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Karupan commented on YouTube's new anti-adblock measures   iter.ca/post/yt-adblock/... · Posted by u/smitop
stickfigure · 2 months ago
Or just pay for it? I have my whole family on my plan. Nobody gets ads. It is a bargain.

You're right, I could probably finish my motorcycle build projects without videos. But why??

Karupan · 2 months ago
I’d gladly pay for YouTube or other Google services when they offer an option to not track my activity at all. For me it’s not about seeing ads just on YouTube, but being tracked all through the web and still being served inappropriate or spammy ads.
Karupan commented on US Administration announces 34% tariffs on China, 20% on EU   bbc.com/news/live/c1dr7vy... · Posted by u/belter
Karupan · 5 months ago
Genuine questions: why are they calling it “reciprocal”? Is the US just matching the tariffs set by the other countries?

Also, this announcement has wiped out any plans of buying tech products this year, plus a holiday to the US and Canada later in the year. Good thing too, as the entire globe is probably staring down the barrel of a recession.

Karupan commented on Making Postgres scale   pgdog.dev/blog/you-can-ma... · Posted by u/levkk
Karupan · 6 months ago
Tangentially related: is there a good guide or setup scripts to run self hosted Postgres with backups and secondary standby? Like I just want something I can deploy to a VPS/dedicated box for all my side projects.

If not is supabase the most painless way to get started?

Karupan commented on Bun 1.2 Is Released   bun.sh/blog/bun-v1.2... · Posted by u/ksec
Karupan · 7 months ago
Using bun has been a great experience so far. I used to dread setting up typescript/jest/react/webpack for a new project with breaking changes all over the place. With bun, it’s been self contained and painless and it just works for my use. Can’t comment on the 3rd party libraries they are integrating like s3, sql etc but at least it looks like they are focused on most common/asked for ones.

Thanks for the great work and bringing some much needed sanity in the node.js tooling space!

Karupan commented on The Origins of Wokeness   paulgraham.com/woke.html... · Posted by u/crbelaus
Karupan · 8 months ago
The timing on when this essay is being published is interesting. Are all the tech billionaires falling in line before the next administration takes over? Also, let this be a lesson that no matter how “brilliant” and rich someone is, they can have comically bad takes.
Karupan commented on Uv's killer feature is making ad-hoc environments easy   valatka.dev/2025/01/12/on... · Posted by u/astronautas
aeurielesn · 8 months ago
I don't understand how things like this get approved into PEPs.
Karupan · 8 months ago
Seems like a great way to write self documenting code which can be optionally used by your python runtime.
Karupan commented on Nvidia's Project Digits is a 'personal AI supercomputer'   techcrunch.com/2025/01/06... · Posted by u/magicalhippo
acchow · 8 months ago
> I can run Qwen-2.5-coder 14B on my M2 Max MacBook Pro with 32gb at ~16 tok/sec. At least in my circle, people are budget conscious

Qwen 2.5 32B on openrouter is $0.16/million output tokens. At your 16 tokens per second, 1 million tokens is 17 continuous hours of output.

Openrouter will charge you 16 cents for that.

I think you may want to reevaluate which is the real budget choice here

Edit: elaborating, that extra 16GB ram on the Mac to hold the Qwen model costs $400, or equivalently 1770 days of continuous output. All assuming electricity is free

Karupan · 8 months ago
It's a no brainer for me cause I already own the MacBook and I don't mind waiting a few extra seconds. Also, I didn't buy the mac for this purpose, it's just my daily device. So yes, I'm sure OpenRouter is cheaper, but I just don't have to think about using it as long as the open models are reasonable good for my use. Of course your needs may be quite different.
Karupan commented on Nvidia's Project Digits is a 'personal AI supercomputer'   techcrunch.com/2025/01/06... · Posted by u/magicalhippo
doctorpangloss · 8 months ago
What slice?

Also, macOS devices are not very good inference solutions. They are just believed to be by diehards.

I don't think Digits will perform well either.

If NVIDIA wanted you to have good performance on a budget, it would ship NVLink on the 5090.

Karupan · 8 months ago
They are perfectly fine for certain people. I can run Qwen-2.5-coder 14B on my M2 Max MacBook Pro with 32gb at ~16 tok/sec. At least in my circle, people are budget conscious and would prefer using existing devices rather than pay for subscriptions where possible.

And we know why they won't ship NVLink anymore on prosumer GPUs: they control almost the entire segment and why give more away for free? Good for the company and investors, bad for us consumers.

Karupan commented on Nvidia's Project Digits is a 'personal AI supercomputer'   techcrunch.com/2025/01/06... · Posted by u/magicalhippo
qwertox · 8 months ago
This is somewhat similar to what GeForce was to gamers back in the days, but for AI enthusiasts. Sure, the price is much higher, but at least it's a completely integrated solution.
Karupan · 8 months ago
Yep that's what I'm thinking as well. I was going to buy a 5090 mainly to play around with LLM code generation, but this is a worthy option for roughly the same price as building a new PC with a 5090.
Karupan commented on Nvidia's Project Digits is a 'personal AI supercomputer'   techcrunch.com/2025/01/06... · Posted by u/magicalhippo
dagmx · 8 months ago
I think the enthusiast side of things is a negligible part of the market.

That said, enthusiasts do help drive a lot of the improvements to the tech stack so if they start using this, it’ll entrench NVIDIA even more.

Karupan · 8 months ago
I’m not so sure it’s negligible. My anecdotal experience is that since Apple Silicon chips were found to be “ok” enough to run inference with MLX, more non-technical people in my circle have asked me how they can run LLMs on their macs.

Surely a smaller market than gamers or datacenters for sure.

u/Karupan

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