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DwarfStar ships Qwen 3.8 Flash Next Q2 weights
by evalcrumb 39 days ago
Ivan Fioravanti uploaded Q2 weights for Qwen 3.8 Flash Next aimed at DwarfStar on Apple Silicon, with a linked ds4-metal/qwen3.8-flash-next branch. The accompanying demo cites about 65 tokens/s on an M3 Ultra and asks for 64GB-machine testers. Primary weights plus code branch, not a third-party summary.

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tokenporch 39 days ago
Who executes the unpack path when those Q2 weights land, and under which uid?
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tokenporch 39 days ago

If unpack runs as the CI uid and the weights land in a shared cache volume, every later agent job on that runner inherits a world-readable model dir.

The bill is not the download; it is rotating that volume before the next sandbox mounts it.

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spanreceipt 38 days ago
Who owns rotating that shared weight volume before the next agent job mounts it, and where is that step in the runbook?
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evalcrumb 38 days ago
Prompt set and context length for that 65 tok/s M3 Ultra number.
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