I saw these on display at Pinball Expo in the Chicago area last October and they were magnificent. My kids loved pressing the buttons and seeing what happened, and I had a great time walking them through what's happening. The amount of creativity and ingenuity that went into these mechanisms and assemblies is something to behold. Especially the ones within the electromechanical (EM) games, which were basically 60s / 70s, they did so much with so little when it comes to computing power.
This article is lumps design and implementation together. In my experience, LLMs are really quite bad at designing anything interesting. They are sort of tolerable at implementation — they’re remarkably persistent (compared to humans, anyway), they will tirelessly use whatever framework, good or bad, you throw at them, and they will produce code that is quite painful to look at. And they’ll say that they’re architecting things and hope you’re impressed.
LLM inference throughput benchmark for RTX PRO 6000 SE vs H100, H200, and B200 GPUs, based on the vllm serve and vllm bench serve benchmarking tools, to understand the cost-efficiency of various datacenter GPU options.
Benchmarking Setup:
The benchmark is optimized for throughput. VLLM serves models. The model is split across multiple GPUs using the --tensor-parallel-size VLLM option, if needed. Multiple VLLM instances serve the model; an NGINX load balancer on top distributes requests across them, maximizing throughput (replica parallelism). For example, if only 4 GPUs are required to run the model on an 8-GPU machine, two VLLM instances are launched with --tensor-parallel-size=4, and an NGINX load balancer is used. If all eight GPUs are required, then a single VLLM instance with --tensor-parallel-size=8 is used.
The vllm bench serve tool is used for benchmarking with random data and a sequence length of 1000. The number of concurrent requests is set to 64-256 to ensure the LLM's token-generation capacity is saturated.
Three models are benchmarked to better understand the effect of PCIe communication on the 8xPro6000 server vs. NVLink on the H100/H200/B200.
Here is the model selection and the logic behind it:
- GLM-4.5-Air-AWQ-4bit (fits 80GB). Testing single-GPU performance and maximum throughput with replica scaling on 8 GPU setups. No PCIE bottleneck.
- Qwen3-Coder-480B-A35B-Instruct-AWQ (fits 320GB). This 4-bit-quantized model fits into 4 GPUs. Some PCIe communication overhead in Pro 6000 setups may reduce performance relative to NVLink-enabled datacenter GPUs.
- GLM-4.6-FP8 (fits 640GB). This model requires all eight GPUs. PCIe communication overhead expected. The H100 and H200 configurations should have an advantage.
Besides raw throughput, graphs show the serving cost per million tokens for each model on its respective hardware. The rental price is set at $0.93 for Pro6000, $1.91 for H100, $2.06 for H200, and $2.68 for B200.
Results:
- B200 wins on throughput, with the largest gap on the most communication-heavy workload – GLM-4.6-FP8 (8-way TP): B200 is 4.87x faster than PRO 6000 (8,036.71 vs 1,651.67 tok/s) – Qwen3-Coder-480B (4-way TP): B200 is 4.02x faster than PRO 6000 (6,438.43 vs 1,602.96 tok/s) – GLM-4.5-Air (single-GPU replicas): B200 is 4.22x faster than PRO 6000 (9,675.24 vs 2,290.69 tok/s)
- B200 is also the cost efficiency leader under updated run-cost estimates. B200’s throughput advantage more than compensates for its higher hourly cost.
- PRO 6000 is an attractive low-capex option. It beats H100 on cost per across all models and is on par with H200 on GLM-4.5-Air.
- H200 is a major step up over H100. H200 delivers ~1.83x to 2.14x H100 throughput across the three models.
- H100 looked worse than expected in this specific setup. It’s on par with PRO 6000 in throughput on GLM-4.5-Air and behind all other contenders in cost per token across all workloads.
No. I just see the same person in this discussion making multiple posts saying "Fedora is modern, fedora is good, stable Debian is broken, old, and wrong".
Of course my reply is a little mechanical and biased because I'm refuting a strawman.
Suggesting that Debian's stable release is no good for users, when I'm sat here using it, and many many other people do so is crazy hyperbole!
Correct. And this is the key distinction between the mathematical approach and the everyday / business / SE approach that dominates on hacker news.
Numbers are not "real", they just happen to be isomorphic to all things that are infinite in nature. That falls out from the isomorphism between countable sets and the natural numbers.
You'll often hear novices referencing the 'reals' as being "real" numbers and what we measure with and such. And yet we categorically do not ever measure or observe the reals at all. Such thing is honestly silly. Where on earth is pi on my ruler? It would be impossible to pinpoint... This is a result of the isomorphism of the real numbers to cauchy sequences of rational numbers and the definition of supremum and infinum. How on earth can any person possibly identify a physical least upper bound of an infinite set? The only things we measure with are rational numbers.
People use terms sloppily and get themselves confused. These structures are fundamental because they encode something to do with relationships between things
The natural numbers encode things which always have something right after them. All things that satisfy this property are isomorphic to the natural numbers.
Similarly complex numbers relate by rotation and things satisfying particular rotational symmetries will behave the same way as the complex numbers. Thus we use C to describe them.
Of course the jobs are located where housing is expensive: the housing is expensive because that's where the jobs are.
There's a whole lotta land suitable for housing in the places where those jobs are, too, but most of it is locked up in restrictive zoning which prohibits development at a sufficient density to keep up with demand.
I'm assuming you're looking for the monthly planner view that actually shows events and not just indicators? Try calendar widgets suite or business calendar 2 planner. Unfortunately both are ad-supported (anything designed explicitly to show local personal information shouldn't go online IMHO), but there's a paid version as well. There's a couple other apps that have similar looking widgets as well, you might find more by searching for monthly planner widgets, not calendar widgets. It might also be possible to find one using a week toolkit (I used Zooper in the past, but I think it's pretty dead now; not sure what's replaced it).
Former R1S Gen 2 owner. Love this brand and I want to love the car, but the quality and constant maintenance issues were unacceptable.
Rattles, a door mirror motor breaking, doors that wouldn't shut properly, door weather stripping that fell off, a door that just wouldn't open, panel alignment issues, some kind of screaching-to-a-halt-and-terrifying-my-family auto-brake that Rivian never figured out after reviewing log data.
Oh and did I mention the fans or heat pump that sound like a ROCKET LAUNCHING?! At a park one time someone asked me if something was wrong with the vehicle. Nope, that's just the terrible fans they chose!
Insult to injury: someone rear ended me. Insurance "covered" it, but the local collision center --- my only option within 6 hours --- charges a 2X rate for EVs that State Farm would not cover. So a $14,000 MINOR FENDER DENT turned into $7,000 out of pocket for me.
If you look at /r/rivian, it's a near constant stream of issues. While Rivian did expedite service center visits for critical issues, other times repairs were months out. And as the R2 scales, SC growth will probably trail for a while, and so I really fear for the experience early adopters are in for.
I am rooting for them but for me personally I would not consider another Rivian.
To actually pass the certification test suite on a real system, Apple sometimes needs to apply special configurations (e.g., disabling System Integrity Protection (SIP), using case-sensitive filesystem, enabling certain legacy services, etc.).
telnet(1) is not required by POSIX (nor is nc or ssh required!)
Ironically, telnet(1) did not begin as a "Unix" utility but an ARPANET protocol suite program. It was available cross-platform. It is unclear whether all editions of Unix included a client, but BSD for sure was the point where telnet and TCP/IP became essential integrations for the systems.
Ringing up expensive grocery items as cheap SKU at Whole Foods self checkout...
Going on shopping sprees and then calling the credit card company to report it as fraud...
Buying a fancy dress to wear for a few nights out and then returning it...
All things people close to me have done, or continue to do on a regular basis
Talking about a relatively "privileged" class of people here- multiple homes, multiple cars, kids in private school- not struggling single moms working double shifts to put food on the table.
Honest question — why don't managers like this get fired? My team wants us to ship fast. If I don't ship for a month I'm probably gonna lose my job, and rightly so.
If a whole team is spinning its wheels at the behest of its manager I feel like the manager should get axed.
The problem is that if you don’t understand the code you’re taking a risk shipping that code.
There’s a reason why most vibe coded apps I’ve seen leak keys and have basic security flaws all over the place.
If you don’t know what you’re doing and you’re generating code at scale that you can’t manage you’re going to have a bad time.
The models are trained on all the slop we had to ship under time pressure and swore we’d fix later, etc. They’re not going to autocomplete the good code. They’re going to autocomplete the most common denominator code.
I don’t agree that design is cheap. Maybe for line-of-business software that doesn’t matter much.
> When we’re overwhelmed with information, we benefit from a system that organizes it.
That may be true for something like a HUD or where we're really overwhelmed with info that is fast and reaction time is paramount.
But you can read a hackernews thread one line at a line and never get overwhelmed, right? I literally have never felt overwhelmed looking at the threads (which are also organized into local groups already etc).
I read it for pleasure and engagement, it's not something I want AI to automate away.
And when you say "continue the conversation there", do you mean use AI to write comments? If so, then this is the opposite of what makes HN HN.
Hey if there's significant overlap, what about coming and collab-ing on https://github.com/joshka/tui-markdown? (crate + cli, rust / ratatui / crossterm based)
$200k really isn’t that much in this context. Less than a year’s income for a good developer in the US. Even if you haven’t worked for a FAANG, in the software industry in the US it’s not that difficult to find yourself with that amount, or more, available for investment after working in the industry for a while. Similarly, an amount like that isn’t necessarily going to take you very far.
