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Show HN: Lightweight and robust CLI color converting utility
I started this project because I found myself converting between Hex and RGB a lot. As I was frequently visiting various color picker websites, I began thinking more and more about how color conversions even work in the first place. What is a color space?

Using any random color-picker online to go from RBG<->Hex works plenty fine, but, I think CLI tools are cool. I'm still pretty new to the Linux scene, and I really enjoy finding random command line programs to play with. I searched around a bit on Github and the AUR and couldn't find any CLI color conversion utilities, which I honestly found surprising (maybe I didn't look hard enough).

I decided I'd really enjoy trying to make a simple command line program for RGB<->Hex, and the scope slowly expanded. I could see myself expanding it (maybe including more color formats, suggesting complementary colors) but for now, unless people discover ways to break it or offer any pull requests, I think I'll be moving on to other projects.

It has no dependencies besides Python, and can be easily installed on mac/linux (see the README for more). I'm not certain how you'd set it up as a command line program on Windows, but you can just use Python in cmd to use the script anyway!
It's just my guess. Same way that people write pepsi, when they mean dead and seggs when they mean sex. Circumventing algorithmic filters is current direction of development of the language. It doesn't matter if any site automatically deranks word Musk yet. It's enough that people believe it might.
It's also because city residents will not, under any circumstances, allow a new airport to be built anywhere near them.
Oh wow, both users must be ecstatic./s
He's giving advice of how to overcome what has been described as a limitation, literally not gatekeeping but opening the gate for the OP.

Instead of imbuing into it some grievance narrative, why shouldn't people take the advice, if LLM's do suffer from an anti-recency bias, to find another way to learn new information that LLM's don't have in their models?

If some source of information you were looking for online wasn't available but it did exist at your local library in a book, why wouldn't you go check out the book?
> Compromise

The problem is that the republican party has had a "no comprimise" policy for a while. It's like they put the party before the country.
There's quite a lot of fluff in the article, but here's the crux of it:

> By integrating lightweight ion concentrations from rare earth elements into a specifically designed crystal matrix, they formulated a powerful memory storage technique. Using praseodymium doped in an yttrium oxide crystal, this material would not only serve as the basis for capturing data but also remain flexible across a spectrum of optical properties thereafter.

> Activation of this innovative memory technology occurs through the application of ultraviolet lasers, which stimulate the rare earth ions, leading to the release of electrons that subsequently become trapped within the crystal defects. These defects are intrinsic to the crystalline structure and are defined by the absence of atoms—gaps where a single oxygen atom might typically exist. The research demonstrated how these vacant sites can be engineered with precision to represent binary values, effectively transforming them into high-density memory storage units.
You do realize the guy you're talking about "dismantling and exposing" these immigration systems is the same one that wants to replace tech workers with H-1B visa?

Maybe ask yourself why you/they are against immigration of low-income workers but don't have a problem bringing in as many higher-income workers as they can(at lower salaries than they would have to pay non-immigrants).

I don't want to be working at McDonalds while companies like Tesla, Google, Amazon, etc. are importing labour for the higher-paying jobs in the country, but that seems to be the future a lot of people are excitedly running towards by supporting Musk.
You didn’t say at which points in time so it’s kind of hard to say yes but I will say “yes, reliability has improved”.
yes: https://www.latent.space/p/2024-post-transformers
Hah. We're doing AI, but we're doing vision-based stuff and not LLMs. For us, the problem has been deploying models.

Google and AWS helpfully offered their managed LLM AI services, but they don't really have anything terribly more useful than just machines with GPUs. Which are expensive.

I'm going to check fly.io...
You need to actually read the article before commenting.
The flip side is that if dismantling a federal agency doesn’t break anything, and doesn’t cause near universal outrage, perhaps the federal agency can/should be dismantled at least temporarily?

Obviously a dangerous game to play, but it’s always safer to do nothing and sink slowly than to start ripping apart the hull at sea in order to fix the leaks. Both strategies have nonzero danger.
Encoding data in crystals is deliciously sci fi
... you started your comment with "batteries are not a grid scale solution" and then you described one of the primary reasons batteries are useful at grid scale.

I don't get it, did you put an extra "not" in your opening sentence?
I shelled out for a 4090 when they came out thinking it would be the key factor for running local llms. It turns out that anything worth running takes way more than 24GB VRAM. I would have been better off with 2+ 3090s and a custom power supply. It’s a pity because I thought it would be a great solution for coding and a home assistant, but performance and quality isn’t there yet for small models (afaik). Perhaps DIGITS will scratch the itch for local LLM developers, but performant models really want big metal for now, not something I can afford to own or rent at my scale.
Nobody dies if someone's taxes are wrong. Also, IRBs are not usually about lies, but about scientists not understanding the risks and solutions.
Show HN: VimLM – A Local, Offline Coding Assistant for Vim
VimLM is a local, offline coding assistant for Vim. It’s like Copilot but runs entirely on your machine—no APIs, no tracking, no cloud.

- Deep Context: Understands your codebase (current file, selections, references).
- Conversational: Iterate with follow-ups like "Add error handling".
- Vim-Native: Keybindings like `Ctrl-l` for prompts, `Ctrl-p` to replace code.
- Inline Commands: `!include` files, `!deploy` code, `!continue` long responses.

Perfect for privacy-conscious devs or air-gapped environments.

Try it:
```
pip install vimlm
vimlm
```

[GitHub](https://github.com/JosefAlbers/VimLM)
Funneling arms helps give time to Europe to get their shit together and start building an army.

Stopping that is only helping the russians.
> The more effectively we prevent a crisis, the more people claim there was never a real threat.

Best exemplified by the anti-vax movement. They don't see measles anymore, so they think measles isn't a threat, and then they read some "alternative" health site saying that vaccines cause autism, and they don't vaccinate their kids.
The thing that kind of sucks is that picking up your bags is before customs, where another line can develop, so that 15-minute delay can lead to an hour+ in line if a bunch of airplanes unloaded all at once.
Right, there is .1 % variation in genetics which, although seems like small number, manages create differences that lead to social effects. no correlation with race required, not surprising really since race is self chosen and non specific.
This is near and dear to me, because I want people to run stuff like homelabs and side projects.

What part of the cost gets out of hand? Having to have a Machine for every process? Do you remember what napkin math pricing you were working with?
That was actually granted under the Biden administration and it has since been removed under the new Trump admin.
It seems like you must not be American. For starters, we have the 2nd amendment here, which means that someone simply being "armed" does not mean they deserve to be summarily executed. Talking about "type I and "type II" errors is completely missing the problem - the situations that have drawn extreme outrage were created and escalated by police themselves. This identification with a singular all-powerful government perspective that asserts some active judgement must be performed (as opposed to say retreat, regroup, and call for backup) is a large part of what I mean by authoritarianism. Just because you're steeped in it so deeply that you cannot recognize it does not mean that it is a "bogeyman".
hrx looks much better, as txtar can't include, e.g., other txtar files
> Multiple turtles reliably oriented themselves according to the magnetic field direction corresponding with their seasonal migration direction. This paper is claiming something different, something to do with a particular magnetic field having a behavioral association.

The paper (which is here [0] by the way, they failed to provide a link in the article) indicates that these turtles have been known to orient themselves using magnetic fields. The new finding is that they're also able to use magnetic fields as a map -- they can identify a location based on its specific magnetic fields. And apparently, the "mapping" involves a different neurobiological mechanism from the "orientation".

0: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-024-08554-y
The problem is that the C guys don't want to define certain semantics. Currently "it works", but Rust wants invariants.
I do, in fact, instruct LLMs to make spelling and grammar mistakes when I have them reply to cold emails.
Mathics3 Live Shell
I just explained how it's morally reprehensible. The argument is right there, above the quote you chose to quote. Neat trick, but I'm sorry, a retort that does not make.
Most people haven't been in an MRI, either. I only know about their existence from TV.
> phone-home licensing dance every time a Fly Machine started

To userspace Nvidia license server (a) in each host, (b) for entire Fly cloud, or (c) over WAN to Nvidia cloud?
I think you possibly haven't read very many court documents. When these cases actually get tried much of this becomes public anyways. In particular this document details agents Mitnick _himself_ spoke with. Are you really suggesting their redactions here are to prevent reprisals? How could that possibly work?
depression is based on self reported information, is that a social construct? anyway my point is that personality predisposition has a genetic component.
Oops, I meant to say, 'People are not short-sighted sociopaths, usually.' I need to double-check before submission!
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It’s pretty simple — better human rights in other countries means fewer refugees emigrating from those countries.

If your aim is to decrease the number of refugees coming here, USAID is a big lever you can pull.
No, there were lots of them. Sentence fragments were especially egregious. It felt like someone was was pausing a video every few seconds.
I run a text-only Usenet server. As a sibling commenter says, you work out with your peers what you want to receive. I carry most of the text newsgroups, and according to my daily report I got about 3000 new messages yesterday totaling a bit over 9 MB.
There was a post on r/localLlama the other day about a presentation by the company building Digits hardware for Nvidia. The gist was that Digits is going to be aimed at academic AI research folks and as such don't expect them to be available in large numbers (at least not for this first version). It was disappointing. Now I'm awaiting the AMD Strix Halo based systems.
Theres nothing charitable or noble about donating other people’s money. If you feel these causes are worthy, donate your own money privately.
Nah, I just tried and it works fine.
This is a pretty entertaining story about a “sport” I was only vaguely aware of, because my school did not do sport stacking (or maybe I’m too old). But I have seen a few videos of it online, and it’s pretty neat to find out it was popularized by an enthusiastic clown/school teacher who made some risky business decisions. I’m glad it worked out and they didn’t go bankrupt with thousands of cups in their basement.
There are proven benefits from increased diversity. My point above is that if we are going to do it purely on merit, let's eliminate all biases and not just the ones in DEI.
IIRC, (a) and (c), which I think sort of implies (b)?

Really what we'd have wanted to do would have been to give Fly Machines MIG slices. But to the best of my understanding, MIG is paravirtualized; it doesn't give you SR-IOV-style PCI addresses for the slices, but rather a reference Nvidia's userland libraries pass to the kernel driver, which is a dance you can't do across VM boundaries unless your hypervisor does it deliberately.
Time to lay off low performers!
I'm admittedly a complete LLM noob, so my question might not even make sense. Or it might exist and I haven't found it quite yet.

But have they considered pivoting some of said compute to some 'private, secure LLM in a box' solution?

I've lately been toying with the idea of training from extensive docs and code, some open, some not, for both code generation and insights.

I went down the RAG rabbit hole, and frankly, the amount of competing ideas of 'this is how you should do it', from personal blogs to PaaS companies, overwhelmed me. Vector dbs, ollama, models, langchain, and various one off tools linking to git repos.

I feel there has to be substantial market for whoever can completely simplify that flow for dummies like me, and not charge a fortune for the privilege.
honestly seeing someone else go through similar made me feel a lot better and not like I was under some bizarre cyberattack - I also encountered some weird behavior like that too, but being a part time security researcher, and long time user, didnt consider the platform would react to fairly benign use of the platform in such a severe manner. I have actual damages I can prove, live in a state where I’m fairly certain they’re violating privacy laws, and just seeing stuff like this confirms the issue is more widespread than just dumbass old me, who is completely harmless and definitely a real user that anyone of any competence over there should be able to figure out. I’m dealing with outsourced overseas support just giving me chatgpt scripts. Trying to figure out how to escalate further - I’d be interested in chatting with people like you on more info, because like you, I am also (rightfully) very mad. my side business has been generated mostly using my linkedin, which is why I’ve always paid for it.
Are you referring to the Clinton Health Access Initiative, to which USAID gave $7.5 million in 2019 during Trump's term, or is there another one?
This is the same concern that has been raised about the personal devices (I think one was legit called “friend”?) that sits around your neck or something and just… records your day.

It’s super privacy invading since you are sending this data to a third party without someone else’s consent. (Which I mean we have normalized people consenting for someone else with Google so… yeah).

I think if we are talking about about fully local processing the conversation slightly changes. But there is still a major question about accuracy and the ability to have and say things at a meeting without worrying about it making it to someone else.
Guillermo Rauch (Vercel) on Developer Experience and AI [audio]
GitHub Copilot for Eclipse Now in Public Preview
> discrimination against white guys

Where did I say anything like that? Please quote it - I could have miscommunicated.
That is the argument made for them, yes.

But it's a little unclear on why they decided that quite so much of our history should be about those particular people. They never seemed to want to supplement other statues to remember more of history.
The thing is that being, for example, Arabic looking or having an Arabic sounding name isn't a prerequisite for being Muslim. So if we started profiling for people that we thought were Muslim, then it would be pretty easy for terrorists to figure out our criteria and just use the most "white-seeming" of their cohort to commit attacks.

If, on the other hand, you randomly select people for additional checking, they can't predict that and can't learn how to circumvent it, they just have to take a stab at an attack and hope they don't get unlucky.

Basically, any deterministic aspect of security is predictable, which makes it vulnerable.
> most people use it to spy on others.

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For what it’s worth I don’t think we entirely disagree: it has at times felt absurd that it didn’t make as much money as it maybe otherwise could. We made a bet that the type of cloud platform we wanted to build could be well served by GPUs. It wasn’t as good a bet as we thought. There is probably a different type of cloud product we could build that would be better set up to sell gpus but we are still committed to the primitives our machine product has to offer.
Out of curiosity, how much runway does fly.io have (without raising new funding?)
Kudos to owning up to your failed bet on GPUs even if you are putting a lot of blame on Nvidia for it. And to be fair, you're not wrong. Nvidia's artificial market segmentation is terrible and their drivers aren't that great either.

The real problem is the lack of security-isolated slicing one or more GPUs for virtual machines. I want my consumer-grade GPU to be split up into the host machine and also into virtual machines, without worrying about resident neighbor cross-talk! Gosh that sounds like why I moved out of my apartment complex, actually.

The idea of having to assign a whole GPU via PCI passthrough is just asinine. I don't need to do that for my CPU, RAM, network, or storage. Why should I need to do it for my GPU?
Yes devs want LLMs, but also the price of inference compute plummeted 90% over the last 18 months, which is primarily in gpus

So it’s not just that openai and anthropic apis are good enough, they are also cheap enough, and still overpriced compared to the industry

Your GPU investment wont do as well as you thought, but also you are wasting time on security. If the end user and market doesnt care then you can consider not caring as well. Worst case you can pay for any settlement with …. more gpu credits.
Who is Mark Buffington, and why should I trust that his “recent web information” is an accurate and representative sample of spending that DOGE has cut? The official doge.gov site provides no breakdown other than a Twitter stream and an empty savings tab, although they claim on this lovely Valentine's day that "receipts" will be coming "no later than Valentine's day". Big if true!
You didn't explain anything about why it is so, you just said it is, hence why I said it's your opinion. If you can't explain why, in more concrete terms, then there is no reason to believe your argument.
Serious request: can someone please solve this for moving furniture around in 3D? Let me take an AR scan of a flight of steps with a corner and another scan of a couch, and tell me if it's possible to do the move.
If you press people on why they believe what they believe, you will often find that the axioms underlying their reasoning are slogans, trite phrases and hackneyed soundbites.

But here's the catch: the memes, short texts, or short videos are spread through a complex machinery of interrelating parts with global reach. Explanations are plausible, wrong and very profitable in front of the right eyeballs.
Yeah, this makes "perfect sense." The IRS is the primary federal agency that generates net revenue with a positive return on every dollar invested. When the IRS receives more funding, it typically enhances tax enforcement efforts and increases the total revenue collected. It doesn't seem logical for DOGE to reduce staff when those employees contribute more revenue than they cost, resulting in a positive return on investment.

Unless they believe it's possible to maintain the same revenue collection with fewer people through increased automation, what are their motives? Laying off probationary employees still developing critical skills undercuts the IRS's long-term revenue goals. Increasing the performance standards for probation rather than terminating these new hires would help build a more effective workforce that generates more significant revenue. IMO, Elon and friends are just trying to reduce future tax enforcement and get away with more
Neither you or the comment I was replying to have said anything about "what the Murdochs actually do"?
> Not really a valid argument

It is, because the quote you quoted is in reference to what I said above.

I explained real consequences of pirating. Companies have gone under, individuals have been driven to suicide. This HAS happened.

It's logically consistent that if we do that, but increase the scale, then the harm will be proportionally increased.

You might disagree. Personally, I don't understand how. Really, I don't. My fundamental understanding of humanity is that each innovation will be pushed to it's limits. To make the most money, to do it as fast as possible, and in turn to harm the most people, if it is harmful. It is not in the nature of humanity to do something half-way when there's no friction to doing more.

This reality of humanity permeates our culture and societies. That's why the US government has checks and balances. Could the US government remain a democracy without them? Of course. We may have an infinite stream of benevolent leaders.

From my perspective, that is naive. And, certainly, the founding fathers agreed with me. That is one example - but look around you, and you will see this mentality permeates everything we do as a species.
>An IPv6 router with a stateful firewall blocking incoming connections could have just the same issues with timeouts, I'd imagine.

You'd be surprised... PCP (Port Control Protocol) implemented by large vendors such as Cisco and Apple are able to punch through a firewall for up to 24 hours in a single session.

https://github.com/Self-Hosting-Group/wiki/wiki/Port-Mapping...
Yet there's nothing stopping you from making a screenshot of a post and linking to the original post, with commentary. Just saves a step, I suppose.