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Huh, kind of. That's not the actual quote. Note I haven't followed the chain further back than this:

https://browsergate.eu/the-evidence-pack/

    LinkedIn’s systems “may have taken action against LinkedIn users that happen to have [XXXXXX] installed.”

Edit: nice! I just notice indent-formatted text is now wrapping on mobile browsers. (Or at least ffm.) I wonder how long that's been fixed...

Saying 'I may have taken a shower' instead of 'I took a shower' makes my wife use her disapproving look.

True - also when you put something in quotes I think it should be a quote.

> I predict that costs will grow to 80% of what it would cost a human, across the board for everything AI can do.

80% of a human's price varies greatly by region. 80% of the lowest-priced effort-of- humans in this space right now will probably not be sustainable for the sellers.


I'm struggling a bit with how the 'funniest' ranked reviews are genuine descriptions of people's miserable (and sometimes unsafe) experiences. Where's the funny?

As an experitisement, I guess it gets the name out there but not in any way I'd want for my business.


personally I find those experiences really funny especially in my life. looking back I think most people find humor in it, i could be wrong? I don't think so though

Sure but it's not your life, right? This is other people's misfortunes, and these reviews weren't written to convey their entertainment at an old story.

Isn't this more about disincentivizing the posting of it in the first place by increasing the chances of getting banned? Once you have to remove it, it's too late.

> traumatizing contract workers for $2-3 an hour)

Is there an hourly rate at which this should be acceptable?


There's no dollar amount but proper support during and after employment is a minimum, and a large paycheque will both offset some of the human cost and make it easier for people to be pushed to quit the job; Such that they aren't doing the job for too long.

The current support systems for police in this subject are already insufficient. Facebook's treatment of their moderation staff is abhorrent. The point of including the pay figure is to further illustrate just how damning this subcontracting practice is.


There is labor that is necessary for our societies to function, but a direct threat to the people doing the work. Someone has to do it, and it should be seen as a great service to society and rewarded accordingly. In a just world, we would be paying significantly extra for threats to health that come from work, in the one we are currently in we use threat of worse harm instead.

We have coal miners destroying their bodies and lungs, cobalt mining slavery, cocoa nut child labour and de facto slavery, sex workers, CPS investigators, first responders, and doctors with high rates of suicide…

Not only is there an acceptable market rate for trauma, it’s sometimes competitive and requires licensing.


There is one difference between first responders/doctors and the other classes (and the moderators under discussion here)

First responders/doctors/CPS investigators see the worst but they also have days where they make a difference. Save a life or multiple lives. I'm sure it's a huge part of what makes the job bearable, and to some meaningful.

I'm not discounting your point about high rates of suicide either. If anything, when you take away any good days, you're left, as a content moderator, with just seeing the worst of the world day in, day out, with nothing to make it meaningful. I'd suggest that's something we as a society should not tolerate as being an acceptable trade for the ability to share cat photos.


>First responders/doctors/CPS investigators see the worst but they also have days where they make a difference. Save a life or multiple lives. I'm sure it's a huge part of what makes the job bearable, and to some meaningful.

You think miners don't make a difference or save lives?


> You think miners don't make a difference or save lives?

Do you think miners mining is saving lives in the same way that doctors saving lives is saving lives?

To continue the parents point, do you think miners derive a deep or powerful satisfaction from some of their mining work which might offer some of the heavy cost it has on them physically and emotionally?


Emergency Department^ doctors, what do they make? give people who have to review the worst humanity has to offer and pay them that. and while we're at it, ambulance personnel should get a huge pay bump. Take it from nurses' pay.

^ i originally said "triage doctors" but i meant the resident ER doc.


Why take from other workers when it can be siphoned from upper management and shareholders?

you're right, it's a personal failing that i must snip at nurses whenever the word appears in my head. Apologies.

ER triage is usually done by a nurse, at least in England.

Rookie police officers in my country are paid 2500 euro per month and they have to deal with the underbelly of society.

They have access to better counselling and are ostensibly trained for the job. But there are still suicides.


128GB (112 GB avail) Strix AI 395+ Radeon 8060x (gfx1151)

llama-* version 8889 w/ rocm support ; nightly rocm

llama.cpp/build/bin/llama-batched-bench --version unsloth/Qwen3.6-27B-GGUF:UD-Q8_K_XL -npp 1000,2000,4000,8000,16000,32000 -ntg 128 -npl 1 -c 34000

    |    PP |     TG |    B |   N_KV |   T_PP s | S_PP t/s |   T_TG s | S_TG t/s |      T s |    S t/s |
    |-------|--------|------|--------|----------|----------|----------|----------|----------|----------|
    |  1000 |    128 |    1 |   1128 |    2.776 |   360.22 |   20.192 |     6.34 |   22.968 |    49.11 |
    |  2000 |    128 |    1 |   2128 |    5.778 |   346.12 |   20.211 |     6.33 |   25.990 |    81.88 |
    |  4000 |    128 |    1 |   4128 |   11.723 |   341.22 |   20.291 |     6.31 |   32.013 |   128.95 |
    |  8000 |    128 |    1 |   8128 |   24.223 |   330.26 |   20.399 |     6.27 |   44.622 |   182.15 |
    | 16000 |    128 |    1 |  16128 |   52.521 |   304.64 |   20.669 |     6.19 |   73.190 |   220.36 |
    | 32000 |    128 |    1 |  32128 |  120.333 |   265.93 |   21.244 |     6.03 |  141.577 |   226.93 |
More directly comparable to the results posted by genpfault (IQ4_XS):

llama.cpp/build/bin/llama-batched-bench -hf unsloth/Qwen3.6-27B-GGUF:IQ4_XS -npp 1000,2000,4000,8000,16000,32000 -ntg 128 -npl 1 -c 34000

    |    PP |     TG |    B |   N_KV |   T_PP s | S_PP t/s |   T_TG s | S_TG t/s |      T s |    S t/s |
    |-------|--------|------|--------|----------|----------|----------|----------|----------|----------|
    |  1000 |    128 |    1 |   1128 |    2.543 |   393.23 |    9.829 |    13.02 |   12.372 |    91.17 |
    |  2000 |    128 |    1 |   2128 |    5.400 |   370.36 |    9.891 |    12.94 |   15.291 |   139.17 |
    |  4000 |    128 |    1 |   4128 |   10.950 |   365.30 |    9.972 |    12.84 |   20.922 |   197.31 |
    |  8000 |    128 |    1 |   8128 |   22.762 |   351.46 |   10.118 |    12.65 |   32.880 |   247.20 |
    | 16000 |    128 |    1 |  16128 |   49.386 |   323.98 |   10.387 |    12.32 |   59.773 |   269.82 |
    | 32000 |    128 |    1 |  32128 |  114.218 |   280.16 |   10.950 |    11.69 |  125.169 |   256.68 |

Results are nearly identical running on a Strix Halo using Vulkan, llama.cpp b8884:

    $ llama-batched-bench -dev Vulkan2 -hf unsloth/Qwen3.6-27B-GGUF:IQ4_XS -npp 1000,2000,4000,8000,16000,32000 -ntg 128 -npl 1 -c 34000
    |    PP |     TG |    B |   N_KV |   T_PP s | S_PP t/s |   T_TG s | S_TG t/s |      T s |    S t/s |
    |-------|--------|------|--------|----------|----------|----------|----------|----------|----------|
    |  1000 |    128 |    1 |   1128 |    3.288 |   304.15 |    9.873 |    12.96 |   13.161 |    85.71 |
    |  2000 |    128 |    1 |   2128 |    6.415 |   311.79 |    9.883 |    12.95 |   16.297 |   130.57 |
    |  4000 |    128 |    1 |   4128 |   13.113 |   305.04 |    9.979 |    12.83 |   23.092 |   178.76 |
    |  8000 |    128 |    1 |   8128 |   27.491 |   291.01 |   10.155 |    12.61 |   37.645 |   215.91 |
    | 16000 |    128 |    1 |  16128 |   59.079 |   270.83 |   10.476 |    12.22 |   69.555 |   231.87 |
    | 32000 |    128 |    1 |  32128 |  148.625 |   215.31 |   11.084 |    11.55 |  159.709 |   201.17 |

you should try vulkan instead of rocm. it goes like 20% faster.

Is that based on recent experience? With "stable" ROCm, or the (IMHO better) releases from TheRock? With older or more recent hardware? The AMD landscape is rather uneven.

For this model results are identical. In my experience it can go either way by up to 10%.

In the intervening 6-12 months, they were policy. Since then he's tweet^H^H^H^H^Htruthedsome new tarriff policies that are currently in effect.

> The project or repo's star count _was_ a first filter in the past, a

I agree that it has been a first filter, but should it ever have been? A star only says that someone had a passing interest in a project. Not significantly different from a 'like' on a social media post.


> I made several errors then did a push -f to GitHub and blew away the git history for a half decade old repo. No data was lost, but the log of changes was. No problem I thought, I’ll just restore this from Backblaze.

`git reflog` is your friend. You can recover from almost any mistake, including force-pushed branches.


Before LLMs we had code generators and automation that eliminated a lot of time- and resource-consuming tasks. I think the point still holds.


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