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Comment · 6 days ago
Business Insider says it came from a Microsoft spokesperson. In the absence of an explicit number in a press release, I'd be inclined to believe it.
Comment · 6 days ago
In April, 7% was the announced figure. This is several times higher.
Comment · 13 days ago
It's in the licence of the weights, which you can see on Huggingface.
Comment · 1 month ago
Moreover, I'd be nervous about the fact that filenames on Windows tend to be case insensitive.
Comment · 1 month ago
Nobody owns the .co part of .co.uk. If you buy foo.co.uk, that is registered with Nominet, who are the registry for .uk.
Comment · 1 month ago
There will other people with the Fraser surname in the exact same position.
Comment · 3 months ago
This is really cool! There have been many DEC Alpha emulators over the years, but none have been capable of running Windows NT.
Comment · 4 months ago
I need to know whether the speedup holds for truly gigantic projects such as Doom in Typescript types.
Comment · 5 months ago
> I think the non-profit has around 25% ownership of something that is around a trillion dollars of on-paper money.

But the purpose of a non profit is not to maximise profit in a for profit investment.

How well is non profit doing at furthering its goals? It formerly had the purpose of “safely” ensuring artificial intelligence benefits all of humanity. It looks like it gave up on that so its staff could be incredibly rich.

Comment · 7 months ago
Oh! This is cool. When they announced it 5 months ago it looked interesting, but it wasn't open source. Discussion at the time: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45537035

With this being open sourced, and being the integration and creation of several fast components, this becomes an obvious recommendation for JS/TS. Similar to Cargo for Rust and uv for Python, yes?

Comment · 10 months ago
The page summarises the license as “Basically… the MIT do-whatever-you-want license”. The MIT license is of course one of the most popular permissive open source licenses.

This is an incredibly misleading comparison. The subsequent clause is a complete contradiction, not a subtle clarification.

Comment · 1 year ago
My point is you can make things cheaper for locals. But local means local: it doesn't mean national.
Comment · 1 year ago
Comment · 1 year ago
Often in these conversations we forget that editing is different from editorializing. Editing can make meaning clearer! (In this example, reactions are mixed as to whether it was successful).

Editorializing, on the other hand, is about adding clickbait or bias.

Comment · 1 year ago
It's a farce, though. We're told these LLMs can already perform our jobs, so why should they need something curated? A human developer often gets given a dump of information (or nothing at all), and has to figure out what works and what is important.

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