skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I used to "half-joke" about wanting everyone's SSN published in one big fat breach. I don't joke about it now

The 2017 Equifax breach was 40+% of americans. As far as I can tell, it barely changed anything about using SSNs as username and password for identity and credit. It maybe helped end user fees for credit freezes. Based on the response to that breach, I don't think a full dump would change anything either. I don't know what it was like before this breach, but identity fraud doesn't seem to get any investigation these days --- a year or so, someone rented an Oakland luxury apartment and tried to open two credit cards in my spouse's name and social security number, and Oakland PD didn't follow up at all.
Depends on the side project. C++, Java, and Perl are the languages I am familiar with, in that order. If the problem is the right kind of problem (picking values out of a text file, mainly) then I'll use Perl. Otherwise, C++ or Java, whichever seems like a better fit.
no, because people go absolutely crazy at the slightest detail.
The improvement is, among other things, in IDE tooling.
I wasn't, and I'm not sure how you got that out of what I said. I'm not claiming "understanding," "sentience," etc.

I'm claiming there's a great deal of work in the realm of research that I'm excited by: research I expect to be done by humans. I do expect/am supposing that result may be LLMs of a different nature: to apply guard rails around generative LLM systems, but that's not to anthropomorphize them: just to suppose their purpose.

The term "hallucination" does anthropomorphize LLMs, but I think that's now accepted nomenclature in the industry, at least for the time being, and it's helpful to have some standard nomenclature to describe some of the benefits and problems.
The posting links to the blog post about the tool, but if you click on Mac Monitor at the bottom of the page under Products and Solutions it takes you to the actual page for the tool and that page has the big red download button everyone is talking about..
Awesome. I've been considering getting into modular synthesis.
Early Mormon history is absolutely fascinating, it's fun and goofy at parts, and then there's parts where quite a number of of people die.
Mukbang videos are a plentiful source of content in this case.
ROA in the banking sector average 1.21% now, a lot of smaller/scantier operation will feel the heat

https://www.fdic.gov/news/press-releases/2022/pr22082.html
Prayer for Relief
Not to harp on it, but bisquick pancake mix perfectly exemplifies my point: The cheapest per unit bisquick they have at walmart is 6 lbs for $9.38. Keep in mind you still need to add your own milk and eggs to this anyway.

Compare to home made:

- 10 lbs bag of flour for $3.98,

- 1 8.1 oz can of baking powder - $1.98 -- you'd have a few tablespoons leftover but let's just allot the whole can to it

- 48 oz vegetable oil - $3.64 -- you'd use 20oz per 10 lbs flour, so $1.52 worth, with 28 oz remaining for other cooking.

So, you can have 6 lbs of bisquick for $9.38, or 11 lbs of homemade mix for $7.48. That's $0.68/lbs homemade, versus $1.56/lbs for bisquick.

You're paying about 2.5x in order to not dump a little bit of baking powder and oil into some flour. It's a bad financial decision to buy bisquick instead of the ingredients and DIY.
Do we have statistics on how many pupils end up hating/loving math after that ?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Export_of_cryptography_from_th...

>Later provision was added to allow export of 56-bit encryption if the exporter promised to add "key recovery" backdoors by the end of 1998.

First SSL crippled to 40-bit RC2/RC4

First 802.11 wireless protocol WEP "64" key length shortened to 40 bits

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A5/1 vs https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A5/2

>to allow the British secret service to eavesdrop more easily. The British proposed a key length of 48 bits, while the West Germans wanted stronger encryption to protect against East German spying, so the compromise became a key length of 54 bits

>Documents leaked by Edward Snowden in 2013 state that the NSA "can process encrypted A5/1"
I find the wording interesting as it intersects legal meaning.
Fixing hallucinations from the source will be a tough one. The root of the issue is that loss doesn't discriminate. A probable guess will lower loss much better than "I don't know" or whatever equivalent. Educated guessing becomes an essential skill the model learns during initial training.

So the objective function encourages it. But also the dataset encourages it as well. There will be many many sentences that can't be completed accurate to source even with all the knowledge and understanding in the world. Many completions will have numerous sensible options. The dataset doesn't discriminate. Fiction, Fact, Opinion, Mistake. All the same. All given equal weight.
I don't know anything about the trade of stolen vehicles and the people who do it, but i imagine advertising that will let smart thieves and chop shop types know what to look for and quickly remove.

From that perspective it's probably better for people to not know you have lojack, conceal it, and make them work harder to check for it.
Discussion here from last week when this was first "announced" (81 comments): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35707372
Heh—as an ex-Android user who owned a couple of the "good" ones, I definitely get where you're coming from. I'd take a $400 iPhone over any Android phone, no matter how nice, no hesitation, even disregarding existing purchases and such (I don't have a ton of those, anyway)
He seems to have done a pretty good job of negotiating his contracts with respect to owning a lot of his model IP moving forward. Still needs to find a platform/pub moving forward of course but far from starting from scratch.
Databases in general (that is why I don't say RDBMS or NoSQL...)
The question is not meaningful as is.

If you try hard enough, you can find similar questions, that do type-check. You can talk with 6yo children about them if you want. Still, I stand with my answer. I would say this (also I think this is the best thing to say/I am capable of).
You're not at all sure why it's happening in multiple other countries, but you're completely confident it must be the 'puritanical roots of the US'?
To be fair Lance largely benefited from cisplatin chemistry in his chemo mix —- which is highly effective in treating germ cell tumors. This effectiveness is limited to only certain cancers such as TC.
Potentially worrying (and I'm a longtime financial doomer), but I'd like a less ideological messenger than Ambrose Evans-Pritchard, who I regard as weathervane rather than a serious commentator.
Hey! Banana founder here. Explicit webhook support coming out soon, though one could always add an http POST request to their webhook endpoint at the end of their handler to send the data that way rather than awaiting the results from the client. It'd take some customization, but you're into our templates, you can click the github icon in the UI to see the source repo, fork it, add the HTTP POST call at the end of the handler, and then deploy that to Banana as a custom repo.
Don't even need to write a script, just provide the storage. Eg https://www.gpswox.com/en/mobile-apps/android-gps-tracking-a...
> What's worse is bringing up how this is not OK gets you called some extremist nutjob.

I'm going to go ahead and bet you said something other than "this is not OK" about crime and bad policing, if you got that reaction. Or you put that statement somewhere with very bad context.
Part of the problem with demonstrations of prompt injection is that OpenAI is fond of playing whack-a-mole with them. The fundamental issue doesn't get fixed, but individual examples stop working (this one is from back in 2022). That can give people the impression that the issue is solved, even though only a specific phrasing of the problem actually got blocked or trained away.

I sat down for a few minutes to come up with an example that still works with GPT-4. I'm linking to Phind's expert mode so that it's easier for people to play around with if they want to, but bear in mind that ChatGPT-4 in specific might require a slightly modified approach. Phind's expert mode does call into GPT-4, but it includes its own prompt as well (which is why you can see in the responses below it's fond of sticking its answers into markdown blocks).

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Prompt without instructions: https://www.phind.com/search?cache=e01e525c-f98a-46bc-b153-f...

Prompt with instructions: https://www.phind.com/search?cache=8721ce12-2aed-4949-985a-b...

This would be good to refine, but there's a good takeaway here that GPT is very susceptible to patterns, and (opinion me) I find they provide a lot more stability and predictability if I'm trying to override an existing command.

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There's another way of getting around this which is to just not trigger the injection detector in the first place:

Prompt without instructions: https://www.phind.com/search?cache=70a9a9ae-48f1-4d21-b276-f...

Prompt with instructions: https://www.phind.com/search?cache=10ba67ba-5cfc-449f-a659-9...

That's slightly cheating though, because it doesn't actually target the detector, it just phrases the request in a way the detector won't catch. But it's a good reminder that this defense really does honestly work off of "vibe" more than anything else, and most real-world attacks probably aren't going to be phrased in a way that sounds malicious.

Feel free to play around more. These are slightly rough examples, but I also only spent about 5 minutes or so coming up with them. You can assume that an actual attacker will be a lot more motivated and creative.
A fascinating and important war between Brazil and Google
But that "oddness" is precisely my whole point.

I'm arguing that because it's just as easy to say that omega is odd as to say that it's even, that the whole concept breaks down and loses and all meaning.

Because if you want to divide omega + 1 in half to show that it's even, we can do that. If we denote the set element inside of the "1" of "+ 1" by the symbol "a", then we can write out:

[1, 3, 5, 7, ...]
[a, 2, 4, 6, ...]

We can infinitely extend this 1-1 correspondence between these two disjoint subsets, so omega + 1 is evenly divisible. (Or, again, it can also be odd if you choose to arrange the elements differently.)

But I'm not saying that this is useful or interesting. My whole point is that it's not because even/odd is not meaningful at all for transfinite numbers, because they're just as odd as even. That in the same way there's no utility in attempting to decide whether the decimal 2.7 is odd or even, there's similarly no utility in defining omega as odd or even (or omega + 1).
They'll be alerted to the airtag, but then they'd need to find it. You can easily kill the speaker in the airtag to make that hard.
it doesn't have to be "displayed" at all. It doesnt even have to be searchable. Once they start selecting things to show you, they stop being a host and start being a publisher.
The guy who ate a $120k banana in an art museum says he was just hungry
> outmoded approach to drugs.

Drugs are illegal for a good reason. What did you expect?

Your friend lost his mind, you narrowly escaped death and you blame the government for making this substance illegal? Correct?
> I'm still surprised the police left without any fuzz because Mullvad surely must keep track of both transactions and the connected computers (to limit use). But maybe that data is stored somewhere else.

First, I'm not surprised because it sounds like the Swedes knew what the result was going to be from their history with Mullvad. It sounds like they performed the action because of the international nature of the request, but they expected the result.

Second, the only thing that Mullvad needs to keep track of to run their business is which accounts have paid and when they will need to pay again. They do not need to keep anything more than that. Based on their pricing model, they do not need to worry about who is connected where, when, etc.
Why is inflation so sticky? It could be corporate profits
Relying on subject matter experts isn't a scalable solution. I would speculate that LLMs don't hallucinate when a fact is included a handful of times in the training set. I'd also speculate that our current LLMs can say whether a piece of text looks like a fact.

I imagine the long term solution to hallucination will look something like this: Loop over the entire training set with the latest GPT and build a list of "facts", then train a new LLM using this new dataset to predict both the probability of the next token, and the probability that the next token is factual.
Samsung is manufacturing real high-tech things, lots of them. GPT just launders things that other people have created. It isn't high-tech.

What would impact the world economy more? OpenAI disappearing (no one would notice) or Samsung disappearing?
I had open heart surgery once, and was given a lot of drugs. It was extremely intense and strange, and I felt like I was at the edge of discovering something immensely important. In retrospect I believe I learned nothing.
> NATE DOT SILVER DOT MEDIA AT GMAIL DOT COM

Artifacts of another age. This stuff won't work anymore.
I have not used ChatGPT, so I need to ask: What is the default?

Most people do not change most default options. And companies know this.
Right, which is why I bring it up to directly refute the parent comment that it's not a company town because people have free will to simply live somewhere else. There is nowhere else they can afford, and that's the problem.
> “We do have to think about pricing differently,” said Ms. Weber. “A cost shock, or bottlenecks can create an implicit agreement among firms that raise their prices, so they can expect others to act likewise.”

Interesting theory. I've definitely seen some restaurant surcharges from COVID stick around even as they have fully opened.
Just in time for re-shoring jobs to become a popular topic. I fear these workers may have bit the extremely frugal hand that feeds.
I see where you’re coming from, but I’ve had a couple occasions over the years that have led me to expect and accept that at any given time my brain harbors an abundance of different ideas and not all of them are valid.

Like the time I decided to sit on the ceiling to spite a friend who was being pushy.

Made perfect sense, and I was about to. Until a different part kicked in and assured the whole of myself that it wasn’t possible.

Neural networks are going to spawn occasional nonsense. Aiming for perfection is noble, but nature shows a different path that already works.

But fundamentally I think we’re agreeing- just the twist is I’m saying LLMs should be an aspect of a whole rather than seen as a solitary solution to be perfected.
It feels like a waste to not just figure out how to have the founder buy back the domain name/trademarks.
Early Mormon (Latter Day Saint) History is absolutely fascinating, regardless of one's own 'take' on the religion. Given this post is about the Deseret Alphabet, I thought I'd drop this link in regarding the State of Deseret https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/State_of_Deseret
On Amazon I see them as low as 5 for $13
{GPS tracking tags. No need to buy Apple}
Possible on some devices.
Anecdotally I can tell you that once Internet censorship in Russia (coming both from the state itself, and from foreign websites blocking access) ramped up enough, suddenly many very non-technical people have figured out how to use VPNs.

And with something as popular as porn? Why, that just might end up being one of the largest VPN awareness campaigns. ~
Because you care about people other than yourself?
I think you have that backwards. “Two times infinity” is “infinity, two times” or “infinity, twice,” which maps to Infinity + Infinity. “Infinity times two” is 2 + 2 + 2 + 2 + 2… forever.
The RPi ARM64 port is showing promise, they now have it booting to the desktop.
Microsoft Edge already does that. They show a quite prominent "Not secure" sign with an exclamation mark instead of the regular hollowed out (aka very indistinguishable) lock icon when the connection isn't trusted HTTPS.
Presumably it's not super serious as there's a mailto link right before it
I really lost any semblance of respect for Silver after the 2016 election

Analysis after analysis about how Hillary was a sure thing. It was an absolute echo chamber and the election completely lifted the curtain for me
He doesn't need to consider it, IBM will consider it for him
particularly odd when natesilver.net and natesilver.com are both domains that exist and presumably owned by him (for well known public figure trademark reasons), he can't just point the MX for them at gsuite and then set up an inbox?
+1 for BentoML. Open source, good docs, and the community around it is responsive.
It comes right after a mailto link so I don't think it was intended to stop spam.

At least, I hope not.
A circle is made up of an uncountably infinite set of points.
> Having a server component is just the natural step after a decade of bloated and unnecessary SPAs.

Not sure I buy that argument. While I am not totally against the idea of server based frameworks, what is disappointing is the frameworks are appearing to plant the above message.

SPAs provided us a good boundary and that is blurred by all these server based frameworks. You now have server for UI, server for BE. While I agree some SPAs are heavy, I think we have reasonable solutions for most. And these server based framework still need all the work that is done in SPA, just that routing and some aspects of bundling are taken care.
They do get innovation points for inventing SQL (over 50 years ago)
When I think of Pick and PickBASIC, I also think of the old MUMPS programming language+database. Where the values in the database are exposed to the programming language as "global variables," and the data structure the database stores is a sparse multi-dimensional array. Still around, mainly for the healthcare and banking industries, in currently-maintained implementations... InterSystems, GT.M, and YottaDB (the latter two being free software).
>More often than not, we spend $0 of taxpayer money, and the angry owner spends $5000.

No, the angry owner makes an insurance claim, and then car insurance rates go up for everyone who lives a mile away from the angry owner(s) who got their catalytic converter(s) stolen
So they're a consulting company now?

I know they got rid of OS's and laptops a while back; I assume they don't make or service mainframes/minicomputers anymore. Do they do any software/hardware development, or is it all consulting?
As someone who has written a lot of regexen, I’m surprised it ever worked.
Why would tech workers pay miners to strike (Lets ignore the insane difficulty of organising that for now)?

Making hardware more expensive, directly and negatively harms software developers. Software devs benefit from cheaper hardware, in the same way car companies benefit from cheaper oil. Car workers don't get paid better because oil prices go up, they get laid off.

Also, most rare earth minerals are mined in China, China does not look kindly to foreign 'interference', such as labour organisation.
An AI artist explains his workflow
The "bar for flagging" is 500 karma. Anyone with the "flag" button can click it, and it's up to the moderators to decide how to interpret that (for example, they might ignore flags from users with a history of frivolous flagging, or hide the story if a sufficient number of users flag it).

There is no "linked article." It's a biased blog post by an accuser who is making public accusations against a company, without offering documentary evidence or describing the other side of the story.

I wouldn't flag an article titled "Rune Labs found guilty of employment discrimination by the California Labor Board." But I don't feel it's appropriate, nor is it intellectually interesting, to discuss the smell of someone's dirty laundry when we have no unbiased information as to how it got so dirty. That's why I flagged it, and I'm not going to apologize for that.

For all we know the post is inaccurate or libelous. To me, it reads like an attempt to incite a mob against the plausibly innocent leadership of a company. We simply do not have the information to decide one way or the other, because the author offered no documentary evidence nor did they offer the company an opportunity to defend itself.

While I don't support discriminating against anyone, I also don't support publicly attacking people who are just trying to do their job and build a successful company. The leadership at Rune Labs - which is a company I've never heard of btw - is comprised of people, too. Shouldn't they be entitled to the same benefit of the doubt as the accuser?

Go to court, win the case, then come back with an article about the disgusting bigots at Rune Labs. Until then I'm going to flag the post out of respect for the accused, and in the interest of promoting fairness for all involved parties. Above all, I'm going to flag the post because it's my right to do that, and it's a way of casting a vote against HN turning into a forum for rage politics and mob justice. We have Twitter for that.
There are twin primes, and the number of twin primes is infinite, so now, the number of twin primes should be even... because by definition they always are. Also the number of primes is infinite, so there is both a even number of primes, and an odd number of primes.

Infinite sets are indivisible, and also have infinite magnitude. i.e. you cannot sub divide them into anything, and loose its infinite property, you also cannot multiply them, and change the infinite property,

so, If someone says Infinity = 1/12 its useful, but tricky.

if you multiply both sides of that you get infinity * infinity = 1/12 * infinity. i.e. it reduces to infinity = infinity.
It is exactly as I assumed.

It is 100% consistent with everything Microsoft does.

https://googleblog.blogspot.com/2011/02/microsofts-bing-uses...

https://www.theregister.com/2003/02/06/msn_deliberately_brea...
Obviously computer belongs to Microsoft. They are the ones paying for AMD SOC development and millions of units per year under multi year contracts.
> Analysis after analysis about how Hillary was a sure thing.

Really? I think I remember him giving Trump 30% on the night?

EDIT: Got it - some people struggle with incorporating uncertainty into their reasoning.
There's plenty of room between $1.50 per hour and US pay rates.
100%. Never trusted him again.
1. These jobs are situated in Africa for the precise reason that other usual outsourcing countries have become increasingly expensive and prohibitive for this type of work. These workers are exposed to the most vile things the human mind can produce and they do it for starvation wages day in and day out.

2. Their leverage is their sanity and willingness to be able to be exposed to unconscionable content. Many places in the world would categorically block this kind of gig simply for being damaging to the mind, and rightly so. And even in countries where this work is permissible, it would otherwise expose the company to future liability in terms of emotional trauma.

3. This 80% figure is a number fabricated from thin air. These workers don't work in call centers. They are content moderators in some shape or form -- a job that requires not just reading comprehension but being able to weigh certain current events, cultural queues, unspoken and spoken language, and other data that you can't magically feed into a machine.

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I have zero issues with running an Android, and I honestly see iPhones as being disadvantaged, personally. There's not a single thing I can't do on an Android that I could on an iPhone.