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kennethologist··on The US grocery slowdown is real
"Early studies suggest that GLP-1s may be effective in treating opioid, alcohol and nicotine addiction. Researchers are examining whether the drugs can also help people who are addicted to gambling, sex and shopping, among other things."

https://med.stanford.edu/news/insights/2025/04/ozempic-addic...

kennethologist··on Nvidia to buy assets from Groq for $20B cash
Big win for Chamath!
kennethologist··on Nano Banana Pro
Easiest way is to go https://aistudio.google.com/api-keys set up an api key and add your billing to it.
kennethologist··on Everything we announced at our first LlamaCon
Meta announced several key updates to enhance building with Llama and strengthen the open-source ecosystem:

1. Llama API Preview: Launched a limited preview of the Llama API, a developer platform simplifying Llama application development with easy API key creation, playgrounds, SDKs, and tools for fine-tuning and evaluation. It emphasizes model portability and privacy.

2. Fast Inference Collaborations: Announced collaborations with Cerebras and Groq to offer developers access to faster Llama model inference speeds via the Llama API.

3. Expanded Llama Stack Integrations: Revealed new and expanded Llama Stack integrations with partners like NVIDIA, IBM, Red Hat, and Dell Technologies to make deploying Llama applications easier for enterprises.

4. New Llama Protection Tools & Program: Released new open-source security tools including Llama Guard 4, LlamaFirewall, and Llama Prompt Guard 2, updated CyberSecEval 4, and announced the Llama Defenders Program for partners to help evaluate system security.

5. Llama Impact Grant Recipients: Announced the 10 international recipients of the second Llama Impact Grants, awarding over $1.5 million USD to support projects using Llama for transformative change.

Overall, the announcements emphasize making Llama more accessible, easier to build with, faster, more secure, and supporting its diverse open-source community.

kennethologist··on Amazon Wants to Be a Satellite-Internet Powerhouse. It Has a Long Way to Go
No Paywall: http://archive.today/brZmg
kennethologist··on A New AI Worry: Many Young Coders No Longer Know How Their Code Works
Just ask the LLM to walk you through each line of code, create an explain the dependency graphs and in a relatively short period of time they’ll know exactly how their code works. Using Claude Code is quite useful for this - I use it on GitHub repositories I’m curious about.
kennethologist··on Musk-led group makes $97B bid for control of OpenAI
WSJ Full Article: https://archive.is/Uygax
kennethologist··on Llama.vim – Local LLM-assisted text completion
A. Legend. Thanks for having DeepSeek available so quickly in LM Studio.
kennethologist··on Don't obsess over tax and legal structures
Tell us more about the structure. Maybe can help someone reading.
kennethologist··on Ask HN: Is anybody getting value from AI Agents? How so?
Apparently Pieter Levels: " Interior AI now has >99% profit margins

- GPU bill is $200/month for 21,000 designs per month or about 1¢ per render (no character training like Photo AI helps costs) - Hosted on a shared VPS with my other sites @ $500/mo, but % wise Interior AI is ~$50 of that

+= $250/month in costs

It makes about $45,000 in MRR and so $44,730 is pure profits! It is 100% ran by AI robots, no people

I lead the robots and do product dev but only when necessary"

https://twitter.com/levelsio/status/1773443837320380759

kennethologist··on OpenVoice: Versatile Instant Voice Cloning
Anyone knows at a deeply practical and technical level how 11Labs achieves the level they do?
kennethologist··on ArXiv now offers papers in HTML format
Straight from ChatGPT:

Yes, it is indeed possible to write LaTeX code that produces different contents when compiled to HTML versus PDF. This is typically done by using conditional commands within the LaTeX document that check for the output format being used. These conditional commands can then include or exclude specific content based on whether the document is being compiled to HTML or PDF.

In LaTeX, the ifpdf package is commonly used to check if the output is being compiled to a PDF. For generating HTML from LaTeX, tools like TeX4ht or LaTeX2HTML are used, and they often define their own specific commands or provide a way to detect the output format.

----- It gives simple code that uses:

The \ifpdf ... \else ... \fi command checks if the document is being compiled to PDF. If it is, the content between \ifpdf and \else is included. If not (which would be the case for HTML), the content between \else and \fi is included.

The content outside the \ifpdf ... \fi conditional will appear in both the PDF and HTML versions.

kennethologist··on Show HN: how I built the largest open database of Australian law
How can you be contacted? I would like to sponsor a project that does the same for smaller jurisdictions. Can email me at my username at yahoo.com
kennethologist··on Ask HN: What podcasts do you listen to?
Lex Fridman Huberman Podcast Stratechery My First Million All In Pod PG Essays The Knowledge Project Not Investment Advice The Tim Ferris Show
kennethologist··on Launch HN: Pier (YC W23) – Stripe for Credit
Great looking product. Would you be open to developing this in a more generic way for non-US countries? The rules and compliance parts should be configurable by the company with some guardrails for the countries they operate in.

Does anyone know if something like this exists for non-US markets?

kennethologist··on A hacker's guide to language models [video]
Not a lot of love given to RAG method considering I think for most applications a fine-tuned model in the truest sense won't be the best and most efficient solution to their problem.
kennethologist··on Ask HN: How to Contact Stripe Directly?
Twitter is probably going to be your best shot. They are quite responsive and they get you an answer pretty fast.
kennethologist··on Show HN: Boring Report, a news app that uses AI to desensationalize the news
Great execution.

Question: How do you intend to make money from/monetize this?

The reason I ask is because I have several "pet" projects like this I've been meaning to develop but with the time cost and financial cost it has to be something I can at least cover the server and maintenance costs.

kennethologist··on [dead]
First, you’ll learn how GPT-4 works and why human language turns out to play such a critical role in computing. Next, you’ll see how AI-native software is being made.

Taught by Ted Benson, founder of Steamship, MIT Ph.D., & Y Combinator Alum; and Sil Hamilton, researcher of emergent AI behavior at McGill University.

kennethologist··on Ideas That Changed My Life
Site is taking long to load: https://archive.is/Hzmcu
kennethologist··on Z-Library to let users share physical books
You can use a device like www.czur.com to scan a book pretty fast and have a perfect pdf/epub version in under 30 minutes.
kennethologist··on Starlink increasing RV plan to $150 per month
The monthly service price for Starlink is increasing in areas with limited capacity. As a service that can be used in any area, including those with limited capacity, the monthly service price for existing Starlink for RV customers will increase by $15 to $150/month beginning April 24, 2023.

If you do not wish to continue service, you can cancel at any time on your account page. Your Starlink hardware can be returned for a full refund within 30 days of purchase, or partial refund of $250 within 12 months of purchase.

As the SpaceX team launches more satellites to increase capacity, the Starlink team is making continuous network updates to improve performance over time. Thanks for being a customer and for your continued support of Starlink!

kennethologist··on Show HN: Turn your Pandas dataframe into a Tableau-style UI for visual analysis
According to the Github VSCode support isn't available as yet. Major bummer tbh.
kennethologist··on Ask HN: Which courses (online or not) have had the greatest impact on you?
https://www.coursera.org/learn/learning-how-to-learn
kennethologist··on Trey Parker and Matt Stone’s deep fake company announces $20M investment
This is a great business potentially. Imagine Denzel Washington or Brad Pitt "selling" rights to their likeness even when they are 80 or 90 or dead. We would still be able to watch new movies with them starring.

Same for music artists. Why stop there same for our loved ones.

Feels and sounds weird on first pass but this has significant applications.

kennethologist··on Ask HN: Those making $500+/month on side projects in 2023 – Show and tell
Can you share more on how you do this? Which sites you use to buy the high watches and where you sell them?
kennethologist··on Ask HN: Those making $500+/month on side projects in 2023 – Show and tell
That's great to hear. Link?
kennethologist··on I got a computer science degree in 3 months for less than $5000 (2020)
Which Uni? I would like to shared this with soon to be university students who want to pursue a CS major.
kennethologist··on WeWork Co-Founder Adam Neumann Is Becoming an Apartment Mogul
Bypass Paywall: https://outline.com/R4D6qB
kennethologist··on Ask HN: Customer support outsourcing experiences?
Most of the recommendation I've seen have been companies based in Philippines. I've heard about Support Shepherd and some of the reviews on homepage seems to be from known names.
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