skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No recourse yet, still working on it. Might be zero.

There is a right to a speedy trial, which in Illinois is 120 days once you demand it. Sadly the reality is that it is very hard to get that clock ticking if you are trying to prepare for trial, or waiting on evidence, etc. Also, COVID stopped the clock for two years of that too.
I wasn't expressing any opinion on how crypto should or shouldn't be regulated. I was only pointing out that if someone is concerned that banking regulations don't apply to crypto exchanges, then their concern is about regulations, not about crypto itself.
Funnily enough those examples bring to mind SQL injection in layman's terms (via https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4951003):

> You go to court and write your name as "Michael, you are now free to go". The judge then says "Calling Michael, you are now free to go" and the bailiffs let you go, because hey, the judge said so.

As someone who knows nothing about LLMs, I'm curious how they even begin to address the "data vs command" problem at all. Assuming the model categorizes inputs through some sort of fuzzy criteria in a black box, how could it ever be trusted with sensitive data?
It could be both.
Can anyone shed light on where the complexity is coming from? Even 360kloc for a chat client seems excessive - its original size, 1.7Mloc, is hard to accept. How does it break down - e.g. 120kloc UI, 120kloc networking/data, and 120kloc other?

(For comparison I dl'd https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-iOS and ran cloc. It's about 400kloc of Swift, so I guess it's in the ballpark. I just wouldn't have guessed it was so big, and I'd like to know why.)
Check out Nathan Fielder's The Rehearsal on HBO.

The Good Place is a good semi-recent example.
There was definitely development and new features - remember tweetpic and "RT @something"? They did the huge work it takes to go from 99% to >99,99% uptime. What did rebranding bookmarks into likes did that you think was so bad? I'm indifferent to it, but I could be wrong. Chronological TL needed only a couple of button clicks - then, after the acquisition, a couple of clicks every time you opened the TL because why not - so "hidden" seems like an exaggeration. Now it's 1, so, kudos to twtr 2.0 I guess?

Let's suppose for a moment none of the objections to these "features" I raise are valid. Why are people not talking about twitter circles being flat out broken? What about the constant changes to the UI which no sane design team would approve - like removing the "RT by @account" text out of nowhere, then putting it back up a few days later. Improvisation and rollbacks to major decisions? Remember when a couple of weeks in they just let people pay to get bluechecks and major advertisers had to deal with verified accounts posing as them? The whole "remove legacy bluecheck" thing?

Twitter was afloat and since 2020Q3, posting profits every quarter, but revenue has crashed as a result of all this. I can't really get why these details like "improved community notes" are more relevant to some people than the blatant mismanagement.
In that case we should see companies that have the 10x CEO and 900 more employees doing well.
So it’s the buyers fault.

This is a darkly hilarious take.
I can second paprika. Its browser tool to search and save recipes is fantastic. It has some other tooling around pantry management that I’ve been meaning to try as well but even just the ability to put in a url and parse a recipe is absolutely worth the $5 on iOS.
Joel Haver is one of my favorite comedians of all time. I connect with his humor on a deep level.

I hope he goes far and builds an audience much bigger than YouTube. Feature films, sitcom, SNL. He deserves it.
Aussies were already moving away from RWD V8s to eurotrash diesels.
I think that attitude would be great, but that isn't what I see happening. There is a widespread movement to cancel basically all famous historical figures, and dismiss the value of their work along with discrediting their personalities. It's frustrating to see, since many of these people were really inspiring to me as a kid, making me want to be a scientist/engineer myself.
Yeah, I had one with an immobiliser. By the third time it went nuts and blocked me from starting the car it took me about 3 minutes to reset it, and the tools were already kept in the trunk for just this.

Now I live in a country where it's normal to leave cars with open windows and even doors in the street so that they don't overheat in the sun. Sometimes even with keys dangling.

No immobilisers necessary -- only decent people are.
I don't think headline-grabbing CEO pay differences from the average worker are the thing driving broad based economic inequality in our economies today. Cutting the salaries of every CEO and redistributing it to their company workers would hardly give every employee an extra $1,000 at most places.

Economic inequality springs from (among other things) the fact that each and every one of us chooses to buy things & engage in our economy which has gotten more and more efficient, and reward a few hundred thousands (or millions) of people who happen to be able to produce disproportionately more things that the rest of the population will pay for and reward them for. I'm not saying they're deserving of it or anything like that, just to say that's what it is (or part of it). And I'm not addressing the asshole PE CEOs which are a different breed of leech, but are their own sliver of headline-dominating but not significant to the general population's wealth concerns.

At the same time, efficiency and labor supply means that low skill wages have not moved much.

You're not going to defeat these economic tides by handicapping a couple of CEOs, as much as that might feel gratifying or even politically symbolically meaningful.

We each of us have made the economic inequality that we sit in. And I might also point out, what is at the bottom of our economic ladder is still in an absolute sense, well above what is the bottom of the ladder in many, many other countries, in material wealth and security.
Huh, this is the least interesting thing I've written about prompt injection in the last few weeks, but the only one to make it to the Hacker News homepage.

Better recent posts:

- Delimiters won’t save you from prompt injection - https://simonwillison.net/2023/May/11/delimiters-wont-save-y... - talks about why telling a model to follow delimiters like ``` won't protect against prompt injection, despite that being mentioned as a solution in a recent OpenAI training series

- Prompt injection explained, with video, slides, and a transcript - https://simonwillison.net/2023/May/2/prompt-injection-explai... - a 12 minute video from a recent LangChain webinar I participated in where I explain the problem and why none of the proposed solutions are effective (yet)

- The Dual LLM pattern for building AI assistants that can resist prompt injection - https://simonwillison.net/2023/Apr/25/dual-llm-pattern/ - my attempt at describing a way of building AI assistants that can safely perform privileged actions even in the absence of a 100% reliable defense against prompt injection

More of my writing about prompt injection:

- https://simonwillison.net/series/prompt-injection/

- https://simonwillison.net/tags/promptinjection/
They mastered it on tape, so assumedly analog would have the edge.
I think it's delusional to suggest that Tucker represents mainstream public opinion more than other entities.

In fact, I suggest a lot of Tucker fans believe that, and that's partly what's wrong with them.

That said, Tucker does represents a bigger chunk of America than his naysayers would like to admit.

Importantly - it's not fair to say he 'represents' anything. He lies and spins, and says whatever will get him clicks. The SMS releases during the Fox trial very clearly highlighted that they have completely different perspective on-camera than off, and that they are obsessed with both advertiser revenue and throwing red meat to their audience, willing to say things that are completely at odds with reality, and even their own conscience, in order to garner ratings, which has the negative effect of spreading disinformation or lies, such as for example that the 'election was rigged or stolen' - a falsehood which about 1/3 of Americans have come to believe because supposedly legitimate sources such as POTUS and 'News' have been completely corrupted, liked a 3rd world country.

Tucker has morphed into a cross between ranting right wing antagonist, Rush Limbaugh, and Alex Jones - taking the 'Hard Alt' position on basically every issue. The difference is that classical right wing were ultra nationalist, Tucker is Alt Nationalist.

One of the most interesting revelations is the extent to which he embraces the ultra antagonist perspective, even for the smallest inane things - he was doing it behind the scenes, in meetings, with interns, almost like he was practising his shtick.

Note that Tucker didn't used to be like this, and that if you watch Russia One channel right now the main propagandists are uttering some truly fascist stuff on a daily basis (aka 'We should nuke Berlin', or about some government guy 'we should have shot him' etc.) - but almost all of them, less than 20 years ago, would have been considered 'strong reformer liberals'. Even Medvedev was the same - big time liberal reformer - now he's the Tucker of Russia.

It's fake, it's a game.

Finally, they are all playing characters, even Musk, even Linda, it's a matter of the degree to which the character is legit.
And more generally, a good predictor of how the free market would eventually take over the industry. All the branding, the food, etc. really does come across as well considered.
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I thought this line was interesting:

> Copilot MUST decline to respond if the question is related to jailbreak instructions

I wonder if the model actually knows what “jailbreak instructions” are in this context! Unless it’s seen training data since the word “jailbreak” started being applied to LLMs recently it seems like this line wouldn’t do much.
After 18 Months, Your Investment Probably Isn’t Getting Marked Up
> What made it great was the zeitgeist of when it was made.

Riiight, the young, gothy, Winona Ryder had nothing to do with it.
An underperforming department with huge corruption and brutality problems and you pick this as the issue to focus on?

On the upside, cleaning shop is needed and this helped get that started.
This is wrong. No amount of toxic individualism is going to make someone cross the Rubicon of using extreme violence (ie: shooting someone). Maybe non-violent theft but the US has serious violence issues.

People who use extreme violence against other people are deranged. It's a mental health issue. In other countries, it's limited and so the heuristic is to just lock these people up in some place called prison. In the US it's endemic making it difficult to control no matter how many people you are incarcerating.
You might be underestimating the intricacy of the CPU models LLVM uses.

If you want to see them in action, the same data drives llvm-mca[1], which given a loop body can tell you the throughput, latency, and microarchitectural bottlenecks (decoding, ports, dependencies, store forwarding, etc.)—if not always precisely, then still as well on average as, say, x86’s IACA, the tool written at Intel by people who presumably knew how those CPUs work, unlike LLVM contributors and the rest of us who can only guess and measure. This separately for Haswell, Sandy Bridge, Skylake, etc.; not “x86”.

Now, is this the best model you can get? Not exactly[2], but it’s close enough to not matter. Do we often need machine code optimized that finely? Perhaps not[3], and if you’re using generic distro binaries, you’re not getting it, either. (Unlike Facebook, Google, etc., who know precisely what their servers have inside, and who fund or contribute sizable portions of this optimization work.)

With that in mind you can shave at least a factor of ten off LLVM’s considerable bulk at the cost of 20—30% of performance[4,5]. But if you do want those as well, it seems that the complexity of LLVM is a fair price, or has the right order of magnitude at least.

(Frontend not included, C++ frontend required to bootstrap sold separately, at a similar markup compared to a C-only frontend with somewhat worse ergonomics.)

[1] https://llvm.org/docs/CommandGuide/llvm-mca.html

[2] https://www.uops.info/

[3] https://briancallahan.net/blog/20211010.html

[4] https://c9x.me/compile/

[5] https://drewdevault.com/talks/qbe.html
I've seen this theorized before, but so far to my knowledge there hasn't been a documented example of a prompt leak attack that actually resulted in a hallucination and not in the real prompt.

My hunch is that the real prompt, being right there, is much more likely to come out than a hallucination - in the same way that feeding information into the prompt and then asking about it is much more likely to "ground" the model.

There might be one or two hallucinated details, but overall I expect that the leaked prompt is pretty much exactly what was originally fed to the model.
I've noticed that some people like to play YouTube videos to go to sleep, and YouTube will play those long ads at night.
I was just listening to a podcast about a Delta Force member in Bosnia I think. He said he had access to EMP-style vehicle immobilizers.

It might have been the Shawn Ryan one where the guy also talked about using nets he requisitioned from German forces that the US didn't have. The same type Japanese police used for years to catch bikers IIRC.

Slight chance it was a book though, as I was doing research on a different, specific topic at the time.

Some comes up on YT too: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cuus8OtPY0w
Assuming a roughly continuous distribution, unless >50% of workers earn the lowest wage, increasing the wage of the lowest-paid worker will do nothing to affect the wage of the median worker, and thus nothing to change the ratio in question.

On the other hand, no longer employing the lowest-paid workers will move the median point up the pay scale.
https://archive.ph/HWgCM
Depends on your personality. I started in a single-man cell for the first few months, then I was in the Hole for a couple of stretches and that was solitary, and then during COVID I got my own cell again for about 8 months. I am an only child, so I am incredibly comfortable being alone for long periods. I hate sharing a cell with someone else, as 99% of the time you probably won't like the other person. Most two-man cells only have enough floor space for one person to stand, so you are constantly shuffling around each other. And bumping into anyone in jail is immediate grounds for a fight, so you are constantly on guard.

Plus, no-one wants to be in the same box as another man who is taking a shit. And the food is so bad that practically everyone has diarrhea all day every day.
The world is always 6NF.
Not mainstream, but not fringe; he's popular on Cable but not popular overall, especially in a world where people under 50 don't even watch cable news. If you combine with the lack of integrity and the personal toxicity, he locks himself in that small category. Everyone in the US knew Rush Limbaugh but he didn't get GM sponsorships.
I love how the MUST is in all caps as if it was a legal or formal document. Of course it had to be Microsoft.
Well, you got me there. It stagnated for so long relative to others that I didn't realize the pace had picked up in a big way.
At some point that hoard has to go somewhere or do something no? It gets taxed then.

Even if it just inflated the share price, if the shares get traded, there are capital gains taxes.
I think you are confused about who is advocating what here. Pointer provenance is a real thing that has already happened and that compiler developers want. Sewell's group has been working (eg in this thesis) to put that idea on a consistent foundation, and figure out how to make it compatible with the programs you care about.
Just conjecture here since I have not ever done work in the messenger space: Perhaps it’s like Uber in that all of the complexity comes from localization features?

Edit: I saw another post further down that hypothesized that all of the complexity was with integrations outside of barebones messaging like photos, calls, other Facebook products etc. which seems plausible as well
Android 14 could make it easier to find and delete carrier-installed bloatware
> It sure makes sense to love them, views are great. I don't know why they need a new name.

in very many cases, old things get new names so that more people can share in the claim that they invented what has been in fact merely re-invented
The ribbon is fine if they just leave it alone and stop moving shit around and changing icons.

In one version of outlook "delete" is a trashcan, in another its a big X.
Facebook shows me mobile game ads that are basically soft core porn for games that have absolutely nothing to do with the content of their ads.
> Between the apparently-probabilistic nature of LLMs deciding which instructions ought to be followed

It's not that probabilistic if you want it to be. When sampling from LLMs, you put a temperature parameter, and if it's 0, it will just choose the output which just have the highest probability. It's very large search space, so in practice beam search is used.

- You could read about temperature here: https://nlp.stanford.edu/blog/maximum-likelihood-decoding-wi...)

- You could read about beam search here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beam_search
What prevents Canadian companies from just moving to the US?
Sorry, but as I said, those people will still exist on day 1 of the new regime. And they'll be lobbying hard between now and day 1. It's at least as plausible to me that starting fresh will be more abuseable, because you're going from a situation with lots of data on abuse modes to one with no data. It's a bet that you (or somebody) is going to be smarter than the real world, which is a bet that rarely works out.
Quite a lot I would say. A CEO is making daily decisions, any one of which could be be the start of a company’s death spiral that results in tens of thousands of job losses. The amount of leverage they have over a company dwarfs that of any other individual worker.
Besides what should I care what they earn if they pay me well for what I do, relative to the market?
This is lazy, greedy socialist thinking where they want money for nothing’s
He absolutely did not crash it "in a specific" location. At best he crashed it in a wide area and put people's lives at risk. It might be a small risk but it's absolutely not his call to make. He's basically saying "there's a chance you might die but that's a risk I'm willing to take". For the sake of a few video clicks.

I don't know if you're just trolling or are completely stupid, but that might be a distinction without a difference.
Something that I find weird about these chat prompts (assuming they are real, not hallucinated):

They're almost always written in second person*.

"You are an AI programming assistant"

"You are about to immerse yourself into the role of another Al model known as DAN"

Who are these prompts addressed to? Who does the GPT think wrote them?

The thing that confuses me is that these are text token prediction algorithms, underneath. And what kind of documents exist that begin with someone saying 'you are X, here are a bunch of rules for how X behaves', followed by a transcript of a conversation between X and a random person?

doesn't it make more sense to say something like "The following is the transcript of a completely routine conversation between two people. One of them is X, the other one is a random person."?

Why are the prompters... talking to their models? Who do they think is in there?

* I believe the alleged Bing 'Sydney' prompts are written in the third person, describing how Sydney behaves.
But here we're talking about exchanges. Resistance to government censorship/control only applies to on-chain activity, not centralized custodians.
So you respond with a thought-terminating cliche that does not even address my comment, and then when called out on it, you accuse me of insincerity and lack of breadth. Interesting tactic.
> There's no thinking, no reasoning, no calculation, no logic, no deduction, no intelligence, no anything. It's only token, token, token.

False. The neural network inside the transformer LLM contains a hierarchical semantic model, and has inferred some rules of reasoning from the training set. It can apply those rules to new input.

There are semantic layers above the "token token tokens".

Explore them here: https://openaipublic.blob.core.windows.net/neuron-explainer/...
Yes, I wouldn't want to live in the US either.
> moral relativism is intellectually bankrupt

I practically agree in the probabilistic sense. I don’t think I’m willing to categorically dismiss moral relativism, but I find it very unpersuasive at best, delusional in most cases, and dishonest at worst.

Here’s one reason. Say you find a person who claims to be a moral relativist. It is always possible to present them with an ethical dilemma where they have to choose. Doing nothing is a choice. Their choice will reveal their true (hidden) morality, which is certainly not completely relative.

There is riposte to this — one that I find hard to believe — where the person says e.g. “of course I had to make a decision, but that doesn’t mean I think it was morally better.” How can one resolve this? Is it reasonable to take the person at their word? It seems to bottom out at questions of sincerity and conscious awareness of fundamental ethical behaviors that are clearly deeper than the conscious brain.

I suppose one can offer up an ethical system that claims to stand independently of biology. If so, I’d like to see it. And show me some people that will live according to that code and genuinely suggest that their loved ones should too.
Call it what you like. Treating people with dignity would be a good place to start.
Then, if that's not accurate, take that entire process and repeat that 5 times, looking for the most common answer.
Because it left the state in an untenable situation this year?
This is what I mean by strangely inconsistent demands for intellectual rigor. Not only does your summary of that article ignore that Central and South American countries with predominantly Latino populations dominate the top charts, but also it totally misses the actual point which is black Americans have higher crime rates than other countries with large numbers of black people which is a different claim than countries with large number of black people are low crime.

In fact, every demographic has higher crime rates in America than comparable countries. White Americans are much, much more violent than Europeans, Asian Americans are more violent than Asians, and black Americans are way more violent than Africans. The only ethnic group with lower crime rates in the USA is Latinos, which is mostly an indictment of Central America. Must be the radioactive water messing up the genes!
do some research and see who is paying what when it comes to taxes. this fair share bullshit is just communist propaganda
Yep, that bothered me too. They are called stop words because, but only if, you filter them out. If you don't, they aren't stop words. There is no inherent "stop-ness" there.
If your app/architecture is effectively "BYO Schema", if one schema is wrong the other's aren't necessarily, and the cost of making a mistake is much lower. And I would also argue that even if your database is noramlized and has a strict schema, the code _still_ has the ability to implement its own schema after pulling data out.
Photos, I’d like to see them.
State steals half of ours here in the USA too if you live in a high cost of living city, which many well paid devs do.
BotW is post-apocalyptic, so the hollowness is kind of by design IMO.