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falava··on Best Mac for Large Language Models
Performance of llama.cpp on Apple Silicon M-series:

https://github.com/ggerganov/llama.cpp/discussions/4167

falava··on Ethereum set to become first blockchain to settle $1T in one year
https://digiconomist.net/ethereum-energy-consumption

https://digiconomist.net/bitcoin-energy-consumption

falava··on Escaping the Dark Forest
"you could be the next cryptocurrency millionaire"

I don't see that as equal to "rich".

falava··on Escaping the Dark Forest
> Can someone point me to one of these in the wild where I can see the actual pitch / advertisement ?

https://uniswap.org/blog/uni/

falava··on Programming a 144-computer Chip to Minimize Power (2013)
Recorded at Strange Loop 2013. Please add (2013) tag.

Edit: https://thestrangeloop.com/2013/programming-a-144-computer-c...

falava··on Induction of self awareness in dreams through low current stimulation (2014)
I only remember one lucid dream, when I was a kid, and it was fantastic.

I researched a little and found this book, may be you find it interesting, so here it is:

https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Lucid_dreaming

falava··on Road map to clean energy using laser beam ignition of boron-hydrogen fusion
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thermonuclear_weapon
falava··on Reversible Computing (2016) [video]
> why does bit erasure end up in energy expenditure

Following this explanation from the link:

"Theoretically, room‑temperature computer memory operating at the Landauer limit could be changed at a rate of one billion bits per second with energy being converted to heat in the memory media at the rate of only 2.85 trillionths of a watt (that is, at a rate of only 2.85 pJ/s). Modern computers use millions of times as much energy."

I understand that to flip a 1 to a 0 it is necessary to dissipate that energy into heat.

Edit: But also I'm not sure how reversibility avoids that.

falava··on Reversible Computing (2016) [video]
Related to Landauer's principle:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Landauer's_principle

falava··on Unknown Mozilla dev addon "Looking Glass 1.0.3" on browser
You should opt in, not opt out
falava··on Show HN: Erlang REST framework
There is also this, in Elixir:

http://absinthe-graphql.org

falava··on The Everything Bubble [infographic]
Ray Dalio explanation here: http://www.economicprinciples.org
falava··on Krita Foundation: Update
Thank you for sharing this info.
falava··on Ask HN: Freelance Management Services/Apps
We use https://www.getharvest.com for that.

And https://basecamp.com for project management.

falava··on Ask HN: Looking for the best Phoenix/Elixir/Erlang Tutorials
This video course is just released, with early access pricing:

https://pragmaticstudio.com/elixir

falava··on How to Host Your Own Private Git Repositories
I've been using Gogs happily for two years:

https://gogs.io/docs/installation

falava··on Ask HN: Non-technical readers of HN, why are you here?
See also this:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hacks_at_the_Massachusetts_Ins...

> Hacks at the MIT are practical jokes and pranks meant to prominently demonstrate technical aptitude and cleverness

Edit: And this...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hacker_culture

> Therefore, the hacker culture originally emerged in academia in the 1960s around the MIT's Tech Model Railroad Club (TMRC) and MIT AI Laboratory.

> Richard Stallman explains about hackers who program:

> What they had in common was mainly love of excellence and programming. They wanted to make their programs that they used be as good as they could. They also wanted to make them do neat things. They wanted to be able to do something in a more exciting way than anyone believed possible and show "Look how wonderful this is. I bet you didn't believe this could be done."

falava··on Ask HN: Non-technical readers of HN, why are you here?
Fair enough :)

Edit: But it's like Surgeon's Journal. No one is called a hacker only because they reads HN, right?

falava··on Ask HN: Non-technical readers of HN, why are you here?
There is a book writen by Paul Graham, creator of HN: Hackers and Painters[1]

And there is one tradition to call a hacker to someone who hacks(with software and hardware)[2], doing clever and/or ugly things, and that is not exactly to be a programmer (and also not exactly a security breaker, the other tradition for the hacker name[3])

I think that following the first tradition, the name of the site is well deserved.

[1] http://www.paulgraham.com/hackpaint.html

[2] https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/hack

[3] http://duartes.org/gustavo/blog/post/first-recorded-usage-of...

falava··on Ask HN: How many comments do you read on HN? Is it worth it?
Thanks, it seems that that link is the list of users's preferences for the HN top bar color (the topcolor value from our user page). And the list seems to me ordered by the number of users with that color selected.
falava··on Ask HN: How many comments do you read on HN? Is it worth it?
https://news.ycombinator.com/lists

Missing from that list:

https://news.ycombinator.com/classic Front page with votes from older accounts

https://news.ycombinator.com/over?points=100 Front page with posts over n points

falava··on Ask HN: How many comments do you read on HN? Is it worth it?
I usually read the comments before the posts.

And I save time using this:

https://news.ycombinator.com/best

https://news.ycombinator.com/bestcomments

falava··on Ready for Realtime and Scale: Announcing Realm Mobile Platform 1.0
I love Realm and you should definitely charge for it! :)
falava··on Ready for Realtime and Scale: Announcing Realm Mobile Platform 1.0
> The good news is that we recently released a Node.js SDK, where you could build a REST API off of it.

The Node.js server access is only for pro/enterprise license or not?

I'm reading this post[1] and this doc[2] and I'm not really sure.

[1] https://realm.io/news/first-object-database-realm-node-js-se...

[2] https://realm.io/docs/realm-object-server/#data-access

Thank you!

falava··on Tips for Reading Code (2014)
I think he needs some time to improve it. More explanations here:

https://github.com/WardCunningham/remodeling

falava··on Tips for Reading Code (2014)
Wayback Machine archived copy:

https://web.archive.org/web/20160709111543/http://c2.com/cgi...

The Wiki was remodeled recently:

http://c2.com/wiki/closed.html?WelcomeVisitors

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12715560

falava··on The Spanish cooking oil scandal (2001)
The spanish version of the article[1] links to the alternative explanation (Bayer Nemacur pesticide):

[1] https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enfermedad_del_aceite_tóxico_d...

[2] http://www.cbgnetwork.org/129.html

[3] http://cbgnetwork.org/1522.html

As early as 1981 relevant spanish newspapers were telling the same story:

[4] http://free-news.org/index02-pag.htm

[5] http://free-news.org/cambio01.htm

Edit:

This is the last interview to Dr. Muro:

[6] http://free-news.org/afaber02.htm

falava··on iOS Dev Tools
My favorite tool, really simple one:

http://gitboxapp.com

falava··on Google Puts Boston Dynamics Up for Sale in Robotics Retreat
What is BD? I suppose is something related to robotics, but I'm not familiar with the acronym.
falava··on 4.2.2.2: The Story Behind a DNS Legend
Oh thanks!

I'm intrigued. Today you have found two dupe posts coming from me.

How can you be so fast finding the dupes and replying with this info?

It has to be a very time consuming task if it is not automated (appreciated anyway).

If you have automated the task I want to know how! :-) (If you could briefly explain)

In both cases I've just posted it and expected to upvote the most recent thread, but a new post was created and I have directly supposed that the stories were new (from the forum perspective).

I don't understand the mechanics by which the forum allows dupe posts. Maybe it should only allow to dupe a previous post when it's very recent (less than a day) and don't have any upvotes, or automatically show the previous discussions when is old (months)

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