Hacker News: nailk

New comment by nailk in "Claude for Creative Work"

nailk — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 08:57:43 +0000

Artists get hired at companies because companies have the technology that made the artists work profitable, starting from book printing (public performance -> book printing -> cinema -> tv -> internet, similar to drawing -> photo -> digital). At the Public Performance / Drawing Era artists were mostly poor low class rogues. The technology made them what they are now.

They are protesting against natural technology development. To me it looks similar to taxi drivers protesting against Uber (protecting their right to scam tourists).

Did drawing artists protest against photography? Do celebrities protest against photographers selling their photos taken by them in public places?

They are right to be afraid though. What's really happening here most probably is Anthorpic buys rights to collect user trajectory data. In order to replace Blender users later.

New comment by nailk in "Llama 2 70B on M2 Max at 7 tokens/sec"

nailk — Sat, 02 Sep 2023 07:42:48 +0000

Looks great! Are there other benchmarks? How does the speed compare to other LLM engines like llama.cpp / vllm (on GPUs)? Is it able to do continuous batching of incoming requests like vllm?

How to easily switch from Java to Rust: tips and tricks

nailk — Mon, 28 Aug 2023 15:03:10 +0000

Article URL: https://medium.com/@igumnovnsk/how-to-easily-switch-from-java-to-rust-tips-and-tricks-20052367a80d

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37295186

Points: 2

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New comment by nailk in "LCD TVs won’t see any further development"

nailk — Tue, 20 Jun 2023 04:55:38 +0000

5k (5120x2880 resolution) on 27" monitor makes difference for text. It looks crisp clear on 200 PPI, much better compared to 4k.

I still use HP Z27q bought in 2016. I wonder why the industry has so few offers for 27" 5120p monitors.

New comment by nailk in "LCD TVs won’t see any further development"

nailk — Tue, 20 Jun 2023 04:49:36 +0000

"8k" name in this case is just a marketing. It's not 8k, it's 4230p only.

New comment by nailk in "Tether starting to lose its peg too, after Terra did"

nailk — Thu, 12 May 2022 12:27:35 +0000

> These are all problems invented by Crypto bulls to build a narrative for why Crypto is widely useful.

These problems happened to me and still happening. Swift transactions in USD from US to UAE are getting double converted (at cost of 2.5-4% of the total amount) and it’s very difficult to get meaningful answer from the bank support about what’s happening

New comment by nailk in "Tether starting to lose its peg too, after Terra did"

nailk — Thu, 12 May 2022 10:57:30 +0000

> the upside can be had by holding dollars

Unless your bank kicks you out by some reason (incompetent compliance). Unless foreign bank refuses your transaction because the bank doesn’t like the color of your passport. Unless somehow banking system wants to cut extra from your transaction (2.5-4% for transaction) because of double currency conversion you didn’t ask for, because you didn’t specify correct correspondent bank and your bank didn’t tell you about that.

All that happened.

New comment by nailk in "Tether starting to lose its peg too, after Terra did"

nailk — Thu, 12 May 2022 10:29:38 +0000

Tether didn’t lose its peg. It’s redeemable at $1 via Tether’s site as usual. The market price difference is making arbitrageurs more rich, that’s all. These headlines are FUD.

New comment by nailk in "OpenLGTV: Legal reverse engineering and research of LG TVs firmware"

nailk — Thu, 25 Nov 2021 13:38:29 +0000

Telegram didn’t comply that rule and Russia tried to block Telegram that time without success

New comment by nailk in "Crypto Wash Trading"

nailk — Fri, 19 Nov 2021 17:58:01 +0000

Oh look, another weekly crypto hating thread on HN

New comment by nailk in "Bitcoin emissions alone could push global warming above 2°C: study from 2018"

nailk — Sun, 17 Jan 2021 21:47:47 +0000

How high banking skyscrapers have pushed global warming? Why should I pay $50 (about 1000 kWh) for a swift transaction?

New comment by nailk in "Soulver – Notepad, meet calculator"

nailk — Wed, 10 Jul 2019 20:22:49 +0000

I'm using Calca since seems like there is no real alternative on Windows.

New comment by nailk in "Dell XPS 13 Review from a lifelong Mac user"

nailk — Thu, 14 Jun 2018 20:13:07 +0000

Be wary, latest Dell XPS 9370 has noisy fans. Google for "dell xps 9370 fan noise" to find a lengthy thread on official dell forum about this issue. Dell is experimenting with bios, issuing new updates, but on my dell xps 9370 the noise is there.

I had to return my laptop, hoping the shop will refund. Now bought MS Surface Laptop it is silent (mostly) and I'm happy with it.

Looks like most of the core i7 8* models are noisy.

New comment by nailk in "Ask HN: What are pros and cons of PostgreSQL and MySQL?"

nailk — Sun, 09 Apr 2017 11:57:39 +0000

Is there something like TokuDB or MyRocks for PostgreSQL? These things allow to reduce disk space usage by several times.

New comment by nailk in "Ask HN: What are pros and cons of PostgreSQL and MySQL?"

nailk — Sun, 09 Apr 2017 11:53:57 +0000

> MySQL's traditional "fast" table type doesn't support transactions

InnoDB is the traditional table type now. Myisam was forgotten long time ago.

> we had to set up our own custom collation to get, for example, "e" and "é" to be considered distinct characters

You could just use "varchar CHARACTER SET utf8 COLLATE utf8_bin"

> MySQL infamously accepted almost any kind of garbage values regardless of declared column type

There is a setting that allows strict checking.

> I cannot at this point imagine using MySQL for any kind of serious project.

It is used by many for serious projects.

New comment by nailk in "Why we are not leaving the cloud"

nailk — Thu, 02 Mar 2017 21:57:03 +0000

Why do you think that if you don't use a cloud service you have to own hardware? You don't have to do it.

Dedicated server providers will manage your hardware, that's it.

New comment by nailk in "Docker for Mac Beta Review"

nailk — Tue, 26 Apr 2016 07:53:55 +0000

Sorry for that.

Ready now!

New comment by nailk in "Docker for Mac Beta Review"

nailk — Tue, 26 Apr 2016 06:33:28 +0000

Docker ID: nailk Thanks!

New comment by nailk in "Ubuntu 14.04 LTS supports TRIM on SSD drives"

nailk — Sun, 22 Dec 2013 01:06:34 +0000

Wondering when they're going to support Trim for Software Raid?

New comment by nailk in "MySQL 5.7: over 1M queries/sec on a single machine"

nailk — Sat, 23 Nov 2013 15:21:52 +0000

They have proven that SQL-based storage is faster than NOSQL databases.

The poster of the top comment doesn't understand what this topic is about.

This is actually a benchmark of InnoDB table access. You can query it using usual SQL-commands. But if you want faster access, you can use memcache API.

"Read-only" is also misleading here. This is just a benchmark of get command.