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pulse7··on JEP Draft – Derived Record Creation (Preview)
If it is intuitive one does not need an explanation...
pulse7··on JEP Draft – Derived Record Creation (Preview)
The proposed syntax is not intuitive... How can I know to which records x, y and z are refering to in: Point newLoc = oldLoc with { x = 2; y = 2; z *= 2; } ? And in this case "return this with { im = -im; };" - which "im" goes to which record? Please make more intuitive syntax for this!
pulse7··on What if serverless meant no backend servers?
...and if this "desktop application" sometimes communicates with the server it should not be called a "fat client" and it's architecture should not be called "client-server", because those words aren't fancy anymore...
pulse7··on Databases and why their complexity is now unnecessary
Could be generalized to "Everything wrong with <placeholder> and why their complexity is now unnecessary"...
pulse7··on The ThinkPad P14s
P14s has an optional discrete graphics - see the specs: https://www.lenovo.com/us/en/p/laptops/thinkpad/thinkpadp/th...
pulse7··on The ThinkPad P14s
ThinkPad P14s = ThinkPad T14 with 64GB RAM and NVIDIA RTX A500 = 1mm thicker ThinkPad X1 Carbon which costs $1000 less
pulse7··on M3 CPU cores have become more versatile
Wait for just 2 days, 17 hours and 18 minutes - and NVIDIA will give you (rumored) 96GB of RAM inside GeForce RTX 4090 TI: https://www.nvidia.com/en-eu/geforce/special-event/
pulse7··on 2TB microSD card is on the way early next year
Imagine storing whole internet text from November/December 2023 on 5 such microSD cards (CommonCrawl.org WET files for this crawl are 9.30 TiB)...
pulse7··on VanJS – A no-JSX framework based on vanilla JavaScript
The problem is not size. The problem is installation, configuration, dependencies, transpilation, IDE setup, etc. And here you have the plain old notepad with browser - nothing else...
pulse7··on Google agrees to pay $700M in antitrust settlement reached with states
$2 for people, millions for lawyers... US has become a slave of its own legal system...
pulse7··on MiniLang: A type-safe C successor that compiles directly to x86_64 assembly
It doesn't.
pulse7··on LLM in a Flash: Efficient LLM Inference with Limited Memory
Why bring "model parameters ... on demand to DRAM"? Maybe it is better to move LLM processing right unto flash controller chip... (after adding bfloat16 and matrix multiplication support into controller circuitry)
pulse7··on Google agrees to pay $700M in antitrust settlement reached with states
This settlement is a joke...
pulse7··on Leave work slightly unfinished for easier flow the next day
Leave work completely finished and fully tested for easier switching to another work the next day.
pulse7··on Oldest Fortresses in the World Discovered
Does anybody know the exact GEO location of this?
pulse7··on Earliest Carpenters: 476k-year-old log structure discovered in Zambia
Earth's crust is moving. Maybe the sand layers moved after the wood was placed there... and maybe the derived age is all wrong...
pulse7··on Europe needs to escape providerism
Why US Fails to Distribute Wealth?
pulse7··on Mixtral of experts
1 Token ~= 3/4 word
pulse7··on Mixtral of experts
Maybe they will charge for accessing the future Mixtral 8x70B ...
pulse7··on Ask HN: Can we do better than Git for version control?
Of course there is a room for improvement... One of the biggest issues is usability/user experience: pull, fetch, checkout, commit, push, rebase - what is all this and what is the exact meaning? I need simple English terms for my work - like update and save - nothing more. Why do I need to worry about implementation details and terms? If I can not explain it to my wife, then I can not use it for binary documents which she needs to store in a repo... in this case Subversion is a better version-control-system for her documents... Just SVN Update/SVN Commit - nothing more to learn in Subversion...
pulse7··on StableLM Zephyr 3B
Mistral-7B gives you 80 tokens/second on 4090. So this one will be faster...
pulse7··on Microsoft Outlook Blocking All Email from Tutanota.com Domain as Spam
Microsoft may be using AI for spam detection and... is - of course - unable to fix it, because you can not debug a neural network (or may need months/years to debug and fix it)... So: WELCOME TO THE NEW WONDERFUL WORLD OF AI where we will not be able to fix things...
pulse7··on Carmakers Plan to Make Basic Features Subscription, Despite Widespread Backlash
Because building code is US don't allow mixed living/business areas - so you CAN NOT FIND business near the place you are living and YOU MUST HAVE A CAR...
pulse7··on Carmakers Plan to Make Basic Features Subscription, Despite Widespread Backlash
Car features subscription: 1) create new product (car) -> 2) Lobby for a lot of regulation so only a few companies can make a product -> 3) Abuse market position to extract money from customers (car feature subscriptions)
pulse7··on Apple and Google avoid naming ChatGPT as their 'app of the year'
In this case they should rename their "the best apps and games of 2023" to "apps and games we would like you to use"...
pulse7··on Training for one trillion parameter model backed by Intel and US govt has begun
Isn't GPT-4 already over 1T parameters? And GPT-5 should be even "an order of magnitude" bigger than GPT-4...
pulse7··on This Louisiana Town Runs Largely on Traffic Fines. The Mayor Is Your Judge.
But the cemetery is here: https://www.google.com/maps/@30.3712351,-92.9141514,3a,75y,2...
pulse7··on This Louisiana Town Runs Largely on Traffic Fines. The Mayor Is Your Judge.
Is this here https://www.google.com/maps/@30.375952,-92.9118031,3a,48.6y,...

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pulse7··on VMware is now part of Broadcom
As a last resort, they can use TLauncher...
pulse7··on Northvolt develops state-of-the-art sodium-ion battery validated at 160 Wh/kg
Can we have a webpage with (1) all basic battery tech information and (2) updated progress for each new battery type?
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