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by tgtweak 9mo ago
TSMC's Arizona fabs (edit: need to qualify this with "today" and in the near future) are wholly inadequate to shift wafer volume out of Tawian if that were to ever happen. TSMC themselves have been candid about this - both t
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by tgtweak 9mo ago
I really don't understand why companies are ignoring intel's foundry services... for the first time since probably the 2000's, intel's 18A nodes are significantly ahead of what TSMC is offering. Apparently they have cap
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by tgtweak 9mo ago
Are you using the full BF16 model or a quantized mlx4?
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by tgtweak 9mo ago
I like the byteshape quantizations - they are dynamic variable quantization weights that are tuned for quality vs overall size. They seem to make less errors at lower "average" quantizations than the unsloth 4 bit quants. I thin
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by tgtweak 9mo ago
VAT is a sales tax not a duty/tariff - this is due by you as a consumer not the importer were a company to purchase it for resale. If you bought the same goods from a local seller you'd have the same VAT. EU has some exceptions
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by tgtweak 9mo ago
Looking purely at import volumes, most of those other countries haven't experienced drop-offs like China. Canada exports about the same amount of goods to the US today as they did in early 2024. Mexico is in a similar trend. What I
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by tgtweak 9mo ago
Most have low/no duties on most goods categories from China - aside from a few specific goods categories in developed markets - most goods flow out of China to export countries without tariff/duties. ASEAN markets and most of Afr
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by tgtweak 9mo ago
Few thoughts/observations on Tariff impacts now that we have a decent amount of time/data to look at: Suppliers in China are dropping prices to offset the tariff impact - this is what I see in my direct industry and also in many a
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by tgtweak 9mo ago
Is it too much to expect companies to share some of this in the open vs just the results?
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by tgtweak 9mo ago
Very interesting but the slight issue I see here is one of data: the information that is recorded and in the training data here is heavily skewed to those intelligent/recognized enough to have recorded it and had it preserved - much le
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by tgtweak 9mo ago
I used to run gentoo like 14 years ago! It remains one of the fastest distros I've seen for the specific hardware it was running on (high core count 4-socket AMD opteron servers) and I mostly attributed that to the fact it was compilin
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by tgtweak 9mo ago
change the SSD and retry (the same ssd in another machine may not trigger the same error btw, this is not unilateral process of elimination) - those windows updates do a lot of disk writes and a small miss there can screw up an entire insta
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by tgtweak 9mo ago
So basically the quantization in a byteshape model is per-tensor and can be variable and is an "average" in the final result? The results look good - curious why this isn't more prevalent! Would also love to better understa
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by tgtweak 9mo ago
There is a maximum theoretical length and the sphere actually allows you to wrap around it, Rod of Asclepius style, until you get there - picking up an apple on each cycle. I suspect it's not more than a few hundred segments though so
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by tgtweak 9mo ago
There is definitely a turn-based minigame here - get the most "distance" travelled by the horse, every turn the horse moves one block towards it's closest escape and you can drop walls to cause it to find a new path - in this
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by tgtweak 9mo ago
I saw one where it was 20 seconds before the skip/x appeared, then when you hit X it pushes you to the app store, then when you hit back the x button moves to a new location, then when you hit it, it puts you into a 5 second "hey
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by tgtweak 9mo ago
controversy algorithm is real - reddit and twitter both prioritize controversial posts since they get people engaging.
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by tgtweak 9mo ago
Typical growing pains for a 4 trillion dollar company.
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by tgtweak 10mo ago
This actually looks surprisingly straightforward for what the function is doing - certainly if you have domain context of image editing or document placement. You'll find it in a lot of UI code - this one uses bit shifts for efficiency
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by tgtweak 10mo ago
I think more salient here (at term certainly) is setting up adversarial agents for testing/verification - that has been a big win for me in multi-agent workflows - when claude first released "computer use" that was a very big
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by tgtweak 10mo ago
RDS is not, by default, multi-instance and multi-region or fault tolerant at all - you choose all of that in your instance config. The amount of single-instance single-region zero-backup RDS setup's I've seen in the wild is hones
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by tgtweak 10mo ago
As someone who self hosted mysql (in complex master/slave setups) then mariadb, memsql, mongo and pgsql on bare metal, virtual machines then containers for almost 2 decades at this point... you can self host with very little downtime a
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by tgtweak 10mo ago
Yes it was SmartOS - bcantrill worked on it post-oracle. I remembered Illumos since it was the precursor.
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by tgtweak 10mo ago
Yeah the calculus on that becomes tricky when you have heat pumps since the coefficient of performance is >1 vs resistive heating (often 3-4 depending on the temperature). I used a rack of GPUs to heat my house for a few years back when
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by tgtweak 10mo ago
Good at finding/fixing security vulnerabilities = Good at finding/exploiting security vulnerabilities.
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by tgtweak 10mo ago
Yes but if it's not getting removed at the origin... it's not fixing the actual issue of the context/conversation surviving past an explicit "delete" request. Also let's not forget that anyone proxying LLMs is
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by tgtweak 10mo ago
Anecdotally I've found it very good in the exact same case for multi-agent workflows - as the "reviewer"
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by tgtweak 10mo ago
Illumos had a really nice stack for running containers inside jails and zones... I wonder if any of that ever made it into the linux world. If you broke out of the container you'd just be inside a jail which is even more hardened.
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by tgtweak 10mo ago
Most of this is mitigated by running docker in an LXC containers (like proxmox does) which grants a lot more isolation than docker on it's own - closer in nature to running separate VMs.
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by tgtweak 10mo ago
Monero's proof of work (RandomX) is very asic-resistant and although it generates a very small amount of earnings, if you exploit a vulnerability like this with thousands or tens of thousands of nodes, it can add up (8 modern cores 24&

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