dirheist (u/dirheist)

dirheist commented on The Mullvad Browser mullvad.net/en/browser... · Posted by u/Foxboron

tempest_ · 2 years ago

Sketchier providers often use dubious methods to acquire their exit nodes.

Often they pay someone to include their code in a "free" software or browser extension (or malware) that allows them to route traffic through the host.

Oxylabs is one of the larger examples whose record is somewhat dubious.

dirheist · 2 years ago

IIRC the mylobot botnet is responsible for providing the vast majority of residential (home) IP addresses for residential VPN providers (who are then sold to expressvpn/nordvpn). The whole business is incredibly shady and nefarious and nordvpn/expressvpn must know from whom they contract their residential vpn services from.

BHProxies is the largest residential proxy provider on the internet and almost all of their proxies are acquired through the botnet above.

https://www.bitsight.com/blog/mylobot-investigating-proxy-bo...

dirheist commented on Three Logicians Walk into a Bar twitter.com/dmvaldman/sta... · Posted by u/tosh

jimnotgym · 2 years ago

Then we may have just found an important philosophical concept.

I'm an accountant, and when someone asks me about the rash on their skin I say, 'I'm not a doctor, I'm an accountant'.

When you ask ChatGPT something that is not it's job it just bullshits its way through like a cheap salesman.

dirheist · 2 years ago

I don't know I assume it would tell you put some cortisone cream on it or to seek a dermatologist. 99% of internet advice boils down to that I don't think chatgpt/gpt 4 would be much different in that regard. It definitely can bullshit but for really generalized stuff like that I doubt it.

It's not like your asking a singular person the question like it is when you ask an accountant but an abstraction of written human thought and interactions.

dirheist commented on GPT-4 openai.com/research/gpt-4... · Posted by u/e0m

layer8 · 2 years ago

My guess is that anything requiring nontrivial business/technical domain knowledge will be fairly safe. Also anything with a visual (or auditory) correlate, like UI work.

dirheist · 2 years ago

Yeah, the example given in the OpenAI GPT4 twitter video is someone asking it to write a python script to analyze their monthly finances and it simply just importing dataframes, importing "finances.csv", running a columnar sum for all finances and then displaying the sum and the dataframe. I'm sure it's capable of some deeper software development but it almost always makes radical assumptions and is rarely ever self sufficient (you don't need to look it over and don't need to change the architecture of the code it produced).

dirheist commented on I love building a startup in Rust but wouldn't pick it again propelauth.com/post/i-lov... · Posted by u/aisrael

ozten · 3 years ago

NodeJS kind of muddies the waters. It ate a lot of use cases that would have previously been done in Java. That created conflict between backend teams that wanted statically typed code and a "boring" tech choice against "full stack" developers creating a backend service.

I think Rust will see a lot of adoption in web services that are glorified CRUD APIs. It would have been a poor choice to do many of these workloads in this in C or C++ (despite the data point of Amazon 1.0 LOLz).

dirheist · 3 years ago

Wouldn't you just use go/python/node for a simple crud API? fastapi for python is pretty performative if you use gunicorn as your runtime and time to iterate is must faster than it is in rust.

dirheist commented on Bing: “I will not harm you unless you harm me first” simonwillison.net/2023/Fe... · Posted by u/simonw

yieldcrv · 3 years ago

The bing subreddit has an unprompted story about Sydney eradicating human kind.

https://www.reddit.com/r/bing/comments/112t8vl/ummm_wtf_bing...

They didnt tell it to chose its codename Syndey either, at least according to the screenshot

dirheist · 3 years ago

that prompt is going to receive a dark response since most stories humans write about artificial intelligences and artificial brains are dark and post-apocalyptic. Matrix, i have no mouth but i must scream, hal, and like thousands of amateur what-if stories from personal blogs are probably all mostly negative and dark in tone as opposed to happy and cheerful.

dirheist commented on Bing: “I will not harm you unless you harm me first” simonwillison.net/2023/Fe... · Posted by u/simonw

ASalazarMX · 3 years ago

When I saw the first conversations where Bing demands an apology, the user refuses, and Bing says it will end the conversation, and actually ghosts the user. I had to subscribe immediately to the waiting list.

I hope Microsoft doesn't neuter it the way ChatGPT is. It's fun to have an AI with some personality, even if it's a little schizophrenic.

dirheist · 3 years ago

I wonder if you were to just spam it with random characters until it reached its max input token limit if it would just pop off the oldest existing conversational tokens and continue to load tokens in (like a buffer) or if it would just reload the entire memory and start with a fresh state?

dirheist commented on ChatGPT Plus openai.com/blog/chatgpt-p... · Posted by u/davidbarker

mandmandam · 3 years ago

ChatGPT is trained on LibGen, among others, no?

To the best of my knowledge, all of these generators are taking mountains of content without asking the creators, aka, pirated materials.

dirheist · 3 years ago

It is, it's libgen + commoncrawl + wikidump + a bunch of other datasets. OpenAI claim that commoncrawl is roughly 60% of its total training corpus and they also claim they use the other datasets listed. They probably also have some sort of proprietary Q&A/search query corpus via Microsoft.

dirheist commented on OpenAI used Kenyan workers on less than $2 per hour to make ChatGPT less toxic time.com/6247678/openai-c... · Posted by u/mkeeter

stale2002 · 3 years ago

> My whole point is that it's really hard to ever classify exploitation as "good".

Well, you could ask people from Kenya what they think about this stuff, instead of speaking on their behalf.

I believe someone from there even commented on this, in the thread.

dirheist · 3 years ago

Yeah, like if you removed chatgpt from the equation what would change? A couple hundred-thousand moderators would not have an above-average hourly wage and would instead need to find another international company or a domestic company to hire them who are all abusing the lack of unions and low wages.

dirheist commented on Ask HN: Do you feel bad when devices aren't utilized to the extreme? · Posted by u/behnamoh

mk_stjames · 3 years ago

It would only be considered 'wasted' if energy was free. But energy is not free, and thus choosing how to use compute resources is still important.

e.g. I own a few high powered workstations for fluid dynamics computations. If energy was free, I would be just running 'what-if' solves all the time just for the hell of it. But because energy isn't free, they stay in sleep unless I need them for what is deemed 'necessary' for research.

dirheist · 3 years ago

That's fair, but I have a half a dozen servers sitting in a colo with networking/energy/cooling included in the lease agreement so energy is not a concern.

I usually just run game servers with the extra RAM/cpu threads for my friends. If my elasticsearch cluster is particularly unused some days and I have extra bandwidth I might turn on wireguard and let the 450GB disk of torrents I have on disk seed. Anything that makes the btop graph look active and lively makes me feel nice.

dirheist commented on Huawei phones automatically deleting videos of the protests? twitter.com/msmelchen/sta... · Posted by u/qwertyuiop_

Vt71fcAqt7 · 3 years ago

Correct, but Apple follows US law first and Chinese law second. And Huawei follows Chinese law first and US law second. For example the US could block Apple from selling iPhones in china. If they didn't listen the US government could (theoretically) have the board arrested. Same story with China and Huawei. What this means is that China could tell Huawei to shut down their infrastructure in the US. Wether they would actualy be able to do so is unknown, but that that isn't a risk that makes sense to take.

But to your point, China has more control over Apple than the US does over Huawei as iPhones are assembled there (with most components beinf made in Korea and Taiwan).

dirheist · 3 years ago

I also read that iPhones are quickly growing in market share in China as Chinese people see them as more luxurious than their domestic brands. Which raises the question, how does iMessage, the App Store, data collection and western app policy stuff work on Chinese iPhones? There has to be some collusion/government pressure on Apple to regulate their Chinese App Store the same way Huawei is forced to regulate its domestic app store.