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Re:30 Years of HPC: many hardware advances, little adoption of new lan...
on Friday April 17, 2026 @03:41PM (#47809761)
It's close, but not quite. Getting it to do 'y = ax + by' like vector operations without superfluous reads/writes is tricky.
Re:US electricity demand surged in 2025 – solar handled 61% of it
on Saturday January 17, 2026 @06:30AM (#46657205)
(Home) batteries are quickly becoming cheap and per-hour electricity rates can be implemented at a reasonable time. With that, the grid owner can influence the grid stability without having to build capacity or generation itself.
Re:I dumped Windows 11 for Linux, and you should too
on Sunday January 11, 2026 @07:39AM (#46575241)
Do they require anti-cheat kernel drivers?
If not, there's a good chance proton/steam to runs them.
Re:Linux is good now; to feel like you actually own your PC, put Linux...
on Thursday January 01, 2026 @04:09PM (#46458005)
With debian and KDE (both personal preference), but no snap or flatpak, it works wonderfully. Power/sleep-management has become better than a default windows install. All hardware, including the fingerprint sensor, just works.
Re:Dust from Car Brakes More Harmful Than Exhaust, Study Finds
on Saturday February 15, 2025 @01:35PM (#43060920)
There are EV's which have drum-brakes. That's only possible because the regenerative braking takes most of the load. Also, there are stories of brake-discs rusting out on EV's. Both point to less (friction)-brake use on an EV compared to an ICE.
Re:Guitar chord karaoke with Vamp, Chordino, and FFmpeg
on Tuesday January 21, 2025 @09:32AM (#42780487)
Steinberg spectral Layers is one of the commercial ones. It sounds really good.
Re:Nanoimprint Lithography Aims to Take on EUV
on Sunday January 05, 2025 @11:11AM (#42602716)
And the tin droplets are in vacuum, with contamination of the wafer being very critical to control.
Re:MI300X vs. H100 vs. H200 Benchmark Part 1: Training – CUDA Moat Sti...
on Monday December 23, 2024 @03:53AM (#42492918)
There has been some testing within llama.cpp, which supports both Vulkan and ROCM-Blas. When it works, the latter is about 2x faster than the Vulkan version.
Re:MI300X vs. H100 vs. H200 Benchmark Part 1: Training – CUDA Moat Sti...
on Monday December 23, 2024 @03:52AM (#42492909)
> From what I've seen, AMD has done... none of this.
There are a number of pull-requests to ROCMblas for tuning various sizes of GEMV and GEMM operations. For example: https://github.com/ROCm/rocBLAS/pull/1532
Re:Serial to Parallel Port Converter
on Friday May 10, 2024 @06:01PM (#40324195)
ISA cards, like the soundblaster had the MIDI and joystick on the same connector. The joystick had up to 4 analog inputs, maybe that's what's meant here.
Re:A peek at Intel's future foundry tech
on Thursday February 22, 2024 @03:55PM (#39473100)
And ASML relies on Zeiss, which is as big a bottleneck as ASML and TSMC.
Re:Oasis – a small, statically-linked Linux system
on Friday January 26, 2024 @04:07PM (#39148381)
As far as I know, even with LTO, it requires -ffunction-sections -fdata-sections in order to strip out unused functions.
Re:The Curse of Docker
on Sunday November 26, 2023 @05:37AM (#38420622)
If there's a chain of dependencies (libraries depending on other libraries), a single process might end up with different versions of the same library in it's memory.
That's not going to work, since the interface/API of the library is typically not versioned.
Re:The $1.5T Nuclear Weapons Program You've Never Heard Of
on Friday November 17, 2023 @11:01AM (#38305361)
Currently, Russia is moving it's military away from the Finnish border. So NATO being on it's doorstep is apparently not a thread.
Re:Metformin shown to prevent long Covid
on Friday June 16, 2023 @06:23AM (#36354234)
Yes, I know of friends and coworkers who have had to change career because they couldn't do their old job anymore. This after a year long recovery.
They aren't happy about it, they really want to do their old job, if only they could.
Then there are a few more who where home sick for 1 or 2 months. They all seem to have recovered.
Re:England is facing an imminent water crisis
on Thursday June 15, 2023 @07:22AM (#36338885)
In the Netherlands the same happened with the railway and healthcare coverage. The motivation was that market pressure would lead to increased efficiency.
In practice, there's a tendency towards monopoly and a forest of product variants leading to more confusion and people buying sub-optimal.
The net effect over here is negative, in my opinion.
Re:Germans beat Tesla to autonomous L3 driving in the Golden State
on Sunday June 11, 2023 @03:06AM (#36278960)
In the 70's, the city of Utrecht in the Netherlands was renovated from car central to bike central.
That only took a few years, bike paths aren't that expensive.
Re:How and When the Chip Shortage Will End, in 4 Charts
on Sunday April 02, 2023 @05:46AM (#35408844)
The last few years ASML's problem was not supply chains, it was a very high demand. Production was ramped up successfully, but not enough to meet that demand.
With regards to Peak IC: atoms aren't getting smaller, Feynmans' "Plenty of room at the bottom" might indeed run it's end.
Re:Whitest paint is now thin enough to coat cars and planes
on Tuesday October 04, 2022 @04:08PM (#33086001)
reflection is coherent, a single physical process. The light keeps it's phase and polarization.
Re-radiation is incoherent, caused by multiple particle interactions (physical processes).
So there's quite a difference in physics.
Re:FLAC – Format overview
on Monday September 05, 2022 @04:39PM (#32729162)
The first CD's were not that great, being effectively around 14-bit. Better D/A converters and noise-shaping during mastering greatly improved the sound quality.
After that, the loudness wars destroyed it again.
Re:Covid learning loss has been a global disaster
on Sunday July 10, 2022 @07:40AM (#32043790)
Leaded gasoline has been a former experiment in population-wide reduction of intelligence and increase of aggressiveness. Supposedly that affected that 80's, but I am not aware of systematic studies on that.
Re:Russia Defaults on Foreign Debt for First Time Since 1918
on Monday June 27, 2022 @04:12AM (#31891849)
The Netherlands has started burning more coal, so Germany can have more gas. Drilling more gas from Groningen can be done at a moments notice, and will be done before either Dutch or German houses are without heating
Re:Deluge BitTorrent Client
on Thursday June 09, 2022 @01:28AM (#31677855)
Transmission also has the client/server model, where the local UI can connect to a transmission running as daemon.
Re:Gitea – a painless self-hosted Git service
on Sunday June 05, 2022 @04:02PM (#31634354)
For me, https://tailscale.com/ gives me an easy-to-use personal network. It uses wireguard with custom configuration on top of it.
Re:Tesla FSD Beta almost causes a head-on collision [video]
on Monday May 16, 2022 @01:12PM (#31400447)
The motivations I have seen were:
- If radar/lidar fails, vision needs to work. If vision works, radar/lidar are not needed. - Sensor fusion is hard: outliers in radar data ended up hurting more than the non-outliers helped.
The second one sounds to me like the real reason: Sensor fusion is not trivial and if it doesn't work correctly, you'll get the worst of all worlds.
Re:An Account of the Shanghai Lockdown
on Saturday April 09, 2022 @06:14AM (#30966696)
Their vaccine is not very effective against omicron, and they have far less hospital beds per capita than the west. So a 'flatten the curve' strategy will cause a lot more deads than it has in Europe and the USA.
Re:Boycott Numerical Recipes (2007)
on Sunday April 03, 2022 @12:01PM (#30897904)
The Eigen library (https://eigen.tuxfamily.org) has great attention to numerical robustness and accuracy in it's implementation.
The documentation is good, but for the numerical discussions, you'd have to read the source code.
Re:George Hotz against the institutions
on Sunday March 20, 2022 @06:58AM (#30741645)
It is, the neural network part seems to be here: https://github.com/commaai/openpilot/tree/master/models
Re:Gradients Without Backpropagation
on Wednesday March 02, 2022 @06:47AM (#30526251)
http://ceres-solver.org/ works well, in my experience.
It does require code to be templated, which might increase computation time.
It is possible to explicitly define derivatives for individual functions, this can help preventing numerical instabilities in corner cases.
Re:Ask HN: How much gas we could save in EU if we reduce our heating t...
on Saturday February 26, 2022 @02:12PM (#30480761)
"a bit of all" can be done immediately. A bit improved isolation, solar panels, wind farms, more working from home (to reduce travel), it all adds up.