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AskHN: What's a real world production use case for Ollama?
Ollama is enjoying a LOT of hype, but I'm struggling to find a real world production use case for it. Where might I really want to use this? It's a wrapper around llama.cpp and makes it easier to download LLMs. Where might I want to download models in production like this? In production I would rather deploy thoroughly tested models. Plus, the model offloading capability on the fly is really not meant for production as it hinders performance. Thoughts?
The APIs for doing these things are open on Android. You do not need to rely on Google for the software, meaning the options are better than the single broken option that Apple provides. You can use syncthing for p2p sync over the Internet or adb sync over the cable or even rsync and all the tools built on top.

Also, Google doesn't sell albums, but you can buy music from Amazon or any other store you like and have good sync support instead of being limited to iTunes.
Thanks! We've been building based on user requests since we started. This is the direction our users pulled us in and we're pretty happy with it. The overall goal from the start was to lower the barrier of entry for someone interested in build useful tools with AI.

The people who seem to most enjoy and use the platforms are those that really benefit from the non-technical interface. There are other approaches to this that might be more efficient but this was the flavor we landed on. Subject to change though based on user needs!
I sometimes encounter the same thing, but sort of... inside out.

I recently told someone, "I remember telling you, I was on the phone with you in X location and I recall telling you!"
LDAP's full of secrets. It's a great way to keep tabs on what's going on in a company. And to think that you can get nearly all of it with anonymous access.

Team or department mergers before they were announced? Yep, I've caught those. Secret mailing lists for internal projects? Check who's a member and you can ferret out what's going on. Bonus if the list mail address gives some of it away.

`ldapsearch' is good if you know your way around LDAP. Apache LDAP Studio is a great UI tool if you just want to explore.

Everyone should know enough about LDAP to build a login service that binds against it for internal apps. You can exploit the groups the sys admins maintain to control permissions in your app. It's very powerful and an easy way to get up an running in no time.
it's the same thing in the end: Firefox weighs pros and cons of implementing a feature and Edge weighs pros and cons of including a feature. It is still true though that Google has more power when everyone depends on their implementation especially because it's the path of least resistance to include everything and change nothing. And yes that means it could be more work if you choose to change something.
Either way it’s done it’s an issue. Use a new name and it becomes a training problem, even for the most basic usage. Make it the same name and people expecting certain behaviors might get something slightly different.

At a basic level, I’d wager a vast majority of sudo’s usage is very basic, “run this command as admin”. If it can do that out of the box, it solves for a vast majority of users and they don’t have to learn some kind of new cmdlet to be able to do it.
Layoffs in the WFH era are weird. Back in the day you had a pretty good idea of who got laid off because you saw them walking out the door with a box of their stuff. You could go up to them and say, "hey let's meet at $local_watering_hole and hang out". You could swap contact info if you didn't already have it.

You could get closure.

Now, one day a bunch of people just stop replying to email. You have a to wait a while to figure out if they are actually gone or just busy. And if you're waiting on them for some output to work on your project, they may just never deliver and you won't know why for a while.

The company directory, if there is one, often still shows them for 60+ days because of the WARN act. And it seems most companies won't make a "layoff list".

It's really hard to get closure if they won't even tell you who got let go, and if they don't give the people a chance to say goodbye by cutting off their access before telling them they are laid off.
too pretentious, didn't read
Perhaps you missed the part where rendering of the cameras affects distance perception substantially? I easily see these drivers losing track of lanes, especially turning.

> I could honestly see them being a net positive to road focus by overlaying speed and navigation on the user's field of vision so they don't have to glance at their dash speedometer or navigation device all the time.

I get that with the HUD on my Audi and Lincoln with far less concerns.

> but it would take all of a second to whip the headset off if it suddenly went blank for some reason

The only way you're taking off the headset in "all of a second" is with zero concern for it landing on the floor or behind you or etc. Any care at all is 2-3 seconds.

That's around 100 ft. At lot happens there.

> most drivers regularly experience worse obstructions than that hypothetical one

Next time you're in a car close your eyes for 3 seconds (in the passenger seat) while paying attention to surroundings to get a feel for it, or take a video.

You are drastically underestimating things. Most drivers do not regularly get 1-3 second distractions and obstructions.

That may be a matter of perception, but that's the problem. Back in the day, surveys asked people how long Michael "Air" Jordan's "hangtime" (the length of time you spend in the air after jumping) was, and they gave numbers like 2-3 seconds.

In fact, the average hangtime is 0.53s, and the longest recorded is 0.9s.

Similarly, fun fact, 83% of drivers believe they are "above average".
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You missed the scroll and pan part. If you use (work) spaces then without more effort (tm) tiling is only partially the same as keeping one screen set while the other moves to another space.

Otherwise yes.
Land is a finite resource, but buildings can be built up vertically. Unless your town looks like manhattan, land is not scarce for new housing.
Is this in comparison to some other evaluation function which is perfect? I agree that all positions should have a certainty of win, draw, or lose with perfect play, but no engine is close to that level of evaluation function.

I do suspect that this pathological behavior could be trained out with additional fine tuning, but likely not without slightly diminishing the model's overall ability.
I was a bit embarrassed the first time.

I was hoping the second post would be "expected to make a full recovery", but unfortunately no.
Love this bit:

"Incidentally, if someone gets mad about you running this sort of thing, you probably don't want to work there anyway. On the other hand, if you're able to build such tools without IT or similar getting "threatened" by it, then you might be somewhere that actually enjoys creating interesting and useful stuff. Treasure such places. They don't tend to last."
The scale of this should tell us it's not just about building an alternative to Nvidia.

$7 trillion is like adding TSMC, Intel and AMD together, and multiplying that combination by seven.

This is about sheer capacity, not just circumventing CUDA.
Not everything must be about commercial use. ollama is a great way to get from "I have no idea what this LLM stuff is" to "cool, I‘m already talking to one?".
Was Google a chip designer before the first TPU?
But in this case most housing is being utilized, either owner-occupied or rented.
Its the best VR screen ever but we got locked out of using it due to Apple's software.

Most useful app is seeing your macbook screen but its hard to constantly adjust compared to just moving your macbook.

I'm returning mine on Saturday.
Yes. https://www.reuters.com/technology/meta-deploy-in-house-cust...
OpenAI not itself, but Microsoft is.

For 2022 and 2023, Microsoft bought a significant portion of NVIDIA's available hardware. They spent quite a bit of 2023 trying to figure out how to even power the multiple fleets of GPUs. Just now with the mild to expected wild adoption of Azure OpenAI are they getting around to servicing all their (potential) customers.
> Sure, but a lot of cars don't have them, and that's just the speedometer, not the speed limit or navigation directions (which are usually what I'm glancing at my phone's map app to check)

That's not the case at all.

Two pictures from Audi: https://uploads.audi-mediacenter.com/system/production/media... and https://robbreport.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/q4etron01.... - navigation, speedometer and speed limit and more
Looking at the volumes, heavy pumping. When will the dumping start?
Calling used to be expensive.
A slicker, smoother, better integrated, nice gimmicks, more polished and 10x more expensive version of the Meta3 without games. I might get one.

The good thing is, no one writes about the Meta3 outside a small bubble. Now Apple does it, everyone writes about it. This will push AR/VR forward.
That would be me. :)
> such as the Flipper Zero, which would allow for the removal of those devices from the Canadian

Tell me how you have no idea about technology without telling me how.. Flipper is pretty much useless against cars keyless system, in fact, just look at any video of the how thieves do it, they never used flipper but far more sophisticated devices (except the kia switch USB trick). That ban is most likely because some boomer at ISED saw some tiktok and thought it should be banned or got mad after having their Tesla plug door opened remotely, meanwhile, you can import all types of sophisticated full-duplex SDR with all types of antennas that are far more powerful and dangerous than that toy.

I worked with ISED before, overall nice folks but technicalities not much.
I think there might be some giga infrastructure projects, but we are not politically ready to invest in those. And by giga-projects I mean multiple continent spawning networks of actual high speed rail and power networks.
If people want to buy houses and not live in them, more power to them as long as they pay their property taxes. Housing is not a finite resource, more can simply be built as long as there is demand for it. At a policy level, we sure are spending a lot of time worrying about the fraction of a percent of houses that are not being rented and not nearly enough time worrying about why not enough new housing is being built to meet demand.
It's been a week. The ecosystem needs time to catch up. In a year we'll see whole bunch of alternate straps and headgear, a bunch of apps, and seeing people using it in public won't be as strange.

In 10 years you'll wonder what's wrong the people who are still using their phone and laptop at coffee shop instead of their Vision 12 Pro Max.
>"I’ve been wearing it laying down like 75% of the time. Much more comfortable for me. Only time I sit up are when there’s a need to (watching stuff in immersive environments) and exploring with putting windows around my house and stuff. Laying down is the way to go IMO. Head propped up sofa armrest/pillow."

This doesn't sound like "spatial computing" at all. It sounds like just mounting a big screen Tv to the ceiling. Same result really.
Mostly off-topic, but if you find this compelling, you will certainly enjoy reading the short story "There Is No Antimemetics Division" whose chapters are linked from https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/antimemetics-division-hub
If you're going to run something like this, I thoroughly recommend using Git for it.

You can have your cron do something like this:

curl https://internal.corp/employees.txt > employees.txt
git add employees.txt
git commit -m "Automated: $(date -u)" || exit 0

The || exit 0 should ensure no errors even if there is nothing to commit

Now you have a commit history of every change made to that source of information - just run "git log" to view it.

I run this kind of thing on scheduled GitHub Actions all the time, see https://simonwillison.net/2020/Oct/9/git-scraping/
> UB is a runtime thing, [...]

Compare and contrast https://stackoverflow.com/a/11546378

> FNDR is there because these are non-trivial semantic properties, so by Rice's Theorem they're Undecidable, the compiler cannot be sure if every arbitrary program meets the semantic requirement.

As pointed out elsewhere, Rice's theorem does not force this choice. You could also be conservative: insist on only disallowing all 'bad' programs at the price of banning some 'good' programs. C++'s type system already disallows plenty of 'good' programs anyway.

> My belief (and some well known C++ people agree) is that the vast majority of real world C++ programs today are Ill-Formed by these definitions and so do not have and never had any meaning by the text of the standard. I think this is substantially worse than the situation in C.

Thanks! That's the kind of answer I was trying to get!
I have been using Hacker News for almost 15 years and saw the evolution of both threads over this period.

Who is hiring? thread used to be about personal recruiting and opportunities posted by individuals who were also engaged here. For example, I met a founder who previously went through YC batch and also a VC who was recruiting for one of his portfolio company, through this thread.

Now, the "Who is hiring?" thread has degraded into just another "impersonal" source of potential candidates, like LinkedIn, Indeed and other job boards, and/or being used for market exposure to target audience. Postings from personal and/or engaged accounts have dwindled to almost none.

IMO, you are likely to have better experience if you ignore postings that redirect you to career page to apply and postings from new accounts and/or accounts that do not actively engage in the community.

Who wants to be hired? thread seems to have had several incarnations, over the years, for people looking for job and or project. I regularly post to this thread and routinely get contacted, mostly by wannabe entrepreneurs who want people to work for free/equity only or recruiters. But I am not a traditional job searcher.

I received two paid engagements through this thread, primarily through direct contact by founders. First one was a pre-seed incubator startup that engaged me for a pilot with a potential customer. We parted ways after successful engagement in few months as I didn't want to move back to US and for long-term effectiveness with targeted vertical, a US based person would have been better fit. Actually, later I also participated in their seed round and with excellent outcome till now. The second one (latest) was a seed funded startup that engaged me for a PoC with a large Japanese company, which turned out be a very bad fit with poor culture and poor communications. They still haven't paid me for the time I worked with them.

I have also made good connections with a few fellow posters on this thread. I generally reach out to posters on this thread whose profile I find interesting.

IMO, if you focus on contacts by people who are engaged in community, you will have better experience. Now, I generally ask for HN username as a first step. Also, don't work for free, timely exchange of any money is a good indicator of character.
That's a good point I hadn't even thought about it. It seems the property they want is the higher boiling point but I don't know enough about heat storage to know why they consider that a win compared to pure water.
Fast and multi-platform Spotify client with native GUI
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Once again, red tape and bureaucracy are holding back productivity improvements.

(Only half joking here.)
Anyone asked Toyota for their own data, GDPR style?
Would be much more interested if that data had a date associated with each row...
Huh? Artificial? A plot of land in Manhattan is worth more than a plot of land in the Sahara desert. Not surprising at all.
Just for the record, building vertically is also a finite solution, just as building sprawl is horizontally constrained, so to is vertical ( and subterranian ) expansion.

Manhattan only exists due to Manhattan schist, exceptional bedrock due to old volcanic flow.

Many locations have poor subsoil for tall buildings, even with the best foundations there are other limits to building height.

There's a lot of potential space, sure, but not infinite space - it's finite on planet and bottlenecked by transport and terraforming off planet.
I'm curious - had you not used a VR headset previously? As someone who has, I knew that you can up the resolution 4x and still won't be able to fix all these other obvious issues that make headsets a non-starter for most people.
It would be neat if you could at least provide expressions (that can't hit any actual tables) to compute bounds for how many rows are expected to come back from any particular row source.
Ironically, the banana piece was all about pointing out the triviality of (much) contemporary art!

But... Yeah. That's probably the explanation for the disconnect. It's so extreme, though. Everyone (literally everyone!) owns and / or enjoys things created by artists. I think the education- / elite-driven insistence that Real Art is fine art (or maybe just old art) - like, Breughal counts, but the exquisitely crafted mug my wife bought at the farmers market last week doesn't - has something to do with it as well. Which is stupid, because that whole idea was stomped to dust by 1900 or so, and yet it remains.
Yep, but they'll cost as much as an iPhone and have none of the flaws of this one. It's a steep price for what it is. $1000 too much if you ask me.
I am running ollama in the CLI, under screen, and always disable the ollama daemon. It's hard to configure, while CLI it is just adding a few env vars in front.
That's clever, thank you! I will definitely use this.
>What about if, to be legally allowed to license streaming content, companies were required by law to:

They won't be and that's your problem.
I worked on something like this if you'd like to give it a try!
https://oration.app
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>Now if I disagree, I'm not in good faith?

It's not necessarily that, it's more like your points in the thread come across (to me at least) as a bit of sealioning.

Not everything needs a "what if it was you in that position, your mom, your friend, your sister" POV. Sometimes people are just bad at their jobs, and it's ok to criticize them for it.
That's what I like about this problem (and similar Dumb variants of classic brain teasers). It exposes that there's not understanding, there's just a statistically weighted answer space. A question that looks a lot like a know popular topic ends up trapped in the probability distribution of the popular question.
IMO their slack avatar/posts go gray within minutes of them being sacked.
> The one I'd love to tell the planner is that a table holds transactions in time, and that it should not expect that today's data is empty because it was empty 10 hours ago. It's an extremely common pattern, it makes any statistics gathering based on percentage of data changed dubious pretty quickly, and harms a whole lot of real queries, because in data like this, people care the most about the recent data.

It's not a hint, but PostgreSQL does have something that can help with cases like that.

In some cases, to obtain selectivity estimates, the planner will probe a btree index to find the actual lower and/or upper bound. For this to apply, a btree index must exist and you have to be using indexes >, >=, < or <= operator. The planner will probe the index if the query is comparing the indexed column to a value that's known the planner if that value falls on the first or last histogram bucket. This can help when your statistics are slightly out of date and you're querying for some column which stores a monotonically increasing or decreasing value.
'Reflections on trusting trust' :)
Is VBA still a thing in excel? You could have a function per client and just run the correct one to format it.

Or using python or your choice of language to read .csv files and modify..

It may be overkill but n8n is a process automation tool (open source, self hosted) - give it input, run an action, get output. I’m sure you could do it in that.
Yes, quite contrary to my expectations. The phrase isn't even used outside of the title. I always knew it only as a Dune reference; was the actual spice trade ever described in such terms?
The HN submission of that blog post was flagged multiple times
What is meant by this? Is the parent comment not on topic or useful? Because I'm failing to see why
OP - this is an incredible project!
I worked on something similar (https://oration.app) and really love your idea of using CV/OCR.
I'll certainly be giving your app a try
The OpenPOWER Consortium was created in August 2013, more than three years after the RISC-V design effort started, but yes two years before the RISC-V Foundation was created and the then current ISA draft was widely publicised.

As far as I understand, at that point your only freedom was to license IBMs core or chip designs.

IBM released their first open source POWER core, the "Microwatt", in August 2019, a month after the base RISC-V 32/64 IMAFDC ISA was ratified (frozen forever and published)

The cores used in the highest performance RISC-V SoCs currently available were announced in October 2018 (SiFive U74) and July 2019 (THead C910).
How do you get negative gdp per capita? That must mean negative gdp unless you have less than 0 population. Do you mean negative growth? Then what does per capita have to do with it?
I’ve been using Ollama with Mixtral-7B on my MBP for local development and it has been amazing.
The lock out from the world of actual software and useful peripherals devices is a uniquely Apple self inflicted wound.
I saw it posted on Twitter some time last year. If LLMs are to be useful they should be capable of answering novel questions. This is only a trick question for an LLM. 2 of the 7 sentences plainly state the answer.
I read your profile and see that you are a CTO of a fintech. Given that, by what method do you navigate that tool's [explain.dalibo.com] assertion of "It is recommended not to send any critical or sensitive information"?

Is there an explain plan sanitizer that is helpful for this situation?
If not hints and manual plans then we need a way to "freeze" automatic optimizer plans however optimal they are after each tested release.

The optimizer killing your heavily-loaded production because it randomly switched a frequent query to a bad plan is pretty annoying. People mostly put up with this because for a single-instance DB you can easily maintain 4x spare CPU capacity but it's impossible at scale.
Two of the links that I checked ( Stolen Device Protection and advanced encryption) lead to generic sites: Apple Support and EFF home pages. Of course, direct links change and curating links is a pain (by hand, anyway).

Just an observation. I share a lot of articles with friends who are not very keen on searching within sites.

Some matters are beyond out control, like using phone numbers or email addresses as account ID’s. So much so that accounts I have which don’t use them seem odd. But nobody is going to guess them, either. I don’t use Google (for anything) nor Apple as a “login with” provider. I seriously trust myself over some faceless company.
It's evident that you haven't used PowerShell. Almost all commands in PowerShell have short aliases. For instance, instead of typing 'Get-ChildItem', you can simply use 'gci', which stands for the first letters of each word. Unlike Bash and other shells, where you must learn various Domain-Specific Languages (DSLs) to handle XML, JSON, YAML, etc., PowerShell allows you to use its native language to work with any data type. This is because PowerShell operates on objects rather than plain text. Therefore, PowerShell is significantly more advanced than other shells.