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VadimPR··on Still Love Telnet
Mudlet (https://mudlet.org) is a scriptable, with Lua, telnet client that's pretty solid. Supports secure telnet over TLS as well.
VadimPR··on Ask HN: What's the best self hosted/local alternative to GPT-4?
How much ram/vram required?
VadimPR··on SimCity 4 was released 20 years ago
just mentioning that Humankind got fixed up and it's a fantastic and innovative take on Civ. The reviews don't do it justice.
VadimPR··on StarCoder and StarCoderBase: 15.5B parameter models with 8K context length
This is great - we needed a model where we're sure it won't reproduce someone's code with an incompatible license.
VadimPR··on Get paid for open source contribution with Rust
The 23% cut the platform takes is killing the value proposition, what am I missing?

We're currently self hosting our bounties (https://mudlet.org/bounty) and that is working out alright.

VadimPR··on Live Starlink Satellite and Coverage Map
Not much coverage for the Nordics which is interesting.
VadimPR··on My deleted response to Pirate Wires' Nuclear Disasters
Not just Kazakhstan but Australia has uranium, and excess electricity can be sold (as it already is). I'm all for renewables, but the arguments against nuclear aren't all that ironclad.

I'm glad the author posted their point of viewer however, it's always helpful to understand where others are coming from.

VadimPR··on Using mmap to make LLaMA load faster
The feature to load a % to the GPU is novel and amazing! I couldn't get the project up and running myself (requires a nightly rust build) but I love this particular innovation.
VadimPR··on Show HN: Tabby – A self-hosted GitHub Copilot
Were you able to use it in VS Code as an assistant? As far as I see, it just offers a stand-alone HTML page for coding in.
VadimPR··on Using mmap to make LLaMA load faster
Mind sharing how you got it to work in your setup?
VadimPR··on BlenderGPT: Use commands in English to control Blender with OpenAI's GPT-4
I see the prompt but not the part where he's supplying the API - mind pointing me to it?
VadimPR··on FauxPilot – An open-source GitHub Copilot server
This makes me glad to have chosen an nvidia gpu on linux. You get a whole lot of hidden benefits / QoL improvements that just aren't there with amd and nobody really mentions.
VadimPR··on Awesome-totally-open-ChatGPT: A list of open alternatives to ChatGPT
Those exist - the trouble is that they're not for the average mortal...
VadimPR··on Show HN: GPT Repo Loader – load entire code repos into GPT prompts
I've got a hunch that AI will be able to put Hyrum's Law (https://www.hyrumslaw.com) to good use in the future: given an application, generate unit tests for all documented and undocumented behaviours of the system. Do all the refactoring you need afterwards and you'll have a large safety net backing you up. With refactoring complete, regenerate unit tests for all new behaviours of the system.
VadimPR··on PyTorch 2.0
Agree, it's a bit dated already due to this.
VadimPR··on Mudlet (FOSS) is offering $1k to improve text gaming
Hey HackerNews community!

Are you a fan of online text-only games (MUDs)? Then you might be familiar with Mudlet - the open-source MUD client that makes playing these games even more enjoyable.

Mudlet is written in C++17 and Qt5, and runs on Linux/macOS/Windows - making it a popular choice for many MUD players. To put a banana to scale, our Discord server peaked over 1,000 online players this week.

To support the growth of our project, we're excited to offer bounties for developers who can contribute their skills and help enhance Mudlet's functionality. Whether you're interested in implementing new features or fixing bugs, we'd love to have you on board and work together to make Mudlet even better! We have issues split in the $20/$30/$50 categories - for full details, see https://www.mudlet.org/2023/02/mudlets-new-1000-bounty-progr....

This is thanks to the successful Patreon we've been running for a little while - re-investing what we get back into the client to help improve the project.

Thank you for considering contributing to Mudlet, and let's work together to make the MUD gaming experience even better for everyone! Mudlet has been around for over a decade now, we've only seen sustained growth, and we're convinced that MUDs are here to stay.

VadimPR··on Show HN: Procal: A simple Qt-based programming calculator
Qalculate! is my favourite GTK and Qt-based calculator that's great at accepting all sorts of inputs, even solving for X: https://github.com/Qalculate/qalculate-qt
VadimPR··on Open source solution replicates ChatGPT training process
Compared ChatGPT to BLOOM - which I know doesn't benefit from RLHF.
VadimPR··on Facebook LLAMA is being openly distributed via torrents
Does this mean that with big enough compute capacity - say, Petals https://github.com/bigscience-workshop/petals which distributes the model over the internet over GPUs - we can run LLAMA?
VadimPR··on Facebook LLAMA is being openly distributed via torrents
True, and that's why there is a project that is using volunteered, distributed GPUs to run BLOOM/BLOOMZ: https://github.com/bigscience-workshop/petals, http://chat.petals.ml.
VadimPR··on Tell HN: Do not store any funds in PayPal or use them for anything critical
I run an open source project and we're channelling out finds into PayPal. What's a good alternative to switch to?
VadimPR··on Open source solution replicates ChatGPT training process
How good is the quality of this? BLOOM is a 176B parameter model, but it doesn't seem to compare to GPT-3 (175B parameters) in terms of output quality.
VadimPR··on Roman church decorated with 4k skeletons
Beautiful place. The crypt includes a quote that really resonates with you - translated to English - "you are what we were; you will be what we are"
VadimPR··on Keybase.pub Shutting Down on March 1 2023
This is a shame, Keybase's future is looking increasingly rocky. Has anyone got alternatives for team-based secrets sharing in an open-source project?

Github secrets is one place but that's a one-way, write-only street.

VadimPR··on Img2Prompt – Get prompts from stable diffusion generated images
Doesn't seem to be working - an alternative is to use https://tinybots.net/artbot/interrogate, which is a front-end to the crowdsourced https://stablehorde.net network.
VadimPR··on Open Assistant: Conversational AI for Everyone
That already exists - https://github.com/bigscience-workshop/petals
VadimPR··on ChatGPT Plus
Premium pricing. I would have been okay with $10/mo, this is pushing it.

Let's see how long this lasts and whether they'll introduce a lower tier.

VadimPR··on Show HN: Generate commit messages using GPT-3
Depends on how you merge - I prefer squash (yes, controversial). If you do merge commits, then I agree individual 'why' needs to be within the commit.
VadimPR··on Show HN: Generate commit messages using GPT-3
In my way of working, the 'why' can go into the overall PR and the 'what' into the individual commits. Both are important - the reason for changes and a concise summary if what you've done.
VadimPR··on EVs Are Essential Grid-Scale Storage
Does the cost of the natural gas power plant include the green house gas costs it is emitting?
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