HNHacker News
TopNewBestAskShowJobs

hrgiger

172 karma · joined September 19, 2019

submissionscomments
hrgiger··on Teclis – Non-commercial web search
Thanks its worked
hrgiger··on Teclis – Non-commercial web search
* Fun Challenge Find a query that has only one result in Teclis! Then read that page.

I think found one but failed to read that (which?) page.

http://teclis.com/search?q=sysadmin+horror+stories

hrgiger··on An ALS Protein, Revealed
*Downloadable [1]: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/8996963_Design_of_a...
hrgiger··on Ask HN: Do you think nuclear armageddon is plausible?
partly relevant for aftermath: https://sgs.princeton.edu/the-lab/plan-a

I remember on Turkish TV they have mentioned that in theory if more than 5 nukes drops in the same area that would affect the integrity of earth crust(lithosphere?). No matter wha if its simulation or vr I am definitely asking refund.

hrgiger··on SingleFile: Save a complete web page into a single HTML file
Thanks for the work you have done, its a lazy man heaven especially for bulk downloads and helped me a lot. About a month ago I have decided to backup my bookmarks via archivebox, it was more than 1k bookmarks, most reliable methods were singlefile and wget.
hrgiger··on I tested four NVMe SSDs from four vendors – half lose FLUSH’d data on power loss
I dont have ide in this machine but I found this in the source code [1] probably pointing to [2] and thanks for the tip!

[1]https://github.com/linux-nvme/nvme-cli/blob/master/nvme-prin...

[2]https://github.com/linux-nvme/libnvme/blob/master/src/nvme/t...

hrgiger··on AlphaCode as a dog speaking mediocre English
I agree about the assistants that they are not as much as I would expect but also there are self driving cars heavily using a.i. even at the current state I am personally impressed or indirectly we get the help during pandemic for protein folding/ mRNA vaccine development [1] , I also remember a completed competition for the speeding up the delivery of cold storage mRNA vaccines to quickly figure out which ones could fail

[1] https://ai.plainenglish.io/how-ai-actually-helped-in-the-dev...

hrgiger··on Ask HN: Any piece of hardware that was more of game changer than you expected?
This year we moved new apartment, so I had opportunity to renew most of the staff I was planning, from multi-monitor stand, some powerfull homelab server to robocleaner. From all of this, the cheap trash box I bought with sensors always make me smile whenever I use, I didnt even notice I needed before. Its quite big so enough storage for 1-2 day and when your hands get closer even in dark it opens automatically.
hrgiger··on Artificial muscles robotic arm with full range of motion [video]
First come to my mind Cellink has 3D tissue printers. Some of their products also supports soft robotics . I think they are not alone in the market.
hrgiger··on New Optical Switch Up to 1000x Faster Than Transistors
Not in the domain but as far as I understand from video for the counter argument: "Adding a matter of component and creating this kind of liquid of the light you add interactions in the system so practically light interacts more efficient with the light"

https://youtu.be/Kv25Dw-IuCM?t=675

hrgiger··on New Optical Switch Up to 1000x Faster Than Transistors
Also IBM announcement here: https://research.ibm.com/blog/single-photon-switching
hrgiger··on T0* – Series of encoder-decoder models trained on a large set of different tasks
What is the/is there any reproducible measurement for benchmarking a nlp dataset/application. i.e. in paper it mentions:

'Comparing T0 and GPT-3’s robustness Because Brown et al. (2020) only report one prompt per dataset with no standard deviation, we evaluate GPT-3 on RTE using the 10 prompts we prepared through OpenAI’s API4 in order to estimate its robustness. Note that one of our templates is identical to Brown et al. (2020, p. 59)’s reported prompt; this prompt scores 58.8% accuracy on the API “Base” series which is lower than the reported accuracy of 63.5% from Brown et al. (2020). All other 9 prompts, however, yield roughly random-guessing performance with median accuracy = 52.96% and interquartile range = 1.28%. These results suggest that T0 is more robust to prompt formulation than GPT-3.'

hrgiger··on Canon sued for disabling scanner when printers run out of ink
If I remember right I also had to authenticate through their cloud service to send file to printer via direct cable connection from my PC.
hrgiger··on Maryland nuclear engineer and spouse arrested on espionage-related charges
It doesnt make sense, nothing make sense nowadays... The incredible effort being spent by all those countries for some bullshit that doesnt make sense... While we are scientifically exponentially growing all they care about hurting,accessing another one. Couldnt anyone figure out yet that all superpowers has the ability to destroy world/end human life... Hello! What was your cause? I am in early fourties and feel like in my twenties it was more about development, there was people we unquestionably get exited and follow, nowadays I feel like its only feel about destruction , all this 3~ letters forget its cause... Global warming, lack of resources, you still spent your best resourcess with some thousand year old traditional bs. Right now I was only listening one of my favorite band from childhood @Turkey (which I guess disbanded now) thought its lyrics would fit here (WARNING BRUTAL):

Who cares? My secrets, regret, mislead You're the victim of your ownself; it's your mistake I'll fight, to get my life, take it back Work hard, save money, get married, buy your own grave

Make a wish; it's for your bliss Enter the world of pink dreams, here are the keys

Enforced, classified, qualified, a robot mind Die for your, pray for your, pay for your state, it's payback time Can't feel, my heartbeats, like steel, I'm cold Hate me, kick me, bomb me, feed me, are you that bold?

Make a wish; it's for your bliss Enter the world of pink dreams, here are the keys

Won't make a wish, we've got the real keys

https://youtu.be/m8BA9lxkHz4?t=591

hrgiger··on Intel is reducing server chip pricing in attempt to stem the AMD tide
When their new fab ready they might have even better advantage, also CPU instructions wise I believe they hold small advantage as well, yet still i didn't see any incredible benchmark with avx512 paying back as performance. I just built 2 gen3 epyc server for homelab waiting delivery, but if they do a nice surprise with upcoming Sapphire with CXL price i will be willing to sell one of the server and switch to Intel, optane not available for epyc, but i think CXL will provide more pmem availability
hrgiger··on Amazon acquires MGM for $8.5B
totally agree and I hope we can see en of this year https://www.gateworld.net/news/2021/05/amanda-tapping-has-be...
hrgiger··on EU Parliament Wants Pirated Sports Streams Taken Down Within 30 Minutes
I think they need to look at the source and the keywords here content diversity and cost, does everyone in EU can access provider service? Can they pay a reasonable cost in their region? Does the quality of service in EU standards? By no means i am justifying pirating but those precautions will force service providers hands to be reasonable. Not a sprots fan but many streaming contents gets reduced if you go from western to eastern EU, i hope someone in parliament will become stargate fan, so he can understand access issues. In Czechia there is no way to stream stargate serials, there was a stargatecommand website they have immediatly refunded and closed my account when they found out i am not US resident.
hrgiger··on Ubiquiti all but confirms breach response iniquity
I keep one 6p behind isp router to manage home network, they have good hardware but i didnt like the idea exposing to cloud, only allowed local dns, ntp. And removed all port listeners from ubi in sbin then touched a new file with same name. Latest firmware complained a lot but worked at some point. I am not sure i am fully secure but quite happy with performance
hrgiger··on Ask HN: Can I trust brokers with my stocks?
They are regulated related by their local authorities US,EU etc... Each country has their own retail protection law, as far as I remember the amount changes from 100k$ up to 800k$. So if I am correct it is not based on transaction but the value of your account.
hrgiger··on U.S. Treasury, Commerce Depts. Hacked Through SolarWinds Compromise
I wonder scanning their own uploads and validating checksums via cron job would have prevented or at least would give an early alert

Shameless disclosure: i was doing something similar (I do not have a plan to maintain long time) but would love to hear better solutions: https://github.com/getsumio/getsum

hrgiger··on FBI, DHS, HHS Warn of Imminent Ransomware Threat Against U.S. Hospitals
There is still an opportunity from the lessons learned. You can regulate your hospital systems as you regulate financial institutions and certificate them. I was also thinking a network setup on a sub-pub system separating trusted and untrusted networks using computer vision via optical sensors or camera&monitor in an old fashion using ocr,classification or even barkod /optimized qr code that client picks task id and id from queue and shows on a device and server reads via sensor or camera. Maybe problem is not the we are lack of solution but the systems just old.
hrgiger··on Phosphine detected in the atmosphere of Venus – an indicator of possible life?
Nasa organized an 'exploring the hell' challenge for the surface and winners already announced, maybe in future they might have a successful mission

https://www.herox.com/VenusRover

hrgiger··on Checked exceptions: Java’s biggest mistake (2014)
Well... I will take the bullet and confess that I do like checked exceptions. When they are not miss|over used they transfer the enough required knowledge what is to be handled. You dont need to handle? Transfer to higher levels on stack. That is a great fit in my opinion for applications designed with especially fault tolerance futures and using many external components. Not saying that design of CE is perfect, they might be too broad that doesnt tell you exact handle case, so it will leave you in the dark or in a call chain of a()->b()-c()-d() there might be cases that b and c wouldnt need to have contract in their method signature maybe compiler would decide if exception is orphaned or needs to be handled.
hrgiger··on AMD Announces Ryzen “Zen 3” and Radeon “RDNA2” Presentations for October
VFIO is already possible with amd if you have supporting hardware i.e. i was running single vega guest windows guest and linux furyx host on tr4 board but with sr-iov you could run many guests using same gpu, i think stadia uses this now. There were also rumor that vega has sr iov but disabled on hardware
hrgiger··on Reddit app got 50M downloads by making mobile web experience miserable
Yep and a beatiful homepage competes with yahoo v1. And all those comments with flashing icons competes with the best strip clup in your town...
hrgiger··on Stopping phishing campaigns with Bash
Sorry for off topic question but are there any dirty link sharing platforms ,that you can share those links safely and warn the user and force it to copy paste?
hrgiger··on A man who can read letters but not numbers exposes roots of consciousness
Can you relate this with color blindless? Most of time I could swear I could see that green,orange and red different but somehow my brain refuses to identify them.
hrgiger··on Low latency tuning guide
I have a hobby project that my target was following similar learning path, I could only recommend if you also work on your own server dont forget software side,perf (http://brendangregg.com/perf.html) is a god not just kernel side, as well as your own software, as part of my build I was always checking below command:

'perf stat -e task-clock,cycles,instructions,cache-references,cache-misses,branches,branch-misses,faults,minor-faults,cs,migrations -r 3 nice taskset 0x01 ./myApplication -j XXX '

Additions I would have I have benefited:

* I use latest trimmed kernel, with no encryption, extra device etc...

* You might want to check RT kernels, finance & trading guys always good guide if you can

* Removed all boilerplate app stack from linux or built small one, I even now considering getting rid of network stack for my personal use

* Disable hyper-threading: I had a short living workers,this doesnt helped me for my case , you might want to validate first which one is best suited for your needs

* Check also your CPU capabilities (i.e. with avx2 & quad channel I get great improvements) and test them to make sure

* A system like this quickly get hot, watch temps, even short running tests might give you happy results but long term temps easily hit the wall that bios will not give a fuck but only throttle

hrgiger··on Powerful AI Can Now Be Trained on a Single Computer
Interesting article, i will check github at weekend, but assuming atari resolution 40x192 single channel and float size 4 byte and 140000 image you got 4300800000 bytes roughly 4gb data. I wonder if they talk about complete training time
hrgiger··on Ask HN: Advanced Linux users, which distribution do you run? Why?
Not advanced but get comfortable after years. Even i got strong desktop machine, i use debian lxde. And fedora lxde work laptop. After spending some time even in lxde i figured i dont need half of installations, so i have script removing everyting, setting network,nfstables etc. Now you can count user space processes with finger,And then after playing with LFS help me the figure out i only need base packages and simple xserver and even more lightweight window manager. I am in progress of making those builds via git as kinda package mgr, but paused project for a year due to new job.
← PreviousPage 3 of 5Next →