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Re:Ruby Video – On a mission to index all Ruby conferences on Monday December 16, 2024 @11:18PM (#42438296)
I was wondering if the same type application exists for Python and there is similar: pyvideo [1]

[1] https://pyvideo.org/

Re:Our Audit of Homebrew on Wednesday July 31, 2024 @04:09AM (#41117249)
The vanilla pacman will not work on macos as expected but there are attempts [1],[2] to make it works with some modifications/hacks.

[1] https://github.com/liudongmiao/pacman [2] https://github.com/kladd/pacman-osx

Ask HN: What are the LangChain's parts not easy replicable with custom code?

For individuals who have invested significant time in developing LLM-based applications using Langchain, it's important to acknowledge that a critical perspective on Langchain has been expressed in various articles and discussions. Given this context, I would like to inquire about the specific aspects of Langchain that, in your experience, stand out as being challenging to replicate with custom...

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Re:Libre Office ReleaseNotes 7.6 on Tuesday August 22, 2023 @10:58AM (#37223688)
Google Summer of Code

Ask HN: How does prompt optimizer works?

I think one possible way is to obtain dataset with prompts for given model and train the language model. Optimized prompt could be generated one, longer, with the "add-ons" that are typically added to the prompts with similar meaning. What are the technical solutions underlying the services as e.g. https://promptperfect.jina.ai/?

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Re:Even the Pylint codebase uses Ruff on Monday March 06, 2023 @04:03AM (#35038949)
It is already happening and with the availability of the tools like PyO3 [1] (it allows Python developers to write performance-critical code in Rust and then expose it as a Python module) the Rustication of the Python will be progressing while some controversies will appear [2]. Adding new language adds complexity to the python code base but it is always good to have at least choice and decide case-by-case if use Rust in Python app or not.

[1] https://github.com/PyO3/pyo3

[2] https://safjan.com/rustification-of-python/#drawbacks-and-co...

From what I heard, there are exceptions (father is the only parent, medical reason,…)
Why - I suppose that government want to get tactical advantage over protesters by limiting information flow and making protest coordination more difficult.

How - both deep packet inspection + filtering and primitive solution - making communication services (mobile and broadband) stop functioning. Such things happen already in the past in Turkey, Egipt, Iran.

Thanks, I'm aware of that - that is why I was thinking about low cost (say cost of Raspberry Pi) and distributed. When it is low cost - there is grater chance that large number of nodes can be deployed and single point of failure can be avoided.

Ask HN: How Belarus can keep connected despite internet blackout?

Hello hackers. What would be your advice for Belarus protesters to keep connected to each other and the rest of the world.There are some solutions for short-range communication (e.g. https://briarproject.org/), but what are the solutions for the mid-range (e.g. city) and long-range (hundreds of kilometers) communication? I suppose the HAM radio could be used for that or AMPRNet. Any ideas how...

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