Aurornis

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by Aurornis 2mo ago
> Every big company in the world uses a network proxy. It's becoming more rare, now. A lot of the universal truths about corporate networks from the early 2000s are no longer true today. Some companies are stuck in their ways though
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In the local LLM communities there is a lot of respect for the Qwen models, but everyone comes to acknowledge that they do a lot of benchmaxxing after using them. Even at full precision they're never as good as models with similar benc
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by Aurornis 2mo ago
Start by copying the command line from the Unsloth guides. You don’t need to fine tune all of those parameters to get started. It’s really easy to ask an LLM to adjust the command line if you can’t be bothered to read the help out. Copy the
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> --cache-type-k q8_0 --cache-type-v q8_0 In my tests, even Q8 quantization for the KV cache comes with notable drops in performance for longer tasks. It does provide more context length in limited RAM budgets, but the longer context tas
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by Aurornis 2mo ago
> (personally, I have wondered why people didn't do pc system cooling with a car radiator with huge slow fan, a giant reservoir like 5-gal homer bucket with lid or a 55gal drum, and maybe an submersible aquarium pump or two.) Early
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The most valuable data breach content isn’t your advertising tracking data, though. It would be your payment information, which is orthogonal to most of the tracking data. The black market demand for leaked advertising-related tracking data
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by Aurornis 2mo ago
> and he said "yeah, but it makes the site seem less legitimate. He may be right, sadly. I’ve seen the lack of a cookie banner used to suggest that a site was doing something shady or not complying with the law. Most people don’t ha
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The 4 actual points of recommendation are good: Listening to people first, giving credit to people by name, and other things are rather basic management and soft skills techniques. I did groan a little at the anecdote about how their demo f
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by Aurornis 2mo ago
> Sentences that orbit a point, then jump to it like it's a revealed insight. That’s accurate in my experience, except some times the point isn’t even revealed. I use LLMs for a lot of codebase exploration where I ask it to map out
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by Aurornis 2mo ago
> Not the installer, not the monitoring app, not the utility. I found out from an electric bill that made no sense, then spent weeks digging through the monitoring portal by hand. It would help if you could clarify what your system does,
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by Aurornis 2mo ago
The example they give about debugging a service outage is good. For large companies, a very large burst expenditure on fast tokens to debug the outage as quickly as possible would be a good investment.
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> I got these 10,000 RPM fans because I wanted to make sure I was moving enough air, and they were the same price as slower fans. They are really loud! I wanted the motherboard to control their speed based on the GPU temperature, and thi
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by Aurornis 2mo ago
> How many years of insane growth would it take to pay back $400M at this rate? The raise is not a loan. They sold equity in the company. Their revenue is already greater than $400mm
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> Many places I've worked didn't promote hard workers at all. There's a type of hard worker who puts in a lot of effort and hopes it's noticed, but gets stuck being loyal to jobs like this. If you work at one of those
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by Aurornis 2mo ago
I was responding to this part of your post: > rather than a symbol of educational attainment. Your original argument appeared to imply that it was a system designed to separate people by class, not by merit or educational attainment. In
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> Kind of like the fortran crisis of the last decade or so.... I’m convinced the only reason there’s a Fortran crisis is because nobody wants to work on Fortran or make a career out of it. Has nothing to do with willingness to hire junio
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by Aurornis 2mo ago
> This is the theory, but I’ve never worked anywhere (and I’ve worked at a lot of places over 20 years) that actually did it like that in practice. I would have said the same thing for the first 15 years of my career across several jobs
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by Aurornis 2mo ago
I’ve known a lot of Ivy League graduates and they were all very smart. Most of them were very good people, too. A lot of them came from backgrounds that didn’t include wealth or social connections. This goes against the stereotypes you re
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by Aurornis 2mo ago
> There's no time left any more to be a kid. I have several hobbies that are popular with kids (mountain biking, rock climbing, and some others). I can assure you that there are plenty of kids with more time than I have to dedicate
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by Aurornis 2mo ago
> Adult life is so much easier with regards to competitive pressure compared to getting into a good college You’re competing apples and oranges. Getting into a top college is similar to grinding to get into Big Tech jobs and then climb t
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by Aurornis 2mo ago
Most of the stay at home spouses I know come from lower middle class households and they’ve made their lifestyle, living location, and other spending decisions fit their desired work arrangement. Even many of the construction contractors I’
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You took an unfairly uncharitable interpretation of that comment. It wasn’t saying that children are hobbies. It’s saying that time spent with children is enjoyable and time spent with them is not an enjoyable chore.
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> When you force high school kids to work days that are significantly longer than a normal adult to achieve a good GPA and get into a good college, My neighborhood and social circle have a number of high school age children, some aiming
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Showing up egregiously overdressed for a tech interview was a rite of passage before jobs search advice was easy to find on the internet.
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Social capital (networks) help a lot for intros, but even without social connections there is a big difference between someone with access to the right information and someone who doesn't even know where to look for it. A lot of people
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> Yes, you have more people applying for the same jobs This implies that more people know where to find the job listings and they've become more accessible and available.
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> Now that guy is probably competing with tons of people more talented willing to work for less This strikes at the core of it. Life was simpler for those in the know about how the world worked. If you were lucky enough to grow up with t
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Different optical zoom levels. Many phones already use information from both cameras, too. Android phones have multiple cameras too.
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All LLM benchmarks have an expiration date once they're released to the public. They get spread so far and wide across the internet and GitHub that you have to assume they're in the training data for every LLM with a cutoff date a
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> In the UK once you've had your childhood vaccinations it's entirely possible you'd simply never see a doctor again in your life until you're ready for your prostate exam in older life. It's entirely possible to

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