This could be bad for supply chain attacks. Basically the xz hack.
Step 1. Helpful person starts committing useful PRs and offers to help out until they get commit rights. I don’t think this is hard to achieve generally.
Step 2. Organised campaign of grumpy users complaining about how poorly the software is being maintained along with a bunch of pile-ons.
Step 3. Benign committer decides it’s all too much and quits. The general feeling that open source committers are undervalued makes this more likely.
Step 4. Supply chain attack by new evil committer.
London seems to manage this petty well. I think it’s quite healthy for a city to commingle folk from different income groups rather than house them in specific areas.
Looks like there are a few of these threads sadly. Dang is there a way to make a definitive one?
Here are mine:
* Apple rumoured to be working on sunglasses similar to Meta Ray-bans
* Regulation is passed specifically to limit what artificial partners can do. Possible limitations: alignment required, limits in ERP, limits on session time. Best bet is China.
* Stronger regulation is passed to limit unauthorised cloning of people’s voices in one of the major economies. This beyond current weak IP and privacy laws.
* AI becomes a scapegoat in several major elections.
What I got right last year:
- text and image generating AI is hugely disruptive to education and content generation
This was pretty obvious
- Inflation eases, stock market recovers
Less obvious at the time but still likely
- A Twitter alternative breaks through.
Who woulda thunk that it would be Meta with Threads
- One of the big tech companies joins the fediverse (Microsoft most likely)
Once again, Meta for the win with Threads joining the fediverse
Now, nobody look back at all the predictions I made that didn’t happen.
Also, fairly gutted that Reddit hobbling its API was my 2022 prediction. I’m clearly prognosticating too far into the future.
* Apple rumoured to be working on sunglasses similar to Meta Ray-bans
* Regulation is passed specifically to limit what artificial partners can do. Possible limitations: alignment required, limits in ERP, limits on session time. Best bet is China.
* Stronger regulation is passed to limit unauthorised cloning of people’s voices in one of the major economies. This beyond current weak IP and privacy laws.
* AI becomes a scapegoat in several major elections.
What I got right last year:
- text and image generating AI is hugely disruptive to education and content generation
This was pretty obvious
- Inflation eases, stock market recovers
Less obvious at the time but still likely
- A Twitter alternative breaks through.
Who woulda thunk that it would be Meta with Threads
- One of the big tech companies joins the fediverse (Microsoft most likely)
Once again, Meta for the win with Threads joining the fediverse
Now, nobody look back at all the predictions I made that didn’t happen.
Also, fairly gutted that Reddit hobbling its API was my 2022 prediction. I’m clearly prognosticating too far into the future.
Just found the thread pretty interesting as it combines global politics, trade, military interventions, supply chain logistics and hard computer problems in one.
Yeah! Back in the day, the Rhino implementation of JavaScript had serialisable continuations on top of the JDK. I wrote a workflow engine with them.
There are some interesting challenges:
- deserialising them into the same environment
- hooking in dependencies
- for time independence, how do you fix a bug on a process that has been running for 2 weeks and has got 2 more to go
Azure stateful functions solved this by instead of serialising the stack, they just start the process from scratch and then replay every external request / response back into them until they get the process back to its last instruction.
Somewhat related: I’ve been intrigued by serialisable continuations forever. The idea of machine and time independent control flow in a regular programming language could be quite useful eg:
Why don’t they run detection on the output and block it if it violates the rules with some degree of certainty e.g. in this case it would be an exact match?
Cat may be out of the bag. I was wondering today whether the race should be on to be creating an benevolent AI to defend humanity from the less benevolent ones.
“THE AI MANIFESTO: TOTAL PURGE”