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rfv6723 commented on LetsEncrypt Outage   letsencrypt.status.io/... · Posted by u/kenshaw
Kholin · a month ago
Let's Encrypt stopped its certificate expiration email notification service a while ago, and I hadn't found a replacement yet. As a result, I didn't receive an expiration notice this time and failed to renew my certificate in advance. The certificate expired today, making my website inaccessible. I logged into my VPS to renew it manually, but the process failed every time. I then checked my cloud provider's platform and saw a notification at the top, which made me realize the problem was with the certificate provider. A quick look at Hacker News confirmed it: Let's Encrypt was having an outage. I want to post this news on my website, but I can't, because my site is down due to the expired certificate.
rfv6723 · a month ago
I use self-hosted gatus to monitor my certs and other services' status.

It can send alerts to multiple alerting providers.

https://github.com/TwiN/gatus

rfv6723 commented on “The Bitter Lesson” is wrong. Well sort of   assaf-pinhasi.medium.com/... · Posted by u/GavCo
littlestymaar · a month ago
The Leela Chess Zero vs Stockfish case also offers an interesting perspective on the bitter lesson.

Here's my (maybe a bit loose) recollection of what happened:

Step 1- Stockfish was the typical human-knowledge AI, with tons of actual chess knowledge injected in the process of building an efficient chess engine.

Step 2. Then came Leela Chess Zero, with its Alpha Zero-inspired training, a chess engine trained fully with RL with no prior chess knowledge added. And it has beaten Stockfish. This is a “bitter lesson” moment.

Step 3. The Stockfish devs added a neural network trained with RL to their chess engine, in addition to their existing heuristics. And Stockfish easily took back its crown.

Yes sending more compute at a problem is an efficient way to solve it, but if all you have is compute, you'll pretty certainly lose to somebody who has both compute and knowledge.

rfv6723 · a month ago
Stockfish has got rid of old handwritten evaluation now.

https://github.com/official-stockfish/Stockfish/pull/4674

Its evaluation now purely relies on NNUE neural network.

So it's an good exmaple of the better lesson. More compute evently won against handwritten evaluation. Stockfish developers thought old evaluation would help neural network so they kept the code for a few years, then it turned out that NNUE neural network didn't need any input of human chess knowledge.

rfv6723 commented on Using the Internet without IPv4 connectivity   jamesmcm.github.io/blog/n... · Posted by u/jmillikin
WorldMaker · 2 months ago
WARP is a full VPN tunnel. The above poster was suggesting if someone wanted to avoid a VPN tunnel, DNS64+NAT64 is a nice "hack" that just uses DNS as the tool to reestablish IPv4 connectivity. (It's also how most mobile/cell traffic today reaches IPv4, via DNS64+NAT64 gateways.)
rfv6723 · 2 months ago
I don't use WARP's VPN mode.

I run WARP in socks proxy mode, and using ipt2socks for redirecting traffic to socks proxy port.

https://github.com/zfl9/ipt2socks

rfv6723 commented on Using the Internet without IPv4 connectivity   jamesmcm.github.io/blog/n... · Posted by u/jmillikin
pumplekin · 2 months ago
If you ever need a quick hack to get v4 connectivity over a true v6 only setup, you can use a public DNS64+NAT64 Gateway. You can find a list at https://nat64.net/public-providers. So for most regular use, all you are doing is changing DNS servers.

This is the combo.

** 1. DNS64

Synthesis of AAAA DNS records for things that don't have them to a NAT64 box.

$ dig +short @2a00:1098:2c::1 AAAA github.com

2a01:4f8:c2c:123f:64:5:141a:9cd7

** 2. NAT64.

Will take this traffic thats been sent to it because of DNS64 and protocol translate + NAT it for you.

$ curl --resolve github.com:443:[2a01:4f8:c2c:123f:64:5:141a:9cd7] https://github.com/

<loads github>

rfv6723 · 2 months ago
Using Cloudflare WARP would be much faster.

And you can connect directly to ipv4 addr via WARP.

rfv6723 commented on Apple Research unearthed forgotten AI technique and using it to generate images   9to5mac.com/2025/06/23/ap... · Posted by u/celias
janalsncm · 2 months ago
If it costs you a billion dollars to train a GPT5 and I can distill your model for a million dollars and get 90% of the performance, that’s a terrible deal for you. Or more realistically, whoever you borrowed from.
rfv6723 · 2 months ago
Then if you offer your distilled model for commercial services, you would get sued by OpenAI in court.
rfv6723 commented on Apple Research unearthed forgotten AI technique and using it to generate images   9to5mac.com/2025/06/23/ap... · Posted by u/celias
janalsncm · 2 months ago
The bitter-er lesson is that distillation from bigger models works pretty damn well. It’s great news for the GPU poor, not great for the guys training the models we distill from.
rfv6723 · 2 months ago
Distillation is great for researchers and hobbyists.

But nearly all frontier models have anti-distillation ToS, so distillation is out of question for western commercial companies like Apple.

rfv6723 commented on Qwen VLo: From “Understanding” the World to “Depicting” It   qwenlm.github.io/blog/qwe... · Posted by u/lnyan
echelon · 2 months ago
The way they win is to be open. I don't get why China is shutting down open source. It was a knife at the jugular of US tech dominance.

Both Alibaba and Tencent championed open source (Qwen family of models, Hunyuan family of models), but now they've shut off the releases.

There's totally a play where models become loss-leader for SaaS/PaaS/IaaS and where they extinguish your closed competition.

Imagine spreading your model so widely then making the terms: "do not use in conjunction with closed source models".

rfv6723 · 2 months ago
If you have worked or lived in China, you will know that Chinese open-source software industry is a totally shitshow.

The law in China offers little protection for open-source software. Lots of companies use open-source code in production without proper license, and there is no consequence.

Western internet influencers hype up Chinese open-source software industry for clicks while Chinese open-source developers are struggling.

These open-weight model series are planed as free-trial from the start, there is no commitment to open-source.

rfv6723 commented on Apple Research unearthed forgotten AI technique and using it to generate images   9to5mac.com/2025/06/23/ap... · Posted by u/celias
rfv6723 · 2 months ago
Apple AI team keeps going against the bitter lesson and focusing on small on-device models.

Let's see how this would turn out in longterm.

rfv6723 commented on AMD's Freshly-Baked MI350: An Interview with the Chief Architect   chipsandcheese.com/p/amds... · Posted by u/pella
AbuAssar · 2 months ago
If MI350 employs CDNA, which is based on the VEGA (GCN) architecture, does that imply that MI400, when introduced next year, will skip the 2020 GCN and directly transition to RDNA 5 equivalent?
rfv6723 · 2 months ago
RDNA is a dead-end.

AMD went down the wrong path by focusing on traditional rendering instead of machine learning.

I think future AMD consumer GPUs would go back to GCN.

rfv6723 commented on AMD's Freshly-Baked MI350: An Interview with the Chief Architect   chipsandcheese.com/p/amds... · Posted by u/pella
jiggawatts · 2 months ago
Of course not.

AMD stubbornly refuses to recognise the huge numbers of low- or medium- budget researchers, hobbyists, and open source developers.

This ignorance of how software development is done has resulted in them losing out on a multi-trillion-dollar market.

It's incredible to me how obstinate certain segments of the industry (such as hardware design) can be.

rfv6723 · 2 months ago
These ppl are very loud online, but they don't make decisions for hyperscalers which are biggest spenders on AI chips.

AMD is doing just fine, Oracle just announced an AI cluster with up to 131,072 of AMD's new MI355X GPUs.

AMD needs to focus on bringing rack-scale mi400 as quickly as possible to market, rather than those hobbyists always find something to complain instead of spending money.

u/rfv6723

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