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defaultname commented on How Nvidia’s CUDA Monopoly in Machine Learning Is Breaking semianalysis.com/p/nvidia... · Posted by u/pella

dna_polymerase · 3 years ago

It is quite weird to talk about all the frameworks which are built on top of CUDA eventually, but not talking about Rocm or OpenCL.

OpenAI's Triton compiles down to CUDA atm (if I read their github right), and only supports Nvidia GPUs.

PyTorch 2.0's installation page only mentions CPU and CUDA targets, therefor it's effectively all Nvidia GPUs.

While all the frameworks and abstractions could offer other back-ends in theory the story of anything ML related on the other big name in the industry, AMD, is still poor.

If anybody looses business because of bad decisions it is AMD, not Nvidia, who lead the whole industry. I am not convinced that anything will change in the near future.

defaultname · 3 years ago

AMD's position on machine learning has been fascinating to watch. While the company has gone through some cash strapped years, investing even some marginal effort into the ML space would have paid off handsomely in data center sales. Instead they let nvidia run away with it, pushing out a half-baked ROCm, which bizarrely supports such a tiny subset of cards it is farcical: With nvidia devs with a standard consumer GPU are building solutions and testing models, and when it's time to push big staying with nvidia is just the easy choice, while AMD apparently tries to upsell for even marginal support.

Apple has done more to see Apple Silicon supported in the ML space in almost no time than AMD did over the past decade. Apple obviously has more resources, but they don't have a 1000 person team working on this, I suspect, but instead it's a very commando, efficient operation. They got a small number of dedicated resources committed to bringing support and enabling the community, and it happened.

defaultname commented on Authentication with Django and Single Page Apps (2020) mikesukmanowsky.com/blog/... · Posted by u/msukmanowsky

jay-barronville · 3 years ago

I pretty much agree with the sentiment of this post.

I’ll probably get downvoted for saying this . . .

Ever since using JWT’s became a trend, I’ve found that I can’t get a useful answer almost every single time I’ve asked an engineer (or team) why they picked JWT’s over old, boring, and tested sessions for a web app. It seems, just like React, GraphQL, etc., a lot of the industry just love jumping on bandwagons. I see so many companies adopting the new and shiny thing (or the thing attached to a big name) rather than the best tool for the job. Unless I encounter a specific use case that would be best served using JWT’s, I’ll stick with the “old” Redis sessions model.

I guess you’re not a real engineer nowadays if you can’t say that your new app uses insert buzzword or trendy technology here . . .

defaultname · 3 years ago

I don't think it's a trend or that people are trying to be cool or something. JWT is like a simpleton version of Kerberos/ActiveDirectory tickets. Having authentication and/or authorization independent of operational systems has significant advantages is architecture and deployments.

defaultname commented on Impact of breakfast skipping compared with dinner skipping pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/2... · Posted by u/simonebrunozzi

arkadiyt · 3 years ago

> Meal skipping has become an increasing trend of the modern lifestyle that may lead to obesity

I believe them that this is correct but does anyone know why? I thought all the "intermittent fasting" folks were losing weight?

defaultname · 3 years ago

They are saying that a "modern lifestyle" may lead to obesity and type 2 diabetes. They are not saying that meal skipping leads to that, but rather it's a reaction to it.

defaultname commented on In our cashless society, we need to take digital jail seriously thehub.ca/2022-02-22/howa... · Posted by u/busymom0

dang · 4 years ago

Would you please stop doing political/ideological flamewar on HN? It's not what this site is for, and it destroys what it is for. We ban accounts that do it, regardless of what ideology they favor or disfavor, so please don't.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Edit: you've been posting about nothing else for literally weeks now. That's seriously uncool, and we've had to ask you more than once before not to do this:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29181106 (Nov 2021)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27168859 (May 2021)

Worse than that, it appears that you've abused HN badly with many previous accounts and been banned many times in the past.

All that put together is so egregious that I've banned this account. Please don't create accounts to break HN's rules with. If you don't want to be banned, you're welcome to email hn@ycombinator.com and give us reason to believe that you'll use the site as intended in the future.

defaultname · 4 years ago

"Edit: you've been posting about nothing else for literally weeks now."

This is beyond parody. It's as if your moderation is purpose driven to elevate and amplify disinformation, and that actually useful, meaningful discussion has disappeared from this site.

Congratulations, HN continues its descent to utter irrelevance. Now featuring literally daily QAnon nonsense, which you never moderate or threaten bans about (even after the few reasonable users try to flag and moderate). It's incredible that every one of my comments, in response to grossly ignorant nonsense, were highly upvoted by users. Then along comes dang, enabler of alt-right QAnon horseshit. Cheers.

defaultname commented on In our cashless society, we need to take digital jail seriously thehub.ca/2022-02-22/howa... · Posted by u/busymom0

defaultname · 4 years ago

> Nobody called the EA when BLM was destroying businesses

You've mentioned BLM multiple times. BLM protests in Canada were a momentary point event and the total sum of damage was minuscule (not the "billions" you claimed in another post). Why would the EA or SoE be called for a momentary event? One that isn't making promises about not leaving. Of "holding the line". Sorry, your own rhetoric and bombast got used against you.

A single day of the Windsor bridge blockade eclipsed that total in damages by magnitudes. As did a single day of the Ottawa insurrection. They might not have been breaking windows, but the damage was enormous. The cost to businesses, in policing, and to commerce was enormous. Now add that the convoy and its supporters were openly advocating terroristic threats against service providers that cooperate with the police (e.g. towing companies), which it should be noted is itself an incredibly serious crime, but that just got normalized.

> Or this tweet by the Ottawa Police?

Are you referring to the sadly pathetic lawyer basically police-car-chasing for clients to grift? Because you know the Ottawa Police tweet was spot on. Just as they gave plenty of warnings. And just to be clear, it is critically important that defense lawyers and civil liberty groups push the government and fight for every right, but citing this guy and his obvious grift, or his pander-to-the-crowd "but you can't do that!!!" routine, is not convincing.

As a protip, when you put dozens of links -- most of them completely unconvincing nonsense -- in your posts, it just looks crazy. It doesn't make your point.

defaultname commented on In our cashless society, we need to take digital jail seriously thehub.ca/2022-02-22/howa... · Posted by u/busymom0

defaultname · 4 years ago

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