Hacker News: manoweb

New comment by manoweb in "Apple Intelligence Foundation Language Models Tech Report 2025"

manoweb — Thu, 17 Jul 2025 23:24:06 +0000

I am not sure why you go on the subject of English speaking world etc. Anyway, the models you tested with that query, which I am not sure why we think is a good benchmark, are local models running on a wireless device or they use datacenter and only convey the text back and forth?

New comment by manoweb in "Apple Intelligence Foundation Language Models Tech Report 2025"

manoweb — Thu, 17 Jul 2025 23:21:17 +0000

Your usage of Siri today (probably on an old version of iOS) frankly has nothing to do with the article we are discussing. Sorry to say this but it is going to take time. Comparing the performance of a chatgpt running in a big data center with a model running locally on a phone device... give it a few years.

New comment by manoweb in "Making TRAMP go Brrrr"

manoweb — Mon, 23 Jun 2025 17:39:00 +0000

So... people dont's save to local files and then manually ftp them anymore these days? I should check this stuff out

New comment by manoweb in "Europe launches program to lure scientists away from the US"

manoweb — Sat, 10 May 2025 09:10:29 +0000

Hello, the self deport is for illegal aliens. There is no concern for who is in the USA with a valid visa to do science. In fact, the longest scientists and highly qualified people from Europe had to wait for a green card was under the Obama administration.

New comment by manoweb in "Happy 20th Birthday, Y Combinator"

manoweb — Wed, 12 Mar 2025 02:08:39 +0000

ciao

I still use newsgroups (NNTP) and IRC everyday, hackernews is pretty good considered it's HTTP based

New comment by manoweb in "Why fastDOOM is fast"

manoweb — Wed, 05 Mar 2025 00:14:51 +0000

Unlike the author, back in the day I would have preferred a 486DX50 to the DX2-66. 50MHz bus interface (including to the graphics card) instead of 33MHz

New comment by manoweb in "After 20 years, math couple solves major group theory problem"

manoweb — Thu, 20 Feb 2025 17:41:10 +0000

What are you talking about, why do you think that autistics are treated better in Europe, Africa, Asia? Also, people do not "hate" them, people in general hate everybody, don't play the victim

New comment by manoweb in "After 20 Years, Math Couple Solves Major Group Theory Problem"

manoweb — Thu, 20 Feb 2025 17:40:00 +0000

There are tens of millions of people doing a repetitive work every day, instead of being entrepreneurs. Just let them be, not everybody needs to dedicate their existence to maximizing their career opportunities, at any level.

New comment by manoweb in "Frank Lloyd Wright's mile high skyscraper proposal (2021)"

manoweb — Fri, 07 Feb 2025 02:55:03 +0000

Most people have great pleasure in owning and driving a nice car. The ones that do not are a minority. There are many reasons why cars (and trucks) are desirable and sought after possessions. It would be a logical fallacy that because you currently do not want one, people should build major projects with no regard to car parking.

New comment by manoweb in "OpenWrt 24.10.0 – First Stable Release"

manoweb — Fri, 07 Feb 2025 02:42:45 +0000

How do you connect your PC to the router?

New comment by manoweb in "Frank Lloyd Wright's mile high skyscraper proposal (2021)"

manoweb — Fri, 07 Feb 2025 00:02:08 +0000

Excuse me, how are people supposed to get there? Parking should be provided for 100% of the occupancy.

New comment by manoweb in "OpenWrt 24.10.0 – First Stable Release"

manoweb — Thu, 06 Feb 2025 09:27:14 +0000

Excuse me but what do you need 10Gbps internet for? What is the use case? I get the cheapest thing that Comcast provides (50Mbps) and it seems to be enough for the 5 of us at home, everybody always streaming, gaming etc. I have an old asus router I got used in 2015 that I repaired with zip ties otherwise it powers off. At work we have 'infinite' internet (on a class A IP block) and I do not feel any difference in browsing or streaming (obviously I do if I need to transfer a file)

New comment by manoweb in "Wild – A fast linker for Linux"

manoweb — Fri, 24 Jan 2025 16:59:50 +0000

That is baffling. Maybe the author assumes that a language with many safeguards will lead to keeping complexity under control for a difficult task.

By the way I had to lookup what incremental linking is, in practice I think it means that code from libraries and modules that have not changed won’t need to be re-packed each time which ch will save time for frequent development builds, it’s actually ingenious

New comment by manoweb in "Climbers Using Xenon Gas, Which Is Banned in Sports, to Climb Everest"

manoweb — Tue, 14 Jan 2025 23:58:18 +0000

Maybe they just want to go on top of Everest, that once was just for the professional mountaineer. People looking for challenges still have the K2 and others

New comment by manoweb in "Climbers Using Xenon Gas, Which Is Banned in Sports, to Climb Everest"

manoweb — Tue, 14 Jan 2025 23:56:55 +0000

I think we need this approach. Like many protocols, if there is enough research and medical support we can develop ways to go beyond current limits. Not everybody can stay for 8 weeks in a foreign country just waiting. Faster expeditions will also mean less waste and crowding for the same number of people reaching the summit.

New comment by manoweb in "The Evaporative Cooling Effect in Social Networks (2010)"

manoweb — Wed, 08 Jan 2025 01:41:12 +0000

This has happened on Usenet for a while, according to my experience, and for many years it has been an Eternal September https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eternal_September indeed. However, in the past few years, with many low quality users migrating to other places, and with a higher barrier to entry, good content has returned. I infer there are waves, cycles of evaporation and condensation.

New comment by manoweb in "The Evaporative Cooling Effect in Social Networks (2010)"

manoweb — Wed, 08 Jan 2025 01:37:14 +0000

I believe you are confusing "effective" with "ugly" There is only one thing that could improve HN interface, and that is an NNTP mirror feed, so you could use any NNTP client you like.

New comment by manoweb in "Breaking Bad: How Compilers Break Constant-Time~Implementations"

manoweb — Sun, 27 Oct 2024 05:16:21 +0000

Excuse me but what would be the use of zeroing a register before overwriting it?

New comment by manoweb in "Breaking Bad: How Compilers Break Constant-Time~Implementations"

manoweb — Wed, 23 Oct 2024 15:58:17 +0000

Hello, isn’t part of what you were trying to achieve already taken care of if you use ‘volatile’ or a memory barrier? When writing Linux drivers these patterns are common. In some more exotic cases, even instruction barriers can be used to limit what the out of order or speculative execution is going to be

New comment by manoweb in "Popular gut probiotic craps out in randomized controlled trial"

manoweb — Sat, 05 Oct 2024 15:48:02 +0000

I lived most of my life in an alpine European village; water was chlorinated and flourinated, more than in my current US location. There was a huge difference in mineral content, US water being almost distilled (1 to 3 French degrees hardness) VS something like 15-20 in Europe