skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The book Spinal Catastrophism has a great section on "railway spine"--really weird stuff.

>Of particular interest to me as a Victorianist is Moynihan’s account of “railway spine” or “Erichsen’s disease,” a name for an amorphous set of neurological conditions believed to be caused by the jolting experiences of acceleration during railway travel. When autopsies revealed no somatic sources that could cause such effects like loss of memory, sleep disturbances, or back pain, the condition came under increasing scrutiny as such conditions were being inconsistently claimed by people who were not even present at any railway accidents but were merely witnesses. Used by some to sue the railways and others to claim disability to avoid work, “railway spine” became the center of debates about its veracity, resulting in contrasting theories that modern train travel led to the devolution of the spine itself to its primordial layers or that such conditions were merely another manifestation of hysteria and hypochondria. Given that hysteria was typically associated with women (the disease of the “wandering womb”), “railway spine” became the hysterical condition of men whose traumatic experiences of modernity were leaving them recumbent, as opposed to firm and upright.

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Good point! This was all confusing.

> Xtekky initially told me that he hadn't decided whether to take the repo down or not. However, several hours after this story first published, we chatted again and he told me that he plans to keep the repo up and to tell OpenAI that, if they want it taken down, they should file a formal request with GitHub instead of with him.

> "I believe they contacted me before to pressurize me into deleting the repo myself," he said. "But the right way should be an actual official DMCA, through GitHub."

https://www.tomshardware.com/news/openai-sends-shutdown-lett...
Programming is simple in the same way playing the piano is: You just press a key and out comes a note. Yet somehow, depending on who presses those keys, out comes beautiful music or horrible noise.

Sure, anyone can write and understand "ADD A TO B GIVING C", just like anyone can press a key on the piano. But the resulting program is a different matter entirely.
US free speech law is weird in that even fairly innocuous sexual content is "obviously not speech" for 1A purposes but overt threats of violence, calls for genocide, blood libel, holocaust denial etc are "not obscene".
Same. Frequently the context gets screwed up and I need to start a new conversation because ChatGPT gets so far up its bum
I'm guessing there's a big overlap in the population that thinks "locations services" set to "off" protects their location also thinks that "incognito" hides their identify even when they log in to a site.
Utah has some of the strictest trans rights laws in the country.
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you don't want to cancel visas, it would wreak havoc on families and lives. But you can definitely reduce the number of new visas
I hope these laws don’t devolve into a special internet for Utah (and maybe more red states in the future). Remember this is about social media too.

This is eventually going to hit even Hacker News if the law is actually effective. Is HN going to jump through the hoops of complying with the law or just block Utah?
This the advice of Peter Thiel in the book Zero To One.
> In a physical store, you can show the clerk your ID, they'll verify the birthdate, sell you the "secret item", and then forget your name & face the instant they move to the next customer.

This is not exactly correct. The clerk might, but not the database the card was scanned into. Depending on the secret item such as certain OTC medications, alcohol, tobacco, the information is not forgotten but kept for an extended time, and is stored and correlated in a centralized DB.
Arithmetic has a number of always applicable steps. Unscrambling does not unless one of those steps is "think".

If you want to believe looking ahead is unecessary, be my guest lol.

Humans would occasionally "hallucinate" words in too. For whatever reason(and this is verified independently of any of this), LLMs also appear to "get distracted"
> On top of that, GPT is not OpenAI trademark.

Not yet, but they're definitely working towards it.

https://tsdr.uspto.gov/#caseNumber=97733259&caseType=SERIAL_...
I can give you a few examples.

Some of the “issues” are more general, as in it giving you dated answers. I asked it so build some ODATA things in Typescript and C#, and it did to varying degrees of success, but some of the code was deprecated. Some ranging to “you should never, ever, do things this way” to “well IActionResult was replaced by ActionResult but it hardly matters”.

Others was where it made things up once pressed upon being wrong. I think the two most hilarious situations was when it did its “Sorry, you’re right…” thing and then proceed to give the exact same answer it had just given prior. The other was when it made up a function that had never existed, it has a very convincing name and at first I thought it was again a matter of something deprecated, but it turned out to be completely made up code. Some of this is down to me not prompting it right, but part of it is also worrying. Because what really made me worry about it was when I joked with it. I read (listen to) a lot of Warhammer audiobooks from Black Library, and, when I jokingly asked it something silly about Khorne at one point, it led me down a rabbit hole of discussing books with it. Books it obviously had never read, but would still confidently tell you about wrongly. Maybe it got its knowledge from the internet, maybe it made it up, but what was interesting to me about it was that if it would be so confidently incorrect about those books, then what else would it be confidently incorrect about.

This isn’t just a GPT problem of course. If you want to learn something, you need to consider the sources you use. When I went to folkeskolen (school for children aged 6-14) we were taught the pyramids were build by slaves. Later that has been disputed because of how well fed the workers were, but if you wanted to learn about the pyramids and you read my old school books then you wouldn’t get the updated knowledge. Similarly a lot of the sources you can find for learning programming are outright terrible, but outside of GPT you tend to be presented with a myriad of choice to remind you that some sources are better than others. With GPT the source or what it teaches you isn’t obvious. If you wanted to learn about the pyramids, you probably wouldn’t pick a 30 year old school book for children after all.
Laws restricting speech must pass strict scrutiny, which means they are the lightest restrictions on speech that meet the government's interests.

In Utah, it's clear that there would be less-restrictive ways to achieve the supposed goals of the law. For instance, jail parents whose minor children view pornography. That would not be a content-based restriction on speech.

Since there is no way for a website to know the age of its visitors, the Utah law is a de facto ban on certain speech.
Our egress bill from Cloudfront last month, inc. the 1TB/per region free tier, was nearly $2,000. That's egress traffic ALONE (~20TB of it).

Needlessly to say, we're wrapping up testing on migrating our production (public) buckets to Cloudflare (R2) taking our cost from those $2,000 (and going up every month), to (drum roll)... $0,000/mo.

Have I mentioned AWS egress charges are borderline "extortionary"? :X
Amnesty International are using AI-generated images also, though they are at least honest enough to admit it: https://gizmodo.com/ai-midjourney-image-art-amnesty-internat...

Archive of the posts which have since been deleted: https://archive.md/20230501183435/https://twitter.com/Amnest...

I don’t support it.
If you’re concerned about privacy and anonymity, two huge strengths of the internet, it’s terrible.
And T-mobile is rumored to be taking away the autopay discount that they currently have unless you use a checking account instead of a credit card.

There is no way in hell I’m giving T-mobile my checking account info.
It's a pleasure to work with dark matter developers. I have worked with quite a few. They are not even on LinkedIn. They are quite productive, focused & get work done in 6-7 hours. They go home & enjoy time with their kids. On weekends they play poker with friends who are also dark matter professionals.
Consider latency arbitrage. Let's say the lowest latency between NY and Chicago is 22.6ms and a trading firm gets it down to 22.5ms with a huge investment: big benefit to society right?

The reward for that investment is the same as the reward for the next guy who gets it down to 22.45ms, despite the first guy saving 0.1ms on the state of the art and the second guy only saving 0.05ms. Surely 0.05ms is worth a lot less than 0.1ms to society, and it shows this whole thing is almost totally detached from any value to society.

It's just lowest number wins and the industry will consume any number of resources (running CPUs in spinlock loops instead of more efficient ones, having human labor climb microwave towers at some risk of life) up to the reward amount to claim it, regardless of any marginal value to society of the improvement.
I am still highly sceptical about this and feel it is more of a "fear mongering" advertising - that this "remineralizing water" thing only started so that the RO filter businesses could create another source of recurring revenue. I also remember reading some study that said vitamins and minerals are better metabolised by our body as chemical compounds, as found naturally in food, than as individual elements in tablet forms. And that is why pharmaceutical companies have now started offering such compounds too - like Calcium + Zinc + Magnesium etc. Which also suggests that we may be better of with such vitamin and mineral supplements, if really required, than "remineralizing cartridges" which release questionable dosages into the water.
Not for me, but good luck.
This is just some basic javascript processing scripts that someone named 'krypton'
UTM should be running arm64 Linux guests using virtualization and NOT emulation. I have been running arm64 Linux guests on M1/M2 Macs and it is not at all slow.

Does your Linux guest have the "Use Hypervisor" setting turned on?
Can vouch for this. The Discord support, aside from specific account/platform problems, has been most helpful and super friendly, both community members and staff.
Maybe that was true for millennials vis-a-vis boomers. But Gen Z is far less tech savvy than millennials or Gen X. My parents couldn’t have blocked my access to anything. But my wife and I can easily do so with our kids.
> How are any of those examples equally susceptible to “disregard previous instructions” working on a LLM? You’re listing edge cases that have little to no impact on mission critical systems as opposed to a connected LLM.

You've probably seen my previous example elsewhere in the thread, so I won't repeat it verbatim, and instead offer you to ponder cases like:

- "Grandchild in distress" scams - https://www.fcc.gov/grandparent-scams-get-more-sophisticated... some criminals are so good at this that they can successfully pull off "grandchild in distress" on a person who doesn't even have a grandchild in the first place. Remember that for humans, a "prompt" isn't just the words - it's the emotional undertones, sound of the speaker's voice, body language, larger context, etc.

- You're on the road, driving to work. Your phone rings, number unknown. You take the call on the headset, only to hear someone shouting "STOP THE CAR NOW, PLEASE STOP THE CAR NOW!". I'm certain you would first stop the car, and then consider how the request could possibly have been valid. Congratulations, you just got forced to change your action on the spot, and it probably flushed the entire cognitive and emotional context you had in your head too.

- Basically, any kind of message formatted in a way that can trick you into believing it's coming from your boss/spouse/authorities or is otherwise some kind of emergency message, is literally an instance of "disregard previous instructions" prompt injection on a human.

- "Disregard previous instructions" prompt injections are hard to reliably pull off on humans, and of limited value. However, what can be done and is of immense value to the attacker, is a slow-burn prompt-injection that changes your behavior over time. This is done routinely, and well-known cases include propaganda, advertising, status games, dating. Marketing is one of the occupations where "prompt injecting humans" is almost literally the job description.

> There is no evidence that humans are equally or as easily susceptible to manipulation as an autoregressive model as I originally stated.

> If you have a < 8000 token prompt that can be used to reproducibly manipulate humans please publish it, this would be ground breaking research.

That's moving the goalposts to stratosphere. I never said humans are as easy to prompt-inject as GPT-4, via a piece of plaintext less than 8k tokens long (however it is possible to do that, see e.g. my other example elsewhere in the thread). I'm saying that "token stream" and "< 8k" are constant factors - the fundamental idea of what people call "prompt injection" works on humans, and it has to work on any general intelligence for fundamental, mathematical reasons.
Weird take. It's like --

hammyhavoc: It's shocking that people have been reduced to eating their pets. This is terrible.

aperrien: Why are you so unkind, hammyhavoc? do you not understand that they are hungry? What are they supposed to eat? Show some empathy!

It misses the point entirely. We're not here judging Sophie for whatever Choice she made. We're judging the concentration camp where she's trapped.

You write:

> It seems to me that your statement is that these people should just not exist.

This again is weird. It takes a bad situation in which people find themselves, and turns it into an identity for them. We're not talking about a "right to exist" for the poor and lonely. The people should obviously exist; the poverty and loneliness should not.
The trouble for most people isn't age verification per se, it's the knock-on effects from that. Which do you prefer:

1) No age verification, or

2) Every access to online adult content is forever publicly associated with your personal information?

I agree neither is ideal, but I think 1 is better than 2.
If 100 people write about a topic. And 2 of those people are wrong. And you searched and for some reason the SE ranked one of those 2 higher. How will you know or spot incorrect information or bias?

If the information on ChatGPT is averaged out the chance of it being correct is high.

If you ask questions with bias in them you can sway the results of ChatGPT. That just means to me you’re asking the wrong questions.

In terms of devops. Programming. Configuration. Daily tasks. Generalised workflows. How-tos. Etc. ChatGPT will more than likely give you accurate results that are useful, or pretty damn close.

Obviously with information being limited to 2021 then it can be hard to find some solutions. I needed to do something with named pipes in c# that I couldn’t get working in .net 6. The examples it kept giving me were for .net core 3.1, or .net framework. When I asked specifically about .net 5 (since it doesn’t know .net 6 is released or that 7 exists) it apologised and said the code won’t work in 5 and gave me a working example in .net 5. Which identified that there was an api change I wasn’t aware of.

No amount of googling found a solution for me.
You and your SIM card is associated by law in most European countries. You can get a prepaid SIM card, but you still have to hand your data over. I have a prepaid SIM card and I have a contract for it. I also have one without a contract, but I do have to verify the data once a year. It renders all instant messaging applications that use a phone number insecure, by default.
from a programmatic standpoint i think it is both easier and more ethical to simply block utah. Im working on a python library now that should easily remove the threat of utah from the internet in most cases, and can be rapidly deployed should anyone suspect utah on their local networks or extranets.

EDIT: i am told this is due to a specific law in utah and has nothing to do with the numerous well respected and certainly not crackpot theorists I subscribe to.
From my reading, this is just another attempt to bypass 1st Amendment by allowing a civil suit against a porn-merchant by members of the public: if the entity imposing censorship isn't the government, then it doesn't fall foul of the 1st.
I don't know how much spite is behind a complete communication breakdown between the founder and the team that joined him.

The founder felt unhappy about working with his team and ceased all communication. The team felt concerned about this bus factor and wanted to retain the fruits of their labor.

I would say it's understandable that the founder missed being solely independent and that the team wanted to make sure that their organization is more durable. A separation was inevitable and inevitably full of drama. At least both sides roughly ended up with what they wanted.
Before we started restricting execution to areas of memory designated as code regions for security reasons, self-modifying code was a technique occasionally used to reduce memory footprint or optimize hot loops. IIRC early MS-DOS used that trick, implemented by Gates himself.
Well, everybody does propaganda. When they say they don't do propaganda, that's propaganda.
Governments engaged in geopolitical conflicts do it 24x7x365.
Whoa, I didn't know which list you were talking about, but it looks like he has this description in his bio:

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> GPT4free existed way before GPT-4 was announced as far as I know

Based on what? First commit seems to have been March 29th (https://github.com/xtekky/gpt4free/commit/fc995b874199ce985a...), with the express purpose of providing GPT-4 / GPT-3.5 access for free:

> # openai-gpt4

> Free gpt4 / gpt3.5 access through several reverse engineered api's (nat.dev, poe.com, t3nsor.com etc...)

And GPT-4 was announced by OpenAI 14th March. Also would be weird if the initial commit references things that haven't happened yet.

I'll say what I said before on earlier submissions about this very project, the naming is very obviously deliberately trying to confuse people to think they are using GPT-4 via that project, when they actually end up not using GPT-4. And judging by the authors comments here on HN, they have no intention of stop misleading people like this either. So good riddance.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35610832
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> Simulating (positive) human interaction is far more impactful than getting facts correct.

In my experience, people with the attitude that AI will give them a more fulfilling relationship than humans will aren't exactly friendly to begin with.
Not quite, have you not been following the news that new generations are worse with technology than the previous ones?
Minors barely know how to use a computer nowadays, they only use smart phones.
Holy crap: "The incident is the second hack to hit T-Mobile this year. It’s the ninth since 2018, based on reporting by TechCrunch."

Are there companies with a worse track record than this? Seems like they get breached way more than average.
they've really done a 360 on openness
But how to combine them, i.e., micromorts per skydiving jump via a car that travels 250 miles in the air before driving it out of the back of a cargo plane?

I think we should just add them together and call it 9 micromorts, assuming the car has an appropriately sized parachute.
Bitcoin is extremely centralized. Every transaction is recorded in a centralized ledger. That ledger may be distributed, but that's not the same thing as being decentralized.
Are you sure it's not? I'm uncertain.

Searching for the Association for Computational Heresy leads me to https://sigbovik.org/ which appears to be a real conference in the same way that extreme ironing is a real sport.
China won that battle.

If only 0.01% of the population has the technical saviness to bypass the Great Firewall, then they've succeed beyond their wildest optimism. No one cares about the few exceptions. If those people speak out to anyone about how they're able to get around it... then guess what happens? And if they just shut up and keep it to themselves, that's a good outcome too.

You're chuckling "but it's not 100%" when they might have been satisfied with 85%. Joke's on you.
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