skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> he structure and syntax for AWS is entirely different from Azure is entirely different from GCP

This!

We're essentially writing locked-in vendorscript. What we want is an actual infrastructure language. One that lets us write once and deploy anywhere (nods to Java).

That would also allow us to standardize the way additional tooling (monitoring, logging, etc.) hooks into everything. It would allow us to easily deploy to new environment types as they become available (I keep hearing about the wonders of WASM). It would allow standardized ways of doing ops testing.
It’s a pretty sketchy company.

Investigation: How Roblox Is Exploiting Young Game Developers

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=_gXlauRB1EQ

Roblox Pressured Us to Delete Our Video. So We Dug Deeper.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=vTMF6xEiAaY
>The companies commit to developing robust technical mechanisms to ensure that users know when content is AI generated, such as a watermarking system.

I've seen some papers on watermarking, but none of them are what I'd call "robust" - they're easily defeated by making small changes to the data. Are the companies "committing" to overcome an unsolved (and possibly unsolvable) technical challenge?
Yes pretty much!
Another fine case of regulatory capture!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regulatory_capture
You can have wildcard certificates from LE too.
Individual differences in neuronal and glial cell metabolism and excretion, and presumably toxic effects from those changes and associated inflammation.

I just got funded as PI to study blood proteomics and long term cognitive outcomes after large vessel stroke, with a focus on early identification of post-stroke dementia. It's a very cool area to be in.
One of my friends, as a broke college student, worked for a 'sugardaddy' site. Her job was to manage the inboxes of all the fake profiles (and the site had a dedicated UI for her and others, that all the profiles were tagged internally, and their inboxes were amalgamated and she'd work through messages).

Her remit was to respond to the messages, and she could choose, but some should be "thanks no thanks", some non-commital, some curious. But essentially she was to have between 1 and 5 interactions with each user before one way or another, fading away. Losing interest, some incompatibility, or just ghosting.
> how things would have played out if they got someone exceptionally good instead of Nicholas II.

It's not just the man or woman at the top who make the country work. Peter the Great and Catherine the Great tried to modernize. But the nobility put up a lot of resistance or simply didn't turn up for committee meetings.
Anchor Employees Launch Bid to Rescue Iconic Brewery from Liquidation
You just described the role of Terraform. HCL is very JSON like and human readable
generally having to rely on a piece of hardware for high-iteration software development is very unpleasant, so my guess is they chose to abstract what the hardware would do in software for testing/development.
I seriously doubt the ratio of Scala vs C++ for implementing the JVM is 1:300.
> There's nothing to suggest it's plastics in particular

Sometimes wonder if these arguments are just devil’s advocating.
I mean do you avoid heating food in plastic for you and yours?
Or are you so scientific that you believe it’s fine until proven otherwise?

Said another way, if you were to bet money, which way would you bet - that plastics are benign?
I have seen a few alternatives to stripe, but this depends a bit on your location and services you provide.

Check out: https://atlas.scoutflo.com/?q=stripe (They have listed all open source, stripe alternatives)
Yes only US!
This sounds perfect for you:

https://sunbeamwireless.com/product/sunbeam-f1-orchid/

I have no affiliation with the company, just a satisfied customer.

http://bjornwestergard.com/notes/sunbeam-f1-daisy.gmi
Chemists close in on “holy grail” for avoiding industry’s most toxic chemicals
Ideas aren't special...execution is special. And SpaceX has not just execution but commercialization.
Overall these seem like very reasonable safeguards.

What I'd like to see very clear regulation around is applications of AI in particular domains. I don't care that an LLM failed to analyze a document correctly on my behalf. I care quite deeply about using it to make a decision in a high-risk and/or high consequence (to human life) environment. I care a lot about having the bias inherent in any model drive a decision without human intervention.
And Minsky before them.
Only top paid tier allows private generations. The rest are public. But they might as well be private, because they quickly get buried.
Yep, I have met a few developers like this. A lot of them would not even question the situation or explain it is not a food idea doing things a certain way. They would just take the path of least resistance.

I think the abundance of jobs - maybe not anymore? - also added to the problem.

I’ve received countless CVs where the developer didn’t stay at the same job for more than a year, max two. Now, it could be that some of the jobs sucked, bit it is highly unlikely that all of them sucked.
Positive: The alternative to sprints is frequently no process at all, not the strawman waterfall. If you can't plan two weeks of work there is no way you can plan six months work of work. Sprints mean that conflicts get surfaced regularly and not "kicked down the can" for eight months. Teams that don't release regularly don't know how to release. so they'll plan to spend six months developing something and think they'll release in six hours and end up spending another six months making a release.

Negative: If you miss a sprint with something business critical you can turn one day late into two weeks late. This process can cascade, particularly in larger organizations that have multiple teams on their own sprint cadence, that is, something that blew one sprint can blow two or three sprints instead. Conflicts surfaced by frequent sprints frequently reveal that people in an organization don't trust each other, which is a much more important problem than how you plan, schedule and structure work. (Maybe that would be good if people did something about the trust issues)

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I'd say that (1) Kanban is the most fundamental practice of software management (well-defined work units and limited WIP) and (2) you have to release frequently so you don't forget how to release (continuous delivery) Estimates are one of many features you can add to Kanban, the value of those really depends on the project. I've worked on projects where I could quickly make a list of items to do, plan out items like "add first name field to form" in 10 minute increments, add it all up and consistently plan week-long projects with 10% accuracy. I've worked on others where it was debugging, understanding existing code, research, and resolving circular situations and in those cases it is the opposite.
Beware the New American Triumphalism
I tried this with a unihertz jelly 2e. it's full android but ultra small. it didn't help it just made it frustrating, so after a month or so I went back to my old phone.

I also don't recommend the jelly 2e in particular because for some reason the only usb-c cable that's charges it effectively is the one it comes with, I couldn't find a single other cable that would charge it quickly, only trickle charge essentially...
"We have more stuff; they have more time"

What say you Hackers? would you trade more stuff for more time?
> If I were to guess, I would say an average 4th grader knows the difference between nano, milli or micro seconds.

Have you ever spent any significant time in an environment where most people are not (children of) college graduates? Because this is absurd. The average person who has just finished a year of high school physics probably can’t tell you those.
Sure - it's always evolving as we add more gateways and payment methods. We currently have three Stripe gateways (each region), WorldPay and Checkout.com.

We find that payments getting accepted is dependent on a whole number of things and having the ability to re-route and retry based on the location of the transaction massively helps boost chances of it going through.

You're absolutely correct in that haha - we exist to make sure teams don't have to do all this work internally themselves, as it becomes increasingly messy the more you grow.

Can I ask what category of product it is you're selling?
The Starship
I think the first one is actually the most ominous. On paper it's a good idea. In practice it's probably a way to increase business costs for little benefit to anybody other than the "independent experts" and the established companies.
"Master Pop Vocalist" is quite the understatement. Tony Bennett was a jazz singer and amazing performer.
> These days I can do terabytes in an afternoon on research and nobody bats an eye.

Except Comcast and the other shitty ISPs (including mobile carriers) which implement data caps, despite there being no technical reason for it*. At least back in the day there was an actual limit to the number of active simultaneous connections an ISP can handle.

* even for mobile, data caps don't make much sense, as they are monthly and per-user while network congestion is temporary and local. Better sell unlimited data plans with different speeds (priced accordingly), and only apply those speed limits if the local cell becomes congested.
A reminder that these kinds of "studies" are more like market analysis and understanding "the lay of the land" to help figure out things that might need to be studied rather than a powerful conclusion in itself.
Google Creates Red Team to Test Attacks Against AI Systems
You should give it a try to Caddy. You won't have anything to manage, everything is done for you behind the scenes.

Use it as a reverse proxy to your services
I wonder if this caches the attention keys and values for the "system prompt" that includes this custom instruction information, so the model can resume without inferencing the whole thing every time?
> ... they [the researchers] created surveys to associate closeness in a marriage with phone use. They sent out hundreds of them ...

> The researchers found a pattern—couples who reported more phubbing in their home also reported less satisfaction in their marriage. They note that their findings make sense logically. People tend not to respond well when ignored. They did not discuss the possibility that less-satisfied partners might be more inclined to phub their spouse. [emphasis mine]

So the research is blind to cause ==> effect, and amounts to "people unhappy with their marriage generally treat their spouse less well".
My wife and I have 100% considered Airtagging each other.

Every time we're out somewhere one of us absentmindedly wanders off with a kid or two, leaving the other wondering "where did they go?"
I learned a lot about aging by watching this Minecraft video[^1] and building the kelp farm. That farm stops working after some (long) time, given the way that kelp grows in Minecraft. If Avomance had done the math beforehand, he would have discovered that he needs a costly full row of observers for the farm to work forever.

Biological systems are not designed, but evolved, and evolution ends up selecting systems (which we call "organisms" or "individuals") which are good enough for it to be reproductively successful. In practice that means "low-maintenance" and "energy-efficient". Functional errors and their organism-wide effects slowly accumulate, and although our biology has everything material it needs to fix each and every error[^2], its healing program/intelligence is far from perfect.

[^1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sf9I3YORSzM

[^2]: Compare this with a car, for example. If your lights go bust, the car won't grow a new one; you need to change them. But biological organisms have a lot of self-healing capability.
Ah, thanks for the tips, really appreciate it! I'll look into these.
Out of curiosity, has your org ever evaluated a monorepo approach?

Would be interesting to know what issues you faced considering monorepo and what pushed to have multiple repos.
Show HN: Roundtable – Estimating survey results in seconds
Recent academic work ([1], [2]) has suggested that LLMs can effectively simulate different Internet subpopulations. For example, you may ask ChatGPT to emulate being a high school teacher explaining Newton’s laws of physics. Building upon this, we created Roundtable, a platform that uses LLMs to predict how people will respond to any arbitrary survey question.

To do so, we needed to first reduce bias arising from GPT’s training procedure. Because these models are primarily trained on Internet data, they can be heavily skewed towards the demographics of heavy Internet users (e.g., high-income, male). We addressed this by fine-tuning GPT on the GSS (General Social Survey) to ‘de-bias’ the model into emulating a more representative U.S. population.

We allow users to ask any multiple-choice question and add conditioning questions and/or descriptions of their target population. Here are some examples:

Simulation 1 (General Interest)

Are you interested in buying an e-bike? Yes 28%, No 72% ([3])
Are you interested in buying an e-bike? conditioned on "Yes" to "Do you own a Tesla car?" Yes 40%, No 60% ([4])

Simulation 2 (reproducing the Stack Overflow Developer Survey; [5])

Where did you learn to code? conditioned on "Yes" to "Are you 45 years or older?" Books 55%, Online 45% ([6])
Where did you learn to code? conditioned on "No" to "Are you 45 years or older?" Books 26%, Online 74% ([7])

Simulation 3 (USA vs. Stack Overflow Developers vs. Hacker News Users)

Do you code? Yes 24%, No 76% ([8]; USA)
Do you code? Yes >99%, No 0% ([9]; Stack Overflow Developers)
Do you code? Yes 83%, No 17% ([10]; Hacker News Users)

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Of course, a natural question is whether we can trust these results. If you click ‘Investigate Results’, we report the most similar (in terms of cosine distance between LLM embeddings) GSS questions as a way of estimating how much extrapolation / interpolation is going on. This doesn’t quite address the accuracy of the subpopulations / conditioning questions (we are working on this), but we thought we are at a sufficiently advanced point to share what we’ve built with you all.

Feedback would be greatly appreciated.

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[1] https://arxiv.org/pdf/2209.06899.pdf

[2] https://openreview.net/pdf?id=eYlLlvzngu

[3] https://roundtable.ai/sandbox/e02e92a9ad20fdd517182788f4ae7e...

[4] https://roundtable.ai/sandbox/6b4bf8740ad1945b08c0bf584c84c1...

[5] https://survey.stackoverflow.co/2023/

[6] https://roundtable.ai/sandbox/d701556248385d05ce5d26ce7fc776...

[7] https://roundtable.ai/sandbox/8bd80babad042cf60d500ca28c40f7...

[8] https://roundtable.ai/sandbox/4a9d2fd6025459bd73b7798a8b2fdc...

[9] https://roundtable.ai/sandbox/7e41ed16c01de48247bce02700c398...

[10] https://roundtable.ai/sandbox/13aaa142e87337201601fb4b76d125...
Hmm.

"Another way to look at it is that the dating asymmetry comes from risk asymmetry."

That sounds plausible, but I don't think that actual data from dating apps indicate that women really choose their dates by their perceived safeness. It seems that they do prefer younger, hotter and richer dates, which does not necessarily correlate with low risk. "Being very obviously harmless" does not seem to be a good male mating strategy on Tinder et al.

(I am not really inclined to fight a culture war right now, but data is valuable. And I fully understand that people in general are attracted towards better looking peers.)
Then add 3 or 4 screenshots or a video or a self-resetting demo.

Not sure why it's hard to capture the essence. Show us the backend and frontend. Use lorem ipsum filler
That's a lot like peppering your C code with #ifdef/#ifndef to write code that's "platform independent." Just like in the bad old days.
Companies commit to testing systems - well, what about the commitment to actual fix problems?

Would have been nice to see that. Even right now there are known security vulnerabilities that were found through testing but haven’t been fixed.
idk these days seems like a lot of couples have "share location" turned on 24/7. Don't really know how healthy that is. Really good in a emergency though...
> replace the low bits with the hash of them

Doesn't this hash-step only increase the probability of collisions?

What is this step intended to solve?
Browser Privacy: Edge vs. Chrome vs. Firefox vs. Brave in Wireshark
The risk a woman takes on by going on coffee date in a public space is minimal. Instead, women should be (and usually are) on the alert for indicators that guys don't respect boundaries or get pushy/aggressive when they are told no.

When statistics on violence against women get misrepresented that doesn't do anybody a favor. Only people who have an accurate picture about where the real dangers are can make good decisions.
This kind of trolling is not fit for HN.
Good for Ilford, I bet. Film in the '20s is in a great place to lean into the trend.
Well put, about the engineering solutions and business solutions. There is definitely big faps between business people and developers. They usually both think they are right. :)
Are you describing dct in particular?
Corporations have been a form of AI

Now together with actual programmable AI, they will capture ALL of our public institutions.

Because nearly all our systems depend on the inefficiency of an attacker, to even function. For example if thousands of sleeper accounts join HN since 2021 and use ChatGPT to amass karma, then one day they can start to gradually shift opinion, constantly downvote and dispute anything that is of the opposite opinion, and also do reputational attacks on dissenting views, and have some accounts get them embroiled in pointless discussions, making them look bad.

Everything from voting to politicians to the legal system can be corrupt using the current LLM technology deployed at scale!
Ah yes, nothing more beautiful than a man impregnating a woman and then divorcing her to do the same thing again with another woman and another woman...

Wait no, that guy is an asshole.
AI-generated porn is a weird hobby with some very vocal supporters. Everyone else is pretty happy with real porn or rule34 or certain artists with Patreons.

People use Stable Diffusion because it's free. I don't really want to pay for a Midjourney subscription, but I'm happy to spend a few cents of electricity refining prompts and batch generating images to use as placeholder art.
Seriously. It is annoying when some ancient pipe in my radiator plumbing decides to leak. This sounds orders of magnitude worse.

The things we humans put up with to try and understand the universe!
My first job, between high school and university, was at a bus company, helping with scheduling and timetabling, in the mid 90s. Me, teenage geek... with a Sparc 5 on my desk.
They made a movie of that nightmarish ‘Dear David’ Twitter thread
Is this an ad? I was literally looking forward to a couch with a PS5 and screen built into it. Im a little disappointed.
What worked for me was shaking things up greatly. I joined the Peace Corps, was forced to socialize with fellow volunteers, learn a new language, then daily interact with my new local colleagues, living in radically different surroundings. The combination pushed me out of my shell, gave me new confidence, helped me date attractive and interesting women, and led to a rewarding career and family life.
Senator Ted Stevens in 2006: "I just the other day got... an Internet [email] was sent by my staff at 10 o'clock in the morning on Friday. I got it yesterday [Tuesday]. Why? Because it got tangled up with all these things going on the Internet commercially. [...] They want to deliver vast amounts of information over the Internet. And again, the Internet is not something that you just dump something on. It's not a big truck. It's a series of tubes."
It depends how familiar you are. I could probably knock that out in a day with the CDK.
The key question is - how strong was the correlation? Was it associated with a 5% higher chance of dementia? Or several fold higher risk of dementia?
Yeah you just have to have someone share some content. People can extrapolate.
Think about the apple vision pro demo. They showed pretty unexciting usecases like looking at photos, spreadsheets and watching a movie. All the things i can already do. But people can think of their own ways of how they’d use it.

So don’t think you need to capture a perfect scenario, you just need to capture a couple, people will fill in the blanks.

Otherwise it is kind of scary signing up for something I don’t even know what it is.

Like you have “reviews” but the fact that i can’t even see the content those reviewers shared makes it feel super phony. This one guy talks about how it “changed his life”, yet you are telling me there are no screenshots you can use?
The descriptions don't really have to indicate beauty standard though. Seems to be implied.

e.g.:
"18th Century Regency Era Portrait painting of a woman with long hair, wearing jane austen cream floral"

"Asian woman, pastel colors, mystical, empowering, stand in your own power, infinite possibilities"
>Scope: Where commitments mention particular models, they apply only to generative models that are overall more powerful than the current industry frontier (e.g. models that are overall more powerful than any currently released models, including GPT-4, Claude 2, PaLM 2, Titan and, in the case of image generation, DALL-E 2).

How is DALL-E 2 the "industry frontier" of image generation?
Ah, the honest answer is that I hadn't really thought about it. Subconsciously I guess I don't like the way `title` looks, so I opt'ed for something that works a bit nicer.

Given the product won't work without JavaScript I didn't really think about the non-JS experience...
> AI ethics always end up just throwing out "bias" as an ill defined term that could mean whatever they want it to, the way people like to use "harm" and "toxicity"

There's a lot of specific examples of different kinds bias in models and things that can be done to improve them. A lot of that work was published in the past 10 years. One small example: https://arxiv.org/abs/1712.00193

I don't believe there's a lack of specificity going on here, at least not by those whose boots on the ground doing work on the topic.
> The probability of a collision is roughly the same as the probability of a fully grown dinosaur spontaneously manifesting in your bedroom due to quantum fluctuations.

But now the probability of bad things happening increased by about a factor of two, which is not acceptable.
My pleasure! That's a faire question that I get asked quite a lot ;)
Here's the thing: requests are handled one at a time with an average turnaround time of 2 days or less. So until a requests has been completed (including revisions) you cannot move to the next one. This is basically how you would also work with an internal designer anyway, so nothing crazy, just a way to streamline things since I'm the only one doing all the design work.

As for your 2nd question, I actually have some of my clients that are agencies outsourcing their client work to me, which is fine. The same "1 request at a time" rule also applies in that case anyway. The only drawback for me then is that I cannot share the work publicly.
Harris is our AI “czar”. She is known to be generally “not the brightest person”. Which experiences/competence makes her AI czar? Imagine someone like that having a say on how country develops nuclear at the end of ww2.
You're correct, they shouldn't be. All BMCs, iDRACs and other OOB management endpoints should be on segregated networks with access control. Basic network hygiene. Unfortunately, there are enough who think this is 'inconvenient' (someone literally told me this yesterday) or simply don't know they should, so you find them exposed all over the place.