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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?

Well the goal is to stop killing games, to make it possible for people to run their own games indefinitely. That's a lot harder than baseline consumer protections though.

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.

From a few days ago, uses ultrasound.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48685558

Regen braking,

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.

Yes, it requires a daemon running inside the VM and can be finicky though.

Last I checked it was about $3000 per life saved by the most efficient methods. Looking at effective altruism communities. Mostly malaria nets.

If you are using a real computer or can sideload apps.

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.

Also problems Ukrainian defense needs to solve, and that the Canadian military is trying to solve. This is everyone's problem. It's also biased towards defense use.

>that has to deal with the other constraints of the web platform.

Well there's your problem right there

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

Personal opinion, not legal opinion.

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.

You can run your own github actions compatible-ish server. https://github.com/nektos/act

Personally my favorite is probably drone-ci.

I'd suggest not buying in too hard on any one of these CI systems and just writing shell scripts. Shell scripts are portable, and you can use whatever to trigger them.

There are plenty of nonviolent extralegal options. Ranging fron sit-ins and protests, to destruction of property, to many examples in the CIA's subtle sabotage field guide like running meetings poorly.

About 30% from what I could find.

Same way the US enforces any internet foreign policy. Make the credit card companies cut them off,make advertisers cut them off. US controls most of the ways they could make money.

If you're thinking about actually using it, please not it only supports redhat distros.

https://github.com/bootc-dev/bootc/issues/865

Lots of suggestions already, my only suggestion is that it would be nice if this could generate tabs and slots. I'm more likely to laser cut or 3D print inserts, so a tab and slot would make assembly easier.

Well that and to generate STL files for 3D printing.

No, the subreddit has applied custom css to do that. It's the mildly infuriating subreddit. There's also an image of a hair visible on widescreen monitors, to make you think there's a hair on your display.

Wait, does urlib not use semvar? Don't remove APIs on minor releases people. A major release doesn't have to be a problem or a major redesign, you can do major release 400 for all I care, just don't break things on minor releases.

Lots of things not using semvar that I always just assumed did.

I'd be more worried about the implicit power imbalance. It's not what can humans provide for each-other, it's what can humans provide for a handful of ultra-wealthy oligarchs.

No answer I give will be satisfying to you until I could come up with a rigorous mathematical definition of understanding, which is de-facto solving the hard AI problem. So there's not really point in talking about it is there?

If you're interested in why compression is like understanding in many ways, I'd suggest reading through the wikipedia article on Kolmogorov complexity.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kolmogorov_complexity

LLMs are compression and prediction. The most efficient way to (lossfully) compress most things is by actually understanding them. Not saying LLMs are doing a good job of that, but that is the fundamental mechanism here.