I know, right? It's funny because it didn't happen to anything I'm working on.

If it had, it would of course be a national tragedy and it'd be one of the bad isms if flags didn't fly at half-staff out of solidarity.

But it wasn't anything of mine so fuck yeah!

Retard.

Slashdot now the home of Luddites? "Why do we need a SPACE BASE?"
A lot of people write off space 'competition' as just militaristic dick-flexing.
You do understand where ICBMs came from? There isn't a serious question that space is absolutely now a context for global-state competition; it's not dick-flexing to recognize that this will shortly expand from orbital space to really the entire cislunar sphere.
It is, in fact, one of the generally-undisputed roles of government to try to recognize a strategic vulnerability and address it proactively.

Further - and this may end up getting modded to oblivion as recounting these facts is distasteful on /. -
SpaceX is multiples cheaper than competitives in launch cost per kg - $1500-$4000 vs $18k alternatives vs $54k NASA
To suggest "SpaceX is a slush fund from Trump to Elon" makes no sense. I want our govt to be using the CHEAPEST AVAILABLE LAUNCH capability. Are you asserting they shouldn't?

BlueOrigin is well behind but commercial launch development is *significantly* driving down costs, that's unquestionable.

As far as "publicly funded" ...would you rather it be a corporate thing entirely? Does that make sense?

"It's accepted that Lithium is not rare."
You and I and some may recognize that, but the media organs have been screeching for some time about China's "monopoly" on rare earths and the west's "vulnerability" for a decade or more.
I can't count the number of times I've had to explain that yes, in fact the US has world-leading deposits of lithium. (as much as 40 million tons of reserves. vs Chinas 10)

"this process is welcome. As it has a dramatic reduction in toxic residuals from processing"
Fully agree, this would be a wonderful opportunity. Not only does this absolutely mean less toxins anywhere, this would open the chance of actually doing lithium recovery domestically (it doesn't really matter how clean the process is, I expect crowds of Earth Firsters gathering to oppose any such industry, regardless; this would just mean it has a reasonable chance of moving out of the morass of environmental protests...).

They think center-left is ultra right-wing.

Some mostly sensible people consider themselves center-left and feel hurt that the he Valley types are calling them fascists.

It's all complicated by the 1D spectrum model of the French Parliament being applied to politics broadly.

The Left Authoritarians really hate the Right Authoritarians while the Left Libertarians and the Right Libertarians mostly get along.

It sort of makes sense becauae violence is inherent in the former while cooperation is inherent in the latter.

But the angry aren't usually educated im polisci at all and just operate on the Friend/Eny distinction of their tribe's momentary collective preferences, which can turn on a dime.

The Valley oligarchs will also switch allegiances instantaneously if they perceive advantage in profit or control with shifting winds.

They keep adding timing noise to these API's as attacks show up but this really speaks to the need to have the noise in the core I/O libraries, not inside each new API.

If it's writing to disk in any way it should go through a code path with timing noise.

It would be easier on the feature developers too.

Probably in the network API's too. Have a turbo mode in preferences at one end of a privacy slider, maybe. Default should be safe but the browser benchmark people incentivize the wrong thing. "You get what you measure" and stuff.

It's an overseas market too.

Lots of defects in the case.

Somebody said his legal defense is that if Congress can do it he can. If true it could be an impactful case.

So this side channel signal can be obfuscated with randomly timed broad frequency reads and writes to the filesystem, presumably? Since the signal it is looking for is latency caused by patterns of reads and writes that fingerprint an application?

>As for the comparison to AI, the problem is, AI *must* be told what to do. It won't magically grow into a "mature developer." That's not a natural progression. It always assumes that the prompt accurately describes what it should do. It has no way to know that the prompt was wrong or incomplete in the first place.

This is wrong. You seem to be unaware that current sycophancy in mainline models is a specific choice made in AI model weights to maximize people returning to the model.

It's highly likely that one of the solutions that will be used in specialist fields where rejection of the input if it's insufficient in some critical way is reduction in pro-sycophancy model weighing. I.e. model will actually have a much greater ability to tell you "I can't do that Dave" and then explain why it can't do it.

Some narrow specialist models already do this through ControlNet style "AI that corrects and guides human AI prompts for optimal outcomes", where it will tell you in case of some of the common prompting errors before passing the input to the worker model.

While Blackstone's ratio has endured for nearly 1000y (Maimonides said it ca 1100 I believe) and Franklin tried to codge it for himself, every persuasive case for it involves CAPITAL punishment.
(Obviously, there's no un-do button on that....)

And if you poll most people today, they regard mis-conviction about the same as mis-exoneration meaning letting someone accidentally go free is considered just as bad as accidental conviction.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

And while Franklin's bullshit about safety and liberty is even more-quoted in the US, it's constantly misunderstood. Constantly the word 'essential' is skipped past. On an absolute basis, we routinely trade liberty for safety - anytime we stop at a stop light with nobody around, or stay on the right side of the empty road.

I'm actually pretty militantly libertarian myself, but thoughtless, reactive libertarianism has the odor of chaos and anarchy.

In your rush-to-snark, you misread the previous poster as part of your anti-elon congregation yourself.
The post wasn't ironic, it was genuine, pointing out there isn't anything close as an alternative.

How about we don't? And as an added bonus of "don't," you get the benefits of not subverting property rights, not creating another expensive enforcement regime, and not failing to solve the problem of "he's got something I don't therefore he stole it from me and I must punish him" but saying you did.

So you do understand the problem then.

Would it then be fair in your view to reframe the specific problem you have into the two following components?

1. This is the worst AI will ever be at being manageable by people. It will continue to improve until it's better, just like what happened with everything where AI is already better.
2. You can manage AI current gen AI with similar methods you'd need in managing your average "yes saar, of course saar, I'll go do what you say right away saar" Indian developer stereotype.

Notably, once you accept the second one, you quickly realize that you can use ControlNet style methodology of "just use a specialized AI to curate your inputs into your preferred task specific model". And for even better results, you can add model alloying into this specialized AI, so it can utilize the best way to handle the sycophantic worker. "Have a different worker check entirety of his work to see where the failures lie and fix them".

I can tell you never had to do managerial work, as you're unaware that one of the most common stereotypes of a worker. The guy who will say "yes boss" no matter what is asked of him, and you'll find out you asked too much of him only when he fails to do the task correctly and this failure is reported on. Often by someone else.

This is even worse with people that come from Indian culture, where "yes boss" is the expected answer regardless of how impossible the ask is.

It's always been like this. I remember the huge cuts to our teams after 9/11. We were dealing with H1Bs back then as well....

What you're describing is fundamentally a managerial skill set.

A lot of software developers struggle with those, and quite a few are borderline incapable of it. That's going to be increasingly a problem, unless we manage to get AI trained on individual preferences, and correcting their responses into proper AI prompts. I.e. narrow model that AI incapable worker can interact with you generate a prompt for the major model that will do the actual work.