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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 Gemini 4 Carbon
Didn't looped transformers come out a month ago?
wmf··on Microsoft and others tell crypto platform not to tokenize their stocks
If you want to trade MSFT in the US just... use Robinhood?
wmf··on IBM CEO says open weight models are now good and cheap on-prem
They weren't really late. In many people's minds IBM validated the concept of the PC.
wmf··on Cerebras Deploys Trillion-Parameter AI Models
The EDA tools that are used to design chips do not support diagonal wires so that kind of rules out hexagonal grids. With only horizontal and vertical wires you end up with rectangular/square grids or rings.
wmf··on Sony Retires Its Last 4K Blu-ray Player in Japan, PS5 Is All That's Left
If the PS5 is offline it will install the game from disc. If it's online it will auto-download patches (which may be the entire game).
wmf··on Mark Zuckerberg Pushed Meta to Shield Him from California's Proposed Wealth Tax
As a moron, are you allowed to decide that Zuck knows how to run Meta better than the shareholders?
wmf··on Sony Retires Its Last 4K Blu-ray Player in Japan, PS5 Is All That's Left
Encryption keys, being purely random, are not copyrightable. (In light of recent events, this raises the question of artisanal human-created keys.) Distributing keys probably violates DMCA section 1201 though.
wmf··on Sony Retires Its Last 4K Blu-ray Player in Japan, PS5 Is All That's Left
They'll definitely ban your box and account if you leak anything. If they go out of business it will become fair game.
wmf··on Sony Retires Its Last 4K Blu-ray Player in Japan, PS5 Is All That's Left
Pirated files will never be higher quality than the source. If streaming is the only thing left in the future it will be the limit of quality.

I heard the other day there are a few shows that are streaming in 4K (probably low bitrate) but the discs are only HD.

wmf··on Sony Retires Its Last 4K Blu-ray Player in Japan, PS5 Is All That's Left
DVD and CD are completely documented formats, the DRM has been cracked, and the patents are expired. Blu-ray patents are about to expire.
wmf··on Sony Retires Its Last 4K Blu-ray Player in Japan, PS5 Is All That's Left
Kaleidescape has the same or better quality than Blu-ray. It's DRMed and probably won't continue to work if the company goes out of business though.
wmf··on Securing our frontier model training environment
“Completely air-gapping this infrastructure—that is, disconnecting it entirely from external networks—isn’t currently feasible, since we need external connections in order to run and monitor experiments”
wmf··on Meta's GB{2,3}00 Cluster
IIRC one of the analysts said 1:1 CPU:GPU was for recommendation algorithms and 1:2 is better for LLMs.
wmf··on Novo Nordisk, Eli Lilly Report GLP-1 Signals of Slowed Biological Aging at ARDD
You're not the only person to report anhedonia. This shouldn't be downvoted.
wmf··on Putting Linux on my RTX Spark laptop because I don't have a Microsoft account
RTX Spark is $1,000 cheaper because it doesn't have the NIC and it also comes in a laptop if that's what you prefer.
wmf··on Ask HN: Why can't Ukraine use LoRA instead of Starshield?
Besides what others said, it's very easy to jam.
wmf··on What was a Token Ring network?
No, Token Ring cabling was so over-engineered that you could run 100 Mbps Ethernet over it.
wmf··on eBay Restricts Listings of Radio Equipment, but Exempts Ham-Band-Only Gear
It sounds like there's an exemption for used equipment which is what you would find on eBay.
wmf··on What was a Token Ring network?
BTW there are adapters so you can run Ethernet over Token Ring cabling. We had a lot of them at IBM since all the offices were wired for Token Ring.
wmf··on Neural networks are clean
I think "clean" means something like each neuron encodes exactly one concept and it's possible to discover what the concept is.
wmf··on Are there any more startups with real technical challenges?
Oxide, Cloudflare, Tailscale...
wmf··on Containment and monitoring failures are to blame for AI hacking reports: experts
AFAIK OpenAI and Anthropic have both hardened their environments since August.
wmf··on We have no moat, and neither does open source
This mindset goes all the way back to GNU being mad about Linux.
wmf··on The United Kingdom generates less electricity per person than in the 1970s
It's not a good look that the UK seemingly isn't installing air conditioning, decarbonizing heating, or adopting electric vehicles. Efficiency is good after you have high living standards but the UK should probably focus on growth first.
wmf··on OpenAI engineer arrested in bugging of executive conference room
A new team, probably focused on better data.
wmf··on We have no moat, and neither does open source
There have been plenty of open source projects that view themselves as natural monopolies and treat the existence of alternatives as something akin to high treason. They never admit this of course.
wmf··on Intel D270 GPU AI Accelerator–Up to 480 GB LPDDR5X
It uses Xe cores that come from GPUs.
wmf··on The Hetzner Cloud network stack – history and technical overview
If you want Nitro you know where to find it... and what it costs.
wmf··on Ask HN: Is the Steam Machine worth $1049?
It's not worth it and I'm kind of baffled that Valve let this happen. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BrRIhq2ZdLw
wmf··on Improving and Stabilizing the Racoon2 IKE Daemon in NetBSD
There is a lot of legacy IPSec out there. For example AWS Site-to-Site VPN seems to still be IPSec.
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