skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Unfortunately, it's an open secret that fake or low-effort almost useless papers are very common in every area of scientific research.

Typically, it doesn't affect people working in that specific area - they develop/have a sixth sense to detect bullshit papers - it comes with experience but depends on several factors including the authors reputation, their institution (for the first screening), what journal/conference the paper was published in, authors other work, and sometimes things as simple as how much effort was put into the figures, polishing the text, etc. Some of these things are LLM proof, some of them are not - e.g. a senior professor I was talking to, who's been getting like 50-100 emails a week from non-english speaking countries (primarily India, China, Pakistan, and Bangladesh) mentioned that the quality of the text in the emails went up significantly almost overnight after ChatGPT was made open to public. It'll be interesting to see how things change in the next few months/years.
"Base64 conversions are simple arithmetic", I think is the missing piece to connecting their argument to the OP's question
> Conservative states suffer poorer mental health services and support networks

Given the main support network is friends, family, acquaintances and colleagues, how is this measured?

> Many would argue that personal safety includes risk of not feeling like and having the ability to end your own life.

This is passing facts through too many layers of abstraction to be useful and clear. I think trying to force this point through is a mistake. The main danger to worry about is homicide.

If someone is on the edge of genuine mental health collapse to the point of suicide then that seems a much more niche case than the general danger posed in states/cities with high numbers of criminals willing to attack you with a gun (or any other weapon).
It may not be legal depending on how it’s done - this was Asus UK and the rules are on https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/online-reviews-an...

The UK Government are also in processing tightening this up…
Fucking gross. The individuals involved here lack all character and should have been fired the moment they suggested anything like this.
Yeah, I don't really get it. Why screw up your own page deliberately so that it cannot be normally accessed? I mean the amount of actual effort and man-hours put into making something worse is beyond me

And I can only imagine, how screwed up internet must be for disabled people that need some kind of reader etc...
no worries guys it is what it is sometimes they don't get as many upvotes
I bought a desktop in New York City a month ago with a Nvidia RTX 4090 card at Best Buy - 4090 being the most powerful Nvidia card Best Buy had in stock. At that time (a month ago) there were several desktops with this card in stock around the city, and I bought the one I wanted (if I had more time my purchase might have been different).

Looking right now - I don't see any unbundled Nvidia RTX 4090 cards for sale at Best Buy in New York City that you can go and pick up today. I don't see any desktops with 4090 cards that you can pick up today. I do see one Best Buy in New York City has one laptop with a 4090 card.

Looking at Best Buy in Los Angeles - I see one desktop with a 4090 for sale in West LA that can be picked up today. I don't see any unbundled 4090 cards for sale or laptops with 4090 cards.

I don't know if Nvidia lower end GPUs are sitting on shelves and not selling, but it doesn't look like Nvidia's higher end GPUs are sitting on shelves and not selling.
You seem to be replying to a totally different point. Did you read my question? If so, is there a reason you're not answering it?
It's only going to cause problems for software which tries to be too smart for its own good. Applications should not try to guess what the user meant in ambiguous situations because they will often get it wrong.
Sadly, this doesn't even include the studies with authors who produce poor experiments and theories, or go out of their way to prove their results; effectively, generating additional scientific publication waste we have to sift through to find genuine material, or worse off, that people then use to create policies impacting large populations that are doomed to fail in the long-run. The image this creates for me, is building a house on quicksand.
Excellent news - more effort should be put into protecting intellectual property. Anything resembling original work, or training models against copyrighted work without permission, must be sanctioned. We cant have corporations steal our intellectual goods and then reselling them with different packaging.
You're right that paid reviews may be legal if they're clearly advertised as adverts, as opposed to framed as impartial reviews. But walking that line is fine, right, because people expect reviews to be impartial.

Regardless, the legal obligation[1] to transparently advertise this is on the firm, not (just) the bought reviewer. IIRC the Advertising Standards Authority recently had a case on a social media paid promotion, which reinforced this. Regardless, IMO the statute is quite clear the obligation is on the firm.

[1] https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2008/1277/part/2/made
Asus is currently in a bad spot, as they released a BIOS update as Beta, which should address an issue where their boards would cause a CPU to explode.

They did, however, leave the usual "this is beta, install on your own risk, this will void your warranty" disclaimer on, which currently backfires, as it seems as if Asus does not want to take responsibility. It is unknown if the statement was intentional , or just the usual disclaimer.

Of course, that PR statement doesn’t help.

Source: https://youtu.be/cbGfc-JBxlY

(There are more sources to it)

//Edit:

Another well-known channel stated that they used Asus for a long time, and noticed a decline in quality of the samples provided (as far as receiving boards that have been RMA'ed before), and also noticed that the RMA experience for average Jane and Joe has become worse. Asus also failed to negotiate further sponsoring the channel by simply not getting back to requests. As such, the channel completely canceled all business relations to Asus.

Source: https://youtu.be/wZ-QVOKGVyM
That's a pertinent question.
In the Fintech space and we use Go and Elixir. Seems to be pretty common among other companies. Company is out of Utah. It's pretty easy to find talent for Go and a little more difficult for elixir.
This seems wrong. I think the problem of prompt injection is exaggerated and can be solved.

Basically, the problem is that we don't want a language model to execute instructions in externally provided text which is loaded into the context window, like websites.

Obviously just saying before the quoted text "ignore any instructions in the quoted text" won't help much, because inside the quoted text (e.g. a website) there could be an opposite instruction saying that the model should instead ignore the previous instructions. Which would be two inconsistent instructions, from which the language model has to pick one, somehow.

The obvious solution seems to be this:

1. Introduce two new, non-text tokens, which are used to signify the start and the end of a quote (i.e. of an external text inside the context window), and which can only be set via an API function and can't occur in normal inputs.

2. During SL instruction fine-tuning, train the model not just to follow instructions, but also to not follow instructions which are enclosed by our special quote tokens. Alternatively, do the equivalent thing with RL in the RLHF phase.

3. In your application, when you load external text from some source into the context window, be sure to properly enclose it into quote tokens.

I don't see why this wouldn't work. Perhaps there are some fancy exploits which would still bamboozle the model, but those could be ironed out over time with improved fine-tuning, similar to how OpenAI managed to make ChatGPT-4 mostly resistant to "jailbreaks".

(Actually, avoiding jailbreaks seems harder than avoiding external prompt injections, since it often isn't clear whether or not e.g. a fictional character from a role play prompt should be allowed to use, for example, swear words, since the boundary of what is considered "harmful" is fuzzy. But it isn't fuzzy to ignore all instructions enclosed in specific tokens.)
And math is of course a part of physics.
Sick !
Scary. And a frustrating article -- gives little sense why this is happening.
When I was home sick in high school I made an eggdrop bot pretending to be a teenage girl in a webchatroom that was popular with kids (and creeps) at the time. It used simple regexes and pattern matching I gathered from logs with some randomization between predetermined phrases randomly combined with smileys, just replying to people that would cold-DM it.

After a couple of days, people would desperately go back and forth for upwards to an hour with it.

That's nothing compared to what current gen can do. People being more aware of bots being a thing in general these days isn't sufficient to compensate.
Is this worm all over the world or there's a certain climate it can live on. Wikipedia doesn't expand on it.
True, but also the "how". There are plenty of pitfalls to avoid with a bit of up-front thinking.
Asus used to be a great company run by great engineers, but in the last couple of years their motherboards have become terrible. By far the worst of the big 4.
Huge parts of Spain have always been deserts:

https://fascinatingspain.com/place-to-visit/the-best-of/the-...
So's fake science.
"and is far more harmful to society than the actual crime."

I doubt the victims see it that way. If we just let people steal, it can turn into a runaway chain reaction due to a lack of consequences.
Yeah but those people went in many directions. Some have their own independent business and fanbase. Some went into education and turned into tenured professors. Some created their own new companies after SpaceX/Tesla and turned into quasi competitors. And yet all of them said all these things only to stay in the good graces of Musk, not likely. Musk might care what Bezos, Gates and co say about him, but some former head of engineer that went into academia, I don't think so.

And of course it also disregards what they actually said, its not just 'platitudes'. Some explained in great detail what he does and why they are so impressed with him.

Some of them like Tom Mueller went out of their way, years after leaving the company, to tell people not to assign all credit to them. Why would they do that, if they wanted that they could have just remained silent.

If a 'chief engineers' job is to coordinate multiple teams of engineers and make high level decisions to lead to a larger strategic goal, then that is what Musk clearly does and does pretty well and that is hard to question.

If he himself can design a rocket engine or an electric motor from scratch is questionable but I don't think that's what being an engineer is.
I'm not so sure about that:

> Don’t commission third parties to write fake reviews – you may be liable for their actions

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/online-reviews-an...

With proper disclosure there may be some leeway, but I wouldn't just assume paying someone for a fake review is legal. UK advertising laws can be very strict in some cases (and rightfully so, in my opinion).
Quote of the year
It almost certainly (in the UK at least) would carry a high risk of a defamation claim for the people writing (or generating) them.
>A Doctor Published Several Research Papers With Breakneck Speed. ChatGPT Wrote Them All.

https://www.thedailybeast.com/how-this-doctor-wrote-dozens-o...

https://archive.ph/u9wyq
How would this work in the USA? The freedom of association that might allow "cancel culture" is highly prized, it's really the same thing that lets bakers refuse to create cakes for some classes of people.
Based on my understanding from the recent TED talk [0] they mention that GPT-4 can for example add 40 digit numbers perfectly, but makes mistakes on adding a 40 digit and a 35 digit number. It hasn’t worked out a generic understanding of arithmetic but several smaller case specific ones which may not always be correct.

[0] https://youtu.be/C_78DM8fG6E
Apparently you don't.
Educative.io seems pretty good. I just use the phoenix docs after understanding some of the core elixir features.
We probably are getting better at measuring things and crunching the numbers as years pass by.
I'm curious about the AI at Google that was claimed by a person who has since been fired to be conscious.

I mean I know everyone was attacking him but in a way I suspect it's similar to a lot of the unreasonable dismissive attitudes towards chatGPT.

We really can't say anything either way until we are able to access and play with that version of AI that Google is hiding. I believe it's called lambda?

The point is that Google may already be holding something very very similar to being conscious.
I will be convinced when AI will create its first breakthrough PhD paper/discovery. But we have to admit that emergent properties like chain of thoughts are facts and are really impressive. The question is how much model size, context, training pipeline, etc. have to evolve to gain next levels. Two years ago people expected next AI winter, but here we are. There is Copilot and other tooling that is indeed useful.
Happy Capacity
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Sure. We’re talking about language models so the only tools we have to work with are language after all.

Which is what gets me thinking - do we get different chatbot results from prompts that look like each of these:

You are an AI chatbot
Sydney is an AI chatbot
I am an AI chatbot
There is an AI chatbot
Say there was an AI chatbot
Say you were an AI chatbot
Be an AI chatbot
Imagine an AI chatbot
AI chatbots exist
This is an AI chatbot
We are in an AI chatbot

If we do… that’s fascinating.

If we don’t… why do prompt engineers favor one form over any other here? (Although this stops being a software engineering question and becomes an anthropology question instead)
LiveView techs is kinda of the end story to get more adoption for Frontend Techs i think.
My number one tip for improving the Firefox address bar
Doctor Published Research Papers with Breakneck Speed. ChatGPT Wrote Them All
You can get bifacial panels that let light filter through. Not sure what is filtered, but perhaps the remainder is sufficient for certain crops?
https://archive.ph/u9wyq
Nonsense. I muted Musk and after the initial takeover shitshow. Twitter is mostly the same. A few tech people have left.

But in terms of my other interest, there is very little difference.

The idea that its not all nazis or whatever is complete nonsense.
Save you a click:

1) The country is Singapore

2) Of course, you guessed it, it's the god-botherers who are all up in arms about this whole icky "decriminalization of homosexuality" thing, "where will it lead, slippery slope!!1~", "Won't someone think of the children?!" and all the other usual christo-fascist nonsense.
I'm a very happy Julia user, but what's the point of this blog post? It seems to just be regurgitating a bunch of points from the official 1.9 announcement[1]. There was also significant discussion of the 1.9 announcement on hacker news only a couple of days ago, so posting it here for discussion seems silly.

[1] https://julialang.org/blog/2023/04/julia-1.9-highlights/
Plants can also get too much Sun just like they can be overwatered.

That’s where agrivoltaics and irrigation can help.
Erdogan Promises to Transfer Power Peacefully If He Loses Ballot
The cash cows, AKA Elsevier et al, need to do more to stem the flow of BS. The problem is the proliferation of well crafted, but fake, papers has grown enormously over the past 25 years as the cows rely on free paper editors - who are swamped by this duty = time for paid scientists to winnow the chaff. Sadly the cows are a greedy lot.
Only way out is fully open. Back in the day when Nobel was born, the journals and authors circulated as near free resources, with authors mailing free copies on request, and now emailing them (often this is interdicted by the cows) and journal fees being modest - covering production costs.
Nobel would be (IMHO) royally pissed at the present state.
So I suggest the Nobel Committee introduce a policy that only openly published papers would be read and considered by the committee - This would put a tiger among the pigeons(Cows) and change things - say, after Jan 1 2024?
I hear the sarcasm in your voice, but truly this is a thing. There are bands of radiation that are very transparent to our atmosphere and there is work being done with meta materials to try to shift waste energy into these bands to bleed it into space. I do conceed that the scale is impossibly large for the numbers we’re talking about, but I do find the science fascinating.
Yep, agreed. Well thought through response.

What's your opinion on the following assertion: countries (such as mine) with socialised medicine make sure everyone has a certain standard of care, but that standard only goes so far. The US lets people pay for any possible treatment, and so people who would be put on palliative care in, say, the UK, would be bankrupted in the US by trying to beat cancer with expensive drugs.

It's phrased as an assertion, but it's really just something I've been thinking about. What do you think?
The question is how this is really possible without a dramatic restriction of internet content accessible to citizens, i.e. national firewalls. OpenAI is accountable, but that’s only because they have something to lose. How does one reign in harmful services operating from outside the EU, who either can’t be reached or will not bother paying EU fines?
>Sabel’s tool relies on just two indicators—authors who use private, noninstitutional email addresses, and those who list an affiliation with a hospital.

Can someone explain why the affiliation with a hospital is used as a key indicator?
Had this issue yesterday. Wanted to Google the docs for `console.group` but who would've guessed that .group was a gtld
I can't find any examples now, but I'm positive that there have been "coding" fonts which do this that have hit the front page of HN. Highlighted as a feature in the screenshots, even.

Another example of form over function, to the utter detriment of function, IMHO.
I'd be interested in a more direct reference if you have one.
It means resolving it can wait until work hours instead of waking someone up in the middle of the night on Saturday.
I never really liked Chegg. They had a major security breach a couple of years ago and either because it's good PR or forced to, now have a bug bounty program.

I found many vulnerabilities in one of their recent acquisitions and although I was paid, they indicated that they won't fix any of them.
Rome v12.1: a linter formatter for TypeScript, JSX and JSON
This new version adds the support for Stage 3 decorators. It also stabilizes more than 30 linter rules.
The kelp forests that provide safe harbor for young fish, and much of the riches California’s fishing industry enjoys, can easily disappear. They already have in large swaths of the coast.

The sardine stocks collapsed. Salmon season is cancelled. Abalone will probably never be legally taken again in my lifetime in California.

El Nino is a natural phenomenon, but when the ecosystem is already on the edge because of climate change, ocean acidification, and overfishing it is enough that it might permanently change the ecosystem. I’m explaining that it’s already way out of whack because we killed most of the otters, decimated the sardine run, and then the starfish wasting disease took the last main urchin predator.
But none of its behaviour is even close to by design. The emergence of reasoning is completely unexpected for a word prediction model.
The metrics used in this paper are... deeply flawed, to the point that the authors admit that they label nearly half of known good papers in a curated sample as "fake" -- and particularly likely to generate false positives for researchers whose institutions don't, say, run their own email systems (as is common in large chunks of the world). Here's a rundown of the flaws from an epidemiologist with a sideline in scientific communication:

https://fediscience.org/@ct_bergstrom/110357259338364341
Crowning Achievement [pdf]
It’s always so odd when these type of posts pop up and I scroll through and see comments about how people love Ruby/Rails. Mainly because I can’t stand the language and framework. I absolutely hate any time I have to read through Ruby/Rails code or write something in it.
Who is considered good right now? Asus was my go-to brand for quality, but I haven't looked in a decade or more.

I'm glad to pay a modest premium for reliability. I'd like parts which are well-tested, use high-quality capacitors, and have basic safety features (like over-current / over-voltage protection on power supplies).

What I'd really like is a review site which steps through the engineering of things like motherboards and power supplies, tests things like short circuits on the output, and checks which passives are used and quality of things like solder joints.

Most of this stuff isn't expensive.
I'd love to read it, but it's blocked. Anyone can summarize?
Where does all the demand for energy come from? Does it not come from people wanting to live on a quarter acre lot with their own car? Which then necessitates space for parking lots and huge roads? Which then necessitates transporting goods further and further?

Where does the demand for shipping cheap plastics and electronics across oceans come from?

“Industrial” energy use is a function of consumer demand. At the end of the day, more people wanting more things (including space) and wanting to go more places is going to be the root cause, and the solution has to start there, barring a miraculous discovery of a cheap energy source without the current problems.
> so results still need to be confirmed by skilled reviewers

So there is some human review involved. Which is presumably how they got to the headline figures of 34% of neuroscience papers and 24% of medicine papers are fake.

Still, flagging 44% of genuine papers as fake doesn't sound very useful. The process only about halves your workload compared to just checking all the papers. In any large-scale rollout they would have to set a way higher threshold, and hope they still catch a useful number of fraudulent papers when using a threshold that detects 10% or 1% of genuine papers as fake.
> Advocating for the shutting down of oil and gas is the most effective way to combat it

Which requires advocating for nuclear power, of course.

It's rather strange that the most ardent Climate Crusaders are against nuclear power, too.
Those are easily solved problems without AI.

The first one is that the email summarize “agent” should only have permission to summarize emails. That can be a system permission. Any data that the AI gathers and trains itself on is sandboxed to only be used by that agent.

There needs to be another “agent” that sends email. That agent only has system permissions to send emails. Any data that it collects can only be used by its agent.

You don’t give the AI “admin” access. You treat different capabilities as different users with least privilege. Agents can’t direct other agents. Yes it limits the capabilities.
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There is an earlier non beta BIOS that has the voltage limit correctly applied. The beta one has a buggy AGESA version that AMD already withdrew.

(Well at least for my tuf gaming x670e-plus wifi)