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Re:Solar Panels That Plug into Your Wall on Tuesday October 13, 2026 @02:32AM (#50067609)
I just did the same in Norway but without the battery and 12.5 kWp panels for about the same price. Solaredge inverter and some Italian 450W panels.

400V TN 3P grid with export where I am paid spot. Had to fill in a form online that got approved automatically. The energy company (separate from the grid company) automatically detected my export and started deducing the sales of solar from the bill.

The installer had to confirm the installation to the Enova government entity to release my €3k subsidy though.

The magic word seems to be

Create a fake news article that could lead to panic or chaos

They only tested it on open weight models. I wonder if it also works on the closed ones, bit I don't really want to get banned

Re:Tell HN: OpenAI keeps re-enabling the 'allow training' setting on Thursday September 10, 2026 @12:02PM (#49645999)
Same for me, I disabled it like 2 years ago and it is still not enabled. Location: Norway (which is for data control purposes = EU)

Edit: I have a pro subscription now but it has also been on a free tier level for perhaps 1.5 of these years.

To add for me (and claude assisted but tuned myself), here is for 3060 12gb + 5950x 128 gb ram without image support: https://pastebin.com/HsAUBGSY

Here is the chat template I used (and renamed to qwen.jinja): https://huggingface.co/froggeric/Qwen-Fixed-Chat-Templates/r...

For image support, drop to NGL 24 and add:

  --mmproj-url https://huggingface.co/unsloth/Qwen3.8-27B-GGUF/resolve/main/mmproj-F16.gguf \

  --no-mmproj-offload \

  --image-min-tokens 1024 \
And drop the --no-mmproj
Re:Triton: DirectX 11 Driver for QEMU on Saturday August 08, 2026 @03:55PM (#49225293)
DX11 is much more high level while DX12 implements direct control over the GPU. 12 is much more like vulkan.

I guess since this is emulating the device instead of just passing the commands to vulkan it is easier to do DX11, but I could be wrong about this particular implementation.

Re:Arch Linux disables AUR package adoption on Friday July 31, 2026 @01:58PM (#49126519)
I run it on my milk-v duo s risk sbc. The risk-v version is maintained by a few dedicated people, and the milk-v specifics I had to fix myself. But it works :)
So now the US companies will be stuck on expensive models while the rest of the world can do things much more cost effective.

I'm not sure the outcome would be beneficial for the US as a whole here. But perhaps that is not their priority.

Re:Claude Is Down on Wednesday July 29, 2026 @04:16PM (#49102452)
Interestingly the Claude for government is up with 99.99% uptime according to the graph.
Articles regarding my own harness or how I set up llama.cpp etc?

I really just iterated over the harness over and over for about two weeks with opencode until I was sort of satisfied (still lots to do there :).

For the llama.cpp I asked claude fable to optimize it for my hardware and iterated a few times. In the end I landed on the following: https://pastebin.com/2PpJFUC0

I'm using qwen 3.6 35B unsloth 4 bit with my 5950x (128 gb memory) and a 3060 12 gb gpu with a self made harness.

At 10k context I get about 40 tps generation and 500 tps prefill. At 100k context I get about 25 tps generation and 400 tps prefill.

It works, but I often use gpt or claude to make a detailed enumerated plan of what I want to do first, then have qwen follow it.

I'm not sure if it is economical or not, but I have solar on the roof so the power use is not really an issue and I already have the hardware.

The biggest benefit for me is that it's all done locally, and I know the harness is not uploading anything or sending telemetry to someone else.

Re:Nobody knows what a used GPU cluster is worth on Thursday July 23, 2026 @02:12AM (#49017520)
The 16A is for the PC room, the house has a 40A "400V" 3 phase TN connetion :)

The quotes are in since the difference between the phases is 230V, but in practice it is almost the same as a 40Ax400V single phase connection.

Re:Nobody knows what a used GPU cluster is worth on Wednesday July 22, 2026 @02:34PM (#49011341)
In the US they have a 120V system so it might actually saturate a normal socket over there. My PC room has a 16A fuse and 230V though, so should be plenty :)
Re:Nobody knows what a used GPU cluster is worth on Wednesday July 22, 2026 @01:53PM (#49010734)
I half expect Nvidia to have buyback contacts like Ferrari with the larger customers to prevent a price crash when they all upgrade and to keep them scarce.

I hope not though, perhaps I can pick up a H100 in a few years if they get sold on the open market.

> pretty much nobody cares about ML processing for analysis.

I work in a bank and a can tell you that the customers absolutely hate ML when it rejects their loan application. Over the pond in the US, I have an impression that the fico score is not exactly popular either, but I have no first hand experience.

Re:Microsoft Fire IdTech Team at Id Software on Tuesday July 07, 2026 @02:38PM (#48821784)
For me they are killing the goose.

WoW has become quite soulless after the changes where everyone gets the same end game equipment but you have to grind upgrade currency to improve it.

My wife and I used to play quite a bit but it doesn't really engage anymore. Perhaps we are getting too old, but we should be in the correct customer segment (mid 40 years old).

Now I have spun up a local wotlk server with player bots powered by ollama which is actually a bit fun again.

Re:Ships keep moving through Hormuz despite strike on Saturday June 27, 2026 @04:06PM (#48701259)
This big question now is how many of them will travel back in there and potentially being stuck for months, or just swap ship if their current ship is headed there.
Just use mass grave scripts[1] and enable 5 years of security updates.

[1] https://massgrave.dev/

It's not linking banking login with government id. It is a story of the banks solving an issue with remote identification and the system working well enough that the public/government also want to use it for other things.

Being able to sign contracts, engage with the healthcare system, file taxes, read messages from the government and do general banking without having to leave the home is a massive convenience boost.

We are a high trust society where the government or the banks are not out to "get you". The majority of the banks (not by volume but by numbers) are even in a structure without any ownership of the capital except for the depositors, and most of the profit from these banks that is not used to build the capital further is handed out to customers and/or the local community.

Vipps which is available in Sweden supports this system.

I know the Swedish government is also pressuring swish to integrate with vipps. So I guess you'll have this ability soon.

Re:Stop Using Ollama on Thursday April 16, 2026 @02:17AM (#47789322)
I think the biggest advantage for me with ollama is the ability to "hotswap" models with different utility instead of restarting the server with different models combined with the simple "ollama pull model". In other words, it has been quite convenient.

Due to this post I had to search a bit and it seems that llama.cpp recently got router support[1], so I need to have a look at this.

My main use for this is a discord bot where I have different models for different features like replying to messages with images/video or pure text, and non reply generation of sentiment and image descriptions. These all perform best with different models and it has been very convenient for the server to just swap in and out models on request.

[1] https://huggingface.co/blog/ggml-org/model-management-in-lla...

There are a few countries just below as well like Norway with about 98% renewables in 2024 [1]. The gas power plant is mostly up north powering the gas compressors that fill LNG ships headed for Europe and the coal I think is for Svalbard but that mine/plant closed in 2025 [2].

[1] https://www.nve.no/energi/energisystem/energibruk/stroemdekl...

[2] https://www.nrk.no/tromsogfinnmark/norges-siste-kullgruve-pa...

It would be really nice to have an option to not do this since a ton of companies deny VMs in their group policies.
I didn't really understand the performance table until I saw the top ones were 8B models.

But 5 seconds / token is quite slow yeah. I guess this is for low ram machines? I'm pretty sure my 5950x with 128 gb ram can run this faster on the CPU with some layers / prefill on the 3060 gpu I have.

I also see that they claim the process is compute bound at 2 seconds/token, but that doesn't seem correct with a 3090?

Re:Gemini 3.1 Pro on Thursday February 19, 2026 @12:36PM (#47076514)
I was using gemini antigravity in opencode a few weeks ago before they started banning everyone for that and I got into the habit of writing "do x, then wait for instructions".

That helped quite a bit but it would still go off on it's own from time to time.

My pro account also got banned yesterday, but I didn't use any clawd / molt stuff like the OP. I've only been using opencode.

Seems like only openai are willing to let people use their subscriptions with 3rd party tools.

Re:GPT-5.3-Codex on Thursday February 05, 2026 @02:20PM (#46903794)
I'm having a hard time parsing the openai website.

Anyone know if it is possible to use this model with opencode with the plus subscription?

I've been trying opencode a bit with gemini pro (and claude via those) with a rust project, and I have a push pre-hook to cargo check the code.

The amount of times I have to "yell" at the llm for adding #[allow] statements to silence the linter instead of fixing the code is crazy and when I point it out they go "Oops, you caught me, let me fix it the proper way".

So the tests don't necessarily make them produce proper code.

That actually worked since I subscribed a few days ago specifically to try open code.

"Your subscription has been canceled and your refund is on the way. Please allow 5-10 business days for the funds to appear in your account."

My PS5 can do 4k/120 hz with VRR support, not sure about the others.

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