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(64GB not VRAM, I meant) I also see people claiming fast performance on a 128GB machine, which is not exactly consumer hardware)

I am not getting it: I see a fp2 quantized model going on a 5090 with 64GB of RAM at 90 tops with -10% accuracy over original model. How is this supportive of the claims?

I don't understand who should be this article for. Europeans, that are doing everything according to the plan to reduce emissions? Chinese, who are going to save our neck by converting an entire nation that is 25% of world population to electrical/renewable/nuclear? Americans? It's the wrong news outlet, then.

what will happen when in 10 years they will want to discontinue those games? will they be hosting them forever? how are we going to preserve all the videogames production from 2028 on?

And I thought that it was related to Doom. Disappointing. (tongue in cheek)

Crazy difficult, but I guess a RL AI could learn how to beat it

Current LLMs are in the Pentium IV Netburst stage: hypertrophy of components on old archs have gotten to the limits of what is physically feasible. Get ready for the next phase of leaner models.

I remember how it was in 2008 on Linux desktops/laptops: AMD laughed straight in the face of their Linux customers. NVidia did support them, although at its own rules (closed source). When the need to run scientific computation over GPUs arouse, NVidia was there, ready. AMD got what it deserved for ignoring a market of scientists and researchers

Vim is a very good editor in the simple task of editing text files of every size. Wrote master thesis with it

I don't get this: the Transformer dates back to 2017, the patent is from 2018. This should be invalid as prior art by default.

Fabien Sanglard is an ace, his 3dfx posts are legendary. Very enjoyable reading

But this is not the point. The point is not to engage in meaningless or easy stuff only. The point is to recognize that you should not dedicate more than 8h per day because for many jobs (including software engineering) there are no deadlines or most are made by people that are not involved in the actual process so they are artificial limits imposed to make you fret.

I think the author is not stating "don't bear any responsibilities", but rather "work is infinite, do not try to finish it by dedicating 10 hours per day", which is a fallacy many people fall in (myself included)

> Why should that be so? I'd expect the all-in cost of a cloud machine to be less than my own hardware

Because cloud hardware doesn't have all the burdens of physically managing a real server. Replacing SSDs. Upgrading RAM. Logging to a iDRAC to restart a crashed server. All those things don't exist in the cloud and make you loose so much operational time. That's why clouds will ALWAYS cost more than bare metal. The cons is that with cloud you keep paying for the same servers: there are no assets anymore, only costs.

Agree, I would never want to go back to the old bad days of managing a real rack at a datacenter, with exactly the same guarantees of a single region deployment inside any cloud. BUT it is true that all the multi region/AZ guarantees + logs + dashboards + network services @ AWS costs tend to skyrocket in a couple of years. And here is where k8s really shines, in my opinion: allowing you to abstract your deployment away from a cloud even on cheap hosting. All the rest outlined in the article is just reinventing the wheel.

cgroups2 was a good one. Also, the Game Boy emulator one.

I don't know how many people know it, but FOSDEM's video recording infra is a technical masterpiece:

All the rooms have a live capture device sitting on the speaker's desks. This not only streams every room live on the website, but also deposits the feed on a server . By the moment your speech is finished, you receive an automated mail with a link to cut your video. It is a limited web editor where you can change the beginning and the end of the stream, and changing audio channel too (talks are recorded with 3 mics). You can accept the video as it is or do some adjustments and, voilà: a quick ffmpeg and the video is online ready to be viewed in a couple of hours.

I don't know you, but I am not aware of other conferences where the video recording is managed with such a DevOps pipeline.

Very busy and very nice.

Starting from the assumption that self reviews make sense only in companies where you are left with full freedom;in places where you manager actually tells you what to do, they are meaningles.

That said, in the former kind on company (the one that allows you to break you neck as you wish), I find extremely educational doing self-reviews, especially if you do them incrementally as the year passes by so that, by the time the review is needed, you just need to "JIT" the document and serve it out. It provides a way to tell in advance if you are working on something that feels like bullshit on paper.

I am afraid to be difficult, but postage IS checked. As an example, try sending around drug and you'll get caught.

Government is proposing bills not have messages read by officers (something that not even inside Meta can be done due to EU's Electronic Privacy Directive) but to "scan them": have machineries check for violating content, pretty much as a parcel is put under xrays in the airport to check for bombs or drugs.

The law protects also the right of a company to protect itself against being blamed for misuses of its services, not only individuals' rights.

I see a lot of grudge in the community about surveillance of posting surfaces for unlawful content, like if the authorities put in charge of fighting crime are some kind of extenal tyrannical force imposed onto poor people, and not the direct actions of a democratically elected government.

While I fully support lobbying efforts like stopscanningme, because they rise awareness in people that ultimately vote governments so that they might do more informed voting choices, I just don't condone all of this whining about mass surveillance on privately operated companies:

remember that gmail, facebook, whatsapp, etc.. are for profit, privately held companies that are held accountable for the content that circulates on their platforms. Companies, like any other citizen, must abide the law and not become a free field for Child Exploitation or Adult Exploitation Imagery.

You want total privacy, which in your mind is the word for "unaccountability"? Use different services or setup your own.

The topic is very vast, but it can't really handled by just saying "bad government, want to wiretap!"

Uhm, how about suspension/hibernate? That was pretty lame even 2 years ago and I'm not seeing it improve

What if Microsoft just asks the same questions to all pre-screening interviews? :D

super funny! :D

> "An audit showed that the tax authorities focused on people with “a non-Western appearance,” while having Turkish or Moroccan nationality was a particular focus".

This has nothing to do with algorithms, mates. It had to do with how it wasn't tested and monitored. It appears that it was just rolled out live.

> "Fraud prediction and predictive policing based on profiling should just be banned"

And here are the usual luddists pandering on the confused using wrong arguments. Sigh.

the monorepo is handy: simplifies dependency management

Data can and should be versioned, but not by just `git add BLOAT`. Take a look at https://dvc.org/: blobs are uploaded to a S3 compatible blob storage, metadata is versioned in a config file and this one gets versioned in git

you mean git lfs? That is alive

you should have tried buck2 ;) instantaneous

Isn't buck a replacement for blaze?