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• Nvidia pursues $30B custom chip opportunity with new unit

  There are already ways to get around this. For example, renting compute from people who aren't in datacenters. Which is already a thing: https://vast.ai. - Source: Hacker News / 3 months ago

• A SETI-like project to train LLM on libgen, scihub and the likes?

  By "SETI" I assume you mean the SETI@Home distributed computing project. There's a two-way market where you can rent out your GPU here: https://vast.ai/. - Source: Hacker News / 4 months ago

• Ask HN: What's the best hardware to run small/medium models locally?

  - https://vast.ai/ (linked by gchadwick above). - Source: Hacker News / 5 months ago

• Ask HN: What's the best hardware to run small/medium models locally?

  Have you considered running on a cloud machine instead? You can rent machines on https://vast.ai/ for under $1 an hour that should work for small/medium models (I've mostly been playing with stable diffusion so I don't know what you'd need for an LLM off hand). Good GPUs and Apple hardware is pricey. Get a bit of automation setup with some cloud storage (e.g backblaze B2) and you can have a machine ready to run... - Source: Hacker News / 5 months ago

• Budget-friendly Cloud server to host OpenAI Whisper?

  I have heard vast.ai is cheap but I haven't tried it out. https://websiteinvesting.com/reviews/vast-ai-review/. Source: 5 months ago

Medium mentions (2205)

• TikTok Sues U.S. Government over Law Forcing Sale or Ban

  It’s easy to dream up scenarios from something as simple as the way that China treats GPS: in addition to the regular block-google-maps-from-showing-military-bases they also use an entirely different system whose purpose is only to occlude real locations (https://medium.com/@anastasia.bizyayeva/every-map-of-china-is-wrong-bc2bce145db2) TikTok harvests the very thing china occludes. - Source: Hacker News / about 10 hours ago

• Bitcoin's Future Depends on a Handful of Mysterious Coders

  Exactly, and they think they are helping to protect the network, but alas: https://medium.com/@olivierjanss/why-non-mining-full-nodes-are-a-terrible-idea-ad3c49f7a7b6. - Source: Hacker News / about 16 hours ago

• An infinite canvas for code exploration

  Great idea, and I was excited to try it (and even pay for it!) until the requirement to sign up and the hijacked back button. Also, in my Firefox, your white box as a background appears transparent and so your text is just on top of a _very_ noisy background. On the missing Terms of Service, you have the Data Use notice, but it essentially describes how you're using our email, not any code that we would need to... - Source: Hacker News / 1 day ago

• PeerDB Streams – Simple, Native Postgres Change Data Capture

  [3] https://medium.com/@cooper.wolfe/i-hated-debezium-so-much-i-did-it-myself-b43b0efc20a9. - Source: Hacker News / 1 day ago

• Alert for Social Engineering Takeovers of Open Source Projects

  As an positive counterexample, US recently reduced federal funding for the program which manages CVEs [1]. There was/is risk of CVE data becoming pay-for-play, but OSS developers have also pushed for decentralization [2]. A recent announcement is moving in the right direction, https://medium.com/@cve_program/new-cve-record-format-enables-additional-data-fields-at-time-of-disclosure-82eef1d4035e > The CVE Board... - Source: Hacker News / 2 days ago