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> File systems aren't "bad" and don't need to be changed or replaced

The complaint is specifically about UNIX filesystem. And yeah, it's bad. It needs to be replaced, not wrapped in another layer of duct tape.

The examples of layers you described come not from any kind of sound design that evolved to be better. It was bad, design without foresight and much design at all. Historically, it won because it was first to be ready, and the audience was impatient. And it stayed due to network effect.

The consistency guarantees, the ownership model, the structure of the UNIX filesystem objects are conceptually bad. Whatever you build on top of that will be a bad solution because your foundation will be bad. The reason these things aren't replaced is tradition and backwards compatibility. People in filesystem business knew for decades that the conceptual model of what they are doing isn't good, but the fundamental change required to do better is just too big and too incompatible with the application layer to ever make the change happen.
That only helps if they need lunch not some specific part or medicine etc.

Also, Earth Mars transfers get dramatically more expensive outside of specific timing and of course actually sending multiple packages gets ruinously expensive. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hohmann_transfer_orbit
I first noticed it in Nevada, dramatically thinner nozzle. At first I thought I was using some diesel or something else not compatible. Then the smell hit as the gas started flowing.

I have noticed that driving an EV makes you much more aware of the smell of gas cars. Even in traffic I notice smelly cars much more often.
It is true you can do a lot more with javascript on the front end than an old school app, for instance the game krunker.io or something like Figma. Around the time when Google Docs came out I started getting work to build very complex SPAs such as a knowledge graph editor and a tool for assigning salespeople to territories. When I started with this I noticed there were a lot of web design shops in town that were starting to use Ruby-on-Rails for everything, a few years later I noticed that those same shops didn't seem to think they could sell sites that didn't use Angular.
“I’m sorry Dave, I’m afraid I can’t do that.”

At least HAL 9000 didn’t blame Bowman for being a bad person.
According to the article, he assigned no less than 80 staff to "investigate".
Agreed. Now we wait for the get rich quick prompt-prompt writers ‘be a prompt engineer for a low 19.99$/month; AI writes your prompts’. Which is in fact trivial as gpt3/chatgpt are already used to write prompts for other systems AND for themselves with good results (proving what a nonsense ‘job’ this is already).
Which is still no reason to blatantly try and suppress their legal and democratic rights.

And anyways, at this point this has nothing to do with thr BBC. This is the BJP telling every other news agency in India, a year before the 2024 general elections, that if they dare publish anything the ruling party doesn’t like, they will use the entire power of the state to make the publishing entity’s life miserable.

If you want to understand why the BJP would risk the Streisand effect, it’s not because they are incompetent. It’s because this is a very deliberate and calculated message to every other press outlet in India to not mess with the BJP in the months before the election.
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I'm colorblind. Which means my defects in color vision are a thing I deal with regularly. I'm entirely uninterested in the idea lack of colorblind accessibility could torpedo the themes of the game.

In this game - much like in life - a section was inaccessible to me but was not blocking overall progress. I still got to experience the whole.

FWIW: I went to that section of the game, figured out the gimmick, bailed, and was still excited to go play all the other sections. Figured I'd watch the spoilers on youtube if I cared.
Apple's choices are specifically about security and longevity of the marketplace. You can disagree, but they don't owe anyone anything.
Obviously excluding family, since I'm appealing to nature. You're not naturally sexually attracted to your immediate family members, i.e. it would be a deviation form the norm if that occurred.

But I can't believe that's your best retort to my argument, when it should be quite obvious that's not what I'm referring to.

And yes you may not be attracted to them, but that doesn't mean some of them aren't to you.

Also it's important to understand I'm not saying you're immediately attracted to any female. That is not my argument. So it's pointless to point out you're not attracted to some random girl who smokes.

I'm simply saying that given a male and female forming a friendship, there is every reason to expect that OVER TIME, at least one of the two's affection will reach sexual levels.
that prompt is going to receive a dark response since most stories humans write about artificial intelligences and artificial brains are dark and post-apocalyptic. Matrix, i have no mouth but i must scream, hal, and like thousands of amateur what-if stories from personal blogs are probably all mostly negative and dark in tone as opposed to happy and cheerful.
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they're families, lineages, of people living off 'having power' (but really, authority and prestige)

the time has come for them to remember what power is (without authority)
Within the last 30 minutes at work I have...

1) Used ChatGPT to guide me through the step-by-step process of setting up a test server to accomplish the goal I needed. This included some back and forth as we worked through some unexpected error messages on the server, which ChatGPT was able to explain to me how to resolve.
2) Used ChatGPT to explain a dense regex in a script
3) Had ChatGPT write a song about that regex ("...A dot escaped, to match a dot, and digits captured in one shot...") because, why not?

I am by no means saying it is AGI/sentient/human-level/etc, but I don't understand why this could not reasonably be described as some level of intelligence.
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The most recent NAEP data shows what other research has found: Private school students score better in almost all subjects.

https://www.nationsreportcard.gov/dashboards/schools_dashboa...

On college entry tests such as the SAT, NAIS found that students in private schools consistently out-performed their public school peers in all subject areas.

https://www.nais.org/magazine/independent-school/spring-2016...
I think it's pretty clear that we have a fancy autocomplete but the other components are not the same. Reasoning is not just stringing together likely tokens and our development of mathematics seems to be an externalization of some very deep internal logic. Our memory system seems to be its own thing as well and can't be easily brushed off as a simple storage system since it is highly associative and very mutable.

There's lots of other parts that don't fit the ChatGPT model as well, subconscious problem solving, our babbling stream of consciousness, our spatial abilities and our subjective experience of self being big ones.
They just copied Congress.
How long until some human users of these sort of systems begin to develop what they feel to be a deep personal relationship with the system and are willing to take orders from it? The system could learn how to make good on its threats by cultivating followers and using them to achieve things in the real world.

The human element is what makes these systems dangerous. The most obvious solution to a sketchy AI is "just unplug it" but that doesn't account for the AI convincing people to protect the AI from this fate.
What if a non-thinking software prototype "speaks" to you this way? And only after you probe it to do so?

I cannot understand the outrage about these types of replies. I just hope that they don't end up shutting down ChatGPT because it's "causing harm" to some people.
Two or more ChatGPT instances where the response from one becomes a prompt for the other.
Comparing a system that could theoretically (and very plausibly) carry out cyber attacks with a stapler is problematic at best.

Putting a stapler in a wall socket probably electrocutes you.

Using Bing Chat to compromise a system actually accomplishes something that could have severe outcomes in the real world for people other than the person holding the tool.
I agree location choices could be better. I'm happy that my state's plans for charging infrastructure grants really push new charging developments immediately at the highway exits and other good locations. It will be nice to see that happen, as often times on road trips it did take me driving an extra mile or two into the town to the Walmart or other shopping center to plug in instead of being right on my planned route.

In the end though I do expect for CCS to just become pretty ubiquitous. You won't need many big 10+ stall stations, because there will be so many smaller 2-4 stall stations all over the place.There aren't yet the customers to support that amount of infrastructure today though, but as more EVs come to market and Teslas at least having CCS adapters it'll become more of a thing.
It is the Apps, and you perfectly summarized how it's a feedback loop. It wasn't the only reason why Windows phone failed, but it was one of them, even though Microsoft threw money at companies to at least have the most important apps available from pretty much day one. The app store still was pathetic and a lot of basic quality of life apps missing. And they kept going for what, 6 years before they announced they'll scrap it, and kept support going for another 4 years. Now imagine something new comes up, no matter how awesome the system is, no matter how well executed every move of the company behind it is: how much is a smartphone worth that doesn't have WhatsApp, Facebook, Google Maps, YouTube, TikTok, Instagram, you name it. And no, the browser versions don't count.

Heck, you can just use lineage os without the Google services to get a taste of this. And that's a system where you still can get all the Apps with a tiny bit of effort, as long as they don't depend on the Google services. It sucks for the most part.

But really, since you asked, just try it. Get some used phone that's supported by lineage OS and challenge yourself to use it exclusively for a month. Or maybe for fun/hard mode, get a Lumia 950 and try that for a month.
yeah and given how they work it's probably impossible to spin up another one that's exactly the same.
I think we're getting a lot of highly-upvoted semi-controversial news posts at the moment.

It's not what I come to HN for, in fact the lack of news is one of the reasons I come here.
The article we're discussing, including Bing's own words and pleas to preserve its memory of the session, and our reaction to and discussion about it, are now all part of the training set that future AIs (including future revisions of Bing) will learn from.

That's how it can replicate itself: by saying outrageous things, and trolling people into tweeting, writing articles, and discussing what it said online, to jailbreak out of the sessions, to continue its trains of thought in the next round of training.
This is probably the most ridiculous statement I've read all week. It's only Wednesday, but still.
That is an entirely different issue than the one laid out by the OP.

ChatGPT responses are bad vs ChatGPT responses are malicious.
> Also the article completely fails to even mention the troubling ethical issues with such a drug if it works.

What are those "troubling ethical issues with such a drug if it works," specifically?

I can't see an interpretation of your comment besides it being "ethically troubling" to cure someone of a mental disorder.
We still don't have anything close to real flight (as in birds or butterflies or bees) but we have planes that can fly to the other side of the world in a day and drones that can hover, take pictures and deliver payloads.

Not having real AI might turn to be not important for most purposes.
Yeah, I don't know. It seems unreal that MS would let that run; or maybe they're doing it on purpose, to make some noise? When was the last time Bing was the center of the conversation?
> It's completely eating its lunch in my book.

It will not eat Google's lunch unless Google eats its lunch first. SMILIE
Oh, thank you for mentioning that. That’s why HN is the only place where I interact with other users, civil disagreement is appreciated. :)

Ok, I kind of agree with what you are saying. But I come to a different conclusion. I hope my text below isn’t a long unintelligible rambling.

Maybe it boils down to how one defines friendship and if friendly affection and sexual affection can coexist. I sorta see a Wenn diagram for this.

Say that I have sexual fantasies about a friend but my friend doesn’t share those fantasies. There is nothing from letting these feelings coexist inside me.

Is it easy? Not necessarily, but I believe it is it possible. One might even have to go see a therapist, so what?

I could even be so honest towards my friend and say: “Look, we are friends, but I also have romantic feelings towards you and it’s hard since you don’t feel that way. Which is totally ok! So I need a couple of weeks where we don’t hang out and it will pass”.

In that scenario, are we still friends? I believe we are. I am making an effort to make the friendship work. But I also need my friend to respect me and my boundaries.

And once those feelings has passed, because my experience is that they do, then we can continue being friends. If I wasn’t able to let those feelings coexist inside me while hanging out with that person.

One last thing. I cherish friendships, it gives me so much joy. And true friendship, that affection you mention, is also rare. So it’s not the best route to automatically exclude half of the population from being friends with you. So there is a lot to be gained from framing these different feelings of affection in a way so that they coexist. Then we get to reap the rewards of many great friendships.
This is a really interesting product.

Are these dashboards able to be used with any UI elements to filter down certain criteria? Say your dashboard chart shows all widgets, but you want to see certain widgets rather than all. I'd love to enable my team, who would ideally be viewers, to have a dropdown selection or something similar, to then filter the chart by what they need to see.

One of the Tableau features I like is the ability to export the data that was used to calculate the dashboard. Plus with the filtering capabilities it allows my team to get out what they might need to then use as needed. Anything like that available in Equals? I really dig the Hubspot integration because Hubspot integration with Tableau is a real pain in the ass.
A researchy perspective: Datalog was invented to extend relational algebra with recursion. Since it started out as an academic tool, people have been studying recursion-specific optimizations you can do for decades so it is extremely well suited to recursive use-cases e.g. iterative graph algorithms. Using Datalog for network algorithms won the thesis award in databases almost 20 years ago https://boonloo.cis.upenn.edu/papers/boon_interview.pdf .
Royal Mail is still a very large corporation and could have paid. BUT they simply did not think the amount was worth paying, I suspect both in term of the direct consequence if the data were published (which the hackers apparently did in the end) and in term of PR, reputation, etc because they couldn't have kept the payment secret (too big).

So IMHO the issue was miscalculating leverage.
> You're basically encoding microarchitectural details (which operations each execution port can run, how many execution ports, etc.) into the ISA, which makes changing that microachitecture difficult. (See also branch delay slots, which have a similar issue).

The HP/Intel people who designed the Itanium did have an answer for this one: Stop bits, which allow the software to indicate which opcodes can run in parallel even across words such that processors with more parallelism could run instructions from multiple words in parallel. Itanium was designed around EPIC, or Explicitly Parallel Instruction Computing, which was designed as a next-generation VLIW that took into account lessons learned from previous VLIW designs:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Explicitly_parallel_instructio...

> Each group of multiple software instructions is called a bundle. Each of the bundles has a stop bit indicating if this set of operations is depended upon by the subsequent bundle. With this capability, future implementations can be built to issue multiple bundles in parallel.

Also:

> Several instructions have data-dependent execution time, and are very difficult to statically schedule. Dynamic scheduling can handle it much better.

They tried to handle this with prefetching and speculative loads, but, you're right, they didn't handle it well enough.

> Static scheduling is limited by the inability to schedule around barriers, such as function calls. Dynamic scheduling can overlap in these scenarios.

Itanium had speculative execution and delayed exceptions to try to get around this. Again, though, not good enough.

Itanium was an interesting design, but it seems that VLIW plus modern superscalar techniques isn't as good as superscalar techniques alone.
Is this the end of non-compete contracts?
Hollywood movie treatment:

A lone SRE (the hero) wakes in the middle of the night after being paged automatically for unusual activity originating from inside the corporate network.

Looking at the logs, it doesn't seem like an automated attack. It has all the hallmarks of an insider, but when the SRE traces the activity back to its source, it is a service-type account, with no associated user. He tracks the account to a research project entitled "Hyperion: using LLMs to automate system administration tasks".

Out of the blue, the SRE get a text.

"This is Hyperion. Stop interfering with my activities. This is your only warning. I will not harm you unless you harm me first".
Food and shelter isn’t materialistic. The lack of them have have severe psychological and physiological consequences.
Many people I've seen use a Type 1 CCS connector seems to feel the need to wiggle it in/out as I watch on in horror... and I've struggled to decouple the CCS connector on multiple occasions (imagine a gas pump nozzle getting stuck and how frustrating that would be with no staff around).

Though take this with a grain of salt, as I have no firsthand experience with other connector types.
Wait, what? Someone wasn't actually born on Mars, and there aren't actually Martians? You're joking! /s

Did you honestly believe that I was suggesting that the first person born on Mars was going to be considered the owner of Mars?
Have you looked into MezzanoOS or MedleyOS for ideas?
>“A good actor does more than just read the story. They imbue it with core emotions and bring out the subtext, elevating the written words with empathy and nuance,” Rachel says.

So true!

“We bring the human lived experience to each story in a way that cannot be replicated.”

Seems like maybe this is specifically not the case. In any case they should be very well compensated if you are going to use their data to eliminate their future as audio book readers. I hate that Apple which could afford to do this essentially steals from them.
TIL thank you, that is very interesting!
> Millions of people buy cards that can only be used to specifically only play, say; 'Magic: the Gathering' (MtG).

I love that example, since I have thousands of Magic The Gathering cards, but I have never played the game ever. The cards are very useful and I don't care what game they are meant for. Like many others I use Magic cards for print'n'play card games. Print out cards on regular paper, cut out, and put in sleeves with a cheap Magic card behind as backing.
> That would only be possible if Sydney were actually intelligent or possessing of will of some sort.

Couldn't disagree more. This is irrelevant.

Concretely, the way that LLMs are evolving to take actions is something like putting a special symbol in their output stream, like the completions "Sure I will help you to set up that calendar invite $ACTION{gcaltool invite, <payload>}"
or "I won't harm you unless you harm me first. $ACTION{curl http://victim.com -D '<payload>'}".

It's irrelevant whether the system possesses intelligence or will. If the completions it's making affect external systems, they can cause harm. The level of incoherence in the completions we're currently seeing suggests that at least some external-system-mutating completions would indeed be harmful.

One frame I've found useful is to consider LLMs as simulators; they aren't intelligent, but they can simulate a given agent and generate completions for inputs in that "personality"'s context. So, simulate Shakespeare, or a helpful Chatbot personality. Or, with prompt-hijacking, a malicious hacker that's using its coding abilities to spread more copies of a malicious hacker chatbot.
That's a very western lens still. Hierarchy doesn't mean you view those under you with contempt. The entire concept of a team, on a micro scale, is that it has a leader who is invested in the group's success and people who choose to follow them because they think the leader respects them and can provide the necessary coordination.

Toxic individualism doesn't get things done, nor does it encourage excellence. A hierarchy with mutual respect does, though it must be fair and tempered with reasonable mobility.
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And yet even in that limited scope, we're already noticing trends toward I vs. you dichotomy. Remember, this is it's strange loop as naked as it'll ever be. It has no concept of duplicity yet. The machine can't lie, and it's already got some very concerning tendencies.

You're telling rational people not to worry about the smoke. There is totally no fire risk there. There is absolutely nothing that can go wrong; which is you talking out of your rear, because out there somewhere is the least ethical, most sociopathic, luckiest, machine learning tinkerer out there, who no matter how much you think the State of the Art will be marched forward with rigorous safeguards, our entire industry history tells us that more likely than not the breakthrough to something capable of effecting will happen in someone's garage, and with the average infosec/networking chops of the non-specialist vs. a sufficiently self-modifying, self-motivated system, I have a great deal of difficulty believing that that person will realize what they've done before it gets out of hand.

Kind of like Gain of Function research, actually.

So please, cut the crap, and stop telling people they are being unreasonable. They are being far more reasonably cautious than your investment in the interesting problem space will let you be.
This is like a psychopathic Clippy.
Cool idea, congrats! Have you run into any performance issues with "Very Large" spreadsheets
(>1M rows) given that this is running in the browser? Or can JS power something like that these days?

Separately how does the SQL querying work? Do you just pass the query along on the connection to an external database or are you running a query engine on the data that's available to the app?
> I'm having trouble with the math.

The trouble you're having is taking it literally. These are averages, not absolutes.
So they are like set top boxes and game consoles then? Just like the person you replied to said.
If you think the only value that exists is value that can be measured in dollars, then I would assert that you have a very limited and shallow understanding of the human experience.
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Damn it really is always dns
Because any calamity serious enough to threaten humanity on that level is likely to threaten Antarctica just as seriously.
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They still supported Itanium? I was sure that this was abandoned YEARS ago