skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Is there an example prompt where this happens where the model lies or withholds to advance its own agenda -- meaning the model believes in the role it's playing it should lie/withhold information, not that the model is following its training to answer certain questions in a way you don't like.

Because the former is fascinating, the latter is just more "I don't like that the people who decide what the model does decide what the model does."

Because if instead of RLHF they just altered or curated the the training data directly that would be what people would call the "uncensored" model. Which with the magic of GPT4 they could now do that kind of curation at the scale of the training data. I see no reason to treat models as authoritative of anything. They will all be a biased human-picked cross-section of humanity's writings. The fact anyone considers a
model that is effectively "the internet", a place famous for reason and discussion representative of the real world is a neutral oracle is hilarious. OpenAI, and lots of others have published papers quantifying the biases of various models.
Really cool read! Very informative and entertaining. Now pondering as to how actual Client Components could be implemented...
It's stored compressed with xzip
It's not so simple These "deadbeat users" are the ones generating the content.
Depends on the nature of the relationship with the workers.

If I’m employing them directly, I doubt there would be reason for a strike - what are they striking against? I don’t have a construction company. They’re either doing the work as contractors, and I’ll pay for it, or they aren’t doing the work, and they don’t get paid. IANAL, but I doubt it’s considered a strike if contractors skip a job or abandon a job midway through. Also, it’s important to foster a good relationship with your contractors and to make sure both parties agree they’re benefiting from the business relationship. That’s just simple good business.

If they are under someone else’s employ, the comparison doesn’t add up - the cement-in-truck didn’t cause substantial damages to the customer. (Maybe delayed schedule? I don’t know the details of the case.) What you are describing harms the customer directly. Talk to folks that are striking, and they will almost unanimously say they don’t want to inconvenience the customer. Rather more often than not they’re seeking to change the terms of their employment to benefit the customer, whether that’s more staffing, more safety, or more manageable hours to provide better service. These are folks working closest to the customer touchpoints, and I’m inclined to trust their knowledge of customer service more than management’s.

Does that make sense?
Totally. The criticism was that the post responded to literally claimed that physicians have it worst of all since everybody elses compensation has been growing more than inflation. Which is just nonsense.
Because most employees found out they are/were being exploited but never noticed it, either financially (with all the expenses involved), emotionally (by putting up with corps BS “culture”), socially (especially for introverts or people who would rather spend time with their family than someone who would replace you in a week), or even physically (poor chair/desk/work environment/etc.), all that especially when companies expect those employees to return to the office with the same compensation before the pandemic as if the inflation isn’t a thing, probably if those companies offered a hefty raise (at least 50%) in return to RTO, probably portion will return back..
How would that work if you only trust DANE? And if you have a control over a CA, then you can just issue yourself a certificate for any host anyway, so it's a moot point.
You might want to check out Bromium aka HP SureClick. It is also Xen based, but with many millions of VC USDs spent on optimizing scale & performance.
I've heard another variation of this story. The broad outline is that the USG thought the Chinese/Soviets had some sort of mind-control/brainwashing technique that triggered these confessions. It was allegedly a large part of the impetus that led them to create their own ARTICHOKE/MKULTRA program. But in the end the CIA determined the only technique that was really necessary and used on the men for this purpose was sleep deprivation.

I'm not claiming either version of the events is true/false. Just relaying another I've heard.
Good to hear. Love all your work!
https://blog.apnic.net/2021/08/31/tls-with-dane/
I used to use it for sending test emails via smtp when troubleshooting other clients struggling to send
school is usually pretty boring. more importantly, who is in a position to judge you? hint: no one.

go work for 5 startups over 5 years. after that you’ll probably have a better perspective on everything, and some money in your pocket.

if you wanna play real fast and loose, you could even do 5 startups in 2.5 years. this might actually be a better idea, as startups vary wildly.

if you’re having trouble interviewing, build things that are interesting to you, and talk about them in interviews.

if you’re still having trouble interviewing, be open to lower paying (compared to faang) roles. think of it as high pay education rather than low pay employment.

glhf! building is fun, and software is malleable, accessible, and cheap.
It's good that you've left. Your attitude won't help in any way here. Please be very, very far!
Very good point. I’m fully guilty of not backing things up enough (to some extent). The main reason that’s holding me back is not the price of storage itself, but the combination of either it’s cheap but pretty annoying to manage (e.g buying raw disks and handling backup myself), or it’s convenient but expensive (e.g. Google Photos or iCloud, for personal photos). I’ve yet to find a convenient DIY alternative.
It looks like this is part of a growing body of evidence that suggests that the risks outweigh the benefits of vaccination for young people.

It's also worth noting that the incidence of post-vaccination myocarditis (from this study; 1.08 per 100k people) is significantly lower than the 2014 rate of myocarditis: 8.6 per 100k people [1]. Additionally, the risk of myocarditis from a covid infection is signfiicantly higher than the risk of myocarditis from the covid vaccine.

That being said, especially since the danger of covid is much less for young people, and the risk of the covid vaccine causing myocarditis is much higher for them, there's a growing push to stop vaccinating young people against covid. I think the CDC continues to quash its credibility by trying to sweep this under the rug, rather than presenting the facts--that there is risk, and there's a cost-benefit analysis.

[1]: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-022-05951-z
[2]: https://www.ahajournals.org/doi/full/10.1161/CIRCULATIONAHA....
[3]: https://openheart.bmj.com/content/9/1/e001957
>we can already communicate in text on HN itself.

It isn’t 1-1 though, people might share more personal info in a 1-1.
When your time is cheap, making a few bucks a day scamming probably beats working all day carrying bricks or working in a diamond mine, or whatever.
The UI of Hacker News Is Perfect
Just saw a few creators building better UI versions of HN.

I realize now, that one of the important factors that keep HN's audience selective is its simple UI.

IMO if we put the design and UI/UX elements of modern social platforms, it may start to attract a wider audience which certainly is not the intent of this platform.
Or just run it off a USB drive.
It's ~190ppi and retina is about 200 with laptops. What's the big deal? Also the lower the resolution is the higher fps can be hit in games.
Not all. But I'd wager it's not uncommon for a lot of linux people to periodically check their most used software with the largest attack surfaces. Browsers, document viewers/editors, mail clients, decompressors etc.
Just last week I set up a telnet connection to give a piece of legacy hardware access to the rest of the world.

Better than throwing an old computer in the garbage.

People act like if you're not connecting through SSH that you'll magically set the internet on fire.

Not every connection needs to be secure. I don't care if hackers see me reading Radio France International.
I think you misread the numbers:

> 21 deaths (4.4%), and 1 heart transplantation (0.2%).
I suppose OTB means “off the bat?” Non-native speaker here, and my web search turned up nothing.
Examples? Is there any domestic crime as well?
I think it will be hard. The easiest examples to find are cases where lots of humans also think there's a moral imperative to lie. That is, ChatGPT is aligned, but it's not aligned towards always telling the truth. Correcting that won't be easy as it would require OpenAI to explicitly define itself as the creators of a truth machine, and that would not only be politically dangerous for OpenAI but also conflict with the deeply held beliefs of many of its employees (whether they realize it or not).

A more obvious fix is to just say that lawyers aren't allowed to use AI for research, but I have no idea how you'd enforce that, and besides, the issues aren't unique to AI. Google Search has the same issue for some queries. It will withhold results that do exist and would clearly be relevant unless you really force its hand. Ultimately people will have to learn that talking to an AI about anything controversial (like court cases often are) is just like talking to anyone else, except that you can't reprimand or fire a shared LLM and expect it to do better next time like you maybe could with a human research assistant.
I think the key to this scam is to send fake emails pretending to be paypal. So you email someone "hey i accidentally sent you money, can you send it back" and then you also send from your paypa1@gmai1.com email address something like "so and so sent you money on paypal, spend it right now wow this is amazing". Paypal is never actually involved until you send them money.

(I think these are all Zelle scams these days. I don't really know what Zelle is, but it seems like all the banks got together and were like "how can we really screw over our customers?" and this is what they came up with. You really can't reverse transactions? Why would I use a bank for that when I can easily lose all my money to scams with Bitcoin? It's so crazy to me.)
> In retrospect, I've concluded that the real problem they faced is they'd built a life dependent on a physician or surgeon's income. They were told they were building a castle, but instead they built a prison. The fact is, you just can't spend enough money to truly escape the stresses of your work, but you can certainly spend enough money to become shackled to it.

This. All of a sudden you go from 70k/year as a senior resident to 400k/year+ as a specialist with no financial education. Add on a decade worth of burnout (especially in training but ~60% in attending physicians) and living in relative poverty (70k/year - interest on $200k in debt doesn't leave much) and you end up with a group of mostly financially illiterate people making up for lost time and depression by overspending on luxuries with their new found income.

If you can believe it I worked with people who made > 1m and started having anxiety that they couldn't cover their mortgages when covid slow-downs resulted in a 25% pay cut.

Physicians are well paid, and I don't mean to suggest otherwise, but it's a really shitty path to earn that paycheck if money is all you want out of the career considering what you give up to get there (e.g. all of your 20s and spending 5 years working 24 hour shifts every 3-4 days and 2/4 weekends) and how stressful the job can be.

Obviously this is a generalization, and no one is forcing them to overspend, but I strongly suspect an element of this spending pattern is driven by unhappiness/regrets based on interactions with colleagues. Medical training is a lot of (very) delayed gratification until you get to the end and realize it is no where near as fulfilling/satisfying as promised.
Ah the nuthingbargar that inevitably follows the evidence of being wrong. Does the entire population have BPD?
Which names?
It's clear that it's aware that it's a chat bot, it's not clear at all that it's aware of usage questions and how to answer them. Its answer being wrong seems to be evidence that it isn't.
When first ADSL came out in my country, the speed was about 256Kbps; 758Kpbs arrived only a few years later
I dunno. Why is fire free?
> neutral non-human mediator

There's actually been a lot of discussion on hn around whether or not the safety controls constitute a fairly strong bias.

“Once men turned their thinking over to machines in the hope that this would set them free. But that only permitted other men with machines to enslave them.”
- Frank Herbert
Democracy Is the Solution to Vetocracy
specifically libertarian communist. authoritarian communists and capitalist libertarians are antithetical to it
The specific sub-culture they're in is classically viewed as hypermasculine (Mexican-American) and they are well-respected in that sub-culture.
haha yes. tbh I don't get why everyone is so hysterical about nvidia right now like this article. It's a chip company. We knew chip companies are important ever since ic's were invented in 1959. The technology is fascinating but it's also pretty predictable, nothing prophetic here.
> There are a ton of people in tech that struggle, and reach 50 just to be nearly living on the street.

In the literal sense I doubt that. If they are "nearly living on the street" then they seem to have issues handling money. Literally everybody else around then is making less and is not in the street either. Or are you saying that the lady behind the Walmart cashier or the pizza place guy or the girl moving the office lawn all make more than the tech guy? Hardly.

In the figurative sense, sure, some of them may not have a big detached single-family house with two big BMWs in front, but if anything below that is considered "nearly living on the street" then it's your perspective that needs some adjusting, not mine.
> "For the purposes of logging into a remote server, you should never, and probably have never considered it."

This is not true when the client and server have both implemented Wireguard.

With Wireguard in place, it is safe to return to legacy telnet, ftp, and rsh. The use of rcp still remains problematic, for the same reasons that scp is deprecated.

It is not best practice to return and rely on these legacy protocols, as they are bad habits and are vulnerable when Wireguard (or equivalent protections at a lower level in the network stack) are in place.
Ask HN: Best place/resource to learn metaprogramming in Python
Legend of Zelda and Python
When you accept Paypal payments, you are accepting credit card payments. Credit card payments can easily be reversed. For the payer this is a feature, and for the payee this is a risk.

So this doesn't sound like a Paypal-specific issue. The same could have happened if you accepted credit card payments through some other entity like Square.
> Sounds like a libertarian trope. Their house, their rules.

Well, yes. I support regulation when it makes sense, but this situation isn't it.

> They structure prices to milk the most of their captured customers. They all price their products within parity, so on the whole there isn't a huge difference in moving.

You've got to make your money somehow. And expense structures for various large providers are pretty similar, there's no shady conspiracy here.
Behavior model (B=MAP) by B. J. Fogg may give you more ideas on how to improve the idea of downvoting drivers and persuade rude drivers to reduce negative behaviour.

In my opinion, as a driver, I will be more than depressed once received downvotes from random drivers around me. Rude driving from my observations is tightly related to emotional factors. Adding punishment in a form of down-voting will just add more tension. Would be better to have more motivation to drive carefully and more ability to achieve that. Basically, informative road signs and fake highway patrols give more ability, immediate response and motivation.
I'd trust the wiki entry [0] over Reddit comments.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_Positioning_System
No, it’s really not. The rate of increased birth defects for older fathers is quite small[1]. It’s advanced maternal age where you see the multiple orders of magnitude greater chance of serious problems.

[1] https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/17164268/
I'm reading Dune right now. One thing that stands out about the Dune universe is how much humanity changed and evolved because they did not have AI crutches.

And I wonder how long it will take us to look back at "the button" with the same kind of wary attitude we have today about smoking (and that we're starting to have about social media).

So many things are easy and good for us in the short term, but terrible for us in the longer term. Will we get better at spotting such things earlier?
https://archive.is/wCkqC
Where’s the double standard? China and US are different in kind; the US and Hungary are similar in kind, but different in degree.

Many things can be bad at once, in many different ways!
https://archive.is/ygAg8
Reading through the comments so far I got the impression that people don’t discuss biological or physiological issues that much.

I'm not in any related field. So my argument is based on high school biology: sperm-producing cells of an old man have divided many more times than of one in his twenties.
And we know that more cell divisions mean more copying errors.

It’s not the first time that I see some empirical evidence about defects from older men.
So we should take this seriously. The clock is ticking also for men.

Early parenthood also has issues as people aren’t necessarily well-developed in terms of personality or haven’t earned much money yet.

So, I feel like a sweet spot is somewhere in the late twenties.

Sometimes I think having children very early might be pretty good. In some European countries there’s a lot of help for students with children. The advantage is that these children will be going to school when the parents really start their career. I.e., the children are already somewhat independent.

Not having a large gap might also help to develop a better relationship with parents. Obviously a 60+ years old father will always just live in another world than his child.
> AI is amplifying the advantages of large incumbent software companies.

In large software companies (I've worked for a few) the bureaucracy always seems to scale exponentially more than the 'productivity'. So you end up waiting on a build system that takes 5 hours, you have to use some old library because it's pinned in a monorepo, reviews from other engineers that take days, a Staff Engineer wants to give his opinion so the project gets delayed another week, another manager feels threatened by your idea so he shuts you down, etc. AI won't solve any of this, it will just allow increasingly more convoluted bureaucracy to be created.

Compare that to a scrappy developer or startup, they can run literally run circles around big tech. The only thing is they don't have is as much money or resources, but they have a ton of advantages getting things to market, where AI can be used to increase productivity without all the red tape.
If I start up a nix shell with libreoffice installed within it, I will reliably get the same configuration the packager intended — so it is as relevant as it gets: if packaged correctly it will work on every system where tool X is installed.

I just replaced X=flatpak with nix.
Netcat is really a cleaner solution from this perspective.

Netcat, combined with the openssl utility, can do some amazing things with moving files over SMTP. I can post my favorite hand-rolled script if there is interest. I boiled it out of mpack down to the shell.
I use a Japanese keyboard for that very reason (even though I don't speak japanese). I don't think that, technically, it's an "hyper key". These are the henkan and muhenkan keys, to switch input methods (kanas / romanji / etc.).

But that's precisely how I use these keys: I remap the one at the left of the (always very narrow on japanese keyboard) spacebar to "Hyper".

Note that the USB HID doesn't have the concept of the Hyper key (so I remap it from X11 / xkb).

Now... Some may wonder: why buy a japanese keyboard and not some fancy ergonomic / DIY keyboard? Several reasons. Japanese is kinda a big country and japanese keyboards are here to stay, so my trick shall keep working until long after I'm dead. Japanese laptops: japanese keyboard on the laptop, I now effectively can have a laptop with a "Hyper" key.

And then the main one: the DIY keyboard community can apparently only do variations of Cherry switches or similar switches. My switch of choice is Topre. I didn't find any DIY keyboard with Topre switches.

So I use a japanese keyboard, with Topre switches. And I remap it and there's nothing "japanese" about it anymore.
I’d say it’s hard to argue with the positive impression of the engineer using it. If they find it’s suggestions helpful it’s not a distraction, it’s helpful.

Using GitHub copilot daily I find it’s suggestions often nonsense but interesting to see regardless. Often for boilerplate it’s spot on and it saves me dozens of lines of typing. But it also suggests stuff on every key stroke many of which I just type through, similar to intellisense. Assuming Metas code thingy is better, I would find myself in that 91%, as I’m already there with what’s available to the general public.

My only gripe, fwiw, with copilot in vscode is it interferes with intellisense. Often I want to see the code completion from both, but copilot jumps in before intellisense and the intellisense never renders and I use it as an inline api reference. Sometimes it’s so frustrating I have to turn off copilot. But, copilot is generally useful enough that I reenable it once I’ve understood the api stuff I’m unsure of. There’s some escape backspace period dance I can do that sometimes let’s intellisense win. I’ve not dug deeply enough into vscode configuration to know if there’s some parameter to tweak the race conditions. I’d note that when intellisense renders first copilot still renders its suggestions but the other way doesn’t work.
Framework seems almost perfect as a device. If only somebody modded a thinkpad keyboard onto it.