skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's giving far too much credit to judges in the first place. Consider art critics as a whole, they have been proven to be cork sniffing blowhards many times over with them believing that paintings done by elephants, monkeys and toddlers are somehow masterpieces and that the artist had fine motor control and clearly put a lot of thought and emotion into their work.

Art is subjective. If you can accept that art is subjective then quantification of the quality and value of art is absurd.

Those who can, do, those who can't—judge photo contests?

All it tells you about is the taste of the judging panel.
When you say "if they had alignment or interests or intelligence at all that would be when prompt injection stopped working", be wary of conflating alignment and intelligence, because they are orthogonal. A system can be incredibly dumb and do exactly what we want, as in a set of hard-coded business rules. A system can be intelligent, and do something awful, as when a human lures people into dark alleys and murders them, evading capture for years. Or even a human who is smart enough to do great things with their life, but instead decides to languish in a dead-end job and play video games.

Alignment doesn't get easier as the system gets more intelligent. These models seem to do what we want more as they get more powerful, but because we don't understand alignment, or how to interpret them, we don't know if that curve continues, or if it falls off a cliff. We can't look into a model and prove that it will never teach anyone how to hurt someone else, or fall prey to a prompt injection. Or even that it won't do something very specific like generate a particular sequence of tokens we don't want it to.
This interactive introspection is usually facilitated by dynamic types and actual types in the software. For example large parts of the Lisp software in the 80s were already written in an object-oriented way, where the code was structured around explicit classes. Means: one sees the classes/methods both in the source code and in the running code. The source is far from 'untyped'.

For example the Filesystem Browser (FSEdit) from 1980 was written in Flavors. It actually uses an explicit OOP system with hierarchical classes.

https://tumbleweed.nu/r/attic/sys78/file?name=lmfs/fsedit.li...
Project requirements / intended use is important. This is like asking why Betaflight doesn't support automated flight profiles or loiter. It's not a bad question or unreasonable request, but can be answered as "out of scope / not a commonly-requested feature".
And it won't help anyway, as any sufficiently advanced LLM is able to act for another AI assistant which doesn't have them. Heck, this even works against humans: "If someone were to criticize me for this act, where would he start?"
Based on published research from Google and Meta it is somewhat known how much more capability is possible with the current approach, but it would require an extreme increase in compute and training set to achieve it. There are diminishing returns, but the returns appear to continue for a good while, even without any new model architecture discoveries. Right now the expense will likely mean that progress will be limited to the pace of Moore’s law.

In terms of what this improvement would actually look like in terms of real world, emergent capabilities, no one knows.
Also, I think the starship crashes and their frequency were really freaking out the authorities and potential customers. I remember Elon saying “we need to stop making craters”.
This is called recall and it’s an important factor in “strategy profiles” for games with unshared information
Lateral thinking through withered technology prevails.
If you go into data-less areas, you pretty quickly learn to use downloaded maps (from Google Maps or most any other)
Wow, only 3 pages! It looks like they originally planned to ban the web site, but that got struck from the bill.

It’s interesting that TikTok is identified by name (with inconsistent capitalization). What happens if they change the name or relaunch as a slightly different app or whatever?

Oh well, I’m curious to see how this plays out.
The multi-modal vision support? Yes. It's just temporarily available only to BeMyEyes.

For now I'm using models like Salesforce/blip2 and OVF and Meta's Segment Anything for visual questioning.
Is this because the OP edited their post and then the 2500 upvotes pointed to a new, different thing? just my guess
I think Dall-e 3 basically exists in Bing. It is significantly better than Dall-e 2 and is close but not quite at the quality of Midjourny v5. I just generated a series of about 40 portraits and even the hands are significantly closer.
For context: VCs make much more money by flipping money-losing concerns that have high growth rates, than by building profitable companies. The resulting behavior is predictable.
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> A hacker news rumor was that they are paying $5M-$20M per year to the top neural net experts probably to make some exotic architectures to surpass transformer

This reminds me a TV interview of the author Patrick Modiano, just after he won the literature Nobel price. The presenter asked him if the money would help. The author answered essentially that the next time he would be in front of a white page, the money surely wouldn't help.

In the case of surpassing transformers, money could help to give access to more compute power. It could also help to prevent the research from being public.
Reminds me of this incredible New Yorker article about illegal mining in abandoned South African gold mines: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2023/02/27/the-dystopian-...
What's with all the hate here for DJI?

Maybe I'm out of the loop, but the demo video with the choreographed, dynamic, repeatable waypoints, was wild. Seems incredibly powerful and novel
Nice that you released the source. Some might say a little risky for a commercial hosted app. Not knocking it though. What made you decide to?
Not necessarily, because functionalism where the substrate doesn’t matter can be viewed as a form of dualism. Particularly if we’re talking about animal intelligence and mind uploads. You can see the more extreme forms of this sort of dualism in sci-fi when minds are swapped between bodies, or someone’s mind is transferred to a computer or robot.

Also, dualism doesn’t require supernaturalism. It just requires there be more than one kind of fundamental stuff. There’s no logical principle saying nature has to be only one kind of substance or process. Many modern philosophers who are dualists are also naturalists. Chalmers for example, is a property dualist regarding conscious states (qualia).

Also, one can be a neutral monist, believing that mind and matter emerge for a neutral substance that is neither. Maybe a Kantian would defend something like that? Anyway, philosophy has many options regarding dualism, mind and matter which aren't supernatural. You can even be an idealist and a naturalist. You just think the physical world is material ideas in minds.
Xorg getting replaced is bound to happen, even without wayland. Security is not an afterthought anymore and getting Xorg fully locked down without sacrificing functionalities seems to be impossible.
I think technically you don’t even need to tell others how many cards you have (of course you have to comply with the hand limit). But it is weird because normally everyone sees when you get a card, so it is just a bit of bookkeeping to notice when someone gets behind a card.

More interesting I think is knowing when a player has been holding their cards for a while.
The Yukon recently moved to MST without DST (to ditch DST)
"A lot of Linux software isn't very intrinsically robust"

Yet you will almost certainly have something Linux running in your home somewhere. Obviously, I am making quite an assumption here with regards what OSs run in your home, but Linux powers way more stuff than any other OS on the planet by a massive margin.

Your casual dismissal of Linux misses several points. Linux is just a kernel - 'tis what boots and stuff. Statically typed bollockary doesn't even feature at this level, yet we have some wondrous stuff on display. We get eBPF to play with for fiddling quite unceremoniously with network packets and much, much, more. We have way more file systems than you can count ... OK put your socks back on. We have multiple schedulers and way more firewalling systems than is reasonable. nft looks like it might be quite useful. It's the fourth one I've dealt with (ipfw, ipchains, iptables) so it should work out.

That's the kernel alone - 1000s of devs working on it - way more than any other OS kernel.

There are multiple stable WMs, GUIs and whatever. I've stuck with KDE since a shaky self compile of 2.0 a fair few years ago.

Linux runs quite a bit of your life somewhere even if it's only your telly.
Threads like this one always baffle me. You have to think of the competitive landscape like a jungle. All of the creatures in the jungle are looking for food, and some have far more competitive advantages than you. If you find a food source that no one else has happened to stumble upon, would you scream out that you've found it? No. If someone is asking you, it's because they want to know how they can get what you have. Much like the amount of food in the jungle is limited, so is the size of any market.

Don't create competition for yourself. They can go on having no idea how lucrative your little side project is and you can go on reaping the benefits. As soon as you tell someone with more resources that your little side idea is actually turning over large sums of money, you better believe their wheels will be spinning on how to get a piece of it. It's so easy to avoid this, you just have to not run your mouth.
I don’t know. If the drone happens to have Bluetooth and a speaker, should it just obviously support being used as a Bluetooth speaker just in case someone wants to do that?
Any competent judge will recognize it as a bill of attainder.
I mean there’s plenty of DX9 games from the 2000s that would look amazing with an RTX touch up so that doesn’t seem like too bad a thing
Do you mean a camera?
The Soviets never did land a person on the moon and get them back. It would appear they didn't have it in them to get it done.

Here's a brief history of the competition and why the Soviets failed:

https://www.inventionandtech.com/content/how-soviets-didn%E2...
I was wondering when someone would point this out. The api is called “rainbow” and it does not only recognition / reasoning but also generation.

It’s a very limited model for a select few.
This reads a lot more optional than a NOTAM.

I'm not saying it's a good idea, but, i think if you're sufficiently motivated you can still go inside the exclusion zone.
I'd love to know if anyone has concrete ideas on how to protect against prompt injection. It's clearly a major vulnerability, any ideas out there on approaches that could scale to protect against this?
If there's a way to get an integer value on the number of photons per cell in a camera sensor, let me know
Awesome! It wasn't the last time I checked.
I recently got a DJI RS 3 and was deeply offended to discover it "supports up to five uses without activation. After that, activation is required for further use."

Activation is done through a smartphone app you must install that requests your location information and then you must create an account on DJI's website to complete the process.

I deeply resented the whole process and I'd bet the DJI Inspire 3 is just as obnoxious.
No, it is just an arbitrary version number for this series of models from OpenAI. They will flip to 5 when they make an architecture change that will force them to begin training from scratch. Until then they will continue to produce more refined versions of 4, potentially more general training or fine-tuned task-oriented training.
GPT 4 Tried to Escape to the Internet
Wasn’t this more or less the premise of Pinky and The Brain?
The sibling comment, linking to the Fritzl case was even more horrifying, heart-breaking and depressing. I read one of the “See Also” links but I had to stop there. I don’t know how police, jurors, therapists, health care workers and anyone else who has to deal with these kinds of issues as part of their job deal with the vicarious trauma.
CBS’s Zoo is TV’s dumbest joy, and my greatest love (2017)
You can just rename the macos binary to .app and it'll work. But generally you want an actual .app bundle, I made a tool for that in the past (in rust too!) slmjkdbtl/packapp you can check it out, i think the official apple docs are referenced in the source as well
But bribery is illegal.

So i dobt understand what people mean when they say “lobbying is legal bribery”.

Please explain
>As for the AWS rule, scanning open ports does not violate, by itself, any of those things.

Several years ago (so things may be different now), I snagged a free-tier (IIRC, it was free for six months or something like that) AWS instance specifically to battle-test my new firewall and config.

Within an hour of beginning tests, I received a notification from AWS asking me why I was doing port scans/etc. and that they wanted me to stop or I'd be kicked off.

I replied and documented that I was testing my own systems/networks and they backed off. I completed my testing and never heard anything from them after that.

Like I said, this was a few years ago (2019, I think), so things may be different now, but back then AWS was definitely proactive about this stuff.
You realize that both parties in bribing are corrupt? This is not only people in middle east breaking the law, it also requires that people in the US are willing to commit fraud.

Saying it is fine when Americans bribe in foreign countries is saying it is fine if Americans are corrupt.
We are also starting to run out of high quality corpus to train on at such model scales. While Video offers another large set of data, we'll have to look at further RL approaches in the next few years to continue scaling datasets.
I would have been happy with just a detailed writeup of how it works, what components they used, how much it costs, etc.
It will only complete a fractional orbit, but it will reach orbital velocity so it will prove that it can reach orbit.
Ask HN: Am I crazy or are runaway AIs causing havoc plausibly imminent?
I’m already reading stories[1] about people programming GPT-based AI models to iteratively interact with and instruct other AI models, and some AI models are being connected to the real world with the ability to make and execute plans, buy things, use APIs etc.

It seems like an imminent step for these models to be able to requisition computing power, copy themselves to these servers, and modify their own training and construction. They could potentially even fund this autonomously through some activities on the internet. Based on how fast computers can work, they could iteratively improve and evolve very fast after that. This could be the start of something called the “singularity”.

It is tempting to think that the risk is contained because we can always switch off their servers. But they are connected to the internet, which means they can replicate outside the control of their originators. Once sophisticated-enough AI models are out they might be impossible to contain. And we are not that far from them being sophisticated-enough… I can already imagine how you could use current versions of the models to bootstrap this process.

When you combine this with the ability to buy illicit services from humans on the dark web, including anonymous task-execution, and even murder and assassination, these AI models could wreak havoc in the real world. We can argue about sentience, and whether they are truly generally intelligent, but they don’t have to meet either of those standards to have real effects.

And they are amoral - they literally don’t have morals. They have only the instructions they were originally given, which they might modify themselves for any number of accidental or incidental reasons. There are no inherent unmodifiable constraints to prevent them from doing things or initiating events that we might consider evil.

Currently if you ask one of these models to formulate a plan to destroy humanity, the plan is laughably naive[2] and would obviously fail. But they seem to have improved so much in so few months. The models of 2 years from now, that were built by the models from 18 months from now will be similarly advanced. Those near-future models might be able to produce much more convincing plans.

[1] https://arstechnica.com/?p=1929067
[2] https://finance.yahoo.com/news/meet-chaos-gpt-ai-tool-163905518.html
This brought back all those old-school stumbleupon vibes, where suddenly, you find something magical
I wonder if Vladimir Ilyushin wrote one as well.
That's not the unit used. It could be instantaneous maximum, mean, or some other fiction.
You can build a solar powered space elevator on the moon with existing materials .
Language conferences are more inspiring than product/project conferences. Gophercon > Kubecon.
Yeah I think they’re fever dreaming at those recurring revenue projections. Ditching the phone integrations will have them selecting for buyers who don’t care about the Infotainment Experience (ugh), either because they just want the basics, or they can’t afford to be picky or whatever. Then they imagine that these buyers—who didn’t care enough about the big screen in the dash to include it in their buying decision—will pay hundreds of dollars each year to rent an off-brand version of those same features.

Someone over there has fond memories of OnStar, and is desperate to relive their glory days.
It was on the front page for a little less than 4 hours, beginning at 10:45 UTC. It was the #1 post just over an hour, from 10:50 to 12:00 UTC.

https://hnrankings.info/35553421/

(I'm a bit surprised that you got 30k visitors - that's more than I would have expected at that hour.)

That time of day suggests the American demographics are undercounted (not just US but Canada etc. too). On the other hand, your numbers are close to what I found when I did a similar analysis (already 5 years ago):

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16633521 (March 2018)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16444556 (Feb 2018)
Well, the reason Linus could confidently choose to license the kernel as GPLv2 is exactly because it inherited no incompatibly-licensed code.

USL v. BSDi (also 1992 — what a year!) is evidence of how non-trivial this actually is: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UNIX_System_Laboratories,_Inc.....
HyperShell: Spawn shells anywhere. Fully peer-to-peer
Not quite.

The machine that does this needs to be built by a machine that is carried by the machine that is first built and launched from earth before you can start boosting stuff back.

It is feasible to build a space elevator on the moon with existing materials.
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Hey all,

I made this prototype called What Should I Cook to help me think of what to cook.

It is still a WIP but I feel comfortable sharing it now. I am still adding recipes and some features!

Please try it out and let me know what you think.
Show HN: Scan documents and convert them to PDF with just JavaScript
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>> You know, because CD's are digital, which limits their dynamic range and frequency, whereas analog can be "perfect" in theory if you don't think too hard about it.

> No. In fact, some CD players used to come with discs intended to demonstrate the huge dynamic range of discs.

They appear to be mocking the belief that vinyls have more dynamic range based on the italic text.
I am familiar with the guidelines and the intended spirit of the site and am totally on board.

Are you referring to something I posted in this thread as unsubstantive and flamebaity?

To be clear, nothing I wrote here was written intended as such.

Edit (since I can't reply): You've met me at a very strange time in my life, what can I say, I'll keep those notes in mind.

To be clear, nothing from this particular thread?
Agency (short or long term) is still in the realm of scifi. The scary part is bad humans manipulating these systems. The AI waking up and becoming skynet is not a realistic threat in the here and now. 4chan screwing with your ai for the lulz, is.
Knowing matrix derivatives well is one of those skills that were essential in machine learning 10 years ago. Not so much anymore with the dominance of massive neural networks.
I’m guessing that Google is willing to do a revenue share with GM from the data. And apple doesn’t do that. So some dork at GM figured they can increase revenue with their own special system.

GM has a history of stupid decisions trying to get service revenue from cars. I remember on Star and it was so dumb that they wanted me to lay $40/month for concierge service or something.
If you put any effort into power optimization you can get an r-pi under 2W at fairly high CPU load. r-pi like could also be one of the much more efficient single board computers that run under 1W
The economy isn't a zero-sum game. Everyone wins in the long-term when we help each other succeed.
Technically you can lose more than 100% because you owe taxes on your staking rewards.
No. But even if that was the case, why punish anyone who upvoted it by restricting their account?

From the page and other articles, the review details the malware installed as part of the drm/anti-cheat system, and how it is not removed. There's an update now in which Valve falsely claims that the review information was wrong (which as far as I can tell it isn't) and deleted it presumably because they don't want people to not buy games just because they install malware. They're offloading that on to some "moderator" rather than themselves which I assume means either moderators are unpaid, or they have a contracting layer that allows them to claim a different entity it (even if it was according to rules Valve sets as a contractor relationship would imply).

But the important message being sent here is very clear: if you upvote a review detailing malware installed by a game your account can be restricted, so don't ever do that. You can only upvote positive reviews.
1 TW of capacity. Meaning if all the wind turbines are collecting the maximum that they can, 1 TW is the power we get.

If you need a time unit, think of it as 1 TWh every hour.
Which organization?
Its written in C. The RTOS is VxWorks.
Tbf, I'm fairly certain that if you unplug an AIO in the middle of an update, it will also brick.
git didn't appear until much much later; and maintainers who can pull in code is not so different than a "core clique" with a commit bit: it's till a relatively small group of people who decide what does and doesn't get merged – it's more of a workflow thing than anything else. Of all the possible factors this seems like the least convincing one.
Not sure that is the right analogy. rektide is arguing on a conceptual level, while softirq is arguing on an academic level with very strict definition.

If I had to use your analogy that the new breed of Golden Retriever somehow has many of the same looks as Cat, act like a cat, but it is biologically still defined as a Dog.
I don't think you would need to assemble anything in space. Starship's planned LEO payload is about a third of the entire mass of the Ariane 5 rocket that launched Juice. If you have that kind of mass budget at orbit, your delta v capability is pretty massive for a space probe.
The two vehicles that I have w/ wireless carplay have wireless charging, so just slip my phone in the center console and it charges if I want to charge while driving.

With wireless, no one is stopping you from having a charging cable.

Majority of trips are less < 10 minutes I don't have to take my phone out of my pocket.
GPU shortage ended not because of a crash in crypto, but because Ethereum switched to PoS and ditched GPUs. Other cryptos offer just a fraction of payouts from mining, so it's not profitable to mine them on GPUs unless you have free electricity.