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Google likely knew of this issue, but you need to understand that DEI-related missteps are judged a lot more harshly by the society than other types of errors. So, for Google this was likely “choosing the lesser evil” type of scenario. Anticipating edge cases for LLM behavior is very difficult, but it’s hard to imagine that no-one at Google tested vikings and 1940s Germans before the release.

Neither of the links works

Talking about what I did/what I’m planning to do on a regular cadence forces me to reflect on my time spent and makes me more focused. I also love hearing what others are up to because it promotes collaboration between us. The latter point is completely ignored by the author.

However, the blockers question is a waste of time. Blockers should be resolved as fast as possible, not wait until the next scheduled meeting.

Quora merging “all related” answers onto the same page is one of the most annoying things about it. I switch it to “Answers” 100% of the time.

They should have a separate term for this, like “over-the-air recall”. This sort of thing will happen more and more often as in-car computers become more relied upon.

When I first started to program professionally, I was fascinated with the blameless postmortem culture that my ex-employer had. I thought (and still do) it is incredibly conducive to systemic improvement. I’m happy it is legally codified in the aviation industry.

I find it hard to believe CORS is the root cause. It’s more likely that the server returns an error response and _that_ response doesn’t include the CORS headers.

I’m curious what the largest bottleneck in robotics AI is - algorithms, training data, hardware, something else?

From a practical point of view, it seems like there would be vastly less training data available because almost all of it needs to be created by hand, as opposed to chatbots that can use already existing troves of internet text.

> But, coming back to my first decade at Google, it was incredible to see employees valued above everything else. Perhaps this is a privilege only possible in a culture of infinite abundance. Or maybe not? Maybe it's possible in a limited-resource culture too, but only if the company is small.

Every team that I’ve been on where I felt this way was when that company was rapidly growing and successful. I can’t say the reverse is necessarily true, but can success be the key ingredient that enables this, not the company size?

Both phone and desktop consumers can install third-party apps on their devices. From this point of view, there is no fundamental difference. Yet, on desktops, people are free to install freely, but on the iPhone, Apple controls all third-party installations.

To see why Apple’s mandatory commissions are absurd, compare phones to desktop computers. There is no fundamental difference between the two. So, why is it okay to install whatever you want and pay for it directly on desktops, but on phones it is not?

The “better security” argument just doesn’t make sense in this context.

This is curious but saying that “single typo cost the USPS 500 million dollars” is misleading since they got it all back in the end.

Amazon Q is powered by an LLM that is not very capable (there are no official benchmarks, AFAIK, but the community consensus seems to be that the level is akin to GPT 3.5).

I wrote a Chrome extension that allows you to use GPT-4 Turbo from Chrome's side panel. It (optionally) gets context about your data if you choose to share your screen with it.

https://github.com/petrgazarov/cumuli-aws-console-chat

For all we know, the death could have been fabricated and the guy is still alive under another identity. This isn’t entirely unreasonable given Iran would have probably tried to kill him anyway, so this could have been agreed by him and the government beforehand to protect his life.

Spoiler - no big reason other than it was available and I thought it sounded cool

Cool idea, PM me if you're still searching for a co-founder. Cheers

(2019)

Source?

To see if maybe they changed their ways without telling anyone?

My anecdotal experience as a part-time web dev instructor was not great - I recently quit after just 6 months. A small handful of students were curious and driven, but I have the impression that most students were not very driven. Could be an artefact of my program being part-time, not sure if it’s different in the full-time one (the part-time program enrolment was paused shortly after I joined btw). The main reason I quit was because school provided very little support for instructors in the sense of growth of our skills. I still think the idea is great, but I’m less confident in Lambda School as a company now.

> The Europa Clipper will not orbit Europa, but instead orbit Jupiter and conduct 44 flybys of Europa at altitudes from 25 to 2,700 km (16 to 1,678 mi) each during its 3.5-year mission.[…] The Europa Clipper could conceivably flyby at low altitude through the plumes of water vapor erupting from the moon's ice crust, thus sampling its subsurface ocean without having to land on the surface and drill through the ice.

Excitingly, this seems to be a real opportunity for the Europa Clipper mission.

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Europa_Clipper

I have bought a few things by clicking on Instagram ads and enjoyed it. I choose to allow all apps to track me because I really dislike irrelevant ads. Ads will get smarter in the future, and I think this can be a good thing for the consumer. I’d really like to understand what the issue everyone on HN seems to have with this is - to me, this seems more of a personal preference (being privacy-conscious), rather than some sort of a fundamental issue that is bad for users (it’s not).

> While no horn has ever been found it is thought that the large boss on the head supported one

An almost complete skeleton found, based on the picture. Seems strange the horn is missing.

As long as none of the participants previously took another vaccine, it won’t matter. What they are reading is relative (to the control group) rates.

HSA has nothing to do with the quality of the insurance plan btw. HSAs are only available in conjunction with HDHP (High Deductible Health Plan). Typically, HDHPs are Bronze level plans that don’t provide a good coverage (which is why HSAs are allowed to supplement such plans).

When I’m able to shift my schedule a couple of hours earlier, I feel happier. Not sure why - maybe because this way I have some free time before kicking off my day and never feel I’m late at the start of the day.

This case seems different. Because of the tech involved, I’d wager (speculatively) cops didn’t care about the content of the article. What mattered is the technical detail like the IP which has nothing to do with intellectual interest in the particular content.

Quite the opposite. The HN crowd is very privacy-conscientious.

Personal, outsider take: it’s unlikely that US businesses will start spending sufficiently on cybersecurity, because it’s difficult to show ROI on this. The government is correct on treating this as a high priority.

NY Times article on the same topic:

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.nytimes.com/2021/06/03/us/p...