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Hey HN,

We've been building cloud for AI agents/copilots/AI apps. One of the first products that we're launching are AI Playgrounds. It's essentially a sandboxed VM (Firecracker [0]) where your agent can freely run code, use filesystem, use headless browser, and more. Every playground has also it's own URL. So for example you can have your agent start a webapp, let the agent work on it inside the playground, and because the playground has URL, the user can see all of the changes.

We've seen that it's especially useful for coding copilots and agents. They can easily run linters, formatters, or debug code and feed all this information back to LLM to make the next iteration better. Our short-term goal is to offer coding agents/copilots all of the tooling that human developers get in their coding editors. And have all of this happen in a secure sandboxed environment that people will eventually be able to self-host it.

You don't need to manage any infrastructure. You just call a single line of code with our SDK and we spin up a cloud playground in a few hundred ms for your AI app.

We have parts of our product open source here https://github.com/e2b-dev and are thinking of actually open-sourcing the whole infrastructure and make it really easy to 1-click deploy for anyone. One of the reasons we haven't done that is how much tooling we had to build on top Firecrackers and how much specialized environment they need. Which makes it a bit of challenge to offer great DX.

Happy to answer more questions!

[0] https://github.com/firecracker-microvm/firecracker
depends... which passport are you asking about?
Someone pointed me to Lima which is a bit like wsl2 for macos: https://lima-vm.io

Not sure what is used underneath but it worked great for me.
> It reimplements all commands. You're not actually using GNU coreutils, but Nushell reimplementations of ls, rm, etc. See [1].

Yeah, ls being called ls despite not being coreutils ls is both a pro and a con. If it would be called lf, for list files, I think it would actually be a little easier to adapt. Because I usually use ls with the flags that don't exist in nushell, which obviously fails. It feels strange to borrow the name without being compatible.
I'm in a country with more gun control than USA and way less firearms death.
YouTube recommends me pro-firearm 'freedom' propaganda.
I watch transit infrastructure video, YouTube recommends me "Karen who brake check on highway" videos.
Also out of nowhere I have videos of climate activists being ridiculed.

The problem isn't so much the rabbit hole but YouTube pushing peoples on certain political viewpoints.
I absolutely love this, when I was a child I have seen a book with those pictures and wanted to have one since then. It gives weird type of pleasure once you force your eyes to 'see'.. :)
What I find interesting about this wave of tech is not just how useful, but how accessible it is. Image generators like SD pretty much work out of the box on a lot of consumer-grade hardware, LLMs might be a bit more of a stretch but still doable (haven't tried that yet, though). It's quite unusual, compare that to how inaccessible the first computers were.

Not sure I would love this fact if I was an AI investor, but for the rest of us, it's just a blessing. Let's hope it stays that way by supporting researchers/companies who do share their weights, and being mindful of the CEOs telling lawmakers that only they should be allowed to do matrix multiplications (not saying we don't need any regulation though). Those tools undeniably do create value, maybe not for every investor, but for countless users. And the investors should understand the risks, my guess is that if you'd invested in "cars" around 1900, chances that you'd have lost your money would have been quite high, even though your idea might have been right in principle.
I'd say just being curious, reading and tinkering a lot. I recently wrote a GameBoy emulator to give myself a better understanding of the inner workings of CPUs. It's anything but precise, but it passes all the CPU instruction test ROMs and it's able to run all my childhood games so that's mission accomplished for me. Maybe I'll try to emulate something more complex next.

Writing an emulator is very frustrating at first (when nothing works) but it eventually gets more rewarding as you get to the point of meaningfully running preexisting software. IMO every programmer needs to write one at some point.
hug of death :-(
Stop Meta from using some of your personal data to train generative AI models
There is probably no country in the world with no intervention, or even close. In fact, there are massive intervention in pretty much every country.

Actual lassez-faire economies was mostly a thing in the 19th century.

Since then, regulatations have been accumulating constantly, and total government spending increased to GDP increased from about 10% to 35-75% in most if not all western countries.
> Along those lines, a quick way to drive adoption could be a huge "how do i do x" or recipes page to Ctrl+F through. If I have to search the internet for how to do x in nushell/fish/etc, I might as well stick to arcane bash - at least you know someone has had the same problem before.

https://github.com/tldr-pages/tldr
New Titanic expedition is planned. US is fighting it, says wreck is a grave site
I was a complete believer in AI when chatGPT first dropped. The tech seemed revolutionary. GPT-4 even helped me write a ton of code for an app.

But if you ask me now, I feel that the AI revolution is a little overstated. The tech, while incredibly good, is not really ready for large scale adoption. Individuals and hobbyists might benefit from it, but for large enterprises and serious applications, it's too inconsistent and unreliable.

All I can see it accomplishing is pushing out the lowest end of the content/code creation totem pole. That's nice, but it's not nearly the "intelligence revolution" the promoters have been promising.
I was thinking the exact same thing. That sounds like a small ByT5 LLM model. Upon space you auto-complete the past word based on a moving context window of the past 32 characters or so.
Citadel’s Extreme Math Camp
Not sure, but won't argue that vehemently. I build my own crawler in a few days using pgvector, go-colly, and some embedding. It's a bit over-engineered because of go-python interop, but I'm happy with that. And with a subscription model like kagi you should be able to pay for the storage. I also think that a search engine doesn't need to crawl nor store the whole web. You don't need to crawl pinterest, facebook, instagram, tiktok, and known SEO farms or spam blogs.

I'm too busy to productize this just yet, but might do down the line.
The "AI" bubble has some similarities but also important differences from the "crypto/blockchain" bubble and the brief "metaverse" mania.

The similarities are sort of obvious. The real economy is in a precarious state worldwide. Geopolitical strife, political polarization, exhausted and confused households, still reeling from the pandemic. All in a background of a deteriorating environment that either burns to ashes or is swamped by plastic. This is our real condition and there is no turnaround in sight.

Yet the "optimism" and valuations must keep up or the system will collapse for good. The reliable pony delivering tricks is the tech sector. Being unregulated/oligopolistic with massive rent extraction, operating in an entirely virtual realm and by now controlling all digital communication channels it has massive resources and opportunity to pump up every nugget into a digital gold rush and it does so shamelessly and with predictable regularity.

So what is different between these serial bubbles? crypto and metaverse require massive social and/or behavioral change. If you look at the problems that blockchain was supposed to solve, all of them would be solvable with lower tech if people actually had an interest to solve them. There far easier ways to make the monetary and financial systems more fair and honest than inventing a poor simulacra. The metaverse requires a collective migration into a fake reality. People are increasingly escapists and absurdists but strapping a heavy idiot-signaling device on your head is a virtual bridge too far for most.

"AI" is a better fit to the status quo. Grabbing any and all accessible data and algorithmic manipulation of people is already enshrined as acceptable practice ("people so much enjoy the convenience"). So imho this bubble has some legs. Which means the fall will more painful when it happens. What will burst the bubble? Regulation on data collection and possible applications is one possible balloon prick. The other one is commoditization.

Commoditization is an interesting one. If there is any silver lining in this dismal doom tech era we live through it is the fact that major information processing and communication capabilities are being built. It is conceivable that at some point these will be deployed in very different ways and with much bigger positive impact.
Common in europe as well. Just use a name input field and a display name or preferred name field.
so what would be the proper channel to inquire about this stuff with?
The famous Singaporean politician Lee Kuan Yew to whom you refer was given the English name Harry by his parents. The poster you're quoting isn't themselves claiming to be LKY.
On the YouTube website, if you click the "・・・" button next to share/clip/save, there is a "Show transcript" option and you can use your browsers in-page search to search in it
> Nushell is designed to be a language

Last time I checked it didn't have functions. Has that changed?
Completely agree with that. Seeing the first page, it feels like it could be useful, but I don't know how to make it useful to me.

Maybe it's lacking some kind of starring system? A "most starred tips" page would definitely be useful.
Thanks for your reply. Can you share how these laptops are managed? I took another look at the article but didn't find that information there.

I.e I'm curious if there's a cloud provider managing them for you or you guys keep them in a closet somewhere.
This list would have been so much better with examples or a short explanation how or why the assumptions break in case it is not obvious. The author offers examples on demand [1] but while I would be interested to know them, it seems not important enough to bother the author. Maybe the author sees this comment and has some time to spare, then it could benefit everyone and not just one person asking.

[1] If you need examples of real names which disprove any of the above commonly held misconceptions, I will happily introduce you to several.
Seventh century BC if we want to be more accurate.
I second this. Only remove duplication when it either becomes super obvious or painful.
So - the default macOS virtualisation?
Case Study: Rebuilding TechCrunch Layout with Modern CSS
I think you are being harsh on the critics. A technology can have tremendous value while still attracting grifters and being an early investors' graveyard.

Best example is the dot com bubble in 1996 - 2001, the web had truly world-changing potential, but grifting was rife and practically all early investors lost their money unless you were one of the lucky ones who invested in amazon, yahoo, google or ebay out of the 10,000 companies that were shilling back then (and even then you had to be very patient not to sell your stock for decades to make the really big gains - see the history of amazon and apple stock during this era).

There are many such examples in history of technology concerning grifters and the fate of early investors see also automobiles and printing press (even in printing press Guttenberg lost a lot of money and had many grifters/copycats)
> over 40 hours of developer time at at least $20

I think maybe you dropped a zero.
There's a physical prohibition, yes.
Sounds like a spectacular self-DDoS on your LDAP infrastructure if that thing ever got deployed too widely and ran at the same time everywhere.
'kdrag0n wrote here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36189550 that Virtualization.framework isn't really much better than QEMU. What do you think?
Sourcegraph Security Breach: Incident involving unauthorized admin access
Do you need X years of experience in Y to do your next job?
Yeah, I think I/O has bit us before. Running on AWS, you may randomly get a huge spike in I/O latency (maybe Amazon adjusted the physical hardware, drive failed, etc) and have no idea why.
First of all, I find I kinda funny that you call banking, retail and insurance "legacy industries".

I would rather be without Netflix and Google, than banking and food ... but each to their own..

While some is inertia (mostly doing to rewriting truly large applications are hard and expensive), there is also the the point that most of those industries cannot easily handle "eventually consistent" data..

Not all transactions are created equally, the hardest usually have a set of requirements called ACID.

ACID in the classic RDBMS is not a random choice, but driven by real requirements of their users (the database user, i.e. applications in the business sense - and not the users as people).
The ACID properties are REALLY hard to do in scale in a distributed system with high throughput. Think of the rate of transactions in the bitcoin system (500k/day with many, many "servers") vs. visa (500M+/day) - the latter is basically driven by two (!) large mainframes (with 50ish km distance) the last I heard of any technical details.

None of the companies you mention need to have strict ACID, as nobody will complain if different users see slightly different truths - hence scaling writes is faily easy.
Yes! Even movies from the 30s, b+w as they are, show us people 100 years back. Cities 100 years back.

And a lot of that is now digitized, and kept by cinema lovers worldwide.

We've always had to guess before, wonder, go by (comparatively) rare paintings, which may or may not have artistic changes.

Even language has become more static, more uniform, starting with wide spread printed works, then radio, TV, now internet.

If I look at works 100 years back, many of them could gave been written today. 150 years? Change becomes more rapid.
It does, see https://www.nushell.sh/book/custom_commands.html

def greet [name] {
$"hello ($name)"
}

They were added in 0.25 in January 2021 (https://www.nushell.sh/blog/2021-01-05-nushell_0_25.html#cus...)
oh wow youre so enlightened!
https://www.openstenoproject.org/plover/

If you want to go the extra mile.
right - if you have a first name, last name and then switch on the locale you will have welcome text like Congratulations Rasmussen when I'm using a website while in Japan.
The case in fact proves that Proton provides privacy by default - even when we receive a data request we cannot legally contest, we are not able to share the data in an unencrypted format. That means that when it comes to the content of your emails, attachments, calendars, files on Proton Drive and items on Proton Pass, we cannot share them with anyone because we have no access to them ourselves, due to zero-access encryption.
I could write pages and pages of all the dumb crap that progressives do, but I guess "not voting for their candidate because "they're not vegan enough" or "has a more centered position in some fringe topic" to be at the top items of the list
The captcha!! I bet even today's AIs wouldn't be able to solve these.
It depends where you're looking at. In US, I think google would do pretty well - better than OSM, for I.e this ATM question. Obviously, no maps are always 100% accurate.
> Veriff raised US$100 million from foreign venture capital funds, which boosted its valuation to US$1.5 billion and made it a unicorn. According to Startup Estonia, Veriff is the second largest startup in Estonia in terms of revenue. In the second quarter of this year, Veriff’s sales revenue amounted to more than €18 million, in which Veriff was second only to Bolt.

A 1 billion $ valuation for a company that made 18 mil in sales? This is madness.

> AI-powered identity verification

Ah yes the new “crypto”.
In 120 years, no one may have heard of Apple.
I'm not sold on your idea mainly because for me, to avoid RSI in the wrists, I've found the cheapest wired mice to be the lightest and thus easiest to move around avoiding RSI strain. Since then I've found out an increase in Manganese can help protect the cartilage on the bones and bones in the wrist.

But if you insist.

Identify the companies you want to take on the considerable expense of R&D and manufacturing, and will hand over a slice of their profits to you for just having a brain wave.

Compose and send them a nice letter if you feel generous enough and committed enough to invest in the cost of a stamp, if not send them an email.

Wait and react accordingly.

Do you have a timeout setting?

If you want to have a monopoly on the idea, file a patent, in every country, but beware patents can be expensive to file, and the lawyers defending them can cost even more. Cue Abba's Money Money Money, to help that sink it. ;)
The magician Teller just has 'Teller' on his passport, and if you refer to 'Raymond Joseph Teller', people won't know who you're referring to.
To be clear: death threats are not protected free speech.

But yes, it's inevitable due to the global and gargantuan nature of the internet that enforcing consequences against hate speech and harassment for any single govy. is extremely hard, even for countries that unequivocally outlaw it.
You can uninstall Microsoft AutoUpdate, just remove it from Library/LaunchAgents or Library/LaunchDaemons and delete everything associated with it. All of the MS Office apps still start fine without it.
Also try www.askYouTube.ai, not exactly pure text search but it can help you find videos that answer your query using LLMs
As an aside, I really like the stereogram on that page. The background seems designed for the purpose, so the edges on the 3D object are actually outlined, rather than the general kind of stereogram where you just get the texture randomly applied to the object.
Dual citizenship frequently results in different names in different passports.
A mainframe is your own on-premises AWS.

(IBM should send me money for this tagline).

Seriously though, there are businesses where sending the data to a third party is absolutely impossible. You can spend a lot of money building your own private cloud... or, you can buy a mainframe, which will be cheaper, and if your industry is mainframe-friendly, there will be a lot of support and accumulated experience.
because cloud is the mainframe
The mainframe ecosystem (both hardware and software) is sufficiently different to modern commodity hardware that ports of large applications off the mainframe are highly risky or impossible. For organizations which adopted the mainframe way back when, the cost of staying on the mainframe is often lower than the cost to migrating to something else. It many cases, a migration is likely to mean rebuilding a decades-old codebase from scratch.
Some ideas for simple on-scroll animations on “connected” grid layouts
That's per flight. Invest in a pair of noise-cancelling headphones and it will pay for itself. Personally, I can't imagine air travel without them.
I'm an atheist, but this is what I learned in school (by Protestant Christian Socialist teachers):

Matthew 19:23-26 American Standard Version (ASV)
And Jesus said unto his disciples, Verily I say unto you, It is hard
for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of heaven. And again I say
unto you, It is easier for a camel to go through a needle's eye, than
for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God.
Or perhaps some industries would rather have servers on premises than trust an external provider? Could be part of the inertia (mainframe being the old way of doing things), but if there is any safety, confidentiality, or trust issue, relying on servers you don’t own may be frowned upon.
CS61A Lectures Playlist: https://www.youtube.com/@JohnDeNero/playlists
Ah, this brings back memories!

A long time ago I maintained a fascination with this, during which I made an application to interactively explore a labyrinth using animated auto-stereograms.

If this tickles your fancies, you can find the code here: https://github.com/moses-palmer/InAmazing3D. Please keep in mind that it apparently hasn't been touched in ten years, and the project used Code::Blocks, so if you want to try it, you will probably have to create Makefiles. If you enjoy this kind of thing, it's worth it though, as you get to control a ball moving through a labyrinth!
It's both in the sense that politicians are executives whose job it is to meet the demands of Capital. This also means that politicians are beholden to Capital and their personal ideological inclinations are largely irrelevant — the only options are to serve Capital or be ejected from their position.

The individual executives serving Capital are interchangeable.
Show HN: A NextJS boilerplate to automate all the boring stuff
Hey HN,

I'm a solopreneur and I ship apps like a madman. 16 startups in the last 2 years.

I realized I was doing the same thing over and over: set up DNS records, connect DB, listen to Stripe webhooks...

So I built ShipFast for 2 reasons:
1. Save time and focus on what matters: building a business
2. Avoid headaches like emails ending in spam or waiting 3 days for Google to approve

I hope this boilerplate will be as helpful to you as it is for me. Would love your feedback pls

Marc
Don't say hello, just state your business.
Personally I find Vzf faster with less resource overhead than QEMU, but I've had some issues when running nodejs applications inside it (specifically when using the vz backend on colima).
I tried to run the numbers on a similar idea some years back and our conclusion was that the processing power needed to do the photogrammetry ends up being more expensive than just renting long-term read access to the downlink from a high-resolution satellite.
... from Wish.
C#, especially with in recent releases, has really been turning into somewhat of a systems programming language.

They keep adding tools that allow for very low-level memory management/manipulation and the ability to run on so many platforms/generate native code makes it very attractive. It's also just fun to write.
legacy industry is sort of standard term not sure why you found it funny. It not meant to say they are less important.

From quick google: "Legacy industries are those that have been around for a long time. These industries dominate a specific market and have not always had a positive approach to innovative ideas."
Professor Leonard on Youtube got me through calc 1/2/3 just last year.

I will forever worship the ground that man walks on for his mathematics help.
"the night"
"I'm"
"lost"

so glad I fell off the wagon right before getting on HN again. Much easier to make my eyeballs move this way.
Eye tracking, probably not, but localizing the VR headset in space without needing an expensive rig in your living room is cool. Or perhaps even being able to build a 3D reconstruction of your living room, localize yourself within it, send the reconstruction to your grandma and let her join you in your own living room.
I may well be wrong, but I have a vague recollection of reading that some devices can enable/share an Ethernet connection over their HDMI ports.

I worried a bit about this when I was deciding to provide content to my unnetworked Toshiba Fire TV using a Roku device.

Yeah, Roku... at least it's not Amazon, hopefully it's not communicating what's on other HDMI sources, and so far the TV's not superimposing its own ad streams.

Whole setup was bought piecemeal on sale, and was a "good enough" compromise for the limited stuff I watch.

P.S. The TV's just old enough that, especially without any updates, I may have escaped the open/public/mesh wifi "enhancements" that apparently are becoming more common. I guess I should poke through settings and see whether I can find a system and/or firmware date or version number...