Compiling flash-attn (Flash Attention) is a another great stress-test for CPU+RAM as just using 16 threads can balloon you into 128GB RAM usage territory already. Same thing with needing to not do too much concurrency when compiling it.
I have this problem with NixOS as one of my build servers doesn’t have enough ram. There doesn’t seem to be a way to know if a compilation is likely to be ram heavy and either use a tagged server with more ram or use few threads on servers with less ram.
You'll find the same is true if you have two different LLMs first independently come up with a plan for an implementation, then ask each one of them to say which one of the two designs/plans are the best. They're much more likely to favor the plans generated from the same model, rather than from other models. I'm sure, internally, this somehow makes sense, but it's worth thinking about if you're doing the whole "ask N models for voting/rating N plans to find the best" charade.
That's why I let the LM write it's own AGENT.md or SAFESPOT.md because it "knows" best how to write it so it can resume next time without issues.
Is hits the same spot as that I would take other notes than anyone else and no one could follow them as easily than I do. Everyone leaves the "of course" parts out of the notes if it's for the own use.
Thanks a bunch! Currently I'm weighing SeaweedFS vs RustFS, and if I just wanted S3-compatible API, I'd probably go with RustFS although it's not so mature yet, but with WebDAV and some other stuff, and favoring stability and reliability, looks like I'm leaning more towards SeaweedFS.
Recently got a Mac Mini for local CI purposes (together with Forgejo Actions), took a broad look at the ecosystem and decided to just roll with "build on host" instead. Setting up signing/notarization just looked like an insurmountably task together with isolating it from the host, even with agents. At least the macOS builds are really fast now and the signing/notarization just ~200 lines of Bash...
From the top of my head, unlocking the keychain, finding the right identity, notarizing two parts, the binary itself and the .dmg that the .app ships in and some other stuff I'm sure. Can do a deeper look in a bit when I can. Most of the hassle is because it's 100% unattended and I had to do stuff to avoid GUI-prompts for passwords/unlocks, and that the Forgejo Runner has a different security context.
This matches my experience. Keychain + fully unattended increases the complexity and adds a bunch of landmines that need to be dodged (e.g. GUI prompts like you mentioned).
> unlocking the keychain, finding the right identity
You don’t need to do that, you can give options to the CLI to define what profile to use.
> Most of the hassle is because it's 100% unattended and I had to do stuff to avoid GUI-prompts for passwords/unlocks
I have a shell function to which I point my code and it compiles, signs, and notarises it without any more intervention, GUI or password prompts, and I’m pretty sure signing and notarising are literally two lines.
Unfortunately I’m not at my computer now or I’d paste them, but from your description that script is definitely too long.
> it would be “piruletas” (at least in Spain Spanish).
In Spain Spanish I never heard them called anything else than "chupachup" (regardless of brand), guess it's a bit of a "Kleenex/facial tissue" syndrome going on there.
> I was really searching for a position that would let me do my work, which is to translate the fundamental science into industry impact. I’ve been entrusted with a very high position in my home country, but at the same time, I’m seriously concerned that, if I were asked by the [U.S.] Department of War to perform certain tasks, I probably won’t be able to do it. Things like [making better batteries for] drones, or humanoids for war fighting. Maybe they already have their own expertise. But I just don’t want to risk it.
> I also think it’s important that I maintain my reputation as someone who’s always building things, not destroying things. So, I decided it’s probably better for somebody else to [direct the DOE hub].
Really inspiring and hearth-warming to see a scientist to consider the full impact of their work, in such a direct way, and then not only thinking these things, but also acting on them to ensure she feels right with what she does. We really need more of these types of people in the world :)
This a nice qoute and all but China has a civil-Military program that allows their government to annex any necessary technology for their military but also puts strict building practices on civil made projects.
What makes anyone think that China as government won't do exactly what she fears, which is putting this battery technology inside drones, or humanoids for war fighting? The difference here is China won't ask.
nor will anyone else, the point isn't about weather generic use batteries will be used for military usage, or that someone who licence the technology builds military focused versions
the point is they themselves didn't want to _explicitly_ design components for specific forms of military usage
and they no longer feel safe to not be pressured by the US to do so
but that isn't even the main reason for moving mentioned in the article which are (in order they appear in): reduced funding, moving away from electrification, immigration policies and then the previous point
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as a side note your comment did sound a bit like you think Singapore is China, in the unlikely case you did idk. mix it up with Honkon: it isn't China in any form it was
The difference here is China is going to use dual tech for productive civil until they can't vs US will use it to murder children immediately. This fundamental difference, US civil-military (i.e. AI) workers have to grapple with the fact that their work will absolutely kill people / collateral damage, usually within the fiscal quarter. In mean time, PRC talent watch drones do marathons, breakdance, or lift building material up mountains. Now eventually it may snap necks, but mean time talent contributing to PRC sleep soundly at night knowing they're not... you know murdering foreign kids.
Singapore is sovereign country. A lot of Chinese there escaped from China a century ago during Qing era. They are more in common with Malays in that region than China. Plus, if you read up Singapore policies, they are way more pro western countries than China. Try to read more before typing indiscriminately.
Singapore and China hold strong economic ties. Furthermore if the Chinese government asks one of its citizens to do something the citizen must keep in mind where the rest of their family lives. There are countless articles of how the CCP will do things like fire an aunt or uncle, or deny a sister or brother access to college for not complying with their wishes.
Do you think Singapore as an independent country is strong enough to keep the Chinese government out?
And so they chose Singapore, that bastion of human rights?
More seriously, it will be interesting to track this person for a few years to see whether they thrive in Singapore. Good luck to her and hope she makes a difference.
Moving, especially internationally, is disruptive. Even in bad times, you need to look to where things are going, not where they are in the moment. The USA is dropping on various freedom indices; if you move for this reason, you must ask if will it drop further, will it stabilise, or will it recover? And the same for the destinations you consider.
Great chart! Thanks. I used it to compare a couple of other places too.
Yeah I don't see the gap between the US and Singapore closing in the next 5, 10, or 50 years. The current drop in the US is temporary. The lower score for Singapore is structural.
EDIT: but these are "just" stats, and do not speak to any person's personal position, like Meng's.
Of course. I'm not rooting for the US' downfall. It is a loss of western values. It saddens me, but it is a fact they're veering away from the French Revolution principles.
What was the last country Singapore waged war against, and when was that? AFAIK, I don't think Singapore has threatened the sovereignty of a single state after the inception of the country.
Probably it isn't a perfect country, probably no country is.
If decarbonization, immigration, and human rights are the drivers, there are better countries to pick than Singapore, including Japan, many in Europe, Costa Rica, New Zealand, etc.
On the other hand, Meng is probably right in picking Singapore from a self-interested position because that's where she studied (so has ties) and she believes it gives her a better stage for her research. Notably, she did not choose to go to China, which is where she grew up. So it is noteworthy that she has concluded better opportunities in Singapore.
her reason wasn't some my tech shouldn't be bad people high moral ground but that she felt she can't do here work on here previous job anymore and the next job happened to be in Singapore, and the reasoning in order was also
- reduced funding / many projects getting side lined
- US moving away from decarbonization
- immigration policies discrimination against Chinese born people (even if they have left Chinese citizenship behind/are US citizens)
- and here not wanting to be put in a position where she is pressured to work directly on batteries for weapon systems like drones (!= general use systems being used in a military context)
so she chose Singapore because someone in Singapore presented here with a good job offer where she doesn't have to worry about this things
i.e. this isn't about the US being "evil" and Singapore being better, but about the US no longer being as good a place for civilian use battery production scientist
When you think of the outlook of the USA, where for example the secretary of health and human services is a crusader against vaccination, do you feel like it’s a country that’s rising to meet the challenges of the future? Because to me it feels like we are in the beginning of a fall of civilization!
I don’t have the perspective to really say I know what’s going on, but I trust the scientist knows her business and her industry well enough to make a call for herself.
Do you have anything specific to show she’s making the wrong decision?
Yeah, probably seeing it from the "inside" sort of makes it seem like "beginning of a fall of civilization" but for the rest of us on the outside it looks like the slow fall of an empire/hegemony. Still dramatic I guess, but not as dramatic I suppose.
> If they are mapping that to "reduction in green energy" or "reversal of green energy adoption" I think they are very wrong indeed.
Because there is a global trend towards green energy use, caused by economic factors. It's bound to be more expressive outside the US, because of politics.
> Because there is a global trend towards green energy use, caused by economic factors. It's bound to be more expressive outside the US, because of politics.
"caused by economic factors" is precisely why I think the conclusion is wrong. The US, if nothing else, structurally prioritizes profit, even if it it does dumb, short-sighted things at times.
That's an ironic comment to see on hackernews, a forum most closely associated with silicon valley. Where creating attention traps and gambling apps while claiming to "make the world better" is accepted with a straight face.
That's not to "whatabout" it, but I do find it interesting how blind we are to our own delusions.
It's ironic to me to see comments like these, I've posted commentes on HN since 2013 sometime and never even visited SV, and do my best to reject what I see as the "worst ideas from SV", I'm probably almost purely opposite of that typical person. And there are a lot of people like me here too.
I don't think there are many "make the world better but actually I mean make myself more money" types are left here on the forum, if they are, they're a lot more silent today than they were around 2012-2014.
> engineer it beyond what the consumers use case requires
This mindset I think is why companies tend to favor releasing slightly broken and shit stuff, instead of waiting until they feel like they made something the best it could.
Nah I mean like they partner up to design that part for specific models, it would be hard to make a generic one-size-fits-all given how much PCBs differ, though now that I've looked into it it seems that they currently just have the 5080 available which is odd.
Maybe progress in terms of pure GHz measures or similar, but new and better CPUs are still being released, even outside of Apple. The CPU I'm on right now (AMD) was released in Q3 2025, and almost every CPU released today offers better value for the money than the previous generations.
Fun, I do the opposite, explicitly use Midi Clock so everything is purposefully a tiny bit out of sync, seems to sound better to me, "Midi clock is inherently unstable" is the feature I like :)
