HP ditches 15-minute wait time policy due to ‘feedback’
HP today abruptly ditched the mandatory 15-minute wait time that it imposed on customers dialling up its telephone-based support team due to “initial feedback.” As The Register exclusively revealed yesterday, HP introduced the minimum time that PC and print consumer would need to wait before they spoke to a human being. This was to lean […]
Users don’t care about your tech stack
I still often find myself in discussions where the main focus is the choice of technologies. Questions like “Is this language better than that one?” or “Is this framework more performant than the other?” keep coming up. But the truth is: users don’t care about any of that. They won’t notice those extra 10 milliseconds […]
Meta claims torrenting pirated books isn’t illegal without proof of seeding
Just because Meta admitted to torrenting a dataset of pirated books for AI training purposes, that doesn’t necessarily mean that Meta seeded the file after downloading it, the social media company claimed in a court filing this week. Evidence instead shows that Meta “took precautions not to ‘seed’ any downloaded files,” Meta’s filing said. Seeding […]
Train Your Own O1 Preview Model Within $450
Train Your Own O1 Preview Model Within $450 Models such as o1 and Gemini 2.0 flash thinking that excel in reasoning have shown to solve complex tasks by producing a long internal chain of thought, among other advancements. However, the technical details and model weights are un-accessible, presenting a barrier to the participation of the […]
Running Systemd-Nspawn Containers
I’d like to talk more about a container technology that I really like that I touched upon in a previous article: systemd-nspawn. systemd-nspawn is a container manager that allows you to run a full operating system or a command in a directory tree. Conceptually, it is similar to the venerable chroot, but it is much […]
Docker limits unauthenticated pulls to 10/HR/IP from Docker Hub, from March 1
Home / Manuals / Docker Hub / Usage and limits Table of contents Note The Docker Hub plan limits will take effect on March 1, 2025. No charges on Docker Hub pulls or storage will be incurred between December 10, 2024, and February 28, 2025. When using Docker Hub, unauthenticated and Docker Personal users are […]
JavaScript Promises
A Promise in JavaScript represents a value that may be available now, in the future, or never. It is used to handle asynchronous operations like fetching data from a server. Asynchronous means out of time, which means, the value you expect does not have to be available at the exact time you need it. It […]
DeepSeek Open Infra: Open-Sourcing 5 AI Repos in 5 Days
202502 Open-Source Week We’re a tiny team @deepseek-ai pushing our limits in AGI exploration. Starting next week, we’ll open-source 5 repos – one daily drop – not because we’ve made grand claims, but simply as developers sharing our small-but-sincere progress with full transparency. These are humble building blocks of our online service: documented, deployed and […]
The Shape of a Mars Mission
02.20.2025 This post is the second in a series. Read part one here. “From a mathematics and trajectory standpoint and with a certain kind of technology, there’s not too many different ways to go to Mars. It’s been pretty well figured out. You can adjust the decimal places here and there, but basically if you’re […]
Exa Laboratories (YC S24) Is Hiring a Founding Engineer to Build AI Chips
At Exa, we’re building the next NVIDIA. Our novel polymorphic chips are a generation ahead of anything on the market. We’re essentially building the substrate that will power all future knowledge and scientific discovery. Our XPU chips are state-of-the-art AI compute engines capable of reconfiguring themselves to optimize the dataflow of each model (training & […]