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New comment by beiller in "macOS Sequoia makes it harder to run not notarized or signed apps"

beiller — Wed, 07 Aug 2024 21:20:56 +0000

I tried Asahi on my older M1 macbook and the battery life is still very bad. I am pretty experienced trying to dive into CPU schedulers and kernel settings, etc. to try and fix it, but I was unable to squeeze more than about 3 hours of battery out of the laptop WHILE CLOSED! In contrast just booting up mac os the battery lasts about 36 hours+ while closed.

New comment by beiller in "Ontario family doctor says new AI notetaking saved her job"

beiller — Fri, 03 May 2024 18:56:24 +0000

I don't see how it being Canadian is relevant. First off Canada is part of North America and North America is big geographically. We have similar car culture compared to USA. There are very large subsidies given to battery manufacturing sector in Canada amounting to $43.6 billion over 10 years as part of the latest budget.

New comment by beiller in "Japan brings negative interest rates era to an end with first hike in 17 years"

beiller — Tue, 19 Mar 2024 15:53:51 +0000

No because USA's central bank is raising rates as well. Only when the policies differ do the currencies move. So Yen seems to have been falling for awhile since their central bank lagged USA. It would probably be a poor choice to dump USD for Yen IMO.

New comment by beiller in "Japan brings negative interest rates era to an end with first hike in 17 years"

beiller — Tue, 19 Mar 2024 15:30:38 +0000

We could let the market set interest rates but they would be much higher. Banks would be very unhappy since they have loaded up on the rock bottom rates. You'd see many banks go under similar to SV bank. This is a world economy and they are all somewhat aligned on their interest rate policies. Those that don't fall in line will see a currency repricing (and some like Japan want that to some extent).

New comment by beiller in "The Pile is a 825 GiB diverse, open-source language modelling data set (2020)"

beiller — Thu, 07 Mar 2024 22:41:58 +0000

It seems small, until you try to download it.

New comment by beiller in "The $25B Kroger-Albertsons Merger Is Going to Fail"

beiller — Wed, 28 Feb 2024 18:24:25 +0000

Not sure where the quote is from but inflation is still above the target of 2% (by traditional measures) so is that not considered high?

New comment by beiller in "Our Company Is Doing So Well That You're All Fired"

beiller — Thu, 22 Feb 2024 20:57:04 +0000

Sure! Salaries are what people use to exchange money for goods and services that these companies produce in theory. But the free money environment we've lived in the last decade seems to have primed companies to think that operating at a loss is okay. If we just fire the workers, and sales lag and dip, its okay because it will force the fed to lower rates and we can just borrow our way back to the top with no sales!

Imagine though... an AI startup that just trades goods between AIs. We should actually start firing customers!

New comment by beiller in ""Fake Chinese income" mortgages fuel Toronto real estate bubble: HSBC bank leaks"

beiller — Tue, 06 Feb 2024 19:27:38 +0000

Makes sense I wasn't thinking about the full on laundering aspects. But even so, if the real estate is used in laundering, it will eventually have to be sold to get back clean money. This should still run up prices at the start, and run them down in the end. So I think the majority of the point still stands: there should be an uptick in sales (which there is not). They could be speculating on top of laundering, in which case they are taking some losses. We are -20% from peak. The time will come when they (the launderers) will need liquidity and sell which has not come. Will it ever come?

New comment by beiller in ""Fake Chinese income" mortgages fuel Toronto real estate bubble: HSBC bank leaks"

beiller — Tue, 06 Feb 2024 18:55:31 +0000

All sounds very plausible, but where are the effects of this? We should be seeing many people holding mortgages at HSBC not able to pay. Are there no public stats showing how many lack of payments being made to HSBC? Is HSBC going to hold on to these properties taking massive losses? For how long? It has definitely helped the run up of prices here. It will also help the collapse of prices as well, either that or the collapse of HSBC. Maybe the effects take a very long time to manifest. Lets hope it's not too long :)

New comment by beiller in "Over 2 percent of the US's electricity generation now goes to Bitcoin"

beiller — Fri, 02 Feb 2024 19:57:01 +0000

The price of a bitcoin sets an upper bound on consumption of energy where the miner will be in a place that is no longer profitable since energy costs money. On top of this, miners have no upward way to influence the price of bitcoin, only downward (selling of coins, or destruction of trust).

If we just properly externalized the cost of CO2 emissions it solves this problem along with many others. So why don't we do that?

New comment by beiller in "Machine Learning Is Still Too Hard for Software Engineers"

beiller — Tue, 23 Jan 2024 22:21:51 +0000

What I've found in reality is that machine learning is 99% data cleaning scripts and 1% the part you're talking about. I've also seen the heavy duty statistics people writing data cleaning python scripts which probably leads to a lot of frustrations :)

New comment by beiller in "Rough.js: Create graphics with a hand-drawn, sketchy, appearance"

beiller — Fri, 22 Dec 2023 17:10:05 +0000

Is there a simple diagram app / site / etc. that uses this? I love the look.I'd love to diagram things using it. Love the fill types which could be great for accessibility.

New comment by beiller in "Firefox on the brink?"

beiller — Tue, 05 Dec 2023 23:36:29 +0000

I believe it supports pwas fully. Click ... Menu and click "add to home screen"

New comment by beiller in "Show HN: Dobb·E – towards home robots with an open-source platform"

beiller — Wed, 29 Nov 2023 20:48:22 +0000

I think you will find openexr surprisingly well supported across many platforms.

New comment by beiller in "Former Mozilla exec: Google has sabotaged Firefox for years (2019)"

beiller — Mon, 20 Nov 2023 16:56:13 +0000

Maybe a counter point here, but I've doubled down on Firefox only, even at work. Things like hangouts and many other Goog services seem to have started working more at parity compared to Chromium at least I've found, in the last year or so.

New comment by beiller in "The real realtime preemption end game"

beiller — Thu, 16 Nov 2023 17:04:20 +0000

Your talk of xrun is giving me anxiety. When I was younger I dreamed of having a linux audio effects stack with cheap hardware on stage and xruns brought my dreams crashing down.

New comment by beiller in "Talk-Llama"

beiller — Fri, 03 Nov 2023 15:58:57 +0000

It may be using the streaming demo. The reason I know to answer your question is that I had modified the streaming demo myself for personal use before. I think there is bugs in the silence detection code (as of a few months back, maybe fixed now). Maybe what we are seeing in this demo is just the "silence detection" setting to be waiting for very long pauses, I believe its configurable.

New comment by beiller in "Talk-Llama"

beiller — Thu, 02 Nov 2023 16:59:36 +0000

It waits for sufficient silence to determine when to stop recording the voice and send it to the model. There is other modes in the source as well and methods of setting the length of silences in order to chunk up and send bits at a time, but I imagine that is either work in progress or not planned for this demo.

New comment by beiller in "Is Math Real?"

beiller — Tue, 26 Sep 2023 06:33:04 +0000

Explained better above. There are more irrational numbers, almost guaranteeing any number come across in nature is irrational. Interesting thought since I think one thing that makes irrational numbers is there is no function for them. So it's kind of a cheeky way to say no math formulas can ever describe the real world since all the numbers are irrational.

New comment by beiller in "Is Math Real?"

beiller — Tue, 26 Sep 2023 01:19:50 +0000

I think I heard that all numbers in the real world are irrational. So that means most of math is not real, except of course the irrationals like pi :)