skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Custom GPTs or the new Pirate Bay? A new security nightmare
I have been surveying hundreds of GPTs through my research for the GPT-Analyst GPT and the prompt protection instructions library (see my previous posts).

What I found is a huge number of custom GPTs upload pirated PDFs and ebooks.
For example: https://x.com/TechWithElias/status/1733448828542722102?s=20

Additionally, I found an unbelievable level of sloppiness with some of the knowledge files provided. The authors literally save HTML pages (with its ugly inline JavaScript) 200kb+ and upload as knowledge files. Even if RAG is employed, you are guaranteed the worst performance ever.

Hear me out:

This practice really enforces my assumptions that OpenAI's custom GPTs' knowledge search uses no RAG whatsoever and instead is just a basic regular expression search for keywords from your prompt. Then the relevant 'pages' are extracted and fed as context. I doubt OAI uses vector dbs or any proper RAG pipeline.

Finally:

What a new security nightmare going forward to manage all those uploaded files, exploitable files, passing 'secrets' through custom GPTs, drops and what not.

Food for thought and just my two cents.
Do you say the same to americans who criticize the US? What a weird talking point. Not that I agree with him in the first place, but still
Right, I can see your point now and my interpretation in my first reply wasn't very accurate at all. Sorry about that.
Authoring and presenting university courses with Emacs and a full libre stack
If the existence of a working unsanctioned client undermines the integrity of a system as prominent and security- and privacy-focused as iMessage proclaims to be, then that system has big problems.

Certainly this is not the first time some entity in the world has reverse-engineered iMessage; it's just the first time that it was publicized.
Seeking a higher intelligence
Back in the days I’ve discovered NetworkX and Gephi in a Coursera course and was really surprised about how simple it managed to represent visually such a hard problem (I’ve never been able to find this course again it started with Erdos number that’s the only thing I remember)
No, you have MAD: moderately angry disorder. Just take a breather and come out when you're ready.
This is super wrong and potentially harmful. If you are deficient in anything a supplement definitely can help. Iron is a good example. A big chunk of the female population is iron deficient. Supplementation is a perfectly valid way of combating this.
I disagree with this view. I think most people who are interested, have tried it. They tried it with a variety of prompts. They found it novel but not entirely accurate. So while I do think there are some people who refuse to use AI at all, I’d love to point out that they already are. GPT on the other hand, is next level. There’s a level after that even. The point I was articulating is that the current gen bot/AI moderation models are not GPT level. At least today from my own experience in dealing with moderation and content flagging trolls. I do believe FB/Meta is fervently working on this with their models they are publishing in competition to GPT. So before you go burning down the town - Accept that technological advancement is great, when it solves your problem. Otherwise it’s bells and whistles to these people.
This is only true in some jurisdictions. AFAIK, for instance, it is not true in the US.
You can't compare what was essentially conventional warfare between states of vastly similar military capabilities and a fight between a gorilla force and a conventional military.

I don't think an organisation which is internationally recognised as a terrorist organisation are a government in any real sense of the word.
> As government agencies and tech companies develop more and more intrusive means of watching and influencing people, how can we live free lives?

Schedule technology free time? In a Minority Report kind of world that might not be enough, but limiting the avenues those take to influence seems like the obvious answer.
This has Hunter’s fingerprints all over it. I’m a fan by the way.
Sounds what something someone might want to call an expert system?

> In artificial intelligence, an expert system is a computer system emulating the decision-making ability of a human expert.[1] Expert systems are designed to solve complex problems by reasoning through bodies of knowledge, represented mainly as if–then rules rather than through conventional procedural code
It depends. If your Mac is connected to the Internet, then you may inadvertently download something that is designed to harm your computer. An up to date browser like Chrome can detect and block some of these harmful downloads but there are ways to bypass the browser protections. Once the file is on your computer it may be able to be triggered to start accessing files and making changes to your computer. MacOS will try to prevent unknown files from getting access to and making changes to files by requiring you to type your admin password before making allowing the changes. However sometimes the makers of these types of harmful software find a way around these MacOS protections, like with the browser. In these cases it is helpful to have another program that is dedicated to checking each file to see if it resembles other bad files it has seen. This would be the anti-virus/malware program. However note that sometimes the people find ways to bypass these too. Also, it’s important to keep all of these components as up to date as possible so they are checking against the latest security information.
> How big is the market of "junior analyst-type jobs" globally?

Hence the "Just one example" sentence I ended my comment with. There are tons and tons of others. The Washington Post did a whole long article months ago about people who were laid off _already_ due to ChatGPT. Folks like marketers, copywriters, data analysts, medical transcriptionists, etc. There are a large number of jobs out there that used to need, say, 3 or 4 people, where AI could bring that down to 1.
What was something he said that made sense?
I wonder if there’s a way to physically encrypt the DNA before sending it off for sequencing—e.g. randomly permute the base pairs, send jumbled DNA to sequencing company, get digital results back, then decrypt them. Of course generating the physical “private key” and then turning it into something usable to decrypt the results would have to be much simpler/cheaper than the sequencing itself, otherwise you’re back at square one…
This sort of comment is so useless.

Do you actually believe cancer treatments are what the EU is going to lose on with these regulations?

Why?
It has been a very competitive market, so companies have to give something to employees. If it weren't, they would enjoy the spoilers and pay the minimum they could - given the amounts of layoffs, we may be going into that direction.
It's not EEE because W4 Games actually founded by some of top Godot contributors who continue to work on FOSS version as well. There just some things you can't have open source like console platform support code.
What is the modern power ranking on image formats?

For lossless, what is typically the most efficient size wise? Decompression speed?

For lossy?

I am not in a situation where these micro-optimizations mean much to me, and always default to png, but curious to know where the state of the art is today.
>It is necessary to explore the chaos, in order to fully grow into a fully functioning adult human man.

Source?
Just downvote and move on if you’re offended by the content.
Check worth is more than Radio Shack now
> A truly open world, with no boundaries at a scale never attempted before.

I don't know what to make of this.
If it is illegal to collect and use that information then you don't need to additionally regulate algorithms specifically...

And if it is legal to collect and use that information then it seems nonsensical to ban the use of algorithms specifically...
AI safetiests are operating in a world of pure fantasy, then; the techniques and data sources will always leak.
Many of them haven't found what works for them yet. Productivity isn't taught in schools (that I know of). Self-help is still just that.
There's always such a rush to try to find environmental reasons for this behavioral tendency: microplastics, lead, smartphones, social media, video games, something must be causing this perceived increase in ADHD symptoms in boys!

What rarely comes up in the media coverage is that maybe the change isn't in the boys, maybe it's in the social expectations that we have for boys. 400 years ago the average adolescent boy spent most of their days out in the fields farming or learning a hands-on trade or training in the military. What they were not doing was sitting in a classroom for 6-8 hours a day listening to someone talk and then going home and sitting indoors for the rest of the day because the world is too dangerous for their parents to let them roam free.

The free range kids movement is the answer, not coaching and therapy.
Prompt Engineering for 7B LLMs
I think I would say this. It’s a technology that’s on radars for about 12 months, is immature in all aspects, and has already transformed large swaths of the business operations to be much cheaper, scalable, and precise. I’ve never seen that in 30+ years.

In some cases it actually is transformational as in the case I mentioned that it talked directly to a core business problem that would have killed the org. In others it’s incremental, but at the scale of megacorp there everything is incremental and something that moves margins by 5% or something is earth shattering for them. It unlocks businesses they would have been too hard to comply with requirements, it stream lines operations, etc, which for many businesses are monumental changes.

What happens in 5 years when models are much more powerful, interfaces more clear, and ability to customize easier?
At all the public libraries I've used they only let me checkout something if the total number of copies already checked out is less than the number of copies the library has licenses for. If the number checked out is not under the number of licenses they make me wait until one of the checked out copies is returned.
On the other hand, Summers did lend his credibility to the crypto scam DCG and helped lay the groundwork for the 2008 financial crisis. He gets in over his head sometimes.
One of the most astounding things I've learned is how movies/shows/cartoons get quietly changed, and you no longer have the original art.

Wokeness, marketing, etc...decisions are made to change content, and the "owner" gets their product changed without consent or remedy.
To be fair, what you're basically saying is "how dare these people try to actually succeed at their stated objectives." AI safety for big companies while anyone can spin up an AGI in their basement would indeed be extremely pointless, which is why AI safetyists are trying to prevent it.
I worked with a non-software team that used this to build a UI about two years ago. It’s great to spin up something quickly, and worked well for a team that didn’t have much UI experience - to a point. It becomes very hard to maintain and navigate as soon as any complexity comes in - much harder than Qt, Winforms, or Swing. The styling was lackluster. Maybe it’s improved in that time, but I think its place is quick one-off UIs and rapid prototyping.
I think it’s interesting that you had to re-prompt and focus for it to weight the right weights. I do think that given more training GPT will nail this subtlety of human expression.
Seems to be taking a while for OpenAI.
It has almost 1000 open issues and dozens of dependcy update PRs.

It's true that some small software projects can easily live on without much maintenance for a long time, a text editor is no small feat.

"Not going to just break" is a pretty low bar for most things, especially software.

Now, maintenance doesn't necessarily mean lots of code changes but at least some attention and oversight seems critical for anything of the slightest significance
We got BAE Systems and QinetiQ so...
To clarify I find it tasteless and edge, i.e. a bad choice. This doesn't mean I have a problem with it, nor does it mean I'm offended by it or think others would be offended by it or hate it or anything like that.

I also am not sure why you think I would find LOVE2D tasteless. The name has a clear connection to what it names, it paints a clear and positive picture and has a slightly less obvious joke in it onto which they then double down by how they name some of their libraries. That has style and taste.

But murder is lacking all of that, or at least it's too non obvious. This disconnect between the name and what it is/the picture it paints is why I called it tasteless and edgy. It feels like there was either a lack of ideas or it wants to edge on and provoke but the picture this paints isn't beneficial/good for a 2d game engine in any way as far as I can tell. Even comes with a (small) to cause harm and require a renaming later one.
> The Japanese killed a few dozen civilians in Pearl Harbor.

They killed 20M Chinese.
20 years ago boredom wasn't a thing and we weren't addicted to screens? No, no.
This dopamine-addiction screentime crap has been a thing for several generations. It's what fucked up the Boomers, I think, and it was definitely a thing for gen-X'ers like me.

This isn't some new thing that just happened to the kids these days, it's a longer term trend that everyone talking here grew up with, and we should examine it as such.
Let's just say the 70ies to 80ies were peak of consumer electronics, then?
With the exception of digital photography, computers, mobiles...
Proper self-service tools would be good. Like make cancelling subscriptions easy. Or actually reporting issues with proper follow up...

But these would affect revenue so companies do not want to do them. And such they do not want LLMs to solve issues, unless the solution to talk customers in circles without solving their problems.
Let's consider the implications of this statement. If it were true, all capable programmers would be good communicators. Are they?
I have exactly that problem - malabsorption. The sublingual tablets have helped considerably.

I’m just trying to understand why the other commenter considers the dose mention as “high”. I’ve never heard that claimed before.
If you use Lightroom, make a 1 pixel patch around the hot pixels, and then copy/paste the edits. Basically every other image editing software is also going to allow a similar workflow.
Thanks for the thoughtful feedback. Air cooled is lower cost I think. And, obviously, a smaller battery pack is lower cost. ...There are trade offs.
In every tech workplace I've been, 9am start time is the early risers, and 10:30-11am is when people actually 'are online'. Maybe it's different in the consulting space.
Too late, I'm ending a week in CDMX. The earthquake oriented infrastructure is interesting. Long external horizontal struts are used on buildings that are irregular polygons. Often external (or "internal" but outside) staircases are reinforced and joined to the rest of the building. The skycraper architecture starting in the mid-1950s was a proving ground for architectural techniques that were studied internationally, including by Japan.
You’re right. I misremembered. The term is “shutter life”. Same result though.
I loved reading this even though I personally have zero need myself. I enjoyed the rationale and he engineering.

The world needs more work like this. I’m talking about the thoughtful image format but also that applies to the write up too.
If only it was called GNP...
The EU doing a basic advertising campaign is somehow equivalent to mega corporation manipulating people’s behavior (to their own benefits) by controlling their content feed? Your comparison dilutes terms so much that the whole issue of algorithmic content feeds is lost.
If the US are so powerful why were their spies expelled?

Seems like Spain doesn't feat any consequences.
multicolored hearts obviously
Before the engine I'm sure all ten search results would have been about Waiting for Godot though.
It's interesting to imagine how this would've worked in 1995 or something, if the sequencing was possible. You'd have done the sample, and in response they'd send you three CD-ROMs. The first is the visualizer program which you'd install as an executable. The other discs are your genome*. If your spouse or kid got their genome sequenced, you'd get two more discs.

Every year the company would print an update to the disease database on more CDs, and make them available for a relatively small price, probably exclusively by mail.

Obviously there's some aspects of this that suck, but it's interesting to see how it's so much better for privacy, because data hoarding wasn't viable at scale or as a business.

* Two, because a genome is > 700MB, so it won't fit on a single disc. How annoying the size limit of a CD would've been if you had to solve this problem at work!
Does anyone know what is in meat that aids in the pleasurable sensation (both psychological and physiological) of eating it? And, is there a way to recreate that in an all plant based meal without introducing the same problems this study shows? I'd be happy to switch to full vegan if I felt full in a similar way for a similar length of time along with a "Wow, that was really good!" experience.
That's a very different claim the US and south Africa integrated. The us over a period of 100 years. There are some land reforms in sa but there are none in the US. Also Israel has a native Arab population that is already integrated.
The frequency would need to be quite high to know what you need each day, and such tests are expensive, slow (has to go to a lab etc...), a hassle, and not part of standard health insurance where I live
Thanks. I think the big unlock is corporate structure and setup - some classic reasons for having one firm might very well disappear.
> And btw, the analogy isn't to Dresden, because Israel is at the very least claiming it isn't targeting civilians in that manner. The comparison is to ISIS/Iraq/Afghanistan/etc.

'The comparison' in fact varies according to what defenders of Israeli disproportionate violence against Gazan civilians actually say. That particular example is one I saw made on television: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ewLx9XN8sLc

And indeed the comparison was made specifically to justify the measures that Israel has taken which indisputably affect primarily civilians (the siege, which there is very wide agreement constitutes a war crime). And the Israeli politician in the video does in fact react with opprobrium to the suggestion that the Allied bombing of civilians in WWII might not have been one of the just elements of the war.
That quote is missing some context, the term is used in a section on “systems considered a threat to people”, the examples it gives are specifically behavioural manipulation to do something dangerous like violence. It’s not just any attempt to change someone’s mind on something, that would make all advertising illegal.

I agree the wording is too vague, though.
Absolutely - Work to Rule, 5th column shit.

Your work asks you to RTO after 3 years of stunning profits and better productivity than ever and you can’t find other work fast enough? Go in, do only what was asked of you, leave exactly on time, and make everything take the maximum time possible.

Guys at the factory used to beat up the pace setter who didn’t listen to being told to slow up. Hahaha
That is some alternative history
Sounds like a good reason to promote the merits of your own project, instead of the tools you use.
> AI systems that manipulate human behaviour to circumvent their free will;

> AI used to exploit the vulnerabilities of people (due to their age, disability, social or economic situation).

So basically all social media in their current forms?
> I honestly think we’d catch a lot if we did the same with blood tests.

Don't we? The blood tests seem to be the main point of an annual checkup when nothing else is obviously wrong.
I came in to say this exact same thing. I've heard this story so many times over my lifetime, the idea that this is the "future" feels like Tesla's Full Self Driving Robotaxi fleet, just a few years away every year!
you're disappointed that an article about yeast infection has comments related to about sex, but a risk factor is intercourse?
Does the C# GC have guarantees about when it will/won't run?

Dlangs GC for instance guarantee that it will only run on allocation of new memory so it's possible to architect the game to avoid meaningful pauses
It’s not a dead end per se because cockroaches are used as a model organism in neuroscience experiments. They’re just not very useful outside of academic research for the same reason that they’re useful in the lab: their brains are very simple.

I think this application would only work if they were released as a swarm, using basic triangulation of the mesh network to get them to spread out throughout the rubble, exploiting their natural ability to crawl all over the place in great numbers.
No problem. I probably wasn't quite clear enough given the many angles of the problem.
Now do Canada.
Great project!

Unfortunately pikapods itself doesn't seem to be open source?

I'd love to be able to throw it on my own VPS but appreciate the hosted option as well - very smooth experience when I tried it
Or ditch cars and do the last mile by e-bikes and scooters.
> These orders become effective February 28, 2024.

https://www.epa.gov/newsreleases/epa-takes-action-protect-pe...
It’s no wonder that certain parties are so very interested in gutting consumer protections in US government at every level so they can continue these consumer-hostile practices unchallenged, but it’s hard to get voters to care about these issues, especially in a two-party system.
The example game graphics that appear to plausibly fit in a 32-color palette did not help my confusion!
I hate to make this sort of comment

Easier to just not make it, especially since there's a (equally-better-never-made) subthread about it.
Neither Spotify, Arm, or ASML have been bought by US companies.

This is easily shown by their Wikipedia pages.
> it does concern electric vehicles (EVs), which are a significant part of the broader AI discourse.

made me laugh. i hope that was the intent.

Battery fires are nasty; Fire Departments are going to be dealing with more of them, EV cars or not. Exploding cell phones is not such a big deal anymore, but antiquated rechargeable tool and toy batteries are going to be causing fun in attics and odd corners for years.

There's a place in a nearby town that works with magnesium, they have a big storage shed full of it. Occasionally, this catches fire; and the local Fire Depts all gather round and watch the entire stockpile burn. Excellent training opportunity, what to do with a fire you cannot put out. Keep it from spreading, as far as you can.
I'm guessing once Zig is at 1.x (breaking changes before then), "real contenders" for C++ engines might shape up to on-par within the first few years of that point. (I mean the subset of such projects without prior or subsequent abandonment.)

> I would even prefer C to C++

Assuming you want to game-dev not engine-dev, the above is quite the doable rule for your "C++" codebase under your own oversight and maintenance even though including some C++ engine and calling its APIs, right? (Apart from the fact that some-not-all of them expose some capi `.h`s from what I've seen.)

Most of them might (assuming here I know) anyway tend toward the lean-and-mean none-too-OOP way of doing things, data-oriented designs etc.

My (newbie) C++ is C (structs + funcs) but with struct methods and occasional light inheritance, aka Go-like (methods and embeds). The std::string too seems alright-enough right now (vs. a hand-rolled slice-of-T-being-uint8_t struct-making macro) as long as there's no mass string handlings going on, in which case it'll have to be evaluated more seriously.
Nice twist at the end. Overall an interesting take