HNHacker News
TopNewBestAskShowJobs

gepiti

26 karma · joined May 28, 2009

submissionscomments
gepiti··on Spain blocks prediction markets Polymarket, Kalshi over lack of gambling licence
Greece does the same.
gepiti··on Polymarket gamblers threaten to kill me over Iran missile story
What happens if someone bets on a terrorist attack in an unlikely place and then puts the bomb himself? This can turn ugly very easily.
gepiti··on Tell HN: HN was down
Athens, Greece yes it was down.
gepiti··on George Bernard Shaw by G. K. Chesterton (1909)
Orthodoxy by Chesterton is an amazing analysis of why Christianity is so important for any society. https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/16769
gepiti··on Spouses tend to share psychiatric disorders, massive study finds
People pair with others who have similar traits or traits they are used to (ie raised by a parent with this trait). Others pair with people who display traits they "need".
gepiti··on British rebellion against Roman legions caused by drought, research finds
The Soviet Union could not buy wheat in the free market due to falling oil revenue. In the end it was its' inability to feed its' people that drove the collapse.
gepiti··on Llamafile for Meltemi: The First LLM for Greek
Installed from the link to AlmaLinux 9. The command is from the CLI example: ./Meltemi-7B-Instruct-v1.5-Q8_0.llamafile -p 'Ποιό είναι το νόημα της ζωής;'

Thank you very much.

gepiti··on Llamafile for Meltemi: The First LLM for Greek
Installed from the link to AlmaLinux 9. The command is from the CLI example: ./Meltemi-7B-Instruct-v1.5-Q8_0.llamafile -p 'Ποιό είναι το νόημα της ζωής;'

Thank you very much.

gepiti··on Llamafile for Meltemi: The First LLM for Greek
Tried to use the example on the documentation:

llama_init_from_gpt_params: error: failed to create context with model 'Meltemi-7B-Instruct-v1.5-Q8_0.gguf' main: error: unable to load model

Is something missing?

gepiti··on CentOS Linux 7 will reach EOL on Sunday
+2 The transition was very smooth
gepiti··on Google AI said to put glue in pizza – so I made a pizza with glue and ate it
The glue may have been non toxic at room temperature. After baking many things change.
gepiti··on Ask HN: What 1980s/90s-era shareware did you purchase?
I paid for slipknot. An off line browser that saved all the pages you visited locally for browsing later. Usefull when the connection was down or the phone was needed for other functions (talking).
gepiti··on Dietrich Bonhoeffer on stupidity (1943)
The son of a friend has an autoimmune syndrome. She also has one as has her mother. The son got his autoimmune from vaccines of course and doctors who say otherwise are paid by the establishment. If I want to end our friendship all I have to do is point out these facts to her. Foundmentals of philosophy will not help at all.
gepiti··on Ask HN: I have 176 logins/accounts. How many do you have?
Only 375.
gepiti··on 'We're all worse off': Britain is now paying the price to leave the EU
Compairing UK and the Czech Republic is like apples and oranges. A comparison with France or Germany would be more appropriate (but this way Brexit looks really bad).
gepiti··on Largest study to date confirms overlap between autism and gender diversity
Sexual preference is not a gender issue. Homosexual biological males and females identify with whatever gender they where born into.
gepiti··on Association between meatless diet and depressive episodes
You also have to consider the possibility that it is depression that motivates some people to go on meatless diets.
gepiti··on Ask HN: Was the early internet used primarily for scams like blockchain is now?
MAKE MONEY FAST
gepiti··on Ask HN: How do you deal with managers/customers questioning your estimates?
It needs some work but it goes like this:

Estimate X is 10000 (amount, time or whatever). It will come from A (5000) B (3000) and C (2000). A will come from A1 (500) A2 (1700) A3 (1300) A4 (1500). A1 is derived from A1.1 (200) A1.2 (200) A1.3 (100). The deeper you go in the analysis the more difficult it will be for anybody to check all the data and prove you wrong.

gepiti··on “Harbinger households” consistently buy products that get discontinued (2019)
My wife is like that but not me. She claims she is cursed :-)
gepiti··on Ask HN: How do I develop skills to comfort people and offer compassion?
Many years ago a plane crash killed many residents of a Swiss village. The government sent a Psychologist to assist with the mourning and loss but nobody wanted to talk to him. However, everybody accepted the village Priest in their homes. So the Psychologist asked the Priest: "What do you tell them?" and the answer was "Nothing. I just sit there with them in silence".
gepiti··on Burnout
Caretaker burnout anyone? Nobody talks about it but this is the hardest of all. You can turn the back on a career but not to your loved ones.
gepiti··on What Were CGI Scripts?
Thank God I thought I was the only one left.
gepiti··on Lee Iacocca Has Died
Me too (same age Greece)
gepiti··on Ask HN: What's your relationship with coffee?
I never drink coffee. I don't like the taste.
gepiti··on Most violence in the world is motivated by moral sentiments
Moral Sentiments are used to justify violence by the perpetrators. That does now mean their morality is really the driving force of their actions.
gepiti··on Poll: Where are you currently living?
Greece