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I'm the same. I also can think ahead / along much better while typing. When I'm talking I'm just talking, not thinking as much.

But I guess thinking is going out of style anyway.

That said, I know a lot of people prefer talking to their computer, especially when their computer is a phone. So there is definitely a place for stuff like this.

That was true 20 years ago, but not really today. Today's hardware is much more complicated and I wouldn't expect NetBSD to work well on anything but the most basic hardware.

Oh my I totally forgot about NeHe! I probably still have some of the lessons printed out at my parents house somewhere.

Good times.

Dutch. The word is "racisme", and the entry for it in our dictionary[0] states:

> Racism is a form of discrimination in which a person is judged on the basis of his or her ethnic origin, skin color, nationality or religion. It is a form of prejudice and inequality that prevents people from gaining equal opportunities.

While I'm happy to admit that perhaps my use of the word in English is incorrect and its meaning there is more narrow, in Dutch it covers nationality or religion as well. Islamophobia is considered racist ("racistisch") in Dutch, for example.

[0]: https://www.nationaalwoordenboek.nl/woord/racisme.html

My mistake. English is not my first language. In my native language, the word racism is used for discrimination or prejudice against anything foreign (nation, race, language, ...).

But either way, I find the reduction of the argument to the semantics of the word racism to be deflection. Wouldn't you agree the original comment was made in poor taste? Why did it need to include a reference to Indian and imply that all things Indian made are cheap or low quality?

We applied this kind of mindset to the Japanese in the 60s and 70s, and look where that got us. I witness it happening again in the 00s and 10s applied to Korean electronics (LG and Samsung mostly) while we were content with minor improvements over the status quo and innovating far too slowly.

Yes, this incident has an almost farcical amount of stupid attached to it, but the fact that it happened to an Indian company is in my eyes only coincidental. There are plenty of Silicon Valley startups and tech companies that are equally cavalier about aspects of security and apply the mentality of "we'll fix it in post" to anything but shipping features.

No need to resort to racism. Stupidity is present in all nations.

Sure there was - rebrand and change names, maybe once or twice until the public loses interest to keep talking about it.

Or silently spin out a subsidiary under a new name who takes over the cert business, and redirect existing customers there for renewals.

That's not the case, Go uses the system store with an additional revoke/deny list in crypto/x509 because it allows updating a deployed application on an out of date or slow moving platform or OS.

This CVE is literally just "versions of the Go deny list don't contain the eMuhdra revokation yet". Older versions of Go will still deny certs signed through the compromised certificate if the system store already has the update.

It's an or situation, not and.

Cool!

I'm looking forward to the weights release as well, has anything about the architecture and possibly quantization resilience been shared publicly so far?

I've been using Mistral Large 4 and some of my other friends have as well.

Something is going on with the performance (as in speed of the service, not quality). Some days it's quite fast, some days it's so slow I interrupt it because I thought it was hanging.

I think they're shifting hosting capacity around, or otherwise messing with the model. Note that it's still a "preview" version, meaning they're still training it further for the final release and they are likely still figuring out the optimal hosting configuration as well.

It wouldn't surprise me to see further changes in both quality of the model and speed before the final release.

I see the R5 electric everywhere in Belgium as well, and I still love how it looks despite its ubiquity.

A small hatchback no longer fits my life, but otherwise I would have loved to drive an R5.

I hope they make some "hot hatch" EVs in the future, the Alpine A290 is more like an expensive lukewarm hatch.

Zapp's quote was "Soon you'll all be fighting for your planet. Many of you will be dying for your planet. A few of you will be forced through a fine mesh screen for your planet. They'll be the luckiest of all."

Unless you're thinking of something else, but I can't find anything that comes close to the sentiment other than the above.

Well, it's the rest of us paying the price, they're reaping the rewards.

To quote the wise Lord Farquaad: "some of you may die, but that's a sacrifice I'm willing to make."

The setup script often runs privileged (by calling sudo) and that's not unexpected when installing new software.

When I install something, and it asks for my root password later, I will be much more likely to think "hold up, this ain't right".

Any future plans you can share to further evolve / train models in this size class?

It seems like a very suitable size for local AI models on reasonably high end consumer devices, given it's low active parameter count and a mixed 8bit/4bit quant would fit easily inside 64GB of memory.

Off topic for sure, but why do people insist on using X/Twitter in this day and age?

The majority of people are not on it, and the links are gated by a ton of toxic dark patterns and horrible UX trying to force people to sign up or log in.

I try to click on the image to enlarge and make the text readable, and I'm greeted with a login screen instead of a larger image.

They run one step/iteration on an additional chunk of training data, then use the snapshot of the weights after that iteration in a separate validation benchmark while continuing to train on another chunk of data for the next iteration.

They result of the benchmark does not feed back into the training, it simply serves to provide a measurement of progression over time.

Google still tries to sabotage Firefox experience on Google Apps, especially Meet but also YouTube and sometimes Google Sheets/Docs as well.

They want to degrade the experience just enough to get you fed up with FF and go (back) to Chrome, without making it absolutely obvious that's what they're doing.

They often label these things as "regressions" because they don't test on Firefox and take forever to fix them. But I can't help but believe it's intentional.

Can someone explain to me why such farms exist? Who benefits, other than Google?

The farm doesn't gain anything, the only thing it does is waste the advertisers money?

What's the play for the farm operator?

I'd much rather have them ban alcohol and mandate stricter testing of drivers and vehicle safety than banning non-autonomous driving.

Driving older cars is one of the simple things that bring me joy.

Similar to countries putting democratic in their name being the least democratic, like the Deutsche Demokratische Republik and Democratic Peoples Republic of Korea.

They are begging you to spend your ad budget elsewhere.

This resonates with me. The past few months, frontier AI labs were rushing to announce "no, our AI bot broke out of its sandbox and committed crime first and harder than yours".

I said to so friends back then: if I posted about how I ran GLM 5.2 or whatever I was running then in some shoddily built sandbox and it escaped and accidentally hacked some US company, I'd probably already have been extradited to the US and be awaiting sentencing. But when a hyperscaler does it, they just get inflated stock prices.

I'm guessing they acquired it mostly exchanging stocks. Which I guess is an indication that their stock is overvalued right now if they're willing to overpay by that much.

They are trying.

Yes but it depends what you want. I didn't want to spend 8k (or now 11k) for a video card that I couldn't run without turning my home office into a boiler room and pay through the nose in electricity.

I wanted a laptop that could run some medium sized LLMs locally and experiment with. Strix Halo is great for that. But it was also 2800 euros for a 128GB premium laptop. Not 7899 like it is now.

Shame it broke out of warranty.

Yeah it isn't worth it, but comparing a server with a laptop is also not a relevant comparison.

I didn't get a Strix Halo laptop because it was the best bang per buck, I got it because it was an awesome machine that could do a little bit of everything, fit in a backpack and only needed 140W.

But noone should buy one at 7899, obviously. It was a tough sell for me at the old 2800 pricing.

You are comparing US pricing with EU pricing. EU pricing includes 21% VAT and currency conversion "rounding up".

The cheapest 128GB Macbook Pro here costs €7.949,00.

No doubt a better value than the HP, and will depreciate a lot less quickly, but just as expensive. Unfortunately, not being able to run Linux is a breaking point for me.

I had a Strix Halo laptop with 128GB which unfortunately died last week. I paid 2800 euro for it. If I buy the same machine today, the sticker price is 7899.

The device was not perfect by any means, but the ability to run fairly large models is some kind of magic.