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by troyvit 11mo ago
If it's dandelions, wait a few seasons (now that you've used Roundup) and then eat them! The leaves taste like arugula (the younger the better). The heads, when they bloom, can be dried, ground, and baked into cookie recipes. If y
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by troyvit 11mo ago
The only difference is that memory prices skyrocketing is a temporary thing resulting from a spike in demand from incompetent AI megalomaniacs like Sam Altman who don't know how to run a company and are desperate to scale because that&
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by troyvit 11mo ago
That's what I was thinking as I was listening to the "be like clippy" video linked in the parent. Those local models probably won't be able to match the quality of the big guys' for a long time to come, but for now
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by troyvit 11mo ago
That's a legit question and it is based on assumptions I have about the overall HN audience based on similar threads I've seen in the past. So yeah definitely take it with that grain of salt.
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by troyvit 11mo ago
Glad I'm not most users. I'm down for 80% of the quality for an open weight model. Hell I've been using Linux for 25 years so I suppose I'm used to not-the-greatest-but-free.
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by troyvit 11mo ago
I think you're right, and I feel the same about Mistral. It's "good enough", super cheap, privacy friendly, and doesn't burn coal by the shovel-full. No need to pay through the nose for the SOTA models just to get w
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by troyvit 11mo ago
It's wayyyy to early in the game to say who is out-executing whom. I mean why do you think those guys left Meta? It reminds me of a time ten years ago I was sitting on a flight with a guy who works for the natural gas industry. I was (
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by troyvit 11mo ago
I'm reading this post and wondering what kind of crazy accessibility tools one could make. I think it's a little off the rails but imagine a tool that describes a web video for a blind user as it happens, not just the speech, but
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by troyvit 11mo ago
I sort-of see where you're coming from, but it also ignores a double standard to me. Don't buy search from a company that uses an api from another company that is (or was? unclear) based in a country that invaded another country a
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by troyvit 11mo ago
So if America invades Venezuela should we all stop using google? Should we have stopped using google when the U.S. invaded Iraq and killed 150,000 people[1]? Should we stop using products imported from China for the cultural genocide they&#
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by troyvit 11mo ago
Oh cool! Sometimes taking away the easy toys enables us to innovate in completely different directions. Maybe there's hope yet (saying this as a guy who lives at the base of some pretty tall mountains too).
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by troyvit 11mo ago
The great filter isn't about extinction necessarily, but about not being able to transcend to a space-faring species. I don't think our ignorance of climate change will extinct us, but I do think the way we handle climate change i
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by troyvit 11mo ago
I think it's most likely a symptom, not an end result of our stupidity. It's the short-sightedness that lets us keep doing this, that is the same idiocy that will lead us to nuclear or chemical warfare which reduces us back to a p
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by troyvit 11mo ago
Even though we, collectively, are driving said train. As a believer in the great filter theory[1] it's a shame given how far we've apparently come, only to be brought low by our desires, our inability to believe we could screw our
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by troyvit 11mo ago
My god the cost right? It's so much less than any of the competition that just feeding off of an api key (for coding, yeah) works great. But as you say the rest of it is good too. I use it for research and to me it does a great job, al
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by troyvit 11mo ago
I think that's the point. The GP post basically said, "Gamers can't be messed with." A child post gave a ton of examples of how gamers are messed with, and this comment helps cement that. It does beg the question as to w
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by troyvit 11mo ago
You bring up a good point ,and in that they don't really _say_ what data leaked. "Just some old stuff nobody uses."
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by troyvit 11mo ago
I keep hearing that here, and people have good reasons why they think of that but to me sideloading always meant having your phone physically next to the device you're pulling an apk from, in other words loading the app from the side.
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by troyvit 11mo ago
It depends on the crime though right? This was all legacy data and from the description the worst thing they got was contact information that's five years older or more ("internal operational documents and merchant onboarding mate
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by troyvit 11mo ago
It's a part of privacy policy boilerplate that if a company is compelled by the courts to give up its logs it'll do it. I'm sure all of OpenAI's users read that policy before they started spilling their guts to a bot, ri
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by troyvit 1y ago
Hah! I need to update my analogies.
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by troyvit 1y ago
Man I was in a Google News Initiative meeting and they started with a "fun poll" where they asked how you'd feel if you read an email that you knew was written by AI. Lots of people didn't mind knowing that was the case,
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by troyvit 1y ago
Oh cool! I'll have to dig into it.
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by troyvit 1y ago
Here are the things that get me, and maybe it's because I haven't configured it well yet. 1. On firefox first start-up is slow after unlocking to actually find a password for a site. The interface says, "No logins for xyz.com
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by troyvit 1y ago
Yeah and I'll probably end up going that way as work locks down the models we're allowed to use, saving Mistral for personal projects.
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by troyvit 1y ago
I don't know if how close Europe is, but I'm sufficiently whelmed by Mistral that I don't need to look elsewhere yet. It's kind-of like having a Toyota Corolla while everybody else is driving around in smart cars but it
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by troyvit 1y ago
I self-host through Vaultwarden but I think I miss this. Besides, I feel like paying these guys anyway just for the great product. We use 1Password at $dayjob and it's so primitive by comparison.
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by troyvit 1y ago
I agree -- they chose their platform (docker), and for my personal work that just isn't my platform, and it's probably unfair for me to call them "opinionated" about that (because like it or not Docker is the norm) or ab
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by troyvit 1y ago
That is good advice from both of you. I knew it has to be me because it's honestly one of the most successful and popular open source tools I've worked with. I think I should've made that more clear in my original comment.
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by troyvit 1y ago
Holy cow this looks awesome. I'm digging in now.

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