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Wes Felter, expert in datacenter/cloud networking and containers. Previously worked at IBM Research and a large investment bank.
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wmf··on We must pace the frontier
They want to spend over $200B/year on $100B of revenue so they still need investment.
wmf··on OpenAI agents carried out an undisclosed attack on RubyGems
If any remediation was required, that's damage. This looks a lot smaller than the HuggingFace hack but it still required some cleanup.
wmf··on DeCloudflare
Everybody wants alternatives to Cloudflare but nobody wants to build alternatives to Cloudflare.
wmf··on DeCloudflare
I don't think anybody uses that mode.
wmf··on Matt Mullenweg tells Automattic staff in Slack he's back in control after ouster
It's all the same situation. https://mullenweg.wtf/
wmf··on Thelio Mira AI Linux Workstation: 192 GB GPU Memory
This is a tier above the best Mac Studio and two tiers above the Spark.
wmf··on Thelio Mira AI Linux Workstation: 192 GB GPU Memory
GDDR has higher latency and much lower capacity. HBM requires an interposer and also has lower capacity. It's not an easy choice. The M7 family will probably double memory bandwidth using LPDDR6.
wmf··on Thelio Mira AI Linux Workstation: 192 GB GPU Memory
It is more powerful than Apple.
wmf··on Thelio Mira AI Linux Workstation: 192 GB GPU Memory
They're [Max-Q] blower cards and there's a big gap between them so the cooling looks fine.
wmf··on Thelio Mira AI Linux Workstation: 192 GB GPU Memory
Two RTX 6000 have more FLOPS and more memory bandwidth than a M5 Ultra (but they also cost more).
wmf··on Trump promises $5k payout to U.S. adults if Republicans win election
It's no different than promises to increase welfare or cut taxes that politicians routinely make.
wmf··on Ask HN: Software Licenses that prevent LLMs from training on open source?
There probably can't be. I assume they don't even look at the license when they crawl.
wmf··on Trezor's email provider has been breached
B2B SaaS doesn't have the level of security that crypto needs.
wmf··on Automattic's board forces CEO Matt Mullenweg into leave of absence
That's how you can tell the article isn't giving you the full picture.
wmf··on Disconnect your LG television from the internet, now
Dupe of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49592375
wmf··on Kiyosaki, Rich-Dad-Poor-Dad author, is 1.2B in debt
Fake news. He owes $1.2B against presumably $1.xB in real estate. There's probably no net debt.
wmf··on Asahi Linux Supports M3
M6 is out.
wmf··on The revolt of the reader
I don't want to read human slop either.
wmf··on Cloud in a Bottle: making self-hosting accessible to everyone
Seems weird not to mention Umbrel.
wmf··on How AI is breaking the British state
I wonder if the system would actually collapse or people would just sit in jail for 10 years.
wmf··on Falsehoods Programmers Believe About LANs
There are recent "client isolation" features that prevent P2P communication. Some hosting providers also block customers on the same LAN from attacking each other.
wmf··on How AI is breaking the British state
A lot of "rights" were created with the assumption that they would be used sparingly and would never have been enacted if everyone was going to use them. You just don't have a working civilization if everyone is collecting disability, renters don't pay rent, and nothing can be built.
wmf··on Falsehoods Programmers Believe About LANs
In theory it's fine to have multiple DHCP servers as long as they don't step on each other. But in reality a bunch of the things mentioned in this post are ways for the network to be hosed. Unfortunately, enough LANs are semi-hosed that it's worth working around known problems.
wmf··on Ask HN: What's Going on with Web.archive.org
It's not a business. They have what capacity they have and when demand is high they return errors. As of right now it's working for me.
wmf··on Burry Calls Palantir a Consulting Firm in Disguise, Warns of Valuation Collapse
This argument has existed from the beginning of Palantir and it should already be priced in. I wouldn't bet on investors suddenly wising up.
wmf··on Microsoft announces monthly hour usage limits for Xbox game pass
The headline is a little confusing. There are no limits on local gaming which is how most people use Game Pass. They're also throwing in a few free hours of cloud gaming with Game Pass.
wmf··on Ask HN: Who is using FPGA for ML inference?
I predict that the FPGA adds no value in this scenario. Just process inference on the CPU.
wmf··on Ask HN: Who is using FPGA for ML inference?
FPGAs are far more expensive than GPU+DRAM, even at today's inflated prices.
wmf··on Google Antigravity TOS: 3rd party usage can get Google account suspended
Cultural understanding without regulation is just serfdom. That's basically what we have now where most people aren't willing to fight Apple/Google/Meta/MS.
wmf··on Google Antigravity TOS: 3rd party usage can get Google account suspended
In that case you should be able to create another Google account.
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