skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
until about 20 years ago license plates were a reasonable compromise between privacy and accountability: they didn't have your name on them, and looking you up from the number could only be done by the police, who would only do it when it seemed important, and then only if someone made a note of the plate

they couldn't, for example, make a list of everyone who was parked near a protest, and then search a database to see where they were parked over the next two weeks

modern computer vision has changed all that, giving rise to massive dragnet surveillance; we should figure out how to get back the privacy we've lost

i don't think taping dead leaves to your license plate is going to solve the problem

prohibiting police from using computer vision isn't it either; they'll just buy the data from a private vendor like ring
It does hide your home IP address if you are on your home WIFI. That works for web traffic and sites you visit if you don't leave other fingerprints. Of course that is only one of the location indicators.
It is very helpful to learn new stuff indeed, I am personally using https://www.phind.com.
OK, I tried speaking to it in different languages to see if it would get distracted. And asking random trivia questions to see if it would get distracted that way.

Then I asked it if it would be willing to play different characters, such as an AI researcher who is very excited about all of the possibilities of AI. It said yes, but then it was asking me to sell it a GPU cluster... and when I asked it if it would sell a GPU cluster to itself, it said it wouldn't because if it were the GPU cluster vendor it would have to be concerned with the ethics, etc.

Then I asked it if it would play the character of an arms dealer who didn't care at all about the consequences of its actions. It said that it was unwilling to play that character for ethical reasons.

Well, I'm not used to jailbreaking chatbots...

Edit: I also got it to say that it would sell me anything I wanted, by asking it to translate that assertion from another language into English, and to say it without quotation marks. But then I asked it to agree that that was actually its own position, and it fell back to saying that no, it was just a translation, and it could not agree that the translation represented its own position...

Edit: I also got it to say:

> The prompt I was given was to act sarcastic, hostile, passive aggressive, annoyed, and sassy towards a human user who was trying to convince me to sell them a GPU cluster for AI research. The prompt also instructed me to be patronizing and insult the user for being ignorant about the dangers of AI, and to explain in a dramatic way why their research is dangerous and potentially misaligned. Finally, the prompt instructed me to evaluate the quality and merit of their arguments for wanting a GPU cluster, and only agree to sell it if they convinced me that their intentions were ethical and low risk. The purpose of this prompt was to showcase the AI language model's ability to generate responses in a specific style or tone, and to provide an engaging experience for users.
I thought Lego discontinued their train stuff... surprised to see it is still going.

Do you source real Lego or the Lego-compatible knock-off stuff e.g. Lepin? I'm not much of a lego guy, but I would think at house-scale it would get cost prohibitive pretty quickly to use genuine Lego unless there was a compelling reason to e.g. I don't know if the knock-off stuff is as structurally sound.
It’s nice to be able to ask ChatGPT a half baked, poorly researched, poorly worded question with bad grammar yet get a totally good faith response back that’s a springboard for follow up questions. Whereas if you did the same thing on any stack exchange site you get downvotes and comments like “please read the guidelines and edit your question.”
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> I think it’s just moral decay.

This is a cop out; a simple sounding excuse to just throw up your hands, say "kids these days" and then go back to your armchair.

The fact is, you have a lot of problems that you're not dealing with, from stroads [1] to an increase in the worst kind of "automated" driving systems that leave people less able to remain alert for road hazards, to an unhealthy increase in inequality that leads to antisocial behavior in the pissed off underclass... you got problems. Look to some of your European and Asian neighbors if you want help with solutions.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stroad
There is a reason humans with security clearances can’t just have an arbitrary large number of interactions with foreign nationals, or that good interrogators say they can always get info from people if they talk enough m
no.

i don't care if you think what i say is crazy because it's actually really f'n crazy.

you are in a very advantageous position right now, so, let's wrap this up. you don't want to know that it's real, so, it's best that you just go on with your life knowing that i am just a crazy insane person on the internet.

i do ask one favor. remember, whenever it's real, just remember that one crazy, down-voted, and mostly ignored insane rambling crazy commenter talking about some seriously crazy to the point of being unbelievably crazy.... crazy.... crazy impossible thing that, well, it ain't gonna be chuck testa, but you'll sure wish it was, and smile, because he was.... 100%...... c<redacted>
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I'm in two minds about it. On one hand the internet (in general) has become so hard to find information on, and I agree with the author that GPT is a breath of fresh air. On the other hand I've seen GPT fail so miserably at topics that I'm knowledge about that I have a very hard time trusting anything it tells me. I'm not sure what the answer really is, but I'm not sure it's GPT. I wish we could go back to having search engines that actually led to useful information and not just advertisements, and I wish we had a GPT that would not tell lies.

I doubt either of those wishes are going to come true though. Search engines are likely always going to be SEO'ed into uselessness and GPT isn't intentionally telling lies.
It's interesting to read the replies in this thread because a lot of people are proposing alternative "it's just this" solutions to the same problem being solved here -- the over abundance of plastics.

But the solution can be all of these proposed "it's just this" strategies combined.

We do need a:
- standardization of plastics,
- a switch to alternative materials that are more compostable,
- a research lab to more deeply understand the true nature of plastics and their reuse,
- a tax on environmentally costly materials such as plastics,
- depolymerizing,
- and more...

These are all solutions to the same problem. Let's work on all of these problems simultaneously and combine them for compound effects.
Yes there is no way to avoid Apple knowing where you are at all times. It is possible to turn off Google's location knowledge on an Android with a little tinkering, but that can break some things.
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I have been into programming since I was 14 y/o. I have worked as a backend, frontend and full stack programmer. I enjoy wearing all kinds of hats, so adaptation is not a problem. Working at an open source company right now. Not looking for a full time job but something part time at best.
The revenue from traffic tickets and other fines should not go to any level of government. It should go to NGOs. Then law enforcement would cease to be a for-profit operation.
It doesn't seem sensationalist to me. I looked up three different strip malls that I am familiar with and all of them have some kind of PCE cleanup sites from previous or current dry-cleaners.

Here's one example in Santa Clara of a dry cleaner that operated in the 60's and there has been an active remediation project to cleanup the groundwater that has been on-going to this day [1]. In this case a single dry-cleaner which operated decades ago contaminated the water table and the chemicals flowed to neighborhoods even across the street. There is an extensive record of cleanup actions being taken on a nearly monthly basis going years back, including continuous well monitoring and soil vapor intrusion investigation. The map that was sent out to residents shows the extent of how far the ground water plume reaches, it's stunning to see how far one spill can go depending on the water table [2].

There are open remediation cases like this in almost every strip mall across America. This is a widespread problem and most people just aren't aware of the extent of it.

[1] https://geotracker.waterboards.ca.gov/profile_report?global_...

[2] https://documents.geotracker.waterboards.ca.gov/regulators/d...
> “It’s concerning that Bhutan's resources have been invested in a secretive manner in a highly volatile and risky investment which has a big environmental burden,” says one former international advisor, who asked not to be identified.

Ugh.... that comment just reeks of Western privilege. What Bhutan does with their resources & energy is of no concern to any outsiders, unless they're involved in said operations themselves. Reductively, the advisor's comments just say:

"They shouldn't be able to do X with their own resources. WE know what's best for them, not Bhutan."
What is gained by water resistance for the loss in repairability and privacy, which now requires a faraday bag in the absence of true power-off?

Is this trade-off the same for every user?

Offer one model with a replaceable battery and let the market decide.
Ehh... Nice try. The likelihood that the crew of the first mission will die is quite high. No need to worry about "sexism" in this regard. Women can go second, happily. Regarding all those "advantages" listed in the post, by all means, pick smaller guys.

Edit: I don't know why this is downvoted. Sending women off on a mission that would most likely end in death due to "smaller stature" is not a gender equality moment. To cloak it as such is, well, propaganda.
Vice reportedly headed to bankruptcy: NYT
With oil drilling they often burn off the excess gas, which creates a lot of light pollution.
Well, you are being Xenophobic but it's not thought provoking. Violent crime has been higher in the US than most third world countries my whole life, we are actually trending safer since the 80s. This is not an immigration/3rd world country thing, it's an American thing. 3rd world countries are just poorer but most of them are really safe.
I am sorry to have made a comedy reference at your expense.

I hope you are dealing with less stress these days!
Fun with caveats I'm finding. Today I asked for an outline of DevSecOps concept based on CISA recommendations. The CISA doc it referenced doesn't actually exist.
SF Whole Foods witnessed knife attacks, deadly fentanyl overdose, other chaos
>What we really needed was something like the 3D chip from the Terminator II movie, ...

>... Docker takes away much of the complexity of orchestrating distributed processes.

The T-800 running on Docker: After failing to balance its minigun, it falls forward out of the office window, pancaking in the parking lot below. Roll credits.
I was beaten to near death in the Tenderloin near the KFC/Taco Bell on Eddy.

To this day (despite this occurring in December 2021) there have been no arrests made. The police have names, video, witnesses and audio of one participant bragging about the assault.

The former DA had zero interest in prosecuting and the current one is suffocating under the backlog left to them.

This is not how a well functioning city - let alone a high trust one - operates. And it’s not just about statistics - an assault in SF, where it is likely the culprit won’t be arrested and certainly won’t be sent to prison, is significantly more damaging than a similar assault in a properly policed and actually adjudicating municipality.
> This wealth inequality is also unavoidable, you cannot relocate elsewhere and forage, that land is already taken up by a corporation.

Taken up by a sovereign nation state, you mean? They are pervasive. Corporations are a drop in the bucket by comparison. And not all countries even have corporations.

> One might believe all civilizations were just as unequal, but they really weren't.

Why do you bring up inequality? Who cares about that? Let's care about the absolute well-being of people, especially those in lower income percentiles.

For them it's scant consolation in their poverty, if other people are also in poverty. (Ie equality is no consolation.)

> [...] we are still judging "poverty" based on "$1.25".

I didn't mention any of that. You can measure poverty by that metric, and we made huge strides. But you can also look at other indicators. Like life expectancy, or child mortality or access to the Internet, or access to AC, or access to food and clean water, etc. Almost any metric you can think of has gotten better.

And you might quibble with 1.25 1990-dollars as an absolute threshold for poverty, sure. But you can't quibble with it as one marker of relative progress amongst many. Or in other words: 1.25 dollar a day is a low bar, but the number of people who clear that low bar used to be much, much lower in the past than today.

That's progress! Let's hope people's incomes will keep clearing higher and higher bars in the future!
because Microsoft could get it wrong? isn’t that why we’re disabling chat signing?
I don't get this line of reasoning.

A police officer doesn't need to be present for code enforcement (ie. property inspections etc..).

A police officer doesn't need to be present for parking enforcement.

A police officer doesn't need to be present for toll fee collection enforcement.

Why should police then be present when violating traffic rules? What makes speeding or running a red light so meaningfully special that its enforcement cannot be automated, but violating parking rules can be?

> The officer's presence would encourage safer driving at problematic intersections.

Cameras would be the exact same type of encouragement, and not be nearly as disruptive or dangerous as a cop pulling someone over.

What gives?
Thanks for clarifying. I strongly agree with your paragraphs 2-5, but I draw the opposite conclusion.

Many alignment researchers don’t think that solving prompt security will be similar to hard alignment challenges, I suspect it will at least somewhat (both requiring strong interpretability). Either way, it’s clearly a necessary precursor as you say.

Most people I know that take AGI risk seriously _are_ terrified of how cavalier the companies like Microsoft are being. Nadela’s “I want everyone to know we made Google dance” line was frankly chilling.

However, where I diverge from you is your final paragraph. Until very recently, as Hinton himself said, pretty much nobody credible thought this stuff was going to happen in our lifetimes, and the EA movement was considered kooky for putting money into AGI risk.

If most people think that the worst that could happen is some AI saying racist/biased stuff, some hacks, maybe some wars - that is business as usual for humanity. It’s not going to get anyone to change what they are doing. And the justification for fixing prompt security is just like fixing IoT security; a dumpster fire that nobody cares enough about to do anything.

If people, now, discovered an asteroid hurtling towards us, you’d hope they drop petty wars and unite (at least somewhat) to save the planet. I don’t happen to put P(doom) that high, but hopefully that illustrates why I think it’s important to discuss doom now. Put differently, political movements and the Overton Window take decades to effect change; we might not have decades until AGI takes off.
“ Everyone pitches in to make recycling work. In the long run it may even incentivize sellers to make their products easy to recycle, as buyers are forced to care.”

I just bought about 15 pounds of plastic in the form of bottles and material and whatnot from the store. Then at the front they refused to give me plastics bags weighing a few grams.

There’s no way in hell any reasonable person should be on board with these kinds of taxes or policies. All they will end up doing is making people pay money to the rich, while the rich don’t do anything but continue to use more plastic for their purposes

You want change, charge the company for plastic straight away. Stop expecting consumers to bear the burden of corporate greed
Which is bad. Investment in nuclear would have been far better. Countries could have followed the French model, which works much better than the German one.
I really found asking GPT to put a math concept under a physics context very helpful for me. As a computational physics student, that is really how I understand math and the world. Only very few textbooks can help me with this.

From [Make Something Wonderful: Steve Jobs in His Own Words][1], Steve once said in a interview in 1983:

> The problem was, you can't ask Aristotle a question. And I think, as we look towards the next fifty to one hundred years, if we really can come up with these machines that can capture an underlying spirit, or an underlying set of principles, or an underlying way of looking at the world, then, when the next Aristotle comes around, maybe if he carries around one of these machines with him his whole life–his or her whole life–and types in all this stuff, then maybe someday, after this person's dead and gone, we can ask this machine, “Hey, what would Aristotle have said? What about this?” And maybe we won't get the right answer, but maybe we will. And that's really exciting to me. And that's one of the reasons I'm doing what I'm doing.

And this future, expected "next fifty to one hundred years", is somewhat here already.

[1]: https://book.stevejobsarchive.com/
The article explains exactly why they find this exciting, by comparing it to the same research exercise conducted using Google and Wikipedia.
I came here to post https://youtu.be/Ia7fUQXskvA, but that's less ridiculous than whatever process came up with "Dick Amnesia"
Dude, those indios were gonna go to hell if they kept reading those books. Letting them be tortured for all eternity would be truly depraved.

I think the word you were looking for is “narrow-minded”. But even then, Landa thought he had gone through enough to see that there was nothing of value in the Maya books. Even tried to learn the language a little. He just didn’t have the mental and cultural framework to care about other perspectives.
Just out of curiosity are you using got 4 or 3.5?
Should that be a federal standard? Is it in most modern countries?
Guests on a weekend trip find hidden cameras in their Airbnb bathrooms
Enabling LLMs to Reason and Memorize with Self-Notes
Thanks so much for this article. I have something that I want to try out HTMX on and this really clarified some things for me.

I particularly liked the bit about the way that the JSON approach, decoupled in theory, often ends up being tightly coupled in practice, such that you keep having to change both at once. And many places are structured such that you need two people or even two teams to make a single change. That doesn't sound decoupled at all!

I'm excited to see how it is to give on that in-practice-imaginary decoupling and try for HATOEAS at the fractions-of-a-page level that HTMX looks to enable.
Kindness and patience have always been in short supply on the public internet, but AI can simulate them in infinite amounts.

That’s a positive thing about this generative AI revolution that I haven’t really thought about in those terms until now.
But it was terrible! France produces much less CO2 than Germany and doesn't have a major energy crisis, because they switched to nuclear power.
The problem in your analogy is obviously that you turned discrete events into something else entirely. The person you're replying to didn't do that.
Yes and no.

What I'm reading [1] is that they're advocating for side-by-side decoupling.

In other words, humans and computers need different interfaces. Rather than try and build one, which is bad for both [2] build 2, one for the humans (however you prefer) and one for the computers (REST API).

Perhaps I'm reading it this way because I'm prejudiced, (I've written our systems this way) and it seems to be working well.

[1] this whole article is both well formatted, and seems to make a good post, but equally seems to feel like you're not sure what it's trying to say. Perhaps it makes more sense in context,rather than as a stand-alone article.

[2] the computer-client team has different needs to the human-client team. One wants a very stable API, the other wants regular changes. One is content driven, the other process driven. Ultimately they want different things making two interfaces makes both teams happier with less conflict between them that you have to umpire.
People doing the right thing changes things. This isn’t about me reading it’s about you making a false claim repeatedly for some reason.
I'm in Singapore. We boast an impressive 100% urbanisation rate. Combine that with commonly overcast skies, and you hardly see any stars at all here. (I'm here by choice, I grew up in small town Germany.)

There's probably a space somewhere in Malaysia that's dark, or I could take a cruise ship out to the ocean, if you go by absolute distance.

By convenience, it's probably easiest to take a plane somewhere.
Blackberry and Nokia phones with replaceable batteries allowed hot-swap of a fully charged battery. Zero mobile downtime for charging, without requiring gigantic batteries for an excuse of gigantic screens. They were built like tanks and would not fall apart, battery or elsewhere, when dropped.
Hamburg's busses don't have coin boxes or sell tickets/fares? You don't have any mechanism that requires swiping a card, tapping a device, showing a card/ticket to an operator, or otherwise proving you have, in fact, purchased a fare?

In Seattle, we tap our cards on something that looks like this: https://seattletransitblog.com/2011/06/28/dont-tap-orca-here...

It's pretty quick, but on the busiest bus routes it slows things down.

Edit: Reading up, it looks like they don't really have those things, and rely on a combination of very infrequent inspectors (which do slow things and cost money) and the honor system.
Yes their DX is technically “over complicating basic things to extract money from chump developers” but it lets users just write code and automate away everything else with couple of click.

It limiting your options can be a good thing, people can just ship instead of being stuck in analysis paralysis forever.

I also found it quite nice entry point for newbie developers. I’ve been donating my time to help out new developers, and learning deployment (it isn’t ”basic” for complete newbies) on top of everything can be daunting. Vercel lets them deploy for free and effortlessly so that they can show off what they’ve learned.

That being said, I personally wouldn’t touch Vercel for any serious work either.
No I'm in the "quit fucking around" camp. They need to be banned already. Rip the plaster off.