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by peri-cl 1mo ago
Z.ai's domains are z.ai and zhipuai.cn. Not the deceptive lookalike url which is plastered across that image. Would you consider deleting it? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Z.ai
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by peri-cl 1mo ago
I think it's a bicycle helmet!
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by peri-cl 1mo ago
> "ads shown in search results will still appear" Is that for a technical reason or a commercial one?
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by peri-cl 1mo ago
I circumvented it with this one-liner (credit to DSV4 0731, who kindly read the minified scripts for me). I got it to work by injecting it at the console after a refresh, and before the scripts finished loading (there's probably more r
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by peri-cl 1mo ago
Ahh, that was thoughtless of me! > "A message sent out from the chair of the department of chemistry at the school identifying the substance in question:" > "“Dear Chemistry Colleagues," > "I am writin
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by peri-cl 1mo ago
The deleted post was a "Dear Colleagues" letter written by an MIT chemistry faculty member. It's the same letter posted here: https://old.reddit.com/r/labrats/comments/1w1ukrv/mit_studen...
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by peri-cl 1mo ago
Derek Lowe has comments about this incident, https://www.science.org/content/blog-post/alleged-dimethylme... ( "The Alleged Dimethylmercury Incident" ) Seems the initial reporting may have been misleadin
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by peri-cl 2mo ago
> "dual xeon" Does inference make full use of the memory bandwidth in a NUMA system?
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by peri-cl 2mo ago
I think it's plausible and I don't disagree with you on that. But: legal drafts failing at basic correctness issues, like quoting laws accurately, is an anti-signal.
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by peri-cl 2mo ago
This is so amateurish. This document misquotes its own authorities, with grade-school grammar mistakes: > "In particular, while a “utility” under ARP regulations includes any person that sells electricity, the 1990 edition of DOE F
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by peri-cl 2mo ago
I'm confused why the DMCA sender, Tracer AI, claims Vanuatu jurisdiction in the linked DMCA claim[0]. In separate recent claims, they have claimed US jurisdiction[1]. Is this possibly fraud? [0] https://lumendatabase.org&#x2
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by peri-cl 2mo ago
This is about the DoD supply chain risk designation—*not* the export controls.
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by peri-cl 2mo ago
Speaking about style choices, I was curious why you sometimes use the 'f' from the Latin Extended-B block, U+0192, in your comments. I've never seen that before! (I'd meant to ignore it but you seem to be soliciting typ
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by peri-cl 2mo ago
Wait, is there a story behind—oh, here it is: https://www.headingtonshark.com/Home/About ( "Hello. I'm Magnus Hanson-Heine, the home-owner of the Headington Shark House. The Shark House, formally titled Untit
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by peri-cl 2mo ago
I remember when people realized gaming cards could be used for general compute (GPGPU) on certain types of parallel numeric work. It was a very cool thing for many types of hackers and science and engineering students and NVIDIA went far ou
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by peri-cl 2mo ago
> "Actinide’s flagship commercial product: enriched ytterbium-176," To save HN a search: a stable isotope used as a neutron capture target, to produce lutetium-177[i], used in targeted radioligand therapies[ii]. Discussed onc
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by peri-cl 2mo ago
> "Emacs has 35+ different AI tools." Way more than that if you count all the unpublished homebrew balls of glue. I've been playing with writing my own lately. I just wrote a cool (IMHO) macro for defining tools, a defun
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by peri-cl 2mo ago
No; it's the other headline, mandatory US government certification, that would ban Americans from running their own Chinese large models.
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by peri-cl 2mo ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49076057 ( "Our position on open-weights models (anthropic.com)" , 1812 comments)
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by peri-cl 2mo ago
Anthropic paying $1.5 billion in fines for downloading Anna's Archive established a moat. They want it to be illegal to pirate books: they can afford the penalties and continue doing it. Just like they want it to be illegal to run lo
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by peri-cl 2mo ago
There actually were high-jumping robots in the Olympics (I skimmed the livestream), https://youtu.be/SOVNn1aRAIE?t=5087
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by peri-cl 2mo ago
https://archive.is/lFSEF
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by peri-cl 2mo ago
Ah, so that's what the agent meant by summarizing a documentation page as "Unicorn!" I'd thought it was a very colorful hallucination (it's just GitHub's (unicorn-themed) failure page). Gathered details o
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by peri-cl 2mo ago
[self-reply because comment edit window ended]: I now have a head-to-head benchmark. On my wheezy laptop (specs in sibling comment), this new dense model, Qwen 3.8 27B, gets ~4 tokens/second on generation. The older mixture-of-experts
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by peri-cl 2mo ago
Don't mind! It's 64 GiB dual-channel DDR5-6400, i.e. roughly 100 GiB/s of bandwidth. (AMD 7840U (Zen 4)) I'm using a Q4 quantization from unsloth (Qwen3.6-35B-A3B-UD-Q4_K_XL). It gets up to ~20 tokens/second in gene
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by peri-cl 2mo ago
Same here! Qwen3.6-35B-A3B is the only local model I've found that runs reasonably on my iGPU. Looks like me and and my noisily-wheezing laptop will be sitting out this upgrade.
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by peri-cl 2mo ago
> "The attack is not recent, however. It dates back to late June - the 26th, to be precise, according to the hacker - and the administration had detected and stopped it at the time, without ever saying a word publicly." I tho
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by peri-cl 2mo ago
> "I’ve been there, implementing a way to linearise text from a document with pages with 1, 2 or 3 columns, some of them in landscape is a nightmare." I thought it's actually a fun problem! Some of the naive solutions (b
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by peri-cl 2mo ago
https://web.archive.org/web/20260806195522/https://news.mary...
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by peri-cl 2mo ago
> "As we get into higher dimensional spaces, things get weird really fast." The geometric problem of computing a d -dimensional Pareto set of cardinality n https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maxima_of_a_poi

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