skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Try looking at it from the other side: you're getting a product at a lower base price

Do you really think what you pay less?

If we talk about software unlocked hardware this is a moot point, the manufacturer still needs to spend money to produce and install the thing in the product, so you are paying for the hardware anyway. BMW heated seats subscription is a good example. And again you are taking the manufacturer words for it, despite they would never show how exactly they manage to drive the price down.[0]

> It's more like buying, and paying for, an iPhone 14 and then having the possibility to upgrade the camera to the iPhone 14 Pro version afterwards.

Which implies the change to the hardware. We are now discussing when there is no change in the HW, only some SW lock on that hardware.

> The difference between a NVidia GeForce and the much more expensive Quadro used to be just a bunch of ID resistors. Processor speeds are locked in a similar way.

Yes, and that forced NVidia to actually implement something useful for CAD (or degrade CAD performance on consumer products, alas). CPUs doesn't fit here, because again, nobody gives you an option to "unlock" more cores or speeds (but Intel tried and IBM did this for ages for their mainframes and POWER systems, but these are not a consumer products).

> Same thing with software. There's many cases where you purchase a piece of software and can later buy a feature or "Pro" unlock. You already downloaded all the bits & bytes to you device. Are you not OK with that?

There is no additional costs, waste and carbon footprint to produce a different software. You, as a vendor, spent money one time on R&D/development, now you support it for a tiny fraction of the cost. You don't spend money and resources on never be used part of software.

For a heated seats you spend the resources to actually manufacture and install it, even if it would be never used.

> I'm a bit surprised that the people on Hackernews of all places has such a reaction to this. Subscription models and SaaS have been practically invented here.

Sorry, but leasing and subsidizing were invented centuries before Internet and HN. And what you mix software with hardware and protecting the poor capitalistic companies are quite telling.

[0] Hint: those who pay for the feature pay not only for themselves, but for the others, who did not pay, too. Even the manufacturer never actually lowered the cost of the product.

PS automotive manufacturers are well known for charging absurd prices for things what costs peanuts. How can you believe them what 'they are reducing the base price' is beyond me.
I wonder how much it would take to train the 4b 13B
The Boring Co isn't a carmaker.
Sure, adding a TXT record to verify domain ownership is fairly common and lots of tools still use it. But you either have to self host DNS (yet another container to maintain) or use your provider's API (yet another credential, yet another mailing list to subscribe to for inevitable breaking changes to the API).

In contrast, HTTP based verification often has built-in support with your webserver (Caddy) or only requires copy-pasting a few lines to your docker compose file.

There are edge cases, but they're also widely exploited so you won't run into them if you follow best practices.
http://www.gcmap.com/mapui?P=JFK-HND
Here's the route. Once you pass Southern Ontario, there's basically no populated areas along the route.
No, they didn't vote for headphone jacks to be removed, they were forced to decide whether it was a dealbreaker for them. This kind of incremental erosion of the user experience is a very different thing than consumers making a binary choice about what they would prefer. They 'get away' with it, then it becomes the new normal, and the previous experience becomes niche and expensive or comes with other compromises.
I'm not defending this, nor promoting. TBH, this is similar to what BMW is doing with heated seats...the hardware is in the car, but you have to pay to option it in. /smh.

Regardless... based the info in the article, you can bypass this particular monthly cost, and pay upfront. Nothing unusual about charging for options... other than this is an option already built into the car, that you pay extra to enable.

From the article:
Buyers can bypass the monthly subscription completely however, and opt for an annual subscription payment or simply pay a one-time flat fee. For instance, a buyer could take an all-wheel-drive Mercedes-Benz EQE 350 sedan from its standard 288 horsepower to 348 permanently for $1,950."

This type of option add is similar to Tesla, who charges $2k (no monthly option) for "performance boost" on their model 3 and Y, and $15k for their FSD (don't get me started on this feature), which has a $200/mo option.
This attitude ignores the elephant in the room: a Civic is plenty fast enough to paralyze a person. And it doesn't even need to be speeding to do so, t-boning a car going 45mph is going to really mess someone up, especially if the car they are driving is not very safe.

It's easy to demonize "irresponsible" drivers, but the fact is that everyday Joes hurt and kill people with their cars all the time. My good friend's son was killed by a hit-and-run and even though the driver was arrested and went to trial, a jury let him off of all major charges. We imagine that the people who kill others with their cars are always driving like asshats, but this guy was just driving like other regular people do: he was "speeding," but only 35 in a 25, and he had "been drinking" but only a beer.

We have to recognize that regular people doing regular driving are very deadly behind the wheel. Because otherwise, society embarks on this wild goose chase of trying to stop "the bad guys" rather than making data-driven decisions on how to reduce traffic fatalities.

So no, I don't agree with you. I think your line of thinking mirrors the likes of "satanic panic." It's an emotional argument used to point blame at a specific "bad" group, rather looking at the data and realizing that everyone bears responsibility. There are plenty of dads in Camrys out there running red lights, looking at their phones, and driving too damn fast.
You know what's also cool.

A mechanical engineer can lose their license if their work results in deaths.

A software engineer can't lose their license because they don't have one.

Perhaps a professional license may improve software development and thus better software in consumer products like cars where bad software design can result in deaths.
The US labor force participation rate has been trending lower for decades[0], and is on the low side among peer (OECD) countries[1] and middle of the pack globally[2]. Its foremost geopolitical rival, China, is a full 8 percentage points higher.

Some developed countries with good social safety nets, like the Scandinavian countries, also have high labor force participation rates; others, like France and Belgium, are quite low.

[0]: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/CIVPART

[1]: https://data.oecd.org/emp/labour-force-participation-rate.ht...

[2]: https://www.theglobaleconomy.com/rankings/labor_force_partic...
I wouldn’t have made my remark if this would just be a bug, though. We’re looking at a bespoke domain ownership verification mechanism that doesn’t handle its primary usecase well, failing at something solved in lots of different ways over the past decades.

I have written atrocious bugs over the years, so I’m definitely not in the stone casting business here. However, I can’t see this as simply a bug, rather than a fundamental design flaw. And if an entity is both becoming infamous for reinventing the wheel, and attempting to fill a sensitive niche, I feel it has somewhat of an obligation to accept criticism such as that.
You are making my point: linux, mac and windows coexist, despite the overwhelming strength of open source, and the proprietary platforms are quite profitable.
Clicking sends a websocket message to the backend. Which then responds with a state update message which updates the frontend react components.
rhe round trip would probably take the same time with rest APIs, but you would have the ability to add some loading indicators or hints, because you'd have full control over client side rendering. You don't have that when using pynecone. It's a tradeof
I'm sorry — I wasn't aware vehicle manufacturers were obliged to pay for my servicing costs for regular, let alone undue, wear and tear?
Can you point to one example?
And so much of those problems could be solved by not using our real names everywhere, and allowing it to be a wild west for freedom of speech, as it rightly should be. Where we can debate anything without fear of censorship, which in many cases is given the euphemism of 'moderation'.

There should be no excuse to delete any comment that is not illegal (i.e. threatening or inciting violence), when you can just hide it, and those who want to see it can click to see it.

I am totally outraged, it is moral injury, from what has happened to the Internet in 2023, where people have just accepted routine censorship of legal speech, barely batting an eyelid to it when it happens.

If it continues at this pace, where will the people who still care fundamentally about freedom of speech, as I do, have a place to go to? I guess they will end up being branded 'free speech extremists' and be subjected to surveillance by state intelligence agencies....
https://nitter.it/acemarke/status/1652021889307496448
I'm confused as to how those two statements are different?
Because reducing cost generally means increase in profits.
Kind of like how Everclear dominates the alcohol industry?
"So long passwords, thanks for all the phish"
that's pretty funny actually
If that's true than it is insane. These things pull almost three amps at max torque. Now assume you need at least 14 of those. You probably never see them running for more than 20s in the video because they just run out of battery.
But it's not 550M examples, it's 0.55M examples

Edit: just saw I wrote 550M in my original comment, even though I was thinking of it as the correct figure (550k)
I just want to add my $0.02 currently working at a games studio that is integrating AI generated art into our art pipelines.

Midjourney definitely generates really high quality art based on simple prompts, but the inability to really customize the output basically kills its utility.

We heavily use Stable Diffusion with specific models and ControlNet to get customizable and consistent results. Our artists also need to extensively tweak and post-process the output, and re-run it again in Stable Diffusion.

This entire workflow is definitely beyond a Discord-based interface to say the least.
Sorry for my cranky comment.
> Why can my Linux box not act as an authenticator

That is a really good question.

For whatever reason, I'm not aware of a single Open Source platform authenticator for any platform. It seems to me like that would be a pretty big priority for an Open standard, but what do I know?

Google has said they have "no plans" to support platform authentication on Linux[0]. I don't know if this is just them saying they don't plan to build a platform authenticator themselves, or if they're saying that if a Linux box advertises that it has a platform authenticator, they're not going to trust it.

Either way, passkeys basically require you to either buy a Yubikey/dongle (which will not support cloud sync) or to use a proprietary OS as your authenticator.

https://developers.google.com/identity/passkeys/supported-en...
How do I back these up in case of catastrophic data loss, such as my house and all my possessions burning down (there are approximately 350000 house fires a year in the USA, so it's worth worrying about when its your entire digital life)? I take my security safety, but I take the durability of my digital life much more seriously.

Right now, I am able to back up all my personal passwords and all my personal TOTP secrets into printed paper form that I keep in tamper-evident packaging and distribute to a safe-deposit box and the basements/attics of different trusted friends/family members. The printed packet of paper has instructions on how to use it, the passwords and TOTP secrets themselves, and the brief source code for one program, one that lets you generate TOTP codes from all my secrets (TOTP is very simple, it's like 30 lines of python[0]). I've tested it all and it is sufficient to access any account I have. Since it's all recorded on paper, each packet will function for my entire lifetime; I don't have to worry about storing a device and that device's charging/power equipment, and I don't have to worry about that device's capacitors or battery going bad in 10 years.

So in the world of "passkeys", how do I simply and durably record them so that if need be, someone who is not me, who I've never met, and who has access to none of my electronic devices, can authenticate as me given that this person is willing to put several days effort into dealing with my authentication archive (e.g. an estate lawyer)?

I know that this is "possible"; it's all based on data and secrets recorded somewhere, but I'm having a hard time understanding the FIDO description, and I don't see an Open-Source equivalent of what Google's offering here. Is there a "KeePassX" of the passkey world?

[0] - https://github.com/susam/mintotp/blob/main/mintotp.py
Passkeys are open, so you can for example store them in a Yubikey if you want. Else many password managers will soon support passkeys, for example 1Password or NordPass.

https://www.yubico.com/blog/a-yubico-faq-about-passkeys/
https://nordpass.com/passwordless/
https://www.future.1password.com/passkeys/
So you're fine with fucking over the customer, as long as you get your cut of the compensation? Is that what you're saying?

As long as tech companies do it, I guess it's fine if everybody does it, because profits, and you get a cut of it?
I used this once as a subject for a retrospective. The team would play through the game together and make the guesses as to what would happen.

Afterwards we ended up playing against each other using some poker chips. It was a lot of fun and though it was clear that trust did not make you a winner, we might have ended up with a little more of it in the team afterwards.
> Virus is weak and has super low mortality rate

It only killed millions of people...
How is this relevant to the manufacturers extorting a subscription for the existing hardware? It's totaly up to you take to pay or not for Halide. Halide doesn't gut your iPhone cameras performance if you didn't pay them.
Linux did kind of win for end user computing. Android is based on a modified linux kernel.
great news that the payload was somehow undestroyed, but i can't help but feel like an astronaut's ashes being spread via "rapid unscheduled disassembly" is a fairly appropriate, or even somewhat poetic outcome-- progress is never a straight line. :)
exactly one of my points - the whole being sneaky about screwing you over is coming from a position of weakness, so when you're weak you don't risk that stuff, but when you're strong you just demand what you want.

So I would like some corroboration because it just does not sound reasonable that it would happen, or if it did that happen that it wouldn't have real negative consequences for the company.
Yep, same thoughts here. I'm experiencing tin foil urges ..
Because it's another huge failure point of more software and significantly increases cost and complexity when the aerodynamic gains from no mirrors are negligible, especially considering the absolute monstrous size and brick like shape (terrible cda) of SUVs, trucks, and 'crossovers' that are extremely popular today.
Does the same apply to medical care?

Should doctors cripple children that are born unless their parents charge extra to allow them to walk?

In both cases the product is initially created with the ability, and it’s a competitive market where the parents who are okay with this can save money on their birth expenses…

Edit: This “service” is waste, and morally reprehensible like burning a perfectly good house down, or shooting a deer and letting it lie to waste. Mercedes does not gain any additional capacity by reducing individual cars ability.
I think it might be if automobiles weren’t such a necessary item in many parts of the world. Or, for many people in North America you require a car to engage in society.
Hahahahah. Try https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/1043284184698994700... to see what the conversation is about!
I don't think I understand the process you are describing because it lowkey sounds like you are giving it information about your peers and using that as a basis to ask questions of chatGPT but get the benefit of the real people's perspectives?

Also I agree it can be super useful, its just that my own use of it is very limited (basically as the research AI I always wanted), so I am trying to broaden my perspective on what is possible
It's not like regulation though, it's more like extra service benefits the customers just like credit card (chargeback/insurance/extended warranty etc). There are many credit cards out there and ppl have the choices to have credit card chargeback or not. Or they could choose to use some other payment options. Google could add extra feature when ppl subscribe through play store, and keep app side loading at the same time. It's not either-or situation
Sometimes it feels like companies fund weak competitors to discourage / drown out competition.
What's interesting is that Gmail has some limited vim key bindings, just not for editing text, e.g. j and k for moving up and down a list of emails, slash for search.
This might be a bad direct translation from the German saying "ungeteilte Aufmerksamkeit" which can also be translated as "undivided attention"
Why we’re going 100% passwordless at Okta
the best i can find is this: https://medium.com/@sksauren/taking-social-media-back-to-its...
I think people don't want to put DNS admin credentials in places where they might get leaked. Would be cool if a DNS server or provider offered credentials that could only do ACME challenges and not change any other records.
I really enjoyed that article. I do love a good conspiracy theory and I found this piece particularly interesting:

"The US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency wanted to know whether any research labs developing Covid vaccines had been hit."

Why were the Covid research labs of most concern to CISA as opposed to something like the presidential office?
Used 3090 are getting really cheaps on the second hand market.
Then if you only need VRAM, the Tesla M40 are even cheaper at 100€ per unit, which has 24GB of VRAM.
That sounds like a use case for the decorator pattern?
Interesting to see Erlang mentioned in the Self category instead of the Prolog category, but it makes sense given how much it borrows from both.
Sebastián Ramírez of FastAPI, First Recipient of Sequoia Open Source Fellowship
Not if you go in the off season... Arches is also unique because it was legitimately seeing permanent damage due to overuse. There are plenty of other national parks in Utah you can go to whenever you like.
I know it is in vogue to criticize social media companies for their algorithms and for dark patterns. I do it too. But I think there is more to why social media is harmful to mental health, especially for young people, especially for girls. I think it’s related to how people use the platforms and what they post on them.

For instance, I follow powerlifting pretty closely. A lot of folks who have been around for a while will tell their viewers something similar to, “don’t structure your training like the people on Instagram”, or “don’t believe everyone is like the people on Instagram - it’s just a highlight reel”. Because of the algorithms they use, you only see the strongest people on your feed, because that’s what people want to see. It’s exciting. But even if the algorithms were tweaked so that somehow this didn’t happen, while still providing content you wanted to see, it wouldn’t solve the issue.

Continuing with my above example, nobody posts their grueling, three-hour-long workouts. They post the single PR (personal record) they hit, or some motivational song played over their heaviest set of the day. They post the four-month diet transformation, not the daily low-calorie meals, the times they have cravings, the unremarkable week-to-week changes. They do that because they know that’s what people want to see, but more than that, they do it because that’s what they’re proud of.

The reality is that people are much more than what they are proud of. People have good days, and people have bad days. People have motivated days, and people have days where they drag their feet. People have strong and weak days, heavy and light days. Sometimes these phases last for weeks or months. When you assess others through the lens of their social media profile, you see a minuscule sliver of who they are and what is going on in their life. That sliver is curated by them to be exactly what they think makes them look best.

So to come full circle, even if all the algorithms on social media platforms tried to be less detrimental to mental health, I don’t think it would work. Instead of seeing the strongest people on the planet hitting PRs and thinking themselves weak, people would see whoever they followed hitting PRs and think themselves weak. Social media encourages you to compare yourself to what others are posting, which is a cherry-picked sample of the best moments in their life.
The title doesn't even mention bluesky, the all-important context here.

*Edit: typo
I think bootlicker is a stronger but more appropriate word. I genuinely cannot believe people support being sold a fully standalone physical product and being charged just for the ability to use it, while thinking it is in their best interest.
I'm usually fine with regulation (and what it costs) that benefit the consumers but I'm not fine with apple (or any private company) being the arbitrator.

Apple is only beholden to it's shareholder and I have 0 influence on their behavior.

Not directed at you, but I don't get how people can complain about unaccountable politicians and then turn towards even less accountable boards of directors instead.
ChatGPT CLI: A Go-Powered Command-Line Interface for OpenAI's ChatGPT
Hey HN! I just released a new command-line interface for OpenAI's ChatGPT, built using Go. I wanted to create a CLI that offers a seamless experience for developers and users interacting with the GPT model.

Main features:
- Interactive streaming mode for real-time interactions with the GPT model
- Query mode for single input-output interactions
- Context management for maintaining message history across CLI calls
- Sliding window history management
- Custom context from local files via piping
- Viper integration for robust configuration management

I'm excited to share this project with the community and would love to hear your thoughts, feedback, and suggestions. Check out the Reddit post for a more in-depth look, and feel free to share your experiences or ideas!
Helping people get laid?