Hacker News: perfopt

New comment by perfopt in "Common Rust Lifetime Misconceptions (2020)"

perfopt — Tue, 05 Dec 2023 05:49:04 +0000

I use ChatGPT to ask questions about my code - including rust lifetimes - and usually get pretty good detailed answers. More recently I started using diesel ORM and was pleasantly surprised that the bot can answer questions about diesel usage.

New comment by perfopt in "What has changed in CPU cores in M3 chips?"

perfopt — Wed, 22 Nov 2023 14:09:22 +0000

I am still rocking a 2012 MBP. I even have a PPC MacMini but it now runs Linux. I have no idea who is upgrading from a M1/M2 to M3 or why they would

New comment by perfopt in "Apple's use of Swift and SwiftUI in iOS 17"

perfopt — Sat, 21 Oct 2023 14:18:36 +0000

I learnt Swift several years ago for a App project Haven't really used it since.

My impression is that it is useful only in the Apple ecosystem. It that correct? Is it worth learning for things other than iOS and macOS applications?

New comment by perfopt in "UPI Payments: 10B transactions a month done, next stop 100B"

perfopt — Sun, 03 Sep 2023 09:50:54 +0000

This is exactly why banks are unhappy - they have to bear the infra cost. This is also the reason the government is trying to push UPI wallet. I suspect at some future point UPI (non-wallet) transactions will be charged a small fee and wallet transactions will not.

New comment by perfopt in "UPI Payments: 10B transactions a month done, next stop 100B"

perfopt — Sun, 03 Sep 2023 09:48:04 +0000

I have not seen a single eatery that does not accept cash.

Booking bus tickets - RedBus and other portals accept credit cards. To use cash one must book at the terminal.

New comment by perfopt in "My Overkill Home Network"

perfopt — Fri, 11 Aug 2023 10:21:19 +0000

Could you share how you set up the cloud backup? Also, what cloud providers you use

New comment by perfopt in "A Single-Cycle 64-Bit RISC-V Register File"

perfopt — Sat, 05 Aug 2023 13:27:40 +0000

Perhaps showing the synthesized gates and how say a structural version of the code will synthesize would explain in more detail

New comment by perfopt in "India’s ban on rice exports raises fear of global food price rises"

perfopt — Fri, 21 Jul 2023 15:47:21 +0000

India had a scorching summer and now heavy rains in many parts of the country. The government is just being prudent and ensuring sufficient local stock.

New comment by perfopt in "Apple Vision Pro: Apple’s first spatial computer"

perfopt — Tue, 06 Jun 2023 03:53:39 +0000

The iPhone wowed everyone but its price was heavily criticized. Apple later got into the exclusive AT&T deal which "subsidized" the price. People just ended up paying more over time.

New comment by perfopt in "[dead]"

perfopt — Tue, 21 Mar 2023 04:58:51 +0000

Martin Meyerson Berkeley Faculty Research Lecture: Jitendra Malik

New comment by perfopt in "British boy who taught himself to read aged two joins Mensa"

perfopt — Tue, 24 Jan 2023 11:55:24 +0000

Hmm...how do we know he is not a Transformer?

New comment by perfopt in "Show HN: New AI edits images based on text instructions"

perfopt — Sun, 22 Jan 2023 11:19:04 +0000

Ubuntu 22.04.1 LTS. I'll file a issue

New comment by perfopt in "Show HN: New AI edits images based on text instructions"

perfopt — Sun, 22 Jan 2023 11:00:32 +0000

I keep seeing this even when the prompt is unchanged

Downloading https://huggingface.co/runwayml/stable-diffusion-v1-5/resolv... from huggingface Loading model /home/hrishi/.cache/huggingface/hub/models--runwayml--stable-diffusion-v1-5/snapshots/889b629140e71758e1e0006e355c331a5744b4bf/v1-5-pruned-emaonly.ckpt onto cuda backend...

followed by a download

New comment by perfopt in "Show HN: New AI edits images based on text instructions"

perfopt — Sun, 22 Jan 2023 10:55:26 +0000

OK. I noticed that the images are not accurate when I give my own descriptions. Not sure if this is a limitation of Stable Diffusion. For example, for the text "cat and mouse samurai fight in a forest, watched by a porcupine" I got a cat and a mouse (with a cat's face and tail!!) in a forest sort of fighting. But no - porcupine

Thank you for creating this.

New comment by perfopt in "Show HN: New AI edits images based on text instructions"

perfopt — Sun, 22 Jan 2023 10:39:16 +0000

How does this work? When I run it on a machine with a GPU (pytorch, CUDA etc installed) I still see it downloading files for each prompt. Is the image being generated on the cloud somewhere or on my local machine? Why the downloads?

New comment by perfopt in "VALL-E: Neural codec language models are zero-shot text to speech synthesizers"

perfopt — Fri, 06 Jan 2023 13:03:29 +0000

Could someone explain what is "Speaker prompt" in this context?

New comment by perfopt in "Why I'm still using Python"

perfopt — Sat, 31 Dec 2022 12:51:24 +0000

Aah Turbo Pascal. That was the first "big pants" language I learnt and enjoyed.

After that... C++ was fun initially and later felt way too featured. I don't like C++ code now (especially with heavy template use and stl and boost).

I now code in Python (because most of the things I work on are in Python) though I don't like the dynamic typing.

My potential new love is Rust but we are still working out some issues

New comment by perfopt in "Tell HN: On macOS, `man-preview` opens man pages in Preview"

perfopt — Fri, 11 Nov 2022 16:04:11 +0000

~ % which man-preview

man-preview not found

China's Underground Market for Chips Draws Desperate Automakers

perfopt — Wed, 19 Oct 2022 15:15:12 +0000

Article URL: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-10-19/us-chip-sanctions-and-covid-spawn-china-s-secondhand-semiconductor-market

Hacker News: perfopt

New comment by perfopt in "Common Rust Lifetime Misconceptions (2020)"

New comment by perfopt in "What has changed in CPU cores in M3 chips?"

New comment by perfopt in "Apple's use of Swift and SwiftUI in iOS 17"

New comment by perfopt in "UPI Payments: 10B transactions a month done, next stop 100B"

New comment by perfopt in "UPI Payments: 10B transactions a month done, next stop 100B"

New comment by perfopt in "My Overkill Home Network"

New comment by perfopt in "A Single-Cycle 64-Bit RISC-V Register File"

New comment by perfopt in "India’s ban on rice exports raises fear of global food price rises"

New comment by perfopt in "Apple Vision Pro: Apple’s first spatial computer"

New comment by perfopt in "[dead]"

New comment by perfopt in "British boy who taught himself to read aged two joins Mensa"

New comment by perfopt in "Show HN: New AI edits images based on text instructions"

New comment by perfopt in "Show HN: New AI edits images based on text instructions"

New comment by perfopt in "Show HN: New AI edits images based on text instructions"

New comment by perfopt in "Show HN: New AI edits images based on text instructions"

New comment by perfopt in "VALL-E: Neural codec language models are zero-shot text to speech synthesizers"

New comment by perfopt in "Why I'm still using Python"

New comment by perfopt in "Tell HN: On macOS, `man-preview` opens man pages in Preview"

China's Underground Market for Chips Draws Desperate Automakers

New comment by perfopt in "If You Want This Job, We Must Interview You Forever"