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Re:Railpass on Monday October 26, 2026 @03:40PM (#50249783)
Well. I hate to say this so plainly but I have watched most of these over the years and have no idea what you're describing.

Potentially a one off, whatever you clicked. It's just a guy who walks through pretty or interesting places and nearly never talks.

Re:Railpass on Friday October 23, 2026 @12:56AM (#50204675)
https://www.youtube.com/@Rambalac/videos

You don't need a simulator I think these are the best walking videos on the internet.

Re:LFM2.5-24B-A2B: Built for Fast On-Device Agents on Thursday October 15, 2026 @01:06AM (#50099398)
Maybe someone knows what order of cost a release like this requires in real terms of hardware and energy spend?

The cost over the diff from the moment of beginning training to the end. It's iterative from a prior model so it starts there and becomes this release after spending occurs I presume.

For example, is liquid spending millions in energy in this case and the cost is amortized over successive training runs over the initial datacenter spend? What if it's just eating cloud costs and has no dedicated hardware, that sort of thing. I don't particularly mean this model and liquid specifically. Just for this class of smaller fast on-device range of model what is the order of the training cost in real terms?

Maybe its short sighted to ask it as if it's a singular training run and is perhaps the end state of many variations of testing thus all of the R&D training runs would have to be included to to inform what became the final release. Seems like this should be taken into consideration. If anyone happens to know it'd be appreciated!

Re:Pixel 11 Pro Fold feels like the end of an era on Thursday August 20, 2026 @08:05AM (#49373467)
What foldable BT keyboard do you use? Last time I tried something like this that was the weakest link with what was available on the market at the time.
Re:Embassy: Modern embedded framework, using Rust and async on Thursday January 08, 2026 @10:04PM (#46549625)
If you had to pick a MCU to try this out on, do you have a preference for a devkit to test this with?
Re:I created a bouncing DVD screensaver for your terminal on Sunday September 21, 2025 @07:19PM (#45327557)
I thought, surely it's dead simple to comment that out. I think it's just these two lines.

https://github.com/integrii/dvd/blob/main/cmd/dvd/dvd.go#L22...

Re:Adding my home electricity uptime to status.href.cat on Thursday August 21, 2025 @06:21PM (#44978796)
The way you wrote this and your previous comment above led me to believe your account is new. I checked it, 74 days at time of writing. I get the impression you haven't read the guidelines here. I like this place as it is generally civil discourse and have no qualms being the person that points you to the "In Comments" section of the guidelines.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Be kind, rewind.

Re:Implementing fast TCP fingerprinting with eBPF on Sunday June 29, 2025 @11:46AM (#44414006)
I downvoted you due to the way you're communicating in this thread. Be kind, rewind. Review the guidelines here perhaps since your account is only a little over a year old.

I found this article useful and insightful. I don't have a bot problem at present I have an adjacent problem and found this context useful for an ongoing investigation.

This is insightful thank you. Question: if you work with a wide range of AR displays, what do you suggest that's readily available and has a sdk?
Re:The Windows Subsystem for Linux is now open source on Monday May 19, 2025 @02:01PM (#44032744)
Counterpoint: things like the Valve Index for VR simply don't behave well in this environment no matter how much I've worked on getting it there.

I'm not a novice either, $dayjob has me working on the lowest levels of Linux on a daily basis. I did linux from scratch on a Pentium 2 when I was 12. All that to say yes I happen to agree but edge cases are out there. The blanket statement doesn't apply for all use cases

Re:Hotline for Modern Apple Systems on Saturday February 08, 2025 @08:00AM (#42982680)
Soulseek is likely the one you're remembering. I remember talking to people with similar collections of music. Hotline was my primary passion for quite some time but soulseek had a longer run of utility in my childhood on the nascent web.
Re:Learning Tibetan Changed the Way I Think (2023) on Friday December 13, 2024 @12:12AM (#42406088)
Agreed. It's not an appeal to authority it's a paragraph I enjoyed reading and remembered in this context
Re:Learning Tibetan Changed the Way I Think (2023) on Thursday December 12, 2024 @11:45PM (#42405979)
I'm actually glad you posted this because it reminded me of a quote from Wittgenstein's page on Wikipedia [1]

> According to Wittgenstein, philosophical problems arise when language is forced from its proper home into a metaphysical environment, where all the familiar and necessary landmarks and contextual clues are removed. He describes this metaphysical environment as like being on frictionless ice: where the conditions are apparently perfect for a philosophically and logically perfect language, all philosophical problems can be solved without the muddying effects of everyday contexts; but where, precisely because of the lack of friction, language can in fact do no work at all.[259] Wittgenstein argues that philosophers must leave the frictionless ice and return to the "rough ground" of ordinary language in use. Much of the Investigations consists of examples of how the first false steps can be avoided, so that philosophical problems are dissolved, rather than solved: "The clarity we are aiming at is indeed complete clarity. But this simply means that the philosophical problems should completely disappear."

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ludwig_Wittgenstein

Re:Learning Tibetan Changed the Way I Think (2023) on Thursday December 12, 2024 @11:38PM (#42405960)
What is logic here against the subjective internal experience you're responding to. Do I have to hold an axiom true to believe the person describing their internal experience is specifically as Chomsky proved in the language of logic?
Re:Show HN: Whirlwind – Async concurrent hashmap for Rust on Tuesday November 05, 2024 @02:34PM (#42054513)
I try to tell all new programmers that ask me for advice that keeping abreast of the words of tools that are available for use is a big part of the work and shouldn't be left out. If I quit my daily / weekly trawl of what's out there, I'd surely start to atrophy.
Re:Busy Status Bar from Flipper Devices on Tuesday October 15, 2024 @11:30AM (#41849611)
Oh. Sounds like you're referring to Agile and Standup with capital letters. In my experience people talk about agile-with-a-capital-A and standup-with-a-capital-S and those two don't really match what actually happens in the real world, at least in my experience.
Re:Linux from Scratch on Saturday October 05, 2024 @02:35PM (#41751918)
I tend to encourage people do this if they work with Linux at all. I was young when I first did it and it took days to compile everything but it was immensely satisfying when it did fit together and I was booted into my own linux system that I built myself. I didn't understand a lot of it at the time but the pieces fit together more and more as the years go on.

Overall looking back Linux from Scratch probably has made me more money than my CS degree has.

Re:Leonard Cohen: The Anti-Rock Star on Thursday September 19, 2024 @03:10PM (#41595255)
Suzanne
Re:My Homelab Setup on Thursday September 12, 2024 @01:06AM (#41517771)
I disagree, but mostly just in the present. Sometimes I take an active approach to getting unconstructive communication out of where my eyes naturally go. It's rare. It's a feeling in a moment in a context as kind as I can possibly be. This has been net positive, but sure we agree in this context it's just a forum on the internet and I click my share of downvotes like any other.
Re:My Homelab Setup on Thursday September 12, 2024 @12:04AM (#41517492)
I guess this is a sort of meta comment rather than a reply. You seem like someone who hasn't had an account for a long time and upon clicking your profile I see that is in fact the case. It seems plausible that you haven't read the site guidelines, so I'll be that guy and point you to them. I like this place largely because of the good moderation. I hope you come to like this place for the same as the years go on.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Re:Smartphone Tethering: A Bigger Grind Than It Needed to Be on Monday September 09, 2024 @04:46PM (#41493576)
You're the real mvp on this thread. Thanks I figured this was in place but never thought through the ttl bit.
Re:Ask HN: Where to find domain experts for 1:1 tutoring? on Monday September 02, 2024 @01:42PM (#41427347)
Lol. Sorta flattered to be taken for some sort of automated collection activity. Gotta be the second chance pool
Re:Ask HN: Where to find domain experts for 1:1 tutoring? on Wednesday August 28, 2024 @06:36PM (#41385194)
I have an old boss that calls me from time to time. Maybe I'll just call him an old friend at this point. He lives by the philosophy that you put in the work and you debug your thinking by bouncing the context you've built up off of experts. Sometimes he shoots a cool hundred my way thereafter, sometimes he doesn't. Most of the time we're just catching up.

This works for him and tbh it works for me too. I guess my advice is that the important part is not sourcing the expert it's putting in the work to come with enough context to get something out of talking to an expert and to leave them without the feeling like you've wasted their time. Follow people on the socials, read their code, show up at NeurIPS with actual good questions to ask people in person on the hallway track.

Without the _hard work up front to get good questions to ask_ you're in danger of finding a good expert and them deciding you're just another starry eyed kid that doesn't know for just how many years longer you wouldn't even pass the screening call for an interview.

Just my two cents, hope this helps!

An actual expert can fact check me but as far as I'm aware that's due to how magnesium sits within binding site within the NMDA receptor ion channel as a blocking / gating factor. If supplementation actually raises the level of available magnesium beyond the blood brain barrier (when you're perhaps in need of some) then it would affect the way in which that ion channel affects the downstream excitatory effects towards long term potentiation.
Re:The Anatomy of Brainwashing on Friday August 09, 2024 @09:51AM (#41201848)
Thanks for posting this. As someone who picked up reading brain anatomy as casually as I might read technical documentation this put a few puzzle pieces together that I found quite satisfying. Good read, interesting topic. Pretty neat.
Very cool, thank you!
Is there some place on the internet that shows this "4 genes away" evidence? I'm imagining that there is some tool that those involved in this work are aware of that I am not.
Re:MPPP – The first 'designer drug' disaster (2023) on Tuesday July 23, 2024 @11:59PM (#41053489)
The part about the experimental surgery with transplanted brain cells helping restore motor function is quite something. Nothing more to add than a wow that worked, huh.
Re:Run Chromium on Vercel without external services on Monday July 01, 2024 @06:39PM (#40851598)
This is useful but it uses precompiled binaries of chromium that run in a lambda. I didn't find the repo for re-creating them from source. Seems like one of those things that doesn't need a pre-compiled binary it needs instructions for how the binary was built so I don't have to trust some third party chromium distribution.

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