skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What does "Safety" means exactly? How do you convenience/make a real intelligence to be "safe", let alone artificial ones that are build to be manipulated?

In my eyes, the word "Safe" in their company name is just a pipe dream to make a sale to the public, like the word "Open" in "OpenAI". That's why it's so vague and pointless.

Anyone still remember the Three Laws of Robotics (1)? Do you still see it as something serious these days? (I mean there are robots killing people right now, seriously) Maybe we should just break through the facade now to save our time.

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three_Laws_of_Robotics

PS. I think few years later they will come out with the narrative of "relative safety". Just wait and see.
The inflation in semi conductor capital expenditure is the problem caused by the AI hype.
Super handy! I regularly work on multiple projects at once. Have 3 phpstorm windows open, but working on project A, I can just CMD+Tab because project A is focussed. I switch between browser, terminal, editor, etc. Then, when switching to project B, I do CMD+` once in every app, and I’m done.

To me, this makes windows feel like a maze and macos feel natural.
I still don't see a need for lambdas or how a cost to run them on a DO droplet/Hetzner server would be so prohibitive that you'd be concerned about saving a few dollars a month.

Note: There's a reason I keep saying "You need 'omg distributed' perhaps after your millionth user, and even then it's highly debatable."
If 16cm through clouds and rain has been publicly available for three years, what does military have and for how long? And with that capability, and in a post-9/11 world, how could an entire rogue airliner not be traced to within sqm's of impact/landing?
If you read the article, it’s a guy playing around on his system to see if hacking this thing with that thing works.

If you only read the comments, you think Gentoo was switching out core utils and doing it in the worst technical way possible.
> the post is about them personally.

There is a decent chance that, yes, this rant is quite literally aimed at the people that frequent Hacker News. Where else are you going to find a more concentrated bunch of people peddling AI hype, creating AI startups, and generally over-selling their capabilities than here?
The reason it's been stuck at version 11 is because X11 added an extension mechanism to the protocol and all improvements since have been added as extensions.
Excellent find, I’d never heard of Zipf’s law.

GP was talking about something else though, the 90:90 rule is related to an extremely common planning optimism fallacy around work required to demo, and work required to productise.
How do you know what's running on Signal's server?

Sidenote: Signal is based in the USA. They do not have the benefit of the doubt.
Oh no, not this again.

I'm not sure I could muster the arrogance to write such a document about myself... and then expect people to read it. The suggested examples of what the document could contain are bizarre and yet also weirdly simple & obvious...

"I am a sponge. I’ll take more content earlier rather than a formal presentation"

"Please give me the bad news before I hear it from somewhere else"

"Be direct. Tell me what you need and when you need it."
> I think there is a strong misconception that there is this massive pool of open-source devs twiddling there thumbs just itching to jump in on some project were they can pour time and effort for nothing more than the "good of the community". I don't have any sources for this, but it my strong suspicion that the vast majority of "open source" contributions are actually done by contributors that are compensated either by a company that doesn't mind paying their employees to work on open source projects, or by a foundation behind the open source project.

I actually think this is a wider societal issue. People love calling for work to be done in some abstract sense ('someone should really...', 'they should make it so that..'), but who is this 'they'? Or this 'someone'? You? Because you're either volunteering yourself, or you're 'volunteering' someone else for the job, there's no third option.

There's this general sense that everything will be (or is) documented; every tool made, every itch scratched. But unless the incentives (money, fame, prestige, personal fulfilment, love, curiosity, self-expression, etc.) are there for someone to do it, it won't get done. Most things will never be done.

So if someone says "I don't understand why X hasn't been done", I feel like an appropriate response is to ask why they haven't done it. And generally, whatever reasons they give, those reasons will be a good explanation why anyone else hasn't done it either.
How about some software for jerk limited trajectory computation: https://github.com/pantor/ruckig

too bad it uses an odd cloud-based model for waypoint handling.

Anyone know of any software for jerk limited planning which allows position constraints? Whats the fastest jerk limited path from A to B the doesn't pass though the forbidden zone. The jerk limited path may deviate from a straight line. So even when the A to B line is admissible, a straightforwardly constructed jerk limited path may not be.
> Your freedom is not the least impacted by the MIT or BSD licences. The software distributed is and remains free and open source.

Only the original as delivered by the original dev-team. The derivatives can be, and often are, closed off. That's the opposite of "free and open source".
> There's a lot of frameworks that can deploy straight to Vercel, Cloudflare Pages, Netlify, etc. without all that.

All of them need all that. And those frameworks are for a reason: they sweep a lot of these things under a rug, and after a certain complexity you will have a vendor lock-in. Just because you will end up depending on certain policies that other vendors don't provide. Or on certain services that other vendors don't provide. Or guarantees that other vendors don't provide. Or pricing that... Or...
>What happened to ML?

It's cyclical. The term "ML" was popular in the 1990s/early 2000s because "AI" had a bad odor of quackdom due to the failures of things like expert systems in the 1980s. The point was to reduce the hype and say "we're not interested in creating AGI; we just want computers to run classification tasks". We'll probably come up with a new term in the future to describe LLMs in the niches where they are actually useful after the current hype passes.
If you want to scale to 100x power you're going to have to rely on solar power even more than we already do. You seem to be awfully attached to the idea that the reactor must be located on earth. Solar power is fusion power with the reactor being located in space. It is very unlikely that humanity can build a bigger reactor.
Welcoming all migrants can work in countries with no social net like US in their biggest boom. Come and work. EU countries are stretched and more and more people with low to no skills are gonna be really hard on the budgets. They cant even guarantee to pay people born there nice retirement in 30 years.
I find the argument a bit weak because client side scanning is not the same as creating a central store for all send images. I do indeed find it very concerning that flagged content will eventually be looked at by a human, and said human may be a criminal, or said human and her computers will indeed be the target of hackers looking to extort.

Would be nice if this scenario would first play out for a politician that helped establish Chat Control.
> If you want a theory; a man who isn't in control of his emotions can present anything up to an immediate mortal danger to the people around him (particularly if they are female).

What emotions do you really control?

We expect men to suppress this emotion. And there's is 400k years of survival and reproductive success tied up with that emotion. We didn't get half a percent of the population with Ghegis Khans Y chromosome with a smile, balloons and a cake.

It's not like violence doest exist. But we seem to think that we can remove it just like the murder in the meat case. Are we supposed to put anger on a foam tray and wrap it in plastic and store it away like a steak because the reality of it upsets people?

It's to the point where words murder, suicide, rape and porn are "forbidden words"... were saying unlike, grape and corn. So as not to offend advertisers a peoples precious sensibilities. Failing to see this behavior is a major plot point in 1984.

I think we all need to get bad to the reality of the world being "gritty" and having to live in it.
Please do let them go asap. I have seen this before in my career, and as a junior software engineer (at least that was my title when I got hired) I was furious when I had to clean up after the "senior" engineer so many times because of their incompetence. My teammates were all frustrated equally, but we were working as a flat hierarchy team so there was no boss to report this to...

Eventually the "senior" left the company himself, but it took 2 years. That was 2 years of frustration for everyone in the team because we felt it was so unfair when somebody got paid more than us but caused so many blocks because of their incompetency.
> the term AI (...) has completely taken over

Maybe if you go by article titles it has. If you look at job titles, there are many more ML engineers than AI engineers.
Htmx is a very small, mostly AJAX related library with a nice structure that helps you do this in a principled way.

There’s nothing special about it other thab doing pretty much exactly what you’d want.
> those parents are fighting against multi-billion dollar international corporations, who dedicate huge teams of highly paid people to ensuring children get addicted to their platforms

So why not put a stop to this then?

With any luck we'll come to realise that these platforms and the people working on them are the same scum that run the tobacco industry.
AFAIK NetFLix is a rare company that actively makes substantial contributions to open software, i.e. FreeBSD in their case.

There are lots of Linux distros and thus you will never get the cohesion that you get with any of the BSDs. For a more detailed explanation: https://unixdigest.com/articles/why-you-should-migrate-every...
I know the story, it's why I picked it as an example. I wonder how many humans have since seen the son's crotch.
Norway has huge oil reservers, Swiss healthcare is basically private. We could go deeper. NHS in UK is in the shambles for example.

Switzerland has universal health care, regulated by the Swiss Federal Law on Health Insurance. There are no free state-provided health services, but private health insurance is compulsory for all persons residing in Switzerland (within three months of taking up residence or being born in the country).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Healthcare_in_Switzerland#:~:t...).
In the article they didn't write about side effect but In Turkey My relatives also using drones for rice farming. And trees are dying since they need to fly drones higher then trees. Birds are dying as well.

Previously I remember there were so many birds but now there is none. I also remember there were frogs, snakes etc. and now there is none.
Show HN: I made an app for content analysis to automate and simplify moderation
Hey HN,

In my 9-to-5 job, I faced challenges with moderating multiple live chat instances. In addition to the high volume of instances, we had a particularly unique business case: some users were promoting illegal paid sports bets.

To address this issue, I developed a solution that evolved into Guardian, a tool designed to automate content analysis.

- Ready-made models (e.g., Toxicity, Sentiment Analysis, Spam Detection)
- Custom AI Agents (context-aware, business-specific use cases)
- Multilingual support

Marcin
Yeah, it's my Bitwarden password for me... So the $5 wrench will be very effective.
It's suboptimal for communication but even worse for thinking?
You have association revealed openly to anyone having access to Signal server by User ID but barely know the name or phone associated with either end, much less ever able to see any actual and readable message content.

Unless it is the end-device being "accessed"/compromised, which any nation-state can do.
> Right now, PHP+Bootstrap suffices most of my needs when it comes to app development as a freelancer. As for JavaScript, I've always treated it as a language meant for client-side scripting and nothing more than that.

PHP still has advantage of having cheapest shared hosting.

> Are there standard database drivers to access mysql or mssql or sqlite, for eg?

Yes, for example https://www.npmjs.com/package/typeorm

> I understand that at a theoretical level, the event based async threading model of Node.js is truly innovative and since most typical CRUD apps spend most of their time waiting for an sql query to perform or network resource to be fetched, async should be the hot cake compared to synchronous programming. But that doesn't work out in practice for some reason.

Async/Await is what has become available in Node.js. But for some web frameworks, it has required to do a lot of changes to change from Fibers to Async/Await, because Fibers has been deprecated and does not work anymore. Async/Await syntax is complex.

So just keep coding your serverside PHP.
I love how you misspelled it as „gorilla marketing“. That’s exactly the kind of humor I‘ve seen on the author‘s social media posts.
> What the hell does that mean fix your docs??

If you asked a company to run for a week, based on what its docs said, and nothing else I suspect it would be bankrupt before Friday.

Knowlege is tribal, human, and adaptive.

AI did this once already. Harvesting the data from professionals for expert systems... The problem is you need to keep feeding it data... the people dont go away, they aren't doing the job any more, they are just documenting the job at that point.
Yeh all you need to really do is just alias sudo in the shell profile and you can steal the users password to elevate to root.

Flatpak/Containers can prevent it but permissions are up to the developer/packager.
> It's arguable that macOS going Unix had a halo effect that did more for Linux and open source than if they stayed on a completely propietary stack.

But that's not relevant to the parent's point, which is "If all open source, such as Linux, was BSD licensed, then only proprietary unixes would be common", which I happen to agree with.

Linux would have been further behind because all the proprietary unixes could take the best parts, without giving back (like Apple did/does with BSD), and all those thousands of full-time employees working on Linux would have created value for the shareholders of their employers, not value for the Linux users (like they currently do now).
> Let us know if you ever encounter that monkey problem

Ah, the subtlety escaped me there. My (extremely sarcastic) point is that aside from being personally embarrassing, this would (to belabour the joke) violate many laws of physics and biology, and therefor the scientific and medical community would take immediate note and try to establish a basis for how this could be physically possible.
WFH dad here. Long working days so I put a treadmill. First a cheap one, as I wanted to try, but it was walked down in some months and you had to maintain. I switched to lifespan. Its maintenance free. For me it is a total game changer to walk half a day. I use it every day for 4 hours for the last 3 years. Then put the gymnastic ball on it and lower the desk to sit for the rest of the day. Threw away the office chair. In video meetings I stop it and stand. I researched a lot about treadmill desks and it seems that it is not for everybody. Some people find it hard to concentrate, others find it easier. You could start with a small investment on a amazon or used one. If you like it and you want to continue you can switch to a more professional setup. There are even treadmills without engine (the walkolution one). Take your time. Body adapts slowly - I would recommend you give yourself some months of getting used to it.
Divvy thankfully still works without issue and I love it, but when Apple drops Intel support via Rosetta it's going to be a sad day.

https://thelasso.app gets close, and adds more features (or visual clutter, imo), but still doesn't feel as quick and efficient to use when setting positions for multiple windows quickly. Divvy can be configured to stay open, and because it's always centered on each monitor, for some reason I can find it better than Lasso that opens where the mouse currently is.
I think it’s mostly so they can have some degree of choice over what they are called.

You might call them Bill, but they can decide to call themselves Billy, or Will, or Willy, or William - without the hassle of actually changing their name.

There is also a class thing where naming a kid with a short form is seen as being lower class.
Might you conjure some pertinent examples for this uninformed peasant what meaningful^ trade restrictions China have wrought on the US/Japan?

^ By meaningful, I mean, they can't just go to another supplier, and the particular restriction curtails technological development
Yet, you should still vote.
That sounds like a solid framework. Similarly, there's 'Six Thinking Hats' (1985) [1], which is another tool aimed at fostering effective communication.

The challenge with these methods is that when they're most needed, people often revert to more... "basic instincts" :-), sometimes underhanded, forms of communication. They can even twist these tools to serve their own agendas. I wonder if a 'how to talk to me' manual might be giving potential manipulators too much leverage...

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1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Six_Thinking_Hats
Wind turbine 'arms race': Siemens Gamesa said to plan 21MW giant
> nothing more than an attack to our freedom

C'mon... It improves memory safety!

I agree with GPL being a way to protect the investment in the commons so it remains "freer" than with MIT/BSD licensed code. But in the cloud platform world this is has show to be not so helpful (hence we need the AGPL). Both GPL and AGPL are (AGPL more so) shunned by big biz: this is a blessing (fuck 'm) and a curse (they have much money to invest).

All open source releases are extending the commons (freely available to everyone), so if MIT/BSD code is released I still cheer for that (even if it clones GPL code).
I don't know how it works, but I thought MSR write was forbidden since... v5.10... ?

Anyway, I was expecting to see it in the "Voltage and Current Regulator Support" in kernel menuconfig.
Terraced paddy fields have been used for centuries in countries such as Sri Lanka (where I'm from), Bangladesh, Vietnam and Indonesia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paddy_field#/media/File:Pana_B...
I have been expecting a range, in which there's a pass that's 30m in height below the average of the ridge: -----_---

(edit: apparently features like that exist, e.g. Roland's Breach)
You make it sounds as if one would not choose one’s spouse.
"Catalog stores" kind of like this do exist, such as Argos in the UK, and Kjell&Co in Sweden. They can stock a huge number of SKUs in a small footprint.
I hope they make an example out of them. One can't even call their behavior "malicious compliance", "malicious noncompliance" is more fitting.
I completely agree with you, we will look back on the big social media companies exactly the same way we look at big tobacco, they knew all along the damage they were causing, and spent heroic efforts covering it up to make profits.
> Flash memory bits wear out after 100,000 to 1,000,000 writes.

I'd think that applies to (low density) NOR flash memory, not (high density) NAND based ones.
I don't know who would argue that.

There was a lot of Unix already, and Linux ate it's lunch by being a simple recompile away.

MacOS does a lot to try and hide that it's a Unix.

> There is a ton of cross pollination between mac and Linux software

Do we have any good examples, because Apple spends a lot of effort breaking cross platform compatibility?

> at least on the command line.

There is a lot of Linux command line software ported to MacOS, but I can't think of any good examples for the other way around.
I've been boycotting Apple for years for its a consumer-hostile stance, and it makes me feel very conflicted that the EU is forcing Apple to make changes that make the iPhone a very compelling alternative to Android.
GNU coreutils is a clone

Coreutils may have started as a clone, but quickly became so much more. While the 'traditional' unix tools were pretty much frozen when it came to new features, GNU was experimenting and adding new features and trying to improve the UX (which not everybody approved of). There's a reason why the first thing many people would do on a new Unix install was to add GNU coreutils, and in fact many of the GNU features eventually made it back into the traditional tools.

So the real question is will uutils eventually reach a point where it is better/different enough that people will actively want to replace coreutils on their GNU systems, or will it remain 'just' a clone.
I think both hardware and software in AR have to become unobtrusive for people to adopt it. And then it will be a specialized tool for stuff like maintenance. Keeping large amounts of information in context without requiring frequent changes in context. But I also think that the information overload will put a premium on non-AR time. Once it becomes a common work tool, people using it will be very keen to touch grass and watch clouds afterwards.

I don't think it will ever become the mainstream everyday carry proponents want it to be. But only time will tell...
I'm most cases people stress uptime too much. Developers worry about downtime during restarts and overcomplicate everything because of it. Meanwhile, my national railway reservation system has an hour of planned downtime daily and life carries on.
Hey, I'm Marcin.

I faced a challenge with content moderation in my 9-to-5 job, so I built an app to address it.
It could done though, via in channel-system- analysing communication, communicating to parties outside the black box, without monitoring the conversation otherwise. If the NNaNNy detects inapropriate conversations by parties underage, it calls the police.
Gentoo doesn't do this crap every 3 weeks, come on. I agree in the sense that I didn't want to have this choice thrust upon me, much like many other choices, but Gentoo has always been good about supporting different choices. My system is still systemd-free, for instance, and I'm rocking MATE. I read the news item, upgraded my profile to the non-merged next version now that I have to make a choice of merged or not, and I suspect I won't have to think about this on Gentoo again for at least years.
Why does scanning of children's communications need to involve non-E2E-encrypted communication? The parents can just be the admins of their children's devices and tell those devices to capture and report communications before they're encrypted.
after reading "Auto Tag with AI", sorry but no
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