Saturday, 30 December 2023

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Wednesday, 27 December 2023

Volunteers build Isle of Man's first community rowing boat

A team of volunteers spend 11 months building a Skiff in Laxey for a new community rowing scheme.

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Friday, 22 December 2023

PDC World Championship 2024: Luke Littler says he has been 'non-stop' since 18 months old

Luke Littler, the 16-year-old who has taken the PDC World Championship by storm this year, says he's been playing "non-stop" since he was 18 months old.

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New top story on Hacker News: Show HN: Local fine tuning for Mistral and SDXL, GPU mem/latency optimization

Show HN: Local fine tuning for Mistral and SDXL, GPU mem/latency optimization
21 by lewq | 3 comments on Hacker News.
100% bootstrapped new startup. It lets you fine tune Mistral-7B and SDXL. In particular, for the LLM fine tuning we implemented a dataprep pipeline that turns websites/pdfs/doc files into question-answer pairs for training the small LLM using an big LLM. It includes a GPU scheduler that can do finegrained GPU memory scheduling (Kubernetes can only do whole-GPU, we do it per-GB of GPU memory to pack both inference and fine tuning jobs into the same fleet) to fit model instances into GPU memory to optimally trade off user facing latency with GPU memory utilization It's a pretty simple stack of control plane and a fat container that runs anywhere you can get hold of a GPU (e.g. runpod). Architecture: https://ift.tt/6GwSjgL Demo walkthrough showing runner dashboard: https://ift.tt/7PZ5lVh Run it yourself: https://ift.tt/yV0lKTC Discord: https://ift.tt/RikFTso Please roast me!

Hackney: Woman charged with murder of her four-year-old son

Kobi Dooley-Macharia was found with knife injuries and was taken to hospital, where he died.

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Thursday, 21 December 2023

Sir Keir Starmer supports assisted dying law change

The Labour leader says MPs should be allowed to vote with their conscience on assisted dying.

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Penny Mordaunt says Boris Johnson's Covid WhatsApp messages went missing

MP Penny Mordaunt tells the Covid inquiry messages to Boris Johnson and Michael Gove went missing.

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New top story on Hacker News: Fireworks: Function Calling Model and API

Fireworks: Function Calling Model and API
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European Super League: Uefa and Fifa rules banning breakaway league unlawful, says court

Uefa and Fifa rules banning clubs joining breakaway competitions like the European Super League are unlawful, the European Court of Justice rules.

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Wednesday, 20 December 2023

Sports Personality of the Year 2023: Mary Earps wants 'to change the world'

England and Manchester United goalkeeper Mary Earps wants "to change the world" after being named Sports Personality of the Year 2023.

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Rimmel London ad banned for implying girls need make-up

The Facebook advert featured a Love Islander and read "get ready to slay this back-to-school season".

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'I don't work here!' - BBC reporter Ben Boulos interrupted on air

The BBC's Ben Boulos was mistaken for a greengrocer while reporting from a market hall in Birmingham.

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Tuesday, 19 December 2023

Stormont talks: What issues are affecting people in Northern Ireland?

As hopes of a pre-Christmas Stormont deal fade, four people explain how the limbo affects them.

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Monday, 18 December 2023

New top story on Hacker News: European heat pump sales are collapsing

European heat pump sales are collapsing
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4,000 XL Bully owners apply for exemption from ban

The UK's chief veterinary officer says there could still be many unregistered dogs out there.

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Kate Garraway's husband Derek Draper in 'very serious condition' in hospital

Former political adviser Derek Draper, 56, has been living with extreme complications from Covid.

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Biden ushered to safety after car crashes into motorcade

US Secret Service staff rush the president into his car after the accident in Delaware.

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Friday, 15 December 2023

Watch: Chaos after Beijing subway carriages detach

Eyewitness videos show passengers stranded in wintry conditions after two of the carriages separated.

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Thursday, 14 December 2023

Tuesday, 12 December 2023

Bourne: Murder arrests after death of eight-week-old baby

A 23-year-old woman and a 24-year-old man have been arrested on suspicion of murder, police say

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Zara pulls advert accused of resembling Gaza images

The fashion firm says it regrets any misunderstanding about its advertising campaign.

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Saturday, 9 December 2023

Chris Evert: 18-time Grand Slam singles champion says cancer has returned

Tennis legend Chris Evert says her cancer has returned, two years after being diagnosed with ovarian cancer.

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Whamageddon: DJ sorry for playing Last Christmas by Wham!

Matt Facer apologises for potentially eliminating 7,000 from a game in which players avoid the song.

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Friday, 8 December 2023

Coil fitting wait leaves woman in excruciating pain

Patients in one health board area are waiting up to nine months for a coil fitting.

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New top story on Hacker News: "Non-Player Character"

"Non-Player Character"
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Israel Gaza war: UPenn loses $100m donation after House testimony

A major University of Pennsylvania donor withdraws grant after Congress hearing about antisemitism on campus.

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Tuesday, 5 December 2023

New top story on Hacker News: US gov fires a warning shot at Nvidia

US gov fires a warning shot at Nvidia
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Flood warnings in place across England after heavy rain

A total of 69 flood warnings are in place across England after snow gave way to heavy rain.

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Nigeria airstrike 'mistakenly' kills worshippers at religious festival

The army was targeting "terrorists" when civilians were hit by accident, the state governor says.

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Watch: Maori MP performs haka before swearing oath to King

Rawiri Waititim, an advocate for Maori rights, broke protocol as he was inducted into New Zealand's parliament.

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Monday, 4 December 2023

Sunday, 3 December 2023

UFC Fight Night: Dana White criticises 'bad stoppage' at Austin event

UFC president Dana White criticises a referee for failing to end a bout earlier, with the official's delayed decision angering fighters.

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Saturday, 2 December 2023

Mount Etna eruption lights up the night sky

Europe's most active volcano has been in a constant state of activity since 2013.

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