skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Starting to think that this could be why Google decided to limit the initial release of Bard to the United States and the U.K.
Too late to edit but I didn't mean "blank" as in no content, that would be pretty pointless. Poor choice of words.
I've collated a few prompt hardening techniques here: https://www.reddit.com/r/OpenAI/comments/1210402/prompt_hard...

In my testing, the trick of making sure untrusted input is not the last thing the user sees was pretty effective.

I agree with Simon that (a) no technique will stop all attacks as long as input can't be tagged as trusted or untrusted, and (b) that we should take these more seriously.

I hope that OpenAI in particular will extend it's chat completions API (and the underlying model) to make it possible to tell GPT in a secure way what to trust and what to consider less trustworthy.
I've thought of writing multi-level story with a story and then pop out but not fully. Like Hofstadter does in one of his GEB chapters.
Feline friends always love it when humans put out nice new warm beds for them! Certainly a warm heated spot in the cold could serve no higher purpose :):

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/outdoor-cats-are-u...
Does this set the precedent for state to ban other apps, and perhaps creating an enforcement department?

Would it be reasonable for the state to demand data from device manufacturers and app stores to see what apps users are running?

Would wealthy organizations be able to get competitor apps banned in return for a payment to the governor?
We've moved most comments to the related ongoing thread:

The FAA has granted SpaceX permission to launch its Starship rocket - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35575298
Ringworld reference?
> 8K@75fps is pretty nice

Apparently only when using their RAW format which costs $979 for a license.

https://store.dji.com/product/dji-inspire-3-raw-license
Despite clicking around quite a bit, I can't figure out what the paid options are, and their pricing. So, yeah, you gotta up those marketing skills.
i was at south padre island for the first starship landing. even though it blew up a minute or two after it landed, i consider it the first landing. i had seen pretty much every major launch from spacex on their livestreams but i was still taken aback at seeing starship. its as odd as watching a skyscraper slowly levitate upward into the sky. and to see it standing after the dust settled was unreal. and after it was over people shuffled away and even i was halfway to my car when we heard the explosion. i thought it was a sonic boom or something and only later realized it had blown up because by that time the landing pad was well out of sight. i got a crazy sunburn.

im not sure if im even going to attempt to see the next launch in person because i think it will be absolutely thronged. finding a hotel room, parking, even a good spot in the grass come launch time. its going to be a fucking mad house. if some people here want to split a hotel room then i might consider it. hotels can really add up because they can scrub or cancel or whatever and youre just stuck there. i think there were a couple scrubs on my last go too. my advice to anyone who goes: bring sunscreen and a really good pair of binoculars and a tripod for the binoculars.
It can’t be that hard to not land it in your launch area right? Can’t they have a separate land and crash area (preferably separated by a few tens of kilometers)?
"Must". Simple assertions over variably subjective ethics won't mean a thing once the AI race really gets going.
> The company operates like all companies - exploitation and shareholder manipulation

I don#t suppose there is any chance you can explain what this means. Shareholder manipulation? What exploitation do you reductively observe?
I mean, the person who is saying this stands accused of murdering him. I would take everything she says with a grain of salt.
yeah, but obviously that would be expensive to find out. Really there should be a law that says creating contracts that remove rights granted by law is itself an illegal act for which there are fines - otherwise there's no reason to not have those contracts and use that to mislead people as to their rights :-/
EU again ensuring no tech company founder will ever stay in EU.
I disagree, but I also respect your position and where you are coming from with this.

As a note, the Meiji-era government thought the practice was anachronistic and depraved. They criminalized self-mummification. The last successful practitioner of that particular sect in Japan accomplished it illegally. https://allthatsinteresting.com/sokushinbutsu
That's not what BART's report says, at all. That is a worst case analysis. The Metropolitan Transportation Commission required all agencies to undertake an unusual analysis using scenarios provided by MTC. The report concludes that BART cannot cut its way to solvency in the given scenarios. The report does not reflect BART's actual projections or plans.
It implies the existence of a mind/thoughts/etc. that transcend the material.
Cats like to sleep on warm surfaces. Starlink antennas are outdoors and warm. Cats sleep on them.
> At first thought a moon of a moon didn’t seem to be possible as the gravity of the moon’s planet would certainly make an orbit around a moon unstable.

No, that's not true. Moons can have moons with stable orbits. Not every moon can, though.

If you think about it, the Moon already orbits Earth which orbits Sun.

Our Moon could have satellites but the issue is that it is lumpy. It is not uniform in density and this causes huge gravitational anomalies which prevent long term stable orbits. If Moon was uniform it could have stable orbits.
I don’t thinks this page is ugly at all.

What more important to me is that it loads quickly.
I'm not sure if most data that these models are trained on is copyrighted, but I feel pretty safe saying that a majority of data that human beings have created is copyrighted. Think movies, books written recently, every website that isn't explicitly "creative commons" or something similar, code that isn't permissively licensed, etc.

We definitely need clarification, but however long the first court case takes there will be an appeal, and then probably several more. So I'm afraid we're going to be living in limbo for at least a decade, which is sort of an answer in of itself since by that time services like this will have become pervasive and will have been integrated into lots of workflows across the planet.

It seems to me that training on MS proprietary code is perfectly legal, but how you acquire that code is probably important. If you are able to decompile the code from your Windows machine and use it for training then that looks A-OK, but if you use Microsoft code that was leaked as part of a hack then maybe that's a different story since you're in possession of stolen property.
According to the flight plan published by SpaceX, the booster is going to attempt a hover in the gulf to simulate a landing, while the Ship isn’t going to slow down at all after reentry and will impact the ocean at a high velocity.
> If someone can plant a listening device like that, why can't they plant an explosive or biological weapon?

Because quiet infiltration is of more value than a violent attack.
If you've ever worked with the kind of organisation where this technique is valuable, you'll understand it's exactly that: fooling people into telling you what they actually need to build, instead of what their Serious Businessperson Cosplay persona tells them they need.
German speaking here. And again we see a blatantly stupid move into the wrong direction. This whole approach of regulating things is totally defensive and makes matters even worse for EU tech companies.

When they initiated GDPR, they claimed to create a level playing field between US based and EU based tech companies, besides of "saving" privacy. It didn't turn out that well, US tech was able to handle the added bureaucracy much better, still collects data in ways the law can't catch up with and already owned pretty much the whole market which put them into an even better position (as in "register/sign in to our platform to not see any banners again" or "let's just completely get rid of cookies and start a powerplay against the competition").

Now the EU is going to make it even harder for EU tech to collect data to base their training sets on. As a EU tech startup, you barely have any chance to collect enough data "officially" so you'd scrape the web which would pretty much be disallowed by such a regulation.

IMHO what would fit into the whole patronizing government approach and would help EU tech is to create an official EU data lake subsidized by tax money with legal security for companies, data of much higher quality than stuff scraped from the web and non-PII data from public authorities. At best, they would also provide heavily subsidized computing for EU companies to execute their training runs on. This could lead to a transparent and high-quality data economy between many different stakeholders and be a real advantage for the location. It would also be much more efficient than every private company creating its own data silo.
2033: Virus that infects battery pack smart wifi connection and then infects phone that it charges
Same to some extent with IMAX Blu-rays. It drives me mad when certain “blockbuster” IMAX disks shift aspect and film stock so quickly, just because… let’s use “IMAX” for some shots... It totally breaks the feel and flow of a movie for me when black bars and film grain suddenly start shifting about and changing. Either film and release it all in IMAX or don’t bother IMO.
I agree with this.

Especially with multi-agent systems (anything to do with people or biology), which are inherently vastly more complex and harder to predict than mechanical systems, it's very important to know the incentives of the people making the statements.

Most often they are overestimating their confidence with the bias toward their own incentives.
I usually become highly aware I’m dreaming when I’m able to kind of float around (not fly, more like low gravity mixed with a near-floor hovering) but the “wow” of it turns into “this is just reality, no big deal” so fast I never get a chance to try to consciously shape the dream.
AGI is not subject to hard constraint—only to being convinced.

This scales linearly with capability.
I think it's because the dishes get warm & cats like to sit on warm things
I love the concept, but I'm extremely skeptical that the dithered PNG images are smaller than a (much nicer looking, but lossy) JPEG. It's fine if that's the aesthetic they're going for, but it doesn't seem like it would reduce the server load...

For the record, one of the 640x480 PNGs is 41 KB, and I just saved an elaborate, full-color (and higher resolution) JPEG at a smaller file size (quality was around 50, I think). The JPEG looks completely fine on my (normal DPI) screen.

Edit: It does look like they scale up the PNGs (at least when I view their site), and lossless images definitely scale better. Maybe that was the motivation.
If you accept that a branch-and-bound chess AI can be creative, do you think that a brute force chess AI, given sufficient time, can be creative? If you do, we simply don't have a definition of creativity in common and that's where the discussion should be headed, and if you don't, then I don't understand what's the point of your example.

My position on the subject is very simple, chess players are assigning meaning and intentions to the chess solution that the machine doesn't understand. A branch and bound search isn't AI, even when you use a neural network to skip a few depths. Just because a human finds it creative doesn't mean that the process actually was.

Humans fundamentally don't and can't use simple vector learning with the input vector being real world data, because humans use metacognition to come up with representations and models even before data for which it is useful exists.

Again, there's no metaphysics here. The most abstract tool I'm using here is that of a concept/idea, and it's not metaphysical at all, it can be understood as a tangible mental pattern. Unlike LLMs, we can create and understand patterns without needing to having seen them anywhere. It's a fundamental difference.
> I think you've missed the point. GP is saying to close the can of worms of reasoning and rationalizing in favor of gut-checking things against childlike simple thinking.

GP is merely pushing their own belief that suicide is not OK. Their line of logic belongs to a self-righteous person that uses cheap rhetoric to claim moral superiority.

> ~everybody

Debatable...

> who isn't clinically depressed or "galaxy-brained"

...And there comes the no true Scotsman.
But do chargers that pretend to be keyboards, and other HID (Human Interface Devices) have to be authorized?
Yeah, it's $30 a year, you need to sign in to be able to subscribe for it though
http://web.archive.org/web/20230414172303/https://www.econom...
A sufficiently malicious, motivated, and suicidal (or misled) actor absolutely could use an explosive or biological weapon to attack an airport, essentially regardless of the on-premises security posture. For explosives, one would simply detonate their bomb IN the security line on a busy day. For biologicals, one would simply infect themselves first, then spend the day at the airport waiting for a plane. I continue to be baffled why we don't hear more of such attacks.
You ever get the feeling that C should be grouped with all the XML and (semantic) web technologies the W3C no longer has active working groups for?

Maybe combine them to make a Spring-like framework, but for C?

Long standing non-changing specs and standards should be married, and with children.
How would you get ahold of a 6 foot tall charging kiosk and what would you do with it or prove to someone at the airport that it was the culprit? Especially since the "juicer" could be s small skimmer overlaid on top of a legit charger that's been removed since you last used it.
I believe in a God outside of this simulation.
It was the most logical one with the data available at that moment. More data were added later leading to a better understanding of the case.

I understand why the police would feel the urge to advertise themselves and say "See? We are smarter than all of those people so we deserve the money", but mocking people that tried to help because their first assumptions were wrong, is not the more productive way to spend their time. People does not have a diviner ball.
> We are talking about spaces that are crawling with security and surveillance

For some of these outlets, you need a screwdriver, a compromised replacement outlet, and 30 seconds. Maybe a friend and some luggage to block cameras.

I have no knowledge into the internal workings of airport security, but I doubt this is a threat they're worried about or looking for. No amount of cameras help with that.
The old Europe was good for the elite, because they were on top of the world. Ordinary people left Europe in masses, because life was supposed to be better in America and elsewhere. The big change was WW2, after which European countries started focusing more on the economy and quality of life and less on fighting destructive wars at home.
They will either write something workable, or this endeavor will fail, and they will go back to the tried and true.
I would look at my hands in lucid dreams and they would appear in extreme detail, as if I could comprehend both its general form as well as every single grove in my fingerprints. I’m pretty sure I tried to turn them over and was able to see all around them.

One thing I find fascinating about dreaming is that it seems that the dream wants to prevent you from staying lucid. When I become aware that I am dreaming I “wake up” and start going about my day, only to realise I am still dreaming, at which point I “wake up” again, and this cycle continues. This is a perceptual barrier that can be broken through, at which point you instantly gain hyper awareness awareness and control over you dream.
Maybe they’ll pull an MS and go straight to GPT X
Also the cost of it for the contractor is just passed onto the consumer/client if they’re doing business “right”.

I used to work at HD supply hardware store (store targeting commercial contractors) and there isn’t even price tags on the items at all. Stuff is super expensive but all that stuff is baked into contract budgets
With a beautiful full frame sensor, lens mount and the carbon fibre bodied lenses all there, it would be a shame if they didn't start making a really light camera body with them, something on the Leica-Fujifilm spectrum (Although I guess they have that thanks to their Hasselblad acquisition). It would likely have great potential as a travel camera if they pushed the lightweight aspect
Yes! https://www.shutterstock.com/image-photo/hainan-china-januar...
That's a pretty common example, and most systems I've seen would catch that as prompt injection. Like you said, it'll be caught in the 95% coverage systems.

"Here’s one thing that might help a bit though: make the generated prompts visible to us."

Other than their growth and market exposure, that might be the only unique thing a lot of these companies have that are using gpt3.5/4 as the backed, or any foundational model.

I get that and find it frustrating too, lack of observability using LLM tools. But we also don't see the graph database running on ads connecting friends of friends on social networks... and how recommendation systems and building the recommendation.
I'm trying to build the same Rust program for Linux, Windows, and MacOS.
Cross-compiling isn't the hard part. Rust can make Windows executables on Linux. Making an installer is. Most of the installer builders only run on Windows and use Microsoft components. "Inno", an ancient freeware program, will run under Wine. But it outputs an old-style .exe installer, not a newer .msi installer.

Packaging for Linux isn't much better. There's .deb, for which you need a "repository". There are "snaps", which is Canonical's scheme for getting developers under control of their App Store. There was Flatpak, but Canonical is trying to kill that off. There's AppImage, but the code to build those hasn't been updated in two years. There's always .zip files.

Not sure how to package for MacOS yet.
Is there anyone in the UK who doesn't drink regularly?

Where I live almost every day after work some colleagues regularly grab a beer.
That sounds gnarly. This was in Western New Hampshire
Can't they just jump into one of the thousands of new high paying jobs that have been created for their specific niche in the last few months? I am having trouble being sympathetic to AI researchers that AI is exploding.
> It's important to keep in mind that most of us sit not far from the middle of the bell curve. Most people are, by mathematical definition, close to average, as skill distribution is not from Taleb’s Extremistan.

Is this true? Why should I believe it? Certainly unclear to my sub-average brain why it's a "mathematical definition." I'd call it an empirical fact, but has anyone bothered to measure? Logically speaking, the curve's hump could be biased one direction or the other, or bi-modal, or whatever else...

Also unclear to me why it follows that "top of the curve" people can't explain things to their lessors. Sure some may not possess that skill, but you're telling me there aren't good teachers/tutorials out there? My brain's too soft, so pack it up? Seems presumptious.

Anyway the message of "know yourself and your limitations" is fine and well.

PS. Thanks for noticing I'm a tad above average, statistically speaking!
Europa Clipper, which weighs about the same, is planned to make the same trip in five and a half years, and could have done it in less than three if it had launched on SLS:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Europa_Clipper#Launch_and_traj...

Ariane 5 is not particularly powerful as interplanetary launchers go.
> But then I can't use sizeof() if I pass that buffer into a function via a pointer.

Obviously, this isn't necessarily an improvement, but in theory you could do this:

size_t getlength( int m, char (*p) [m] ) { return sizeof *p; }

where you'd be calling it like this:

char mystring[] = "Hello";
getlength( sizeof mystring, &mystring )

But then you're back in "having to pass the length as a separate parameter" territory, I guess. (but at least it's the length of the array here, not just the zero-terminated component, which is what you wanted).
Certain company is trying to normalize interpolated frames in games which makes even less sense as it introduces latency but latency is like the main reason to want high frame rate in the first place. Almost exactly the same as SLI/crossfire. More frames overall but they come so late...
why not lock replies in such threads to being non-repliable? its not the initial comments or the replies but the giant argument chains that are the problem. or you could allow arguments but offload them to twitter spaces or another real-time platform thats well-suited to such nonsense.
Kind of, yeah, it is. In high end film/video gear, you know you're always getting over charged for anything. So this is one of those, just think, you could be paying more situations. Some of that pricing for hardware does tend to make a difference in quality in how rugged and durable something is to survive the rough and tumble environment of a production set. Can it survive the multiple remove from case, build, use, tear down, throw back in case, survive cases being tossed around like they are luggage loading onto an airline all in on day for each company move on the schedule and still be usable the next time you use it. This is software only type of pricing that is ridiculous
I remember Elon saying that flight test 1 would attempt to do a soft touchdown in the water.
I don't think the concern was the power...

If the usb charger outlets being sent to a very federally regulated airports and installed without detection for many years are compromised at the factory, how am I to trust the USB charger I buy at a gas station or Amazon?
Belts Better Than Chains on Bicycles [video]
George Eliot’s Marriage Plot
You would need to build a second tower with catch arms there. The booster does not have landing legs and will not touch down on the ground, the plan is to have it settle on the same "tower arms" that are used as a crane to stack the booster and the ship for launch, with engines still well above ground.
I doubt the USB data lines on a portable charger are connected to anything. When did you last update the firmware for your charger?
> the American Veterinary Medical Association recommends keeping cats indoors to avoid dangers associated with diseases, parasites, cars, attacks from other animals, poisons and extreme weather

Now it’s not only children but cats too? I grew up in a location where cats could go anywhere they pleased (in or outside), and it’s really strange to me that some countries recommend or require them to always be inside.
I bet they’re not saying how big of a model GPT-4 is because it’s actually much smaller we would expect.

ChatGPT is IMO a heavily fine-tuned Curie sized model (same price via API + less cognitive capacity than even text davinci-003) so it would make sense that a heavily fine-tuned Davinci sized model would yield similar results to GPT-4.
Hehe. I actually had a thought around the same lines a few days ago.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35516757

And what probably gives us awareness or consciousness is the multiple GPT like structures running in parallel. It really does make me wonder if we are really close to true AGI. It does feel like it.

Very exciting times! Just hope we don't end up doing a Terminator.
You just file a complaint with the DMV and they will investigate.

https://oag.ca.gov/consumers/general/cars