Actual invocation is this huge hairy furball of an rsync command that appears to use every single feature of rsync as I worked on my backup script over the years.
Yes, this adds a couple of nice features, it is easy to go back to any version using only normal filesysem access and because they are hard links it only uses space for changed files and you can cull old versions without worrying about loosing the backing store for the diff.
I think it sort of works like apples time-machine but I have never used that product so... (shrugs)
Note that it is not, in the strictest sense, a very good "backup" mainly because it is too "online", to solve that I have a set of removable drives that I rotate through, so with three drives, each ends up with every third day.
Neither of you read the content of the OP methinks. Many of the AI skeptics framed in the blog do not leverage agentic frameworks. In fact, they are explicitly turned off by how the chat interface cannot tackle large codebases as you can't just throw vector embeddings into the chat window. Thus, they write off AI completely.
In order to do this you need to set up your IDE and connect it to an API, either local or one of the paid services. I am not aware of any paid service that has an unlimited token plan through the API.
It doesn't matter if they offer unlimited tokens or not. You're not using unlimited tokens. What matters is how many tokens you need to get good results, and whether you can get that many tokens at a good price.
GitHub Copilot has a free tier these days. It's not 100% free no matter how much you use it but it's generous enough that you can get a feel for if it's worth paying for.
What is the impetus to make money or sustain itself? How do I know this isn't another tool that will transition to a revenue extraction model down the line?
We only want people to pay for Crystal if they feel they get outsized value out of it; we’d never ask you to pay just to make a few searches.
That being said, each query makes a few LLM calls to make sure we’re returning the most relevant datasets, which costs money. So at some point we would expect power users to contribute, which seems reasonable.
Ultimately our goal is to democratize access to this data. So the cost would never be more than a nominal amount
I find this kind of sealioning really unproductive, given the publicity around Tesla's owner right now. I highly doubt someone with your resumé and levels of capital ownership would need any of this context explained, let alone the average HN reader.
I love my car irrespective of public opinion about Tesla's owner. Media narratives don't affect the reliability of my car or the comfort I experience driving it. I simply enjoy the vehicle for what it is.
I know that the price of a Tesla vehicle has gone down, but I'm not looking to sell my car. It has no reliability issues. Not once have I had to repair anything. The battery is performing great. Why would I sell it? I understand that five years from now, the battery may not be as good as it is today. But if you own, say, a BMW—the holy grail of car engineering—good luck keeping it after the warranty expires.
My other Tesla is on lease, so I couldn't care less about the price drops.
Feels like this is the same playbook Google, Meta and Apple apologists all roll out.
"I love this product because I am oblivious to the immediate political consequences of owning it. You can't make me care about security or privacy until I decide to care about it!"
At least we now know with hindsight that every Google, Apple and Meta product was completely benign. At least, that's what my deprivation from media narratives tells me.
> I find this kind of sealioning really unproductive, given the publicity around Tesla's owner right now.
These assumptions(including the ones in the submission) is only true within a certain bubble and an echo chamber. Strange that half the country isnt even acknowledged and are actively downvoted and flagged to stop them from engaging, which works well.
You don’t appear to have any trouble engaging and your only downvoted posts appear to low-quality, is this like the imaginary “cancel culture” claims where people with national reach pretended that they had been silenced?
It’s not an echo chamber to notice that Tesla’s owner linking his identity to an extremely partisan role turns off the approximately half of people who don’t share his politics:
That’s not a bubble, it’s just basic business sense: if you’re in a competitive market, there a cost to giving people a reason to look elsewhere and especially so when most of your historical buyers have been in the opposing camp. It’s why you don’t know how the CEOs of Ford or Toyota vote, because they are smart enough not to jeopardize their long-term future just for a little publicity now.
I got downvoted(without a counterpoint reply) for asking for sources and making a fact based assertion. There's probably dozens of examples like that. On Reddit you see comments with dozens of downvotes for replying with a simple fact "Musk founded SpaceX" to a comment which says "Musk bought all his companies" which has hundreds or thousands of upvotes.
> You don’t appear to have any trouble engaging
Many a time I stop myself from commenting even though I think have a good counterpoint because I get dowvoted(which sometimes restricts commenting for like an hour or two and you get time limited) and flagged. Not to mention personal attacks when I made a good point because people are angry. It's all one sided posts making the front page for the most part. Reddit is wayyyy worse though, I had to stop engaging there.
> It’s not an echo chamber
It's hard to see the bubble when you're inside it. It's like having green goggles on all the time the world looks green. It's hard for people to even understand that for some people the world may not look green. I never voted Republican in my life anyway and may not, but it's really hard not to miss all the abject bias everywhere.
That comment could have been more thoughtful. You were asking about the wrong thing (“for this”) because the parent commenter was referring to previous events.
> which sometimes restricts commenting for like an hour or two and you get time limited
> Not to mention personal attacks when I made a good point because people are angry.
Gotta say, neither of these happen to me. (At least, any personal attacks usually seem to come after a personal attack of my own.) The fate of your comments may very well benefit from a bit more thoughtfulness.
Perhaps keep in mind that many comments with good qualities and bad qualities are downvoted for their bad qualities; the trick is to minimize those.
> It's hard to see the bubble when you're inside it.
Indeed. Why do you feel like you are more informed than them? Could it not be your bubble that you fail to see?
Those are not flagged, and prolly not even downvoted. If there are similar loq quality name calling comments making fun of thehe other side, bam flagged in seconds.
> Why do you feel like you are more informed than them? Could it not be your bubble that you fail to see?
Because facts, opinions and slanted headlines and stories that support the prevalent bubble of one side are heavily featured. The facts that support or negate those barely even show up on the front page, and comments referencing those are usually downvoted or flagged. This happens with a lot of topics that don't fit the preferred narrative of the site.
I consume content mostly from the same bubble that is prevalent on HN, but I also look at the opposite side with an open mind while checking possible misinformation and my own biases, which appears to be sorely lacking with people.
> Gotta say, neither of these happen to me
Maybe it's because you're in the same prevelant bubble as most of HN is in? Try posting facts with good sources that don't support the narrative and see what happens.
There is more than one narrative and you think only one of them is valid. I’ll just ask one more time in the hopes you consider the question with more care: why do you think you are not failing to see your bubble?
> Try posting facts with good sources that don't support the narrative and see what happens.
People you disagree with post facts and good sources and they get upvoted. Is it possible that you are disregarding them the same way you feel your comments are being disregarded?
> There is more than one narrative and you think only one of them is valid
Not true. I am saying the narratives on HN are mostly one sided, especially the posts that make the front page, some very biased with bad clickbait titles. Comments that counter the narrative properly are sometimes upvoted but a good chunk are downvoted or flagged.
Stories that counter the narrative very rarely reach the front page. You may not even realize such articles exist. From what sources do you get your news from?
Edit:
You haven't addressed why comments saying Daddy Trump aren't flagged or downvoted. Try saying something similar against "the other side".
I guess you think those comments follow the HN etiquette, if so we are done here. You're just unable to see bias when it's right in your face, or you're being disingenuous, so there's no point trying to have a rational conversation.
Oh, I was in the liberal bubble and echo chamber just 3 or 4 years ago. One of the things that opened my mind was how differently Tesla was suddenly being treated in the media/HN/Reddit once Musk turned. I didn't agree with Musk's politics and still don't agree now but the bias has been crazy. Same with SpaceX since the past 8 months or so.
You saw how many liberals and moderates who voted for Dems in 2024 didn't vote in 2024 or changed their vote, even minorities. While liberals expected a big victory because they were stuck in their bubble.
I think realizing that you're a large landowner who owns a company employing hundreds of people easily informs many of the opinions you espouse on your account.
So what exactly is the pricing model? Do I need a quote? Because otherwise I don't see how to determine it without creating an account which is needlessly gatekeeping.
We're still in our beta so it's entirely free for now (we can't promise a bug-free experience)! You have to make an account but it won't require payment details.
Down the line we want to move to a pay-as-you-go model.
One of the maintainers has a video demo on his twitter claiming iOS, android and Linux. Some of the code is not released and I wish they were advertising that properly.
That is true. However (as of two days ago, it may have rapidly changed since then) the python program did not differentiate based on your architecture and would try to import mlx regardless if it's installable on your system or not, causing import errors.
The "device" in question must be Apple Silicon because the `mlx` package is a hard dependency, or at least an ARM machine (I do not have any Apple Silicon Macbooks or ARM machines to run this). I tried tweaking this before realizing calls to this library is littered all over the repo. I don't really understand the AI ecosystem very well but it seems that the use of the `mlx` library should be supplanted by some other library depending on the platform machine. Until then, and the actual release of the iOS code somewhere, "everyday devices" is limited to premium devices that almost no one has more than one of. I'm looking forward to run this on other machine platforms and squeeze out what I can from old hardware laying around. Otherwise I doubt the tagline of the project.
Edit: to add on, the only evidence that this runs anywhere but Apple Silicon is the maintainer's Twitter where they show it running on two Macbook Pros as well as other devices. I'm not sure how many of those devices are not ARM.
I'm not throwing shade at the concept the author is presenting, but I'd appreciate if they could slow down functional commits (he is writing them right now as I type) and truthfully modify the documentation to state which targets are actually able to run this.
Don't you guys have anything better to do? You know, write code, instead of bothering people about nonsense like this, getting offended and crying on the fediverse?
Is what I should say to you. I should not have to inquire the specifics of your personal life to figure out your true income, who has maybe subsidized your living expenses over the years, and your total expenses, to determine how you were able to save for property in one of the most expensive areas of the nation. Although, you have already earmarked your comment with "upper-middle-class", which speaks to your ancedote-rooted perspective.
I don't see what value this provides that rsync, tar and `aws s3 cp` (or AWS SDK equivalent) provides.
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