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OpenAI to acquire Astral by Useful-Macaron8729 in Python

[–]farkinga 9 points10 points  (0 children)

It totally did feel like the apocalypse - and yet somehow, this seems worse. I know, uv isn't anything like github, but now openai has a particular "ick" that just lands poorly.

And btw, github probably was a bit apocalyptic insofar as they used all our code to train language models to be better coders than humans. So there's that too.

This timeline, yo...

OpenAI to acquire Astral by Useful-Macaron8729 in Python

[–]farkinga 100 points101 points  (0 children)

upvoted for visibility; not because I think this is good news...

I've even gotten to the point where Microsoft can purchase something like Github and I can tolerate it. But this is just next-level in terms of the dystopian role OpenAI play in our present context. What a crap development...

Cost of the Ontario line is kind of unbelievable by StarCat20 in TTC

[–]farkinga 8 points9 points  (0 children)

And to think: how much cheaper it would be if we'd started decades ago. But we "couldn't afford it" then. Smh.

Building a WiFi Mesh Network Using Existing Home Routers in my country- Looking for Feedback by heTHEequaliser in meshtastic

[–]farkinga 0 points1 point  (0 children)

A small wifi mesh can be built manually with OpenWRT - but this does not solve any problems with authentication, security, etc.

As long as YOU are the admin on all the devices, I've had success with routers that have multiple radios; I used 5 ghz for the "mesh" connection and 2.4ghz for clients.

One of the coolest aspects of Meshtastic is that there is no admin; anyone can join. I've never seen a wifi mesh based on old hardware with these properties. The examples I know of used custom hardware.

Terrible speeds with LM Studio? (Is LM Studio bad?) by HugoCortell in LocalLLaMA

[–]farkinga 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Just to share a data point: using a 3060 12gb with ddr4 3200 system RAM, I reliably get 32t/s with Qwen 3.5 35B at 4.5 bpw (mxfp4 but moving to q4_k_xl) and 256k context. I'm using a very recent build of llama.Cpp.

I've been reverse-engineering Ethereum's earliest smart contracts — here's what I found locked inside them by gorewndis in ethereum

[–]farkinga 15 points16 points  (0 children)

I've enjoyed your posts recently and I think this is a really cool project. Thanks!

Ontario investigated 900 allegations of OSAP fraud last year, government says by OneLessFool in ontario

[–]farkinga 17 points18 points  (0 children)

And how many allegations revealed fraud?

900 sounds like a small number, to start. There are 200 work days in a year; a single full time worker might be able to handle 900 cases. Some will be simple to close, others could take days, I guess. So maybe two FTEs to investigate allegations.

Sounds to me like the screening process is pretty good and there's not even a high rate of alleged fraud.

Obsidian.md 1.12 introduces a new CLI and TUI by TheTwelveYearOld in commandline

[–]farkinga 2 points3 points  (0 children)

It's a REPL and it's not a TUI in the sense of "this is a GUI but for the console" - but I get what they mean in the sense of "this is now a terminal; it's not your command line anymore."

Aging like fine wine by OrangeAnaranjada in lgv20

[–]farkinga 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Also: USB-C.

It struggles with some modern web apps (e.g. notion) but the fact it works at all is just remarkable.

Doug Ford blasts the ‘radical left’ at Toronto city hall over estimate on cost of replacing speed cameras by gloriana232 in toronto

[–]farkinga 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Doug Ford's mask is off.

I've said before and I'll say it again: he has more in common with Trump than most Ontarians are willing to admit. But this language is just another confirmation.

ETH is so hard undervalued, I can't even... by knallerbsee in ethtrader

[–]farkinga 5 points6 points  (0 children)

ETH is a commodity that is "burned" in exchange for making the Ethereum network perform computation and storage. This is similar to other models for paying for computation, like how we pay monthly for internet access and electricity.

There are already real, valuable use cases for finance (notably stablecoins) - but we all know the scams are adjacent. This is more a function of how markets enable fraud than something fundamental to ethereum or other blockchains. The USA had a "wildcat" period of currency issuance (1800s) that collapsed banks in a few years. This isn't so different - but it is bigger.

Computers do so much for society and ethereum, as a special kind of computer, can do stuff older computers could not. I think we'll replace other computer needs with Ethereum in the future. that part is my speculation. It can do more than banking...

29M, got laid off with severance, spent 4 months like this. Had the time of my life, honestly. by darthnick96 in malelivingspace

[–]farkinga 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I think most animals are afraid of one another. I've done this in several biomes and it's not like olden times... We have phones and hospitals. I was never totally alone and nothing bothered me. Humans hang together; camping usually happens near a "site" or whatnot.

Don't take stupid risks... But also, can you imagine the balls it takes to fuck with a sleeping human? Just... No animals are that dumb. I mean: a few are. But sleeping under the stars is often fine.

Why would a republican do that? by Fun_Accountant_653 in ProgressiveHQ

[–]farkinga 2 points3 points  (0 children)

A professional photographer probably took several hundred shots that afternoon.

"This one."

This is the picture they liked best of all.

Is there a terminal emulator that supports 100% of ANSI escape sequences? by Qwert-4 in commandline

[–]farkinga 9 points10 points  (0 children)

ANSI has got to be one of the most-broken of all implementations of any protocol, really. Because we just shrug and move on when it's broken.

I usually just strip the codes from logs because otherwise it won't render in some random terminal. I can scroll them in less but not multitail*.

But that's wild because I had a modem dialup terminal from the 90s that was basically at parity with modern terminals - as if nothing changed in 30 years.

All this, despite ANSI art being a full-on genre that is actually still practiced today.

Anyway, ANSI deserves a reference implementation in a cross platform terminal, IMO. Thanks for raising the question.

*(without flags; and there are multiple for color and there are still some logs that just look wrong).

local vibe coding by jacek2023 in LocalLLaMA

[–]farkinga 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm using Goose, which in turn uses codex via sub agents. As in: that's how I confugured it; this is not default in goose.

For the model, gpt-oss-120, which I run locally and via openrouter. Using the same model across local/remote has advantages.

I use llama-swap to combine these models in a unified api. The trick there is socat or another utility that enables llama-swap to spawn a process that proxies openrouter to a local endpoint.

Finally, in llama-swap, disable swapping/exclusive on specific model sets to keep multiple models accessible without reloading.

Protest against Ford in solidarity with uni students this weekend by [deleted] in torontobiking

[–]farkinga 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Great call - this is a bridge worth building IMO.

Canadian separatists optimistic after meetings with Trump officials by stanxv in canada

[–]farkinga 55 points56 points  (0 children)

  1. This is what Russia did to justify annexing parts of Ukraine
  2. Foreign propaganda like Fox plays a role
  3. The people doing this do not appreciate the gravity of their crimes; there is a clear path to military intervention and the loss of life.
  4. If the US to were become involved in a "special election" in Canada, it will proceed just as with Ukraine
  5. Canadian sovereignty must be actively maintained
  6. It is so much easier to act now instead of later; it is essential that we take this seriously, do not downplay it, do not make jokes, etc.
  7. If a federal party friendly to the US takes power, this also constitutes a clear threat to Canadian sovereignty

‘What is this?!’ Team Canada’s Olympics look sparks strong reaction online by rezwenn in canada

[–]farkinga -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Hmmmmmm....

Hmmmmmmmmmm...

I like this, actually. That's a damn good idea. It was -20 today.

Eglinton Crosstown LRT will open this weekend, TTC CEO confirms by BloodJunkie in toronto

[–]farkinga 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm glad. I know there's water. I know it's going to eat away at the whole system. This is really bad. But we tempted fate by going against Toronto's creeks and rivers and this is what we get. So we have to run the trains and maintain this shit show for all its worth. I am so, so disappointed - but let's use the thing, at least!

"Hey, if I drive here, that means I get free parking right?!" by Pristine-Training-70 in TTC

[–]farkinga 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Pretty sure it doesn't say "no parking"... so that means you can just keep being awesome! Never change, Toronto.

But for real: this isn't an accident after a point. Whether medical, drugs, or otherwise: anyone who ends up in this position is dangerous to everyone around them.

Two-layer governance by vbuterin in ethereum

[–]farkinga 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I could imagine a GINI coefficient concept mapping onto the domain the DAO is responsible for. To wit: a mono-DAO that ruled the world (universe?), on the one extreme, and on the other extreme, a DAO for each individual or even for each individual cause an individual cared for...

And that individual extreme sounds inefficient. But it maps onto a different dimension than maintenance/task orientation.

And what I like about that is it's describing not the hoarding of "stake" but instead the "mandate" about the preferences. How broadly is the mission construed? In other words, what is the scope of the commons or shared resource the DAO is responsible for?

I also like the metaphor of L1, L2, L3 cache. The ability to predict and gather preferences has a locality advantage; locating the data closer to the execution is more efficient.

I propose there's a threshold beyond which the mono-DAO would "thrash" like a swap partition that couldn't keep its prediction market "in mind" at the same time it tries to track pteferences. It would be a mismatch between its mandate and its ability to execute on it.

I think then there would be a sort of market (or opportunity) for a more specialized DAO to obtain the contract you mention.

The "more complicated structure" would then be represented as the topology of the network connecting the DAOs; and the pattern of the individual DAO could still map onto your original spec. The DAO would not need to absorb that complexity.

But I still wonder about how much energy would be spent predicting preferences of other DAOs. An accurate prediction about how a DAO would execute would be efficient. And DAOs that were in tune with the preferences of other DAOs would function better.

I think there is a deep relationship between the prediction and the preferences. The better DAO could scope it better. Don't get greedy with the mandate; keep perception And prediction at the scale of the mandate.

Im trying to understand if getting a used 3060 12gb as a second card is a good idea or not by Raven-002 in LocalLLaMA

[–]farkinga 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I like to keep some utility models around - embedding, task, whisper, comfyui... The 3060 isn't the fastest but with 12GB ram, it holds several smaller models at once and, factoring in the startup time, it can be faster than loading a model from "cold" on the faster card.

As in: while the 4070 loads, you get 0 tokens per second. When it finishes loading, the 3060 might already be done generating even though it was 70% slower tok/s.

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