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thecalon Tabby: Self-hosted AI coding assistant

Unfortunate name. Can you connect Tabby to the OpenAI-compatible TabbyAPI? https://github.com/theroyallab/tabbyAPI

thecalon New Phi-3.5 Models from Microsoft, including new MoE

Mini: https://huggingface.co/microsoft/Phi-3.5-mini-instruct

Large MoE with impressive benchmarks: https://huggingface.co/microsoft/Phi-3.5-MoE-instruct

Vision: https://huggingface.co/microsoft/Phi-3.5-vision-instruct

thecalon 13ft – A site similar to 12ft.io but self-hosted

Which directs you to https://gitflic.ru/project/magnolia1234/bpc_uploads which is not ideal...

thecalon Open sourcing IBM's Granite code models

Watson was not a product but a brand name they applied to lots of things. I am sure Granite will show up in here: https://www.ibm.com/watsonx

thecalon Kodi 21.0 "Omega"

https://github.com/jellyfin/jellyfin

thecalon Nvidia's Chat with RTX is an AI chatbot that runs locally on your PC

It is probably the most famous HN comment ever made and comes up often. It is a dismissive response to Dropbox years ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9224

thecalon Apple Vision Pro available for pre-order

Meta has supported hand tracking since the Quest 1. It works fine but for many high speed action tasks (e.g., games), it doesn't work as well.

thecalon Are Open-Source Large Language Models Catching Up?

Very cool, looking forward to it!

thecalon Are Open-Source Large Language Models Catching Up?

I really like Inkbot! Are you working on a new version? How about one from Yi 34B?

thecalon Major outages across ChatGPT and API

Choose whichever one outperforms ada-002 for your task here: https://huggingface.co/spaces/mteb/leaderboard

thecalon Ask HN: Is anyone using cloud dev environments (e.g. Codespaces/Replit) at work?

I'll bet they're using this, that's exactly what it is designed for: https://tljh.jupyter.org/en/latest/

Alternatively, you could do something similar with Google Colab and a notebook you make to serve as a template.

thecalon Omnigres: Postgres as a Platform

You are probably thinking of this: https://apex.oracle.com/en/

thecalon WeWork Skips $95M in Interest Payments

I am reminded of this quote: "If you owe the bank $100, that's your problem. If you owe the bank $100 million, that's the bank's problem." -J. Paul Getty

thecalon Using disposable phone numbers for better security

I can't complete opening an account with Capital One because I have prepaid wireless. When talking to customer service, they said this happens and there's no fix. Ubisoft Connect (their Steam competitor) also rejects it.

thecalon Most companies do not need Snowflake or Databricks

"Snowflake Inc. was founded in July 2012...by three data warehousing experts: Benoît Dageville, Thierry Cruanes and Marcin Żukowski. Dageville and Cruanes previously worked as data architects at Oracle Corporation... "

From: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snowflake_Inc.#History

thecalon OpenLLM

Think of the model as a gigantic compiled binary where you send in strings in a certain format and get back a response. This is a web API wrapper for that so you only need an HTTP client instead of having to run something like llama.cpp yourself.

thecalon Ikea Vindriktning Air Quality Sensor Review and Accuracy

Direct link to the item: https://www.ikea.com/us/en/p/vindriktning-air-quality-sensor...

thecalon Anti-Patterns to Avoid in Lambda Based Apps

Anti-pattern #1 is funny considering several people have said this is exactly how several AWS services are implemented - one Lambda function. Your deployments are much simpler. We built an application using an approach like he described and once you get to 30+ functions, it becomes a hassle.

thecalon An ode to the 10,000 RPM Western Digital (Veloci)Raptor

That's called short-stroking - https://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/short-stroking-hdd,2157...

thecalon Teaching a cheap ethernet switch new tricks (2019)

I've used these for over a decade with limited success. Their performance is very specific to your wiring and can be fouled up with lots of things. Mine was sometimes no faster than WiFi. MoCA (Ethernet over coax wiring like for cable/satellite TV) seems to work better.

thecalon Python GUIs for Humans – Transforms UI into People-Friendly Pythonic Interfaces

I've used this library twice, it is fantastic when you need a simple GUI on top of a Python script. Congrats for being on the front page of HN!

thecalon American Medical Association: Remove Sex from Public Birth Certificates

It is more complicated than that. Check out this answer: https://skeptics.stackexchange.com/a/4703

thecalon Garage Door Monitor

Seconded. I tried some of the consumer devices that ran over Z-Wave before OpenGarage. They worked fine but would invariably require a reset after a couple months. This meant I couldn't really rely on this and leave my keys at home. My OpenGarage unit has been super reliable for 2+ years.

thecalon Machine Learning Deserves Better Than This

Sorry, I agree with the GP. This was a popular book for learning ML with Weka (which is still around): https://www.amazon.com/Data-Mining-Practical-Techniques-Mana...

There is also the Knowledge Discovery in Databases (KDD) term which is still around via: https://www.kdd.org/

thecalon Westinghouse Files for Bankruptcy, in Blow to Nuclear Power (2017)

CBS bought Westinghouse and began licensing out their name to all sorts of companies. I have a "Westinghouse" TV that is made by another company. That lighting company you linked appears to be an old family business that licenses the name as well.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Westinghouse_Licensing_Corpora...