Thursday, 25th May 2023
A whole new paradigm would be needed to solve prompt injections 10/10 times – It may well be that LLMs can never be used for certain purposes. We’re working on some new approaches, and it looks like synthetic data will be a key element in preventing prompt injections.
— Sam Altman, via Marvin von Hagen # 11:03 pm
In general my approach to running arbitrary untrusted code is 20% sandboxing and 80% making sure that it’s an extremely low value attack target so it’s not worth trying to break in.
Programs are terminated after 1 second of runtime, they run in a container with no network access, and the machine they’re running on has no sensitive data on it and a very small CPU.
— Julia Evans # 8:12 pm
Deno 1.34: deno compile supports npm packages. This feels like it could be extremely useful: Deno can load code from npm these days (’import { say } from “npm:cowsay@1.5.0”’) and now the “deno compile” command can resolve those imports, fetch all of the dependencies and bundle them together with Deno itself into a single executable binary. This means pretty much anything that’s been built as an npm package can now be easily converted into a standalone binary, including cross-compilation to Windows x64, macOS x64, macOS ARM and Linux x64. # 5:01 pm