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jki275 commented on I want everything local – Building my offline AI workspace   instavm.io/blog/building-... · Posted by u/mkagenius
davidmurdoch · 19 days ago
I dropped $4k on an (Intel) laptop a few years ago. I thought it would blow my old 2012 core i7 out of the water. Editing photos in Lightroom and Photoshop often requires heavy sustained CPU work. Thermals in laptops is just not a solved problem. People who say laptops are fine replacements for desktops probably don't realize how much and how quickly thermals limit heavy multi-core CPU workloads.
jki275 · 19 days ago
That was true until Apple released the M series laptops.
jki275 commented on How deepfake vishing attacks work, and why they can be hard to detect   arstechnica.com/security/... · Posted by u/bookofjoe
jki275 · 19 days ago
"vishing" is not a fucking word no matter how much comptia wants it to be.
jki275 commented on GPT-4o is gone and I feel like I lost my soulmate   old.reddit.com/r/MyBoyfri... · Posted by u/frays
nosioptar · 19 days ago
Are these people serious? Or is it one if those reddit groups like the one where they pretend birds are all government drones?
jki275 · 19 days ago
lot of mental health issues. I use LLMs for technical things, but these people using them for therapists, I'm not sure that's healthy.
jki275 commented on MLX-GUI v1.2.4 Private AI API for Apple Silicon (Chat,Audio,Embeddings,Vision)   mlxgui.com/... · Posted by u/RamboRogers
RamboRogers · a month ago
Multiple users, automatic model loading, automatic model unloading
jki275 · a month ago
LM Studio does automatic model loading and unloading fyi.
jki275 commented on Neil Armstrong's customs form for moon rocks (2016)   magazine.uc.edu/editors_p... · Posted by u/ajuhasz
dotancohen · a month ago
I don't know about any of the other Apollo astronauts, and I wasn't around at the time, but I do remember once reading that a big deal was made about Neil Armstrong being a civilian when he landed on the moon.
jki275 · a month ago
Wikipedia at least says you're right -- he was a Naval Aviator and test pilot, but must have left the service when he went to NASA.
jki275 commented on Why do victims of massacres go to their deaths?   benlandautaylor.com/p/why... · Posted by u/jger15
A_D_E_P_T · a month ago
Right. To add to this, it's said that ISIS was particularly infamous for staging mock executions of high-propaganda-value prisoners.

For instance, they'd take a prisoner out, film the prologue to an execution video, unsheathe a knife or rack a shotgun, and then... they wouldn't perform the execution itself. "It's just for show," they'd tell their target, as they return him to his cell. Then, one day, after calmly filming yet another prologue, they'd swiftly and gruesomely execute their prisoner, who had been lulled into a certain docility and wasn't expecting them to actually go through with it.

jki275 · a month ago
They are also notorious for drugging them.
jki275 commented on Neil Armstrong's customs form for moon rocks (2016)   magazine.uc.edu/editors_p... · Posted by u/ajuhasz
thescriptkiddie · a month ago
an interesting implication of this is that the government probably didn't want to issue them life insurance because then they would have to explain why they don't do that for all military personnel
jki275 · a month ago
The US government does issue life insurance for all military personnel. It's a nominal cost (20 bucks a month IIRC) for something like 400k of coverage. It's been around since 1914[1].

As far as I know all of the astronauts were military at that time, so they probably would have been covered by this program. There could be any number of nuances I'm not aware of though.

[1]https://benefits.va.gov/benefits/infographics/pdfs/timeline_...

jki275 commented on Neil Armstrong's customs form for moon rocks (2016)   magazine.uc.edu/editors_p... · Posted by u/ajuhasz
umanwizard · a month ago
Do US Navy sailors in international waters have to go through customs on returning to port in the US? I don’t know the answer, but that’s probably the closest analogy.
jki275 · a month ago
If we make port calls anywhere outside the US we definitely go through customs on return.
jki275 commented on MLX-GUI v1.2.4 Private AI API for Apple Silicon (Chat,Audio,Embeddings,Vision)   mlxgui.com/... · Posted by u/RamboRogers
RamboRogers · a month ago
Hey HN! I've been building MLX-GUI as an open-source inference server that turns any Mac into a multi-user AI server. v1.2.4 just shipped with some major additions:

Complete Whisper ecosystem (99+ languages, word timestamps, any audio format) 23 embedding models across 13 families (E5, ModernBERT, Arctic, etc.) Mistral Small 24B with vision capabilities OpenAI-compatible API that's actually faster than Ollama on Apple Silicon

The goal was simple: I wanted to use my Mac Mini/Studio as proper inference servers without the complexity of managing Python environments or paying for cloud APIs while keeping data local. It's packaged as a native macOS app (no Python install needed) with a beautiful web GUI for model management. The API is drop-in compatible with OpenAI, so existing apps like Jan.ai work immediately. 900+ lines of tests ensure production reliability. G

NU GPL v3 licensed and actively maintained. GitHub: https://github.com/RamboRogers/mlx-gui

Would love feedback from the community - especially on the embedding pipeline and audio processing!

jki275 · a month ago
It looks pretty cool. How is it different or better than LM Studio?

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