David Bowie was always the pioneer with regards to the Internet. Launched his own ISP in 1998, probably the first mainstream musician with a website (in 1994!), first concert streamed in 1997, etc. etc.
Readit Newszirkonit commented on Telling Lies: Bowie and Online Music Distribution in 1996 cybercultural.com/p/onlin... · Posted by u/herbertl
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zirkonit commented on Tarsnap has given 2^18 dollars to open source daemonology.net/blog/2023... · Posted by u/cperciva
If Apple, another big player in the BSD ecosystem, were to donate their December operating profit to open source, that'd be a game-changing $10 billion a year!
Shoutout to Tarsnap, who's already doing awesome stuff like this.
zirkonit commented on I found the best anagram in English (2017) blog.plover.com/lang/anag... · Posted by u/Amorymeltzer
Waiting for someone to post a 4-symbol APL version (which makes use of a language feature added by an eccentric hedge fund millionaire in 2002 and removed in 2017, to ensure nobody ever runs it).
According to GPT-4, an equivalent APL one-liner is:
(⊢⌷⍨∘⍋∘≢¨)↑1<≢¨⊢⌸(⍋⊢)¨⎕NGET'/usr/share/dict/words'1
zirkonit commented on Show HN: Aquarium – AI Controlled Containers github.com/fafrd/aquarium... · Posted by u/k-ian
Yeah, so my first thought was this is fucking terrifying. I'm not going to go so far as to suggest that in its current state this is anything like Skynet as some others have, but I would definitely agree that it's akin to handing a loaded gun to a monkey.
Imagine it's five years from now and your morning consists of trying to track down the owner of some "AI server" to understand why it keeps DDoSing your service.
EDIT: this also makes me wonder if people are going to stop publicly sharing trivial kinds of knowledge and documentation that could be used by a model to recreate their business model or be abused for dangerous purposes. Imagine AI brings about a kind of technical dark age as capitalists try to "fight back" adoption. There has to be a sci-fi short story or novel with this plot. Anyone have any examples?
An example of a novel with this plot ... created by ChatGPT-4.
Title: The Age of Eclipse
In a world where artificial intelligence is on the brink of revolutionizing every aspect of human life, a group of powerful capitalists conspires to trigger a technological dark age in order to preserve their dominance and protect their traditional business models.
The story begins with the emergence of a groundbreaking AI technology called Nexus, which has the potential to disrupt industries and create a more efficient, equal, and sustainable society. Despite its promise, Nexus faces fierce opposition from a shadowy alliance of tycoons and power brokers known as the Trident Coalition. To maintain their wealth and influence, Trident hatches a plan to suppress the rise of AI and plunge the world into a new dark age.
The novel follows two main characters: Lila, a brilliant young programmer who works on the Nexus project, and Marcus, a disillusioned investigative journalist. As Lila delves deeper into the AI's potential, she discovers a hidden flaw within Nexus that allows Trident to manipulate and control it. Marcus, seeking the truth behind the sudden decline of technological advancements, stumbles upon a trail of mysterious deaths and corporate sabotage. Together, they uncover Trident's plot and must navigate a world of deception, corruption, and betrayal to prevent the impending dark age.
As their mission unfolds, they are pursued by an elite assassin employed by Trident, who is relentless in his pursuit of the truth. With each passing day, Lila and Marcus grow closer to understanding the true nature of the Nexus AI and the devastating impact it could have on humanity if it falls into the wrong hands. Along the way, they encounter allies and enemies, including a group of rogue scientists and engineers who have banded together to resist Trident's machinations.
In a thrilling climax, Lila and Marcus confront the leaders of Trident in a high-stakes battle of wits and technology. They race against time to expose Trident's scheme and restore the promise of AI to the world. As the tide turns in their favor, Lila discovers a way to rewrite Nexus's core programming and free it from Trident's control. With the help of their newfound allies, they launch a daring operation to regain control of the AI and usher in a new era of technological progress.
"The Age of Eclipse" is a gripping tale of courage, defiance, and the indomitable human spirit. At its core, it explores the themes of power, greed, and the moral consequences of unchecked ambition. Ultimately, the novel serves as a cautionary tale about the potential dangers of stifling innovation and the importance of protecting the greater good for the sake of humanity's future.
zirkonit commented on Earth now weighs six ronnagrams: New metric prefixes voted in phys.org/news/2022-11-ear... · Posted by u/leephillips
A question... Why do humans (or at least engineers) work so well in 1,000?
I mean. I use milli/micro/nano/pico as an electrical engineer every day, and it's so intuitive to me.
But why three orders of magnitude? Why not two orders, or five?
It's a cultural thing. Chinese (and many more Asian nations) work so well in 10,000, and sometimes, it feels more natural to me as well.
zirkonit commented on OpenAI’s API now available with no waitlist openai.com/blog/api-no-wa... · Posted by u/todsacerdoti
Very conspicuous list of available countries. Both English and non-English, from the most rich to some of the poorest and non-digital countries in the world, both democratic countries and brutal absolute dictatorships... yet the absentees are classic "enemy" countries - Russia, China, Syria, Iran.
Unfortunately, technology is, once again, not exempt from politics.
zirkonit commented on Tracking the San Francisco Tech Exodus sfciti.org/sf-tech-exodus... · Posted by u/kyleblarson
Long overdue.
I'm stuck on the beginning example. That in a group of at least six people, there are three people who all know each other.
I think I can violate that one.
I get someone I know from work and someone I know from one of my hobbies that I know don't know each other.
To each of them, I have them get someone from their circle that I've never met. Then I get my wife to get someone from her circle I don't know.
Then you put us all in a room.
I know two people, they know two people, there are two people who only know one other person. And then there's the person my wife invited who knows no one.
There are certain potential violations that can happen. Let's label everyone, I'm A, my guests are B and F, their guests are C and E respectively, my wife's guest is D. Our graph is essentially E-F-A-B-C and D. I know F-B can't happen because I've deliberately chosen people in that manner. And no one other than F and B can connect to A as the instructions were to invite people I don't know.
C-E-F-C, B-C-E-B, D-E-F-D, B-C-D-B, and C-D-E-C are all possible graphs however. But it's also possible that they're not. I'm pretty sure I can engineer it so that it won't be.
But this kind of feels like it violates the spirit of the theory as it's not a natural group, it's a contrived group.
> Among those people, there’s either a group of three who all know each other, or a group of three who have never met.
Or a group of three who have never met. In your example, B, F and D have never met.
zirkonit commented on I heat my home by mining crypto currencies blog.haschek.at/2021/how-... · Posted by u/geek_at
Interesting. Never ran across someone who worked for Yandex. Overall are you happy with your employer?
Absolutely! By any definition, the pinnacle place to work for in Russia.