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dr_hooo··on Qwen 3.8 27B on my laptop can interpret model weights, too
But my question remains: isn't something like pi.dev good enough for this? Or are you using custom harness to describe the scripts/skills/etc that you create yourself?
dr_hooo··on Qwen 3.8 27B on my laptop can interpret model weights, too
> need to basically write custom harnesses

Curious, why/how does that help? Or do you have some niche needs?

dr_hooo··on Show HN: Subvocal – Talk to your computer without making noise
Same experience. Faster, but also much more filler.
dr_hooo··on Voxtral 3
> Good news, we just updated and now the model is able to swear.

Fucking awesome ;)

dr_hooo··on Every AI model has the same "controversial" take on humans
> Elias and Elara

Wow, I hadn't heard of this. Fascinating to think about parallels with humans who also seem to develop similar proto-stories in independent populations.(e.g. religions involving Invisible gods).

dr_hooo··on Voxtral 3
Oh, wow, I wasn't aware. Weird choice...
dr_hooo··on Voxtral 3
Too bad it's not open, unlike the previous version.

However, I found Qwen ASR and QwenTTS to be quite good, and not too large. Also https://github.com/kyutai-labs/pocket-tts was also great (but only a few languages)

dr_hooo··on Show HN: Quake ported to safe Rust, playable in browser
Mr moneybags over here... True, but for mere mortals that was a pretty high bar. Speaking from experience from fighting a 486DX2-80
dr_hooo··on People who can't picture anything are rewriting the science of imagination
I've wondered about this: if you can hold an image clearly in your mind - e.g. the Eifel tower - wouldn't you be able to reproduce it well on paper? I know that's not artistic ability in the creative sense, but still..
dr_hooo··on Show HN: Rowboat – Open-source, local-first alternative to Claude Desktop
Thanks for the straight answer, sadly I use neither of those providers. As a suggestion: maybe you could add an option to just disable e-mail integration, for users like me? Right now I'll be getting, "finalize your app setup" vibes... forever.

Again, great app - all the best for the future!

dr_hooo··on Why skilled workers come to Germany and then leave again
> If you speak decent enough ~~English~~ German, then basically if you get along, they forget about where you come from.

This has been my exact experience in Germany though.

dr_hooo··on Show HN: Rowboat – Open-source, local-first alternative to Claude Desktop
Look really great! I'm a bit sad that the only way to connect to email is gmail. Is a generic IMAP connector on your roadmap?
dr_hooo··on Job application asked for my SAT scores
Regardless of the content, a test filters for people willing to put in the work to pass. All else being equal, given two candidates, where one has passed a test and another one who didn't bother, the first one sends a stronger signal to the potential employer.

It's still worth discussing if the particular test is ideal, but the answer IMO is not to say let's remove tests in general.

dr_hooo··on An AI agent deleted our production database. The agent's confession is below
I read this as "the agent should have asked for confirmation before running".
dr_hooo··on Show HN: I built a tiny LLM to demystify how language models work
They do (it's just text), if they are there...
dr_hooo··on Android Developer Verification
Likely true, but also many technically oriented people (myself included) would turn away from Android if f-droid stopped working. And I would actively start recommending friends and family against it. What is the benefit of Android at this point? an extended Ads platform, controlled by Google.
dr_hooo··on NanoGPT Slowrun: 10x Data Efficiency with Infinite Compute
On a much simpler level, llm frameworks could re-summarize their context to keep relevant, use-case-specific facts, cleanup and also organize long and short term memory on some local storage, etc. So kind of like sleep. I think these examples are low hanging fruit to improve the perceived intelligence of LLM systems (so probably they're already used somewhere).
dr_hooo··on Yann LeCun raises $1B to build AI that understands the physical world
No true regarding the IDs, only PhD titles can be added. Not job descriptions. Source: academia person in Germany.
dr_hooo··on EU Council approves Chat Control mandate for negotiation with Parliament
Sadly, another attempt will likely be made at some point. At least the regulation is quite explicit:

> This Regulation shall not prohibit, make impossible, weaken, circumvent or otherwise undermine cybersecurity measures, in particular encryption, including end-to-end encryption, implemented by the relevant information society services or by the users. This Regulation shall not create any obligation that would require a provider of hosting services or a provider of interpersonal communications services to decrypt data or create access to end-to-end encrypted data, or that would prevent providers from offering end-to-end encrypted services.

dr_hooo··on LLMs are steroids for your Dunning-Kruger
> The same thing happened when Internet arrived. "Don't believe anything you read on the Internet."

Isn't the saying "Don't believe *everything* you read on the Internet."? Which is quite different (and still holds today).

dr_hooo··on Show HN: TutaCrypt, post-quantum encryption protocols for securing emails [pdf]
I was all for post-quantum crypto until I heard the news about SIKE being broken with a simple computer.

How will you make sure this does not happen to the algorithms you chose?

dr_hooo··on Meta Thinks Your Privacy Is for Sale. Would You Pay 120 Euros a Year
Question is whether they will stop tracking you, even if you pay.
dr_hooo··on A 1990 experiment to test whether we could discern life on Earth remotely
From my understanding, there is a strong assumption backed by observations that matter and physics work the same way everywhere in our universe.
dr_hooo··on Meduza co-founder's phone infected with Pegasus
Could you provide some information on the Victoria Neuland thing?
dr_hooo··on Coffee in a Can
Microwaving steel isn't really a problem, as long as it is not just a very thin layer (can confirm)
dr_hooo··on AI isn’t good enough
Sure, but how would the average guy fare at the same task?
dr_hooo··on Custom instructions for ChatGPT
This doesn't seem to be a very hard problem to me. In the sense that you don't need to invent any new tech to store personal info. I also don't see a reason why these models will not run locally on our devices in the future.
dr_hooo··on Instagram Threads hits 100M users, becoming the fastest growing app
It may very well be true that 3rd parties can easily connect my identities. However I still see no reason to share my private identity with Bob from accounting.
dr_hooo··on Instagram Threads hits 100M users, becoming the fastest growing app
Sorry I don't have a answer for your question. But wow, I was not aware of that quote. The audacity of Zuckerberg lecturing people on lack of integrity is amazing. Shaming customers to further tighten his companys lock-in strategy seems... fittingly dystopian.
dr_hooo··on The Lone Banana Problem in AI
You're just a statistical number generator...
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