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spxneo

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spxneo··on ScrapeGraphAI: Web scraping using LLM and direct graph logic
all around automation sucks with LLM thrown on top of it

the statistics are not in its favour

spxneo··on Ask HN: How are you making sure LLM provider doesn't ban you from user prompts?
see this im not even sure

how does openrouter tolerate so many users without risking getting its api keys banned

spxneo··on Ask HN: How are you making sure LLM provider doesn't ban you from user prompts?
any recommendations on local classifier/smol llm
spxneo··on Apple introduces M4 chip
strongly doubt we will see M5 so soon
spxneo··on Apple introduces M4 chip
I literally don't give a fck about Intel anymore they are irrelevant

The taiwanese silicon industrial complex deserves our dollars. Their workers are insanely hard working and it shows in its product.

spxneo··on Apple introduces M4 chip
damn bro thanks for this

here i am celebrating not pulling the trigger on M2 128gb yesterday

now im realizing M4 ain't shit

will wait a few more months for what you described. will probably wait for AMD

> Given that Microsoft has defined that only processors with an NPU with 45 TOPS of performance or over constitute being considered an 'AI PC',

so already with 77 TOPS it just destroys M4. Rumoured to hit the market in 2 months or less.

spxneo··on Apple introduces M4 chip
almost went for M2 128gb to run some local llamas

glad I held out. M4 is going to put downward pressure across all previous gen.

edit: nvm, AMD is coming out with twice the performance of M4 in two months or less. If the M2s become super cheap I will consider it but M4 came far too late. There's just way better alternatives now and very soon.

spxneo··on SEQUOIA: Exact Llama2-70B on an RTX4090 with half-second per-token latency
this is quite worrying for OpenAI as the rate token prices have been plummeting thanks to Meta and its going to have to keep cutting its prices while capex remains flat. whatever Sam says in interviews just think the opposite and the whole picture comes together.

It's almost a mathematical certainty that people who invested in OpenAI will need to reincarnate in multiple universes to ever see that money again but no bother many are probably NVIDIA stock holders to even out the damage.

spxneo··on SATO: Stable Text-to-Motion Framework
2 minute papers?
spxneo··on He Lost $36B in a Week. Now Bill Hwang Is Fighting to Avoid Prison
Bill Hwang, Masayoshi Son are all just straight up gamblers.
spxneo··on Show HN: gpudeploy.com – "Airbnb" for GPUs
doesn't seem all that cheap compared to whats available
spxneo··on SATO: Stable Text-to-Motion Framework
makes sense to transition between animations, shouldn't be hard to do
spxneo··on DNS traffic can leak outside the VPN tunnel on Android
damn this is crazy, how did they even compile all the residential proxies

im seeing it detect!!

spxneo··on Evidence of price-fixing in the oil industry?
inb4 alephnerd but US legitimacy/prestige has taken significant hit in the past 10 years and the trend seems to be accelerating.

Truong My Lan may have been a pig to be butchered. Much like SBF/CZ in the US.

spxneo··on Evidence of price-fixing in the oil industry?
and where are the components for electric car batteries coming from again and what is the harm done to environment/countries being mined?
spxneo··on DNS traffic can leak outside the VPN tunnel on Android
So your narrative is that they have complete access but choose not to act on anything they find on VPNs and other "privacy focused" tech?

Makes sense as there has been no cases involving terrorist using Mullvad and such.

So Mullvad is not good enough for terrorists but good enough for the rest? This makes no sense to me.

spxneo··on DNS traffic can leak outside the VPN tunnel on Android
so then whats the other alternative?

solder on some ESPs on an old playstation portable device and connect from starbucks?

spxneo··on DNS traffic can leak outside the VPN tunnel on Android
how are platforms like reddit able to get complete list of mullvad IPs and other vpns but not residential proxies?
spxneo··on DNS traffic can leak outside the VPN tunnel on Android
toy with me for a bit, couldn't Mullvad be another "Encrochat" in the making?

Encrochat was similarly marketed as absolutely trustable complete with experts covering "we fixed this vulnerability/exploit and you can trust us" vibes (https://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/uk-news/dads-se...)

Isn't Mullvad the same thing?

Do you really think they would allow terrorists like Hamas use Mullvad to coordinate attacks? Coincidentally, Hamas does not trust any sort of VPN, opting for underground land lines.

spxneo··on SATO: Stable Text-to-Motion Framework
This is an interesting proposition, converting text to motion but what will happen with other agents in the mix? For example, simulating a crowd moving between each other?

So far from the benchmarks comparing with other methods, this seems to be quite natural, if this can be extrapolated into game development, it would remove so much work.

spxneo··on Building a rocket engine from scratch
Is this the codebase that they took down ???! Yes to all of the things you can do (minus the passive radar stuff beyond educational purposes that is ;)

edit: looks like they took down all the passive radar doppler videos : https://othernet.is/products/kerberossdr-4x-coherent-rtlsdr

spxneo··on Building a rocket engine from scratch
I'll follow your recommendation and try the simple stuff. Looks like OnShape is right up my alley. All very exciting feels like I'm "programming hardware" !
spxneo··on Building a rocket engine from scratch
thank you so much for this detailed answer. now i just need to invest some time into learning CAD and KiCAD
spxneo··on Building a rocket engine from scratch
side question to this: where can i design stuff involving metal parts (presumably in CAD tools) and have it printed en masse? With PCBs? ex) car components
spxneo··on Building a rocket engine from scratch
now all that is required is a github for passive radar...for educational purposes
spxneo··on Nvidia has published a competitive llama3-70B QA/RAG fine tune
Looking at the table comparison I almost closed the tab until I realized the 70b model was at the last column

ChatGPT ₥ price has to come down ASAP.

spxneo··on Show HN: I built a 100% free startup idea generator
from what I've seen: the human side of things is almost always ignored on this side of the fence.

im not sure who is right.

spxneo··on Microsoft bans U.S. police from using enterprise AI tool for facial recognition
American law enforcement openly disregard the foundations from which the country was built upon yet pushes other countries to adopt ideas which it abandoned but won't admit it out of humiliation--that which we call "democracy" comes with the very hooks and strings it tells other countries to abandon.

Just take a look at the countries that credulously adopted "democracy". They are not in a good shape and will probably never find itself out of the moving goal post that Western countries like to place on "lesser" countries.

America is addicted to these 3 things: Oil, authoritarian labour, drugs. It's law enforcement is not meant to police those addictions at all but rather to ensure its continued uninterrupted supply even if it means violating its own principles that made the country great (about 40+ years ago).

It's no wonder many Americans are yearning for past glory.

spxneo··on Show HN: I built a 100% free startup idea generator
that is the waterfall pmf approach and its super hard. every step of the way is a struggle with unknowns. its a large reason why the failure rate is 99%.
spxneo··on Show HN: I built a 100% free startup idea generator
thats on the left side of the spectrum. on the right, businesses and people are nothing more than balance sheet entries to be traded.
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