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Very impressive numbers.. wonder how this would scale on 4 relatively modern desktop PCs, like say something akin to a i5 8th Gen Lenovo ThinkCentre, these can be had for very cheap. But like @geerlingguy indicates - we need model compatibility to go up up up! As an example it would amazing to see something like fastsdcpu run distributed to democratize accessibility-to/practicality-of image gen models for people with limited budgets but large PC fleets ;)

Bet you don't miss Python's massively lackluster performance when compared to PHP though! Nb. I use both for diff things (good luck instrumenting ai stuff with PHP!) but the fact that I have to reach for C extensions for python to even get a basic loop to run at reasonable speed remains peculiar/scary for me.

Well, in a sense it's the Milgram experiment ratio (roughly 2/3rds will go along with whatever those in authority say). I have personally gone from being discouraged about that factoid to simply being intrigued.. A very early example of the awareness of this situation would be the concept of the wide vs narrow gate from Jesus' Sermon on the Mount.

I'm thinking it's time for a 2nd phone (in my case old one from cupboard) to become the regular daily GrapheneOS enabled driver and then keep a modern Google(tm) updated one at home for all the "official crap" whenever needed. That way I can also separate banking / paypal / etc. from my carry phone with all it's various apps that I trust to varying degrees.

Yes, pre-empt the opposition Rumsfeld style and you ain't gotta worry about anyone taking that position any time soon #chat-with-ai

This so many times over, using/introducing AI in an already managerially dysfunctional organisation is like giving automatic weapons to a band of vikings - it will with utmost certitude result in a quickening of their demise.

A demise that in the case of a modern dysfunctional organisation would otherwise often be arriving a few years later as a results of complete and utter bureaucratic failure.

My experience is that all attempts to elevate technology to a "pivotal force" for the worse is always missing the underlying social and moral failure of the majority (or a small, but important, managerial minority) to act for the common good rather than egotistic self-interest.

I mean, yes. And also; it's the age old problem that arises every time a new technology arrives in full: it requires a steadier-than-priorly hand in order to not have ballistic effects on society. This goes for books over what-my-betters-told-me, swords over flint-blades, automotive cars over horse-carts and indeed; ALL technology. New tech of any real substance invariably carry the need for cultural shift towards a more advanced stance that allows for the gainful use of said technology at scale.

Well, as a fellow parent I agree; but in my experience it only works when the trainer presents a perpetually lived example of said empathy (which at times can be hard!)

Once heard a good sermon from a reverend who clearly outlined that any attempt to embed "spirit" into a service, whether through willful emoting, or songs being overly performary, would amount to self-deception since aforementioned spirit need to arise spontaneously to be of any real value.

Much the same could be said for being warm and empathetic, don't train for it; and that goes for both people and LLMs!

Good work dude! It's way more functional to integrate the overall ecosystem rather than re-forking vscode ad infinitum!

The frontpage needs technical details, you are not selling these retro machines to regular consumers but to nerds and the children of nerds*.

*including myself.

edit: pish-posh, I'm just not looking properly, found the specs and happy to see it's fpga based and has beefy properties for what it's doing!

edit-edit: is this related to RetroRecipes/Perifractic activities around the Commodore trademark?

Sounds good, but also sounds odd that a dicey internet situation caused you to move to the cloud as opposed to local (I guess could be dicey uplink for remote team or similar)

This article* makes the case for mozjpeg cleanly beating webp when we are above 500x500px image sizes. So. There's a lot more performance/compression to be gained within the jpeg container format than people generally argue for.

* https://siipo.la/blog/is-webp-really-better-than-jpeg

edit: https://opensource.googleblog.com/2024/04/introducing-jpegli... is likely the real GOAT when it comes to modern jpeg encoders in that it effectively breaks the 8bit color space "ceiling" within the format!

I love these projects, a simple way to collectively cleanly payroll a-person/persons to work on these projects would be superb. Structuring of the Zig org is a light-in-the-dark for this sort of thing!

Probably spoilt here but being used to the excellent vscode plugin (well vscodium in my case) for Golang but... any plans to integrate with vscode ecosystem? Makes setup so straightforward!

So true.. plus all the "plush" plastic pellet "landings" rather than simply dirt cause oh no: someone may get into contact with some microbes.. gotta keep those allergy numbers rolling. /s

Super AI tech to the rescue!

Or Signal app.. it works well for this sort of thing!

Am I the only one here who is looking for the jpg?

XFCE is the Win 2000 UI of the Linux ecosystem, perfectly functional and fine; tweaks are possible if needed.

Having started businesses with the explicit lack of biz-co-founders I beck to differ. That is of course unless your da Vinci-like super modal capabilities allows you to feel unlimited joy when doing business plans, taxes & marketing alongside your (hopefully) core competency of product development.

No code has been released though?

Someone is still putting tremendous effort into this project so I reckon it would be worthwhile to submit this, obviously well thought through, criticism as a PR for the repo!

Indeed. I've thought from the beginning that LLMs should focus specifically on ONE language for this exact reason (i.e. mediocre/bad duplication of data in multiple languages). All other languages than English essentially "syphon" off capacity/layers/weights that could otherwise have held more genuine data/knowledge. Other languages should not come into the picture afaics - dedicated translation LLMs/existing-solutions can handle this aspect just fine and there's just no salient reason to fold partial-multi-language-capacity in through fuzzy/unorganised training.

I know for a fact that ppl are serious on hn when they post in their sleep without any fanfare whatsoever

Cheers for clear summary, I take it you mean sync.WaitGroup and not WorkGroup? As a beginner I started up with WaitGroup usage years ago since it was more intuitive to me.. worked fine afaict.

If channels are the wrong way to do things in Golang, what is the right way?

But surely.. we also got a decent amount of research showing how Saccharin causes increased biofilm formation: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC8156656/

Guess it's all about the usage model..!!

Does C3's compiler utilise the highly optimized C compilers like clang and gcc similar to Vlang and Nim?

Let's get a direct link to this beauty in place:

https://github.com/f055/fedit-image-editor