Hacker News: cavisne

New comment by cavisne in "OpenAI is walking away from expanding its Stargate data center with Oracle"

cavisne — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 03:00:32 +0000

This feels a bit overdone. OpenAI has had problems with every compute partner they've ever had. It's just not a solvable problem, who would they go to to allegedly get next-gen chips quicker?

New comment by cavisne in "OpenAI is walking away from expanding its Stargate data center with Oracle"

cavisne — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 02:57:07 +0000

Definitely not true. Meta is building tents for GPU's

New comment by cavisne in "Overdose deaths are falling in America because of a 'supply shock': study"

cavisne — Sun, 11 Jan 2026 19:00:47 +0000

Channel 5 did a good piece on "Tranq" which lets China skip the Mexican part of the supply chain as they can mail the finish product straight to the US.

Since the article suggests there must have been a change in china to cause this it seems likely they just moved from fentanyl to tranq.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=925wmb-4Yr4&t=1623s&pp=ygUPY...

New comment by cavisne in "Nvidia to buy assets from Groq for $20B cash"

cavisne — Wed, 24 Dec 2025 23:27:05 +0000

I would assume this is a very well paid position, and with basically nothing to do.

New comment by cavisne in "At least $9B billed across 14 Medicaid services in Minnesota may be fraudulent"

cavisne — Sat, 20 Dec 2025 04:58:59 +0000

The state government already failed with Feeding our Future and nothing has changed. The judge who "suggested" the payment of 250m is still serving his term, Jacob Frey (who's aide was indicted as part of it) is still in office, despite a literal vote rigging attempt to primary him.

This should be handled at the federal level, even just to reduce the chances of another jury bribe attempt!

New comment by cavisne in "At least $9B billed across 14 Medicaid services in Minnesota may be fraudulent"

cavisne — Sat, 20 Dec 2025 04:38:33 +0000

There is plenty of fraud to go around but most of it is sophisticated and distributed (ie. lots of individual fraudulent PPP loans from somewhat real businesses exaggerating their expenses). The difference in MN is the fraud is jaw-droppingly stupid. Just read the Feeding our Future wikipedia page [1].

The fraudsters knew they were under suspicion, still got money from the state ,sued the state to force them to pay more - claiming racism, won, a judge forced the state to pay them 250m, blatantly spent the money on sports cars (again - knowing they were being investigated), got caught, tried to pay off the jury, the person who tried to pay of the jury stole the bribe money.

The investigation was wrapped up some time ago, but it did not get a lot of attention for obvious political reasons.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feeding_Our_Future

New comment by cavisne in "At least $9B billed across 14 Medicaid services in Minnesota may be fraudulent"

cavisne — Sat, 20 Dec 2025 01:29:44 +0000

It’s not 50% of all Medicaid spending. Minnesota spends about 18B a year (federal + state) on Medicaid). This is an alleged 9b of fraud over 7 years in specific services, so about a billion a year. An organization Minnesota knew was likely fraudulent at the time was still able to steal 250m in a year during COVID so a billion a year doesn’t seem too far fetched.

New comment by cavisne in "A quarter of US-trained scientists eventually leave"

cavisne — Mon, 15 Dec 2025 23:39:10 +0000

“40% move to China”

This is the plan not a coincidence. China pays huge “grants” to their citizens to come to the US, get educated, work in big tech/science, then bring it all home.

New comment by cavisne in "Gemini CLI tips and tricks for agentic coding"

cavisne — Thu, 27 Nov 2025 16:56:39 +0000

I think this guide is mostly AI slop. The Google docs section is full of "they might have support for this" "you could do this", "maybe they will add this MCP". How is that a guide?

New comment by cavisne in "LAPD helicopter tracker with real-time operating costs"

cavisne — Sat, 22 Nov 2025 18:54:44 +0000

Down from a massive peak in 2020/2021 when cities tried the "lets not enforce crime" approach. Still elevated from pre 2020 levels.

New comment by cavisne in "Gemini 3"

cavisne — Wed, 19 Nov 2025 04:39:20 +0000

After ChatGPT accidentally indexed everyones shared chats (and had a cache collision in their chat history early on) and Meta build a UI flow that filled a public feed full of super private chats... seems like a good move to use a battle tested permission system.

New comment by cavisne in "Study identifies weaknesses in how AI systems are evaluated"

cavisne — Sat, 08 Nov 2025 18:13:02 +0000

https://wuu73.org/blog/aiguide1.html

You can get a lot of free usage out of the models.

New comment by cavisne in "The traffickers are winning the war on drugs"

cavisne — Sun, 19 Oct 2025 04:58:03 +0000

Heavily cut with cheaper substances, with no alternatives

New comment by cavisne in "$912 energy independence without red tape"

cavisne — Sat, 04 Oct 2025 22:54:43 +0000

Balcony solar kits are popular in Germany which are a more legit version of this.

The main thing I would be nervous about is the panels are claimed to be "rated for 120km/h winds". Presumably thats if they are bolted down? Just laying them down loose on the roof seems like a bad idea.

New comment by cavisne in "YouTube says it'll bring back creators banned for Covid and election content"

cavisne — Wed, 24 Sep 2025 02:29:28 +0000

They should bring back the content too. When history books are written the current state of things is misleading.

New comment by cavisne in "OpenAI and Nvidia announce partnership to deploy 10GW of Nvidia systems"

cavisne — Mon, 22 Sep 2025 22:04:37 +0000

Utilities always need to justify rate increases with the regulator.

The bulk of cost increases come from the transition to renewable energy. You can check your local utility and see.

It’s very easy to make a huge customer like a data center directly pay the cost needed to serve them from the grid.

Generation of electricity is more complicated, the data centers pulling cheap power from Colombia river hydro are starting to compete with residential users.

Generation is a tiny fraction of electricity charges though.

New comment by cavisne in "U.S. already has the critical minerals it needs, according to new analysis"

cavisne — Fri, 19 Sep 2025 10:39:47 +0000

Right, just like how Bernie switched from targeting millionaires to billionaires once he became a billionaire himself.

New comment by cavisne in "ML needs a new programming language – Interview with Chris Lattner"

cavisne — Sat, 06 Sep 2025 06:37:32 +0000

Doesn’t triton write its own intermediate language that then compiles to PTX?

New comment by cavisne in "Google's Liquid Cooling"

cavisne — Mon, 25 Aug 2025 21:13:08 +0000

Definitely not true for these workloads. TPUs are interconnected, one dying makes the whole cluster significantly less useful.

New comment by cavisne in "We need a new theory of democracy – because this version has failed"

cavisne — Mon, 25 Aug 2025 05:35:08 +0000

There is a difference between supporting the stated aim of a policy (infrastructure, healthcare) and the implementation. Biden’s “infrastructure” bill was just an insane grift to all the Democrat special interests, see Ezra Klein talking about the broadband funding.

This is comparing push polling “are you in favor of a free money tree” with voting.