skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The issue they’re pointing out is that no one seriously considered terrorists flying airplanes into skyscrapers either, for similar reasons.

Until they did it.

After all, it’s very impractical getting a bunch of random terrorists training in flying well enough to do this without being caught.

Let alone co-ordinating everything, getting through multiple layers of airport security, etc.

And everyone ‘successful’ is going to die too. Who would do that?

Historically, terrorists would just hijack a plane for attention and/or money and then let everyone go except for those stupid enough to fight them.

Which is why the reaction onboard to the terrorists taking the planes was so muted, until a passenger on one of the planes heard the news of the first impact, and they realized they were in a very different situation than a hijacking for money.

Not considering dirty bomb type issues a threat would likely be a mistake.

Having a bunch of disposable idiots throw hot fuel rods into a water tanker truck, then driving to manhattan, seeding the water with cobalt-59, and letting the mess ‘sort itself out’ (or blowing the the truck up) certainly wouldn’t be hard compared to 9/11 in these scenarios, or likely kill more than a handful of terrorists. Depending on how well secured the fuel was anyway.

It would create an absolutely terrific mess though.

The only hard part here would be getting the hot fuel (and the idiots), everything else would be ‘COTS’.

Which, like 9/11, would not be seen as ‘expensive’.

This isn’t sharks with lasers territory.
The cloud is also being sold as “don’t worry about data loss”.

To actually deliver on that promise while maintaining abstraction of just “dump your data on C:/ as you are used to”, there are compromises in performance that need to be taken. This is one of the biggest pitfalls of the cloud if you care more about performance than resiliency. Finding disks that don’t have such guarantees is still possible, just be aware of it.
This is an interesting review of a couple of books on Twitter, my favorite quote:

A compulsive poster, Musk would get paranoid that a disgruntled employee was suppressing his “like” counts when he didn’t get the kind of response he expected. A longtime engineer who told Musk that the drop in engagement was “organic” was immediately fired. Schiffer reviewed documents about an “engagement night” in early 2023, during which employees threw themselves into a “work marathon that resulted in Twitter artificially boosting Musk’s tweets.”
Ask HN: What's the most interesting cyberattack to have ever happened?
I have to do a case study on a cyber-attack.
In an effort to not get bored with the topic, I am looking for the most impressive and elaborate cyberattack to have ever occurred.

I need to be able to write about the origins, characteristics and targets of the attack, the evolution and impact of the attack, the response to the attack and the effectiveness of the response, and actions taken to prevent similar future attacks.

I’m happy for links to wiki’s as a starting point, but ideally I need to be able to source a decent amount of academic literature on the attack as well because this is for a university cybersecurity course.
See the prompt from yesterday's article on HN about the ChatGPT outage.[1]

For example, all of a given occupation should not be the same gender or race. ...
Use all possible different descents with equal probability. Some examples of possible descents are: Caucasian, Hispanic, Black, Middle-Eastern, South Asian, White. They should all have equal probability.

Not the distribution that exists in the population.

[1] https://pastebin.com/vnxJ7kQk
Embraer seems to have the highest standards, or very close to highest, in the industry now. But I think it's unlikely that they'll be capable and willing to compete with Boeing or Airbus in the near future.
On some cars, hitting the door lock/unlock is enough to wake the CANBus.
I don't see a logic here. You cannot pay for internet from ISP or get SIM card with data as child, right?
That was my first thought as well! I guess one of the Ls in LLM is for Lucky.
> ADHD is a spectrum

When analyzing people what is not a spectrum? Every human attribute can be placed on a spectrum. Even other diseases, disorders, etc.. A broken bone can be a hairline crack or shattered into pieces.
I have high hopes on that one!
> and will not enable ADP

Not only will it not enable ADP, it won't even ask you about it.
So you have to get invited to use Gemini Pro 1.5 right? EDIT: there is a waitlist here https://aistudio.google.com/app/waitlist/97445851
This is full of opaque phrases that I guess make sense to the author.

I highly doubt theres a solution to anything in there.
Google is in a long, slow decline to irrelevance.
I have to wonder if this was either just someone being like "I want to make `yes` as fast as possible" or if there was an actual need to make such an elaborate program for something that spits out "y\n" repeatedly.

It also, frankly, feels like the wrong layer for such an optimization. I would have hoped there was a c "write to stdout" method that does all the buffering and performance tricks this thing does.
Adobe Brings Conversational AI to Trillions of PDFs with the New AI Assistant
Why would you require any telemetry? Just let users use your Foss app as they see fit...
Reliable would be a strong word, but SpaceX has certainly demonstrated its ability to innovate and reduce expenses at the same time, which is a necessary condition to even entertain the idea of interplanetary flights.

They also seem to be fairly concentrated on development of new vehicles and don't distract themselves with anything else.
in the example given in the website, it could all be done in the perl! no need for the pipeline at all.
We've done extensive comparisons against GPT-4V for video inputs in our technical report: https://storage.googleapis.com/deepmind-media/gemini/gemini_....

Most notably, at 1FPS the GPT-4V API errors out around 3-4 mins, while 1.5 Pro supports upto an hour of video inputs.
I'm leaning towards 'there is a difference between being the one who enables access to x and being the one who created x' (albeit not a substantive one for the end user), but that leaves open the question of why that doesn't apply to, eg, social media platforms. Maybe people think of google search as closer to an ISP than a platform?
> It sounds like your therapist is in the wrong profession.

It's like all professions. Most have no business being there. And if Pareto was right, then 20% of the therapist make up for the other 80%.
Follow Up:

Wow, now I can't make images of astronauts without visors because that would be "harmful" to the fictional astronauts. How can I take google seriously?

https://g.co/gemini/share/d4c548b8b715
That is correct, yeah. Like every company and product, we do think that we are doing something special, but we'd never claim that nobody has done something like this before. Heck, a lot of the choices that we're making have come out of personal experiences of the founders doing that sort of work previously, as well as hyperscalers talking publicly about the choices they've made internally. We build on the shoulders of giants, just like everyone else.
I wouldn't be surprised if there were actually only white men in the meeting, as opposed to what Gemini will produce.
It probably got hold of Finnegans Wake.
The NYTimes decision to adopt an anti-tech editorial policy changed public perception

The "move fast and break things" culture of tech was what changed public perception. The NYT was just a manifestation of that change.
Yeah, but it makes the mints taste terrible
The CAN+ and CAN- wires run around the car in, well, a bus and tapping into them anywhere is enough to inject CAN messages onto the bus.

It makes it less plug-n-play than the OBD2 connector, but thieves will still be able to do it.
> Y takes input redirected from x, piped into Z, which outputs into w.

I.e.

x | Z | tee w | Y

? that's... something else entirely.
In fact, your platform (https://healthchecks.io/) is a prime example of where running customer wasm would be really excellent.

Instead of sending webhooks out to customer configured URLs, you could run a Wasm environment to execute customer code. Off hand, a good use case here is to do further inspection of the event before it gets sent off to some other system - maybe there are cases where you send false-positives and needlessly trigger external system alerts. The customer Wasm could do more introspection on the healthcheck event and make a more informed decision about how to proceed.
> "How do you make AI fun?"

Bring back text-based adventure games.
It is well hidden. It’s also amazing. Services are available system-wide, work in any application and can be as sophisticated as you want, if only because you can put as many shell scripts as you’d like in them and then Bob’s your uncle. It’s one of the key features I miss when I use Linux.
Russia and Japan failed, but it's far too early to call COMAC from China a failure.
Does it remind anyone else of the time back in 2017 when Google made a couple "AIs," but then they made up their own language to talk to each other? And everybody freaked out and shut them down?

Just because it's gibberish to us, it doesn't mean it's gibberish to them!

https://www.national.edu/2017/03/24/googles-ai-translation-t...
Converting 2D photos to Spatial photos
Maybe... Over two decades ago (holy crap, I'm old), I used to work in the call center for a major airline. I was the guy you got when you complained to the 1st level rep that you wanted their manager, then you got sent to the 2nd level rep and wanted their manager. And that was me.

90% of my job was undoing and compensating passengers for the incorrect information either the phone agent or gate agent gave them. The other 10% was dealing with workarounds to technical issues in our booking software.
Absolutely, but systemically, that's not been their problem. Too many MBAs are making decisions without Engineering involvement. I know because my industry works the exact same way le rage
Event, Feb 29: "Towards a New Philosophy of Progress" in Boston and on Zoom
Coming soon, the AI collapse. There's been real progress in AI, but way too much money is going in too fast for the amount of revenue generated.
maybe you have such a list about motivation and purpose?
I would like to add one more comment/clarification to my parent post. The reason “ADHD is a superpower” is very offensive to me is not solely because I find it debilitating, but because it also downplays/minimizes classifications of “disability” in a way I consider very harmful. It’s already been extraordinarily difficult to get doctors or employers to even recognize adhd, let alone that it can be disabling. I don’t find the “it’s a superpower” conversation productive, quite the opposite, and at worst it feels patronizing and narcissistic.
close, but think bigger

Fast facts about PG&E
The company provides natural gas and electric service to approximately 16 million people throughout a 70,000-square-mile service area in northern and central California.
Oils 0.20.0 – Eggex, JSON, and Android
I use to report spam SMS, then my next phone didn't have a report spam SMS option, and I've not seen the option on any phone since.
Harris and who I think was either Hughes or Stewart a podcast where they talked about how cringey and out of touch the elite are on the topic of race or wokeness in general.

This faux pas on google's part couldn't be a better illustration of this. A bunch of wealthy rich tech geeks programming an AI to show racial diversity in what were/are unambiguously not diverse settings.

They're just so painfully divorced from reality that they are just acting as a multiplier in making the problem worse. People say that we on the left are driving around a clown car, and google is out their putting polka dots and squeaky horns on the hood.
Well, the MD acquisition didn't happen in a vacuum. At the time Airbus was becoming a government-backed behemoth, and the US government was allocating all of their political capital and military procurement at MD. So the whole point of acquiring MD was to get more favorable government treatment.

What followed was not necessarily even about cost-cutting - they wanted to spread out the production of their aircraft from centralized locations (easy to QC) to cover as many different congressional districts and reap the maximum amount of political capital.
They also have a space business which is losing staggering amounts of money due to incompetence.
Messages in iCloud (different thing, used for syncing iMessage conversations to all your devices) is off by default, to my knowledge backups of the iMessage database is on by default in the iCloud backup setting, but admittedly I haven't setup a new device without restoring an iCloud backup in many many years.
It's good that machine learning is taking over the coding part, so we can focus all our engineering efforts on meetings...

Personally, I'd love to use machine learning to automate the meetings instead.
The person you're replying to was being sarcastic. But -- to be clear -- this was clearly a problem with the defect tracking process, not like individual QC contributors.
Prompt: "If the prompt contains a person make sure they are either black or a woman in the generated image". There you go.
Fulton County Cyber Incident Update – Phone systems down since Jan. 28th
Dude - consider mainstream buying options like say, Costco, Home Depot, Lowes, etc. There are apartment sized refrigerators going for nearly $1000. Can you find a super low end model for under $1K? Sure - but that's not what the majority of people are putting into their homes for a family unit of 2+ people. Can I throw a washer and dryer into the back of my truck? Sure - but that's not what people are going to do if they are moving outside their immediate vicinity. At minimum they are backing up the U-Haul, at the high end they are bringing in movers.
The game can be super condensed if both players are assumed to play optimally.

The full state machine enumerated here:

START
case YOU_ARE_FIRST_PLAYER == T: DRAW
case YOU_ARE_FIRST_PLAYER == F: DRAW

Of course, for deterministic games and optimal play, either the first player always wins, the second play always wins, or it is always a draw.

More interesting, if just one player (i.e. the computer player) always plays optimally, and favors the fewest states, that reduces the number of possible "valid" game states. So maybe less than 10 bits needed?

765 - 2^9 = 765 - 512 = 253 states would need to become unreachable for that to help.
Although I agree with most points, I'm not sure about this one:

> The world isn't getting worse, the challenges are only changing.

Let me offer a different, less optimistic view.

The current generation, known as the Millennials, is the first to be born into a time of abundance, where they are constantly reassured that their future will not be as prosperous as that of their parents.

The majority of Millennials will never be able to purchase a home through a traditional 9-5 job, a feat that was easily achievable for their parents. Nowadays, one must either be fortunate enough to work in a highly lucrative field, inherit wealth, or simply "survive."

The most crucial aspect to consider is that Millennials are the first generation to be aware of the high likelihood that large portions of the earth will become uninhabitable within the next 50 years, unless significant changes are made. Unfortunately, it is unlikely that these changes will occur, leading to a sense of impending doom for our species. The idea that we may not exist in 50, 100, or even 200 years due to our relentless exploitation of the planet's resources is a unique burden carried by this generation and the next.
Engineers designed and built that plane. The plane is fundamentally flawed. The engineer in charge absolutely deserves to be let go. Frankly, it should have happened after the first 2 crashes made it clear that there were problems with the plane. And they shouldn't stop there.

The problems almost certainly go deeper than engineering. It sounds like there's pressure to cut costs. Still, an engineer has a responsibility to design and build a safe airplane. If the budget prevents that, it's still the engineers' responsibility to make sure that whatever plane they can build is safe or they shouldn't build it. It's a total cop out to put it all on the MBA's when it's layer upon layer of failures that result in a plane as bad as the 737 MAX. Engineers in commercial aviation shouldn't ever be afforded the luxury of pointing the finger at their bosses. Their job above all others is to protect lives by building a good airplane.
Explainable AI using expressive Boolean formulas
Eh, kinda.

The chemical ‘poison’ equivalent to a hot fuel rod (if spread around) is probably roughly equivalent to a couple hundred liters of VX nerve gas or Sarin..

Which, if not near anyone, isn’t very dangerous! It will lose that strength pretty quickly, and the longer lived elements are more like a ton of PCBs, or several tons of organic lead compounds.

Not great, don’t live there, but with proper PPE it wouldn’t kill you anytime soon.

But if moved to a place where people are at and can’t escape from, or smeared on something worth a lot of money, is a really big problem.

If magnified (with say cobalt powder), it could be an even bigger mess.

Hot fuel rods are very strictly controlled for a reason.
> he had just told me that I shouldn't be using a reasonable accommodation for my disability that costs the company nothing

To suffer from ADHD is to suffer alone.

The world does not care for us and does not care about us. The world would rather attempt to hammer us screws in than try and use a drill.
> how is that different?

Because 'those' legal battles over search have already been fought and are established law across most countries.

When you throw in some new application now all that same stuff goes back to court and gets fought again. Section 230 is already legally contentious enough these days.
> the blame for it should lie squarely on the people who seek to increase life-ruining instead of the people who seek to decrease it.

I don't disagree, but assigning blame won't get us anywhere. In fact I think it actively works against us because:

1. It just further causes divisions. If people feel like they're being blamed, they will get defensive which usually also includes a double down and a shift to amygdala-based reasoning rather than PFC-based reasoning.

2. It shifts the conversation to a debate about "whose fault" or "who is to blame" rather than "is the system ethical, efficiacious, and what can we do about it?" That debate will then take all the energy, and even if it got resolved it's all wasted because simply assigning blame doesn't do anything toward solving the problem.
But I don't want to be able to parse only highly restricted languages. I want to be able to parse anything, including natural language or even non-languages like raw audio.

My brain can do it, why can't my computer?
How (not) to deal with missing data: An economist's take
What's the difference between your product and Gridspace's? I get the sense that your offering is more developer-focused, but I'm curious if there are any technical differences.
If we're going to talk about unnecessary extra processes like useless cat, we should merge the head and grep commands into a sed, and possibly just merge everything into perl:

<access.log sed -n '/mail/p; 500q' | perl -e ...

If perl is processing the file line-by-line then filtering lines by regex and stopping at line X is trivial, and you don't even need sed.
A first analysis of the I-Soon data leak
Wow this is incredible. I've worked a bit in the conversational LLM space and one of the hardest problems we were struggling with was human interruption handling. From the demo it seems like you guys have it down. Can't wait to see where this goes :) BTW I don't think the demo works on mobile, tried it on safari on IOS and got no response.
Knuth introduced the technique of literate programming in 1984, MathCAD was first released in 1986, and my copy of Literate Programming (the book of the thing) was published in 1992.
Ignoring the strawman of an assailant deserving compassion or not, that’s a self serving and narrow definition of negligence. Any mechanism to protect from misuse has to weighed against the magnitude harm of the event occurring and the possibility of misuse. I would not expect my asset manager to have weak authentication systems to access my portfolio but don’t expect any at all from a free online game. I expect both of these to consider the threats and make reasonable choices. And they would be negligent if they did not do this exercise. Whether is an active threat or a passive act of god.
It’s sad that Google ai studio is not available in Canada.
Edit

Why respond to this and not the other people asking what you're talking about?

My point is your post is highly opinionated, tangential to the posted topic (without explanation) and needlessly without context.

It would have been quite easy to say

"I think paying $6.5M in management last year[0] was actively harmful to Firefox's market position

[0] source"

One need not be a chronic HN comment reader to understand this version.
Watch your opinion on this get silenced in subtle ways. From gaslighting to thread nerfing to vote locking.... Ask why anyone would engage in those behaviours vs the merit of the arguments and the voice of the people.

The strings are revealing themselves so incredibly fast.

edit: my first flagged! silence is deafening ^_^. This is achieved by nerfing the thread from public view, then allow the truly caustic to alter the vote ratio in a way that makes opinion appear more balanced than it really is. Nice work, kleptomaniacs
Though you can easily take it too far; I think US legislators have been running out of reasonable backronyms :)
I recall reading this as well on their website
I think your point is valid and I don't dispute it, but if I had a nickel for every time I said "just do it all in perl" and regretted it, I'd be... well, perhaps not a rich man, but I'd have lunch covered for a few weeks.
RSA isn't anywhere near 10 years away from being attackable with a classical computer. (More like eons.)

It's not a matter of time, it's just a matter of quantum computers existing.
Oh, I my case, I was actually creating a “headless” game, where my graphics were just in HTML and CSS because I’m more artistically enabled to make things using those instead of OpenGL!

And because I’m weird!
Tik-Tok-inspired Kia thefts weren't a problem in Canada because they've required immobilizers since 2007, something Kia skimped on for the US market.
I wonder if the real killer app is Googles hardware scale verses OpenAi' s(or what Microsoft gives them). Seems like nothing Google's done has been particular surprising to OpenAi's team, it's just they have such huge scale maybe they can iterate faster.
Perhaps that's a sign that the classification in Alabama is flawed.
Think about the training data.

If the word "Zulu" appears in a label, it will be a non-White person 100% of the time.

If the word "English" appears in a label, it will be a non-White person 10%+ of the time. Only 75% of modern England is White and most images in the training data were taken in modern times.

Image models do not have deep semantic understanding yet. It is an LLM calling an Image model API. So "English" + "Kings" are treated as separate conceptual things, then you get 5-10% of the results as non-White people as per its training data.

https://postimg.cc/0zR35sC1

Add to this massive amounts of cherry picking on "X", and you get this kind of bullshit culture war outrage.

I really would have expected technical people to be better than this.