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Russia was never an ally, at best was a frenemy.

Quote: "On the summit’s first day, Gorbachev lamented the sad state of his economy and ..."

Communist economy was a bankrupt one, based on pillaging, not by producing anything new and good. Their "golden" years, of 50's and 60's was based on actually pillaging all the Eastern Bloc countries and leave them poorer. In every single country the USSR imposed an export-import type of firms, that "imported" Russian stuff, old and outdated from the 20's and 30's which were valued like they were the latest and greatest and exported that country best resource (be it gold, oil or grain). Once those resources were pillaged so the USSR economic decline started.

For more than 4 decades this was slavery with extra steps. So yeah, the Russians are hated by every single former Eastern Bloc country, because we did not forget their heavy boot throughout of "red enlightenment" era.

"...and WinRar has a couple more features"

Like the one that 7zip has AES256 encryption and WinRar can't open it, that one?

Was Modern Art a CIA Psy-Op?

No, it's not. No more than other attempts, like assassinating Castro (man, that one is really a laughing stock if you read that one front to back) or their involvement in "war against drugs". Maybe they start it but had absolutely no control where it was going.

1 - Pirate bay still exists and is very much alive.

2 - Rarbg was a margin note in torrent community. There are others very much alive and better.

Distributed apps. No central server involved. Peer to peer is one. Or each app is a server too and the information propagates in ripple like style. You connect to me, we sync, then another connects to me and this way the info that only you had now he has it too (and me of course). That's the original serverless idea. Not this walled garden crap with "cloud". Cloud is just a computer that is not yours and anything you put in there it's no longer just yours (or in most cases when you lose the account is no longer yours, period! - HN has plenty of horror stories from Google, Amazon, Microsoft that shit on people and call it rain).

"Serverless"...this word is so thrown around nowadays that it lost its original meaning. Same way the phrase "we're like a family" transitioned from a beloved one in 50's to its thrown away in 90's meaningless all the way to today be considered a red flag when you hear such a word at a hiring interview, the "serverless" word is in its late 90's nowadays. One decade and will become just another red flag.

Huh? What you talking about? Oooo, you browse the web without uBlock Origins. Well, that one is your fault.

The NVIDIA cards are for mining crypto-coins too, and they successfully did that for years, before being made obsolete in that area by ASICs. Now it's time for the same thing in AI/ML too, hence why AI chips are being developed, they are the ASICs for this domain. That's the big picture. In 2 to 3 years none is going to use NVIDIA gaming cards for AI/ML anymore, no matter how many GFLOPS future 5000/6000 series are going to offer. They will be for gaming only. End of story.

For gaming do matter those double precision. And we were talking about a certain GPU, which is used for gaming, not AI. Hence why the AI chips exists in the first place - dedicated hardware for dedicated tasks (or ASIC for short)

A few finer points:

1 - It's RTX 4070, not GTX 4070

2 - the 30 TFLOPS you mention are at the very top when overclocked, they go for 22 normally.

3 - Also those are single precision TFLOPS, as in 32 bit. What really matter nowadays is double precision. And in double precision a 4070 is 0.35 TFLOPS (or 350 GFLOPS). 2 orders of magnitude lower, still impressive though

Quote: "The results not only help demystify how ANNs learn, but also suggest that human brains may not come already equipped with hardware and software specially designed for language."

I thought this was common knowledge. I mean if we'd come with already specialized hardware for language at birth we'd speak directly just as a new born puppy barks. Or if we'd have specialized software then children of geniuses would be geniuses themselves. And both cases, are obviously not happening in real life.

Considering this is Microsoft's baby, I think they feel quite good about this getting to front of HN.

Spoon-fed kids nowadays, sheesh. In my days an .img file was a godsend. You'd took it as your precious and ran away with it. A bit of disassembler and you were good to go. I recommend Ghidra, you'll learn a valuable skill, namely reverse engineering, trust me, will give a very nice thrill of the hunt.

This assumes that the memory there is zeroed entirely, while in reality you only zero some small parts of it to make up the logical structure of whatever filesystem you use. The rest, as in 99.(9)% of the memory, is in undefined state and becomes a zero or a one only when the first write occurs.

You don't add percentages, you multiply them. So 1.7 x 1.7 = 2.89% annualized

I have uBlock Origin. It prevented your pop-up about cookies. Once I disabled it and accepted the cookies dialog, then even with uBlock Origin back on your button can be used.

So your QA for this site did not test it for this case. Pretty edge case, but a missed case nevertheless. Maybe you should hire me as QA instead :P

Your apply button there is not working. Nor any other buttons for that matter. Not hugged to death because it loads pretty fast. I'm using Firefox.

If you live in US / Mexic and you use a Tiburon locker renting system (https://www.tiburonlockers.com/lockers-ele.html) to store your items while in a venue/location then you're using code I wrote between 2008-2010. Everything you see in there and more (like iceberg, what you see is only 10%) is written in Delphi with PostgreSQL as DB. Behind the scenes is just a Windows XP running my app in full screen (KIOSK mode).

Also if you drive a Mazda RX-8 (J64/J61J/J61A internal name) from 2007 that has immobilizer feature (back then it was an opt-in feature, nowadays every car has immobilizer by law) then the code running immobilizer feature was partially written by me between 2005-2006.

It started as a necessity project and evolved over time. You see my daughter started to wanted to have her independence around 5th grade (11 years old) and didn't liked me or her mother to go to school or get her home from school. So she needed a key to enter the apartment. Problem was that she lacked the necessary strength to actually unlock the door - door lock had a certain key position and until you hit that position it required quite a strength to do that. So every day she came from school she was ringing at the door. Whoever (me most of the time) was at home, had to go to the door and open it for her.

So that's how I started this project. Get the door to be unlocked. Bought a new lock, with electromagnetic locker in it, hooked up a Raspberry Pi to command a switch for 0.5 seconds and then wrote a server application for RPi that does the command. Wrote another Android app, that connects to RPi, sends the user/pwd via WiFi, the server verifies if all is OK and then unlocks the door.

Then started expand the tech. Get new users to be added by an Admin user (so roles were implemented). Used as DB SQLite in RPi. Wrote my own protocol on top of crypto libraries so communication is secured with a 4096 RSA key over WiFi. Then one day a little accident happened - my daughter had problems with her stomach and the door could not open fast enough for her to go to toilet, so a little soiled pants came out of that event :). That prompted me to start expanding even more and invest in a little LoRa PCB attached to RPi so the communication now can happen from distance instead of just few meters from the door.

Then I wanted to expand the usefulness of RPi. So when we go to vacation a little pump is pumping a predefined liters of water on our flower pots. And to make sure those do not actually get too little or too much I hooked also a number of webcams on RPi to watch them. And since I was at this step and I wanted to flex my muscle in computer vision so another camera is on our front door and automatically will try to recognize people going through its field of vision. This last step is still refined. So this is where I am with this project. Still in development, pretty sure I'll have more ideas in the future I'll attach to that RPi.

Hold your horses there my good friend. Yes, Windows is better now than it was in the past but is still a shitty OS. None of them are actually. All of them continuously fail every single year at hackers gathering/hackatons/whatever public event, with multiple zero-day showing. Every single major OS out there is a joke from security point of view.

Anything a business needs. The idea is to actually hunt for a business owner that has problems and they don't care about the programming language you use to solve the problems. When I quote the estimated hours of some application they need in Delphi vs React or C# or whatever other programming language they heard through the vine is good for them, they always choose Delphi. In the end they care about problem solving, not the tech behind.

it does

Yes. It has full 64 bit support though (both linker and debugger) + rest of major OS'es as compiling target.

1: "I only wish Delphi had a "favorites" filter for the Object Inspector, so you could quickly access your most needed..."

I recommend you install GExperts. It's a free, sources included, nifty utility that greatly improves Delphi IDE.

2: "The other thing Delphi should really have is a way to "package and export" (or snapshot) the whole Delphi setup...." ... "....I find it still a big pain to open an old project on a new machine and having to spend three hours searching and installing components in their latest versions again"

Those are 2 different things. For 1st part, get a docker container / VirtualBox / VMware machine and you can get everything in the snapshot way. I have a VMWare machine from 2007 with Delphi 7 and tons of components from that era, that works like a charm to this day. For 2nd part, to get latest version of components for latest version of Delphi - well, there is a GetIt package manager built in Delphi directly or you can just get the components from their vendors and use their installer. All major Delphi component vendors (TMS, DevExpress, ReportBuilder, etc) have that.

Have fun, I know I do everyday in Delphi. I am a freelancer for 13 years already and 90% of my projects are in Delphi.

Eh, at this step you might just write your own OS to run on Apple hardware. I mean, this could be something. Buy Apple phones at discount, rebrand them and have your own OS. Lose Apple warranty but provide your own instead. A niche market but a market nevertheless.

Now do the necessary steps to see how many it takes to multiply large numbers, let's say 1'785'375 * 7'367'594, in one method vs. the other and then comeback and tell me again if you'll ever use anything else than lattice one.

Ahhh, the memories of naming my folder AUX and then having my Uni professors with administrative privileges not being able to access my files on that folder. Drove them crazy because they thought there is the secret of the Universe hidden there and they demanded I let them see what's inside, when in reality I only wanted to show off and had nothing at all. Novel Netware on top of DOS, year is 1994 - good times.

Probably they use SSD's, not HDD. So no hardware stress.

If you're involving an RPi in this, in order to save power, might as well just have the RPi be the main driving force behind everything. Flip a switch to power on the server, command the backup once a custom app on server informs the RPi that server is ready, shutdown the server again by setting the above switch to OFF. This way your server will not even consume those idle watts when waiting for wake packets.

Go to torrents, get the leak from FB of LLAMA. Scan HN for plenty of entries of GitHub "how to" with said LLAMA. Follow steps there and load the model. See if that's the trigger or this is a hoax.