skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Can we please, please, please have someone write the authoritative article on why this is _actually_ a bad idea, so that it can be linked next time this conversation comes up, rather than merely intimating that it's bad?

...Yes, I'm intentionally invoking Cunningham's Law in the hopes that it exists and someone will link it here. Just to do a little due diligence, I searched for some answers, and found:

* https://stackoverflow.com/a/29389868/1040915 - "Because you are giving root access to whatever script you are executing. It can do a wide variety of nasty things." - apt-get and yum require sudo too.

* https://stackoverflow.com/a/34016579/1040915 - "if the script were provided to you over HTTP instead HTTPS..." sure, no arguments there! So don't do that then! ... "if the connection closes mid-stream, there may be executed partial commands, which were not intended to" ok, an actually reasonable answer! (though see the next link)

* https://www.arp242.net/curl-to-sh.html - a pretty comprehensive article in support of `curl | sh`, which points out that it's of equivalent security to `git clone && cd dir && ./make`, and only very slightly less than using package managers (which provide checksums). It also points out you can avoid the "interrupted connection" issue by running within a function

* https://medium.com/@esotericmeans/the-truth-about-curl-and-i... - reiterates that interrupted connection issues are minor, and repeats some server-side exploits that could potentially happen (if you don't trust the server, don't _ever_ install anything from it, via any means!)

* https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11532599 - a discussion of an article (which, ironically enough, itself has an expired certificate) with, I'll admit, more comments than I was willing to read in-depth - but one comment https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11533515 points out that `curl | sh` is fully portable whereas package managers are not.

Don't get me wrong - given the choice, I'd rather have the audit log, built-in checksum, uninstallability, and other features of a package manager any day. I'm not arguing that `curl | sh` is _better_ than package managers. But I have always been a little baffled why it's portrayed as _so_ much worse (when installing from a trusted source, over HTTPS) as to be anathema and repugnant.
Settle down, Richard.

You really think Open Source is going to solve the problem? I love the FOSS as much as the next man, but it's not some holy panacea for all of our freedom-loving woes. RIAA doesn't have to sue the developer in Russia, they can just take the legal fight to the consumers (and they HAVE done so).
It’s always wikidata.
This is true, but it also ignores the economic reality: your employer wants to get things done, but money is their constraint more than time. If they can replace you, they are obligated to do so.

This is a nice idea, but in economic reality, you won’t be getting anything done if your boss lets you go.
Encyclopedia of World Problems
At a time where there is worry about what do next when AI disruption is fully realized, it’s perhaps relevant to take a look at world problems that have yet to be solved. There is a lot of valuable work to do.
In woke thinking, it's OK to appropriate white culture because they're the oppressors. But then maybe black people using white memes are race traitors who are complicit in their own oppression... Pretty much everything is "problematic" in some way.
This sounds like reducing the temperature with more steps
What makes us think that encoding all functionality using natural language is somehow more compact than using code? Sure, describing a website with a button is easy, but I don’t quite see how you would describe Kubernetes or a device driver without writing a book in “legalese”.

Or try formulating a math proof with natural language.
GP means that the dictator only needs to win without violence once, but the rebels -while it's true that they only need to win once- may have to resort to violence because the dictator certainly will resort to violence to crush its opposition.
The makers of the game are the big winners in e-sports, not the competitors.
I mean, this is why it's a common thing to append reddit.com to your google searchs nowadays. Seeing how others solved problems or getting a feel for their opinions on certain things is actually super useful.
> bad actors will take everything resulting in some not having access to a condom until a refill

It must be extraordinarily scary to live with such suspicion and paranoia.
There's no mathematical proof for the correctness of graphic design, either, but that won't stop cheap AI-generated garbage from taking over the role of making commodity images and putting a lot of people out of work.
One time at a coffee shop, I saw a woman carefully highlighting, line by line, essentially an entire page of a book she was reading.

This doesn’t strike me as mindful behavior.
1 in 23 for men, 1 in 26 for women https://www.cancer.org/cancer/colon-rectal-cancer/about/key-....

The concern is the dramatic increase in the younger generation. Using protection in either orifice should be encouraged. HPV is over 150 different cancers and the greatest cause of anal cancer. Better health education and increased HPV vaccination before sex is going to be key.
Old tweet from LeCun: "The vast majority of human knowledge, skills, and thoughts are not verbalizable."

https://twitter.com/ylecun/status/1368239479463366656
I recently rewatched a bunch of ST:TNG to get prepared for ST:Picard season 3 so I can tell you while you're mostly right, there are a few exciting exceptions!

1) Professor Moriarty is an AGI (generated by the ship's holodeck) who appears in these two episodes. The professor definitely takes initiative.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elementary,_Dear_Data
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ship_in_a_Bottle_(Star_Trek:_The_Next_Generation)

2) The ship itself appears to procreate in this episode, locking the crew out of controls until it can complete the process.

https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Emergence_(episode)
Thank you for posting this, it’s validating to see that someone else sees this. What do you suppose the phenomenon is called when you get nervous that no one else sees it’s a mirror and you are concerned you will get stabbed with a pitch fork if you point it out?
Is that what I find amazing is that Americans, especially older americans, have not caught on to the fact that apparently the government and the insurance companies colluded to make Medicare confusing.. in order to drive senior citizens into the arms of the insurance companies because they can't figure out what's going on with the Medicare situation
If you don't like and embrace GNOME 3, then Red Hat just isn't the distro for you.
they hinted at that in the article. said there's a lot of work before that
>I wish society learned that exercise is not how you combat obesity.

Americans keep repeating this to themselves and think it's true.

Yet in countries where people walk a lot more, people aren't nearly as fat, even though they have just as much sugars and carbs.
WSL original? Are you kidding? The 'L' stands for Linux: it just tries to copy Linux on Windows, providing a Linux environment on an OS that's entirely different. If anything, it's a reverse-copy of WINE.
Me too. I would add the legal (some mislabel it "justice") system to the mix. With senior lawyers charging multiple thousands an hour, with such terrifyingly high stakes (especially in the criminal legal system) there is zero incentive for swift, and just, outcomes.

All the incentives are to prolong the process.
We already know capitalism is rotten… but we don’t care because it gives us the opportunity (real or not) to be the one on top standing on a mountain of bodies, basking in the glow of our delusional, narcissistic sense of entitlement.
Oohh it always struck me as the comparison to humans was to marginalize humans.

I'm often on the reductive "gotcha" side and it is always a rummaging around to find and understand the essence of the thing in front of me causing all this news and hype. Peel open the black box and see it's basic shape, as much as one can from the outside..

Thank you for the insight, I genuinely have been annoyed at people who are "dragging down The Human Consciousness to the level of basic boolean logic", when they compare computing to humans and I never got the other side of it.
For added context, with really good insurance I've paid about $4000 for both of my children. That's just out of pocket cost, of course I pay very high premiums and my company covers a large portion of the cost themselves. Both of these births were very standard, no complications.

The profit margin there is insane.
Facebook does this already. Not only posts and comments but also messages between two people.

The system is used to hide content, change content, shadow ban and the like.

Even by its own standards it's typically used incorrectly, but most users have no workable way to appeal.

The content reviewed is often visible to low paid workers in various countries. Similar systems have been infiltrated by hostile governments. (Twitter is a case in point.)

(If you use FB you can sometimes probe the system and better establish the details.)

The system is also used to prevent one user informing another that they've been squelched.

My guess, this would give rise to even less competent implementations and actual elimination of political opponents and the like.
Of course iOS and macOS block for example audio in screen recordings via QuickTime so…
I think this much radio waves around us constantly will end up being the lead pipes of our generation
And another thing. I studied Finance in a Univerity, and one of my professors taught me a joke. An in-joke:

The customer's yacht.

It is a joke because the customer cannot afford a yacht once we are through with him.
Court filings: Twitter says parts of source code were leaked online
There are too many countries in the world with oppressive regimes where people seem willing to accept the status quo without much resistance to be as optimistic as you about people's desire for freedom. Even in countries where extreme suffering and censorship exist, like N.Korea or, less known, Turkmenistan (which, by the way, is the craziest country of the former USSR - the cult of personality in Turkmenistan has been taken to the extent of idiocy, censorship works like in the worst times of Stalin, and people suffer from hunger, poverty, and constant fear) protests and uprisings are rare. I personally know people who demand even more control in some of these countries, and after hearing about their extreme complacency (think mobilization in russia), I'm not as hopeful that people truly want to be free anymore. IMHO the only form of freedom that is attainable is personal "nomadic" freedom, as in Sovereign Citizen book. We need to vote with our feet and wallets, and choose to live in places where our individual freedoms are respected and protected.
I'm sorry if this all sounds a bit bleak, it's personal...
StackOverflow user talks about GPT4
The real question is, if these genes are spliced into a human do they awaken post-dessication craving human blood? :)
To be frank, you don't have to look long to find ample evidence of our government being a disaster. COVID is fresh in everyone's minds and everything about that situation was horrifically mismanaged.

We all know the healthcare situation is terrible but the main politicians that want to change this offer 100% government controlled single payer healthcare as the only solution. That would take us from the least socialized system in the world, to literally the most socialized system in the world.

I don't think you have to try very hard to imagine why people are uncomfortable with that.

Edit: Never make one slight error on HN or your entire point is invalid, it would be one of the most socialized by the legislative proposals, but not literally the most.
> Most Americans actually like things that way and can't really imagine living any other way.

If people cannot imagine anything but one way of living, then it isn't really reasonable to describe whether they like it or at least to use the supposed liking as evidence of anything.

Having people imagine alternatives is a prerequisite to evaluating anything meaningful about what people like.
Is it possible to skip the step when user is presented with wrong answer? Why use an inherently defective approach, while calling it all "intelligence"?

E. g.: "Let me google that for you" -> lmgtfy opens.
Underestimating Social Complexity Among Hunter-Gatherers
Yup this is one of the reasons why when I see people talk about how it can't do this or that I am shocked by the blinders people have. Specially people working in science fields. There are millions of very smart people with access to a lot of data that previously that they might not have been able to use but now they will be able to.
I can't read the millions of science papers published over the years but the kinds of AI/language models that have started to crop up can. I predict a lot of different scientific fields not just medical will have sea change as more people start realising what kind of tool these language models are and how they can be used.
Guys, AI is not doomsday. If anything, it will be a boon to society when it reaches mass adoption. I'm thinking of how much faster we can develop new technologies, how much quicker we can research things. MEDICAL research that can be progressed that much quicker, lives that can be saved, animals rescued from extinction, etc. Hell, even the Computer from Star Trek. All of those things have potential applications with AI.

It's just a new tool. Just like when computers arrived, mathematicians were not replaced just because computers could do the calculations faster. When autotune arrived, artists were not replaced - they just added that to their repertoire.

Yes, some jobs will be lost. Yes, there will be a changing of the guards. That's just the nature of things - it's just how it's always been.
Really?

An operating theatre cost many thousands of dollars an hour to run, the pre and post care is also very expensive. You may never need them (I hope you do not) but if you do it would almost surely bankrupt you without either socialised medicine (yay - sort of - another story) or insurance.
If I am understanding correctly, ChatGPT’s UI already lets you do exactly what you are asking for. You can load previous conversations from the history and you can edit any message and it will regenerate the response.
Even more so because Wodan / Woden and Odin are different names for the same god who is also the namesake for that day..

Weddin just lies on the spectrum between Wodan and Odin.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wednesday
> they really do seem to believe the safety/alignment issue deep in their bones

The employees are usually they are "in on the message". All you have to do is get your employees to believe the message. This is easy when the company is growing exponentially. CEO's word is gospel.
>with all the prior knowledge ChatGPT had gained

As currently built (as I understand it), it doesn't "gain" anything. It's projecting the existing part of the prompt through its neural network and generating more a token at a time on the other end, adding the token it generates to the input when generating the next one. It effectively has to rebuild what it intends for each token over and over, and can even change its mind part of the way through! (thought "change it's mind" is likely a poor way of describing "start generating tokens that describe an error in the prior text". every token is a fresh projection)

Check this response out:

>Yes, I am familiar with the story you're referring to. The title of the short story is "The Machine That Won the War." It was written by Isaac Asimov and first published in 1961. The story is a conversation between three men who played major roles in a war against an alien race, and they discuss the role of a machine called Multivac in winning the war.

>

>However, it seems that I've made an error in my recollection, as the specific detail you mentioned—refusing to work until the engineer says 'please'—is from a different short story, "Sally," also by Isaac Asimov. In "Sally," autonomous cars stop working until a command is given courteously, using the word 'please.'

The above is just a single response I received when seeing if gpt-4 could help me remember the name of an old Isaac Asimov story I liked. After it had generated the tokens for the first part, it self-corrected and gave me a second answer.

(which was still not what I wanted, but that's aside from the point. Asimov was prolific, no surprise that even an AI can't keep track of all of it :D )
But remember, it's racists in the UK who wanted to leave this organization.
> This because there are very niche stuff as you specialize where it’s only like 5 doctors who see it in the whole world on a consistent basis (and they don’t blog!)

We need to do a better job with sharing niche information as a society! Imagine all the benefits for medicine that can come from a model knowing about ultra rare and niche occurrences happening all over the world.
It’s here, it’s real, and we have to deal with it as a society.

The goal of the “AI Ethics” professional class to have all AI be approved by well-compensated PhDs in corporate labs has always been a paternalistic farce.

Common people deserve access so they can figure out what their lives will be like now, and then we can make collective decisions about where we go.
> Similarly, programming languages provide excellent utility for describing explicit computational behavior. What they are missing is the reason why that behavior should exist at all. Programs are surrounded by moats of incompatible context: it takes explicit design to coordinate them together.

Such a well written reply! This puts into words a lot of my thoughts around programming today and how NLP can help.
That really brings to mind the various vampire tropes... ;)
Partial writes would need to buffered and flush()ed. That is not unlike other file systems, until you fully know it is persisted - or am I missing something?
Visual Basic is so easy secretaries will be able to write programs.

Sometimes smart people say dumb things and it takes a while to figure out they are wrong.
These terms have accepted meanings and I looked it up just to be sure.

"Being fired means that the company ended your employment for reasons specific to you. Getting laid off means that the company eliminated your position for strategic or financial reasons and not through any fault of yours."
How would they tell? RIAA has no right to check your computers. I doubt it would be possible to outright ban the software from existing or being installed since it has totally legal uses too.
> , to literally the most socialized system in the world.

Well there is Cuba. The best health system in the world, many say.
3x or 10x are very different things. A 3x increase is a massive productivity bump which will cause more features with maybe less developers.

A 10x increase will just outright restructure companies. It will reduce so many overheads that it will self multiply. For example in an org of 110 people there are several teams, which means meetings, fight over who owns what, fight over where features make sense, who get how many engineers, which manager is next in line for promotion.

10x productivity => 11 people can do the same job with 1 manager, no politics, no arguments. (There will still be interaction outside the org, but that existed before too and was at a much broader level).
https://archive.is/D27fN
50TWh of batteries for cars is perfectly achievable but 10TWh of storage for grid is impossibly huge?

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-021-26355-z

Roughly the same amount of battery you need to make any sort of use of the 16 hours of off peak nuclear power?
https://bigthink.com/surprising-science/scientists-finally-f...
The same way we do it with humans - by observing the end result.
My initial (and so far only, which is not a coincidence) reply to your comment didn't address most of what you wrote, and really honed in on just that first phrase. (I'm sure that's frustrating.) I guess one way to explain why I did that is to just call me a pedant.

But another is to actually look at the rest of your comment. And you might also ask why my 'pedantic' reply is the only one your comment got at all, as of time of writing. Let's review:

> The burden of proof is on whoever makes the claim— that wolf packs are led by alpha male wolves– not on everybody else to prove they aren't. One experiment in very unnatural conditions showed these results. They were not observed in subsequent studies that were better designed. Why would someone conduct an expensive study specifically to search for phenomena observed once but never again? Because of people so insecure they need to justify their antisocial, domineering behavior through unrelated research?

There are a few observations about norms in the scientific community, which might be a bit useful and relevant.

But this?

> Why would someone conduct an expensive study specifically to search for phenomena observed once but never again? Because of people so insecure they need to justify their antisocial, domineering behavior through unrelated research?

Fully half your comment was rhetorical questions that serve only to dress another person down— pure ingroup signaling, snark, and moralism. You're unlikely to get the kind of engagement you imagine you deserve with an approach like that, whether from pedants or anyone else.

I can understand finding yourself riled up by this topic. I can't claim that I never indulge in snark. But seriously, I didn't respond to the rest of your comment or even really address you directly in my reply because your post told me that talking to you would be unpleasant and hostile.

You've called me out for pedantry, which is what we call it when someone's corrections seem trivial to us. But the comment I was replying to was all about correcting someone else's thinking, and it was frankly uglier than it was interesting. The same turned out to be true of your subsequent comments in the wider thread as well— not seriously engaging with you was very much the right call for me.

I hope at least some of this has been useful, but either way you won't get another reply from me.

I hope you have a better day tomorrow.
When you follow ROCm's happy path it works well for getting things like PyTorch running, but you do end up putting up with enterprise distros like Ubuntu 22.04 LTS and its often broken by default network stack.

Enabling ROCm support for unlisted AMD GPUs & APUs is a feature flag away if your running one of these janky enterprise distros that AMD has blessed.

Debian is slowly getting ROCm and PyTorch's packages into the main Debian archive, once complete using AMD hardware for machine learning should be a breezey Apt Install ROCm away, as Debian's machine learning team chooses sane defaults like enabling APU support by default. Derivative distros like PopOS, Linux Mint, Zorin, Kali, Ubuntu and such will inherit this easy support from upstreaming ROCm as well.
Just to make a point, some of the aforementioned people are absolutely unaware of their surroundings, won't acknowledge the waiter's existence, nor have an eye contact with them, while they are on their phone.

Immersive experience, that is.

(note that I understand your point, just want to be sarcastic and bitter when I think about phone / AR-VR and other social media addicted people, who are eventually going to be the target audience of any of these new time wasters)
Curing Cancer for Social Networks: Solving the “Signal-to-Noise Ratio” Problem