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Re:Microsoft BitNet: 100B Param 1-Bit model for local CPUs on Wednesday March 11, 2026 @06:15PM (#47342926)
Why did you call it a 100b parameter model? it is not 100b parameters. they published a 1b parameter and a 2b parameter model.

Furthermore, it was published 11 months ago, it's not a new release.

That was last year Mi300x firmware and software have gotten much better since then
Re:Mistral "Mixtral" 8x7B 32k model [magnet] on Friday December 08, 2023 @12:06PM (#38571302)
at 4 bits you could run it on a 3090 right?
Re:What is Glamorous Toolkit v1.0? on Monday November 06, 2023 @08:16AM (#38162191)
I wanna see this concept as a vscode extension
Re:Simulation Islands on Tuesday October 10, 2023 @05:14AM (#37829973)
It's lovely to see active development on Box2D. Thank you for your efforts.
Re:Marko: An HTML-Based Language on Tuesday January 31, 2023 @05:44AM (#34593589)
Speaking as a former eBay engineer.

The criticism is that it isn't React, and that nobody uses it but eBay.

There's nothing really wrong with it other than that there's no reason for it to exist when other frameworks work fine and have community traction. There's nothing special about eBay that requires it's own special UI framework.

And when we hire contractors to do anything they won't touch Marko so we have to use React anyway on a lot of projects.

Just not an efficient way to spend the companys money creating and maintaining a superfluous framework nobody asked for.

Perl is a great fit. awk, sed, grep, xargs. Expect, occasionally. Python is too fanatically anti-fp and with indentation. JavaScript is too janky.
Re:Celebrating 5 Years of Pop _OS on Saturday October 22, 2022 @02:53AM (#33296125)
I have used Pop_os for the last year; it has enough bugs and wasted enough of my time that I finally switched to Windows just to see if I can put up with it; I'll probably revert to Ubuntu in a few months. WSL2 makes windows more livable but it's still janky.

I'm a nerd but that doesn't mean I have time to mess with bugs.

Corba had the funkiest interop issues
SOAP (and XSD) were amazingly expressive and capable. They just didn't do enough to balance verboseness, simplicity, and conciseness.

Amazing how much work and progress was lost when it was all thrown away for REST/JSON.

JSON Schema is great but never reached the level that XSD did.

I tried to generate nestjs and found I was better off writing my own code generator.
and Greg Rutkowski too
Re:Fart Stack on Monday July 18, 2022 @02:18PM (#32141528)
I sprayed my coffee
This seems like the kind of insight that is better monetized than preached - the value will not be perceived until there is a business success that derived from it.
Re:The United States Digital Corps on Friday April 08, 2022 @12:37PM (#30959312)
Federal employees and contractors are subject to regular and random urinalysis. Until marijuana is legalized at the federal level (which has been passed by the house but is not yet law) you could be terminated for marijuana.
Re:Return to Monkey Island, Coming 2022 on Friday April 08, 2022 @11:21AM (#30958287)
It was really genius, classic moment, to make me give the ghost pirate a wedgie.
Re:Show HN: Warp, a Rust-based terminal on Tuesday April 05, 2022 @02:27PM (#30922897)
1) installed it 2) login required 3) uninstalled it

try again

Re:Solito – React Native and Next.js unified on Monday March 14, 2022 @07:41PM (#30679987)
is there an analog for NativeScript?
Re:Ask HN: Advice for finding an entry-level remote job? on Wednesday February 17, 2021 @07:16PM (#26173731)
I went this route. Once you are in QA it is extremely difficult to get out. Everybody views you as "a tester" no matter how good your development skills are. If you genuinely want to be in QA as your career, or if you are truly desperate for work and willing to spend the 5 years or so it will take for you to dig yourself out of QA, then do it. It worked for me. But if you really want to dev, do not take a QA job unless you really can't find a dev job.
Re:How GPT3 Works – Visualizations and Animations on Monday July 27, 2020 @07:54PM (#23970739)
"OpenAI" isn't "Open" therefore it's worthless. Next.
Re:Ask HN: Sell my startup for $14M because I can't raise $2M? on Friday September 22, 2017 @06:00PM (#15316248)
Just take the money then start a new startup.
Re:Is Arduino no longer open-source? on Thursday June 15, 2017 @01:47AM (#14558171)
I just want to mention that you are awesome.
Re:Amazon's Leadership Principles on Monday April 24, 2017 @12:10AM (#14181932)
This is silly. The pay is really good, we have nothing to complain about. And everyone is responsible for managing their own work life balance. If a team is pushing you too hard, find a team that you can handle. It's a big company. It can only get to you if you let it.
Re:Sikuli Script on Tuesday September 30, 2014 @06:16PM (#8391697)
How is this news? Sikuli has been around for many years.
Re:How currying leads to elegant, readable code on Thursday June 19, 2014 @12:46PM (#7917034)
"Ok, here we go. Does code like this look at all familiar?"

No, because I use Array.prototype.filter(), Array.prototype.map(), and Array.prototype.reduce() to accomplish these things...

Re:TrueCrypt Volumes are Indistinguishable from Random Data on Tuesday January 28, 2014 @09:14PM (#7141384)
there are a lot of people who know something that 99.9% of the population does not.