HNHacker News
TopNewBestAskShowJobs

ForOldHack

764 karma · joined January 28, 2019

https://gunkies.org/wiki/User:ForOldHack Thank you for laughing at my jokes. I have given lectures in OMG. Orbital Mechanics Group, and Calculus, "Misuses of Infinity"
submissionscomments
ForOldHack··on Next-gen spacecraft are overwhelming communication networks
Compression.
ForOldHack··on Next-gen spacecraft are overwhelming communication networks
Yes, the original film for moon explorer has been stuck in orbit around the moon for decades. The world had a large network of satellite communications, and there was Arciebeo, but if it's not done here ... A few microwave dishes on all the NSF buildings should easily take are of it. Oh we had those ... But... What about streaming tape? Just ask Uncle Vint.
ForOldHack··on Jimi Hendrix was a systems engineer
Look for a tiny mistake, like someone who is a native speaker of another language would NOT make. Eustomer. What?
ForOldHack··on Jimi Hendrix was a systems engineer
Ahh... Someone well read who has taste. Thanks.
ForOldHack··on Jimi Hendrix was a systems engineer
The last person who said that to me we John Klinenburg, Cornell.
ForOldHack··on Jimi Hendrix was a systems engineer
Yes, suspected LLM is mimicry passing under the turning test,encheapened by poor editing, further encheapened by even poorer training. It is going to get both worse,and better at the same time. (I grew up with ELIZA.BAS, and used to easily spot fakes, and it is getting both easier and harder. ) I detest the words of LLM, but not the M. It's a statistical model. It is a very large language statistical model - that is constantly fooling slower hoomins.
ForOldHack··on Billing can be bypassed using a combo of subagents with an agent definition
I come to YCombinator, specifically because for some reason, some of the very brightest minds are here.
ForOldHack··on Billing can be bypassed using a combo of subagents with an agent definition
Everyone is a maintainer of Microsoft. Everyone is testing their buggy products, as they leak information like a wire only umbrella. It is sad that more people who use co-pilot know that they are training it at a cost of millions of gallons of fresh drinking water.

It was a mess before, and it will only get worse, but at least I can get some work done 4 times a day.

ForOldHack··on Tiny C Compiler
You have simply made one tiny step, that the guys who used AI and $25,000 to write a C compiler in Rust, could not make:

You are using the compiler to compile itself.

"TCC is its own test set." Absolutely brilliant.

ForOldHack··on Amiga Pointer Archive
The Amiga Pointer Archive is missing one: We went to get a Fast Ram upgrade for a A1000, and we looked at his work, and it was cross between a jeweler and sim-city. We had the work done, and he put his boot disk into test it. He had the most interesting pointer... the boot disk was called Romeo, and the pointer was just a 3x3 square diamond, with a single line of pixels, to a 2x2 square diamond of pixels with a hole on the center... so you could literally see a single pixel through it. I had never seen anything like it, so I copied on my Macintosh, ( System 6.0.8, and system 7.0.1 ), and later to windows 3.1 onward to Windows XP, later screens became too large to need anything close to a single pixel pointer.

I wish I had the disk, that we got it from... just a single 3.5" Floppy labeled "Romeo" and we all knew what it was.

ForOldHack··on Going Through Snowden Documents, Part 1
Is there a mirror for this? my library has FortNight blocking it. ( bad certificate, leads them to believe its a spam site...).
ForOldHack··on Going Through Snowden Documents, Part 1
i.e. The movie "The lives of others." :|
ForOldHack··on Post-transformer inference: 224× compression of Llama-70B with improved accuracy
Technical feedback: Every single announcement, like compression needs the addition of the lower limits of machine requirements. if a 64Gb model is compressed 224x times, should that not be able to be run on a 292mb video card?
ForOldHack··on If you're going to vibe code, why not do it in C?
"The guy is also a complete tool." - Who says Hackers news is not filled with humor?
ForOldHack··on Show HN: Gemini Pro 3 imagines the HN front page 10 years from now
"I'm sorry, Google, I can't do that." - Gemini Cloud.
ForOldHack··on Show HN: Gemini Pro 3 imagines the HN front page 10 years from now
You are a sick, sick man, but you have taste.
ForOldHack··on The stack circuitry of the Intel 8087 floating point chip, reverse-engineered
Make no mistake, this article is of extraordinary historical significance, even the list of constantans being hardwired....
ForOldHack··on The stack circuitry of the Intel 8087 floating point chip, reverse-engineered
This is cool, but the renormalization and (Programmable and bidirectional) barrel shifter are of much more interest.

I had a 10Mhz XT, and ran a 8087-8 at a bit higher clock rate. I used it both for Lotus 1-2-3 and Turbo Pascal-87. It made Turbo Pascal significantly faster.

ForOldHack··on Z-Image: Powerful and highly efficient image generation model with 6B parameters
It would be more useful to have some standards on what one could expect in terms of hardware requirements and expected performance.
ForOldHack··on Z-Image: Powerful and highly efficient image generation model with 6B parameters
Explain lobotomizing a Image Generator? Modern problems require modern terms.
ForOldHack··on Feynman vs. Computer
I would bet on Feynman any day of the week. Numerical methods came up in 'Hidden Figures' and her solution was to use Euler to move from a elliptical orbit to a parabolic descent.
ForOldHack··on Paged Out
Have not read a word of it yet, but I immediately grabbed all the covers. Magnificent art work.

I can order prints.

https://www.lulu.com/spotlight/pagedout

ForOldHack··on Windows drive letters are not limited to A-Z
In the 80s, running DOS 3.1 on an IBM Network, I was networking dual floppy PCs, and with testing, got through drive '!' '@' '#' '^' So I was able to use 26 floppies, 24 of them non local... It was all removed with the next release, 3.2, so I would make some bets about NT Networking and its NetBIOS roots.

I was inspired by the Dr Seuss, "On beyond Zebra."

ForOldHack··on You want microservices, but do you need them?
During a major site rewrite, one of my junior cohorts, suggested a monolithic re-entrant site... Easily tripled the TPS, and halved the response time.

I was stunned... He comes up with this stuff all the time. Thanks Matt.

ForOldHack··on 28M Hacker News comments as vector embedding search dataset
So... asking for a friend, if I comment here, it becomes a vector?
ForOldHack··on Tell HN: Happy Thanksgiving
Over 6 years here, and another two lurning: Thanks for the absolute brilliant insights, and plenty of laughs.

Thank you all. Thank you for laughing at my jokes.

Happy Thanksgiving

ForOldHack··on Sharper MRI scans may be on horizon thanks to new physics-based model
I suspected this was blahtering AI, and this confirms it: "By solving this equation, they were able to capture the full spectrum of molecular motion and relaxation." The equation is solved buddy, and has been since Plank solved it. It's the discreet calculation of its values give is a digital image that can be contrast enhanced by differing molecules, the physics has not changed, and the equation has not changed. <Downvote>
ForOldHack··on Sharper MRI scans may be on horizon thanks to new physics-based model
"However Gd is also retained in the brain, bone, skin, and other tissues in patients with normal renal function, and the presence of Gd can persist months to years after the last administration of a GBCA."

This is therapy. May persist... I want to throw this here, because there is a lot of discussion here by not only a few patients but a few very knowledgeable researchers which is surprising for such an extremely niche field, and the discussion is amazing.

ForOldHack··on Over-regulation is doubling the cost
"This slashes emissions that negatively impact both air quality and climate..." So... Your entire supply is carbon free? I think not, as well as the permitting for an additional axle group and the extra weight.

If you recharge from the standard energy mix you are still burning fossil fuel. But let's just gloss over that.

Now again with the weight, how easy is it to corner and stop? There is probably a minimum of 12,000 lbs of extra weight... And you need a charging network at the truck stops... There is so much just glossed over ... Nice sales job.

ForOldHack··on Raccoons are showing early signs of domestication
They might even become intelligent!
← PreviousPage 5 of 34Next →