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Is this really worth it, though? Throughout the years my experience with quantized models has been that they feel like a lobotomized version of the original. Doesn't matter if it's an LLM, dedicated diffusion model or some other dedicated task. Sure, they get the job done. But a lot worse. The only ones that can somewhat hold up are the ones provided by the vendor directly. Gemma4 comes to mind. However I suspect they have some secret sauce other than just "let's quantize this" since they have the original model and its data at hand.

There should be more native 4bit, 1.25bit and likewise models. Those actually work great while making them smaller in comparison. But I guess there is some reason for them being pretty niche.

How does this differ from electrobun, which they explicitly mention, but make no point about? I had a quick drive with deno desktop and don't see how it's better. If anything it's lacking in comparison in my opinion. But hey, we can build desktop apps with deno now, too. So they got that going I guess ...

France is bacon.

This is some good marketing/news for Chinese models. I see the US government is making a lot of decisions which are in favor for China lately. Probably a smart move given the current political climate.

You could actually try reading the paper first before posting comments like this.

While I get your point, this kind of gives me "Old man yelling at cloud" vibes. Yes, all the AI talk and bullshit bingo became quite annoying at this point, and I also can't wait for it to settle. But AI is here, and it's here to stay. Wether we like it or not. It's like what dotcom was for the internet back then. We'll get through this eventually - with a bubble bursting here and there - but making fun of it with overtuned phrases like "Everything will be connected to the internet in the future, even your fridge, car and toothbrush!" won't age too well I am afraid.

As a resident of Germany, I disagree.

It sold out in less than an hour. Scalpers are at it again. Units are showing up for as much as $300 in resell-value already. What I don't get is why their shop page just gives me an "out of stock" panel, instead of the purchase button. Why won't they just let me buy and pay it, and have it ship whenever? Is having customers to regularly check for new stock (and potentially missing it) better than ... just having them buy it in advance like a pre-order? I really don't get it. Like wouldn't it even make for a better forecasting indicator when it comes to resupplying?

> So supports structs, methods, interfaces, slices, multiple returns, and defer.

> To keep things simple, there are no channels, goroutines, closures, or generics.

Sure, slices and multiple return values are nice, but it's not what makes Go good. When people think about Go they usually think about channels and goroutines. YMMV

While I do kind of get what the appeal and target audience is supposed to be, I absolutely don't get why you'd choose a subset and still have it behave differently than the Go counterpart. For me that destroys the whole purpose of the project.

> [...] we protect our first-party products from abuse like [...] scraping [...]

what an odd thing to say for someone whose product is built entirely on exactly that

As a European I don't know a single country I have visited that doesn't have these kind of signs.

Guess you haven't been around much on GitHub before LLMs.

> this is honestly going to get much worse

Just like with Brexit, the majority of UK's population voted (and will keep voting) for this.

You know why LLM text is full of emojis?

drumroll

Because people have been using a lot of emojis before LLMs in text already, and LLMs have been trained on those texts.

This whole "You have emojis in your text, it's LLM!"-trope got boring really fast. Amazing to see (and to think of the implications of) so many people apparently being in emoji-free social bubbles before this, though.

Yes, they have free plans.

I clicked on the link and was greeted by AI slop instantly. I checked the comments, saw this, am writing this and will probably not look at it ever again. Guess I am just not the target audience. I wish them that their AI slop strategy works out just for the sake of good vibes, though. If everyone does it it can't be bad, right? I'm the issue here, clearly.

> Germany outfitted half a million balconies with solar panels

A more fitting title would be "Germany's citizens outfitted half a million balconies with solar panels". The current phrasing makes it sound like it's somehow a thing done by the government, which is not the case. If anything the government is one of the many forces slowing down this progress. And yes, I am aware of things like grid security and stability being a concern. I am not complaining.

Cool. The demo runs way too fast, though. The throttle checkbox doesn't really change it. Unchecking it, if anything, makes it run slower. It runs at 240 fps with throttle and at 180 fps without. With the throttle checbox active one second are already about four seconds in the emulator. I suspect this is related to the screen refresh rate, which is 240Hz in my case.

> The box was created with the wrong dimensions by the contractor, but they still decided to fill it

This sort of implies that it was cheaper to just go with he extra cash needed than to do a cube with the right dimensions?

But then again it's the Fed, so they probably just printed more money. (Which also costs money, though?)

> close-up image of a cat's face staring down at the viewer

> describe indiana jones

> looks inside

> gets indiana jones

Okay, so the network does exactly what I would expect? If anything you could argue the network is bad because it doesn't recognize your prompt and gives you something else (original? whatever that would mean) instead. But maybe that's just me.

> markdown is a lightweight representation of html

Never before on an article I've felt the vibes of the "I stopped reading there"-meme harder than here.

The missile knows where it is at all times. It knows this because it knows where it isn't.

You just need an index and length within Pi's digits, duh.

> People rediscover radar attack that has been known and fixed over six decades ago.

Amazing. We've gone full circle now. I wonder if this is a problem of generational differences in knowledge transfer ... or rather the lack of it.

> It's also an attitude that, if taken to its logical extreme, demands society have an underpaid underclass that suffers so the rest of us can have nice things.

That is how (modern) society works already on a global scale. I am not saying it's good, but it's the way things are.

What bothers me is that all their recent ad campaigns just revolve around the premise of "We are not Chrome", which really doesn't sell to me.

The root problem is people do "fall" for advertisements. They are everywhere because ... well, they work. There's rarely any critical thinking involved and often ads are not even identified as such and people consider them "information".

Godot is great. I am afraid it's still a very long way before they become for game development what Blender is for 3D modelling these days. If it will even happen at all. So any improvement and funding is more than welcome.

I regularly get fake NXP chips even from the big distributors. Not going to name them here, but it happened at least with the ones starting with A, D and M. Their excuse is always the same: Telling us they just sourced other distributors because of shortage at the manufacturer, but won't name these "distributors". Really annoying.

2010 was when they started using motors from other (cheap) brands like Renault for a lot of models on big scale. Before that you could drive your Mercedes up to like 400,000 km and more and still get money for it or at least sell it to development countries to be used as a - mostly reliable - taxi for example. Been there, done that. Nowadays getting a newer model to 200,000 km before its "end" is the exception rather than the norm. And that's just their cost-down strategy on the motors ...