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davedunkin··on Nvidia to buy assets from Groq for $20B cash
Non-exclusive licensing and hiring the team.

> As part of this agreement, Jonathan Ross, Groq’s Founder, Sunny Madra, Groq’s President, and other members of the Groq team will join Nvidia to help advance and scale the licensed technology.

davedunkin··on The $25k car is going extinct?
Yep, model inflation. I have an early 2000s Accord and it's smaller than most Civics I see on the road, and with fewer features than a base model Civic.
davedunkin··on Electric Cars Could Last Much Longer Than You Think
Related article and discussion from last month: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42228901
davedunkin··on New study shows: EV batteries last much longer than expected
I'm also in AZ. What's surprising to me is I get slightly better range in the summer months.
davedunkin··on New study shows: EV batteries last much longer than expected
How can I get my Nissan Leaf to read this paper? Its range has dropped to 50% of new and a refurbished replacement pack cost 150% the value of the car, which is in otherwise excellent condition. It has only 70k miles.
davedunkin··on Show HN: Zerox – Document OCR with GPT-mini
At inference time or during training?
davedunkin··on Nvidia's Chat with RTX is an AI chatbot that runs locally on your PC
Levels is making something like that. https://twitter.com/levelsio/status/1756396158652432695

I would really want it to have that Dr. Sbaitso voice, though, telling me how to be fitter, happier, more productive.

davedunkin··on Neal Stephenson was prescient about our AI age
Who's writing sci-fi today that we will look back on as predictive?
davedunkin··on Ship Shape
I implemented that in Objective-C when the iPhone was new-ish. It was a fun demo on a touch screen. It was surprising how well it worked for how simple it was. https://github.com/ddunkin/dollar-touch
davedunkin··on US inflation cooled in June for the 12th straight month
Names of bills should be given by a GPT that reads the bill and the CBO analysis of the bill.
davedunkin··on Twitter’s mass layoffs have begun
Craigslist: 50
davedunkin··on Globalstar SEC filing, Apple to use 85% of its satellite network capacity
The announcement showed a conversation. "Do you have enough water?" "I have half a bottle." Then they talked about some new compression.
davedunkin··on Soketi: Simple, fast and resilient open-source WebSockets server
> Written on top of C, ported to Node.js.

I think what they mean is it uses uWebSockets.js, a Node.js module wrapping a C++ implementation.

https://github.com/uNetworking/uWebSockets.js

davedunkin··on Ask HN: Anyone else feels the commoditization of real estate is unethical?
That sounded surprisingly high so I looked it up. Rental vacancy was 5.6% and homeowner vacancy was 0.8% in 2022Q2. Vacancy hasn’t been near 10% in about a decade.

How much rental vacancy is needed for there to be enough space for people to move around? 3-5%? Too low and you have gridlock.

https://www.census.gov/housing/hvs/files/currenthvspress.pdf

davedunkin··on How to Stop Procrastinating on Your Goals by Using the “Seinfeld Strategy”
See also Scott Adams on goals vs. systems.

https://www.scottadamssays.com/goals-vs-systems/

davedunkin··on Commit Messages Don’t Matter
This sounds like the advice of someone who hasn’t worked in codebases mature enough to go through multiple source control system and issue tracking system changes. The commit message is the one piece of documentation most likely to survive. A commit message that explains why the change was made can be very valuable when the code review comments and bug report are no longer available.
davedunkin··on HN is up again
I hadn't heard of it either until disks in our storage cluster at work started failing faster than the cluster could rebuild in an event our ops team named SATApocalypse. It was a perfect storm of cascading failures.

https://web.archive.org/web/20220330032426/https://ops.faith...

davedunkin··on HN is up again
> Double disk failure is improbable but not impossible.

It's not even improbable if the disks are the same kind purchased at the same time.

davedunkin··on Inbound container volumes to the US are reverting to pre-pandemic levels
S&P 500 is down 14% from its high at the end of last year, Dow is down 10%, NASDAQ is down 25%. Those are significant drops over a 6 month period.
davedunkin··on Buoyant wants to solve middle-mile delivery with cargo airships
I thought this was the Buoyant that makes the Linkerd service mesh. "Middle-mile delivery" and "cargo airships" must be new cloud metaphors. I was so confused.
davedunkin··on 3000-pound triceratops skull excavated in South Dakota (2020)
A fossil's a fossil.
davedunkin··on $1 Unistroke Recognizer (2007)
I remember porting this to Objective-C for an iPhone project forever ago. That was fun exercise, and the algorithm works surprisingly well for how simple it is.

https://github.com/ddunkin/dollar-touch

davedunkin··on It’s nearly impossible to buy an original Bob Ross painting
Anyone can cook ≠ everyone can cook. That distinction is the whole point.

(And Ratatouille is one of the best Pixar movies.)

davedunkin··on HTTP/2 Push is dead
I hope browsers implement 103 early hints. I’d like to tell the browser to preload assets while the server is still working on the response, which may take a significant amount of time to determine if the response is 200, 401, or 404.

https://evertpot.com/http/103-early-hints

davedunkin··on 2020 Leap Day Bugs
My bank, IberiaBank, deposited interest and sent out statements today, with them being dated March 1.
davedunkin··on Google Cloud networking issues in us-east1
As of 2016, Stack Overflow ran on dozens of servers in two data centers.

https://nickcraver.com/blog/2016/03/29/stack-overflow-the-ha...

davedunkin··on Can you tell a robot apart from a human? Real-Life Turing Test
I only speak English but the few times I tried the stranger spoke another language. Couldn’t actually have a conversation. Cool idea though.
davedunkin··on The dots do matter: how to scam a Gmail user
When this happens to me, I reset the password and abandon the account. I assume whoever created the account made a mistake, but I have no way to contact them. When they have to sign in again, they’ll have to create a new account, but they’ll hopefully use their own email address.

It’s never happened to me with a paid account, but if it did, I’d cancel it.

davedunkin··on Number systems of the world, sorted by complexity of counting (2006)
77?
davedunkin··on Minideb – A small image based on Debian designed for use in containers
Node.js packages with native code and .NET Core are a couple I’ve come across. Basically any C-based code prebuilt for generic Linix.
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