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blackoil··on DeepSeek FAQ
Funny, how such a small company wiped off more than half a trillion from the valuations.

Hopefully, it shall motivate other small orgs/academic institutions to do research in LLM++.

blackoil··on Trae: An AI-powered IDE by ByteDance
Unless you are using self hosted llm, you can assume all the code is being sent to the server. This is true for all similar services.
blackoil··on China installed a record capacity of solar and wind in 2024 – in numbers
It's funny how a pro china news is quickly flagged into oblivion.
blackoil··on TikTok says it is restoring service for U.S. users
"American Israel Public Affairs Committee""
blackoil··on TikTok goes dark in the US
Nazi Germany was a democratically elected govt, which decided opposing propoganda must be blocked for the better of the nation. So irony?
blackoil··on TikTok goes dark in the US
While I agree with your argument partially, I still find it ironic.

It assumes that we must prevent public from accessing some thoughts/propoganda as they may not be able to make right decision themselves. This is rhyming with 1930s Germany or other authoritative regimes since then.

blackoil··on TikTok goes dark in the US
These bans are more to do with geopolitics and economic interest than security. e.g. Blanket ban on Huawei including accessing TSMC, Samsung fabs is more to protect Apple and Qualcomm.
blackoil··on The Toyota Prius transformed the auto industry
Hope Toyota get their mojo back for EVs.
blackoil··on Nokia's internal presentation after iPhone was launched (2007) [pdf]
CATL has 5C batteries and svolt 6C. BYD also is working on similar tech. So 10 mins should be possible by year end or early next year.
blackoil··on AI means the end of internet search as we've known it
Oh you know the solution. Ad Blocker with AI
blackoil··on Nvidia announces next-gen RTX 5090 and RTX 5080 GPUs
Maybe, it is simply a legacy business model. Nvidia wasn't always a behemoth. In olden days they must be happy for someone else to manage the global distribution, marketing, service etc. Also, this gives an illusion of choice. You get graphic cards in different color, shape, RGB, water cooling combinations.
blackoil··on Nvidia's Project Digits is a 'personal AI supercomputer'
GB200 is ~USD 60,000/. So, it should be like 20th of that.
blackoil··on Nvidia's Project Digits is a 'personal AI supercomputer'
That is the PC of today and yesterday and yesteryears.
blackoil··on Nvidia's Project Digits is a 'personal AI supercomputer'
Isn't that just a regular PC with one or more 5090 or equivalent workstation GPU?
blackoil··on Nvidia's Project Digits is a 'personal AI supercomputer'
Is there any effort in local cloud computing? I can't justify $3000 for a fun device. But if all devices (6 phone, 2 iPads, a desktop and 2 laptops) in my home can leverage that for fast LLM, gaming, and photo/video editing, now it makes so much more sense.
blackoil··on Nvidia's Project Digits is a 'personal AI supercomputer'
> So either it dies or prices go up.

Or efficiency gains in hardware and software catchup making current price point profitable.

blackoil··on A Billion Pixels a Second: Inside Apple's iPhone 16 Camera Labs
> Most of these 38% won’t be able to tell the difference between a phone pic taken 5 or more years ago.

That is an arbitrary statement, that came from your biases and not observation. Maybe in best of lighting some 5-year-old photos maybe as good as latest flagship.

blackoil··on Deepseek: The quiet giant leading China’s AI race
If is funny how a site that otherwise stays away from politics turns into reddit as soon as China is mentioned.
blackoil··on Deepseek: The quiet giant leading China’s AI race
Singapore, Taiwan and South Korea are closeby and large+stable enough to easily create such data centers. Small batches for experimentation by team can be easily smuggled. China is too large and powerful to be completely sanctioned.
blackoil··on U.S. homelessness jumps to record high amid affordable housing shortage
Yeah, the homeless pool would automatically prune every year. Giving people also the incentive to be not homeless.
blackoil··on U.S. homelessness jumps to record high amid affordable housing shortage
Singapore also has "draconian" laws, so it may not be as easy to replicate.
blackoil··on How do you do, fellow web developers? A growing disconnect
Because HTTP is ubiquitous and now performant enough. It has a whole ecosystem of battle tested tools that can handle any usecase you throw at it. So, unless you are writing an app used by billions of users or some game hyper-sensitive of latency or backend service for similar size platform, you'll do better with HTTP.
blackoil··on How do you do, fellow web developers? A growing disconnect
It looks all these rants are from people who need "Hello World" equivalent of web and are angry that there are tools for more complex use cases. I am primarily a backend developer with couple of decades of experience, who is now working on his own startup. I have built a simple HTML/JS site as our launch page. But I would kick out anyone who'll suggest that we should use plain HTML/JS instead of a frontend framework for our main app.

A form submission is not just a post submit. You have to do client+server error handling, dynamically show/hide/add fields, show char count, handle intermittent state and still more. All of these are possible with JS but is faster and more reliable with a purpose-built library. Same goes for a draggable dashboard, filters for search results...

blackoil··on Apple Watch with Android
Yes, but you are not supposed to watch them in sleep.
blackoil··on The higher fertility of TSMC semiconductor workers
In simplistic terms, they buy machine with 1000 knobs. They have engineers who know how much and when to turn each knob.
blackoil··on 2400 phone providers may be shut down by the FCC for failing to stop robocalls
We need better control in the phone. In your case blocking all calls from India will help.
blackoil··on Chatbot hinted a kid should kill his parents over screen time limits: lawsuit
Government could manage companies to give right tools to the parents to do the parenting.
blackoil··on Tell HN: Alaska Airlines website exposes passenger data
OP has already contacted them once. If they want, one thing all lawyers are competent at is digging out info.
blackoil··on ChatGPT Pro
It is immaterial what they do and what you know. Important is what CIOs of the enterprise believe.
blackoil··on Intel gets up to $7.9B award for U.S. chip-plant construction
In a free market they'll manufacture in China or Taiwan. US wants them to manufacture it in USA and it's paying for that.
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