skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm kind of concerned about the concept of "bad at prompting".

The hypothesis that I'm working off right now is that natural language has structure to it that happens to match some problem spaces. And this makes sense because people will naturally want to talk succinctly and with a convenient flow relative to the problems they encounter the most. Thus jargon is reborn many times over in different domains.

LLMs are encoding this structure.

So a good prompt is one that provides the LLM with additional information about what you expect the answer to be. And bad prompts provide neutral or disinformation.

This isn't to say that being good at prompts is somehow to be disingenuous about the power of LLMs. What is better? To remember much redundant data. Or to remember simply the right sorts of ways to search for the classes of information you are after.

My concern, though, is that the structure of reality doesn't have to match the way that we talk about it. The Novel and the Inexpressible* will tend to yield hallucinations.

[Although, I've had this concern long before I encountered LLMs. My feeling is that there are many people who can only solve problems that match the way they talk about them.]

* - technically, the difficult or unnatural to express, but I couldn't fit that into a single word.
Haven't RTFA but would zeroing registers fix this (-mzero-caller-saved-regs=used)?
It was reported to Intel a full year ago, apparently.
US scientists repeat fusion ignition breakthrough
So what? The proposal is a tax on fuel. That tax is paid where the fuel is bought, as a portion of its direct cost. You can't "hide" that.
Are there apps that stream the video to a safe location remotely? I mean, obviously things like twitch and tiktok do that, but what if I want the videos stored privately for later review?

Also: It seems clear to me that recording should be allowed, but I really don't think these people should be permitted to do things like physically/verbally interfere with the police interacting with someone or shining lights in their faces during nighttime while they're actively investigating. The people doing this are going to prompt and justify more aggressive and dystopian restrictions.
A couple of decades back, I worked on middleware applications for banks. So my knowledge is 100% dated and things may have changed.

But back then, bank security was terrible when viewed through the lens of how hard it is to break in and do bad things. On the other hand, bank security was fantastic in terms of being able to detect when this happened and to be able to find the perpetrators.
I almost moved to Apple Music purely for iTunes Match, but it doesn't work on the Android app. I'm not surprised in the slightest, but boy am I missing Google Play Music by this point.
Here's a link to the actual press release: https://www.sec.gov/news/press-release/2023-149

It makes no mention of evading regulation. This fine is for a failure to retain written communications. Which is impossible to do for some of these communications channels.
That might all be true.

But working together efficiently means acting as a team, being a "human" (sorry all cooperative animals, you're human too)

To act as a closely connected team that is able to sort things out and deal with the unforseen, helping each other out and understanding what the other needs, it is simply not enough to be a genius with chat and mail and a todo-list.

It might work, but then you either rely on others to deal with the chaos for you, making you a drone, or you remain well under potential - what you could achieve with a good team.
I bought a enviolo CVT about 12 years ago because I happened to find one unused a cheap on eBay. It was so heavy once I handled it and the shifter seemed cheap so I didn’t even try to build a wheel with it. I could barely give it away, ended up trading it for a tune-up.
the better argument is just flipping the perspective. if your computer runs a web server this increase the control because without it other computers can connect to it and lie about their identity. that's not to say I think this is a good thing, I just don't think control over your computer is a good argument when both sides of a connection are computers, and both operators want not just control over their computer but also what the other computer can do.
It's just an example. If you can leak kernel Memory you leak every process memory. So for example you can leak the content of a running browser
That mechanism exists, it’s known as “taxes”
Can you explain why that is “amusingly musically accurate”? I don’t understand.
There's gotta be some law that could be passed about stuff like this. Software should have an implicit contract that it does what it says and not something wildly different than it, with harsh penalties for violations.
How do they know the latter works out better vs South Korea just executed better?

Like what if SK & Malaysia took the opposite approaches? How do we know that SK wouldn't still have been the successful one, and we'd be saying everyone should take the opposite approach because that's what SK did and it worked?
You might get more traction calling it "brain drain", since that's the more common term in at least the US.
Nvidia reveals new A.I. chip, costs of running LLMs to ‘drop significantly’
-Nvidia announced a new chip designed to run artificial intelligence models on Tuesday .

-Nvidia’s GH200 has the same GPU as the H100, Nvidia’s current highest-end AI chip, but pairs it with 141 gigabytes of cutting-edge memory, as well as a 72-core ARM central processor.

-"This processor is designed for the scale-out of the world’s data centers," Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang said Tuesday.
What coercive mechanism made people buy JK Rowlings books, and made her a billionaire?

Who did JK Rowling exploit to funnel so much of those book sales towards herself?

If someone buys a Harry Potter book, is she not entitled to a portion of the money?

In winner take all dynamics, like what books parents buy for their kids, a person can easily earn 1000 times more than the average person by doing a similar amount of work.
> Would having UBI but not having a job be fulfilling

Probably not; the whole point of UBI is to make it easier for people to have and transition jobs (compared to means-tested welfare) and to survive when the the valie of their labor in the economy is low, not to eliminate work.

UBI is conceived to enable more people to work, at better jobs on average, than not having UBI (by not penalizing people for work the way means-tested welfare does, and by enabling voluntary transitional breaks from work for retraining or taking a temporary downgrade to get on a career path that doesn't dead end as soon, etc.)
The phone companies aren't bothered. You're the one locked into facebook.
That's not how it works. There can be a lot of good people, but all you need is one in-your-face racist encounter to ruin your decade. It's like how even a rumor of a shark will keep you firmly on the beach.
Then specify the complaint. It's like saying the food sucks at some restaurant. OK, I guess, but it doesn't really meaningfully add to a discussion.

(I don't even disagree that the desire to make more money or need to make any money at all has degraded many services, especially those where users were basically just taking advantage of dollar bills VCs were leaving on the floor.)
It's in iframe. In Firefox right click table, This Frame - Show only this frame. That opens https://datawrapper.dwcdn.net/32i0b/1/. In there you can see it makes request to https://datawrapper.dwcdn.net/32i0b/1/dataset.csv
For sure.

Let's use an example, like this: https://github.com/simonmesmith/agentflow/blob/main/agentflo...

This is a workflow for coming up with a product idea and illustrating it with an image.

This workflow has 9 steps, starting with brainstorming ideas, and ending with saving an HTML file containing the product name, description, and image.

It also has two variables, {market} for the target market, and {price_point} for the price point.

To run this workflow, you simply enter this in the command line:
python -m run --flow=example_with_variables --variables 'market=college students' 'price_point=$50'

You don't need to write any code with LangChain.

You simply specify your workflow in a JSON file, and execute it.

Does that help to clarify?
Sure they would. The companies would just have to have different ownership models that incentivized more distributed ownership between more people. If we somehow said that no one could own more than $100 million of a company, then for every person who has $1 billion of a company now, there would be 10 people with $100 million instead. This would be a net benefit to society.
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Also, social security contributes to taxable income.
After failures with all the others I tried, I was finally able to reproduce one of the questions from the paper:

>Seven cards are placed on the table, each of which has a number on one side and a single colored patch on the other side. The faces of the cards show 50, 16, red, yellow, 23, green, 30. Which cards would you have to turn to test the truth of the proposition that if a card is showing a multiple of 4 then the color of the opposite side is yellow?

However, it's important to notice that this is an incorrect restating of the Wason selection task. "If a card is showing a multiple of 4" would imply that you only care about cards where the number side is face up and are a multiple of 4. However, the original task refers to cards that "have [a multiple of 4] on one face" or "show [a multiple of 4] on one face" which implies that you care about cards with a multiple of 4 on one face regardless of its face up or down status.

Also important to note is that the Wason selection task has a fairly poor success rate with actual humans: the original study was 36 students of statistics at the University College London, of which less than 10% got the correct answer - if you asked the general population on the street I would be shocked if you got over 3% correct.

Even more interestingly:

>Evolutionary psychologists Leda Cosmides and John Tooby (1992) identified that the selection task tends to produce the "correct" response when presented in a context of social relations. For example, if the rule used is "If you are drinking alcohol, then you must be over 18", and the cards have an age on one side and beverage on the other, e.g., "16", "drinking beer", "25", "drinking soda", most people have no difficulty in selecting the correct cards ("16” and "drinking beer").
No it isn't, the regulation is extremely important and helps keep the financial system following the law. The stakes are extremely high and monitoring records is the bare minimum we should be doing to protect ourselves from criminal financial actors.

Every rule is written in blood. We recently saw guys fixing the LIBOR for a tray of leftover sushi. Thankfully we have records of that.
In summary: life was better in the 90s because you were unaware.

Cue oddly specific example of “The Ukraine” and “rocket volley”.

Next, the highlight that informal communities that make their own echo chambers are more popular as distrust in established media is sown.

Finally, a personal anecdote that echo chambers curate more attention-getting articles.

Nothing in this post is especially truthy or falsey, yet it serves up mild “distrust the media” nihilism.
> I have no doubt they will implement WEI, but it will not bring security.

This is precisely OP’s point. WEI will quickly dominate despite having nothing to do with securing anyone.
Not sure why you're getting downvoted. We got a pull request to add this to our Caddy build process today: https://github.com/caddyserver/caddy/pull/5720
The ongoing actor's strike in Hollywood should raise this point too, I think. That is the only chance the extras have.
Key context you elided: "This depends on whether Gather is in the critical execution path of a program."
Intent is harder to prove.
It claims to also allow you to read any data loaded into a vector register, any data loaded from a {rep mov} (i.e. memcpy), any data used by crypto acceleration, and a bunch more. Basically, the only data it does not let you read is regular loads into the regular GPRs (i.e. what would be a register load in a RISC architecture) though if you save/restore during context switches using the special instructions you will leak the values at the time of the context switch.

This is about as close to a total cross-process data leak as can be imagined.
This is a long paper (50 pages!) by a fellow Greek and I want to take my time and give it the attention it seems to deserve. However, I have to say I'm not sure if such work is really well, necessary.

Here's the thing. The paper, like others, is contributing to the literature around the hypothesis that LLMs can reason. There have been articles both supporting and rejecting the hypothesis, and this one claims it's false.

But, in science, we don't start with a hypothesis. We start with some observations, and then we make up a hypothesis to try and explain the observations. Then we try to reject our hypothesis with more observations. What are the observations that led to the hypothesis that LLMs can reason?

It's one observation really: that LLMs can geneate text that looks like the result of reasoning. There exists a much simpler explanation of this observation, than the hypothesis that LLMs can reason. Namely, LLMs are trained to generate text similar to text generated by humans, who (we assume) can reason. If an LLM is good at that job, then obviously at some point it will generate text that looks like the result of reasoning. The ability to reason is not necessary.

If we have this simpler explanation, there's no reason to reach for the more complex one, that needs more assumptions.

And remember kids: if you multiply entities beyond necessity, out comes the Macco Man and shaves your head with his R A Z O O O O O R R!!!

So don't do that. Assume the simplest explanation until such time as it is untenable.
Ask HN: Trying to figure out AGI side-problem to build startup upon
Hi,

I'm a tech person that feel like there a lot of opportunities in the AGI, but afraid from where to get the first customers, and thinking which segment is the most profitable.

Any help to think about this is more than welcome.
Typically not, but only because they are not typically accessed frequently.
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>I hate silent takeovers so much.

This is a great app idea. Monitor the app owner. If the owner changes overnight, alerts to the moon.
Oh right, got that mixed up
I have the same issue and often just reconnecting using a different node/city resolves it Annoying as hell, but sometimes the problem is the nodes in the US show as being in EU for some reason.
Right, but US propaganda is more effective because it nudges the reader to make the important connections to the desired narrative themselves.

IE: Russian airlines can't even afford/acquire new brakes -> sanctions are working and their economy is crumbling -> the war will soon be over and Putin will be lose power.

Both methods take a tiny kernel of truth and spin it to be much more meaningful than what it is, but allowing the reader to make the final connection is much more inception-like and thus much more effective.
All a publication indicates is that a white/grey hat researcher has discovered the vulnerability. There is no way to know if or how many times the same flaw has been exploited by less scrupulous parties in the interim.
now that physical branches are not really a differentiator of big banks, a couple hours of your time spread out over a couple months is totally worth the switch to a credit union in lower fees, better service, and supporting a more local economy.

it's completely, undeniably worth it. unless you're a real big shot (worth millions in assets to the bank) who doesn't have to deal with the dehumanizing aspects of corporate "customer service", there is zero reason to be with anything other than a small local bank/credit union.
What's the multithreading story? tch-rs's (and libtorch's) lack of real threading support was causing problems for my async code - at least, I haven't found a way to work around it yet, given my level of rust knowledge.

Tangentially: I keep thinking an ML framework could be done based on Rust macros, so the automatic differentiation is done entirely at compile time. `let grad = autodiff!(x + y);` (The `autodiff` crate does this at runtime IIUC). Then the compiler's optimizations can apply to the static computation graph.

I always thought that was the vision for TF in the early days, but clearly it moved in a more dynamic direction under PyTorch's influence.
MetaGPT: The Multi-Agent Framework
Especially when in the US there's a whole bunch of great credit unions, smaller banks out there.

I suspect for most consumers they don't know or notice the difference, but I wish they did.
> [Q] Should other processor vendors and designers be concerned?

> [A] Other processors have shared SRAM memory inside the core, such as hardware register files and fill buffers. Manufacturers must design shared memory units with extra care to prevent data from leaking across different security domains and invest more in security validation and testing.

Not sure what to make of this wording. Thinly veiled threat? Hint that other embargoes are in place?
That doesn't make any sense. You want to prep a fix for distribution ASAP, and release it so people can be protected from it as soon as possible.

Also many attacks are not really feasible to detect if it's happened - that's like trying to know if the mailman read your postcard.

You can develop executable scanning techniques, but people are a lot more concerned about preventing it in the first place than catching it in the act. Why would you leave people vulnerable so they can watch data get stolen - instead of just fixing the issue?
You know what I love about donating to EFF? They actually ask you which positions of theirs you agree with and will only use your money on those issues if you ask them to.
I flagged this because it felt spammy but ... well it's cool enough to be relevant so I unflagged it :D
> The quickest way to receive an invitation is to talk to someone you recognize from the site or request one in chat:

https://lobste.rs/chat
It's the item called "dataset.csv" in the network tab using Edge devtools.
Stop inserting random punctuation for emphasis! Periods go at the end of a full sentence.
I loved playing around with Gemini. Something loosely along those lines can definitely work. Who knows what will become popular in the future. Extreme web page bloat leaves the door open.

Here are a couple of other alternative ideas for the web:

https://freenet.org/

https://github.com/runvnc/tersenet (an idea, not implemented)
I'm not sure what evidence there is to think that Apple's chips are any better. And that's not really a dig at Apple; these are just very complicated devices and especially with the optimizations that CPUs need to make to run today's software with acceptable performance, it can become very hard to foresee all possible attacks and vulnerabilities.
Above a certain level I could certainly get behind saying no she's not entitled to it. 100% marginal tax rates above $10 million in annual earnings seem perfectly reasonable to me.
That is one question where you’re guaranteed to get the canned response that OpenAI RLHFed into it.
Crows will bend wire into an appropriate hook shape in order to pull a bucket out of a tube.
I was literally pointing out another aspect on top of what GP said of that region and ended with saying that the city is "super nice". I love visiting and still have many friends there.
>> GPT is not some one-of-a-kind leaps-and-bounds ahead of everyone else ground-breaking technology.

> GPT 3 and 4 were already exactly that, leaps and bounds ahead of everybody else.

I don't think you're disagreeing with gp
AMD microcode and AGESA updates available on several platofrms... time table here: https://www.amd.com/en/resources/product-security/bulletin/a...

Expect to see BIOS and OS updates soon if not already out. I believ Microsoft has already pushed a cumulative that includes some mitigations.
In general, not really, but the most common string comparison instruction in x86_64 leaves the last character of one of the strings being compared with the other one just being a pointer into the C-style string.
No basic Map or Filter functions in the new slices pkg. Sadness.
Anyone had a closer look at this? Trending GitHub Repository of the day, Chinese origin, there is also an Arxiv paper [1], but surprisingly little discussion?

[1] https://arxiv.org/pdf/2308.00352.pdf
> On a trivial level this is correct as words mean what we collectively decide they mean.

You are a douchebag lol
> It has been talked about from coast to coast across the globe non-stop since its release. Covered endlessly by every major media outlet in the West. GPT this, AI that, non-stop since V4 sparked enormous consumer attention and debate.

You're in a bubble: https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?geo=US&q=ChatGPT&hl...

Trends on ChatGPT interest are clearly going down.

It's almost as if it isn't the Magic Beans the charlatans claimed.
It's not super revelatory given all the other Meltdown/Spectre bugs. I wouldn't read too much into it.
Google and Universal Music negotiate deal over AI ‘deepfakes’
Poor nations are exceptionally good at destabilising themselves - as a person from one of them. The idea that they are getting mistreated would be music to the ears of our ruling elites - perhaps hinting that they might get their "virtual slaves" back from Europe.
FaceTime is incredible.

Everything else I’ve used - Zoom, Meet, Slack etc, has insane lag/delay even when I’m having a one-on-one with someone in the same city.

Then I made a FaceTime call to the opposite side of the world and it was like we were sitting next to each other. No delay. No weird interruptions. No “sorry, you go”. And I was on shitty pub wifi.

I don’t know what the deal is. Do all these other services route through slow-ass servers in the US? Bad client-side processing? FaceTime proves the possibility of near-real-time communication across the globe, why is no one else even close?
I wasn't implying you downplayed anything, just wanted to add nuance to your insightful comment.
The solution to what you mention is to turn the big levers that have an outsized impact.

Such as slashing the corporate tax rate (and the offset is to raise the individual tax rate on higher incomes). Which is the Ireland model, and it works extraordinarily well (even more so if you already have a desirable foundation). Cut it far enough and it'll lure more companies and jobs than you can absorb. And meanwhile the corporate income tax is an increasingly trivial component of the US Government's funding, it's no longer very important. If anything we should cut it further (~15%) and very aggressively pull companies, investment, R&D, manufacturing out of foreign nations and into the US. The corporate tax rate is a magnet, the lower you go the stronger it is (and there is no doubt a significant diminishing of returns as you go below a certain % figure).

Increase the standing incentives (not only one-off programs like the CHIPS Act).
The Internet Speech Case That the Supreme Court Can't Dodge
https://freedomhouse.org/report/freedom-net/2021/global-driv...

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2021/sep/21/internet-...
I fully agree, Video-calls are tiring.

But I would say the same is true for all calls (where I cannot freely drift off or even work on something else).

I would try to reduce the number of calls you're in :S