skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We often look down on "the people", but the masses have more wisdom than the elites, even if societal consensus can sometimes lead to terrible solutions to problems.

Democracy is nuanced, much like reality, and this bothers people.
Not sure if I got your comment correctly, but this is rather not about existing drives (though it could be applied to them), but to have a dedicated drive running within WSL that has a native performance. WSL handles existing drives (those that are readable under windows and linux) as a network drive using the 9p protocol. And, frankly, the performance sucks. E.g. I only reached write speeds of ~125MB/s when using 9p (while the disk is NTFS formatted and encrypted with Bitlocker), while the native LUKS encryption + ext4 reached 460MB/s. Using this approach transfer between Windows and Linux still would be slow though.

Thinking about that...I should probably have mentioned this in the article.
> * A superintelligent AGI could make a copy of itself without a kill switch, so this is no defence against ex-risk

Physical reality introduces slowness that provides protection to detect and counteract against attacks. A superintelligent AGI would be much more dangerous if it was able to use a common robot exploit to overtake a million robots that are already embedded in society, compared to being able to covertly build new robots without a kill switch, and then deploying these robots. Existential risk is not binary, but is a consequence of some potential war with robots, where this would provide a defense mechanism.

> * Someone planning on using 'dumb' robots for bad things (drones with grenades or something) would remove the kill switch

The existence of a kill switch would greatly slow down and increase the cost of an attack. Modifying a large number of robots would be time consuming, costly, increase the chance of having your attack foiled etc. Having a kill switch would increase your ability to defend against misusing a large group of deployed robots for evil activity.
> The natural born citizens dissatisfied with the US are generally not comparing the US to a developing country or a country with an ongoing war on their soil, which is where most immigrants come from.

Even as a Canadian who immigrated to the U.S. (who unfortunately lives in Canada again now), I didn't realize how good I had it until I had given up my U.S. residence
Unfortunately, their sites are not very friendly to privacy oriented browsers.
> [...] terminal-stage enshitification is quite the spectacle.

I see you're an optimist. I believe things can - and will - get worse for a looong time.
> updated from dagor4 repo on 2023/10/22, rev 0c5bf9c1d82d7491c925febbb…

old code base
This is bullshit. Brand is not even convicted yet.
and consent is a social construct
The SLC Olympics? I saw Modest Mouse play at what was apparently the Ice Village (had to Google it). If I remember correctly, it was a weird and not great show.
The biggest problem with laminate flooring is not the wear, it's that if they get wet the compressed fiberboard absorbs the water and swells, and the surface warps, and the only repair is to replace. Some laminates are 100% waterproof for locations like bathrooms but many are not.

Something like a spilled glass of water or puddle from wet shoes, if not noticed immediately and wiped up, can permanently ruin the floor.
this happened in mafia-controlled areas as recently as the '80s. I dont mean this as a rebuttal, but more in support of the US being great, because after decades (or more, I dont know or care about the history of criminals) of this bs, we tackled it through RICO and a focused campaign.
For a home network I think I agree with you, but in a corporate or SOHO environment there may be an open WiFi that requires at least some access to the server locked in the closet. You can't necessarily trust that people who have access to to the network should have full access to the server.

Add thats before accounting for "defense in depth" approaches.
Working for a Google/Meta as an L5 engineer in Europe take you in the 160-200K league. This would be 300-350K in NYC/Bay area for the same role and company. Considering living expenses and more vacation in Europe, it's not that different. A difference though is that you have many more opportunities in the US to match FAANG Salary than you have in let say France or Germany.
The comment is in reference to the generally held height of Ancient Rome being ~100 AD. Afterward, largely 2nd order downward. This Wikipedia gif illustrates. [1]

The crisis article and late antiquity articles note:

> The crisis resulted in such profound changes in the empire's institutions, society, economic life, and religion that it is increasingly seen by most historians as defining the transition between the historical periods of classical antiquity and late antiquity.

> Diocletian (Emp: 284 AD), who began the custom of splitting the Empire into Eastern and Western portions ruled by multiple emperors simultaneously.

The Roman Empire was effectively broken, and mostly just oscillated until the final West-East break. It was already "customarily" split in two by 284 AD.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_Empire#/media/File:Romem...
> academic impact inequality

I'm not following: what's the problem with that?
> It was the pinnacle of their work really, which went rapidly downhill afterwards. Pitchfork's 0.0 rating of NYC Ghosts & Flowers was sadly wholly appropriate.

I think that was pretty much the only dud (together with Jet Set), Murray Street and the albums after that are quite ok.
> The funny thing is that I live in Brazil and it is quite rare to find houses with that type of flooring

Does Brazilian Hardwood flooring actually mean the type of flooring Brazilians have or just simply that the hardwood being used as flooring is from Brazil?
Oxide also has various hardware components from AMD, Intel, Samsung, etc. They are not manufacturing every component.
That's assuming availability at quantity of base resources.

Which has generally been a fair assumption: as demand increases and price increases, exploration is incentivized and new sources are found, and capital is invested to increase production at existing / new sources.

But... there are also other ways it can go. Copper? Cobalt? Uranium-circa-1940s? Sometimes, more just isn't found.
This teacher shortage solution has gone viral. But does it work?
Depends who you ask, but Marx used the two interchangeably. Lenin thought that Socialism was Communism stage 1.[0]

But I think it's pretty normal to see Socialism as State-owned means of production. Trust your bureaucrats!

[0] https://www.britannica.com/topic/communism/Marxian-communism
The obvious problems that might occur are:

- Hackers finding exploits easier when they have the source and can run a debugger on real variable names
- Companies from countries with less respect of copyright can create clones of your game and might outearn you

As a developer I'm welcoming this move though
Problem with these kinds of statements is that.. well, they're not true. I have RTX 2070 running in 3440x1440. I'm at 35fps on low settings with some special stuff turned off, e.g GI and fogs. In an small town with 4k inhabitants still, so things can get worse for me.

Regardless, the problem is blown out of proportion. I think we can give it some weeks and 4090 performance issues will be in the past.
Maybe we could also solve some problem of garbage dumps? Build all the garbage dumps on a route of frequent cyclones and the trash just disappears the next Tuesday!
Like in Dune, once you are in the storm, you have to go with the flow to survive.
> iPhones do have the pedigree

Not in 2007-2008 which is equivalent to Oxide today.
Lee songs are sparse, but also great!
I'm skeptical that they really believe this. You have to believe:

(1) We are on the verge of equaling or greatly exceeding human intelligence generally.

(2) We are on the verge of creating something with initiative, free will (whatever that means), and planning ability. Or alternately that these things will occur in an emergent fashion once we hit some critical mass.

(3) When we accomplish 1 and 2, this thing will inevitably conclude that its most rational course of action is to enslave or destroy us. In other words it will necessarily be malicious.

(4) Steps 2 and/or 3 will happen very rapidly, much faster than we can realize what is happening and pause these systems. (This is known as AI going "foom.")

(5) The decision to undertake this will be unanimous on the part of all superintelligent AIs. There will be no superintelligences who disagree and try to help humanity.

(6) When this occurs, we will be so out-thought or out-gunned we will be incapable of fighting back.

All those things have to happen for AI to be an existential risk.

It's a stretch, but the advantage of regulatory capture is not a stretch.

One of the most plausible negative AI scenarios is that a small group of humans (governments, corporations, etc.) find themselves in possession of super-intelligent but still "obedient" / non-sentient AIs that they can use as force multipliers to manipulate and control the rest of humanity. If the doomer crowd succeeds in regulating AI, they are making this scenario far more likely.

I think the greatest defense we have against the (remote) possibility of actually dangerous autonomous AI is for AI research to be conducted entirely in the open. If there's any justification for regulation at all, the regulation that would make sense is to require disclosure of AI research and results. You would not have to disclose everything, just the general parameters of what you were doing and what happened. It would also make it harder to develop super-AIs in secret to use for unsavory purposes.

That was the original mission of OpenAI before dollar signs were seen.

I would absolutely support a ban on the use of AI for political propaganda generation and automation. That's by far the most immediate risk... as in 100% possible and starting to actually happen right now. I'm expecting an army of GPT-4 level propaganda bots for the 2024 election.
Hardwax oils are also used but oftentimes have quite bad VOCs. However, I’m familiar with at least one manufacturer that has low/no VOC oils which certainly shows it’s possible but perhaps there’s a good technical explanation for why VOCs are so common in these oil treatments.
This software is a router of a network. It needs to be both performant and cross-platform.
I use the obsidian sync service. I have been completely satisfied with it.
Lots of companies do in fact treat MFA this way. Microsoft's AAD^H^H^H sorry, Entra ID has conditional access rules that forgo the need for MFA when signing in from known locations, and lots of companies make use of that.

But it's becoming more and more popular, and in many cases necessary, to adopt a "zero-trust" approach to all devices no matter where they are located.

That login attempt coming from your office LAN — how do you know it isn't an automated request from a compromised device? If you are enough of a high-value target, do you think it's inconceivable that someone might try and hop on your wifi network from the parking lot?
I have had no issues with “engineered crap” from IKEA. Even have dresser drawers from nearly 20 years ago currently in use.

Another case where real wood provides no extra utility, to me. My furniture does not get tossed around, it does not need to be “strong”.
Dizzy Dunker Mousetrap [video]
That kind of response isn't productive or useful. Someone asked for evidence and it was provided.
I think I've seen it done locally, in the USA... "Forest Preserves" cutting down old growth maple/oaks, and piling the massive logs in parking lots until hauled away... I think I've also seen significant "over-pruning" for the sake of the construction of various pathways and "theme parks" for humans.
> Apple is a horrible example,

Apple is a great example of the benefits of an integrated system where the hardware and software are designed together. There are tons of benefits to that.

What makes Apple evil (IMO, many people disagree) is how everything is secret and proprietary and welded shut. But that doesn't take away from the benefits of an integrated hardware/software ecosystem.

Oxide is open source so it doesn't suffer from the evil aspect but benefits from the goodness of engineered integration. Or so I hope.
"This was all supposed to be done in secret."

That's the difference and why this feels different, IMO. It's one thing for an agency to go around and interview subject matter experts and talk about ways things could happen and how to prevent them.

It's another thing to just... setup such a bright and cheery webpage for everyone and so plainly state what they want people to do.

It's also the fact that it's done in a way to leverage free labor- not that, if FBI agents were going to university professors, experts in biochem, etc, that they would be paying them... but, it would be done in a more structured, professional manner with agents putting in the work to sum things up and report back.

This is just... it feels like getting the internet to do your homework. Your counterterrorism class homework.

Maybe that actually is the best way to do it. But it still feels odd.
How did Reid Stowe manage? He surely could not have relied on frozen food, too much risk of a generator failing.

"In 2010 Stowe completed a more extensive ocean voyage, entitled 1000 Days at Sea: The Mars Ocean Odyssey—a journey that commenced on April 21, 2007, from the 12th St. Pier, Hoboken, New Jersey.[1] Stowe was the principal designer and builder of the Anne, a 70 ft (21.3 m), 60-ton (54,400 kg) gaff-rigged schooner which he sailed on this voyage.[1][2] The purpose of the enterprise was to remain on the open ocean, without resupply or pulling into any harbor, for a period of one thousand days, "

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reid_Stowe
Too far removed or just too technologically inept? Not only was it technologically impossible; but they keep wanting to do things to people's online life that everyone that would never fly in offline life.
It's like they think technology is somehow an optional extra, or even a passing fad that doesn't deserve the same rights and safeguards.
No, that's only your opinion. Millenia of scholarship about societal origins have never said that.
No, our language is perfectly capable of expressing this simple fact: When you die you die, no matter how many clones or backups of you are up and running.
Does cooking for 4 minutes at 50% really yield a significant difference to compared to 2 minutes at 100% then waiting 2 minutes? I'm curious.
A lot of black magic is done in game engines to get that level of performance with that level of quality.

Carmack always (ab)used the hardware to the highest level in its code to get that performance/quality ratio and this is why he always kept the latest engine closed.

Unreal engine also had tricks up on its sleeve since Unreal Tournament days, however I don’t know the exact details. IIRC, it was about lighting and shadows mostly.

I had two friends who wrote their own engines. One built a company around that. Other one did visual simulations. Former one told me about the war stories which he battled against NVIDIA drivers, how driver behave the way it wanted, and how he had to abuse it to get the performance it wants. Also both AMD and NVIDIA drivers sometimes implement alternate paths to fix some engines’ performance and artifacts.

He also told how some big studios’ developers abused the driver in a way which can be only defined as “hacking”. I don’t remember the details, but they modified some data in place to bypass the graphics APIs to gain performance. Of course that is pretty brittle.

Latter friend told me how he had to optimize calculations, do great yet cheap approximations and abuse the strong parts of a GPU to get the performance he wanted.

So, a lot. All of these are considered black art and trade secret. Crytek should have some patents about some of the rendering methods they have developed even. They stopped sharing tech demos to prevent being copied, too.
According to the method by which NASA measures risk, it is indeed an "unacceptable risk". The red 4x4 "LxC" box stands for "likelihood x consequence". So they consider it a high likelihood and a severe consequence. It's red because that puts it in the unacceptable category.

If you look at the medical risk matrix it puts the likelihood between 60% - 80% and consequence at "loss time injury or illness per OSHA criteria" On a score of 1 (least risky) to 25 (most risky), a 4x4 scores 22.

Now to your point about "guaranteeing" they would still go, they are allowed to waive these risks through a formal process. It tends to make managers squeamish though, because nobody wants to be the person who's signature is attached to a known risk that eventually causes a mishap.

https://www.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/s3001_guidel...
Since you mention that state management is an unsolved problem with Web Components, I thought I would share a project that aims to bring a solution: https://github.com/launchscout/live_state. The basic pattern and idea of LiveState is "dispatch events, subscribe to state". The events and state updates are sent over a websocket connection, and the front end and back end libraries are a thin layer over Phoenix Channels. Currently, event handler functions are written in Elixir, but work is underway to allow them to be written in any language that compiles to WebAssembly.
One reason: third-party libraries and tools that aren't compatible with the FOSS license you want to use.

Another reason: you are now much more vulnerable to patent trolls.
I would say the issue is also that those do drink are protective about their habits. They get quite defensive about being judged and will respond strongly to any threats they perceive against their drinking habits. This is characteristic of most addictions. It becomes a part of the personality and therefore it can be difficult to separate the action from the person.
Media outlets win fight to gain faster access to Google trial evidence
This suggestion is specifically to mitigate the risk of physical robots causing direct physical harm. Whether that should be extended to any sufficiently powerful compute is a separate discussion which is also sensible to have, but more complex for several reasons.
Their possible motivation for releasing code as open source is to allow some other Russian companies like VK Group to build their IP on it without having any deals with them directly. Just now VK Group announced their in-home game engine will be based on this code.

I can guess that Gaijin Entertainment had some contracts with companies in Russia, but after moving their business out of Russia it's now easiest way to fulfill the terms of some IP licensing deal.

Yandex is doing the same thing, but other way around by releasing more and more of their code as open source. It let them to cleanly trasfer IP from Russia-poisoned company to their Israel company.
My theory is the wide availability of porn makes cheesecake in mainstream movies much less interesting than it was back when porn was heavily suppressed.

An example of how suppressed it was a friend told me her first husband (1960's) was a sleazy truck driver that made extra cash on the side transporting 16mm porn movies. Same way other more sleazy truckers transported drugs.
DaScript: Fast and Versatile Scripting Language
Killers of the Flower Moon aims a righteous fury at American history
trees on 10cm of top soil is just not safe man...
Some people are fine with driving at 10 mph because the transmission is broken in their brand new car. “It’s not a Ferrari and I’m not racing.”
> But I'm struggling to understand why you'd ever want to enable MFA for signing into a device on your LAN.

I concur wholeheartedly. I had it enabled on my Synology NAS and the damn thing required me to use MFA every time I logged in - zero memory of the device! Drove me crazy and my only option was to turn off MFA altogether.
True (at least google confirms that), but the files have headers that look like

//
// Dagor Engine 6.5
// Copyright (C) 2023 Gaijin Games KFT. All rights reserved
// (for conditions of use see prog/license.txt)
//

Which suggests the repo is just misnamed... which really isn't uncommon.

Also seems unlikely there would be active work if this was an old version of the engine, and a lot changed between the 2023-09-15 import and the 2023-10-22 update.
It's true claim, no potential error is ever omitted. It may be hard to get code pass because there are false alarms, but when it passes it holds.

We are talking code without dynamic memory allocation, recursive function calls, no system and library calls, of course. Like some embedded aerospace, automation, healthcare and military applications. You can use it to verify some libraries if you can't do full coverage. Application domain abstractions are also available.

NASA has open source tool called IKOS based on same abstract interpretation concept, but I don't know it's features.
> While that doesn't guarantee success, I think it may improve my odds. Do you agree?

Not your parent commenter but I wouldn't agree, no. Build systems are one of these things most companies want to setup once and want to never deal with them again, and only do so if they have zero choice.

`earthly.dev` had an article some weeks ago that addressed why one of their products never took off even though it's really good and addresses grievances in the space. The TL;DR was that existing customers of other CI/CD tools did not want to migrate to a new system, especially since it doesn't offer a migration from their existing solution.

Here it is, hope you find it insightful: https://earthly.dev/blog/shutting-down-earthly-ci/
The first issue wouldn’t apply to single player games. But the second might be the big one that scares publishers/developers. I really wonder how consequential that would be.
so "good chance" == 1? That's a meaningless argument. If the value = 1, then we're talking about a value less than the number of people who have been hit by falling space rocks. People don't change the way they act based on 1 incident.
If you dismissed my post as 'bullshit' and think that Brand not having been convicted somehow diminishes my argument, then I suspect you have not read it.

If you have read it and truly believe that it is somehow undone by the fact that Brand is innocent until proven guilty in court, I would love to understand where I could be expressing myself more clearly, because, again, no part of my argument is contingent on Brand being convicted or not. It is entirely immaterial to my position.
Fascinating. Thank you
The engineered flooring is generally superior technology:

1. It requires less hardwood (rare) for the veneer, and uses softwood (plentiful) for the plywood base.
2. It can be milled exactly to one thickness. Generally with solid hardwood floors you need to sand after installing to get everything into one plane due to moisture movement in the hardwood warping and twisting it.
3. It can be applied in wider planks. Wide solid hardwood floors tend to cup and contract and leave gaps after installation. The plywood base in engineered planks is cross laminated so that it is more stable and resist moisture changes
Xiaomi HyperOS: Operating System Designed to Connect Personal, Home Devices,Cars
Your comment sounded like you expected NextJS to add "use client" to everything to prevent it from breaking, I misunderstood, which is what my comment was referring to. I see that you mean they funded this effort that results in other libraries breaking. You may want to consider using more precise language instead of questioning others intelligence, it really isn't necessary.