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Just buy Unifi guys


The Network Video Recorder UNVR is 320€ VAT incl. Does this exist as a software which I can download for free and run in a VM, so that the Unify camera, which would cost at least 100€ can store the data over there?


https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44746603

Iam not sure but I think so


Very cool, but running 1 mile really can't be considered a run of course. So don't reallt see this as ran-every-day-for-10y. Nice vis tho!


This is such funny gatekeeping. I don't know what % of the U.S. population could even run 1 mile at all without stopping, but I'm certain it's well under 50%, much less do at least that every day for 10 years. This is an impressive feat. For real, shame on you for crapping on this person's very respectable achievement.


"~instantly! (...) every 15 minutes" - omg


Offtopic, I'm so confused why this is top1 on my HN? Just a pretty normal build?


It's not "your" HN, HN doesn't do algorithmic/per-user ranking. (Ed.: Actually a refreshing breath of wide social cohesion on a platform, IMHO. We have enough platforms that create bubbles for you.)

It's top1 on everyone's HN because a sufficient number of people (including myself) thought it a nice writeup about fat ARM systems.


I haven’t been following hardware for a while, granted, but this is the first time I see a desktop build with an arm64 cpu. Didn’t know you can just… buy one.


I guess this post proves you still can't :)

Not that much changed since this:

https://marcin.juszkiewicz.com.pl/2019/10/23/what-is-wrong-w...


For what it's worth, I've been using a Lenovo X13s for some 3 months now. It's not a desktop, and it took years for core components to be supported in mainline Linux, but I do use it as a daily driver now. The only thing that's still not working is the webcam.


Normal ARM64 80 core system with $1000 EATX motherboard? How is this typical?


EATX is a pretty standard server motherboard form factor.

It's not even a multiple CPU board...

This is indeed a pretty standard (and weak) ARM server build.

You can get the same CPU M128-30 with 128 3ghz cores for under $800 USD.

You can throw two into a Gigabyte MP72-HB0 and fit it into a full tower case easily.

That'd only cost like $3,200 USD for 256 cores.

RAM is cheap, and that board could take 16 DIMMs.

If you used 16 GB DIMM like OP that's only 256 GB of RAM, in a server, it is not that much... only one gig per core... for like $500 USD.

Maybe for a personal build this seems extravagant but it's nothing special for a server.


Depends on how you look at it.

Would you call Threadripper system "a normal build"? For many people they are normal builds because they need more computing power or more PCIe lanes than "normal user" desktop has.

On the other side you have those who pretend to use raspberry/pi 3 as "an Arm desktop" despite only 1GB of ram and 4 sluggish cores.


300 L40s? What's this, 1998?


Hey Tim, how's it going?

Interested in lending PyTorch some compute? :)

torchft can handle much larger scales but for public multi-day demonstration run this is what we had available. Point of this blog was to demonstrate correctness of the quorum algorithm and recovery with a stock PyTorch stack and not so much peak flops.

Stay tuned though -- planning on doing some much larger demos on B200s!


I was curious about this so I had o3 do a bit of research. Turns out 300 L40s have more compute than any supercomputer before 2013 (and arguably before 2016, depending on how you count reduced-precision FLOPs).

https://chatgpt.com/share/685dea79-26ec-8002-bd62-7ed83aedf4...


Cringe


Bad take. Depends on the situation, sometimes it takes a while to find your gig. Ignore OP


Skill issue


Just install polycam and walk around :)


Didn't know anyone still used gitlab. Also video not working..


Thanks for letting me know about the video playback issue, I used the following script to create the timelapse:

  ffmpeg \
   -pattern_type glob \
   -framerate 30 \
   -i "img/*.JPG" \
   -i "star_wars_style_march.mp3" \
   -s:v 1920x1080 \
   -c:a libopus \
   -c:v vp9 \
   -shortest \
   deathstar_timelapse.webm
I actually thought that VP9 and Opus are well supported everywhere by now, but maybe that is not the case…

Regarding GitLab, as a general rule, I try to avoid products dominating the market, and I quite like their OSS policy…


I have converted the timelapse to H.264/AAC, hope this plays everywhere now.


Android Firefox says it won't play because it's corrupted.


VP9/WEBM should be supported by all modern browsers: https://caniuse.com/webm


You should have used mp4. Not all browsers support vp9.


> Didn't know anyone still used gitlab

Why wouldn't someone use gitlab


For self-hosting, there are non-profits available, and in commercial world pricing got out of hand when comparing features. GitHub dominates too much.


The embedded video in the README is working just fine in Safari on iOS


Safari iOS not working here either


Doesn't work in Firefox for Android ("file is corrupt").


Doesn't work in desktop Safari either.


Doesn't seem to work in Brave


I'm using Brave on Android, works fine. Maybe the author updated it?


Not for me


How about this?

https://gitlab.com/sephalon/deathstar_lamp/-/blob/master/doc...


iOS (all the sma browsers / safari) it does not load. Download is jot an issue.


Plays in VLC if you download it.


Works in Waterfox.


Why so?


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