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nightshift1··on TinyTinyTPU: 2×2 systolic-array TPU-style matrix-multiply unit deployed on FPGA
According to this semianalysis article, the Google/Broadcom TPU are being sold to others like Anthropic.

https://newsletter.semianalysis.com/p/tpuv7-google-takes-a-s...

nightshift1··on Show HN: Enroll, a tool to reverse-engineer servers into Ansible config mgmt
This makes me think of the now defunct https://github.com/SUSE/machinery
nightshift1··on Foreign tech workers are avoiding travel to the US
Browsing r/illinois and r/EyesOnIce for a few minutes will cure anyone from ever wanting to step foot in the US.
nightshift1··on Measuring AI Ability to Complete Long Tasks
I agree. After all, benchmarks don't mean much, but I guess they are fine as long as they keep measuring the same thing every time. Also, the context matter. In my case, I see a huge difference between the gains at work vs those at home on a personal project where I don't have to worry about corporate policies, security, correctness, standards, etc. I can let the LLM fly and not worry about losing my job in record time.
nightshift1··on Measuring AI Ability to Complete Long Tasks
>which human

The second graph has this under it:

The length of tasks (measured by how long they take human professionals) that generalist frontier model agents can complete autonomously with 50% reliability has been doubling approximately every 7 months for the last 6 years...

nightshift1··on Big GPUs don't need big PCs
Exactly. With the Intel-Nvidia partnership signed this September, I expect to see some high-performance single-board computers being released very soon. I don't think the atx form-factor will survive another 30 years.
nightshift1··on Amazon will allow ePub and PDF downloads for DRM-free eBooks
It's perfectly feasible to never use Amazon. I don't know your situation, but i think people should go out more and prefer quality over quantity. Most of the stuff that Amazon sell is crap anyway.
nightshift1··on Canada's Carney called out for 'utilizing' British spelling
slow news is good news i guess.
nightshift1··on GPT Image 1.5
What is the endgame? Why is OpenAI throwing that much money on image/video generation? Is there a profitable market for AI-generated image slop? Do people choose ChatGPT instead of Gemini/Grok/Claude because of the image generation capabilities? To me, it looks like a huge fiery money pit.
nightshift1··on If AI replaces workers, should it also pay taxes?
People would be more likely to shop in their local stores, buy local products, and sustain the local economy.
nightshift1··on SSE sucks for transporting LLM tokens
I think it would be even more wasteful to continue inference in background for nothing if the user decided to leave without pressing the stop button. Saving the partial answer at the exact moment the client disappeared would be better.
nightshift1··on French supermarket's Christmas advert is worldwide hit (without AI) [video]
Sometimes telling the truth is unwelcome I guess.
nightshift1··on GPT-5.2
benchmarks probably should not be used for so long.
nightshift1··on Delivery robots take over Chicago sidewalks
Is it a felony if I kick that thing off the sidewalk ?
nightshift1··on Why Are Americans Unhappy?
Money doesn't buy happiness, but it does make misery more comfortable.
nightshift1··on Germany votes to bring in voluntary military service programme for 18-year-olds
CO2 emissions targets will be met.
nightshift1··on Leaving Intel
Where do you think he's going next? OpenAI? Google? Just saving 1% on inference could probably justify his salary 100fold
nightshift1··on BMW PHEV: Safety fuse replacement is extremely expensive
thanks. very interesting links. overall it seems the job market in europe keeps improving.
nightshift1··on SpaceX in Talks for Share Sale That Would Boost Valuation to $800B
just another sign that the world does not revolve around the us anymore.
nightshift1··on BMW PHEV: Safety fuse replacement is extremely expensive
That's not even 26h /week. All this stat show is that there are probably more jobs in Germany. Need more data to draw any conclusions.
nightshift1··on Framework Computer Now Sponsoring LVFS / Fwupd Development
What is LVFS / Fwupd ? Neither the article or its first link explains it.
nightshift1··on Canada can become a nation of jailbreakers
for American IP in Canada
nightshift1··on FileZilla Pro "Perpetual License" – A Warning to All Users
I guess It depends on what the EULA said you bought back then.
nightshift1··on 250MWh 'Sand Battery' to start construction in Finland
Interesting. Does anyone know what source of electricity is going to be used for this ? Probably solar but it might be also useful with coal plants or wind farms that produce even when there is not enough demand. How are they moving the heat ?
nightshift1··on Ilya Sutskever, Yann LeCun and the End of “Just Add GPUs”
Dropbox, O365, Google workspace, AWS s3.
nightshift1··on OpenAI needs to raise at least $207B by 2030
I tried it yesterday by comparing the specs of a few low-budget desktops for my father. It worked well and saved me a lot of time and the hassle of comparing multiple tabs on a PC.

I am a bit worried about the feature where it calls the shops for inventory checking. That's the whole point of having a website. Now we are going to have expensive AI that calls other AI answering machines and no value will be added. Meanwhile, it will become even more difficult to talk to a human when necessary.

nightshift1··on Calculus for Mathematicians, Computer Scientists, and Physicists [pdf]
the Postscript at the end says:

While not every student is expected to read the book sequen- tially cover to cover, it is important to have the details in one place. Calculus is not a subject that can be learned in one pass. Indeed, this book nearly assumes readers have already had a year of calculus, as had the students of MAT 157Y. I hope this book will grow with its readers, remaining both readable and informative over multiple traversals, and that it provides a useful bridge between current calculus texts and more advanced real analysis texts.

nightshift1··on Homeschooling hits record numbers
As a Canadian, all I can say after reading all of this is: WTF? I can't understand why anyone would want to keep their children at home instead of sending them to school, and how the government could fail so badly that so many people want to avoid public schools. We are so similar and yet so different
nightshift1··on $1900 Bug Bounty to Fix the Lenovo Legion Pro 7 16IAX10H's Speakers on Linux
lt could become some sort of leetcode final boss and/or something that you can put on your resume.
nightshift1··on Google tells employees it must double capacity every 6 months to meet AI demand
With a quick search, it looks like some ai datacenters are not designed/built with hyperscaler grade reliability in mind so the would have to be upgraded for that purpose.

https://blogs.microsoft.com/blog/2025/11/12/infinite-scale-t...

We are pushing the envelope in serving this compute with cost-efficient, reliable power. The Atlanta site was selected with resilient utility power in mind and is capable of achieving 4×9 availability at 3×9 cost. By securing highly available grid power, we can also forgo traditional resiliency approaches for the GPU fleet (such as on-site generation, UPS systems and dual-corded distribution), driving cost savings for customers and faster time-to-market for Microsoft.

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