skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> It's alpha for so long, how stable is it to play ?

It is 100% playable and has been for years. As sibling comments note, I think the only reason they label it as anything but stable is because there are still significant changes between releases. Although I personally think they could fix even that by just chopping the first parts of the version number off - if they stopped calling it "alpha" and just called it 0ad version 26, and then released version 27, everyone would still have the right expectations.
What if Greg is an online repository, crawling the web and storing and distributing copyrighted materials verbatim? Stripping out attribution? With ads and/or a paid subscription fee?

> Should you have to pay royalties to everyone whose content you ask Greg to look at?

If Greg talks so fast that he's distributing millions of these copies around the world, for money, then yes, of course he's infringing.

> What if Greg isn't an llm and he's your browser cache?

My browser cache is not a distribution mechanism. It's for my personal use. I'm not infringing on copyright if I keep books in my personal library. I am if I'm copying them millions of times and giving others access to that library for money. If I downloaded a bunch of paywalled content and then uploaded my browser cache to SomePirateSite.com, for money, then yes, I'm infringing.

Why do you think these are "gotcha" questions? This is pretty straightforward stuff, and nowhere does it prove that LLMs are not infringing.
I'm (re)learning French this year and I'll check out this app, looks cool.

It seems many newer language apps are starting to focus on the "comprehensible input" method touted by language learning influencers like Steve Kauffmann, and at least for me it's definitely working. Comprehensible input (video content, books) along with weekly practice on iTalki has absolutely skyrocketed my language learning progress and really I only put in ~5hrs a week. Lots of money in the post-covid market for language learning as it was a hobby a lot of people picked up in quarantine.
Back in the day when I was working on another RTS of the era (Dark Reign 2), pathfinding was the bane of our existence. We weren't able to dial the pathfinding in because we'd pivoted late in the development cycle from the more innovative but complex 'walk anywhere on a 3d terrain' design to the ship-it-quickly traditional grid unit placement of 2d RTS'. This was the era of 2d RTS' transitioning to 3d, so everything was new and a bit harder than anticipated.

Just that one thing of having sub-par pathfinding made the game far worse, I'd guess at least a full point off a 10-point game rating. I believe we had to slow the whole pace of the game down because the player had to babysit units as they moved, which made the game far different from its extremely fast-paced predecessor and which the players expected from a sequel. I played DR2 again recently and it doesn't hold up almost solely due to pathfinding and the pacing that results.
They moved into a fad. Be very careful and weary of any solution that is passwordless and will have you not use 2FA. Even a yubikey with a pin is significantly inferior to a yubikey and a different auth mechanism (password,device cert+pin,etc...)

Whatever better auth method they are selling, don't let it be reason to stop using passwords.

I'll give you a classic example: sysadmins set up ssh publickey login, they are now immune to brute force attacks so they use it all over the place. One admin exposes the private key in a public git repo and gets the whole company compromised. They could have used both passwords and public keys and stopped that compromise.

My point: 2 is always better than 1, even if it is a fancy new impenetrable and hyped up method of auth.
In absolutely no way, no way at all, does any of this imply that UBI will exist. It is no more reasonable to expect a society structurally against the idea that suffering should be avoided because we can avoid it to adopt UBI because of large language models than any other reason. Penury (for others) is a feature, not a bug, here.

Couple "the cruelty is the point" with figuring out exactly who will be giving up resources for UBI, and you have a very long road to hoe to make that a reality.
Do you happen to have sources for this claim?
> If you want to deliver high power at low voltage you need thick cables, there's nothing you can do to get around that fact.

You can indeed get around this fact (a little bit) if you cool the cables. Tesla's newer superchargers have liquid cooled cables and are thinner than the old cables for exactly this reason.
Researchers debate why orcas are attacking and sinking boats
Antivirals probably won’t help as most infections are silent, a vaccine is needed. Moderna is working on one.
(Was thinking of ships near the US East coast. If you have passenger ships entering a war zone, well then it was understood there were risks.)

The point I was trying to get at was that if you were faced with the same life-threatening decisions you'd likely decide the same. And if different it would only because of random chance. Not because you are smarter or more virtuous than FDR & Cabinet.

Shit, Truman had to decide to drop a nuke on the basis it would save more lives in the long run—with incomplete information. I don't envy those decisions at all.
Untrusted input has to be escaped before injecting it into an HTML document, or else there is a script injection vulnerability when text from one user is executed as script in another user's browser. Good templating systems eliminate this possibility through parameter systems, but maybe those are still considered string templating systems?
OpenType is basically turing-complete via glyph shaping. There's an explanation here: https://litherum.blogspot.com/2019/03/addition-font.html
Thank you for this (channel), I was one of the lucky 10k today!
It reminds me of lawyergrams, where the language is constructed to antagonize and threaten while still being logically and legally specific and correct - a kind of ransom note with airs. I'd wonder if some white shoe firm has gone to the trouble of commissioning an in-house font based on similar design principles to this Times New Bastard, just for that purpose.
This game is awesome.

This is the only game me and my son(7) play together. It amazing for little kids. They learn history, building resources, building alliances, and destroying the dad empire.

I wish it was possible to play online multiplayer :(. Unfortunately, the people that play online are pretty elitist. Just reject your offers to play, setup the game for you to lose on join, etc etc. The multiplayer "collect resources" is not very fun - it would be awesome to start with 50k each and just create an awesome battle. I don't want to spend 2 hours collecting fake trees - only to have the opponent destroy me in 2 seconds. You can't do any strategy since you will never get to the stages where that matters.
The droids are clones, delicious
I know a person who does interviews for programming positions who asks "what is 20% of 20,000?" The ones who are flummoxed by it are no hires. So are the ones who pull up a calculator app on their phone.
Some European cards have geographical blocking on them and can't be use for subscriptions to US companies without removing the blocking.
0ad is completely playable right now.

(Although, if HURD had drivers it would be usable right now, too.)
I like the pilot checklist concept as an example of a way to address a problem when there can be no magic automatic way.

It's a different way to address the problem of the unreliable component than just requiring it to be magically reliable, or replacing it with something else that's reliable (automation, ie magic compiler or runtime), by adding procedure and redundancy and cross verification so that the final output is reliable even though all the individual worker parts are not. It's just ECC in human scope.

So I guess you're right that it is an example of the article's assertion that "If people always do something wrong, that is evidense that there is a system in place which results in people doing that thing wrong, and that system is wrong."

The system is the overall norms of software development, and the wrongness is that it doesn't include something equivalent to a pilot checklist culture around the important bits, even though everyone knows that those bits are important, and knows that humans are unable to be reliable.
Also as a fan of the genre when I was younger, I recall just trying to find other RTS games that I could play, including free ones. This game came up pretty often.
It seems we want to turn universities into McDonalds where we push high numbers, but also pretend they are elite institutions that we can charge premium prices for. This is not going to work well in an age of ever increasing automated intelligence...

Well, lest of course the students sit under the watchful eye of AI in the near future
Why would you construct an entire 9 square meter maze without testing a small portion? If only for having a physically convenient way of quickly validating hardware and software changes?

Why would you paint the entire thing without testing the materials, or asking the organizers what paint they use / how to validate your own maze, or asking among fellow competitors?
Or it's really a shortage, and when you're the highest bider for a talent pool on the market what really happens is that a person who's employed will leave their current employer to work for you, therefore just creating a shortage of employees for the competitors.

The validation of "shortage" is really simple. If every employer pays the same high-end market salary, is every open position filled?
To add: If it turns on this is legit, ask him how he did it so that you can advise others on what to do for their theses.
I always assumed this was pioneered by Hong Kong action cinema?
Okay so it won't make us go extinct. What if it makes life full of significant suffering. I find this kind of argument quite annoying. It's the same thing was happened with COVID19. Sure, I'm not going to die from it. That doesn't mean I want to live a life without my taste or smell. I enjoy those things. Likewise I want to live on a good Earth and leave that to the people after me.
> I'm curious why type/font technology hasn't developed for variation in letters, where a handwriting or printing typeface (or "Ransom" :) could vary the letter "a" so all the "a"'s don't look alike, the same as happens irl.

Why would you want that? It seems like it would be harder to read for no benefit.
Am I the only one reading this right or am I the only one reading it wrong.

Deno is not supporting node.js built-ins. It's deno deploy. Meaning that this will not work on other hosting platforms, right... or?
Nah, the same description (minus the startup) could apply to Micheal Geist who would have a very different perspective and would fall much closer to what most would consider a neutral student of technology and copyright law.
Ask HN: How can I make a career change now? What options are available?
So I’m pretty confident at this point that my career is dead. At the very least it’s on the path to death.

But at the moment I feel completely stuck. I know I need to do something, but I don’t see any path that requires a lot of money I don’t have. I lack any formal education outside of a high school diploma.

There’s no way on earth I can afford to formal education to move myself towards a different career ant the moment and everything is rapidly getting more expensive, most notably rent. Recently, I’ve watched many friends who are educated, and have more typical white collar office jobs struggle to find places they can afford.

It’s entirely possible though, that there are options I don’t know of. I got into programming by teaching myself from a young age out of my own interest (in fact, I never had any career aspirations in software until I was an adult). I don’t know if there’s any other careers like that, where I can just learn and work in my free time and eventually get myself to a point where employers will be willing to hire me.

But I imagine there’s paths I’m just completely ignorant of. Things I’ve never even seen or thought of, and I suppose that’s what I’m asking for. What options are available to me that I may not even know of?

And for what it’s worth, no I don’t have anyone I can mooch off of for some time while I try to figure things out. There are also other circumstances in my life that make it very difficult if not impossible to take many of the more manual jobs I see. These are not impossible to overcome, but require time and money I don’t have right now. It really feels like I’m consumed by chicken/egg problems right now. I could give up, take a low/unskilled job, and that might cover my base living expenses for a time, and I have considered it, but that’s game over. At that point I’ll never be able to afford a decent career change in a reasonable time frame.
What’s going on here?
The complexity of the cloud exists because the cloud vendors allows a user to do advanced things if the user understands how. Using AWS, GCP, and Azure as Infrastructure-as-a-Service (Iaas) means that there's no easy mode.

If you want easy (or easier) mode, you'll have to use a Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS).

The major cloud vendors might have problems with quirky designs and poor documentation, but beyond that is necessary complexity.

You want a high-availability website allows user-uploaded files and does asynchronous task processing? You're probably going to have to get familiar with servers, load balancers, queues, and object storage, at a minimum.

You want it all to be secure? You're going to have to configure network rules/firewalls and set up lots of access policies.

There's no free lunch.
To provide a bit of context, this article is about Timothy Burke. His most famous work is the compilation video of news anchors on Sinclair-owned local news stations reading the same script about how media bias is "extremely dangerous to our democracy.”[1] He is also known for breaking the infamous Manti Te'o fake girlfriend story.[2] Additionally, he is noted for having a complicated computing setup to monitor, archive, and disseminate videos from dozens of live sources simultaneously. Some of these details appeared in a profile by the New York Times [3] and also appear in this article.

Burke often shares short clips of offbeat moments from sports and news channels. The article states that he has recently shared behind-the-scenes clips of Tucker Carlson on his former Fox show; it appears likely that this raid was related to determining the origin of those clips.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_fHfgU8oMSo

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manti_Te'o#Catfishing_incident

[3] https://www.nytimes.com/2013/10/22/sports/deadspins-tim-burk...
We serve production code execution use cases (mainly Python) with Jamsocket: https://jamsocket.com/

We've been running it for over a year and would be willing to talk about an SLA. Each instance gets its own gvisor-sandboxed runtime and we do some network isolation on top of that. (We also have some crypto miner mitigation, because if you provide free compute to strangers they will manage to find you.)
Isn't this called Google search?
StarCraft is a lot more fun to watch than SupCom though.
You are definitely infringing by making a copy of a book and keeping it in your personal library.
E/Acc (2022)
Do you have an example of a government that has intentionally and dramatically reduce the standard of living, and take away the luxuries that their citizens have become accustomed to, with success, while maintaining a democracy and the freedom of its citizens?

Related, I think China will have a much easier time enacting change.
> I'm sorry, what's the advantage to the cloud again?

For-most-purposes-infinite on-demand resources, provided in a format where you don't have to pay for when you aren't using it. And yes, we all know that this does mean you pay a premium for it when you need it, and (good) cloud folks understand that you have to design for that reality.

If you don't need that advantage, that's fine, but it's silly to act like it doesn't exist. Find the point where the delta in variable costs outweighs additional capex and steer your solution to that point, make peace with inefficient spending, or get out. You don't have to be weird about either extreme position.
I've had people open up Facebook and Instagram accounts using my email address. They don't bother with requiring verification to use their services. Before I took over the accounts I'd get periodic notices about "friend" activity but never a nag to verify the e-mail.
>Hopefully he had his bad results pulled afterwards too,

Also remember anything you put on the internet is forever... Pretty much this guy may be doing the 'bullshit generation problem' we are starting to accuse AI of doing.
This allows outbound network access, allows program execution (within the container) and more.

You might want to restrict some of these things before Amazon shuts your account down for abuse requests.

You're basically handing everyone on the internet an EC2 instance to do literally anything with -- it'll be minutes to hours before this gets abused.

`uname` output from the container for example:
Linux a976bf3f5ff7 4.14.193-113.317.amzn1.x86_64 #1 SMP Thu Sep 3 19:08:08 UTC 2020 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
This. My full-time job is automating myself out of a job. Arguably, that's one of the indicators of a quality software engineer versus one who can follow directions but not decrease the problem space.

The problem is not automation... Automation is great. It frees up people's time to do more activities. The problem is how we distribute the spoils of that freed time.
Brooklyn’s Super A-OK has productized this:
https://superaok.com/
The adblocker settings can also be used to block various distracting content recommendation sections of sites you frequently use, if you want to just see the content you explicitly wanted without having your attention hijacked/tempted with clickbait from the same site. On some sites you can configure it in some options, but for others a simple filter can do it.

For example, for me the youtube shorts section, or the stackoverflow 'hot network questions' section are things like that; they are "almost ads" in some sense.
Launch this Watsonx. (grabs crotch) oh!
This is important because undocumented immigrants are starting to assert their Second Amendment rights.
> I made it abundantly clear that they cannot use any kind of AI assistance for their work

You're swimming against the riptide. If I were teaching coding today, I'd allow, even encourage, use of AI, with some ground rules. Students using AI would have to show their work (i.e. the conversation with the machine).

The content of the prompts and in particular follow-up questions, can demonstrate competence. E.g. situations in which the student spotted that something was wrong in the generated code and made an intelligent hint to the machine to fix it.

Students should be prepared for tomorrow's world, not yesterday's.
That wouldn't be bad, but I think you could do something more off-putting with something like deliberately slightly bad kerning.

I'm not sure of the extent to which you could use ligatures to tweak the serifs, rather than remove them completely (if possible - frustration will be maximised if the reader is unable to tell what's wrong, even after they come to believe that something is wrong).
tbh, I liked Vine. It allowed someone to write a joke and punchline without allowing them to fill it in with bullshit.
Is it just me who thought there was a mobile app not a web app?
FWIW, here's a little console-mode puzzle game of SAT problems, if you want to solve some manually. The "board" is not exactly like the example table in the post, since that one was for Sudoku in particular. This grid represents variables as rows and clauses as columns.

https://github.com/darius/sturm/blob/master/satgame.py (Python 2)
This is a bad take that doesn't account for the legal definition of copyright.
The first step of training an LLM, going from the source to a tokenized input array is creating a derivative work. Unless that's something that can be shown as fair use (the most likely exception, but there are others), then ingesting items into an GPT is probably a copyright violation.

https://www.copyright.gov/title17/92chap1.html#106

106. Exclusive rights in copyrighted works

Subject to sections 107 through 122, the owner of copyright under this title has the exclusive rights to do and to authorize any of the following:

(2) to prepare derivative works based upon the copyrighted work;

https://www.copyright.gov/title17/92chap1.html#107

107. Limitations on exclusive rights: Fair use41

Notwithstanding the provisions of sections 106 and 106A, the fair use of a copyrighted work, including such use by reproduction in copies or phonorecords or by any other means specified by that section, for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching (including multiple copies for classroom use), scholarship, or research, is not an infringement of copyright. In determining whether the use made of a work in any particular case is a fair use the factors to be considered shall include—

(1) the purpose and character of the use, including whether such use is of a commercial nature or is for nonprofit educational purposes;

(2) the nature of the copyrighted work;

(3) the amount and substantiality of the portion used in relation to the copyrighted work as a whole; and

(4) the effect of the use upon the potential market for or value of the copyrighted work.

The fact that a work is unpublished shall not itself bar a finding of fair use if such finding is made upon consideration of all the above factors.

===

What will the courts decide? Who knows. It's probably going to be a fairly massive case regardless.
I dunno, I feel like you could make that case right up until they merged with doubleclick.
I still make syntax errors all the time.
From the article: "...Van Horn, fifteen miles to Lobo’s north, the town that houses Blue Origin’s launch site."
> But the model of a single well specified execution + storage protocol might be worth porting over to non-financialized cloud application development.

To a first approximation, it exists, and it's called Cloudflare Workers (and KV).

If I had to bet money, mine would be on the bet that Workers represents an early example of what will be in-the-main development in a decade.
Also it has the ONLY tropical rainforest in the entire US in el Yunque!
> (I'll pass on the question of how important it is to replace the most powerful context aware autoescaping HTML string templating with something else.)

It's probably me, but I'm not grokking this ending sentence. Is this praising go's "html/template" or is it meant as satire? I believe it isn't but genuinely can't say for sure. From a cursory look, html/template looks like doing the right thing, but come on, you have to tell it explicitly and procedurally which kind of escaping(s) you want for every individual var expansion. Compared to SGML which automatically detects where expansion of an entity reference occurs (within attributes, within CDATA or RCDATA, within normal parsed character data, and so on) while also considering the entity type and type-checking the final expanded result against the expected content model (not just for preventing <script> injection) this is a joke. Maybe SGML templating is what the author considers 'strict structural containment'? I mean, SGML isn't just any rando templating system, it's what HTML is based on, has been with us since 1986, and should be the point of reference.
> What if Greg is an online repository, crawling the web and storing and distributing copyrighted materials verbatim? Stripping out attribution? With ads and/or a paid subscription fee?

So you mean Google, right?