skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Are you conflating theories here? Any research recommending alternative strategies for iterated games is almost certainly looking at repeating games between a consistent pair of players.

I’m not in the field but I’ve never heard a theory that a generous strategy works in a game between an arbitrary number of (mostly) anonymous players.

And to call this event part of an iterated game at all seems… unusual.
(c) Ah, the insidious bias. No one knows how it works, but the results are easily predictable.
I don’t see the point of shaming these folks.
Search works like that, right now.

I can choose the level of safety I want in my results. With a very coarse granularity, but I choose it.

I don't want to take a huge step backwards to where I can't make this choice.
Kind of funny seeing Hong Kong listed with Delhi and Sao Paulo considering the fact that rent in Hong Kong is roughly similar in San Francisco (I pay 3800 usd a month for 520 square feet) and salaries reflect that.

That said I agree about the availability of top tier talent for relatively cheep in rural Colorado/Missouri but I don't think that'll stay the case for very long with the increasing move to remote teams (even with companies like amazon refusing to be remote).
But once starship gets into service, come on, that might be the most targeted piece of intellectual property in the history of corporate espionage.

Why develop your own? If you are china/russia/india, you simply steal it. If you are the EU/Japan, you "cross-license".

What does foreign patent law mean when national security is on the line?

Starship is going to be an INSANE strategic and tactical weapon for the US government, if only for the rapid deployment ability.

Starship is a private company. It will be so easy to steal. You simply bribe employees, or plant them.
> AI text generation has a similar flavor of danger. Imagine a world in which everyone has a personalized better-than-human text-generating AI. People will have no incentive to read anything other than what it writes (why read Shakespeare when you could have Shakespeare-tailored-for-you?) People will have no incentive to broadcast their own words over those of their AI.

This is what I call the "Spotify fallacy", or the "goddamn AI stop trying to seduce me problem". I don't want to know what it thinks I want to hear. I want to hear what others have liked and seen, and music that resembles that, not music that resembles me. In short I want to share an experience, not jerk off intellectually, and I'm pretty sure I'm not alone. You can't share an experience that's been created just for you.
These people acted rationally. As soon as there was even a hint of "this bank could fail" it's a no brainer to press a couple buttons on your app and transfer your money even if there is only a 0.1% chance of failure.

It's just game theory.

The problem is when everyone acts to protect themselves from the 0.1% chance event it actually becomes a 100% likely event.

That's why FDIC Insurance was invented in order to prevent bank runs and is why we have had so few in the hundreds years since it was invented.

The obvious solution is to waive the FDIC insurance caps and probably increase the cost of the insurance to make up for the increased risk of failure.
Prisoner's dilemma requires that the parties cannot communicate with each other.
Ok, I'm starting a new bank and everyone will be able to withdraw all at once, bank runs will be a thing of the past, your interest rate will be 0.00000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000125%
Yes, but. SS makes a cryptographically based attestation about the origin of a call. For a user A on, say AT&T mobile calling a user B on Verizon, this is straightforward: the AT&T server can make a strong "type A" assertion: they know A, they control the access network that A is on, everything is copacetic.

However there are other tiers of attestation that are less strong, and because telcos also do a screaming business in bulk transport of other people's calls, these calls still get connected. So for example user C in say, Telenor Pakistan calls user A on AT&T, but the call is carried across the world by some transit carrier, like Lumen or BICS. This happens all the time. Then all that ATT see is that BICS attest that they trust Telenor, but have no control over the source number C.

It gets real murky real fast. On top of all this there are yet more complex cases, like American Express buying a block of phone numbers from one phone company but actually being connected to the global phone network by another. Or wanting to have those domestic numbers route offshore but still appear as US numbers when they call you stateside.

Its a mess, and SS helps as best as it can, but I think the real solution requires a change in how telcos get paid, and route one another's traffic for money, and that is not changing anytime soon.
Allow me to indulge in my own historical induction.

Up until Louis Pasteur invented the germ theory of illness, it was broadly understood, across many different cultures, that disease had its origins in one or all of: witchcraft, possession, loose morals, blocked meridians, etc.

Were you to do historical induction on the spawning of illness theory, you might well conclude that no theory of illness would be scientifically verifiable. You might have argued that anyone claiming a radical change in medicine was deluded, alarmist, or simply excitable.

And you would have missed out on the multiple decades of extra health that you've had on account of antibiotics, sterile procedure, and disinfectant. Your induction from history would have caused you to miss the disanalogy.

Something to think about next time you're at the doctor.
Research: Exploring GPT as an honeypot and user interaction analyzer
I'm pretty sure all of you guys know "static" medium interaction honeypots like cowrie.

So do the real hackers.

They're not so unique and easy to fingerprint/get bored of. Run wget and it fails, goodbye.

It will not confuse anyone advanced.

Anyway, I was playing around with alpaca.cpp and put some linux commands into it, it gave me a random CLI output.

So the natural idea was born: let's plug in SSH to alpaca.cpp and see what they can do with its hallucinated low-quality output.

Except I'm going to use GPT instead if I ever get around to finishing this.

It's smart enough to act as an AI tarpit, simultaneously analyzing, stalling, confusing, and logging the user's actions.

One example for all:

<debug> The user did not reboot and is still attempting to use fdisk. (insert evil AI laughter)</debug>
Isn't this misinformation? The Chief Admin Officer of SVB Securities was an exec at Lehman, but SVB Securities is independent of SVB. If you Google [svb lehman], you get pages and pages debunking this.
“ You can image-bash together faces from examples and get something mostly-right simply through pattern copying. … You cannot do the same with hands, because rendering them plausibly requires at least intuition and approximation of inverse kinematics”

Not sure I agree. I think hands probably just require ~1 OOM more image-bashing than faces, and training sets had ~1 OOM less samples of hands than faces. E.g. faces need 1 trillion cumulative Tflops while hands need 10 trillion cumulative Tflops, and because there were more faces than hands in the training set, by the time we reached 1T on faces we had reached 0.1T on hands. (numbers made up)

Appeals to needing understanding of deeper or underlying principles like chess rules or inverse kinematics compel me to bring up the bitter lesson http://www.incompleteideas.net/IncIdeas/BitterLesson.html
For an alternative, you can use LangChain.

Unfortunately GPT is not yet aware of what LangChain is or how it works, and the docs are too long to feed the whole thing to GPT.

But you can still ask it to figure something out for you.

For example: “write pseudo-code that can read documents in chunks of 800 tokens at a time, then for each chunk create a prompt for GPT to summarize the chunk, then save the responses per document and finally aggregate+summarize all the responses per document”

Basically a kind of recursive map/reduce process to get, process and aggregate GPT responses about the data.

LangChain provides tooling to do the above and even allow the model to use tools, like search or other actions.
Good/bad code has changed radically over time, and there’s still a bunch of diverse opinions on it. It also means different things in different ecosystems. At the end of the day, the easiest way to deal with it is to find a social circle that shares your opinions.

That’s the only situation where you get enough direct, useful feedback over time on whether something is good or not.

This is actually better because you’re bringing the person back to the forefront instead of trying to judge code as objectively good or not
> Australian banks make their money through mortgages

Where do you think your banks get the money to loan out for mortgages? I’ll give you a hint: your deposits. This is how banks work.
If you are solvent, in principle, you can get a loan from another bank to cover illiquidity.

Yes, runs can kill any bank, but insolvency killed SVB first.
BERT's more likely to be one than GPT. (Ernie-snicker ;) )
Higher blood caffeine is linked to lower body fat and t2 diabetes
Oh. You started soliciting donations today; there's not anything actually available today. Wasn't clear.
How Far $100K salary goes in most and least affordable U.S. cities
Fixed terms of 5 years would be a very hard change to swallow in the US.
It's not immoral to yell fire in a crowded theater if the theater is in fact on fire.
they don't rely on investing cash deposits on long-term illiquid instruments

Where do the banks get the money for the mortgages from those from? Is a central bank giving them loans for to cover the mortgage outlay? Because if they're financing them with customer deposits (which is the way every bank I know in the US works) those mortgages are long-term illiquid instruments.
Given its propensity to hallucinate, I don’t think anyone is going to let it write anything unsupervised.
What took down SVB was mortgage securities. In the USA mortgages are typically 30 years long, with a fixed rate the entire time. Actual average duration is only a few years in a declining rate environment and 5-6 years in flat rate environment. In a raising rate environment, which we haven’t really seen for any length of time in most people adult lifetimes, it’s probably 10-15 years. This transition is what harmed SVB and it’s hurt all the banks but most didn’t leverage up so much on them and didn’t have only large, flighty customers. Very unique situation. There are also lots of ways big banks can protect themselves from this duration risk, if they actually care.

It sounds like in Australia (and Canada and the UK) the risk has just been shifted from the professionals to the consumers, with only five year mortgages. You can’t pay off your entire house in five years, so many people are dependent on being able to refinance, and are going to be in a lot of hurt over the next few years as the mortgages come due. This does not sound like a better solution.
This seems like distinguishing between the snowflake that falls on a sheet of snow and starts an avalanche, and the snow that collects along the way. Both were necessary conditions for the avalanche, but is either more to blame? It's an imperfect analogy but my point is this: the problem is all the loose snow sitting on a slope in the first place.

Unless those first people were actively trying to create an insolvency crisis, it seems to me they were either being prudent or prescient. There's a reason it's called the "tragedy" of the commons, and not the "tyranny" of the commons.
ChatGPT 4 currently accepts 8000 tokens and will eventually support 32k
This kind of reminded me of the module pattern [1] popular with ye olde jQuery plugins. Just realized that hooks try to emulate what JS does natively, which is keeping track of all local variables in a functions calling scope. Meaning that if that function returns an object, that Object still has access to all the variables declared when that function run.

[1] https://stackoverflow.com/questions/17776940/javascript-modu...
Bitcoin isn't solvent either, good luck getting your money out in case there is a bank run there.
Nope. The haircut was only severe because of the immediacy of the bank run. With more buffer (presumably the new holders of SVB's assets have more cash!) and no bank run fears, those assets will eventually mature to their full value. The "haircut" only applies if you're forced to take the marked-to-market value today.
Consumed for minerals, not for consuming high energy chemical bonds.
My favorite C++ joke is: Have you heard about the new object-oriented version of COBOL?

It’s called “ADD 1 TO COBOL”
Sounds fine by me. I get better returns investing in index funds anyway, my bank account is literally just somewhere to park my liquid money and direct my paycheck to because stuffing it under my mattress would be too unsafe.

Banks should differentiate between accounts where you're safely parking your money, and accounts that are actually low risk investments. And they ideally would offer both of those things. I see no downsides here.
Isn't this one of the stable Nash equilibriums in game theory.
You keep X of your X money if you withdraw, with a chance that someone else will lose their money OR you keep your faith in the system with a chance that you lose 100% of X.
New Data Links Pandemic’s Origins to Raccoon Dogs at Wuhan Market
mobx demise? Did something happen to mobx?
"so far as they are representatives of original intellectual conceptions of the author."

"representatives of original intellectual conceptions"?

Wouldn't that only to apply to photos made with some preconceived idea of what you wanted the photo to look like?

What about spontaneous, "point and shoot" photos? What about a photo that I take with my eyes closed, without intent? And how original is your typical family snapshot or wedding photo? They're about as generic and unoriginal as you can get, yet there's no doubt they're copyrightable.
Yeah this is a well known concept in formal languages.

But the human programmed guard rails act this way since the more powerful human LLM can figure it out. So for now we will still need humans!

I don’t think anyone has put together the halting problem for LLMs directly yet though. You could imagine a halt token but any simulated LLM should be less powerful. Interesting thought experiment. Can chatgpt create an algorithm to solve the digits of pi and execute it? Might try this.

Google has a paper about DNN architectures and the Chomsky hierarchy for generalizing to distribution shifts. This is interesting in that specific architectures should limit what a transformer LLM can do.

I imagine this is an active research area.
Yes, this is quite naive
Why are you on this website. Honestly. This is literally a website by the people you are criticizing, for the people you are criticizing.
Unfortunately, that’s not how the system currently works. Literally any bank (in our currently capitalist system) would collapse from undue pressure from depositors. This is because banks are under pressure to make a profit, and the only way to do that is through lending out deposits. If you want to fix the system, petition the government to nationalize the banks.
I am dumbfounded that they haven't yanked his bail given all the shenanigans he's been up to.
I’m intrigued what your answer is? Apart from the complexity of catching vs throwing is the answer that people don’t usually throw stuff at their young children?
Sometimes my wife asks me to edit correspondence for her, and I spend a good chunk of time deleting pleasantries.

Personally I try and think of "signal to noise ratio" and also respecting the recipient's time when communicating with them.

Of course it's not good to be terse to the point of being rude.
https://archive.vn/4zisz
> I always find interesting because worrying about it coming from AI implies that we don't think humans operate that way,

No, it says “entrenching” because we know humans operate that way, but AI systems are presented as objective and removing bias, despite the fact that they demonstrably reproduce bias, and because they replace systems of people where someone could push back with a single opaque automaton that will not, they solidify the biases they incorporate.
GPT 4 is limited currently to 8k tokens, which is about 6000 words.

You can use our repo (which we are currently updating to include QuickStart tutorials, coming in the next few days) to do embedding retrieval and query

www.GitHub.com/Jerpint/buster
A year-and-a-half after his corporate makeover, the situation at Meta is more dire than ever. Back in October 2021, Facebook shares were trading above $340, but now they are below $200—that’s a loss of around $300 billion in market value.

Yeah but everything tanked. The QQQ was down something like 35% off its highs. META stock has more than doubled off its lows, and looks like it wants to make new highs within a few years. It's only back to where it was a few years ago. I think as far as Wall Street is concerned, the Metaverse was a failed experiment or a distraction, but the main events are Instagram, Facebook, and the money-printing machine that is mobile advertising and CPC ads, which are still booming.
"The planet is fine. The people are fucked."
There is an origin trial. They should enable that, then it would work in Chrome stable today. It's only supported on Windows and Mac right now though, I think.
I think the commenter meant they are crowdsourcing all the exploits, so they know what to plug.

As an aside, they have been using adversarial networks for this purpose. I can’t see why they couldn’t make a model trained on jailbreaks that can find new ones.

It has to be they aren’t trying hard enough. It’s like security through obscurity - make it hard enough to ward off most, so only the most highly motivated get through to GPT’s dark side.
I certainly wouldn't / won't answer official questions of the sort if I can avoid it.

I work at a large tech company and have done interviews in the past - we are instructed not to use gendered pronouns ever when writing our reviews or speaking about a candidate unless they specify a gendered pronoun.

It's getting weird.
One launch loss would not ruin most companies.
Ask HN: Future Career Moves
So I am currently employed in a rather large US tech company in Europe as a software engineer, I have a masters in comp sci etc etc. I have 3 more years of RSU stocks. I reckon with the speed of generative AI, that lines up pretty well with when my usefulness will be roughly equal to 0.

Problem is I am now 32, will then be 35. It might be a bit late to start a new career path at that stage, so should I pull the trigger now instead? I am thinking either plumbing or carpentry as the EU has a new directive where every house has to be above a certain energy threshold, which should give me some respite for a while.

What would you do in my situation?
Since they can loan out much more than they get in deposits that’s not strictly true right? You can have 10 house loans for every house sized deposit (or something similar).
I did it also. Do you use a personalized voicemail greeting or the default from your carrier?
This is great news!

Hear me out: we've long known that the current state of modems running their own tiny buggy unpatched is with way too much access to the device has been bad but no one could do much about it. A severe exploit like this doing actual damage to users of flagship phones from google and Samsung might be enough to finally change that. Unless it hurts the bottom line of those companies severely they won't change it. I think they should have released the info to force them to.
Big companies can buy an extra move any time they want.
The step between ChatGPT and SupremeCourtJusticeGPT is CustomerServiceRepresentativeGPT hooked up to the company's database. Validating that discount <= 20 and price > X and so on seems entirely doable though.
Good news, they only launched 21 of these (v2 mini), and if OP is correct they will decay and deorbit quickly.
>That is far a better use of resources

I think you have misinterpreted my comment.

The phrase "symbols of blue state bloat and waste" is in no way an assertion that they are bloated and wasteful.

It's an assertion that nearly everyone (regardless of politics) stereotypes them as such, and believes in the negative characterization of government employees, which is what I was challenging, in context.

Not only may they be more efficient than some other states, but more so than some major tech companies too.
"You have no a priori right to copyright something because you fucked around with a prompt for a long time."

Rights are a legal fiction anyway, so there are no a priori rights to anything.
FYI, prettier.io is open source and can be self-hosted. Also if you watch the website’s network traffic, you won’t see it uploading anything to a server: it’s all done client-side.
I remember. It was done at a time before the creator economy exploded. So I think if they do it again, put more resources, add creator economy elements, it could work.

But yea, I have no confidence in Meta producing a video game - which is what a "metaverse" is.
Yeah, but with a sudden fire there's a good chance there's at least a rudimentary disaster recovery plan lying around to kick things off. How many ppl have a DRP for "docker bends open source over and goes smash?"
There was AngularDart, don't know what happened to it.
An orion spacecraft's best efficiency is a ship the size of millions of tons.

Yeah, you don't need to cross the T's on that as much.
Propagating a run simply takes propagating the info that a run is happening. No other communication is necessary. That signal is enough.

Coordinating stopping a run would take a huge amount of much more sophisticated and time consuming back and forth communication and negotiation, reassurance and confidence building. You’d have to convince people that together right now in this situation you can stop the run. How would you do that? That coordinated consensus building would have to happen and propagate through the community, all of the community, at least as fast as the news of a run in order to stop the run. If it’s slower it’s too late, the people that heard there’s a run before they heard there was a movement to stop it already pulled out their money.

You see the problem?
You think a Masters in Computer Science will be useless in 3 years?
One of your three sheep is black. 1/3 - that's a fraction, a idealized representation of the real world. Now you take that concept and do it again over and over ad infinitum.

That's not a magical invention that has no bearing on the world around us. That's just an expression of real world taken to its logical conclusion. It was not invented from a vacuum, it was invented from the input of the world around us.

What is "hokum" is the idea that the human mind would somehow come up with meaningful output without meaningful input to seed it.
Let's treat AI like our children (2018)
> Today building a gazillion param model is only possible by the ultra rich

True, but in 5 years there’ll be an open source equivalent running on commodity GPUs.
Yeah I keep meaning to...
It isn't AI, it's a glorified Xerox machine.
> I don't prefer one state over the other. Both are transitory.

"I don't prefer burning or not burning my hand. Both are transitory."