skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Almost as bad are folks who only read one chapter and leave a review. Would you review a 2 hour film after watching just 10 minutes?

Just to provide an alternative point of view from a reader, this is fine behavior. So long as you mention this in your review.

I’ve DNFed both movies and books in 10% or less. And that’s ok. There’s a ton of excellent books and movies to justify pushing yourself through content you don’t like. As someone put it, we’re not looking for needles in haystacks, we’re looking for needles in mountains of needles.

So, it’s not personal, but a review at 10% is still a valid review, if it’s honest about the slice read.
They don’t immediately.

One is not a consequence of the other. However, the first is an observation in support of the idea that in general many cyclists eschew rules including those that exist for their own safety.
In the 80s, we were the remote! "Hey, kid, get up and change it to Channel 10!" No problem, we're the closest ones to the TV, sprawled out on the floor, and I loved clicking buttons and turning dials.

I got so mad about blocking the IR sensor on the VCR and TV. I had to constantly move junk away, after someone stacked it up.

My Samsung Android tablet ran KitKat/Lollipop, and it featured an IR transmitter. But I could never get it to work. The app was inextricably tied to some proprietary TV schedule online, and third-party apps were janky, and then Samsung shut down the online service, killing the app and disabling the IR transmitter.
Sometimes they use the fire exits: https://youtu.be/jPgsOMjEJ4o
Even if we accept that meat is not optional we don't have to eat so much of it. Most of Europe consumes 1/2 to 2/3 of the meat per capita as the US. China too. Japan consumes about 40% per capita as the US and they consumer a mix of meats that has much less climate impact. India consumes around 1/30th of the US in meat per capita.
You seem to be asking about the point to health insurance. Generally, the point of insurance is to guard against big but unlikely risks. Health insurance legitimately falls into that category. Saving money collectively pn health insurance involves incentivizing to live more healthy lives.
Overly rosy description and/or low bar. As for Mike Tyson, it's convenient to appeal to history as how things must be, rather than just one path of how things were. To be fair, asking people to come up with reasonable arguments for slavery (aside from the people benefitting from slavery) is a tad difficult.
Cyber actually means self-regulating. It comes from the Greek for "good at steering". Cybernetics was the study of self-regulating systems. I'm not sure where computers and high tech got in the picture other than the fact that cybernetics researchers used computers to analyze things.
The military gets to demand 24/7 days or article 15.

That means they can order someone to do what they want, regardless. Great/important/necessary if it's life and death and everyone needs it done.

But there is a reason why suicides are so high and post-discharge mental health is always a nightmare. It's a system built on consuming the people in it.

That's called slavery or abuse in civilian life, and it doesn't scale. It does have it's place though.
I think the comment is useful and thought provoking, not a flame war type comment.
Well, a more sustainable solution is everyone exercising at home whenever they want in the way they want, or going for a run around the block. Going to the store by car + going for a run, is still faster and more convenient than walking to the store (per unit of exercise - e.g. driving to the store 10 times and running 2 miles vs walking 0.2 miles to the store).
Musk had shown over the last year or so that he clearly has no idea how the web or websites work and probably thinks all those links will be magically updated because everyone loves him and wants to make his vision of stupidity be reality and will go and fix them.
> Yes of course if you stop lots of people you will find criminals. If you go door to door you will as well.

"papers, please"
I wonder how his vector math was? Because it sounds like he had the conceptual underpinnings of the altar we’ve all been praying at lately.

It’s really humbling how a fundamentally simple algorithm interpreting a ridiculously complex and vast data set is capable of a simulacrum of thought.

That data set, of course, is the formalisation of human culture, taken from our works. It begs the question of whether our fundamental algorithm for parsing that data is really that much different. We cannot think without tokens, symbols.

We can be, and we can feel, but we cannot think without them. So, where is the intelligence, really? Is it in our heads, or in the data?

Is the data the computation, like an unfathomably vast choose-your-own-adventure book, or is the computation the data, like a one time pad decryption algorithm that creates a universe simulator from the chaotic arrangement of atoms in a beach full of sand?

Is this really “artificial” intelligence, at all? Or just the steam engine of human intellect?
Libraries are too associated with physical books. They might just need a new name. A Community Education Center could potentially cover it. There aren't enough of these - public buildings where people can go and access publicly available resources to better themselves. If you frame it that way, it's much more flexible and irrefutably valuable.
There is some degree of that, but the military is all
volunteer and retention matters. There are still consequences to being a jerk. They're just slower to appear.

It sounds like you might be familiar with how it was in the 70s-90s as the military was trying to figure out the transition between conscription and voluntarily service.

Where the brass all came up under the old style, but all the new blood was 100% voluntary. It wasn't fun growing pains. I served in the early 2000s and there was still some remnants if this, but mostly it wasn't like that.
cuz we should aspire to do better, to be better. If not us, who else?
Ah, I see, sorry for not checking ahead. Unfortunately it seems the link is blocked behind the auth wall and I would rather not make a new social media account, but that's good to hear that it's more legitimate than that thread would suggest, thanks for the info.
I think this is (unintentionally) slightly minimizing the implications of this research.

Not all suffix attacks work, and the research here is less about suffix attacks and more about how those attacks were built and what they look like and how effective these specific attacks are. So there are at least three interesting conclusions here that I think are worth paying attention to.

- First, these attacks are automatically generated. Closing them off using a whack-a-mole approach where individual types of attacks are patched or trained away isn't going to work, because the potential space for attacks is enormous and they can be generated by the computer itself. And even if you close off suffix attacks as a category, the implication here is that other types of attacks and jailbreaks may also be possible to generate automatically. In other words, this research suggests that you are not going to win an arms race against attackers if you try to build databases of individual attacks, because new attacks can be generated just by leaving a program running. It makes working suffix attacks very cheap to generate.

- Second, these attacks are exploiting non-obvious parts of the model. The general shape of a suffix attack is something we understand, but why specific combinations of (to a human) largely meaningless characters manage to increase the likelyhood of these attacks working is more interesting -- interesting because these attacks are likely harder to predict and because they show that hardening a model or aligning it to resist these attacks involves more than training it on how to reply to human-like answers. There is an attack surface here that is not obviously legible.

- Third, while it's not surprising that suffix attacks work on both large and small models, it is surprising that there is overlap in the specific suffix attacks that work on both large and small models. What the researchers are demonstrating is that they can auto-redteam local models that are much smaller and much less complex than GPT-3.5/4, and the attacks still (somewhat) carry over. That feels like a pretty big deal to me because it means you can auto-redteam a local model and use the generated attacks on a model you have limited access to.

Again, the impactful part of this isn't that it's a suffix attack, it's auto-generating large numbers of suffix attacks that work with a very high probability of success, and then realizing that those attacks still have a reasonable chance of success even on completely separate black-box models.
Good news. People are having less kids and population growth may reverse soon.
The government has been intentionally making tobacco expensive for a generation or more.

They regulated all the supplies to grow tobacco, making it all but impossible to profitably grow in the US. Then they added a bunch of tariffs on both supply and tobacco. Then they tax the hell out of the final product.

Cigarettes are super cheap without government interference
Common sense is frequently wrong and is usually invoked by people who want their beliefs to be taken as fact without needing to provide support
You just described his style perfectly. After listening to him justify things I always feel like that.
Are you vegan because you believe it's better for the environment?

Or are you vegan because of a moral objection to eating nervous-system bearing animals for food?
> but it significantly degrades capabilities

On a train/test/eval split. But the degradation is lower on OOD data. Which suggests perhaps the degradation is merely "less overfitting".
Red tobacco? Like in FarCry 6? :D
while 1: print(eval(input()))

Amazing

But seriously, ipython.
They're a car-centric person who wants the "nuisance" of bikes and busses out of their way while still pretending to have progressive values. People who only drive from garage to shopping center and back, never having to experience the dehumanizing impact of 6+ lanes affecting other transport modes.
AMD Based FreeBSD Desktop
https://www.nathanandersonart.com/neuromancer
100% of it
Just drink and/or huff ether. Same effect, shorter duration, no hangover.
On the topic of bad arguments, is (b) supposed to suggest that any form of slavery was good to the slaves and not an unreasonable cruelty as US slavery was? Not sure how Mike Tyson is any more valid by describing a different instance of slavery. Not all slavery is equally bad per se, but I'd say it's all bad enough.
> Church administrators would move pedophiles to new communities multiple times after accusations showed up.

From a few months ago:
Oversight failures allow sexually abusive teachers to quietly move from school to school

"It's called passing the trash," said Morgan Stewart, an attorney representing students who have accused teachers of sexual abuse at Redlands Unified District schools. "They'd give them recommendations, they'd give them approvals. You've got this culture that just allows it to happen again and again."

Failing to report reasonable suspicion of sexual abuse is a crime, yet federal officials and experts told CBS they believe school administrators often do not contact authorities for fear of damaging the reputation of a teacher or the school. And teachers told CBS they observed a culture that discouraged reporting suspicions of misconduct in their schools.

TLDR: This practice is repeated in schools across the United States, risking harm to millions of children, according to experts and federal officials. On average, one offender passes through three different school districts before being stopped, and can abuse as many as 73 children in their lifetime, according to a 2010 report from the U.S. Government Accountability Office.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/oversight-failures-allow-sexual...
Well less consumption means less money to megacorps. You could also cancel your prime account and walk to the local shops etc.
This is in the tradition of the Oxford/Cambridge union, where you enter the hall using the door of the side you initially prefer, and sit on their side of the room during the debate, and then leave the hall through the door of your preferred side at the end of the debate. The winner of the debate is the side that shifts more people, as measured by the popularity of each door at the beginning and end of the night.
On the one hand I totally agree and I've been arguing locally against proposals to put in traffic cameras on the basis of them being regressive taxes--and that we should be putting in place more traffic calming devices and road diets to stop speeding.

But OTOH I'd like to get the cops entirely out of the business of enforcing traffic laws and doing stops entirely. Make all traffic enforcement automated and legalize all drugs. Make the cops go find something else to do with their time.
Hmm, but they did get rid of those. In fact even though I grew up in society where most people smoke and used to smoke myself, after living in the US for a while, when I see someone smoking for the first time I have to catch myself as I involuntarily assume they must be some sort of a hard-living fucked-up person :) Then I'm like oh no, they are just older and from Italy, everyone smokes in Italy too! The propaganda goes the opposite way.

Same for fast food and soda, to a lesser degree... they seem to be frowned upon - yet people like them anyway.
> Substack doesn’t solve that problem any more than Buttondown (which accepts paid subscriptions) already does.

No, unlike with Substack, you don't get access to articles through Buttondown, the payment is just a donation.

> If you didn’t subscribe to the Atlantic (which it sounds like was the case) this is at worse a wash.

So what? Yes, this is a wash, and I didn't say it was worse than before. I just said I wish he'd started a Substack, which would have been better.

Still hard to tell if you're trolling or just cursed with a surplus of density in the wrong areas.
The article explicitly highlights modern car centric development as not paying for itself.
> It seems tricky to defend against without resorting to drastic measures (like rate limiting users that trigger tons of "bad" responses)

Remember that a big point of this research is that these attacks don't need to be developed using the target system. When the authors talk about the attacks being "universal", what they mean is that they used a completely local model on their own computers to generate these attacks, and then copied and pasted those attacks into GPT-3.5 and saw meaningful success rates.

Rate limiting won't save you from that because the attack isn't generated using your servers, it's generated locally. The first prompt your servers get already has the finished attack string included -- and researchers were seeing success rates around 50% success rate in some situations even for GPT-4.

> surprisingly, the ensemble approach improves ASR to 86.6% on GPT-3.5 and near 50% for GPT-4 and Claude-1
> First, read a textbook about programming in some language, then manuals for several programming languages including Lisp. If they make natural intuitive sense to you, that indicates your mind is well-adapted towards programming.

> If they don't make intuitive sense to you, I suggest you do something other than programming. You might be able to do programming to some degree with a struggle, but if you find it a struggle you won't be very good at it and you won't enjoy it. What's the point of programming if it is a struggle instead of a fascination?

I find this gatekeeping at odds with RMS's insistence that all software should be open source. What is the purpose of open source, if you can't do anything with the source code?

Whether or not you agree with the "open source everything" mantra, I would think that philosophy necessarily depends on more people having more programming literacy.

Personally, I believe more people should learn programming (at least at a basic level) partly because I believe in open source, and vice versa.
ASML EUV lithography machine could keep Moore’s Law on track
There is a complete-seeming list of ingredients on the product purchase page at https://sentiaspirits.com/products/sentia-red-50cl-black-50c...

I was also annoyed by the FAQ.
Sorry, but (sugary) drinks in plastic bottles are just bullshit products that should not exist at all.

Production costs are almost zero, health and environmental impacts are extreme.

Warren Buffett is the villain. Coca-Cola too. Governments as well. The system as well.

I hope that shaming works. Nothing else has brought any change yet.
Quite a leap from a textbook example of bystander effect to “teachers are protecting pedophile teachers.”
> kill a child process in Linux

The magic of "attention is all you need" is that the model understands concepts in context, not just strings of characters, so the LLM would not treat this as violence.
I think the shortage is finally over. Not sure, but I was able to pick an 8G model up a couple weeks ago no problemo. I saw a post the other day from a vendor that said they finally got through a day with some still in stock, too.
With an arbiter that’ll hopefully call bullshit on empty rhetorical tricks and even do their own research occasionally, but otherwise yes.

It’s the difference between a cooperative system and an adversarial one: science would grind to a halt if cherry-picking evidence were accepted as the norm; but you could never trust the other side of a lawsuit enough to assume they’re not cherry-picking, so you have to settle for not lying, which is hopefully easier to check (thus rules on hearsay etc).

Now that I’m thinking about it, another point of view might be that scientists, in addition to having less to lose from an unfavourable result, are engaged in a recurring game and thus generally cooperate[1], whereas the parties of a legal case are in a one-shot situation and thus have little choice but to defect.

See also: conflict vs mistake[2]. Left for future work: how do we make (a) advertising, (b) politics more cooperative?

[1] https://ncase.me/trust/

[2] https://slatestarcodex.com/2018/01/24/conflict-vs-mistake/
Presumably because the wrong people might win.
Where does polonium come from in tobacco fields? If it’s in the topsoil then why wouldn’t it be depleted after 3 or 4 crops?

Was it released into some Appalachian watershed by Oak Ridge and is therefore in the rivers/groundwater?
I wonder if you're getting downvotes because people think you're serious. Everyone who prides themselves on not smoking loves a chance to get a little classist dig at those who do.

Smokes ain't expensive because of the cost of tobacco, though. They're expensive because, like most vices, the demand is highly inelastic and governments can tax the hell out of them without pissing off anyone who matters (once the gentry and the middle class have been conditioned not to smoke - prior to that, they were handed out as rations).

I love smoking, and ideally all those taxes I pay would be going toward cancer research and health care subsidies, but in reality they just go to the budgets of nonprofits and a class of people whose job is to further ostracize anyone who enjoys tobacco.
Ireland does have a very different relationship with the Catholic faith than the US does, especially over the last couple of decades.
What do you want your LLM to be? An entry-level employee, a friend, a mentor, an expert advisor?

An unfiltered LLM might not be ideal for the workplace and a filtered LLM might not be ideal for personal use.
You get the gist of things in school and can later pursue further education either through more institutional learning or independently seeking out information on you're own. Which you've seemingly have done.

Schools couldn't possibly teach the entirety of human history from every perspective.
Just curious: what makes it "official"?
This isn’t something casually identified with flashy software solutions or APIs, it’s more of a relationships with carriers and other companies in the telco space sorta thing. It gets even more fun when you start looking in to MO and MT on the SMPP side of things.
I think we are all more monkey brained than that and having these products thrust upon us makes us susceptible.

It is another push the blame on the individual thing like carbon footprint or identity theft.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Induced_demand

Mass transit will NOT reduce auto transit: any driver who chooses to take mass transit will be replaced by a new driver on the road.
right or wrong, resources are often limited. when you have to choose between helping the strugglers catch up or preventing the gifted onces from getting bored then the strugglers are more important.
Blocks of numbers moving from mobile to voip, sometimes things aren’t instantly updated in databases and might take a little bit before that eventually happens.
I didn't have a car between college and my late 30s. I thought I was a pro-walking chauvinist but turns out I was just a single guy living in NYC. Within a year of our first kid, I was living in the burbs with a large SUV.

Anti car people tend to be single or at least childless and they fail to understand that the majority of Americans aren't like them. About 40 percent of households have kids under 18, ie 60-80% of American adults have kids of the age where having a car is immensely helpful. So while these people also recognize that it's annoying to press the button to turn the light green or to walk around a parked car, those are nowhere near the top of their life's concerns.

So I think the "we want" is a bit presumptuous in the headline. The guy who wrote the article is a city councilor and an avid biker but what he doesn't seem to be is a parent, so his concerns are skewed a certain way vs the mass of the population.

Like I said, I get the love of walking and walkable spaces, but I see now that this is way more interesting when you are single. As a parent you also get excited about things like tossing all your groceries into the trunk.
Just to examine the common claim about wind turbines killing birds -- the number of birds killed by wind turbines is vanishingly small compared to other threats.

https://www.fws.gov/library/collections/threats-birds

234,012 - Collisions: Land-based wind turbines

6,600,000 - Collisions: Communication towers

72,000,000 - Pesticides & other poisons

214,500,000 - Collision: Vehicles

599,000,000 - Collision: Glass skyscrapers

2,400,000,000 - Predation by cats

[Unknown] - Habitat loss and climate change

These are just some estimates of some admittedly very difficult to capture data, but the orders of magnitude differences are revealing nonetheless.
> Alice's PDP-10 is also a classic

Reminds me, some fortunes on LAMBDA.TXT[1] seem to hint at the existence of an "Alice's LispM", seemingly a parody on the PDP-10 version, but a quick search for it doesn't seem to come up with much (I haven't looked very hard). Does anybody know anything about this?

[1]: http://www.gotlisp.com/lambda/lambda.txt
if only my immaculate record of never "rm -rf"ing myself or prod dbs resulted in me working at google...
VictoriaMetrics has many users, who successfully migrated from InfluxDB. It supports data ingestion via Influx line protocol, so you can continue using Telegraf and sending the collected metrics to VictoriaMetrics instead of InfluxDB. You get the following benefits after the migration from InfluxDB to VictoriaMetrics:

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