skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
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Here is a blog post which discusses this in detail:
https://shurutech.com/ioskickstart-ios-app-boilerplate-in-ju...
The original Mac would pop up a dialog with a threatening icon of a bomb with a lit fuse, whenever it crashed!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bomb_(icon)

>The Bomb icon is a symbol designed by Susan Kare that was displayed inside the System Error alert box when the "classic" Macintosh operating system (pre-Mac OS X) had a crash which the system decided was unrecoverable. It was similar to a dialog box in Windows 9x that said "This program has performed an illegal operation and will be shut down." Since the classic Mac OS offered little memory protection, an application crash would often take down the entire system.

Unfortunately, the Mac's bomb dialog could cause naive users to jump up out of their seat and run away from the computer in terror, because they though it was going to explode!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zQGX3J6DAGw

And Window's "This program has performed an illegal operation and will be shut down" error message was just as bad: it could cause naive users to fear they might get arrested for accidentally doing something illegal!
Took me a while to read (in this age of LLM, I'm proud of myself), but the key points are explained fairly well: the abuse of p-value and the advantages of Bayesian statistics. So why has the latter not caught on?

In my opinion, the fact that you need to specify a prior is not as much an advantage in practice. Sounds good in theory, but in practice, there are many phenomena and variables that we simply does not know that well to specify a distribution to it. Maybe if Bayesian statistics gets more popular and encourages raw data sharing, then the situation will be better, but for now, it is difficult still.

All that said, despite being a practical challenge, being explicit about your assumptions is still an important benefit of the Bayesian approach, and I hope it gets adopted more and more.
As a principle I think it is a good idea to avoid any technically unneccessary coupling of hardware or software to something else that is not strictly user-servicing, else the priorities are inverted in favor of the vendor's priorities and not your own.
You're witnessing the greatest attack on Internet infrastructure in history.

Amphibious assault on Taiwan imminent.
I am of the opinion that there are a very large number of reasons why people have no or few children; parent shaming is one among many. If we want people to have more children we should address all/most of them.
Can't tell if serious, but I've seen worse trades. Wouldn't call this a freefall yet:
https://imgur.com/a/0UN3HZa
Heard someone refer to Angular as a new language the other day.
>> I have no problem whatsoever with fan controls or audio controls or whatever on the touchscreen, as long as it is responsive (of course the vast majority of car touchscreens are not, but some are).

It was -27f/-33c this morning when I started my car. At those temperatures ALL touchscreens generally become slow and unresponsive, especially when wearing mittens. I want the defrost/fan/temperature controls on a physical switch. I also don't want a screen that isn't happy unless it is getting a full 12v/14v. Not all car batteries will give that when cold. Frankly, I'd be happy with a series of valves ... anything other than a touchscreen.

Fyi, automatic wipers are a nightmare in winter. It is very easy for them to break if caked in snow. Standard procedure being to start the car first and let it warm up as you remove the snow and ice. So you need them to be on a physical switch to ensure they are off prior to turning the car on.
Yes, I tried logging in today in two distinct Google accounts on separate Chrome profiles and it would sign me out in about ~ 5 seconds after logging in. And the login process was very sluggish.
I know your intention is to help, but please don't share your FB password (if that wasn't obvious already lol). Letting randoms log into your FB account will just have massive consequences with your friends and family thinking it's you talking to them etc.
> https://aoostar.com/products/aoostar-gem10-amd-ryzen-7-7840h...

Triple SSD support. Sweet! Do you have any experience with these systems? And if you do, would you know how good their Linux support is?
Generative A.I – We Aren't Ready [video]
The video talks about the proliferation about junk and malicious AI generated content on the internet and some of the ramifications
Founder grew Queue to $1M ARR in 3 years
https://archive.md/vhfnV
I have a fanless Asus ZenBook from 2014 that I use everyday and still works flawlessly.
I challenge anyone in this forum to create a sizeable production-ready application and maintain it using a language/database/platform they have no idea about by simply asking LLMs to build it. I'm pretty sure anyone will spend enough time banging their heads against a wall trying to fix bugs they have zero understanding about or properly learning the technologies (which they should have done in the first place).

LLMs are great when you're fairly knowledgeable about the topic. You can ask it to automate stuff and you can spot the errors and fix them. Hopefully it automates enough and makes fewer errors than the time it'd take for you to code from scratch.

They currently can make programmers more productive if used right. Now allow a junior to enter the field and never learning some skill because the LLM does it all? Not even close.
The 2038 problem.
Somebody might have fat-fingered a BGP configuration while trying to improve traffic routing that was impacted by the cut cables.
This is a great idea!
I know that I was flailing about trying to figure out why I couldn't login, so I'd suggest calling it a "Flail Whale".
My service is down
It does on the app. Logs you out.
I am not getting a good sense from the website of what is special or unique about Shen. The top line feature (above the actual list of features) is the presence of an "S series kernel" which as far as I can tell is Shen-specific. After that the top feature is pattern matching, which has become common in the mainstream languages lately (Java and Ruby come to mind)

A little further digging shows that this language is a Lisp. Great! I love lisps and functional programming, and I have a particular soft spot for Clojure. Are there any domains where this language would excel and CLJ would not?
This is one of the classic juggling resources. Lots of fun doing juggling and learning club passes.

http://www.kwos.ca/ was a site I did plenty of yo-yo tricks from during early career and really helped offset some rsi issues.

Nice to see skill sites and not hear subscribe now.
The post is from 2022, posted as a joke or a troll, I'll flag
I don't use Meta's services but I have a number of co-workers that are all convinced that their Meta accounts have been hacked.
We have satellites. We use cables b/c they lack the speed and bandwidth necessary to support the total requirements of the modern internet. Satellite-only is only feasible if you're fine with going back to waiting minutes for your saucy jpegs to load (elder millennials, you know what I'm talkin' about).
My Facebook is down
Most of those seem OK for me now, and DD agrees. This seems to have been a temporary blip for all of them, possibly some kind of service switchover/fallback "not entirely unrelated" to the Meta outage?

Edit: actually a more attractive theory, given the very short timelines and near simultaneity of all those failures, is that downdetector itself had a failure, possibly a Meta-dependence, that they noticed and corrected quickly.
"submitting requests that generate hallucinations" is model abuse? I got ChatGPT to generate a whole series of articles about cocktails with literal, physical books as ingredients, so was that model abuse? BTW you really should try the Perceptive Tincture. The addition of the entire text of Siddhartha really enhances intellectual essence captured within the spirit.
What you describe is how the world already works with ghostwriters. Music too. Drake would have his writers living in tents in a basement until the project was done.
S**'s gettin' real: https://downdetector.com/status/pokemon-go/
You are absolutely correct. That would be a much better experience.

That said, getting there strikes me as pretty challenging. Automatically detecting a down state is difficult and any detection is inevitably both error-prone and only works for things people have thought of to check for. The more complex the systems in question, the greater the odds of things going haywire. At Meta's scale, that is likely to be nearly a daily event.

The obvious way to avoid those issues is a manual process. Problem there tends to be that the same service disruptions also tend to disrupt manual processes.

So you're right, but also I strongly suspect it's a much more difficult problem than it sounds like on the surface.
As someone who finds ChatGPT life changing and amazing, here's what you're missing:

1. I'm a strong software engineer, but there are a lot of places where I have a conceptual understanding, and can describe the properties of a correct solution, but I don't know the "jargon" of libraries. ChatGPT lets me describe the properties of the solution declaratively and it can write the library code that implements that behavior for commonly used libraries.

2. My specialty is machine learning/AI, so there are things like Devops where I have an understanding of docker/terraform/etc and can use them but I don't know the best way to utilize those to take full advantage of them. ChatGPT can tell me about devops best practices and how to use the tools/structure the configs to avoid a lot of footguns. This also applies to areas like front-end, where you can ask about front end best practices given a particular project's properties, and it can even update existing code to implement the things it tells you about.

3. ChatGPT is great at writing boring code like tests, documentation, etc. Not writing that code makes coding much more engaging in general.
I reaceived a highlight from a friend on fb tagging me in a kfc promotion, i clicked the add to the promotion and liked , followed and text @highlight, after that i was completely logged out from fb and instagram. With passoword being rejected etc.
Eh. When I was in a bootcamp everyone did the same thing just with stack overflow and any number of other sites. It was harder/slower but most people were doing as much copy paste as they were actually coding. I'd argue that is a lot of what junior engineers do until they learn how to actually code.

Tools like ChatGPT are just faster at doing that. I think of it like having a senior engineer who isnt going to get annoyed at being asked too many questions. But its also going to be limited like any other tool.
It's on AWS, but likely just has issues with provisioned capacity now that it's actually being hammered.

Meta has a small collection of tools on AWS to deal with large SEV0 events like these. Another one of them is a basic communication tool that does not use Meta's own servers for anything (including auth), a super basic version of the internal SEV tool.
Fb is down but YT is still up for me.
It’s a commodity that has been counterfeited for centuries.
That's an over simplification. If students are using chatgpt to generate code that they themselves don't understand, and then submitting that whole cloth as their work, they're cheating - full stop. They're not using chatgpt as a tool in this case, any more than searching stack overflow and copying answers without understanding them is a tool.

The calculator comparison is interesting - calculators can't be wrong. And if they can be, we're kind of screwed. Like NASA screwed when someone mixed up imperial and metric measurements. ChatGPT can and will be wrong because it doesn't actually know what its giving back to you. Until its code can be 100% correct, which I don't think is possible, it cannot be used as a simple tool that any one can use to generate code without actually knowing how the code it generates works.

So yes - ultimately these students are cheating. Maybe it feels to them like they've just found a shortcut to being a developer, they haven't.
Purportedly over $68,800.
all of them are using oauth, likely auth provider issue?
> My claim is that the people complaining the most about what pictures Gemini are generating are part of one side of the US political aisle

I believe this to be a vast simplification and a lacking perspective, but of course there are countless reasons why a certain political aisle would leverage such stories.

> Calling gemini a "disaster" as the article does is too strong of a word given what I have seen with Gemini 1.5 Pro.

"completely unacceptable" was a quote from the Google CEO on the topic of image generation. That the performance of Gemini is not the topic is part of that. The story isn't about any performance metrics of LLMs, it is about how it did generate some controversial images.

And that is indeed the larger question compared to how well it performs because there are more implications than a good test score.
Quote from the West Wing: "That is the problem with the American Dream. Makes everyone concerned for the day they're gonna be rich."
This seems like something that Google (and IBM) should have been thinking about _before_ spending truckloads of money developing quantum computers.
Might as well rename it from Meta Status to Metastasis.
To use the calculator analogy, I think the concern is that the calculators sometimes return close but incorrect values, and now everyone learning arithmetic is just using the calculators instead of doing it by hand, and accepting those incorrect results as truth.

The other side of this is that calculators are a much more powerful tool for someone who is already skilled in math, and those skills are best learned by actually doing problems by hand and thinking through them. So even if these tools end up being the de facto way to solve problems, we're still much better off training ourselves how to do things the hard way, and we do ourselves a disservice by skipping that step altogether. Which is a similar disservice we do ourselves by cheating in school. The difference is that someone who is dependent on the tool can get away with hiding their lack of skills for longer, and those lack of skills only show up in subtle but possibly critical ways.
Practical politics is more visceral than intellectual. A lot of people have first-hand experience with government-provided healthcare through the military and VA, and for many of them, it's not a positive experience.

A lot of effort could be expended by the government to improve the quality of its own workforce and the incentive structure under which they operate, but that is boring and unsexy work, which always gets put aside in favor of some new ambitious piece of legislation that makes a politician feel good about his or her accomplishments.

Then the backers of said legislation turn around and wonder why the purported beneficiaries don't like it. But politicians and the upper-crust live in an alternate universe where their own needs are met through special systems and their own view of government employees comes from the sycophants and yes-men.
Or people are using Facebook Auth for them. I don't really trust Down Detector, which despite the claims is really People Winging on Twitter Detector.
Good. Now ban SUVs and other aircraft carriers on wheels, or tax them at 100% rate, every year.
Ask HN: How's the current state of hiring in the LLM field?
How are the hiring trends in the LLM field currently?

Do you think they will grow in the coming years like it did for data scientists?

Is it worth entering the field today starting from scratch?
SSO in Cloudflare also seems to have problems.
Why do you think they do this to our social medias and our phones? To have control? To track? To shut us down so we have nothing? Like what is your thoughts on what they are trying to do? As in there plans or what are they trying to accomplish
Of course not, but there's a big difference between persistent bad raises and a single one.

Bad terms are raised due to bad founders (not knowing better) but more likely bad company health. (That can include trying to raise 50M series A as we saw in past 2 years.)

A healthy company with good founders (or lawyers) should be able to avoid issues.
It looks like AWS is down if we can trust downdetector which is reason why nothing works. Almost fifty percent of these services runs on this cloud.
Eh, leave them down.
> it won't ever be a viable option

For production workloads, I generally agree. It's an unsupported hack with a questionable future, I wouldn't do anything money-making with it.

However, for tinkering and consumer workloads, it already works pretty well. Enough of cuDNN and cuBLAS work to run PyTorch and in turn, Stable Diffusion with https://github.com/lshqqytiger/ZLUDA - there's even a fairly user-friendly setup process already in https://github.com/vladmandic/automatic .

I was able to get a personal non-ML related project working on my AMD card in just a few minutes, which saved me a lot of development time before I then deployed the production workload on NV hardware (this is probably why AMD pulled the plug on the project - it's almost more of a boost to NV than anything else, AMD really need people to be writing code on ROCm to deploy on AMD datacenter hardware).
This post clears it up a bit more.

https://blog.jetbrains.com/teamcity/2024/03/our-approach-add...

And this is the part Rapid7 presumably took issue with.

>At this point, we made a decision not to make a coordinated disclosure with Rapid7

As well as

>We published a blog post about the release. This blog post intentionally didn’t mention the security issues in detail

Which is presumably the blog post that Rapid7 saw, which triggered their silent patching policy.

Although, after reading all the blog posts (from Jetrbrains, and from Rapid7), I think this is a much more standard affair than The Reg tries to spin in its article.
Thanks for sharing this, from what I have read it looks like an issue beyond just Facebook.
Hexagons are the bestagons

https://youtu.be/thOifuHs6eY?si=S93Rm1e1EDWmOSUd
GCP seems fine, and no issues logging into Google Cloud Console.
It absolutely is. The typical SV investor is risking essentially nothing - a portion of their wealth that does not make a meaningful difference for their standard of living. And they are free to do whatever they like while they wait for their investment to play out. The founder, on the other hand, is risking years of their one life (and probably their one YOUTH) - years that could have been spent in a myriad other ways.
i can't log in my account nor create one
Out of curiosity, even the standards and big-band arrangements, or vocal stuff with Ella, Louis, or Frank?

Take a close look at Bach’s violin sonatas; they seem like jazz to me compared to a lot of his work; they have lots of wild chords with 7ths and 6ths and 2nds, they are wandering and improvisational feeling.

Some jazz gives me the same feeling you’re describing, and I think you’re onto something with it being fun to play… a lot of it is musician’s music. Watching sporting events gives me the same feeling… good for the players, not as good for me, I’d rather be playing, or doing something else.
hackernews is also v slow for me
You may well be correct anyway to be honest, people usually consider trains and underground as different things, and the underground is a bit of a cheat here because the stations are so close.
This is different from it being offline, it's like the device is kicked off the associated account. A "something went wrong" window pops up with a "generate device code" button, with instructions on how to remove and re-pair the headset.

There is no way to even access wifi settings or anything else to disconnect the device from the internet. If it's still a problem much later in the day, I'll try turning off my router to see what that does.
> German cities all look a bit run down and depressing when arriving by train

Not only by train unfortunately. Pretty much all of the post war modernist construction didn’t age well at all. Ironically, the most beautiful parts of most cities are often the ones that were reconstructed or somehow preserved.
The real difference is back then they would push back: do you want to reach the people who follow us or not.

Of course back then ads were sold in house. You didn't have the powerful middleman who could afford to say no to just you. (there were such middlemen, but they were not as powerful as most ads were in house)
This is a naive and simplistic view that immediately breaks down in the face of individual freedom. Founders are not forced to take investment, nor are investors force to make it. Terms must be negotiated.

You can say liquidation preference should be forbidden, but that's a slippery slope. Many founders accept a liquidation for larger valuation, and many deals would not happen without it. I'm not sure why we would draw the moral line here since the risk of founding and joining startups exists either way.
> Which advertisers find the existence of white people undesirable?

It's so well understood that a white guy can't be the protagonist or audience surrogate in an ad that even mainstream SNL and Family Guy make throwaway jokes about it.

Is there a white judge or doctor in an ad after the year 2000? Or even a non-incompetent white dad? Nobody ever got fired for making the protagonist not-a-white-man.

Can you imagine a Canadian government PSA poster at a bus stop where the doctor on the poster is a white man?

Largely, I don't mind this. Up until the 70s/80s, the reverse was true. Now the pendulum has swung too far in the other direction. Eventually it'll balance somewhere towards the center, where people of any color, gender or sexual orientation are allowed to be the bumbling fool in an ad.
I'm pretty sure that report is just mainstream media reporting this week old cut https://www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/news/at-least-one-subs...

Pretty neat if a week after a cable is cut, FB falls over.

Especially when most of the source of truth databases are in the US and Europe, and that sort of data flow doesn't cross the Red Sea. FB has datacenters and points of presence all over, but outside the US/EU it's almost all caching.
This vivid discussion really makes me want to see what Apple did come up with for the UI. I doubt they made it all touch screens. But Apple might have had one of the biggest influences on car UIs. After the iPhone came out all the car makers wanted to be cool as well and put them in?
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My thoughts exactly... although like the assassin in John Wick 4, I'm waiting for the bounty to hit $50m before I wade in with my suggestions!
Are you really going to wax poetic about the world's most perfect mustard and not post a recipe for your fellow mustard enthusiasts?
HN seems to be struggling too, but that could just be everyone here to talk about the outages.
Surely the repeated logins can't be helping the situation. I suppose it is entirely auth related across all Meta products. The repeated strain could pose a cold start problem for example.
Likewise, started password reset process that won't complete, asked my wife to double check my account wasn't compromised and posting cryptocurency crap or somesuch.