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Ask HN: What tech is under the radar with all attention on ChatGPT etc.?
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Re: Ask HN: What tech is under the radar with all attention on ChatGPT etc.?
#112Stuff that's actually innovative. ChatGPT knows a lot about existing tech - even more than people who think they're pretty steeped in it (including myself here) - but inventive stuff that doesn't show up after a bit of googlefu, it's much less helpful (even useless). So great assistant, great rhythm section but falls down as lead. For now, anyway (and open question, for how long?)
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Re: Ask HN: What tech is under the radar with all attention on ChatGPT etc.?
#113One of the questions I've been asking is we've basically had physical servers -> VM -> cloud -> container orchestration on about a decade long cadence. So what's next--especially considering you can argue a lot of the low-level architectural things haven't really changed during that period. But, then, perhaps architectural details don't matter a lot at this point relative to things like AI/ML. Even WASM is mostly in…
Physical servers (or devices) are next, obviously! IT is cyclical.
Clearly riscv servers you design from the CPU up (with some very helpful software). Only to be replaced by the N types of computers that typically wind up being designed somewhere around years 3-5. To later be replaced by those same systems in the cloud.
Or of course world war 3 happens and the latest, greatest thing going in IT is “I mean I’m still alive, whatever that’s worth.” And making anything usable from whatever is found. Even a blinking LED becomes either neat or a way for a roving warboy to find/kill you.
Re: Ask HN: What tech is under the radar with all attention on ChatGPT etc.?
#114One of the questions I've been asking is we've basically had physical servers -> VM -> cloud -> container orchestration on about a decade long cadence. So what's next--especially considering you can argue a lot of the low-level architectural things haven't really changed during that period. But, then, perhaps architectural details don't matter a lot at this point relative to things like AI/ML. Even WASM is mostly in…
Physical servers (or devices) are next, obviously! IT is cyclical.
“Locally hosted cloud infrastructure!”
Re: Ask HN: What tech is under the radar with all attention on ChatGPT etc.?
#1151. lots of innovation in ICE engines is getting close to production. Cleaner, more efficient etc. This is important even while the industry is moving to EVs. 2. Bambu Labs leapfrogged prosumer 3D printing by 5-10 years. Their printers are becoming the de-facto standard. This will enable all sorts of startups for the next decade. 3. Most iPhones now have a 3D scanner + AI-aided software to accurately scan your body an…
Can you name some of the innovation happening in ICE vehicles? Just some terms I can search for would be appreciated. Thanks!
Porsche synthetic fuels - https://newsroom.porsche.com/en/2023/sustainability/porsche-...
Re: Ask HN: What tech is under the radar with all attention on ChatGPT etc.?
#116Earlier quoted context omitted.
Can you name some of the innovation happening in ICE vehicles? Just some terms I can search for would be appreciated. Thanks!
Porsche synthetic fuels - https://newsroom.porsche.com/en/2023/sustainability/porsche-...
I wish that was "under the radar" instead of "subject of a giant embarrassing marketing push"
Re: Ask HN: What tech is under the radar with all attention on ChatGPT etc.?
#117Earlier quoted context omitted.
+1 for battery tech. Particularly interesting what Enovix is doing in this market.
Indeed. Lithium-air and sodium-air batteries look extremely promising, the former for higher power densities, and the latter for low temperature environments. I can't wait to get a 500 KWH battery backup for my house for $10k...eventually...
>> I can't wait to get a 500 KWH battery backup
At first it sounded amazing but then when gazing at this number it struck me suddenly - isn't this like an energetic equivalent of 0,5 ton of TNT ?
So if I rephraze this statement to "I cannot wait when I will be able to store half a ton of TNT in my garage" this whole premise starts to sound less and less appealing.
(especially since there was a electric scooter battery explosion in flat near me which killed someone)
Re: Ask HN: What tech is under the radar with all attention on ChatGPT etc.?
#118Biology and energy.
Re: Ask HN: What tech is under the radar with all attention on ChatGPT etc.?
#119Earlier quoted context omitted.
> But for inference and run-time computations, it could be very interesting to take a model trained with CUDA/PyTorch and export it (maybe with Apache TVM or tensorflow.js) into WebGPU that can run on end-user devices. In its current state, can you train on PyTorch, export to ONNX, load ONNX in JavaScript/WASM, then use it for WebGPU inference? I'm not trying to sound obsessed/married to ONNX, I just though it was "t…
> In its current state, can you train on PyTorch, export to ONNX, load ONNX in JavaScript/WASM, then use it for WebGPU inference? I believe so. Onnxruntime very recently merged a WebGPU backend: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35694553 You can also go directly from PyTorch to WebGPU with Apache TVM. (ONNX is also supported, but my understanding is that it's better to go direct). This is an example using an LLM t…
I can't seem to figure if the PR for the WebGPU backend for onnxruntime is supposed to land in a 1.14 release, a 1.15 release, has already landed, isn't yet scheduled to land, etc? https://github.com/microsoft/onnxruntime/pull/14579
https://github.com/microsoft/onnxruntime/releases I don't see it in any releases yet?
https://github.com/microsoft/onnxruntime/milestone/4 I don't see it in the upcoming milestone.
I don't see any examples or docs that go with it
https://github.com/microsoft/onnxruntime/wiki/Upcoming-Relea... This seems to be out of date
https://github.com/microsoft/onnxruntime/tree/rel-1.15.0 I do see the js/webgpu work merged into here so I guess it'll be released in 1.15.0
https://onnxruntime.ai/docs/reference/releases-servicing.htm...
> Official releases of ONNX Runtime are managed by the core ONNX Runtime team. A new release is published approximately every quarter, and the upcoming roadmap can be found here.
ONNX Runtime v1.14.0 was Feb 10th
Re: Ask HN: What tech is under the radar with all attention on ChatGPT etc.?
#120Drone tech, satellite tech, phone applications for war (I assume), and bringing war to social media are actively changing the state of warfare as we know it in Ukraine. The idea that violence isn't necessarily bad and can also be a force for good is something I think will change the tech landscape. A lot of those people at google who said no to killer robots are probably having second thoughts, being one of those typ…
Sorry, killing human beings en masse can never be a good thing. Have some compassion. Countless Russians are being conscripted to fight a war they don't want to. These are all children of someone . That things like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christmas_truce can happen speaks volumes about this. The wars are between countries, not their people. Don't lose your humanity.
Here is a game, the greatest game, imho. I think you will like it and I think you will enjoy the outcome, the outcome doesn't directly agree with me and the game talks about the Christmas truce.
War itself is not evil. When someone owns a slave, there is already violence encoded in that relationship. The slave owner is already at war with the slave. When the slave fights back, that is just. The slave owner is a child of someone, too. Status of having a mother who cares about you has no bearing on justice. Serial killers have mothers, too.
You can say it is a war between countries and not their people, but it is people who are firing those guns and people building those weapons and people producing war media and people relaying commands to soldiers.
Your opinion is one of privilege. People with privilege can claim that humanity means "not fighting back." You can believe that because you exist in a country where people can fight back on your behalf. Privilege is the ability to have beliefs without having to deal with the consequences of those beliefs. You feel entitled to peace, but can't see that peace isn't always your choice you get to make, but a choice someone else makes.
In the game of prisoners dilemma, someone can choose to defect, you cannot make them cooperate. When someone defects against you, having empathy for them and choosing to "cooperate" just means you lose. "If you want peace, then prepare for war..." if you aren't prepared for war, then you are showing that when someone defects they can win.
You frame the war around helpless people being walked to their death's by corrupt aristocracies, but you fail to frame war with justice and ask what justice requires.
To Ukrainians it does not matter if it is the Russian government or the Russian people invading their lands. If you cannot see their plight, it is you who do not have humanity.
In regards to the Christmas truce, I do not believe Germany was fighting a fundamentally genocidal war while Russia is fighting a genocidal war against Ukraine. I don't think you can equate those.
I say this as someone who considers themselves deeply liberal, who has a history of thinking like you do and who has now come to the conclusion that what I thought (what you are saying) is very wrong: Check your privilege.