skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't blame them for using a different config language, k8s style YAML sucks, which is why half of the k8s ecosystem is tools to generate it for you. And I believe Agent and Alloy are meant to be installable outside k8s as well. I do think it would have been less confusing to just call this product Agent 3.0 instead of Alloy, but I'm not too concerned about naming decisions.
Is It All a Fluke? Lessons from Playing God in the LT Evolution Experiment
Amazon’s search is terrible. They used to have Udi Manber, who literally wrote the book on Search, so it’s got to be deliberate.
truffle fries
https://forward.com/opinion/539385/president-jimmy-carter-ap...
> Survival of the fittest in a non-dog-teach-non-dog world

on that note, while attempting to figure out the origin story of food dye at rural australian b&s parties yesterday, I ran across: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S01681...

"Ewes prefer subordinate rather than dominant rams as sexual partners" (alas, not "who do ewe choose?")

If the rams control mating*, obviously the physically dominant rams butt the subordinate ones out, and mate preferentially.

According to this study, by tying the rams to opposite corners and hence letting the ewes choose between them, the physically subordinate males got not just relatively, but absolutely, more action.

Is the ovine equivalent of a "soy boy" a "ma'am ram"? Do the ewes prefer them because they get serenaded with sweet nothings?

Elect me, my sweet embraceable ewe
Elect me, you irreplaceable ewe

* Q. How does ${PEJORATIVE} foreplay work?

A. "You awake?"
So just politicians succeeding in their job.
the pizza delivery drivers were all laid off

No. You're being wildly, extremely inaccurate.

The article says "two Pizza Hut franchises" plan to.

* These franchises are corporate owners of some Pizza Hit restaurants, a specific brand, not all Pizza Hut restaurants

* these restaurants are only in one part of California

* Pizza Hut is only a tiny, small percentage of all pizza companies in California

How did you get "all" from the cited article, which states "some restaurants of a specific brand"?

I doubt this number even equals 1% of all pizza places in all of California.

Please be accurate.
In my experience every single EV "debate" goes the same way.

People who mostly return to their home with a driveway, and mostly use their car to drive around town, vs people who travel away from home. Each trying to convince the other.

It's the same as public transport advocates vs car advocates.

It feels like a kind of tremendous blind spot. I mean personally I've spent periods in which I've split my time between my place and my partner's place. I doubt this is particularly uncommon. Even if one of us had a charger, the other wouldn't, so suddenly it all falls apart.
Embrace: include HTML

Extend: add ActiveX

Yeah, it is.
In my experience the cars seldom go to shit but are usually nearly new and ok models depending on what you rent.

Economically the manufacturers often sell to rental agencies at less than the usual price to the public. This benefits the manufacturers as they get their cars test driven by people who may then buy one, and the agencies as they don't lose much when they sell.

I think EVs may not work as well economically due to depreciating faster over the first year.
Dont we have VSCode Dev Containers? That works impressively well
Google isn't AI first
I never managed to move away from arrow keys.

Anyway, start early/stay consistent. This stuff seems overwhelming until you surprise yourself with muscle memory

Can't speak for others, but I don't think about spelling/make-up of words while typing. They flow.

This is the ideal state with vim; muscle memory for documents. In the end it can reduce effort/improve speed
Yeah. It is basically coming to streets paved with gold - "I will come here and will have access to more services and things to do. There are lot of friends and compatriots".
Make NAG compilers available on GitHub-hosted runners
I think the pragmatic answer is you should wait for your database to be live before starting up. One just wants to lean on the side of depending on a few critical services rather than all potentially-utlizied application services.
As rural jobs grow, so too do prices[1]. I don’t think this trend is still there, but that’s also because the job market is not as strong as it was during the fracking boom.

If there were meaningful numbers of well paying jobs in inexpensive rural places, they would cease to be either rural or inexpensive.

[1] https://www.theverge.com/2014/2/19/5425040/williston-north-d...
George Stephenson
Cisco never claimed it was for support use. It was more than some support techs knew about the back door, and were using it unofficially for their own convenience.

The official statement, if I remember correctly, was brief, vaguely worded, and amount to: "We can't say anything, every US vendor is in the same boat as us, stop asking".
"cheapskate", "freeloading" - you're not really hiding your contempt for people that don't want to pay for Microsoft products. There's a myriad of reasons why companies, public institutions like governments and universities pay for Microsoft, and it's not 100% based on merit.

In one example, the Government of Quebec was successfully sued because of how it preferentially used Microsoft products _without allowing alternatives_ in their contract bidding process [0]

Leaning on "free software users are cheapskate freeloaders" and framing it like Linux is lower quality than Windows because of money spent is a reductive view - it depends entirely on what you use your computer for.

0: https://www.cbc.ca/news/science/quebec-government-sued-for-b...
> How might you see solving this problem?

Break up google, disentangle AdSense from Search. Then the search division doesn't have incentives anymore to prioritize websites based on AdSense presence.
Are there any secrets?
`mise` does not use shims by default, but it does have support for it. See https://mise.jdx.dev/dev-tools/shims.html.
Where are you getting "mise uses asdf" from? mise is simply compatible with all asdf plugins. Not the same thing.

It's even said almost at the top of the README.md in the "30 seconds demo" section:

"The following shows using mise to install different versions of node. Note that calling which node gives us a real path to node, not a shim."

https://github.com/jdx/mise?tab=readme-ov-file#30-second-dem...

So yes, mise does not use shims. It only manipulates $PATH. I did benchmarks a while ago and that definitely and consistently has shaved some milliseconds off of the startup times of my tools.
Interesting. And it works for external HTTP services as well, I presume, right?
Dead simple until you consider that you have to (a) buy a new phone (b) transfer all your passkeys (c) transfer all your apps (and find replacements for those that don't exist on both platforms) (d) transfer all your data/log in to all your accounts... etc.

It's anything but dead simple. (And I went from Android to Apple back in 2020 and back to Android in 2021. It sucked, both ways.)
Started using it recently, works great. Very nice way to e.g. define a Python version and have a venv created automatically in a location you want.
Resumes have changed. What job seekers need to know
Sure, but before that most taxes were in the form of excise taxes and import duties, at least in the US. Alcohol taxes were a big portion of that. When the prohibition amendment was enacted in 1919, that money went away -- in theory because people were no longer purchasing alcohol, in reality because they were purchasing untaxed bootleg alcohol. The effect was the same: a big hole in Uncle Sam's revenue stream.

Enter the shiny new income tax, passed just a few years before (1916). This had been sold to the public using Bernie Sanders-style "millionaires and billionaires" rhetoric, but, as is the inevitable way with such things, it was soon being applied to thousandaires and hundredaires. :-)
That's quite incredible. The power of having a such a large social media following I guess.
> and businesses approaching them

> but it isn't a monopoly!!!11
I use Ollama from Chrome with just like ChatGPT Interface
Hi devs,
I was frustrated to use ollama from command line and other UI providers was not just simple and great looking. so i created a simple to use npm library that you can easily install and use.

make sure ollama is running in your local machine.
and then install ollama web using npm or yarn.
and then simply type ollamaweb in your command line to start using your private gpt.

you can install any model and use it here. its that simple.

share this npm library with your dev friends so that we can help each other.

I will be pushing more updates to it based on your feedbacks, so send me any feedbacks you have.

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Thanks!
If it doesn't get enough traffic to make advertising appealing to any actual advertisers then how is Google advertising on it?

Oh right advertisers pay a price based on the amount of traffic so less traffic means even less cost for them.
> In order for everyone to have clothes there needs to be an oversupply of clothes

Not sure why that would be the case.

For example, consider if everyone had as much clothes as they need. Then only occasional replacements would suffice, which is a quantity significantly less the total amount required if each person lacked sufficient clothing.

Or consider some regulation: 97% of stock must remain on the shelves and sell before new stock is brought in. That will certainly put a break on fast fashion.

Also, define oversupply: +1%, 10%, 50%?
For what it's worth, I definitely felt like Fusion 360 was foreign until I did the tutorial that I linked to. It's very good.
Obviously technology since 1960-ish has made flights cheaper, but I don't really care about long term trends. I'm talking about now and into the future.

If you think the imposition of Net Zero, Carbon Taxes, energy transition etc etc is going to make flights cheaper I'd be interested to see how you think this will be achieved [1]

Still, as the saying goes "In its majestic equality, the law forbids rich and poor alike to sleep under bridges". All the FAANG employees and VCs and other tech bros will be able to fly to the Caribbean and Europe. It will only really effect your average blue collar employee, and who cares about them, right?

[1] https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-03-21/flights-a...
I’m referring to the second definition

> manifesting both tragic and comic aspects
More than half the world is lactose intolerant.
You should read to whom and what I am replying to first:

>Bits in a screen that someone just comfortably typed and then pressed a button to ship is not as valuable.

This is a guy who argues that programming is not valuable work compared to a cup of coffee, as justification for his refusal to pay for software.

That, as far as I'm concerned, is a cheapskate and a pathetic one at that.

Programming is valuable work and some programmers want to be compensated in coin for their work. Not all users will want to compensate in coin or even compensate at all. These are both fine. Devaluing the former to justify the latter is not fine, and is what I am attacking.
> trying the same failed marketing strategy that didn't work for Beyond Burger/Impossible Burger

Are they? From FTA (emphasis added):

> The difference between that entrant and its competitors wasn’t a silky mouthfeel or buttery flavor, but rather the fact that the Climax Blue — which is served in restaurants including Michelin-starred Eleven Madison Park in New York

Very clearly a boutique product
Have you heard of Low Traffic Neighbourhoods?
But "use contactless" isn't what that option does. It cancels your transaction which is why it's labelled cancel.

Suppose I'm at this screen about to get myself a paper ticket to Brixton to see my friend Jim, as this prompt appears I see Jim - oh that's right, Jim is coming here we're not meeting in Brixton. Cancel. I'm not making a journey, I don't want to "use contactless" I want to cancel this purchase, and that's exactly what this option does.

Yes most users who choose to cancel might end up using contactless, but that's not what the choice itself does, it does not, for example, check that you're carrying some form of contactless payment, nor does it charge you for a journey, it just cancels the ticket purchase.
Show HN: I have built a solution for the Monetization of Custom ChatGPTs
I have been sitting on this idea since the GPT Store launch in November.

Over this time I was waiting for OpenAI to launch their Monetization program for ChatGPT Builders. Since they announced a Pilot Monetization Program at the end of March it became clear to me that they took a route of revenue sharing of the Plus Subs, at least for now.

Unfortunately, a subset of ChatGPT Builders, particularly those operating very niche “high-value - small user base” chats, are excluded from monetization. These chats offer substantial value, justifying an additional charge for access and the extra friction of logging in on each conversation.

The solution involves integrating a prompt-based paywall, which requires chat users to purchase a subscription via Stripe and validates the subscription by verifying the user’s email at the start of every conversation. While not the ultimate solution for monetizing custom ChatGPTs, it represents one of several potential approaches. Ideally, OpenAI will implement a more streamlined and reliable method for creating chat paywalls in the future.

If you’ve created a valuable custom ChatGPT that users love and are willing to pay extra for, beyond ChatGPT Plus, and are considering monetization, I encourage you to visit and give it a try.

The integration process involves creating subscription plans, setting up a Stripe account, and embedding a paywall prompt with an API key—a procedure that can be completed in minutes. Initially, the paywall may be somewhat porous and needs training, but after 10-15 training interactions, it keeps 80-100% of users from using chat unless they validate their subs.

This is an experimental solution. I welcome and appreciate any feedback or thoughts you might have.

If monetizing chats is not your goal and you’re just interested in experimenting with GPTs, or if you want to try breaking the paywall, please go ahead and share your experiences.
Are beyond and impossible really failed? In Australia they seem quite popular. Just basing this off the fact that the supermarket section for plant based meat/dairy alternatives seems to be exploding in recent years. Also a few popular burger chains here offer impossible meat as one of the main vege options.
The system is used by millions of people per day - and it's these people who pay for it. They don't want to pay for any combination of "what ifs".

As a commuter there I'm sorry, but I'd rather have saved a few quid a month on my ticket than pay for some tourist who can't figure out a credit/debit card despite travelling to one of the world's most expensive cities.

150 years ago you could lose a paper ticket or leave it at home, or it could have been out-of-date when you thought it wasn't, and you'd also be walking.
It's used a lot in French
You know why you don't see systems like this at any scale

Because they don't work.
I just discovered it this morning and it works like a charm as an asdf replacement for my Python setup at work.
It also replaces "just" as a task manager for me which is very pleasant.

The fact that the python plugin uses precompiled Python binaries by default instead of building them from source remove common issues I had with the asdf's python plugin at work with missing dependencies.

Just so you know, I encountered two little quirks that needed a fix:

- "Backspace Key Doesn't work in Python REPL": https://github.com/indygreg/python-build-standalone/blob/mai...

- An issue with the mise-poetry plugin: https://github.com/mise-plugins/mise-poetry/issues/9

I will see how it goes in the long run, but I really like it so far :)
I’ve been using mise for a few months, it’s great. I got into it when I was looking for a way to consolidate my collection of dev tools including pyenv and jabba; I found that sdkman didn’t work out of the box for me for reasons I never bothered to figure out, and it’s basically a superset of the features of asdf.
That’s hilarious because the first thing I thought when reading the article title is basically the premise of that movie.
Those professions are going to be using calculus and trig and algebra.

Lambda calculus and number theory are significantly hairier.
> My interpretation of the timeline is that the UK became an immigration magnet due to its prosperity, rather than its prosperity being the result of mass immigration.

Also by having colonized a bunch of places whose residents then wanted to move to the UK.
Even though you're right, privacy is quite irrelevant in this case anyway. If no one can walk through the door, your personal space cannot be violated. If you want to hide your IP use VPN. You essentially should not rely on things out of your control, such as CGNAT. But yeah, I agree, I should have mentioned security, only.
And if you tell it to think up a word that has an E in position 3 and an L that's somewhere in the word but not in position 2, it's not going to be any better at that if you tell it to answer one letter at a time.
What is a MAAN_
Sam Harris argues similarly in The Moral Landscape. There's this conception objective morality cannot exist outside of religion, because as soon as you're trying to prove one, philosophers rush with pedantic criticism that would render any domain of science invalid.
No even simulation of pure quantum states scales exponentially with the number of degrees of freedom, that’s irrespective of any interpretation or invoking of non-unitary evolution like measurements, just pure simulation of the Schrödinger equation. If you simulate an environment to e.g. incorporate wave function collapse or measurement operations you’ll work with a master equation that also grows linearly with the complexity of the density matrix simulation.
Show HN: Docker-phobia: Analyze Docker image size with a treemap
Maybe you've gotten luddites and carthusians mixed up.

A luddite is a socialist that refuses to allow the capitalist to use technology against the formation of self-organised labour, i.e. a person depriving the owner class of the means of production with the aim of the working class taking control over them. It's not a cloistered order or something like that.
Do they have as many excuses as Americans do when it comes to talking about why America has legitimate problems with policing and violence?
I've been using KDE Neon on my secondary box for years now, and overall it's been great, except for two points which still means it's a no-go for my primary desktop. With gaming on Linux now being in a great position, it's one down two to go.

First, and by far the most important, no RDP alternative with similar performance and functionality.

Second, I'm really fond of the full-disk backup I have running. I has saved my ass several times, allowing me to be back in action in less than an hour with minimal data loss, by simply swapping out the disk and restore.

I know there are some good backup options for user data, but I'd still need to reinstall all the data and re-tweak all the various configuration options etc which makes much more of a hassle to restore.
This seems like the perfect book to put on your bookshelf to make people think you are smart.
TikTok's biggest creators imagine what would happen if the app went away
Writing A Wasm Runtime in Rust
Even if your reply made sense as a response (it doesn't), I've been involved with multiple wikis, and your claims aren't true.
As an aside, increasing the length of extension cords can cause premature failure of some devices (mostly motorized tools, especially cheaply-made ones) if the wire gauge is inadequate, due to voltage drop.

As a general rule, I wouldn’t run tools past 50 feet on anything smaller than 12 AWG (and really, 14 AWG is the smallest I’d go for any length; anything smaller isn’t safe for most loads).
A face value may sound like an absurd joke but it’s 100% the truth. The unfortunate reason many people do not see it this way is that it is a difficult skill to practice if you’ve built a lifetime/identity ignoring it.
Except the whole fediverse... ahem...
Geologists discover rocks with the oldest evidence yet of Earth's magnetic field
Haven’t installed it yet but this looks fantastic. The combination of tools, env, and tasks is a perfect magic trio of things almost every dev machine needs. The author has done a great job of addressing a need while keeping things simple, it’s clear that this is a useful tool that knows how it fits in.
Kniterate – Automated Knitting
>The term “October surprise” was originally used by the Reagan camp

In US politics it really is true with one political party that every accusation in a confession.
I think if Google/Apple/Microsoft/OpenAI released this product it would be panned for being too slow, inaccurate, possessing a grossly unintuitive UI and having a dismal battery life (even before being used in the cellular mode). I think it has so far dodged the worst criticism because there are no competitors, it's not priced like the Humane AI pin, and wasn't excessively oversold in the launch marketing.

As it stands the device still lacks a unique "killer app" that a smartphone can't already deliver. A device like this should be more than a sum of its parts, and right now it seems to be many features that stand side by side rather than leveraging each other, because of that I believe the entire product can be out-manoeuvred with a single smartphone app. Indeed most of the gen1 experience just seems to be implementing things we already ask AI assistants on our smartphones.

As for the design, on initial glances I thought I was looking at a new version of the Playmate. I squarely blame Teenage Engineering here for being a one-trick pony with their design language.

However despite my largely negative review, I like that natural human interaction is a product focus, and I like that chances are being taken on new concepts rather than the endless me-too'ing of established electronic products.

The problem I see for businesses entering this market is that they have no moat. They aren't the best designers, nor the best manufacturers, nor the best coders nor the best at AI, nor do they possess a unique combination thereof. Similarly they're not using any technology which is uniquely theirs, and as such I expect that if the category becomes important, a company with more resources will trivially disrupt them.

tl,dr: It seems one Google Assistant update away from making this product irrelevant.
JAXA said that the mission design for the lander was one lunar day, which generally doesn't involve dropping much below 0C (https://space.stackexchange.com/a/37374)

So ya, they probably didn't do any significant testing below 0C.
It's an interesting "time is a circle" problem given that a century only has 100 years and then we loop around again. 2-digit years is convenient for people in many situations but they are very lossy, and horrible for machines.

It reminds me of this breaking change to .Net from last year.[1][2] Maybe AA just needs to update .Net which would pad them out until the 2050's when someone born in the 1950s would be having...exactly the same problem in the article. (It is configurable now so you could just keep pushing it each decade, until it wraps again).

Or they could use 4-digit years.

[1] https://github.com/dotnet/runtime/issues/75148
[2] https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/core/compatibility/...