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>So where's the non-sketchy, non-for-profit equivalent

llama.cpp, kobold.cpp, oobabooga, llmstudio, etc. There are dozens at this point.

And while many chalk the attachment to ollama up to a "skill issue", that's just venting frustration that all something has to do to win the popularity contest is to repackage and market it as an "app".

I prefer first-party tools, I'm comfortable managing a build environment and calling models using pytorch, and ollama doesn't really cover my use cases, so I'm not it's audience. I still recommend it to people who might want the training wheels while they figure out how not-scary local inference actually is.
Witches don't exist. The Communist Party USA wanted to violently overthrow democracy and replace it with a dictatorship headed by Stalin, and Communists in the US government who were working towards that goal by committing treason against the US did exist in the 1950's.

So no, it was not a witch hunt. Looking back, the "witch hunt" slur seems like gaslighting. "Communists, what communists? You're paranoid and crazy!". The release of the Venona documents is severely damning to the "witch hunt" accusers and vindicating to McCarthy's goals, if not his tactics.
I'm all for balkanization. It is better than the status quo.
Someone is going to be going out of business soon and someone at a university is going to get very fired.
Pretty much exactly what I was going to say, except I have long ago dropped kitty (went back to alacritty).

I have found composing simple tools into a toolset is way better in the long term than shopping for the 'one tool to rule them all'.

Mitchell has always seemed like a principled, rooted developer who produces quality product. He also does his homework (he made me aware of wezterm due to it being prior art he referenced).

Finally, I am one who is interested in Zig, graphics, and a terminal junkie. When I found out Mitchell wrote a tty, I had to try it, and was not disappointed.
Sorry but your memory fails you. The professor is not their uncle. He is not related to them.

However he himself stayed with an uncle when he was a child (in The Magician's Nephew)
> The Brexit the UK ended up with was pretty might the lightest possible Brexit.

this is not true in the slightest, we had the 2nd hardest exit possible

a possible outcome could have been that we left the EU and remained in the EU single market and EU customs union

there's this rather famous EU commission slide of the various options the UK could take: https://i.kinja-img.com/image/upload/c_fit,q_60,w_1315/adf2f... with integration decreasing as you move right (the "brexit hardness")

we ended up with the Canada option, the only harder option would have been to drop out without a signed deal (which thankfully didn't happen)
that PR doesn't actually work though -- it finds the Vulkan libraries and has some memory accounting logic, but the bits to actually build a Vulkan llama.cpp runner are not there. I'm not sure why its author deems it ready for inclusion.

(I mean, the missing work should not be much, but it still has to be done)
On the theme: The phrase "junk" DNA always irritated me. I'm glad it is being replaced with "non-coding".

Anybody who has looked at a 4kb demo can intuit that "junk" code likely has a function, even if it isn't immediately obvious machine code for the host CPU. I'm no geneticist, and I understand cells aren't CPUs, but I've read enough to know there's at least a tenuous analogy to non-coding DNA and the kind of "junk" you might find reversing a 4kb demo that procedurally generates its output.
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I grew up lower middle class and none of these thoughts even entered my mind. What did was the amazing story, world, etc…

I identified with them, the Beaver family, the white witch, etc.

Do you struggle to identify with humans who do not perfectly match your income or life? Is that how most of your friends are?

I might be the weird one here but I identify with all kinds of characters in books…
They also got the privilege of all dying together in a bombing raid on the train.
Misread the title, but I am now thinking of creating the American Quitter's Society.
I came across an article about a hydrogen ferry a month or so ago. I think the ferry was somewhere in northwestern Europe, perhaps on the Nordic peninsula.

One major problem is that, due to physics, hydrogen containers leak... a lot. The hydrogen losses from transporting and storing the hydrogen for the ferry were phenomenal. I guess it's impossible to truly seal hydrogen via a valve because it's molecule is so tiny that it can wiggle through the best valves we can make.
I've mentioned it everywhere I post recently, but I just read Pale Blue Dot by Carl Sagan as a bedtime book with my kids and it's phenomenal. One of the central themes is his belief that we should someday become world movers, given the eventual asteroid that will likely do significant damage to Earth. But, the argument is much more nuanced and wouldn't be able to do it justice here.

It's a great read — even if it's a little dated. If anything, you get to see how much we achieved that in the early 90s was still hypothetical, and what things we haven't quite pulled off yet.
But can it adapt the mappings based on the app you're using? I've switched over to using Keymapper from QMK due to this and convenience.
Or just Robert's Rules.
Its not that hard, just a matter of reading the systemd documentation and learning about default dependencies: https://github.com/lukasstraub2/systemd-delay-services

Indeed, nothing crazy.
Ah yes, the activity of “accessing energy”, the very relatable and not at all abstract real activity that we fellow humans perform multiple times a day.

And here I thought we did “normal” things like “switch on the light” and notice that an LED still works just as well as an incandescent.

Or some decide to turn on the dishwasher instead of doing the dishes by hand, which does it far more efficiently.

Just wondering, since you seem to know, how do I make the money directly come out of the wall? Do I need to turn the crappy old five space heaters all to setting three to get all the money? Or should I just use the reverse cycle AC at a comfortable temperature like a normal person?

Also, you’re calling the US’ economic success since 1970 a failure, since that also saw a drop in per capital use of 33%, so I’ll happily trade you all the money you made since 1970 for a pile of wooden logs, seems like that’d be a great deal for you, eh?
I think that researchers from China, India, and so one should also have plans to effectively manage the diverse set of students and staff they are likely to work with while in the U.S.
> No pre-built binaries yet! Use cargo to try it out

Not an equivalent yet, sorry.
25 years ago the “hacker” community was more libertarian and would have been horrified at the idea of devices tracking individuals for some anomalous safety goal.

Some of those same people developed the surveillance state and the generation that followed thinks we should all wear Meta glasses at all times for “safety”. Meanwhile the advertisers and authoritarians behind them are snickering.
In general, the main way to make people not leak stuff is to make them not _want_ to leak stuff. If, say, it is important to the company that product A not leak, and employees generally want what is important for the company, it probably won't leak.

The leak Facebook seems unhappy about basically seems to comprise the CEO saying stupid things to employees. There's probably no way to stop that leaking; no-one has any real interest in keeping it secret. In general when a company irritates its employees, _that_ will almost always leak.
If it stays docked on one side at night hooked to the grid and offering grid stabilization services and charges on the other, could it be a net energy importer?

Asking for a friend... :)
No worries and thanks for sharing your experiences with RISC-V MCUs - really interesting.

FWIW I agree that AArch64's launch was not the same as the RISC-V launch. There has clearly been a lot more work required to boot the RISC-V ecosystem and they have made amazing progress. Arm had the advantage of incumbency and a lot more resources.

At the same time I think the have oversold progress on application level processors and I don't think this does RISC-V any favours at all. Arm has a lot of experience and the general tone from some of the RISC-V commentary is that they got it 'wrong' with AArch64 which, to be charitable, is unproven.
Tonsils are a good example of this. New studies are finding that they may be part of the immune system. Anecdotally, I had mine removed as a child due to frequent tonsilitis. As an adult, I suffer from a number of airborne allergies. Most likely a coincidence, but it does make me wonder!
"A glorified subreddit for HN readers..."

At some point, I wonder if `dang` would support this?
It seems like a good idea. For more topic-specific higher volume news items.
Make is the common denominator in most projects I come across regardless of language. I see lots of frontend projects and certainly Go and Rust projects using Make quite often.

Ironically many modern C/C++ projects use Cmake to generate Makefiles. If anything the inverse of your observation is mine.
Yeah, the default view is absolute horrendous (to me) after I got a couple of customers who seem to love 196 stuff.

There has been some discussion to allow admins to make a selection of communities that should be visible/hidden for non-logged users, let's hope this lands soon.

Regarding the login bug: what version of Lemmy is your instance on? After I upgraded my instance to 0.19.8 this issue has mostly gone away.
The solution is to create a health insurance system which burdens only Americans with the $500m cost, while India is allowed to make the drug for pennies for the rest of the world.
“My product went viral but it may not be offering the value I think it does so I blame the users for it”
The problem with fighting electric battery fires is finding enough water to cool them. Where oh where could a ferry find vast quantities of water? :)
I really wish the scan was better quality. Extremely hard to read.
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For me, it's the fact that the tags overflow to the next line on mobile. Some posts only have tags on the right, some only have tags on the next line, some have both.

The inconsistency makes it impossible for my eyes to settle into a reading pattern.
They can still run a lot more users on the same number of GPUs (and they don't have a lot) using distilled models.
Also the name of AMD’s (well ATI) previous attempt at a CUDA alternative ;)
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"DEIA" has picked up steam in government circles over the past few years, and made it into the executive order because of that. I don't think I'd ever seen it used by a non-governmental organization.
The reason the zones use city names is because city identity is far more stable than national or regional borders. Still, the system can gracefully handle deprecation of a zone name. If Paris is renamed NewNewYork by edict of some new global despot, the IANA will just alias the two names together.

See https://github.com/eggert/tz/blob/main/backward for all the deprecated zones.
Are those Makefiles doing anything more than calling "go build" and "cargo build"?

Because if they're still using the language-specific build tools and dependency management systems, then I think you would find that the Fedora maintainer higher in this thread would not be any happier that there is a sugar coating of Make. That's not what they're asking for, based on other rants I've seen from Linux distro maintainers.
Please understand that if this administration had equality of opportunity as a goal it would not scrap and ban these programs, it would go after those abusing them. Make DEI Great Again. But no, the general belief of those opposed to DEI initiatives appears to be that we were a meritocracy already, and the way forward is to cease and stifle anyone that points out this is not the case, and stifle anyone attempts to establish equality of opportunity.

Racist hiring practices are illegal, and should remain so. If Trump has issued an EO to clarify this point, and language to this effect were added to DEI policies, it would be utterly uncontroversial. I would welcome a case being brought against a professor who actively avoided hiring white people under the guise of DEI to really drive home that such behavior is unlawful and unacceptable.
There is still a difference between actually doing hard work to help disadvantaged and marginalized folks and thinking that “being annoying about one’s pronouns” or “making lists of coworkers who are not woke enough” (both examples are quotes from self-proclaimed social justice activists) solves any problems.

However, thinking that this crop of politicians would take a nuanced stance on anything at all is idiocy at its purest.
But if you look at the corpus of British children's literature from 1900-1980, generally the people who could afford to be authors were white, middle class men.

Allowing that generalisations trample all over many superb exceptions, it's not a bad thing to recognise that representation matters. It matter that there be authors that you identify with, even if they aren't writing about you.
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The word evil is a bit overused, but in the case of Stephen Miller it fits like a glove.

I’ve said since the beginning that that saving grace (if there is one) of Trump’s first term was that he was disorganized, and he surrounded himself with people who kept him in check to some degree. People who were willing to tell him that he couldn’t do certain things (prime example: White House legal counsel kept Trump from doing the crazy things that people like Rudy Giuliani and Sidney Powell suggested after he lost the 2020 election).

He’s not going to make that mistake this time, and he’s putting people in power who will do what he wants without question. That’s the scary part of the next four years.
You don't know that. There is such a thing as an unqualified lead.
Stacking here is about the make up of the benchm not size. I don't understand this link, its seems like an obvious point.

Partisanship works in the current political environment. Cutting off your own projects in case the other party follows your lead, has paid off more than bipartisanship. Voting across aisles is strictly controlled.

Trump was voted in precisely because The R base was tired of people talking about identity issues, getting to power, and then doing nothing about it.

Trump is giving people exactly what they were told would solve their problems, for decades.

The balance of powers has been broken, for good reason. It ensures political goals - see Bi-partisanship doesn't pay.
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Openloop – An open source workflow automation that runs on the browser
This week, I decided to build Openloop – an open-source Gumloop that runs entirely in your browser!

No server needed –stored on local storage
Easy sharing – send workflows that others can run instantly
Type-safe nodes

https://github.com/vinpac/openloop
Fuck everyone else. We still have us.
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I can’t control wiggling my ears, but I also have felt my ears perk up when listening to strange sounds. Sometimes accompanied by goosebumps and ASMR.
A 1% reduction in body mass is a huge advantage evolutionary, especially since rather than being cut completely that mass could be repurposed as more muscle for competing or more fat for lean times. For something in very recent evolutionary history (talking the last few thousand years), yeah sure the pressure might not have optimised a wasted organ out. But for any random organ? Nah, they probably have a purpose and we don't know what it is yet. Otherwise there is a big advantage to removing 'useless' bits. Evolutionary processes do however love little random tweaks and whatnot because they serve a useful purpose in weird edge cases and it is much more likely we're looking at one of them in any particular case.
Because none of that is the purpose of cryptocurrency. It for tax evasion by the rich, and for the cryptocurrency to seize when its used for crimes or when its defrauded out of someone else. And for riding a seemingly permanently rising currency to riches.

In any case, it boils down to "I can make money off cryptocurrency". It doesn't "help" people. If someone says that, they just want to evangelize it because they think that's the key to 'crypto go up'.
Not even for mindless entertainment?
If you insinuate that %q obviates the need for ldump then you are wrong.

There is not even significant overlap in what they do; all that %q does is sufficiently escape Lua strings so the interpreter can read them back. It does not serialize functions nor even tables in any shape or form.

edit: Sorry for being unreasonably harsh after misunderstanding your message.
Yeah but.. it’s just the way of gases and liquids under pressure. Even if you could sustain the pressure with gas it would be an unnecessary implosion risk if it’s pierced. As long as it still functions fully including on the surface, I wouldn’t qualify that as cheating. More like us biological weaklings who need ~1atm can be cheap and skip the liquid/resin because if we accidentally end up in space or the deep sea we generally have bigger problems than checking the time.
>>>They could be having video calls with the controller with crystal clear audio from anywhere on this planet instead of yelling to them over VHF only when they are in range.

Your forgetting about latency, which matters when you are trying to land an airplane. Also who cares if you could talk to the aircraft from anywhere in the world with different technology? The only thing that matters is there is a low latency audio connection between the traffic controller and all the planes coming in. Direct line of site VHF communications is better in every conceivable metric then any alternative. It has nothing to do with old technology or design by committee.
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If you're really a solopreneur, stop caring about fads and start caring about profitability. You don't need to learn fancy new tools to earn money online -- you need to use boring tools and keep moving forward. Keep loose tabs on topics relevant to your market, but everything else is noise -- so ignore it.
There's money here to whoever can capture the activation of these muscles to control prosthetic cat ears. At the rate I see them the prosthetic cat ear market must be double-digit billions.

Seriously, though, it makes me wonder if the activation of these muscles could be used in a hearing aid application. Why not add a couple rear-facing highly directional mics and use these muscles to control their gain?
Clickbait title.

This isn't a story about something that personally happened to the author but a general argument against big launches. They don't offer any concrete examples like the title would imply.

The article itself is pretty thin and quickly devolves into a bunch of analytics jargon word soup like "Metrics: D1/7/30, consistent weekly growth (5-10% WoW), NPS (and qualitative feedback), DAU/MAU."

Edit: The original title as submitted to HN was "My product went viral on social media but all I got were these shitty users." It looks like the mods have since changed it to a less misleading title.
So the secret to "hn for X" is "dang for X"
Genuinely in the most kind way possible, what exactly the fuck are you talking about? How is this “zero information”

> The highest-ranking career official at the Treasury Department is departing after a clash with allies of billionaire Elon Musk over access to sensitive payment systems, according to three people with knowledge of the matter, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to describe private talks.

> David A. Lebryk, who served in nonpolitical roles at Treasury for several decades, is expected to leave the agency soon, the people said. President Donald Trump named Lebryk as acting secretary upon taking office last week. Lebryk had a dispute with Musk’s surrogates over access to the payment system the U.S. government uses to disburse trillions of dollars every year, the people said.

> The exact nature of the disagreement was not immediately clear, they said.
Officials affiliated with Musk’s “Department of Government Efficiency” have been asking since after the election for access to the system, the people said — requests that were reiterated more recently, including after Trump’s inauguration.
Leakage and hydrogen tank pressures, filling systems are why I think consumers should never own hydrogen fuel cell cars. Ever seen how many people manage to fill their gas car with diesel or vice versa? How careless people can be filling gasoline into approved 5 gallon cans? The number of people driving off from gas stations with the nozzle and hose still stuck in their cars?

And now people want to give the average driver access to hydrogen refueling apparatus? Shocking.
A lot of this comes from the assumption that our organs each have a single purpose, so if the obvious purpose is not relevant in humans then the organ is useless. But most organs serve multiple purposes.
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Why do people think there is some riding out this storm? I am curious, what do people mean by this?
I agree that there's not much information to be gathered from a small sample, but there ought to be some tangible effects at the macro level. Is academia actually becoming more equal due to these initiatives? Are researchers who are hired as a result of inclusivity programmes as effective as researchers who are hired outside those programmes? These are things we ought to be able to measure.
Ethics aren't objective anyway, so it's not useful to rely on them. The US prides itself on being a melting pot full of diverse entrepreneurs. Diversity means different sets of ethics, sometimes varying greatly. I'm hopeful the US can get to a place where we expect everyone to agree on ethics and only reward those that operate with american ethics in mind. Which interestingly enough, I find the ethics that america loves to espouse with their words, more often reflects the enacted ethics of many immigrants when compared to the people who have many generations in this country.
> I believe in the "Let a hundred flowers bloom" philosopy. However I can't understand why systemd is the point of so much disagreement.

Your first sentence explains, to a great extent, your second. You see, systemd is designed to _prevent_ a hundred flowers from blooming. Unlike most Unix-like system components, the idea is for systemd not be an alternative replacable component, but the whole installation above the kernel. You don't choose things; you get those services and facilities which live within systemd; and those which don't - mostly won't work. That is, unless you tear out everything related to systemd. Which is difficult, since GNOME and some other packages over time have introduced dependencies on systemd, rather than on services or facilities it provides via a common protocol or interface.

This was also how the big Debian debate exploded, causing the fork of Devuan: The "opposition" did not demand "No systemd in Debian!", but rather, that the user would be able to choose not to have systemd at all, if they so please. I am paraphrasing from memory of course, but I believe that was the gist of it.

And the speaker in this video faced this situation.

I am not well-versed in NixOS and certainly not in this new project, but I imagine that if the author could easily just configure NixOS not have systemd, they might not have bothered starting this project and would more likely have published some kind of recipe/how-to page on
> you launch an app

"Free ReactJS web site filled with A/B testing and analytics, and a billion NPM modules" I guess.