skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> or even a section of an output was generated by the LLM

A probabilistic approach like the one described cannot detect small-scale LLM usage. It takes a lot of text for the random "undetectable" word pairings to become statistically evident with any sort of confidence.
I tried to stick to suggested serving sizes for a week and I wouldnt do it again
For reference, the Appalachian mountains are older than this.
In the escalating AI war, Google has announced the integration of its latest large language model, PaLM 2, into its suite of products.
There would never be a moat around mainframe computers as commodity Intel chips became more powerful. SUN, DEC, Stratus, Irix, etc all fail to commodity PCs.
GraphQL over SSE (Server-Sent Events)
Blocking things highlights the problematic behaviour and annoys people, platforms censoring themselves just helps an agenda. They shouldn't get their cake and eat it too.
Possibly because the firmware could be modified, and not print the required yellow dots or other tracking data:

https://www.eff.org/pages/list-printers-which-do-or-do-not-d...

"Some of the documents that we previously received through FOIA suggested that all major manufacturers of color laser printers entered a secret agreement with governments to ensure that the output of those printers is forensically traceable."
The direct solution would be more oral examinations, presentations, that kind of thing.

We should also dramatically realign the education system to value real learning, personal and community growth, and a culture of learning rather than just daycare (not that childcare for parents isn’t tremendously important, believe me), funding zillions of BS college admin positions, job training for corporations that are to cheap to train their own employees, and grades (as we know them. Grades have so much nonsense loaded on top of them. Are they a measure of a student’s learning? Are the an incentive? A punishment? A way of ranking students? It’s literally all this and more!) Then students would have much more incentive to actually learn (because the system should be operating in good faith) rather than trying to BS their way through an assignment quickly.

Unfortunately I don’t see that ever happening, at least in America.
You went to harvard? You never mentioned it before.
> to reduce the risk of malware attacks

What business does an ink cartridge have containing any significant code that could act as malware? What sort of imbecilic or evil (or both) personage designs a system that makes this even remotely possible and then sells it to the general public?

Of course there is no answer to that because it isn't a real reason, it is crap regurgitated by a PR drone who knows next to nothing about tech details and has been told to drop the phrase in to make it look like the company is defending their customers from something rather than being a something their customers need defending from…

(or worse, the PR person knows a bit about tech, so knows the malware angle is complete bunkum, and was actively lying.)
The drone strikes are linked to intelligence, which sometimes comes from the faang/natsec relationship.
Instead of this garbage dismissal, maybe read the article and try the queries? You might just learn something!

PS: Sorry, GPT4 still does terrible.
Yes! I picked only the highest scores to form an edge in relationships graph. Typically a sigma (std deviation) or two away from the mean. So if there is a direct link between your project and others - the similarities are abnormally high.

Note that I'm not rendering direct links outside of the country yet, there might be more there. Will probably add a "focused" view to see those better
My office stopped buying HP printers a long time ago. They buy Ricoh now (actually they lease them with a maintenance agreement).
Pretty much as honest as some people get does not reach the level of actual integrity.
The Moon is not drifting away, it's been thrown away by tidal interactions. The Earth's spin is slowing down and the moon is accelerating. Energy is going in to the Moon's orbit and coming out of Earth's angular momentum.

My intuition is that without other sources of energy in the rings would decay eventually due to bits of them hitting each other occasionally, thus diverting some of them enough to interact with Saturn's atmosphere. Maybe there's some very small friction with gas from Saturn as well.

The main point is that when anything diverts things down, the results are asymmetric with up, making down the overall trend.

But as the article says, there is considerable energy input, with sunlight adding electromagnetic excitement so that things are getting diverted by the planet's magnetic field.
Not the person you're replying to, but this is what I found after a quick google search:

Dr. Jeffrey Flier: https://twitter.com/jflier/status/1495909501211447305?s=21

Dr. Charles Brenner: https://twitter.com/CharlesMBrenner/status/14966040557993615...

Dr. Brad Stanfield: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JAFnD27ffqE
I think these things might be more common than most people realise. I only learned recently that there's an illegal landfill that's been on fire for ten years in London:

https://www.itv.com/news/london/2023-01-19/illegal-rubbish-d...
I teach (TA/Grad Researcher). We know how much you all use ChatGPT. Just like we know how much you all cheat. We also know that the level of cheating exponentially increased during covid. We're not dumb.

But the truth is there's little we can do about it. Often it is difficult to prove concretely, and so there's a risk/reward function that needs to be considered. But I'll give you an example where I had clear proof. Two students uploaded code from another student. Into their github. The git logs were not removed and had the name of the original owner (who's mistake was not making their repo private). This was taken to the department head. Department head did not want to do anything about it. Why? Because every cheater we prosecute gets logged and administration determines that the number of cheaters is proportional to the number of students we persecute. If a department has a lot of cheaters then we get reduced funding and a lot of audits. I'm sure you can put together the rest of the story here.

The truth is that there's only a handful of ways around this: Small classes, in class assessments, project based homeworks. Repetitive and "doing" homework is good and necessary but these shouldn't be major parts of the grade (or even graded). Take home exams are even fine and probably worthwhile. The reason being is that when you write a takehome exam you operate under the assumption that this is open book and open internet.

We have to think about incentives here. If we're being honest, most students aren't there to learn, they are there to get their piece of paper. (How do we fix this?) Departments are not aligned to prioritize learning, they are prioritized to make money. Training for a degree is perfectly acceptable, but if the students aren't invested in it then what incentive do they have to not cheat (you're never going to win this game. Students are good at cheating and will always win). We have to consider that grades are also the main signal, but that even though this may be a decent signal when aggregated across students that it is a very noisy signal across individuals (e.g. Did you take the hard professor that never gives an A but you learn a shit ton from or did you take the professor that gives easy As and you don't get a deep understanding of the material? Why do students pick one over the other in a very predictable way?).

ChatGPT isn't anything new or a crisis. But it does put higher pressure for us to rethink how our system has changed and what incentives we created.
Hot take: developers today are nowhere near as talented as those of 1995. Every single dev in 1995 was the equal of a principal SDE today. You had to be, because unless your code met that bar, it just didn't work.

There were no guardrails. There was no borrow checker. There was no ASAN. There was no valgrind. Christ, you barely had a debugger. You couldn't copy and paste answers from ChatGPT or Stack Overflow: you either RTFM and comprehended it, or your code didn't work at all.

Today, we spend an enormous amount of compute, memory, and latency compensating for the modal developer being unable to do safe memory management or concurrency.
So if you think that maybe OpenAI has other options if NVDA increases their prices why do you think that one of the other big names ( MSFT,GOOG,IBM,TSLA,AMD,INTC,Facebook ) also cannot do the same thing?

I'm not saying you are wrong or right, btw
Yep, exactly this. You can sip from a bottle and put it back in your backpack. A can you have to leave outside the backpack once opened.
The scheme Aaronson is talking about is statistically sound and will not penalize a student who happens to have a particular style.

Basically, you replace the random noise used in the sampling with a cryptographic strategy which biases certain n-tuples based on a pseudorandom number generator. It does not work with temperature = 0 but almost no one uses that.

If the student was stupid enough to not modify the essay, you would be able to prove with 99.999% confidence that it was written by a particular LLM. If they modify it slightly then you will have a lower confidence, but they will still be caught.
Forget energy saving, this is just as important for reducing light pollution.
Yes, that's correct. Then OpenAI bills you around the end of the month so you have some leeway of credit.

You can use local embeddings, such as sentence transformer models, too, to save on embeddings (and maintain embeddings you can move to another provider with new queries etc)
The US government shouldn’t have invaded Iraq, toppled most of the regimes in the Cold War, interned Japanese citizens, or dropped the nuclear bombs during WW2. They should have never had slavery or poor treatment of indigenous tribes. Today we need better election laws, gun laws, separation between church and state, tort reform etc. My username is my real name and I live in Toledo, Ohio. typing that gives me no pause or concern.

So if you’re a Chinese citizen, go ahead and type out your name and where you live, along with a list of things you feel your government is wrong about.
If you type a capital letter into the search box, it gets stuck on "downloading index" indefinitely.

I was waiting for about 10 minutes wondering how big these indexes were...
Which OS models?
That predates widespread use of the internet. Also by the time Internet Explorer took off, COM files ceased to be relevant.

So no, COM files aren't relevant at all in this discussion.
I don't know why you're downvoted. Absolutely a lot of the education was just grinding for pretense and these Automation tools greatly expose it.

The tools won't think for you and you have to find a way to teach that, but that wasn't what's being done.

I criticize blind faith on Chatgpt all the time and want people to use it with caution and intention but I'm super happy at how it rocks so many boats. So many processes with questionable use rendered insignificant due to semantic text generation. Good opportunity to improve.
Thanks. This sounds compelling. I’ll look into this further for the details.
I taught into computer science courses ~15 years ago, and went to university myself a bit before that. I know exactly how much "cheating" goes on on assignments, as does everybody involved. Chatgpt doesn't change that. It's the reason final exams are worth so much. To use a cliche, you're only cheating yourself if you want to get the 10% that assignments are worth without putting in the effort.

Tldr, s/using chatgpt/copying/g
The credit card sized thing is common in many hotels. Fortunately an expired train ticket is the same size, and usually do the trick.
ah I see. thank you for pointing this out

so if I’m reading it correctly now, essentially the quarantined LLM’s outputs are only ever—let’s say—secure text files and the privileged LLM can only ever just point to those text files for the human user to decide what to do with themselves?

I’ll be honest, I quite like how this solution puts a soft cap on how much human interaction automation we can safely get away with, which I think is good in the grand scheme of things

the way I’d implement this would be with a mainloop that iterates over inputs saving each quarantined completion to some form of data storage hardened to classic code injection, then the privileged LLM looks at a carefully curated set of a metadata to decide whether or how to display the results to the user. I suppose there could be some fiddliness in curating the text, and perhaps some level of UI fiddliness in smoothly displaying the completions to user without putting it through the model, but is there more?
Yes, and my god would it be nice to finally stop this charade of "school is for learning" meanwhile unanimously everyone goes through the process explicitly to land a job, all the while the curriculum gets centered around application in jobs.

We need separate systems, one for actually learning without financial pressure, and one for joining the workforce - before anyone brings up College/Uni as the solution, they can be if transformed but as of right now there are too many in Uni doing so to get a job.
Maybe I'll read it next time :D
In my limited understanding there are two levels to it.

At the network level, plain Wi-Fi doesn't really cut it. To get reliable connections with lightbulbs and stuff you need a mesh network where each thing connects to nearby things and they form a network among themselves. That requires a wireless transport designed for the purpose. Zigbee is one such transport, and Thread (awful name) is a new one. Both are open standards, but the main advantage of Thread is that it doesn't need a central hub. It just needs a "border router" to talk to other networks (if things need to). Thread is based on IPv6.

At the application level, you need a protocol for controlling IoT stuff, that knows about those kinds of devices and allows an application to, for example, tell a lighbulb what colour to be. This has been done with vendor-specific protocols to date, over UDP or HTTP or whatever. Matter (also an awful name) is a new open standard for it. It can work over any IP network, including Thread ones (or WiFi or ethernet or whatever).

So between them, Matter and Thread should provide standards based connectivity and control for IoT devices, and as a key design requirement they should allow it all to work locally, i.e. without the cloud connection so many vendors have forced on people. They seem like Good Things to me.

The above is just what I've picked up and may contain inaccuracies, which I would appreciate being corrected upon.
Why did this clause exist to begin with? Why should installing firmware that Asus itself publicly released void your warranty? I doubt that clause can even be legally enforced.
In the UK at least they can refuse to sell at that price if it is an error. A displayed price is not a contract but an invitation to tender. It only becomes different legally if the low price was a deliberate bait-and-switch thing or similar.
Platform Drift?
An ex-colleague is a professor, and he recently caught a student handing in a homework written by chatgpt. The only reason he noticed is because he wanted to check one of the references and ended up nowhere. The student was stupid enough to let chatgpt generate the bibliography too.
The fine would have to be akin to a corporate death penalty, so that the CEO would never work again. Ideally, it would also pierce the veil of limited liability, so they’d be stuck in court for the next few decades.

For this case, computing back:

94M printers are sold per year.

HP’s market cap is $29 billion.

So, fine them $1000 per printer they sold that has any sort of anti-third-party ink mechanism, payable direct to consumer. (This seems about right to me. It’s less than 10x the retail price of a printer.)

Production of a receipt or a picture of an HP branded printer serial number should be all that is required to obtain the $1000. If they fail to pay in 30 days, individuals can use the mechanism where the sherrif walks into an HP office and takes $1000 worth of stuff on behalf of the claimant.

After 12 months, any unclaimed money gets sent to charity.

As appropriate as that would be, I’d rather see the CEO and execs that approved this stuff go to federal maximum security prison for life than for all the unrelated HP employees to lose their jobs. (Though, arguably, their services would be better used elsewhere.)
So were you willing to pay $1 or $2 for your ride? And, more importantly, were all your friends? Thtat's the thing with all these services. People need to be willing to pay what they cost to deliver.
I've been watching changelog nightly emails for a while - they summarize most starred daily repositories, and growth of AI there (subjectively) seems to be even higher than frontend tech
That's the problem. One person can't make a difference.

I bike to work and walk to the grocery store. I've reduced my meat and processed food intake(stop shipping preserved foods to me from across the country please). I recycle. I attempt to avoid plastic packaging. All my light fixtures use LED bulbs and I'm pretty good at turning off the lights when I leave a room. I keep the thermostat at 60 in winter and use heating blankets to keep me warm if I'm resting. I have an A/C window unit that is set to 80 in the summer, if I close the office door I only need to cool down 80sqft of me and my computer. I hope to switch to a electric or push mower, but I'm keeping my gas powered lawn mower that came with the house to avoid excess waste, I go weeks between mowing and I never water the lawn explicitly, only my trees; a pine that blocks most of the midday sun until the middle of summer, and a box elder maple the blocks the worst of the summer evening light. I turn off my computers at night, even the computer at the work office I remote into. I sew the holes in my clothes. I repair my dog's toys, OK the dogs are a huge negative on my footprint, but they're rescues at least.
I don't know about that. From my private email conversations with MSI motherboard team they seemed very… incompetent. They didn't know what the options they added to their firmware did and they didn't seem to understand how UEFI Secure Boot works (they thought it also works for non-UEFI OSes, somehow).
I Could Make That
That's just a slightly different (though overlapping) list of things you think we should do. Things that apparently you think could a) save us from doom, and b) be good ideas anyway, so my basic point stands: doomerism doesn't change our options.
Well, that's not what researchers found:

https://misinforeview.hks.harvard.edu/article/where-conspira...

This is not a problem specific to TikTok, fixing this issue is just a matter of improving the moderation systems, and at this point it's just noise, however the celebrities like Andrew Tate and Joe Rogan, they both come from YouTube/Instagram, so maybe the source of that kind of content originates from the same place? go figure

Is it enough to ban YouTube of Facebook? of course not, why is it for TikTok?

The strategy need to improve or change
What makes this different from a regular online casino?
4 years seems very high for VAT registration?

I have worked with some corrupt and incompetently bureaucratic global south governments even they wouldn’t take 4 years for a thing like VAT something is terribly wrong with UK.
I imagine OpenAI et al are saving all LLM output. Soon they can offer an anti-cheating service that checks a given submission to see if it was generated by their program.
Especially not in relation to how old it is expected to become
Having a powerful theme system is one of the key factors in the success of a static website generator. Publish uses Plot as the development tool for themes, allowing developers to enjoy the benefits of Swift’s type safety while efficiently writing themes. This article will start with an introduction to Plot, and ultimately teach readers how to create a Publish theme.
Weather Window – AI Generated Photo of Current Weather in a Random City
If you are an American and want to experiment with perps and aren’t confident with defi, you can become a Palauan resident and trade on Bybit (Dubai) and some other offshore exchanges legally.

https://rns.id/
You clearly skipped the footnotes.
What do you mean devolved into anarchy?
They have active economic reason not to do this. The first set of patches not from an official source would be to disable code that enforces using their expensive consumables instead of cheaper options.
It could just as easily be configured to send a real payload if you're connecting from certain IP blocks, or if your user agent matches a certain version, etc. Advanced actors don't serve up a payload to any device that connects.
Plot twist: the bosses deliberately had it wired that way so that employees spend less time on bathroom breaks.
what are you displaying the sixel graphics on?

because the maximum baud rate of a vt340 is i think 38400 baud, which is 3840 six-bit characters including the start and stop bits, so with four bitplanes (16 colors per pixel) you only get 5760 pixels per second; a full 800×480 frame thus takes a bit over a minute to paint, minus whatever areas the rle compression can remove

i think sending a byte stream of raw pixels with some framing information is a reasonable thing to do for many applications, even at 32bpp, but you can do a lot better than sixel

x11 for example
And how would those students who can’t handle stress in class handle it on the job?
Thank you!

It could be a curse or popularity? Some projects are so popular that you can place them nearly anywhere, and they would still find a lot of densely connected group of neighbors
Significant El Niño event is almost guaranteed this year, experts warn
Worked at a startup for the last nine months as a founding engineer building everything in Elixir + Phoenix and LiveView. I was able to ship more features and fix more problems faster than I ever have. The startup is out of runway and it breaks my heart to think I might have to go back to the painful world of node.js.
That's still insane, you could build an operating system from scratch with that amount of space.

All this does is toggle a pin on and off.
yes, but rent and housing (inflation adjusted) were much cheaper.
(2002)

Previous discussions:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6187014 2013, 119 comments

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8845507 2015, 89 comments

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14331752 2017, 27 comments

More: https://hn.algolia.com/?q=mathematician%27s+lament

It's an important essay and worth reading. The author went on to write the book Measurement: https://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674284388
I don’t doubt that can be the case. But I’ve been promoted multiple times with work in my package that was purely maintenance and scalability work. Maybe I got lucky having management who appreciates these things. I’ve also seen people rejected from promo because they only focused on building and not on other leveling expectations like broader impact, anticipating problems, etc.
I moved from the Seattle area back to the Midwest, and the suburbs are great.

There is something very relaxing about seeing kids walking home from school with a variety of crossing guards, no homeless camps, parks that fill on weekends with families, well maintained roads and google fiber.

I'd advertise where... but nah
Accusation by whom ? Who would have standing to accuse before investigating?

Enforcement bodies start investigation for any reason and none, (see all the stuff FBI did during civil rights movement for example ) at best legal framework used is probable cause
What behavior are people punishing Netflix for exactly?
“So, fine them $1000 per printer they sold that has any sort of anti-third-party ink mechanism, payable direct to consumer. (This seems about right to me. It’s less than 10x the retail price of a printer.)”

Did I read this correct? Do consumer printers cost over $10k where you live?