skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Perhaps it will allow the maintainer to take a few months off

Depends on where you live too - $10k would take care of 5 years for me.

From my experience though, it is better to figure out a way to sell something in addition to the open stuff.
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People used to get along fine with a magazine or book; that doesn't mean they weren't ready for something better.
> and ignoring the message of Jesus or following what he said.

We have absolutely no idea what Jesus said.

If we have any evidence at all of what Jesus said it would be 'Romans GTFO' because that's what gets you actually curlicued (ignore the nonsense in the gospels).
Slightly OT but I much prefer the 9211+: the vent[*] makes a difference in comfort when worn over long periods. Or the 9105 / 9105S which sticks out further away from the face, and its elastic design makes it a bit quicker to don / doff at checkpoints.

[*] Yes I'm prioritizing my comfort over safety for others, but that's the American Way (tm), isn't it.
Orbit Spirograph
Why vote at all? You don't care about the consent of the governed, we should just make you chairman of the federal government and have your enlightened rule bring us to a new era of prosperity!
Node.js – v23.0.0
Good question. I don't remember how the tickets worked. We were in a small group and our guide took care of it. Also, the rules might have changed a bit. I was there over 10 years ago.
You are right, I should have used the term "firm power" instead of "baseload"
I think it's the part of google that need to be separated the most.
Surely Result is supposed to hold both system errors and business errors.
Privatize the fire department and you'll soon see just how shrewd they become.
HTML-metadata – a Node.js library that extracts metadata from HTML pages
Or also Rust, Zig, or Nim.
> Not able to cancel a subscription easily after you willingly enter into a relationship with some business is too tiny an issue to merit expanding the government monster.

So in your world, I have to protect my credit card details from all evil people in the world forever (and also somehow prevent them from acquiring companies that I've previously given my details to), because it's okay for a company to keep charging my credit card forever, even if I don't want or use the service.

This is pretty much an argument for legalizing theft.
I know. Not even one person has consistency. There will either be cases of ambiguity or contradiction. You're arguing against Gödel's incompleteness theorem. You're asking for something that's not possible.
I'm a rather happy customer of Planet Fitness and a regular user. It's pretty clear what their business plan is, but the gym itself is fine, obviously with no frills. The most obvious deficiency is that they only have smith machines and no barbells, but that's not much of an issue for me. The strangest aspect is that there are no scales in the locker room; I assume that's a purposeful part of the atmosphere. Still I recommend them to all my friends. If they don't go, I suppose they're still subsidizing my membership.
Bookselling Out: How the market transformed American bookstores
Actually good idea
Anecdotes are never a good sample.

It drives well in your city but we don't know anything about how has Tesla tailored that experience to your city. Did they need to run around mapping it with their own LIDARs and feed into some learning model to provide it in your city? Because that won't scale. Did they use only camera vision? Because there's also multiple videos showing FSD not driving well at all in some cities.

We cannot tell, and that's the whole problem, your anecdote that FSD works well for you is a N = 1, there are other reports on HN about others having the same experience as you, it's great it works for you, people! It doesn't mean it's been generalised and works in any city, we simply cannot know, and the longer time passes the less trust the general public has with Tesla.

As another anecdote: I know at least 2 people for which FSD doesn't work well in their cities, to the point where they're afraid of turning it on even when paying full attention, and both regret paying for it. This is not a good sample either, we just don't have enough data.
That was a side hustle. That was expanding their markets. They also tried with the Atom and the Xeon Phi, but this is now other architectures moving into their heartland. Sure, if RISC-V takes over then of course Intel will adapt, but right now they have the duopoly that they share with AMD. If RISC-V becomes a standard than IBM for example will get involved and they definitely know how to design a chip.

But this really looks like another industry shift like when businesses all moved to Unix, or when unixes all moved to business, or homes consolidated on Wintel, each time moving to a more open commodity platform. RISC-V and (to a lesser degree) ARM are much more commodity than the duopoly.
The Nvidia GH200/GB200 “superchips” are all ARM processors. Seems likely that some of the next generation of foundation models will be trained on ARM
> you're trying to conflate actual human crashes to unsafe autonomous actions

For a Level 5 system, yes, a situation where the car requires intervention is equivalent to a crash or avoided crash. Particularly if it won’t have a steering wheel or pedals.
What environment on a plane would someone be better out not tuning out?

It’s a multi hour flight. I don’t know anyone around me, most are asleep.

Many people already tune out the noise with their noise cancelling audio products.

Why would it be weird to tune out the visuals too?

The Vision Pro lets me also see people while wearing it and they can see my eyes. If I’m tuned out and someone approaches me they fade through.

Meanwhile someone with the headset can watch movies on a larger screen and feel less claustrophobic.
When did I say I don't care about the consent of the governed? You can elect a legislature that eliminates the FTC or an executive who neuters it.

It seems like you don't understand how checks and balances work in our system.
Red Hat funds FOSS developers to work on open source projects to probably 100x - 500x this amount every year.
backdoor schmackdoor --- it's a little BSD for your safety and security how dare you slander the poor thing with such a heinous label. tsk.
I agree completely that writing a FastCGI client is almost as hard as writing an HTTP client, so having a different protocol is gratuitous. See mongrel2 and pushpin as things that can connect to long-running services that speak HTTP over zmq. Neither will manage the worker processes the way Apache could with fastcgi though.
As someone with generalized anxiety I hate almost every part of flying from the point at which I leave the house until I arrive, but none of what you mentioned bothers me terribly.

I'd be curious to try a device like this and see if it helps. I usually just use noise cancelling headphones and play a game or watch movies, which isn't too different from removing myself into VR, but I'm also aware that sometimes completely removing my sense of my surroundings can be more unnerving.
This reminds me of the scene in Ghostbusters where the Titanic sails up to the dock. Better late than never I guess.
I wonder if that wouldn't be served better by storing the excess solar production into a flow battery, or similar storage dimensioned to serve a city.
Making the Python back end for my new webapp
How do we know this isn't more fraud?
I'm a member as well. I get way more value than what I pay for, but I feel bad for the people at home subsidizing me.
AmEx is great for this. I've used it twice, no issues that I can tell. I had my personal card attached to a BrowserStack account that used a work email address. Forgot to cancel it when I left the job and BrowserStack support was completely useless. One chat session with AmEx later and I receive no more charges from BrowserStack.

Of course I have to remember that they are blocked on that card, should I ever need an account again in the future.
> The tree leaves have no impact on frequency, just amplitude.

That's an oxymoron, really. Frequency and amplitude are closely interrelated concepts (e.g. see Heisenberg's uncertainty principle in the context of signal processing). Frequency-varying and amplitude-varying even more so!
I don't want to be mean to your therapist, but really?

Understanding camera eyelines counts as autistic now?

You're fine doing that. Sorry, but that comment she made really sent me.

Reminds me of how the film department forced the digital artists to take a Cinematography and lighting classed irl so their final project renders would improve.
I thought it was pretty cool. Flagger is a doofus.
Thanks let me just go to distrowatch.org and install a new distro
There is something subtle going on with the "passthrough" feature. All the marketing and fans continually point to it in a way that feels like tacit acknowledgement of this very point wrt "tuning out." We are all primed for full VR Wall-E experience machines to suck us up into our own world, but the future seems to be more and more about the overlay. Not replacing one picture with another, but just painting and filtering ontop of the original. Not "I am somewhere else right now", but "I am here, but I am doing something you can't see."

Which, I gotta say, is an even darker formulation at the end of the day! Like at least if we all plugged in and went the Oasis we are truly sharing some base experience of the place; or if its going to be solitary experience machines, at least those experiences would be holistically directed towards me in some consistent package; but with this stuff, you start to think about how much more ground these crooks can still take in stratifying the experience of simply the world itself as we perceive it.
Devices owned by someone else pointing a camera at your eyes and doing eye tracking...
Many deaths have been preceded by a large number of premature announcements. We tend to overestimate the predictive value of extrapolating from a series of wrong predictions in the past.
"Compagnies"?

Is the secret strategy of big companies "have a lot of typos in your front page?"
i do prefer to recline. i choose not to, even though the airline says that i am entitled to, because i know that reclining has a high likelihood of inconveniencing the person behind me (primarily due to loss of legroom and inability to use a laptop).
I agree that the fundamental issue may simply be capitalism itself, but I am more prone to blame it on a kind of individualism, both in culture and in the nature of how corporations sell products as individual objects to individual people, and not to any larger social organization. (Except as a placeholder for a group of individuals.)

The difficulty is in imagining some kind of economic structure in which an Apple or Microsoft could make billions from selling products/services that are somehow public goods, or enhancing public spaces. We can conceive of top design minds at Apple spending billions to create a new personal computing device, but the same minds working on a way to improve public spaces – say, by removing graffiti easily, or planting trees easily – just somehow doesn't make sense or fit into the "types of things" they would do.

It may also just be a fundamental structural issue, as I talked about in the latter part of the essay. There are far fewer legal restrictions on individual objects than there are on spaces. I.e., while everyone can use an iPhone everywhere, using a device to remove graffiti would come up against all sorts of property rights laws.

It's quite a difficult topic to wrap one's mind around, at the end of the day. But yeah in general I agree that it's not necessarily individual bad actors, and incentives are a huge part of it.
Ask HN: Any existing Node.js frameworks that give basic LLMs access to tools?
Basically what's described here:

* https://github.com/openai/openai-node?tab=readme-ov-file#automated-function-calls

* https://jrmyphlmn.com/posts/sequential-function-calls

Suppose I have a model that does not natively support this.

Has anyone written/came across a library that implements such logic?

Conceptually, I would imagine that it simply boils down to another LLM interpreting user's question. The prompt for that LLM includes instructions that explain access to tools it has. That LLM then responds with a plan of execution. The plan is some JSON with instructions of what to execute. After the first cycle, the plan is re-evaluated. This repeats until LLM is happy with the response.

In practice, this feels like _a lot_ of edge cases to handle, so I am wondering if there are existing abstractions that I could use here.

For context, I am not using the native `tools` functionality provided by OpenAI SDK because it does not provide enough flexibility. It is a black box approach. I need to have more granular level control over when tools should be used/which.
There are no VCs that care about customers.

VCs care about their returns. They get returns by selling the company to the next entity in line — a strategic acquirer, an acqui-hire acquirer, or through an IPO. To maximize their returns, they insist on maximizing growth, specifically user base growth. And when they sell, the acquiring entity usually ruins the experience for users, shuts down the business, or both.
It would be great to see the FTC go against predatory subscription services like Adobe. I'm fuzzy on the exact details, but I think they promoted a yearly subscription that was meant to look like a monthly subscription, where if you cancelled early they would charge you an exorbitant cancellation fee. I'm not sure how these new rules affect them.

One recent idea I've had is that many online subscription services should automatically pause if you stop using it. For example: if I go a full monthly billing cycle without watching Netflix then my subscription should automatically pause and allow me to resume it next time I log-in. There's a ton of money that gets siphoned off to parasitic companies just because people forget to cancel their subscriptions or because they're too busy dealing with life. It might not be viable for all companies, but there's definitely a lot of services where such a thing would be possible, given the huge number of customer analytics they collect. Maybe give people the option to disable such a pause feature if they're really determined to keep paying for a service. But a default where subscriptions automatically pause if you're not using them makes a lot of sense from a user perspective. Of course businesses would probably hate such a ruling because it means they can't scam as much easy money.
I doubt it will stay that way if Trump gets a 2nd term.
OK tovarich, my regards to Vladimir.
This is more related to hardware than the distro.
You’re comparing the wrong computer to the high end of x86. Apple is doing it with Desktop M2 Ultra/M3 Max series chips and AWS with Graviton vs server chips.

Apple has already caught Intel in single core. If power didn’t matter to Apple they could surely optimize for pure performance, but they’re not competitive in the spaces where power does not matter and we will never see them being that chip to market.

There are always trade offs at the exotic tier and someone will always win one benchmark over the other, but you can’t say that ARM is being laughed at by Intel. If they were laughing they wouldn’t be partnering with AMD. While I don’t think Intel is super worried about Apple since it’s an Apples to Windows/Linux comparison, I do think they’re worried about Qualcomm and AWS catching Apple and actually eating into their market share.
> even the iPad I’m typing

When did it switch to ARM from x86.

I don't really see any reasons why can't x86 and ARM just coexist long-term. Porting software is relatively easy or not even necessary these days and ARM main advantage (that companies other than Intel/AMD can use it) is entirely non-technical (development + licensing costs) so as long as Intel/AMD can keep up they have no incentives at all to switch.

Amazon's and Ampere's ARM server chips are significantly slower and less power efficient than the equivalent AMD chips (for Ampere at least, note sure if Amazon is sharing their power usage data but I doubt it's massively lower..) they are also 30-40% cheaper because you don't have to pay for AMD/Intel's oligopoly margins.
Veins have a 2D cross section where body’s are 3D. That’s one reason why using height ^2 not height ^3 may better correlate with health.

Similarly, cancer risks may scale with the amount of tissue or the surface area for things like skin / colon cancer but it’s hard to see how being taller is beneficial.
We're getting closer and closer to the world Solaria in Asimovs universe.

I'm personally trying (and to some degree failing) to disengage from screens and other digital interactions.

My advantage is that I live quite remotely and can just hop into my boat and go fishing or something without the phone, but the craving that result in are scary.
This is not traveling. This is sitting in a plane with Vision Pro, instead of sitting at home/office.
I see you have been put in contact with retention before
i agree but i think what the parent and other folks up thread are saying makes sense. It's nice to have the choice to tune in or tune out but no one wants that decision made for them. No one wants to be forced to engage with 100+ random people in very close proximity with really no option to standup let alone leave like on a plane. Another way to look at it is imagine the person to your left and to your right are super fans of the political party opposite to yours. That wouldn't be very fun unless you like to fight for 3hrs.
Cliticization vs. Inflection: English N'T
It is not necessarily the space used but the inconvenience of packing/unpacking stuff from a carry on bag in a cramped environment.

I guess that would be different if I was flying first or business class.
This feels like one of those things that could be solved on the payment end with something like a unique payment ID for each subscription, rather than giving a CC number. Then you just enable or disable payment IDs (perhaps for a limited time, e.g., "create a payment ID that works for Netflix for the next three months but not after that"), rather than relying on vendors to decide whether they feel like charging you or not.
But you aren't able to compare them then.
Any business that values me as a customer so little that they want to foist an AI agent on me rather than letting me talk with an actual person isn't worth my patronage.
Regulation
I quite like Chrome. Still if ads pop up all over it's off to Firefox I guess.

I see the desktop usage percentages are 65% chrome, 6.5% firefox so I guess others do too. I think it's mostly a lack of hassle thing. Chrome usually just works and lets you read your website without moving the interface around or crashing etc.
Thanks!

I purposefully replicate data and queries only, so to change the shown data for everyone you have to run a query, so after the import process (which can be slow for large files), queries are replicated fast enough IMO because it's just a small string sent over WebRTC, so in theory it should be faster to run a query over a big dataset and see its result appear for all peers than a centralized app like Google Sheets, but I haven't benchmarked it yet.
At least Apple’s x86-64 on ARM64 emulation is quite fast enough for workstation use. If ARM improvement in both performance and price continue to outpace x86, it may become economically advantageous to run x86 “legacy” software under emulation even in data center environments. So out of high performance computing on x86 I don’t really see legacy software as an advantage in the medium/long term.
>What I had in mind is that there are parts of the world where bathing nude at the lake/beach is seen as more normal, and parts of the world where it sounds crazy. In the parts where it is normal, I guess there would be less inclined to used deepfakes for this, so the usage would be lower/fringe and it would not be a problem asking for our attention to solve it.

people visiting a nude beach are voluntarily nude. people have a right to not to have their body exposed without their consent.

>not be a problem asking for our attention to solve it.

it isn't a problem asking for a solution, because a solution would be a tool used to violate privacy
> Have you ever tried to compare something like Ubuntu or RHEL on a per feature per function basis with Mac OS?

Yes? Why would people recommend it as an alternative otherwise?

I used MacOS for 5 years, left after Mojave and came back when an employer made me support MacOS. The current software experience on Mac is genuinely insufferable. Advertisements in your news, notifications begging you to try Safari, zero support for common and Open Source filesystems, constantly broken software packaging, zero useful APIs (what am I supposed to do with Metal???) and a $99/year tax to compensate for the displeasure of supporting developers. You really want to argue Apple cares about you?

As a software developer, what pushed me over the edge was Docker. It runs absolutely terrible on MacOS, consumes resources/battery and makes your CPU hot as satan's taint. Native development is a nightmare on MacOS and you just have to settle with that if you want to defend it as your home. Don't even get me started on how bad Brew is.

> Not to mention many peripheral manufacturers for many of their product lines simply don’t officially support any version of Linux released in the past few years.

If your peripheral manufacturer can't support USB class compliance, they do not deserve money in the first place. I produce music on Linux and haven't ever had a MIDI device or DAC fail to register. It's a standard that even Apple isn't "courageous" enough to reject.
I wonder how this would work for gyms?

They should clean up their act anyway. If other customers are like me I’ve been putting off joining for over a year because they’re so scammy and I don’t want to get locked in.

I even went to sign up and walked out because the price ended up being double what they advertised with weird fees and the base plan not being useable once they explain it.
No inline functions in library headers, then.
> I would be honestly surprised if any listen server ever experience heavy loads ;) this is more targeted at smolweb-scale hosts.

This was true of cgi scripts written in perl too, until they made the frontpage of slashdot.
You could totally get funding for a vector editor. A friend of mine got funding for a node-based video editor.
> (e.g. Flux-12B), being 20 times smaller and 100+ times faster in measured throughput. Moreover, Sana-0.6B can be deployed on a 16GB laptop GPU, taking less than 1 second to generate a 1024 × 1024 resolution image.
> The issue is Amazon and how even if you want to put your own purchased ebooks on it, you have it send it through their servers.

You can sideload your books over USB too, using Calibre for instance.

I own a few Kindle models and a Kobo Forma as well. The Kindles do have some quirks and bugs (e.g., disappearing books, issues with sideloaded fonts…). But my Kobo Forma’s battery completely died after a couple years of usage, and the device became completely unreliable. After that experience, I’ve resigned myself to live with the Kindle’s problems.
I personally also take them out. But don’t see it as rude or disrespectful if others don’t.

Especially with AirPods gaining hearing aid functionality, it shouldn’t be a sign of lack of focus.

As an aside, I personally able to concentrate _more_ in certain scenarios when I am fiddling or have background noise playing. It quiets the part of my brain that otherwise gets distracted. I use that method for video conferences to increase the amount I am focused on the speaker and content.