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traverseda.github.io 1y ago

Managing Docker Services for Homelabs

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www.gnu.org 2y ago

What Is Free Software?

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drive.google.com 2y ago

Heater Bloc's Guide to Building a Tent-Safe Copper Coil Alcohol Heater

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news.ycombinator.com 2y ago

Ask HN: Startup ideas that you'll never do?

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news.ycombinator.com 3y ago

Ask HN: Interesting/geeky home decor projects?

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old.reddit.com 3y ago

Reddit changes moderator seniority without consulting anyone involved

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github.com 3y ago

Show HN: PySdfScad,an openSCAD interpretor using signed-distance-functions

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github.com 3y ago

Show HN: PySdfScad, my early work on an openscad interpretor with fillets

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www.nytimes.com 3y ago

China’s Bid to Improve Food Production? Giant Towers of Pigs

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www.forbes.com 3y ago

U.S. Navy Laser Creates Plasma ‘UFOs’

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lukeplant.me.uk 3y ago

We need less powerful languages (2015)

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news.ycombinator.com 3y ago

Ask HN: What tools/infrastructure do you wish existed?

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www.destroyallsoftware.com 3y ago

The Birth and Death of JavaScript

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news.ycombinator.com 3y ago

Ask HN: If money was no object what software would you create?

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news.ycombinator.com 3y ago

Ask HN: How would you architect a download priority system?

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news.ycombinator.com 3y ago

Ask HN: What small software do you wish existed?

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en.wikipedia.org 4y ago

The Pepsi Globe

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news.ycombinator.com 4y ago

Ask HN: What weird startup ideas do you have?

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news.ycombinator.com 4y ago

Ask HN: What apps would you install if there was an extended internet outage?

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wokwi.com 4y ago

Wokwi: Web based Arduino/micropython simulator

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news.ycombinator.com 4y ago

Ask HN: How would you redesign the terminal/CLI experience?

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news.ycombinator.com 4y ago

Ask HN: Weird Technology or Startup Ideas?

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www.i-domehouse.com 4y ago

Japanese Dome House

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news.ycombinator.com 4y ago

Ask HN: Why did GitHub remove password auth?

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anachro.computer 5y ago

Anachro: A Network Protocol, and a PC architecture for microcontroller systems

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fsd-amoeba.sourceforge.net 5y ago

Distributed Operating System Amoeba (1996-2002)

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news.ycombinator.com 6y ago

Ask HN: Is there an ad network I can use without privacy issues?

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modelviewculture.com 6y ago

The Culture War in Open Source Is On

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github.com 6y ago

GNU/PONY, a weird Git based Linux distro

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fsd-amoeba.sourceforge.net 6y ago

Amoeba Operatating System (2002)

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Smaller budgets, slower improvement, less risk. They're not entitled to profits if that business model isn't sustainable. They're not entitled to a change in IP laws to protect their business model. They're not entitled to growing that fast.

Yes yes, we all understand the game-theoretic race-to-the-bottom you're describing here. Somehow despite linux being FOSS it still powers most of the important computing in the world. Can you explain how that works despite it being free? Once you understand that case I think you'll understand the game-theory behind how large projects can exist in the absence of traditional IP protection.

Same people who fund linux kernel development. A coalition of companies that find it useful.

In public with budgets that don't risk destroying the American economy presumably. Yes it may be slower.

The token is stored on a LUKS encrypted drive on kwallet. You'd have just as much luck getting my password from my firefox installs sqlite DB. This is also how email clients in general work.

Also this isn't really an agent. At least not a long lived one. Each email or transaction gets it's own session, the llm can make a few tool calls but must emit json as the final result. Very very short context lengths, very predictable results.

The bot does not have access to my passwords, there are pre-defined scripts that fetch the data that the run an LLM call for each transaction discovered.

Credit union atlantic. The possibility of you being able to profitably support small regional credit unions is pretty much 0. Maybe with a general browser use AI and an SMS portal. Also you'd need to bypass anti-bot protections, maybe solve captchas.

In my opinion that is the thing holding back almost all of these accounting products that make consumers lives better. I've solved it because all my cards and bills happen to support email, so I can use that as my source of truth for all my credit cards.

This doesn't surprise me at all. You can really constrain this problem, give very narrow context, and get pretty reliable and reproducible results.

I've gotten very good results with some vibe-coded deepseek book keeping. https://github.com/traverseda/beansync

Parses emails or other sources, extracts numbers, correlates different transactions, web search, asks questions, stores notes (regex based, very simple).

The hard part is getting good data, I'm sure that lexus nexus or whoever can get API access to my bank account and all my credit cards, but I can't. Email turned out to be the best way for most of my providers. Managed to avoid 2factor auth so far, but it will suck when I need it.

There is a big difference between capturing value and creating value. 20 developers can build and maintain a facebook or reddit clone, so why aren't they kicking the asses of the big companies with the much higher costs?

With a video game it's not clear that you're purchasing a revocable license. That's why it's called "buying" a video game. If online stores were clear that you were actually leasing a game, I don't think this would be a problem.

Publishers and storefronts need to be clear that what you're doing isn't buying, or start selling tickets (season passes) that have a clear end date, or use some other mechanism that isn't "buying".

The fundamental problem is that it's unclear what you're buying, and the contract can change at any time. Are you buying an item, a ticket, leasing, a subscription like an MMO, etc. These are all different things, and it misleads consumers when they're conflated.

The terms are also very one-sided, and your "purchase" can be ended by one party at will with very limited notice. Even basic consumer protection like requiring six months notice before ending your software lease would help.

So the play here is obvious, use the teleoperation as training data for a more general purpose AI controller. You need that data to make a model in the first place.

What doesn't make sense to me is the cost. Yes, $8000 is probably low for this robot but it's a reasonable price range for something like this. The AI credits though? I know vision LLMs are not cheap, they're not going to run something like Llama3.2vision on every frame. Very curious about the embodied AI architecture that this is going to use, and how it can get cheap enough that it's not going to use $500/month in electricity every month.

If memory serves the cachyos-nix flakes sets a cache for pre-built kernels, but that cache isn't available until you rebuild. So if you want to use the cache you need to do two steps, add cachyos to your inputs, rebuild, switch the kernel, rebuild.

Then reboot to use the new kernel.

It's a WOPI app. Designed for embedding microsoft 365 office app in other web apps, but other people implement it. There's callabria, and this.

You'd use it to connect nextcloud to one of these providers. Probably some other enterprise apps I don't know about can use it to edit documents.

I'm also not a lawyer, I was making that as a more vague moral distinction on the topic of free speech and accountability.

For practical reasons I think those algorithms are absolutely necessary. We need spam filters. A good line to draw would be "bring your own algorithm". A technical challenge to be sure, bit breaking up social media backend providers and content filtering seems like one of the only safe ways to allow these massive platforms to exist.

The algorithm can be just "Dan filters out spam".

You can be protected by safe harbour provisions, or you can editorialise your content. I don't think you should have both.

Free speech does not cover scams and fraud, something that happens on their platform. Society doesn't take any action against them for publishing illegal content, scams, libel, fraud, because they aren't a newspaper. They're more like a newspaper printing house.

In my opinion they should probably be losing those protections and should suffer legal consequences for the content their users post. The moderation has reached a point where they ate defacto editorialising content.

An alternative to that could be opting in to some kind of third party moderation arbitration process.