skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You can often get a model to reveal it's system prompt and all of the previous text it can see. For example, I've gotten GPT4 or Claude to show me all the data Perplexity feeds it from a web search that it uses to generate the answer.

This doesn't show you any earlier prompts or texts that were deleted before it generated it's final answer, but it is informative to anyone who wants to learn how to recreate a Perplexity-like product.
Saving Voyager 1 [video]
Well imagine how it looks from the point of view of anti-discrimination and consumer protection laws: we charge this person an additional $100 because we have some imaginary units telling us they owe us $100... Just trust us. Not sure it will hold in court. If the both sides agree to a specific sum beforehand, no problem. But you can't just charge random amounts post factum without the person having any idea why they suddenly owe those amounts.

P.S.
However, if the API includes CoT tokens in the total token count (in API responses), I guess it's OK.
From "OpenSSL 3.4 Alpha 1 Released with New Features" (8 days ago) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41456447#41456774 :

> Someday there will probably be a TLS1.4/2.0 with PQ, and also FIPS-140 -4?

> Are there additional ways to implement NIST PQ finalist algos with openssl?

- open-quantum-safe/oqs-provider [implements mlkem512 through mlkem1024 and x25519_mlkem768]
It depends on the situation, if something is broken in a live system and you can login and introspect the real thing this is awesome. Obviously there are trade offs and potentially you might break things further!
Nebula advertises itself: "Nebula is creator-owned and operated" (implying the creators who publish). A lot of people subscribe in order to support creators, as a sort of alternative to Patreon.

This is not the case. It is owned and operated by the founders and some investors.

If someone donates believing they're supporting Extra Credits, Practical Engineering, or a similar channel, they're likely being misled about how much they're contributing to it. Indeed, they may believe they're supporting a creators' co-op, which they're clearly not. If Nebula sinks, the support is what they expected. If it swims, it's going to be a lot less.

I consider this to be tantamount of fraud. That's as much a statement about myself as about Nebula. My standards for what constitutes fraud are much lower than e.g. the FTC's. However, I (again, personally) believe that if the FTC shared my standards, the economy would be more efficient and the world would be a better place. That is a personal opinion, but researched, and based on the work of David Landes (a well-regarded economist at Harvard, who had nice work about the role of social capital in economic growth).
I care about not being murdered.

Yeah, yeah, I know that "let's murder jfengel" is wrongthink, and I'm a terrible bigot for trying to suppress the free speech. I should be out there making the case to not murder me. But I take it personally.
I think that's more of a negative though. I always remove Airpods/earbuds if I'm in a situation when I may be interacting with others because otherwise I come across as rude, uninterested or unsocial, like having a "do not disturb" sign on.

Whereas I can see myself wearing a hearing aid (and probably need one) because people will recognize that I'm not trying to shut them out but I may have difficulty hearing.
Questions of God are all answered by God Himself in the Bhagavad-gita 1972 Srila Prabhupada.
> sex work is just work. Bodies are just bodies. Relationships and past sexual history are in the past.

Emotions are just emotions. Might as well just stop with the whole "dating" thing and only use each other transactionally when we want kids. Or better yet, just don't reproduce, right?
Missile guidance PS2, remember that one? It's an old trick but media still fall for it.
Haha, I just heard JG Ballard referenced in a recent podcast episode [1]. My first thought was if he was related to Geoffrey Ballard [2].

[1] https://conversationswithtyler.com/episodes/philip-ball/

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geoffrey_Ballard
https://archive.is/QrowT

Once upon a time in Odessa, Schiller or Hoelderlin might have been the rage.. ?

(You might have missed that Sir William above hacked (together) the gentlemen’s dues that gate-kept riffraff)
It's like every time hundreds of millions of humans figure out how to do a creative thing to a given mediocre standard, the rest of us figure out how to either give global broadcast reach so that the work of one can satisfy millions and raise the bar that way (large amphitheaters, printing press, public transit, tv, telephone, internet), or teach a robot how to accomplish the same task (sewing, precise assembly labor, automobiles vs horses, GPT, maybe eventually self-driving cars or vending-machine cooked to order fast food).

If I talked about putting all of the telephone sanitizers on a spaceship that might be a reference those of a certain age might be able to grok. :)
In regards of super intelligent it’s still just a language model. It will never be really intelligent
I've been picking up Elixir and the Pheonix framework and I'm impressed so far. Pheonix is a very productive framework. Under the hood Elixir is very lisp-like, but the syntax is more palatable for developers who are put off by the syntax of Lisp.

Why isn't it more popular? It's always an uphill battle to introduce a new programming language or framework if BIGNAME doesn't use it.
It was a quiet ending; not surprised there aren’t any articles about it. Cars were definitely available, many rides happened. I think they had safety drivers sitting in the driver’s seat but wouldn’t swear to it. You can find Youtube videos of the rides around Chandler, AZ.
It seems like say Kansas in the US (I am no expert on Kansas, so correct me if I am wrong), where educated ambitious young people move somewhere else. People with fewer options, or older people, stay. Greece is in the EU and there citizens have access to the EU job market. It's natural for cities and regions to concentrate opportunity. The prosperous regions can subsidize the rural parts, like they do in the US.
I think when most people talk about a bioweapon to be concerned about they mean something that can be deployed against a large number of people.

IDK much about Botox as a weapon, but can you use it to deploy broadly? With ricin, that's just another poison, so how's that better than rat poison?
Ask HN: Has ChatGPT been unstable for you today?
Hello all, curious if others have experienced ChatGPT as being unstable today. I think they are rolling out their new models and it feels like a bit of turbulence as the release goes out?

The UI has been halting, history is not refreshing, everything is just a little...off. But it still mostly works!
> AirPods needs to be charged several times a day. That's a bit of an inconvenience.

that's if you wear them all the time. I have hearing difficulties and know I need aids even without taking a test. But I wouldn't want something in my ear all day long and most of the time I don't need to hear better because I'm working or whatever. But there are situations where it's hard for me to understand what people are saying and that's when I would put them on.

So with that in mind the AirPods would work great. It's unfortunate that it doesn't work with the regular AirPods which are only $100. (I don't have the Pro's).
We just don't find your moralizing to be useful or interesting.
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That's the spirit, porn is like hospitals. :D
Can you describe what you mean by 'reputable' in a way which works equally well for those who are ideologically aligned with whatever source the term is applied to as to those who are ideologically opposed to it? The Blaze is comparable to The Daily Beast in style and content, the difference between the two is their ideological alignment. Where 'mediabiasfactcheck' marks The Blaze as 'questionable' (with no such marking for the Daily Beast) it is not marked as such elsewhere, e.g. on the Interactive Media Bias Chart [1]which shows these sources are more or less mirror images of each other around the centre axis.

[1] https://adfontesmedia.com/interactive-media-bias-chart/
The whole competitive advantage from any company that sells a ML model through an API is that you can’t see how the sausage is made (you can’t see the model weights).

In a way, with o1, openai is just extending “the model” to one meta level higher. I totally see why they don’t want to give this away — it’d be like if any other proprietary API gave you the debugging output to their codes you could easily reverse engineer how it works.

That said, the name of the company is becoming more and more incongruous which I think is where most of the outrage is coming from.
Not to mention humans going extinct because regulators are to blame for there being no city on Mars. Because that's definitely the reason there's no city on Mars.
I'unno every concert I've been to has included the band/singer replacing a placename randomly from the lyrics of one of their songs with the name of whatever town the concert was being held in. shrug
See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41535865

There's no problem if a specific sum is negotiated beforehand. Doesn't OpenAI bill at the end of the month post factum?
I find Real Engineering to be pretty good for aerospace, and horrible for everything else. There are errors, but no more so than any other resources I've seen on aerospace.

The problem I have is that it's trying to do electronic engineering, fusion, and now history. The worst is interviews / human interest / travel / behind-the-scenes, etc. My question is always: Why? Why do you think you're at all qualified to do a better job than the people who specialize in this?

If I had a choice, the Nebula-exclusive content would go more into math or deeper engineering: How does a jet engine work? That kind of thing.

But yes, Practical Engineering is very, very good.
Does this reinforce Greenspan’s 10th rule?
I think both the point you’re making and the idea you’re arguing against ascribe a level of agency and rationality to large organizations that doesn’t reflect their reality. In that way they’re both “not even wrong.”

But then I can see your point to a degree at least.
"sherlocking" has been a thing since 2002, when Apple incorporated a bunch of third-party ideas for extending their "Sherlock" search tool into the official release. https://thehustle.co/sherlocking-explained
I can’t quite figure out why “ Supercentenarians and the Oldest-Old Are Concentrated into Regions with No Birth Certificates and Short Lifespans” is an ignoble candidate let alone winner.

This has been long suspected, makes perfect sense and in my mind isn’t funny, just logical.
Found out that the CrowdStrike Mac agent (Falcon) sends all your secrets from environment variables to their cloud hosted SIEM. In plain text.

Anyone with access to your CS SIEM can search for GitHub, aws, etc creds. Anything your devs, ops and sec teams use on their Macs.

Only the Mac version does this. There is no way to disable this behaviour or a way to redact things.

Another really odd design decision. They probably have many many thousands of plain text secrets from their customers stored in their SIEM.
It's the sufficient collection of butts absent that gets the plane not to even be scheduled. Funny how the pandemic quieted things down. (Though perversely, airlines flew plenty of empty planes to keep their gates, just the way our economic incentives are structured.) So academics on their own, no, maybe just a couple of charter flights here and there. Broad-based reduction would be required, for example reducing the sizes of the planes on some routes.

These aspects are more meaningless because of the way other humans behave, but it's all a question of degree. It's insignificant whether you urinate into someone's locker at the gym, so we can all do that every day, right?
There seems to be more interest in building monorepo support now. Some tools, start ups, etc. I would bet Github is working on increasing support as well for large repos. So I think Google was ahead of the curve there.
I've seen plenty of crowd interaction in musicals and plays too.
Ever been to Rocky Horror Picture Show live before?
Thx for both!

That was the best blurb anybody could have written. Lumper, in my mind, is now a 50’s pinup candidate..
Nvidia's AI chips are cheaper to rent in China than US
I don't know whether creators are victims (although I suspect they are), but I do know people who pay for altruistic reasons are victims. It's not billing itself as Disney Plus but specifically as a way to support creators and support a service for-creators/by-creators.

That, it's not.

As a footnote, this also explains why channels like Wendover are promoted so strongly by Nebula over, quite frankly, better content.
Can you provide some more info on this? How do you know? Is this documented somewhere?

I'm sure this is going to raise red-flags in my IT department.
It says 34% more energy efficient. But that's not as relevant as carbon emission efficiency. It's certainly more carbon emission efficient than that.

The page you linked says up to 73% less carbon emissions, but it's hard to know what that means. I don't believe they actually mean that an Amtrak train emits 27% of the emissions of the worst commerical air travel option in the US, that sounds too high.
At some companies, like Boeing, the shorter list would be the gruntled employees.
https://archive.ph/AVkwa
Apple dropped support for 32-bit Mac applications five years ago; recent only by comparison to Microsoft's theoretical backwards compatibility. Apple dropped support for 32-bit Mac hardware, firmware, and drivers in 2012, so there was a period of seven years where game developers had every reason to make their Mac releases 64-bit, but to a disappointingly large degree they didn't.

This was probably due in large part to a lack of pressure on the Windows side. It was absolutely absurd that even a big budget (and memory-hungry) game like Skyrim was released in 2011 as a 32-bit only game, and didn't get a 64-bit release until 2016.

I didn't enjoy macOS killing compatibility with so much of my Steam library either, but I do at least respect that Apple had some solid reasons, and save some of my ire for the game devs that shipped outdated binaries.
You will see a half dozen or so talks about firedancer and probably 35-40 or so of us total (I’m at the company that does security for firedancer, Asymmetric Research. We were founded by former jumpers).

You can make the determination on your own, but there will be an obvious large showing of firedancer folks and some exciting updates for the project.
you can search about it all you want, google won't threaten to ban you.

and google gives everyone the possibility of being excluded in their results.
Whose economy are they bad for? They are bad for the rich people's economy, and good for poor/middle class folk.
No if I thought that I would have said something else. He's lying and knows it and people have died because they believed him and he continues to lie. I said what I said and I stand by it.
It genuinely might not matter, and it might make sense to use a weaker protocol, if the only threat model you're trying to deal with is someone physically tapping a campus-area network. You'd run the "real" secure transports on top of that, the same way you do on internal networks today. In which case, yeah, it might make sense to select your protocol/constructions purely based on encryption efficiency.
Ask them to search for the usual env var names like GITHUB_TOKEN or AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID.
Yeah, I had to listen to part of the All-4-One version of I Swear hundreds of times while reproducing a bug. It's not pleasant.
You can also say the same thing about Google. Just go look at the release notes on the App Store for the Google Home app. There was a period of more than six months where every single release said "over the next few weeks we're rolling out the totally redesigned Google Home app: new easier to navigate 5-tab layout."

When I read the same release notes so often I begin to question whether this redesign is really taking more than six months to roll out. And then I read the Sonos app disaster and I thought that was the other extreme.
There's all sorts of things you can do to get banned from Google apps! This is not a real issue. It just recapitulates everyone's preexisting takes on OpenAI.
Quite a few times, the secret sauce for a company is just having enough capital to make it unviable for people to not use you. Then, by the time everyone catches up, you’ve outspent them on the next generation. OpenAI, for example, has spent untold millions on chips/cards from Nvidia. Open models keep catching up, but OpenAI keeps releasing newer stuff.
The "failing" here isn't the short term functional gains, but rather the choice of architectural direction. Trying to add reasoning as an ad-hoc wrapper around the base model, based on some fixed reasoning heuristics (built in biases) is really a dead-end approach. It would be better to invest in a more powerful architecture capable of learning at runtime to reason for itself.

Bespoke hand-crafted models/agents can never compete with ones that can just be scaled and learn for themselves.
In our company we received a linguistic that worked on OpenAI and he was not alone.
Think I missed the grossly incorrect part
Is Bluesky in the Fediverse?
"“Speed was the most important thing,” said Jeff Gardner, a senior user experience designer at CrowdStrike who said he was laid off in January 2023 after two years at the company. “Quality control was not really part of our process or our conversation.”

Their 'expert' on engineering process is a senior UX designer? Somehow, I doubt they were very close to the kernel patch deployment process.
Makes me very happy to see FastHTML used to create something so great :D

BTW, HN requires the proto for a clickable link, so here's the GPU puzzles link in that form:

https://gpupuzzles.answer.ai
That would probably add only a smidge more performance.
I’m curious to know if you think unions are bad for the economy now, after everything they/labor have accomplished for worker rights in the last century, or if it’s those very things you consider bad for the economy?

Is child labor good for the economy? Maybe short term.

Are 16 hour workdays and subsistence pay good for the economy? That doesn’t make good consumers out of the employees.

Unions exist because people were subjected to brutal conditions and it seems very unlikely to me such conditions were conducive to a healthy economy.
I want to say again that I'm not making this point by way of a first-principles derivation of what's going on. I know for a fact that the norm in large bounty programs is to incentivize payouts. I don't know that for sure about Apple's program, but it seems extraordinarily unlikely that they depart from this norm, given the care and ceremony with which they rolled this out (much later than other big tech firms).

None of this is to say that the program is managed perfectly, as has been pointed out elsewhere on the thread. I'm not qualified to have a take on that question.
Every time I see a “good” bash script it reminds me of how incredibly primitive every shell is other than PowerShell.

Validating parameters - a built in declarative feature! E.g.: ValidateNotNullOrEmpty.

Showing progress — also built in, and doesn’t pollute the output stream so you can process returned text AND see progress at the same time. (Write-Progress)

Error handling — Try { } Catch { } Finally { } works just like with proper programming languages.

Platform specific — PowerShell doesn’t rely on a huge collection of non-standard CLI tools for essential functionality. It has built-in portable commands for sorting, filtering, format conversions, and many more. Works the same on Linux and Windows.

Etc…

PS: Another super power that bash users aren’t even aware they’re missing out on is that PowerShell can be embedded into a process as a library (not an external process!!) and used to build an entire GUI that just wraps the CLI commands. This works because the inputs and outputs are strongly typed objects so you can bind UI controls to them trivially. It can also define custom virtual file systems with arbitrary capabilities so you can bind tree navigation controls to your services or whatever. You can “cd” into IIS, Exchange, and SQL and navigate them like they’re a drive. Try that with bash!
Well given that OF tried to ban all porn a year or two ago (obviously quickly backpedaling while dodging projectile-spam of rotten fruit) I'm certainly not surprised.
If you'd do that for your children, why not regulate the free market and save everyone's children from the obvious and predictable harm that you can see your ideology leads to?

(if your ideology leads to very predictable harm to children which you need to intervene protect your children from, maybe your ideology sucks).
Meanwhile folks have already found successful jailbreaks to expose the chain of thought / internal reasoning tokens.
The blame for the Linux situation isn’t as clear cut as you make it out to be. Red hat rolled out a breaking change to BPF which was likely a regression. That wasn’t caused directly by a crowdstrike update.
Just that the discovery was missing something called context in archaeology. Where they were found geographically, the stratigraphy such as the dirt it was found in and the layers around it, where it was found in relation to the nearest settlement, what kinds of animal bones were found in the same general area, and so on. Archaeologists are meticulous about recording these little details because every any one of them could become important to the investigation.

An artifact on its own is (relatively) scientifically useless. Without at least geographic location and a rough idea of the area it was discovered, most analytical methods will have a hard time getting accurate results and any conclusions are suspect.
Use any

Too much overhead when I just want to get shit done.
Have you ever reported security and privacy issues to Apple? I have. In fact, I have more than one incident open with them right now. One of them could be fixed in one line of code with no adverse consequences. It’s been open for two years. Apple’s Security team is either highly disinterested or highly incompetent. I don’t care which, neither is good.

It’s one of the most infuriating and frustrating experiences I ever had in computing. They clearly don’t want you sharing the issue publicly, but just string you along indefinitely. I’m honestly reaching my limit.

I don’t even care about the bounty money, I just want the bugs fixed. I’d give them all the latitude in the world if I thought the matters were taken seriously, but I don’t believe they are.
To some extent it is. The current world chess champion was going to go to a xiangqi (Chinese chess) class and ended up by mistake at a chess class.
I think this isn't specific to iCloud, just in general invites are automatically picked up from emails. Calendar invites have long been a source of spam, so I'm not surprised there's also a vulnerability.
Grid is much better for macro layout, too bad Facebook yoga (and react-native) is stuck with flexbox.
Sure, but the comment block says that they arrived at 8020 by subtracting 80 from 9000, which is just wrong.
Good stuff.

One rule I like, is to ensure that, as well as validation, all validated information is dumped in a convenient format prior to running the rest of the script.

This is super helpful, assuming that some downstream process will need pathnames, or some other detail of the process just executed.
Yes.

See the rest of the thread for a further response on this, esp. w/r/t Apple itself.