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That’s a very weasley worded statement, to begin with “they have suspicions” is not a statement that should be in a communication of this type

Any moderately well run shop will have a mechanism to get updates when a dependency of theirs has a security issues, depending on the line of business it may actually be required by a regulator or certification body (eg PCI etc)

We should probably be more afraid of the backdoors you can’t see in proprietary that would almost never be found.

Who cares if they do that? Do you see Torvalds and co running around crying because the entire world runs on Linux Kernels?

I would love nothing more than for a project I built or contributed to wound up as an AWS service.

Writing the code is just part of the value, running it is also very difficult. Especially as the use increases and expose new code paths and bugs and what not.

This is how ALL open source used to be! Like literally ALL, this is the norm not this bullshit VC funded fremium restricted/tiered fuck the customer trap nonsense.

People built things because they loved it and wanted to help others , not to get rich. Now everyone just wants to get rich, and fast.

Your comment leaves me scratching my head as it is all over the place.

We all need to just stop paying attention to Musk, he’s nothing more that a gussied up Musk supremcist dork with skin so thin he’s more translucent than he is white.

He’s made a career out of taking big risks with other people’s money and being saved by absurd fed policies while also milking the government for every last nickel he can squeeze out of it

The word perfect is misplaced, the trade off is size vs fidelity (aka accuracy)

That is not a common definition of free market.

That’s not helping, that’s excusing OpenAIs behavior, which is not something anyone on hn should be doing.

This is supposedly the greatest AI mankind has ever created, it goes down for a little while and we have zero information on why or how, that’s simply inexcusable

If this is such a socially impacting technical change we should be ripping it to pieces to understand exactly how it works. Thats a) how we protect society from technical charlatans b) how you spawn a whole new world of magnificent innovations (see Linus building a truly free Unix like operating system for everyone to use).

Failing to hold them to as high a bar is a another step down the path to a dystopian corporatists future…

This is a wonderful comment, I’m sure he’s also not trying to raise $7T, or if he is it’s not US dollars…

I can’t tell if you are being sarcastic, or you are just inexperienced

How is this not a giant red flag that there is a massive fraud there?

The vagueness of end-user is also a little concerning, are they using it in sense a lot of corporate it folks do to mean employees, or are they implying their customers are their end users.

You must be in marketing

Nice summary of the comments from that post, unfortunately zero people there actually know what differences or mitigations are in place for the 8 & 9 that aren’t relevant for the 7 & 10.

Given Boeings absolutely atrocious safety record with the Max, I’m not similarly inclined to believe a bunch of speculation about regulators being dumb

#3 is an absurd statement, as a society we do not say that men deserve it. Are there individuals that do say that? If they do they are not good humans and as such their point of view doesn’t really matter.

There is a broader point that is being missed and that is, in the Anglo-sphere people don’t care much about mental health at all, we stigmatize mental health as a weakness (thanks puritans!), so yes men don’t seek access to mental healthcare as openly as women and that drives other outcomes like higher suicide rates, higher levels of stress related medical issues and in the extremes mass-shootings.

They are making you think about what you are doing before you click the link. that’s not theatre that’s keeping people from clicking arbitrary links to zip files which can auto-execute code once downloaded.

I’d suggest that those who think it is theatre probably don’t understand the implications of that action.

I miss using the word tarballs, I really like that word.

Yeah so that’s the best case scenario, but it’s an absurd estimate.

I can assure you the first years doing this were hard work and low pay.

What point are you trying to make, that he was just doing it for the money?

“Ideally” is quite a word, highly subjective.

But really you are missing a key piece of the puzzle, it matters less what is happening and more why. Sure a low code tool could churn out a textual description to say if the value of some variable is < some threshold branch to X else branch to Y, but thats generally easy to figure out, why is that threshold important, that’s a question that requires understanding the intention of the user of engineer who set it up, that’s not something you can just puke out of an auto-doc tool.

I would go so far as to say the inability to capture intention is one of the sharpest edges for low-code tools, it makes the solutions built on then extremely brittle and creates silos of knowledge.

Expanding on that further this is why most auto generated documentation is worth the effort put into it.

I don’t understand the mechanics of the weight coming back, like you use this, your appetite changes you eat less etc, doesn’t your body adjust to the lower caloric intake and all that.

How is it that once you stop taking everything reverts?

Ronald Reagan happened

Cable TV started growing as did Satellite TV

The baby boomers started coming of age

We started piling up mountains of debt government, commercial and consumer

As a society we started to party, it hasn’t stopped since, people are so stupid rich that they support several multi billion dollar corporations which do nothing but ferry food someone else makes to your grubby little paws. To add insult to injury they charge service fees, and markup menu items and on top of all that you have to tip the driver. you spend 2x the cost of the food to get it delivered half cold and soggy.

This is all normal and celebrated even, and then we wonder why everyone is overweight

I love your enthusiasm for how easy it is to change human behavior.

The cost of starting a competitive search engine is incredibly high, and unlikely to get real funding as a) the business model would likely have to be subscription based to align users interests long term with the companies interests, this alone is probably enough to make it a pass for most VCs, b) the incumbents in this space have an immoral amount of cash to spend on either acquiring, bankrupting or destroying any meaningful competition.

They have no reason to figure it out, they are a search monopoly and ads is their business.

They are stuck like Kodak, if we don’t break them up, we have a bleak future.

I’m not clear on what the point of your response is, the comment you responded to is making an often overlooked point that certain subtleties in how languages implement constructs can create sharp edges, one of those being the null coalescing operator.

The sad thing is this is going to be to the detriment of those trying to learn, we are going to wind up with a new glass ceeling, programmers that can code without these tools and programmers that are reliant on them.

The latter will have very short careers (dangerous prediction, I know)

I know quite literally nothing about this situation, but I will offer one comment, which may or may not even be relevant.

The security community are right to be skeptical of changes such as this, the NSA has shown time and time again to have influenced design and standardization processes for their own benefit, it’s always been under the premise of “oh this makes things more secure” and it does superficially, then a decade later someone figures out we got had, again.

So standards are great, security standards are important, but the freedom to be skeptical about why and who are driving changes and just going your own way until it’s clear, that’s paramount.

I assume you mean the decline in the use of the term AJAX as it was now just the standard and you don’t need to use that to describe your site or tool as being capable of being highly interactive and dynamic vs just static.

Before the invention of the xmlhttprequest there was so little you could do with JS most dynamic content was some version of shifty tricks with iframes or img tags or anything that could trigger the browser to make a server request to a url that you could generate dynamically.

Fetch was the formalization of the xmlhttprequest (hence the use of xhr as the name of the request type ). Jquery wrapped it really nicely and essentially popularized (they may have invented async js leveraging callbacks and the like), the creation of promises was basically the formalization and standardization of this.

So AJAX itself is in fact used almost in the entire totality of the web, the term has become irrelevant given the absolute domination of the technology.

This is a very uninformed take, the real world is not this easy.

Let’s just for a second assume they built a static only website (setting aside all your requirements to provide some way to read a book online which is ridiculously complex due to legal requirements to protect the content, data formats, and even simple things like pagination), most people in this thread thread would be commenting about how stupid it was that in this day and age one of the largest and most important libraries in the world only has a static site.

The fact of the matter is that everyone has expectations, providing this service is not rocket science but security is hard and you need constant vigilance to stay up to date and safe. This is why all you kids who are like oh yeah I can just build x don’t realize that for the majority of ‘x’ the build part is the easy and cheap part, the maintain is the hard and expensive part.

This is incorrect, any request made by a browser to a backend will by definition accept user input whether it wants to or not.

I can change the values of the presets I can add headers, remove headers change the value of cookies, add cookies, remove cookies etc etc.

I am in no way conservative, but I think you are missing the point.

There are sets of liberal and conservative beliefs that are held by the wealthy and powerful that are detrimental to the powerless and poor.

He cites the liberal set, maybe he is a conservative and that’s his bias or maybe because there is an inbuilt hypocrisy in some of them, ultimately it doesn’t matter because the point stands on its own and one shouldn’t discount that.