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CrI0gen commented on IBM CEO says there is 'no way' spending on AI data centers will pay off businessinsider.com/ibm-c... · Posted by u/nabla9

al_borland · 2 months ago

I see Watson stuff at work. It’s not a direct to consumer product, like ChatGPT, but I see it being used in the enterprise, at least where I’m at. IBM gave up on consumer products a long time ago.

CrI0gen · 2 months ago

Just did some brief Wikipedia browsing and I'm assuming it's WatsonX and not Watson? It seems Watson has been pretty much discontinued and WatsonX is LLM based. If it is the old Watson, I'm curious what your impressions of it is. It was pretty cool and ahead of its time, but what it could actually do was way over promised and overhyped.

CrI0gen commented on Boom XB-1 First Supersonic Flight [video] youtube.com/watch?v=-qisI... · Posted by u/rayhaanj

1970-01-01 · a year ago

>hit reasonable ticket prices

There's much more to this. Their biggest competition may be cheaper Meta headsets paired via Starlink. Why travel as fast as possible when you can simply be there instantly for a fraction of the cost?

CrI0gen · a year ago

I really don't think that will be competition at all. People like to travel and the demand is there for faster international flights. For business travel, people either prefer to go in person or have to be in person. Also with time zone differences, virtual meetings require one party to often have to meet at odd times. The ticket price probably will be higher than what most people want to spend for vacation, but there will still be plenty of people willing to pay.

CrI0gen commented on Updates to H-1B uscis.gov/newsroom/news-r... · Posted by u/sul_tasto

seanmcdirmid · a year ago

If you are a citizen but your spouse is not a US citizen, does that count as an out? I hard a while ago that having a spouse from China could ruin your chances of getting security clearance, but I’m not sure if naturalizing solves that problem or not.

CrI0gen · a year ago

Yes, it will make a huge impact during the investigation and adjudication process. For TS and TS/SCI, even with naturalization the chances for approval will be slim and naturalization likely won't help, especially if they have family in China. For the government, it's all about calculating risk of someones loyalty, character and having things that can be exploited by financial issues (debt is the biggest disqualifier), foreign contacts or family, and anything they'd want to keep secret that could be used for blackmail.

CrI0gen commented on Construction begins on world’s biggest liquid air battery theguardian.com/environme... · Posted by u/zeristor

adammunich · 6 years ago

This cannot possibly be more efficient than lithium batteries...

CrI0gen · 6 years ago

There's probably a much greater amount of energy lost from conversion to liquid form and stored and converted back into usable electricity from steam generators. I believe the article mentions it but it likely has better long term storage than batteries as well. The equipment required for the 'air' battery would have a longer lifespan and be cheaper to repair then a massive battery bank. On top of that batteries aren't exactly the most 'green' thing to produce, so from a carbon footprint perspective, I imagine the air battery is much more efficient.

CrI0gen commented on Oracle vs. PostgreSQL – A Comment postgresql.org/message-id... · Posted by u/jkatz05

qeternity · 6 years ago

We recently rolled out Patroni on k8s and it definitely does not “just work”. I suppose once you get it up and running, there’s some truth to that, but it’s one of the most hostile pieces of software I’ve come across. This isn’t a complaint, after all, Zalando don’t owe me anything. But the documentation, the project structure, the contributors...it all reveals very clearly that this is really just some internal tooling that they happen to make public, as opposed to a first-class OSS project. Unfortunately it’s also the best Postgres HA system out there, but it’s truly a massive PITA to get setup and it’s extremely opinionated about things that it doesn’t need to be.

CrI0gen · 6 years ago

I recently have been working on setting up a HA Postgres Cluster on K8's... its for a pretty small DB use case and not knowing much about the world of Postgres and Databases I ended up using the Crunchy Postgres Operator which amazingly did all of the work for me... (I honestly don't know much about Patroni other then it manages the switchover to replicas during a failure)... anyway I'd recommend the Crunchy Operator...

As a side note, we've found that it takes quite a while for the initial pgBackRest job to run (like 8 minutes) which seems like a lot for an empty DB, but we aren't using SSDs

CrI0gen commented on Project Fuchsia: Google Is Quietly Working on a Successor to Android bloomberg.com/news/articl... · Posted by u/uptown

blihp · 8 years ago

> How making a new OS achive this? What kind of problems Fuchsia could solve when Linux can’t solve?

The problems they are likely trying to solve are business and legal, not technical. Pesky things like not having to release keys bits of code under a 'free' license (i.e. they have no choice but to release any changes to the Linux kernel under GPL as that's what it requires.) Sure, they'll probably still release large chunks of source code (possibly under MIT/BSD, possibly under a less liberal license) but keep strategic bits closed source. Right now they have to do this via the clunky and somewhat obvious Google Play services layer. And then there's the constant potential exposure to lawsuits. etc.

By being able to decide on what pieces would be released under what licenses, it would allow them to prevent competitors from following in their footsteps as Amazon and various Chinese companies have done with Android. Things like this are the reason Samsung (one of Google's largest problems) keep pushing forward with their Tizen platform so that when the shift comes they have the ability to sidestep it if they want to.

CrI0gen · 8 years ago

I'm really suprised the article didn't mention anything about Tizen. For Google, Tizen looks like a big issue. At some point in the future, their biggest hardware seller, Samsung, will start switching all of their devices to running on Tizen and other partners in the Tizen Association (from wikipedia) are Fujitsu, Huawei, Intel, KT, NEC Casio, NTT DoCoMo, Orange, Panasonic, Samsung, SK Telecom, Sprint. Google's going to have to get very aggressive with Fuchsia to compete with Tizen.

CrI0gen commented on Richard Feynman's Integral Trick medium.com/@jackebersole/... · Posted by u/throwawaymath

sillysaurus3 · 8 years ago

Here's a Feynman mystery that I've asked about for years:

http://longnow.org/essays/richard-feynman-connection-machine...

By the end of that summer of 1983, Richard had completed his analysis of the behavior of the router, and much to our surprise and amusement, he presented his answer in the form of a set of partial differential equations. To a physicist this may seem natural, but to a computer designer, treating a set of boolean circuits as a continuous, differentiable system is a bit strange. Feynman's router equations were in terms of variables representing continuous quantities such as "the average number of 1 bits in a message address." I was much more accustomed to seeing analysis in terms of inductive proof and case analysis than taking the derivative of "the number of 1's" with respect to time. Our discrete analysis said we needed seven buffers per chip; Feynman's equations suggested that we only needed five. We decided to play it safe and ignore Feynman.

How do you analyze boolean circuits using partial differential equations?

What else can you accomplish with this technique?

No one seems to know how he did it.

CrI0gen · 8 years ago

Here's a thread from last year which have a few insightful discussions on the topic: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13762614

I imagine he used some of the "tools in his toolbox" he acquired from various fields of Physics. Given that it was a PDE his answer also probably was an approximation

CrI0gen commented on Ask HN: How do you focus at work? · Posted by u/parvatzar

maerF0x0 · 8 years ago

Many have said that noise cancellation does not work for coworkers' voices. Is that your experience or are these for another reason?

CrI0gen · 8 years ago

The QC's don't completely wash out background noise. If you listen to your music loud enough (which is probably too loud), you literally won't hear anything around you. But normal use, I find that it muffles outside voices enough not to get distracted, but not so much to the point where if someone says my name I can respond. An added plus, is people will bother you less if you're wearing them. Sometimes I like wearing them without listening to any music, just to create a quieter environment.

CrI0gen commented on “I'm basically giving myself a permanent vacation from being BDFL” mail.python.org/pipermail... · Posted by u/randlet

xg15 · 8 years ago

> but because over the long term the market is going to dictate where Python goes and how it grows

The market gave us the absolute mess that is HTML/CSS/Javascript today, so I'm sincerely hoping the Python community will keep agreeing on some greater design principles instead of leaving everything to market forces and pragmatism.

CrI0gen · 8 years ago

Hopefully it transitions into a similar way that C++ is managed.

CrI0gen commented on An Ex-Porter of AAA Games to Linux Talks about the Future of Linux Gaming boilingsteam.com/an-inter... · Posted by u/ekianjo

pvg · 8 years ago

competitors have built their own storefronts/launchers that have caught up to Steam

What's a competitor store that's caught up with Steam?

CrI0gen · 8 years ago

I can't imagine any competitor is anywhere near what Steam has in user numbers, however many publishers have their own exclusive clients now. EA with Origin, which actually has great customer service (you can chat with customer service reps without waiting a month), Activision-Blizzard though I think Activision still releases games on Steam, GOG which I have no experience with but hear its good and then there's Uplay which is fine, integrates with Steam. But I like many Steam users am invested in the platform, I just wish they did some things better.