janice1999

“We’re going to have supervision,” Oracle founder Larry Ellison said. “Every police officer is going to be supervised at all times, and if there’s a problem, AI will report that problem and report it to the appropriate person. Citizens will be on their best behavior because we are constantly recording and reporting everything that’s going on.”

If you're processing people's data it doesn't matter if it's free or not, you need to understand your legal obligations. You can't have a blank Terms of Service. You should really talk to a legal professional.

You want companies to pay you to process their customers voices and private data, but I don't see a privacy policy or even what jurisdiction you operate in. Your Terms and Conditions is literally a placeholder. That's a huge red flag.

That was obvious before even looking at the repo because the OP used "the core insight" in the intro. Other telltale signs of these type of AI projects:

- new account

- spamming the project to HN, reddit etc the moment the demo half works

- single contributor repo

- Huge commits minutes apart

- repo is less than a week old (sometimes literally hours)

- half the commits start with "Enhance"

- flashly demo that hides issues immediately obvious to experts in the field

- author has slop AI project(s)

OP uses more than one branch so he's more sophisticated than most.

Doubtful. The first thing Musk did was fire the safety team at Twitter.

They would never do that. They have an anime girlfriend app. They've picked their target audience, let's if it was worth it.

What an unserious response.

Gun manufacturer accountability (or lack thereof) is a complex topic and one with ongoing lawsuits and evolving legal arguments. (In the USA see the Bush-era NRA-backed Protection of Lawful Commerce in Arms Act in 2005 and recent Smith & Wesson Brands, Inc. v. Mexico arguments).

Personally if a gun manufacturer markets a gun with the primary feature being finger print resistant (yes, that's real) and being easy to carry concealed, I think lawmakers should investigate. Likewise f someone makes a big CSAM generator button and puts it in front of millions of users, it also deserves legal attention.

Ignoring a cornerstone of how the lists are being compiled is historically a bad idea.

The liver is an exception here - you can grow back a lot of it.

Just keep your mental health in mind - there's growing concern that the link between finasteride and depression has been underestimated [0].

[0] https://www.psychiatrist.com/jcp/analytical-review-depressio...

> Because companies/users don’t pay for “great code”

Unless you work in an industry with standards, like medical or automotive. Setting ISO compliance aside, you could also work for a company which values long term maintainability, uptime etc. I'm glad I do. Not everyone is stuck writing disposable web apps.

> If you’re against anthropomorphism of LLMs then how can it “encourage” you if you’re not having a conversation?

Humans are more than biased word predictors.

You're right it's about paying customers. No one is going to waste time campaigning against a $1.99 squid game knockoff on Steam if it uses AI (many are just Unity assets flips already).

The backlash I've seen is against large studies leaving AI slop in 60+ dollar games. Sure, it might just be some background textures or items at the moment, but the reasoning is that if studies know they can get away with it, quality decline is inevitable. I tend to agree. AI tooling is useful but it can't be at the expense of the product quality.

If you're worried about AI, content creation seems like the worst possible choice. If you want to future proof your career, I suggest finding a specialty that needs some hands on work, e.g. embedded development. AI is not going to pick up boards, attach probes and debug oscilloscope traces.. a least for a little while yet.

Being Indian is probably not the point he wants to make - it's that he has lots of competition, particularity as a developer.

There's a Microsoft datacenter being built on the proposed Foxconn site and it will use 8.4 million gallons of water per year, so I guess industry got its way eventually?

OP has no idea what he's talking about. Passengers masks are for depressurisation events and oxygen supplies last 15 minutes - enough time for the pilots to descend. Pilots have a separate longer lasting oxygen supply. In many (most older?) planes, a single passenger activating their mask will activate the chemical based oxygen supply that feeds all passenger masks.

I live near one (no-USA) and honestly it doesn't bother me. It's a small price to pay to avoid ever-decreasing foreign-sourced oil/gas and insanely over-budget/over-schedule nuclear.

In my experience it's weak and inexperienced developers who gravitate to AI tools. Unfortunately they lack the domain knowledge to correctly evaluate the outcome of the AI tools they use. AI weaponizes them against their colleagues by enabling them to open more PRs and generate more text which may look reasonable at first but falls apart under serious review. Any gains I may get from AI myself is eaten away in this way.

Personally I prefer "Artificially Intelligent engineers" or "Engineers who outsource intelligence".

Temporarily embarrassed digital feudal lords.

> but not if you just assume/pretend the worst-case scenario is real

Just want to point out that Canada weaponised war time powers to debank truckers protesting during COVID. The rubicon has already been crossed. While I didn't support their cause, the writing is on the wall about what governments want to be able to do to people it finds inconvenient.

IVF / Fertility services

> But we should be explicit that there is a tradeoff to be made.

Did you read what I wrote? There is no "tradeoff". Authoritarianism doesn't guarantee crime reduction and it certainly is not the only way to achieve it. I live in a vibrant democracy with low crime and an almost totally unarmed police force (thanks to strict gun control and a public health care system).

The idea authoritarianism reduces crime or increases efficiency or put more bluntly "at least Mussolini made the trains run on time" is a fallacy. Crime still happens, it's just that those connected to the regime are protected from consequences, see for example the blatant corruption in Russia or the untouchable "Princelings" (CCP officials offspring) in China.

And no, Mussolini didn't make the trains run on time - he took credit for rail improvements started before he took power and then led his country into disastrous wars that destroyed it.

> Where's the fire and passion behind the resistance?

The working class are exhausted and a paycheck away from losing their homes. People don't have the time or energy to fight back for privacy/sovereignty/whatever inconveniences those in power. Stallman grew up privileged, went to the best universities at the best possible time and worked in academia. He had plenty of time to devote to political causes.

While the modern "chemtrails" conspiracy makes no sense, it's interesting how like many conspiracies there is a grain of truth, however twisted, at the center. During the Cold War the US (and Canada and the UK and others) carried out experiments on large population centers by, among other things, dispersing chemicals from planes to simulate nuclear fallout and biological weapon attacks.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_LAC

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Sea-Spray

I think that's an anachronistic view of things - politics and Silicon Valley have always been linked in some way. In-Q-Tel has been funding startups since 1999. Other government programs also helped fund Google. Those political decisions to invest in mapping, data processing and surveillance technology etc helped create the Silicon Valley giants we have today. It also worked the other way, with the USA v Microsoft antitrust kicking off in the late 90s.

You need thousands of dollars of hardware to run a decent coding model with bearable tokens/s.

You can't blame the EU for Google pulling developer support for devices or holding back security patches.

There are pros and cons to "big bloc regulation". You can go and start a phone company since so many things are standarised but the main constraint will be who you source a modem from and the lack of choice will be because of patents (see Apple vs Qualcomm).