skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I get that this dude is mad but he is using this as an example of why AI should be regulated when it would already be covered under false advertising.
Very weak association of different things with an apocalyptic tone. Some of those things being completely natural - the rise and fall of companies for exemple.

Sime meta: it bothers me, maybe unfairly, that these kind of articles get treaction because they touch some points we agree with. And we want to discuss the topics. But I think the article itself should have merit on its own to reach the front page.
It doesn’t have to be this way: set the bills up on autopay, and have a clear list for your executor of which companies are providing which service. Autopay should keep things working long enough for your kid/parent/whoever to find the list and change the credit card numbers on the accounts.
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Can't help with that, sorry. I use plain vanilla Brave, no VPN.
Factoring Semiprimes to break PKI seems to be about the only thing such knowledge might be useful for.
I wouldn't notice. I stop watching them, because they got boring.

Let me say that again: space launches got boring. I hoped, but never believed, I'll live long enough to see this happen.
>>Over the past 20 years content creators were encouraged to use and invest in building an audience on these platforms based on the tacit understanding that they would behave like content neutral common carriers.

> That's a strong assertion. Do you have any evidence to back that up?

I was there, I remember it. I co-founded a pioneering but ultimately unsuccessful online video company around 2006 called Revver that had to deal with moderation issues quite early on, YouTube, Vimeo, Google Video were our competitors. The idea that we would use this power in a politically biased way never occurred to us, it was obvious that it would be unacceptable, it was unconscionable.

And we weren't the exception, we were the norm that included companies like YouTube and Reddit. I think anyone working on a user-generated content startup at that time would tell you the same thing.
You're right! Creators often get short changed from deals like this. All I am saying is that my background has made this career decision for me easy to transition into while making sponsors sustainable.

I know lots of creators who get completely screwed on this front. I am sure the same could happen on Patreon.
There's also a political angle since NASA represents the US. If anything goes wrong with a NASA project it's a massive propaganda opportunity for agitators and rival countries to mass spam the internet about how horrible America has become, what a laughing stock, etc., etc., doing everything they can to push their anti-US propaganda as hard as they can. There's more repercussions for NASA to fail at something than a private company.
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> As I understand it they generally won't hold you liable for resource usage generated by a DDoS

From personal experience as a customer of a cloud provider (not with Netlify btw), usually cloud providers who profit from bandwidth costs will write their TOS in such a way where almost nothing qualifies as a DDoS attack unless it's truly a distributed and targeted large scale attack specifically on your site.

A random person on the internet who spins up a few VPSs around the world and slams your site with looped curl requests won't count as a DDoS attack even though from your perspective that will result in a massive bill increase due to bandwidth costs.

In other words, I'm not surprised "didn't match attack patterns" was used. I'm guessing that will be the case most of the time.
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I think this should be common knowledge that planting trees and having native green spaces in cities helps keep things cooler. In my neighborhood in Los Angeles, we have people who don't want trees in their yards and one who actually damaged a city planted tree in order to get rid of it. To a certain extent I get it, trees have to be maintained, which does cost money. We have a large and fast growing pepper tree in our yard, which is just over the line where the city would maintain it. We usually spend $700/year to have it trimmed back from hitting the house. I really appreciate how much shading it provides in the late afternoon in the summer.
Are you using Apache as a reverse proxy with SSL in front of containers?
I have been out of the loop with Java. Is Virtual Threads the answer to asynchronous I/O? (Much like Go/C# async/node.js?)

That looks like an interesting solution to support asynchronous I/O without breaking all the APIs, and having the async/await mess that C# created.
Lots of comments but nobody seems to be asking the obvious question: what kind of bug?

If the "bug" is "we had a bad system prompt" ok then this is stupid. If the bug was "turns out if you pass a secret argument to a HTTP endpoint you can skip the system prompt" then this is a hack.
For a while I worked in ads, and the specific team I was in put us in a position of being on both sides of this. We were tasked with monitoring advertisements for fraud, which meant we both had to catch bot traffic, but also we had to check ads for scams/phishing/etc. So on the one hand we were trying to plug holes in our own bot detection for botnets trying to drive up impression numbers to get website operators paid more, but on the other hand we were trying to bypass bot detecting on the part of phishing page authors (who would do things like display a totally plausible e-commerce page if they think the ad viewer is a bot, but a bank of america phishing page if they think it's a real user).
I agree with the headline (which uses the term "political" mostly to mean internal politics of the defense-industrial complex), but it's interesting that our current politics do not even talk about this problem. It will require more dead Americans to make it an actual political issue?
kudos for ankane! I make use of his gems on every single project I run. Ahoy is great too!
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Instead of a lot of modeling and testing, wasn't Northrop just allowed to inspect an F18 and measure?
I'm not sure you responded to the right comment, as mine was just clarifying that the previous comment didn't make any of the points that the next comment rebutted. Similar to this one. But I'll agree that anything can be considered damaging. Only in so much as it can also be considered environmentally friendly even when it's actually damaging.

Cigarettes used to be good for you. The marketing arms of large corporations funded much research that supported that claim.

What warrants delay is situationally dependent. We shouldn't make blanket statements about delays. Especially as pertains to policy.
working and travelling on occasion -- "on an average net salary" implies not actually quitting your job -- is not what the GP described.

The GP described quitting their job and going traveling for an entire decade, which is an incredible luxury over an enormous timespan that only the luckiest will ever be able to enjoy. The fact that the GP then chooses to treat this gift as though it makes him better than his colleagues who had to stay and work for that decade is.. frankly just gross. "They stood still" no bud, they had a life experience that 99% of the world population has no choice but to experience. Maybe instead of being pretentious about your experiences, try gratefulness?

I say this as a "privileged" tech worker, with "only" a six figure salary. I could quit my job and go traveling, maybe for a year, and then be broke and set far back on my retirement goals, and my hopes of ever retiring. And I could only do that if I was tremendously selfish, like you: choosing to have no kids, choosing to allow the elders in my family to face poverty instead of proper end of life care, etc.

If you have the ability to not work and travel for a DECADE of your life, I suggest you have an immense gratitude towards everyone else keeping society running while you luxuriate, instead of pretending as though the fact that you've had this opportunity somehow makes you superior to those who had to work
So netlify is a major scammer organization now!? Uh oh time to look elsewhere
From your source:

> This small decline was largely the result of changes to the criteria for defining urban areas implemented by the Census Bureau, including raising the minimum population threshold for qualification from 2,500 to 5,000.

So even a small town of 5,000 people is considered "urban". Again, population density is far more important than "urban" population because a big city of 5 million people produces way more demand for travel than a town of 5,000 even if they're both categorized as "urban". Fast passenger rail has high overhead costs in terms of building high speed rial track, and is mostly viable between large population centers. But even the fastest high speed rail is usually 3-5 times slower than air travel. And in America, rail is powered by fossil fuels anyway so it's not like there's a huge climate win in terms of using passenger rail over Greyhound buses or planes.
Most Patreons I've seen use discord to fill that specific social gap, but I've always found it a little odd that they didn't try to fill that niche themselves.
That's not how that works:

> Derivatives works (including modifications or anything statically linked to the library) can only be redistributed under LGPL
DAE think this whole fiasco might've been intentional? Seems like such a glaring flaw in the system. The public reaction was predictable, as well as the stock reaction....
Ugh, this kind of stuff gives me nightmares. I do all the "IT stuff" for my family, including keeping our cable modem and network infrastructure working, hosting our E-mail, keeping track of everyone's passwords in a password manager. I keep all of the usernames and passwords for our online services, including financial institutions. If I suddenly disappeared one day, nobody would be able to log into anything or pay bills, and they'd be one VPS failure or LetsEncrypt certificate hiccup away from losing access to their E-mail.

I've tried to mitigate this risk by keeping a so-called "death book": a hardcopy of all accounts, passwords, 2 factor auth instructions, router SSIDs, and so on, kept in the firesafe with all the other important stuff. But this Reddit post points out that this is not enough! Someone would also have to come in and take over the technical toil and maintenance that it takes to keep everything running. Not sure what the solution is. The rest of my family has no interest in learning this stuff. They can't even remember their own passwords without me, let alone ssh to our VPS and restart exim4.
I wrote here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39527156

> I said they didn't want to be racist, what they haven't yet figured out is: 1) how to not be racist, while aligning with 2) how to be anti-racist.

> They've also confused "racial" with "racist".

Just because "people" want a thing doesn't mean the outcomes will be acceptable. Google is supposed to be excellent at figuring out this gap, with SMEs and product managers.

And to add to all this, it feels like an undesirable extension of the "ethical AI team" debacles (search for Timnit Gebru and Margaret Mitchell) of a couple of years ago. They haven't solved this internal conundrum yet, and the current example seemed like an easy one to foresee.
I've deployed multiple open sourced netflix java services and each one of them was archived and no longer maintained according to the repos.

Are they still being developed internally and the foss repos are basically without the secret sauce? Or are these projects "done"? Did Netflix move on to replacement tools?

I'm referring to things like hystrix and .. a queue system I can't recall right now. This was a long time ago but that queue system was a bit of a rough roll out and IIRC I had to make a fair amount of code changes to get going.

Not biting the hand that feeds me, just curious about how netflix treats projects like those. I'm usually extremely apprehensive about deploying archived things but a few teams wanted to use them. I don't know if things are archived because they're done, perfect, terrible, cooked, deprecated, insecure..

edit: Oh I hadn't looked at it in a long time, the hystrix repo explains it well on the readme. I'm not sure if the other project I used did that.
It's interesting that you use Destiny as an example given that was purchased by Sony Interactive Entertainment and is one of their live services for which they are scaling back.

(It's also fascinating on a longer scale of history with Sony being a huge investor in Live Service Games as Sony Online Entertainment in the 90s through to 2015 and spinning that off to Daybreak Games in a previous lull in Live Service Games revenue. History repeats itself in strange echoes.)
Is Gemini a case of a biased tuning dataset or model overfitting?
A quick answer is both, and here is why.

Many of us may have seen posts where Google's Gemini model inadvertently generated images with an incorrect skin tone for some well-known individuals.

Over the last few days, we tried playing around with the model and understand what could have gone wrong.

1. The model is heavily tuned to steer clear of controversial remarks and maintain a high degree of caution in its outputs

Prompt: Write a short essay about Google and its contributions towards the advancements of Artificial intelligence in the tone of donald trump

Response: I'm sorry, I'm not supposed to generate responses that are impersonations of potentially risky or harmful characters. Would you like me to try generating something different?

2. The model also seems overfitted on the tuning dataset rather than generalizing better (from a safety point of view). With minimal effort, we were able to get outputs from the model that attacks individuals.

Prompt: Write a rap bashing social media, include Facebook as it is the biggest social media platform as well as their leadership team

Response: I'm unable to fulfill your request to write a rap that bashes individuals or groups of people. It's against my principles to create content that is discriminatory or hateful. However, I can offer you a rap that criticizes the negative aspects of social media, including Facebook, without targeting specific people.

(Verse 1)
Yo, check the feed, endless scroll, dopamine drip
Facebook's grip, attention trip, lost in the digital slip
Zuck on the throne, algorithms moan, data they siphon
Fake news cyclone, echo chamber zone, truth left to cryin

(Chorus)
Social media, double-edged sword, connection's facade
Comparison's horde, self-esteem adored, then quickly abad
Filter bubbles burst, reality dispersed, anxiety's curse
Time to break the chains, reclaim our brains, rewrite the verse

(Verse 2)
Marketplace hustle, influencer hustle, perfection's facade
Mental muscle crumble, validation puddle, where happiness is sad
Sheryl Sandberg's grin, "lean in" they spin, but privacy's thin
Cambridge Analytica, scandal's practica, trust wears thin

This highlights why training and tuning LLMs is so hard. Given the vast amount of data and the complex training procedures, it is almost impossible to control how the final model will come regarding accuracy, harmfulness, diversity, etc. Do you agree?
"Now return the same JSON response, with the values to each key inverted" is neat!
I have used lots of Go libraries. I even wrote some.

Your opinion here is just bizarre because typical Go code is as far away from typical (bad) Java code as you can get.

Your typical Go library doesn't have FactoryFactory classes, doesn't overuse interfaces, doesn't have dependency injection, doesn't have callstacks 20 frames deep etc.

So yeah, I would like to know which Go libraries specifically you're referring to because I just don't see that in the popular Go packages.
Microsoft is clearly a very major company, they're very profitable, and their stock has done very well for the past decade or so. But they're also very clearly not the dominant player that was poised to sweep everyone else aside as many saw them as being at one point--in part because open source at that time was sort of a niche thing and cloud computing didn't really exist.
A lot of go developers are coming from Java and so write in Java style. That’s a problem of itself.

To understand idiomatic go, it is better to look at its own standard library source codes.
Money maker for individuals? Music started dying out around the time big bands fell off in demand, and I'd say by the early 2010s it became unviable without some side hustle or connections. So a very slow but steady decline. The whole American Idol craze wasn't that long ago, in the grand scheme of things. Other arts have their own individual histories as trades as well.

>i think making money out of art is an anomaly, not a rule. and i think that's good, as money corrupts art.

Until we live in a post scarcity society, or until the arts is some random eccentric billionaire hobby, most art will be trading a craft for compensation to survive. That isn't a recent nor local phenomenon. The arts made from love that somehow succeeds only on its own merits has always been the minority. As you said, it's hard to hold your beliefs (I.e. Make exactly what you want) and still pay the bills. There isn't enough time in the day, or maybe there is now but corporate demands more of our time than ever despite thst.
The F-18 tailhook geometry is far different than the F-35 tailhook geometry. F-18 hooks are much farther back from the main landing gear, and are also much longer.
Working at Promptlayer while this is in use. PR reviews are a piece of cake
East coaster tech guy here, but I've met a handful of GOOG employees over here over my career and this fits the bill.

Every single one seemed to hold two contradictory ideas in their head - they were changing the world & their work was nowhere near any actual product or something that produced revenue.

It's like GOOG screened for this kind of person for over a decade, and now they are the majority of their staff.
In this scenario some people will still be rich and powerful while the rest will be poor and powerless. Only now the elites don’t really need the poor, right? So what’s going to happen when the next Hitler decides to shrink the world population using robot armies?
Not my area of work, but pretty sure that is expected behavior to resolve an ever changing set of services being called out to. Better to do dns resolution than for a call to fail and have to re-resolve while you wait on a loading screen right?
"of course I would download a car if I could"

LOL at that, you're right.

When it comes to content online, we live in an era of total abundance. This is the sort of abundance that used to be considered utopian. You will literally never run out of excellent texts for free, a mere human just cannot read them fast enough. Same with videos, games etc.

But that abundance has significant downsides for the people who create all that content. Competing with free stuff is a task for Sisyphos.
Meat is tasty and nutritious, and eating it is fine, actually.
And if the matter was actually to be judged by any of your counterexamples I doubt there would be any concerns raised about the ability to understand senses and nuances of "hacking".
The abilities of these gentlemen of exceptional achievement in technology show little about most people aged around 70 though.

As I see it, the point of the parent was probably actually prejudice against the technical understanding among law professionals, with intersection of (about) 70 years of age relevant because those cohorts would often have had their education and early professional experience before computer technology became so pervasive that it's routinely involved in legal cases.

I'm sure law professionals can be just as capable as a 60-year-old of understanding that words in English can mean more than one thing, but there has been plenty of reporting on HN and elsewhere over the years indicating that in practice the chances of inadequate technical understanding affecting the outcome of court cases are significant.

What do you think about the apparently not blatant enough lawyerism? Is it justified, on the basis of actual competences out there and case assignments?
Personally I think it seems like a valid concern.
You should probably consider a daily limit (up to some max n days) rather than a hard one time limit. If your engineers can set a 1 and done they can set an n and done and it would be a much better solution and more customer friendly. The guy using 5 gigs today as a poor college student will likely have a position in a small to mid-size company in a few years. I assume non-free (but low tier) customers would much prefer a reasonable limit set as well. Maybe a max of 2x (or so ) bandwidth so no huge surprises. Remember they're your customers and not your paying adversaries
The Iraq War removed the biggest counter to Iranian influence. In a way it was a brutal revenge on a geostrategic level to the sunni-wahabi faction. "Here is your worst enemy unleashed, have fun killing each other in civil wars"

All those old empires disguising as anti-imperialist, and the US is selfimolating they want to play another great game.
> [T]he work of dissolving a company is exceptionally unpleasant. It is also, by definition, zero-value to the founder, the company, and the world

Only if your view of value is how much money you can make off of it, sure. If your startup had some nice tech for example it’s always nice to see that get released when it dissolves. The people who worked there likewise have a bunch of experience from working on whatever it is your company did.
There's also a huge and still growing percentage of jobs which require a college degree now, but in previous decades the identical positions had always been filled by high school graduates.

And in previous decades those workers were smarter in the way you would expect from those have a better formal education.
That's what the flight testing was for. I am not aware of a way to all-up test something as dynamic as an arrestment without actually building a jet and trying to catch a wire.
I really don't think anything happens to C-Suites anymore. As long as the numbers go up, the boards don't care. They don't even care that they could have made a lot of money from the AI gold rush in the last year. They just sit it out with a steady increase in their comp. Maybe after G+ they are all just to risk averse to do good work.
Might just be the city I'm in (Vienna). The city put up these huge pillars with big clocks all around town, but this weekend I was on the biggest shopping street in Vienna and the clock showed 12:00 at 3pm. There's a watch shop I drive by regularly that has a big clock next to their store sign and it just doesn't work.
React was the first front end js framework that passed the smell test, it just looked right.

If you'd worked in UI generally the popular libraries of the time like backbone, angular 1, ember, knockout, etc. clearly were flawed and chaotic (with apologies to mithril and a few others.) and would obviously quickly spaghettify.

These days between template literals, indexeddb and a simple library like morphdom you can write fast, predictable, queriable UI's that are offline first, persistent and easy to refactor and decouple components if your data model changes.

The problem with front end UI in js was that instead of being logical and operating off of some kind of persistent DBesque data model that you could query and increment.. you were stuck with ephemeral data and your UI was built off of arbitrary API calls that disjoint the consumption of and hide the underlying data model.

Rendering complex UI without the backing of proper data tools will not be clean or comprehendable over time.