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leanleft@lemmy.mlto
Technology@lemmy.world•NVIDIA reportedly buys HuggingFace for 13 billionEnglish
13·14 days agothis site seems to be better than others ive seen : https://llama.garden/
complaints - the torrents are packs of all different quants … or some are just safetensor files.
leanleft@lemmy.mlto
Technology@lemmy.world•Motorola's 2027 flagships will officially support GrapheneOSEnglish
1·15 days agook. my mistake.
either way…
i would think you could just use a web browser. but sometimes app is more preferable
leanleft@lemmy.mlto
Technology@lemmy.world•Motorola's 2027 flagships will officially support GrapheneOSEnglish
3·15 days agoi dont think you need google play services for banking.
furthermore, i disabled play services. i dont need it for 99% of apps.
sometimes theres one cool heavily proprietary app that forces you to use it. sucks. and i just gotta uninstall it.
leanleft@lemmy.mlto
Technology@lemmy.world•Reddit Almost Disappears from ChatGPT Answers as Search Citations Drop 86%English
2·19 days agoi cant get any LLMs to consult reddit at this point.
leanleft@lemmy.mlto
Technology@lemmy.world•‘Show How 3M Is 0% at Fault:’ Expert Witness Used ChatGPT to Write Report Defending Company in Deadly Explosion Lawsuit / ChatGPT prompts show how an expert witness report was created in a $61 millio…English
6·23 days agoi suspect, shit like this is going to prompt some idiotic supreme court verdict is going to be set in stone for the next 10 years. example: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/City_of_Grants_Pass_v._Johnson
if its not a guarenteed win, then dont push it to supreme court level. the consequences are severe for everyone.
leanleft@lemmy.mlto
Technology@lemmy.world•The Pollution Being Churned Out by AI Data Centers Is So Severe That It's Almost IncomprehensibleEnglish
1·24 days agoif you start excluding the 1000+ B param models …
using smaller models, would initially ease hardware demand by 60% .
OFC you cant… and probably shouldnt, ignore and disrespect SOTA flagship models
leanleft@lemmy.mlto
Technology@lemmy.world•The Pollution Being Churned Out by AI Data Centers Is So Severe That It's Almost IncomprehensibleEnglish
101·24 days agoi wish we could focus on making small LLMs better.
some companies are doing this. some definitely aren’t
leanleft@lemmy.mlto
Technology@lemmy.world•YouTube now requires creators to have twice as many watch hours to start earning moneyEnglish
21·28 days agomaybe youtube wants us to switch to torrents.
piracy? yes.
but they(youtube) honestly cant even afford to serve the content and remain profitable.
so…
leanleft@lemmy.mlto
Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•What sucks about having no internet and what is great about it?English
11·1 month ago“the internet” is a super broad term.
i had cancelled my home ISP to save cash. really a smart move IMO.
i think everyone(or technically, most people)… need some basic internet for some specific uses.
a mobile data plan should be the only thing you really need.
you could (ideally) talk to your neighbors and negotiate to share their wifi.
leanleft@lemmy.mlto
Technology@lemmy.world•2027 RAM Capacity Has Reportedly Been Sold outEnglish
4·1 month agolow-level compilers can output very ugly-looking assembly. he probably did this and then used LLM to super-optimize it. may be perfomant, but id guess that theres a risk that its unsafe.
leanleft@lemmy.mlto
Technology@lemmy.world•Don't Contribute Anything Relevant in Web Forums Like RedditEnglish
1·1 month agopersonally, i would be cautious with discord too
leanleft@lemmy.mlto
Technology@lemmy.world•How China gets better bang for its buck than America in AI. Its investment lags far behind America’s. Its models do notEnglish
64·1 month agoi distilled this article
Summary of the article “How China gets better bang for its buck than America in AI” (Aug 3 2026)
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U.S. AI spending is massive – Bloomberg Intelligence estimates U.S. data‑centre capital outlays could exceed $740 billion in 2026, with Nvidia alone negotiating a $250 billion financing deal for a $500 billion data‑centre run by OpenAI. Alphabet announced a $205 billion AI budget.
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China spends far less – Chinese tech firms are projected to invest less than one‑tenth of the U.S. amount in data centres. Yet their models perform only slightly behind U.S. equivalents. For example:
- K3 (Moonshot AI) scores ≈ 95 % of Anthropic’s Fable 5 on common benchmarks while being 70 % cheaper to run.
- Alibaba’s newly released model ranks among the world’s best on certain metrics.
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Why Chinese spending is efficient
- Lower input costs – Land, construction, equipment and labour are cheaper in China.
- Model distillation – Chinese labs often train models using outputs from expensive U.S. models, reducing the compute needed.
- Hidden spending – Some expenditures on high‑end chips are masked as “cost‑saving” techniques that make inferior hardware achieve higher performance (e.g., DeepSeek’s efficiency tricks).
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Export restrictions limit Chinese capital use – U.S. bans on advanced AI chips (Nvidia designs, TSMC manufacturing) prevent China from buying the most powerful hardware.
- Chinese firms are pushed toward domestic alternatives (Huawei, SMIC).
- Sanctions also block access to cutting‑edge chip‑making equipment, forcing costly work‑arounds and capping production capacity.
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Domestic demand constraints – Chinese enterprises spend < 10 % of what U.S. firms spend on IT, despite China’s GDP being two‑thirds of the U.S. (or a third larger in PPP terms). This throttles revenue prospects for AI providers, curbing their willingness to invest heavily.
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Strategic focus differs – The Chinese Communist Party emphasizes diffusing AI across the economy, not pursuing a race toward artificial general intelligence (AGI). Fewer than ten Chinese firms target AGI, compared with dozens of U.S. players.
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Investor attitudes – Chinese investors have historically punished over‑spending on AI, whereas U.S. investors once rewarded aggressive budgeting. This cultural difference keeps Chinese AI budgets modest.
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Potential bottlenecks for China – Despite restraint, China may face compute shortages:
- ByteDance experiences ten‑hour processing times for some videos.
- Alibaba Cloud, Zhipu AI, and Moonshot’s K3 have long waiting lists or quickly sell out capacity.
- Over‑restriction could stifle growth if AI services cannot meet user demand.
Overall takeaway: China achieves comparable AI performance to the U.S. while spending a fraction of the capital by leveraging cheaper resources, model‑distillation techniques, and a strategic focus on wide‑scale diffusion rather than raw computational power. However, export bans, limited domestic chip capacity, modest corporate demand, and cautious investors together create both an efficiency advantage and a risk of under‑provisioned infrastructure.
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leanleft@lemmy.mlto
Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•How do you get better at communicating your thoughts in discussions?English
21·1 month ago“Or is it really just keeping your mouth shut if you aren’t knowledgeable about something.”
i often abreviate by saying “i know some stuff about X topic…” just leave it at that.
if they really want to listen then they will request my expertise. im not going to beg to abused while im trying to do someone a favor.
but first, i just dont conversate deeply with shitty people.
if someone has a good heart, then maybe they might not be the best conversation partner. thats ok. as long as they deliver on all the essential value, that i need from them.
complaining to the city clerk about various issues with the city. i think thats challenging and requires alot of carefully scripted+rehearsed fomation&responses.
i dont have a good answer. but maybe act kinda like a carefully controlled, unemotional, plan-adhering robot. (add back in some scripted emotion so that you dont sound like a robot.)
leanleft@lemmy.mlto
Selfhosted@lemmy.world•[CBH] Released Lanemu P2P VPN 0.14.1 - Open-source alternative to Hamachi/Zerotier/Radmin/etc.English
3·1 month agotheres also nebula and netbird
leanleft@lemmy.mlto
Reddit@lemmy.world•Don't Contribute Anything Relevant in Web Forums Like RedditEnglish
2·1 month agoits highly demoralizing that AI is(and has to be) trained on reddit discussion.
but i know that reddit sucks.
the people are toxic.
the mods are toxic.
in some cases, i can verify from human experience that all 72 commenters are totally ape-shit wrong. sometimes, like 0-2% of the answers are remotely near correct(or less harmful).
good luck AI curators. i hope yall screen VERY carefully
leanleft@lemmy.mlto
Today I Learned@lemmy.world•TIL you can get much better online prices using a public library computerEnglish
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leanleft@lemmy.mlto
Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•What is a life lesson you never seem to learn?English
4·1 month agoguarana tea
oh shizz
really? i was just kidding. aah ITS EVERYWHERE
leanleft@lemmy.mlto
Technology@lemmy.world•Don't Contribute Anything Relevant in Web Forums Like RedditEnglish
1·1 month agoAnalogy
Imagine a restaurant where diners place orders through a discreet slot on the kitchen door.
- The web user is the diner who slips a note into the slot asking for a specific dish.
- The web‑service backend is the chef who receives the note, prepares the meal, and slides it back out the slot for the diner to collect.
Now, the diner adds a bizarre request: “Please serve the food, but I never want you to know you ever cooked it.” In practice, the chef can’t fulfill this—once he’s touched the ingredients and used the stove, his hands are inevitably stained, and the kitchen’s heat tells the story. Likewise, when a web user asks a server to fetch data, the server must process the request, so it inevitably knows it handled that request, even if it can’t tie it back to the individual’s identity.
Ad‑blockers, cookies, IP addresses, user‑agents, and browser signatures are like the various “fingerprints” a diner might leave on the restaurant’s doorstep:
- Cookies are tiny crumbs the diner drops on the floor while walking to the slot. The chef (or later staff) can later sweep them up and infer that the same person visited before.
- IP address is the diner’s shoeprints on the hallway carpet leading to the kitchen—an easy way to trace where the diner entered from.
- User‑agent / browser signature is the unique style of the diner’s napkin (its color, fold, and logo). Even if the napkin is discarded, the pattern tells the chef which brand of napkin was used.
- Ad‑blockers are like the diner wearing a cloak that blocks the kitchen staff from seeing the crumbs he drops, trying to keep the chef from noticing the usual “tipping” (ads) that would normally be left behind.
Just as no chef can truly be blind to the fact that he cooked a dish, a web service inevitably knows it processed a request, and the “fingerprints” left behind (cookies, IP, user‑agent, etc.) let it—or any intermediary—recognize or track the diner unless the diner takes strong steps (like using a cloak or wiping the floor) to hide those traces.

i just read this: https://reddit.com/comments/1w01y1f
With this move Nvidia is not only acquiring the HuggingFace platform, but they might also effectively acquire the copyright to the
llama.cppproject, together with the entire team behind it.In February 2026 the llama.cpp team was employed by HF in order to continue working on llama.cpp and the ggml library.
This includes:
Now with the acquisition, llama.cpp’s future looks a lot less certain given Nvidia’s poor track record with open-source.
This is still rather speculative at this stage, but it’s definitely possible for the llama.cpp project to change in the future: either by switching to a different license, or by having staff redirected to other projects within the larger company.
Even when a project is open-source the copyright owner has complete control over it, and they can change licensing as they wish.
This has happened before with projects like Redis, Minio, and others.
Source:
https://huggingface.co/blog/ggml-joins-hf
Edit:
The original announcement from Feb 2026 from Gerganov gives a few more details:
https://github.com/ggml-org/llama.cpp/discussions/19759