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Me, I bloody well love optimizing and performance tuning software. And love "retro" hardware. I'm fully on board with this world of squeezing every last drop of juice out of older …

Similar thing happened here with my kid's 10 year old gaming PC. Motherboard dead. Had an existing 1070 and 16GB of DDR4. New DDR5 wasn't going to happen. New GPU wasn't going to h…

Consider a model like https://huggingface.co/nvidia/NVIDIA-Nemotron-Parse-2.0 which just came out. 0.9B parameters and very accurate for doing a very specific task: document featur…

Dismissing Trump and his cohorts as merely "dumb" is how we got allllll the way to 2026 from 2016.

Cognitive surrender is the process; AI psychosis is the most extreme result of it.

Democracy is people's power and the people in the US (and frankly most of the western world) are refusing to exercise it. Democracy is not a legal framework but a cultural outlook …

I think you're missing the commenter's point.

Seems to be somehow some kind of offshoot from or connected to Tenstorrent, which is just down the road. Founder looks like he was/is maybe at Tenstorrent and previously associated…

My opinion is Sol or Fable could absolutely "finish" Hurd (whatever the definition of "finished" is), but it would be difficult to review and understand everything it did, nobody w…

Because said person is sitting here saying "HN is stupid", it has nothing to do with the police, but the audience he's going after. Read what he wrote and I wrote again. Nobody is …

All very terrifying but you're building a "Hollow Man" by using an "Appeal to Extremes". Instead of arguing against actual regulatory policy, you are mind-reading malicious intent …

> They rebranded the exact same code base with largely the same staff. I don't know why you perceive this to have been a break. This is actually completely false. (Source: I worked…

Not-American here: the issue is having to have a program like Medicaid in the first place. A half-century of struggle in other industrialized western nations happened precisely bec…

I dunno. I bought the Spark in January and it has led indirectly to paid work. I don't use it for local inference so much. I use it to learn. I also use it as my daily driving Aarc…

I disagree -- I think if you can nail down better what's happening and why and get a thorough handling on the mechanics, its limitations, its costs, etc you open the door to a) maj…

Two (linked) DGX Sparks would do it I guess. Though probably slowly (I'd guess 15-20 tok/sec for decode, but higher for prefill). So ~$8-9k USD at current RAM prices, substantially…

This seems to me like this is probably at least a large part of what OpenAI was up to yesterday with their aggressive price cutting; trying to get out in front of this. If the full…

Funny how just 3-4 years ago on this forum people were openly prognosticating about how the era of fully remote work was here to stay and the centre of gravity of investment no lon…

They are one of many working on this. It's obviously the holy grail.

There's also RawTherapee, which I found more usable than Darktable for reasons I don't recall.

Or... hear me out. "Tech bro" is finance bro. Most of the "tech" CEO people we're admiring? as movers and shakers... very few of them actually come from an engineering background. …

Why does it feel like you think you're talking to only people in the US? There's plenty of people on this forum that aren't American. Including some former allies whose sovereignty…

It's bad enough the cringe-word "cyber" being tossed around willy nilly. Now it's robots doing the tossing, in Claude-slop sentences. (Having lived through the late 90s .com stuff,…

If they're not grafted varieties, it can take 10 years to get any fruit at all. And it's recommended to get multiple different types for pollination to be more successful. Recommen…