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outlogon Flash-MoE: Running a 397B Parameter Model on a Laptop

What is power usage? maybe https://www.coconut-flavour.com/coconutbattery/ can tell you estimate?

outlogon Unlocking free WiFi on British Airways

agreed, though they are banning devices: https://cruisefever.net/no-starlink-allowed-why-cruise-ships...

just saw this video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U-hVUczzlL4 and you get a very smart solution for a fair price, that does coordination etc.. and it's even esp32 based should the need arise. see https://www.bpcventilation.com/bsk-zephyr-single-room-heat-r...

I also have this DIY bookmarked: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wJB3dyHDa-8

outlogon Phoenix LiveView 1.0.0 is here

totally this! maybe a 10 anniversary thing next year..

outlogon Show HN: I built a map to find sign-posted cycling routes across Europe and POIs

Great work, feels great to use!

Only nitpick I could find would be to include url for POIs from OSM - like this one https://www.openstreetmap.org/node/5433059850

outlogon Is the world really running out of sand?

better make it a sand battery: https://www.euronews.com/green/2024/03/10/sand-batteries-cou...

outlogon Show HN: Atopile – Design circuit boards with code

> What would you want us to build?

A simple BUY button - take away all the mess for me as "end-user" who just want a board (I don't want to spend hours of BOM files, jlpcb, soldout parts etc.) - take away the mess for the creator of building a community around a design, monetize it, etc etc.

diyBMS recently did a short video on setting up shop https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qkg1Fu41QHE

(also group buying would mean huge savings as pooled productions would yield big production runs.. etc.)

outlogon LLM Boxing – Llama2 vs. Mistral

"Introduciiiiing... LLM Boxing Part Two.

Llama 2 13B vs Mistral 7B

- every round pick the output you like better - each model has 5 hitpoints - pay-per-view. one night only

Last time Llama 2 beat GPT-3.5 handily. How will it fare against this scrappy young challenger?"

https://twitter.com/charliebholtz/status/1709626774038978831

outlogon ElixirConf – LiveView Native

ElixirDesktop renders a webview/browser, in that way it's similar to electron - but using the BEAM instead of nodejs..

Some day it may make more than sense to have a local BEAM instance on the device with LiveView Native running on the local BEAM, for true offline, and zero lag performance - and then that BEAM instance can always connect to a remote server, via phoenix channels or similar for it's data management/syncing..

outlogon Battery cost declines raise prospects of all-electric container shipping

https://www.theoceanbird.com/ - are creating a 200m ship, slated for 2026 - with plans for retrofittable products..

outlogon Erlang/OTP 25.0 Release

I'm in elixir land - but have a look at https://github.com/elixir-desktop - they even have an ios app in the app store..

basically wxwidgets comes with a webview, and that one is loaded up - and everything is packaged as an app - so you can use phoenix (liveview), or even react or anything to your liking..

believe certain improvements were made to OTP 25, so multiple things will land soon - even livebook https://github.com/livebook-dev/livebook are aiming at shipping a native app..

outlogon Elixir and Machine Learning: Nx v0.1 released

amazing work ♥!

any idea on M1 gpu support? (know it's mostly an upstream issue)

excited about "real"/intensive ML workflows locally..

outlogon Art or heist? A Danish artist took $84k and sent a museum 2 blank canvases

“Good artists borrow, great artists steal.”

- Steve Jobs/Picasso/Stravinsky/Eliot

outlogon Monitoring my home's air quality with AirGradient's DIY sensor

think the Qingping air detector lite fits the bill - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FVzwBGf6woo - available on amazon or aliexpress etc.

outlogon Ask HN: What do you do with your Raspberry Pi?

I use it with Elixir - https://github.com/nerves-project

various IOT things - plants, HVAC etc etc

for real world: deployed "kiosk"/touch POS using https://github.com/LeToteTeam/kiosk_system_x86_64

outlogon macOS X GateKeeper Bypass

"..This issue was supposed to be addressed, according to the vendor, on May 15th 2019 but Apple started dropping my emails."

I believe Apple could easily have asked for an extension, if solving it was complex.. Apple chose not to.

(from the information available to us..)

outlogon Android Phones Can Be Hacked Remotely by Viewing Malicious PNG Image

Absolutely agree - there should be regulation demanding a 5 year period of security updates (or similar)..

Check out https://www.lineageos.org or one the other dists out there - and get that loaded up..

outlogon Apple blocks Google from running its internal iOS apps

"Apple can simply decide to prevent people from running code on their phones."

no - you are free to run any code on YOUR phones with the enterprise program - you are clearly not free to run any code on OTHERS phones using this program..

outlogon On the Sad State of Macintosh Hardware

just give us ARM/apple Ax processor macs already - a 8/16/32 core mac would run corners around any intel stuff..

especially as the thermal properties of intel turboboost is really horrible nowadays on macbook/laptop for dev usage.. (imagine maybe due to the meltdown/spectre slowdown..)

outlogon What Erlang Taught Me About Distributed Systems

Virding's First Rule of Programming:

Any sufficiently complicated concurrent program in another language contains an ad hoc informally-specified bug-ridden slow implementation of half of Erlang.

https://rvirding.blogspot.com/2008/01/virdings-first-rule-of...

(he is one of the creators of erlang / stars in Erlang the Movie)

outlogon Onesignal: Product and Policy Updates for GDPR

Specific product changes include:
Providing the option to not store end-user IP addresses, and by default, not storing the IP addresses of end-users from countries within the EU.
For all clients, beginning on May 21st, 2018, we will discontinue building data models with data nor will we monetize any EU user data with our business and analytics partners. For our Enterprise clients, we have introduced a Data Processor Agreement (DPA) which formally designates us as a Processor for all data.
Releasing updated versions of our SDKs to make it easier for our clients to prevent user data from being sent to OneSignal until a user explicitly consents,
Adding support to our API for the deletion of user data. Additionally, we are reducing our data retention period of deleted data to 72 hours.
Updating our user data exporting capabilities to make it easier to search for and export user data from OneSignal. This will help our clients meet individual user requests for restriction, erasure, and data portability.

Preparing a guide on how to use OneSignal for push notifications without sending us personal user data.

outlogon Zuckerberg on Cambridge Analytica situation

yeah, is there a non facebook.com link?

outlogon Self-Driving Ubers Driving in Bike Lanes

try living in a city with good, fully separated, and wide bike paths.. (copenhagen)

some times even normal cars take the bike path - https://www.instagram.com/p/g590OCMlGe/ - the car has driven a good 300 meters from one intersection to the next..

outlogon Reasons to use Phoenix instead of Rails

the package manager is here: https://hex.pm

with elixir having a lot of former and present rails devs in the eco-system - you can usually find "equivalent" packages("gems")..

say search for rspec https://hex.pm/packages?_utf8=&search=rspec&sort=recent_down...

outlogon Custom Domains on Heroku with Elixir and Phoenix (without SSL)

this is let's say not great advice, and that is being friendly;-)

url: [scheme: "https", host: "mysterious-meadow-6277.herokuapp.com", port: 443], force_ssl: [rewrite_on: [:x_forwarded_proto]]

means that if you accessing the server over http it will redirect to the specified host and over https, so setting host: to you yourdomain.com would solve it.

If you have multiple domains you can remove the host: config or do a host: nil - then it will redirect to https for whateverdomain.com that is hitting the server.

all the best

outlogon Inside Amazon’s robot-run supermarket that needs just 3 human workers

JeffBezos: .@nypost, whoever your anonymous sources are on this story http://nypost.com/2017/02/05/inside-amazons-robot-run-superm... – they’ve mixed up their meds! https://twitter.com/jeffbezos/status/829054770308485120

outlogon Ask HN: What could journey84.com have done to avoid crashing?

given that site is static content, it's more than easy to use something like cloudflare, which afaik even on their free plan will cache it on their global cdn.

(honestly I would consider the possibility of the "crashing" being part of a PR strategy - makes a good story)

outlogon How to tell what font is on a webpage?

http://fontface.ninja - easy to use browser extension - enable it and hover the text you want to see the font of.

outlogon Learn Elixir with a Rubyist (IV) – Types, Data Structures and Pattern Matching

these two vids are pretty great, obviously they favor FP/elixir, but great advise from two expert people.

Elixir Should Take Over the World by Jessica Kerr: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X25xOhntr6s

What every Node.js developer needs to know about Elixir - Bryan Hunter: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q8wueg2hswA

FP and the Erlang VM gives you a great deal of advantages, which you should be aware of.

Ultimately I would also look into node.js, since it's so popular it's becoming a reference, and jobs for javascript/node are easy to get.