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New comment by brute in "Kimi-K3 on HuggingFace"

brute — Mon, 27 Jul 2026 11:43:39 +0000

The path to ubiquitous AI (17k tokens/sec) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47086181

You can still try it at https://chatjimmy.ai/, but it's running the rather outdated Llama 3.1 8B

New comment by brute in "Font with Built-In Syntax Highlighting"

brute — Thu, 15 Aug 2024 11:47:48 +0000

Or from some months ago: Llama.ttf: A font which is also an LLM

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40766791

New comment by brute in "Steam will drop support for Windows 7 and Windows 8 on January 1, 2024"

brute — Tue, 28 Mar 2023 18:41:35 +0000

98% to be precise.

But still, with 132 million active monthly users, that leaves 2.4 million people who now can't access their games. So I disagree with that being "not worth the effort".

New comment by brute in "The Kobayashi Maru of comparing dates with times"

brute — Sat, 12 Feb 2022 23:50:20 +0000

Quick reminder that those timezone abbreviation are not unique (i.e. Philippine Standard Time)

https://www.timeanddate.com/time/zones/

New comment by brute in "Robinhood, in Need of Cash, Raises $1B from Its Investors"

brute — Fri, 29 Jan 2021 18:18:39 +0000

https://xkcd.com/2270/

New comment by brute in "Scrollbar Blindness"

brute — Thu, 27 Aug 2020 17:42:37 +0000

Judging from this [1], even more countries don't use it.

[1] https://travel.stackexchange.com/questions/34950/which-large...

New comment by brute in "FDA Approves Clinical Trials to Use Antibodies from Recovered Patients"

brute — Fri, 27 Mar 2020 20:31:56 +0000

Do you have a source that young and healthy people are dying from COVID-19? Just curious.

The best I have is the Italian National Institute of Health (ISS) which did a study on all 2003 dead (back when that was the number). Only 5 have been under the age of 40 and all of them had medical preconditions.

There are young and healthy people that show heavy symptoms and even need ventilation, but they all seem to survive.

New comment by brute in "Mark Text: Simple and Elegant Markdown Editor Focused on Speed and Usability"

brute — Wed, 06 Nov 2019 20:26:19 +0000

http://www.inkcode.net/qute does it quite similar (on a paragraph basis instead on a word basis) and it's open-source

New comment by brute in "A brief history of government efforts to stop people from wearing masks"

brute — Fri, 04 Oct 2019 15:22:06 +0000

Well, it's true. Here [1] is the corresponding law, here [2] is wikipedia with some expamples what counts as passive weapons (plastic film, basecaps reinforced with plastic, gasmasks, knee pads, … ) and here [3] is a case where a paramedic was sentenced for wearing a helmet.

[1] https://dejure.org/gesetze/VersG/17a.html

[2] https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schutzwaffe

[3] www.labournet.de/interventionen/grundrechte/grundrechte-all/demonstrationsrecht/schutz-durch-selbstschutz-demonstrationssanitaeter-wurde-wegen-vermummung-und-passivbewaffnung-verurteilt/

New comment by brute in "The internet is an SEO landfill"

brute — Sun, 23 Jun 2019 18:09:22 +0000

then SEO would turn towards having an army of bots upvoting your product and downvoting the competitor. And if you have something in between to detect bots, users wouldn't want to use it (who would solve a captcha to help optimize search results?) and SEO would find ways around it

New comment by brute in "Fyne: Cross-Platform GUI in Go Based on Material Design"

brute — Mon, 25 Mar 2019 10:44:27 +0000

> Fyne ships with two themes by default, "light" and "dark". […] The default is dark

As someone who uses dark-themes for absolutely everything, which sometimes requires quite some hassle (I am looking at you Slack), I welcome the trend to offer a dark theme next to a light one. And having dark as default is even better. Thank you!

New comment by brute in "Sex censorship killed the internet we love"

brute — Sat, 02 Feb 2019 09:50:09 +0000

An eye-opening moment for me was when the game 'Bulletstorm' released in 2011. It was heavily criticized when it launched (and even before) but for vastly different reasons.

Germany had a HUGE problem with the violence (even the 18+ version has blood and dismemberment removed), US criticized the sexuality (two achievements were called 'topless' and 'gang bang'), and in Japan it was about the promotion of drugs (you could get drunk to perform extra skill shots) and to a lesser extent about the violence.

So every cultural region has its own ideas of what their children need to be shielded from (and what to blame social misconduct on). But they all fail to realize that the children of the others, who get exposed to the 'bad stuff', still turn out fine by some miracle.

New comment by brute in "Warriorjs – An exciting game of programming and artificial intelligence"

brute — Sat, 12 May 2018 11:27:25 +0000

You are probably thinking of http://robocode.sourceforge.net/

I played this like 17 years ago and to my most pleasant surprise, the project is still alive.

New comment by brute in "Attack of the Week: Group Messaging in WhatsApp and Signal"

brute — Thu, 11 Jan 2018 10:00:08 +0000

People are in jail because they felt secure using Telegram. It's the kind of people who should be in jail, but nonetheless it is beyond me how anyone could still use it.

New comment by brute in "Berlin's Plan to Become a City for Cyclists"

brute — Thu, 21 Dec 2017 05:21:15 +0000

The major factor here is Berlin's street width, which was chosen to be 22m by law in 1862 for fire safety reasons, much wider than other german cities. Consequently during WW2, Berlin proved to be a problem for allied incendiary bombs. At some point they were even building a to scale model city in the desert (Dugway Proving Ground) for testing various methods of igniting fire storms.

> Berlin, however, would “prove more difficult than most other German cities”, the leading incendiary expert Horatio Bond avowed before the national commission for armament research of the USA. “The building quality is higher, and the single blocks are better separated from each other.” As the tests at the Dugway Proving Ground showed, is “was hardly to be expected that the flames would jump unhindered from one building to the next”.[1]

[1] http://www.principality-of-sealand.ch/pdf/sealandbrief0503e....

New comment by brute in "Joplin – A note-taking and to-do app with builds for desktop, mobile, terminal"

brute — Thu, 30 Nov 2017 14:36:42 +0000

> If they were stored directly as text files it would be slow to query them, it would be very hard to make it work on mobile (and even slower), and you wouldn't be able to easily create relations between notes and tags, notes and notebooks, resource links, etc.

Zim uses plain text files and folders. You can have images, tags, link to other notes, links to the filesystem...

Maybe I am not using it with enough files for it to be a problem, but I cant say that it is slow.

New comment by brute in "OpenShot 2.4.1 Released"

brute — Tue, 14 Nov 2017 00:56:31 +0000

I was really happy when I found OpenShot, because of it's clean and intuitive interface. Unfortunately it was somewhat unstable at the time (which seems to be fixed by today's patch, yeay!), so I was even more delighted when I found Shotcut, which is also free, open source and cross-platform, has an equally nice interface, but has an even bigger set of features.

New comment by brute in "Can you make your brain not see this circle illusion?"

brute — Fri, 04 Aug 2017 14:48:49 +0000

Minor correction: Predators like lions have no problem distinguishing individual members of a herd. The stripes pattern messes with the way blood-sucking, disease-spreading flies (such as horse flies or tsetse flies) see the world.

https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/kbzwpv/the-reason...

New comment by brute in "Can you make your brain not see this circle illusion?"

brute — Fri, 04 Aug 2017 09:27:54 +0000

Cats that grow up in an environment without any horizontal lines are unable to see horizontal lines [1]. This indicates that it might not be as much "evolution made me recognize these shapes" as it is "I learned to recognize these shapes since I see them often", which is more inline with OP's explanation. Of course evolution plays into what you are able to learn to recognize in the first place.

[1] https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/brain-food/201404/the-c...

New comment by brute in "Qbrt – Cross-platform HTML/JS desktop apps using the Firefox Gecko runtime"

brute — Mon, 31 Jul 2017 10:49:39 +0000

There are plans to rewrite Thunderbird because of this issue.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14156251