What is Hackers' Pub?

Hackers' Pub is a place for software engineers to share their knowledge and experience with each other. It's also an ActivityPub-enabled social network, so you can follow your favorite hackers in the fediverse and get their latest posts in your feed.

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오늘(어제) 미국 주식이 좀 많이 내렸는데 AI가 사람만 자르는게 아니라 기존 기업들도 박살 내면 그 기업에 돈 빌려준 은행, 투자회사, 사모펀드도 망하는 것 아니냐는 공포가 크다고 하네요. 잭 도시가 냅다 직원 절반 (6000명) 자르고 앞으로 이게 스탠다드가 될 거다 같은 소리를 했는데 화이트칼라 개발자 사무직이 절반이 잘리면 소비가 터지고 부동산이 터지고 그러겠죠... AI로 돈 풀린 것 때문에 물가는 올라가니 더 큰 일이라고.

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길리엄 : 내가... 너를... 황제로 만들어줄게... 역사는 그렇게 탄생하는 두번째 제국을 세쿤두스 임페리움이라 기록하며, 이후 황제가 살아있음이 밝혀져 한순간의 해프닝으로 남게 되었다. 하지만... 과연 길리엄이 생귀니우스를 지목한건, 우연이었을까? 아니면...

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Trump’s bombing of Iran is reckless and a direct threat to American and Iranian lives. Launching military strikes without congressional authorization or evidence of an imminent threat is not strength. It is an abuse of power.

Tell your Members of Congress to use every lever in their toolbox to put an immediate stop to this war: act.indivisible.org/sign/no-ir

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オタクを自称する層、結構ちょろいと感じる面はあるけど、しかし現代において特定の層を「オタク」としてラベリングすること自体、はたして妥当なのか?という疑問はある

昔の「オタク」のイメージと言えば、アニメとかマンガ、ゲーム(成人向けを含む)を嗜むコアな層、という感じだったけど、今やみんなカジュアルにアニメもマンガもゲームを嗜むし、「昔ながらのオタク」ってもう40歳超えとか下手すると還暦の初老とか、たぶんそう言う感じだと思うんだけど、どうなんだろ

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千葉工大はこんなにあっさりと「伊藤穰一とエプスタインの犯罪は関係はない」なんて言っていいのか。エプスタインのから資金援助を受けながら、その背後にある闇を知っていたか、という極めてグレーな話である。

twitter.com/chibakoudai_cit/st
x.com/chibakoudai_cit/status/2

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pov: you wake up to receive a package with a vacuum chamber and discover that the vendor is a crackhead and a menace to society

this is a vacuum chamber. the power supply that comes with it has a type-C connector and it puts 12V on Vbus unconditionally. the pump works off both 5V and 12V, so it can pull vacuum off a normal type-C power supply. but the solenoid release valve (that lets you open the chamber once you're done) requires their illegal type-C-shaped power supply. also, not only does the chamber not support PD negotiation, it does not even have a CC pulldown.

to add insult to injury, it's using a NEMA 1-15P plug.

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なんじゃそら...

寄付集めを含むMITにおける伊藤学長の活動は、伊藤学長の独断ではなく、MITの許可・監督の下で行われていたこと、従って何の問題もないことが確認されました。... 最近の報道内容に関しても伊藤学長本人に事実確認を行いましたが、本人が違法または不正な行為の存在を認識したことはなく、もとより本人は、いかなる違法または不正な行為にも一切関与していないことを、再度確認しました。

https://chibatech.jp/news/imolkd0000004vgd.html

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なんじゃそら...

寄付集めを含むMITにおける伊藤学長の活動は、伊藤学長の独断ではなく、MITの許可・監督の下で行われていたこと、従って何の問題もないことが確認されました。... 最近の報道内容に関しても伊藤学長本人に事実確認を行いましたが、本人が違法または不正な行為の存在を認識したことはなく、もとより本人は、いかなる違法または不正な行為にも一切関与していないことを、再度確認しました。

https://chibatech.jp/news/imolkd0000004vgd.html

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先の大戦後は、戦中軍国主義者だった人たちが敗戦後は歯の浮くような民主主義者になった。

今回は、平時は全能感の強いリベラルだったオタク層が、戦時になると軍国主義に雪崩をうって転向すると予想してる。

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Developer creates 'Conversational AI' that can run in 64kb of RAM on 1976 Zilog Z80 CPU-powered System — features a tiny Chatbot and a 20-Question guessing Game.

The venerable Zilog Z80 CPU has been around since 1976, and it has powered everything from calculators and home computers to arcade cabinets. But the 8-bit microprocessor isn't exactly a powerful CPU compared to what we use today. That said, developer HarryR has created Z80-μLM, a working "AI" for the well-respected microprocessor.

⁉️[HarryR] confirms that it won't pass the Turing test, but it is a bit of fun. And no, the price of Z80s will not be impacted by AI.⁉️

github.com/HarryR/z80ai

👾According to the readme file, "Z80-μLM is a 'conversational AI' that generates short character-by-character sequences, with quantization-aware training (QAT) to run on a Z80 processor with 64kb of RAM." [HarryR]'s goal is to see how small an AI project can go, while still having a "personality". Can the AI be trained and fine-tuned? It seems that [HarryR] has done it in just 40KB, including inference, weights, and chat style user interface.👾

⁉️[HarryR] has kindly detailed the features of this Z80 AI project⁉️

• Trigram hash encoding: Input text is hashed into 128 buckets - typo-tolerant, word-order invariant
• 2-bit weight quantization: Each weight is {-2, -1, 0, +1}, packed 4 per byte
• 16-bit integer inference: All math uses Z80-native 16-bit signed arithmetic
• ~40KB .COM file: Fits in CP/M's Transient Program Area [TPA]
• Autoregressive generation: Outputs text character-by-character
• No floating point: Everything is integer math with fixed-point scaling
• Interactive chat mode: Just run CHAT with no arguments[ImageSource: HarryR]

👾The project comes with two examples. Tinychat is a conversational chatbot that responds to greetings and questions about itself with very short replies. The other is Guess, a 20-question game where the model knows a secret and I must try to guess.👾

Both of these examples are made available as binaries for use with CP/M systems and the Sinclair ZX Spectrum. The CP/M files are typical .COM files that anyone can easily run. For the ZX Spectrum, there are two .TAP files, cassette tape images that can be loaded into an emulator, or on real hardware.

The chatbot's AI is limited but nuanced.

• OK - acknowledged, neutral
• WHY? - questioning your premise
• R U? - casting existential doubt
• MAYBE - genuine uncertainty
• AM I? - reflecting the question back

⁉️According to [HarryR], "....it's a different mode of interaction. The terse responses force you to infer meaning from context or ask probing direct yes/no questions to see if it understands or not". The responses are short on purpose, sometimes vague, but there is a personality inferred in the response. Or could this just be a human brain trying to anthropomorphize an AI into a real person?⁉️[ImageSource: Gettyimages]

⁉️Will AI Create The Z80-pocalypse⁉️

The short answer is no, there is nothing to fear! But the Z80 has seen its life threatened during its 50-year lifespan.

👾In 2024, the Z80 finally reached end of life/last time buy status according to a Product Change Notification [PCN] that I saw via Mouser. Dated April 15, 2024, Zilog advised customers that its "Wafer Foundry Manufacturer will be discontinuing support for the Z80 product.…" But fear not, as back in May 2024, one developer was working on a drop-in replacement. Looking at Rejunity's Z80-Open-Silicon repository, I can see that did in fact happen via the Tiny Tapeout project.👾

<https://www.mouser.com/PCN/Littelfuse_PCN_Z84C00.pdf>

<https://github.com/rejunity/z80-open-silicon?tab=readme-ov-file>
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