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electronsoup··on Ask HN: Has anyone replaced Claude/GPT with a local model for daily coding?
Yeah MoE is a little worse for the same size, but you can often run bigger MoEs at respectable speeds even on cpu ram offload. The dense models really need to be 100% vram
electronsoup··on Ask HN: Has anyone replaced Claude/GPT with a local model for daily coding?
> It gets into loops quite often, and surprisingly often gets the edit tool call wrong

I find that running better quantization, like Q8 tend to prevent this even though its a bit slower to run, it saves overall time with less churn

Using 3.6-27b is even slower again than 3.6-35b, but I find the accuracy really pays off

electronsoup··on Malware developers added nuclear and biological weapons text to to their spyware
> in secret is impossible without the whole world knowing.

I'm curious about why this is

Outside of an actual test detonation, presumably this could all happen in a secure place?

electronsoup··on European sunscreens are safer than American (2024)
They didn't say they had never traveled south though
electronsoup··on Show HN: FablePool – pool money behind a prompt, and Fable builds it in public
If you put that behind an API, you could sell the service much like the AI providers
electronsoup··on KVarN: Native vLLM backend for KV-cache quantization by Huawei
Why this is not a PR for llama.cpp
electronsoup··on Green card seekers must leave U.S. to apply, Trump administration says
> likely not well thought out

Or it has been, and cruelty is the point

electronsoup··on Spotify will start reserving concert tickets for fans
Surely this will get arbitraged like anything else, where fans who get picks will onsell tickets
electronsoup··on Spotify will start reserving concert tickets for fans
So now we need to run farms of spotify accounts playing songs to get our concert tickets?
electronsoup··on Spotify will start reserving concert tickets for fans
You may need to move on to other services like Apple Music
electronsoup··on Rewrite Bun in Rust has been merged
So how many of their employees are now familiar with the codebase? zero?
electronsoup··on Spain to expand internet blocks to tennis, golf, movies broadcasting times
At what point does spanish internet become too unreliable? There was a thread the other day about someone's CI jobs failing due too this.
electronsoup··on Rust Threads on the GPU
> the GPU apps we are building with them are

I can't help but get the feeling you have use-case end-goal in mind that's opaque to many of us who are gpu-ignorant.

It could be helpful if there were an example of the type of application that would be nicer to express through your abstractions.

(I think what you've shown so far is super cool btw)

electronsoup··on Iran strikes leave Amazon availability zones "hard down" in Bahrain and Dubai
> worth their salt

That's a big assumption. Often there's no time to do things right, or no money, or lack of oversight, and so on.

Not every company is staffed by empowered and highly motivated staff

electronsoup··on New patches allow building Linux IPv6-only
and most OS do enable it by default
electronsoup··on AMD's Ryzen 9 9950X3D2 Dual Edition crams 208MB of cache into a single chip
Whenever I see a chip like this, I think "why wont my company let me use a decent computer"
electronsoup··on Intel Announces Arc Pro B70 and Arc Pro B65 GPUs
Which mainboards are cheap and have 4 pcie16x (electrical) slots, that don't need weird risers to fit 4 GPUs
electronsoup··on The Wyden Siren Goes Off Again: We'll Be "Stunned" by NSA Under Section 702
If it was so important, wouldn't he just filibuster it till he got what he wanted?
electronsoup··on Florida judge rules red light camera tickets are unconstitutional
> but then again you need to plausibly explain why was someone operating your car while you were not aware of it.

There is no such requirement.

electronsoup··on Tech employment now significantly worse than the 2008 or 2020 recessions
> and they're just as capable as using AI as anyone

Wouldn't the assumption be the opposite, in that AI is magnifying the decision making of the engineer and so you get more payback by having the senior drive the AI?

electronsoup··on Microsoft guide to pirating Harry Potter for LLM training (2024) [removed]
I guess the end of copyright is near if this is fine to put on a corporate website
electronsoup··on The Future for Tyr, a Rust GPU Driver for Arm Mali Hardware
That's some weird gatekeeping. The hardware they do support is supported well.
electronsoup··on Apple XNU: Clutch Scheduler
Perhaps they mean ISAs
electronsoup··on Fedora Asahi Remix is now working on Apple M3
oh awesome! I had assumed they were just targeting M1/M2 for the time being
electronsoup··on France Aiming to Replace Zoom, Google Meet, Microsoft Teams, etc.
> The only way to accomplish this at scale is to build something that is legit better and let the market decide. Anything else is just principled wishful thinking.

No they need to tariff/ban things that are non-EU

electronsoup··on AWS European Sovereign Cloud
How effective would this setup be if the parent company in the US is ordered to order the EU subsidiary to do something not in the interests of the EU?
electronsoup··on Briar keeps Iran connected via Bluetooth and Wi-Fi when the internet goes dark
I'm curious about the iOS situation