What was the use case?
A security scanner, for example, we had to check tens of thousands of IPs of global exchanges for backdoors overnight while the exchanges were offline
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ellis0n commented on Unlocking Python's Cores:Energy Implications of Removing the GIL arxiv.org/abs/2603.04782... · Posted by u/runningmike
That reminded me of how back in 2008 I removed the GIL from Python to run thousands Python modules in 10,000 threads. We were fighting for every clock cycle and byte and it worked. It took 20 years for the GIL to be removed and become available to the public.
ellis0n commented on The Wolfram S Combinator Challenge combinatorprize.org/... · Posted by u/paraschopra
The site doesn’t open from Ukraine. Any suggestion?
Does this mean that internet blocking by third parties is above any science? How will researchers be able to make discoveries if every scientific website gets blocked? Many mysteries of the universe could end up blocked by a dumb firewall. Please do something with this.
ellis0n commented on The Wolfram S Combinator Challenge combinatorprize.org/... · Posted by u/paraschopra
The site doesn’t open from Ukraine. Any suggestion?
Could someone please explain in what situation do you use a BlueTooth messaging app? Like, even BT5 range won't exceed 400 meters. What good is this? You're not going to send images to journalists from protests with it (you'd do wisely to keep it in airplane mode until you get home and then you'd upload them to their securedrop or whatever), and you don't need off-band security to let the kids know it's dinner time.
I have seen a test of bitchat using radio communication over a distance of more than 5 km. There were also other methods to extend BT range.
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The risk for Tinygrad is that PyTorch will create a new backend for Inductor, plug in their AMD codegen stuff and walala, PyTorch still king. I mean, they could have easily just taken that route themselves instead of bothering with a new ML framework and AD engine. 99% of the work is just the AMD codegen part of the compiler.
Either way, super cool project and I wish them the best.
The main risk is that an LLM will rewrite itself and programmers will no longer be needed. I worked a bit with tinygrad and it looks quite amusing I managed to run it right away and make fixes in one of the tasks, but I decided not to commit because I was afraid of rejection. For example, the tasks are strange: $500 for two months, optimizing H.265, something that only a small group of people in the world can do.
The SV is a unique place where you can meet Geo and get $5M, maintain a bunch of hardware, build a framework in 20,000 LOC and everything works well.
Three years ago I found myself in a difficult situation and at Christmas I asked HN for help. Several people sent me invitations and work appeared right away, so I went off to pay my bills. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34121905
My situation was very tough and the job was tough too, so I wasn’t able to reply to everyone by email right away, circumstances worked out that way.
Now things have improved and I want to say a big thank you to everyone who came to help, the HN community, Dang and the team for the support.
Merry Christmas and I wish humanity to survive in the age of AI!
PS: Your invaluable support made it possible to improve my startup https://acpul.org and I have created an open letter for those who would like to join in developing the best programming environment in the world: https://www.acpul.org/blog/Open-Letter
Also, if you have iOS, you can join the TestFlight of the new better BitChat Nostr here: https://www.reddit.com/r/bitchat/comments/1nd1zh8/ive_create...