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I'm making good use of the next button on original replies, but it's true that walking back through the parent button is a long walk sometimes.

I thought that this was just an initial translation to unsafe rust in which they haven't actually gained any of those benefits yet, although presumably they can go there quickly now.

Thank you. Among other important points there:

"That said, Japan isn't the only country pursuing lithium recovery. In the US, Redwood Materials – the recycling company founded by former Tesla CTO JB Straubel – says it's already recovering 95% of lithium from the equivalent of about 250,000 EVs per year."

EV batteries are too large and valuable to wind up in landfills, although I'm sure it has happened somewhere. I do like that Japan is is making it harder to just throw out smaller lithium batteries. That strikes me as a more probable source of waste.

Thank you, I missed that.

Strong agree. Very much part of the joke.

https://xkcd.com/538/

(No, no, I take this stuff seriously too, but it had to be said)

Until now we've been using Sonnet 4 to power an editing agent in ApostropheCMS. Sonnet is a good price/quality/speed compromise, but sometimes when giving it a large set of instructions it would miss half of them. At least until we told it to go back and try again.

In my early tests tonight, Sonnet 5 is a LOT better out of the box. It's one-shotting complex instructions. It also recovered independently from bad instructions that led to an uninformative 400 error by using its schema-fetching tool to figure out there were was too much input.

If I have to gripe about something: it interpreted another impossible instruction by quietly discarding the input in question. But, the way it did it is... kinda exactly what anybody else would do, if they weren't in a position to change the implementation.

This is, obviously, early days but I'm impressed.

That 3090 is going to burn 750W and it will still cap you at a 4 bit quant and ~48K context. Here's someone who worked through it:

https://github.com/noonghunna/qwen36-27b-single-3090

Flies though (50-70tps is impressive for a model this smart)

I went through roughly the same process to get it working on my M2 Macbook Pro... at awful speeds of course, since models like this one are mostly bound by memory bandwidth.

We all know what you mean. But doing what is necessary to make the overall automated system more autonomous = training, at this 30,000 foot altitude.

I have always wanted to see one of these

Yeah it is ugly. I'm not convinced binding future leadership with corporate docs is even possible. Unless the shares are controlled by other reputable organizations from the start? Maybe?

Everybody who understands the technical problems is proposing a government fix. There is another option, foundations / NGOs could do this. Of course, openai has shown how quickly that can pivot into something completely different.

If weights can't be looked at almost instantly in bulk, it just doesn't work. It's a different problem from distributing file downloads.

They specifically said it's stock hardware, but... yeah, maybe highly specific stock hardware.

I THOUGHT I WAS THE ONLY ONE!

I actually nuked my music library off my Mac to mitigate this problem, but it's still a nuisance when the app launches.

Thank you for sharing this!

Recently I got a PR that is (1) genuinely correct and useful, and (2) not from someone who uses the software in question at all. A happy outcome, but clearly the economics of open source contribution have changed.

Although I no way suspect this particular individual of anything untoward, of course it's always possible it could be part of one of the long-term goodwill-generation campaigns mentioned by the Ladybird team. Generating credibility by making seemingly difficult genuine contributions over a long period, then abusing that credibility. But in our particular project we're not in the habit of delegating approval authority, so I'm less concerned about that.

I wonder about this too. The other objections miss the point: if it's faster, and otherwise the same, and doesn't require different hardware, then why not just announce that the standard tier of MiMo-v.25-Pro is now ridiculously fast and raise the price? What does "limited high speed resources" mean if it runs on the same hardware as the rest of their pool?

I think the answer is that there's a tradeoff here where additional throughput for a single person can be achieved only by tying up more resources than a normal request would, even when you take into account the fact that the normal request takes longer to finish. I'm not an expert, but some of the optimizations they describe, particularly the parallel prediction stuff, sound like they could take up extra resources.

Isn't that nitpicking? It's a smaller representation of the data, if you have a certain appetite for decompression time. It could conceivably be worth it. I think it would make a great level 2 cache for older chats.

In 1994 I was 2 years out of school. I'd written one windows shareware application and a whole lot of unix-y things. People were excited about the internet but most people didn't have access. Unix shell accounts via dialup were common though.

One day I was encouraged to write a Windows Sockets emulation layer for ordinary dial-up shell accounts like those offered by netcom. The idea was to allow the use of the recently released Mosaic browser without an actual internet connection. I figured sure, no problem. I'll use curl or some other tool in the shell account to do the actual fetching of URLs, transfer styles over zmodem, and simulate all the tcp/ip calls in the DLL.

I couldn't even get started. The reason is that I couldn't understand how the different Windows applications could all share memory allocated at runtime in the winsock.dll.

I asked a highly experienced ex Microsoft person, and he just said what are you talking about. There's no API to allocate shared memory.

So I gave up. 6 months later someone else did it.

Around then I realized the truth: Windows 3.1 had no memory protection at all. Specifically all global variables in DLLs were shared by default. The hard part wasn't sharing memory among users of a DLL. If anything, the hard part was having good discipline to avoid sharing it.

Since I'd only used multiuser Unix in school, and I knew Windows supported multitasking (even if only the cooperative kind), I just couldn't wrap my head around the idea that I'm multitasking operating system could exist without memory protection.

Do they though? Are physics textbooks putting forward some version of string theory from the 1990s as proven fact?

I believe there was a science fiction story all the way back in the early '80s describing a scenario where physics gets reclassified as a soft science or an art form because it is no longer feasible to prove anything.

You're right that it's not literally frontier. But like recent Qwen releases, it is a lot more capable than anybody thought models of this size could be a year ago, like capable enough to set a ceiling on what you can charge for AI for certain applications. Others still clearly justify a stronger model, but this trend may continue, etc.

Thanks!

Me: I want this

Also me: just a month ago I bought a Bluetooth keyboard and mouse for my phone because they are completely sufficient for the work emergency use case along with the termux app

The thing about a diagonal measurement is it doesn't tell you if it's going to fit on a shitty airline tray table or not. Some laptops with a larger diagonal measurement are not too deep. Others are way too deep.

How about the Panasonic Let's Note? Still made, although not for the American market. A little thicker so that it can have an adequate battery and be small at the same time. I love it, but I didn't know it existed until my recent trip to Japan, and I didn't come across quite the right used machine before coming home.

Oh man. I have a ThinkPad L14 as my personal, beater, okay to take on the plane to Japan or whatever machine. And I hate it because it's too big. But I'm also hooked on it because it has pretty decent performance, excellent battery life with the third party battery I put in it, acceptable keyboard, acceptable trackpad.

I read this review with mounting excitement until I got to the part about the things he doesn't like. And yeah, those things would drive me up the wall too.

Although it might be fine if that touchy keyboard works well for touch typists. For me, that's everything.

I'm pretty sure eval time is token generation time where it's actually outputting new tokens. If you're getting a thousand per second on that, I'd love to know on what.

I'm not having the same problems, but I completely take your point about this being tricky with ADHD, as all things built to maximize engagement can be.

Slop is not data is not information is not knowledge is not wisdom.