skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This thread is a testament to Dunning-Kruger effect.

Every observation listed here can be generalized to a case of worry that AI is stupid, selfish and/or mean. Unsurprisingly, just like what's feared about people!

Epic confusion of the topic of cybernetics with "AI".

In colloquial parlance "AI" must be quoted to remind that the topic is hopelessly ambiguous, where every use demands explicit clarification via references to avoid abject confusion. This comment is about confusion, not about "AI".

"Thou shall not make machines in the likeness of the human mind."

Too late.

Weinzenbuam's Eliza showed the bar to likeness is low.

Television similarly demonstrates a low bar, but interestingly doesn't arouse viewers' suspicions about what all those little people are doing inside when you change the channel.

I find it helpful when considering implications of "AI" to interject the observation of the distinction between life and computing machinery: these are profoundly different dynamics: life is endogenous, mechanical computers are exogenous. We don't know how or why life emerges, but we do know how and why computers occur, because we make them. That computers are an emergent aspect of life may be part of the conundrum of the former and therefore a mystery, we design an control computers, to the extent that it can be said we design or control anything. So if you chose to diminish or contest the importance of design in outcomes of the application of computers, you challenge the importance of volition in all affairs. This might be fair, but apropos Descartes' testament to mind: if you debase yourself, you debase all your conclusions, so best to treat confusion and fear about the implications of applied computing as a study of your own limits.

There's a single enormous and obvious hazard of "AI" in this era: that we imbue imitations of human responses with humanity. The bar is low for a convincing imitation and transformer technology demonstrates surprisingly high levels of imitation. This is conducive to confusion, which is becoming rampant.

The start of a responsible orientation to rampant confusion is to formally contextualize it and impose a schedule of hygiene on fakery.

The great hazard of centralized fakery (e.g. radio and television) is a trap for the mind.

We are living in the aftermath of a 500 year campaign of commercial slavery. When people are confused, they can be ensnared, trapped and enslaved. The hazard of "AI" is not the will of sentient machines burying the world in manufactured effluvia— we've achieved this already!— it's the continuation of commercial slavery by turning people into robots.

This thread reads like it's being created by bots; cascading hallucinations.

Well, this bot is throwing down the gauntlet: Prove you're human, y'all!
Why does it feel like every time someone promotes 'ethical journalism' here, it's always state backed propaganda?

A quick keyword search on the phrase easily refutes the supposition you're making here.

Not only that, people use propaganda terms like 'authoritarian regime'.

Probably because it would seem to be a reasonable enough description of the system of government in that country since 1962.

Meanwhile the weirdly exaggerated language you're using here seems to be in itself quite propagandistic.
Generating IDs on the client can be very useful for offline-first systems. But you need to check for conflicts and permissions on the server (or be sure to keep the IDs secret which I wouldn't recommend).
Actual radios connected to the internet http://www.websdr.org/
wowzers, I guess that's my fault for not searching for images of the safe you were talking about but when I heard "in home safe" I imagined those things like a gun safe but they weren't kidding around!

I actually would guess that replacing the damaged door would put that back in operation and would make for a cool perk for selling the house, but with that much steel(?) I can't imagine how much such a stunt would cost
Thank you for the correction. Either I never knew that, or I had indeed crossed the wires about how they work.
I’m so tired of people talking about AI like this but only looking at it from the perspective of a consumer. AI is so big because it allows people like me, who only dabble in code, to automate with very little learning curve.

My life has been irrevocably changed by AI and I’m tired of people saying it hasn’t done anything when reality is that they just don’t know what to use it for.
Crypto does something useful, how else would you buy drugs and rocket launchers from the dark web?
Just like with russia, they would service current customers just like usually, just not be able to get new ones. Slow, for Apple painful, exit. Of course as mentioned the effect on shares would be catastrophic so they would actually start respecting the law way before that would happen, Cook and shareholders ain't stupid and know very well what games they play.

It would just stop these PR charades where they try to act like they care and have some actual morals, but act differently.
My cost is $20 a month for ChatGPT Plus, and the value I get out of that far exceeds $20. That is value creation, not destruction, right now. Not some imagined AGI future hypothetical.
Of course there are tons of useless PR parasites. Shareholders will demand to see a "response" or a "strategy" or an "answer" or an "AI play". If all you make is toothbrushes, you just have to milk the users the old fashioned ways: hardware purchase, subscription, and data sharing.

That said, I know of ANOTHER toothbrush company that has an "AI play"... :(
Solution for 2000-2010: "the first decade of the 2000s".

I realize this is counting by decades/centuries again, but if we just do it for the first decade/century under a larger span it's easy to read.
What are some examples?

If in 10 years all we have are better chat bots and image generators, I’d say it was a bubble, and I don’t see anything that says that’s definitely not the path (though I’m not in the weeds of AI, so maybe it’s just not obvious, yet).
> Except, parents nowadays can get arrested for even less.

I wonder how many parents read about that one example and then behave in a way that ignores the likely millions of cases every day of kids playing in their front yard alone where that didn't happen.
> There’s no good way to refer to 2000-2009, sorry.

The 2000 noughties/aughties.
> The AI bubble folks are sitting in roles that are not doing the cutting edge AI work

Ah, the "trust me bro" argument. No one I know of, including Zitron, denies that this tech will increase margins by some number of percentage points.

But that's not the game the core AI guys are playing. They're raising money based on the promise of creating a digital god.
Oh certainly they should be able to do whatever they want! I just think their framing of what they're doing, where they disguise a personal preference as a nonsensical and disdainful attack, is unfortunate.
> my point is you accused me of lying at the drop of a hat for no good reason

I said you described fictional scenario, and it appears to be true, your table ID fields are very different than timezone, country and user_id.
The naughties.
Can you share an example of what you have automated or plan to automate using AI?
Yeah, like I like Rust, but Scheme is the easiest to read language I've ever seen. The clarity is off the charts. It's even more pseudocode-like for my money than Python, if you ignore the parens (as you should).
nonetheless, typing out, and even saying "the first decade of the 2000s" takes too long

we need something shorter, like the double-ohs "00s"
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in C# it's basically automatic https://github.com/microsoft/coyote/
>Otherwise it's value destroying given the huge costs associated with producing what are essentially very good chat bots.

It's astonishing that anyone even tech-adjacent can say something like this.

I'd argue these tools are already beyond "very good chat bots". And you think this is it? This is as far as we'll get with them, or AI? That's impossible to believe looking at history. Besides the fact that laying miles and miles of "excess" fibre was once seen as a bubble...
There is no crisis where markets don't supply handbags for less than $2k.

Similarly, Markets are not a monolith so this doesn't prove anything about markets in general. Economics is a broad science which works to establish a model of commerce, with varying degrees of accuracy and utility.

Profits are not an inherently bad thing or dirty word. It just means that surplus value was created by a transaction, and workers can profit too
Heh, the park they just built near me has a pretty tall slide, but there's a series of platforms in an enclosed structure you use to ascend it, so you can't just fall off a ladder. Kids are thankfully still kids though, and every now and then some kid climbs the outer structure and gets stuck.

The smaller slides are big tubes, and to discourage kids climbing on top of the tube, they installed these big shield wall things... which make them even more fun to climb.
Not true by any stretch. I've used komodo[1] for more than 2 decades as a debugger in Linux, Mac, and Windows. More recently VSCode on all 3, for debugging.

Definitely not a dead language. A mature and stable language, which won't surprise you.

[1] https://www.activestate.com/products/komodo-ide/
These types of takes seem pretty ignorant of the percentage of workers and students that are using artificial intelligence tools daily.

It is ignorant because it ignores any economical improvement that comes from say a machinist figuring out gcode issues, a culinary student learning safer fermentation etc...

This is pretty typical of finance or public relations people trying to make their thinking easier by only focusing on one variable at a time.

Don't know exact data, but can referr to Peter Diamantis quote:

```A survey by Microsoft and LinkedIn revealed that 85% of Gen Z uses AI at work, followed by Millennials at 78%, Gen X at 76%, and Boomers at 73%.```

Whether you want to believe thator not, you can think for yourself on how getting chatGPT to successfuly fix your espresso machine by telling which $0.35 gasket to replace... has had a positive growing booming impact on the economy or not.

To me it looks like it has and will continue to do so despite the venture money laundering/border-line-fraud issues that are clouding the picture
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A better way is to learn the “Goto file” command for your editor, instead of a file explorer. A file explorer is required to get a feel of the codebase layout, and to do file operations. But for navigation, search is quicker. And if you can setup symbol search (when there’s no intellisense), it’s worth it.
Climate change is your fault for placing the thing into blue bin instead of the gray bin!
> But as has been pointed out, most apps are never, ever going to have close to 2 billion users, or for that matter 2 billion anything. T

all computers will be fine with 640kb of ram
Unfortunately, if you build one every microsecond, you still won't be able to afford a 90 degree chevron board within 250 billion years.
And of course the sanest person gets downvoted, as always
I also remember reading somewhere the frequency of mass shootings pre-2008-2010 decreased dramatically with the rise of social media. Right around the time Facebook use became ubiquitous. I was trying to find the source, but couldn't. I think it was a graph from Wikipedia.
No offense, but the author here is just describing the formation of structural power. The bigger the power structure, the more diffuse it's ethical influence can be, and, the less responsibility any one employee needs to feel for it. A more meaningful question I think is, if an organization or power structure inherently incentivizes unethical behavior, does that mean that that form of organization or power structure itself should be considered unethical?
AI in its current incarnation felt on part with word processing, or even spreadsheet (which powers a big portion of the financial industry, so no mean feat)... but it's not the internal combustion engine, or comparable to the discovery of electricity.
I can't tell if it doesn't play because my device is slightly older (macOS Big Sur) or if my IP is blocked because of Cloudflare.

Nice idea, though.
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I know a number of people who choose not to pay attention to this world, specifically for the benefit of their mental health.
Agreed that the argument "overprotection leads to lack of free speech in academia" is tenuous.

That said, I do wonder if we all _are_ being protected from opposing views these days. Like, we come across the opposing views but usually in a filtered / characature form on Social Media/Fox News/MSNBC. It's actually kinda hard to find stuff without spin in my experience.

EDIT

My hypothesis is that's it's just cheaper to create speculative / opinion based journalism rather than real investigation. Since the former gets enough clicks, there's not a strong financial reason to create good journalism.
> everything including your toaster is running software

Doesn't that just support the author's claim that there's too much software?

FTR, my Dualit toaster doesn't run software.
The really stupid thing is that they make toddler swings (with basket seats) lower than normal swings. Why?? Do these people not understand physics? How is it that professional swing manufacturers have never actually pushed a toddler on a swing??
I write PHP for a living and I only write headless apps with Symfony and Laravel. Blade is an awful template engine with a primitive parser. Twig is tolerable, but for me nothing beats the DX of Inertia with Vue.
Why are so few foods blue? (2017)
How does this connect to the article at all?
> so obviously stupid.

It's not stupid though, because there are no objective universal values that you can intelligently deduce. It's stupid to you and me because we don't want to bury the world in paperclips, we want to fill the world with art and laughter and adventure and kindness, and burying the world in paperclips is a stupid way to fail to achieve that. But if someone did want the paperclips then there's no argument you could use to change their mind, except to explain how it might deprive them of something else they want even more.
> Stuff like this tells me the privacy fight is just completely unwinnable

Mozilla has done so many things to weaken users' trust in it (like this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39166801) that at this point many regard them as the least worst (rather than best) alternative to the competition when it comes to privacy and the open web.

I'd like to hope that Ladybird will give us a genuine alternative, but Google has ensured that current web standards are so complex that even MSFT (another megacap tech company) threw in the towel on maintaining their own browser engine.
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Previous discussion this week:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40817852
Maybe kids should pay less attention to things happening outside their sphere of control? Did kids have this much anxiety growing up in the Great Depression where literal starvation was a common condition?
He thinks tech industry has lost its charm and only making useless products, and has become hostile to users. I agree. In one episode, he talks about Prabhakar Raghavan, who has made a mess of Google search.

You might not agree with him all the time, but he has some good arguments and seems sincere in his criticisms. Better offline is worth a listen
I am trying now to think of a single decision I made differently because I was worried about being sued and I am coming up empty.

I'm also trying to think of anyone I know that was in fact sued and I am also coming up empty.
It's beyond "automating"; it's being able to go from idea to prototype without having to have a bunch of underlying knowledge.

I feel like there's a subset of "awesome programmers" who are going to be the people run over by AI, because they seem to be the ones who are saying, "why would I use this?"

We can't all be good at everything; the fact that I can use AI to catch up in some places means I have a leg up in others.
Either of those situations should be very easy to catch and prevent with basic rate limiting and monitoring.
I remember an article posted here years ago, there is an optimal amount of danger for playgrounds.
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As a parent, I have some mixed feelings about this. I absolutely want my kid to be independent and self-reliant ( and so far, unfortunately, I seem to be getting my wish ), but a lot depends on the kid you have. For example, mine is way too trusting towards strangers ( the way I used to be I suppose ) so I need to correct for that.

As for school and academia, doesn't it ( with exceptions in actual science ) select for conformity and obedience? It was already pretty bad when I finishing my MBA so I have no idea how bad it has gotten.
just to be clearer: Line Bender organization was started by Raph Levien, and he informally leads and drives the work forward.

And he is the first author of the paper (and he is also commenting in this same thread)
Has there ever been an attack/leak based on time metadata in UUIDs/ULIDs/Snowflakes/etc (not sequential), in a domain outside of sensitive ones (HIPAA/healthcare, defense)?

I'm skeptical that for the vast majority of uses, have time data in the IDs (and also not leaking it from actual timestamp fields) is an issue, and for the cases where it does, just use random IDs.

Even theoretically, is there a way to translate timestamps into a German tank problem? If I give you a sampled set of timestamps (with no other node identifiers), can you estimate the cardinality of the greater dataset?
Is "students using AI daily" really a positive examples you want to reach for, when the primary application there is students getting ChatGPT to write their essays so they don't have to actually learn anything or think critically about the material? Inventing a way to figuratively copy paste from Wikipedia but with a much lower chance of getting caught isn't a net good just because it makes MAU numbers go up.
I'm critical of Jonathan Haidt for a few reasons:

1. He's presenting himself as an expert on a topic far from his research expertise. His background per Wikipedia: "Haidt's main scientific contributions come from the psychological field of moral foundations theory, which attempts to explain the evolutionary origins of human moral reasoning on the basis of innate, gut feelings rather than logic and reason." This has nothing to do with developmental and clinical psychology/psychiatry. He's way out of his depth here.

2. He's part of the "intellectual dark web", a group of people who seek out fame with a particular audience niche, and prioritize that over truth.

3. I feel he's trying to please the audience and get out bestsellers, making the same mistakes he accuses others of making, e.g. lack of scientific rigor/open mindedness. Example: maybe Smartphones aren't that bad. Sure, they have a big impact, but it could be positive and negative. To make the book a bestseller, it pays to focus on the negatives.
Like Cypher said while enjoying that juicy Matrix generated steak: "Ignorance is bliss".
> It's astonishing that anyone even tech-adjacent can say something like this.

Then I'll present my credentials. 25 years in tech and I use ChatGPT every day. It's an incredibly good chat bot and code snippet generator. The more I use it the more I see how much of a stochastic parrot it is. It's usually not that hard to find the code it based it's response on on GitHub and Stack overflow if you've got time to kill.
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No parent wants to take an avoidable, even 1 in a million chance of losing custody of their kids because of doing a reasonable thing that someone could take out of context or make trouble for them about.
> I'm going to generalize here and speak about my fellow conservatives

That's not generalizing because you don't know which category the person is from. What you did was fabricate a scapegoat using your imagination. There are plenty of valid reasons to let the police handle a legal dispute involving a child.
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This is exactly the kind of thinking that causes issues, just doom-posting nonstop about things they don't control instead of living their lives and trying to make things better.
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Just mentioning that I love AWS' signed request model. It's so much easier than dealing with OAuth for APIs and I wish it would catch on more broadly.
It's inspired an IETF RFC (https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc9421), so we'll see.
Haha, no, the porous coral was quickly infiltrated and deposited with actual bone. It still gives me trouble now and again (that bone has a goofy bend in it and is weaker than before), but is mostly indistinguishable from some other bone breaks I have had.
Well reasoned, but citing a Microsoft survey is not informative.
That “attention to the market dynamics debt” will catch up to them, just as it has caught up to all the working adults who are unable to afford living expenses in their cities because they spent their 20s partying rather than investing and looking to get ahead/stay ahead of these things. Anyone in their 30s saying “I’d like to have children but I can’t afford it” has been asleep at the wheel of a global change that has been unfolding in a relatively obvious way.

I’m not saying it’s good or bad - everyone’s free to make their own life choices, I’m saying it is what it is and TANSTAAFL.
Just ignore him. It's just like the people who refused to get a smart phone years after everyone had them. Some combination of being threatened by AI, not wanting to have to learn a new thing, and wanting to seem cool and "in the know" by rejecting the popular opinion.

Anyone that has actually used ChatGPT etc al can trivially see its value.