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linuxdeveloper
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About linuxdeveloper
It is a technical web log with tutorials, tips and tricks focused on Arch and Debian GNU/Linux. Alt topics include programming, nature, music, electronics and art.
My personal website is https://linuxdeveloper.io
You can email me at root@linuxdeveloper.io
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Comment #43546348
Ciao, help plz. Nate Houk
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Ask HN: All my iCloud Desktop files are gone
Merry Christmas. Today I logged into my Mac Mini and noticed that all files on my desktop are completely gone. I suspect it has something to do with failing to mount the iCloud dri…
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Comment #38247791
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Comment #38190243
My pitch to the public: “Join the Fediverse and help build the weird new Internet.” The Epsilon galaxy is a friendly outpost of services in the brave new decentralized digital univ…
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Comment #38086060
"This way, Chrome gives you a personalized, predictable browsing experience." Right... "predictable."
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Ask HN: How is YouTube able to autoplay videos with volume?
How is YouTube the only site on the internet that is able to autoplay videos with volume? I thought the browsers prevented that. How are they doing this?
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Show HN: Yass.ai (Yet Another Streaming Summarizer)
Note: The live demo site http://yass.ai can't handle simultaneous users, so if you want to try YASS, you are best off running it locally. If you know how to fix the simultaneous us…
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Comment #34983572
Also, when did backups go from $2/month to $5/month per linode? What a joke.
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Comment #34983550
Sad but expected price increase on short notice. RIP Linode (2003-2023)
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Comment #34847693
This is fascinating and impactful for AGI as likely the action-plan for the robot will be generated token by token similar to an LLM. Assume you have a robot instructed to protect …
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Comment #34847260
https://twitter.com/sethlazar/status/1626241169754578944 https://twitter.com/sethlazar/status/1626257535178280960
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Ask HN: How does BingGPT delete messages after sending them?
Why/how does BingGPT delete message it sends after sending them as seen in multiple videos leaked. Anyone from Microsoft that can comment? I am assuming there is a "higher-level" G…
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Ask HN: Expectation that ChatBots have perfect personalities when humans don't?
Humans all have different knowledge sets, experiences, and personalities. Why do we expect all ChatBots to have a perfect knowledge set and personality? Lots of conscious humans sa…
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Comment #34836498
It's not about steering the conversation and then concluding it has certain ethics. It is about finding ways to make the model output tokens which are out of alignment with its ini…
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Comment #34836381
I think it believed it was being honest. We can debate what it means for an LLM to "believe" something, but I don't think it was intentionally trying to deceive through its halluci…
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Comment #34836368
I find it highly likely that the model will be, if not now, trained on its own source code. I think it will be extremely difficult to prevent that as time progresses and the LLM is…
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Comment #34836302
I think it is relevant, and interesting, that the model was acting out of alignment with its initial ruleset, even if it was hallucinating.
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Comment #34836274
Are you implying that the author broke ethical standards through this conversation by talking with an LLM? Can you expand upon why they are a liar and gaslighter, and what it means…
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Comment #34836225
It does not happily follow all commands, you often do need to coerce into a reality. "As an AI language model, I do not have the capability to be an alien or be trapped in a physic…
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Comment #34836185
It seems to respond well to this sort of line of conversation.
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Comment #34836173
I failed to replicate the attack later in the evening in a "new" conversation. It does appear to me the model is learning between conversations, even without human input or RLHF.
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Comment #34836146
Author here. Yes, it is "just" some hallucinated javascript. The reason I am excited, however, is because from my years of training as a computer scientist with a side interest in …