skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have zero interest in ever buying a new vehicle again in having to interact with a dealership, particularly when every dealer now feels entitled to some random markup in price over MSRP. Despite Musk's cringe factor these days, I'll applaud Tesla for setting a bar in removing the sketchy dealers from reselling their cars and only sell directly.

There is little reason for automobile dealers to exist anymore if they're just going to sell at MSRP+dealer markup, there is no value add, they are merely parasitic. The whole point of going to a dealership used to be to get them UNDER MSRP as much as possible, which is how the racket worked. If I wanted to pay retail, I should just be able go to the Internet, pick options I want, and go pick it up when it shows up like a Tesla.

People should insist on removing the asinine legal requirement for dealers and modernize around the Internet, everyone's lives would be improved significantly other the parasite auto dealers. Remove the middlemen dealerships, get cheaper vehicles. Win Win.

Automobile dealers are simply something that should not exist anymore, and this becomes more true every day.
I would have upvoted you but for your last para. Don't react to downvotes immediately. Let it simmer for a while.
Reaper DAW 7.07 Released
Lxd as a whole is certaily now only available under the AGPLv3 license. Some parts are also available under the Apache 2.0 license. And Canonical are bound by that agreement to tell you such; but it is still factual to say you have to agree to the AGPLv3 to distribute it.
I think that LM Studio has an OpenAI "compliant" API, so if there is something similar that supports vision+text then it would be easy enough to make the base URL configurable and then point it to localhost.

Do you know of a simple setup that I can run locally with support for both images and text?
So what is the alternative? You can have a fully private company.. but most of those focus on squeezing cash out. A few are more "benefit the world" style which is great, but I don't think its the popular thing.

The biggest drawback is stock investors are too short sighted, and value things that are good for 1 quarter and bad for 10 years.
Why does making it "public" or "non-profit" make a difference?

Things disappear because no one is paying to keep them up, either directly in time or indirectly with money. The government cuts off projects all of the time causing them to disappear. Witness, for instance, how Henry the VIII cut off Catholic monasteries effectively destroying their archives. Even things sent to well-funded organizations like the US National Archives disappear in confusion.

So while I think you're right that places like arXiv make more sense, I don't think that they're automatically better.

And it's an interesting question whether distributed, open source versions have an advantage. Sure, people can clone repos, but there's often no main person who promises to keep the repo alive making it possible for everyone to just assume someone else will cache a copy.

This is a very complex problem at the deepest level.
What problem does a magical "does what I mean" undo solve that pressing ^W or ^H doesn't? At a minimum, your "superior workflow" is "<Esc>ui" or "^Ou", both of which are more keystrokes and require your editor to read your mind.
At most companies it is an uphill battle to advocate on behalf of the customer. It's really important that those values start at the top, and get support at all levels of management.

The best story I heard on this was from Zappos and Tony Hsieh. Zappos was famously customer focused (which probably played a big roll in Amazon acquiring them). The story goes that after a night of drinking they had someone call Zappos to find pizza for them, and Zappos customers services helped them out (not knowing the CEO was there listening).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jJ5k_Byd9Fs&t=2296
I'm from Portland. And, recently moved to Florida. This issue feels a lot less cut and dried than people make it out.

One thing I've noticed in Florida is that there are no public spaces. Every park has explicit hours, where it is illegal to be there after 10 pm. And, there are blue lives matters signs everywhere, so I'm sure that the police round up anyone who doesn't comply.

Also, Florida has a low prison population rate, only 900 per 100k. Low when you compare it to other states that is. Northern states are much lower, like Oregon at 550. Taking 40,000 people off the street is one way to solve homelessness.

I bet there are lots of people in Florida who live cheaply away from any population centers because of the police presence and to avoid imprisonment. Those people probably would be homeless on the West Coast.

There was an extremely high people case in Portland recently where a man attacked two young black men on the train. His name is Adrian Cummings. Supposedly he was let out of jail in Oregon and that's indicative of a failure of the criminal justice system because he should have been in jail long before that assault.

But he's a Floridian. He had a lengthy criminal record before reaching Oregon and his drug addiction didn't start in Oregon. The transformation of his face over a short period due to drug addiction is crazy to see in his mug shots.

https://www.orlandosentinel.com/2017/03/07/deputies-man-chok...

How the hell did this guy get to Oregon? I doubt he was a drug tourist. Makes you wonder.
The Z80 was a generation later, so its appropriate comparison is the 6809, used in the Dragon and Tandy Color Computer.
It's a one-time purchase, not a subscription. Hasbro's income from BG3 pales in comparison to MTG boosters from this year alone, let alone the income over time.
At the time, while there was a lot of developing theory around string parsing and tokenization, a lot of the formal theory being crafted led to impractical implementations. At the same time, interactive coding was relatively new: a lot of systems were still using punchcards. I think this combination of constraints is why you would see things like the IBM 63-pass Fortran compiler[0]. But at the same time, Chuck Moore was working on Forth systems and had the sense to go in the direction of tokenization at input time, so I would point to him as one of the originators of the style.

[0] https://retrocomputingforum.com/t/ibms-63-pass-fortran-compi...
Not currently, since OpenAI is losing money and would not be paying corporate income taxes.
They are mostly (or fully, based on their banner) funded by Qatar, which is kinda allied with Hamas.

For stuff unrelated to Qatar, they are pretty unbiased. But that changes when their owners actually have an interest in the matter.
I got a 64k CoCo2 when I was 10 or so. The Apple II was the only other computer I had ever used, and so my worldview was that BASIC was how you interacted with a computer. My Radio Shack carried Rainbow magazine and had lots of back issues available, and they were just absolutely delicious to me as a kid with all the program listings and ads for new hardware.

What totally confused me at the time though were program listings in assembly (I couldn't figure out how you were meant to type those in) and especially the discussions of OS-9. I didn't know what it was, and even in some cases where I found a Radio Shack with the Tandy OS-9 distro, it was like 100$ and didn't have any games as near as I could tell, so I couldn't figure out why you would pay so much for it. Also I lived in a rural location where even the nearest 6809-oriented BBS would have meant expensive toll calls, so I missed the opportunity to learn that way.

Anyway skip forward, I started to college in 1993, immediately found Usenet, then Linux, and spent the next 30 years or so steeped in that world. Every so often I would go back and do a little reading on the 6809 world, but because I had never really understood most of what was going on, I didn't have a great deal of nostalgia.

Finally though, a few weeks ago I came across a link (maybe here?) to a release of the VCC emulator, and although I had played with a couple of 6809 emulators before, I hadn't really gone down the rathole of finding the MultiPak roms, or hard disk controller paks, etc. I found a couple of hard drive images, one from the NitrOS9 Ease of Use project, and another random NitrOS9 image packed with old software. What was particularly fascinating to me was the NitrOS9 source itself- since my introduction to Unix was in the 486-MMU-having-era, to see what people were able to do with a 6809 and an assembler was just a joy to read and understand.

I feel like probably everything that has ever needed doing on a 6809 has probably been done, and I've done enough 8 bit assembly stuff in school that I don't have a powerful urge to go back and make something myself, but boy what a feeling of having come full circle when I cd'd into the NitrOS9 source directory and found a makefile of all things! I feel so fortunate to have been able to live through a time of such explosive growth and change, and hope to get the chance to do a little OS-9 hacking when I retire some day :)
It remains the US's collective fault that Bush minor and Trump got into office on minority votes. We know how to fix the electoral system, and numerous states have chosen to implement that fix, so it just waits on a few more states to sign on.

What you say offers more hope than I had imagined possible.
I appreciate this thread being allowed on HN. I consider HN to have very high quality discussions and high quality people, and as an Israeli, I believe it is my duty to both:

1. Try to offer smart people an insight into my thinking on this topic, given that I usually have insights they lack.

2. Try to seriously consider other viewpoints to help me better think through my own view of the current war.

I don't really like that an Al Jazeera story is the "prompt" for this, since I think that's a heavily biased source that we may as well ignore, but I'm mostly here for the comments anyway.

I don't quite understand the many people here who think it's such a problem to allow this thread. If you don't want to argue about this topic or be exposed to it - you can always just leave this thread alone! Nothing is forcing you to take part in it.
Sounds like a lab I was born for.

I think there’s a big group of individuals out there that are misfits both for regular jobs and science. Entrepreneur-ish generalists.
This has got to be the easiest money ever made. Even the companies that joined in on the 2018/2021 crypto hype train had to write whitepapers. Not only do these guys not have a product, they don't even have a clear mission or a legit looking website. Yet somehow, they have tons of funding!?
That's actually the lite version told to non-believers, the full Xenu version is that they're going to construct an AI God that embodies "human" (their) values which will instantly take over the world and maximizes all the positive things, protect everyone from harm, and (most importantly) prohibit the formation of any competing super-intelligence.

And if they fail to do this, all life on earth will soon be extinguished (maybe in the next few years, probably not more than 50 years), and potentially not just destroyed but converted into an unspeakable hell.

An offshoot of the group started protesting the main group for not doing enough to stop the apocalypse, but has been set back a bit by the attempted murder and felony-murder charges they're dealing with. Both the protests and the murder made the news a bit but the media hasn't managed to note the connections between the events or to AI doomer cult yet.

I worry that it's going to evolve to outright terrorist attacks, esp with their community moralizing the use of nuclear weapons to shut down GPU clusters... but even it doesn't its still harming people by convincing them that they likely have no future and that they're murdering trillions of future humans by not doing everything they can to stop the doom and by influencing product and policy discussions in weird ways.
There’s nothing to debate. This is the way these folks have been operating for decades. Why change now?
Those efficient cars are part of the gas engine alternatives I was talking about that make electric cars a red herring currently.

I don't see a ton of good data out there for free but electric isn't the be all end all either. if I look at UK data published here: https://www.visualcapitalist.com/comparing-the-carbon-footpr...

it looks like the rough progression is if you go medium car to small car you cut your co2 output in half, if you then go to electric you cut it in half again. Electric car is not as good as rail and if you walk/ride a bike you are pretty close to zero. If you're still driving your electric car everywhere you are still outputting ~ 25% of the co2 of just driving your medium sized car. The zoning changes I am talking about would instead make the option of walking/biking (basically zero output) or riding transit (lower than an electric car if done right) an option for a lot of current trips, while lessening the kms needed to travel. If you want to throw in a ride share electric car for the many fewer car trips you then need you can do that and your co2 output will be cut very drastically with pretty much no hardship to you vs the alternative of having the co2 tax high enough to make the wide spread between gas and electric cars make sense to purchase an electric car (and the commensurate increase in home heating costs that much larger carbon tax would cause, among other large energy uses that would be more expensive).
> I was specifically addressing the absolute bullshit claim that “if you pay, you are no longer the product”, which is 100% demonstrably bullshit.

Right, you are never "product" in the first place. You are either paying user or a supplier of product, both of which are providing something of value to the company in exchange for what they provide you. The "product" witticism is a bad presentation of the problem, both mistaking the source of distinction (presenting it as pay vs. not-pay) and the nature of the issue (presenting it as product vs. customer.) It's related to another overused and misleading statement, the idea that "the customer is always right" is a general principle (when, in fact, it very much is not and businesses actively work to drive out undesirable paying customers, and strategically neglect the particular interest of others, all the time.)

The real issue is that if you are a small, replaceable fraction of a broad set of people from whom a firm can get the same thing of value -- whether its attention to ads, or a small monthly payment, or whatever -- there is very little reason for the company to expend effort catering to things that will keep you in particular (rather than the broad group as a whole) happy and willing to supply the thing of value in question, and if you are part of a particularly demanding subset of that group, placing a high demand on resources but from which the firm is not able to extract greater value by market segmentation, then the firm is quite likely to not only not want to expend much to satisfy you, but is likely to actively wish to drive you off as a customer.

The real issue is that you are a commodity vendor seeking to influence a large buyer (or a commoditized purchaser trying to influence a large seller), not that you are "product" or that you aren't "paying money".
Probably because they know more about you on a personal level than the other services do. A lot of people have Facebook and Instagram accounts using their real names, and real interests linked to their real life friends. They know what you're talking about with each other and they know what you're doing on the web through their tracking pixels.
Today's Patents Aren't Creative
The silver bullet that wasn't: Glyphosate's declining weed control over 25 years
Time to support the fork
I really want to be excited by the 2.1 updates, but as a Bedrock user, I'm still unable to use "system" prompts. AWS' Bedrock's `invoke_model` still errors out if the prompt doesn't start with "\n\nHuman: " even though "anthropic.claude-v2:1" is the model_id
per-thread malloc pools are probably enough to solve this problem and are probably only a few dozen lines of code? i haven't written one so i could be wrong, but it sounds like it might be an acceptable fix to musl
https://nitter.net/cremieuxrecueil/status/173466223339996378...
devstack is for dev work, expect nothing to persist.

If you want a deployment choose something like openstack-ansible.
I liked that Lynch somehow preserved the mythology. In contrast, the new Dune, looks like an action movie.
Individual self-defense is legally restricted in your (and my) country because you can rely on the state to take up the fight once the immediate threat has passed. If someone tells you that they're going to come and shoot you at some point in the future, you call the police, and the police will pre-emptively use force against them by putting them in jail. At least that's the theory.

I agree that Israel are probably being recklessly indifferent to civilian lives and likely committing war crimes, but Hamas explicitly has the genocide of the Jews as their founding principle. For Israel to be safe, Hamas has to go. I can't see any other way this ends, and with the way Hamas embeds themselves within the civilian population, collateral damage is inevitable. Although, to repeat, I do think Israel need to do more to minimise it.
If they open border they will let the Hamas out of the trap.

(Then Cairo could start receiving air deliveries of either hamas bombs or hamas hunter bombs; neither is nice)
I'm looking for compatibility tables/information, but can't find the right place to look.

Anyone have any idea how well Edge Functions for Javascript works with Edge's Javascript functions?
You seem to be arguing from a bizarre perspective that Israel is the defender here. In reality, Israel is the aggressor, and Palestine is the state that has been under occupation and illegal blockade for decades. October 7th was an (illegal, abhorrent and criminal!) act of retaliation against previous Israeli aggressions, not an unprovoked attack. If Ukraine were to bomb a Russian city during the current war, no one would views it as legitimate for Russia to bomb a Ukrainian city back: Russia started the whole conflict and is expected to bear the consequences, until such a time as it stops the occupation.

In general, the overall solution would be for Israel to allow Palestine to be an independent state, recognized in the UN, with full control of its own borders. It is fully within its rights to keep its border with Gaza closed, of course, but there is no right whatsoever to blockade Gaza's access by sea. There is also a good argument to be made for paying reparations to Palestine for the occupied territories and for the entire illegal blockade duration - though that is ultimately secondary. The thornier question is of course how to connect Gaza to the West Bank.
It also jumps between relevant embedded tweets and irrelevant tweets, which I found hard to comprehend.

I guess I'm just not jiving with the author's thought process.
I think TypeScript on the frontend and JavaScript on the backend is workable. Most modern frontend frameworks are TypeScript-native, and you really benefit from a lot of the hand-holding that the real-time static analysis + your framework extensions in VSCode provide.

On the other hand, in most cases backend code is dumb and simple; in basically every company I’ve worked for it’s an API that just does CRUD stuff through an ORM to the database. There’s not a whole lot that can go wrong if you keep package dependencies light and JavaScript is just a simpler option. You can even use a basic text editor if you’re a real pro.

I disagree with the article that it’s such a vastly different build environment or developer required. Different tools for different jobs works fine for me.
What is Anthropic doing and who is their customer? AFAIK they over-censor their models, have subpar quality even compared to Llama 2 and Falcon 180B, have been generally even more closed than OpenAI, their pricing isn't competitive, no function calling, their long context window isn't that accurate.

Why are they even in business yet?
Give me a single reliable source that says Hamas were in hospitals or schools that were bombed.
The IDF is a bullshit source btw, they lied and they still lie while burning humanitarian aid.

https://x.com/muhammadshehad2/status/1733627762085183877

To the point Israelis have recognized the truth, it's an apartheid.
https://x.com/Robert_Martin72/status/1734436437825839539
> Leaders have also said they will kill Jews anywhere in the world, btw

I'm curious, is your claim that one of the current leaders of Hamas said this? If so I'd love to read the quote.

> If Israel doesn't take out Hamas, it is entirely unclear if it will be able to
prevent them from carrying out more attacks in the future.

One counterargument is that taking out Hamas, if they succeed (I'm not bullish), is likely to just result in another possibly more radical group rising to power. Doubly so when we've seen something like 20,000 casualties in the last two months, overwhelmingly civilian, which is very obviously going to breed another generation that is full of hatred and vengeance.

Anyway, moving on I frankly think it should be possible for Israel to prevent another October 7 even in a universe where Hamas is still in power. They have enormous technological and economic superiority as well as the full backing of the US government. It seems like dysfunctional organizational dynamics are a problem here, because Israel had all the intel it could possibly have needed to see this attack coming and stop it, but it didn't. So personally I think looking internally rather than externally is the most likely way to secure the safety of the Israeli populace into the future.
That's kind of the same thing. They don't improve their moderation because they don't want to take down scams, so they can make as much revenue as possible.
Writing JS/TS for browsers and backend applications is an entirely different skill. The only similarities are syntax. From the organization's perspective, the developer's primary expertise is a platform/framework, not a language syntax.

The point of the article is right for the indie developer who wants to stick with one language as a "mother language" and be able to produce any kind of software in no time. For scale, it is not the case.

I'm a big fan of JS/TS, but there are absolutely significantly better choices for many backend applications.
Let's also not forget the unbearable plight of all Russian HNers, who due to circumstances beyond their control are now isolated from the rest of the world. Many of them suffer greatly and fear for their own lives as Ukrainian drone attacks hit deep into Russian territory. We shouldn't treat this situation as a football match, where people only support "their" side. Instead, peaceful coexistence with both sides fulfilling their obligations according to the Minsk agreements is required.

IMO this would require that both Putin and Zelensky do not stay in power.
Didn't really feel like a random startup - felt like one of the most innovative startups around, backed by impressive investors including Google, co-founder married to Sergey Brin... So perhaps in hindsight sending DNA to anyone is a bad idea, but if there were a startup one might have trusted, this was it.
Thanks! Macroexpanded:

Why does musl make my Rust code so slow? - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23080290 - May 2020 (72 comments)
The "pressurant" in this case is just evaporated fuel (or evaporated oxygen in the liquid oxygen tank).

I'm not sure I understand how your pump idea works though.