skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Author of "The Alignment Problem" here, to say: Of course this question depends on your semantics of "harm," "AI," and "alignment," but by most definitions (and certainly by mine) the answer is overwhelmingly yes, many.

These harms can be diffuse at massive scale, and acute at small scale.

One example of each:
(1) https://www.science.org/doi/abs/10.1126/science.aax2342
One of USA’s largest health insurers builds ML system for patient triage. It optimizes for a proxy metric of health need (namely, cost) rather than health need itself; consequently it deprioritizes and systematically excludes millions of people from access to health care.

(2) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_Elaine_Herzberg
Autonomous Uber car builds their braking system on top of a vision model that optimizes for object classification accuracy using categories of {"pedestrian", "cyclist", "vehicle", "debris"}; consequently it fails to determine how to classify a woman walking a bicycle across the street, as a result killing her.

In both cases, optimizing for a naively sensible proxy metric of the thing that was truly desired turned out to be catastrophic.
I think you might be mixing up this with the actual Starlink sats, which yeah, def pollution.
This is from the second stage reentry and only happens for a few minutes in a specific area. Theoretically, Starship will not do this as both stages are reusable...buuuut I imagine they will end up trashing a few stages on the way to get there.
Docker is difficult to understand in-depth, and, at least in my career, I haven't met too many people who do more than just skim a blog post and then think they know everything about Docker. This is how you get Docker punching holes in your firewall[1] and everyone acting surprised, because they a) didn't read the docs and b) have no idea how firewalls work.

Docker's interface might seem simple, but it adds an entirely new layer of complexity, with semantics only superficially understood by the vast majority of its users, and nobody ever seems to talk about Docker's negatives. A good rule of thumb might be: if you can't accurately explain how Docker works under the hood, or if you don't understand the OS components Docker itself uses, you shouldn't use it.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29576522
> I think the tragedy is that the attention doesn't follow quality or value, it follows fame and gimmicks.

It is, but also... welcome to life. This is how it works. What determines success is very often more about things other than the quality of the product.

For evidence, just look at the most popular products at the store. Very rarely are they at the top of the quality scale.
Great video.

I hadn't known of the creator's cursor set, but like him I've found that a black, white-outlined cursor is generally more visible/usable which in combination with the awkward shape of the default Windows cursors led me to install ported macOS cursors on my Windows machines. Under Linux, the white-outlined black cursors that ship with major DEs look good enough as is so there I just use those.
I’ve always been more curious about how load balancers are supposed to be highly available? Presumably you run many instances, but then it seems like you need something to balance the load across your load balancer instances? Also, how do many load balancer instances listen on the same IP address (or do they use DNS to map a domain name to multiple IP addresses?)?
> it took this many years for an article?

It took this many years for an article to be interesting enough to HN to be submitted...

Apple isn't the only company with this kind of deal, and California has been looking into them for years. For example, Williams-Sonoma is appealing a ruling against their deal with Shafter, also covered in Bloomberg Tax two years ago:

https://news.bloombergtax.com/daily-tax-report-state/william...
I just got an email about this and here’s what they say:

> Your plan is unaffected and you can continue to use the Personal Pro plan as you normally do. However, Tailscale's new Free plan includes nearly everything that Tailscale has to offer for up to 3 users on a custom domain and 100 devices. This plan may be more aligned with how you use Tailscale. Go to the Billing page in the admin console to review your options.

So I’ve been paying them for a while now but now they’re telling me I could just get the same functionality with the free plan. I really like what this company is doing! Thank you Tailscale, I’ll just keep paying to show my appreciation!
If we're not talking about an async model then the suggestion is much less drastic than it sounded at first. In that case the crux of your desire is simply allowing the hosts to signal readiness more directly.

You would almost never actually wait for host machines to dial in. You would have a list of hosts that are ready or not ready as they would almost always be ready for more. You want to assume readiness (as this lowers latency) and feed the fire hose.

But in this interpretation, in a world where an LB would be using an existing connection to host machines with HTTP/3 we're basically already there. I suppose its trivial and standard to signal unreadiness to the LB from the host with a 429 Too Many Requests response code.

Off the top of my head I'm trying to think how a host could actively signal to an LB that's its ready for more requests... I suppose its trivial and common to use a health check. Is it even a change to say that these need to be updated to achieve your goal of host to LB pulling?
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Such trolls depress me because people will conclude 1) they're real and 2) representative. And then I and my people get blamed for their behavior, even though I'd never do anything like that. sigh

Anyway, what a cesspool. I'd enjoy reading his blog but I don't need that toxicity in my life.
Anyone else wondering what that little guy is it's a "Tironian et" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tironian_notes
I love how they immediately place blame on the vendor. You would think an operation of this scale and importance would have some redundancy built in or after the previous disaster would have attacked single points of failure.
Idk for sure autocomplete is a great interface for someone in the ide coding, but LLM can understand requirements whole and spit out full classes and validate that the output from the server matches the specs, they work great from outside an ide.
The flaw with 5 whys (not to say I don’t encourage it!) is they reflect the biases of the author while appearing unbiased and authoritative. So, it depends on who writes the post mortem who gets the blame.
Tom Anderson, of myspace? Wow. Hi!

Let me direct you to this:

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/coinbase-says-just-no-way-to-...

The whole point here is that Coinbase is acting in good faith by trying to do things "the right way"... including becoming a public company and trying to register in whatever compliance ways they can. All the way to announcing that they will go to court over all of this. All because their existing efforts haven't worked.

Update: the discussion is happening right now around how coinbase is a public company that is being declared that it is doing illegal things. If so, then why is it still trading?

https://www.youtube.com/live/DSsp8Rvh5n0?feature=share

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Resilient business can mean "more attune to actual need" or it can mean "hardened addiction and enforcement" .. the real world contains both.. but when the population's income and opportunity shrink, it is not the feel-good companies that win the money.
If you want to transfer the asset to another party (the main purpose of crypto currency), that requires effort from the community of miners. Would that satisfy the condition?
https://thefuck.cards/?card=0001000000000000000000&to=asimpl...
It makes sense if you read the article.

Correct: the primary objective. Code that does what it's supposed to, bug free.

Readable: strive to write code that will be understandable by others (and your future self). Review what you wrote and be your own critic when it comes to clarity.

Idiomatic: Write code the way people in your community expect to read. Don't surprise them with your own quirky and clever conventions, when there are well established and perfectly acceptable ones already.

Simple: Your code should do what it says it does directly, with no funky side-effects. Repetition is not always a sin, don't DRY things up just for the sake of it. Don't do too many things. Be parsimonious.

Performant: be aware of RAM (a bit of a letdown).

The last point was disappointing, as I was expecting something about coding to data structures when it matters. Instead the author went on about being aware of memory.
Fair enough, but it still doesn't mean Germany will import electricity from France, at least not on a level that is important for the system
Maybe there’s more to be fixed with compiled languages than VM ones, currently.
> Falcon 9 is the most reliable rocket in the world, with the lowest insurance costs ...

Such a reliable source of inconvenient truths, those wretched actuarial accountants.
Only a small portion of activities count as R&D for R&D tax credit purposes. R&E is a much bigger category and where the problem lies. This write up has a good graphic showing the magnitude (scroll halfway) https://www.striketax.com/journal/tcja-and-the-resulting-tax...
If a model truly generalizes, why wouldn't it be possible for it to generate more real signal than was used for training it?

Isn't that the whole point of using models instead of, I don't know, huge lookup tables?
Not sure if you will read this, but the nuget team responded earlier today to my email and reserved the prefix I asked for. They were quite reactive, you may want to try out your luck again.
Fair enough. I think that many would like to have their own proprietary models, but for now, these "web scale" datasets really only come from scraping the internet. Companies can do their own cleaning and whatnot, but the data distribution still largely reflects what's on the internet because that's all there is.

To your point though, three are definitely some proprietary pockets, like the Shutterstock/openai thing. Or the various RL layers ala chatgpt. But a lot of the value there is in the labeling, and I expect we'll see more competing versions that are open (we already are)
You don’t get to change the definition of words just because it fits your argument better. App Store is not the core user interface , it’s a separate app. There’s no reason to go into the iOS App Store unless you want to install something new. Updates are installed automatically so you never need to see those ads. Core user interface would be things like the Home Screen, Settings icon, etc. (and yes, the badges in Settings do qualify as ads and that would have been a stronger argument). You could also argue about all the fake apps in the store, etc., but again that’s not part of the core OS, which is the topic here.

There are certainly things to complain about on iOS, but in this case you’re just inventing a non-issue.
Crime is measured on the orders of magnitude of small tens to few hundreds per hundreds of thousands of people or so. On the otherhand, these laws affect these groups 100% of the time so long as they remain in these states where its clear their representatives don’t care about their concerns.
I don't know about the largest example. Dell kicks back $30 million a year to the city of Round Rock in sales taxes (https://roundrockchamber.org/city-of-round-rock-prepares-as-...). As someone who lives near there, I appreciate the city being well-funded but it does strike me as somewhat unfair and sort of wonder if the Washington approach makes more sense (though it's a headache to implement).
Blackphone
If you don't mind me asking, what did you to do reduce cost 90%?
>I read a book called The Plenitude by Rich Gold who discusses some of these topics. He doesn't go as far to give a fully workable solution to the problem but one of his suggestions is to challenge creators to limit themselves to 5 "big creations" over their entire life, and focus on honing those creations to the greatest extent. It's an interesting book and I'd recommend it.

Ooh, this sounds interesting. Thanks for the suggestion!
It's copyrightable if it runs Drake's voice through software and then generates an imitation. It's not if he personally listened to a lot of Drake and recorded his own vocal imitation with off the shelf instruments.

This is a PR stunt, it will never go to court anyway. But if it did, the way to have done this legally would have been the Death Row Records approach when Snoop Dogg left them in 1996. They simply signed a rapper who sounded like Snoop, gave called him Top Dogg, and had him perform guest verses for other label acts. He appears on 2pac's "All About U", recorded at a time when both Dr. Dre and Snoop had left the label.
For all the RSS readers coming late: launch got scrubbed!

Next attempt on same window on the 20th, that is: Apr 20 2023, 13:28 UTC (Youtube video feed opening about 45mn before that)

Lots of other info here:

https://old.reddit.com/r/spacex/comments/12n02uf/rspacex_int...
Most the data they show only goes back to 2021 which was still when VC/tech hiring was in it's mania phase.
Great example of how a GPT can reason on your behalf and dramatically improve your performance. For instance, it could watch for inconsistent approaches to design or even continue an complex implementation you’ve started just from examining context signals.
The future has arrived, it just isn't evenly distributed yet. - William Gibson
TL;DR

- Free plan (previously called personal) now let’s you have up to 3 team members

- 100 devices

- Monthly paid plan also now includes 3 free users

- Additional users are PAYG

Very refreshing to see a company give more free stuff after adjusting their plans. Usually you see the opposite.
This is their second time if I'm not mistaken. It's sad that there's no changes to prevent this.
The way the SA business model is set up makes me wonder if this sort of outcome is inherently baked-in, regardless of the actual technology utilized.

At the end of the day, if crew A and plane B are in wildly-unexpected places, no amount of computational prowess can correct that reality. Contingencies can be installed at every level, but then you don't have a viable business anymore. E.g. keeping a backup crew and spare plane on the ready 24/7/365 at every airport just in case is not going to scale. It also still won't deal with the worst scenarios.
For the factory - yes, your wages as a worker building the factory would be treated as a capital expense to be amortized, at least from the perspective of the factory owner. But in the usual case where the owner is hiring an outside contractor to build the factory, then from the perspective of the contractor, your wages would not be a capital expense.

The company that pays for the factory would basically just pay $1B of capex for a factory. The contractor doesn't get the factory - they get income. And your wages from them are just an operating expense. The contractor is not making a capital investment - they are just doing a job for money.
No need to scrape, you can grab a dump from the Internet Archive: https://archive.org/details/stackexchange
Works great now, thanks for the quick response!
The IRS hasn't provided a clear stance on this issue (ask your tax guy).

However, this will definitely hurt a lot companies because they used R&D tax credit for salaries. Convincing the IRS that certain salaries suddenly don't qualify as R&D could prove challenging.

It's worth noting, though, that the R&D tax credit has been raised to $500,000 per year, which could be beneficial for very small companies.
This and slow-start were on my original to-do list for this post, but I wanted to keep it to a certain length and complexity so they ended up getting cut. There's a tonne of cool stuff to visualise in this space, I was spoilt for choice. Slow start, server flapping, session stickiness, dozens more algorithms, multiple load balancers with incomplete state, multiple levels of load balancers, the list probably goes on. :D
I'm not sure why you think this is a one or the other solution.
Arguably reading code can’t lead to definitive conclusions about its bug-free-ness
Why not skip the cosmetic surgery and just use a projected, AI mapped face swapper? I do think you would still hear the variation from the live performer, e.g. their rhythm, their breath, their vocal fluctuations, simply with the AI voice changer software slapped on top of it.

I’m not sure how fun the concert would be – you’re right about that – but tech like this is definitely has the potential to transform many facets of the entertainment industry.
I still haven't figured out how to get Google maps to display hotel prices in USD or EUR.

Even if I don't want to travel to that place, I don't mind a somewhat irrelevant result for a resort. Trying to hustle me into registering for that hotel with the localized currency of my current geotargetted location doesn't make sense. I don't bank in 3rd world units and the resort isn't in that location either.

Totally irrelevant, but try changing that setting in under 15 minutes. I haven't found a way.

I might have made an impulse buy. Instead I was annoyed by terrible UX.
Ask HN: How do you keep up with advancements in GPT-4 and other LLMs?
I will now use this opportunity to bitch about Oracle not supporting the BOOLEAN SQL type.

Also ''=NULL.

</bitch>
Facepalm. That's exactly the first thing I thought. I don't know if I am more tired of those blatant statements without any basis or of Sabine's expected reaction.

Theoretical particle physics is in a tough spot. I really hope in my lifetime I will get the change to learn new theories.

I am hopeful, still. But we either invent or we fail.
Ask HN: What is, in your opinion, the bad side of upvote/downvote culture?
My previous thread was (ironically) flagged so I'm trying to rephrase the question.
He's not betting his name as much as you think. It's normal for lawyers to continue having excellent careers after losing significant cases.

(Also for full clarity magistrate judge is the lowest level in the federal system. Not that that isn't impressive, though)
That's a good point, but then, it's not as if these businesses are going to benefit from buildings standing empty either. Also, the hypothetical future residents of these buildings are going to need somewhere to get their food, toiletries, etc.
It's been done:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Racter

The story is that there was a program, Racter, which allegedly created a book titled "The Policeman's Beard Is Half-Constructed" back in the 1980s. The book was released and was a hit primarily because of that AI connection, and a version of Racter was also sold. However, the Racter that got released could never have composed the book, leading me to this post:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34575252

> The least hypothesis is that the "good" version of Racter that supposedly composed the novel never existed, and that it was all a hoax made up by someone who wanted to bask in some publicity and sell the Racter that actually got released. As you say, the output is suspiciously good for something they insisted was accomplished on a home computer of the era and, oh no, they can't release the software that did it for Reasons... yeah, pull the other one, it's got bells on.
Sure they might say they want a traditional American car, but they sure didn't buy them when they had the option of a Camry or an F truck.

Same thing happened here in Australia. Lots of hand wringing over the fate of our big, RWD sedans, but Mazda 3 and Hiluxes were where the money went.
Even if you didn't mean 'for', compare the mobile service company 'Three' which was named to refer to 3g and are doing fine with the same name even though they now sell 5g service.
The HN readership consider some villains to be beyond redemption. RIAA, Metallica, Sony-BMG rootkit fiasco, etc.
Some markets require outsized upfront investment in order to fund investments for the purposes of land grabs or standing out from the market. It tends to look like upfront R&D (pharma, biotech, but also SaaS companies like Snowflake) or upfront Sales & Marketing (C3.ai has >$200m ARR and less than 100 customers, you need a lot of sales and marketing to make that happen including stuff like their billboard on the 101 north of SFO).

VC is like steroids for your business. You might not need them, and once you take them you unfortunately can't really stop taking them. But in some cases, they really do help.
Why is randomization important? And centralization likewise seems unimportant, as generating or sending a single auto-incrementing index number is really, really fast.

This is literally the technique I use at work for keeping track of part numbers: There's a single server that my individual CAD users can ask for a part number to describe the components of their assemblies, it does nothing but generate sequential, unique numbers. Engineers can't draw millions of parts per second, so it just works...and there's no probabilistic element with associated birthday paradox to the uniqueness of those IDs.

There are only 4.5 people born per second for this hypothetical server to handle in the long term. And at INSERT speeds of something like 3M/second, you could theoretically handle the initial storm of requests to serve all current living humans in about an hour. With 2^64 records, this scheme should be good for about 100 billion years assuming population growth levels off. That's a long time for that assumption to hold true, but I think optimizing for an event that might be only 50 billion years away is a little premature (also, the timeout when querying this server from Alpha Centauri might limit your transaction rate, but again, premature optimization).
Full paper: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4305125

Seems better than BECCS, but otherwise not as good as other options.
This is just another example that the EU needs to change something if it aims to compete with fast moving companies and industries.
True

Same as Artemis, same as the ULA rockets. Usual governmental kerfuffle. Sigh.

SpaceX best decision was not letting the US gov/mil get too involved in their management. They would provide a service and that's it

But that being said, projects of that magnitude usually get delayed. Sigh.

(also for those who don't remember - Ariane 5 had some delays and high-profile unscheduled disassemblies at its start. But hey, also remember all the fireworks SpaceX gave us at the beginning as well)
I agree that they are derived from the physical "rap."

I am curious about is the origin of 'rap' as an informal discussion: I want to rap to you today—lyric spoken by Maurice White of "Earth, Wind, and Fire."

I believe that's the origin of the noun Rap as a music genre, which is now mostly known as Hip-Hop.
I watch satellites deliberately. There's about an hour after sunset, and another hour before sunrise, when most satellites are visible. Between those hours, the satellites are in the shadow of the Earth and not visible.

I've observed a Starlink chain (the second full chain launched) after sunset, it was absolutely amazing _and inspiring_. I've also tried to observe a chain that I knew was overhead about midnight - and even as an experienced satellite watcher actually looking for them and knowing where they were, I could see nothing.