Hacker News: elbac

New comment by elbac in "Darkbloom – Private inference on idle Macs"

elbac — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 20:59:48 +0000

I received the same error, but it was followed by this line in the logs, which might explain the lack of inference requests assume there is actual demand...

WARN STT backend failed health check — model will NOT be advertised

New comment by elbac in "Show HN: Channel Surfer – Watch YouTube like it’s cable TV"

elbac — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 17:32:06 +0000

I love how 'Music 80s' is channel 29, which was MTV on cable when I was growing up in the tri-state area in the 80s ;)

New comment by elbac in "Windows XP Professional"

elbac — Thu, 07 Aug 2025 14:27:51 +0000

lol, I can't tell if you are serious or not, but it's a recreation in HTML/CSS.

New comment by elbac in "City Roads: A tool to draw all roads in a city at once"

elbac — Sun, 22 Dec 2024 03:19:06 +0000

This is wonderful. Great job.

New comment by elbac in "The Worst Website in the Entire World"

elbac — Wed, 15 May 2024 15:11:17 +0000

The single username and password fields usually allow the site to determine whether some sort of federated login is in place for your domain.

New comment by elbac in "Windows NT on 600MHz machine opens apps instantly. What happened?"

elbac — Fri, 23 Jun 2023 14:59:22 +0000

'What is a TV channel?' (said by my daughter to me recently)

New comment by elbac in "Pirate Weather"

elbac — Tue, 28 Mar 2023 14:36:16 +0000

In conjunction with Pirate Weather, to consume/visualize the data I've been using:

https://merrysky.net/

and

https://briefsky.app/

New comment by elbac in "React I love you, but you're bringing me down"

elbac — Tue, 20 Sep 2022 16:00:17 +0000

Did you use to work in Java?

MParticle cut AWS costs by 80% while usage increased 20%

elbac — Fri, 25 Mar 2022 20:49:26 +0000

Article URL: https://www.mparticle.com/blog/cut-aws-costs/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30806915

Points: 4

# Comments: 0

MParticle acquires Indicative to address data entropy

elbac — Wed, 12 Jan 2022 16:56:16 +0000

Article URL: https://www.mparticle.com/blog/mparticle-acquires-indicative/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29909364

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by elbac in "I forgot about print style sheets (2016)"

elbac — Tue, 27 Apr 2021 17:27:30 +0000

Browser consistency for print styles is like building websites in the late 90s. Chrome, Firefox, Safari all handle margins, page breaks differently. Not to mention setting page/paper size...

New comment by elbac in "The Dunant subsea cable"

elbac — Thu, 04 Feb 2021 15:42:49 +0000

If anyone enjoys this topic, I would recommend reading "A Thread Across the Ocean: The Heroic Story of the Transatlantic Cable" by John Steele Gordon.

How the Presidential Candidates Spy on Their Supporters

elbac — Tue, 27 Oct 2020 14:54:17 +0000

Article URL: https://www.indicative.com/indicative-blog/how-the-presidential-candidates-spy-on-their-supporters/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24907988

Points: 43

# Comments: 12

New comment by elbac in "AresDB: Uber's GPU-Powered Open Source, Real-Time Analytics Engine"

elbac — Sun, 13 Sep 2020 20:17:59 +0000

GPUs are highly specialized CPUs, especially good at some types of number crunching. In analytics workloads, they are used to run queries that can benefit from that specialization. This is not for your typical GPU graphics based use (games/graphics). Has nothing to do with what you see on the screen/frame rate.

A Brief History of Liv Up’s Data Platform

elbac — Wed, 03 Jun 2020 23:57:48 +0000

Article URL: https://medium.com/liv-up-inside-the-kitchen/a-brief-history-of-liv-up-data-platform-5ac403644c1c

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23410617

Points: 7

# Comments: 0

New comment by elbac in "Analyzing Analytics (Featuring: The FBI)"

elbac — Fri, 24 Apr 2020 18:32:50 +0000

The original Urchin was used for log analysis https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urchin_(software). Which might explain a 'self-hosted' version of the software as well.

New comment by elbac in "Coronavirus Work from Home Model"

elbac — Sun, 15 Mar 2020 15:15:04 +0000

I believe this model was created by Tomas Pueyo. His full article is well worth a read: https://medium.com/@tomaspueyo/coronavirus-act-today-or-peop...

New comment by elbac in "Camera sales are falling sharply"

elbac — Wed, 04 Sep 2019 14:17:33 +0000

Out of curiosity what specifically did you buy?

New comment by elbac in "Tumblr"

elbac — Wed, 14 Aug 2019 19:16:50 +0000

We DDOS'd Fred.

New comment by elbac in "Wide Color Photos Are Coming to Android"

elbac — Mon, 20 May 2019 23:01:19 +0000

If you are on a Mac, try changing your color profile in System Preferences | Displays | Color to something like 'Adobe RGB' or 'Display P3'. That allowed me to see the logo, as for a difference in the photos in the original post, not so much...