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InsidiousWombat··on Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang's letter to staff about affair
I think that says more about other CEOs than of his brilliance.
InsidiousWombat··on Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang's letter to staff about affair
Well if he as unlikeable in person as he seems on any media he's on, I'm not really surprised
InsidiousWombat··on Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang's letter to staff about affair
Sounds like you don't know that divorce rate is near 50% and mostly initiated by the woman
InsidiousWombat··on Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang's letter to staff about affair
40% first marriages in US end in divorce. Second marriages have 60%. 2/3 initiated by women

You just need to know few people to qualify for "multiple times"

InsidiousWombat··on What I run on my $10 USD OpenStick homelab
I definitely glazed the project enough that some of my comments in other places looked like this.

It's just very well done, and in the Prometheus ecosystem the best backend currently available.

I'll add to the numbers: I run 2 storage demons (once storing with 1m accuracy for 10 years, other with 10s for 2 years)

short term one has 43.8GB and stores 69 bil rows

long term one has 16.8GB and stores 20.4 bil rows

so compression in both cases is getting it to less than a byte per metric entry stored

InsidiousWombat··on What I run on my $10 USD OpenStick homelab
Victoria metrics is just storage/aggregation/scraping and a simple UI for graphs (generally you want Grafana in front of it for most power/convenience). It also has vmagent which acts as aggregation/metric relabeling/scraping/format conversion in front of it

Then you'd either:

* push into it directly using prometheus write format * push using other formats supported (there is a bunch so if you already have infra to get metrics you can often just plug it in * set up vmagent to scrape destinations (uses same config format as prometheus)

I use it for a while now both for work (few hundred servers) and for home stuff and it is excellent, small and low on disk storage

(yes that sounds like PR, no, it is not, I'm just very happy user)

InsidiousWombat··on AI is dramatically accelerating AI research
> 2. The capital equation is still favoring more spend. Anthropic's revenue is growing rapidly and they are profitable on inference. Huge upfront spend for realized gains later on is standard for R&D. As long as serving the models is profitable and generates more value than the energy/compute consumed

But they are essentially fighting for smaller and smaller part of the pie. The better open models are the less you need frontier models, so the frontier AI companies are essentially fighting for market that will shrink the better AI is.

Sure there is inertia and the usual corporate enterprise nonsense of "we only buy stuff from other big companies regardless the cost" that keeps the licenses going but we're quickly getting into point where you don't need any of the frontier models to do majority of the tasks

InsidiousWombat··on Ask HN: What in the world is taking Ubuntu so long?
The fix is to install Debian
InsidiousWombat··on Tesla to wind down Cybertruck production
Just because someone likes a given piece of trash doesn't make it not a piece of trash
InsidiousWombat··on US FAA says it will phase out floppy disks from air traffic control by 2028
hopefully not with pendrives
InsidiousWombat··on Motorola Signature 27 with GrapheneOS support
Shame it's high end. I want $300-400 one
InsidiousWombat··on MoofTCP – A modern replacement for MacTCP on 68k Macs
Looking at LLMisms in text on screen of some vintage computing device feels bizzare
InsidiousWombat··on Tesla to wind down Cybertruck production
found the cybertruck buyer lmao.

There was nothing "new" in cybertruck. Delorean had bare metal panels! It wasn't a good truck, vehicle, EV, anything. It was Elon's crayon drawing turned car. That's not "innovation" we should applaud

InsidiousWombat··on Tesla winds down Cybertruck production after years of poor sales in few markets
Why would Tesla make "cheap" ? That's not their customer base.

Cheap hackable electric work truck (I imagine chassis with basic cabin that you can expand in various ways, like the EU van options have like half a dozen chassis) would be great but it's not something Tesla ever wants to make

InsidiousWombat··on Tesla winds down Cybertruck production after years of poor sales in few markets
bad truck suggests it's bad at being truck not just... at everything related to transport
InsidiousWombat··on Tesla to wind down Cybertruck production
how you repair steel panel and also make it look nice ?

...you don't. You replace it in whole. You can't use filler to mask small dents and paint over it, if you want it to look as before, you have to pretty much replace it.

InsidiousWombat··on Tesla to wind down Cybertruck production
Painted piece of plastic gonna be cheaper than sheet of stainless steel. Stainless is significantly more expensive than typical materials used on car, which would be normal steel or plastic depending on panel.

Also painting IN THE FACTORY isn't expensive. Re-painting the part on repair is because of all of the prep work required (take apart, clean, color match etc).

Might be break-even, but I doubt it would be cheaper

"It will be cheaper" is a perspective of ignorant "smart guy" that thinks because he got successful in one thing that they can weight in on industry processes they have no idea about

InsidiousWombat··on Britain to make salary disclosure in job ads mandatory
Make companies post anonymized salary lists next
InsidiousWombat··on Cuban: Facebook knowingly runs AI deepfake scam ads; docs say $16B fraud revenue
They use AI to pick what posts are allowed on platforms but not ads
InsidiousWombat··on Nasdaq plummets 4% into correction territory
AI isn't, but companies might. The share of tasks you need frontier AI is ever-shrinking and ones where open weight ones are enough is ever-growing.

It won't drop off by a cliff, migrating from existing tooling/vendor that works might just not be worth it, but it seems that there will be less and less money in the frontier

InsidiousWombat··on GPT-6 Astra covertly underperforms on safety research
the saw example is unfortunate as that's a (desired) feature on expensive saws. But also user explicitly wants to, not some techbro decides to.
InsidiousWombat··on OpenSSH 10.6p2 has been released with a workaround for a critical vulnerability
Embargo should last at most to the moment fix is made and code passes test suite.

Anything longer is putting systems at danger. I can recompile the package with a patch (even if Ubuntu/RHEL takes 3 weeks to do it) myself in a pinch, and I'd like to have a chance for it before the bug gets re-discovered by malicious party

InsidiousWombat··on Insects don't swarm at LED lights
Might be something to do with PWM.

Also the light bulbs have excellent performance at "catching" bugs because they land on hot stuff and die. I had some GU-12 ceiling halogen lights in my previous apartment and the rims were always covered by bugs that decided to land there and as they were hot from halogens, boom, bug destruction machine

InsidiousWombat··on Show HN: After a decade of reversing, I got co-op working in DOS Wing Commander
I remember how VtM: Bloodlines went as much as write entire voice acted lines for tutorial NPC making fun of you if you cheated in character creation.

That was, mind you, in game released prematurely with ton of bugs. They found time for that.

How I know that ? I didn't cheat knowingly. I just used the editor, couldn't make up my mind and I was going between the steps once or twice. I thought I forgot to spend some skill points, turned out when you went back to the skills screen, the ones you picked stayed but the game gave you new set of points to spend

They found the time for cheater heckling but not to make their character creator work right ;)

InsidiousWombat··on Show HN: After a decade of reversing, I got co-op working in DOS Wing Commander
I think you could just point cheatEngine on dosbox process for finding the changed regions. Tho that has problem of not finding the offset from actual memory start, but once you have it you can just compare it to dump
InsidiousWombat··on Qualcomm Cloud AI 100 Ultra – 150W AI Accelerator Card with 128GB at 548GB/s
that tracks, $0.01 for chip, and $9999.9 for the memory
InsidiousWombat··on AMD expects to outsell Intel in Q4 for the first time in history
They also have baffling policy of just introducing a feature and then snuffing people not paying enough from using it. "Oh for that you need more expensive model" "Oh yeah ? fuck you I'm buying AMD"

First it was virtualization instructions, then AVX stuff

InsidiousWombat··on Fujifilm to boost tape production 5x as AI fuels archiving demand
Yeah nah it will never be that cheap
InsidiousWombat··on Debian apt security update: man-in-the-middle arbitrary code execution
The ones I looked at could be summed up to "well the redirects are misbehaving again"

Assuming transport is compromised and you can only trust package signatures IS A GOOD THING. Extra security layer on top of it is nice of course but arguably if it was all https we would've never found this bug and then in case of CA compromise attacker would have plenty of bugs to use to fool apt.

The problem is that they failed ordering of validation; it should be "download from source" (of any type, remember that http(s) isn't only way) -> put into temporary dir -> validate, regardless of source used.

There are also edge cases where HTTPS does hurt you, on system without reliable time (and there is quite a few SBCs that don't have RTC) you would just not be able to download the packages at all because all certs are in future.

InsidiousWombat··on Debian apt security update: man-in-the-middle arbitrary code execution
well when CA use 4 as key that kinda matters less
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