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vhold commented on Tesla Semi fire in California took 50k gallons of water to extinguish cnbc.com/2024/09/13/tesla... · Posted by u/mfiguiere

leetharris · 2 years ago

A few weeks ago I randomly thought, "is there a market for a startup that creates EV fire extinguisher technology?" It seems even Tesla's recommendation right now is to just dump a ton of water on it.

I'm not sure the volume is there right now to justify a new company, but maybe 10 years from now? Just thinking out loud.

vhold · 2 years ago

Search google for "EV fire blanket". They don't extinguish the fire so much as contain it.

vhold commented on Affordable DE10-Nano compatible boards for MiSTer FPGA retro platform retrorgb.com/mister-pi-de... · Posted by u/retro_guy

jonhohle · 2 years ago

I put off buying one when they were cheap because it was already old enough to assume it would be replaced. Then nothing replaced it and the prices doubled. Now that the prices are reasonable again, I look at it and think, something better will replace this soon.

vhold · 2 years ago

One of the primary FPGA developers a while back said that it's unlikely that the MisterFPGA project will evolve to a much larger FPGA anytime soon because it's an immense gap between the current most complex cores and the systems that come after it.

Not only would it require a much larger FPGA, but writing the cores is becoming way more difficult.

vhold commented on Are US EV sales a disaster or a booming segment? The answer may be both bbc.com/worklife/article/... · Posted by u/rntn

8f2ab37a-ed6c · 2 years ago

For people living in apartments, with the building providing no way to charge your vehicle, especially when parked outside, the value proposition is a lot less tempting.

Takes 5 minutes to get gas, gas stations are everywhere, but having to find a charging station for your EV and having to sit there for an hour or longer is just not appealing if the tradeoff is the good feelings of one's microscopic contribution to saving the planet. You want me to pay more for extra inconvenience.

I'm sure that will change eventually, but at this point it works best for home owners with garages, which isn't everybody.

vhold · 2 years ago

My apartment complex won't even let you park an EV inside or under any of the structures because of the fear they have of EV fires.

vhold commented on US lawyer who put Big Tobacco on trial takes aim at sports betting ft.com/content/497fdb45-f... · Posted by u/donsupreme

jjice · 2 years ago

The sports betting craze is really interesting to me. I'm from upstate NY and I remember when it got legalized I didn't think much about it. Let people do what they want. I won't play because I don't gamble.

Then when I was hope for the holidays and every man I knew from my home town that was near my age was doing it. They'd watch a basketball game only to see if their 8 leg parlay would hit. Whatever app they were using even listed your all time wins/loses (probably legally required) and _all_ of them had all time loses over $500 and it had only been legalized a few months prior.

It's just a drain on the average person, the same was cigarettes are. I struggle with the freedom for personal choice to do what you want vs the collective better situation we get to form for ourselves as a society by banning these things, but I think I'm just leaning more towards the latter now. On the other hand, I think weed and alcohol should be legal, despite it affecting people's lives in negative ways, but the majority if their users are completely normal people.

This is such a tricky subject to me and I guess I'll just stop rambling now, but I am interested in what other people thing about societal restriction for a better group vs personal freedoms.

vhold · 2 years ago

I think there can be good remedies that can reduce the amount of harm. Like gambling is legal where I live, but only card rooms where players play against each other and not a dealer, the house just takes a cut. This way almost all of the money stays in the community.

vhold commented on Beeper Mini is back blog.beeper.com/p/beeper-... · Posted by u/erohead

lacker · 2 years ago

The best case outcome is to get publicity leading to US and EU antitrust regulators to file a lawsuit against Apple, both of which Apple loses. The conclusion of this lawsuit is that not only must Apple allow access to iMessage, they also must allow changing the default for every component of iOS - messaging app, browser, app store, let you replace Siri with other voice assistants - and to lower the 30% app store fee to 10%. Same rules apply to Android.

Okay, that might not be likely, but you did ask about the best case outcome.

vhold · 2 years ago

That's the best case for most of us, but probably not Beeper Mini, since the cat-and-mouse game is their killer competitive advantage. With the barriers gone the space will be totally flooded with options, not to mention just normal Android integration.

vhold commented on Nvidia's banking on TensorRT to expand its generative AI dominance theverge.com/2023/10/17/2... · Posted by u/webmaven

brucethemoose2 · 2 years ago

TensorRT, like many other frameworks, has always been really cool in GenAI demos and essentially useless and unused because no one integrates those demos into the more fleshed out projects.

And TensorRT in particular is a pain for end-users to install correctly, especially when they gate parts of the stack behind sign-up walls.

vhold · 2 years ago

That's what this article is about, they're doing the integration work.

An integration with a very popular tool is already available for use. I've personally tested it and did get a 2x speed up. I didn't have to sign-up for anything.

https://github.com/NVIDIA/Stable-Diffusion-WebUI-TensorRT

vhold commented on Stable Audio: Fast Timing-Conditioned Latent Audio Diffusion stability.ai/research/sta... · Posted by u/JonathanFly

Taek · 3 years ago

Before stable diffusion, nobody released weights at all. Meta et al only started sharing their models with the world when they realized how fast a developer ecosystem was building around the best models.

Without stability, all of AI would still be closed and opaque.

vhold · 3 years ago

Stable Diffusion 1 contains a model OpenAI released. The CLIP encoder that was trained on text/image pairs at OpenAI.

https://huggingface.co/runwayml/stable-diffusion-v1-5

https://huggingface.co/runwayml/stable-diffusion-v1-5/blob/m...

Uploaded to Hugging Face Jan 2021

https://huggingface.co/openai/clip-vit-large-patch14

vhold commented on Threads users down by more than a half bbc.com/news/technology-6... · Posted by u/KingOfCoders

the_snooze · 3 years ago

>The feed is chaotic & no guarantees people (and by extension, Topics) whom you followed will show up primarily. Seeing a machine learning thread between a Barbie post & scantily clad influencer is bizarre.

I follow some local weather sources. The algorithm decided that I'm really big into weather and started feeding me weather sources in other cities. Thanks, Threads. Good job trying to guess what I want instead of just listening to what I've clearly opted into.

vhold · 3 years ago

I'll never figure out why it turned my entire feed into NBA players and teams, I didn't follow a single one. I had to mute dozens of accounts to get it to show me something else. I actually found it kind of entertaining though, they could make the mute button a little more satisfying and then you'd have a game there.

vhold commented on Children of alumni no longer have admissions edge at Carnegie Mellon, Pitt triblive.com/news/childre... · Posted by u/Geekette

banana_feather · 3 years ago

>I do wonder if this will have any impact on alumni donations.

Wonder not. "[T]here is no statistically significant evidence that legacy preferences impact total alumni giving."

https://production-tcf.imgix.net/app/uploads/2016/03/0820191...

vhold · 3 years ago

    "Prior to controlling for wealth, however, the results indicate that schools with legacy preference policies indeed have much higher alumni giving. These combined results suggest that higher alumni giving at top institutions that employ legacy preferences is not a result of the preference policy exerting influence on alumni giving behavior, but rather that the policy allows elite schools to over-select from their own wealthy alumni. In other words, the preference policy effectively allows elite schools essentially to discriminate based on socioeconomic status by accepting their own wealthy alumni families rather than basing admissions on merit alone."

So it's likely that if fewer people from wealthy families become alumni then alumni giving will go down.

vhold commented on Keygen Library Player (4504 tracks) cable.ayra.ch/webxmp/... · Posted by u/BenFeldman1930

dark-star · 3 years ago

not all are XM, some are s3m (ScreamTracker 3) ;-)

vhold · 3 years ago

For the fun of it:

  jq '.[]["songs"][].file | match("\\.([^.]+)$") | .captures[0].string' songs.json -r  | sort | uniq -c | sort -nr

  3169 xm
  1011 mod
   226 it
    86 s3m
     4 nsf
     3 rad
     2 amd
     2 S3M
     1 mtm