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vander_elst··on Show HN: Hacker News, Without AI
Great project I was thinking about doing *exactly* the same. Do you mind sharing your stack?
vander_elst··on Jellyfin 12.0
> deserve at least a living wage for their time and efforts

I agree with the sentiment

However,

> $24000 in the bank

I assume there are multiple developers. If the developers are based on North America or Europe that money does not guarantee a living wage for more than.. some months?

vander_elst··on Canada will match US tariffs 'dollar for dollar' as trade talks break down
Genuinely interested in understanding why you need this level of precision. To me it would seem you are removing some abstraction and getting to the details. If this something common in your line of work? E.g. in your peers? If that's the case, would you mind sharing the field you're active in? Do you have a hunch why you would need this level of detail e.g. Education, culture?
vander_elst··on The weekend is 100 years old
That would also just work with D E and F. Or am I missing something?
vander_elst··on The weekend is 100 years old
Very curious to understand the thinking behind this, why should the weekend be E and A? My first approach would be to have the weekend on D and E which would seem to be the end of the week.
vander_elst··on Grok Bot
Does this consistently work for you? I have something like this plus some commands that are explicitly in a deny list in the harness. Roughly twice a week, the model manages to run the deny listed commands, that I need afterwards to manually revert.
vander_elst··on Golang proposal: container/: generic collection types
I find it so sad that people wasted millions of hours and lines of code rewriting over and over basic constructs that should have been on the language in the first place. How many years before we finally get sum types?
vander_elst··on AI companies are shredding rare books
Some source or citation or context is needed here, is this the work of a 2 person no profit or a trillion valued pre IPO company?
vander_elst··on Go Analysis Framework: modular static analysis by go team
We can have the same argument about memory unsafe languages: "it should be the programmer that checks that the memory it's accessed in a safe way and not the machine"... and yet after many years and legions of programmers not being able to stop themselves creating memory leaks, we created memory safe languages and we advocate for their usage.

I hope it's clear that what was proposed above is just a toy problem to show the issue. In complex parts of the code, unfortunately, these errors sometimes happen. That's a fact.

A programming language should actually try to protect you from some logic errors. This is why have we programming languages in the first place. Otherwise why bother with garbage collection, types etc? Should we just use assembly then for maximal flexibilty and putting all the burden on the programmer?

vander_elst··on Go Analysis Framework: modular static analysis by go team
I think that the best feature that go was able to create is a very strong community around the language, where practices are as important as the language itself. Maybe these practices are what makes the community strong?
vander_elst··on Go Analysis Framework: modular static analysis by go team
If you have

``` a, err := f() b, err := g() if err != nil {} c:=a+b ```

The language will happily build and run, even though it should prevent to let you shoot in the foot.

vander_elst··on Show HN: CLI tool for detecting non-exact code duplication with embedding models
We did this by using the ASTs you can go quite far without embeddings and the result is easier to debug and follow what's going on.
vander_elst··on Show HN: CLI tool for detecting non-exact code duplication with embedding models
I implemented this for a large monorepo last year, it runs as an analysis during code review and it shows what are possible similar snippets wrt the code under review. It was a very nice project. It also allows to see across the repo what are the most common constructs for the different languages. This could also be helpful to see if some code has been copied e.g. from open source projects.
vander_elst··on Meta workers can opt out of being tracked at work up to 30 min
The kind of issues that you might face if you have dependants could be something along the lines: well Timmy, we'll need to cut your leg instead of trying solution x that might save it, because I preferred not to accept a job that would have allowed to pay for that, due to the fact such a job didn't follow my ethical standards.

This is of course a very extreme and hopefully rare case, but I think that there's a large range of cases where unfortunately money does make a difference I a significant way. Additionally, I think that it also does make a huge difference if you are the only one affected by you decisions or someone else is.

I think when going for a decision for such a position, these and other points that consider the more practical implications might weight in.

vander_elst··on Meta workers can opt out of being tracked at work up to 30 min
The salary gap in Europe is *huge*, at Meta and other big tech you can easily make 3x (after taxes) of what you'd earn in a European company for the very same position, same amount of actually worked hours. It might not be fair or might not be ethical, but in particular if you have dependants, such a gap *does* make a difference.
vander_elst··on The newest Instagram “exploit” is the goofiest I've seen
Someone high up said something along the lines that they want to see some progress and someone down below looking for a promotion pushed this. This has always been happening but I think before it was more difficult to justify something like this as one would have needed to show the results of an algorithm, now it's easier to convince someone higher up that AI will solve it no worries
vander_elst··on America's Most-Spoken Languages After English and Spanish
Very surprised to see German there. Any way that I can learn more about this? Does anyone happen to have sources or links?
vander_elst··on Show HN: OneCLI – Vault for AI Agents in Rust
It would seem in this design that all the tools should be called through a wrapper that understands the vault and provides the credentials to the tool in the right way. How otherwise can curl use the credentials? Curl has no idea that there's a vault somewhere
vander_elst··on We Will Not Be Divided
What's crazy here is that a government I'd requiring de-regulation while companies are trying to keep stricter rules. What a time.
vander_elst··on OpenAI agrees with Dept. of War to deploy models in their classified network
Subscribers should be aware what they are supporting. I think that keeping an OpenAI account can be considered an active support of this decision, at least for private people who can easily change providers.
vander_elst··on OpenAI agrees with Dept. of War to deploy models in their classified network
> I don't see how OpenAI employees who have signed the We Will Not Be Divided letter can continue their employment [...]

Sometimes money is more attractive than morality. So I guess money is the answer here.

vander_elst··on Sizing chaos
I would have said that this is covered under vanity sizing. I have the feeling some consumers might be more inclined to buy a product if it has size M instead of XXL, even if the product is exactly the same. So my take is that, in the name of profit, companies lie about size.
vander_elst··on Sizing chaos
> bring it to your neighborhood tailor. Most alterations are simple and not very expensive.

I think, this is a misconception, some "simple" things like resizing a shirt, when done properly, might require multiple hours + a decent amount of skills and the alterations might be cheap because they are performed by underpaid workers. Nonetheless, I like the idea of supporting local tailors and I'd be in for paying premium for a local premium product.

vander_elst··on OpenClaw is basically a cascade of LLMs in prime position to mess stuff up
I don't think you are wrong, I do want guardrails and personally try to ensure that there are those guardrails before driving. However, it seems that a lot of people cannot wait for them and just want to go out and drive, fast, even if everything points towards the fact that that's not a good idea. If someone really wants to touch the fire after everyone stated multiple times that they shouldn't do it, I guess it's ok to let them go fo it.
vander_elst··on OpenClaw is basically a cascade of LLMs in prime position to mess stuff up
I dunno, tbh I'd be in the camp of putting a banner 'run this at your own risk' and then let it go wild. Some people are going to get burnt, probably quite bad, but I guess it's more effective to learn like that rather than reading stuff upfront and take necessary precautions and maybe these will be cautionary tales also for others.

Thanks to the reports, hopefully, with time, some additional security measures will also be added to the product.

vander_elst··on Euro firms must ditch Uncle Sam's clouds and go EU-native
I think that Google has some partnership with Deutsche Telekom where they provide the software and Deutsche Telekom Runs it because Google doesn't have the encryption keys. In that case Google even if they want they cannot provide the data. Anyway that is still not digital sovereignity as Google might decide to stop providing updates or add a backdoor...
vander_elst··on ANN v3: 200ms p99 query latency over 100B vectors
Thanks!
vander_elst··on ANN v3: 200ms p99 query latency over 100B vectors
> 504MiB shared L3 cache

What CPU are they using here?

vander_elst··on US Vaccine Panel Chair Says Polio and Other Shots Should Be Optional
At least in certain countries there are high taxes on cigarettes and alcohol probably also to cover such costs
vander_elst··on US Vaccine Panel Chair Says Polio and Other Shots Should Be Optional
If you kill someone when drunk driving you face more serious consequences than if you weren't drunk. There should be similar consequences here you get a disease you could have vaccinated for? You pay 4 times the amount for the cure.
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