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pulse7··on High-power microwave defeats drone swarm
You can put camera in transparent Faraday cage. With camera and gyro one can do basic positioning...
pulse7··on Python has had async for 10 years – why isn't it more popular?
"Then java did it too." Java had green threads in 1.0. They were removed. Then Java added virtual threads.
pulse7··on I know when you're vibe coding
The difference between LLM and a very junior programmer: junior programmer will learn and change, LLM won't change! The more instructions you put in the prompt, the more will be forgotten and the more it will bounce back to the "general world-wide average". And on next prompt you must start all over again... Not so with junior programmers ...
pulse7··on Seriously, Why Do Some AI Chatbot Subscriptions Cost More Than $200?
Because there are customers willing to pay $200/month and more...
pulse7··on Debian switches to 64-bit time for everything
Best to switch to Smalltalk integers which are unlimited...
pulse7··on Final report on Alaska Airlines Flight 1282 in-flight exit door plug separation
Somehow Boeing is happening to the whole IT industry at the moment where AI is forced upon programmers instead of "properly developing software" ...
pulse7··on Final report on Alaska Airlines Flight 1282 in-flight exit door plug separation
"What We Found

We determined that the probable cause of this accident was the in-flight separation of the left MED plug due to Boeing’s failure to provide adequate training, guidance, and oversight necessary to ensure that manufacturing personnel could consistently and correctly comply with its parts removal process, which was intended to document and ensure that the securing bolts and hardware that were removed to facilitate rework during the manufacturing process were properly reinstalled. Contributing to the accident was the FAA’s ineffective compliance enforcement surveillance and audit planning activities, which failed to adequately identify and ensure that Boeing addressed the repetitive and systemic nonconformance issues associated with its parts removal process."

pulse7··on Show HN: I made an online Unicode Cuneiform digital clock
Just by watching your clock for 1 minute I learned Cuneiform numbers! Thank you! :)
pulse7··on New 16GB Raspberry Pi 5 on sale now at $120
... and one with 32GB/64GB/128GB ECC RAM ... and one with USB4/USB4 2.0 ... and one with 2.5/5/10Gbps Ethernet ... and one with M.2 SSD port ... and one with 2nm litography
pulse7··on Nvidia's Project Digits is a 'personal AI supercomputer'
WSL1 was "Linux API on top of Windows", WSL2 is "Linux VM on top of Windows"
pulse7··on GM exits robotaxi market, will bring Cruise operations in house
Just hire a bunch of AI experts which earn the NHL-star-level amounts...
pulse7··on Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct
Or wait for the IQ2_M quantization of 70b which you can run very fast on 24GB VRAM with context size of 4096...
pulse7··on Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct
You also need VRAM for context: the larger the context, the more RAM you need.
pulse7··on Raspberry Pi boosts Pi 5 performance with SDRAM tuning
Hacker News doesn't have a RemindMeBot... ;-)
pulse7··on Raspberry Pi boosts Pi 5 performance with SDRAM tuning
Why buy Intel N100 with Intel Management Engine (which is disabled on US Government computers)? I rather buy RaspberryPi where I don't need to disable Intel ME by myself...
pulse7··on Australian Parliament bans social media for under-16s
As a parent I literally support bans of social media for under-16s AND I also do my job as a parent: my kids get a smart phone at 16, until then they have a feature/dummy phone (which they hide from peers because they are ashamed to show it).
pulse7··on WireGuard: Beyond the most basic configuration
Please post your configuration... Thank you!
pulse7··on Java 24 to Reduce Object Header Size and Save Memory
On the other hand: Smalltalk had many many more methods on Object than Java have today...
pulse7··on Apple courier may have stolen 2 MacBooks, ... Apple is not going to help
They need to increase the revenue (=> new sales) and decrease the costs (=> Uber delivery) so that shareholders are happy...
pulse7··on Everything I've learned so far about running local LLMs
Options:

A) 128GB RAM with the fastest Intel/AMD CPU, no GPU: you can run big/good models, but very slow (about 0.5 to 3 tokens/second)

B) Fastest Mac with 128GB/192GB: you can run big/good models with moderate speed (like 5-10 tokens/second)

C) 16/32GB RAM + RTX 4090 with 24GB VRAM: you can run smaller (but still good) models very fast - completely in VRAM (20-30 tokens/second)

pulse7··on Everything I've learned so far about running local LLMs
If I understood correctly they just added image preprocessing and then they feed that into llama.cpp...
pulse7··on Boeing 787s must be reset every 51 days or 'misleading data' is shown (2020)
"Reboot tut immer gut!" (Reboot is always good!)
pulse7··on Ask HN: Website with 6^16 subpages and 80k+ daily bots
Make a single-page app instead of the website.
pulse7··on Why the B-52 is outliving newer bombers [video]
New is not necessarily better...
pulse7··on 4K Gaming on Raspberry Pi [video]
He tested "EVERY graphics card on a Raspberry Pi" (Apr 13, 2023): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l9dItRUjQ0k
pulse7··on Qualcomm cancels Snapdragon Dev Kit, refunds all orders
Which ARM-based Linux Desktop are you using? :)
pulse7··on WASM Is the New CGI
When computers become faster, WASM will still be twice the speed of JavaScript, because untyped languages limit the optimizations.
pulse7··on The Rise of Worse Is Better (1991)
"worse is better" is "the right thing"
pulse7··on New research says "blue zones" can be explained by flawed data
If "no magic is needed", then why don't you - or someone else - name, say, 5 more such groups/chunks with their exact characteristics? It seems that it is not that easy to find them... and yet someone found such a group in Loma Linda...
pulse7··on Apple must pay 13B euros in back taxes, EU's top court rules
Making a tax deal to pay only 1% or 0.005% for a specific company is an illegal aid - regardless of the EU member country ...
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