skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Even if you only use trusted applications and they have stringent security policies avoiding supply chain compromises, RCEs are a fact of life. E.g. iMessage vulnerabilities are found all the time and there are probably a lot of vulnerabilities that are not reported because state actors hold on to them. This is the reason why iOS uses application sandboxing and on top of that Blastdoor for iMessage.

Maybe Linux isn't as effected now because it is not very popular as a desktop system. But this issue will have to be addressed as/when Linux becomes more popular. Having networked clients that do image parsing, etc. (usually in C code) without any sandboxing will just lead to mass exploitation, data exfiltration, etc.

The Linux desktop has to move away from the 90ies security model where the internet was relatively safe and attackers would only be after UID 0.

a lot like MacOS lately asking me "(AppName) wants to access your Downloads folder, cancel or allow?" when I have just directed it to open a file.

I don't think it asks that when it goes through a portal (e.g. file dialog)?
Starting to see more and more of this.

I also had long-term health problems that doctors weren't able to diagnose. I experimented and solved most of them myself over the last 15 years.

I think LLMs will really help people like me.
Waymo operates in tiny parts of several cities when you look at the maps. They didn't finish the first 90% when you look from that perspective.

Waymo provides a tech demonstrator in a closed circuit, and you can pay to ride their demonstrators in select areas of select cities. It's not half bad, let's be honest, but having these limits puts them to a point very far from "self driving cars are here". Even Tesla isn't there with their camera only subsystems and "if you crash you keep both pieces" policy. It's another tech demonstrator you can buy.

If we accept your point that "self driving cars are here", we should accept that Fusion energy is a solved problem because WEST tokamak held plasma for 22 minutes, electric propulsion is a solved problem since we have electric trains for a long time, and Hyperloop is fully operational because I have scale model in my backyard which carries thousands of ants every day.
The earth is not a closed system. We get 175 quadrillion watts of energy from the sun.
Sadly it seems like these browsers doesn’t support WebGPU… I think Chrome, Edge and Safari (with WebGPU flag enabled) support WebGPU, but the support is still limited in other browsers.
This is very interesting to consider! I think the point about orientation is a great one. Definitely if the drop was substantial, this would be an issue. Let's say you were standing atop a tall tower in a desert and did the same experiment, then maybe you'd see a slight but noticeable difference. The effects of air resistance would only become significant as the vertical velocities increase with acceleration due to gravity.
In my case the particular code I was digging into was within the function `squash_the_stupid_serial_number(...)` as seen here: https://cregit.linuxsources.org/code/6.13/arch/x86/kernel/cp...

Unfortunately the direct line-number link above doesn't seem to provide the same view as manually choosing "squash_the_stupid_serial_number(...)" rather than "Overall" in the selection/option menu accessible via the page link: https://cregit.linuxsources.org/code/6.13/arch/x86/kernel/cp...

(Apparently the only code directly from Linus' original commit for that function is `, lo, hi`. :) And, unfortunately, being from the pre-git era, it is lacking any sort of informative commit message...)

Also, as the documentation mentions the token-tracing isn't perfect, e.g. the `squash_the_stupid_serial_number` name did actually exist before the cregited commit: https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/0a488a53d7ca46ac638...

(Perhaps this could be related to there being multiple function implementations selected via #ifdef?)
Put 10,000 hours into writing a book. Watch somebody with more resources or media coverage take full credits for it and/or make money instead of yourself.
Copyright is a good thing. Same principle applies to the core of similar laws.
Did nobody suspect that its not that rural population is underrepresented but the people who want compensation are over represented? There was a dam built in the mountains a few hundred km away from my city and even here people applied for compensation by hook and crook, some enterprising folk specifically installed garages or sheds or hunting cabins or summer houses in the flooded area to receive it.
> You wrote above / I was responding to:

I apologize. I read `it's uploading` and misunderstood like you were saying the tool itself was uploading things.

> is the preview bad or the resulting polygons? (And the reviewer is bad for approving anything at all?)

It can be one, the other, or both.

I was replying to a reference about a specific example in the blog post.

In that example, I see wobbly features due to rendering alongside the edges that make it look like the polygon is going to have dozens of nodes.
Then, there is an over-simplification of the polygon around the top-right corner (which I didn't consider an error based on my criteria from reviewing manually created pools).

> And the reviewer is bad for approving anything at all?

I didn't say that. I was trying to assert that the UI/X can be improved to better show what will be uploaded.

> but if you're aware of this then it shouldn't have a button that unauthenticated users can press to upload the result to the production database

You are right. I was manually reviewing the profile created for the demo every day, but I didn't realize the impact/reach until I saw the first comments here. As soon as I read the first comment, I shut down the demo.

As I said in other comments, I will make alternative changes to the demo.

> if you want to also demo that part (https://master.apis.dev.openstreetmap.org/ is a version I found on https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/API_v0.6)

Thanks for the suggestion, I don't know why I didn't thought about that earlier.
The Logic of Risk Taking by Nassim Nicholas Taleb (2017)
Funny thing is that Unreal had bullet like projectile weapons that don't used hit scans.
And many mods for the original Unreal Tournament had this kind of bullet projectile weapons. Of course, this projectile bullets travels straight and don't try to mimic any real life physics effects, beyond to avoid the instant hit or miss mechanic.
Maybe this is propaganda and you are being told what to think.

Of course AI isn’t going to be a good thing for the majority of humans at all. But it’s very important to manage sentiment within tech audiences.
I presume you know nothing about islam, but pigs are off the table (and kitchen) without exception. I don't think there is a way to buy it there, same as beef in India for example (even pork I never saw on any menu some 15 years ago when spending 6 months backpacking there, and I saw literally 1 pig altogether in those 6 months).
How is it pedantic? What is your understanding of that word?

Why do I have to laboriously explain a fairly simple concept? Here you go:

Javascript is a non-compiled language. It is slow, orders of mangitufes slower than other languages such as Go, Rust, C#, Java, etc.

Quick note, you might not understand orders of magnitude. It means 10^n times, so 1 order of magnitude slower is 10x slower, 2 orders of magnitude is 100x, 3 1000x, etc.

A huge percentage of apps need to do decent CPU work, way more than 1%, which Javascript is not appropriate for.

This is HN, you should have rudimentary understanding of the differences between languages.

If you want another example, any app that deals with money, decimals or anything mathematical should not be written on javascript.

Another massive chunk of apps, way more than 1%.

This is because 0.01 + 0.02 is not equal to 0.03 in javascript.

People who don't know why that is really shouldn't be commentating on this topic, they're on Mount Stupid in the Dunning-Kruger Effect curve.
How is ChatGPT or anything else killing visual art? The entire zeitgeist at the moment is dismissive and bored of AI generated material already.
CF down means an unclear but sizeable amount of the internet down, so “basically half”. There’s no info on CF usage by government, but “probably a bunch” is a realistic guess. Voters opinions vary, but there are chances that they see that blocking is unreasonable, so “hopefully almost no one”.

It’s a post with all the proper quantifiers and hypotheticals, which demanding people will demand the other day due to overgeneralization.
"I cannot emphasize this enough: ChatGPT is not generating meaning. It is arranging word patterns. I could tell GPT to add in an anomaly for the 1970s - like the girl looking at Billy’s Instagram - and it would introduce it into the text without a comment about being anomalous."

I asked ChatGPT to introduce the girl looking at Billy's instagram. The response:

"Instagram didn't exist in the 1970s. Do you want to keep the setting authentic to the '70s or update the story to a contemporary timeframe where Instagram fits naturally?"
Prediction is not the same as pattern matching.
> LLMs are token predictors. That's all they do.

You certainly understand that if they can successfully predict the tokens that a great poet, a great scientist or a great philosopher would write, then everything changes- starting from our status of sole, and rare, generators of intelligent thoughts and clever artifacts.
bfcpp[1] seems to be the most performant.

[1] https://github.com/Haruno19/bfcpp
The zeitgeist of trendy under-40s and their cultural opinions is all well and good but it has almost nothing to do with hiring
Thank you, that's a great example! Definitely an omission ;-)
The punchline is buried in the article:

>Pay is structured around a piece-rate system, where earnings depend on speed and productivity
> Carnot is targeting the hardest to abate sectors including [long haul] marine [transportation], heavy-duty vehicles and primary off grid power.

Even if great advances were being made, these are not very interesting sectors to the vast majority of people and the industries have massive inertia. Presumably Carnot's therefore unlikely to be grabbing headlines.
But isn't that candy example non-sensical? In what situation do you need some information without any of the context(or without knowing any of the context)?

i really believe that this is not an actual problem in need of solving, but instead creating a tool (personal ai assistant) and trying to find a usecase

Edit0: note to self, rambling -
assuming there exist valuable information that one needa to access in their files, but one doesn't know where it is, when it was made, it's name or other information about it(as you could find said file right away with this information).

Say you need an information for some documentation like the C standard - you need precise information on some process.
Is it not much simpler to just open the doc and use the index? Then again for you to be aeare of the C standard makes the query useless.

If it's from something less well organised, say you want letters you wrote to your significant other, maybe the assistant could help. But then again, what are you asking? How hard is it to keep your letters in a folder? Or even simply know what you've done (I surely can't imagine forgetting things I've created but somehow finding use in a llm that finds it for me).

Like asking it "what is my opinion on x" or "what's a good compliment I wrote" is nonsensical to me, but asking it about external ressources makes the idea of training it on your own data pointless. "How did I write X API" - just open your file, no? You know where it is, you made it.

Like saying "get me that picture of unle tony in Florida" might save you 10 seconds instead of going into your files and thinking about when you got that picture, but it's not solving a real issue or making things more efficient.
(Edit1: if you don't know Tony, when you got the picture or of what it's a picture of, why are you querying? What's the usecase for this information, is it just to prove it can be done? It feels like the user needs to contorts themselves in a small niche for this product to be useful)

Either it's used for non valuable work (menial search) or you already know how to get the answer you need.

I cannot imagine a query that would be useful compared to simply being aware of what's in your computer. And if you're not aware of it, how do you search for it?
Copyright doesn't apply to ideas. It applies to concrete works.
Well, tell that the American constituents, who apparently want just that. That’s what they were promised, what they voted on, it is what they are getting now, and most seem to be fine with it. They don’t care how the rest of the world is affected, they don’t care about the planet they inherit their children, they don’t care their president behaves like the worst bully in school towards foreign leaders and neighbours just alike… maybe that is just what the USA looks like, if the educated folks don’t have enough support anymore to pretend otherwise?
For roughly the same reason that "if I keep driving in a straight line, I'll crash into the tree at the end of my street" is disproven by the many years it hasn't yet...because it turns out the car has a steering wheel and I can turn when I reach the corner.
Satelite images are the ground truth OSM is traced on. And the quality of those tracings varies wildly at times, I've had to fix weirdly offset shores that had roads on them placed on the sea on more than one occasion.

If this can be somewhat consistent then it'll probably do better than the average OSM contributor. Something like segmenting houses, roads, bodies of water, comparing against current data and highlighting inconsistencies for correction would be a good start though.
Why not? Similarly to how "Google" and "Wikipedia" will make people more dumb? Or how the video killed the radio star? I think the cultural or intellectual decline does not have to do much with Google (in terms of search) nor Wikipedia. Heck, some people do not even know how to search properly.
I don't think they are a moron, I feel it's a deliberate 'oopsie tee hee' type of thing, where they cleaned enough to pretend they did some due diligence, but still left enough to allow people to verify its authenticity.
How would you replace the incentives for R&D for medication, for example? That often costs billions of dollars.
of stands for obliterated file
So you’re not “watching from the outside”.
Scammers launder money and get away with it
From how I understand it, pigs became taboo because they are a common disease vector. There's nothing fundamentally different between pigs, horses, and cows/bulls which would otherwise motivate banning one over the other. One could apply the same thing to cows in India, where the benefits of keeping cows (milk, dung, labor) outweigh the benefits of slaughtering them for food while also being more sustainable.
Why don't we just start a self-count, one by one. I'll start. One.

Reminds me of https://hitchhikers.fandom.com/wiki/Bowerick_Wowbagger :

> After a period of total boredom, especially on Sunday afternoons, he decided to insult everyone in the entire universe in alphabetical order.
I doubt the population counts are that underestimated in countries where there's a state authority handing out birth certificates and ID cards.

Now how does China do it? I don't know.
Chaining sudo on SSH to run PostgreSQL queries and dumps remotely
Your comment doesn’t quite make sense: Building from source lets you (and everyone else) inspect the source, while building from provided tarballs means if you compare it to source it’ll be inherently different, as the autoconf process makes changes to the files.

If you’re downloading and executing a binary from github releases, then you’re completely at the mercy of the maintainer (nix only does that with closed source packages)
No, we should not let the Government to meddle in people's business at all. Have we not seen enough about the awful consequences of Government intervention? We need less nanny states, not more.
Microservices are an effective team management strategy in mid-sized legacy and silo’d organizations.

They allow one team to move ahead without requiring group-level collaboration.

For software, they suck, but sometimes it’s the less-bad choice vs never getting anything done.
sometimes I have to wonder are you guys actually on CCP's payroll. I mean when the west and China are in such ongoing strategic competition, there just so many shills keep painting the CCP as some kind of incompetent moron dicking around slowing down the Chinese progress. Are you guys actually getting paid to cover China's high tech rise by keep downplaying CCP's decisive role in it? Will that get you into trouble back at home?

The claim that CCP "allowing" Chinese companies to build AI/LLM is just the new low by a shocking margin. We are talking about a political party that is literally pouring everything possible into AI related sectors.

https://www.scmp.com/tech/big-tech/article/3295513/tech-war-...

https://www.cnn.com/2025/03/06/tech/china-state-venture-capi...

https://www.medianama.com/2025/01/223-bank-of-china-announce...
That's what I don't get about the current LLM coding/agent hype. The supposed gain is completely negated unless you can trust the output completely. If I have to inspect everything, generating a bunch of code/scripts or doing a lot of things/running a lot of commands quickly on my computer doesn't really help at all. The more things it does the more of a reasoning burden I have.

What I think is completely missed is that the bottleneck in knowledge work is understanding and making sure about what is built and done.
Allowing the general public to have access. This is a country with notoriously strict information controls after all.
TI calculators do the same thing.
There's a lot you missed .. although much of it is bollocks.

FWiW my neighbour shoots targets at 5,000 yards - that's well past the confirmed kill sniper head shot record .. it's worth pondering why, how or if someone is telling porkies.

One Quora level nerd force that many toss on about is earth's rotation, aka the Coriolis effect, aka Bart Simpsons Australian bathtub joke, eg: https://www.quora.com/Does-Earth-s-rotation-affect-bullets

The opinion of an ultra long distance shooter is:

don't let Coriolis trouble you, you have so much more to deal with, Coriolis is there but means very little to a rifleman, Cheers.

~ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KP7IKshdiiY

Cutting to the chase, here's one of several well shot multi camera vlogs of:

5023 yards 24" x 24" target ULR shooting https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7owwTz7Z0OE

If you wander through the channel there's a lot of practical info re: bullets, barrels, hot and cold firing, spotters, scopes, etc.
LLMs will ultimately prove to be for programming what sugar is for the food industry. It’s a short circuit that appeals to some people more than others resulting in addiction, poor performance, and lost development/growth.

There is already a tremendous gap, like more than an order of magnitude, between high performers and the average participant. LLMs will only serve to grow that performance gap just like added sugars in the food supply.
> It’s pretty clear that LLMs have improved rapidly and have successfully become better writers than the majority of people alive

But that doesn't help much, because for the majority of our writing that's not the issue. LLMs might out do professional writers some day, but without imagination and the desire to sent a message I doubt it will happen any time soon.

Where LLMs are useful is in professional communication, because you're right, an LLM can technically write better than most. The issue is that you need to tell the LLM what message you want to convey, and that's where most people fall down. You also need to be able to critically read back your text, place yourself in the position of the receiver of your text, LLM generated or not. Most people, even those in professional communication can't do that.

I believe the author is on to something, ChatGPT (and others) are perfectly good tools, and can replace most if not all of the shitty communication and writing, including journalism, present in the world. What it can't do is replace the few really good communicators. Communication is hard, not a lot of people can do it and no LLM is going to help you if you can't formulate your message clearly on your own.

There is a darker side of this argument. If something can be killed of by an LLM, is it even worth having? This argument throws a great number of "professionals" under the bus, instantly reducing the value of their jobs to zero. I have family members who do communication for the city, they spend an exorbitant amount of time on flyers, newsletters, Facebook posts and so on, detailing city work, future plan, past events, all that stuff. I doubt anyone really reads it, most of it could probably be written by an LLM, because it always excludes the "why are we doing this", "why should you care" or even "this is expected to impact you in this way". I get a million update from the school about restructuring, hiring of administrators, org-reshuffling... it could all be done by an LLM, but the fact is: No one gives a shit. They just want regular updates from the teachers, and the LLM can't do that.

Communication is hard, and LLMs don't change that, they can only help you write out your message, you have to come up with that yourself, and that's the hard part.
What about drug markets? There will always be demand for it, for many reasons. You simply cannot stop demand.

Have a good read: https://academic.oup.com/book/2163.
There is no exponential growth though, most people don't have 4+ kids. Everything indicates that World population should stabilize this century and then slowly decline, through demographic transition [1]. No resource pressure here.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographic_transition
I don't know why you're quoting, or stressing, a word I didn't use.

I once got into an argument with a date about the existence of God and the soul. She asked whether I really think we're "just" physical stuff. I told her, "no, I'm not saying we're 'just' physical stuff. I'm saying we're physical stuff." That 'just' is simply a statement of how she feels about the idea, not a criticism of what I was claiming. I don't accept that there's anything missing if we're atoms rather than atoms plus magic, because I don't feel any need for there to be magic.

Your brain is indeed physical stuff. You also have a mind. You experience your own mind and perceive yourself as an intending being with a guiding intelligence. How that relates to or arises from the physical stuff is not well understood, but everything we know about the properties and capabilities of the mind tells us that it is inextricably related to the body that gives rise to it.

Neural nets are indeed matrix multiplication. If you're implying that there is a guiding intelligence, just as there is in the mind, I think you're off in La La Land.
Turns out we have technologies and experiences with technology which weren't possible until very recently. Some things just look very different in hindsight.
> I don't think zero is the null set.

zero is the cardinality of the empty set

> I observe zero.

it cannot be observed directly at any static point in time, but it can be observed as a dynamic process when some quantity goes down to empty and back up over time

> In fact I'd be happy to write `>=0` or `>0` or `=0` any day instead of mangling the idea of zero representing 0 and zero representing something like `None`, `null` or any other tag of that sort. I don't think the natural world has anything like "nothing" it just has logical fallacies.

N, W, R, etc. - r just well-known names for sets of numbers, nothing stops us from defining better or additional names for them (with self-describing names)

We can discuss Empty type[1] vs Unit type[2], but I think it goes off-topic

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

2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unit_type