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Show HN: I made my own OS from scratch because I was bored
I've wanted to make my own OS since I started programming. Now, 5 years later, I did it (kind of).

Sure, it is really basic, has very little functionality, but I made it and I'm proud of that. Oh, and I'm just 16 btw.
Donald Trump's Economic Masterplan
To OpenAI? The closest was DeepMind but that's owned by Google now.
I wonder what companies can do to prevent these scams. Remote work requires trust and AI means you can’t really trust that you’re looking at a real person or hearing a real person. Remote interviews can be faked.
I thought they meant providing the services to leak the email of any user for $10K, perhaps per user. :)
IIRC any package that uses Java isn't reproducible because system time and fixing it to epoch permamently causes issues in some application builds.

* there're maven and gradle plugins to make builds reproducible.
Having a single provider of utilities is great when owned by the gov and run "at cost". Problem is, dickheads get voted in and they sell the utility to their mates who get an instant monopoly and start running the utility for profit.
That is awesome. Both the abuse and the fix.
> If the rich need less and less educated, healthy and well fed workers, then more and more people will get treated like shit

Maybe. I think it's a matter of culture.

Very few people mistreat their dogs and cats in wealthy countries. Why shouldn't people in power treat regular people at least as well as regular folks treat their pets?

I'm no history buff but my hunch is that mistreatment of people largely came from a fear that if I don't engage in cruelty to maximize power, my opponents will and given that they're cruel, they'll be cruel to me when they come to take over.

So we end up with this zero sum game of squeezing people, animals, resources and the planet in an arms race because everyone's afraid to lose.

In the past - you couldn't be sure if someone else was building up an army, so you had to build up an army. But now that we have satellites and we can largely track everything - we can actually agree to not engage in this zero sum dynamic.

There will be a shift from treating people as means to an end of power accumulation and containment, to treating people as something you just inherently like and would like to see prosper.

It'll be a shift away from this deeply corrosive idea of never ending competition and growth. When people's basic needs are met and no one is grouping up to take other people's goodies - why should regular people compete with one another?

They shouldn't and they won't. People who want to do good work will do so and improving the lives of people worldwide will be its own reward. Private islands, bunkers and yachts will become incomprehensible because there'll be no serf class to service any of it. We'll go back to if you want to be well liked and respected - you have to be a good person. I look forward to it :)
Interesting project, but I can't say I've ever wondered whether or not it's time to touch my Yubikey. Authenticating with a token is a very intentful process.
This is the best for what it is trying to do
What do you mean markdown editor?

I thought the idea was that you can just write it as plain text in something like notepad.exe
If we look at every other category of major innovation for the last century, are they all kicked off by a world-class narcissistic asshole?

Many yes, but certainly nowhere near all. So that would seem to invalidate your hypothesis.
Ideally we would see some peer review on arxiv itself. There are some... wrappers? of that kind of functionality on https://www.scienceopen.com/ and others, but it would be amazing to see those reviews closer to the source.
> You see, connectivity is generally good on a boat - wifi, cell coverage, and satellite options abound - so we survive. But when it isn’t good, it really isn’t good. And then suddenly, it dawns on you just how much of your life is beholden to the cloud. Your documents don’t load. Your photos don’t sync. Your messages don’t send. Without necessarily consciously realizing it, we have all moved most of our online existence to other people’s computers!

Welcome to the world a huge chunk of the population lives in. It drives me crazy how quick people were to jump onto cloud computing without ever asking the question "how well does it work when my Internet connection sucks?"
[dupe] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43017167
Oh, for sure.

I had the luxury (or curse, depending) once of owning a home that needed all of the wiring replaced.

Being the kind of person that I am, I overbuilt things as I felt was appropriate. As part of that, I certainly wanted to install 20 amp outlets (even though I've never held in my hand a 20 amp plug).

The cost of that, vs good spec-grade 15A duplex outlets, was insane.

I know that the only difference is using one T-shaped contact instead of a straight and some different molds for the plastics. The line producing T-shaped contacts already exists, and so do the molds. Every 15A outlet sold today can transfer 20A safely.

It should be pennies difference in cost, and it was instead whole dollars.

Sucks.

(I'm reasonably certain that we are going to be broadly stuck with this low-current, low-voltage business until something very different comes along, and that any of this is unlikely to change in my lifetime.)
Hmm, it also has display support in a lot of random websites and tools like GitHub and reddit
Can you force it to some time other than 0? Ex. I've seen some packages force timestamps to the git commit timestamp, which is nice but still fixed.
Good point. It also requires opening some UDP ports, which many security teams balk at. Real shame though because it makes life a lot better.
Additionally, "no build" when writing typescript and jsx/tsx is not possible. The web does not have native support for these files, so by definition there must be a build step.

I think the tech here looks good, but the terminology needs a big overhaul.
Fair points! I guess I have more optimism for the modern incarnation, but history does indeed suggest otherwise.
Time. Focused effort. For me my happiness set point is decent. It takes work to get out of the hole though. No one thing. Exercise. Diet. Forcing myself to do things I know I enjoy. It can feel hollow, but it comes back. Lots of meditation, stoicism, cognitive behavioral therapy. Recognize the negative thought pattern loops early, combatting them, reminding yourself what they are.
Arizona seems a particularly bad place to choose freely.

Fabs consume enormous quantities of water and Arizona (and the sw) are already in precarious position, and not even a semi viable theoretical option like desalination possible in the future
Alpenglow Plan and Documentation
I only wanted to say I appreciate the F-clef in your shell prompt:

𝄢 yknotify
{"ts":"2025-02-12T20:09:03Z","type":"FIDO2"}
{"ts":"2025-02-12T20:09:14Z","type":"OpenPGP"}
This seems strange to me because honestly I find the Goland experience much better than Go in VSCode. But - clearly it works for you
> At the invention of the printing press, there were people with this same energy. Obviously those people were wrong. And if we had taken their "lesson", then human society would be in a much worse place.

In the long run the invention of the printing press was undoubtedly a good thing, but it is worth noting that in the century following the spread of the printing press basically every country in Europe had some sort of revolution. It seems likely that “Interesting Times” may lay ahead.
If you make it expensive enough to extract, and tie the private key to a real identity, then you can make it hard to abuse on scale.

Here I mean that at point of sale you register yourself as owner for the camera. And you make extracting a key cost about a million. Then bulk forgeries won't happen.
And I know just as many that have tried but get crap service, so we're even now?

I barely get regular cell service in my house from my provider. There's no way I'd get a hotspot for a service that is a must have. Provider's "coverage" maps are such a joke to make them useless.
Predicted horrors aren't real horrors either. But maybe we don't have to wait until the horrors are realized and embedded into the fabric of society before we apply the brakes a bit. How else could we possibly be vigilant? Reading news articles and wringing our hands?
Mmm tough one, but I do not think so. I haven't personally seen anyone strike it rich with a straight-up, generic CRUD app lately. But I've seen some smaller successes where people have built SaaS tools to solve very niche problems within specific industries or communities. Think about it – there are still tons of industries that are surprisingly underserved by technology or even within established markets, there might be a very specific workflow or pain point that existing software doesn't address well - I came across Petex the other day, a Scottish company geared towards oil and gas and are making $$
Browsers cannot parse jsx/tsx natively. Deno is transforming the code you write before it is executed in the browser. That transformation is typically referred to as a build step.
A graphic designer with the Department of Energy, presumably full-time, no less.

Not knocking the vocation. But that sort of thing seems like it could be much more competitively contracted.
Sometimes the vendor will provide an optional fix in a safety information bulletin, sometimes they will be mandatory (Sometimes the optional ones become mandatory [1]).

They are coordinated with applicable certification bodies (civil aviation authorities) and distributed as airworthiness directives that can, in fact, force a specific action to be taken.

[1] (writing from memory unfortunately) an airflow modification for 737 NG (iirc, could be older 737, pre-MAX definitely) avionics bay was "optional", as in mandatory only for aircraft flying in hot enough regions. After a near miss in Poland when steadily overheating avionics essentially slowly lobotomized a plane after takeoff. Turned out europe got hot enough for it.

After that incident, Boeing issued a change in safety information bulletin that the modification was now mandatory.
It might be on the list of plants at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lazarus_taxon ?

Of that list, we have a Metasequoia / Dawn Redwood tree in our yard, it's great fast-growing shade tree with deciduous leaves that are so small you don't need to rake them. Thought to be extinct, re-discovered in China in 1944, availability in nurseries is pretty good.
US is Singapore now? What happened to pursuit of happiness and freedom?
I see you doing this a lot, and I'll admit that at first I resented that a little. As time has passed though, I've come to appreciate your dedication to improving the quality of the feed here.

Thanks.
Let's say we decide, today, that we want to prevent an AI armageddon that we assume is coming.

How do you do that?
Thank you! I will see what I can do.
Trunk Based Development with GitHub Actions
The vast majority of harms from “AI” are actually harms from the corporations and governments that control them, who have mutually incompatible goals, getting what they want. This is why alignment folks at OpenAI are quickly learning that the first problem they need to solve is what happens when their values don’t align with the company’s (spoiler: they get fired).

Therefore the actual solution is not coming up with more and more clever “guardrails” but aligning corporations and governments to human needs. In other words, politics.

There are other problems like enabling new types of scams which will require political solutions. At a technical level the best these companies can do is mitigation.
Different process, but this is my experience too. Making it super easy to go from writing to publish helps keep momentum.

Including the prompt in your write up is a nice touch.
It's not generous. Did you RTFA?
What do you mean? That wasn't a Q&A session, they interrupted the speaker and ate all the time arguing. The speaker didn't get to finish his presentation.

This makes me think, whoever wrote these top 100 talks has either questionable tastes or just did a simple query and filter (SELECT * FROM youtube.video WHERE tag = tech SORT BY youtube.video.views LIMIT 100).
So if you subscribed to "pro" because Sam said o3 and o3 pro would be available to ChatGPT pro subscribers by the end of February you are out of luck...
No. there have not been any nuclear exchanges, whereas there have been millions, probably billions of vaccinations. You're giving equal weight to conjecture and empirical data.
> moved from the Caribbean, where public transportation was nonexistent, and traffic and parking were a constant nightmare

Not Just Bikes did a great rant on the carbrain of The Bahamas: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kdz6FeQLuHQ
Sharing the Latest Model Spec
I offer a post from my blog.

[Multi-Dimension Data Table MDDT Feb 2025](https://www.mathpax.com/multi-dimension-data-table-mddt-feb-...)

My preferred approach combines the ubiquity of Excel and the simple power of Python. The large combinatorial effect is addressed.
I'd say AGI is like Musk talking about interstellar traveling.
> I never thought I’d make this argument, but maybe at least appearing respectable increases the odds that you’ll actually be a little respectable.

It's hard for most people to distinguish "sociopath" from "charismatic", and the jeans and hoodie dress code is as much about charisma as the suits and ties ever were.

What you're seeing is the same as it ever was — all that's changed is that when the deer dyed their fur hot pink, the predators copied it.
I have just refused to answer in a different reply to you, but actually when you describe it like this, the third camp resonates with me the most. So I'm with you there.

However, wouldn't most people say that? It is kind of a cop-out because it let's you decide on each moral dilemma in a case by case basis -> which I think is actually necessary since you can't say that ends justify/don't justify means blankly.

Do you by any chance know Alex O'Connor? I listened to an ethics episode of his podcast and it was quite interesting and well-spoken in my opinion. (It is about veganism again, I suppose it is a useful theme for ethical arguments.)

https://overcast.fm/+AARh0bWaidM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PAOzGNFamgQ (the same content but video)
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Yeah sure, there was a time people believed that about javascript, and node.js ended up being a tool used to build website middle-ends and BFF to connect to actual backends.

The user's device which can be a smartphone or a latpop and the developer's device which can be a 24 hour online server or a 24 hour online server, are just two completely different devices that cannot be abstracted away.

WASM is a technology that was born for the frontend, and js was a technology that was born for the frontend, you can for sure metastasize the web front towards the back, but then you end up with a web bias in the frontend (why not make the backend in swift, or Java for phones?, or whatever language will be used for new tech like LLM voice assistants?) and of course a frontend bias in the backend.

Not a good look, let's stop it with the full stack thing, let's specialize, half of use do backend, half of you do frontend, and then we keep on specializing, if everyone does everything we'll cover no ground.
What if the entire LLM output isn’t used? For example, you ask the LLM to produce some long random preamble and conclusion with your actual desired output in between the two. Does it mess up the watermarking?
Isn't this what VanJS is?
Well, deepseek open sourced their model and published their algorithm. It may take a while before it is reproduced but if they start an initiative and get the funding in place it'll probably be sooner rather than later.
It is not intrinsically a crime to sell a bug, but if you sell a bug and it can be demonstrated you reasonably knew the buyer was going to use it to commit a crime, you will end up with accessory liability to that crime. Selling vulnerabilities is not risk-free.

This is another reason why the distinction between well-worn markets (like Chrome RCEs) and ad-hoc markets is so important; there's a huge amount of plausible deniability built into the existing markets. Most sellers aren't selling to the ultimate users of the vulnerabilities, but to brokers. There aren't brokers for these Youtube vulnerabilities.
But if the state approaches a technology with intent it is usually for the purposes of a military offence. I don't think that is a good idea in the context of AI! Although I also don't think there is any stopping it. The US has things like DARPA for example and a lot of Chinese investment seems to be done with the intent of providing capabilities to their army.

The list of things states have attempted to deploy offensively is nearly endless. Modern operations research arguably came out of the British empire attempting (succeeding) to weaponise mathematics. If you give a state fertiliser it makes bombs, if you give it nuclear power it makes bombs, if you give it drones it makes bombs, if you give it advanced science or engineering of any form it makes bombs. States are the most ingenious system for turning things into bombs that we've ever invented; in the grand old days of siege warfare they even managed to weaponise corpses, refuse and junk because it turned out lobbing that stuff at the enemy was effective. The entire spectrum of technology from nothing to nanotech, hurled at enemies to kill them.

We'd all love if states commit to not doing evil but the state is the entity most active at figuring out how to use new tech X for evil.
It also makes it more vulnerable to legal, bureaucratic and technical threats.

Doesn't make much sense to me to abstract away most of the parts where an entity could build up its competitive advantage and then to pretend like healthy competition could be build on top.

Imagine if one entity did all the t-shirt manufacturing globally but then you congratulated yourself for creating a market based on altered colors and what is printed on top of these t-shirts.
Great tool that I’ve been using for over a decade now. Highly recommended
Yeah, lots of people underestimate that part of the trip. Google says the trip takes 5 minutes, so in the heads of many that means it's 5 minutes total. But door to door it's probably the double.

I have a mall 10 minutes biking away. "Why bike when it's only a 5 minute drive?", well, because I've locked my bike at the entrance while you're still circling for parking, and then you have a walk to get inside. And my biking is consistent, but driving at the wrong time suddenly takes 20 minutes home due to rush.
It's because we don't care, labels are arbitrary and if your app is any good you can call it Chimpanzee Hot Dog Fart and people will still use it. Honestly, my personal stretch goal for my dev career is to invent an app that's so useful to corporate America as to be indispensable and then call it ThumbBum just to force people to reference it in professional contexts. "Jared I need you to get on ThumbBum right now. Lives are at stake."
Can you do one for Game Gear?
Thanks for the feedback! Do you mean have it be an entirely different color (e.g. blue), or dim the other inactive headers to make the active one stand out more?
I left the area in October 2010, so maybe public transit became more popular after I was gone. I owned a home in SW Portland, about a 15-minute walk from the MAX station. That's a perfectly reasonable distance, even in the cold or rain.

I never knew where my neighbors worked, but I never saw them walking to or parking at the MAX station. None of my coworkers used it either.

For me, though, it was invaluable especially when I wanted to go out for a few drinks. And since it only ran until 10 or 11, it was the perfect excuse for not staying out too late.
You can't really tell if someone is developing chemical weapons. You can tell when such weapons are used. This is very similar to AI.

Yet, the international agreements on non-use of chemical weapons have held up remarkably well.
> don't destroy humanity

Do humans agree on the best way to do this? Aside from the most banal examples of what not to do, is there agreement on e.g. whether a mass extinction event is happening, not happening, or happening but actually tolerable?

If the answer is no, then it is not possible for an AI to align with human values on this question. But this is a human problem, not a technical one. Solving it through technical means is not possible.
Trump has articulated he believes he has the power to declassify or classify anything just by thinking it, and he doesn't even have to tell anyone. So even less process than a stamp on a paper.
For one there's no innovation, it's all cloning.

OTOH, it's quite aimless, this unfolds from the main weakness of foss that is without money there's little incentive. And all of the volunteer incentive is behind making new things, so there's a lot of horizontal exploration and almost no perfection.
I'm sure the AR will do something extremely useful - perhaps draw firearms on the civilians in view.
Coulda woulda. Let me know when that actually happens. So far their EV strategy has been an utter and complete failure.
I was considering my cell phone and hotspot experiences (not 5G fixed wireless.) I suppose that has some amount of prioritization happening in order to provide a "stable" experience. My experiences with LTE/5G/5GUW have varied wildly based on location and time.
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Yeah a different color so it immediately sticks out it could even be grey/dark.
He really is doing everything he can to hurt America.
The solution to poor people not having enough money is to give them more money (if you really want to help them).

It's not to make random consumer goods like parking free for all. If you do this, most of the goods will be used by people who are not poor, so it's very inefficient at helping you achieve your goal of helping poor people.

In addition, many poor people won't want the thing you are making free. In the case of parking that could be because they don't own a car, so this plan doesn't help a portion of the population you are trying to help. Even more inefficient!

When people think we should have free parking to help the poor, it's mostly just status quo bias at work. Most people would never say that we should make bread free. Or that we should make milk free. Parking isn't any different.
Mostly a 2024 story.

Related / connected Nashville case from last year:

US dismantles laptop farm used by undercover North Korean IT workers

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41356483

Also:

We found North Korean engineers in our application pile

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41353079
Portland's problem is that they aren't charging enough (or at all) for curb parking.