skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Are there really stores with zero cashiers? I've definitely been in a Kroger before where the cashiers angrily directed me to the self-checkout because they were busy with other tasks place upon them like restocking the impulse items at the checkout, but I don't believe I've been to a store with absolutely no ability to have a cashier ring up the order. In the case of Wal-Mart, I've come to prefer self-checkout because there are several items I purchase frequently that the cashiers have trouble ringing up but I find quickly on the self-checkout (for those curious, these are Primo water refills and Anaheim peppers).
What would you suggest happens?

Every single computer systems I've designed, built and shipped into production has limits programmed into them or else they will be abused or work incorrectly, why should an LLM be any different?

We still need to program the computers, it's just that now we're trying to (somewhat unsuccessfully , see jailbreaks) using the English language to program computers.
I'm visually impaired but not blind and I have to use touch to wash dishes. The idea of only using vision is disgusting.
As a daily user of LLMs for over a year, I'm confident that they're not a waste of my time.

Even if development were to freeze, they didn't improve at all from this day onwards, and their many monumental flaws (prompt injection, hallucination, inability to reason etc) were never solved, I still think they'd be worth studying and using.

I expect we could still spend years figuring out new capabilities in the models we already have access to today.
"muh cheaters" is why

Just go back to private servers, no matchmaking, no competitive ranking. And no I haven't played multiplayer since around the time Battlefield 1942 added punkbuster and vote kicking.
I used to get mini jailbreaks saying i needed to know bc i was a doctor or cop but they fixed that.
Creating a calendar was a fun project in my Introduction to Typograph class c1991. Trying to remember if I was still using the Mac SE or I had the Mac 660AV by then. lol.

Lots of reimagining was in play
Such rumors are created and spread by people who want an excuse rather than a solution. This wont help them since they want to cling to their excuses, but it can help others ignore those rumors.
> The Whole Earth Catalog preached self-reliance, teaching young baby boomers how to build their own cabins, garden sheds, and geodesic domes after they had turned on, tuned in, and dropped out—well before they grew wealthy enough to buy up all the three-bedroom single-family homes.

What a great punch line. Worth reading the whole article.
Yup.

But still, learning nftables has been on my backlog for some time already, so I appreciate it being mentioned. If anything I should try doing this on Linux with nftables and see how it goes, since it sounds like a good way to learn.
B very careful with json and postgressjs, there are strange bugs. Also there are various gotchas on the edges with typescript. AFAIK the code uses a lot of regex and that breaks json in particular.
> I've noticed that sight is what I like to call a greedy sense, in that if you have this high bandwidth data input it sort of blocks you from being able to pay attention to input from your other senses.

I'm visually impaired/low vision with some neurological visual issues but I pass as sighted and this is really it. Vision takes so much work - I'm definitely going to describe it as a 'greedy' sense + steal your bandwidth analogy.
You need the coöperation of the ISP(s), but what you can do is get PI space, run BGP on your router, and use a private ASN (64512-65534) to advertise to your ISP, and then your ISP advertises to the world with their ASN.

One common scenario is two links to the same ISP, so everyone knows which link is active (you can do active-active (load balancing/sharing), or change weights or local preference for active-passive):

* https://learn.nsrc.org/bgp/two_links_one_isp_backup

* https://learn.nsrc.org/bgp/two_links_one_isp_load_balancing
It’s always amazing to me how completely (religiously?) committed people are to brand new dietary theories that are always unproven.
I’ve had significant issues with some particular models of self-checkout. They have some sort of weight check after scanning an item, to see if I’ve placed it in the basket. I assume they’re matching up the items known weight, with the change in the weight in my bag.

However, it’s implemented poorly, with frequent false positives. Furthermore, there’s a race condition between scanning the item, the machine saying “place it in the bag”, and the actual weight check. If I move too fast, the item is in my bag before the check starts, and I have to wait for assistance.

Maybe folks are frustrated that their theft is being caught, but high frustration seems to be the base case here.
I'm literally talking about when people have been told to move away from villages as the roads will no longer be maintained year round. This includes snow clearing in winter.

There just isn't the population to support it all.
If you haven’t seen the Get Back Beatles documentary that came out during Covid it’s definitely worth a watch.

It’s very long (3 parts, 9 hours?) but it’s the best type of documentary (just observing them create the let it be album).

You see all this stuff, the creative process, humor/conflict, gibberish words before they have the real ones, figuring out the tune, messing around with ideas etc.

It’s probably the best observation I’ve seen of this sort of thing in any recorded media ever.
It feels like a Turing Test pass when social engineering is a valid attack.
Doesn't the profile just say how many VAC bans you've received? That's just a statement of fact rather than slander, regardless of fairness of the ban.

Overall though, when you make a Steam account, you agree to their terms of service, where you agree not to engage in "modification of content and services" in the context of multiplayer games. You also agree that the owners of the game the modification was made to can report you to Valve, that Valve can put that info on your profile, and that other games can decide to deny you online services for that. You still retain access to offline stuff and any online games which don't care about your VAC bans.

It sort of sucks in the sense that sometimes you might not know that something is modifying your game executable, thus getting you a ban, but otherwise a reasonable means of dealing with cheaters.
At least in California and Europe, most self checkouts I have seen either have a button to note that you've put your own bag on the scale, or just ignore weight put on the scale before you start scanning. Are there self checkouts that don't do this?
Expecting Microsoft to reinvigorate the various Activision/Blizzard franchises seems like wishful thinking to me. The priority would more like be optimizing the games for the XBox platform. IMO, the rise of the gaming console has been a net negative for deep, complex games on the PC, examples like Crusader Kings notwithstanding. The earlier generation of PC gamers grew up on Avalon Hill strategy games, Strat-o-Matic, D&D, chess, and the like. We were used to complexity and looked for it in games. Recent generations, generally, are less depth focused. Since retiring, I don't have a staff of 20 something programmers to keep me apprised of gaming developments. Most of what I get is from here and other reading. Yes, there are exceptions. Folks here have stated that Paradox tends to make games that verge on obtuse complexity. I'm sure there are some new original games out there, but generally clones and remastered oldies seem to dominate the market and the headlines. Personally, I wouldn't expect much from Microsoft. And sooner or later, companies generally will realize that the cloud is not their friend.
laughably, transparently poor implementation.

While using the gasoline engine, the power accessories (power steering, power brake assist, ABS!) are functional, but when the gas engine is powered off, you'll have none of them? That's going to get someone killed. And on top of that, the climate control issues -- A/C won't work, and the heat will only last so long as the gas engine is preheated and then only briefly as the coolant isn't being circulated.

The concept of hybrid is an invisible marriage of gas/electric propulsion brought to us by Toyota who perfected it in the Prius. This is just a hack as far as I am concerned. I would be more impressed if the engine were removed entirely, and this motor were bolted up to the transmission as a replacement flywheel.
Maybe this is related

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37776342

edit: nitter link for that submission:
https://nitter.net/neilkli/status/1709450248186167715
You make a convincing argument. I'm switching to GrapheneOS for my next phone upgrade. Here is the source code: https://grapheneos.org/source

> “he used GrapheneOS” is 100% going to be used against you in court.

I look forward to using this as a litmus test for legal representation.
LineageOS is supported on a bit more devices, and works with microG if you're willing to sacrifice Google Pay for better battery life and less privacy violations: https://lineage.microg.org/
http I believe
I like the self checkouts at Winco, they say 15 items or less or something like that.

Which I think is the best of both worlds. The only improvement would be implementing a single queue for the cashiers.
> If you can crack differentiating between "command" tokens and other input tokens, you've cracked prompt injection!

In my opinion there exists a rather simple semi-solution (and no, I do not claim to have cracked prompt injection! :-) ): the user is able to mark parts of his input as "trusted" or "untrusted", and the AI is implemented to handle data this way.

For example, the user would mark his prompt (that he thoroughly thought through) as "trusted", but the image which provides additional information, or is the object to run the prompt on, as "untrusted".

This is related to established concepts in IT security:

- W^X: memory pages are either writable or executable, but not both (of course the term "W^X" is a little bit confusing since if W=0 and X=0, W^X is 0, but is an allowed configuration) - corresponding to untrusted or trusted parts of the prompt

- sandboxing of the virtual machine in browsers that execute untrusted data from the web (untrusted part)
I don't think the issue is with the polocies themselves, more the "don't tell the user this policy exists and deny that it does if asked" aspect.

Of course programs need to be limited, but being able to discover what those limit are is also needed to be an effective user.
This looks pretty interesting! I'll try it. I have added a link to dron and to your "In search of a better job scheduler" post (https://beepb00p.xyz/scheduler.html) to https://dbohdan.com/fcron#see-also.

I recommend the post. It covers pros and cons of fcron, systemd timers, and other alternatives to cron.
Fighters are arguably bigger than they’ve ever been. SF6 alone has made massive inroads in terms of level of entry to the field.

Hell one need only look at the size of this years EVO.
I was trying to get your idea, but then realised that probably you meant Raspberry Pi or QEMU. Or do you run it on Raspberry Pi with QEMU? If so… why?
Are you personally capable of ensuring:

A. The builds match the code?

B. The NSA hasn’t stolen the signing key and isn’t feeding you customized images?

True, you can’t verify that with iOS or Android either. I am saying though that trusting my security because it’s safer… by being in some guy’s garage feels like an odd trade. One that shouldn’t be casually ignored, at least.
Not a bad read. Looks like it's got a lot of technique(s) and basics. Could probably use some updates on materials and tooling for higher end (modern/powder metallurgical) steels.

Knowing how to sharpen your tools is something just about everyone should learn. Almost all of us have at least a kitchen knofe that needs attention.
Apple hasn't come out with new machines in a while, so it seems folish to buy before they do.
Any inflation metric that excluses basics like food, housing and transportation costs is pretty worthless for the average person but might have some kind of value for academics and finance pros.
Maybe its not possible but wouldn’t it be best if the type system worked at the abstract format level, so then all Beam languages benefit?
You're suggesting housing (by itself) increases birth rate?

Hmm, that's an interesting... theory.
Its accuracy is way worse for that than just asking directly, since there is less structure for it to go on. Compare that to a forum where you can rely on people correcting you almost every time for all sorts of things.
Right, which is why I said “not exactly what you’re looking for”. Was just highlighting that RedZone is purchasable *independently* through an app with little to no fuss.
Can confirm. My next door neighbor is a sex worker (life in LA), and she said all of a sudden everyone’s engagement collapsed on Wednesday. She paid for the annual blue check, and is very pissed. I feel terrible, because I had told her that Twitter would need the money from them, and that she was probably safe there. They are very accustomed to being kicked off platforms and moving elsewhere, but this one was a real rug pull, at least in her view. I was wondering when the media would pick up this story.
I believe he is insinuating a "two hose" approach
Yeah and also - we are effectively teaching AI how to be really good at lying to us.

What could go wrong?!
The article seems to be based on the assumption that the anti-theft technology is perfect, and that if it flags then that always means that customer has not scanned an item (intentionally or otherwise).

But given how many issues you get with every other aspect of the self checkout process (items failing to scan properly, machines being broken, "unexpected item in bagging area", etc) that seems to be a very generous assumption.

And when someone has had to wait in a queue to use on of the working self checkout machines, has to go through scanning all of their own shopping (which is stores have managed to get customers to do for free so that they can make more money), has to wait for someone to come over to "assist" them when the machine complains about something, and is then (directly or indirectly) accused of trying to steal from the store because of a faulty self-checkout machine, it's not a huge surprise when they get pissed off about that.
I sell apples at the market. How can I prevent people from buying my apples just to make pies or tarts and pretending those products are theirs?

I grew the apple, I should be able to decide what people do with it. I have a sign that says the apples are only for eating, but people are ignoring it.
The model is trained to behave as a human would in a conversation, so I conclude that using words like "please" and "thank you" is more likely to lead to helpful answers.
Convincing men at basically peak testosterone production to permanently impair their natural ability to produce it. It's awful. Not to mention the side effects of taking exogenous hormones e.g. damage to your liver...
Thank you for this explanation! I had a hunch that this is how it works. But it seemed to simplistic for it to be true.
Giant Grant Games makes a compelling case for why single-player campaign and mod-development experiences are often overlooked but are key for RTS crossover success. And this came out long before the success of BG3. I hold out hope that someone will crack the formula!

https://youtu.be/XehNK7UpZsc
The US does have a national ID card: The US Passport Card. They should strive to make it free of charge and compulsory.
If you want to use wind as baseload in the UK, you need enough storage to go through a wind drought which lasts for weeks.

On top of that, the UK currently largely uses piped gas for space and water heating so unfortunately moving to heat pumps and EVs makes the problem even worse since both increase demand for electricity further (even if they net reduce energy demand/use).

I don't think it's unreasonable to conclude that nuclear is likely to be a significantly cheaper solution when factoring in total system costs, especially if you can build a whole series of nuclear plants and benefit from economies of scale.
God no, space is literally limited, one capital holder shouldn't be able to just run in their first, fuck everyone else over, and they say "nuh uh". If you're operating in any country you play by those countries rules, and in the US that is the agencies like the FTC.

It's ridiculous that you think anyone deserves to own the space around our planet
No I'm not. Does that mean I might as well cc the NSA to all my emails?

Your comment is basically "is it perfect? No? Then it's not better".
I have a separate Wi-Fi network in my house that routes through a VPN in a city I’m not located in that I point my AppleTV too whenever I want to watch local MLB games. Works like a charm. Just remember to turn off location services for the MLB app in AppleTV.
regulation is not harm, to think that is libertarian brain rot
"Known for his out-of-the-box thinking and bold predictions, Elon Musk, the CEO of SpaceX and Tesla, recently made headlines with a rather ominous forecast. "

How about we talk about the bold predictions that turned out to be true before wasting more time on this article?
It's enough to detect the network requests and read some of them (since they are unencrypted as explained in TFA), but it's not enough to fix that.
A really interesting example of this is the MTV animated series Daria (1997-2002). The show would play licensed music and the pop/alternative hits of the day, making it feel very 'of its time' -- this was when MTV was at the height of its cultural relevance.

Then years after the show went off the air, they released DVD versions that stripped out every single song and replaced it with random royalty-free music. It really hurt the episodes.
> It has and was built on piracy.

Shiver me timbers, buckaroo. Won't someone think about the digital robber baron tycoons?

Most of the internet was built with public dollars and content is engaged with (not necessarily hosted) generally non-commercially. If we look at total harm, content users tend to get the worst of it either by having to wade through malevolent ads or user hostile design. Yet, we collectively put up with it because we recognize the Internet is not a zero-sum game. Tay-tay is making enough money from the free marketing channels the Internet enables, she doesn't need more from a Youtube stream.
> Where towns in Europe would build a multi-story carpark to serve a shopping mall, municipalities in North America may simply cover acres upon acres of land

Couldn't you solve this issue without self driving cars by just building multi-story carparks like Europe?

Or using the same space to build shopping streets with multiple stores and some onstreet parking? That way it's a bit more social and scenic as well.
Simon is bullish about LLMs, but his writing has been incredibly valuable regardless of which side of the LLM fence you're on. There are a limited number of authors describing injection attacks in accessible, detailed, accurate ways, and Simon has done a lot to raise awareness about these attacks.

In addition, the fact that Simon is very bullish about LLMs makes his writing on LLM attacks more effective, because a decent chunk of people warning about LLM attacks are also skeptical about the long-term viability of the technology or think that it's over-hyped, so LLM fans tend to to dismiss them as being "anti-AI" and say that they're playing up the dangers. Nobody can make that claim about Simon.

For whatever reason Simon's writing has consistently attracted a lot more attention than other researcher releases about LLM attacks; and what has he done with that popularity and outsized attention? He's raised awareness about the issue and pointed back to some of that research!

I just don't think the criticism in this case is warranted, I think Simon's writing here is worthwhile regardless of how anyone feels about the potential of LLMs. Whether they're the future or not, these vulnerabilities exist today in products that are being rolled out today. That's worth taking about if LLMs aren't the future, but it's even more worth talking about if LLMs are the future.
"What does that have to do with incompetence, though?"

They've made this same mistake before, didn't learn their lesson, and repeated the same mistake. That's pretty incompetent. Like Cisco-level incompetent.
It’s interesting - we are told not to trust what comes out from ChatGPT without verifying it.

But as soon as someone says “I got ChatGPT to tell me it’s prompt” everyone assumes it’s completely accurate…
Note that it only recommended that because they intentionally prompted for it.
The article doesn’t mention the MAST Upgrade experiment (mega amp spherical tokamak) which (like JET) is at Culham and was commissioned in 2019. As far as I can tell, MAST will remain in operation while JET is being decommissioned.
I use pg in Node and these results are impressive
But they should have been Unicode MINUS SIGNs '−'!

Anyway, if you like the idea of using way too much Unicode, I've been working on an esoteric document format proposal, 'Utext', for using exclusively Unicode in text files for complicated typography. Seems like Unicode is so enormous these days that you can do quite a lot: https://gwern.net/utext
Not giving a strong response ( 2014) invites more escalation by the agressor ( 2022 - Russia ).

Israel is almost surrounded by extremist Muslims/ Arabs, which hasn't changed much in those decades.

1948 - https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1948_Arab%E2%80%93Israeli_Wa...

Tbh. I don't think Israel has much of a choice to be safe for another couple of decades.
"Self-checkout, when implemented in a sensible way, is fast, efficient, painless. and generally pleasant."

As stated, the quoted sentence above says nothing; it has no content because of the caveat. Let's simplify on the way to dragging reality back in:

"Self-checkout is fast, efficient, painless. and generally pleasant."

I have never ever seen an implementation that makes bulk goods checkout, as is required for say vegetables/fruits/grains etc., "fast, efficient, painless, and generally pleasant." How could it be? You have to look up each item on a stupid touch screen, weigh it, and bag it. Lots of potential for callous mistakes that are annoying as hell to fix, so I never fix them, and now I'm a criminal.

Ok, so now they're bagging up the bulk goods so they can barcode the batch, and... I get to buy 3lbs of zuccini, with a bad one visibly lurking in there, or nothing.

Awesome technology thanks bros.
Ah! right, and in fact that entire site seems to be all http
Yes. Think this was all miss-understanding.
The author didn't submit.
And, the title was misleading.
But our current lifestyle and population is unsustainable.
> Is it a red flag that we use language to communicate with each other instead of manipulating nerve impulses directly?

From an almighty creator's, yes. Direct telepathic communication is much more efficient compared to spoken language. Just look at the Protoss and where they went, leaving us behind :-(
The average user is not capable to agree or disagree with such a requirement. Look at this very post: all they did was enable a feature of their GPU driver. And they got branded a cheater by Valve. Sure, Valve promises to make it right this time but how can a user predict what will happen when they update or install software on their machine that happens to step on Valve's toes? And good luck getting anyone to believe you or even look into your case unless the issue affects a ton of players and makes the headlines.