https://patch.com/california/fremont/city-fremont-pony-ai-launch-autonomous-vehicle-commuter-pilot-program
ETA: when I brought this up in my Nextdoor dot com forum, post was reported. And then removed. Two of my city council members and the mayor live in the same area as I do. Reporting is normal. Removal means area leads or moderators deem it inappropriate.
How is it inappropriate to question special treatment(and arguably perks) of a tech that is untested. What if zoox wants to trial their autonomous taxis next? What is the criteria for allowing them in our city?
I don\u2019t mind the trials. But why is it open only to city employees? Will their feedback matter?
If anything trials should exclude city employees. They do that with jury selection and other private/public sector interactions.
Eta2: https://www.thestar.com.my/tech/tech-news/2019/06/20/chinese-selfdriving-startups-autox-and-ponyai-get-green-light-to-offer-rides-on-california-roads/ : I thought they meant THEIR employees. Not the city government\u2019s employees.
I am really surprised at this arrangement. I have never heard of anything like this. Am I misreading something?"},"title":{"fullyHighlighted":false,"matchLevel":"full","matchedWords":["pony",".","ai"],"value":"Ask HN: Fremont and Pony.ai Launch Autonomous Vehicle Commuter Pilot Prgm"}},"_tags":["story","author_jelliclesfarm","story_22465407","ask_hn"],"author":"jelliclesfarm","created_at":"2020-03-02T15:54:47Z","created_at_i":1583164487,"num_comments":0,"objectID":"22465407","points":1,"story_id":22465407,"story_text":"Is this legal? Pilot program is open only for City Employees.
https://patch.com/california/fremont/city-fremont-pony-ai-launch-autonomous-vehicle-commuter-pilot-program
ETA: when I brought this up in my Nextdoor dot com forum, post was reported. And then removed. Two of my city council members and the mayor live in the same area as I do. Reporting is normal. Removal means area leads or moderators deem it inappropriate.
How is it inappropriate to question special treatment(and arguably perks) of a tech that is untested. What if zoox wants to trial their autonomous taxis next? What is the criteria for allowing them in our city?
I don\u2019t mind the trials. But why is it open only to city employees? Will their feedback matter?
If anything trials should exclude city employees. They do that with jury selection and other private/public sector interactions.
Eta2: https://www.thestar.com.my/tech/tech-news/2019/06/20/chinese-selfdriving-startups-autox-and-ponyai-get-green-light-to-offer-rides-on-california-roads/ : I thought they meant THEIR employees. Not the city government\u2019s employees.
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A few arguments to get the conversation started
Against using browser-based IDEs:
- Browser-based IDEs are limited in functionality
- Limited Customizability
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For using browser-based IDEs:
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- Convenience of having the same environment everywhere
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A few arguments to get the conversation started
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- Browser-based IDEs are limited in functionality
- Limited Customizability
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For using browser-based IDEs:
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I wanted an LLM chat bot that runs locally and offline so I would feel comfortable about sharing personal details with it.
Similar to how OpenAI GPTs have pre-configured instructions, this project provides the ability to encode a pre-prompt into the URL so it can be shared. Effectively, making a free, offline and decentralised GPT store albeit with lower quality for the responses. To make it easy to find these "GPTs", I'm using Twitter as a form of storage.
This project uses webllm to run a Llama-2-7b model locally in the browser. Bigger models can be used (not supported yet) as well but they would take more time to download and require more RAM.
WebGPU is required since the webllm model was created to run in the browser. Android is supported with the latest version of Chrome (v121). Should also work on most Desktops with Chrome v113 and higher.
Please feel free to provide suggestions on what improvements should be added.
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I wanted an LLM chat bot that runs locally and offline so I would feel comfortable about sharing personal details with it.
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WebGPU is required since the webllm model was created to run in the browser. Android is supported with the latest version of Chrome (v121). Should also work on most Desktops with Chrome v113 and higher.
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