jeff_carr (u/jeff_carr)

jeff_carr commented on US national debt reaches a record $37T, the Treasury Department reports apnews.com/article/treasu... · Posted by u/atombender

cosmicgadget · 6 months ago

One party has done considerably better at reducing the deficit in recent history.

jeff_carr · 6 months ago

Ridiculous claim. Both parties are exactly the same on this issue. It's politics and nothing more. No one has any idea what to do about it.

Well, mathematicians do, but nobody listens to us.

jeff_carr commented on Why DeepSeek is cheap at scale but expensive to run locally seangoedecke.com/inferenc... · Posted by u/ingve

ryan_glass · 8 months ago

I run Deepseek V3 locally as my daily driver and I find it affordable, fast and effective. The article assumes GPU which in my opinion is not the best way to serve large models like this locally. I run a mid-range EPYC 9004 series based home server on a supermicro mobo which cost all-in around $4000. It's a single CPU machine with 384GB RAM (you could get 768GB using 64GB sticks but this costs more). No GPU means power draw is less than a gaming desktop. With the RAM limitation I run an Unsloth Dynamic GGUF which, quality wise in real-world use performs very close to the original. It is around 270GB which leaves plenty of room for context - I run 16k context normally as I use the machine for other things too but can up it to 24k if I need more. I get about 9-10 tokens per second, dropping to 7 tokens/second with a large context. There are plenty of people running similar setups with 2 CPUs who run the full version at similar tokens/second.

jeff_carr · 8 months ago

I am impressed. Your personal website is down. HN doesn't allow private messages.

I'm Jeff Carr. I co-founded digital ocean. I assume I can't post email addresses here, but I will try. lets see how smart things are from banning me. I am: wit AT wit com

jeff_carr commented on Long live American Science and Surplus milwaukeerecord.com/city-... · Posted by u/thinkalone

MaDeuce · 9 months ago

These were my go-to guys for sciencey stocking stuffers at Christmas for my kids. Their catalog was always a joy to read, with excellent puns.

Like the guy who wrote the linked article, a GoFundMe for a for-profit enterprise rubs me the wrong way. However, I just donated because of all the great memories they've provided me and my kids. Seems like those of us that like these things may need to pitch in from time to time.

I wonder if something like this could have helped Lindsay's Publications, who went out of business a decade ago. I have so many fantastic books from them. They're really worth a HN post all on their own.

https://makezine.com/article/workshop/lindsays-technical-boo...

jeff_carr · 9 months ago

> a GoFundMe for a for-profit enterprise rubs me the wrong way

It should. They should be selling shares. The Green Bay Packers are similar.

jeff_carr commented on Bus stops here: Shanghai lets riders design their own routes sixthtone.com/news/101707... · Posted by u/anigbrowl

hshdhdhj4444 · 9 months ago

> lack of bureaucracy

Huh? Chinese government is insanely bureaucratic.

It’s true that if there’s something the govt wants they enlist the entire bureaucracy in favor of that and make it happen rapidly, but just because the bureaucracy can be functional, and even effective, doesn’t mean it doesn’t exist.

I mean, that’s basically the definition of a bureaucracy, which while some may treat the word as synonymous for inefficient or incapable, it really isn’t, and the Chinese bureaucracy is proof of that.

jeff_carr · 9 months ago

> Huh? Chinese government is insanely bureaucratic.

Indeed. It takes a pretty big bureaucracy to be able to ban the wikipedia. Oh, and ban gmail & all of google. And all news sites in general. Can customize your bus schedule though I guess.

jeff_carr commented on Universe expected to decay in 10⁷⁸ years, much sooner than previously thought phys.org/news/2025-05-uni... · Posted by u/pseudolus

jeff_carr · 9 months ago

/remindme in 10^60 years

jeff_carr commented on CVE program faces swift end after DHS fails to renew contract [updated] csoonline.com/article/396... · Posted by u/healsdata

jeff_carr · 10 months ago

The contract with MITRE has been extended.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/kateoflahertyuk/2025/04/16/cve-...

My guess indefinitely.

DOGE might be a bunch of idiots, but in the entire DOD, there are non-idiots.

jeff_carr commented on xAI has acquired X, xAI now valued at $80B twitter.com/elonmusk/stat... · Posted by u/rvz

minwcnt5 · a year ago

This also lets all of his co-investors in X, who were likely pissed that their shares tanked, exchange their shares at an inflated value (but one that still sees them losing 25% of their original investment) for shares in a trendy yet likely overvalued AI company that they consider to have more upside.

The other part of this is that if TSLA stock drops to $100-ish he'll be at risk of being margin called on the loans he took against his holdings to buy X. I wouldn't be surprised if this deal involves some X shares being sold for cash (that was raised from VCs) to pay down those loans, and/or the lenders agreeing to take xAI stock in lieu of cash.

This whole thing seems like a big pyramid scheme. I don't think this is the last time we've seen this type of move: he'll keep starting companies that are at the forefront of whatever the current hype cycle is, then leverage the extremely inflated valuations to benefit himself.

jeff_carr · a year ago

> This whole thing seems like a big pyramid scheme.

That's because his scam of charging $8k over the price of a Tesla for "self driving" was complete vaporware. It never worked and it never was going to work. I am disappointed I fell for it.

There should be a class action lawsuit against TESLA for everyone that purchased the $8k self driving "feature". We were all told it was "being rolled out". It was a total lie.

jeff_carr commented on The earliest versions of the first C compiler known to exist github.com/mortdeus/legac... · Posted by u/diginova

smackay · a year ago

1972 is the answer to the question on the lips of everybody too busy to look at the source files.

jeff_carr · a year ago

The first 4 commits in GO are:

commit d82b11e4a46307f1f1415024f33263e819c222b8 Author: Brian Kernighan <bwk@research.att.com> Date: Fri Apr 1 02:03:04 1988 -0500

    last-minute fix: convert to ANSI C
    
    R=dmr
    DELTA=3  (2 added, 0 deleted, 1 changed)

:100644 100644 8626b30633 a689d3644e M src/pkg/debug/macho/testdata/hello.c

commit 0744ac969119db8a0ad3253951d375eb77cfce9e Author: Brian Kernighan <research!bwk> Date: Fri Apr 1 02:02:04 1988 -0500

    convert to Draft-Proposed ANSI C
    
    R=dmr
    DELTA=5  (2 added, 0 deleted, 3 changed)

:100644 100644 2264d04fbe 8626b30633 M src/pkg/debug/macho/testdata/hello.c

commit 0bb0b61d6a85b2a1a33dcbc418089656f2754d32 Author: Brian Kernighan <bwk> Date: Sun Jan 20 01:02:03 1974 -0400

    convert to C
    
    R=dmr
    DELTA=6  (0 added, 3 deleted, 3 changed)

:100644 000000 05c4140424 0000000000 D src/pkg/debug/macho/testdata/hello.b :000000 100644 0000000000 2264d04fbe A src/pkg/debug/macho/testdata/hello.c

commit 7d7c6a97f815e9279d08cfaea7d5efb5e90695a8 Author: Brian Kernighan <bwk> Date: Tue Jul 18 19:05:45 1972 -0500

    hello, world
    
    R=ken
    DELTA=7  (7 added, 0 deleted, 0 changed)

:000000 100644 0000000000 05c4140424 A src/pkg/debug/macho/testdata/hello.b

jeff_carr commented on Show HN: "Git who" – A new CLI tool for industrial-scale Git blaming github.com/sinclairtarget... · Posted by u/weebst

weebst · a year ago

Wow! I had no idea. Will need to update the README. Thanks for the tip!

jeff_carr · a year ago

Yes, that is awesome. I wonder if "go" works like that also?