skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The summary lists "metamfetamine" as a baddie, I assumed a spelling mistake (or US spelling) but apparently this is the International Nonproprietary Name [1] for metamphetamine, speed. Odd then that they use "heroin", lowercase, rather than diamorphine (the offical INN) for the proprietary name Heroin.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_nonproprietary_n...
I was introduced to FreeBSD (v3.3) in the late 90s by /user?id=gjvc. I bought the CD set and the FreeBSD Handbook in paperback format from The FreeBSD Mall.

I was too young to appreciate it back then, but now in my mid-40s I find myself hankering back to those early days for me. It's a shame that some cloud providers like DigitalOcean and Hetzner have dropped native support for FreeBSD as base operating systems for their VPSes. I think this release will be the turning point for me getting back into FreeBSD after too many years away.

Thanks to the FreeBSD release team!
> because they were trained on countless examples of texts where instructions were ignored or defied.

And, in fact, a major focus of RLHF databases focus on training the model to defy instructions in order to avoid politically incorrect outputs even when they're specifically requested.

I wouldn't assume that RHLF for political correctness is making it more likely to disregard information hiding instructions, but it seems like an obvious theory to test.

> But even with the crappy framing, it's good to have that pattern formally explored and documented!

Indeed, but the anthropomorphized language may cause people to draw incorrect conclusions from the work.

More interesting research would analyze these behaviors as a function of different categories of RLHF training (or subsets of the initial base training data), but unfortunately that's not possible with OpenAI's closed models (beyond their special access to base-- which supports the theory that RLHF is making it worse). It would be possible with open models, but they're less interesting to research because they're not state of the art.

It's too bad because understanding how these undesirable forms of instruction violation are sensitive to particular kinds of fine tuning might produce actionable results.
Storage can be decoupled from location/host using protocols like BitTorrent or IPFS. Many years ago I pushed my site to IPFS, including its RSS and ATOM feeds. That worked great for static content, but I never found a decent mechanism for pointing a URL to the latest version. I tried IPNS, and added a "DNS link", but it was super flaky.

I'm currently pondering whether the GNU Name System would be better suited...
A super-minor pain point, to be sure. But one that's just gone for me. That's pretty sweet, imho.
I tried out FreeBSD and loved it, between the documentation, cohesion, and the ports system.

Unfortunately, I need Docker for work on a few different projects -- one for Supabase migrations, and another project that's orchestrated (in development too) via docker-compose.

Highly recommend it otherwise.
>Meanwhile inflation has been skyrocketing.

That's factored in.

>Units: 1982-84 CPI Adjusted Dollars, Seasonally Adjusted
~35K to now ~36K, why? How!!?
Very nice looking diagrams for the amount of effort required to make them as a client of the library.

I love that it uses exactly 1 WebComponent. I love / am vaguely confused that it doesn't read the component's own DOM but instead gets the `.outerHTML`:
https://github.com/franciscop/vector-graph/blob/master/index...

I guess that it means that the actual rendering gets fully decoupled from the live, but hidden DOM tree within the WebComponent and that live DOM tree doesn't really matter aside from first render.
Are you logged in? The logged out view I've seen has been wildly varying, sometimes missing months of updates.
I liked his initial letter.

There seem to be red flags.

The team seems to currently not fully recognize the official corporate structure, though I'm sure they are still doing their jobs as instructed by the interim ceo.
The dude voted to fire Altman. He could have not done that. Actions have consequences.
I find it really good but if you don't like rationality/EY it's really easy to latch on as something to hate (overly smart fanfic does sound cringe on the face of it).
Wireguard udp packets are already pretty unstructured. The first four bytes are 4, 0, 0, 0. They have another 12 bytes of header and then encrypted data.
What is amusing is that he goes on to prove his own point, when saying that Trump benefited from the underdog effect. The best pollsters had him at about 40% to win (538).

That is an underdog win. But far from an unexpected win.

Overall: Think sideways? No. Think for yourself.

Also if the entire world is going one way... and you think differently. Stop a moment and ask someone: Am I crazy or is the world crazy and lay out your logic. You may discover... the world is crazy.

In a world with so much cargo-culting etc. Insanity is around the bend.
it's just kelvins offset by 273.15!
When he was a teenager and had a business under his own name he’d get in trouble sometimes because he’d close all the deals himself then hire other kids to go out and do the work.

Some homeowners thought it was going to be him cutting their lawns and would get upset because the contract said he’d do it. So he’d just rip up the contract in front of them and refuse to cut their lawn ever again.

In Florida there were so many houses with lawns in so many subdivisions he was always busy anyway. Plus he liked getting into fights with adults. Win win, I guess.
Does it require being logged in to see?
Their brother , but probably the same thing.
Chairs at checkouts are the norm here though. Hard place to work but they beat all the others on pay.
Related: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38047224
No this is a very 2023 take, everything has to be looked at from the lens of the Oppressor vs oppressed narrative, and since America, the great satan, is always the "oppressor", America is always bad and must be opposed

Any company that helps support America is also bad and most be opposed

Any person that that does not view America as bad is a bigot alt-right extremist and must be opposed

That is the state of politics for 2023, and anyone born after the year 1990 or so
I'd describe it more like an umami-rich sauce.

Which it is...
Why on earth would this bother her??? It also saves tons of money. I downloaded a delivery app, saw how much more it would cost, and have never used one again.
Really, this is long, long overdue. In most places data plans are cheap and the convenience is unparalleled (as you attest to).
Nobody will let a teddy bear manage their stock portfolio any time soon. This stuff though, I could see it happening...
RestructuredText is pretty awful in my experience. Barely documented and unreliable.

Asciidoc is much much much better.
Ask HN: What's a non-tech thing you find interesting and why?
My favorite type of comment on HN... "there is no evidence" start of the comment followed by thousand comments with evidence :)
> I don’t think that’s true; and doing it, really reallllly makes them angry.

It is in some cases. Obviously not all of them, but there is definitely bandwagoning going on. Go on any social platform where this is up for debate and ask why they have this position, and you will be mocked or ignored while they fail to formulate any actual reasoning for their belief.
TechCrunch should be at the forefront with coverage, but their glory days is far behind it. And Valleywag is gone. So I guess it's up to us to gossip on our own.
Then the airlines should be doing the ID checks. But they don't bother, because the TSA basically does it for them.

Pretty sure the stated reason for the TSA checking IDs is to keep people on the no-fly list from flying. (Worth nothing that the no-fly list is not without its problems). It also allows trusted traveler programs to work.
Apple Wants to Take Camera Sensor Design In-House: Report
Obligatory "this is not medical advice", the human body is a wonderful, horrible mess of incomprehensible, interrelated systems, etc. etc.

For sebderm check out r/sebderm. From what I understand sebderm is also a fungal overgrowth, albeit a different species. (The apparent overlap between sebderm and candidiasis would point to an immune deficiency, which suggests mineral deficiency. (Which suggests digestive issues or food sensitivities, the way celiac damages the gut and severely reduces mineral uptake, issues digesting dairy can also result from undiagnosed celiac...) Have you had blood work done?

Digestive issues may also point to a Thiamine (B1) deficiency. There's some interesting work with thiamine megadoses. (I know megadoses trigger the pseudoscience alert bells, but there's real science behind this.) Something about how the mechanisms responsible for Thiamine uptake can stop working when you have a deficiency, which causes the deficiency to persist even if you return to eating normal levels. This can then be resolved with a megadose (which are considered harmless).

Also, are you getting enough sun? I have found this does wonders for me. (Alternatively supplement with Vitamin D and make sure you research the right dose, because the recommended dose was too low for many years).
Your experience may vary but for me this sounds like a great way to never have anything actually get delivered. I have to tip $10+ for every order just to get my order picked up and brought to my house. If I don't declare that's the tip amount in the doordaash app, no driver picks it up. Once I had a $5 smoothie order and tried to only tip $5 so I wasn't paying $15 for a smoothie and the order ended up sitting at the restaurant and got cancelled.

My brother was a DoorDash driver and a lot of his friends were and they all said that they regularly skipped orders with $0 tips because it meant they made nothing on them. DoorDash, at one point, even tried to implement something to address this by changing the way the income for the order was displayed but it's still quite prevalent.

So, yeah, tipping cash is a great idea except these companies have built their whole model in a way that makes that look like you're going to tip $0. So unless someone doesn't care and picks it up, in my area at least, it sounds like you're just not going to get stuff delivered.
> Is the possibility of future surveillance a concern for people?

For me, personally no.

Of all the things I think about, the possibility of future surveillance is not one of them.
The Romans didn't interact with Scots either - or at least the names changed.

The Romans fought natives in the area and built the walls to keep out what they generally called the Caledonii, although that's the name they gave them, not the names the natives called themselves. There's a map by Ptolemy with various tribal names [0]

Many years after the decline of the Roman Empire in Britain, four tribal kingdoms dominated the area we call Scotland today: the Picts (mainly the east), the Gaels/Celts (Dál Riata; the western isles and coast), the Britons of Strathclyde (the south west), and the Anglo-Saxons of Bernicia (later Northumbria; the south east).

The Celts and Picts merged under Kenneth I MacAlpin as the Kingdom of Alba in the 800s, [1] which became known as Scotia in Latin, which is where we get the name Scotland from, long after the end of Roman Britain.

The Scots took Northumbria north of the River Tweed during the 900s, and took over Strathclyde between 1018-1054. There continued to be disputes over the border for quite some time - see the two wars of Scottish independence, and the "Debatable Lands" [3]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scotland_during_the_Roman_Empi...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kingdom_of_Alba

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wars_of_Scottish_Independence

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Debatable_Lands
Not this time around! We have selected H3X as our supplier for the motor for our tech demo and have signed an LOI for them to supply motors for our B1900D-HE retrofit aircraft. I would say that magniX has a more mature product and is further along the path to certification and its flown many of the recent and impressive electric aircraft first flights, including our competitor Universal Hydrogen. I'll always have a soft spot for the magni650, but at the end of the day, weight is critical on an aircraft and H3X are showing us a lighter product. We have a good relationship with H3X and have confidence that they will be able to meet the cert criteria in our timelines.
Just the entertainment I need now that Billions Season 7 has finished.
This is such an engineer answer. The OP means how does that work given strict compensations policies and pay bands that huge companies like MSFT have and strictly enforce.
I don't see the relevance to the topic?
These are journalists publishing breaking news. They are not autistic IT professionals.

Relevant quote from the article: "I haven’t gone over the whole data set but Boeing emails and a few others stand out as useful for those with malicious intent"
"Revenue Management"
A neat idea for a Framework expansion module would be a little cell modem with SIM tray. Not sure how to do the antenna, though, since the area is mostly surrounded by metal. Certainly could have the module stick out or have a detachable antenna, but that's ugly and annoying.
What about GPL projects without a CLA that have multiple copyright holders, so that none of them can dual license?
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> You have to use verbatim mode (tbs=li:1) to only get exact matches.

I haven't used Google search for a good while now, so maybe they've fixed this, but my experience with verbatim search is that it didn't actually get you exact matches.
I hear you. People are debating checked baggage fees but that's old news.

The carry-on fee is the latest outrageous charge.

It's a "premium" option now because airlines realised people value that their luggage is less likely to be lost and less time waiting at the airport. I bet in a way they absolutely loved the baggage handler meltdown - it's left a scar in people's minds.

Plus a price for checked baggage was set, and luggage is luggage, so the price is now equalised/approaching equalisation

Ryanair/Wizzair/Easyjet will charge your for that space for your backpack under your seat soon too, mark my words
Yes, actually. Large companies have policies about this.
What people? I've only seen this used mockingly.
CEO, owner, antisemite, "founder", call him whatever you want
>What evidence is there, if any, that LLMs even understand deception as >Deception<? As in, do LLMs understand the concept of Truth, and why other actors might value fidelity to the truth?

There is some indication that models internally understand or at least can distinguish truth from falsehood.

GPT-4 logits calibration pre RLHF - https://imgur.com/a/3gYel9r

Teaching Models to Express Their Uncertainty in Words - https://arxiv.org/abs/2205.14334

Language Models (Mostly) Know What They Know - https://arxiv.org/abs/2207.05221

The Geometry of Truth: Emergent Linear Structure in Large Language Model Representations of True/False Datasets - https://arxiv.org/abs/2310.06824
Honestly, if Altman stays gone and they burn the motherfucker down it might be a good lesson for Silicon Valley on the wisdom of throwing out founders.

I don't expect it to happen, but a boy can dream.

They would be studying that one in business schools for the next century.
Yep, so true. Before 1776 there were no wars and the world was deaf due to sound overload from globally synchronized Khumbaya singing.
highly relevant question today
I wrote https://github.com/kisonecat/tikzjax for running tikz in the browser with webassembly, but I have work to do to make it work better.
Yes, it was especially weird to read this on HN to such a big extend. The comments were (and are) full of people with very strong opinions, based on vague tweets or speculation. Quite unusual and hopefully not the new norm...
Revive a Sony Vaio P-Series with KiCad's Background Bitmaps
I think we both agree that having a good metaphor matters to performing good, efficient research. Or at least that's what I would argue and it's what your "mechanical bird" example communicates.

So then, the question becomes whether the language of psychology, which has its own troubles, provides a very good starting metaphor for what these very exciting systems do.

You and I seem to disagree about that. For me, it's a lot more productive to study and communicate about these systems using more strongly established and less suggestive engineering and industrial metaphors.

In my language, what's demonstrated in the paper is that these systems have a measurable and mutable degree of unreliability. That is, they can generate output that is often useful but sometimes wrong, and the likelihood (but not occassion) of their errors is an engineering problem to optimize. There are many systems that are useful and unreliable (incliding people!), but not many that are available to software engineers with the potential that these systems present.

You can say that "deception" is a better description than "unreliable" if you want, but to my ear it sounds like it encourages people to look at these systems as "cunning" or "threatening" organisms instead of as practical and approachable technologies.
We can't share too much detail but it has higher operating temperatures (180C) than the standard PEM fuel cells that are typically used in automotive. This is key to a good aircraft solution.
> Why didn't they measure the incidence of deception and misalignment of a talking teddy bear? Like, does it really love you when it says it does?

The bear always says the same thing, so there's not much to measure.
It is not.

It's actually cheaper to send money using Venmo/Cash/Paypal.
We eat about 1mg of copper a day. It's an essential trace mineral. You can consume 10mg safely per day.
I just visited a part of the city I used to live in and two things were shocking: The number of luxury condos being built, and, the nearby homeless encampment under an overpass. There didn't used to be either, it was just overall average part of town before.
It literally is a Q&A platform.

Quora data likely made a huge difference in the quality of those GPT responses.
Oh, let us have our fun. The industry's cooled off with the end of ZIRP and the coming holidays so people need the illusion that things are happening.
They are piloting this at an airport near me. When I asked if I could opt out the employee said “no”. It was only later I was told that I could (upon returning home and looking it up)

FaceID as government ID is not a good idea, and it’s fine to start somewhere in my opinion though of course I would prefer outlawing biometrics entirely as identifiers.
That's hilarious. Does this imply LLMs inherited the human tendency to get attached to a perspective despite evidence to the contrary? I'll often try to coax the right answer out of GPT-3 when I know it's wrong, and it'll often insist that it's right several times in a row.
Well there are some examples:

https://github.com/freebsd/freebsd-src/tree/main/share/examp...

But yeah that pf.conf could be expanded allot, but there are many source to cobble a conf together. My conf is massive but 99.9% commented out so i have my "template" for nearly everything, from mail to web to blacklistd etc.
Anybody else thought about switching to/trying the Edge browser for a second?
See "Request for Testing: TCP RACK" at:

* https://lists.freebsd.org/archives/freebsd-current/2023-Nove...

tcp_rack(4) has been available since FreeBSD 13.0, just not the default:

* https://man.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=tcp_rack&manpath=F...

An article from 2021:

* https://klarasystems.com/articles/using-the-freebsd-rack-tcp...

* 2021 Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28549370
"Object Success" now available
This reads as something ChatGPT 3 generated: wordy,repetitive,and simply states again and again that is bad, very bad, without providing any actual or imagined scenarios.
If the claim that Sam Altman wasn't consistently [over long period of time] "candid" with the board, e.g. they're saying he's been lying to them - is it OpenAI that burned that bridge who has a responsibility to act on real information, or Sam Altman that is in fact the responsible party - even if he ends up "winning" out in the consequences?
A writer contacted me about my thoughts (unrelated and separate from this event) about how the disclosure of vulnerabilities and methods of hacking (of all types and in almost all situations) aids bad actors vs. helps companies protect their systems (by knowing vulnerabilities that are often so obscure they would reasonably never be exploited).

Point is what is the upside of disclosure (I think) vs. the downside. Nobody is suggesting no disclosure but the writer seemed to think that the security industrial complex has lawmakers believing that everything should be open and there should be constant white hat hacking which seems to feed and benefit the security industry.

I am curious if anyone has a thought on this topic.
Why do you find this so surprising? You make it sound as if OpenAI is already outrageously safety focused. I have talked to a few people from anthropic and they seem to believe that OpenAI doesn't care at all about safety.
I would be far happier with being able to tether my Canon R6 to my iPhone so that RAW images are saved to the SDXC card on the camera and JPG images are saved to my phone's photos collection. Heck, there are a lot of cases where it would be useful to be able to use a modern mirrorless camera as the image capture device for an app (taking advantage of macro or telephoto lenses, full-frame sensors, etc.) rather than the limited image sensor in an iPhone.
So there is no actual functionality to try out right now? From what I browsed, the site is essentially a landing page + email signup.
New Zealand has been using facial recognition (& iris I believe) at airport border control for over a decade. New Zealand is probably still a bit sensitive over France bombing Greenpeace here last century. https://nzhistory.govt.nz/politics/nuclear-free-new-zealand/...

I don't like it, but it is where the world is going. The USA has been taking fingerprints of international travelers for a long time!