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Re:DeepSeek just open-sourced its inference engine on Tuesday October 20, 2026 @06:42AM (#50164163)
that doesnt say what cards the reference number used.
Re:DeepSeek just open-sourced its inference engine on Tuesday October 20, 2026 @06:32AM (#50164052)
For comparison, rental prices seem to be ~$2.75/ per H-100-hour [1]. Meanwhile, Deepseek says "38 USD per hour per card”. They haven’t specified which card as far as I can tell.

[1] https://www.ft.com/content/a1815bc5-b5d5-47ff-bbbc-e1a689929...

My hunch is that you would need some post training. On top of that; I don’t think the llm itself can read inside the transformer state although I can see how that could be enabled. (I feel that would open up yet another class of exfiltration opportunities)
Valuations go brrr
This seems like something that could exist as free software and can be easily vibecoded in the form of a pile of scripts. Thanks for the idea!
Re:Launch HN: Bullet (YC S26) – A Faster Coding Agent on Thursday August 13, 2026 @01:01PM (#49288839)
Truly built on vibes.
pyenv has been standard tooling for far longer than uv. depending on package manager supplied Python packages only makes sense if you’re running rhel or Debian or something and your application is packaged/deployed/the maintenance path uses dnf/apt. Otherwise you should always use a venv and use an out of package manager update mechanism. Like, in a broader sense, vendoring dependencies only makes sense if you’re shipping an application, not on a dev box.
Might be an indication that your task unit is too unstructured or your code base is a mess.

Is your actual code doing something complex or is this incidental complexity?

Relying on the model’s “intelligence” to patch over these issues hasn’t proven to be a reliable strategy for me. Of course, this might not apply to you, just my 2 paisa.

tfa: "Results were adjusted for age, sex, ethnicity, and sociodemographic, lifestyle, and health factors"
Re:CursorBench 3.1 on Thursday July 02, 2026 @04:18AM (#48758182)
Would like to see wall times. I feel that’s the part that annoys me most, my tasks aren’t particularly challenging I want them done fast
What models?
Could you point me towards some resource that would help me understand what you wrote? Genuinely curious about how this stuff works
Assuming that the prediction market is perfectly priced right? How accurate is that assumption, or are you counting that as an “inefficiency”?
Re:AI Perfected Chess. Humans Made It Unpredictable Again on Thursday April 02, 2026 @04:26AM (#47611533)
Stockfish uses neural nets for its evaluation function, I don’t see how it’s unfair to call it “AI”.
Re:AI World Clocks on Friday November 14, 2025 @10:49PM (#45934909)
Maybe explainable via the fact that these tests are part of the LLM training set?
Only books published by American publishers yeah?
Re:Apple M5 chip on Wednesday October 15, 2025 @01:59PM (#45596261)
hmm there are apps produced by your script that claim to be fixed according to https://avarayr.github.io/shamelectron/ (Signal, Discord, Notion, etc). And I checked that those apps are updated. Which one’s correct?
Re:Self-hosting email in 2025 is easy actually (apart from M365) on Wednesday October 01, 2025 @06:28AM (#45436160)
Did switching your deliverer to SES have any effect on how clients like Gmail “tagged” your email? (Promotional category or something IIRC)
Re:Open Social on Friday September 26, 2025 @05:57PM (#45391422)
If your pds refuses to serve you your CAR file I don’t think you can do anything about it, can you?
Re:Did a US Chess Champion Cheat? on Friday September 26, 2025 @05:51PM (#45391372)
That’s a cool result, thanks for the link!
Re:Zed's Pricing Has Changed: LLM Usage Is Now Token-Based on Wednesday September 24, 2025 @03:26PM (#45364904)
While I don’t know if the claim is true, you’ve linked a post from 2012…
Re:Apple: SSH and FileVault on Thursday September 18, 2025 @07:03PM (#45296075)
Yeah I was looking at that page. Found this btw: https://github.com/darkrain42/tailscale-initramfs
Re:Apple: SSH and FileVault on Thursday September 18, 2025 @05:56PM (#45295507)
This is not the same thing is it? Arch Wiki mentions something about having to install a separate ssh server into initramfs to support ssh’ing into fully encrypted systems.

systemd-cryptenroll seems to be about storing encryption keys into the TPM so that they can be decrypted automatically at boot (?)

Apologies if I misunderstood something.

Re:Apple: SSH and FileVault on Thursday September 18, 2025 @05:48PM (#45295432)
This is such a hilarious failure mode. I would never have imagined something like this to a problem.

In the case of SSH though, I assume retrying after a second or so would be enough. You probably have some sort of retry mechanism to deal with network failures anyway.

Re:macOS Tahoe Incompatible with Mac Studio M3 Ultra on Wednesday September 17, 2025 @06:57PM (#45282447)
actual title: "macOS 26.0 Tahoe build 25A354 is incompatible with Mac Studio M3 Ultra"
Re:Oh no, not again a meditation on NPM supply chain attacks on Wednesday September 17, 2025 @07:35AM (#45274487)
Yeah I’m not buying it. If the corporations wanted to, they would.
Re:Self Propagating NPM Malware Compromises over 40 Packages on Tuesday September 16, 2025 @11:08AM (#45263358)
you are aware that the app you just wrote with Claude pulls in dependencies, yes?
Re:Self Propagating NPM Malware Compromises over 40 Packages on Tuesday September 16, 2025 @09:32AM (#45262033)
Seems to be a separate incident?
Re:EU court rules nuclear energy is clean energy on Friday September 12, 2025 @03:27PM (#45225714)
Maybe you could argue against the actual arguments Greanpeace make against nuclear instead of making ad-hominem statements.

Relatedly, you could read what scholars like Langdon Winner say about nuclear energy (in short that they require an almost authoritarian posture in order to safely deal with nuclear fuel and nuclear waste); in contrast with solar which can be deployed at a local and decentralized scale.

Re:Website Is for Humans on Wednesday August 13, 2025 @12:11PM (#44890337)
That is, undoubtedly, a problem created by Google itself. See for example: Kagi’s small web (https://blog.kagi.com/small-web)

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