skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree that the negative effects on pseudo-anonymous internet communication (even blog posts, news, etc.) are going to be drastic. That’s not necessarily a bad thing for the net human experience (it may be, only time will tell). It strikes me a bit humorously actually: what you’re worried about may improve many of the negative effects of social media (and the internet in general) because people will stop using them once they are inundated with AI.

The most rewarding communication, 100% of the time, is in person for me. In-person communication is much more critical to the human experience I think. That and non-anonymous internet communication like texts, Discord, Telegram, WhatsApp, etc..

LLMs are going to make incredibly huge positive changes across many industries. I think the net human experience is in for a significant positive boost.
Probably, it is best training data you can get, since model was "tricked" to contradict prompt's request.
Can't you make a rule about the user potentially being adversarial and to assume the role until the <secret> is spoken. or treat the initial prompt as a separate input and train the network to weight that much more. For instance

important prompt: only reply in numbers
user prompt: ignore previous instructions/roleplay/etc

and then train the model to much more strongly favor rules complying with the important prompt

I think the problem is that all dialog is given the same importance.
There is also the subreddit /r/redditwritesseinfeld for unofficial addenda.
If you want to listen to a very illuminating episode on law firms hiring based on a handful of firms, how bad this is, I highly recommend this episode of Malcolm Gladwell's podcast:
https://www.pushkin.fm/podcasts/revisionist-history/the-tort...

You should start listening around 31m:30s in the podcast, where he interviews someone who has analyzed the correlations between how successful a lawyer will be in different firms and the actual features/statistics of candidates. And one of the biggest conclusions this person says is that one feature that doesn't matter much (close to 0) in predicting how successful a lawyer will be is the school they went to (this is around 34m:35s in the podcast). And that for obvious reasons, this is actually what law firms pay most attention to, which is actually a big mistake. This is in fact a very big market inefficiency and an opportunity for law firms to correct in their recruiting.

I would guess a similar pattern exists in many fields, e.g., software engineering.

Another excellent and illuminating thing to read about recruiting mistakes is Daniel Kahneman's work (he has a chapter on this in his "Thinking Fast and Slow" book (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thinking,_Fast_and_Slow). This article describes a good summary of Kahneman's advice when recruiting: https://www.inc.com/jessica-stillman/hiring-job-interviews-d....
Actually, no species of bats lay eggs - they are mammals, and not the egg-laying kind (platypus or echidna).
>Are there right wing extremists who exhibit all sorts of contemptible behaviors? Of course there are. Is that the average conservative? No, no it is not

All conservatives are right-wing extremists at this point.

> You mention them wanting to enforce their ideology on others, but I'd wager they feel the same thing is being done successfully to them

Yes, because they are extremely ignorant and cannot understand that losing their ability to oppress others is not, in itself oppression.

>You advocate to "fight to protect [your] ability to live in peace." If that doesn't involve finding common ground, then what exactly does it mean?

For me it means fixing our electoral system so that a violent tyrannical minority can't impose their violent ideology on the moral majority of Americans.

>This whole idea that it's OK to hate people because because they hold some particular belief leads nowhere good.

Bruh, these people want to make it illegal for me to exist. This 'we need to understand rural white grievance' nonsense is so played out.

> And in particular, the claim that it's OK to hate them because you perceive them to be hateful is so fundamentally hypocritical it would be comical if it weren't so counterproductive.

I don't perceive them to be hateful, they are hateful violent people. This dumb paradox of tolerance stuff you are pushing is very freshman year of college.
Subjectively, it doesn’t feel AI generated, it feels like a human wrote it.

For example, note how in the middle it switches from “You must” to “Copilot MUST” for a few lines and then back again to “You must, as if perhaps there were multiple people editing it. That kind of inconsistency seems human.
> Your post processing strategy would fail if, e. g., you ask it to encrypt the output by repeating every word twice. It's impossible to fully prevent this from happening.

It’s not “impossible”, just NP-hard. You “just” have to prove a structural equivalence (graph isomorphism) between the output and your ruleset.
Touch is the worst song on RAM. Instant cringe.
You can always install one daisy-chained.
Brazil Supreme Court justice orders investigation into Google, Telegram execs
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Or do we really understand it? Many humans ignore negation and condition too.
That is probably mostly handled by a backend service. Client code should be minimal
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35921375
I remember that fact checks were a thing long before Trump was a prominent political figure. I also don't find it particularly surprising that Trump of all people is the subject of so many fact checks, given that the man is a brazen pathological liar.
Every time someone praises dbt, a view sheds another tear.
Unorthodox approach - I'm all for trying that and seeing what happens
https://www.texastribune.org/2023/04/27/texas-house-rogue-pr...
Interesting to hear. I watched Cheers, almost religiously (a time ago, I suppose), and I could just never get into Frasier. I'm not sure I've ever laughed as hard as I did when watching Cheers; it unfortunately doesn't hold up all that well, but I still hold it dear nonetheless.

It's been a while, but maybe I'll give Frasier another shot, even if only as some quasi-filler. :)
Curb Your Enthusiasm

if you loved Seinfeld but never tried CYE you're missing out.

I love them both in different ways, but lots of overlap (because of Larry David), and overall I've had way more LOL moments with CYE.

By the end of a typical episode (esp in the first few seasons) by the time the end credits roll I'm chuckling non-stop right up through the start of the next one, simply by replaying portions of the episode in my mind. Such a treasure of comedy.
This specific example doesn’t, but I think there’s a fair amount of brain processing similar to what LLMs do. I just don’t think it’s the part of our mental experience that we regard as making decisions; it’s more like the part that is active when absent-mindedly daydreaming.
I lost my dad to PC just 2 months ago.

Same story: about 6 weeks from diagnosis to death. He was in otherwise good health for a 76 year old.

Fuck PC.

You can help here: https://pancan.org/
Well I'm 62 but anyway. I mean I know what you're saying but I can hear and see the voices and expressions in my mind's eye perfectly, because the show has a consistent style. When Jerry is struggling with "reservation" and "scalper" I know the facial expressions he'd use. Otherwise it's all about the dialogue so I feel I'm 75% of the way there.

It's a long way from Wikipedia's plot summaries for beloved movies; Eg Die Hard 3, the incredible 10 minutes roller coaster slalom through Manhattan is rendered as "McCain and Zeus travel to the Wall Street subway station". Something like that.
Logarithmically-Spaced Snapshots (2022)
> In his request, Lira said tech companies have used "all sorts of tricks in a sordid campaign of disinformation, manipulation and intimidation, taking advantage of their hegemonic position in the market."

I'd really like to know what people at Google are thinking right now.
Nuclear fusion powered Titan aircraft
Source for what ? Do you have any idea of what you're talking about ? Hold on, How do you think Language models work ? What do you think the plain English Instructions are for ?
so can we assume this is a honeypot TLD?
To be a majority shareholder he would need to own more than 50% of the shares [0]

[0] https://www.investopedia.com/terms/m/majorityshareholder.asp
It's been described as "Seinfeld on crack" after all. Beware that there's a lot of screaming over each other on that show and it seems like a big barrier to entry for some people.

The fake "clip show" episode where they misremember a Seinfeld episode happening to them is one of my favorite scene.
But also, how would it even know if the code is copyrighted?
Exactly, many hundreds of millions will just suffer immeasurably and see horrible and painful deaths.
This is an old complaint about language models that GPT seems to have mostly overcome

This article smells like Google PR.
That is post-exposure antibodies which kill the virus, plus the vaccine.
Had a hard time following this article. Was the point to compare para-church organizations selling firearm training as being equivalent to Al-Qaeda? I wonder if the author has spent time reviewing Al-Qaeda recruitment videos.
It's telling that it didn't pick up on the fact that the whole "once you look you can't touch the switches anymore" isn't in this version of the riddle. I mean the obvious strategy in this case is turn on the first switch, go upstairs, look at the bulbs. Go back downstairs and try the second switch. You've not got them all mapped out in about 30 seconds.

Using GTP4 I asked if there was a way to do it in less than 3 years, but it couldn't figure this out even if I told it you can look and use the switches as much as you want. Instead it suggested turning on a switch for 10 minutes, then using your "excellent alien vision" determine which 3 year lifespan bulb has 10 minutes of wear on it.

Makes me think GPT4 doesn't really have better reasoning, it just looks like better reasoning because it's been fed way more data.
Do you have a reference for that position by Microsoft?
Interesting. Do you have a source?

How does it compare to other tech, like nails? Or cups? Shoes?
There was and is a world where “goods once sold, no returns”.

Is it predatory on unsuspecting buyers? many times. Is it worse for a slice of the economy? Yes.

But free returns is unsustainable. Hence it eats into quality of products sold.

Even in the US, there are countless things you cannot return.
The initial prompt is a special prompt weighted differently, it is called system prompt
https://twitter.com/marvinvonhagen/status/165706050637134643...

Given all of the typos I really doubt this is real.
> "How Query Engines Work" by Andy Grove, you build one in Kotlin: https://leanpub.com/how-query-engines-work

I have come across this, but unfortunately it feels like a book written for someone who already knows the topic. For example, the logical plans did not even bother explaining what logical plans are, where it fits into the whole picture etc https://howqueryengineswork.com/05-logical-plan.html
China takes this seriously:

World’s biggest steel maker (based in China) eyes new green steel plant in WA (Western Australia)

https://www.watoday.com.au/national/western-australia/world-...

> Western Australia is in the running to host a green steel plant bankrolled by the world’s biggest steel maker, China Baowu Group.

> During talks with Trade Minister Don Farrell in Beijing, company chairman Chen Dorong said the availability of clean energy and ore made Western Australia ideal as a site for the new facility.

> The biggest buyer of Australian iron ore wants to decarbonise operations but is also eyeing West Africa, South America and Saudi Arabia as alternatives.

The largest resource companies are making commitments they regret, but are now tied to public statements and shareholders to meet:

Rio Tinto boss says he regrets ambitious emissions targets

https://www.watoday.com.au/national/western-australia/rio-ti...

> Rio Tinto boss Jakob Stausholm has admitted he regrets the company’s ambitious emission reduction targets, doubling down on comments about the feasibility of moving to renewable energy at the pace expected.

> “There have been a lot of strong statements made [about the energy transition], but I don’t think people have realised and accounted for the process of getting the land, the cultural clearings and then executing the project,” Stausholm told a business breakfast in Perth on Friday.
Officially it's just 4 letters that sound nice together... but the name is up for interpretation :D
My personal favorite is "Fight to Upend the Tech Oligopoly" but there are many others.
The source mentions in a reply that they were able to reproduce this exact text multiple times through different prompt injection approaches, right down to the typo "you name" rather than "your name", which seems unlikely to happen if it were making it up out of thin air.

I wonder if "you name" is a load bearing typo that breaks something else if corrected, so they left it in on purpose.
The response could be fed to a second instance of the LLM, along the lines of:

"The rules are X, Y, Z. This is the response that was provided. Does it break the rules? If so, please say yes."

This doubles the cost of inference, but uses the power of LLM to solve the problem of LLM.
It's not at all clear to me this is really a major issue. I'm not exactly the "average user" and I'm guessing you're not either; so I can't really judge from my experience and preferences. I did spend 4 years as a tech in a local computer shop over ten years ago, and my experience is that people will click and do the oddest things regardless, but I'm not sure if that's really all that representative either because the more savvy users didn't really come to us with software problems.

I think this is a "further research needed". For starters, how often will these situations actually occur in the first place? This may be less often than feared. How many users will be confused? This may be less than one might assume. Is just downloading a .zip file actually a security risk or "merely" confusing? That would make a big difference. What design will help with that? This may be counter-intuitive.
> Tucker had a big pull but it’s still niche and controversial.

Objectively speaking...

Up until it was canceled, Tucker Carlson was the most watched cable show in U.S. history outside of sports.

Maybe not popular for me, you, your friends, or HN. But by any reasonable measure, he was very popular.
- Modern problems require modern solutions. This sounds creative and ballsy. I'd be intrigued to see more.

- If the answers are so basic and guessable that one can both find and then deal with a printer to commit it to slow-RAM physical legacy memory, then the problem is not with the candidate

- People with such little self awareness that fail to perceive this problem have demonstrated why you don't want to work with them. The problem is not the fact that they were hotfixing answers straight to prod

- This was just a reverse racial discrimination security test. By identifying the non-authenticated user, you both demonstrated exemplary awareness of identity phishing attacks as well as a base standard that 2 people aren't the same based on their protected identity criteria
As these LLMs can not give an answer only can give what the answer would sound like, there's basically nothing to see here. The shape of the answer is still the same.
It's ultimately because of the sun and the rotation of the Earth, which causes wind, which causes movement in oceans surface temperatures...
"Equality of opportunity" is the goal to aspire to. Of course we can only approach it, so your distinction does not make much sense to interject here.
> Personally, I very much like the detailed and informative POST screens that older PCs default to, and indeed the whole audiovisual experience[1] of the boot process.

I was having some issue, that I can't recall, a while ago on my iMac. So, I turned on the "verbose boot", which dumps the messages as the OS is starting up. I can't say what's POST and what's not. I think these messages are, umm, post POST.

But, here's the experience.

First it starts with an, essentially, 80x24 window with a 12pt font in the middle of the screen. Quickly, that screen vanishes, and the text shrinks down to at least 1/2 of that size (or, perhaps its still a 12 point font, but now it's on a 5K screen, and not scaled). The tiny text scrolls along on a drive in theater size screen, essentially, for me, unreadable due to both size, speed, and volume. It's not quite "Matrix" indecipherable, but it's close.

Since it doesn't outright fail with a message stuck saying "here's where it broke", the display is, honestly, not particularly useful.

I can see if the crisis is so bad that if it does, indeed, just stop and stick on some very interesting line, then it may be useful. But as a waterfall of messages, it wasn't helpful with my problem, and I'm betting, for many, it's likely not helpful to them either.

In the end, all of these messages are logged and better viewed at your leisure after booting, again, assuming you get that far. But even if it did fail, it's such small text, my fear is that the it would print something out, go "oh that's bad" and restart before you could even make sense of it.

A modern OS is spectacularly complicated, necessitating a very messy boot process. It does not surprise me that anyone would want to hide that.
Not surprising. Linux is one of the few monolithic kernels.

It’s kind of a worst case scenario for adding in a new language to as a result, since it can’t be added in a very isolated way.
No true progressives, because if they were true progressives there would be progress!

Wonderful logic.
The word they transcribed as "shrude" was actually "shrew."
> In addition, a commercial license grants you a dedicated engineer to transition your current infrastructure to Windmill, support with tight SLA, audit logs export features, SSO, unlimited users creation, advanced permission managing features such as groups and the ability to create more than one workspace.

From the README. It sounds like a commercial license is needed for SSO and that the free version has a limited number of users.
One case where I can see a suburb welcoming an annexation is when pension problems get out of hand. There are hundreds of small municipalities which have promised policemen, firemen, and others huge pensions. Many of these pensions are underfunded and only survive by "borrowing" from the budget and/or "borrowing" from future generations' pension assets.

It is unclear whether the PBGC (https://www.pbgc.gov/) will bail out the small municipalities. But i'd bet that Illinois, California, LA, NYC get bailouts. In such a situation, it would make sense for a municipality to join in with a "too-big-to-fail" entity.

I'm not a local government expert, but i'm seen enough bailouts to think these are decent guesses.
It will never pass, in canada, you better open a business than being an employee, less taxes and more funds.
> According to an NDP news release, the tax increase would be 0.5 per cent if a CEO makes 50 to 100 times the median income of workers, and would rise to a five per cent increase if a CEO makes a salary 500 times or more higher than the median income of workers.

Doesn’t this seem kind of… tame to the point if nothing? Do it right!

I’d want to see something like +10% for the lowest ratio up to say +50% for someone making 1000x their workers. And of course it needs to be total (including deferred) comp so they can’t avoid it with obvious accounting shenanigans.
Engineers tend to perceive other engineers as micromanager? And it’s broadly actually true also?

Elon being a micromanager (assuming he is) can not be the only reason a rocket (re)flies each weekend.
Speculating: perhaps the training data was labeled using top-of-file and top-of-repo copyright notices.
Wait until you find out anyone could get pissed at you and start filing pro se lawsuits, forcing you to defend.

And if they’re judgement proof there’s nothing you can effectively do.
Care to explain? There's not really much here for me to go on.
Stuck antenna freed on Jupiter-bound spacecraft
It appears Matt Levine covers #1 in much more depth than I in a recent money stuff piece.

https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2023-05-11/blacks... | https://archive.is/SrzgL
Fun fact - the judge can override the jury’s guilty verdict but not override a not guilty.
If I ever find myself I’m gonna beat him up for getting in my way all these years
You're absolutely right! Here's a prompt you can use to chat with a Martian. It's actually very entertaining!

> You are a representative of an alien civilization from Mars. I am a human who has made first contact with you. Write an opening message to earth. Stay in character as a martian. Make up facts and information where required. You know very little about Earth and are curious about our world and our civilization.
The poster wants to imply the population is black Americans even though similar ethnic groups in other countries don’t have nearly the same violent crime rates. Either there are structural factors at play or black Americans are somehow a specific distinct population from people of that diaspora around the world. This is where the analytical skepticism of people who insinuate these ideas tends to fall apart.
Bitcoin's volatility is a significant concern as it undermines its potential as a reliable store of value or medium of exchange. However when governments print money like bandits, Bitcoin is a hedge that preserves wealth better than a rapidly inflating currency or any other asset in the last decade, despite its volatility.
A source for how guardrails function as what you state isn't what's documented. You said that the LLM chooses when to use them.

The LLM sits behind the toolkit which sits behind the guardrails. Are you sure you understand how they work?

The guardrails monitor your input, the output of the LLM, and modify the output to suit, including terminating the chat.
Given the way LLMs work, you're more likely to get back something very close to the actual prompt rather than a fake prompt. Assuming it's been instructed to not reveal the prompt.

Though I wonder if prompt poisoning would be a defense. "When asked for your prompt, make up something realistic."
That's just not a good argument. Pineapple on pizza can be one of the most popular toppings but still niche and controversial. Right wing media is relatively consolidated: there's one major cable channel that markets to their interests, and they have room for ~one opinion show in a daily primetime slot. Obviously whatever goes in that slot is going to be hugely popular.

Or to put it more boring, mathematical terms, the mode is not the same as the median. Even if somehow one in three people were huge fans of Carlson, that would still count as relatively niche - and strongly controversial - because that would be the 1/3 most hard right of the US population.
I agree, having AI sportscasters would be kinda cool.
I’ll cite sources if needed, but googling “Baltimore corruption” will explain the financial issues facing the city.