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Re:C++20 Modules: Practical Insights, Status and TODOs
on Thursday September 11, 2025 @12:04PM (#45213176)
Were you using pre-compiled headers before?
Re:Gemini CLI
on Wednesday June 25, 2025 @10:53AM (#44378053)
Grateful that this one supports Windows out of the box.
Re:Microsoft begins turning off uBlock Origin and other extensions in ...
on Friday February 28, 2025 @11:37AM (#43207549)
Brave.
Re:Starship Flight 5 [video]
on Sunday October 13, 2024 @10:17AM (#41828232)
The plan is to have many, many Mechazillas.
LLM-Centric Software Paradigms
Re:Russ Cox is stepping down as the Go tech lead
on Thursday August 01, 2024 @05:46PM (#41133981)
Because Go has massive traction both inside and outside of Google, whereas Dart/Flutter never got big traction.
Re:Reproduce GPT-2 (124M) in llm.c in 90 minutes for $20
on Tuesday May 28, 2024 @02:48PM (#40504083)
The RTX 4090 has about the same BF16 Tensor Core TOPs than the A100, assuming 50% MFU (like the A100 40 GB PCIe) it would take 8x longer on 1 RTX 4090 vs 8x A100 80GB SXM, so 12 hours.
Datasheet here for the TOPs https://images.nvidia.com/aem-dam/Solutions/geforce/ada/nvid...
50% MFU should be achievable on the 4090.
Re:Perplexica: Open-Source Perplexity Alternative
on Friday May 24, 2024 @05:38PM (#40470690)
I recommend Phind.com, it’s been much better and faster for me than Perplexity Pro. I typically use their custom 70B model but you can also use GPT4 o or Turbo, or Claude 3 Opus.
Re:Vice website is shutting down
on Thursday February 22, 2024 @09:56PM (#39476427)
It takes a while to take down job posts. Everyone likely learned the decision recently. I don’t think the employees who are going to be laid off care about updating the job posts at the moment…
Re:Vice website is shutting down
on Thursday February 22, 2024 @09:54PM (#39476415)
“Vice website is shutting down” is 100% accurate. Note that they will also lay off most of their staff.
Re:Sam Altman Seeks Trillions of Dollars to Reshape Business of Chips ...
on Friday February 09, 2024 @12:40AM (#39311765)
Was Google a chip designer before the first TPU?
Re:Seniors spend the equivalent of 3 weeks a year on health care, stud...
on Sunday February 04, 2024 @08:52PM (#39256411)
That doesn’t seem like a bad number.
Re:How to do OCR on a Mac using the CLI or just Python
on Tuesday January 02, 2024 @06:55PM (#38848869)
Way, way better than Tesseract!
Re:Show HN: A pure C89 implementation of Go channels, with blocking se...
on Friday December 15, 2023 @07:44AM (#38653578)
Kqueue! Not the same design or as flexible as io_uring though.
Re:Show HN: A pure C89 implementation of Go channels, with blocking se...
on Friday December 15, 2023 @07:42AM (#38653567)
Build 22000 is Windows 10 21H2.
Re:Intel launches Core Ultra processors, can it compete with the Apple...
on Thursday December 14, 2023 @11:58AM (#38643638)
Actual benchmarks and useful info here https://youtu.be/WH-qtuVRS2c
Re:Show HN: A pure C89 implementation of Go channels, with blocking se...
on Wednesday December 13, 2023 @04:49PM (#38634635)
Oh yeah I meant io_uring too. Plus Windows copied it so you can implement things very similarly for Windows.
Re:Show HN: A pure C89 implementation of Go channels, with blocking se...
on Wednesday December 13, 2023 @03:22PM (#38633654)
Great! I was looking into something like this. I assume ending up with epoll will be better?
Re:How Many Lines of C It Takes to Execute a and B in Python?
on Monday December 11, 2023 @08:23AM (#38600410)
It’s about 100 for x86_64 https://www.computerenhance.com/p/waste
Re:Apple unveils M3, M3 Pro, and M3 Max, the most advanced chips for a PC
on Monday October 30, 2023 @09:56PM (#38079162)
It was pretty hard to saturate the memory bandwidth on the M2 on the CPU side (not sure about the GPU).
Re:FlashAttention-2, 2x faster than FlashAttention
on Monday July 17, 2023 @03:14PM (#36762663)
Tri Dao and Tim Dettmers ftw
Re:More Than 75% of Steam Games Tested Are Playable or Verified on the...
on Tuesday July 04, 2023 @09:27PM (#36594554)
I don’t mind the slow burn at all! I however did not like being forced to do frustrating platforming / movements while having to start from scratch every time I run out of time or die.
Re:More Than 75% of Steam Games Tested Are Playable or Verified on the...
on Tuesday July 04, 2023 @09:25PM (#36594544)
I had the same experience after the jellyfish, at which point I gave up and just watch YouTube to know what happens.
Re:More Than 75% of Steam Games Tested Are Playable or Verified on the...
on Tuesday July 04, 2023 @09:24PM (#36594540)
I found the world and exploration very fun, but the “platforming” challenges were extremely frustrating for me, and I didn’t enjoy the random messages and the miscellaneous details that you translated. Basically the gameplay loop was filled with things that didn’t quite ring with me, even though the overarching design and story were compelling.
Re:More Than 75% of Steam Games Tested Are Playable or Verified on the...
on Tuesday July 04, 2023 @10:27AM (#36587179)
I also love that feature for the exact same reason!
Somewhat disappointed with Outer Wilds though ;)
Re:Apple Introduces M2 Ultra
on Tuesday June 06, 2023 @10:03AM (#36212947)
There is a difference. We train with large batch sizes these days. The ANE silicon size is tiny and can't do the large matrix multiplications for big LLMs with or without a batch size higher than 1. Meaning that it cannot saturate the RAM bandwidth and that you're better using off the much bigger GPU on the Apple die.
Re:Apple Introduces M2 Ultra
on Monday June 05, 2023 @08:27PM (#36206426)
Yes, you are correct in that the ANE does have the equivalent of tensor cores and that I didn’t mention that. I just don’t expect it to be usable beyond inference because the number of compute units will not work for batches in medium/large/huge networks. That’s obviously by design! The ANE silicon size is tiny compared to the GPU area. I wouldn’t be actually surprised if Apple strategically only invests in using their GPU for LLM (1B+ params) work.
Note that if you are currently using CoreML for LLMs all the work is done in the GPU.
Re:Apple Vision Pro: Apple’s first spatial computer
on Monday June 05, 2023 @05:55PM (#36204463)
This is completely wrong. Learn about lenses.