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by sowbug 6mo ago
I admit it's a habit that's probably weeks out of date. Earlier engines barfed on split GGUFs, but support is a lot better now. Frontends didn't always infer the model name correctly from the first chunk's filename, bu
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by sowbug 6mo ago
Thanks! I know about HF's chunk checksums, but HF doesn't publish (or possibly even know) the merged checksums.
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by sowbug 6mo ago
Please publish sha256sums of the merged GGUFs in the model descriptions. Otherwise it's hard to tell if the version we have is the latest.
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by sowbug 6mo ago
I'm sure these two behaviors depend on each other. Instantaneous response allows the company to spend more of your attention answering questions rather than staring at a spinner. If you've ever watched TV with someone who gets dis
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by sowbug 6mo ago
Were you paid to write this comment? If not, then your statement is either true (and therefore slop), or false (because what made the early web awesome was people like you putting their thoughts online... for free).
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by sowbug 6mo ago
That's not what OP said. Sites displayed ads. Then they decided, or found, that ads didn't bring in enough revenue, so they added paywalls. Paywalls are annoying, they don't scale, and they break the promise of an open web. A
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by sowbug 6mo ago
Glad I'm not the only one using Gastown as a space heater. I filed an issue here and hope to find some time this week to research more: https://github.com/dolthub/dolt/issues/10849
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by sowbug 6mo ago
Good point. The missing statistic in this thread is the number of injuries, which you'd expect would help tease apart big cars (mass) from phones (attention).
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by sowbug 6mo ago
Helps justify the $400/bus monthly "technology fee."
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by sowbug 6mo ago
A bit off track from the main thrust of the article, but this caught my eye: After falling for decades, annual pedestrian deaths in the US surged 70% from 2010 to 2023 That aligns suspiciously with the rise in smartphones.
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by sowbug 6mo ago
support@sllm.cloud is bouncing.
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by sowbug 6mo ago
I'm looking forward to trying this. I've had a positive but high-variance experience with Gastown[1], which is in the same genre. I hope that Scion does better. My main complaints with Gastown are that (1) it's expensive, par
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by sowbug 6mo ago
Still holding my breath for the app that puts up a dialog on every launch asking "would you like to try our web version?"
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by sowbug 6mo ago
Enough to make https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jevons_paradox into a thing.
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by sowbug 6mo ago
You're right; I could have phrased the issue better, though I certainly did read the article. Let me try again: letting someone else pick a password for you requires you to trust that they did it well, and you get no benefit in exchang
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by sowbug 6mo ago
The article is a bit of a strawman, and a bit of an advertisement for a security consultancy. If you ask someone else to pick a password for you, then it's a secret known by two people. So don't do that. That was true a thousand*
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by sowbug 6mo ago
You could zoom out a bit and rephrase the question. Your great-aunt Ida died and left you a consulting team of ten pretty good software engineers. The team's contracts all just ended, so starting tomorrow they'll be idle. Ida said
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by sowbug 6mo ago
I am concerned that local models will never benefit from the training on live requests that is surely improving cloud-only models. This might be the cost of privacy, and it might be worth paying, unless cloud models reach an inflection poin
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by sowbug 6mo ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/At-will_employment
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by sowbug 6mo ago
Would be interesting to see whether spatial reasoning from gaming shows the same association.
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by sowbug 7mo ago
> ...if you explicitly state that you want to take part in a demonstration against the elected government. Cambridge Dictionary's definition of a free country: a country where the government does not control what people say or do
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by sowbug 7mo ago
Entirely software, far above the Hardy Boys and Microkids in the stack. But the general pace and pressure of the story are still relatable. I got the same vibes, by the way, from Season One of Halt and Catch Fire (recently and deservedly
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by sowbug 7mo ago
I hoovered up all the hardcover copies I could and for many years gave them as gifts to my teammates after our projects shipped. Mostly as thanks for a job well done, and just a tiny bit as an apology for what they'd just been through.
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by sowbug 7mo ago
:) I'm not sure I ever saw the word in print! But I loved the ones I had as a kid.
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by sowbug 7mo ago
Just in case anyone else nerd-sniped themselves this morning... if things fall at the same rate in a vacuum, regardless of their mass, why does it matter if one side of a die is heavier than the rest? I didn't know, and I had to look i
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by sowbug 7mo ago
If you're OK letting them train on, and maybe keep, your data, then it's hard to beat cloud prices vs. local.
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by sowbug 7mo ago
Yes, only the open-air noise-making kind (per the article topic). Don't care what the rectangle is as long as we can't hear it.
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by sowbug 7mo ago
That's rather defeatist. Surely you believe there are other options. We traveled with a single Nexus 7 and one pair of headphones shared by three kids. Having to take turns taught them to be OK with having entertainment, being a specta
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by sowbug 7mo ago
Another angle is kids who have been given a tablet as a pacifier. Their parents are often on autopilot, having checked out months or years earlier. On topic (and discussed already on HN): https://github.com/Pankajtanwarbanna
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by sowbug 7mo ago
From comments elsewhere in this thread, it sounds like Unsloth could also be getting some decent consulting revenue from larger companies.

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