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foxhopon Genomic study: our capacity for language emerged at least 135k years ago

It is impossible to figure this out and it's dumb to try to give a number. We don't think Neanderthals could speak? They also had languages.

foxhopon Out of Africa: celebrating 100 years of human-origins research

You scam artists are not fit for civilized society.

foxhopon Out of Africa: celebrating 100 years of human-origins research

Politically motivated bollocks.

The white colonizer did not get colonized by tribes in Africa.

foxhopon We are destroying software

For somebody who cares about software why are you advertising for disqus comments? Link in bio to a public domain commenting system forn static sites.

foxhopon Reverse-engineering and analysis of SanDisk High Endurance microSDXC card (2020)

When i buy 512G microsd it becomes my property. If i need to repair or replace my property, it should be disclosed what technology i bought, so that i or my repairman could understand my property enough to decide a proper path forward depending on my data & other environmental devices.

The author needed to reverse engineer what could have been on the spec sheet...

foxhopon Yek: Serialize your code repo (or part of it) to feed into any LLM

`tree --gitignore && cat .py && cat templates/`

foxhopon Campsite switches to Creative Commons Non-Commercial license

I don't like lawyers so I use public domain.

Also code is like math which is public domain.

foxhopon Things we learned about LLMs in 2024

Step 1: curate a context window of code from different repos (poke team about switching to mono repo)

Step 2: write a slack style message as if you are discussing the solution with a teammate that you have authority over as a delegate to get shit done & to revise as needed.

Step 3: press enter, LLM does something you don't like, delete history, fix prompt in step 2 and ask again, rinse and repeat until you have working code.

Step 4: ask for the changes to be written as a bash file that cat EOF all the files that change into place, run the script.

Step 5: git diff & play test the changes using functional testing (use your mouse & keyboard test the code paths that changed...)

Step 6: continue prompting & deleting history as needed to refine.

Step 7: commit code to repos

foxhopon Ruby-refrigerator: Freeze all core Ruby classes

I was just thinking about something like this for very small web applications (1,200 line app.py & 600 lines of html templates), something lighter than requiring a working docker install.

a handful of dependencies (mostly Pyramid based at the moment) & whatever dependencies those have, pull it all down & serve it out of a tarball or zip file of a portable virtualenv.

foxhopon Ibis: Federated Wikipedia alternative

If the maintainers are reading this is cool. I would start with an exporter/importer for pages from Wikipedia format into whatever format you use, it should also deal with the media. This is no small task but what you need.

foxhopon Free Hermes AI ai.unturf.com and uncloseai.js

fun app another contributor made:

* https://beetoochat.glitch.me/

foxhopon Free Hermes AI ai.unturf.com and uncloseai.js

My last post got shadow banned hard so trying again without the "Show HN:" moniker because I think that was the only thing I might have done wrong.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41895582

foxhopon Show HN: Client Side anti-RAG solution

the proxy/server accepts any API key. I expect people to copy this infra with their own domains, this is a working proof of concept.

foxhopon Llama 3.2: Revolutionizing edge AI and vision with open, customizable models

The llama 3.0, 3.1, & 3.2 all use the TikToken tokenizer which is the open source openai tokenizer.

foxhopon Llama 3.2: Revolutionizing edge AI and vision with open, customizable models

4090 has 24G

So we really need ~40B or G model (two cards) or like a ~20B with some room for context window.

5090 has ??G - still unreleased

foxhopon Llama 3.2: Revolutionizing edge AI and vision with open, customizable models

My guess is it uses the same vocabulary size as llama 3.1 which is 128,000 different tokens (words) to support many languages. Parameter count is less of an indicator of fitness than previously thought.

foxhopon Is My Blue Your Blue?

The universe is all about various spectrum and waves like sin. It's donuts and toroids all the way up and down, left and right.

foxhopon To Nerves from Elixir

https://nerves-project.org/

foxhopon OpenAI is good at unminifying code

Here's a hint, STOP MINIFYING CODE! gzip over transport is enough.

foxhopon Ask HN: What are you working on (August 2024)?

https://github.com/russellballestrini/flask-socketio-llm-com...

just made an battleship game today, look at research for for more

foxhopon Llama 3.1

Your going to need a lot more than a few, 800G VRAM needed

foxhopon NASA and SpaceX misjudged the risks from reentering space junk

affects on ozone due to reentry

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/06/24/climate/ozone-satellites....

foxhopon Creative workers deserve better than a choice as to who rips them off

Thanks, the process to move off the platform is a process that needs to be built and documented, the data lives in a shared digital ocean bucket, the database uses uuids and we could try dumping only the relevant data out of the shared database. it was built as a multi tenet platform.

Future work is supporting api/secret keys to bring your own s3 bucket/digital ocean spaces, while keeping the database shared. otherwise it costs roughly $11/mo to host a copy of the platform ($6 for a virtual server and $5 for the digital ocean space)

As for taxes, this will be something that will need to be tackled at some point but so far I've been kicking the can down the road hoping I could find a partner to help figure that out in a clever way that is proper.

foxhopon Creative workers deserve better than a choice as to who rips them off

I built an app that lets creatives sell their digital and physical goods

https://www.makepostsell.com/

It's open source and public domain, uses stripe for holding card information

foxhopon Piku: Allows git push deployments to your own servers

are there docs for this setup?

foxhopon Comparing Node.js and Python Performance with the Official OpenAI Client

to keep the CPU in healthy thresholds I lowered the concurrency to 100.

   real 0m22.188s
   user 0m14.702s
   sys 0m0.449s

It's still a lot faster but less so, could you explain why I would want to run --jitless in production?

foxhopon Comparing Node.js and Python Performance with the Official OpenAI Client

I conducted a performance comparison between Node.js and Python using the official OpenAI client, and the results were quite revealing. Node.js outperformes Python in this specific use case.

foxhopon The UX of UUIDs

that's where I arrive too

foxhopon Some notes on Firefox’s media autoplay settings in practice as of Firefox 124

yeah I just tested this, autoplay only works on the video tag if muted which seems like it defeats the point.

foxhopon Some notes on Firefox’s media autoplay settings in practice as of Firefox 124

did you know that browsers will not autoplay video tags unless the video is also muted?