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Show HN: Kalosm – a local first AI meta-framework in Rust
Kalosm is a meta-framework for AI written in Rust. Kalosm supports local quantized large language models like Llama, Mistral, Phi-1.5, and Zephyr. It also supports other quantized models like Wuerstchen, Segment Anything, and Whisper. In addition to local models, Kalosm supports remote models like GPT-4 and ada embeddings.

What does Kalosm do?

1) Gather context from URLS, RSS feeds, web crawling, a search query, local files, or even your current surroundings!

2) Insert that context into an easily searchable vector database with Bert or a keyword search index

3) Generate text, images, or structured data with your context!

One of the features I am most excited about is constrained generation which lets you control exactly what the language model outputs. This makes it possible for even very small models to generate coherent JSON or conform to your custom grammar. It also unlocks advanced tool support with custom constraints for each tool input that ensures the text is valid.

Why did I build Kalosm?

I am currently working on a node editor for AI workflows called Floneum. I found that the existing tools didn't help users gather and integrate context with language models, so I built Kalosm. Kalosm will also enable Floneum to more easily gather context and richly integrate that context into multiple modalities.

Everything in Kalosm is local first!

Local context, local models, local inference: Kalosm is built from a laptop to run on your laptop. It doesn't require a powerful GPU to run any of the models Kalosm supports. Just download the library and start tinkering!

If you are interested in Kalosm, have questions, or run into issues, consider joining the discord (https://discord.gg/dQdmhuB8q5)!
I have tried to make kalosm easy to get started with, but if you run into issues or unclear APIs feel free to open an issue or discussion. There are over 20 examples throughout the repo and additional examples in the inline documentation. Every public API is documented if you run cargo doc.

Let me know what you think about Kalosm. I would love to hear your feedback or feature suggestions! If you like it, consider giving it a star
No, it's just that the Halloween Documents are now obsolete, not because Microsoft is kind.

It's because there are newer and better sharks out there, and you guys haven't caught up to the last 1-2 decades.

For example:

https://www.demandsage.com/gmail-statistics/
I don’t think so. Remote or direct is only something we think about. The general user could not care less nor know the difference. Hardly a false equivalence.
Does José need to write up an elixir-lang.org blog post every other week on the status of their type system project for HN's collective memory to know it's in the works?
There is this variation of the dragon curve:

order: 10
axiom: FX
angle: 90

X -> X+FYF-
Y -> +FXF-Y

This avoids the self-intersections (like a similar depiction of the Hilbert and Gosper curves), yet it remains relatively simple, and reveals more of the structure inside the bulk of the curve.

It's especially pretty when completed into a twin-dragon with the axiom: FX+F+FX+F+ and same rules as above.
Effective regulations very much do put the employer on the hook, no way to accept something like "voluntary employee risk-taking" outside of in some cases not looking for it as hard as they could. Employers are at risk of getting fined for tolerating (or worse) employee risk-taking and if those fines are sufficiently high they will certainly tell the employee "stop doing that that or else". And the last stage of "or else" certainly is getting fired, perfectly in line with other worker protection laws that might be in place that would otherwise prevent that getting fired.
It was that Fedora didn't have some video codec that reddit used.

I googled it, it was like copypasting 2 or 3 commands, then I could watch reddit videos.

I can't remember the other bug, it might have been an ID10T error.

Can't even blame Linux for that, I have to install way more stuff to make Windows work out of the box. Fedora weirdly has lots of stuff already installed.
Why do you want your bank telling you what you can do with your own money?

If you don't want to buy crypto, don't? I don't need a middle man for that.
Aha and if a bad guy becomes president in the US, and a good guy becomes president in France, should we be happy about the supposedly benevolent CIA interfering in the French democracy then as well or what?
> Especially if it will he locked down to prime only it will completely useless

Obviously it won't just be locked down to Prime. Amazon is not that silly.
Netflix and World Maker Launch Anime Making Contest
Volvo Cars are still designed and built in Sweden, with swedish workers and engineers, with union agreements.
What country and union?
Part of the money is transferred to the Social Democratic Party directly or indirectly (for example via ABF).
I know you said 4s is good but have you tried changing the linker?

Number of dependencies likely won't affect incremental build times except for linking and replacing it might offer some good gains for incremental builds.
The latter. Geely is smart enough to let Swedes do what they do best, Tesla seems to believe that they are going to export the US worker model to the EU. It isn't going to happen.
Thank you, I'm very glad that the transition to dictation hasn't made me lose a lot of the je ne sais quoi of my voice when writing. I have been using dictation to write my conference talks for a while; but, I have started doing it for my blog very recently. This may be one of those "curse of the artist" type things, but when I read my dictated articles, they just look very different than the ones that I have typed out. I'm not sure how, but they're just different.

I assume I'll just get used to it over time.
And since all the chaos in the world more and more people are joining unions again in germany...

The Tesla factory in germany has also big problems now...

Google the german meet industry were people who prepare meat are sleeping in tents in the forest...
The word safe here is doing a lot of heavy lifting imo. Not necessarily safe as in physical safety but also contractual safety.

An example is pension where companies not under collective agreement tend to not specify pension in contract rather just a blurb about "pension is to be compensated based on the currently applicable company policy". Basically allowing them to do whatever bait and switch they want later. Even if the benefits are good now there's no guarantee that they will stay that way. That's what a collective agreement is supposed to protect, that you can't go below that standard.
Because of the implication. Yes. It's always better in aggregate if people fight back, in order to prevent the inevitable slide towards power consolidation, but it really requires leadership because it's frequently good for the group but bad for the individual, and it's the first through the wall who gets bloodied.
Im doing something similar, but software only so I can remote control my daw. Logic has something natively built for that, but not most other daws and but most HUI options available are either only for iPad or a bit overly complicated. When you get to Software look for a capable MIDI HUI (Mackie control protocol) library. It’ll save you ages.

For hardware I’d assume you’d either Frankenstein a prototype out of old parts or 3D print something.
Quick google search even turned this up

https://hackaday.com/2015/07/12/3d-printed-modular-keyboard/

https://www.instructables.com/3D-Printed-1-Octave-Piano/?amp...
Not OP, but I imagine they want their bank to agree with their viewpoint on crypto, and stop other customers creating risks by association.
I would think that if you actually see that sort of comment so often that it would be reasonable to exaggerate it as “continuous”, you would be familiar enough with the person in question to know their actual name.
Fuzzy hashing is a thing ...
Some companies have a strong safety culture. The importance of safety is prioritised. For instance, they are allowed and required to stop work being performed if they see a safety violation [1].

If you take safety seriously you're likely to have a safe workplace. If not you get these sorts of shenanigans.

[1] https://millercares.com/how-stop-work-authority-helps-preven...
I wish I was allowed to use Threads.
> I’m sure Sweden would have liked to have held on to Volvo

Volvo was not owned by Sweden nor did they close their operations in Sweden... so they did hold on to it?
Have these respective workers been informed of this agenda?
Yeah exactly. Being a tech lead for the next iPhone and being tech lead for some HR system that organizes people’s 401k contributions are both experiences of “being a SWE at apple” but probably overlap in infinitesimally small ways.

A lot of folks don’t seem to get this. There are plenty of horrible 100 person startups, where you quit and move to a different 100 person company where life is amazing. There are hundreds of 100 person units in a FAANG.

It’s similar to the shortsighted conclusion “Americans are X”, ignoring the diversity of different states.
Because the various European countries are US Vassal states and treated as such by US companies.
Wolves alter the trajectory of forests by behaviour of an ecosystem engineer
but at least MS is paying the bill too
> Adobe seems to be taking good care of Figma. And so on.

Adobe hasn't finalized its purchase of Figma yet.
Tesla may go to Germany, but Scandinavia and the Nordic countries are still very good places to create factories. Highly skilled labor is easy to come by, and the top earners make less than their colleagues in the US. These are only a few of the many reasons why it’s very easy to get (filthy) rich in the Nordic countries: https://youtu.be/A9UmdY0E8hU?si=6o3vs2Wu6eNM_h1h&t=738
That's expected given Twitter leans more towards text content. The proportion of Tumblr posts that are images or video has always been much higher than Twitter's.

Twitter didn't even have built-in photo posts until mid 2011, and even then it was through a third-party integration with Photobucket for the first year. Images weren't shown inline in the Twitter timeline feed until late 2013! Meanwhile direct video upload was added even later than that.
I need add LTO flags to my workflow, so for newest gcc and clang, which flags I should use nowadays in daily coding? what about newest g++ and clang++?

My current understanding is: just add -flto to CFLAGS and CXXFLAGS, it does wonders and there is no downsides(other than longer build time). correct me if I am wrong please
That’s okay. I’d rather do that once in a while to keep all of elixir’s dynamic traits. The fact that you can open a REPL, and open one in prod, do language introspection, inspect data, query DBs with ecto, do hot code swapping is amazing.

Until we have something like Set Theoretical Types, I think this is the best of both worlds.
Thanks for the links. What a hostile way to put up talks on youtube. Only to be viewed by those that know where they are.
In the UK leaders of the big unions get six figure salaries, but still live in council (public) housing. KERCHING.
Banks don't ever choose to forgo handling money unless there is serious regulatory pressure. These are the people who are perfectly comfortable shaking down windows for a % interest on a mortgage. They do not care if someone (other than them) is losing money in crypto.

Given the number of people who are convinced crypto is "a scam"; it is a source of perverse pleasure to me at how hard the governments of the world are having to work to try and contain it.
I hear he still has a good right hook.
My wife is very effective contacting insurance companies and getting our claims approved. She spends hours on the phone but we usually get our way. This requires understanding our benefts, the CPT codes and denial reasons.
She used to do this working for a high net wealth family office for the entire family's medical expenses.

We were trying to think of a way that she could offer this skill as a service for people. It would require some difficulties with HIPAA, but I think there is a opportunity here to help people.
Hmm, I was dabbling with Elixir for quite some time now, but never considered myself proficient enough for applying to Elixir jobs. May be worth a try.
Dismantling a market is expensive and cuts into budgets. There is also a lot of existing contracts that then need to broken, renegotiated and settled.

I suspect he will rather outsource those parts of the company. That way he can claim to not have changed anything but things can just continue.
Unless you're already a millionaire, you should be happy to live in Finland and not in a more "flexible" economy like the US. No public healthcare, guns everywhere, no workers rights... No thanks. I'll take the much lower GDP per capita of my country for a better chance of living a decent life here.

As for a better hypothesis as to why the US economy is so powerful: "The Prize" or "Guns, Germs and Steel".
I'm not surprised at all that the number of injuries sustained on SpaceX projects is even worse than described in the article.

The article only discusses employee injuries; A full accounting would also include data from on-site contractors such as those involved in the heavy construction of the launch towers and other facilities.
I do use rust professionally, and I also love it! I’m 2.5 years in, and I would be sad if I had to switch jobs and mostly use a different language.

Nothing is perfect, but Rust is definitely more pleasant to work with (for me at least) than C++, JS, TS, Python, Go, or anything else I’m likely to get a job using. I do think it’d be fun to work in a Clojure or Elixir shop, but I’m still hobby-level on those, so probably it’s just the perception of green grass.
I am not an Elixir user but I too am watching the type story develop with a lot of interest. Even something half-decent in the vein of Python types would do it for me.
txtai 6.2: Adds binary quantization, multimedia vector search SQL
Are we normalizing throwing computers in a landfill when a $50 part dies, and it's only because the manufacturer was too cheap to upgrade their base model with another $10 in memory?

That's not very environmentally friendly.
Loneliness Isn't Just Bad for Your Health–It's Deadly
Yeah, it's bullshit that they want me to store my, frankly more valuable, Google accounts access information in the Microsoft cloud.
The way you should think about it is they didn’t want to spend the money on a full employee for that position. If they were forced to do that they just wouldn’t hire for that position. Or that position would be as competitive as any other job at Google and probably would not be the same people that are currently red badges.

There absolutely is a caste system in Silicon Valley based on how you can jump through credential and interview hoops. Which doesn’t necessarily correspond to job performance, which is frustrating for everyone. But nobody can figure out a better way to predict on the job performance. There are some emerging signals like open source contributions but not everyone uses that either because it can also be gamed.
This desktop app is open source. The source right on they github page.
Brain off in AoE2?? (not MP right?)
Banks already do a lot of stuff to prevent their customers from being scammed, or engaging in criminal activities like drug dealing or money laundering. Since this is pretty much what crypto currencies seem to be used for, this is just another thing on that list of shady activities.
It's interesting, I've started seeing job ads in Sweden where you are expected to setup your own company to work for a US-based company with US-style PTO. The salary looks bigger than what is typically offered by Swedish companies but that is because not only do you have to work more, the company you setup will also have to pay the quite steep payroll tax (at ~31%) that most employees are not familiar with (as it's paid by the employer on top of your salary before personal taxes).

The law in Sweden dictates that a company must give its employees at least 5 weeks of vacation of which at least four weeks consecutively some time during June, July and August.

This is really insidious as it looks like you'll be earning a lot (but you won't) and it's hard to sue yourself for only giving yourself two weeks of vacation.
Has anything about Artemis occurred as planned? Why would we be silly enough to expect it to start now?
One thing I care about as a Swedish engineer is interesting work on the forefront of technology. Sadly that’s also been sacrificed in the Nordic model.

I very much agree with the Finish parent that we need to adapt our societies. It’s not just about economic standard of living, it’s about staying relevant.

In fact I would even go further: it’s an ethical question to me. I see the holding back of ambitious, entrepreneurial people in order to preserve “social stability” as increasingly unethical.
Building data centers is fine.

Worse, we build Bitcoin mining farms near cheap power, which essentially produces nothing of value and in fact can raise power prices for everyone (eg [1]).

[1]: https://bfi.uchicago.edu/insight/research-summary/when-crypt...
Show HN: Imaranda – overcome circular discussions (and get better results)
Hello HN Community!

My co-founder and I have launched our webapp and would be very curious to hear your thoughts on it: https://www.imaranda.com/

What is imaranda?

- An app that helps teams overcome circular discussions
- Imagine it to be Miro with strict structure that has an AI moderating the boards
- Biggest difference between us and “traditional” digital whiteboards: we focus on bringing out quality outcomes from team discussions, and not just artifacts

What problems does imaranda solve?

- Coming up with ideas that solve critical problems or lead to innovation is difficult; this also takes a lot of time
- Discussions can become lengthy, especially when underlying complexities are involved - this leads to more threads than results
- Old knowledge becomes inaccessible / buried in long documents, which brings discussions back after a certain period of time

How does imaranda do it?

- Interactive whiteboard-like surface for teams to conduct discussions
- AI guidance and moderation
- Automatic structuring
- Tracking results, open questions, focus Areas of discussions
- GPT4 powered summarisation and inspiration

We are in open beta at the moment, it's free for you to sign up and try. If any of you are up for it, we would love to give you a demo and hear your thoughts - you can schedule one through our website.

Here is the link to our website and app again: https://www.imaranda.com/

Btw, figuring out how to really improve online discussions was quite the challenge and there is still so much we want to add. Still, results are really good and if you have any questions, ask away!

Best Regards,
Chris
You're being downvoted because your comment is 100% lies.
“all the smart people who could argue against anything but not for something“ -- Spot on
> It used to be that everyone would dream of making a startup that big tech would acquihire.

This really goes to show how pathetic the tech industry has been for the past ~2 decades. People don't aspire to build the next Google, just to get a job with Google. That's like saying the Matrix inspired you to land a job where you get your own cubicle.

When I was a kid dreaming of the future, I never thought that "success" meant being acquihired by a tech giant. That seems stupid, why wouldn't I just apply like a normal person? Building something like eBay or YouTube and turning it into a massive success to rival the giants was the dream. All you needed was a keyboard and luck.

I don't know if I'm alone in that, or if this is a generational thing? I'm currently under 30, so if it is, then it's probably a relatively recent phenomenon. I guess programmers born in the mid 00s probably grew up in a world already dominated by the same few tech giants, and missed the part where they were growing and fighting for dominance.

Of course, I would say that's probably the most reasonable dream to have considering the circumstances. If you do manage to build an innovative and sustainable business, it's unlikely you'll survive once the tech giants attack you with anticompetitive tactics that they know they can get away with.

...that doesn't make it any less lame though.
Work and salaries ? Like from their own pocket ? No. That is the business money. Wasted. Time, attention, of peoples wasted.

That is the same absurd logic as for not to replace low qualified human physical work by machines (self checkout in supermarket).

Having less jobs due to technology or less stupid work should be seen as good for humanity.

Perhaps, instead, of imagining some stupid jobs and occupation, so peoples can be paid and survive. We coul reduce the total workhours of working people, so that senseful work would employ more peoples. And with no changes to the salary ofc.

I am not so good with english, so let me rephrase it. What would happen to humanity if 90 % went jobless because -let's imagine- robots and IA would efficientely replace us. Would 90 % be condemned to die in the cold when there is abondance ? Because they have no job and a 0.00001 % "owns" the robots ?

Our current system cannot work with abondance.
The biggest chunk is usually unemployment benefits for other people in the union...

stop spreading your SD BS here...
> There are also statements from Tesla mechanics in the press to the same effect

Scabs :) more seriously: let's say I have 100 employees; I underpay 90 of them, and overpay 10. When the union comes knocking, I roll out the 10 overpaid ones to whinge in the press. I'm not saying this is Tesla's case, just that all declarations (particularly from employers) have to be taken with a big pinch of salt.

That's not to say that unions are always right, some of them are undoubtedly power-hungry organizations more interested in survival than in their core mission (like all institutions). But typically, cries from employers about their agreements being "better" are just because they don't want to be tied to the guarantees that union agreements contain; nobody stops them from paying above what stated in the agreement anyway.
Either Sweden adopts US labour laws or sanctions?

This stuff really gets people worked up.

If Tesla doesn't want a Swedish location, they don't have to have one. There's nothing extreme or dysfunctional about Swedish labour norms. It's not France. Even if there were, that's Sweden. Tesla don't have to locate there.

Why are Tesla not prepare for this? It's not like they completely ignore permitting or environmental regs just because they're different from the US.

Tesla live by Chinese rules in Chin. That even includes the major task of making Elon shut the gob.

You want to operate internationally... everywhere is different. Not everywhere is suitable. Choose wisely.

If Tesla eats a major delay because they hadn't anticipated the inevitable... That's on them and it is bad management.
Chase UK is the first bank on the list, and they have an official statement about it:

https://www.chase.co.uk/gb/en/support/crypto/

> Why don't you allow crypto asset payments?

> We've made this decision because fraudsters often use crypto assets to steal large sums of money from people. Blocking these payments is one of the ways we help keep you and your money safe.

Doesn't really seem that unreasonable, but I definitely have mixed feelings. I mean, if it's my money and I can confirm it's where I want to send it, my bank should send it, full-stop.

You could argue it's an excuse, since technically cryptocurrency competes with traditional bank transfers, but the fact is that it's actually pretty plausible and I'm not sure what this says about banking systems that it is.
Can you cite any historic precedent for what you're implying would happen? To me it's not nearly the most plausible outcome.