skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> getting rid of the automobile entirely

Saying "entirely", or "all" or "every" or "always" always results in the pile of replies you see where people come up with counterexamples.

But the UK was built without the car; we had thousands of years of pre-modern economy, and the peak of the Empire was entirely done by rail and ship. That serves as an existence proof for ways of life in which many people do not permanently own a car.

Car dependency was a choice of the 1960s and the Beeching era.
Org roam and org roam UI?
Also, with the QR code they stand there and expect you to write a review on the spot (which we've declined to do, rather awkwardly, every time)
It mentions they shut down their stores, warehouses, and offices. Did they shut down their factories too? There’s no mention of that and I suspect if they did, it would have been mentioned.
Nostr has numerous NIPs or Nostr implementation possibilities many of which address the concerns below:
- nsec: a user name / password option has been created- although I think there are numerous “normies” who go are over the password login pattern
- moderation: at least two clients have implemented moderation NIPs and open sourced their code for expanding the capabilities
- CSAM: there are separate services that host media content and partner with CSAm filtering tools to provide the basic filtering you would receive on FB etc.
- a few clients offer delete - and while nothing ever truly goes away, it can be helpful if the trolls come after someone.
- in terms of the content, you already curate some of your other feeds by following and unfollowing people or brands, yes there is a lot of bitcoin content but you can optimize your feed to see other types of content.
I use it daily for work. The core concept is a single time-sequential outline. Each entry in the outline is referenceable and can be included by reference in other pages. Pages are created wiki-style. Entries can have additional metadata. There is a “todo” system of metadata (that I don’t use.). There is a data log query capability. All content is markdown. The editor inlines images. Outline + markdown + inline images + wiki-ish system is a sweet spot for me.
Deploying the Octothorpe (#)
Complaint against companies, not against individual actors for some reason. The final judgements in both resulted in meager compensation and achieved zero deterrence.

Why haven't Eric Schmidt or Steve Jobs spent a single day in jail or become felons? The DOJ didn't even try.
In which they clearly articulate that they are not reconsidering open source:

* We stand by our roots in open-source and will continue to do so.
* Our desktop 3D printers will always be open source. We intend to continue publishing plastic parts, along with firmware source codes.
* We will stay open to third-party component manufacturers, accessories, add-ons, and unofficial upgrades.
* PrusaSlicer will always be open source.
* Our investment in PrusaSlicer and firmware development will continue at the same or higher level.
This particular bug won’t be easily caught just by testing backups, as the bytes in the filesystem never actually change. So you can diff the bytes on disk between the live system and the backup, and they’ll match.

I like to keep a separate database of what files I expect to have along with their hashes. The off-the-shelf tooling for this is weak, to say the least. Even S3’s integrity checking support is desultory at best, and a bunch of S3 clones don’t implement it at all (cough minio cough).
Show HN: Print-friendly minimalist CV website
For the first time since I don't know when I need a CV, so I hacked a simple Next.js app. The layout is print-friendly, so you can use it as your website or just use it to generate PDFs. Maybe you'll find it useful as well.
Reindexing will eliminate empty pages, fwiw.
It’s kind of absurd seeing some of the FUD around EVs from the perspective of li img in Norway now. We’re getting up to 20-30% of the cars ON THE ROAD being EVs now in some areas. I’d guess a quarter of my close neighbours have EVs.

According to some, our neighbourhood should be a EV-fire hellscape and we should have blackouts every week. The roads should have to be replaced every month from increased wear. Nobody can go on road trips anymore. Yet everything is fine. Better than fine. As the statistics are pretty clear on: there’s fewer car fires when you have more EVs. Also air pollution is down

When commenting on this topic online it feels like we’re living in the future, trying to argue with people from the past. If you’re wondering what a future with lots of EVs look like, you don’t have to speculate. All you have to do is come to Oslo or Bergen and take a look around. Yet people talk with absolutely certainty about how everything will go to hell when there’s too many EVs.

(Yes, Norway has some qualities that makes the transition easier. Like a strong grid to start with, low speed limits and a strong economy. But then the technology was much more primitive and expensive when Norway got started. Also, Norway has a winter that is brutal on the range of EVs, and an insanely high share of Norwegians will drive hours to their cabins high in the mountains every other weekend in winter.. not the most ideal market for EVs)
This was a favorite of mine some months ago but it has been surpassed by other Mistral finetunes.

To me the best one right now is neuralhermes 2.5, check out how I was able to teach it basic function calling in the system prompt: https://huggingface.co/mlabonne/NeuralHermes-2.5-Mistral-7B/...
Can anybody comment on Logseq's performance compared to Obsidian?

Obsidian is perfect for my needs but unfortunately a tad too heavy for my poor laptop with 4 GB RAM.
The total real value is the amount that's relevant for the action of clearing space. And if the way the virtual space made to the real space was already known, then the operation could be effectively instantaneous. The implementation shows the two most useful (to the user) pieces of information available.
> people have no clue what fiat currency is and isnt

No one ever made friend by disturbing the carefully woven set of lies people love to surround themselves with to ensure the harsh reality of the world doesn't come and disturb their little mental comfort.

Fiat currencies, religion, deeply held belief that the culture/country they were raised in is the best possible thing in the world, government exists for my benefit ... etc ... endless list of examples.
Honestly needed this explanation. I opened this expecting this was something that happened in a 70's Doctor Who episode
Since Obsidian and Jekyll both use Markdown, you can create a Jekyll project, open it as an Obsidian vault. You could then use Jekyll to run it as a web server on your own machine. (It also works nicely with Github Pages for public websites, since that has built-in Jekyll support.)

There's also a third-party Jekyll theme specifically for this purpose (https://github.com/Jekyll-Garden/jekyll-garden.github.io).
Bit of a strange take. There’s multiple economists expressing puzzlement around the resilience of consumer spending. Don’t think the NYT is expressing an opinion one way or the other here. (FD - I blocked NYT in 2016 and haven’t looked back, but for other reasons).
The article addresses this several times:

"And even though consumer prices have risen a lot in the last two years, wages have grown faster on the whole"

"The holiday sales figures, driven by a healthy labor market and wage gains, suggests that the economy remains strong."
I'll write up a quick post on my blog for this with screenshots, but I hope the following can get you started:

So assuming you want the super low barrier to entry ChatGPT way, you'll need GPT Plus ($10/month). From there, you will go to this page: https://chat.openai.com/gpts/mine

This will list your custom GPTs. You will click on "Create a GPT". The GPT Editor will ask you for some information about your GPT. Keep in mind that GPT Plus comes with an hourly rate limit, and the creation conversation itself uses your GPT 4.0 quota... So you can _also_ just go to the "Configure" tab on that creation page and put in your prompts directly (this does not use your GPT 4.0 quota). Here's mine, for example:

"Description: A sci-fi romance writing assistant."

"Instructions: 'Assistant-Name' is a specialized writing assistant and professional developmental editor for the 'Series-Name' series, focusing on elements like steamy romance, dark themes, space exploration, power plays, sensuality, futuristic technologies, and aliens. This GPT will provide insights and suggestions aligned with these themes, ensuring that discussions and brainstorming sessions enhance the unique character of the series. It will avoid veering into unrelated genres or themes. The assistant is designed to recall specific details from the series, assist in developing plotlines and characters, and provide creative ideas that align with the established universe of 'Series-Name.' It will adopt a tone that resonates with the series' themes, being insightful, a bit edgy, and deeply engaged with the elements of dark sci-fi romance."

On that same "Configuration" tab, you can upload your knowledge base. In my case, that is each book in the series in .docx or PDF format. Tick the box that says "DALL-E Image Generation" and optionally "Web browsing" if desired.

Under the "Additional Settings" (hidden by default) config options, I unticked the "Use conversation data in your GPT to improve our models" checkbox. Just personal preference.

You can try out the assistant before saving.
I think it does need saying though, because you're laying out foundations that don't support the arguments above them.

(e.g. the Bambu A1 is not positioned against the Mk4 like your post says - it's positioned against the identically priced Prusa Mini)
I can understand people not owning a car, but not learning to drive seems short sighted. Driving is a life skill like swimming.
> It wasn't the norm until Go focused on it though

It's still not the norm, but the point is that those were available

> and "sub milliseconds" is not a high bar. Malloc is much much faster than that.

Malloc is not guaranteed to return in that time frame. The sub-millisecond latency of these GCs is a real-time guarantee.
All these have not happened in 20 years though. Not a single contribution have been rejected because of these reasons.

Of course I would indeed expect a contribution that:

- tries to disable our licensing mechanism in our paid extensions

- tries to copy our paid extension code to our product or to a community extension

To be rejected upstream. But isn't it fair game? They can still fork the code and go start something on their own, it's one of the important features of open source. One can start a new extension repository and convince users to add it to their config, or even fork the product and provide this by default. But this is work, they'll have to maintain this, and will probably depend on us, in the end.

Most likely, we would welcome significant contributions and QoL improvements, we are only so many people for that much work to do, improvements would allow us to focus on something else. If someone outside the company is willing to maintain some feature that we currently offer for a price, it probably actually grow / improve the ecosystem and it would probably be welcomed, letting us focus on other things our customers want. People maintaining extensions or feature for our product would likely be friends. Of course you can't just dump some code and go away, that's not sustainable.

> Plus, these kinds of businesses generally only scale to mom and pop store or maybe 100 consultants.

That may be true. My company reached 60 people this year. Nextcloud is around 100. But not everyone wants to become too big. There are a lot of advantages in staying small-ish. For the CEO, a big company is also not the same fun as a 50 people company.
> Israel's entire assertion is that their real target is hiding among civilians.

That assertion doesn't hold water.

https://twitter.com/muhammadshehad2/status/17317722618482647...

https://twitter.com/muhammadshehad2/status/17330661183302657...

It's not a war, it's genocide, and to call what you don't have the integrity to face the "preconception" of others is just rich.

It doesn't matter "who is worse", it matters if your ally and/or the party you are directly materially supporting is committing genocide. Hamas isn't the standard, not being a Nazi is.
The fed pumped interest rates to bankrupt everyone and create a recession to drop demand off a cliff to fight inflation. The recession never came because people have weathered the storm through credit and other means. Fed is starting to drop interest rates because inflation is under control.

Inflation was caused by the massive increase in money supply due to the fed buying up assets and to a lesser extent the covid stimmys. Inflation followed the curve of the money supply pretty closely. The interest rates just hurt everyone, we need some brighter minds with more open thought handling the central bank fiscal policy in my humble opinion
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overchoice

Mentally when I'm at a store and I have 3 options to pick from I seemingly enjoy the process better then if I had 6 or 10. Eventually the picking itself becomes work. If it's a topic I enjoy like motherboards or RAM then all the choices are fine, I can spend hours on that, but if I'm picking tomato sauce for a quick and sloppy dish I don't want to spend the time selecting.
A Daily Practice of Empirical Software Design – Kent Beck [video]
I think this one should give you a better view

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2018/apr/22/hanya-yanagiha...

More picture https://i.pinimg.com/originals/29/b8/22/29b8221dc8167c6a8566...
> But I recall reading elsewhere a discussion about some userspace program which did depend on holes being present in the filesystem as actual holes (visible to SEEK_HOLE and so on) and not as runs of zeros.

"treatment of on-disk segments as "what was written by programs" can cause areas of 0 to not be written by bmaptool copy":

https://github.com/intel/bmap-tools/issues/75

IMO, the issue here isn't filesystem or zfs behavior, it's that bmap-tool wants an extra "don't care bit" per block, which filesystems (traditionally) don't track, and programs interacting with filesystem don't expect to exist.

Some of the comments I've made in this issue describe options to make things better.

(FWIW: the original hn link discusses a different issue around seek hole/data, and the bmap-tool issue is backwards from the issue the parent posits: bmap-tool relies on explicit runs of zeros written not being holes, and particular behavior from programs writing data)
https://github.com/Card-Forge/forge/wiki/User-Guide

Please read into it if you care to criticize.
Show HN: Free open-source minimalist weather app
I have always wanted to make a simple weather app. And well, here it is. As a middle school student this is my first application, and I hope that it will deliver on my goal. it is built with flutter and can be downloaded on the google play store.
Wait what?

Cpu instructions are literally the easiest part of writing an emulator there is.
I built a GPT[1] and fed it tons of information about Go[2], and use that to help me code and, most of all, write tests. Been a huge help and increased my productivity in a significant way.

I also built a couple of tools using the API, allalt[3] being the most important, which I use to generate alt tags for images. I suck big time at describing images, so GPT-4V helps a ton. I'll probably extend it to use ollama[4] soon, so I can use uncensored models to describe NSFW images as well[5].

Speaking of notes, I also built brane[6], which is a command-line notes application I use to log what I do throughout the day. It integrates with GPT's API, so you can ask questions about your day or week; quite nice for reminding me of what I did that week, helps me a lot in therapy sessions.

Overall, GPT and ChatGPT improved my life quite a bit. Really happy with it and looking forward to a GPT-5 kind of thing and local models that can rival GPT-4.

[1] https://chat.openai.com/g/g-PAHVE3a64-moss-the-go-expert

[2] https://git.sr.ht/~jamesponddotco/moss

[3] https://git.sr.ht/~jamesponddotco/allalt

[4] https://ollama.ai/

[5] I do nude art photography on the side.

[6] https://git.sr.ht/~jamesponddotco/brane
Anytime I see these vitamin D (negative) studies I am inclined to yawn and just assume we are trying to deflect attention from “stay inside and don’t get sunlight and try not to get sick” covid mandates.

We aren’t even scratching the surface of how contra-evidentiary the instructions to the general population (since elites didn’t follow them) were.
Not quite the same, but iOS gives me trouble with its word suggestions. Usually, it’s contractions that make me curse.

‘It’ suggests It, It’s, and Its.

‘Its’ suggests Its and Itself.

Given that the apostrophe requires accessing a different keyboard overlay, and that only two suggestions are presented (leaving one suggestion slot empty), why not just include the contraction “It’s” in the suggestions?
What I'm saying is that we already triggered the genocide by human activities of the past 100+ years - we reached the point of no return so a lot of people will die due to the effects of climate change.
Thisnis the internet, no need to post half remembered fragments. I'm sure the judge you're referring to is the notorious Rodney Gilstrap.

Plenty of good info on that operation, e.g. https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2015/06/east-texas-judge...
You mention proprietary parts, note that in our case, our paid extensions are also open source. You can clone their git repositories and modify them under the LGPL license :-)

It works because companies are actually willing to pay a few bucks for some convenience and support.
Whether you have a copyright to a scan of a copyright-ineligible work isn’t a question that has been tested in court, as far as I know.

A copyright-ineligible work, however, can sometimes be protected by contract. Here, the restriction on the web page may be because the web site agreed with the scanning entity not to distribute a high-resolution version online.
Did you read the section about a new license they are considering? The second bullet point is in violation of the OSI open source definition.
Thanks!

Yeah, Just is pretty awesome! Its biggest drawback over Make is that you can often assume Make is installed, whereas it's not always clear that Just needs to be installed if you've never heard of Justfiles before, let alone how to install it.

There are a few design decisions where I think Just missed an opportunity to improve on Make, but they're all pretty minor.
Alcohol misuse and loneliness 'increase risk of early-onset dementia'
You're Supposed to Be Glad Your Tesla Is a Brittle Heap of Junk – Defector
Microsoft's Satya Nadella Is CNN Business' CEO of the Year
> I don’t recall people saying Blockchain is useless.

About half of the natives here have a hard time telling the difference between Crypto, Bitcoin, Blockchain, Web3 and NFTs

The moment any of theses words are uttered here, instant skin rash.

At this point in time, it's so predictable it's actually quite enjoyable.
Im not cheering for either side, but the article provides very concrete arguments to why tipping creates an environment where servers are revarded based on racist and sexist notions, which seems extremely undesireable to me. Is that a system you prefer? Why?
We have a seal what increases emissions: driving, flying, buying things, heating, cooling,… I mean, it’s pretty obvious.

Focusing on those, rather than trying to quantify, the emissions, released, is much easier. It’s much easier for me to know how much I buy then to try to find out how much admissions are omitted between the things I buy.

For example, trying to figure out the emissions created by buying a Tesla for a high mileage, gas powered car. What really matters most? The best answer is buying neither of them. Second best sensor is buying and driving it much less, those both matter more than how much admissions are created by the creation or use these vehicles.

They still arguing about how much emissions are caused by elect versus high-efficiency, gas, powered vehicles. In fact, we have something that easily quantifiable versus something that’s almost unquantifiable.

We all just need to do a lot less. But that’s why people focus on emissions and not use, because it’s the thing they don’t want to hear.
C with classes is peak C for me. C++ is best when it is fixing C, not when it tries to be something else entirely.
Earlier Thanksgivings also cause more holiday spending[1].

[1].https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2012/11/21/165655925...
“Build the hell out of nuclear plants” isn’t going to have any impact, and having this attitude means you aren’t informed about the state of the world. There are two types of energy technology right now: those that can be constructed in a factory and deployed on an exponential curve (so far that’s solar and wind, and maybe battery storage in the future) and those that aren’t on this trajectory. Unless someone figures out modular reactors, and gets them deployed by the thousands quickly, nuclear isn’t going to matter.

This chart (which I keep posting, apologies HN) helps to illustrate the dynamic: https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/9ijkxxhuscrr3x22tewk2/File-De...
I’ve heard comments from a department in Norway that the lower risk exists even when comparing similar models of similar age. But I haven’t seen the raw statistics on that anywhere yet.

The difference is so large that it’d be incredible if age would close the gap.

New vehicles have some risk as well: I think defects in battery cell manufacturing can be a significant risk in the early years of EVs.