skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That list isn’t just existential threats, though it is a big factor. Another factor is the marginal impacts.

Climate change is a huge oncoming disaster. It will cause millions of deaths and untold suffering. It’s also not much of an existential threat. It may kill 1% of people or even 10% of people (again, horrible) but there is not a solid argument about how it will cause the last human to take their last breath. The climate can get really really bad and the Earth will still be habitable for some humans.

It also seems to be pretty on-rails at this point. It’s already happening and will keep happening (short of a magic bullet). Both sides (pro and anti-humanity) have their heels dug in. It’s not a place where an indivisa can hop in and is likely to have much leverage.

AI has a very realistic path to destruction of humanity, although many will disagree on that. I think it should at least be obvious that it’s in the category of super pathogen and nuclear winter vs climate change. It’s also a problem that’s way more open, way less established. There’s more opportunity to move this for individuals, depending on the person of course.
CentOS 7 is technically still around, and Stream lives on as RHEL's beta channel.
I definitely took it to mean that it was a (perhaps small) positive correlation and not an immutable law, but maaan. At this point in my life I might think it's even a negative correlation.

I'd like to think that a benevolent sort of mutualism is kind of an obvious higher truth. I certainly believe in it. If we work together there will be more for everybody. Very few things in life are truly zero-sum.

And I think for most of human history, things worked this way. In a small family/village/tribe, cooperation was essential, and there was probably a pretty strong evolutionary preference for those that were benevolent rather than evil, at least towards their own family/village/tribe. Smarter people would understand this better. Help your neighbor out, and he'll help you out, and maybe nobody has to get eaten by a bear.

But no more. Groups are so big now. There's no obvious personal benefit to being a "good person." If you act like a dick in a small village then maybe you die next winter because the grain never gets harvested and everybody starves. But in modern society, there's just not much of a penalty for being a dick.
This is... fine... but I wish we were pushing for shorter cert lifetimes rather than expanding infrastructure to support longer cert lifetimes and to band-aid revocation, which is broken anyway.

goes to make Caddy and CertMagic ACME clients even more complicated
> I've seen a terrifying number of users on Reddit uncritically using ChatGPT as a "source"...

I see this occurring on HN, too. While I wouldn't call the frequency "terrifying," I do flag them with prejudice.
One thing I hate about the delete button is that it is a standard thing. Quite literally every application has a delete button, it's asking you to confirm, and poof its gone. Designers going out of their way to reinvent things in a way that people don't expect are adding things in the way of usability. Cuteness shouldn't be at the expense of ease of use
A sculpture of the biblical David is obviously completely inappropriate in a proper bible-reading, god-fearing community.
IIRC, there was an episode of The Simpsons that addressed exactly this scenario.
30% accuracy rate in what exactly? Take a look at the GPT-4 announcement page for graphs showing the accuracy on different standardized tests. It’s not perfect, but making improvements with each release.

One big area where it does poorly right now is math. But they just announced a ChatGPT plugin for Wolfram, which I expect will make it very good at math. Wolfram also has a large database of curated information to draw on.

Technology improves over time. GPT is still new and improving quickly. What it does now isn’t perfect, but it is still incredible.
> The union is supposed to serve the police, and that includes legal protection... your lawyer is going to back you, that's how the system works. Would you want a defense lawyer that was against you?

That's an interesting perspective and nuance! It gets really interesting when the same group is both responsible for "protecting the individual" and "protecting the profession". In most legal situations, you have a lawyer of your own and it's very crystal clear that their role is to protect your best interests. And I am one of the people who strongly strongly believe that, in the general legal perspective, "he got off on a technically" should almost always be replaced with "the legal system failed to do their job". For example, if someone is acquitted of a crime because of a poor chain of custody with the evidence, the fault 100% is on the people who failed to do their jobs correctly. When the state wants to strip someone of their most basic right (freedom), they had better dot their Ts and cross their Is.

> In the end, I get it... I do feel, however, that the ACAB is oversized because a lot of it is over-reported or misrepresented.

With the lawyer situation, I am paying my lawyer to represent me the best they can. With the police union situation, the good guys are paying union dues that go directly towards the defence fund for the bad guys. There's a very significant conflict of interest here as well; if a video leaks where I'm beating the shit out of someone while wearing my company uniform, my employer is almost certainly going to put out a statement about how my actions don't represent the company values and that I've been terminated. With the police and police unions, there's often complete silence or even support.

I have more thoughts, thank you for triggering a really interesting line of thought for me. Will try to come back to this but work's getting busy again...
Which city builds skyscrapers the fastest?
Nice writeup, it's fair in the content presented to us.

Yet I'm wondering why there is no checking if the response does actually belong to the issued query.

The client issuing a query can pass a token and verify upon answer that this answer contains the token.

TBH as a user of the client I would kind of expect the library to have this feature built-in, and if I'm starting to use the library to solve a problem, handling this edge-case would be of a somewhat low priority to me if the library wouldn't implement it, probably because I'm lazy.

I hope that the fix they offered to Redis Labs does contain a solution to this problem and that everyone of us using this library will be able to profit from the effort put into resolving the issue.

It doesn't [0], so the burden is still on the developer using the library.

[0] https://github.com/redis/redis-py/commit/66a4d6b2a493dd3a20c...

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Edit: Now I'm confused, this issue [1] was raised on March 17 and fixed on March 22, was this a regression? Or did OpenAI start using this library on March 19-20?

Interesing comment:

> drago-balto commented 3 hours ago

> Yep, that's the one, and the #2641 has not fixed it fully, as I already commented here: #2641 (comment)

> I am asking for this ticket to be re-oped, since I can still reproduce the problem in the latest 4.5.3. version

[1] https://github.com/redis/redis-py/issues/2624#issue-16293351...
> It almost feels like Stockholm syndrome or something.

Any big company is something of a cult / religion / reality distortion field, where all the officially sanctioned ideas from the top are repeated endlessly, and other outside ideas are forbidden, without regard to any objective truths. "Not invented here", company "values" and "principles" and "missions", and internal tools and "secret sauce" are all manifestations of this.

Getting back out into the real world, where different ideas and disagreement is allowed is very refreshing.
AltaVista wasn’t terrible.
There has been a complete and confusing lack of deregulation talk in the inflation discussion and I don’t know why. Your example could also be taken with housing - why is construction not deregulated in smart ways to jump start residential building? Building a house is a total red tape disaster.
A think a reasonable lesson from this is to double check that the returned data belongs to the user you're about to serve it to. So include some way to associate the owning user with each cache entry, so it can be verified later when it's recalled.
I'm confused on why the need to complicate something as seemingly-straightforward as a KV store into a series of queues that can get all mixed up. I asked ChatGPT to explain it though, and it sounds like the justification for its existence is that it doesn't "block the event loop" while a request is "waiting for a response from Redis."

Last time I checked, Redis doesn't take that long to provide a response. And if your Redis servers actually are that overloaded that you're seeing latency in your requests, it seems like simple key-based sharding would allow horizontally scaling your Redis cluster.

Disclaimer: I am probably less smart than most people who work at OpenAI so I'm sure I'm missing some details. Also this is apparently a Python thing and I don't know it beyond surface familiarity.
Any part of the system can be spoofed; virtual machines exist. In addition, once you have a session token, you don't even need to involve a browser, you can just make requests to the server directly.

From the perspective of a browser, it seems like a better mitigation would be to make it harder to steal these tokens in the first place. Cookies have to be persisted to disk in order to survive browser restarts, but maybe some cookies could be identified as password-equivalents and get stored in the system's keyring.

And of course, from the perspective of a server, they could probably be more credulous when they see a session token trying to make account management actions from a new IP.
> “Parental rights are supreme.”

I’ve been sympathetic to this in the past, but I didn’t realize just how stupid some parents are.
This is why Certbot should only be used temporarily to transition from legacy infrastructure. Ideally cert management (ACME client) needs to be baked into the server, like what Caddy does.
Can confirm, I have been using certbot+apache in production across multiple servers from Ubuntu apt repos since 18.04 in 2018 and scheduled auto-renewal is the default.
In fact, Marxists understand this point most of all. Which is why the moral impetus is to remove the possibility of being individually rich, in order to bring a more beautiful wealth to all.

Individual "wealth" is so boring and flat and uninspired. Just Scrooge McDucks everywhere. Doesn't it feel like an archaic concept at this point? Such a narrow instantiation of humanity, can't die soon enough.
Your tool just needs examples of the more recent library calls.

With 32k tokens coming that's like 90kb total chars which 80kb could library or API docs.

Also it can easily be connected to things like pip or GitHub or Google to check documentation. And many tools are coming over the next few months that will put it in a debugging loop.

So maybe it's "safe" in the very near term but that issue of out of date training in no way prevents it from taking software engineering jobs.

I am working hard to build an AI system that can replace me before someone else does.
I have said things like this before and will say it again. I love Florida, why ? Because that state is doing all it can to ensure their children do not get a good education, it insures the kids in my State will have a leg up in getting well paying jobs.

That is because it seems they are ensuring FL children are taught and live "My way or the Highway"

So, thank you Florida and other Red US States to help ensure the Children where I live will get the better jobs and know more about life.
I think this is part of it. Anecdotally, I have heard from a few chefs that young people today know a lot less about how to cook than they used to, so it's harder to hire line cooks. The same goes for many other kinds of basic things, like repairing your house, sewing clothes, etc.

At the same time, a lot of these basics are getting more difficult in the name of efficiency: think about repairing a linen shirt with a loose weave and no stretch vs repairing a spandex-poly shirt with a very tight weave and a ton of stretch.
I think summer 2023 is likely to have more protests than 2020:

- Food prices are highly correlated with societal discontent. Need bread, circuses alone insufficient.

- 2024 election cycle is starting to ramp up, society will be thinking more politically.

- We're having a warm spring - could be a hot year. Tempers flare more easily in higher temperatures.

- Looks like we're heading into a recession. As the fed fights inflation, peoples investment savings will drop in value, making the middle class feel less secure.
What would make this statue inappropriate versus the bible itself?
You have touched on something I am incredibly excited about. ChatGPT is going to do away with a lot of the intro level questions you ask researching certain sorts of technical problems, especially as it becomes better able to understand images. ChatGPT removes the need for you to ever open a manual (unless you want a deep understanding).

How do I turn off this feature in my car?

How do I replace the fan in my fridge’s compressor?

Why is windows repair not working in this scenario with this PC?

This tool is going to be incredibly deflationary in many services geared around repair when now it can tell you almost exactly what to do and soon it’ll be able to produce videos or images of each step on demand.
Bing doesn't seem any better than Google though. I was thinking of something that gives you a dramatically superior result than Google.
I used to try to be surgical with my queries but I've given up and just type a question at my search engine because if that's what they want as a query well they're going to get it.
Right, here is a selection of examples to which this model applies: http://rochus-keller.ch/?p=1153

but that's likely not what the fellow had in mind; learning and playing piano literature is a completely different thing.
ChatGPT Can Now Browse the Web, Help Book Flights and More
They covered it, literally, with pants some 30 years ago.

Life imitating art.
Going from $30,000 to $0 is a much bigger loss than $3M to $100K...
https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009696899/utilities/ls... lists both -p and -1. And while -p is marked as an XSI extension, both Darwin and all modern BSD distributions implement it.
Wait, are we to believe that smut-style expressions of salacious content, moaning, whatever else, is the same as quality of expression in storytelling?

To me those are completely different types of expression.

I mean I could yawn and call it expression but qualitatively that's different...

Anyway I'm not above reading AI smut if it'll clue me in. Link it if you have it.
Did you guys see the Trump chat where he asks it how to take over the country?
> On their github they reference a related project called "HuggingFace"

Quick jargon literacy boost: "HuggingFace" is a platform tailored to hosting and sharing ML repositories -- like Github for AI. The parent company, "Hugging Face", is also in and of itself a major contributor to several AI research projects & tooling.

Ironically, they still managed to hit a namespace collision... albeit self-inflicted.
This is the assumption that there is end-user demand for the software developers would write. I think we can assume that end users will be using traditional software less as ChatGPT functionality increases.
Yes.

We are aiming for that with Caddy. Starting with internal PKI. Caddy already has a built-in CA and ACME server, so it's just a matter of setting the lifetime to be very, very short.

However, ultimately this will require TLS clients to implement proper support. For example, we already see problems in some web browsers where their TLS logic doesn't account for short lifetimes (like < 1 hour) and so page navs result in security errors because the cert has expired when actually all they have to do is renegotiate the TLS connection. It's debatable whether a cert needs to stay valid through the entire connection lifetime or just for establishing the connection.

There is a performance penalty of doing this, of course, but for certain use cases it's acceptable.
Psst, scroll down to the second paragraph after that...

>Barney Bishop III, the chair of the school board and a lobbyist, confirmed to The Post that he gave Carrasquilla an ultimatum following complaints from three parents who believed the material on “David” was “controversial” and not age-appropriate for their children. Bishop, who did not give a reason he asked for Carrasquilla to resign on the advice of the school’s lawyers, told The Post that there were several issues with the principal, including not notifying parents ahead of time that their children would be shown the Renaissance art.

>“She wasn’t let go because of the artistic nude pictures. We show it every year to our students,” Bishop said, adding that Carrasquilla “voluntarily resigned.” “The problem with this particular issue was the lack of follow-through on the process.”
For me it’s not even theoretical. I’ve already wasted my time trying to sus out subtle garbage mixed into its answers. It’s the same reason I stopped using copilot. I don’t need or want that.
A lack of modesty, I imagine. Adam and Eve had the decency to cover themselves with fig leaves at least.

/s
"Why didn't you simply have a test for an unexpected failure case which arose as a result of moving pieces across a distributed system?" - whateveracct
Scale. Skill. Speed
Not everyone is trying to be an unethical jerkwad.
Exactly, I followed the CVE link through, and all affected RHEL8/9.

Soo…… Red Hat isn’t patching their live, currently supported distributions? That seems bigger news than their approach to CentOS, which they are clearly trying to kill.
You do still need some kind of savvy to evaluate whether what the chat bot tells you is correct though.
Given how overwhelmingly important Google Search has been to Google/Alphabet, are they going to have to start thinking more like a scrappy startup focused on shared goals, and less like a massive entrenched institution that will tend to get steered by careers, OKRs, and promo packets?

Or can the existing structure be steered well enough towards good outcomes?
My redis clusters are 10x more cost effective than my postgresdb in handling load.
The anti-Florida propaganda coming out of the MSM is crazy right now. Most of these stories are blatantly untrue at best and completely fabricated at worst.

There was a story from the NEA this morning that Moms For Liberty is "well funded" because they have 700k on the books for 2022. Meanwhile the NEA and AFT spend more than that just on printing each year.
Very confusing and misleading charts. Makes it look as if bing is getting more traffic than google.
> an experienced C programmer is going to have a sense from the start whether to go with a static/local struct or a malloc'ed one

In my and others' extensive experience in C, almost everyone is wrong about where their programs are consuming time. Profiling almost always produces surprising results. Being about to easily refactor programs to experiment with different data organizations is a superpower for a language.

C programs are difficult to refactor, and so they tend to persist with their earliest design decisions despite changing requirements and profile results.
It sure is boring. We probably should eliminate all boring things from the world.
Towing large amounts of weight doesn't work the way you'd think. As long as we're talking about something on wheels that are on pavement a normal car can tow 30,000 lbs or so.

A Ford pickup towed a Boeing airplane a while back in some weird stunt.

In strongmen competitions just a person with a rope can pull a train car.

Towing something at high speed is a question of aerodynamics. Towing something offroad in mud is usually a question of getting enough traction without your tires just digging a hole.
> Maybe because Google is actual trash and it went from being the best search engine to being an SEO-infested desert of a search, where your query is interpreted however they want not how you want.

Agreed but tbf... every major search engine seems to suffer from the same.

I cannot recommend enough the 'ContextSearch web-ext' extension. It lets you easily search using any search provider. I constantly (1) highlight text (2) right-click (3) select search provider (from youtube to reddit to bing) (Note: my default is DDG):

Firefox: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/contextsearch...

Chrome: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/contextsearch-web-...
> You're quoting the outputs of a propaganda industry, not the outputs of credible independent research.

One man's propaganda is another man's truth, and vice versa. Do you really think the EPI is credible? https://www.influencewatch.org/non-profit/economic-policy-in...

> These are the orgs who persistently try to sell trickle-down economics

That's ironic, given that the phrase "trickle-down" was invented by leftists as a marketing tactic: https://www.aei.org/carpe-diem/thomas-sowell-on-the-trickle-...

> low regulation

Well, we can agree on that one at least.

> and other discredited, disastrous, and irrational neoliberal policy argument

Never mind. I guess we have nothing to agree on.

> Many are also enthusiastic climate change denialists.

You're clearly influenced by the outputs of a propaganda industry, not the outputs of credible independent research. See what I did there? I'll even one-up you with some links:

https://www.amazon.com/Unsettled-Climate-Science-Doesnt-Matt...

https://www.amazon.com/Apocalypse-Never-Environmental-Alarmi...

https://www.amazon.com/Fossil-Future-Flourishing-Requires-Ga...
I think the basis for this feeling is that people keep moving here. We feel it when traffic gets worse, etc... Not really sure IF there's a real solution. The more people there are, the worse things get in small spaces. We have an entire country that is mostly empty.
Insane religious parents is precisely why schools have to give sex education to kids.
The POWER ISA wasn't royalty free until 2019, over a decade after its decline. RISC-V was royalty free from the beginning.
Google is more than capable of doing such basic fingerprinting, but do you have evidence Google uses it for search results? You can do a trivial experiment on another Google platform: open some video on YouTube, leave it, and look at the front page. Then, look at the YouTube front page in a private/incognito tab. (Alternatively, use two different private sessions.) In my experience, no matter what device or network I use, and no matter what the video was, the first page will always show videos related to the one I opened, and the second will always show an extremely generic set of clickbaity videos (likely based on GeoIP). This suggests that Google uses ordinary cookies for basic relevancy ranking.
20 watts isn't the energy cost to keep a human alive unless they're homeless and their food has no production costs.

Like humans, I predict AIs will have to get jobs rather than have time to take over the world.
Wait until you have ad breaks every 5 or 10 gpt query as a way to finance the data provider :)
The only book I saw mentioned
that may be considered sexually explicit was one about a boy suffering rape and incest. I'd accept it's probably not appropriate for a school library to have a book like that freely available to students of all ages. But I don't get the impression that's a representative sample.
Assuming this is not a troll, google trends measures how often people search something on google. The URL you linked shows how often people search the word 'Bing' on google.

If Bing has an uptick, that doesn't necessarily mean that they first go to Google to find Bing and then do their actual search.
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I feel very similarly at Amazon. I wish I could volunteer for being laid off.
I could use 3 months (with severance) without any work to try curing my burnout.