swiftcoder

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by swiftcoder 3d ago
Putting your writing in version control turns out to buy you a lot of metadata for free. These days it's an Obsidian vault in git, but I used to just keep plain markdown files for notes/writing/etc
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by swiftcoder 3d ago
> Economic activity is a flow, not a stock Any one actor has finite cash flow (plus their cash-on-hand buffer). Directing cashflow towards inference necessarily directs it away from something else. Either these companies are spending les
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by swiftcoder 3d ago
Money flowing from the rest of the economy means money no longer being spent on something else. Assuming for the moment it's not all a big circular inflationary scheme, what exactly is being cut back on to fund this infinite spend on A
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by swiftcoder 3d ago
Well for starters, any modern web browser with JS disabled is going to display the original page just fine, but will not be able to render a canvas-based solution. That may put the user outside your target demographic, which is fine, but it
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by swiftcoder 3d ago
The Manhattan Project succeeded, so clearly some people are ok working on this sort of thing. And with similar justifications: if we don't build the potentially world-ending bomb, someone else might beat us to it.
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by swiftcoder 3d ago
> We obviously have much better ways of doing such things today, but in 2005, with limited browser technology, those solutions seemed a little bit magical Nah, this still seems like a pretty good way of doing things. Yes, we can probably
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by swiftcoder 3d ago
> where we talk about country that have laws, politics, сourts, journalism, all that stuff Post patriot act, we have none of those things in instances where the government invokes national security (for example, a national security lette
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by swiftcoder 3d ago
I've made a bunch of edits just through the website, because my rural village was not very accurately reflected on OSM. I've added all the missing footpaths, fixed a couple of intersections, and added building footprints for all t
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by swiftcoder 3d ago
> The part where I want wired ethernet to that SBC, In that case the path of least resistance becomes something like a $22 NanoPi NEO (has onboard ethernet, widely used in PiKVM setups)
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by swiftcoder 3d ago
> simulating a USB client device ... requires specialized hardware that is also very expensive Pretty much any off-the-shelf SBC can present itself as a USB HID device like a keyboard. You can buy a very capable rp2040-based board for &l
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by swiftcoder 4d ago
> Yandex does Putin's bidding much much further than any western search engine ever meddled with their results for political purposes. Yandex employees' lives would be actively at risk if they didn't Does media manipulatio
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by swiftcoder 4d ago
Couldn't we say the exact same thing about any US service in this day and age? Trade war with half the planet, hot war with Iran. Autocratic dictator as leader and complicit media. Well documented propaganda campaign and history of des
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by swiftcoder 4d ago
> campaigns for a Russian product on HN are annoying, and appaling if you have any morals How is Yandex more morally-bankrupt than Google in your analysis?
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by swiftcoder 5d ago
Having subsequently met a few folks who worked on Spore, I'm pretty sure they fully believed in the early vision they showed off a year or so before release
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by swiftcoder 5d ago
Smarter IDE folding, in effect? I'm always wondering what higher-level views of program flow we could have. Various tools have experimented with generating graphs and flow charts from code, or visual programming systems with nodes, but
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by swiftcoder 5d ago
Right, easily run 128-160 GB models, yes. Not easily run models much larger than that. Anything that doesn't fit in the 192 GB (including context, cache, etc) is going to have to be sparse/MoE, and the rather anaemic PCIE bandwidt
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by swiftcoder 5d ago
The return of Hong Kong to China is the first global news item I really remember from my childhood (the death of Princess Dianna shortly thereafter being the second). One really felt a shift in england that day: this then is the final nail
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by swiftcoder 5d ago
It's a very pretty effect.
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by swiftcoder 5d ago
> Not sure if you misunderstand what GPUs we're talking about, one RTX Pro 6000 has 96GB of VRAM. Right, but the top option here is a pair of RTX Pro 6000s, hence 192 GB of VRAM in total. Should be enough for a 128GB model plus co
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by swiftcoder 5d ago
> engagement falls by half without the algorithm Good? I honestly only have these apps to see what my friends posted. I know they aren't likely to do it, but it would be lovely to have the friends-only view back by default in every
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by swiftcoder 5d ago
> performance is more than just the aggregated memory speed of the hardware you have In other fields, sure, but for big LLMs it's a very significant part of the performance picture. That stack of Macs also is going to be able to nat
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by swiftcoder 5d ago
Are you sure about that? For the price of the top configuration here you can buy a 5-stack of 256GB Mac Studio M5 Ultras. This dual NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 setup has 192GB of VRAM at 1.8 TB/s, versus the 5-stack of Macs that collectively h
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by swiftcoder 5d ago
I'd be interested to see how Reasonix stacks up here - they seem to have spent a lot of effort on tuning prefix cache reuse
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by swiftcoder 5d ago
$37,000 in GPUs. Man, I never expected another PC manufacturer to make Apple's top configuration look cheap by comparison.
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by swiftcoder 6d ago
> some use "not accredited" as a pejorative term. I am absolutely using "not accredited" in a pejorative sense here. That he publishes papers coauthored by a couple of philosophy professors at Oxford (all of whom have
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by swiftcoder 6d ago
Specifically, it joins a list of existing Tier 1 languages (C++, C#, and TypeScript), as "one of the best-supported languages for internal development at Microsoft"
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by swiftcoder 6d ago
> Obviously NMS's original marketing was bonkers and capitalised on saying technically true things in ways to mislead large numbers of people. I don't think they intentionally misled people. It's not that different to ho
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by swiftcoder 6d ago
> If you have access to a SOTA model without guardrails, provide a prompt that lets the agent come up with "creative" solutions to problems, and don't properly isolate it, they can end up inadvertently hacking 3rd party co
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by swiftcoder 6d ago
FB's main monorepo was named WWW, and you needed to refer to it every 5 minutes, so everyone pronounced it "dub-dub-dub". A surprisingly hard habit to break once you leave their employment
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by swiftcoder 6d ago
I guess the big question is whether they are going to open up rustc_codegen_utc for use outside of Microsoft?

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