desperate | 6 months ago | on: 1981 Sony Trinitron KV-3000R: The Most Luxurious Trinitron [video]
Awesome work
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desperate | 7 months ago | on: US to rewrite its past national climate reports
I think this is a good video to share to that end https://youtu.be/242pqLSFzh4
desperate | 7 months ago | on: The Sunlight Budget of Earth
Wow, I've been wanting an article on this topic for a while and this one really delivered that and more. Thank you.
desperate | 7 months ago | on: Apple vs the Law
It's just plain scary that Apple talks about the government as temporary and thinks it can delay complying with the law until something gives.
desperate | 8 months ago | on: U.S. Chemical Safety Board could be eliminated
This is horrible news. The USCSB does incredible work.
desperate | 1 year ago | on: Tree Calculus
Same. Pretty much upvoted because I didn't understand but wanted to, and thought other people might be able to provide more insight.
desperate | 1 year ago | on: NASA investigation finds Boeing hindering Americans' return to moon
Yeah but money can't pay for skill that doesn't exist anymore.
desperate | 2 years ago | on: Unlimited Kagi searches for $10 per month
^^^^ this is so frustrating to me.
desperate | 2 years ago | on: Beating GPT-4 on HumanEval with a fine-tuned CodeLlama-34B
Your speculation is pretty accurate afaik. Mark commented that releasing open source models is what is needed to retain the best so it is what they will do (paraphrasing) on his interview with Lex Friedman.
desperate | 2 years ago | on: 100K Context Windows
Afaik you're describing something akin to a recurrent neural network, and the problem with that is that it doesn't parallelize well to modern hardware. And vanishing gradients.
desperate | 3 years ago | on: These Stupid Trucks are Literally Killing Us
Did you watch the video? The author has nothing against trucks themselves, it's SUVs (light trucks) in suburbia and cities that he argues is the problem. Specifically, the many cases where people never even use the capabilities of the larger car (off roading, towing, stuffing it full of shit) and instead the choice of a larger car becomes an overall negative for society (more dangerous for the other guy in any collision, harder to see around, harder to see kids or pets as the driver, headlights more blinding to oncoming traffic die to their greater elevation). Anyhow, you sound very angry and closed minded, maybe give other opinions a chance, you don't have to agree but you also don't have to be an ass about it
desperate | 3 years ago | on: Why does this code execute more slowly after strength-reducing multiplications?
How would the energy cost of the two methods compare?
desperate | 4 years ago | on: Banach-Tarski and the Paradox of Infinite Cloning
To me this is proof that infinity is something only present in our math and not in the universe.
Infinity is a nice approximation but it feels like wishful thinking that our universe or anything in it is infinite.
Happy to hear disagreements tho.
desperate | 4 years ago | on: Sony’s new PS5 model weighs less because it has a smaller heatsink
“I don’t think there’s any argument that this is a worse console, at least for thermals and for cooling,” says Evans.
Worst quote they coulda pulled. Literally sends the opposite message than the one its meant to convey.
Unless im even worse at english than i thought.
desperate | 4 years ago | on: Show HN: Get lists of files in a directory that contains a large number of files
Can you explain? I'm (semi) familiar with the heap and definitely hated on first fit and next fit in favor of beat fit. I get that its gonna take significantly less time to find a block to allocate but why does listing files benefit so much from it and not run into a memory usage problem. Unless your splitting the block on allocation but then i would think you still have a peoblem cause you'd have a high degree of external fragmentation.
I typed a lot so i can be better corrected, not because I understand what is going on.
desperate | 4 years ago | on: Ask HN: What problem are you close to solving and how can we help?
Tesla valve?
desperate | 4 years ago | on: What if Bitcoin went to zero?
Don't you think these fourth buyers apply more to supporting a baseline price on Monero and not Bitcoin?
desperate | 4 years ago | on: Judge dismisses FTC and state antitrust complaints against Facebook
Not sure how relevant this is since it's a third party app, but using Harmonic on mobile the original link would allow me to view the PDF without downloading it (albeit after hitting an empty HN page) while the direct link requires me to download the PDF before viewing.
Tbh I'm just happy to have hacker news, continue as you are.
desperate | 4 years ago | on: ‘Vegan spider silk’ provides sustainable alternative to single-use plastics
For those interested Ted-Ed did a neat video on the topic of grocery bags.
desperate | 4 years ago | on: The mice that roared: how eight tiny countries took on foreign fishing fleets
Exactly my thinking. My first thought was 'Without someone to enforce them, laws are merely suggestions'.
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