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timnetworks··on Trying to teach in the age of the AI homework machine
Stop giving boring ass essay assignments. Forest, trees.
timnetworks··on Game preservationists say Switch2 GameKey Cards are disheartening but inevitable
It CAN be used to give you a WHOLE new experience without any additional hassle! But it WILL be used to lock you out of your $85 instead.
timnetworks··on Fun with IP Address Parsing
> Let’s use 192.168.140.255 as an example. That’s an IPv4 address that people would look at and go “yes, that sure is an IPv4 address.” How else can we write that exact same address?

> This is the same IP address: 3232271615. You get that by interpreting the 4 bytes of the IP address as a big-endian unsigned 32-bit integer, and print that. This leads to a classic parlor trick: if you try to visit http://3232271615 , Chrome will load http://192.168.140.255.

murkans have been using ten digits as phone numbers for some decades now (no country code), I'm kinda bummed there isn't some saudi royalty paying four billion for a set of matching ip address and phone number.

timnetworks··on That Time I Recreated Photoshop in C++
The native keyboard shortcuts
timnetworks··on US bill proposes jail time for people who download DeepSeek
It was probably always a game. Explaining the difference between downloading the weights and using the website hosted in china is beyond our collective scope of interest/attention, and that's probably a bit worrying. The Crown would call Franklin intellectually bankrupt but here we are.
timnetworks··on SmolGPT: A minimal PyTorch implementation for training a small LLM from scratch
As opposed to inference (like generating text and images), training requires some more math (fp16 or bf16) and a single CPU generally won't cut it.

The prepare/train/generate instructions in the github linked are pretty much it for the 'how' of training a model. You give it a task and it does it for 1 billion trillion epochs and saves the changes incrementally (or not).

Training a LoRA for an image model may be more approachable, there's more blog entries etc on this, and the process is largely similar, except you're doing it for a single slice instead of the whole network.

[edit] I'm also learning so correct me if I'm off, hn!

timnetworks··on TikTok goes dark in the US
Everyone must keep in mind that the asian continent had a long issue with communism, and although it's almost extinguished, we should still be very careful about it, like a staph (staffing?) infection almost. Also lets not forget China bans all the western stuff outright yea?
timnetworks··on The average American spent 2.5 months on their phone in 2024
> Perhaps that's an age thing

Sorry for your loss.

It's a false sense of urgency thing. The kids just grow calloused to it, culminating in e.g. completely ignoring the door bell.

I had a friend that decided to essentially go off the grid around 2000-2005, he's my age (gen-z), I remember him showing me a website he was developing with javascript and IE.

Now he's asking me to help with the Google Play / Mac App stuff because it makes no sense to him. It isn't an age thing.

timnetworks··on Scale Model of Boeing 777-300ER, Made from Manila Folders
Doing this all by hand shows immense skill, but printing directly onto manilla folders is talent and ingenuity.
timnetworks··on Google starts tracking all your devices in 8 weeks
lollllllllllllllll here's $2.49 off a thing you're maybe likely to buy tho
timnetworks··on Ask HN: Product managers making products worse on purpose, why?
I see, it's my fault that listings are allowed to go up vague, and it's my fault that when I search for a specific item, since the platform already swindled a hundred thousand, I must be in line for the same.

It's also my fault when I search google images for a plastic jumper, I get molex connectors, I guess.

It's also my fault that when I get tired of not finding what I need, the last thing I clicked on gets shown to the next person.

I somehow don't think I'm at fault here.

timnetworks··on Ask HN: Those making $500/month on side projects in 2024 – Show and tell
I am always in awe of people that simply solve a problem (instead of having to get all esoteric about it) but I cannot understand what problem chat solves when the subject is more interesting to look at than speak to. :)

[edit] 20 jpegs into a 150MB LoRA

timnetworks··on Don't Fuck with Scroll
Even the scroll bar is broken on the (other) demo page. Ouch!
timnetworks··on Half-Life 2: 20th Anniversary Update
If you tried to pick up the crowbar at the top of the page and were disappointed, scroll all the way down, pick up the portal gun thing, and scroll back up, destroying the whole webpage in the process.

Props to the webmaster (do people still say that?), I love seeing easter eggs like this.

timnetworks··on Wonder is acquiring Grubhub
I refuse to use GrubHub and not only because it makes a $12 sandwich into a $22 sandwich, but also because small business needs cash. If you're tipping $2.37 on your credit card, kick bricks.
timnetworks··on Mattel apologises after Wicked movie dolls link to porn site on packaging
When I was a kid and my parents bought me LEGO, I didn't have to check the box for the URL to go on their website. There are content filters for families that want extra insulation. What a non-issue.
timnetworks··on Show HN: Draw.Audio – A musical sketchpad using the Web Audio API
I came to same conclusion but my thoughts were 'boy idk what I'm doing here'
timnetworks··on SVDQuant: 4-Bit Quantization Powers 12B Flux on a 16GB 4090 GPU with 3x Speedup
They're saying this method essential does not, even when mixed with low rank models on top. "Notably, while the original BF16 model requires per-layer CPU offloading on the 16GB laptop 4090, our INT4 model fits entirely in GPU memory, resulting in a 10.1× speedup by avoiding offloading."

This is the whole magic, the rest of the workflow doesn't need to unload and flush memory, causing big delays for jobs.

timnetworks··on Hertz-dev, the first open-source base model for conversational audio
The Sims could really use this.
timnetworks··on Users say T-Mobile must pay for killing "lifetime" price lock
buncha people caught wind and purchase the product used/torn for pennies on the dollar, and send it in, in order to take advantage of the offer (and the retailer).
timnetworks··on What happens if the NY Times tech staff strikes on election night?
Nothing at all, not even a little bit lol.

NYT makes for great papier mache though, nice pictures, but that's aboooout it, for over a hundred years already somehow.

timnetworks··on I'm Peter Roberts, immigration attorney who does work for YC and startups. AMA
I have nothing to contribute and am late. However, every time I see YC AMA I read YMCA.
timnetworks··on Using Cloudflare on your website could be blocking RSS users
RSS is the future that is being kept from us for twenty years already, fusion can kick bricks.
timnetworks··on Adobe Cuts Perpetual License for Elements Down to Just Three Years
Adobe is the Boeing of software suites.

Desktop class, you can render AI stuff locally on a $1,500 computer. Phones and tablets are building in neural processors. That will change. But the licensing thing won't change back.

Glad Adobe waited for the founder to pass before doing all this junk, it'd probably kill him.

timnetworks··on I've tracked every piece of clothing I've worn for three years (2021)
I live in america and my jeans are $20 and if something happens to them it's cheaper to get a new pair :) :( :)
timnetworks··on Hezbollah pager explosions kill several people in Lebanon
To paraphrase a guy on the 'tube, intelligence officers are seldom armed with more than a ham sandwich but are still legitimate targets.
timnetworks··on Hezbollah pager explosions kill several people in Lebanon
https://x.com/AUBMC_Official/status/1836086847153320148
timnetworks··on Indiana police are seizing FedEx packages containing cash
There's a usmc veteran that got pulled over with his life savings and ended up in a world of legal procedure over it. The people putting wads of cash into boxes and sending them by post are not those people. (He got it back, I hope they won't.)
timnetworks··on Intel Solidifies $3.5B Deal to Make Chips for Military
losing Apple's desktop and laptop business ended up being quite a loss for them
timnetworks··on Intel Solidifies $3.5B Deal to Make Chips for Military
Between ASIC and FPGA it's cheap enough to do for any (large competent) company, but choosing an enterprise is a guarantee they'll be around to ship too. Or a separate fab can be set up (or purchased from another company) to run batches of "obsolete" chips that then can be resold for washing machines and ink printer carts etc.
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