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    Comment #49001615

    Stop hooking up your LG: https://www.theverge.com/tech/967983/lg-monitors-mcafee-adwa...

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    Comment #48437893

    Host to device bandwidth (ram to vram) is 128Gb/s for PCIe Gen 6. VRAM to GPU bandwidth is 1.8Tb/s for GDDR 7 (5090), and 8Tb/s for HBM3e (B200). So it can be faster to recompute t…

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    Comment #47158548

    The Little Learner is a great book. I tried rewriting all the code in Python/JAX while following the Scheme code style as closely as possible, and it worked out great. The appendix…

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    Comment #46100973

    Best decision I made this year.

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    Comment #44728502

    It's subsystem maintainers asking Linus to pull from their branches, e.g. https://lkml.org/lkml/2025/7/29/291

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    Comment #43428448

    May I introduce to you https://huggingface.co/canopylabs/orpheus-3b-0.1-ft (no affiliation) it's English only afaics.

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    Comment #43271389

    "In 2021: No (IPT) cases were found in favour of the complainant": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Investigatory_Powers_Tribunal#...

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    Comment #43188899

    you have no freedom of speech to publish opinions opposing (as decided by me) freedom of speech.

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    Comment #42942133

    Google Public Sector: https://about.google/intl/ALL_us/public-sector/

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    Comment #42067374

    it's scrapped, the new design: https://www.pcworld.com/article/2507953/lunar-lakes-integrat...

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    Comment #41587044

    It's illegal in the US: https://www.nlrb.gov/about-nlrb/rights-we-protect/the-law/em...

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    Comment #41502688

    There is FxHashMap ( https://github.com/rust-lang/rustc-hash ) which is faster than std::collections::HashMap. With ~100 static entries, o1hash ( https://github.com/rurban/smhasher…

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    Comment #41110702

    I am wondering if AlphaStar is the most expensive paper ever.

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    Comment #40802046

    The VM disk corruption problem has been affecting all open source Apple hvf hypervisors. lima with vfkit or UTM are most promising ones for now: https://github.com/lima-vm/lima/iss…

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    Comment #40801461

    I liked Multipass until I ran into storage corruption issues like many others [1][2] and broke all my VMs. On MacOS, Multipass uses qemu in which the apple-hvf support isn't gettin…

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    Comment #40294912

    Somewhat related talk: Modernizing Compiler Design for Carbon Toolchain - CppNow 2023 ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZI198eFghJk )

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    Comment #40242916

    (National) Security theatre https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Security_theater Plus everyone who's involved will get richer.

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    Comment #39867425

    I think it's just a coincidence. - All the posts are from 2004/2006. - "jiat" can be abbreviation for many common Chinese names.

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    Comment #39867123

    The backdoor (test binary blob and autoconf) is not part of the pull request.

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    Comment #39867033

    There is zero web presence for this person and associated email address. Looks more likely a fake identity than compromised account.

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    Comment #39823905

    Political theatre? Courts will most likely strike it down for violating the First Amendment.

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    Comment #39624848

    Really interesting! Curious, why reimplementing jax in rust (nox)?

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    Comment #39485555

    I'd love to see someone who has the resources train a model bigger than 2.8b and show the scaling law still holds.

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    Comment #39443908

    Language Modeling Is Compression: https://arxiv.org/abs/2309.10668

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    Comment #39401087

    From https://arxiv.org/pdf/2402.08268.pdf > We trained our models using TPUv4-1024, which is approximately equivalent to 450 A100s > Inference for such long sequences requires a mi…