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eurekin

1,035 karma · joined September 6, 2012

"thoughtful considerations about practical applications"

Self hosting, SBCs, AI/Vision/LLMs

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eurekin··on On the Existence, Impact, and Origin of Hallucination-Associated Neurons in LLMs
We are in the vibe science era, it seems
eurekin··on Airbus to migrate critical apps to a sovereign Euro cloud
"sovereign Euro cloud", ah good chuckle
eurekin··on AI helps ship faster but it produces 1.7× more bugs
"ship fast, break things"
eurekin··on RemoveWindowsAI
Here's another potential example

https://www.reddit.com/r/LocalLLaMA/comments/1pm5ik5/so_slig...

Could be a dud, but I'd ask the person about details and perhaps it's a good use case

eurekin··on RemoveWindowsAI
Yes, people steal ideas and sell as their own. That is actually happening. Communities share less publicly, but if you know how to poke, you can find a gem or two. Anybody actually productive with LLMs just doesn't want to invest energy to fight the unwinnable mob mentality. I don't remember any time in my career, where you got such a backlash for using a tech.

One example of a an absolute gem is this: https://youtu.be/vlD8CXr20OI?si=J2A5nrqjkFCqU_6R

Had I been still working with computer graphics, this would've been a true game changer. You can see how little views this video has. There is however a whole subreddit dedicated to sell this exact workflow (and even only the first node). There's a similar story with programming, but people are disincentived to share that. Github Copilot has potential, but seems abandoned already and I find it very odd, because it's the one product with actual substance

eurekin··on RemoveWindowsAI
I find it odd that Ms seems to invest in AI so heavily and yet, I can't still do a basic text selection in copilot's chat in Intellij and VSCode
eurekin··on Helldivers 2 on-disk size 85% reduction
Trust me, I'm a software developer with more than two decades of experience. Have been dabbling in hardware since the Amiga 500 era. "I have that specific set of skills" that allows me to narrow down a class of issues pretty well - just a lot of component switching in a binary divide and conquer fashion across hardware.

The issue is 1) actually exaggarated in the community, but not without actual substance 2) getting disregarded exactly because of exaggarations. It was a very real thing.

I also happen to have a multi gpu workstation that works flawlessly too

eurekin··on Helldivers 2 on-disk size 85% reduction
> > - Be able to actually finish a mission (game still crashes a lot just after extraction, it's still rare for the full team to survive 3 missions in a row)

> False. A few months ago I played it for an entire day and the game was fine. Last week I played it a good portion of Saturday night. I'm in several large HellDivers focused Discord servers and I've not heard a lot of people complaining about it. Maybe 6 months ago or a year ago this was the case, but not now.

I specifically mean the exact time, right after the pelican starts to fly. I keep seeing "<player> left" or "disconnected". Some come back and I have a habit of asking: "Crash?", they respond with "yeah"

eurekin··on Helldivers 2 on-disk size 85% reduction
I had them and I keep observing this strange tendency to wipe that particular issue out of existence
eurekin··on Helldivers 2 on-disk size 85% reduction
> - To their PC not reboot and BSOD (was a case few months ago)

I was just about to replace my gpu (4090 at that!), I had them 3 times a session. I did sink a lot of hours to debug that (replaced cables, switched PSUs between desktops) and just gave up. After few weeks, lo and behold, a patch comes out and it all disappears.

A lot of people just repeat hearsay about the game

eurekin··on Helldivers 2 on-disk size 85% reduction
So, players wanting:

- To their PC not reboot and BSOD (was a case few months ago)

- Be able to actually finish a mission (game still crashes a lot just after extraction, it's still rare for the full team to survive 3 missions in a row)

- Be able to use weapon customisation (the game crashed, when you navigated to the page with custom paints)

- Continue to run, even when anybody else from the team was stimming (yes, any person in the team stimming caused others to slow down)

- Actually be able to hear one of the biggest enemies in the game

- To not issue stim/reload/weapon change multiple times, for them just to work (it's still normal to press stim 6 times in some cases, before it activates, without any real reason)

- Be able to use chat, when in the vehicle (this would result in using your primary weapon)

- Be able to finish drill type mission (this bugs out a lot still)

- Not be attacked by enemies that faze through buildings

- Not be attacked by bullets passing through terrain, despite the player bullets being stopped there

are just vocal player's complaints? A lot of those bugs went totally unaddressed for months. Some keep coming back in regressions. Some just are still ongoing. This is only a short list of things I came across, while casually playing. It's a rare sight to have a full OP without an issue (even mission hardlocks still).

About Sony - I specifically referred the Shams Jorjani's (CEO of ArrowHead) explanation to Hermen Hulst (the head of PlayStation Studios) why the review score collapsed to 19%, among other issues.

eurekin··on Helldivers 2 on-disk size 85% reduction
The negativity wasn't created in a vacuum. ArrowHead has a long track record of technical mishaps and a proven history of erasing all evidence about those issues, without ever trying to acknowledge them. Reddits, Discord and YouTube comment section are heavily moderated. I suspect there's might be a 3rd party involved in this, which doesn't forward any technical issues, if the complaint involves any sign of frustration. Even the relation with their so called "Propaganda Commanders" (official moniker for their youtube partner channels) has been significantly strained in two cases, for trivialities.

It took Sony's intervention to actually pull back the game into playable state once - resulting in the so called 60 day patch.

Somehow random modders were able to fix some of the most egregiously ignored issues (like an enemy type making no sound) quickly and effectively. ArrowHead ignored, then denied, then used the "gamers bad" tactic, banned people pointing it out. After long time, finally fixing it and trying to bury it in the patch notes too.

They also have been caught straight up lying about changes, most recent one was: "Apparently we didn't touch the Coyote", where they simply buffed enemies resistance to fire, effectively nerfing the gun.

eurekin··on McDonald's pulls AI Christmas ad after backlash
Oh, that can also mean they were out partying using the ad budgets funds :D
eurekin··on Kroger acknowledges that its bet on robotics went too far
So, what you're doing? Sounds great!
eurekin··on Kroger acknowledges that its bet on robotics went too far
Yes, AutoStore lost most important cases in US (ITC) and UK's High Court.
eurekin··on It’s time to free JavaScript (2024)
Thought I was the only one seeing the resemblance (also flegma)
eurekin··on Japanese game devs face font dilemma as license increases from $380 to $20k
I'd love to some deeper 60 minutes-like documentary about it. This perhaps might actually spark some legislation change
eurekin··on Qwen3-VL can scan two-hour videos and pinpoint nearly every detail
Would it allow me to query my library for every movie that contains dance routing move1-move2-move3 in that order?
eurekin··on Qwen3-VL can scan two-hour videos and pinpoint nearly every detail
Insane if true... now I wonder, if I use it to go through some old dance routing video catalogue to recognize and write individual move lists
eurekin··on Qwen3-VL can scan two-hour videos and pinpoint nearly every detail
No mention of palantir?
eurekin··on Google, Nvidia, and OpenAI
The point is to cover your tracks and making sure no one will be able to repeat that. They want to send you in a random direction, even, if you only want to try.
eurekin··on John Giannandrea to retire from Apple
This is quite a spectacular CV.

Now I'm weighing more on the Apple side for not making it better.

eurekin··on John Giannandrea to retire from Apple
Yeah, I'm not buying that either/or framing too
eurekin··on UK Government plans new powers to label dissenting movements as 'subversion'
Looks like a typical too good to be true funnel to get most people on board and then rug pull. Bait and switch, only executed on longer timeframe
eurekin··on The privacy nightmare of browser fingerprinting
Oh! Now I wonder, if crowdsec could issue bans based on that
eurekin··on Free interactive tool that shows you how PCIe lanes work on motherboards
Depends, if it's tensor parallel or pipeline parallel. Only PP doesn't pass too much. TP does
eurekin··on Windows 11 adds AI agent that runs in background with access to personal folders
My personal headcannon is, that it's mostly for telemetrics and KPI scamming, so stakeholders can reap the bonus based on engagement metrics
eurekin··on Facts about throwing good parties
Yeah, there's one neat hack about the police.

Turns out a lot of them like a good party too.

eurekin··on A built-in 'off switch' to stop persistent pain
Prolonged sitting deconditions the gluteal muscles, and other muscles often compensate, which can overload them and alter hip/pelvic control. When tissues are strained, the body initiates repair via inflammation—a normal phase of healing. Routine NSAID use can blunt aspects of musculoskeletal healing in some contexts, so it’s worth using judiciously and with clinical guidance. With reduced movement, fascia can lose glide and become stiffer, limiting mobility. Over years, chronic abnormal loading may contribute to osteophytes (joint margins) or enthesophytes (at tendon/ligament insertions). Targeted strengthening, mobility work, and load management from a PT typically help.
eurekin··on Show HN: Autism Simulator
Unfortunately being normal doesn't sell books, courses, consulting. Doesn't work well as a sales funnel.
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