Hacker News: rabidsnail

CoreWeave triggered defaults after breaching terms on Blackstone loan

rabidsnail — Wed, 26 Mar 2025 21:00:55 +0000

Article URL: https://www.ft.com/content/cb94eb68-ccb5-4fb3-b903-0aae17b836dd

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43487257

Points: 1

# Comments: 2

Microsoft is pumping the brakes on datacenter build-out

rabidsnail — Wed, 26 Mar 2025 17:37:31 +0000

Article URL: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-03-26/microsoft-abandons-more-data-center-projects-td-cowen-says

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43484654

Points: 5

# Comments: 1

Write a model to do AI problem solving in under 200 lines of code

rabidsnail — Sat, 21 Dec 2024 01:05:56 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/norvig/paip-lisp/blob/main/docs/chapter7.md

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42476677

Points: 7

# Comments: 0

New comment by rabidsnail in "What Extropic is building"

rabidsnail — Mon, 11 Mar 2024 16:51:00 +0000

fund my new simulated annealing accelerator startup where we etch your model onto an aluminum flake and then hit it with a blowtorch

$3B project to build largest carbon-neutral datacenter in US near Reno

rabidsnail — Mon, 04 Jan 2021 20:45:29 +0000

Article URL: https://www.rgj.com/story/news/money/business/2020/12/08/energos-project-reno-largest-renewable-green-powered-site-us/6495088002/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25637638

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

Zero to ASIC: Silicon Design with Skywater-PDK

rabidsnail — Wed, 30 Dec 2020 02:41:22 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lq2BpWwcyQM

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25577776

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

Steve Blank's Technology, Innovaton and Modern War Course at Stanford

rabidsnail — Mon, 14 Dec 2020 15:19:50 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gaHA7AAd0ck&list=PLmera8mXqq-vjv0wsXpam0ENz6y3_ILxY

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25418502

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

Irmin-pack: a storage back end designed for tezos

rabidsnail — Tue, 01 Sep 2020 14:48:02 +0000

Article URL: https://tarides.com/blog/2020-09-01-introducing-irmin-pack/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24342349

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

Using, Understanding, and Unraveling the OCaml Language

rabidsnail — Tue, 18 Aug 2020 00:08:42 +0000

Article URL: http://caml.inria.fr/pub/docs/u3-ocaml/index.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24193795

Points: 80

# Comments: 11

New comment by rabidsnail in "The New 30-Something"

rabidsnail — Mon, 04 Mar 2019 18:28:59 +0000

Housing development is one of the highest on the ripe-for-disruption list, maybe second after higher education. Virtually none of the money these people are going into debt to spend on houses generates real value in their lives, they're doing it because they think they're supposed to. If you can figure out how to build cheap housing on cheap land that offers good living standards (doable now that you don't need access to the power grid) then you'll unlock literally trillions in value.

New comment by rabidsnail in "Ask HN: Pros and cons of working at a startup in 2018?"

rabidsnail — Mon, 11 Jun 2018 23:50:50 +0000

The only reason to join a startup is if you know the founders and you think working with them would be fun enough that you're willing to give up hundreds of thousands of dollars to do it.

New comment by rabidsnail in "Microsoft Cognitive Toolkit 2.0"

rabidsnail — Fri, 02 Jun 2017 21:27:01 +0000

"How is this better than TensorFlow" is the new "How is this better than Hadoop".

I wonder how their distributed training setup compares to mxent ps-lite (in terms of performance and licensing).

New comment by rabidsnail in "A Mastodon-exclusive week"

rabidsnail — Thu, 20 Apr 2017 21:07:56 +0000

I'm probably going to turn this into a blog post but this is the outline of my take on what federation is good for:

* different people have different needs from social networks

* starting new social networks is hard becasue getting a critical mass of users is hard

* people would have social networks that are better tailored to their needs if there was a larger diversity of social networks

* centralized platforms target the average of everyone which doesn't serve anyone very well

* there are two ways to get critical mass: piggy-backing off an existing network or trying to bootstrap one from friends/family/interest groups

* piggy-backing is awkward because the upstart network and the established network both want to kill each other in the long run, but think they can get value out of each other in the short run

* federation can provide the benefits of piggy-backing without being adversarial

* if it's the case that each person has a social network that's right for them that isn't right for that many people, then federation can be a stable equilibrium

New comment by rabidsnail in "Ask HN: Taking a few months off?"

rabidsnail — Wed, 24 Aug 2016 02:25:04 +0000

Taking time off between jobs is very common and future employers won't think anything of it. The only question is whether you can afford the opportunity cost of not bringing in a salary.

Neural Networks Aren't Magic

rabidsnail — Wed, 24 Aug 2016 02:20:50 +0000

Article URL: https://www.hella.cheap/neural-networks-arent-magic.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12349230

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by rabidsnail in "FastText – Library for fast text representation and classification"

rabidsnail — Thu, 04 Aug 2016 20:09:54 +0000

then write some. there's also not that much code here so you could port it to java in a day or two.

New comment by rabidsnail in "Dropbox says it is cash flow positive, in no rush to IPO"

rabidsnail — Wed, 15 Jun 2016 00:00:05 +0000

Yes, but "cash-flow positive" is the relevant milestone if you're worried about whether the company will be able to stay in business if there's a freeze in the private equity market.

New comment by rabidsnail in "Image Dithering: Eleven Algorithms and Source Code"

rabidsnail — Tue, 14 Jun 2016 23:56:10 +0000

There is no such thing as objectively squicky. I find it squicky.

New comment by rabidsnail in "Image Dithering: Eleven Algorithms and Source Code"

rabidsnail — Sun, 12 Jun 2016 21:04:38 +0000

General rules aren't good for very much other than arguing with people on hacker news.

Information Theory for Machine Learning [pdf]

rabidsnail — Sun, 12 Jun 2016 19:57:58 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/mtomassoli/papers/blob/master/inftheory.pdf

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11889949

Points: 55

# Comments: 3