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by jmyeet 5d ago
I can't speak to Infiniband pricing for something like that. It seems like the cheap option is 56/100Gbps with used Enterprise equipment. You'd need 8 HCAs, DAC cabling and a switch but even then you're into thousands of
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by jmyeet 5d ago
The selling point of the M5 Ultra Mac Studio is that you can run much larger models that the 5090 can't without swapping. NVidia aggressively segments the market on VRAM for this reason. That's why a 5090 has an MSRP of ~$2k (but
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by jmyeet 6d ago
Fossil fuels are like NFTs. Hear me out. NFTs never made sense. You're buying a short URL on a blockchain in the hopes that it'll somehow retain value. The URL could go bad, it could be pointed at something else, etc. But what NFT
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by jmyeet 6d ago
My biggest issue isn't being too agreeable (ie the psychic con), it's being confidently wrong , including outright hallucinations . If you ask a common question to an LLM with unusual qualifiers, it tends to ignore the qualifier
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by jmyeet 9d ago
One great thing about the Internet is it lets you see how other people live, if you want to go looking for it. Think about all the things you want in your life: a house to live in, a car to drive, children (maybe), your children being able
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by jmyeet 9d ago
So in 40-66 years Ireland decoupled its economy from the UK? That's a pretty long timeframe. Also, the two countries have a very different mix of exports. Canada's primary export is probably energy (it's at least top 3). A sm
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by jmyeet 9d ago
Russia had a clear theory of victory for the Ukraine war. It's tiered. The ideal outcome was to install a puppet regime in Ukraine (like there used to be and is in Belarus). They have failed in this. Failing that, secure a land bridge
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by jmyeet 9d ago
Canada is too intertwined with the US to truly divorce the US or even shift significant trade to Europe. Australia can sell raw materials anywhere but the Red Sea being closed makes it take longer and be more expensive and who is really goi
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by jmyeet 9d ago
By the summer of 2023 when Ukraine's big counteroffensive had failed my own view was that the situation was stalemated and Russia will wait until the West gets bored or the situation changes and Russia's geopolitical position impr
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by jmyeet 9d ago
This and Canada are just kneejerk reactions against the chaos of the Trump administration. While that makes sense, my prediction is that in the short-term it won't amount to much. In the long-term, history books will write about these
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by jmyeet 10d ago
There are multiple levels of European integration [1]. Fun fact: Canada already borders the EU. There's an island called Saint Pierre and Miquelon, which is only ~12 miles from Newfoundland. These islands became a massive smuggling hub
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by jmyeet 12d ago
Two things really undead Nike: DTC and the simplification of their product line. But where did those ideas come from? Mckinsey [1]. Does anything good ever come out of management consulting? It just seems to be a scam whenever I hear about.
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Claude AI used for missile, influence projects in UAE, Iran, Yemen: Anthropic(al-monitor.com)
9 points by jmyeet 15d ago|3 comments
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by jmyeet 17d ago
How people interact with LEGO varies. Some people like to buy specific sets and make them. That's fine. Some people see a random pile of bricks and build a massive city [1]. There are also competition events for what people can build f
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by jmyeet 17d ago
If you have to hold your phone closer to your face because of poor eyesight, Face ID will constantly fail. So you have this dance of having to pull it away to get Face ID to pass when required. Touch ID just works.
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by jmyeet 17d ago
I don't know why we even have this event anymore. There's a new iPhone every September. It's incrementally better than the last iPhone. Phones keep getting more expensive while doing basically the same thing for some reason.
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by jmyeet 17d ago
Reading this, I'm reminded of... New Coke. Despite post facto conspiracy theories that it was a guerilla marketing campaign to promote "Old Coke", it was not. Coca-Cola tested a new formula in focus groups and people preferre
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by jmyeet 20d ago
Google is playing a dangerous game here and I think it's going to bite them in the butt. First, some history. One thing that made Microsoft successful was a strategy called embrace, extend and extinguish ("EEE"). This is what
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by jmyeet 22d ago
In many countries around the world, corruption is a huge problem. But pretty much everywhere it happens there's a surface-level denial or attempt to hide it. If you're Putin or Erdogan, for example, you'll have children who g
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by jmyeet 22d ago
Consider: 1. Lawmakers literally do not care what you think (study from Princeton) [1]; 2. Private utilities are more expensive than public utilities [2]; and 3. Nobody goes to war over a solar panel [3]. All of this is relevant here. The p
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by jmyeet 23d ago
Reading other comments, it seems like people don't know that Gloria Steinem was a complicated figure, specifically her involvement with the CIA for at least 4 years is documented [1]. By all accounts, this was in the wake of the Red S
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by jmyeet 23d ago
Tech in general (including HN) skews right wing. The era of the countercultural social rebel is long over. Now it's largely just people who have the bag defending the status quo and a whole bunch more people who think they'll one
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by jmyeet 23d ago
> ICE Deports Milo Yiannopoulos, to settle some intra-MAGA feud This is probably the one valid thing they did. He's truly vile [1]. He's also illustrative of how most undocumented people aren't "sneaking across the bo
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by jmyeet 24d ago
There's a far deeper and longer standing issue here and that's rent-seeking. We know what works in education. It's phonics and direct insturction, basically. But nobody gets rich that way so you end up buying into a worse sys
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by jmyeet 25d ago
Companies under a capitalist mode of production are funddamentally incompatible with creative output because companies want a reproducible formula that they can scale. This is why we get endless sequels, annual FIFA, CoD, etc releases, adap
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by jmyeet 26d ago
So for people who don't understand, there are two markets for Apple hardware in this space: 1. Running an agent like OpenClaude. The $599 Mac Mini was an insanely good deal for this. I happened to buy a M5 Pro Mac Mini for $999 last ye
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by jmyeet 28d ago
So I support the general idea of European integration but boy are there some problems and certain industries or political groups punch way above their weight in terms of influencing these processes. For example, agriculture is a relatively
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by jmyeet 29d ago
Have we forgotten Megaupload? Napster? Limewire? BitTorrent? Anyone setting up infrastructure has to consider, in the very least, how this will be used for CSAM in particular but sure, I guess terrorism too. Years ago we had The Office make
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by jmyeet 1mo ago
No, it's not. This seems to be Stephen Miller's baby and the efforts to limit legal immigration (see my other comment) predate the birthright citizenship case and pretty much started day 1 of the administration. Birthright citizen
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by jmyeet 1mo ago
I want to give some context to this because I know a lot about this system. You have to see it as part of the larger moves thi sadministration has made to restrict legal immigration. The most important thing to note is this for immigrant

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