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I do think we have enough eyeballs at this point that we should stop entertaining the Dancing Bear in low level libraries and start insisting on crisp, self-explaining code. There are a lot of optimizations pushed into compilers these days, and there are a lot of architectural changes that can make things fast without making them inscrutable.

We should be moving from No Obvious Bugs to Obviously No Bugs (Tony Hoare).
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I think that there are at least 10 main differences between chess (or other sports) and startups.

It's a very weak analogy.

He does have a few good points though if you disregard that.
From the comments: Is there any such thing as a tall person?

To use a natural language analogy, a declarative language to me is one in which one tends to write programs whose parts are articulated, subordinated to and coordinated with one another, rather than the stereotypical oral presentation in which "and then" is the sole conjunction.
There's another angle: system independence.

When things go wrong, i.e in a crash, you still want to guarantee an undammaged door latching mechanism can still be operated independent of other parts of the car being damaged (likely). To satisfy this for a purely electrically actuated latch you would need a battery and independent controller in every door.

It's hard to beat the reliability of a mechanical latch and a human hand to satisfy that requirement.
Not too much, actually. People hanging up without a message are the most common. There are also a few people that have played recordings of songs or other sound clips from copyrighted sources, and I don't want to deal with that mess if I don't have to. There are also the ones that are in other languages that I can't put a good memo on or moderate properly. I keep them all and just leave the ones that I don't post marked as "unpublished" in my static site builder (Jekyll) so that I can take another pass at them later when I have the time / resources.

Very few have been "inappropriate". There was one with some questionable jokes that I held back and another where someone was quite angrily talking about a particular political party (there are other "political" statements I've allowed; I just don't want to the page to become some place for people to yell at each other -- not going for that vibe).
I'm about to convert to a cash basis because of this. I am also going to leave my 4 accounts with Chase if I "opt out" and still receive advertising.
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But motor and motion control isn't exactly so mysterious that we need AI for it. Inductance in electric motors can have some odd effects in the acceleration domain, but it generally boils down to a second to third order differential formula. Even when linking multiple together in a serial manipulator, the math is really well understood for modeling the motion output. Maybe there are some outputs to be gained implementing different drive trains in arbitrary circumstances, and monitoring how they fail and stuff like that. At that point you are really getting into the weeds of operations and maintenance more than actual motion control.

The situation that arises into a very complex n-dimensional problem that you would want AI to search through is the coordinated motion of multiple actuators to achieve a very complex output. Like, picking something up of unknown weight, running while carrying it up a steep hill, waving it around while doing all this. We take it for granted as humans with brains that can perform all this stuff trivially, but it is extremely complex motion.
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We are all paying right now for it not being done.
If we will standardize time on solar system level, we’ll probably have another component of time, rather than a flat list of time zones. E.g. Mars should have its own set of zones. Maybe that means having an identifier of coordinate system, which can be omitted in local use cases.
Israel is stopping aid from entering Gaza. Whose fault is that?
I see no comments so far about the Corporate Transparency Act[1] and how it affects privacy with LLCs, etc. The US government will soon have a database of all (complying) beneficial owners. This database will eventually be hacked, leaked, shared with local law enforcement (further allowing it to be leaked).

How will the "rich people" maintain privacy/secrecy after the Corporate Transparency Act?

[1] https://www.uschamber.com/co/start/strategy/small-business-c...
Yes, I mentioned the losing ground to Postgres aspect in my original comment. But that affects both MySQL and MariaDB, and still does not cause MariaDB to somehow be more popular than MySQL.

As for both working with anecdata, I mean sure, but what else is there? I'm citing my own business's direct experience with MySQL users and customers significantly outnumbering MariaDB users and customers, and seeing clear signs of that trend also being true at several much larger businesses (AWS, Azure, Percona, PlanetScale).

I suspect your view may be skewed by Linux distros / package managers having replaced MySQL with MariaDB many years ago. But even that is starting to change, see https://lwn.net/Articles/960630/ for example.
An extended grid down event is probably much more serious than you are imagining. It’s not just lights and fridges that stop working, but sewage pumps, water systems, gas stations and virtually every other system you rely on.

What would your plan be to keep you and your family alive? Would you be able to protect your resources from others who also want to keep their own families alive?
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This is covered in the article. As I understand it, the liver grows in response to chemicals in the blood which it also filters. So it will stop growing when it's large enough to filter all the markers.
It would be same playbook that NVIDIA did CUDA where was market 2010 when it was research labs and hobbyists doing vector calculations.
I meant operation Cyclone[0].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Cyclone
Wait, really? That’s awesome
Also zig is a good example of not a scripting language which does this job.
Do you think it was mainly the UI Design or the Chat Responses themselves?
Sure, or just add a polymorphic functor to walk a tree autonomously.

There are shorter ways to admit you already sold your soul. lol =)
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Toyota Sienna has power sliding doors in all 2024 models.

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You already have power in the door, because a car without power windows is a non-starter these days. And power locks.

So using the electricity already present for the door handles has to be entirely tempting.
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The definition of a second is as follows [0]:

The second is defined by taking the fixed numerical value of the caesium frequency ∆ν, the unperturbed ground-state hyperfine transition frequency of the caesium 133 atom, to be 9 192 631 770 when expressed in the unit Hz, which is equal to s−1

But with the Moon's lower gravity, time flows very slightly faster (a moon-second is 0.99999999999848 of an earth second according to a sibling post). I'm no physicist, but my assumption is that the SI definition of a second would still be true on the moon (at least relative to the moon's reference frame). So it would make sense to me to leave a second defined as a SI second, regardless of your reference frame because that's how humans, science & technology measure time passing.

I think the bigger calendar problem with space travel is the differences in the length of a day (or sol), as we know it's 24hrs on earth, Mars is 24h 37m (not sure about the moon since it's tidally locked its ~27x24hrs). The drift of days between Mars and Earth is going to be far more noticeable than a tiny fraction of a second due to relativity.

[0] https://www.npl.co.uk/si-units/second
Sure but in most cases, there's ALREADY wires going to the window motors and locks. In this situation, removing the mechanical door handle/latch operation does indeed simplify things.
I'm optimistic we'll have better synchronization mechanisms in the distant future than "8am == sunrise, +/- a few hours".

That said, interestingly, the quadratic nature of that problem (the earth slowing down progressively faster over time) means that the gap between when we have to care about my solution (because we accumulate too many leap seconds per lifetime) and the leap second solution (because you can only insert a little over 365 per year with the current protocol) is much smaller than the gap between now and when we would have to care about my solution.

If you're not too picky, the two solutions "expire" around the same time. The max rate of leap second insertion only admits an hour of drift per decade, which is slow enough that I still think most people wouldn't care, and they might like if our time handling is simple enough that we can't repeat the recent xz supply chain issue in hundreds of thousands of lines of increasingly complex datetime nonsense.
Do you mean that fining more for richer people is unfair?

That's an interesting view. One could argue that a flat fine allows rich people to break the law more, because they can afford it. Which IMHO seems pretty unfair.
Not really. Without power or vehicles we can't get food or water. We'd most of us die in fairly short order, I think.
I would be very surprised if there wasn't a Federal-level investigation being planned (or already ongoing) into this. Of course it's always a possibility that the attack was, in fact, sponsored by these same agencies.
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Maybe these startup companies should start with boring trade vehicles (which even today often have manual windows and locks) instead of the flashy consumer cars. But that won't attract the VC funding.
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it's a movie. they wanted, like, human drama which is substantially more difficult if the main character is not alive.
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It's been pretty clear to me for a while now that Israel's long term plan for the Palestinians is to expel them all. Starvation isnt a requirement for that, but it is probably the path of least resistance. I will say that its happening a lot faster than I expected though, Israel definitely taking advantage of the situation here.
Something magic would have to happen to radically change everything for me, for this to happen. Definitely feels a bit crushing.
Everything made by American greedy corporations is already, "anti-diet" food. Even if it is low carb, low fat, low sugar, it is still full of so many chemicals our bodies retain water and inflammation!

I did an experiment. I ate Cap'n Crunch cereal for 7 days. In that 7 days, I gained 5lbs! I gave it up for 10 days and all that 5lbs fell off me. That was THE ONLY change I made.

They have to poison you, it's the only way to get you to see a doctor and get on a prescription so the corporations can make even more money off you until you die.
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Whenever Raymond Chen retires, I am going to be really sad.
Disruption of just-in-time delivery of food, medicine, and other essentials would potentially be a very deadly thing all by by itself. Even if these items are available, the ability to purchase said goods would be difficult with the overwhelming dependency on electronic payment methods used today. Even pulling money from your bank account could be problematic.
Submarines don't go deeper than couple kilometers, usually less than 500 m. Vast areas of the ocean are way deeper, and that depth likely has little operational importance for submarines.

Cable-laying is another thing, but only along the lines that connect interesting points on the shore.
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Anyone else use this in production with a significant user base or business usage? How’s ur experience?
"Overselling supposedly magic software is not a kind of fraud?". I suggest googling what fraud means. Marketing is most definitely not fraud and has nothing to do with fraud. You are making circular arguments. Palantir is a 50 bln dollar company and you provided exactly zero evidence that they are "overselling supposedly magic software"
in other words you have no idea what you are talking about specifically with respect to Palantir. I never understand why people do this. Why make these strong claims if it turns out you just don't know ?
Is there some additional context that got cut out?

I'm not sure this adds anything to the observation that there's a distinction between this and British empire colonialism.
"Monte Carlo" is in a similar space.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monte_Carlo_(disambiguation)

8 entries in "Science and Technology" alone.
We can use (Earth based) UTC on the moon, or on the whole universe for that matter.

The problem is that on the moon, due to relativistic effects, a UTC second is not really a second, it is slightly longer, and that makes it inconvenient for conducting experiments on the moon. So for moon-based operations, moon time will be used, it can then be converted to UTC for "universal" operations.

It is not the first time we use different clocks. In fact, we already have plenty: UT0, UT1, TAI, etc... That's because the Earth rotation is not that great at timekeeping, atomic clocks do better, but we still want our days to be aligned with the sun, so depending on whether you are more interested in the Earth rotation or in precisely counting seconds, you will use different clocks, with UTC being a compromise you can always convert to. GPS time is one such example, it is a few seconds off UTC because it doesn't account for leap seconds.

All that is not even accounting for local (earth) time zones.
and israel not only isnt stopping them, their actions are strengthening Hamas.
I'm in cyber threat intelligence, not someone known or anything, but I've got a decent bit of experience in both building exploits and mitigating them through controls before starting to write about them. I actually created this account to comment on this, after lurking here forever.

It's possible to have both things be true at once. XZ shows that the FOSS ecosystem is uniquely vulnerable and the Storm-0558 and Midnight Blizzard attacks show that cloud security and proprietary software "security through obscurity" is still as flawed as it has always been.

That said, I find significant deficiencies in yesterday's report. The panel of stakeholders that were consulted includes all of Microsoft's cloud competitors, a threat intelligence firm owned by one, and Palo Alto Networks - which has had significant breaches of its own. I don't like how Microsoft has enterprise environments by the short hairs on the Windows environment and leverages that to push its SaaS offerings (especially in security). I think it's ridiculous that the technical indicators for the initial compromise were paywalled behind logs that the US government had to pressure them to make open for everyone. That said, their threat landscape is not at all similar to PAN and Google Cloud's. The entire federal government works on Microsoft's stack, especially for Office and Windows. State-sponsored hackers will dedicate more resources to compromising Microsoft than any of their peers. AWS has GovCloud, which is the next closest thing that an adversary may want, but the intelligence value of getting the Secratary of ___'s email vs. an S3 bucket or an EC2 instance isn't comparable.

It's clear from their blog posts and press releases that they themselves have no idea what caused the loss of the MSA key. The lack of logging to confirm their preferred theory is bad. Throwing it out as if they had evidence of it and then posting a silent update to their blog post last month admitting they had no clue is worse. The flaw in their IAM that allowed a key from 2016 to sign enterprise tokens is an oversight that a company with the trust Microsoft has shouldn't allow.

The CSRB could have made a great report on the above and let the facts speak for themselves. Instead, the pointed jabs at MSFT - especially during the Findings section where they spend several pages showing Microsoft's failings and then follow with how their cloud platforms happen to do so much better - risk the effort landing as a smear campaign.
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What are you all using to manage clients, time tracking, payments, to do items, etc for your contracts?
Not all are bad, but they are frequently abused to not only protect privacy, but to protect against legitimate legal need. It is like hiring a contractor on your house who gives you a false name so they can skip out of town when you figure out they cheated you. There is no legitimate purpose for that degree of privacy. They wanted privacy for the express purpose of providing you no legal recourse.

Pseudonymity is perfectly valid, but there needs to be efficient, effective, and crystal clear means to pierce it and find the actual humans making the decisions with intent when there is a legitimate and well-supported legal need.
> 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).

I'll get on my soap box then. The redis client ecosystem is fractured and awful, and it's mostly Cluster's fault. Getting cluster right is really hard, and most clients do it inconsistently and get something wrong, if they tried at all (hiredict doesn't for example).

> 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.

Yeah, I'm still fully aligned with this.
> Economic growth can raise everyone’s income above this level. This is why Keynes predicted that the workweek would only be 15 hours long by 2030

I may personally think there are better reasons than fertility to wish to raise everyone's income above that level, but if we can all agree, whatever our reasons, that higher productivity is good, by all means let's make it happen.
There is an argument that all recursive proofs can be made iterative due to isomorphism.

You are not lazy enough to be a good programmer yet. ;-)
I wouldn't agree with that, there are plenty of levers available to limit tech, especially for anything resource intensive like AI. Electric cars could have been mainstream 100 years ago without a concerted effort to stop them. Plus Napster as the sibling mentioned, and many more examples.
Developer hiding their lack of knowledge on projects and it being difficult to prove without letting the project fail.
Common case is privacy and safety for public figures. Some places have laws that specifically allow some public officials to have their otherwise public records sealed for privacy and safety reasons. Aggressive harrassment by activists, conspiracy theorists, and other malcontents is definitely a thing when you become high profile.

A related case is investors in or owners of a category of otherwise legal business whose relatives are targeted by nasty people for that fact alone. This includes businesses like coal and defense. Shell companies help shield themselves and their extended family from association with a business that attracts undue drama.
I'm not even sure if it makes sense to view it as a Legendre transform. Or well, it is one, I'm just not sure if it's a good definition.

You get the free energy for 'free' if you use a Lagrange multiplier to maximize entropy while keeping the energy fixed (temperature is the inverse of that Lagrange parameter). In one fell swoop this shows why temperature is a thing and why minimizing the free energy is important.

The Legendre transform just returns the value of the constraint from the minimized function, but at that point why bother?

I do agree that it makes more sense to see the fee energy as a Legendre transform of the entropy, that's kind of what you end up doing if you minimize entropy in this way.
If you look at the commit history, the reviewers actually asked why the files have the HashiCorp copyright, and it seems that the developers were not sure what is the final copyright notice for new code. The one they settled on recognizes copyright both from HashiCorp and the OpenTofu foundation, as even the new files are probably deemed to be derived works of HashiCorp.

Here is the comment I'm mentioning: https://github.com/opentofu/opentofu/pull/1158/commits/35d1a...
Electrics go down and don’t come back up -> petrol/gas stations stop working -> supply chains break down, including for food -> mass starvation.

Exactly how many people you expect to die will depend on your assumptions. Also on whether it occurs due to a CME (can expect humanitarian aid from the other side of the planet) or military action (other countries probably have more pressing concerns in this scenario).
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I can, using the number row above the letter keys. I can't use the numeric keypad without looking though.
I like the authors summary, "Simply put IfC offers the simplicity of fully managed platforms like Vercel, with the flexibility of do-it-yourself platforms like AWS." Certainly what I've heard from others who are benefiting from IfC as well.
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These types of things are very hard to definitively prove one way or the other. I was once loudly accused of plagiarizing someone's answer on Stack Overflow. And they were right, the answers were very similar – the code was near-identical and even some of the verbiage of the explanation was quite similar.

Luckily I was able to prove my innocence quite conclusively as my answer was several months older that theirs. Whoops! We had a laugh about it and it all ended well, but it's a nice example on how two strangers can arrive at very similar code.

Should probably look at the original commit in the PR, rather than the current state of the repo. There's quite a bit of feedback on that PR and there may have been other changes since: https://github.com/opentofu/opentofu/pull/1158/commits

It's certainly not a blind copy/paste, but I find it very hard to say if it's a reworked version of terraform or a clean re-implementation. I think both are possible, or something in-between: they looked at the terraform patch to see what approach they took, went "ah right, that approach will work", and then implemented their own patch "from scratch". Is that legal? Probably. Is it moral? Well, you decide.

OpenTofu already requires a Developer Certificate of Origin: https://github.com/opentofu/opentofu/blob/main/CONTRIBUTING.... – basically we have to believe people are not lying when they say they're the author. While there are perhaps some eye-brow raising bits of code here and there, I think the current evidence is not even close to strong enough to call people liars.