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sercand··on Janas: Run LLMs larger than RAM by streaming experts from SSD
llama.cpp is a generalized inference engine; therefore, model-specific optimizations should remain outside its core architecture. When developing a bespoke inference application, it is standard practice to fuse operations and heavily optimize the compute kernels for the specific target model.
sercand··on Janas: Run LLMs larger than RAM by streaming experts from SSD
I have one of my own. My reason for this is that you can get up to 2x performance compared to llama.cpp on the same model weights. It is optimized for single model to serve it well.
sercand··on I'm Peter Roberts, immigration attorney who does work for YC and startups. AMA
I have green card and last time I left is 2 years ago, How can I return back to the US?
sercand··on iPhone Air
Where did you see the matmul acceleration support? I couldn't find this detail online.
sercand··on Spotify will reduce total headcount by approximately 17%
I dropped Spotify when they started to push more podcasts on my home feed as well.
sercand··on Unity’s new “per-install” pricing enrages the game development community
You can't build to mobile on 4.x version, only desktop supported.
sercand··on Wendelstein 7-X: Gigajoule energy turnover generated for eight minutes
Solar has the advantage of scaling down. 1000 people can give 1M US dollar which can produce approximately 1GW of power on a thousand of power plant in a year. You can scale down as low as 400W of energy production and distribute the financial cost to many people.
sercand··on Vikings went to Mediterranean for ‘summer jobs’ as mercenaries, left graffiti
As a person from Mediterranean, It finally makes sense the 5% of Nordic genes in my 23andMe result.
sercand··on Web Push for Web Apps on iOS and iPadOS
I am wondering what is the use case for a website that sends notification to the user who didn't install the PWA to home screen.
sercand··on Internal document explains why Google has become slow and bureaucratic
Gmail initially offered very big email storage space comparing the others, and it was going up continuously until its storage area merged with Google Drive.
sercand··on A CTO should be technical
It depends on the company size. On a small startup with 10 people and a company with 1000 people have different CTO definitions and roles.
sercand··on Stable Diffusion PR optimizes VRAM, generate 576x1280 images with 6 GB VRAM
This is the worst type of PR. Just submit a different PR for the code format changes.
sercand··on How fast is 12th Gen Intel Core?
I mean Unity in general for desktop and mobile. Mentioned exporting to android and iOS as an extra benefit.
sercand··on How fast is 12th Gen Intel Core?
If you are using a game engine like Unity you should not worry at all. If you need to access Windows specific APIs, of course it is a different story. A Macbook is a perfect machine for developers: you can build for android and iOS, has a great screen, perfect touchpad, finally fixed keyboard and ports.
sercand··on How fast is 12th Gen Intel Core?
Lots of people just don't game at all. Also, a lot of people like me prefer different gaming and work setup (and different rooms) in order to achieve better work-life balance. I build games on my M1 machine, just don't play on it.
sercand··on Learning to Love Myself
But it is different for the author. He learned to love himself after his girlfriend showed her love to who actually he is. So lots of people struggle to love themselves because they never experienced what does it mean being loved.
sercand··on “After Going Solar, I Felt the Bliss of Sudden Abundance”
Most panels provide 25 years warranty of 85% of output. Therefore, you can use your panels up to 40 years in some cases.
sercand··on Show HN: Brevity 500 – Short games to help you become a powerful writer
Congrats on shipping!

My two cents on this add a difficulty level. 1370 characters to 500 characters is too difficult to many. Reducing 300 characters to 150 characters would be a better starting point for me.

sercand··on Gitlab New Logo: DevOps Is at the Center of Gitlab
DevOps is whole set of tools. Gitlab includes features like monitoring, code scanning, Kubernetes integration, docker registry, cloud security and protections. And those are $1188 per year per person. By CI/CD I mean good old Jenkins that runs on a computer in the office that builds iOS Apps and uploads them to Apple AppStore (of course current generation of CI/CD is much better). Gitlab CI/CD and runners were there much before this "Gitlab is the one DevOps platform" saga.

Everyone in our company including HR, marketing, design people were also using Gitlab for task tracking. Therefore we need those fancy issue tracking features for better management. This features are in the tier that $1188/year per person. For the features we don't use is not something that we could afford.

sercand··on Gitlab New Logo: DevOps Is at the Center of Gitlab
This is why we left Gitlab.

DevOps become center part of Gitlab which we don’t use and need any of those feature. We all need a code storage, code review, issue tracking and the CI/CD. We would pay advance features of those (epics, multiple assignee, etc) but we have to pay super expensive top tier which includes unnecessary DevOps stuff. We left and happy so far.

We are using Kubernetes and custom DevOps tools but don’t want to handle things the way that Gitlab does.

sercand··on New WebKit features in Safari 15.4
We are in similar situation but it is a WASM bug for us when building with Unity. Some part of the our app no longer works on iOS.
sercand··on Apple M1 Ultra
> Highest-end discrete GPU performance data tested from Core i9-12900K with DDR5 memory and GeForce RTX 3090.

From the linked article. Apple is comparing against RTX 3090.

sercand··on Apple M1 Ultra
Neural Engines may be used in CoreML models. I don't know it can be used with Apple's BNNS library [1]. You can use with TensorFlow Lite with coreML delegate as well [2]. And some tried to reverse engineer it and used it for model training [3].

[1] https://developer.apple.com/documentation/accelerate/bnns

[2] https://www.tensorflow.org/lite/performance/coreml_delegate

[3] https://github.com/geohot/tinygrad#ane-support-broken

sercand··on Ask HN: Gmail account security
Google added one of my employee's LinkedIn account address as our LinkedIn URL to our company Google business profile. We have contacted google support about this to change URL to our own but we got response like following:

    I understand that you are referring to an incorrect LinkedIn profile which is visible under your business profile in Google. Please be informed that information from social profiles are collected by automated algorithms.

    There's no way to manually remove these social profiles from our end. This is something which is driven by Google’s algorithm, based on the visibility, ranking, web presence, etc. of the particular business page. We at Google do not have any manual control over this.

Google and its algorithms are going bad and they have no control over it. It is getting ridiculous.
sercand··on Cryptocurrency is something people tell lies about in hopes of getting richer
I didn't understand NFT storm as well then I made a 10K collection of NFT images with my friend (I wrote the smart contract) in three weeks and earned $3M from that. I made a lot of money and now I'm part of the creator community but I still sometimes ask "Why?"
sercand··on Bevy 0.5: data oriented game engine built in Rust
Is it currently possible to use Bevy with given MTKView on iOS?

We have already an app with thousands lines of code and we need to render a game like experience on a just single page. We can achieve this with SpriteKit or SceneKit but we need something on android as well. So we are investigating a cross-platform tool.

The given iOS example on Github repository creates the window itself but it not possible for us.

edit: It looks like bevy uses winit for windowing and it doesn't support this. So winit is the blocker here.

sercand··on Android emulator abused to introduce malware onto PCs
I recently tested Android Emulator [1] on Apple M1 computer and it is finally a performant emulator from Google. I can finally use android emulator on my computer for development.

[1] https://github.com/google/android-emulator-m1-preview

sercand··on Turkey imposes advertising bans on Twitter, Periscope and Pinterest
Most of the popular VPNs are already blocked in Turkey. Before that, most people was using VPNs to access the internet. Nowadays we can only use privately deployed VPN.
sercand··on GNOME has no thumbnails in the file picker and my toilets are blocked
Copy, Cut, and Paste works just fine. I use the following default shortcuts:

Cmd+C: Put file to Clipboard

Cmd+V: Copy file in Clipboard

Cmd+Option+V: Move file in Clipboard (aka Cut)

sercand··on GNOME has no thumbnails in the file picker and my toilets are blocked
Why do you don't like Finder? I couldn't think any issue with it.
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