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riddleronroof··on Ask HN: What are you working on this Christmas Eve?
:) Yeah I think I just need courage to say it’s good enough.
riddleronroof··on Cost of self hosting Llama-3 8B-Instruct
Ollama is llamma.cpp plus docker If you can do without docker, it’s faster
riddleronroof··on Home Assistant 2023.11
Nice work

Last I looked, the industry was trying to roll out some protocols to block open source efforts.

Is there a plan to tackle that?

riddleronroof··on Talk-Llama
ollama wraps llama.cpp into a docker container, correct? Besides that it seeks like a go server for chat?
riddleronroof··on India's biggest tech centers named as cyber crime hotspots
Very odd that criminals go where the money is
riddleronroof··on US aircraft shoots down new airborne object over Canada
What are the chances these are warnings by another power for Ukraine?
riddleronroof··on Long Covid is keeping significant numbers of people out of work, study finds
No no it’s called “quiet quitting”
riddleronroof··on Is tipping getting out of control? Many consumers say yes
So it used to be 18% off the base.

But credit card receipts show 18% off the price + tax, effectively 20-25%

Most don’t do the math, just pay.

riddleronroof··on Ask HN: Why did back-end development explode in complexity?
Funny. I am a backend engineer and think so about front end.
riddleronroof··on Pixi3D – 3D rendering library for the web
Amazing project! Looks like it needs to control the DOM. Is there a way to use this with react?
riddleronroof··on WebAssembly: Docker Without Containers
Thank you for these details. Always suspected these claims but hadn’t dug deep enough.

Seems like some X can now run in wasm should come with disclaimer (includes Linux)

riddleronroof··on Artificial womb facility concept for 30k babies per year
Is this even real?
riddleronroof··on India fines Google $162M for anti-competitive practices on Android
In other words, Ambani’s Reliance co will launch search next month.
riddleronroof··on WebVM: WASM virtual machine in browser with networking via Tailscale
Nice work with go. There is this for python in webassembly as well : https://pyodide.org/en/stable/index.html
riddleronroof··on Should billboard advertising be banned?
They don’t need to be, because they are obsolete. Online accounts for most. And in-person are going to change to drones / smart billboards.
riddleronroof··on Figma: A Random Walk in Palo Alto
Repeat of what?
riddleronroof··on Penpot: Open-source design and prototyping platform
Haha this. And now someone put copilot in vim.
riddleronroof··on The self-fulfilling prophecy of React
Vite works with React. And you can get the same performance as Vue. I get thé author’s general point. But most of us are not trying to innovate on front end frameworks. And a CTOs job is to make a better product. Not a playground for their experiments.
riddleronroof··on Facebook engineers: we have no idea where we keep all your personal data
Isn’t this a good thing? Every Facebook employee should not know where all PII is. Further, it doesn’t say what data they were looking for. Eg Around the time of the scandal, lots of Facebook quizzes were asking for PII. but it was not stored at facebook. I’m not a Facebook fan, but I’m not a fan of unfounded scary stories either.
riddleronroof··on Animating Prompts with Stable Diffusion
In the future we will say “trending on Hacker News”
riddleronroof··on Meta is building an AI to fact-check Wikipedia
Does FB contribute to Wikipedia’s funding? Can they fact check the current news? Color me skeptical.
riddleronroof··on Tactical Combat Umbrella
I don’t know about the latter. Living in NYC, my umbrellas either break because of the wind, or, because I forget them somewhere.

But maybe others have had better luck?

riddleronroof··on Tactical Combat Umbrella
Who needs this? Mary Poppins in a bad neighbourhood?
riddleronroof··on Gas stoves are more hazardous than we’ve been led to believe (2020)
Exactly. These are opinion pieces with scary headlines. Almost nothing to back them up. Also strange to talk about developing countries having problems. They usually have chimneys. Hydrochlorides are there because of pans coated with them that burn them off. Guess what, they still end up in food no matter which heating you would use. So the problem is pans, not the heat. Cooking with fire is Lindy. And there is no other way to make rotis, tatziki (char the eggplant) and other things without fire.
riddleronroof··on PSA: HelloFresh doesn't delete data when asked, only changes the email address
Well that’s fresh. But if the user data is anonymized, it’s OK, right? I’m assuming there isn’t any other PII.
riddleronroof··on Castes in India: Their Mechanism, Genesis and Development
Sorry. Random things happens in the US too. It means racism exists. Not enforced. Same for simplifying stereotypes of India from 50 years ago.
riddleronroof··on You are not Google (2017)
People dont do this because they misunderstand they aren’t google. But because it’s cool and will look good on a resume. Esp when, you know, apply to Google.
riddleronroof··on Ask HN: How do you cope with possible nuclear threat?
The World has two kind of problems: 1) Problems you can solve. 2) Ones you can’t.

If you believe you can solve a nuclear war, you should do it. If not, your thinking about it won’t change the outcome. So, focus on what positive change you can make.

riddleronroof··on Feynman’s advice to W&M student resonates 45 years later (2020)
Thanks is a great story, but not about Feynman or Feminism. It’s about class. The reason she felt comfortable was because she was from the ‘upper’ class that belonged. And could question anyone, even Noble Laureates.
riddleronroof··on The Fall of Roam
Was he trying to hit his worcount? All it says is roam needs a search button. How it goes from that to “Fall or Roam” is a little contrived.
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