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rshmon Xiaomi: New CPU matches Apple cores single threaded, much faster multithreaded

Is DUV inherently 5nm a 20% yield class or it's matter of process improvement that China is struggling compared to taiwan or Intel ?

rshmon SpiceCrypt: A Python library for decrypting LTspice encrypted model files

Coming from a brief failed attempt of using ghidra to see if keys were part of binary, this is a welcome news.

Next on wishlist is someone doing the same for encrypted fpga verilog blobs.

rshmon Building Meta's GenAI infrastructure

I think some elements of this stack might flow into the open compute.

rshmon Sam Altman is still trying to return as OpenAI CEO

If board resigns now, who gets to appoint new members ?

rshmon Ask HN: Can someone ELI5 transformers and the “Attention is all we need” paper?

Someone else can better explain this. Based on one of the video suggested in one of the replies here. sin and cos doesn’t have any inherent properties specific to language, they were chosen because a simple linear function was needed in that step of optimization. Any other function could fit the bill as well.

rshmon Tell HN: AWS connectivity issues, but health dashboard says everything fine

Snowflake confirmed AWS us-east-2 issues as well.

AWS - US East (Ohio): INC0073093 https://status.snowflake.com/incidents/yv40l966krl9

rshmon Tell HN: AWS connectivity issues, but health dashboard says everything fine

Could be resolved, east-2 console working fine on my end.

rshmon A serverless architecture for high performance financial modelling

Does anyone know the equivalent of lambda without the 15 mins restriction. Firecracker would fit the bill if it didn't have the bare metal requirements.

rshmon TIFU by using Stripe as a payment processor for my small business

> What's the OP/your alternative?

Reach out to local credit unions or even smallish bank. They usually are middleman to firstdata, chase paymentech etc. But you get a dedicated account rep at cost of nominal monthly fee. Rates usually are competitive often lower than what stripe and paypal offers.

rshmon Product shouldn’t be left to product managers

Wonder if someone can share their experience with product driven teams as in

https://www.thoughtworks.com/en-us/insights/blog/project-vs-...

One recurring issue i have seen on my team is that project managers are acting like architects and tech leads (like other comment mentioned here). Wondering if the same thing.

rshmon Ask HN: Who wants to collaborate?

Any particular reason on using png instead of svg directly to display images.

I tried to copy as well as open in new tab, got checkered.png instead. With noun project for example, one can right click and copy the image link, which can be pasted on drawio.

rshmon SpiceDB Is Open Source

https://storage.googleapis.com/pub-tools-public-publication-...

The paper itself is also good.

rshmon Intel Distribution for Python

Looks like recompilation. I am guessing gains are on numpy and scipy. For python heavy code base, i doubt it can be performant than pypy.

rshmon Snowflake Is Down Globally

Whats happening with the slack now ?

rshmon Replit used legal threats to kill my open-source project

Reading this thread alone would have saved you from mistake of doubling down.

rshmon uBlock Origin works best on Firefox

By any chance you are using nightly. I am not able to login as IAM user in firefox nightly. For last couple of months always get 403 from AWS.

rshmon Amazon workers vote against unionizing in Alabama

I would guess, fear of retribution from amazon. If the voting was nationwide it could have lowered the fear that amazon could treat one location better in things like expansion.

rshmon Teardown of the Apple's A1243 Keyboard

Any who moved from this keyboard to newer bluetooth version with keypad. Do you find key spacing a bit tigher in newer version ?

rshmon Rga: Ripgrep, but also search in PDFs, E-Books, Office documents, zip, tar.gz

Can you share your script.

rshmon What People Say Before They Die

I read it somewhere, when Steve Jobs died he said “oh wow, oh wow, oh wow”.

rshmon Explore ISS on Google Maps

is North arbitrary in the map or has some meaning ?

rshmon Understanding the BeagleBone’s built in microcontrollers (2016)

One of the use case : 14-CHANNEL, 100MSPS LOGIC ANALYZER

[https://hackaday.com/2015/02/19/turn-your-beagleboneblack-in...]

rshmon A Full Hardware Guide to Deep Learning

Is $86 normal price these days for 1080 Ti ?

    https://www.ebay.com/itm/143062782506

Edit: probably a listing on a compromised account.

rshmon First gene-edited babies claimed in China

https://apnews.com/4997bb7aa36c45449b488e19ac83e86d

Has more info

rshmon Fast nnn file browser v1.6 released

For a moment i was expecting Neural Network (NN) from the title. Along the line that NN was used to pre-load directory structures, NN in search results ordering etc.

rshmon Three Equifax Managers Sold Stock Before Cyber Hack Was Revealed

Is it possible or are there free data sources if an average person wants to dig into tradings of Jul 27, two day before official date of discovery.

rshmon Exploring the mysteries of Go with AlphaGo and China’s top players

There is another NN engine from Tencent making progress for last couple of weeks.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fine_Art_(software)

rshmon Google Cloud Platform Free Tier

Even with regular cards, in my case they wanted proof of address sent to them.

rshmon Introducing Cloud Functions for Firebase

No native python, java support like aws lambda. Are AWS 128MB instances constrained to 200MHz cpus ?