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New ask Hacker News story: Ask HN: Junior dev and I don't want to compete in this job market. Any advice?

Ask HN: Junior dev and I don't want to compete in this job market. Any advice? 3 by thirdacc | 1 comments on Hacker News. I'm about to finish my BS in CS from WGU (remote accredited college, about as good as a state school, not a target school). I've struggled with health issues for many years which made remote the only option for a long, long time. Health is better now, but I'm still scarred. Long story short, health and living situation made me lose nice full-stack remote dev job, networking opportunities, my confidence, and my motivation to compete in this job market. As I said, my health is better, but my will to grind leetcode and apply to a million job listings that might not even be real is gone. It's not just time-consuming, it's demoralizing and messing with my head big time And as I said, I have no network. Remote is no longer a requirement for me, but flexible or second/third shift jobs are ideal. Sleep schedule is still a struggle, even now. I...

New ask Hacker News story: Ask HN: Where are all those industry changing AI products?

Ask HN: Where are all those industry changing AI products? 3 by lamuswawir | 1 comments on Hacker News. I have been following the current summer of AI, and the progress made in a few years in breathtaking (at least to me). We have open sources models like SAM, and the recent SAM 2 under Apache License, and the Qwen models, Llama etc etc. It has been a few years now and there seems to be a lot of potential for these technologies. You can speculate at how they're going to change various industries, but where are those products? It feels like the current technology is more of empowering the knowledge worker but than a drop-in replacement, hence the copilot for everything. If you know of some interesting things happening around the current AI tech, I am all ears.

New ask Hacker News story: Ask HN: Did LLMs Ruin APIs on the Web?

Ask HN: Did LLMs Ruin APIs on the Web? 3 by websap | 1 comments on Hacker News. Saw this post on HN earlier today, https://ift.tt/f0RvIBY Separately the entire Reddit debacle of shutting down API access a few months ago, followed by the reports that Perplexity doesn't honor robots.txt, certain LLMs training on Youtube content, and Github Copilot being trained on opensource code without any opt-in. It just seems the tech is getting partitioned into a few different pieces in this space: 1. Data Custodians - Reddit, Yelp, etc that have a lot of organically generated data. 2. Model owners - OpenAI, Anthropic, Mistral, etc. that try to get licenses from data custodians to be able to make useful assistants. 3. Infra providers - AWS, Azure, Nvidia, AMD, etc. that plan to provide both of the cohorts above with compute. If I take this lens to the current crop of companies, it seems certain companies are really well positioned: 1. Apple - Apple has a near monopoly on the mobile device mar...

New ask Hacker News story: Run Google Gemma 2 2B 100% Locally

Run Google Gemma 2 2B 100% Locally 4 by esleightholm | 3 comments on Hacker News. Google just released Gemma 2 2B and you can run it on Mac (and other devices), 100% local, powered by llama.cpp! 1. brew install llama.cpp 2. ./llama-cli --hf-repo google/gemma-2-2b-it-GGUF \ --hf-file 2b_it_v2.gguf \ -p "Write a poem about cats as a labrador" -cnv With this, I created a Local RAG Knowledge and Answering System with Google Gemma 2 2B and Marqo. Check it out: https://ift.tt/mzk6C0c Link also in the comments!

New ask Hacker News story: Launch: Wandercay - Travel community, trip sharing and planning

Launch: Wandercay - Travel community, trip sharing and planning 2 by wandercay | 0 comments on Hacker News. Hey everyone, I'm Edward, Founder at Wandercay (https://ift.tt/LVxbmGt) Wandercay is a platform for sharing trip itineraries and travel photos in a more organized and concise way. Our goal is to enable travelers to plan their trips by browsing through other traveler’s and AI generated itineraries for inspiration and then using them as a basis for their own planning. The platform is aimed at those who like to see trip itineraries at a glance, rather than reading through long blog posts and articles. For me, planning a vacation has always taken a lot of time, reading through posts on blogs, social media and other websites to get inspiration. After having the attractions, figuring out where everything is on a map and then organizing their ordering on Google Maps and Sheets was frustrating. Many times, if a friend had already gone to a destination that I wanted to go to, I wou...

New ask Hacker News story: Ask HN: Have AI learn my own business Knowledge(verity of formats) for chat bot

Ask HN: Have AI learn my own business Knowledge(verity of formats) for chat bot 3 by crazymoka | 3 comments on Hacker News. Edit. Rephrased the question. I'm looking for the best way to train from my business knowledge base for openAI, Llama, or Claude on my own private business knowledge base. That data will then be used in a chatbot(maybe whatsapp) on my website that will either create an appointment for call, send follow up email with more information, or directly connect to an real agent. I will use it to update my CRM information too. Knowledge comes in all kinds of formats, PDF, Excel, Power Point Slides, Videos. Looking for some advice on how to do this on a budget. I am a programmer so I do not mind getting my hands dirty or even running my own server that can do most of the work. But if there is a 3rd party service or open source tool that does most of this, I'm happy to give it a shot too. Thanks.

New ask Hacker News story: Ask HN: How do I save my content from AI crawlers?

Ask HN: How do I save my content from AI crawlers? 3 by srameshc | 5 comments on Hacker News. I am building something where we (a very small team) are creating content the old fashioned way and for each content it takes us a lot of effort. If I wanted to be publicly viewable but I am equally worried about AI crawlers now. Is putting the content behind auth the only way or are there other means ?