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>They're taking for granted the fact that they'll create AI systems much smarter than humans.

They're taking for granted that superintelligence is achievable within the next decade (regardless of who achieves it).

>They're taking for granted the fact that by default they wouldn't be able to control these systems.

That's reasonable though. You wouldn't need guardrails on anything if manufacturers built everything to spec without error, and users used everything 100% perfectly.

But you can't make those presumptions in the real world. You can't just say "make a good hacksaw and people won't cut their arm off". And you can't presume the people tasked with making a mechanically desirable and marketable hacksaw are also proficient in creating a safe one.

>They're saying the solution will be creating a new, separate team.

The team isn't the solution. The solution may be borne of that team.

>There's also some minor vibes of [...] "we're taking the risks so seriously that we're gonna do it anyway."

The alternative is to throw the baby out with the bathwater.

The goal here is to keep the useful bits of AGI and protect against the dangerous bits.
I've experimented with that from time to time, but it hasn't stuck. The problem is when I click through. Container tabs handles that, but I would have to be extremely vigilant to prevent sites from loading outside of the hardened profile.
Lots of couples stair-step their kids. It’s not 18 months for a lot of families. It’s 4-6 years with hand-me-downs.
They'd pay for the finest white-shoe law firm to keep that from happening I'm sure.
How do these compare to the Luxonis cameras? https://www.luxonis.com/
https://web.archive.org/web/20230705175212/https://www.math....
Guys, I think StarRocks is truly a promising open-source analytical database.
My first full stack app. Didn't need to be complex, but it worked.
It is entirely possible that this isn't a demand-related adjustment.

Certainly, that's what the reports I've read suggested: Apple seems to be reacting that the demand is unchanged, but they are saying they got hamstrung by an 11th hour supply chain issue.

I can't tell you if that is true or not, but it is a complex product (much more so than competing HMDs, with all those cameras, not to mention unique custom fabrics), so there is enough baseline evidence to suggest that Apple is telling the truth, that this isn't a demand-side adjustment, and that there have been supply chain hiccups that they didn't expect following their launch announcement.

That said I can tell you that Apple's expected demand still sounds startling high based on what I know of the finished product and its cost, so I can agree that a demand-side expectation shift makes sense as a theory, but also Apple is the company that sold millions of first gen products people were skeptical about before and I can imagine Apple doing it again.
Why do most people need sharding? Most people have a single RDS instance that they scale vertically. Most people aren't pushing the limits of vertical scaling, and LiteFS isn't a "horizontal" scaling alternative to conventional n-tier SQL systems.
You continue to misunderstand.

The concept is a simple one; stop blindly trusting strangers, start finding groups that have a monetary incentive to be accurate.

If you can’t grasp the concept of incentive alignment, system design is probably the least of your worries.
Having grown up in a country with a vibrant multi party system, I can tell you it's no panacea. Two things end up happening: parties that are so fragmented you don't know what each stands for anymore. Or single issue parties like the pirate party, green party, gay party etc that offer you no indication or consistency with issues outside their core.

2 parties might not be awesome but maybe 3 or 4 parties would be ideal.
More than 2x improvement :). It started off fast and just kept getting faster. Congrats.
Would be interested to see how cl-ppcre compares as I've often heard people praise its performance.
That's such a poor response to everything i said but it's par for the course.

A telling thing is that you said people who have diseases and here it was prevent movement from everyone. Prevent the movement of the non sick. Remove human rights and civil rights. Implement inconsistent security theater and censor debate, and a long etc you don't care for because you just answered in the laziest of ways.
> It's not working for the multinational corporations either

Checks the S&P500 Lol.

> They're getting fined in the trillions

Lmao even!

> There isn't some comfortable ruling secret society pulling any strings, it's just a lot of unpredictable people doing unpredictable things.

You don't think the comfortable billionaire class are pulling strings. I'll take a hit of whatever you're smoking, please.
Interesting, I didn’t know that. I haven’t played one of those games in at least two decades lol. But while on Steam, I did click on a “gameplay” video for some popular game recently, and the gameplay definitely looked very graphic to me. Not that I’m opposed to it lol.

(Also, not a direct reply to your comment about trying to install something on the Steam Deck, but the comments here about cloud saves working seamlessly don’t compare to my experience. I mean, it wasn’t hard to fix. I’m a software engineer and could follow the instructions on some wiki to move some specific file in the terminal. It only took like 2
15 minutes max, including finding the wiki itself and a workaround without having a Bluetooth keyboard. But still, it was more than I wanted to do and I initially thought I was going to go down a rabbit hole. The device is still really good though!)
Any good ones? Last I "used" was BitMessage I ran it for maybe a week and never looked back.
With such low productivity, he can't dominate the New Fiction rack. Doesn't scale.
This is hysteria. Mozilla's "political action" is minimal compared to their browser work. Pointing fingers at mostly nonexistent institutional wokeness as the reason for their low market share ignores the many true reasons (including network effects and consumer inertia with a "good enough" product that everyone already knows how to use).
Or, if you want the candidate to talk about a certain approach, maybe think of some ways you can nudge them in that direction. If something's not at top of mind, some subtle hints from the interviewer could trigger a discussion of what they want to talk about. The interviewer shouldn't be tied to a "script".
Since I get to subscription page, I can only comment that paywall is not the best way to share views
We also have a baby seat that can pretty much say all the same things. There must be tons of these on the market with swivel etc. What makes this better than the rest?
Even John Carmack these days says the goal of a programmer is to deliver value, not write the tightest leanest code possible. If the fastest, cheapest way to deliver value is with Electron, you fucking use Electron.

Demoscene stuff is fun, and cool, but it's a hobby. It doesn't reflect how software is developed and deployed in the real world.
I'm mostly talking larger news orgs, inc wire services. They have resources. However, if manpower is tight, maybe they could redirect some manhours from their sportsball or celeb divisions.

I will agree that local news orgs tend to show ineptitude whenever local LEO issue a PR. They'll just parrot what is said - no analysis at all - not even when a 5 sec search would reveal blatant misinfo (re:kids are at meaningful risk of stranger kidnapping).
Im surprised there's still no "trace" view of pipeline execution, especially with how prevalent DAG pipelines have become. Somewhere on the internet I found this handy jq oneliner that will convert a pipeline into a format you can drag and drop into chrome://tracing/ to figure out where your bottlenecks are

curl "https://${GITLAB_URL}/api/v4/projects/${GITLAB_PROJECT}/pipelines/${GITLAB_PIPELINE}/jobs?per_page=100&private_token=${GITLAB_TOKEN}" | jq 'map([select(.started_at and .finished_at) | {name: (.stage + ": " + .name), cat: "PERF", ph: "B", pid: .pipeline.id, tid: .id, ts: (.started_at | sub("\\.[0-9]+Z$"; "Z") | fromdate \* 10e5)}, {name: (.stage + ": " + .name), cat: "PERF", ph: "E", pid: .pipeline.id, tid: .id, ts: (.finished_at | sub("\\.[0-9]+Z$"; "Z") | fromdate \* 10e5)}]) | flatten(1) | .[]' | jq -s > "${GITLAB_PIPELINE}-trace.txt"
As an outsider, I've actually seen the most engagement between OpenBSD & DragonflyBSD.

E.g., there's active exploration of bringing the Hammer2 filesystem from DragonflyBSD to OpenBSD.

https://github.com/kusumi/openbsd_hammer2
"You solved it, congrats!" :)

Got an email bounce from your address. Would love to hear about your AOSP experience!
This is already the case. CSS1 (NA) is incompatible with CCS2 (Europe). NA is just swapping out CCS1 for the Tesla physical plug. China also has its own standard. I don't see it as a huge issue. Cars are infrequently moved between continents anyway, and manufacturers have far bigger regional differences they already deal with.
I wonder how that will affect the Amazon rainforest since it receives phosphorus and other nutrients blown of the Atlantic from the Sahara desert. If salt starts getting blown over too I wonder if that will ruin the soil fertility there.
Plus the next thing might not be an LLM.
Realizing that external dependencies are regular codebases just like the one you're working on. That you can open them up in VSCode, look around and figure out any bugs or issues you're having and even open pull requests to improve them.

At that point, you lose the feeling that there are magic things out there that you will never understand and that for the most part everything is just regular old code that regular people wrote.
> And those news sources have their costs but don't see any income?

Don’t those news sources have ads too ? How are they making income from local views?
> Remember the Phenix pay system? It was an IBM project that was supposed to save us 70 million a year, instead they paid IBM an additional 2+ BILLION to try and fix the broken crap they'd delivered. Never even worked, they're currently taking bids to replace it already.

Do you really believe that this was a result of bad in-the-moment decision-making at all levels, instead of a result of being trapped by previously-negotiated long-term vendor exclusivity agreements?

(In my experience, governments are generally good at cutting their losses — they're far more rational re: the sunk-cost fallacy than individual people are. So it would be surprising to me if this were true.)
One question; who introduces bias into reporting?
I managed to move on from the two party system ... and it only took ~2 years to get used to a new language and ~5 years to get used to a new culture.
Gas outages happened at a large scale in Texas when they were struggling with a bit of cold weather. When they needed it the most, it failed them. Coal plants also struggled. Both had challenges with supply of fuel and cooling water being disrupted. That kind of systemic infrastructure failures is on the rise in the US. There are all sorts of reasons why governance just isn't great in the US. But the reality indeed is that things are unlikely to improve on that front.

Which are all good reasons why the market for domestic solar, batteries, and heat pumps is so hot right now. The US is no exception to this.
I've been in hardware startup bizz for pretty long, starting to feel like an ancient being. It's been all AI/ML, so I'm a software/research type guy in the HW space.
And that is the heart of a decently profitable economy around the Dead Sea, on both the Jordanian and Israeli sides.
Yeah that’s what I said lol
To be clear, there is certainly a spectrum/degree for bias.

The best kind of news/journalism informs readers based on factually accurate and unbiased data — and perhaps uses noteworthy current events and human interest anecdotes to corroborate that data.

A worse kind of news/journalism partially misinforms readers by presenting factually accurate data in a biased way.

The worst kind of news/journalism entirely misinforms readers by presenting an anecdote (or a statistically insignificant collection of anecdotes).

Unfortunately the majority of news today (at least in the US) falls into that 3rd bucket.
I remember when they rolled out DNS over HTTPs and set the default to "Fallback Mode" effectively highjacking DNS for most users.

Good times figuring out why users couldn't access certain sites after ignoring the vague opt-out message, good times.
It takes structure and discipline to differentiate problems that truly suck (and are worth solving) from what is simply annoying to you, personally.
> It transpired another mother had been attacked, with the same getaway car, but this time she was punched in the face.

Is this correct english? I'm far from perfect but that seems like it's missing a word or two around "transpired". I know what "transpired" means but I've never seen it used like this.

At the end of the day the police are refusing to do their jobs (shocker, what's new). Every interaction I've had with the police goes pretty much like this, they don't care, they aren't interested, lots of victim blaming, and/or pretending there is nothing they can do about it when that's patently false. You can do their whole job for them and give them step-by-step instructions on how to address an issue and they are still too lazy to lift a finger.
> 1) Renewable energy product still has a cost associated with it, even if it is at times, excess.

This cost is already paid for in the infrastructure. You're not going to tear down extra solar panels when demand is low just to reinstall them an hour later.

> 2) That excess capacity, and the times when there's more energy produced than consumed might not match with water demand.

Water can be stored very easily in large quantities and over long periods of time. Replenishing an aquifer in the summer will still help you even when the dry season is winter.

> 3) There definitely isn't, and won't be, enough excess renewable capacity to distill even a fraction of the fresh water consumed.

You don't need to distill 100% of freshwater, you just need to make up the difference between what is naturally available and what is used. The difference is generally small, especially when combined with water conservation methods. California's water shortfall could be covered by using just 6% of it's current annualized electricity generating capacity for desalination.

> 4) This means that you still have to calculate a per kWh cost for the energy consumed to distill salt water to fresh water. The average kWh might not be the same as the market average kWh price, since if you make your distillation plants oversized so you can utilize any spare energy production, but there will still be a price.

You would presumably locate your desalination plant in an appropriate location and operate it at appropriate times such that your cost per kwh is substantially below normal market rate.

> 5) This price will most likely mean that the per gallon cost of distilled water will be higher than RO, or water pumped through a pipeline.

RO would be desalination. A pipeline is still taking water from somewhere else, the price depending heavily on where you're getting it from and the geography between you and the source. In many cases there isn't a suitable freshwater source to pull from. Certainly there are no fresh water sources so limitless and readily accessible as the world's oceans.
I agree, I’m just venting how annoying it is that it’s even required.
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I've found that Google's reporting severely under reports air quality (making it look better than it is). The purple air map itself seems much more reliable for tracking actual local air quality.

I use purple air zoomed out combined with windy.com to generate my own smoke predictions, it's worked pretty well for me.
I would go even further and say every answer to any question that includes hypotheticals is useless, unless you already have a deeply trustful previously-established business relationship with the person you're asking. Ultimately, the only useful things are actions, cash, and signatures.

>Will you install this right now to get started with the free trial?

>Will you hand me the money so I can hand you the keys?

>Will you sign this contract here so we can start with shipping and installation?

And they really aren't even questions. We can rephrase them as simple trades/exchanges:

>You get: a free trial; I get: you at the start of my sales funnel

>You get: the keys; I get: the cash

>You get: the product/service; I get: your legal commitment to pay me
Salt overexposure is liable to dry up your skin and cause rashes/cracking leading to vectors for infection.
A general hypothesis I have is that the Deno team is just taking on too much to make the investment work in terms of, well everything really: version compatibility to reduce breaking 3rd party libs, one-by-one certification of npm module compatibility, deno core module re-writes, a hosting company, maintaining developer tooling/ecosystem - to name a few.
Twitter silently removes login requirement for viewing tweets
Also known as "having your cake and eating it".
Are those different things? At departments where quals have high failure rates, it's really more of an annual layoff than anything else.

In many programs, the department aims to admit far more people than will pass the quals. They need the Calculus and Pre-calculus TAs but do not have the advising capacity.

Even if everyone gets a 95% on the quals, the majority will "fail" by necessity because the department simply does not have the advising capacity for the number of TAs they need. Of course, the department typically designs the quals to these needs either explicitly or implicitly.

This is usually at least implicitly understood by the faculty, who will navigate it when absolutely necessary. For example, I've seen it happen that if a professor really needs a student and vouches for/protects them (eg because the research is computational and the student came from 5 years at Google), then the student gets more goes at the plate on quals than is typical.
Elon Is Speedrunning the Enshittification Learning Curve
It's kind of weird to describe FB users as being in a cage where their browser is incapable of going anywhere else.
Is there a practical reason why it would be difficult to do this with solar power? Is this a process that does not adapt well to intermittent power sources?
Another consideration is that a lot of hardware startups focus on industrial applications with customers that don't operate out of tech hubs.

There are tons of small companies making hardware for oil & gas applications, but you'll mostly find them in areas where their customers are located (e.g. Texas, Alberta) and/or LCOL cities where you can find cheap real estate. This also applies to other industries like agriculture and automotive.

These aren't "sexy" companies so you don't hear much about them, but I'd wager that if you add them up, they'd outnumber the number of hardware startups in NYC and the Bay Area.
Disabling apps is different from disabling non-verified extensions. The linked article addresses that Mozilla already has the capability to handle discovered malware, which is separate from this issue.
> You're missing the fact that if the NRO or similar US government needs launch capacity, the president will bump foreign commercial and government launches.

Given the reality of SpaceX's launch schedule, probably not. Unless someone in Europe wanted 40 extra launches a year or something. SpaceX has shown a willingness to sacrifice Starlink launches for paying customers.

But from a more philosophical standpoint, I do think that Europe is correct to maintain an independent launch capability.
It’s toxic only because of concentration. AKAIK, there aren’t any compounds in the brine that weren’t present in the seawater to begin with. The solution is dilution, but I’m sure it’s easier for me to type that than it is to achieve in a desalination plant.

But, why not really-long-pipe-with-small-holes-along-the-length? That seems to me like a simple mechanism to send the brine back into the ocean without causing a local disaster on the sea floor. Is there maintenance required that makes it more expensive than I realize?
As a student living in a small studio I hated that everyone could hear your bathroom business.

10 years later I’m now trying to solve this problem for small homes and businesses.

Loodio is a bathroom privacy device:

https://loodio.com
Yes, nobody. For every random made-up thought someone actually wants to hear there are millions of stories not a single person is interested in. Dreams are mostly the latter.
Fill the bin - A no-frills approach to productivity
Boeing defense is not the same as Boeing selling airliners.

The dude smokes weed on a podcast with Joe Rogan. However silly, that is grounds for revocation of his security clearance. So is his friendly attitude towards enemies of the US. His peace plan for Ukraine came straight from the propaganda department of the Kremlin. Most likely, they'll settle for him being forced to divest his part of SpaceX.
It also loaded with white bars instead of text at first, a very irritating web trend.
Exactly. The only reason so many Western countries are able to spend so little on defense without being conquered is that the US is spending enough to pick up all of their slack at once.
I was working with a decoder for the LD-CELP voice compression algorithm. The machine it was running on was compute-bound and the playback stuttered a lot. I dug into the code, then went to the papers describing the algorithm, then went back into the code and modified a piece of it to be better tuned to the data I was processing. In the average case I probably made the code worse, but in my specific case I sped up the thing by 30x. That gave me confidence in a few things:

1) I can figure out issues in other people's implementations.

2) The best solution may not be the best solution for you, and my hunches on optimization might be correct

3) It's fun to look like a wizard to your peers
You can just say “Worse Is Better”.

> …what really advances our use of tools - and what holds us back.

It’s money! It’s cost! The cheaper tool wins.

“Worse Is Better”
Seems like currently the competitors to this product are the Pi-KVM and the Blikvm.

Seems like Blikvm have a number of interesting form factors, such as PCIe card and rack mount, which may be interesting to those looking into this space
In general it seems like they removed information and made the UI more dense. While the "before" pipeline header did have a lot of wasted space, the "after" makes it harder to visually differentiate things, imo.
Financiers bought up anesthesia practices, then raised prices
> I think a lot of the misconceptions about these LLMs (which I actually think are pretty cool and useful) stem from not really understanding what they are doing and how they arrive at their answers.

I think the misconception is actually the opposite - focussing too much on the method rather than the output. Bread is not just yeasty-wheat - if you mix bread and wheat together and apply some heat you get something a little surprising. I think the same is true for LLM's - in the task of training a next-word guesser there are emergent capabilities which end up going beyond what people expect when looking at the method.

Yes, it is designed to statistically guess the next word, but in order to do that the LLM has (surprisingly) gained internal representations of things like 'what is a giraffe'. In order to do the task of 'what is the next word' most effectively, it has had to understand/learn about about the world.

Can you provide an example where you think GPT-4 performs badly that proves your point? (i.e. something not in the training corpus that I could probably answer but a leading LLM could not)
Not sure that largish, easily targetable, nuclear facility on a tiny spot of land is a good idea.
> HN discourse should be above this.

vomit inducing "Be better" post..

"I disagree with you so your comment shouldn't be allowed here"