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Animals on tracks remain a problem, although they do not pose risk to human life (just damages to the trains). One of the attempts to protect animals include acoustic deterrents, here's a Polish one as an example [1] but they are manufactured around the world. The Polish one plays sounds of predators, dying creatures, hunting dogs, etc to scare away forest animals (search for "UOZ-1" on youtube if you want to hear the sounds). Such devices significantly lower the number of collisions but unfortunately they are not 100% effective.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W0j68iepI88

I am curious what are you using local RAG for?

> Would you like to live neighbours with this person

Sure, because he has a sense of humor.

There's "Ask ChatGPT" overlay at the bottom of the page, so I asked "how risky is giving my medical data to OpenAI?" Interestingly ChatGPT advised caution ;) In short it said: 1. Safer than standard AI chats, 2. Not as safe as regulated healthcare systems (it reminded that OpenAI is not regulated and does not follow e.g. HIPAA), 3. Still involves inherent cloud risks.

Something or someone will eventually fill the void. Chinese are trying to manufacture GPUs, they are very far from what Nvidia can offer, but they'll slowly get there. As for RAM - the new factories are being built and will hopefully become operational in 2028.

> About a billion lines of code go through Greptile every month, and we're able to do a lot of interesting analysis on that data.

Which stats in the report come from such analysis? I see that most metrics are based on either data from your internal teams or publicly available stats from npm and PyPi.

Regardless of the source, it's still an interesting report, thank you for this!

Depends on where you live. In Poland the house cleaning costs ~$15/h. The robot vacuum would pay itself off within a year.

But I am aware that in e.g. some parts of Asia the maid service is dirt cheap.

In the meantime "YouTube No Translation" addon fixes the issue. https://youtube-no-translation.vercel.app/

I think that such feature is already available in Chrome https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/15305774?hl=en

Lots of cheap (and good) Chinese alternatives entered the market recently but I'd say Victorinox is still going strong. In Poland it's sold everywhere and the brand is very recognizable.

I am not sure what you mean by "buyer protection" but if it's chargeback then it's doable on debit cards too.

At the beginning of my career I was shitting my pants when I had to respond with "I don't know". But the more experience you have the easier it gets. Eventually you will observe that such response does not bring any bad outcomes.

FWIW I usually respond with "let me consult this with my team".

In my company we sometimes cherry-pick parts of the AI summaries and send them to the clients just to confirm the stuff that we agreed on during a meeting. The customers know that the summary is AI-generated and they don't mind. Sometimes people come to me and ask whether what they read in the summary was really discussed in the meeting or is it just AI hallucinating but I can usually assure them that we really did discuss that. So these can be useful to a degree.

I just want to remind our overseas friends that the EU is not a country and Mistral is French company. The EU rarely bets on a single firm in a single country, there are always 26 unhappy countries when something like that is about to happen ;)

I am European and I do agree that we should support the European companies but such decision are always results of lengthy deliberations.

Does anyone know if there is any company that is proactively supported by the EU?

I wouldn't mind "security in exchange for better economic treatment" deal, but I don't understand how anybody still trusts US in terms of security. They clearly showed that they fear Russia, plus Trump made several allegations that they may not provide military help even to NATO allies. I am from Poland, theoretically we have US troops stationed here but over 70% of population (including myself) don't believe they will stay here long once we're attacked.

US got concrete economic concessions in writing in exchange for words about security.

Yes, I have a lot of bookmarks. When I bookmark a page, I add some keywords to the bookmark's title so I can easily find it in the future. It's not strictly tagging, I just try thinking of words the future me could use when searching for a particular bookmark.

However, I've never used any bookmarking service. It makes sense if you want to share your bookmarks, but I prefer to keep them private.

What could be the benefit of paying $20 to Ollama to run inferior models instead of paying the same amount of money to e.g. OpenAI for access to sota models?

That's true in the world without budget constraints. Sometimes minimal changes in the design result in drastic changes to the implementation effort. Sure, I can build anything, but the client may not be happy if I spend a couple of months rewriting entire front-end just to accommodate designer's dream.

Thank you for the examples. I tried the one with a pink cake. Turns out that on my machine only web browsers are capable of displaying the image properly. All viewers (IrfanView, XnView, Nomacs, Windows Photos) and editors (Paint .NET, GIMP) that I've tried only showed the "washed out" picture.

I do. Housing prices are constantly rising, when you take a loan you are buying an asset which (with some luck) may appreciate in value more than mortgage interest rates. That's why in some countries it's worth taking a loan as soon as possible without saving for too long.

Sure, without mortgage you may not be able to afford a house at all but it does not change the fact that mortgage is a "good" loan (i.e. you benefit from taking it)

Thank you! I have no issues with occasional AI responses but nevertheless it's great to have a choice!

Are there any other subdomains worth knowing? I was only aware of the Lite version so far.

Just kill it with uBlock. The more elegant way would be to inject a proper parameter to session storage with some kind of extension. Or switch to the light version of the service https://lite.duckduckgo.com/lite/

edit: I can see that in a comment below @yegg shared an even better way - switching to https://noai.duckduckgo.com/

For $100 more you could get a used 3090 with twice as much VRAM. You could also get 4060 Ti which is cheaper than 4070 and it has 16 GB VRAM (although it's less powerfull too, so I guess depends on the use case)

Noob question: could this drug help with snoring as well?

Yeah, I have rather aggressive blocking on with uBlock Origin. Google started blocking me about a month ago, I have to solve captcha for literally every query. I know it's uBlock as things are back to normal when I disable it. Well, this helps me to learn new muscle memory to rely on DuckDuckGo and Brave Search instead.

> map overlays that are easy to read like more pronounced lane/route arrows

Try Magic Earth https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.generalmag...

I suspect the secret sauce might be uBlock Origin. Even with basic, default filters it transforms Google into a vastly different experience.

Sigh, I knew they were more than $1000 but did not anticipate that much. You are correct, the price seems to go up every time I check.

If my budget is only ~$1000 should I buy a used 3090 or a new 5080? (for AI, I don't care about gaming)

https://millionshort.com/ might be the search engine you are looking for.