Hacker News: scw

New comment by scw in "The RCE that AMD wouldn't fix"

scw — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 15:37:00 +0000

The original post [1] now includes an update:

  UPDATE! Within a day of this blowing up on Hacker News, AMD reached back 
  out to me and said they would be looking into the matter after all.

[1] https://mrbruh.com/amd2/

New comment by scw in "Volunteers turn a fan's recordings of 10K concerts into an online treasure trove"

scw — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 21:50:45 +0000

They're unlikely to find much unless they instead try “dispositive”.

New comment by scw in "How the AI Bubble Bursts"

scw — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 14:09:14 +0000

TurboQuant has a specific benefit by compressing the KV cache at a negligible cost to quality. That mainly means that the context lengths can go up in models for the same amount of memory, however the KV cache only accounts for something like 20% of the overall model size, and this will not dramatically decrease memory demands in the way that some of the more sensationalist reporting has stated.

New comment by scw in "Show HN: Txeo – A Modern C++ Wrapper for TensorFlow"

scw — Sun, 23 Feb 2025 19:56:13 +0000

Still active, but many fewer resources than in the past. Many backends like CUDA for Windows have been dropped and others pushed off to partners with varying levels of support. TensorFlow 2.19 is going to release soon without Python 3.13 support, it's hard not to imagine that resource constraints are at play.

New comment by scw in "Sam Altman's response to Mira leaving OpenAI"

scw — Thu, 26 Sep 2024 01:19:49 +0000

The Microsoft stake finally allowed him to let loose and buy a keyboard with a working shift key.

New comment by scw in "Show HN: LLM-aided OCR – Correcting Tesseract OCR errors with LLMs"

scw — Sat, 10 Aug 2024 23:01:26 +0000

Exciting concept! Note that the LLM corrected version does drop a full paragraph from the output at the bottom of the second page (starting with an asterisk and "My views regarding inflationary possibilities". I'm not sure if there is a simple way to mitigate this risk but would be nice to fall back on uncorrected text if the LLM can't produce valid results for some region of the document.

New comment by scw in "Nvidia H200 Tensor Core GPU"

scw — Mon, 13 Nov 2023 17:00:58 +0000

I recently had occasion to evaluate a database of 1200+ NVIDIA GPUs and can tell you that the only thing consistent about the model numbers is their inconsistency. For example, what is an RTX 4000? It could be the 2018 Quadro RTX 4000, the Quadro RTX 4000 Max-Q, or Quadro RTX 4000 Mobile (all Turing cards), but it could also be the RTX 4000 Mobile Ada Generation (Ada Lovelace card released 2023).

New comment by scw in "Passionate kissing is not a human universal (2015)"

scw — Sat, 15 Feb 2020 01:03:17 +0000

Reminds me of “boko-maru” of the made-up religion [1] in Vonnegut's Cat's Cradle.

1. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bokononism

New comment by scw in "Coronavirus Real Time Map"

scw — Tue, 28 Jan 2020 16:10:46 +0000

The methodological approach and data sources are detailed in the associated post by JHU professor Lauren Gardner: https://systems.jhu.edu/research/public-health/ncov/

New comment by scw in "Microsoft Joins the Open Invention Network"

scw — Fri, 12 Oct 2018 22:40:16 +0000

Check out: https://medium.com/microsoft-open-source-stories/how-microso...

New comment by scw in "Why Read the Classics? (1986)"

scw — Sun, 02 Sep 2018 21:15:18 +0000

If you're revisiting the classics I can't recommend enough Doug Metzger's Literature and History podcast [1]. It covers literature starting with Mesopostamian stories, at about the level of an undergraduate course, but is entertaining and insightful throughout. It's clearly had deep research put into every episode, but at the same time takes great effort to make the material relatable. Great stuff.

1. http://literatureandhistory.com/

New comment by scw in "Carbon Black S-1"

scw — Mon, 09 Apr 2018 19:17:04 +0000

Endpoints are the machines (desktops, servers, &c) in organizations which have Carbon Black installed. Their client continuously monitors for process executions, network connections, file changes, registry changes, and samples unique files on the machine, and depending on configuration, can upload these contents both within the enterprise and share them with their cloud platform. That's what is meant by "our technology uniquely collects complete, "unfiltered" endpoint data by continuously recording endpoint activity and centrally storing the collected data for advanced analytics".

New comment by scw in "The problem with Facebook"

scw — Thu, 22 Mar 2018 16:13:54 +0000

This helped me: https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/976563870322999296.html

New comment by scw in "Ryzen Boards Reign at Embedded World 2018"

scw — Tue, 27 Feb 2018 21:51:26 +0000

The PCEngines APU2 boards[1] are x84_64, run around 10W, and have a smaller than mini ITX footprint (6"×6").

1. http://www.pcengines.ch/apu2.htm

New comment by scw in "Students learn more effectively from print textbooks than screens, study says"

scw — Wed, 18 Oct 2017 23:36:01 +0000

It's in a peer-reviewed scientific journal, written by academics in the field, not by T&F itself, nor funded by them. While there are problems with the peer reviewed system, publisher interference with research results isn't typically one of them.

How Python does Unicode

scw — Wed, 06 Sep 2017 18:25:51 +0000

Article URL: http://www.b-list.org/weblog/2017/sep/05/how-python-does-unicode/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15185934

Points: 165

# Comments: 136

New comment by scw in "Visual Studio for Mac"

scw — Wed, 10 May 2017 19:22:30 +0000

Anything that depends on both boost and gdal is bound to be pain. I once spent 22 hours getting a build of GDAL on FreeBSD with the drivers I needed.

New comment by scw in "3D support for X11 guests"

scw — Sun, 09 Apr 2017 02:39:24 +0000

For the Vagrant VMWare support, are you using the official (paid) Vagrant provider or something else? I've been interested in hearing about experiences of using it.

New comment by scw in "New Sci-Hub domain"

scw — Mon, 06 Mar 2017 16:22:09 +0000

That's a big ask for a site that's essentially 'morally justified' piracy.

New comment by scw in "How can I avoid my MacBook Pro giving me minor shocks?"

scw — Mon, 14 Nov 2016 02:07:00 +0000

My first summer job was doing IT for a small outfit, who worked out of an old house converted into an office. They had eight machines, all connected to a LaserJet printer via a parallel port switch. The parallel cables ran down into a crawlspace under the house, and it wasn't uncommon for one of the cables to work its way loose. No problem, tighten the parallel port connection at both ends, and you're back in business. But, being an old house, many outlets were missing ground pins. I must of electrocuted myself twenty times that summer.