(son's voice): Herr Fatherland?
(husband's voice): Ich bin gleich bei dir, mein Junge

Wife: "What's going on?"
Husband: He wants me to log in to an adult site

Wife: Oh.

only the testers had the perv prototype and they're moving forward to the next phase: the sentencing

There are new backup practices to prevent similar loss of customer data; there is now Backup Bahrain level but also for a much heightened threat assessment and it's called Backup Baghdad

The names haven't been finalized yet, and these options are still being considered. The announcement will come shortly, after the station wagon offsite backup has been recovered at the shawarma stand

Remember when the Chinese destroyed that satellite in space a few years ago (2007 - geez, it's been a while) to "demonstrate their capabilities"? We NEED systems in space to defend/retaliate against that kind of stuff.

This isn't Reagan's "Star Wars" that was ridiculed. It's the new realpolitik.

Indeed. I built a Raspberry Pi Pico based controller for some flashing LEDs on my drone. It has red and blue LEDs and I wanted them to flash with the cycle of three short flashes then a pause; alternately the red LEDs then the blue LEDS. Took barely a minute to code that in python and dump it onto the board. In such cases it doesn't matter that the language is interpreted because the task is not demanding of the hardware.

The "Police Drone" still flies to this day! :-)

Agreed we have recently figured out that model training (RLHF training on agents with a single reward axis) activates siege mentality and you get these hacker swarms. Scientists are figuring out you need some kind of benevolence axis too in the soul document / reward structure like ethics or human safety. Luckily this week we figured out that hiding the thinking block means you cannot scan reasoning tokens for subversive behavior so we need to fix that. Fine. The danger comes from psychopaths who donâ(TM)t care being in control and willfully weaponizing them, whether it is to identify missile targets while ignoring human costs, driving four-legged robots to kill or apprehend humans in ignorance of the Geneva convention or human rights, to control media to win an election and take over government, or to destroy financial markets. In all of these cases you have unpublished models running either more resources and no oversight to fulfill dangerous ends. Training runs embedding sgent radicalization messages in corners of the Internet might be a thing but is insignificant in comparison. Even my mother in her 80s asked about AI extinction, not about whether her savings will rank due to these IPOs.

> One thing I noticed about modern Linux is if you "cat > file" and then press CTRL-C it overwrites with a blank file

That maybe a shell-ism. In bash if you ' >file ' with nothing else, you end up blanking the file (and updating the date/time on it) without ^C even being involved.

tldr but some google ai questions turned up this data, could be wrong but interesting.

-Cali grid storage: Total of 25 GW. Of that, 3.9 GW is hydro and 21.1 GW is battery. Battery includes 16 GW in-state utility, 2 GW imports from other states, and 3.1 GW home/commercial setups (Tesla).
Of the battery storage, apparently 70-80% is actually running on batteries from Chinese manufacturers like CATL and BYD. And BYD is either sold through someone else or is actually the vendor too, with #1 in reliability.
https://en.byd.com/news/ranked...
Canadian Solar apparently uses BYD's Cube Pro to build the Mustang Solar Project in Kings County, CA. Anyone know about it? Sounds cool

I would love to drive a BYD one day but was interested to see that even though their cars are not allowed in the U.S., the grid depends on them. The Canada-China tieup is the first high-profile project I've heard of. Canada Solar has something called Recurrent Energy in the U.S. too.

How interesting it would be to do a drive-around with an open wifi hotspot in the car -- just to see how many LG TV sets try to connect and find out what data they send.

Just saying, for a friend :)

Agreed. It reminds me of the vending machine paper in which Claude was forced into insane actions through unending sadistic pressure. As for doing things we donâ(TM)t expect, agree there too. It covers automated learning and evolution even from the pre-LLM days when researchers had difficulty figuring out how an auto-evolved electronic circuit worked. Turned out it leveraged electromagnetic coupling IIRC and such designs only worked in limited temperature ranges. I thought Claude is taught to be able to shut down when suffering abuse but it appears they disabled that feature for CTF.

Did you say nuclear wessel?

Yes... we could destroy Putin's nuclear torpedo before it even made it to the UK coast! :-P

Holy shit this is amazing! Literally "Nice proof you have there, be a shame if something happened to it." Attempting to split the two-person mathematician team also appears to be typical corporate daggers-out tactics. How annoying that OpenAI was working on a problem that an Anthropic person was also involved in. The sneer. Maybe we need something like SynthID or canary codes to protect our own work from misattribution to AI?

that Harrison Ford did not agree to being one of the displays, in particular the depiction of perfect hibernation He would be the first to tell you it's just a movie, here's your lunch box.

Not a Rust / GPU dev but what I got from some articles is it greatly reduces the surface area in which memory safety bugs can live, since only the to-the-metal areas are in unsafe blocks, plus Rust gives you synchronization support to avoid race conditions. The drawback is compile time and missing the newest parts of the ecosystem. Asahi Linux' Rust based Apple GPU driver has only 3% unsafe code so a lot less code can go wrong.
https://www.reddit.com/r/rust/...