skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is the best summary of AI risks so far.

> Big tech monopolizing the models, data, and hardware.

This ought to create a neofeudalist society. This is really dangerous.

> Copyright concerns.

Will I create something if I know it'll be part of chatgpt and effectively replace me? This will affect creativity and critical thinking for sure.

> Job security.

Well, this one could really be problematic for everyone. We're talking about social unrest and revolts on a global scale.

Let's take the UBI premise for example:

Problem #1:
- The market will correct itself, meaning that if everyone has X amount of cash to buy products, services, etc... businesses will just increment their offerings to take advantage of that rendering the UBI useless.

Problem #2:
- If governments regulate the market to avoid businesses from incrementing prices, this will decimate small businesses and consolidate big corp, creating monopolies, etc... circling back to a neo feudalist society.

Problem #3:
- Will this solution apply to developing countries? It'll be easier just to ban AI and stop foreign companies from entering the market since the current government won't have the resources to apply UBI to its population. New era of protectionism will start and that'd makes sense if you want to protect your countrymen.

> AIs becoming sentient and causing harm for their own ends.

We're not close to that but should be discussed since I saw on twitter someone stating that we need "human rights" laws for "sentient" AIs.

> Corporations intentionally using AI to cause harm for their own ends.

Hand in hand with the first issue.

> Feedback loops will flood the internet with content of unknown provenance, which get included in the next model, etc.

> AI hallucinations resulting in widespread persistent errors that cause an epistemological crisis.

> The training set is inherently biased; human knowledge and perspectives not represented in this set could be systematically wiped from public discourse.

These three go together too. No trust whatsoever since you don't know if what you're reading is truth, etc...
This would be the ideal goal for any government or politician, to commit unspeakable acts without any accountability since no one will trust anything on the internet.

This decade will define everything going forward for future generations. These topics are no joke.
What other subject matters?
My biggest concern with tools like this is reproducibility and maintainability. How deterministically can we go from the 'source' (natural language prompts) to the 'target' (source code)? Assuming we can't reasonably rebuild from source alone, how can we maintain a link between the source and target so that refactoring can occur without breaking our public interface?
I'm inside the EU (Ireland) and "reasonably priced books in English aren't easy to find" unless you're buying pre-owned books and in most cases I can't find what I'm looking for specially when it comes to tech books. As an island, we're very much dependent on Amazon.co.uk for books.
Interesting...I definitely read some Jim Collins books early on; though I'm not sure of the timing. This was like 20 years ago.
The best thing we can do to ensure the safety of AI, is to keep make it so a user can run the models on their own hardware.

The biggest danger from AI that I see is that they will only be able to be run by large corporations/governments and we the users will be at their mercy with regards to what we are allowed to use them for.
Another thing that helps this boom is, in India no one has any problem in sharing their phone number with strangers. Delivery workers, Cab drivers, Restaurant waitlist, you name it. So payment send and receive with just mobile number as the primary key becomes easier.
i was implying ai will be used as a mechanism for control.
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Initially as it is in read-only mode, there are no risks. But once you enable policy enforcement it will block non-compliant deployments to your cluster. Your organisation has to be ready for it, as it might block a developer trying to apply a hotfix.. you need to have the right mechanisms of enabling skips and escalating critical deployments, as any security tool i suppose
>The entitlement is off the charts.

People are just sick of corporations causing havoc in our lives.
For a back of the envelope calculation we consider the uncertainty principle

Δx*Δp >= ℏ/2

Δp = Δ(mv) >= ℏ/(2Δx)

m = 9.1 * 10 ^ -31 kg (mass of electron)

x ~= 1 * 10^-15 m (radius of proton)

ℏ = 6.6 * 10 ^ -34 kg m^2 / s (plancks)

Δv >= 31 524 512 m /s

Which is about 1/10 the speed of light. There isn't a true cutoff for "relativistic speeds" but in general, 1/10th counts.
I know that currently, every example of conversational AI is presented as “the only one you need” but there’s not much economic benefit to let your “real world service” hook into someone else’s AI tool if you also offer one right? We’re going to end up with a Bing AI that can touch things in your Microsoft account, and a Google AI that can touch things in your Google account, and if you want one to talk to the other you’re going to be messenger between them.

So now everyone needs to consider that while maybe the google AI can hallucinate when the next billing cycling for your Bing Assistant subscription will happen, you need to understand that it can’t know that unless you ask the “right” assistant. The one that’s capable of reaching into the sheltered data that isn’t exposed to the internet.

At least I think. Maybe there’s some economic incentive to bundling it all into one and there won’t be blessed AI’s with special access to non public data. I’m doubtful though.
I asked it about how to transition from nation states to local ownership at scale and was very happy with its answer. Better and more comprehensive than anyone I think around me would have answered - in 5 seconds - and it introduced me to new concepts like time banks and community currencies which I could ask follow up questions on.

I think it’s truly mind blowing a computer can now simulate some of the best conversations I’ve ever had on a variety of topics.
Ruby Bytes, or generating standalone generators
In the US, you can part-time consult, as programmers are paid way above the national median income. This can either be in a lucrative field, giving you more time, or in your vertical, giving you more pmf exposure. The result is living like a normal US person, though not necessarily your peer group.

As most commenters note, the youth aspect is a big differentiator for the middle class. All this is hard as soon as a family is in the picture, health concerns go up, etc. (And for some, those happen even sooner, but not most.) Frustratingly, most successful entrepreneurs are much older, so a case of "youth is wasted on the young."

Source: Had a 5 figure income in the bay area for years and it was fine until it wasn't.
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Thanks for sharing your experience.

Yeah, that's my point, it's hardly a solved problem and you have to write software for this!
I thought you were joking about India surpassing the US in literacy rates, and then I looked it up. It's 75 - 85% depending on how you count. What?!

How is this number not 99.9%? Developed countries are at 100% or minus rounding error. Even Canada is at 99%, and that's next door. What is going on in the US?
Or a review will say "Why didn't you cite Foo, an important work in the field?" and then you look at the committee list on the conference site and see that Dr Johnson worked on Foo. It's happened to me, but what can you do.
If you tell it that the compressed words cannot share any characters with the word they are compressing it doesn't understand this constraint.
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It is not background but U.S. centric perspective, that results in tunnel world view and bubble info diet, and man in question is analyst for Stratfor from 2000. Zeihan spent 12 years at Stratfor, eventually rising to vice-president.
Finns always agree with government decisions. If government policy is to stay out of NATO, finns will think that's the sound and rational way. If the government policy is to get into NATO, they will ask the media to support the idea and finns will change their opinion and think it's a splendid idea. Finns think as they are told to, like their neighbours in Russia.
My rationality and agency is not a question of you interpreting the words and letters that appear in a textbox on a screen. The same is not true of a large language model. You do not have a rigorous theory of rationality and agency with which to interrogate a large language model.
During the second Chechen war Western countries had supported radical islamists (like Isis, Taliban, you know the type). This was taken really badly in Russia as something completely unfair.

Georgia was one of the thirst countries of that were pushed to NATO where things went badly. The US had been slowly supplying Georgia with NATO equipment and this shifted the balance of power and "status quo" and uncorked a local ethnic conflict - president Saakashvili attempted to score patriotism points, hoping that NATO would back him and that Russia would not act on Sochi agreement. NATO obviously didn't back his invasion.

Point is, there is no much trust in western military branch from the perspective of those outside it's protection.
Not hard to add. Results will be not so good right now though. If results at all.
Now that I think about it, I am not sure why they didn't just announce using the smartphone speaker - I've seen several vendors with smartphones still using these boxes.

Granted, many vendors don't have smart phones, and perhaps sound boxes started with them. I think the fintech companies saw the opportunity and decided to not implement it their app for users with smartphone. Given that they are so cheap, I guess the vendors even with smart phones decided to get them anyway.
> Most developers beyond juniors can generally write code that at least compiles on the first pass, even if it isn't functionally correct.

Hahaha. I’ve been coding for over 20 years and this is definitely not the case.

> Current AI models often generate code that doesn't even compile.

Most of the code ChatGPT has given me, has run/compiled on the first try. And it’s been a lot longer and complex than what I would have written on a first pass.

Let’s just learn to use these tools instead of trying to justify human superiority.
> inevitably will require all manufacturers to block this eventually,

Intel didn't block it (contrary to the title). They gave vendors the tools to block it to avoid security issues.

Undervolting can induce glitches in any CPU, so the vulnerability is technically not unique to Intel. Only the current proof of concepts are limited to Intel.

Enthusiast motherboards aren't required to block undervolting. It's a vendor option. If you buy an enthusiast motherboard, it's almost certainly going to leave it enabled.
You can change the number of threads llama.cpp uses with the -t argument. By default it only uses 4. For example, if your CPU has 16 physical cores then you can run ./main -m model.bin -t 16

16 cores would be about 4x faster than the default 4 cores. Eventually you hit memory bottlenecks. So 32 cores is not twice as fast as 13 cores unfortunately.
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Mine is from a company called Perixx. It’s pretty cheap and works well.
Yes, the vendors have smartphones. The smartphones' speakers are not loud enough to announce over the road noise and general buzz in Indian shops. It would also be too distracting to keep looking down on the phone.
Are you paying taxes in your own EU country to pay for the pensions and healthcare? You do know that's how it works, right? The social contract is that in your high earning years you pay into the system then when you are young/old you get to use it.
Or stereo signal coming from a single cable.
Poor isn’t just a temporary personal financial situation. In this case often the parents continue to sacrifice everything so that their children can have a chance at a better life.

Being the recipient of the sacrifice of two capable people is not a state of poverty.
But it's good that there are options. Many of us aged 40+ can't read HN-sized text anymore, and the prevalence of presbyopia among UI designers is evidently 0%. Throw in glare from sunlight, a busy storefront where you constantly need your hands and eyes elsewhere, etc.
I agree completely. Taking a shower, brushing my teeth and other routine things have never become a habit for me either. I have to put in the same effort every time.

Of course there are habitual things in my life, but I can see no common characteristics. Total time spend certainly isn't it.

Amusingly, this has made it almost trivial for me to quit smoking despite being a smoker for many years. I just never developed a habit for it, so dropping it was as simple as just not smoking.
For all of Amazon’s so called emphasis on “customer obsession” I feel they’ve never been known to get the UI right. Their web site has always been borderline horrible to navigate.

It feels like a band aid over the archaic “search vs browse” dichotomy which ultimately does neither well.

If you search amazon you are limited to the “all site index” which is inferior to category specific indexes- and from that point it’s anyones guess which of the myriad of similar sounding categories is actually the best one for trying to find the item you are looking for.

It’s gotten worse with the influx of cheap Ali baba listings and sellers.

Walmart UX is no shining sterling example either but I struggle on average must less with it.
I do wonder if Brexit and customs to be paid for all of the EU has anything to do with this decision.

Book Depsitory is based in the UK. I have inadvertently ordered from them, to the Netherlands, as they had a “Bookdepository NL” store, which made it seem like they are an EU entity.

However, when the book arrived, I was hit by unexpected customs charges that were half the price of the book. Looking at recent reviews, there was a surge of these complaints from all customers in the Netherlands [1]

Perhaps the timing on these customs surges are accidental, of course. But I can’t imagine that Brexit helped with their EU sales.

[1] https://twitter.com/gergelyorosz/status/1638824647390003206
By pretty much all statics and reports I have seen, Ukrainian neo-nazi problem if massively smaller then Russian one. Every single country has some neonazi ... and Russia has a lot of them and in fairly powerful positions.

Ukraine is not celebrating Stalin the way Russia is celebrating Stalin. Ukraine was not forcibly closing organizations studying communists crimes or Stalin crimes, Russia did.

Ukraine did not moved to make gay or trans materials illegal. Meanwhile, arrests and violence against gays in Russia became quite a serious thing in Russia. Practically, being gay is criminalized.

Ukraine did not started wars with countries around it the way Russia repeatedly did.

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I am not saying Ukraine is country of saints, but Russia is waay worst then that.
Same here, I'm from South America and I've never had a problem
How about how to go about rolling back the Citizens United decision?

That would be new, useful, but not really twitter-worthy.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citizens_United_v._FEC
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^ I was seeing this on the HN top going "why are we praising walmart now?" then I open it and the first comments are praising it too. But yes exactly what you said. I need to see if my store has something available and that's so difficult now adays because they want you to just order online from the Amazon clone they built. I wish every brick and mortar store didn't need to also be a flea market.
I find it a little worrying that nobody seems to be considering the implication for society at large. We're having enough trouble with the disconnect of people brought about by social media.

What's going to happen to us when people are less and less required to work with each other in collaboration to get their work done?
So why are you posting this? If I have to do the work of benchmarking?

More importantly, why should I trust you, if you didn't bother making your article trustworthy?

Working many years in storage, I can engineer a benchmark that will show that CSV is faster than Parquet. So what?

> having an embedded schema

CSV also has embedded schema, that's what the header row is. Your arguments are just poor / show insufficient research / insufficient ability to interpret results.

If you wanted to make that argument stronger / believable, you should've at least claimed that Parquet has better schema than CSV. But this is also a problematic claim, because your idea of "better" comes from a perspective of making something more universal. But, in particular cases, I could, for example, come up with a CSV header that would be able to communicate more type information than what's available in Parquet, and subsequently, beat Parquet on that metric.

Anyways. My bigger point: maybe you are right, but you don't make a compelling case.
I don't have a specific definition of complex in mind. Seeing more examples of this with the prompts used + output and the overall steps is exactly what I'm asking for. I'm particularly interested in how the success rate changes as the code base evolves. Are LLMs effective in empty repos? are they effective on large repos? Can prompts be tweaked to work on larger repos?
Never thought I'd find folks from r/india here. Congratulations for making your presence felt here!
That’s a great analogy. Both of which boil down to the fundamental fact that we are flawed in the sense that we can’t perfectly turn our intentions into action.
+1. First time I came across these speakers was when I had tea in a road side tea stall off an highway. The shop was crowded and I held my phone at the owner to show him the evidence of payment which he ignored and within a couple of seconds my payment was announced on the speaker. Great experience!
Very cool post by, uh, the European Commission. Yay casual-tone governance.

Does anyone have a link to some reputable third-party explaining the actual issue?
I have a really really really hard time thinking we're even remotely close to AGI when I see stuff like:

https://imgur.com/eukW66W

You must have a really convoluted definition of AGI to come to the conclusion gpt is AGI when it proves times and times again it quite literally have no understanding of what it writes
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I find it absolutely absurd.

It also creates moral hazards (yea, I'm using that phrase) for "I'll turn up the heat in the winter because BitCoin price is higher..."

There's even a picture on the site (ok, the link https://www.heatbit.com - I don't want to encourage anyone to buy it) of someone using it on a open balcony.
Could not have said it better myself.

Then when the axe comes for them, they want Google to "do no evil".

Well, government regulations do that in the EU and UK... its not up to individual companies.
I find that they're more comfortable than a table surface for my wrist and lower thumb, and depending on the table mean that the mouse doesn't make that horrible sandpapery noise if it's running on grain, imperfections or uh, a few months' lunch ;-)
So you are saying they should have ended the post with JK?
I'm not sure why you are getting downvoted, probably because people feel you are advertising Modal.

But I have to say something about Modal. The difference with this vendor is that they try to reimagine the way people build on the Cloud and it's worth checking out just to see how different the developer experience could be.

I know that most people use it because of the easy and affordable access to GPUs, but I think we are missing the true innovation here, which is the developer experience.

I would even consider Modal as a cloud infra product, although a vertical one, more than an ML or DE product.

*edited to fix some spelling*
It's been so long since I read the novel, my recollection of the end might be wrong. In my memory Kelvin is still alive at the end of the novel, which makes it technically a less bleak ending than what Soderbergh did (although that last scene in the film puts a more benevolent spin on the situation than is warranted, which didn't quite ring true). But it might be time to revisit all of that, I wouldn't mind reading it again.

Watching the film again is easy, but the novel is an interesting case. Apparently the best English translation (the only direct translation to English) is not available in print, only as an audio book.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solaris_(novel)
I wonder if pets in households with those talking buttons ever use them to communicate with each other, or if they never choose to because it's so much less efficient than natural conspecific communication for most of the things they would want to 'talk' about.

One use case I could see is storytelling, specifically to share events that one of the animals was not present for.

In my house, my dogs usually seem to 'communicate' by calling the other's attention, and then observing the same thing together. Maybe they'd like to tell stories for some of the things that one of them misses.
To pay taxes!
Genetic engineering is both philosophically guided and actually constrained by a huge set of international, national, and institutional rules. And the risk of out-of-control genetic engineering is nearly zero. Our understanding of genomes and inheritance is much, much greater than our understanding of what it’s like to be in the presence of something dramatically more intelligent than us.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK447266/

Ah yes, “we’re not on the verge yet!” Maybe! Neither you nor I have any way of knowing that, of course, but we both know for sure that capabilities will advance and that so far we are not successfully controlling the current capabilities.
So the interior of baryons is analogous to the interior of atoms, with gluons instead of electrons dancing frantically... weird.

Also the part about mass being generated by motion and how it seems to be an established fact.
Reliability. Stock voltages should basically work. Too much heat is meh, but thermal throttling works.

Drop the voltage too much and bad stuff happens. AMD has 'curve optimizer' which runs some tests and configures enabled boards/cpus to set a voltage offset per core. But it seems best to do that, and then give it a little more voltage to get a stable system.