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Re:Use your database to power state machines on Monday September 18, 2023 @05:12AM (#37553941)
Going to bash go here, but using strings as enumerated types is absolutely f#$%ing stupid.
Re:Google Domains Is Gone on Monday September 11, 2023 @07:35PM (#37475123)
Also on fastmail. Good service.
Re:Rockstar is selling cracked game copies on Steam on Wednesday September 06, 2023 @06:20PM (#37412189)
Daemon tools was the bomb
Re:Ask HN: Any LAN alternatives other than PowerLine or MOCA? on Saturday September 02, 2023 @01:11AM (#37358704)
You can go cheap and do 1gbps with fibre too... Failing thst maybe try super thin ether net cable in the same way???

Edit: spelling

Re:Ask HN: Any LAN alternatives other than PowerLine or MOCA? on Saturday September 02, 2023 @01:10AM (#37358698)
So what about fibre Ethernet ??? You might be able to squeeze a bidirectional fibre (single fibre which uses 2 different frequencies of light for tx/RX) next to your coax runs through your walls? Then all you need is a media converter / switch on both ends...
Re:AI Crap – Drew Devault on Tuesday August 29, 2023 @09:00AM (#37307154)
I think you need a caveat... Right now.

There was a time where computers took up the space of whole rooms and had much much MUCH less processing power than the phone I am currently writing this comment on...

The same thing will happen with ai.

Re:Ask HN: Career in trades for possible ex-programmers on Wednesday August 23, 2023 @05:10AM (#37233515)
My advice. Take a year off. Renovate a house and see if it is what you want.

If you are burnt out. This is a good way to recharge. But the work is hard and it doesn't get easier.

Did this a few years ago and I it helped me get back to software engineering.

Interesting... Does mean we can now mod ram and fp 16 co.pure on 30 aeries cards :D
There is also craned power generation BTW.. Concrete blocks are stacked with a crane.. They are then dropped to the ground and the potential energy harvested by the cranes motor
Re:Terraform is dead; Long live Pulumi? on Saturday August 19, 2023 @11:01AM (#37189474)
I think terraform had been forked
Re:C and C++ Prioritize Performance over Correctness on Friday August 18, 2023 @10:02PM (#37184723)
The people behind the esp32 are writing a rust compiler.... I have played with it only a little, but it worked

Edit:spelling

He has bought options... This is just a contract with a nominal fee attached to buy or sell an instrument at a pre determined price at a point in the future. The fee a small amount compared to the price of the share. So yeah he has tied up a small amount of capital to do this.
Re:Ode to the M1 on Sunday August 13, 2023 @07:42PM (#37115765)
And? It still runs fine.
Re:Ode to the M1 on Sunday August 13, 2023 @06:28AM (#37108543)
Docker runs fine... Both x64 and arm64 containers run
Re:Ask HN: Cheapest hardware to run Llama 2 70B on Wednesday August 09, 2023 @07:31PM (#37069812)
Not sure about vicuna myself
Re:Ask HN: Cheapest hardware to run Llama 2 70B on Wednesday August 09, 2023 @07:30PM (#37069806)
Glad to be of help. Yea that is the repo.

https://replicate.com/blog/run-llama-locally

I found that guide here on hn.

I run it cpu only with 16 threads but yeah perf is good enough.

BTw my 6gb figure is me.measuring from htop so llama2 is likely less.

Re:Ask HN: Cheapest hardware to run Llama 2 70B on Wednesday August 09, 2023 @06:37PM (#37069327)
Hmmm I ran llama2 ggml q4 in 6gb ram with llama.CPP on my laptop.
Re:Should we stop writing functions? (C++) on Monday August 07, 2023 @04:34AM (#37031876)
C++ is terrible language.
Re:The Rotten Science Behind the MSG Scare on Sunday August 06, 2023 @08:24PM (#37028464)
Not a placebo... I can feel the effects of msg. It is there.