skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How many of the conservatives complaining about it would support government regulations preventing people from being fired for expressing controversial viewpoints? AFAIK those complaining are the same people who support ‘at will’ employment and the liberty of religious organizations to impose more or less arbitrarily discriminatory hiring standards. So yeah, in that lax regulatory environment, your employer might decide to fire you if you (e.g.) feel the need to be an asshole to your trans colleagues.
Yep, I learned the terms IPL and IML ("Initial Microprogram Load," more akin to a cold boot) when I worked on an IBM midrange system running DOS/VSE back in the 1980s.
Open Reasoner Zero
Everything has a cost.

Everything is connected.

You’re not nearly as clever as you think you are.
Could someone who's more familiar with this project explain the advantages? To me, the main advantages of systemd are

1) It enables better separation of concerns, Twelve-Factor App style. For example, user-installed programs no longer need to connect to a logging daemon or execute a complex daemonization dance [1]. They can just run like a normal command-line program and dump logs to stderr.

2) It cuts down on integration problems, shell script glue, and the amount of different config syntaxes you have to know. Its architecture is modular with over 100 different binaries, so you can still pick-and-choose components and do privilege separation, but because these components are all coming from the same vendor, you know they're going to work well together.

3) It can do certain things far more reliably because it's willing to use Linux-specific APIs. For example, thanks to cgroups v2, it can supervise a process correctly no matter what kind of weird forking strategy the process is using.

Since this project is intended to be compatible across Unix-like systems, it won't be able to use Linux-specific APIs, so advantage 3 is gone. It looks like it dropped many components of systemd, so advantage 2 is partially gone too. Is this project just about getting some cross-cutting concerns into the init system and having better scheduling of service startup?

[1] https://www.freedesktop.org/software/systemd/man/latest/daem...
Sen. Bernie Sanders on the disastrous unfettered Free Trade (2011)
MotionXP: 6DOF Simulator Kit
> This is crucial because the misuse of antibiotics in livestock farming has been a major driver of antimicrobial resistance

Who cares ? As long as we have cheap eggs and burger patties!!!
Just try to do simultaneous edits offline in all those "Etc. etc.", see it automatically fail, then the obvious recency might become apparent
are we creating a life with AI or are we creating a slave?
Techbros really do come up with the oldest ideas and call them revolutionary.

Wait until they start vibe-coding these ideas.
Dewey.py: Rebuilding Deep Research with Open Models
Substack is rolling out a TikTok-like video feed in its app
There was this SixOS presentation[0] 2 months ago of a single man's own distro, among a lot of things he claims that he's created the most secure boot process ever

> On NixOS, either the initrd "secrets" or the software that decrypts them is stored unencrypted on writable media. Ownerbooted sixos closes this loophole without any "trusted computing" voodoo, eliminating all unencrypted storage except for an eeprom whose hardware write-protect pin is connected to ground... coreboot [loads] an immutable pre-kexec kernel from write-protected SPI flash... authenticate the user, decrypt writeable storage, kexec into the post-exec kernel... The speaker runs ownerbooted sixos on his workstations, servers, twelve routers, stockpile of disposable laptops, and on his company's 24-server/768-core buildfarm.

[0] : https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42884727
Even if you made a similar typo you'd have a better understanding of the code having written it yourself. So it likely wouldn't have take 10 minutes to debug.
I can recommend backend people to do frontend once in a while. You don't have to like it. But it will make you a better developer. I've been in more than one team where there was this us and them dynamic and some lack of mutual understanding about why things worked a certain way or limitations and constraints. It can lead to poorly thought through APIs and API responses, which then triggers frontend work to engineer around that. Also, frontend developers tend to have better intuition for asynchronous stuff; because everything in a browser is async. Backend developers tend to be a bit naive on that front.

I'm a hands-on CTO in a very small company. So, if it's technical, I'm doing it. Websites, apps, backends, databases, devops and all the rest. Not always fun. But at this point I can fill every role in a typical product team and do a decent job.

And I agree that what passes for state of the art on the web is a bit meh. Anchors date back to the early days of the web. One of those forgotten features that is still vaguely useful but a bit underused. There's a reason mobile developers prefer native UI toolkits. Browsers are a bit limited and backwards. CSS is a bit of a straight jacket. And Javascript is a bit of a basket case as a language.
Have you tried emailing random people who appear in the Windows 3.1 development team credits page? Maybe Daniel Stenberg, he definitely wrote some of the code that goes into Windows!
> If that asset generates revenue for 120 years, then it’s slightly more valuable than an asset that generates revenue for 119 years, and considerably more valuable than an asset that generates revenue for 20 years.

Not so, because of net present value.

The return from investing in normal stocks is ~10%/year, which is to say ~670% over 20 years, because of compounding interest. Another way of saying this is that $1 in 20 years is worth ~$0.15 today. A dollar in 30 years is worth ~$0.05 today. A dollar in 40 years is worth ~$0.02 today. As a result, if a thing generates the same number of dollars every year, the net present value of the first 20 years is significantly more than the net present value of all the years from 20-120 combined, because money now or soon from now is worth so much more than money a long time from now. And that's assuming the revenue generated would be the same every year forever, when in practice it declines over time.

The reason corporations lobby for copyright term extensions isn't that they care one bit about extended terms for new works. It's because they don't want the works from decades ago to enter the public domain now, and they're lobbying to make the terms longer retroactively. But all of those works were already created and the original terms were sufficient incentive to cause them to be.
incessant obsolescence

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12354195
True but "fake it and then immediately proceed to make it" is definitely more appreciated than just burning through deals by lying for a long time, which "fake it till you make it" usually boils down to.
In the UK we don't discriminate based on citizenship, or even if the protests are political or not !

Protest marches - no wait, the term is less specific: "public processions" - can have restrictions imposed for basically any reason. Restrictions can be imposed if (this is just a selection):

- They basically generate noise

- May cause prolonged disruption of access to any essential goods or any essential service

- May cause the prevention of, or a hindrance that is more than minor to, the carrying out of day-to-day activities

- May cause the prevention of, or a delay that is more than minor to, the delivery of a time-sensitive product to consumers of that product

Not forgetting there are probably 10-20 general Public Order Offences that can be used against a person, such as wilful obstruction of a highway or public nuisance.

Then we also have Serious Disruption Prevention Orders (SDPOs). SDPOs are civil orders that enable courts to place conditions or restrictions on an individual aged over 18 (such as restrictions on where they can go and when) with the aim of preventing them from engaging in protest-related activity that could cause disruption. Breaching an SDPO is a criminal offence.

And the cherry on the cake: by law you must tell the police in writing 6 days before a public march if you're the organiser (which is to say, get the police's permission)
Well, great question

Before the post meeting analysis, audio is being processed and analyzed only on your computer which distils all important meta information (no identity or voice data), when app is doing data analysis it comunicates directly with open AI or other LLM provider so we don't have your data. Our enterprise agreement with OpenAI ensures your data privacy. You can always fully opt-out, depends on your privacy needs :)

Once data come back from LLM provider, they are stored locally on your PC only.

Did I answer your questions well? If so I can update FAQ.
Localised pockets of sound into your ears only, isolated from surroundings
Hey, if this stops me having to listen to other people's music, I'm all for this.
Same 3 is the only use case I've found that works well enough. But I'll still usually take a look on google / reddit / stackoverflow / books first just because the information is more reliable.

But it's usually an iterative process, I find pattern A and B on google, I'll ask the LLM and it gives A, B and C. I'll google a bit more about C. Find out C isn't real. Go back and try other people commenting on it on reddit, go back to the LLM to sniff out BS, so on and so on.
It makes perfectly sense if you don't try to read too much logic into their actions and view it solely from the social dynamics/emotions (Murati early realised that the coup led by Sutskever, Toner and her had failed). Besides that, the board installing her as new ceo - who provided the main claims for why to oust the old ceo - wouldn't fly through with employees and partners. She knew that. Also some of the people on the board clearly weren't qualified for that job as you can see how this whole coup was carried out by them.
> I am able to, pretty easily still feel when an image is AI generated. [...] I'm talking about a feeling, much like uncanny valley, that you get when you're looking at AI generated images [...] the thing that usually gives it away is the fact that it doesn't capture my attention as easily as a real photograph does

I agree generated images are often distinguishable, but I'd be wary that this is prime territory for confirmation bias. It may be that there are many images you looked at and scrolled past without realizing they were generated, for instance.

Trying a blind test (I see https://www.tidio.com/blog/ai-test/ in search results) could be informative.
I've created an app that lets you arrange your screenshots into custom folders
Highlighting the heading to scroll to is a must.

It’s what headings maps extension does when you click on one [0].

[0]: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/headingsmap/
Rare wall paintings found in Cumbria show tastes of well-off Tudors
Another "interesting" thing to do with this project is build it in a "Digital Logic Simulator"
>really "user friendly". and then they're wining that nobody contributes to the opensource for VMS.

Yep, one of the first versions of the x86 version one could download everything and it was planed to renew the license once a year. They then canceled the the license after only one year to provide a new image every year (as if i want to reconfigure my system every year).

That's not how you attract dev's or users.
Orthocell's New Nerve Repair Tech Gets FDA Approval
thx.
i'm a huge proponent of privacy as well. right now there's nothing to that end, but e2ee is on the (huge) todo list. it's gonna take a while since it's a big undertaking, but it's gonna happen.
This is why my threshold for not using any shell is "does it have more than one loop, more than one if-statement, an argument or file format parser or more than 10 lines?". Meaning that only very trivial things can be shell scripts and you rewrite early enough such that it isn't really a hassle or painful.
anyone _can_ see it, but _most_ people don't (and don't care)

To be clear, I am not saying it's not valuable, only that to the vast majority, it's not.
Show HN: Farm themed email scraper and it's super powerful
currently working on this project:)
neat - starring because I think I might want something like this in the future (:
Yeah - big fan of the FM / FM2n (I've also got the latter)

The FM3a always really appealed, but the more I think about it the less it appeals. Although it's a mechanical shutter, the electronics are still pretty complex and if they die, there's so few of them that there's very little way of repairing it with salvaged parts. I've also heard that because they are not as reliable as the previous FM / FM2 iterations
https://vmssoftware.com/about/news/2024-03-25-community-lice...

>Despite our initial aspirations for robust community engagement, the reality has fallen short of our expectations. The level of participation in activities such as contributing open-source software, creating wiki articles, and providing assistance on forums has not matched the scale of the program.

The "aspiration" lasted for a whole year ;)
What do you mean? You can protest against bad but fast answers and check another box with the pen.
You mean dishwashers and washing machines?
Show HN: I made a chat-driven form designer with data insights
I built FormLab.ai to streamline form creation and data analysis. Tired of wrestling with outdated tools?

Here’s what it does:
- Conversational Design: Chat with FormLab.ai—say "I need a survey with 5 questions about X"—and it builds a polished form in seconds (Conditional Logic & Validation Supported).
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- No Templates, No Fuss: Skip the rigid editors; just describe what you want, and it’s done. Manual customization surely available.
- Solo Dev Effort: Been working on this alone—would love your thoughts on usability and features!

Check it out at FormLab.ai and let me know what you think—especially about the chat accuracy and data insights.
I feel like you are arguing more for namespaces than modules.

Having a hierarchical naming system that spans everything makes it largely irrelevant how the functions themselves are physically organized. This also provides a pattern for disambiguating similar products by way of prefixing the real world FQDNs of each enterprise.
> we were looking for a robot vacuum cleaner

For this kind of product search, may I suggest Consumer Reports. It's one of the very few sites I'd consider unbiased since they (a) do testing with actual technicians and extensive laboratories, (b) anonymously buy all the products they test and they don't take gifts or manufacturers' sponsorships, (c) don't take advertising. They are funded by subscriptions, donations, and grants, and have been in existence for 89 years.

Specifically for robot vacuums, I looked just now and Consumer Reports has reviewed 46 different models from 14 manufacturers. (I knew about Roomba but had no idea that robot vacuums had become such a big category.) I'm putting the robot vacuum link below to give an overview. It's worth subscribing to evaluate options for a big purchase.

https://www.consumerreports.org/appliances/vacuum-cleaners/r...
Correct. Here's a DW video on it: https://www.dw.com/en/germany-to-deport-pro-palestinian-prot...

There is a fight over this being done with or without due process.
> I’m sure you’re right for individual authors who are driven by a creative spark, but for, say, movies made by large studios, the length of copyright is directly tied to the value of the movie as an asset.

That would be fine, if the studios didn't want to have it both ways. They want to retain full copyright control over their "asset", but they also use Hollywood Accounting [1] to both avoid paying taxes and cheat contributors that have profit-sharing agreements.

If studios declare that they made a loss on producing and releasing something to get a tax break, the copyright term for that work should be reduced to 10 years tops.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hollywood_accounting
72 Tensix Cores -> Tensix Cores 140. They doubled their TFLOPS and VRAM+memory bandwidth. Thereby maintaining the same TFLOPS to memory ratio.
Are you arguing against the change itself or making the point that most people don’t care? Sorry to ask I just can’t tell.
> in 1930's again

...Coincidentally, that's also exactly when Europe sent them the best minds known. Europe should be drooling in front of that perspective. It is a perspective that Europe should be excited about, could Europe lure the same. The article does not go in that direction. Radically: it presents an ideological pole on the same plane of the other side.
Producing large quantities of drug resistant bacteria sounds at least BSL3. The principle might make sense, but one wouldn’t “spray the fields” of something like that.
My main gripe with this is how do you charge users? They can just put the browser in offline mode and continue to use the app forever.

Also it's very hard to follow up bugs or other errors if users are often offline. I giess you can queue up errors being sent and so on but still. Syncing means that you probably have to have a complicated logic, especially if the data you are seeing can be modified by others. How do you solve merge conflicts?

I really like offline first web apps, but it is way harder and more expensive to build I think. For a startup it means more time before you can deploy your app and where I live there is pretty much fast internet everywhere so it kinda is solving an issue that very few customers will face.
If you genuinely believe this, why on earth would you work for OpenAI etc even in safety / alignment?

The only response in my view is to ban technology (like in Dune) or engage in acts of terror Unabomber style.
The article addresses the false dichotomy peddled by proponents of tariffs. The option isn't "foreign jobs v US jobs" it's "make part of it abroad" v "make all of it in USA" v "don't make it at all"

Free trade allowed new products, and existing products at lower price points to simply exist.
> Let's not go blaming vulnerabilities on those exploiting
them. Exploitation is also bad but being exploitable is a problem in and
of itself.

There's "vulnerabilities" and there's "inherent properties of a complex
protocol that is used to transfer data securely". One of the latter is
that metadata may differ from client to client for various reasons,
inside the bounds accepted in the standard. If you discriminate based
on such metadata, you have effectively invented a new proprietary
protocol that certain existing browsers just so happen to implement.

It's like the UA string, but instead of just copying a single HTTP
header, new browsers now have to reverse engineer the network stack of
existing ones to get an identical user experience.
Ooh, this reminds me a lot of MooTools' optional FX package back in the early aughts. I've still got it in a couple places because it's been difficult to replace.
March 2025 (Version 1.99)
> but _most_ people don't (and don't care)

Perhaps it's not for everyone.
> This, however, is so glaring that even a child could understand the illegality of it

If you have to explain "laundering someone's likeness" to them maybe not, I think it's a frankly bizarre phrase.
i think being wrong is fine, but being wrong intentionally is not very human, this is due to emotions, consciousnesses, pride etc. which ai does not have as of now, and this leads me to believe, it's just another religion which will be used to "make the world a better place" :D
In France at least, and I believe in the US to, it is illegal to not do something if you can.

It does not mean that you should dive and bring him back. In fact, it is not recommended unless you know what you are doing as you may put yourself in danger and need rescuing yourself. But if there are other people around who can help and you don't alert them, or if you have a working phone and don't call whatever emergency number is appropriate, than that's illegal.

EDIT: It appears that it is not illegal do do nothing in most of the US. The law only protects you from consequences of trying to help.
People interested in this subject would be wise to pick up the book Political Tribes: Group Instinct and the Fate of Nations by Amy Chua
That is why you don't use Python, you use Perl. Every Unix has Perl, and Perl has backward compatibility into the last millenium. Always use 'strict' and proper linting for readability and typo avoidance.

If you are able to install modules, add 'IPC::Run' and 'Getopt::Declare' or 'Getopt::Euclid'. Never again will you be able to tolerate anything else ;)
Growing trade deficit is selling the nation out from under us (2003) [pdf]
I asked Sora to turn a random image of my friend and myself into Italian plumbers. Nothing more, just the two words "Italian plumbers". The created picture was not shown to me because it was in violation of OpenAI's content policy. I asked then just to turn the guys on the picture into plumbers, but I asked this in the Italian language.
Without me asking for it, Sora put me in an overall and gave me a baseball cap, and my friend another baseball cap. If I asked Sora to put mustache on us, one of us received a red shirt as well, without being asked to. Starting with the same pic, if I asked to put one letter on the baseball caps each - guess, the letters chosen were M and L.
These extra guardrails are not really useful with such a strong, built-in bias towards copyright infringement of these image creation tools.
Should it mean that with time, Dutch pictures will have to include tulips, Italian plumbers will have to have a uniform with baseball caps with L and M, etc. just not to confuse AI tools?
80% of developers on StackOverflow are unhappy and burned out and I don’t think they are thinking about colors and the brightness of life. Bored Ape has become a symbol of an era where many people's dreams have shattered and they have turned into a grey mass. The diversity of colors is a symbol of joy and freedom. The wars have swept across the world and now entire countries like Ukraine have lost all color because the colors of war are gray and black, and there are people who impose shades of gray because they are only interested in money and don’t care about colors.
The weirdness there is tying it to someone's life.
People have figured that out for desktop applications years ago.
> The only response in my view is to ban technology (like in Dune) or engage in acts of terror Unabomber style.

Not far off from the conclusion of others who believe the same wild assumptions. Yudkowsky has suggested using terrorism to stop a hypothetical AGI -- that is, nuclear attacks on datacenters that get too powerful.
What if people are manipulated by bot farms and think tanks and talking points supported by those corporations?

I think this view of humans - that they look at all the available information and then make calm decisions in their own interests - is simply wrong. We are manipulated all the damn time. I struggle to go to the supermarket without buying excess sugar. The biggest corporations in the world grew fat off showing us products to impulse buy before our more rational brain functions could stop us. We are not a little pilot in a meat vessel.
A Second Opinion on Future GenAI Spending
Yes, however Automattic seems invested in the idea, since they also acquired Texts.com (which I didn't know before). So maybe the "universal chat app" is still part of their plan going forward?

Still, I'm concerned too. But I guess only time will tell...