senko
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Comment · 1 hour ago
So the cost was zero.
Comment · 1 hour ago
It'd cost ~$250 via API (ie. paying current API pricing per token).
Source: copy pasted the tokens into a chatbot and told it to figure it out.
Comment · 15 days ago
The author has been a free software author, contributor and active community member to many projects including GNOME, Freedesktop, GStreamer/Pipewire, and (if I recall correctly) LibreOffice for decades.
kids these days have no respect...
Comment · 15 days ago
TFA addresses that:
> I decided to buy a negative photo scanner and found that the Plustek 8200i was supported under Linux so I bought that. Only to discover that the chipset in the scanner had changed to one that wasn’t supported under Linux anymore
Comment · 15 days ago
HTTP was created in '91 and HTML in '93. SMTP in '81. That's 9-19 years before the dotcom boom, depending on how you want to count.
In '93 people were still complaining that computers weren't bringing in productivity improvements (Solow paradox):
> You can see the computer age everywhere but in the productivity statistics.
The big change is that we now (due to the internet and interconnectedness of everyone) learn about the technology much faster than before.
But diffusion through business and population still takes time. Especially if there's a hardware crunch that acts as a brake.
I lived through the dotcom boom era (went online in '93 or so). If you can't compare that change to the magical science fiction we're living through (I can press a button, speak to my computer and tell it to build me a 3d game, then play through it 15 minutes later), I beg to differ.
(edit to add: not to mention the existential crisis many artists, developers and mathematicians are going through right now...dotcom was nowhere near that in terms of psychological impact)
Future is already here, it's just not evenly distributed (also said in '93, and I believe it's applicable again).
Comment · 17 days ago
Models do seem to have a preferred style, see for example what Opus likes to do: https://s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/vault.senko.net/blog/quic...
The pelican from the post can be changed by prompting, as other commenters show. But I found it pretty hard to guide Opus away from the above.
Other models' results look different, but also show style convergence.
You can also see in "creative" game output (Astra loves 3d), or text output.
It's not all bad - this shows we should treat AI as a tool and assume any creativity (or lack of it) as coming from the human.
This nicely redefines slop as work you slapped together without much care, irrespective of what the tool was.
Comment · 19 days ago
Ranks deep sky objects for tonight at your location.
A single-binary Go CLI (feat. WASM port for in-browser use) that tells you what to image tonight from a given location.
Comment · 21 days ago
Depends, is my friend getting paid a lot of money to give me this advice, by a 3rd party that will massively benefit if I take it?
I might just trust a random redditor more...
Comment · 21 days ago
> Astral [...] The actual product was secondary at best.
No one who has tried ruff, uv and ty would agree with that.
Nor go back to any of the previous alternatives Astral's products replaced. (With the possible exception of ty since that's still pretty new)
Comment · 24 days ago
I love the typo.
Comment · 26 days ago
The post is a zero-information personal rant (good for him/her!), impossible to comment on without violating at least half of the HN guidelines[0].
[0] literally; even this comment violates a few
Comment · 26 days ago
A crawler that respects robots.txt is useless in practice since many sites only allow Googlebot and maaaybe Bing - by name.
Comment · 28 days ago
Since it's a PDF, here's an excerpt from the summary:
> This report introduces Kolibri, an English–German Mixture-of-Experts transformer with 78.1B total parameters and 3.46B active parameters per token, released as open weights under the Apache 2.0 licence.
> We built Kolibri for sovereign and specialised deployment, with a particular focus on German and on regulated domains such as public administration, industry, and aerospace. To support these settings, we control the full model-development process, including data, architecture, training infrastructure, post-training, and evaluation.
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