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febed··on Conversation with Zuckerberg, this time we talked as photorealistic avatars
Checkout Dwarkesh podcast, he has great questions and does comparatively better research.
febed··on Firefox 118
I think it’s using 4 bit quantized model (32MB - 46MB). See table 5 https://browser.mt/assets/D5.1.pdf
febed··on Introduction to Immutable Linux Systems
Since we’re here, does anyone have a good solution for compiling PyInstaller binaries for different Linux distros? Would it be sufficient, say, to use a Ubuntu 16 compiled binary on Ubuntu 18, 20, etc. Presently we use different Docker images for each target distribution, however this is very resource intensive. Our target distros are several versions of Ubuntu, Centos, RockyLinux and Debian.
febed··on The Project Gutenberg Open Audiobook Collection
I was quickly put off by the monotone voices. Maybe it’ll improve in a couple of years, but until then I’m sticking to real voice actors. For some books like Greenlights, I reckon you miss out on most of the impact if you don’t hear it in Matthew‘s voice.
febed··on MS-DOS v1.25 and v2.0 is now open-source (2014)
This brought back memories of school when some of us cheated on programming exercises by calling up a TSR program with solutions when the teacher was out of sight. Good times.
febed··on Ask HN: Free desktop tool to detect photos with a specific face?
Thanks
febed··on Ask HN: Any interesting books you have read lately?
After the Titan submersible fiasco, I looked into books about diving and started with Shadow Divers. It’s about a group of intrepid shipwreck divers who make a find of a lifetime. Had no idea it was such a risky affair.
febed··on Sam Bankman-Fried is going to jail
If you watch some of his interviews after the news of the scam broke out, he was incriminating himself every time he opened his mouth. Almost as if he thought laws are just for plebs.
febed··on SQLedge: Replicate Postgres to SQLite on the Edge
I can’t be the only person who doesn’t know what ‘at the edge’ means in this context. Any useful links to educate myself?
febed··on Mozilla finds CPU bug (bad store forwarding) in Samsung Galaxy S20
Kudos to these guys for figuring this out from the dump, not a trivial task! These kind of issues can take months to triage if one is unlucky. I remember our team going crazy trying to figure out the reason for random crashes until finally discovering a firmware bug in proprietary hardware.
febed··on 200k Compromised OpenAI Credentials Available for Purchase on the Dark Web
Is that a recent development? Didn’t see that mentioned a couple of months ago.
febed··on 200k Compromised OpenAI Credentials Available for Purchase on the Dark Web
This is the only reason I’m hesitant to use GPT4. I’m not sure how safe they can keep my credit card details.
febed··on The Problem of Excess Genius (1997)
The Hungarian ”Martians” are another cluster of geniuses, not mentioned in the article
febed··on Room temperature, ambient pressure superconductivity – this time for real?
A source (German) attributed to the Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research thinks the paper is bogus [0]

[0] https://blog.fefe.de/?ts=9a3f8740

febed··on Deutsche Bank's “dysfunctional” IT division (2018)
Personal opinion as an outsider: Germany seems to be a very risk averse society. They love to plan everything a year in advance and hate surprises. Their lives are so ordered and predictable that they have an unconscious resistance to change, compared to other cultures.
febed··on Kraken Technologies: How we organise our large Python monolith
IMHO the customer specific stuff should have been forked out into a separate repo instead of cluttering up the main one
febed··on Gzip and KNN Outperforms Transformers on Text Classification
Ah yes, I remember this. At the time i thought he was misinformed.
febed··on GPT-4 API General Availability
I would like to try this but I’m not comfortable giving OpenAI my credit card details. Feels like they would be a prime target for hackers.
febed··on Tell HN: People forget that you can stick any data at the end of a bash script
It’s better explained here:

https://www.xmodulo.com/embed-binary-file-bash-script.html

febed··on With plugins, GPT-4 posts GitHub issue without being instructed to
Anyone else have trouble opening the link?
febed··on Submarine missing near Titanic used a $30 Logitech gamepad for steering
Damn did you really need to add those graphic details. Enough internet for today.
febed··on Show HN: My recommendation engine for Hacker News
Which other post? There is so much churn on HN that it’s hard to know which post you are referring to
febed··on My Day Away from Reddit
I have been off Reddit for almost a year, it’s too addictive. The thing that worked for me was the iOS ScreenTime feature with a thrown away PIN.
febed··on How companies use dark patterns to keep you subscribed
I agree, ironic that it’s taking about bad web design when it has hard to read fonts and a Mario like character jumping around.
febed··on How companies use dark patterns to keep you subscribed
You also have the option to pause your subscription. I use it whenever I’m accumulating too many credits, to catch up on my listening. If you didn’t like a title you can refund it after the pause.
febed··on The rescue of the Salyut 7 space station
The 2017 movie with the same name is also worth a watch.
febed··on Ask HN: What is the most mind expanding book(s) you have read till date?
For me it was „the mystique of enlightenment“ by UG Krishnamurthi. It helped me let go of my craving for the idea of enlightenment.
febed··on Ask HN: What is the most mind expanding book(s) you have read till date?
CTRL-F deutsch. Not disappointed.
febed··on Tips for analyzing logs
No mention of klogg? It’s a lifesaver when opening huge log files
febed··on Ask HN: Who Remembers “Abort. Retry. Fail?”
Brings back memories. I remember my parents being astonished when little me fixed our old IBM PC/XT, which was not booting from the hard disk using a low level format „hack“ I found in a copy of PC magazine [0]. The trick was to boot from floppy first and trigger a BIOS interrupt to do the low level format.

[0] https://youtu.be/PW787WRG8h4

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