Hacker News: bwhitty

New comment by bwhitty in "Rio de Janeiro's "homegrown" LLM appears to be a merge of an existing model"

bwhitty — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 18:37:28 +0000

As another poster above linked, it’s been shown to be effective since 2022: https://arxiv.org/abs/2203.05482

New comment by bwhitty in "How OpenAI uses complex and circular deals to fuel its multibillion-dollar rise"

bwhitty — Fri, 31 Oct 2025 14:49:18 +0000

IMF chief economist has thoughts: https://www.afr.com/wealth/investing/the-crash-that-could-to...

New comment by bwhitty in "Intel, Samsung, and TSMC Demo 3D-Stacked Transistors"

bwhitty — Sun, 17 Dec 2023 13:48:08 +0000

It’s a massive supply chain, so, yes, both. But also a hundred other companies. TSMC and other foundries bring together many technologies from many companies (and no doubt a lot of their own) to ship a full foundry solution (design-technology-cooptimization, masks, lithography, packaging, etc).

New comment by bwhitty in "Intel Meteor Lake Architecture"

bwhitty — Mon, 25 Sep 2023 23:33:22 +0000

The 3D Foveros packaging technology is critical as it allows some path lengths to be much shorter than if you had to traverse that same path but only in the horizontal 2D plane.

Very excited to see how this plays out in practice.

New comment by bwhitty in "Ford Hires 550 Former Argo.ai Engineers, Creates Latitude.ai"

bwhitty — Fri, 03 Mar 2023 03:33:55 +0000

Yes, another anecdote to add to this thread of anecdotes is that my HI5 with HDA2 is stellar. I do hours at a time on highways in CA without a disengage.

New comment by bwhitty in "How fast is 12th Gen Intel Core?"

bwhitty — Tue, 09 Aug 2022 04:24:10 +0000

6800U is awesome from what I’ve seen — better efficiency by far, and legit integrated graphics better than Xe — but it is vanishingly rare, even months after announcement.

The scale Intel has in manufacturing mobile CPUs is still unmatched.

New comment by bwhitty in "IEEE to Develop Standard for Autonomous Vehicle Decision-Making"

bwhitty — Fri, 17 Sep 2021 20:38:09 +0000

More information: https://www.tomshardware.com/news/ieee-to-develop-standard-f...

This appears to be driven by MobileEye.

Seems like a very logical thing to have engineers standardize on, and then hand off to the NHTSA, etc., for governance.

IEEE to Develop Standard for Autonomous Vehicle Decision-Making

bwhitty — Fri, 17 Sep 2021 20:35:33 +0000

Article URL: https://sagroups.ieee.org/2846/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28570606

Points: 3

# Comments: 1

New comment by bwhitty in "GitHub is degraded/down"

bwhitty — Tue, 21 Apr 2020 16:10:52 +0000

CenturyLink ISP is having issues: https://downdetector.com/status/centurylink/

New comment by bwhitty in "The Louisiana Environmental Apocalypse Road Trip"

bwhitty — Sun, 06 Aug 2017 18:51:18 +0000

These are poor communities. I know you realize how much lawyers cost.

Could a firm step in in hopes of getting a big pay day going up against the huge titans of the Chemical industry? Probably. Just hasn't happened yet, I'd say.

New comment by bwhitty in "The Louisiana Environmental Apocalypse Road Trip"

bwhitty — Sun, 06 Aug 2017 18:40:01 +0000

Is neoprene really the only way to make wet suits? I doubt it.

Regulate. A dirty word on HN, surely. Regulate the production of and, possibly, the import of neoprene, etc. Force industries to innovate - I know that's not a dirty word here - in order to sell these goods to Americans. Maybe then America becomes the sole producer of environmentally-friendly wet-suits to the whole of the word.

I think this is the only solution since your proposed solution of just "put the plants somewhere else" is, as you've pointed out, untenable.

New comment by bwhitty in "JSC loves ES6"

bwhitty — Tue, 06 Jun 2017 03:57:11 +0000

"Registration requires an Apple developer license."

Hmm, not the open web I'm familiar with.

New comment by bwhitty in "Firefox 51.0"

bwhitty — Tue, 24 Jan 2017 22:20:23 +0000

Very cool demo. Worked fine on my 2015 rMBP even if Ultra settings ran at about 10 FPS.

The web really has come a long, long ways.

New comment by bwhitty in "Wait continues for European Schiaparelli Mars lander"

bwhitty — Wed, 19 Oct 2016 16:29:26 +0000

I believe a sol is a Mars-specific term (at least in this context).

But maybe reading The Martian has me thinking that.

New comment by bwhitty in "Facebook React.js License"

bwhitty — Wed, 12 Oct 2016 16:43:11 +0000

Is there any talk within Facebook on amending this clause or moving React to a standard license? I believe it's stopping a lot of large companies (whom the patent clause could actually affect) from using React, and all other like-licensed Facebook software.

New comment by bwhitty in "Intel to Cut 12,000 Jobs, Forecast Misses Amid PC Blight"

bwhitty — Tue, 19 Apr 2016 20:27:58 +0000

Not trying to be condescending, but legitimately not much. Anecdotes don't really help us here.

Meteor, Typescript, and React – Keep It Simple

bwhitty — Wed, 13 Apr 2016 14:49:49 +0000

Article URL: https://medium.com/@bwhitty/meteor-1-3-typescript-and-react-keep-it-simple-cb83ea248944

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11488634

Points: 4

# Comments: 0

New comment by bwhitty in "Reactive GraphQL"

bwhitty — Tue, 26 Jan 2016 02:18:39 +0000

Meteor is about the UX.

The ease of getting up and running, the ease of tools, and the ease of deployment. On no React stack can you (and in the future this will be more simple) run

  meteor create my-react-project
  npm init && npm install react

And start coding JSX, ES2015/2016 immediately. There is a non-trivial amount of boilerplate and configuration you need to do to get this working my hand, and while it can provide a greater level of control, it undoubtedly adds to the overall weight of code you need to maintain.

Then hypothetically after some time of development, do

  meteor add-platform ios
  meteor add-platform android
  meteor add-platform desktop (this is theoretical currently, but there exist packages which do exactly this)

And have Cordova iOS and Android builds, and an Electron desktop app. Then in a few weeks, do

  meteor deploy

and have a fully monitored application up and running on AWS with Meteor's monitoring and deployment tools. Meteor's play is in the ease of these tools. It is absolutely non-trivial the amount of glue and knowledge you need to create, understand, and maintain the current (and ever-rapidly expanding) Javascript toolchain.

This announcement touches on one of their most thorny issues of being tightly coupled to Mongo. Adding this abstraction layer allowing any UI and any data source is Meteor's ticket to the masses.

New comment by bwhitty in "CodePush by Microsoft"

bwhitty — Fri, 06 Nov 2015 02:05:38 +0000

They already have blessed hot-code pushes; see Meteor: http://info.meteor.com/blog/apple-hot-code-push-mobile

New comment by bwhitty in "CodePush by Microsoft"

bwhitty — Fri, 06 Nov 2015 02:04:41 +0000

Apple at least already allows this for Javascript based apps, particularly Meteor as an example: http://info.meteor.com/blog/apple-hot-code-push-mobile