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jacquesmon US FAA says it will phase out floppy disks from air traffic control by 2028

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_IIe

Check the logo on the picture on the right.

jacquesmon US FAA says it will phase out floppy disks from air traffic control by 2028

I'm placing that comment between 1985 and 1993.

jacquesmon AI is dramatically accelerating AI research

Bill Gates is too busy trying to save his reputation from his Epstein association to be believed, he's a billionaire concern troll and Amodei is far more worried about his stock price than he is about humanity. Those two are discounted. That doesn't mean we don't have a problem, but they are just hitching their wagons to horse that happens to be running in a direction that is temporarily useful to them.

jacquesmon I Toured Unitree's Factory. I'm More Bullish on the West

The only problem with PM motors is magnets. Everything else is trivial.

jacquesmon Anthropic IPO buyers see valuation as low as $1.1T

I can't really do anything with this comment without a couple of specifics, such as 'what model are you using?'.

jacquesmon Anthropic IPO buyers see valuation as low as $1.1T

Existential for Anthropic.

jacquesmon Anthropic IPO buyers see valuation as low as $1.1T

And 4 is about to drop.

jacquesmon Anthropic IPO buyers see valuation as low as $1.1T

Low ???

jacquesmon Tesla to wind down Cybertruck production

Stainless steel is far harder to work than regular steel. There is no way that process was cheaper.

jacquesmon Hungary: Communist-era files released, up to 60k former agents revealed

Assets are more often than not not aware that they are assets.

jacquesmon Hungary: Communist-era files released, up to 60k former agents revealed

And they did a fantastic job putting shredded documents back together, that was one of the most interesting stories of the day.

Unfortunately the project seems to have stalled at the 91,000 document mark for automatic re-assembly (many more were done by hand).

jacquesmon My psychophysics as a bilateral cochlear implant user

While you're at it: a couple of the OP's comments in this thread have been flagged and are now dead, which really is a shame.

jacquesmon My psychophysics as a bilateral cochlear implant user

Probably one of the best uses of AI that I've seen so far.

jacquesmon My psychophysics as a bilateral cochlear implant user

You should just frequency shift, not slow things down. Maintaining a train of thought trying to understand what someone is saying becomes very difficult when it is slowed down.

jacquesmon My psychophysics as a bilateral cochlear implant user

> I'd have liked to have gotten two, but I was only funded for one

How much do these cost?

jacquesmon Hungary: Communist-era files released, up to 60k former agents revealed

Interesting how long this took. Poland cleaned house almost immediately after they kicked the russians out.

jacquesmon Nvidia RTX Spark encrypted firmware slows inference speed to 35% on Linux

Unused VRAM is a crime now, I heard ;)

jacquesmon Altera Announces Agilex 2X, a Complete FPGA and SoC Portfolio

This is not software.

jacquesmon Ask HN: What your experience with the monthly "who wants to be hired" thread?

People showing up in person.

jacquesmon Residential proxies detected on White House network

Google too. 'We are detecting unusual traffic from your address'. I don't know how often I've seen this and there isn't a byte that goes in or out on this connection without monitoring so if it really would be 'unusual' I would hope I would be on it before Google told me, especially not from a session that's been active for days or weeks.

jacquesmon Ask HN: What your experience with the monthly "who wants to be hired" thread?

I found some fantastic people through this mechanism. Highly recommended.

jacquesmon Revolut moves to self-hosted GLM

I think GP meant their agentic runtimes.

jacquesmon Revolut moves to self-hosted GLM

I have downloaded a number of abliterated models and done very brief tests on them (just to check for basic functionality) but on local models I have yet to run into refusals or output where I thought it might make sense to retry with an abliterated model. It was more out of a precaution that NV might drop those models from HF.

jacquesmon Nvidia RTX Spark encrypted firmware slows inference speed to 35% on Linux

Maybe they should try installing the same distro that is used on the DGX spark to see if that works.

jacquesmon Fujifilm to boost tape production 5x as AI fuels archiving demand

I've only had that happen once with a data tape and it wrecked the drive beyond recovery.

jacquesmon Nvidia RTX Spark encrypted firmware slows inference speed to 35% on Linux

That's slower than I would have expected for the RTX 6000, do you have figures for say Qwen 3.8 27B? That model fits completely on the card, that should push it a lot further.

jacquesmon US midterms 2026 election results

There is a fair chance that Musk putting his thumb on the scale backfired.

jacquesmon It is pathetic that there is no news about the midterms on the front page

That's not true. We've had non-stop celebrity news for the last week.

jacquesmon Democrats take control of US Congress as voters reject Trump's Republicans

I'd be surprised if it went that fast. Don't forget that China has taken over a lot of the space outside of the USA that was vacated and they're not going to back out just like that.

jacquesmon The U.S. Is Bullying Europe Like Never Before

That is a problem all over Western Europe, which is really annoying. The extreme right (and unfortunately also the not so extreme right) is fomenting a lot of this, but fortunately on a local level they are not yet very effective unless you go into the smaller towns. I spend a lot of time in two places in NL, a small town (40K population) and one of the larger cities (by Dutch standards) 300K pop. Obviously there is a world of a difference between the two but overall, and compared to other countries that I'm familiar with I'd say we are still doing ok. Whether it will remain like that I would not dare to say. Agreed that LGBT minorities, trans people have it harder than it was a few years ago and this really irks me. Again, here too the extremists are pushing for this and in turn they are making a lot of people feel like this is now normalized again to the point where they no longer need to hide their bigotry. At the same time: this was always there, it was just better hidden.

Another problem is that the rise of social media has given bigots the world over a large enough echo chamber that they feel supported, even though their direct environment does not support them.

> Lately even people who were formerly nice have become rabid racists.

This is not something I have seen yet but that could be luck of the draw.

> And in a recent election the extreme right won more than a third of the votes.

Indeed they did. But: that percentage wasn't all that different in previous years overall, if you add up the various splinter groups. They were just less vocal and they did not have international ties the way they do today. This is an extremely dangerous development.

> Where I live in Spain it's honestly a lot more tolerant.

I believe you.

> Although even here the extreme right are on the rise, unfortunately.

Yes, it is like a cyclic thing that is driven by the loss of lessons learned from the past. NL is in a particularly difficult spot here with our history in Surinam, former dutch Indonesia and the slave trade. We've done some very ugly things and a lot of that required de-humanization of other people to a degree that it still stains our culture in a very significant way.

Lots and lots of crimes were committed, lots of mistakes were made. It will take many generations to come to some kind of new equilibrium. It certainly won't happen in my lifetime, and probably not in my kids' lifetimes either.