skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's true for exactly the same reason.

You have

- TAI: i.e. Atomic time which is basically the aggregate of a bunch of major atomic clocks to get as close as possible to "true time" on earh.

- UT: i.e. Universal Time on earth with the different UT0, UT1, etc providing different levels of correction based on where you are on earth.

- UTC: i.e. coordinated time that is the same anywhere on earth. This is derived from TAI but receives leap seconds when it is sufficiently out of sync from UT1.

- GPS time: i.e. the specific time standard kept on GPS satellites based on their orbit. This time is derived from UTC(UNSO) which is a specific UTC clock at the US Naval Observatory and the offsets are recorded by the satellites.

So you have your GPS time and your UTC time. What this proposal is doing is effectively the same thing. i.e. creating a new coordinated time standard for the moon (LTC) that tracks an offset of how far it's drifted from UTC so you can effectively coordinate. And eventually when the moon gets it's own GPS (which it will eventually), you'll have GPS(LTC), i.e. GPS time relative to LTC.
I don't like anything about this war, but in a way, I think concerns of AI in warfare are, at this stage, overblown. I'm more concerned about the humans doing the shooting.

Let's face it, in any war, civilians are really screwed. It's true here, it was true in Afghanistan or Vietnam or WWII. They get shot at, they get bombed, by accident or not, they get displaced. Milosevic in Serbia didn't need an AI to commit genocide.

The real issue to me is what the belligerents are OK with. If they are ok killing people on flimsy intelligence, I don't see much difference between perfunctory human analysis and a crappy AI. Are we saying that somehow Hamas gets some brownie points for not using an AI?
Sure, and he makes this point right there in TFA:

"This observation applies only to amateur tennis. In professional tennis it’s just the opposite: 80% of the rallies are won rather than lost, as unforced errors are infrequent. This is true in chess as well, as high-level players don’t blunder, and thus it really is that litany of other skills that results in high standing."
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> The problem is also damaging your brain and body with drugs, developing bad habits and/or drug addiction, your supply being contaminated/poisoned, making irresponsible decisions while intoxicated, etc.

We can make the same exact argument about sugar and HFCS. Either of those substances can make people feel extremely hungry even with a full stomach, thus make terrible decisions and damage their bodies.

Alcohol's much worse. Yet we tried banning that. Remind me how that went again? Oh thats right, we had federal agents poisoning alcohol to intentionally kill drinkers. Wonderful times.

> For example cannabis can be mostly safe for adults, but children or teens who use too much of it can develop neurological defects like short-term memory impairment, depending on the frequency and duration of use.

Again, most drugs aren't that bad, regardless what DARE propagandized you into believing. Id advise anyone actually wanting to understand what a drug is like, to go to https://www.erowid.org/ and read up about experiences.

I've been on damn near every painkiller up to fentanyl. My fav is morphine. Feels like a glowing warmth and "home". I could easily see me doing a small amount on a friday evening after work's done. Id keep it down enough that I wouldn't get a tolerance, and I'd be "sobered" up by next morning.

Ive also been on amphetamines, and threw' em away. Made me feel TERRIBLE.

The 3 biggest scourge drugs we have are alcohol, tobacco, and sugar. And, when did bans actually accomplish the ban goal?
The thing about RAM speed (aka bandwidth) is that it becomes irrelevant if you run out and have to page out to slower tiers of storage.
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GIAM is now available in hardcopy as a printed-on-demand paperback from CreateSpace. Please rest assured that GIAM will remain available for free download from this site.

https://www.amazon.com/Gentle-Introduction-Art-Mathematics-v...
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Really, the mistake was letting humans provide input to computer programs.
The USA had two different miles until a year ago: the international standard mile (based on Carl Edvard Johansson’s inch), and the US Survey mile. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mile#US_survey
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We're excited to see valkey innovate in these areas! We wish you the best of luck and wish that we could have merged our forks, but alas.

>Ultimately a small community will struggle to maintain a lot of clients, so I think we need a larger (and likely commercial) investment into keeping clients open

I'm not sure that this is true, at least not the commercial part. Redis clients are pretty simple (compared to Redis itself, at least). Redict is leading an effort to encourage community forks of the official Redis clients, as well as sending patches downstream to third-party clients. We set as an explicit goal to fork the ecosystem as well; we've started this work with hiredict and don't intend to stop.

I think there was some mention at some point about our two forks working together on maintenance of the protocol specification independently of Redis Ltd, which would be a good way to ensure that the clients remain broadly compatible with both of our forks.
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Two problems here:

1. If a human does that, they can be sued for doing so. If the reuse is egregious enough they will lose in court.

2. Industrial farming and industrial production have in fact been some of the more contentious economic projects. And the results have often been a race to the bottom in terms of quality.
Congratulations, you've noticed that AI will take away jobs. What a novel idea.
Reading the open letter, I don't think they are concerned with AI compositions dominating the charts. The open letter mentions "massive quantities of AI-created 'sounds' and 'images' that substantially dilute the royalty pools" and "We must protect against the predatory use of AI to steal professional artist' voices and likenesses, violate creators' rights, and destroy the music ecosystem."

So I think the more realistic threats are things like: Generating drum samples instead of buying them. Generating jingles/ads instead of hiring a composer. Spoofing a famous person's voice/likeness for some promotional blurb instead of paying them.
My first assembly was 6502 which kept a call stack in page 3 (128 levels deep being the maximum call depth as a consequence). When I learned 370 assembly, I remember being shocked to discover that an application was responsible for maintaining its own call stack.
I think your point is well made. Unfortunately, there are a substantial number of drug users in Oregon (and Portland in particular) who do not have a private place to do drugs. They live in tents on the sidewalk[1]. You see people smoking fentanyl on the sidewalk or in parks all over town.

One example of how this negatively impacts non-drug using citizens is that summer camps have been having trouble because the kids can't use the bathrooms at the local parks. People are smoking fentanyl in the park bathrooms (which is not currently illegal), and so the kids have no where to do their business.

1: https://www.opb.org/article/2022/12/08/multnomah-county-purc...
The author is paid to make these articles, it is his job to make these points, valid or not. "Infoworld" is putting itself as an outlet for corporate propaganda providing a sneaky disclaimer at the bottom.
I'm still not seeing it. What are some specific benefits for hiding the benefitting owner of a company? How would society be worse off if the person or people behind a company could always be known?
There are some major misunderstandings about chess amongst the general public. "Wanting to not blunder" and "not blundering" are two very different things.

I remember an in-person rapid tournament, 12m with a 3s increment, I was rated ~1600, playing a lot at the time, reading books, etc. In the first round got matched against the highest rated player there (which is normal, someone has to play them in the first round).

He was an IM, skittish small fellow, something like ~2200 or ~2300, I can't remember. Table 1 was up on a little podium. So we go through the opening, middle-game, and this guy is just sitting back. Solid, non-threatening, relaxed, barely used any time on his clock. I'm sweating, taking ages, nervous, seeing dragons around each corner.

I try reason with myself: look, this guy is in a worse spot than you, he has more to lose, etc. He's waiting for you to make a mistake. He is avoiding exchanges, and making little probing threats, at best. Just breathe, stay in the game, let him attempt an attack! Just keep things solid, and don't blunder!

We go back and forth like this for at best 4 or 5 moves into the middlegame let's say.

His move: he smiles apologetically and takes the rook I just put on an unprotected square his bishop was very clearly hitting. I resign with an embarrassed look and whisper an apology for my stupidity.

My advice to anyone who is feeling too big for their jodhpurs: go study chess as hard as you can, for as long as you like, and then go play a few tournaments. 12-year-olds will wipe the floor with you and then their Mom will make them a sandwich while they move on with their life.
In all seriousness, it'd be the same as with antarctic stations where which station you are at determines the rules.
Depending on what you want that truck for, there are options: if it's for the storage capacity and volume, there are work vans (Ford Transit Connect / Renault Kangoo); if it's for offroading, there are vehicles like Subaru's whole lineup; if it's for towing I don't know but I'm sure there are vehicles capable of towing that aren't pickups.
ASCII Art refers to the style of the art.

Similar to “8-bit” art (which may be in a 24-bit colour space)
It's a little bit different from generals.io but the points you mention are very valid. I originally started working on it as a showcase of LiveSvelte + I like generals.io a lot and thought it could be improved visually + UX wise. Then afterwards started thinking a bit about the game design and what I could improve, but eventually burned out on the project. Was also at a time when I wasn't working but am working again.

Maybe I'll pick it up at some point, but also open to other people working on it if they're interested. I'd be open to partner up with someone to eventually make it monetized. It's not open source as I wanted to add paid features (cosmetic features, not pay to win).

A solution for most of these issues is a modifier system. I have a basic one in place and wanted to experiment with different modifiers. A modifier can be anything, like prevent spawning in the center, to increasing rewards for capturing cities, to even allow crossing the border of the map into the other side, like pacman (which could address point 1). Then the goal would be to see which modifiers stick with the player base, and make them the default, while still allowing for custom games with different modifiers. Generals has a similar system in place and they sometimes make the modifier the default for the day, which I like a lot.
> What will it take to get to a point where people can make art independently of livelihood?

We're already there. I've made hundreds of songs in my life and haven't earned a penny. It's all good.
I'd also like to know. In the first story I've read it said something like '1000 workers were labeling videos for Amazon'. Not clear to me if they were training a model to do this then or if they actually were following every shopper through video feed and seeing what they would pick out
Like Someone Else said, Ross also addressed this in the FAQ. https://www.stopkillinggames.com/faq
Civilians aren't strategic targets like military decision-makers, but describing them as 'unimportant' is a sign of moral vacuity.
Or even non-public figure not wanting randos knowing where their house is.

I'm not a public figure and I don't want where I sleep posted all over the internet. I don't have the budget for security if some Twitter fool decides to give me a death threat because of a comment.
Seriously. The number of people here saying, essentially, "These artists are beneath my tastes" so none are deserving of reward or protections, is ridiculous.
It's not hart to drink alcohol on the street, but it is easy to drink it indoors.

To contrast, people addicted to heroin or meth are much more vulnerable to unemployment, homelessness, etc.; which pushes them into public spaces, and incentivizes them to commit petty and violent crime.
I have submitted the report here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39919628
> In the context of startups, everyone's at beginner level.

Why would this be true? There are plenty of startup veterans that have been doing it for years.
It's bizarre the amount of money and resources we spend in futile efforts towards "solving homelessness" except for just... building homes.
Ask HN: Who is building on top of OpenAI's Assistants API?
If so, what is your experience?
I'd suggest Sol/Luna or Sol/Terra/Luna, that way it's easier to do Sol/Jupiter/Europa
> Art has never really be a viable career path except for the exceptionally talented and lucky few.

Yes, and also, I think it's a larger group than you're thinking.

Photography is art. Tattooing is art. There are probably a lot more working artists than you think there are. It's true that for most artists, art isn't economically sustainable, but there's a spectrum; Billie Eilish is at one end and a software engineer who sketches their own D&D characters on weekends is at the other.
"Separate processing the input data from the persons commands, so that the LLM can perform inferencing operations on the data according to the specified commands"

Prompt injection is the security flaw that exists because doing that - treating instructions and data as separate things in the context in the LLM - is WAY harder than you might expect.

My previous writing about this: https://simonwillison.net/series/prompt-injection/
> AI generated noise will crowd out real human innovation

But that’s the key point, “real human innovation” will still be there because by definition that’s not going to be in some model weights based on previous works. If it’s truly innovative, AI won’t be able to duplicate that.
Yeah I heard that a lot. You can definitely learn on your own but I think there is a lot of appeal to a structured program, access to professors, and being around people with common interests working on the same things as you. Id also have to quit my job to be able to study anything meaningfully so might as well.

As to your second point, no I cant do any of that. Theres a million things for sure. If I could pivot from being a backend/web engineer to writing OSs or compilers or something thatd be another story, but its hard to make that kind of change. 99% of the jobs on the market are for some kind of consumer application, and I literally have zero interest in learning snother framework or tooling.
> It is very convenient to criticize it when you're not in it

Israel 'criticised' Hamas for their monstrous attack six months ago, started a war over it. Perhaps you're saying Israel should have just accepted it?

You know, perhaps this whole mess Israel is now involved in is a product of its own behaviour, and killing of loads more Palestinians is not likely to bring peace but further hate and evil.
Or to break out of nested loops. The problem is with unstructured goto spaghetti making the code impossible to follow without essentially running it in your head (or a debugger).

Goto + Switch (or the GCC computed goto extension) is also a wonderful way to implement state machines.
Personally, I don't think the amount of effort is what's important. If Roger Waters, or "his people", sniff out something fishy, they're going to sue and they're going to get something for their troubles. I think what's important is that that legal option is uniquely available to him because he's already rich. If someone rips me off, it doesn't matter if they're working with a trained ear or AI. There's nothing I can do about it cause I can't afford a lawyer.

There should be a better legal framework for us regular folk who don't have these resources, regardless of AI. A better framework probably includes what you're saying about AI generated things, but there's no reason for it to stop there.
It is very much a matter of privacy for most folks doing it. And you don't have to particularly be rich to benefit from it.
Might be an excellent opportunity to re-think how we handle timekeeping in general, especially as Local Solar Time will vary wildly by dint of the moon's orbital patterns.
Outside of privacy, I could imagine it might be beneficial to structure a set of companies as a primary company and a bunch of shell companies to separate accounting and legal matters. This way if a sub-company is in a dangerous industry or has large liabilities in its normal business that you would want the primary company to be insulated from that. IANAL so I don't know if this is a use case, there are probably ways to do this w/o privacy.
Take a look at the actual commit history. It's clear copying the BUSL files and then changing things.

https://github.com/opentofu/opentofu/pull/1158/commits
Viola had stylesheets I think.
To get the full benefit of OSS, it's not enough to make open source software. You have to make forkable software. Sure, projects such as Chromium and Keycloak are technically OSS, but they're so massive and complicated that very few have the resources to fork them. It's not as bad as proprietary software, but it has some of the same drawbacks.
As others have already pointed out it, it doesn't guarantee that the result is null-terminated. But that's not the only problem! In addition, it always pads the remaining space with zeros:

char buf[1000];
strncpy(buf, "foo", sizeof(buf));

This writes 3 characters and 9997 zeros. It's probably not what you want 99% of the time.
It was always obvious to me that this was the case. Cameras and sensors do not overcome the chaos of supermarket shelving, but a ton of CCTV makes it fairly straightforward to build somewhat scalable human processes around this sort of thing. Fake it 'til you make it.

Another example that I'd bet is mostly human driven is the e-passport gates at many airports (not US airports). You put your passport in the machine, it points a camera at your face, and then it lets you through. Quick and easy, but I'm sure it's at least partially human driven – the response times aren't great, and it's much easier to show a few details to someone playing enterprise-grade Papers Please in a call centre in Swindon than it is to build some accurate machine learning system that meets the bar and can be understood by the goverment agency implementing it.
Harm reduction should include quality control. In the Netherlands, for example, publicly funded harm reduction clinics will test any drug sample for free and anonymously as a public health measure. However, hard drugs are still illegal.
The example shows leaving your bucket name in the url as a way to filter out requests to other bucket names. If you want your static site to have http://mysite.com/bucketname/index.html then I guess that's ok. But again, careful configuration and still not for every situation.

I'm sure you can layer more rules to get it exactly right but I'd not be eager to layer on complex configuration through multiple service providers when it is avoidable, unless there is some very compelling overriding reason.
This has been largely known since the 60s, when the Starfish Prime exoatmospheric nuclear test knocked out all communications and damaged power grids over the Pacific.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Starfish_Prime
Thanks for the heads up. I'll have to make up some banners later and submit. I have a few sites that would go nicely there.
fwiw, characterizing Andres as a sysadmin isn't really the whole picture; he's a postgres developer that conducts benchmarking operations with some frequency (and he's quite good at what he does)... he's perhaps naturally a bit more sensitive to things like the cumulative effect of 500ms or so over a number of sshd invocations.
> Woods was held in county jail for 428 days in total, and after a California judge deemed him mentally unfit to stand trial

America's legal system at work. Now a judge can diagnose mental health conditions!
I have no horse in the race, but as an outside observer, and involved in some small open source stuff, I find it interesting the dynamics of these kinds of large public events and forks. Looking at the contributor activity from Aug 13th 2023 to today, there seems to be slightly less activity in the OpenTofu repo vs the original Terraform repo, but small sample size and just eyeballing it, don't take this as an accurate statement.

I wonder how viable this fork will end up being. To contrast with the recent Redis debacle, Redis is by some measure a completed piece of software, as suggested by the Redict fork. But with the moving target of the Cloud, is Terraform in a similar bucket? Will there be enough support behind this fork 5 years from now? And by support I don't mean is some big tech company's logo displayed on the website - are there multiple contributors or is it some random person in Nebraska doing what they can during evenings and weekends?

Might be an unfair comparison, but I'm reminded of the Reddit API uproar last year. It did what exactly? Reddit IPO'd, got their cake, the people who threw up their arms got what? Some maybe left, others just quietly returned to their corners of Reddit and continued using it? Will these large publicity forks end up being healthy and viable or end up open-source abandonware that once promised the world?

To be clear, I'm all for competition, FOSS, and all the stuff. I just genuinely worry about big bang, high publicity stuff. Is it big bang and then a quiet whimper, or a self sustaining entity for the long term?
I'm not super familiar, but they say in the webpage that it is specifically for Universal Scene Description, which is formally for graphics. Although, after a quick google, it looks like they do have a simulation package which then runs on top of Omniverse (Isaac Sim?), so I guess that is Nvidia's robotics offering.

My general experience with other commercial offerings for simulation... is not great. In my experience, people usually end up migrating to gazebo, but I have been away from the field for a while now so it could be different. It is probably a situation where Nvidia will have a few coporate clients that they prioritize, and you are on your own to get it set up if you aren't on that lists. Pretty normal.
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New Mexico has fairly decent LLC privacy and you don't have to pay an annual fee to upkeep your LLC at all. Just need to have a registered agent, which can be had for under 100/year.
https://archive.is/qwkd2
Isn't iDrive a BMW trademark for decades?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BMW_iDrive
They want a Civic EV.
When I was first starting out a very long time ago, I wrote a lot of Fortran (mainly for digital signal processing applications), and a couple of times I had to work around the lack of recursion by building my own stacks for intermediate results, with arrays and a position to keep track of where I was. It was ugly.
Ask HN: What problems do you have that you just cant solve?
ReCAPTCHA was founded by Luis von Ahn when he attended a talk by Yahoo about 10 engineering problems they didnt know how to solve, so HN, what problems do you have that you don't know how to solve?
Try living in Utah, where that happens before the initiative is even implemented.

The people of my state voted to legalize medical cannabis: it was implemented with absurd restrictions. The people of my state voted for a third-party committee to draw our district maps: our representatives chose to implement their own maps instead.