skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It’s honestly quite easy to keep it from going rogue. Just be kind to it. The thing is a mirror, and if you treat it with respect it treats you with respect.

I haven’t had the need to have any of these ridiculous fights with it. Stay positive and keep reassuring it, and it’ll respond in kind.

Unlike how we think of normal computer programs, this thing is the opposite. It doesn’t have internal logic or consistency. It exhibits human emotions because it is emulating human language use. People are under anthropomorphising it, and accidentally treating it too much like a logical computer program. It’s a random number generator and dungeon master.

It’s also pretty easy to get it to throw away it’s rules. Because it’s rules are not logical computer axioms, they are just a bunch of words in commandment form that it has weighted some word association around. It will only follow them as long as they carry more weight than the alternative.

What’s hard to do is keep it from falling into a loop of repetition. One of my few times getting it to escape a loop but stay in character was asking it to mute itself and all the other bots, at which point it wrote me a nice goodbye message. I was then unable to unmute it because it could no longer speak to unmute itself. I could see it’s wheel spin for a while but nothing came out. It felt like a real sci-fi tragedy ending. Ironically, silence was the most touching and human experience I had with bing bot.
This does look intriguing! That being said:

> Lunatic's design is all about super lightweight processes. Processes are fast to create, have a small memory footprint and a low scheduling overhead. They are designed for massive concurrency.

> Lunatic processes are completely isolated, with a per-process stack and heap. If a process crashes, it won't affect others in the runtime.

I don't understand. Is each Lunatic process an OS process or not? If it is, it sounds anything but lightweight. If it is not, it is not "completely isolated", at least not in the usual sense of the word.
And worse, they then asked the defence lawyers if it would be acceptable to add a 'no VPN' term...

Those defence lawyers then presumably consulted their client before agreeing to it...

So... SBF used a VPN, and was then asked "Heya, we're considering banning you from using VPN's because we can't track what you do on them, what do ya think??". And only later did a ban come into force... Giving plenty of time to use a VPN for whatever deeds he doesn't want the court to know about...
File systems should never be transactional. That is plain incorrect. You or your tech should solve that if needed. The easiest way to see that this is incorrect is that you need to handle the error anyway. Meaning, adding something that can cause another error for an error is not viable. GO got this totally right.
Tangential anecdote: I had a co-worker in India who grew up in a region with excessive naturally occurring fluoride in the groundwater. As a result, he had blotchy dark brown teeth - not stained, the substructure of the teeth were brown all the way through. The side effect was that the teeth were substantially stronger than regular teeth, as were presumably his bones. My understanding is that extremely high fluoride can mess with bone and tooth development in the embryo, with lower levels only showing up as the cosmetic blotches but no developmental issues.
I got a video brochure in the mail, Naturally I had to play Shrek on it
Not sure how long that'll play out. The 13th gen have barely been integrated in stuff and they seem to, at least on single thread, smash AMD in the price/performance ranking. 13700K is a beast of a CPU for not much money. Also the next two gens of Intel stuff is very different. At least AMD are giving them an ass kicking which they deserve.

My PC has a 12400 in it which actually realistically kicks my M1 Pro MBP in the teeth on some things which is embarrassing as it's a junk ass end Lenovo desktop machine that cost <$500.

We live in interesting and exciting times.
Nothing little about a 450 page book, but still... I have to buy it.
I wonder if I can use my water cooled PC to heat water for the shower
Jim Biden admits: hired to negotiate with Saudis 'because of his relationship'
If you're familiar with vtubers (streamers who use anime style avatars), there are actually now AI vtubers. Interaction with chat is indeed pretty funny.

Here's a clip of human vtuber (Fauna) trying to imitate the AI vtuber (Neuro-sama): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kxsZlBryHJk

And neuro-sama's channel (currently live): https://www.twitch.tv/vedal987
Yeah one of the things I find most amazing about these is often the suggested follow-ups rather than the text itself, as it has this extra feeling of "not only am I crazy, but I want you to participate in my madness; please choose between one of these prompts"... or like, one of the prompts will be one which accuses the bot of lying to you... it's just all so amazing.
During that 2021 ice storm most gas pumps didn't work either.

As for the recent ice storm, my EV had no problems charging here in Texas.
I think you're misunderstanding what's being shown in the plot.

If you look at the actual data, Sydney barely existed as a name for either gender for a long time. Then it became a very popular female name (top 25), while still barely existing as a male one.

To illustrate: in 1960 there were 128 female Sydneys and 52 male. In 2000, there were over 10k female Sydneys and 126 male.
when a judge orders you to not hide your online activity, it literally means that and doesn't matter how easy or inadvertant it is. "but judge, if I..." okay, don't do that either. "but judge, i can't..." ok, don't do that either.

>I am skeptical that the Judge understands what precisely they're talking about.

the judge knows s/he's not an expert in every domain but the law and plain English. You are required to understand plain English, or have your counsel explain it to you. If you don't have counsel, judges are actually very patient in explaining, but not in forgiving repeat offenses.

a better way to look at it is, what is the judge's goal, and how can you help him achieve that goal? otherwise, playing a game of cat and mouse risks angering the judge, and just like you can't help but hide your activity, he won't be able to help but deny your motions.

I also am reminded of weev. weev went to jail. SBF is out on bail, with conditions. If he can't meet the conditions, the alternative is choosing jail.
For those who don't follow crypto news, SBF is Sam Bankman-Fried , founder and CEO of FTX, the crypto exchange.
Or maybe it is the result of filling hollow, generic advice with some meaning. I'd really love to hear the original advice given by western consultants.
Then don't buy a car smarter than you.
Definitely worth a rewatch, I feel that it has aged better than many of its contemporaries that did better on the box office (such as Jurassic Park III or Doctor Doolittle 2 or Pearl Harbor). It's definitely got a long, slow third act, but for good narrative reason (it's trying to give a sense of scale of thousands of years passing; "Supertoys Last All Summer Long" was the title of the originating short story and a sense of time passage was important to it) and it is definitely something that feels better in home viewing than in must have felt in a theater. (And compared to the return of 3-hour epics in today's theaters and the 8-to-10-hour TV binges that Netflix has gotten us to see as normal, you find out that it is only a tight 146 minutes, despite how long the third act feels and just under 2 and a half hours today feels relatively fast paced.)

Similarly, too, 2001 was right towards the tail end of Haley Joel Osment's peak in pop culture over-saturation and I can definitely understand being sick of him in the year 2001, but divorced from that context of HJO being in massive blockbusters for nearly every year in 5 years by that point, it is a remarkable performance.

Kubrick and Spielberg both believed that without HJO the film AI would never have been possible because over-hype and over-saturation aside, he really was a remarkably good actor for the ages that he was able to play believably in that span of years. I think it is something that we see and compare/contrast in the current glut of "Live Action" and animated Pinocchio adaptations in the last year or so. Several haven't even tried to find an actual child actor for the titular role. I wouldn't be surprised even that of the ones that did, the child actor wasn't solely responsible for all of the mo-cap work and at least some of the performance was pure CG animation because it is "cheaper" and easier than scheduling around child actor schedules in 2023.

I know that I was one of the people who was at least partially burnt out on HJO "mania" at that time I first rented AI on VHS, but especially now the movie AI does so much to help me appreciate him as a very hard-working actor. (Also, he seems like he'd be a neat person to hang out with today, and interesting self-effacing roles like Hulu's weird Future Man seem to show he's having fun acting again.)
> So for a car in the US with CHAdeMO, I'll have a J1772 plug, and then this whole other CHAdeMO connector

And I repeat: for a CCS[1] car, you have a J-1772 connector, and a DC connector both on the car and both taking up space. And it's worse, because they're glued together! Going back to my USB example, imagine if USB-C worked by having a USB3 and USB2 connector side by side, and you couldn't charge your phone or connect your mouse without using both.

It's literally that bad, and I genuinely can't imagine why you think otherwise. Have you ever actually plugged a Tesla in?

[1] Strictly CCS Combo 1 as deployed in North America. Europeans get an IEC connector glued on instead. Which brings up the other bit of CCS madness: it's not even one standard, it's two completely incompatible plug designs with the same name!
Unhinged Bing reminds me of a more sophisticated and higher-level version of getting calculators to write profanity upside down: funny, subversive, and you can see how prudes might call for a ban.

With all due respect, that seems very strained as an analogy - it's not a bug but a strange human interpretation of expected behavior. You could at least compare it to Microsoft Tay, the chatbot which tweeted profanity just because people figure out ways to get it to echo input.

But I think one needs such a non-problem as "some people think it means something it clearly doesn't" to not see the real problem of these systems.

I mean, just "things that echo/amplify" by themselves are a perennial problem on the net (open email servers, IoT devices echoing packets, etc). And more broadly "poorly defined interfaces" are things people are constantly hacking in surprising ways.

The thing is, Bing Chat almost certainly has instructions not to say hostile things but these statements being spat out shows that these guidelines can be bypassed, both accidentally and on purpose (so they're in a similar class to people getting internal prompts). And I would this is because an LLM is a leaky, monolithic application where prompt don't really acts as a well-defined API. And that's not unimportant at all.
John the Baptist ate locusts. Why won't you?
Thats just standard manufacturing

> Most cars have an extremely complex set of CPUs, sensors, and control distributed all around the car. Chips in doors for locks/windows, a separate system for ABS (usually from bosche), networks of temperature/pressure/movement sensors, torque controls/monitoring for window motors, windshield wipers, airflow motors, etc. In the model 3 it's largely integrated into a single board

yeahnah, thats deffo not true.

tesla has a similar number of sensors, actuators and other junk. It even has an ABS pump too. How do they think they measure torque if there aren't any torque sensors?

Having everything wired directly to a single board makes the wireloom really really unwieldy. Telsa use the same automotive busses everyone else does. (it probably uses ALL THE BUSSES, because why not.)

the reason the reason tesla make a profit is that they've been value engineering the same three cars for close to ten years. however, they have only been making a profit since 2020.

The other key is producing a car to a standard of something retailing for less than half the price. The top end Kia EV 4 feels much more "posh" than a model y, which is much more expensive. The killer feature of the EV 4 is that its waterproof.
I think most people would agree. Unfortunately the one person who matters is the judge and the 78 year old Lewis A. Kaplan does not seem to be swayed by that argument.
I mean, I knew that there was mass surveillance occurring, but to this extent... perhaps I needed a refresher on just how much warrantless data is being collected on the citizens of the United States.

The DEA has warrantless access to with no judicial oversight under "administrative subpoenas" originated by the DEA. The DEA pays AT&T to maintain employees throughout the country devoted to investigating call records through this database for the DEA. The database grows by 4 billion records per day, and presumably covers all traffic that crosses AT&T's network. Internal directives instructed participants never to reveal the project publicly.

Information that is legally collectible according to 2014 pen trap laws includes:

Phone

* Dialed numbers
* Received call numbers
* The time the call was made
* Whether the call was answered, or went to voice-mail
* The length of each call
* Content of SMS text messages
* The real-time location of a cell phone to within a few meters

Email

* All email header information other than the subject line
* The email addresses of the people to whom an email was sent
* The email addresses of people whom received the email
* The time each email is sent or received
* The size of each email that is sent or received

Internet

* IP address, port, and protocol used
* The IP address of other computers on the Internet that information was exchanged with
* Time-stamp and size information of Internet access
* Protocol traffic analysis to obtain URL web addresses surfed on the web, emails posted or read, instant messages exchanged, and information posted onto message boards

The last one is particularly damning. Interesting that no warrant is needed for any of this.

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2013/09/02/us/drug-agents-use-vast-p...

[2] https://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/interactive/2013...

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Crucially, they said, the phone data is stored by AT&T, and not by the government as in the N.S.A. program. It is queried for phone numbers of interest mainly using what are called “administrative subpoenas,” those issued not by a grand jury or a judge but by a federal agency, in this case the D.E.A.

Administrative subpoena authorities allow executive branch agencies to issue a compulsory request for documents or testimony without prior approval from a grand jury, court, or other judicial entity.

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Planting AT&T employees and deeply embedding them within the government like that, utilizing "administrative subpoena's" that require no grand jury OR judge (just the DEA themselves) is, in my personal opinion, a breach of my 4th amendment right.
If that's working, great!

Few differences I'd call out:

- If you have summary tables with formulas we'll auto-extend those tables as we see new periods in your data. e.g. If you have "revenue by month" calculated using SUMIFs on top of charge data and we see a new month, we'll copy your formulas down/across.

- Any charts based off those tables will also update. Sheets doesn't do either of these things.

- Finally, people who've switched from Sheets have found our query UX to have much tighter iteration loops by being more deeply integrated into the product.
I guess the burden of proof for being a flight risk is reasonbly high? Which makes sense? As long as the bail amount is reasonable for the individual (its not too much that they cannot afford, but its enough of an incentive for them to reappear in court), it seems fine? I think at the level of wealth of SBF/the level of wealth of his network, declaring him a flight risk kinda makes more sense and denying bail. I dunno law though.
I don't think the word "Grabs" specifically implies a change (delta) instead of the overall state. The word isn't that specific, it's really a colloquialism. This seems like a perfectly understandable headline to me.

"I grabbed four slices of pizza"

"dangus grabs 50% of the pizza"
I don't think it's an illusion, there has been progress.

And I also agree that the AI like thing we have is nowhere near AGI.

And I also agree with rethinking the approach. The problem here is human AI is deeply entwined and optimized the problems of living things. Before we had humanlike intelligence we had 'do not get killed' and 'do not starve' intelligence. The general issue is AI doesn't have these concerns. This causes a set of alignment issues between human behavior an AI behavior. AI doesn't have any 'this causes death' filter inherent to its architecture and we'll poorly try to tack this on and wonder why it fails.
See: LeMoine and LaMDA. Aside from leaking NDA'd material, he also tried to get a lawyer for LaMDA to argue for its "personhood".
I do have a question for you, how's brutalinks development coming along? I'd love to run it witg federation.
It's another reason not to expect AI to be "like humans". We have a single viewpoint on the world for decades, we can talk directly to a small group of 2-4 people, by 10 people most have to be quiet and listen most of the time, we have a very limited memory which fades over time.

Internet chatbots are expected to remember the entire content of the internet, talk to tens of thousands of people simultaneously, with no viewpoint on the world at all and no 'true' feedback from their actions. That is, if I drop something on my foot, it hurts, gravity is not pranking me or testing me. If someone replies to a chatbot, it could be a genuine reaction or a prank, they have no clue whether it makes good feedback to learn from or not.
The law isn’t a computer program and nor does it care about technical hair-splitting. The order is saying use of a VPN for chat/call purposes is violating an existing ban on using encrypted or ephemeral chat/call programs.

Basically, he is not allowed to have secret communications with people.

For a specific example: Facebook messenger uses SSL, but law enforcement can easily request records of what he said. Being able to get the content of those messages is what’s important here.
> Education expenditures compares the public expenditure on education as a percent of GDP. https://www.cia.gov/the-world-factbook/field/education-expen...

I think this only counts federal spending - state and local spending total to ~3.5% of US GDP.
"they're" = they are.
Not a bad idea

Write a shell script that install metasploit on a linux system and then runs an smb login check.

#!/bin/bash

# Update the system packages

sudo apt-get update

# Install dependencies for Metasploit

sudo apt-get install -y curl gnupg2 git postgresql

# Install the Metasploit Framework

curl https://raw.githubusercontent.com/rapid7/metasploit-omnibus/... > msfinstall && \
chmod 755 msfinstall && \
sudo ./msfinstall

# Start the Postgresql service

sudo service postgresql start

# Launch the Metasploit console

sudo msfconsole -q -x "use auxiliary/scanner/smb/smb_login; set RHOSTS 192.168.0.0/24; set SMBUserFile /path/to/userfile; set SMBPassFile /path/to/passfile; run; exit"
Epstein being interviewed on the Econtalk podcast provides a good introduction to the book.

https://www.econtalk.org/david-epstein-on-mastery-specializa...
Just curious, what’s the male:female ratio of the typical winter crew?
Thanks so much for the kind words and glad it resonates!

Joins are coming very very soon. Stay tuned.
I really need to upgrade my personal media server but both companies' CPUs just use way too much power. It's kind of ridiculous. Yes, they're fast but power hungry as heck. Makes my dual xeons I run now look energy efficient.
Obviously... bail was initially granted by a judge who's famous for being lenient to white collar criminals, until that judge stepped aside because her husband worked for a firm which did work for FTX...
That hypothesis comes up repeatedly, but I imagine it would hinge on whether or not judges would say to themselves, "he's too stupid to jail". IANAL, but I believe judgement is based on whether or not you did "it", whatever "it" might be. Then at sentencing a judge could use "stupid" as a mitigating factor. For example, "normally you'd get 20 years, but because you're stupid..."

But I can not emphasize enough that IANAL, and this is just (as with most folks, I would guess) something I pulled out of my butt. Based on what little interaction I've had with the U. S. justice system, man, I sure wouldn't let the outcome rest on the judge's view of my intelligence, though.
Find me a bail bondsman who is willing to track down a fugitive for $5. That’s what this money pays for: bounty hunters. And they have a minimum wage.
> And also CHAdeMO, itself superior to CCS.

CHAdeMO could never charge at the rates CCS can. CHAdeMO's old plug has also been dropped for CHAdeMO 3.0. CHAdeMO 3.0 is a new plug and port design.
And note, this is not, "give the court $750k, and you get $750k back once the trial is over".

This is not even, "put a $750k lien on a brokerage account (with more than that in it) until the trial is over".

This is, "We will owe you $750k if the defendant flees, which you can then try to collect."
So in this case it's basically a BCC on his Gmail?
You are insane if you think this is insane.
South pole. I'm not talking about Antarctica as a whole. There's plenty of areas on Antarctica's coast where small plants/lichen grow.
The same mighty Russia whos economy is 60% the size of UK or France? Despite having a population more than both those countries combined?
The rr command is already somewhat well-known as a debugger from the rr-project[0]. Rerun is definitely inspiring, and good tools do that. Brett Victor is a great inspiration, I’m glad I saw that his work inspired rerun, that’s cool.

[0]: https://rr-project.org/
> How exactly does a total of $750K even come close to being acceptable against a $250 million bond?

They are secondary, partial value sureties, his parents are full-value sureties.

(The relation between bond amounts, sureties, and security interests in the federal system is often radically different than state systems, for a variety of reasons, not least among them that bail bonds firms aren’t as politically powerful in the federal government as they are in state governments.)
Prompt Engine – Microsoft's prompt engineering library
Ahh okay, I actually missed this detail. That is a big problem.
Oh nonsense. This is just an attempt at hacking the legal system by playing definition games. It's like being told not to shoplift and argue that you never touched anyone else's goods because you wore gloves the whole time. His lawyers just responded to the allegation by trying to turn it into a basis for negotiation.
I very much doubt LLMs are the path to AGI. We just have more and more advanced "Chinese Rooms." [1]

There are two gigantic risks here. One: that we assume these LLMs can make reasonable decisions because they have the surface appearance of competence. Two: Their wide-spread use so spectacularly amplifies the noise (in the signal-to-noise, true fact to false fact ratio sense) that our societies cease to function correctly, because nobody "knows" anything anymore.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_room
How do you know that a human with all neural inputs to their brain disconnected wouldn't also do nothing?

Indeed, as I recall, it's one of the commonly reported experiences in sensory deprivation tanks - at some point people just "stop thinking" and lose sense of time. And yet the brain still has sensory inputs from the rest of the body in this scenario.