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Loicon Costa Rican supermarket wins trademark battle against Nintendo

Thank you, I had the German word in mind and was not able to find the English one in my foggy brain.

Loicon Costa Rican supermarket wins trademark battle against Nintendo

This is interesting.

We have the same in France. The first big "big surface" stores were named supermarché, then we got hypermarché and the funniest is that now we have superette, a small surface store, branded like the super/hyper but within the city center.

The "ette" French suffix is to reduce the main word.

Loicon How to Run DeepSeek R1 671B Locally on a $2000 EPYC Server

In the 90's it was really expensive to run 3D Studio or POVray. It could take days to render a single image. Silicon Graphics workstations could do it faster but were out of the budget of non professionals.

Loicon OpenAI says it has evidence DeepSeek used its model to train competitor

Not for me. As I build a chemical factory, I do not reinvent everything.

They are using the current SOTA tools and models to build new models for cheaper.

Loicon Google Maps applies name changes when updated in official government sources

As long as it is not the "Gulf of the United States of America", I think it is still geographically correct. As long as my map stays with "Gulf of Mexico" on it, of course ;-)

Here in Germany, naming of places, roads, whatever is a constant debate. This is a very political subject, this is part of the public life of countries/communities.

Loicon Be Aware of the Makefile Effect

I like Makefiles, but just for me. Each time I create a new personal project, I add a Makefile at the root, even if the only target is the most basic of the corresponding language. This is because I can't remember all the variations of all the languages and frameworks build "sequences". But "$ make" is easy.

Loicon A Knife Forged in Fire

For the people interested with the link. The blog post "The Best" is talking about a silverware set which is good for a museum, and only for a museum, it is impossible to eat with it.

Loicon The correct amount of ads is zero

> Most companies do not offer a reduced ad load in exchange for your subscription money.

At least in Germany, this has changed quite a lot. The publishers are naming the offers "Pur Abo" or similar.

This is not perfect as one analysis[0] is showing, but for me, on the good way.

[0]: https://netzpolitik.org/2020/nicht-ganz-ohne/ (in German)

Edit: Added German analysis of these offers.

Loicon The Porsche Macan EV is being recalled because its headlights are too bright

German StVZO rules are not helping when the users are not directing the beam towards the road but horizontally. The current bicycles lights are very strong and I am sometimes nearly blinded from them in day light!

Loicon Ask HN: How can I grow as an engineer without good seniors to learn from?

I have been serving the oil & gas industry for the past 20 years as a consultant. I always enjoy sharing my experience with others (maybe I should write a book at some point), if you need some help, just ping me, my details are indirectly on my profile.

Loicon AMD Disables Zen 4's Loop Buffer

For me the most interesting paragraph in the article is:

> Perhaps the best way of looking at Zen 4's loop buffer is that it signals the company has engineering bandwidth to go try things. Maybe it didn't go anywhere this time. But letting engineers experiment with a low risk, low impact feature is a great way to build confidence. I look forward to seeing more of that confidence in the future.

Loicon Engineers do not get to make startup mistakes when they build ledgers

I suppose Pre-Calculated Aggregated Positions, but I am not an expert in the field.

Loicon Salmon return to lay eggs in historic habitat after dam removal project

https://klamathrenewal.org/the-project/

Take a look at the MW and age of the dams they removed. They were relatively small (big like 4 wind turbine for one) and at the end of life. The owners clearly stated that it was not economically feasible to keep upgrade them to meet the current regulations.

Yes they can provide base load, but I would be more nuanced than "not serious about climate change".

Loicon DOJ will push Google to sell off Chrome

> Fortunately this didn't work out for them but unfortunately that worked out for Google.

No, Google was better, then they used Chrome as an extremely powerful moat to protect their situation. Google at first was like magic compared to the Altavista of the time.

Loicon Show HN: FastGraphRAG – Better RAG using good old PageRank

Retrieval Augmented Generation

Loicon First Impressions: Lenovo T14s with Qualcomm Snapdragon ARM64 CPU

As I was working in Denmark, we had a lot of Lenovo resellers providing better offers than the normal list prices. This was a couple of years ago, maybe this is still the case.

Loicon Docker Compose Isn't Enough

In this particular case, I am both creating the images and deploying them.

Loicon Docker Compose Isn't Enough

I use the convention that all my containers are getting a /data/ folder where data can be stored and will get an automatic daily backup.

It is easy to set the right storage behind /data/.

Just a convention, nothing more, smoothly working for the past "many" years.

Loicon Ask HN: Life-changing purchases since 2020? (Under $100 and under $1000)

This! My tolerance was also just above my wife's. We will never go back to not having someone helping us.

Loicon Trudeau government bans TikTok from operating in Canada

Une partie du Canada ne parle pas Anglais.

Loicon BYD added a Tesla-worth of production capacity over the past 3 months

If you do not make a lot of money somewhere (Google ads, Tesla high valuation), it is very hard to have enough money to do the self-driving stuff. So production is important, because if you sell a lot of cars, you have cash flow for R&D.

Loicon DeepSeek: Advancing theorem proving in LLMs through large-scale synthetic data

Thank you for this very detailed answer.

Loicon USGS uses machine learning to show large lithium potential in Arkansas

RF is random forest[0].

We had this discussion a couple of days ago: "Why do Random Forests Work? Understanding Tree Ensembles as Self-Regularizing Adaptive Smoothers".

https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.01502

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41873968

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Random_forest

Loicon Australian coal plant in 'extraordinary' survival experiment

These are very informative numbers one reads nowhere in the news. From destatis[0], we go from 608 in 2019 to 514TWh in 2023. So not the same absolute values, but same trend. Thank you.

[0]: https://www.destatis.de/DE/Themen/Branchen-Unternehmen/Energ...

Loicon DeepSeek: Advancing theorem proving in LLMs through large-scale synthetic data

Formally proving with a system based on probabilities (temperature, etc.) is for me an oxymoron. But I am not a mathematician.

Edit: Ok, they generate proofs with the LLM, then they validate them with the Lean 4 environment. I am not sure if this is better than generating cooking recipes with a LLM and asking a cook if they make sense or not.

Loicon "Extreme" Broadcom-proposed price hike would up VMware costs 1,050%, AT&T says

I started using VMware more than 10 years ago because of the good USB support for license dongles and pki stuff. I am using Windows as a development machine.

I must admit that the license was cheap, it worked, so I didn't took the time to explore alternatives. But for what I understood, my use case doesn't exist anymore. You cannot buy a single pro license anymore. So, the day I upgrade my system, I may be forced to switch to another solution.

Loicon "Extreme" Broadcom-proposed price hike would up VMware costs 1,050%, AT&T says

As a long term VMware Workstation user with a Linux host, to run Windows VMs, what is the alternative? This is for professional use.

Loicon Reading texts on paper versus computer screen: Effects on reading comprehension [pdf] (2012)

In a pdf book, what I am really missing is the spacial position of a piece of knowledge. Particularly for reference books (I am an engineer, I still have a large amount of reference books) I look up on a regular basis, I know/remember where I need to search without the need to express it in words to run a search through a 1000+ page book.

But, maybe I am just an old guy and this is just because I learnt this way.

Maybe the new generation is learning directly "digital" with other knowledge access mechanisms. For example, I intuitively store a "position" in the book, maybe they intuitively remember a "keyword" to search for in the book.

Loicon On Impactful AI Research

> Collaboration is a large part of being a successful researcher.

I would even consider it as the largest part. It brings ideas, funding, spreading of your ideas, access to institutional research grants/projects, industry contacts, and more.

Loicon USPS' long-awaited new mail truck makes its debut to rave reviews from carriers

> The problem, Dejoy said, wasn’t that he didn’t want electric vehicles. Rather, the expense of the vehicles, compounded by the costs of installing thousands of charging stations and upgrading electrical service, made them unaffordable at a time when the agency was reporting big operating deficits every quarter.

It is worth reading the full article, it covers the environmental aspects and tradeoffs very well.