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Not parent, but same feeling.

First I got the feeling because of how they store things on disk and try to get all models rehosted in their own closed library.

Second time I got the feeling is when it's not obvious at all about what their motives are, and that it's a for-profit venture.

Third time is trying to discuss things in their Discord and the moderators there constantly shut down a lot of conversation citing "Misinformation" and rewrites your messages. You can ask a honest question, it gets deleted and you get blocked for a day.

Just today I asked why the R1 models they're shipping that are the distilled ones, doesn't have "distilled" in the name, or even any way of knowing which tag is which model, and got the answer "if you don't like how things are done on Ollama, you can run your own object registry" which doesn't exactly inspire confidence.

Another thing I noticed after a while is that there are bunch of people with zero knowledge of terminals that want to run Ollama, even though Ollama is a project for developers (since you do need to know how to run a terminal). Just making the messaging clearer would help a lot in this regarding, but somehow the Ollama team thinks thats gatekeeping and it's better to teach people basic terminal operations.
Did you understand what was meant? If so then you really have no basis for complaining, beyond pettiness
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> What Trump is mandating with his EOs are a move back to judging people strictly by their merit, by their character. We are once again on the path to making Martin Luther King's dream a reality.

Trump has outright been banning transgender individuals from enlisting in the military and serving. Presumably in a merit-based society you would judge them on the basis of merit, not on a secondary characteristic.
The place name, Afrasiyab, of/in Samarkand immediately reminded me of that guy Afrasiabi who left Blizzard Entertainment under a cloud. Checks... yes, he's of Iranian descent. Name checks out. Kind of cool.
See this is how we end up with things like electron.
Yes, you'd need 4x parallelism for a 2x speedup (16x for 4x, etc). But there's plenty of situations where that would be practical and worthwhile (think a build and test cycle that takes ~1 hour each and can't be meaningfully parallelised further).
> > Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition, to wit:

> > There must be in-groups whom the law protectes but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect.

But this is completely false. The credulousness with which it gets repeated is telling.
> there shouldn't be a DEI astronaut requirement

So, back to the old "white guys only" astronaut hiring policy of the moon landings era? And that wasn't a merit policy, that was an explicitly discriminatory policy against women long after the Soviet Union sent Valentina Tereshkova into space.

(at time of writing, she is still alive and the only woman ever to have had a solo spaceflight!)

> In the UK I had a grant application denied based only on DEI

Calling BS on this, they're not going to simply state "DEI" as a reason.
If it's "just" a friendly front and, why doesn't llama.cpp just drop one themselves? Do they actually care about the situation, or are random people just mad on their behalf?
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They also have Glean: https://github.com/facebookincubator/Glean
I can wiggle either ear independently. It greatly annoys my wife and my kids :D
Great idea, hope I remember to try next time :)
I was talking to I believe an FB engineer and this must have been 10+ years ago at this point, he said,

- FB found restricting access was difficult because engineers do sometimes bump into incidental user data while doing their job

- And engineers, being sufficiently motivated, can find a way around security measures

- So instead of reducing productivity with ineffective security measures, FB logs all access to private user info, and a separate team will request a reason, and if you don't have a 100% legitimate work related reason to be viewing it, you're terminated immediately

- And it does occasionally happen

- And best practice if you might incidentally see private user data is to do it on an FB profile of a dev friend also working at FB
The second half of this article would make a great movie.
This type of political movement always claims to be against the exact things they’re for. They claim to be against censorship while using their actual influence to do things like forcing TikTok to change their moderation policy. They claim to want to protect children while putting child abusers in positions of power. It gives members of the movement an easy way to deflect criticism and express their feelings of grievance—don’t you know we hate censorship, and anyway it’s you who was censoring us! It’s only fair for you to feel a little of that pain that we feel!
"accidentally" built a better build system after setting out to build a better build system, it's weird how accidents like that happen.
Cerebras claims they have extremely high demand, presumably from enterprise. So I assume it just hasn't made business sense yet to open up higher tiers to small customers.
Yeah, I would love an actual alternative to Ollama, but RamaLama is not it unfortunately. As the other commenter said, onboarding is important. I just want one operation install and it needs to work and the simple fact RamaLama is written in Python, assures it will never be that easy, and this is even more true with LLM stuff when using AMD gpu.

I know there will be people that disagree with this, that's ok. This is my personal experience with Python in general, and 10x worse when I need to figure out all compatible packages with specifc ROCm support for my GPU. This is madness, even C and C++ setup and build is easier than this Python hell.
What you are describing is the motte. What happened to James Damore was the bailey.

Did he fail a critical vibe check / badly fail to read the room? Sure. Given the political climate I'm not surprised he was fired.

But is everyone already forgetting what things were like?
I wonder if there's a support element that would have obstructed the field of view over a narrow angle. This has been the cause of automobile accidents when cars approach at just the correct speeds to keep the other vehicle behind the pillar at the side of the windshield.
Thanks! The "depends on an undocumented thing" happens quite often for such projects from companies, and is enough to hold people back -- in a company where a third party library requires approval, such issues mean that a fix could take a while before it is available internally, which could delay your own work etc. A lot of this probably comes down to the ecosystem -- not enough people are using these things to discover them early.
Compose key shenanigans can make such typesetting significantly easier. That's built-in on Linux/X, but there are also easy solutions for Windows systems.
the work involved is tiny compared to the work llama.cpp did to get vulkan up and running.

this is not rocket science.
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Are closer to the metal AI developers an under tracked bottle neck? AMD and Intel can barely get off the ground due to lagging software developers.
> requiring Promoting Inclusive and Equitable Research plans

> equality of outcome (versus opportunity) stuff is extremely new and extremely divisive

Equality of outcome, in the sense that we should hire unqualified people for research positions, is thankfully an incredibly rare and frankly insane position that almost nobody holds. Also thankfully, that's not what these required plans were. The requirement was that groups applying for grants have a specific and actionable plan for making sure that equality of opportunity was ensured. In fact, advantaging one group over another, such as with quotas, would directly violate DEI policy[1]. Typically, a plan would reference existing enrollment/acceptance policies of the company/university/department making an application, which are designed to make sure employees/students are not advantaged or disadvantaged by immutable or protected characteristics. Common examples would be:

- Make sure that your hiring panel is diverse to avoid bias towards whatever groups are over-represented at your company already. It's a well-studied phenomena that people are inclined to like others who are similar to themselves. Without any other factors in play (skill is randomly distributed in applicants, all of your employees are free of sexual/racial bias), if your company consists of, say, 80% men and 20% women, and you pick your interviewers totally at random, you will continue to hire more men than women. If you use a 50/50 split on your interview panel then your hiring becomes more meritocratic by virtue of factoring out self-similarity biases.

- Implement structured interviews and standardized qualifications-based hiring, rather than relying on interviewer preference.

- Learning about potential subconscious biases helps people account for them. Incorporating bias training can mitigate (though not eliminate) hiring biases. Of course, as you have no doubt experienced, these training courses tend to be pretty boring and patronizing, but that's true of most employee training, so /shrug.

- Diversifying applicant sourcing. If you only look for applicants via one platform, adding some more that tend to be used by different groups to your sourcing strategy.

You have bought into the oft-repeated lie that DEI is some Harrison Bergeron-esque attempt to cripple institutions. You were probably pointed to one or two extremely poor implementations of such policies that were genuinely unfair. The broader movement, and most implementations of it, are about equality of opportunity. The intentional destruction of public perception of these policies and subsequent removal only guarantees that existing self-perpetuating gaps in opportunity will persist.

[1]: https://web.archive.org/web/20241222222206/https://science.o...

Archive link, because of course the new admin took down the page.
This is the main problem of the "Hacker News for [x]" type sites. Lobsters got lots of people interested, but it is itself mostly not interesting to read, because there is very little discussion. Sure, you keep out some noise, but you also keep out what makes hacker news great, and that is the comments from all sorts of people.

All these kind of sites serve is a curated link list, which can be nice, but they don't fell like a community if you see the same dozen people leave ~3 comments per article and can only participate yourself after groveling before the chosen.

While I do think a good community needs some type of gatekeeping, being invite only is not it.
is that not happening yet? It will be the equivalent of people search for that kind of info on Google
This is not a pro-Brexit opinion, but it is also interesting how much of the worst prophesies did not happen. Tech business in particular mostly stayed in the UK and London is still the best place to be within the European geographical region. And London is still the financial capital. Very little moved to Paris and Frankfurt. Indeed London is still a very attractive place for EU skilled labour despite the added friction.
People frequently accuse science they don't like of being like an "ideology".

"(Climate Change|Evolution|The concept of a flat earth) is like an ideology to some people — they get angry the minute you start to question it".
Ollama is a private for profit AI company, of course there's something shady going on.

Because apparently you can take unethical business practices, add AI, and suddenly it's a whole new thing that no one can judge!
Somewhat related, curiousmarc has an absolutely brilliant video series from 2016 documenting the restoration of an Alto II:

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL-_93BVApb58I3ZV67LW3...
Reminds me of a quote that says that science progresses one scientist's funeral at a time as push back against new ideas often comes from older scientists regardless of the empirical merits of the idea.
I'm asking specifically about the "his own side"
My take on Anthropic CEO's thoughts: The ideological lens is almost the worst
Background: https://darioamodei.com/on-deepseek-and-export-controls

A lot of discussion about the AI competitive dynamics between the US and China: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42866905.

But isn’t the real threat to a bright human future with AI the ideological lens that Dario Amodei has imposed on AI competition?

Let’s examine the spectrum:

1. Viewing AI competition as a corporate rivalry echoes free-market globalization.

2. Viewing AI competition through open vs. closed innovation preserves hope for collaborative progress.

3. Viewing AI competition as a national priority invokes patriotism or nationalism, which is at least better than anarchism.

4. Viewing AI competition as an ideological struggle mirrors a Cold War mindset, hopefully not hot.

5. Viewing AI competition as a religious battle invites extremism.

It is a pity that one of today’s leading AI powers is steered by a CEO who stands at 4/5, seemingly blind to humanity’s blood-stained lessons on ideological strife.
This is where I want to work. But I feel like an AI swe is more likely to go "down" than an AI company is likely to hire me, a guy who loves optimizing pipelines for parallelism.
The later generation mainframe-in-a-PC cards were PCI, but they’d also done MCA and ISA ones, going back to the XT/370.

The XT/370 is particularly bonkers, as it uses a combo of a 68000 and an 8087 with custom microcode in them to run System 370 code.
Too bad it doesn't support the F105, aka "F91 with a usable light".
The article seems to hyperlink to a 2020 poll of polls for what people are “now saying”.

Here is a current poll.

“11% of Britons say Brexit has been a success, with more Leavers saying it has gone badly than well”

https://yougov.co.uk/politics/articles/51484-how-do-britons-...
I know why people needed it. It’s obviously useful. However, it’s still a relatively niche use case and rarely encounter people using it, especially compared to how many people I encounter asking about dealing with compound keys in maps or how to deeply compare two static blobs of JSON-style data. I understand why the implementers felt burned by its lack of adoption given its burden of implementation, but I’m also a bit surprised they expected more use.
Somehow "number of EOs" doesn't sound like the right metric to use when determining whether executive power is growing. Surely it's the content that matters.
IMO ggerganov is a 10x programmer in the same way Fabrice Bellard is: doing the actual hard infrastructure work that most developers would not be able to do in a reasonable amount of time and at a high performance.

In contrast, the ollama dev team is doing useful work (creating an easy interface) but otherwise mostly piggybacking off the already existing infrastructure
I called it a clone because it's the same software with the same look and feel, the same features, and the same invite rules. It's an obvious clone of lobste.rs the website, only even more exclusively tailored to a niche audience.
Related to that, the first 100 days are typically when there is the highest number of orders per day. https://edition.cnn.com/interactive/2021/politics/biden-exec...

Tump did 20% of his total, from the first term, in the first 100 days.
Biden did just under 1/3 of his total in the first 100 days.
Not the person you're replying to, but is also trained myself to do it. I basically touched the area where the muscle is, tried to activate it ... time passes ... and some unconscious process figured it out. Now, as a responsible parent, I use my super power to troll my kids.
Isn't there a clause in MIT that says you're required to give credit? Also, I didn't know a YC company which started it: https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/ollama.
It also gives you something hacker news mostly lacks (besides the occasional Ask HN) and that is discussing topics organically vs. just discussing what people elsewhere have said.
I think this is also an important distinction older type of forum software have before the newer "link share" type.
> Decrying wokeness a week later in a meandering essay is about 8 years too late

I did not look at it like this. What you are saying is that PG timing for the woke article is like Zuckernerd who suddenly wears a gold necklace over his sweater while he announces the DEI positions are absolved and the tampons will only be put on the ladies' rooms. They are just blown by the winds, and take little stance of their own in this.

Still I found it a really good write up. And maybe PG is in a position where he has to lean in with DEI-nonsense in order to achieve his business goals.

> but this doesn't mean we should discredit all related cause for alarm.

I think racism got worse lately (i'm in the EU), because the wokies put is much more on the agenda. We were closer to not bothering at all with color, now it is again a topic on many agendas.

Also "bodily autonomy" and "informed consent" used to be values we all (ok, except the baby-circumsizers) subscribed to. The C19 hit and the wokies' alarmism pushed "bodily autonomy" and "informed consent" in to the trashcan. I was an enemy of the wokies for not taking it. The govt stood by them and called the unvaccinated "dirty" and "anti-social" and "grandma killers".

And dont get me started on the push on young people to reconsider their gender.

Personally I believe that all capitalists (the owner class) shift to fascism when that's the best way to protect their interests. I never believed they were nice to begin with.

I have more problem with the US' military support for a nation that clearly commits a genocide. This is not a nazi salute, this is actually genociding. It was the genocide (and pharma tests on undesirables) that made the nazis so evil; not the nazi salutes.
Amount and enforcement are orthogonal. Regardless of how much you have, it must be consistently enforced.
You do realize that the EO this replaced has almost the exact verbiage about discrimination, right? We should be focusing on what is different between the two instead of being sidetracked by that argument.
> Five years after the UK left the European Union on 31 January 2020

That is only four years… Proofread by LLM I guess.
C'mn, contribute a little more to the thought/conversation/retort.

Do you feel differently?Are you baiting some reponse for sake of proving a point?
Great resource. imo Trump is jerking the wheel too hard in the other direction but some of this stuff was legitimately crazy. FAQ:

Q: I am only requesting support for one graduate student; do I still need to submit a PIER Plan?

A: Yes, all applications for funding to the Office of Science, with the exception of supplemental proposals, conference proposals, and proposals to the SBIR/STTR Programs (at this time), require a PIER Plan. All applicants are encouraged to consider what contributions they can make to creating more equitable and inclusive research environments. It is expected that the complexity and detail of a PIER Plan for a smaller research project and fewer project personnel would be less than that for a larger research project. [and no we won't provide you an example, it needs to be from your heart]

When you're requiring the greengrocer to submit a personalized statement justifying how each single apple he sells contributes to the project of worldwide socialism you might be risking provoking a reactionary counterrevolution. Americans need to just chill with trying to enforce micromanaged ideological conformity on a continent-sized country of 350 million people. And avoid winding up in a place "eroded by the ideological rituals that the entire power structure depend on, 'that are ever less credible, exactly because they are untested by public discussion and controversy'".
> Implementations of the new JavaScript Temporal object are starting to be shipped in experimental releases of browsers.

I can't get it working with Firefox developer edition or firefox nightly on Fedora Linux. What am I missing here? Can someone please guide me?
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Do you mind explaining why this was problematic? I'm working to track down things that I say that might be interpreted in ways other than I intend, and this sounds like a mistake I would make. What's the problematic message that's being sent here from the engineer to the VP?
Especially when there are EOs for naming post offices and other boring mechanical work of the executive.

It would take some serious effort (and there’d be disagreement) but maybe you could classify “important” government changes and if they were enacted by congress, EO, courts, etc.
I'd have to say that when the UK initially joined the EU most people probably didn't notice much of a difference, except that the euro made going on holiday and using the local currency a lot easier (I still remember the Lira in Italy being particularly difficult to get my head around). But otherwise it didn't make much of a difference in day-to-day life for most.

But now, leaving seems to be like constantly picking at a festering scab.
As a simple linux user that recently tried nixos to power a very small server, I would say that systemd wasn't part of the issues I encountered at all. It was the confusion tooling, the documentation all over the place, and the lack of ressources on specific topics.
Don’t worry Phillip, ignoring the bit where it isn’t a rebuttal at all, I know I’m not a smart person. That’s why I like simple builds!
This is a really good perspective. I appreciate you sharing!
> as far as my intel goes it's a mozilla project shouldered mostly by one 10x programmer.

That's completely off the mark.

https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/ollama
Speculation significantly influences the price of gold. But, as you say, it has many practical uses beyond wealth storage and jewelry.

Bitcoin, or any cryptocurrency, is built on the ashes of burnt electrons. The cost of burnt electrons to make a Bitcoin is slightly variable as the blockchain puzzle gets harder and new minting engines come online. Therefore, the cost of Bitcoin should not fluctuate as it does. This leads me to the conclusion that price fluctuations are solely driven by speculation.

I believe the same principle applies to stocks. A stock's fundamental value is the sum of all the company's assets divided by the number of shares. Every price variation is a psychological projection of fear or desire. It has nothing to do with reality.

The expectation of a x percent increase in the market over time is similarly based on projections rather than reality. Yet, we base our retirement funding on such insubstantial speculation.

Many people think of the stock and cryptocurrency markets as casinos. I think of them more like three-card Monte. You play, you get fleeced.
It's currently 2025 . . . 2020 was five years ago.
> Things are moving ridiculously fast for government to the point I suspect there was alot of desire to get rid of all this stuff before, but people were unable to do so.

No, Trump brought in a bunch of veterans of Elon’s takeover of Twitter to do the same thing to the federal government. The people at the top have been replaced, and the new agency leaders are focusing on implementing this anti-DEI agenda at the expense of pretty much everything else right now.

The sense I get from friends who work for the federal government is that this really feels like a hostile takeover. These are not changes that people welcome but have been too scared to ask for.
Today is 31 January 2025 buddy