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by ericd 15d ago
Ah thanks for the solid info, too bad. I'd seen them come up as a pretty good price for 6000 RTX's in the past, which seem generally pretty available, good source for those?
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by ericd 15d ago
Ah gotcha. Have you tried to order something like this in the past?
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by ericd 15d ago
That's not apples to apples on almost any dimension.
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by ericd 15d ago
What're you using that monster for?
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by ericd 15d ago
Ha fair, I'd definitely confirm with a salesperson before wiring them $300k. But most of the signs on the configurator seem to point to it including the GPUs? Not going to make 30k BTUs/hr of heat without the 8kw of GPUs.
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by ericd 15d ago
>You couldn’t buy one of these if you wanted to right now. You can: https://www.exxactcorp.com/Exxact-TS4-149591758-E149591758 . You can get thousands of tps of GLM 5.3 output out of this thing, which grades around Opus
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by ericd 15d ago
Looks like GLM 5.2 is coming in at <2x the tokens of Opus 4.8 (and 1/10 the cost)? Great showing from Sol, though. But also, it's Baba Is You :-D
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by ericd 15d ago
Not sure, I haven't run it, I've just been running DS V4 Flash non-stop since it came out, and that's replaced a lot of my Claude Code usage. People seem very impressed, though, it seems like it trades vram/world knowled
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by ericd 15d ago
I honestly wouldn’t bother with local models right now unless I either had a 5090 and was happy with running Qwen 3.8 27B, or a pair of DGX Sparks running DSv4 flash, or better, 2x6000 RTX Blackwells. Those are the kinds of rigs that the lo
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by ericd 20d ago
I have something like this persistent in my waybar, with session, weekly, and fable usage, with little color coded percentage bars for each. Super helpful, highly recommend it. Great idea on the hook alert. I feel like the advent of LLMs ha
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by ericd 20d ago
Well I never expected it to be treated exactly the same as their first party customers, did you? Especially if I’m paying a much lower rate. Just have to evaluate the actual results, and hop if you’re unhappy. I’ve been extremely happy with
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by ericd 20d ago
Assets, mind share, etc. All the things that get sold off in bankruptcy proceedings. A railroad company also has a huge amount of steel roads with cross country right of ways. You could fire everyone, and it'd still be extremely valuab
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by ericd 20d ago
It’s a core part of the open model infrastructure. Their hardware business benefits greatly if this works really well and open models proliferate to every corner of the economy, with everyone buying GPUs with a lower capacity factor/du
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by ericd 20d ago
I really, really doubt that, and I'm a bit surprised (not too surprised, HN has gotten really cynical) that this is the top comment. I think the future nvidia most doesn't want is a small number of closed labs that run away with i
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by ericd 21d ago
Except in this case, the gun is the one directly improving the body armor.
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by ericd 21d ago
That's kind of a broad brush, Google Fi is great, especially the fact that they work mostly seamlessly for the same price in like every country, and they're an MVNO.
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by ericd 21d ago
Great followup interview, too: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AJCWsoozg0Q
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by ericd 22d ago
Haha right, well, usable speed. And I guess there are some parallels with internet, the internet is technically usable with HughesNet, but people used to fiber would probably consider it unusable.
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by ericd 22d ago
Probably don’t really need it, just makes it easier. I tried it with some potato class models first and they would ignore or mishandle constraints, especially when vaguely worded. Sometimes it would try to send us to events that were obvi
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by ericd 22d ago
Sure, it’s pretty dumb/naive implementation, would need to be a lot more efficient to scale. Basically had Claude write polite/low touch dumb crawlers for a bunch of local sites (library, local events spaces, luma, theaters, maker
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by ericd 22d ago
I think the difference besides the supply crunch there is that everyone connected gets the ~same internet, just faster or slower. Quantitative, not qualitative difference. On the other hand, a computer that can run Gemma 4 8B versus one tha
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by ericd 22d ago
If you actually want to learn, highly recommend a visit to https://old.reddit.com/r/LocalLLaMA/ . People there are running stacks of 2-4x DGX Sparks to get to similar levels of memory, at similar cost.
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by ericd 22d ago
Yeah, I'm not sure people realize how expensive ZDR/Zero Data Retention is, and how important it is to a lot of businesses, this kind of thing starts looking really cheap really fast if it's a reasonable substitute.
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by ericd 22d ago
Weird swipe, I'm not trying to sell it to you, this is just where I see it going, and why these things are going to sell (and why 512 gig M3 Ultra Mac Studios have skyrocketed in demand/price). It's not been an empty promise,
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by ericd 22d ago
> And to take it another way, is the value to you, the cost of a small used car? For me personally, not quite that valuable yet, but I think it's getting there quickly. Deepseek V4 Flash massively increased the value of local AI t
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by ericd 22d ago
>(also, of course it was Bell Labs.) Haha my exact reaction when I first found out.
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by ericd 22d ago
I think there's some mental inertia around what a computer is and what it's worth. This thing can build custom software for you, mostly autonomously. It can monitor things happening on the internet that are relevant to you, in a h
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DefCon 34 – Stalking the Wily Hacker: 40 years later – Cliff Stoll [video](youtube.com)
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by ericd 23d ago
Something to keep in mind is that that figure includes homeless people who have been homed and are being supported, it's not just the ones currently on the streets.
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by ericd 23d ago
The self-flagellation has gotten too extreme. Photovoltaics were invented in the US, and the US helped subsidize it to the point where they were an economically viable source of energy.

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