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Alright, I know, the title is on the "click bait" side. But hear me out.

Researchers in the UK rely on High Performance Computing systems to do their work. If you combine the top 8 HPCs in the country, they amount to 1,000 GPUs altogether. For context Meta alone used 24,000 just to train one of its models (LLaMa). To make things worse, those HPCs are geting to the end of their life without plans for renewal.

With the growing size of AI models (both in vision and language) and the slow pace of hardware improvement, this is only going to get worse. Meta, xAI, OpenAI know this and they are hoarding resources (hundreds of thousands).

How are researchers, independent developers and AI/MML hobbyists going to compete in the space? Do we just submit to our techno-feudal lords and pay rent to access crumbs? Is it over?

Does anyone else care about this?

I'd love to hear people's views on this. Disclaimer: I am working on a solution and I am reaching out to the community to learn more. Check it out if you are interested: https://github.com/kalavai-net/kalavai-client

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42086073

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Article URL: https://www.theregister.com/2024/11/06/torvalds_patch_linux_performance/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42086057

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There are numerous technologies/projects under CNCF which developed around or exclusively for k8s. Eg: Kata containers, i see introducing kata into kubernetes changed the perspective of looking k8s as the tech that can only run production workloads. Gitpod flex(https://www.gitpod.io/blog/introducing-gitpod-flex) claims to be more relevant with CDE. How do OSS see cloud development verticals?

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42086049

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Got a wine lover in your life? Surprise them with one of these top wine gifts to elevate their experience.

Article URL: https://phys.org/news/2024-11-chernobyl-frogs-exposed-aging-stress.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42086035

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Considering a heat pump for efficient home heating? Here’s what it costs, what it offers and why it might be a great fit for your home.

With its one-of-a-kind cover, this memory foam bed provides excellent comfort. But is it the best mattress for you? Our sleep expert tested it to find out.

Article URL: https://byteaigc.github.io/X-Portrait2/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42086014

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Several important refinance rates were higher this week, making it harder to find a lower rate on a home loan.

Having spent the last few years working with RDBMS, I recently started exploring an idea for a database-centric cybersecurity solution. Together with two friends, we’ve spent the past three months researching this space. We've conducted dozens of in-person interviews (following The Mom Test guidelines) with CISOs from various scale-ups and enterprises across Eastern Europe and India, zeroing in on insider access threats.

A recurring theme emerged: while organizations with sensitive or high-value databases are generally well-protected on the perimeter, most lack effective ways to monitor and respond to suspicious activity by already authorized users. The solutions that actually work (eg. DSBMs) are typically bundled, expensive, cause slow-downs, and drain resources. Among those we interviewed, only about 5% felt that they have this issue solved.

Based on these insights, we developed a PoC that, through a database gateway proxy, can already perform full packet inspection. For now, the behavioral analysis is mocked up, but once fully implemented, the tool will be able to detect anomalies in baseline database traffic and respond to incidents effectively and with no trade-offs. We’ve demoed it to a few companies, and initial traction has been promising. However, we worry that this positive feedback could be a fluke—perhaps due to our small sample size or a bias toward regions with maturing cybersecurity markets. To be candid, we’ve also had trouble reaching US CISOs, even with warm intros, which is concerning.

So, before moving forward, we figured we’d try to broaden this research, and we’d appreciate any input from CISOs out there:

1. Do you consider insider data access a risk to your organization’s databases?

2. Have you already tried addressing this risk (if so, how), or is it a high priority on your to-do list (if not, why)?

3. Which solutions are you familiar with, and what budget would you consider for tackling this issue?

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42086007

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Article URL: https://github.com/tritongp/OpenSourceGovernance

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42086005

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Some important mortgage rates ticked up. But rate cuts from the Fed should help mortgage rates fall in the long term.

Article URL: https://github.com/apecloud/myduckserver

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42086000

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I had Claude (Sonnet 3.5 New) create a sliding puzzle, and I noticed it added code to make sure it is solvable. I asked about it and it explained that without it, the puzzle would be unsolvable. Its explanation didn't make too much sense for me so next I had Claude create an unsolvable version. I was able to solve it, so I changed it to include a congratulations message.

Go ahead and try to solve this "unsolvable" puzzle. You should be able to succeed!

https://claude.site/artifacts/2bbdfb89-da23-4de0-a047-e6c8b1...

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42085996

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Article URL: https://github.com/marceloprates/easyshader

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Article URL: https://fermatslibrary.com/s/quantum-mechanics-and-physical-reality

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42085988

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Article URL: https://www.carbonbrief.org/state-of-the-climate-2024-will-be-first-year-above-1-5c-of-global-warming/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42085978

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Article URL: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Systemd-Varlink-D-Bus-Future

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42085971

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Article URL: https://www.newyorker.com/culture/infinite-scroll/the-banality-of-online-recommendation-culture

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42085969

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