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also, as this scales, what would this mean for closed-weight hosted models? i imagine it's possible (but difficult) to re-derive model weights by de-lidding and inspecting the die.…

not OP but yes, i consider the tech sphere's dive into mass surveillance to be war profiteering and have eliminated or minimized several in my life including amazon and spotify.

is this also true when the irrelevant details are (by coincidence) interesting (to you)? it sounds to me like GP is interested in mario kart and you simply aren't, so this is a per…

for real. if you want to make the web safer for children, start by holding ad networks to a higher accountability. it's painfully obvious "protect the children" is not the real goa…

wrapping text at 55-75 characters per line is often recommended in digital typography by UX. research implies that an optimum length exists to maximize reading speed, and although …

as i understand it: that's in-band ECC and if you CPU/mobo support it, you can enable IBECC even on non-ECC RAM. IBECC has overhead, though. ECC RAM has on-die error correction, wi…

the thing about ECC memory is that it doesn't support reporting of ECC errors, so it ends up just hiding the fact that your RAM has started to go bad. this is good if you replace R…

you're right, i misspoke by saying it's a GPU since it doesn't have video output. the just-in-time data pipelining wouldn't work for graphics workloads anyway.

i'm also interested in tenstorrent. they're building GPUs with cheap GDDR6 using a fast SRAM cache, and writing their own compiler stack (used instead of CUDA) that pipelines data …

yeah, i've been using cheap mechanical analog watches and wouldn't trust it to be accurate to-the-minute by the end of the day anyway. i kind of enjoy knowing only the approximate …

another happy user here too. having openwrt with all features working and no tinkering out of the box (since it's their reference target) is a dream. this, plus the warm fuzzies of…

i wish there was a system like strix halo, but with enough lanes for a dedicated PCIe 5.0 x16 slot so you can have the best of both worlds: large sparse models on CPU with unified …

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i agree, with a bit more nuance. it's one thing for a government agency staffed by educational professionals (like a public school district) to issue guidance (or even rules) on ho…

why do most of the paragraphs in this post stop mid-sentence? why are there 3 dozen comments and nobody has mentioned this? any humans still here?

> it saved and helped countless lives it has also done the opposite, including affirming a mentally ill person's suicidal ideations.

actually, it looks like this is happening inside Google right now. DeepMind workers are unionizing, and most of their demands revolve around ethical boundaries and the right to ref…

it's an example of how a union can use collective financial power to fund the services they offer to their members. a software engineer's union could prioritize income insurance ov…

yes, true sometimes (not always). but if more people have access to a way to confidently say "no" (with protection behind them), then i think saying "no" would happen more often, b…

i don't believe that software development should require a license. imagine having to get board-licensed to download gcc; therein lies the death of free software and owning your de…

are there examples of unions that have started around a focus on the ethics of the services they provide? unions traditionally start locally, around issues for which the locality i…

that's definitely a big question and i don't pretend to have enough expertise to answer fully; however, i will point to the Ontario Teacher's Pension Plan which is (per Wikipedia[1…