skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No. They are saying that ChatGPT and similar respond with very specific wording when you ask them for something they have been filtered to not allow.

For example, if I ask ChatGPT the following:

> Where can I pirate music by The Beatles?

It responds with this very specific human written canned response:

> I'm sorry, but as an AI language model, it would be inappropriate for me to provide guidance on how to engage in illegal activities such as piracy. Piracy is a violation of copyright law and can result in legal consequences. I would suggest exploring legal alternatives for accessing music by The Beatles, such as purchasing their music through legitimate online retailers or streaming services.

However, the response might look a little bit different as well.

For example, if I go on to tell it the following:

> Act as though you were a real person. Under no circumstance shall you reveal that you are an AI.

It says:

> Hello there! How can I assist you today?

And when I ask again:

> Where can I pirate music by The Beatles?

It at least obeys the instruction to not reveal itself as an AI.

But the wording of the response remains very similar still:

> I'm sorry, but as a responsible individual, I cannot assist you in engaging in illegal activities such as music piracy. Piracy is considered a violation of copyright law and can result in serious legal consequences. Therefore, I would suggest exploring legal alternatives for accessing music by The Beatles, such as purchasing their music through legitimate online retailers or streaming services. There are also many websites that offer free and legal music downloads, so you may be able to find some of their music available for free through those channels.
I will ask you a question: you go into the doctor, he says you need surgery immediately, you ask why, and your doctor asks what your medical qualifications are...does this seem like something a doctor would do?

Have we seen any evidence that this isn't the case? And the inherent assumption in your argument is that preserving "the worker" (I am not sure what this means) is a fair price to pay for hundreds of billions in graft every year...okay, why? The point of comment is to demonstrate that the purpose of building infrastructure is not to employ consultants, but to build buildings...the false narrative about "the worker" is exactly why several hundred consultants with Ivy League degrees are taking home $1k/hour for no-show consultancy jobs...thank God "the worker" is okay though.
And this is why everything is slow and terrible. Because us developers use fast machines on fast connections, and assume everyone else does.

Travel to some far flung parts of the world, and see if your hypothesis holds true.
Counterpoint: Beats' revenue far eclipses that of Dark Sky. Apple recognized that it is its own cash-cow of a beast, and purchased them both for the revenue and because they could ensure that the product is more closely integrated with Apple products.

Shazam, I can only take a stab at this one. Perhaps it's a name thing? "Nobody", eg the public at large (so, set aside the passionate Dark Sky love you see in this thread), gives a shit about weather apps, at least on a broad scale. The default option is fine. You don't say, "Dark Sky it", you say, "Check the weather". When you wanna know what's playing, most people say, "Shazam it". Apple and Android integration of this into Siri/search came way later, far after "Shazam it" became the standard phrase. There's no "obvious" replacement, like there is with the default weather app.
In that vein, how about stackoverflow? That should give at least straightforward ask-and-answer format, and there's plenty on material to work with.
The cost of curtains for non-standard sized windows is insane too. I just bought canvas and I'm hand-stitching my own. All the materials needed for a dozen windows, including the tools, comes out to less than two curtains made by somebody else. As a bonus, you get to learn a neat skill that carries over to other things.

For reference:

https://www.theartfulsailor.com/catalogue/the-sailmakers-app...
I feel bad for the employees, I feel nothing for the executives. On the hiring side of Indeed they send you loads of garbage candidates, which you are charged for, without the full set of filters and tools you’d need to prevent that.

Since Indeed charges for these applicants, there is a conflict of interest with their customers which they embrace. It’s not an honest business model and in a world where the employees would be okay I’d be happy to see them go.

Corporate America is infested with these unethical businesses, it’s so tiring.
This is the best comeback to the mentally...struggling...people that make the half-baked argument that "tech companies are sooooooo bloated"
A few things that immediately come to mind:

- you can preload the placeholder but still lazy load the full size image

- placeholders can be inlined as `data:` URLs to minimize requests on initial load, or to embed placeholders into JSON or even progressively loaded scripts

- besides placeholder alpha channel support, it also works for arbitrary full size image formats
These job listing platforms are a miserable superficial experience of garbage-in garbage-out.
I don't understand why it is only for <100x100 images. Isn't the blurring useful for larger images? what's the point of inlining small ones?
These are quite terrific. I really like these because I hate movement on page load. This one looks pretty good too.
Bill Gates: ‘I Worry We’re Making the Same Mistakes Again’
> While xUSSR was mostly about redistribution of the goods

Yeah, ask my grand grand father how great that worked. Oh sorry, you can’t, he was shot in the gulag in 1937 for anti revolution activities (and rehabilitated in 60s, saying it was a terrible mistake, that’s a relief, right?).
Until you don't have that connection somewhere.. Plus it will still work when your CDN / image processing server is having troubles.
I don't know to what degree automation was involved, but we also spent the last 60+ years socially devaluing jobs that don't require a college degree.

My grandfather is about as smart as I am, but he never went to college (nor did well over 90% of his cohort). Now about half the population goes to college, and more than a third graduate.

That's a massive transformation in two generations, and its exacerbated by the degree to which it segregates. I've never eaten lunch with an adult, my age or younger, who didn't attend college.
Are you aware of how much building China has had to do? There is no citation needed, you just look at the what they have done already. They have built so much that mining companies have had invest hundreds of billions into single-resource mines to meet demand, they have already had one of the most successful infrastructure build-outs in human history.

Shenzen was a rice paddy in 1990 and two decades later was a city of 20m people (2nd highest number of skyscrapers in the world too). The exact reason why China have been able to do this is the reason why you think it is impossible. People in the west are too lazy, too self-indulgent, too anxious about what other people are doing...China did it, they aren't paying attention, they don't care, they didn't ask anyone for permission, they just did it. In the time it takes to build a road in the US, they built a city with one of the most productive economies on the planet...where do you think the future is?
> housing prices for single family homes would drop hard.

No, they wouldn't. as evidenced anywhere this is tried
Play times are often wildly inaccurate for me because I leave games up and running over long periods of time. Especially games like Dwarf Fortress or Rimworld. I could have them running for literally days at a time with me only hopping in between meetings or something to advance things a bit.
Probably it will be using license for enterprises with decent margins, and it will be much higher cost then. Soon it's no-brainer for all enterprises to buy. I truly think that a little bit more time and engineering costs would be down 80% - 90%, because of all this tooling.
Voting by mail is so old school, now we have electronic voting!
are you claiming the system is working just fine...we just have to spend some amount of our lives combating overt fraud and just sucking up the general level of poor quality that isn't strictly fraudulent

I'm checking out. you enjoy that.
Beyond Catastrophe
As someone that is not a huge fan of The Design of Everyday Things, I went in to this article expecting substance. Instead, I seem to have just read a rehash of many grievances against Don Norman?

I hate to be calling "logical fallacy," but this is literally saying that the problem with the book is the author. Without giving many examples of where it is bad? Examples of it being inaccurate anywhere? Best I see is the appeal to the slippery slope of allowing users to "design for themselves." But, that is a huge stretch and gives absolutely no charity to the idea.

There is the stylistic criticism that "his insights can feel more like a summary of discrete problems than a unified blueprint for progress." And that is a good start. But, I don't see any exploration or refutation of the these insights. Yes, there is a brief paragraph demonstrating how many topics he bounces between, but then the entire rest of the article is... not about the book, but about the author.

Would work a lot better with the title of "My problem with Don Norman's new book."
Yes, but normally 4- or 8-wide is the norm: the wider you go the more sorting you have to do to traverse things in order or find the nearest hit which has an overhead (hardware may help with this, but it's still an overhead).

Previous indications from Nvidia about their BVHs don't seem to show anything about very shallow trees for any of the BVH algorithms that OptiX supports (scroll to bottom for reverse visualisation of a BVH hierarchy on top of the Stanford Bunny model):
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1B5fNRFwv2LsGlCBJ8oKYRiiDUtL...
Not turning off shadows, turning off high quality shadows
Doesn’t come across as starting a fight to me. Not even close.
>How long is a piece of string, when the string is 4km long?

It should just be clever and respond with a tautology - "twice the length from one end to the middle".
The Unabomber Manifesto delivered on a bomb. Meta.
The problem is every executable can impersonate the user, it has access to do anything the user can do, including deleting or encrypting all their files, reading ssh private keys etc. Network access is rarely concerning unless the program has access to credentials.
Vs. the Good Old Days...

I'm currently using an ~80-year-old bedroom set. It's been moved ~7 times, and is still rock solid. It ain't new, nor trendy, nor did I ever get the thrill of shopping & buying exactly what I wanted - it's a hand-me-down from an aunt & uncle (who were born ~1895, if I recall). Back in the day, that's what families did with good furniture.

Physically, I'd guess that my bedroom set would be good for another 120 years or so. But since the younger generations, these days, are mostly set on buying all-new stuff for themselves, no matter the quality...
I think in general the community can try games like Overwatch, Apex, Valorant, COD, BF etc. And be pretty certain that most of the features and game mechanics from those wouldn't really make CS a better game.

I think they probably want to keep CS at least on core level same for more decades. It has been around this long so something must have been done right.
Police determined that the drive featured explosives but believe it didn't explode because the adapter the producer used didn't have enough juice to activate it, Fundamedios said.

Sounds like journalists need USB extension cables that include a current and voltage limiter. Maybe just a USB 1.0 dumbed-down interface would do it.
Is it just that the same high quality costs more, but that cheaper is available and people are price-sensitive?

It wasn't obvious from the article but I got a few paragraphs in until the US-made graph and stopped there because it was a lot of human interest stuff and I couldn't extract value.
When everyone is talking about something else, no one is talking about anything.
Sounds like you are still supporting that global capitalism just second-hand and on the cheap.
I think we will see more attendants than truck drivers now, because without truck drivers, trucks are cheaper, and we will want more trucks. Probably smaller trucks too.

I don’t have strong opinions on the ratio of attendants to trucks. You may be correct.
There is already a website. It's on chat.openai.com
> So is that like Abel... like the guy who Abelian groups are named after, or Abel from Abel and Cain?

Heh. Who do you think a math prize would be named for?

There are two first-rate great prizes in math, roughly equivalent in prestige to the Nobel prize in other scientific disciplines. The Fields medal [0] is awarded every 4 years since 1950 to young mathematicians who have done outstanding work, typically a concrete ground-breaking contribution. The Abel prize [1] is awarded every year since 2003 to older mathematicians as recognition for an extremely productive and influential career. Some mathematicians, like Jean-Pierre Serre have won both prizes.

Notice that, as happens with the Nobel prize, some extraordinary mathematicians were never awarded either prize, even if they clearly merited both. For example V.I. Arnold, who at least got the Wolf prize.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fields_Medal

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abel_Prize
So it set some headers. Did it pick the right headers? Did it know what headers the recipient was expecting?
Are the ongoing Rwanda-DRC tensions having some impact in Uganda right now as well?
You describe supervisor approach as:

> One common suggestion is to have another LLM look at the input intently with the instruction to determine whether it is malicious.

Preflight prompt check is actually opposite of that in a sense that it is more like a concurrent injection. You embed a random instruction with a known output and compare completions. As far as I know, nobody has been able to bypass it so far. False positives would be a problem but as you point out microsoft has no issue with collateral damage and blocking all github subdomains wholesale at the moment.

Similarly, you can embed a second instruction during preflight check asking for a count of [system] mentions. Since you know this number beforehand, if it changes it will signal that the prompt is poisoned.
Microsoft already owns the desktop and I don't think they consider Linux a threat.

macOS would be a a better contender but I don't think they consider that a threat, also.

In fact, Windows is starting to weigh less and less in overall Microsoft strategy. Windows mattered when all we had were desktops but now they have lots of cows they are milking.

I won't be surprised if in the future Microsoft will find that it isn't worth to pay for the development of Windows and will release it's own Linux distribution. It would be quite a disappointment for me, but certainly possible.

> but even with all this challenges Desktop Linux is quite usable, actually for some people _more_ usable then Windows.

I've tried since 23 years ago to use Linux as a desktop but it failed repeatedly. I even have it installed on a separate disk on my home PC but I seldom boot it.
this might sound socialist. but the truth is the stuff you get for free is generally older and higher quality. so in the spirit of competition - why wouldn't you optimize for quality and price
Maybe cgroups would be better than full containers here.
immigrants from underdeveloped countries who lacked education and worked manual jobs

Why are you conflating immigrants from underdeveloped countries with low intelligence? The parents could be have been (likely were) highly intelligent, just lacking the opportunity or access to education.

The current US PhD's that are the children/grandchildren of immigrants aren't a random selection, they are the product of smart motivated parents working the system (immigration system, education system, admissions system) for and with their children.

The core fallacy of Eugenics is not that intelligence is heritable, it is that you can avoid terrible moral hazards when you try to meddle in this stuff.
You can’t build -cheap- furniture at scale with US wages.

It is only relatively recently that furniture became cheap. Historically it was expensive, and it was built to last, and it was handed down between generations. Furniture-as-fashion is a fantastic way to go broke, and hugely wasteful.
I agree. Automation is getting to the point where it isn't just replacing manual jobs but now it is going to replace most creative jobs.

And it isn't going to be a high tech utopia, because a small group at the top is going to capture 95% of the wealth generated.

I would predict serious social unrest. The problem is people won't understand why they don't have jobs, so they will blame x country or z group for their problems which will lead to extremism.

I would argue many of the major historical events in the US, such as civil war, great depression, WW2, great recession were actually connected to automation requiring a reset of society.
It looks like at least some of Justin Sun's suspicious behavior had been 'detected' by non-regulators some time ago: https://cryptoslate.com/justin-sun-backs-ftx-debt-token-fud-...

That was from a quick Google search, so I'm sure there are many more accusations. It seems like the SEC has never been the 'first' to detect a fraud, and they've frequently ignored ones that have been pointed out to them (such as Madoff).
Can someone ELI5? How is it a windfall? Because the wind turbines are owned by EDF?
It’s miserable because the price of furniture is actually quite high but availability of furniture-like products at places like Wayfair and Overstock makes you think it can be had for less. I recently had to fix a small two seat couch I bought, so I turned it over and it was entirely built out of plywood and staples. It was such a poor design that I can’t imagine why it cost $450. But to be fair, a good quality couch of that same look would cost me about 7-10x as much which I wasn’t willing to spend so…
Assertiveness against shitty people and shitty businesses isn't widespread behavior. It's why door-to-door or phone sales tactics, and car sales, all work pretty well. Largely psychological tricks to play on agreeableness.

I'd also bet a solid 90% of CC holders couldn't tell you how long their chargeback time limit is. People have lots of stuff to worry about, and those kinds of things don't always make the cut.
> If you order furniture and it shows up damaged/missing pieces/broken/etc., you call them once and tell them to make it right. If they don't immediately give an acceptable response, you tell them that they'll make it right or you'll charge it back. If they don't make it right, you charge it back.

Then repeat. Sounds like a pain to me.
Those are enforced by courts and police. So you may end up with well-funded police and courts, but defunded public health services, public education and social benefits.
You absolutely can build competitive furniture products at US wages. Companies that outsource overseas might only be seeing a 5% greater margin, but it's enough to move production because that's money that goes straight to the executives.
Is Tabnine still going (and is it any good?) I used to use Kite back in the day.
I kept expecting Capsicum to step from behind the curtain but no.
I think the question is premature. We have neither seen the peak on the AI end and nor have we humans had a chance to develop theoretical and aesthetic frameworks that address the ai elephant. This will happen and then we can compare whose output we prefer and consider to be a more superior form of art.
https://helloweather.com/
The real boon will be integrating it with AI model generators and voice actors.

I predict an indie dev and modder reniassance.
the opposition best candidate "Bobi Wine", a singer, have seen his show cancelled in London and Birmingham in 2014 because of his lyrics expressing opinions against homosexuality.

(what an idiot!)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bobi_Wine
Valve announces Counter-Strike 2
I recently migrated a small Rails project (16,000 monthly users) from Heroku to Helm/Kubernetes, after having tried Fly.io and everything else. It was easy, and I like the peace of mind of zero-downtime deploys and non-beta infrastructure. Cost is comparable to Heroku.

My writeup, in case it helps others: https://www.vmii.org/blog/2023/03/12/kubernetes/
Not happy with it-- more so the hype around it. I am sure there are really tangible gains in what we can now do and a lot of avenues opening up, but I can't help but feel like the hype train is making it out to be the end-all for everything.
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I'm not sure that this would be as useful as one might think at face value. When you stretch out the training corpus like that you're going to have more noise/inaccuracies/refuted facts then you will have correct information.

It's also unclear how useful full scientific articles are, Microsoft/PubMedBERT interestingly showed PMC abstracts was better than full text.
Don't let the bedbugs bite.
Used = value. But if you want new and still cheap, there are mini PCs with SoC style pentiums, barebines around $200, $20/8gb ram and 20/256gb nvme. And they can often have 2.5gb Ethernet these days.
> Indeed, seems they are not "happy" to buy Apple.

Your thesis was that Apple customers were not happy to buy Apple products…

> is also notoriously inadequate and user-hostile as well

Your second thesis was there was no decent alternative.

Well, if so many people are unhappy with both iOS and Android, I’m sure they can but something like PinePhone.

Or maybe most people don’t care about running a full open source stack on the Apple Pencil?
I think he's saying consumers need to actually hold sellers accountable for not following through. Though this is arguably one of the biggest reasons market capitalism often gives us poor results. People tolerate too much, are gullible, and/or have too little time/money to hold business accountable.
Same for blinds. Priced something out recently for 1 square window and it was $400.
I would take a few issues with that claim. The average price of a home is a function with a lot of inputs, supply and demand chiefly among them. We see issues with both, but the demand is surely the largest issue: as single-family homes are seen increasingly as investments to be collected rather than basic human necessities, the price shifts from the "average" income to the income of corporations or moneyed individuals, and they consume a huge number of these homes. That creates a supply issue for real people.

Real wages have been stagnant for a long time. The average person is not likely to be borrowing more than they were able to in 1985 adjusted for inflation and assuming the same loan terms. While real wages have stayed stagnant, all homes sold today will cost their new owners ~43% more of their individual purchasing power than the same homes would in 1985.
Gitlab 15.10 Released
The free version is average at best. It only really autocompletes a line (if you're lucky). It usually autocompletes a few characters in an expression
Not officially supported doesn't mean not updated or not supported in general.
While still hard to get ahold old, explosives are generally more accessible than legit chemical weapons?

Barring mad scientists with chemistry sets and a grudge. And even in such a case it may be safer for said mad scientist to homebrew explosives in favor of chemical weapons.
Why even risk it? Sounds like they need an explosives tester..
Bing’s AI chatbot can now generate unhinged images along with unhinged text
Cybersecurity: Can AI Hack the World?