, then I almost always trust my gut.
tikkun··on American VC Firms Investing Billions into PRC Companies Fueling the CCP Military
Is there a good book or blog post on what a good approach is for US-China relations, based on historical analogies and other frameworks? I'm curious because at first glance, it seemed bad that US VC firms are investing in these PRC companies, but then reading your comment, that makes sense too. So, I'm wondering if someone smart has already woven together a nice book that makes sense of it all - either China specific or generally for avoiding global conflict amongst superpowers.
tikkun··on Lessons from history's greatest R&D labs
Cool - thanks for answering!
tikkun··on Lessons from history's greatest R&D labs
Awesome! What sorts of products is your lab working on?
tikkun··on Mark Zuckerberg’s new goal is creating artificial general intelligence
> He tells me that, by the end of this year, Meta will own more than 340,000 of Nvidia’s H100 GPUs

That's approx $15b worth of H100 GPUs.

tikkun··on Launch HN: Talc AI (YC S23) – Test Sets for AI
I like the chevy tahoe callback - I'm assuming that's a reference to the chevy dealership that used an LLM and had people doing prompt tricks to get the chatbot to offer them a chevy tahoe for $1.

The specificity in your writing above "to make this more concrete" about how it works was also helpful for understanding the product.

tikkun··on Resources to deepen LLMs understanding for software engineers
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36195527
tikkun··on Estimating your memory bandwidth
I thought this would be about estimating the memory bandwidth of a human, either calculating the typical memory bandwidth, or giving some tests that would allow someone to approximate the memory bandwidth of their brain. That'd be neat.
tikkun··on Gmail and Yahoo’s 2024 inbox protections and what they mean for email programs
My addition to title: “If you send >5000 emails a day.”

Posthaven has very helpful (free) tools for setting up this stuff. Also GPT has a good understanding of the dns records needed.

tikkun··on Launch HN: Corgea (YC S23) – Auto fix vulnerable code
Very smart, seems super useful. Congrats on the launch
tikkun··on Duty to Document (2023)
Reddit comments are a good example of this. To anyone that has ever posted a solution in response to a reddit question, thank you. You've saved me a lot of time and frustration!

For the original post, I think duty is too strong and I don't like being told what to do, but I get the idea and I too hope more people document things!

tikkun··on Wealthiest Californians are leaving the state. It's bad news for the economy
That seems surprising - can you elaborate?
tikkun··on Amazon receives FDA warning letter for supplements with undeclared ingredients
Can you elaborate about counterfeit products being sold under "sold by amazon.com"? That's surprising to me, I treat that as a sign of something being non-counterfeit.
tikkun··on Faster Mixtral inference with TensorRT-LLM and quantization
TensorRT-LLM plus int8 quantization = cheaper, minimal quality loss. Some nice tables in the post
tikkun··on [dead]
Good to know. Which services did they phish for?
tikkun··on Real Safe Cars: data to produce more accurate and meaningful car safety ratings
I didn't make this. It's interesting.

The homepage has general context.

There doesn't seem to be a page that includes all cars on one page, sadly. To see ratings including the 2023 models, go to the specific pages:

https://realsafecars.com/pickups/all

https://realsafecars.com/sedans/all

https://realsafecars.com/suvs/all

https://realsafecars.com/vans/all

tikkun··on Behind the scenes scaling ChatGPT and the OpenAI APIs [video] - Eng Mgr @ OpenAI
Really interesting talk.

Here are the slides: https://leaddev.com/sites/default/files/2023-10/Behind-the-s...

tikkun··on The AI Trust Crisis
Yes. In general, it would be great if companies threw away the outdated PR-communication playbook, and instead took a leaf from some indie devs and had the builders directly communicate with users as people. Products are built by people, companies are made up of people, but most communication is instead corporate.

In practice, I think the PR playbook is too entrenched, but we can dream.

tikkun··on Apple's new iPhone security setting keeps thieves out of your digital accounts
How so? That's good to know that it can be bypassed.
tikkun··on Apple's new iPhone security setting keeps thieves out of your digital accounts
Related: Set up screen time, and disable password changes and account changes, and set a (different to your regular passcode) screen time passcode. Then you have a separate passcode that keeps sensitive account changes locked.
tikkun··on A new old kind of R&D lab
Looks great! What kinds of products might the lab build?
tikkun··on Ask HN: What AI Software Product/Software Do You Need?
Fractal book summaries: I'd like a tool that allows me to put in a PDF, .epub, or .mobi of a book, and have it output a chapter by chapter summary of varying degrees of summarization. So that then I can read the book in a fractal way. I can start with a one paragraph summary of each chapter, and I can click on anything I want to see more detail of, and it'll be instant. (So, it does all the summarization one off before I start reading)
tikkun··on Ask HN: Best Cloud GPU Platform?
It sounds like you might be wanting something for GPU batch job management. Some things to check out would be gpu orchestration tools, specifically: Slurm, Run.ai, and Skypilot.

Or maybe you're kind of wanting a serverless GPU cloud - check out Runpod, Modal, Baseten, and Replicate.

Links:

https://slurm.schedmd.com/documentation.html

https://www.run.ai/ml-workflow-management

https://github.com/skypilot-org/skypilot

https://www.runpod.io/serverless-gpu

https://modal.com/pricing

https://www.baseten.co/pricing/

https://replicate.com/pricing

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