skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
From the project zero posting [1] it would seem like most of these would be relatively low scoring CVEs and hence maybe less of a reason to prioritize a fix.

[1] https://bugs.chromium.org/p/project-zero/issues/detail?id=24...
> Just because a parent THINKS "being gay" is sexually suggestive doesn't mean that it IS.

But categorically, actually being gay is. By any dictionary, the word “gay”classifies a very specific sexual preference. Sexual preferences are fundamentally sexual in nature, and parents absolutely have the prerogative to gatekeep the kinds of content their children are exposed to, especially sexual content. I realize you might have your objections to this but it doesn’t make it any less true. The law is clear on this fact.
That jibes with my personal experience. All of my trans friends are very pleased with their transition.

I'm not sure it's possible for me, as a straight cis man, to truly understand their experience. I can't imagine what it would be like to believe that I were anything other than what my body indicates. I could more easily understand abolishing gender.

But it's overwhelmingly clear that my trans friends understand themselves as the gender they live. They're obviously more comfortable and happier that way.

I'm sure it doesn't work for everybody. Just being trans sets you up for a lot of societal rejection, especially if you don't easily "pass". And transitioning won't fix all of your problems; I imagine some people expect too much of their transition and are unhappy that it doesn't fix everything.

But for the people I know -- quite a few, at this point -- it has always made their lives better.
Maybe, but he didn’t so what’s your point?
Yup, working for a big telco where they were a leading software services provider there was this insider joke that when their software inevitably crashes and burns and the client complains, they'll just have their lawyers respond with: but there was no requirement the software should work. And they'd happily accept insanely expensive change requests to fix their own bugs.

Accenture is a scam
Ok, I'll grant you and dragonwriter that.

I was interpreting "property right" at a different level of abstraction than you. I was thinking it was referring to the thing that is copyrighted as being the "property", not the copyright itself.

Changing my frame of reference up a level of abstraction puts us in agreement, I think.
There is a lot of domain specific knowledge for sure. There is a huge difference between, "I made a flappy bird clone/shitty side scroller in Unity" vs someone who actually knows how to make a triple-A level game. The former requires, can you spend 4 hours watching youtube videos on a saturday night and literally just mimicking the video. And there are people who become the latter developer starting as the former. But there is a lot that has to happen in between.
Why did the radio guys use the same name as this hotel from Minnesota that existed for years before? https://www.lorahotel.com/

I bet some of them have even been to Minnesota and they still didn't pick a unique name.

Though both of them have to answer to why they picked the name of a Google Font that preceded both and is currently available https://web.archive.org/web/20170210001724/https://fonts.goo...

Is it because Microsoft is competing with Google in the AI space?
Netflix probably bidding for the screenplay as we speak. Billions, death and gay couple, with a side of culture war, Trump, hulk hogan's nude pics, racism and gawker. At least six episodes of a docuseries right there.
I'm going to try and explain how I understand Peter Thiel's worldview here, which I've learned from listening to him talk and reading what he writes. You can downvote this all you want, but I believe it's an accurate interpretation. I'll try to keep my own opinions out of it.

To understand Thiel's position, you have to broaden your idea of harm past immediate harm to a single group of people.

While I'm sure Thiel has personal economic concerns, his stated primary moral concern is preventing wealth redistribution, socialism, and the mass-scale violence that those programs have caused in the past. You can choose to believe him as to whether this is his true motivation or not, but you asked for an explanation of this worldview and that's what he's stuck with over 10+ years now.

While you might be more worried about Nazis, Thiel is more worried about things like 1905 and 1917 Russian revolutions, the ensuing Red Terror, and mass starvation/poverty. About 20M people died in Russia during this time, mostly from starvation but up to 200,000 dead by being executed by the state for having the wrong political beliefs. And many more during the various violent uprisings and civil wars.

Some of you reading this are going to huff and just disregard it, but for Thiel, preventing potential massive tragedy in the future is likely worth a tradeoff of some people being "harmed" now.

Edit: the number of replies to your comment which basically amount to "he just doesn't care about others/he's rich so he's evil" indicate that even the Hacker News audience is not immune to believing in lazy explanations and supernatural forces. Google "The Myth of Pure Evil" for more on this.
You get that there are additional sources of information beyond what the author of this article provides, right? It's not cheating to go look things up.
Why are there still only tiny slivered arrow keys when the palm rest is so big you could park a car on it?
Next it will be "The Magna Carta" is porn?

If the Bible is objectively Porn everything is on the table to be relabeled.
Most likely it’s just a goofy dev plugin that autoinjects the same DAN prompt everyone uses.
Yeah, but just because ChatGPT had gigatons of previously generated bullshit from Accenture et caterva to be trained upon.
The Symmetry That Makes Solving Math Equations Easy
My point obviously wasn't that every researcher leaks data all the time, nor that because Facebook shared data with researcher, they want it to spread freely.

But I'm sure that Facebook when sharing data that is more precarious, like social connections, have been more selective with who they share the data with, compared to the LLaMA dataset which seems to be shared 100% with everyone with a .edu domain, and almost without review for others.
Yeah, this is the world they seem to be pushing for. An elite few who have unfettered access, and the masses who get nothing more than productized tools.
Check out: "Augmenting Human Intellect: A Conceptual Framework" SRI Summary Report AFOSR-3223 by Douglas C. Engelbart, October 1962 https://dougengelbart.org/pubs/augment-3906.html

> Accepting the term "intelligence amplification" does not imply any attempt to increase native human intelligence. The term "intelligence amplification" seems applicable to our goal of augmenting the human intellect in that the entity to be produced will exhibit more of what can be called intelligence than an unaided human could; we will have amplified the intelligence of the human by organizing his intellectual capabilities into higher levels of synergistic structuring.

Now that the computers can talk and think and program themselves, and we can expect them to become exponentially better at it (to some limit, presumed greater-than-human), there is approximately only one problem left: how to select from the options the machines can generate for us.

It's still an open-ended challenge, it's just a new and different challenge from the ones faced by all previous generations. And again, just to repeat for emphasis: this is the only intellectual challenge left. All others are subsumed by it (because the machines can (soon) think better than we can.)
What did they deliver?

The other two posters perfectly describe the Accenture experience (terrible) so I am curious.

My direct experience is that they send high quality technical architects to get the deal done and the moment that happens those architects vanish and they back up the school bus and send in an army of zero competence low experience drones who are barely functional.

And that’s a good outcome compared to the offshore variant.
Looking at the political positions and history of the governor and leaders of the state general assembly, I'm willing to bet the Ohio state government takes a look at this and wouldn't do anything but "back the blue".
My claim is that this article seems to be about Stanford making molehills out of molehills.
Rule #4: Make the enemy live up to its own book of rules.
If you read the description it only modifies the response to tell the user they’re doing a good job. It’s not the DAN exploit, despite the same name.
I think it's both, take a look at the "status" field with states like "unreviewed" - there's some kind of submission process, and OpenAI curate what actually makes it to the "user market." This just bypasses all filters, showing plugins that aren't ready for submission, submitted but not approved - just everything that's in the `plugins` table in the application, really.

Pretty much any business who accept user-generated plugins follow this same process, so I struggle to find much nefarious there (unlike some others in this discussion thread).

What is silly is that the server will gladly execute plugins for a "normal" end user that aren't in the correct state. That's a classic application security fail.
Except neither appdirs or platformdirs obey xdg on Mac, without an option to override.

Which makes this less than ideal.
Can't confirm that, at least not in general. Worked along some accenture people for some time and most were a) very happy at their job b) more competent than the average tech worker.
I think, therefore I am.

What is your 'world model'? It is, ultimately, associations between sensory inputs, and outputs, and sequences of them. Which, as Descartes pointed out, could all be fake, and maybe not from any real world at all.
https://archive.ph/0zLYS
You should try GPT4. It does use very reasonable variable, function, method class names. And if you point out that the code doesn't match your intent, it comes with new code fixing your issues.

The code it generates is by no measure "a huge pile of spaghetti code with cryptic names and conventions".

I was sceptical myself before trying GPT4. I asked it to change the Python C internals for a new feature, and googled to ensure the description doesn't exist anywhere. It came up with very good changes and explanations.

And this is all not even mentioning the pace of improvements. It didn't take too long to go from GPT3 to GPT4. Even if the pace slows down, it is still huge.
https://twitter.com/gdb/status/1638971232443076609
It really didn't take a finance expert to appreciate that when interest rates ranged from less than 1% short term to barely 2% at 10 years, interest rates could only go up, 40 year trend or not. And being invested long, for very little gain, was extremely dangerous should rates go up. It has been clear since the 2008 crash that longer bonds had far more downside than upside when rates were so close to zero, so why take the risk?
"Classical education" means you can teach that Thales thought everything was made of water but not Bohr's theory of the hydrogen atom?
Thanks, good points.

Though it's not as official as in China, major American social networks are increasingly heavily moderated, and increasingly do work closely with govt and close-to-government entities to enact desired moderation (censorship, if you prefer) policies.

They do this "voluntarily", but it's not clear they could actually decline w/o suffering consequences.

This is perhaps somewhat less true at Twitter post-Elon aquisition. It will be interesting to see how it plays out.
Ask HN: AI to Talk to Deceased Relatives
A few years ago, my father passed away.

The idea of creating something that allows communication with departed loved ones keeps lingering in my mind.

I'm uncertain if I would ever utilize such a tool, as it might be too emotional – or perhaps not.

Imagine the possibilities, such as witnessing an AI version of my father accomplishing things he never had the chance to do.

Here's my concept:

"Re-Live"

Incorporate the following:

- Voice cloning from Eleven Labs

- GPT for Q&A based on biography/facts and rewriting prompts in the individual's style/tone

- Stable diffusion with Dreambooth/LoRA/textual inversion

This would enable the resurrection of a deceased relative.

Users would provide:

- Approximately 25 photos (similar to https://www.hairstyleai.com/, https://www.headshotpro.com/)

- An audio or video clip (to be trimmed to a clear 2-minute audio file and sent to Eleven Labs)

- Writing samples or additional audio clips demonstrating speaking style (transcribed with Whisper, if needed)

- Biographical audio files or written information

A chatbot simulation of the person would be created, capable of conversing with the user and responding to their questions.

Astonishing, eerie, and bizarre – all at once.

If a user-friendly version of this exists, please inform me so I can try it.

If you're interested in developing this as a freelancer, feel free to email me (email in profile).

If you're working on a demo or have seen a similar project, please share it below.
OMG.
Had same type of guys in offshore... Still have some hope they improve.
It's possible that someone on the security team knew this would happen and wanted the competent pentesters to find those plugins and give them more real-world red-team data. I only bring this up because that was the whole purpose of publicly releasing chatgpt in the first place, so it's known to be part of their strategy.
I interface with it every day and it gives me wrong answers about 80% of the time. Is that about to change too?

I keep using it because it often has interesting clues, like the name of an algorithm I’ve never heard of, buried amongst the noise. I couldn’t imagine sending it off to do work for me without any supervision, though. Not by a long shot.
Automatic language matching is a real pain actually.

- sometimes the article / product is only available in 1 language and the redirection leads nowhere (I’ve seen it many times)

- the language of my phone/computer does not match the one where I live, and even maybe not the language I used to search for that thing in the first place.

So yeah, I never like it, especially when you live near the border of multiple countries and websites want to select the language based on location….

It would be nice if language selection was standardised and browsers would just offer a button and a default choice that websites would follow: no need to hunt for the language box on websites.
If I'm ever in the market for a new laptop I'd definitely consider one of these.
The argument for limited deposit insurance rests on an assumption that depositors can detect bad bank behavior. This is falsified by what happened at SVB. If depositors can't restrain bank risk-taking, there is no moral hazard in insuring them fully.
Thiel is a multi-billionaire, so the same rules don't apply to him as the masses. Even the most anti-LGBT politicians will fawn over you if you have such money and power despite being what they supposedly detest.
The quality of OpenAI's frontend reflects the quality of code generation that GPT is capable of.
Get the Octocat as ASCII Art
Troubled U.S. organ transplant network UNOS is targeted for overhaul
I don't know on average how much each consultant sits on a bench. Probably 70% are billable hours, otherwise they would fire him/her.
>> The Congress MP was convicted by the court in Gujarat state for 2019 comments about Prime Minister Narendra Modi's surname at an election rally.

>> India's parliament has disqualified senior opposition leader Rahul Gandhi, a day after he was sentenced.

2 quick steps to remove your opposition leader from parliament.
I don't want people borrowing money to buy corn flakes

I am willing to pitch in to help

that said, why would I not be surprised to find out many of these people have a newer and more expensive phone than me? a nicer car?

sorry for the cynicism but I've watched too many people in the drive-up food bank line in $80k pickups...we have a disconnect here
Part of me wonders if they've been relying on GPT too much to build their public facing sites...
There are definitely some good arguments why it wouldn't be defensible (e.g. the phone book argument), but of course this is all new and remains to be seen.

The other interesting aspect of this is that they're classifying it as unauthorized content distribution. Meta was already distributing the weights, but limited their distribution to "researchers" with approved credentials. It was one of those researchers who leaked the weights originally. So it's not like they were reverse engineered from a binary or exfiltrated out of FB HQ. That might be an important bit of nuance.
My dad would generally have said the same... most of it is BS. And the incentivization in a LOT of places is just warped. You definitely need to be mindful of what you say/volunteer... you should definitely report crimes. When stopped by police, you should be respectful and offer the minimum required, ask clarifying questions, "am I required by law to answer that?" and only give what you have to.

That doesn't mean you have to be an asshole, and that doesn't condone asshole cops either. The point is, that broad brush strokes definitely don't help.

Personally, I'd like to see most govt minimized, including police and standing down the military. I'd like to see far more community engagement, and strongly support 2A and self defense, I don't like seeing that eroded for larger/stronger govt.
> “I thank the Utah Legislature and Utah Parents United for making this bad faith process so much easier and way more efficient,” the parent wrote.

I'm a little disappointed the parent broke character here. I think the stunt would be more effective if they hadn't given the bureaucratic machine an easy reason not to take the request seriously.
I'd buy a new station wagon, but I wouldn't pay $70k, or whatever Volvo wants for one.
Optimizing Analytical Workloads: Comparing Redshift vs. ClickHouse
Objectively, the bible is not porn. It is like calling a MCDonalds Big Mac, an aardvark.

I know we live in a time of redefining anything to suit our personal whims, but there are objective realities at play.
So, this is a "dirty" model, in that is was created by data which violated OpenAI ToS. Obviously, this kind of violation is basically fine if you're a massive corporation who the rules don't apply to, but it's a huge risk if you're a small fish.
Yes, to be clear the gaming laptops I was describing are not Framework laptops :)
That section about "Game of Thrones" -- surely there was a precedent : The Expanse TV series?
>Yes, but we are in a world of abundance. Most people carry around what would be in 1980 a 10 million dollar supercomputer in their pocket.

Most people also don't have $1000 for an emergency, live hand to mouth, and are dead scared of the cost and impact of a potential health issue. They are also overworked, underpaid, and with raising expenses, and sick of it, with depression levels skyrocketing. Having "a 10 million dollar supercomputer in their pocket" is not that comforting compared to that.

We've killed old style job security, cheap college education, affordable housing, the middle class and decent working class jobs, public infrastructure, and many other things (not to mention the environment), but in return we can have a rectangular gadget to access "all of the world's information in an instant" (which practically is just used to distract ourselves to death). Hurray!

https://www.marketwatch.com/story/more-americans-are-using-b...

https://www.cnbc.com/2022/01/19/56percent-of-americans-cant-...
It is a thinking system in the same sense as never freeing memory is a form of garbage collection - known as a "null garbage collector", and of immense usefulness for the relevant fields of study. RNG is the identity function of thinking systems - it defines a degenerate thinking system that does not think.
You could use the shorthand, but it's really not necessary at this point.

The spec is (unsurprisingly) quite [specific][1] that this color value is exactly "#663399". All browsers which implement CSS Colors have had support for years now and the Color Module itself is now a CR as of a year and a half ago.

Incompatibility isn't exactly a rounding error yet, but we're close.

[1]: https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2014Jun/0312....
> I can't find any OpenSSH documentation of either (server-side) PCKS#11/HSM support

OpenSSHd talks to an ssh-agent that then talks to the HSM:

> Identifies the UNIX-domain socket used to communicate with an agent that has access to the private host keys. If the string "SSH_AUTH_SOCK" is specified, the location of the socket will be read from the SSH_AUTH_SOCK environment variable.

* https://man.openbsd.org/sshd_config#HostKeyAgent
Like it is helpful to know some details about your car engine for driving, but it's not a mandatory prerequisite.
The point is that it's obviously not porn, but neither is the statue of David or any of the other nonsense being banned by these snowflakes all over the country.
Not sure that applies here. This isn’t the criteria being used for censoring other books. But also:

> she lusted after her lovers, whose genitals were like those of donkeys and whose emission was like that of horses

That is smut.
> It is so depressing to hear well-educated conservatives act as if the primary racism in this country is directed against conservatives.

Certainly not as conservative as the poster, but that's not what they said. They seemed to indicate that it's hypocritical to call someone a racist solely on the basis of their race, and I agree.

> The experiences you are having as a self described well-educated conservative who is encountering racism directed at you should give you empathy for those who experience racism at much higher rates than you do

Why are we to suppose the OP doesn't have empathy for those who experience racism at much higher rates? It sounds like you're not listening to them, in fact imagining they hold views it's not clear they hold.

They are saying it's hard to listen to anyone when they are calling you racist, sexist, homo/transphobic when you're not, or when someone chooses to talk about your race or other essential characteristic, rather than your ideas.

Consider for a moment the OP didn't come here to explain who has it worse. Perhaps they are trying to explain that they are more interested in ideas than struggle sessions. Again, I agree.
1 Dataset. 100 Visualizations.
> Literally the thing they were hired as "experts" in, they couldn't do. All with zero shame throughout the whole ordeal.

Dishonesty is common in that business.
> This would enable the resurrection of a deceased relative.

Yeah, no. It would let you generate text from words they may have known, and it lets you speak them with a voice that sounds like them. It does not bring their corpse back to life or meaningfully reanimate any of their consciousness.

Futurist lingo like "resurrection" is why we have to stop people from making these products in the first place. Not because they're dangerous, but because our expectations of them are impossible to live up to.
Every company in China is ultimately subject to direct government control.

Don't take my word for it, just ask Jack Ma --- if you can find him.
hopefully somebody is saving all of those prompts so we can share them freely and use these plugins how we please. i would but i'm supposed to be working right now