Admittedly, no, but this is slowly improving. Stepfun published their SFT dataset, smaller labs are publishing their datasets for task specific tunes. I believe there was another Chinese lab that published a lot of pretraining data, but I can’t find it in my history at the moment.

If you run Nemotron, open datasets.

this new model, couldn’t universities rebuild it with different contexts and study it in ways you can’t reproduce in other models? like, is k2 horizons a good scientific foundation on which to study machine learning?

Not on a university budget, I don’t think.

But there is all sorts of interesting stuff that can be done with a truly open model other than replicating it.

On top of what others said, Nvidia Nemotron is truly open, with an open dataset.

There have been others (like Olmo), but Nemotron was unique in that it was reasonably useful/cutting edge, while other open models before were basically research artifacts.

Yes, and these blimps are something where the optics are VERY important to getting funding. Its not a rocket where blowing up is the expectation.

Whats best is always regional.

Overbuilt is going to win at, say, the edge of the gobi desert.

But its not going to necessarily be practical at high latitudes, or locations with tons of rain/cloud cover, or places where geothermal is easy.

Precisely.

I actually forgot about this.

Im still convinced its marketing now, whether the leak was intentional or not.

Theres no such thing as bad attention in 2026. All that matters is that this leak is viral, and now everyone is talking about GTA.

Also, I have a question.

…Who is buying the unhealthy/sexualized stuff? Is it mostly Japanese teens, international internet dwellers, who?

Because there must be demand for this if they keep making it.

What’s the ratio of good movies and TV shows to bad ones?

Much, much higher, if we’re talking about creepy tropes.

Plenty of TV and cinema is bad, but thats different than the specific creepiness we are discussing.

Additionally, popular, high profile, critically acclaimed anime seems to suffer from this too. Not universally, but when I tried to get into anime it was hard to avoid.

The list gets somewhat longer if you count “animesque” western animatin.

Well, competition is stiff. I suspect there are better coop games to try, unless the Noodle household is really into Horizon lore and stuff.

This is a great sign.

It’s Sony looking at sales and all-but-explicitly concluding “okay, we get it. Live service grind is out, comfy couch coop is in.”

Yeah.

Don’t get me wrong, I don’t want to touch projects vibe coded to this level, going solely on past experience with them.

But I am scientifically curious about its functionality.

Yeah, in that case it’s sus.

Does it actually work, though?

Oh yeah… yeah, it doesn’t seem like it’s client/server or anything. It’s just a CAD program?

I dunno if it fits the “vibe coded” label though, as it appears to work well. I tend to apply that to projects where the devs clearly have no idea what they’re doing (and end up with something really bloated and janky, yet hyped a ton).

Why is a post about a CAD program being downvoted so much?

I mean… it’s clearly an issue for some. OP’s system is swapping the SSD when it clearly should not be doing it. My system had horrible usability issues in some scenarios without tons of configuration, and thrashed my SSD for no benefit.

The default heuristic is not good for our systems.

And support for TRIM and whatever else was added for SSD support is not really the issue, here.

I disagree with most here.

You need to reduce swappiness even more, and tweak some other variables (like the memory “threshold” Linux starts to swap, and disk cache aggressiveness) to stop Linux from swapping so opportunistically under such a light load.

IMO, Linux is configured for “old” systems by default: slow HDDs, and constrained RAM pools, where disk IO really, really needs caching, and where idle background processes take a large fraction of RAM.

You have superfluous RAM for your workload. And very fast disk IO that isn’t such a hindrance to apps anyway. And a disk you don’t want to wear. This is the opposite scenario: you don’t want Linux to swap unless it absolutely has to.

For reference, this is part of my config. It’s rather niche and you probably shouldn’t use it, but you should consider looking up the variables:

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Keep min reserve reasonable for 8GB usable space

vm.min_free_kbytes = 262144 # Lower absolute minimum to 256MB

vm.watermark_scale_factor = 10 # Lower to 0.1% (which is ~128MB on 128GB)

Disable watermark boosting completely

vm.watermark_boost_factor = 0

Normal-ish metadata pressure so desktop doesn’t stutter on disk reads

vm.vfs_cache_pressure = 120

Allow reasonable swapping of inactive anonymous desktop pages, could be lower

vm.swappiness = 10

Dirty bytes limits to limit caching

vm.dirty_background_bytes = 67108864 vm.dirty_bytes = 268435456

Disable compaction & proactive scans to stop freezing with large portions of RAM blocked

vm.compaction_proactiveness = 0 vm.compact_unevictable_allowed = 0

vm.page-cluster = 0 # 4kb pages for SSD ‘’’

It makes a night-and-day difference for some workloads on my system, that would otherwise swap pointlessly, just tank performance and even de-stabilize the system.

It’s “free ram” until stuff actually goes in swap.

It depends on the scenario, of course. Maybe you have huge, totally idle processes, and active ones working from an HDD that need cache desperately, in which case this is good.

But my experience with Linux is that is waaay to aggressive with this, in most configs, and I get far better performance from configs that avoid swap until it absolutely has to be used.

Yes, though that’s true of other methods.

Another big factor is that its very inconvenient to buffer vs tanks on either end, for transmission breaks that take time to repair, uneven energy supply/demand and stuff like that. Or even just capacitance.

A big old tank of oil on either end is cheap.

I’m not trying to shill for hydrogen or anything (I don’t like hydrogen), but this is definitely an issue.

I am not a power engineer, but I do know the capital costs for the wire and components all along the way is massive. They’re complicated, and they require a lot of expensive (and probably carbon intensive) materials.

Basic physics dictates it. Its more complicated than small scale DC/AC current with negligible transmission time you’re likely thinking of.

Maintenance is a pain, too. HV wires (especially the crazy DC ones) are extremely, extremely dangerous and basically can’t be near anything.

I’m not sure about installation labor costs vs a pipeline though.

Power transmission is hard.

The wire, the complex components, keeping it all in phase and steady and not exploding, the maintenance…

I cannot emphasize this enough. People tend to trivialize this when talking about remote production, but moving electricity long-distance is basically the hardest part. And pipes really are dead-simple in comparison.

It’s also why local production is so appealing.

Nah, I’m a hardcore Rimworld fan who’s been with it since the early forum Alphas, and that’s completely true, heh. IIRC was explicitly expired from DF, more obviously in the early days.

That being said, I’ve never played DF. I’m more into sci fi and tech than Tolkien-esque fantasy, hence I’ve passed on stuff like Necesse and… what’s that massive city builder? That, and many I’ve forgotten the names of.

Maybe I will give DF a look though. Maybe it has automation/tech mods that would make it more appealing, like Minecraft and Rimworld?

Y’all got any recs for “AI sandboxes” in the vein of Rimworld and Stellaris? Stellaris is just borked now, and I’ve modded/played the hell out of Rimworld.

Horizon 5 has one heck of a Hot Wheels expansion, if y’all don’t already have it.

To be clear, VMs absolutely have overhead but Docker/Podman is the question. It might be negligible.

And this is a particularly weird scenario (since prompt processing literally has to shuffle 112GB over the PCIe bus for each batch). Most GPGPU apps aren’t so sensitive to that.

In my case it’s performance and sheer RAM usage.

GLM 4.5 needs like 112GB RAM and absolutely every megabyte of VRAM from the GPU. It simply cannot afford the overhead. I think containers may slow down CPU<->GPU transfers slightly, but don’t quote me on that.

Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick dismissed Buffett’s concerns and falsely claimed tariffs could replace the IRS.

Whoaaa, that is a whopper of a sidenote.

Like… WTF. They really do want any excuse for the mega rich to not pay taxes.