How does it compare to ik_llama's KT/KS quants?

The article mentions that some die areas are factory-marked as defective and have to be "re-disabled" after the unlock. Ctrl-F _DEFECTIVE

but alpine famously does not use systemd but openrc?

That's their point. The software they want to use often assumes its being run on a platform with systemd, so running that software on Alpine which makes a point to not use systemd causes challenges for them compared to using a different distro.

It is still at a forward P/E of 31, on par with AMD's 32 and far above Nvidia's 13.

The other two don't actually make chips though, so there's that.

Market consensus is that Nvidia don’t have any real products or customers.

You forgot the /s marker.

Somehow everyone seems to be deadly serious on this, even when literally all available evidence points to the contrary.

I’m fully expecting Nvidia to see a P/E of under 10 within a year.

What evidence?

The AI boom is overstated but that is not the same as nvidia not having a business.

Do you have a short position in based on that, or are you just talk?

Nah I’ve a pretty sizeable long position that I’ve pretty much just sat on for a decade - I expect serious compression and then serious backlash over the next year though, as I don’t think their sales are going to slow down as the market seems to assume - we are still just in the foothills, the Newcomen engine. We ain’t seen nothing yet, and Nvidia is positioned to own a serious fraction of the future global economy.

> fully expecting Nvidia to see a P/E of under 10 within a year.

> Nvidia is positioned to own a serious fraction of the future global economy.

=> just how bad are you expecting global earnings to be?

Nvidia will have a forward PE of below 5 by this time next year, because just like cigarettes, compute is a dying industry.

Ironic perhaps that Phillip Morris stock is achieving all-time highs?

That's the e-ink monopoly for you. Though you could probably use a slightly smaller b&w eink display with a second hand raspberry 4 to shave a lot from that number.

To be fair even if they could build a 10x larger e-ink panel factory it’s uncertain if they could shave costs by more than maybe 40% to 50% per panel.

And it’s very questionable whether there is genuinely 10x more latent annual demand for e-ink panels at that still not cheap price point.

It's great on public transport too.

"It's possible to just connect two computers together with Ethernet" - on the front page of hackernews. Incredible. Ethernet over USB4 interdomain protocol at least had some novelty, but this...

Can you please see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49512349 and, in the future, share some of what you know instead of putting down others (including the community)?

HN has very little understanding of networking in general.

Can you please see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49512349 and, in the future, share some of what you know instead of putting down others (including the community)?

It does seem to be a surprisingly common blindspot of programmers in general. I strongly recommend programmers learn it, it can save a lot of headaches in system architecture.

Any recommendations on a good path to learn this — curious if you have any personal, opinionated thoughts on this.

Buy some cheap computer, pop in a few NICs, setup a FreeBSD or OpenBSD gateway, including DNS and some other goodies.

And by cheap, any $10 relic will do.

You’ll find their manuals very informative.

I'll add looking up the ipv4 and ipv6 specs on www.rfc-editor.org .

Especially since most machines will just WORK with auto-assigned magic weird IPs and you'll actually be able to share files directly via the OS if you do this, no need for Linux netcat tricks at all.

Now I still remember when target disk mode over ethernet was being talked about.

Programmers have very little understanding of computers, in general.

They'll think hard about a beautiful unrealistic idealisation of the problem, and/or treat a software abstraction as if it's the underlying reality, e.g. (of the latter) thinking networking starts with HTTP and languages start with JavaScript.

Can you please see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49512349 and, in the future, share some of what you know instead of putting down others?

Just read the contract from the other side! If focusing on idealistic software abstractions instead of the problem is bad, the implication is that focusing on the problem is good. If treating a software abstraction as the underlying reality is bad, the implication is that looking below it to the actual underlying reality is good.

Agreed, except IME this is "junior web developers" rather "(real) programmers" in general.

Mel wouldn't. But Mel isn't programmers.

HN has very little understanding of many things, especially if you are familiar with .

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Gell-Mann_Amnesia_effect

Just to point out the usb-c on the original x4 is for charging only.

Also firmware updates (on the non-locked variants), no?

What other potential uses are there? Uploading books without WiFi is the only one that comes to mind.

As far as I can tell, firmware updates are only via WiFi.

What sort of pp/tg speed do you get on a Strix Halo?

This is the best I got, all with Unsloth's quantizations.

Laguna-S-2.1:UD-Q4_K_XL (no MTP) pp=186.4 t/s tg=27.8 t/s

Qwen3.6-35B:UD-Q4_K_XL (with MTP) pp=404.4 t/s tg=83.2 t/s

Qwen3.6-27B:UD-Q4_K_XL (recorded pre-MTP) pp=343 t/s tg=12.1 t/s

Laguna actually performed better than I remembered. I thought it was slower.

Have you benchmarked against full precision models for accuracy/ performance?

Not full precision. I've only benchmarked 27B across Q3-6 quants using lm-eval. I lack the hardware to bench 27B at BF16 but I might be able to do Q8_0. I haven't gotten around to doing 35B. I really should upload my collection of results to Github or somewhere.

Here's a summary of what I have for 27B. I used unsloth's UD-Q{3-6}_K_XL quants across 11 evals. The values are pretty linear between Q3 and Q6.

    Qwen3.6-27B     Q3    Q6
    ARC-Challenge   97.0  97.0
    BIG-Bench Hard  57.9  59.3
    GPQA Diamond    77.8  83.3
    GSM8K           92.4  92.6
    Hendrycks Math  35.5  38.9
    HumanEval       80.5  85.4
    HumanEval+      75.0  79.3
    IFEval          87.3  88.0
    MBPP            75.2  77.2
    MBPP+           88.4  88.9
    MMLU-Pro        83.1  83.5

What are pp/tg? I get 30t/s on 27B qwen.

pp is prompt processing how fast it processes the prompt. Tg is token generation how fast, it generates tokens.

okay, so prefill and decode would be the terms I was already familiar with.

Or you could get a $50 smartband and have so much more functionality and still recharge only once a week or two.