Axsuul's comments

On: Launch HN: Onyx (YC W24) – Open-source chat UI

[Axsuul]

Is this sort of like self-hosted NotebookLM?

[Weves → Axsuul]

That's one way people use Onyx! Specifically, the Projects feature (see the left sidebar) works similarly e.g. you can upload arbitrary numbers of files - going well beyond the context limit of your model - and then ask questions of them.

On: California invests in battery energy storage, leaving rolling blackouts behind

[Axsuul]

A lot depends on long term planning but the planning better be right. In my opinion, the markets are much better than planning.

[standardUser → Axsuul]

Historically yes, but tell that to our newest superpower China.

On: Rivian CEO: 'blows my mind' to see US auto makers shifting back to ICE vehicles

[Axsuul]

There is definitely an inconvenience to it which affects the freedom to navigate. Americans don’t like their freedoms being taken away.

On: RubyMine is now free for non-commercial use

[Axsuul]

That’s not a good indicator at all. Open source requirements are very different from business application.

On: 'Europe must ban American Big Tech and create a European Silicon Valley'

[Axsuul]

The culture is very different in the US. You are viewed as American after you’ve been here awhile but the same cannot be said for other places.

[potato-peeler → Axsuul]

Maybe some point in time this was true, but not recently. There is a heavy focus on attaching labels to individuals, putting them in one camp or another. This kind of culture is hardly present or not as strong outside of US.

On: Third places and neighborhood entrepreneurship (2024)

[Axsuul]

Ktown in LA has a few

[the_real_cher → Axsuul]

I've been to one out there but it was crowded as hell all hours of the night because theres so few late night coffee shops in LA.

On: Waymo rides cost more than Uber or Lyft and people are paying anyway

[Axsuul]

I've been seeing these drive around LA too (the Zeekr).

On: GCP Outage

[Axsuul]

How do you know that?

On: GCP Outage

[Axsuul]

Does anyone know if instance-to-instance networking has been affected? My Redis instance has been throwing a lot of connection errors.

[markbnj → Axsuul]

We're not seeing any connectivity issues between pods and vms in our vpc, but your mileage may vary.

[Axsuul → markbnj]

Thanks

On: Apple introduces a universal design across platforms

[Axsuul]

That could be fixed I feel by decreasing the background opacity.