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deserialized··on Ask HN: Is Apple Silicon on desktop a reasonable proposition?
I specifically said the AMD R9 7950X3D
deserialized··on Ask HN: Is Apple Silicon on desktop a reasonable proposition?
Eh, the r9 7950X3D only pulls ~150 watts fully loaded (16c/32t)

https://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/amd-ryzen-9-7950x3d-cpu...

deserialized··on Show HN: 77 Year old launches SaaS platform today. Seeks feedback
Very clean design, best of luck!
deserialized··on Gently Down the Stream – A gentle introduction to Apache Kafka (2021)
Very cute, thanks for sharing!
deserialized··on Nvshare: Transparent GPU sharing without memory size constraints
Thanks for the clarification, it took me rereading the article a couple more times to fully sink-in lol

Great write-up! I'm eager to test a few of these methods out in the lab

deserialized··on Twitter is refusing to pay its Google Cloud bill
My experience with LG&E and Time Warner in Kentucky circa 2008 was getting a shutoff notice dated the day after the payment due date with 14 days to comply. They did in-fact shut the power off at the state date.

This was a common occurrence that people referred to as 'brown billing' because the shutoff notice had a brown header instead of the green header on your regular utility bill.

deserialized··on Twitter is refusing to pay its Google Cloud bill
Stop paying your power bill or your internet bill and find out
deserialized··on 3M heads to trial in ‘existential’ $143B forever-chemicals litigation
Oh well that excuses all of the poisoning, clearly
deserialized··on Ask HN: Cloud to on-premise (reverse migration). Is it a thing?
Have the on prem team start deploying some assets that can utilized by the cloud team via a familiar interface like terraform. (metal as a service, kubevirt, Vsphere, nebula, whatever)

Start small, pick one service at a time (compute this quarter, postgres next quarter, secrets management the next) and use the emerging platform to strangle out paid services

Cloud team gets to stay cloudy, on prem team still gets to farm servers

deserialized··on Nvshare: Transparent GPU sharing without memory size constraints
Another for the pile https://github.com/cnvrg/metagpu
deserialized··on A New CEO Says Employees Can’t Work Remotely After All, and They Revolt
> Office landlords applaud these decisions. They see the return-to-office push by new bosses as a crucial step toward reversing the slide in rent prices, occupancy levels and property values.
deserialized··on US military has been observing ‘metallic orbs’ making extraordinary ‘maneuvers’
This sounds like a hilarious ye-olde prank of pulling your jacket over your head and stumling around trying to scare people but getting bored and wandering off when they didn't react lmao
deserialized··on A unified API for all the GPU clouds?
'Might' is doing a lot of work here.

I've put together multiple hybrid and multi-cloud setups between gcp, aws, azure, equinix, and others using terraform.

Iam tends to be very different between providers but there is absolutely a lowest common denominator between them especially when you focus on compute, storage, and networking as primitives with which to host your own services.

You'll get quite far by consolodating requirements into a json file containing a list of ports to open, ip addresses to allow, required number of cores, disk space, operating system version, max spot bid price, default region, maximum desired replicas etc...

Another factor is how you provision your machines. Cloud-init radically simplifies the process of creating homogenous instances across providers versus custom packer images, ansible playbooks, puppet etc... and is supported by almost every cloud and exposed via their terraform provider

deserialized··on K0smotron: Running Kubernetes-in-Kubernetes
It's real, kubevirt is a kubenetes wrapper for QEMU which allows you to use kubernetes the manage the lifcycle of virtual machines the same way you manage a pod.

Metal3 is just a wrapper for Ironic from open-stack.

The two work together to re-image bare metal machines and attach them to clusters as nodes which can then be sliced up into smaller virtaul machine nodes to sell to your end user which they can then use to run docker, kubernets or whatever else they want.

Doing this allows you to have full kernel level isolation on a per-tenant basis which is not possible just using normal containers.

It also allows you to pin workloads to specific CPU cores for latency sensitive tasks as well as pass pci express devices through to individual VMs on the host and other fun things

It's really only useful if your problem is 'i have one really big computer but I want to have lots of small computers instead' but that's pretty much every data center so shrug

ClusterAPI (CAPI) enters the equation in that CAPI requires Virtual Machines or Bare Metal machines as inputs which it then uses to create a kubenrtes cluster. Thus, kubernetes in kubernetes with kernel level isolation on a per-tenant basis

deserialized··on K0smotron: Running Kubernetes-in-Kubernetes
Definitely neat and a huge flex but I think if you want to actually do multi-tenant kubernetes in kubernetes you should be using kubevirt or metal3 to bootstrap a VM and get a real kernel in there to isolate the cluster from its neighbors.
deserialized··on Show HN: I made CSS Pro, a re-imagined Devtools for web design
Very cool, but out of my price range unfortunately
deserialized··on It’s time to admit that Remote Work doesn’t work
Nah it works fine, you just think culture happens by accident and that one solution has to work for everyone like most other sub-par managers do
deserialized··on A unified API for all the GPU clouds?
That's literally what terraform is for

https://registry.terraform.io/browse/providers

deserialized··on Vermont dairy farms decline from 15,000 in 1950 to just 508 in 2023
> But a persistent oversupply of milk in the U.S. depressed prices paid to farmers so much, for so long, that most dairies like his hadn't seen positive balance sheets in years.

Just because you made it doesn't mean anyone is obligated to buy it

deserialized··on Lisa Su Saved AMD. Now She Wants Nvidia's AI Crown
When they get an equivalent to CUDA and the nvidia container runtime we can talk
deserialized··on Ask HN: Why is Kubernetes adoption so hard?
If you're struggling to get prometheus, nginx, postgres and other battle-tested tooling working in k8s, you're probably also not doing it well in docker-compose, on bare metal or anywhere else because it's the same darn software with the same damn options. No matter what you choose you're going to be creating system services to manage the life cycle of an application and exposing a port or ip address - there is no escape
deserialized··on SUSE and openSUSE leadership declare Conservatives to be “Rotten Flesh”
Tune in at 11 for our hard-hitting expose "people who want to take away a large group of other humans basic rights are not liked by the group of people who's rights are being taken" and other shocking cause-effect scenarios /s
deserialized··on Twitter Set to Exit EU Code of Practice on Disinformation
Nothing of value will be lost
deserialized··on Regent – Electric coastal travel
Lmao, that's the worst of it? A guy had to brake sharply once? And people were polite to him afterwards? The utter tragedy.

I'll trade you streets and you can deal with the 3 dead kids from traffic incidents over the last 5 years

deserialized··on Ireland to introduce world-first alcohol health labelling policy
I remember warning labels tearing my childhood friends family apart. His dad would come home late at night after reading too many labels and beat his wife while my friend hid in his room.

Labels are definitely more harmful

deserialized··on Cloud GPU Resources and Pricing
Depends on your requirements.

Vast is a grey-market with very few security measures in place. A host can snoop on your workloads very easily for example because they have full access to the docker host.

You're also limited in that you can only deploy a single container so if you just wanted some spot nodes to scale out your existing Dagster cluster etc.. You're not going to be able to cleanly plug Vast into your existing infrastructure deployment process.

But if you're just playing around or don't have major security/data restrictions and only want a jhub notebook or nvidia-glx-desktop then yeah it's a very hard deal to beat.

deserialized··on Ask HN: Why do people open their doors to strangers without police supervision?
What a paranoid worldview lmao
deserialized··on Blizzard is “confident” that Diablo IV’s launch servers can handle the load
Just because the cloud exists doesn't mean you wrote your backend in such a way that it is fully disentangled from the rest of the application, nor that it was containerized and handed off to an orchestration engine which was properly configured to scale out horizontally across dynamically provisioned nodes.

The games industry specifically has a chip on its shoulder with regards to linux and scaling as well as a general refusal to NOT poorly reinvent every wheel in C++ inside their windows-only desktop client.

Otherwise you wouldn't see goofy shit like Square Enix halting sales of their game because they couldnt scale their snowflake out to general-purpose servers

deserialized··on EU Artificial Intelligence Act
Maybe do a better job on the AI so it correlates poverty to crime instead of skin color to crime, or is able to spot laws created specifically to target and oppress the poor. If the punishment is a fine, then it's legal for the rich
deserialized··on ‘The country is becoming a desert’: Drought-struck Spain is running out of water
Lmao, maybe reconsider calling The Netherlands a desert
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