skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No that's just a training process that goes, "people like this sort of responses better, try to emulate it" by feeding specific input into the training process.

>So how do we get LLMs to admit when they don't know something rather than confabulate?

The prompts here demonstrably help
https://arxiv.org/abs/2305.14975

But otherwise nobody is certain how to do it. The simplest solution is just making them better. Hallucination is something that happens when knowledge/memory fail. By making them more competent, they hallucinate less. So even if they never care about communicating this, you wouldn't notice.
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everything is traced.

...but we are talking about forged documents. How can we sure the trace records are not forged?

Cross checking take time
I don't think it fails (3) specifically, and the others are moot if it doesn't fail (3). 99.9999% percent of the time, it just straight up does not reproduce any concrete part of the piece.

It just reproduces some very very hard to quantify tiny fraction of the logic or idea of the document.

It's like saying someone is infringing copyright if it's able to recite a document they read, because it has had an unimaginably tiny effect on their general writing skills, and they're able to recite it if they're asked to.
I would slaver at mouth over that opportunity.
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> It cites OpenAI's justification (which is how I found it) and tries to refute it.

I actually didn't see any refutation in either complaint. I'm not sure that I would have expected to, given that fair use is an affirmative defense, but I would certainly be interested in an attempt to address it.
It is too subjective to ascribe intent. It is worse than psychoanalysis because "the US" isn't a distinct individual. Instead there's a collection of individuals, all with different sets of sometimes overlapping incentives.

Inevitability isn't the question. Rather, "power play" in terms of post-hoc analysis is the only question we can probe. Suggesting otherwise is a leap beyond conjecture.

Without implying that this was the analysis at the time, we can safely say that the US was positioned to be the sole remaining industrial superpower post war, if the US entered the war at the time which it did. If it had entered earlier or not at all, this may not have been the case.

The original comment was concise. Perhaps it was appropriate for a simple assertion, but it did leave room for ambiguity.
It's simply a different strategy. If you're getting better results working harder on a scattershot, impersonal approach that broadcasts to the recipient that you aren't particularly interested in them, much less suited for each other, more power to you. That goes for jobs, dating apps, phishing, etc.

In all those cases (okay, not phishing), I got better results the other way myself. I also didn't reach out to recipients that struck me as having the type of culture/personality you described when I read up on them. So there's a selection bias there, too, but one that works for me.
My experience with PC OEM software is beyond horrific, so I am not looking forward to this.
Well, that's one way to look at it. I guess if the talents are not (currently) socially acceptable, it seems to be perfectly fine (or even at times desirable) to not utilize them properly
When integrating LLMs into any system (e.g., using OpenAI's Python API), you inject unpredictability into the system - even if all other system components are perfectly predictable.

As exponential coders, you and I will happily pay these costs given that LLMs are powerful "Alien Technology" (Simon Willison).

However, we must accept that the paradigm shift of "nets, baby, all the way down" (Elon Musk) will make many rules of traditional software engineering obsolete.
This is cool but I can't help but wonder - if it's free, what's the catch?
As a general rule, the reason a company does something nefarious is that it knows it can get away with it.

We need to fix the broken & corrupt legal systems so that companies have not just equivalent penalties like individuals would (the equivalent of jail would be that all profits go to the state for the duration of the "jail" term), but be given even less leniency/benefit of the doubt since massive companies have way more resources to investigate & comply with laws than individuals do.
I was thinking the same thing. One item I thought about was "H/3 Adoption Grows Rapidly" is paired with a graph that shows that adoption is absolutely flat over the last year.
I already think Copilot for code is useless... I don't see this being any more useful.
Linked article is from January. Latest coverage: https://www.fastcompany.com/90951247/these-giant-glowing-car...

They launched a pilot in the summer.
AMP is opt-in, isn't it? Presumably the website has agreed to their data being distributed in that way.
Thats mainly a problem with the browsers, no? Not saying it isn't an issue, obviously the big ones are going to drive a lot of this technology, but you could still use something like curl or whatever.
Can you replace the flash in a fairphone? (If you can, and at near-cost for the flash itself, then it sounds like I'll try to buy a fairphone)
I was really bothered that on the website version, the NTP packet diagram is largely illegible. I hope that when they gave this talk on slides, you could read it.
using obsolete philosophy has never stopped a supreme court judge from upholding shit written by the founding fathers
It seems this is likely his post that started it all: https://drewdevault.com/2023/09/29/The-forbidden-topics.html

here is @dang explaining what happened: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37708910

Seems like a negatively inclined individual, keen to see malice first
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I'm confused by your confusion. Your statement means that if a private company was owned by the most horrific person in human history {take your pick}, you wouldn't care one bit and would continue doing business with him; and would go so far as to question why everyone was making such a big deal about {take your pick}.

To be clear, my post isn't about Musk per se. I am simply pointing out that your attempt to claim morality doesn't matter is indefensible (unless you quibble with my first paragraph).
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Burning wood (certainly before things like medieval deforestation) isn't a cost on the environment. The carbon from firewood is already “in cycle”. Unlike the carbon that is millions of years old that we have dug up from the ground.

A false equivalence.
Um, except, they can? As clearly shown in the example link in the GP post:

https://www.google.com/url?q=https://example.com/

Google has had this open redirect forever afaict. I guess they don't consider that a serious threat.

I think the better answer is that this is tracking, just like they do on all of the search results, to see which links are most popular. There still might be a malware surveillance use case but that's not the only one.
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Go's memory model is more constrained than C, C++, and Swift and this case is specifically addressed: https://go.dev/ref/mem#restrictions.

"...each read of a single-word-sized or sub-word-sized memory location must observe a value actually written to that location"
Google won the Google Books case. And they were actively scanning books rather than just indexing the internet like OpenAI is.
It's also a bad fit for anything other than a very small group of people intending to engage in conversation.
Are smartphones using GPS for time, or NTP?
Try non-commercial streaming, such as WFMU or KEXP.

DJs with knowledge, taste, and access to big big collections.
It is just a matter of time: https://pytorch.org/blog/compromised-nightly-dependency/
I've had it happen before. It's a bit more complicated but I can't remember an exact repro. Something like delete, undo, redo, undo.
In our case we switched to holding that data in Elasticsearch. Now we have 2 problems: running Elasticsearch and keeping the data in Elasticsearch in sync with MySQL. We took an application-level approach to triggering record sync to ES but somewhere in our ORM it's doing some magic and doesn't sync in certain places. Database triggers are the next stop.

If we could do away with ES and go back to MySQL for what are glorified data grids with 20+ column filtering, sorting, and no full text requirements, we would.
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In Apple-land, it's done that for ages: group via face, put name to face, group by geolocation etc. I think it's started recognizing my dogs too. Happens all device side.
I’ve been trying to wrap my mind around whether (and how much) QUIC would be better than TCP for video streams that rely on order-sensitive delivery of frames, especially for frames that have to be split into multiple packets (and losing one packet or receiving it out of order would lose the entire frame and any dependent frames). We used to use UDP for mpegts packets but found TCP with a reset when buffers are backlogged after switching to h264 to be a much better option over lossy WAN uplinks, (scenario is even worse when you have b or p frames present).

The problem would be a lot easier if there were a feedback loop to the compressor where you can dynamically reduce quality/bandwidth as the connection quality deteriorates but currently using the stock raspivid (or v4l2) interface makes that a bit difficult unless you’re willing to explicitly stop and start the encoding all over again, which breaks the stream anyway.
"Every US national election from 2016 has brought with it an additional country attempting to influence the outcome. First it was just Russia, then Russia and China, and most recently those two plus Iran. As the financial cost of foreign influence decreases, more countries can get in on the action. Tools like ChatGPT significantly reduce the price of producing and distributing propaganda, bringing that capability within the budget of many more countries."

Cost-effective propaganda at scale... keep your shields up.
These feel like recipes for failure because it doesn't acknowledge that most people lack the ability to:

A. Earn enough to employ these strategies

B. Succeed at their "passion" in a meaningful way.

Here is a more realistic approach if you have a passion and don't know how to balance it with a more boring career choice:
Figure out some way to dedicate a few months to it. You most likely don't have the talent or dedication to succeed. After a few months you will realize this and move on with your life having checked that box.
That's not the argument being made, is it? If the AI is trained on pirated data, it's a completely different case than the underlying principle of AI meaning all generated content is copyright infringement.
I think I agree but that never stopped the trade associations from coming after pirates for lost revenue. Then again, that wasn't really a winning strategy since they spent more on legal fees than they ever recovered from broke college kids and single moms.
My buddy (a car guy) from Mountain View told me he could hear this thing on 280 late at night every now and then. Anyone else?
I haven't had to find a Linux Wi-Fi driver for a single piece of hardware made in the last decade.

The hardest thing about running Linux is video drivers, and AMD's are in the kennel now, and Nvidia's are nearly always up-to-date and in the package repository.
> Banning corporate ownership of single family homes, including forced sale of existing portfolios

Then corporate investors buy large buildings instead of single family homes (note that this is primarily what they do anyway), the prices for rentals in multi-unit buildings goes up (because it costs more to buy the property with more corporations bidding on it), the prices for single family home rentals goes up (because some of the landlords sell to occupants rather than smaller landlords so there are fewer rentals available) and what you've done is transfer some of the cost from more affluent prospective single family home buyers onto less affluent renters.

> occupancy requirements

They just convert unoccupied units to some other use or claim they're under construction, and if there is no exception for units under construction you've made construction more expensive and get less of it.

It's also kind of weird because they're already losing thousands of dollars a month in rent if the unit is empty, and the higher rents are the more they lose, so isn't the market already providing the incentive you're trying to get here? There's a reason well over 90% of the units in high demand areas are already occupied.

If you really want to increase occupancy then get rid of rent control -- it lowers that exact incentive to put the unit on the market which raises rents for all other units across the city, and has the same effect for new construction because of the risk (or certainty) that the building will be put under rent control in the future.

> mandated development on state-owned landed

The state often makes inefficient use of the land it owns, but it typically doesn't own that high a proportion of land in the city, especially if you're just going to use it to build more single family homes. Allowing a 100-unit building to be built where there is currently a single family home creates 99x more housing than converting some park to a single family home -- and then you lose the park.

> direct state construction vs. subsidies

Then the state uses government contractors who charge more and you get less construction for the same number of tax dollars.

And also, this is just a different kind of construction subsidy. You're not getting out of needing to build more housing.
Really depends on your threat model; I think most companies stop short of shipping malware from their UEFI implementation. That said, I don't think Framework has yet done anything questionable?
To admit what they said was wrong about X topic for a starter, but the polarization is so strong on all sides these days that such accountability will be taken as a defeat (or caved in) unfortunately.
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But his success has not stopped the actor from claiming he spends up to 17 hours a day creating nameless plastic structures, which are made of cut up pieces of plastic and either stitched together with copper wire or soldered, that he believes prove his new form of mathematics.

Howard studied chemical engineering at the Pratt Institute in Brooklyn until he fell out with one of his professors over the answer to the 1x1=1 conundrum.
I get the idea. But the GPL allows for this? They would need a different license to get that? Pretty sure GPL is 'we may or may not give support if we feel like it' sort of license. The only real obligation is to provide the code including any changes you make.
Unfortunately it's hard to tell the difference between people suggesting expensive and slow solutions because they're ill informed about the alternatives and the people suggesting expensive and slow solutions because they don't want to solve the problem.

And practically there's little difference, especially if the former are getting their information from the latter.
"Questionable quality but excellent support" 100% describes my experience. The mobo in my Lenovo laptop has died, like, three times at this point, but they'll send out a technician to my house to replace it within a day or two. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Free speech is about expression. It doesn't say anything about consumption. I think congress can ban the feeding of copyrighted content to AI. But IANAL.
It's probably possible to calibrate your clock using a clear night sky and a modern cell phone camera. I bet second accuracy isn't an absurd expectation. Now it'd probably take an unreasonable amount of time to calibrate...
> back to the original articulation of fair use as a Constitutional limit on copyright law stemming from the First Amendment protection of freedom of speech and press,

It's a bit weird to argue that freedom of speech and press somehow guarantees a fair use right to train AI models. If that is the foundation of fair use, then it shouldn't apply.

Edit: I think I can clarify what I mean. Fair use protects human "speech" even if it's partially a copy of someone else's speech. There's no reason the same rule should apply to a technological device that isn't speech.
I think if they admit to using books3 they will inevitably lose on the basis that they used pirated material. For their case to stand they have to prove that they legally purchased the material which i assume they did not. I do not have a law degree but as far as i know most countries outlaw downloading copyrighted material from unauthorized sources. Of course no one has the resources to go after random people but i think they will go after openai if they admit to using books3.

It is one thing to argue that training on purchased material is fair use. But that is not what they did. I can see why open source projects do not have the money to purchase the books to do the training. But multi billion companies should definitely pay to own the books.
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Your post would be more substantial if it were informed by the arguments against the points you raise by the linked article. In general, looking only at the text of a law is insufficient as a basis for legal analysis.
Do they have to, or do they choose to, to avoid a costly court case?
You can use self signed certs, you just have to add your CA as a trusted CA.
Yes, but if one has a particular talent, is it justified for us (society as a whole) to exert pressure on that individual to utilize their talent to cause betterment of the society?

Should results for the whole society matter more than results for that specific individual?
It would be one thing if they had an allowlist or denylist of sites that were not just their org. It's another thing entirely when they allow all Google sites through but not their competitors. I can imagine there being abuse of monopoly powers claims to be made here. Links to YouTube videos in a Google spreadsheet will take half as many clicks as links to Vimeo videos, which will result in fewer lost conversions.
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I mean, what I'm describing is the same thing that BEP51 mentions as a motivation:

> DHT indexing already is possible and done in practice by passively observing get_peers queries. But that approach is inefficient, favoring indexers with lots of unique IP addresses at their disposal. It also incentivizes bad behavior such as spoofing node IDs and attempting to pollute other nodes' routing tables.

If you have a lot of IP addresses (from e.g. AWS Lambda) then you can partition DHT keyspace across a large-N number of nodes and then very quickly discover everything in the keyspace.

The trick is that, since BEP51 exists, you don't need to have all these nodes register themselves into the hash-ring (at arbitrary spoofed positions) to listen. You can just have all these nodes independently probing the hash-ring "from the outside" — just making short-lived connections to registered nodes (without first registering themselves); handshaking that connection as a spoofed node ID; and then firing off one `sample_infohashes` request, getting a response, and disconnectting. The lack of registration shouldn't make any difference, as long as they don't want anyone to try connecting to them.

Which is why I say that these are just "crawler agents", not "nodes" per se. They don't start up P2P at all — to them, this is a one-shot client/server RPC conversation, like a regular web crawler making HTTP requests!
Toyota is a lost company. Never seen any manufacturer be less interested in doing EVs and being so goddamn awful at at (considering it's immense size and budget and technical acumen). A fake manual transmission is utterly ludicrous.

Why don't they put fake spark plugs in that need regular change?
This sounds like another instance of Eternal September.
Are you saying that Media does not publish articles unless a multibillion dollar corporation or its multibillion dollar competitor needs one? That sounds newsworthy itself!
If you need certs for local dev, use a local CA. Tools like mkcert automate this.

If you need certs if a private network, either use Let's Encrypt/ACME or run your own CA and add the CA cert to your machines.
Water heating, AC, fridges and freezers, maybe even EV charging (in some cases) could be done at any time during the 24 hour period, if setup with proper hysteresis.
The AI should, no doubt, pay to read the book!

In technical terms, these companies are trying to avoid the need to consider content licensing, which is a major violation to content creators.
If anyone starts a new side project, do yourself a favor - write your data access layer in straight SQL. With minimal wiring and safe variable substitution that most libraries provide, you will learn a lot.
Cui bono is a fine question to ask, but why let booking.com off the hook for stiffing smaller players?
I'm really curious about the political expediancy of this - the right wing tends to hate UBI but they also resent Big Tech and are probably not fans of algorithms taking their jobs, so maybe we can come to a compromise.
Yes, it’s dead. UJS still has a place, but it looks like Alpine or HTMX.
This notion that a "single commercial entity" stands to benefit is very wrong [1]. There will be fierce commercial competition, and many open-source non-commercial options, for everyone to benefit from this technology.

I'm all for redistributing the gains from automation and economic concentration generally. I see the ideal future as one where so much of the economy is automated that everyone is free to spend their time as they choose, like doing creative or social work. But I don't mean for this to become an argument about UBI. I just don't see any difference between your arguments and the classic Luddite arguments, and nobody seriously thinks that was a good idea anymore. People can still make money weaving and knitting things by hand; it's non-commodified and therefore considered premium. I'll still write software even in a future where 90% of todays widget-churning jobs have been automated, it will just be more interesting.

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35813322
Does everything have to be second guessed?

A big rich company not paying their due is stuff most journalists would jump on.
I would argue that by subverting OP's expectations, it was more than meets the eye. It definitely isn't robots in disguise, though. :(
Did they managed to sort the apps alphabetically on the home screen ? Did they managed to reach the level of Windows 3 where you can have dark fonts on a light background and light fonts on a dark background ? Did they got rid of gray on gray ?

Did they managed to implement an Ok or Cancel button on warning or error messages ?
Did they managed to make status messages not obscure input fields ?
No, setting any variable including the line

"http.ssl.insecure=true"

Is not a fix under any circumstance.
I think the end result of your more realistic approach is the bivocational approach the author outlined in the article.