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spearmanon Muse Spark: Scaling towards personal superintelligence

Uploading images requires logging in. Logging in is broken. It redirects to https://meta.ai/?error=Token%20exchange%20failed and doesn't show any error message. Impressive.

spearmanon MacBook Pro Insomnia

Woah just found out my router (mikrotik) defaults to 10 minute lease durations.

spearmanon The Halo Effect

These HALO deals are in large part a consequence of Lina Khan style anti-trust enforcement making acquisitions more difficult.

spearmanon Intel to Announce Plans This Week to Cut More Than 20% of Staff

* The company can cut scope. So yes they will impact their ability to deliver by doing fewer things.

* The new CEO changing the strategy this much means he thinks previous leadership was wrong.

spearmanon Show HN: The #1 SWE-Bench AI Coding Assistant for VSCode and Jetbrains

> code retrial model

Is this a typo?

spearmanon Two new PebbleOS watches

Until when will you take pre-orders?

spearmanon uBlock Origin is no longer available on the Chrome Store

Pretty sure they do rank sites based on performance: https://developers.google.com/search/docs/appearance/page-ex...

spearmanon Plasticlist Report – Data on plastic chemicals in Bay Area foods

Organic food doesn't seem to fare any better in the report.

spearmanon ChatGPT Search

There's some truth to that, but Netflix, YouTube, etc seem to be OK with both ad-supported and paid ad-free versions, so I think the logic you described does not always dominate the considerations.

spearmanon Ask HN: Who is hiring? (October 2024)

Obelisk AGI lab, Astera Institute | Full-time and intern | engineering | hybrid ONSITE VISA Emeryville, CA | https://astera.org/obelisk/

Astera is a non-profit research institute focused on accelerating science for the benefit of humanity.

Obelisk is the AGI research lab at Astera. Obelisk is a team of researchers who are pursuing an exploratory, neuroscience-informed approach to engineering AGI.

Astera enables the Obelisk team to focus on basic research and take a long-term view. Obelisk is unconstrained by the need to secure funding, garner profit, or publish results.

Visa: As a non-profit research institute, we are exempt from the H1B visa cap so we are willing and able to hire qualified applicants regardless of your nationality.

software engineer: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/astera/30d5ef40-eea7-4a2f-a7cf-28ac...

research intern: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/astera/cb9a9572-8b24-436a-aa22-d543...

spearmanon Jax and Equinox: What are they and why should I bother?

From https://machinelearning.apple.com/research/introducing-apple...

> Our foundation models are trained on Apple's AXLearn framework, an open-source project we released in 2023. It builds on top of JAX

spearmanon Jax and Equinox: What are they and why should I bother?

Re support: JAX is open source and X, Apple, and Google all use it, so I can't imagine it being abandoned in the next 5 years at least.

spearmanon Jax and Equinox: What are they and why should I bother?

Pretty sure it's Apple building it, and they're using JAX in-house so I imagine it will get better over time. Though they do love to drop support for old things so maybe M1 will never work again...

spearmanon Ask HN: Calculus Refresher for AI/ML?

I liked this (and I fixed a few bugs in it too): https://explained.ai/matrix-calculus/

spearmanon Zed, a collaborative code editor, is now open source

https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/issues/5347

spearmanon Efficient LLM inference solution on Intel GPU

OK I found it. Looks like they use SYCL (which for some reason they've rebranded to DPC++): https://github.com/intel/intel-extension-for-pytorch/tree/v2...

spearmanon Efficient LLM inference solution on Intel GPU

I skimmed the paper but couldn't find it: What API did they use to write their kernels? I would have guessed SYCL since that's what Intel is pushing for GPU programming but I couldn't find any reference to SYCL in the paper.

spearmanon Ask HN: Who is hiring? (January 2024)

Obelisk AGI lab, Astera Institute | Machine Learning Research Engineer | Full-Time | On-site with VISA in Berkeley, CA

General Intelligence laboratory that draws on neuroscience and brain architecture to create new models of adaptive intelligence. The Astera Institute is a non-profit dedicated to developing high leverage technologies that can lead to massive returns for humanity.

Visa: As a non-profit research institute, we are exempt from the H1B visa cap so we are willing and able to hire qualified applicants regardless of your nationality.

Compensation: We pay less than e.g., Meta. We pay more cash than the average early VC-backed startup, but there's no equity, since we're a non-profit.

Senior Software Engineer - Reinforcement Learning Environments https://jobs.lever.co/astera/b923ebee-6db2-43cf-9631-72c4351...

Machine Learning Research Engineer https://jobs.lever.co/astera/3396ac29-0682-4f9c-bb79-0666693...

Our stack: - Infrastructure: Bare metal servers running Kubernetes and Ray - Models written in PyTorch but we're experimenting with Jax - Environment game engine written in C++

spearmanon ONNX runtime: Cross-platform accelerated machine learning

The training support is much less mature and much less widely used, but it does exit: https://onnxruntime.ai/docs/get-started/training-on-device.h... https://onnxruntime.ai/docs/get-started/training-pytorch.htm...

spearmanon Displayport: A Better Video Interface

> A carefully shaped money-backed lever over the market is absolutely part of reason you never see DisplayPort inputs on consumer TVs, where HDMI group reigns supreme

What does this actually mean?

spearmanon Faster CPython at PyCon, part one

I believe both Google and Dropbox had a lot of Python code powering their products that they wanted to make faster. I don't think Microsoft has many large 1st party uses of Python. I think they're investing in it largely to gain developer mind-share. So for Google and Dropbox "use another language" was an option, for Microsoft it's not.

spearmanon GPU vendor-agnostic fluid dynamics solver in Julia

This is cool but following some of the links it seems like there are a lot of immature parts of the ecosystem and things will not "just work". See for example this bug which I found from the blog post: https://github.com/odsl-team/julia-ml-from-scratch/issues/2

Summarizing, they benchmark some machine learning code that uses KernelAbstractions.jl on different platforms and find:

* AMD GPU is slower than CPU

* Intel GPU doesn't finish / seems to leak memory

* Apple GPU doesn't finish / seems to leak memory

Would also be interesting to compare the benchmarks to hand-written CUDA kernels (both in Julia and C++) to quantify the cost of the KernelAbstractions layer.

spearmanon GPU vendor-agnostic fluid dynamics solver in Julia

Google tried Swift for ML and it didn't make any dent in Python.

spearmanon So you've installed `fzf` – now what?

Thanks for this. I didn't know about the built-in-cd. For anyone on macOS trying to get Alt-C to work see https://github.com/junegunn/fzf/issues/164.

spearmanon Ask HN: Who is hiring? (March 2023)

Obelisk AGI lab, Astera Institute | Full-time | Site Reliability Engineer / Systems Administrator / DevOps Engineer | hybrid ONSITE VISA Berkeley, CA | https://astera.org/obelisk/ Obelisk is an Artificial General Intelligence laboratory that draws on neuroscience and brain architecture to create new models of adaptive intelligence. The Astera Institute is a 501c3 non-profit dedicated to developing high leverage technologies that can lead to massive returns for humanity.

We're a "Focused Research Organization" or "non-profit start-up" as described here: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-022-00018-5

Visa: As a non-profit research institute, we are exempt from the H1B visa cap so we are willing and able to hire qualified applicants regardless of your nationality.

Compensation: We pay less than e.g., Meta. We pay more cash than the average early VC-backed startup, but there's no equity, since we're a non-profit.

You can apply here: https://jobs.lever.co/astera/

spearmanon Ask HN: Who is hiring? (February 2023)

Obelisk AGI lab, Astera Institute | Full-time | engineering | hybrid ONSITE VISA Berkeley, CA | https://astera.org/obelisk/ Obelisk is an Artificial General Intelligence laboratory that draws on neuroscience and brain architecture to create new models of adaptive intelligence.

The Astera Institute is a 501c3 non-profit dedicated to developing high leverage technologies that can lead to massive returns for humanity.

We're a "Focused Research Organization" or "non-profit start-up" as described here: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-022-00018-5

Visa: As a non-profit research institute, we are exempt from the H1B visa cap so we are willing and able to hire qualified applicants regardless of your nationality.

Compensation: We pay less than e.g., Meta. We pay more cash than the average early VC-backed startup, but there's no equity, since we're a non-profit.

Currently open roles: * Machine Learning Engineer * Software Engineer * System Administrator / Site Reliability Engineer (SRE)

You can apply here: https://jobs.lever.co/astera/

spearmanon A corrupt file led to the FAA ground stoppage – also found in backup system

Another way to think about it is that safety is good for profits, at least in so far as consumers care about it. And I think consumers do care quite a bit. Of course there are arguments to be made for regulation, but I think your statement is overly emphatic.

spearmanon Ask HN: Who is hiring? (January 2023)

Obelisk AGI lab, Astera Institute | Full-time | Senior Software Engineer | hybrid ONSITE VISA Berkeley, CA | https://astera.org/obelisk/

Obelisk is an Artificial General Intelligence laboratory that draws on neuroscience and brain architecture to create new models of adaptive intelligence. The Astera Institute is a 501c3 non-profit dedicated to developing high leverage technologies that can lead to massive returns for humanity.

We're a "Focused Research Organization" or "non-profit start-up" as described here: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-022-00018-5

Visa: As a non-profit research institute, we are exempt from the H1B visa cap so we are willing and able to hire qualified applicants regardless of your nationality.

Compensation: We pay less than e.g., Meta. We pay more cash than the average early VC-backed startup, but there's no equity, since we're a non-profit.

Currently looking to hire a senior software engineer: https://jobs.lever.co/astera/b923ebee-6db2-43cf-9631-72c4351...

spearmanon Ask HN: Who is hiring? (December 2022)

The Astera Institute is a 501c3 non-profit dedicated to developing high leverage technologies that can lead to massive returns for humanity.

We're a "Focused Research Organization" or "non-profit start-up" as described here: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-022-00018-5

Visa: As a non-profit research institute, we are exempt from the H1B visa cap so we are willing and able to hire qualified applicants regardless of your nationality.

Compensation: We pay less than e.g., Meta. We pay more cash than the average early VC-backed startup, but there's no equity, since we're a non-profit.

Currently open roles:

- Machine Learning Engineer

- Software Engineer

- System Administrator / Site Reliability Engineer (SRE)

- Office Manager

You can apply here: https://jobs.lever.co/astera/

spearmanon Ask HN: Who is hiring? (November 2022)

Obelisk AGI lab, Astera Institute | Full-time | engineering | hybrid ONSITE VISA Berkeley, CA | https://astera.org/obelisk/

Obelisk is an Artificial General Intelligence laboratory that draws on neuroscience and brain architecture to create new models of adaptive intelligence.

The Astera Institute is a 501c3 non-profit dedicated to developing high leverage technologies that can lead to massive returns for humanity.

We're a "Focused Research Organization" or "non-profit start-up" as described here: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-022-00018-5

Visa: As a non-profit research institute, we are exempt from the H1B visa cap so we are willing and able to hire qualified applicants regardless of your nationality.

Compensation: We pay less than e.g., Meta. We pay more cash than the average early VC-backed startup, but there's no equity, since we're a non-profit.

Currently open roles: * Machine Learning Engineer * Software Engineer * System Administrator / Site Reliability Engineer (SRE)

You can apply here: https://jobs.lever.co/astera/