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New comment by intothemild in "California farmers are struggling to sell grapes as demand for wine drops"

intothemild — Tue, 29 Sep 2026 10:54:49 +0000

I'll give my own personal reasons, our interest rates were going down.. Trump decides to start a trade war, then the central banks get a bit worried, then Trump decides to go to war with Iran.. now the central banks are increasing interest rates, as the future is uncertain.

His whole rhetoric is America should make more stuff right... Well, we can certainly stop buying that stuff since the choices he's made have hurt us. I'd prefer to buy closer to home thanks.

Not the only one I'm guessing.

New comment by intothemild in "California farmers are struggling to sell grapes as demand for wine drops"

intothemild — Tue, 29 Sep 2026 10:50:23 +0000

I don't think this is the generational reasons this article is making it out to be.

We would drink our share of Californian wines, but after the trump trade war, war on Iran, and everything he's done to destabilize the global economy... We decided to stop buying anything American.

Wine was an easy switch.

New comment by intothemild in "The smart home graveyard is getting crowded"

intothemild — Mon, 28 Sep 2026 12:56:16 +0000

The only device I will connect to my home network, is anything that works with Home Assistant.

New comment by intothemild in "Ember-1"

intothemild — Sun, 27 Sep 2026 20:50:03 +0000

This is precisely my point.

New comment by intothemild in "Ember-1"

intothemild — Sun, 27 Sep 2026 20:48:46 +0000

Is there a Pareto frontier for the number of times articles mention or don't mention a Pareto frontier.

New comment by intothemild in "Ember-1"

intothemild — Sun, 27 Sep 2026 18:25:37 +0000

Yes, absolutely, but only if people keep contributing in the open.

New comment by intothemild in "Ember-1"

intothemild — Sun, 27 Sep 2026 18:24:54 +0000

So they trained a model on open weights, and then aren't releasing the weights... am I reading this right?

New comment by intothemild in "Jev-Leftpad"

intothemild — Mon, 21 Sep 2026 10:12:48 +0000

Jev is a new type of model that just makes decisions based on given options. It's small and really really fast.

Leftpad is a npm package that chooses if it should or shouldn't pad the left side of a string. It was famous for bringing down everyone's npm installs a few years ago.

This combination is a double joke. Put something stupid in something stupid.

New comment by intothemild in "Samsung is expected to more than double output of its HBM4 and HBM4E DRAM"

intothemild — Mon, 21 Sep 2026 08:54:56 +0000

This should be the top comment.

It absolutely is not a great situation at all. This won't make things better.

New comment by intothemild in "Samsung is expected to more than double output of its HBM4 and HBM4E DRAM"

intothemild — Mon, 21 Sep 2026 08:53:25 +0000

HBM hasn't been used in a consumer GPU in some years. I think the RX 7900XT

It's all GDDR6X or 7X

New comment by intothemild in "LG denies TV spying claims, says tracking and snooping concerns 'not true'"

intothemild — Sat, 12 Sep 2026 17:57:23 +0000

Opt-in as in don't connect smart TVs to the internet.

New comment by intothemild in "Speculative Decoding in vLLM on AMD GPUs"

intothemild — Mon, 07 Sep 2026 19:03:48 +0000

personally? i have 2x gpus.. but i get bursts of ~200tok/s generation, and around 4500-5000tok/s prefil

Yeah the R4D Kernel rules imho.

New comment by intothemild in "Speculative Decoding in vLLM on AMD GPUs"

intothemild — Mon, 07 Sep 2026 15:29:12 +0000

Feed the setup and run scripts to your LLM.

New comment by intothemild in "Speculative Decoding in vLLM on AMD GPUs"

intothemild — Mon, 07 Sep 2026 12:20:51 +0000

Deadcode is currently working on INT4 right now on his R4D kernel.

The MXFP4 fork is excellent too. Its my daily driver right now. https://codeberg.org/ggz14/radiance-vllm-mxfp4

Also has PARO quant support there too (early stage)

Also speedups in both repos for 4x R9700s

New comment by intothemild in "Speculative Decoding in vLLM on AMD GPUs"

intothemild — Mon, 07 Sep 2026 10:36:30 +0000

Whilst this is an excellent post from vLLM, one of the truly baffling things from either their team or AMDs team, is how much the workstation grade AMD r9700 has been ignored.

Stock vLLM runs so slowly on these cards compared with vLLM forks like Radiance. Going from say 20-30t/s gen, to 150-200t/s

Most of AMD/vLLM work seems to be around their data centre cards, or the AMD AI Halo/Ryzen and ignores the R9700 AI Pro.

Really wish this would change.

New comment by intothemild in "You Know GDPR Is Good Based on Who Hates It"

intothemild — Sat, 29 Aug 2026 10:17:08 +0000

Correct.. the gdpr isn't the anti cookie law. It's the data privacy law.

If it wasn't cookies it would be something else.

New comment by intothemild in "You Know GDPR Is Good Based on Who Hates It"

intothemild — Sat, 29 Aug 2026 10:02:23 +0000

The cookie banner isn't actually specified in gdpr, it was just how everyone else tried to build the solution to the problem at the last minute.

I remember thinking "ok once this hits an actual web spec, we should see this built into browsers, and sent as headers or something"

Nope

New comment by intothemild in "Show HN: My Claude quota ran out in 10 minutes, so I made a tool to find out why"

intothemild — Thu, 27 Aug 2026 18:52:19 +0000

Shaka, when they discovered open models!

New comment by intothemild in "Congressional Letter to Sam Altman demanding HuggingFace incident transparency [pdf]"

intothemild — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 09:23:23 +0000

I understand that there are a lot of people who tend to believe the events that were given via the presentation, I still have my doubts, as I tend to view OAI as unreliable narrators.

I would love to believe it, sounds really amazing, but it also can be interpreted as a company who needed good marketing for their models security capabilities after their competition's model had it's moment to shine in the security sphere.

New comment by intothemild in "Kinney Drugs pulls back AI phone assistant after hundreds of customer complaints"

intothemild — Mon, 10 Aug 2026 18:40:28 +0000

It's 100% this for me too. If I hear an AI voice, I hang up and try somewhere else.