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obligatory oxford comma: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P_i1xk07o4g

does anyone know how well this 5x petaflop improvement translates to real world performance? I know that memory bandwidth tends to be a big limiting factor, but I'm trying to under…

it does; thanks so much, appreciate it!

Some fine tuning data questions: i see the the dataset Google published in this notebook https://github.com/google-gemini/gemma-cookbook/blob/main/Fu... -- from looking at the data…

would love to see some comparison numbers to Gemini and Claude, especially with this claim: "The most advanced agentic coding model for professional software engineers"

the only constant is HN's styling.

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yes that'd be great! and if the price could somehow include the shipping rate to the country, that'd be awesome

Doesn't Ontario's IESO also do this?

Is the real identity of Jia Tan known, even by Lasse Collin? I would think a "real identity" should be required by linux distros for all /major/ open source projects/library commit…

mmm.. > what are the top 5 tallest man-made structures in the world Statue of Unity (Tallinn, Estonia) - 368 m Leaning Tower of Pisa (Pisa, Italy) - 330 m Supertree Grove (Orlando,…

Ah, makes sense :)

Nice article! There is a bug in the compaction method: def compact(sstables, output_sstable): # Ordered by ascending key. pop() results in the item of the smallest key. heap = heap…

Apologies for my tone, I didn't mean to insinuate you weren't experienced. I guess I was wondering what was wrong with copy(), thanks for the link! IMO, copy() is well-designed and…

It's surpring that Go 1.17 discountined support for MacOS 10.12 (or older), which released only 4 years ago. Along with deprecating Intel support, it seems like Apple, their users …

> e.g. cloning a slice. https://golang.org/pkg/builtin/#copy

My favorite part: Go 1.17 implements a new way of passing function arguments and results using registers instead of the stack. This work is enabled for Linux, MacOS, and Windows on…

Thanks for all the hard work and open sourcing it! Are there benchmarks/numbers for how Astro improves page load / page download size for a relatively complicated web app? I wasn't…

Design docs are a heavy-weight way to accomplish 3 major things, roughly in the order of importance: 1) Get feedback from your peers and other teams who need to interface with your…

Or DirectX. Mostly, I think the expectation is that folks won't handwrite vulkan, they'll use a higherlevel API, like a game engine's API.

I don't think the release cadenece (6 weeks) is the cause for how fast the language was changing. As a counter examples, Go release roughly every ~26 weeks and mostly has releases …

VS Code's Remote Development. I'm not sure how many folks rely on this, but its been amazing for me.

TIDAL isn't getting traction & Jay-Z wants to sell it Square needs a hook into the rap industry because they market really well there. Square has been paying rappers to promote Cas…

Well, here goes another thread about free speech vs. ethical discourse, where atleast one side uncompromisingly refuses to put themselves in the shoes of the other. Just to fast-fo…