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> Fukushima gave the debate another spin „If Japan can’t control the technology nobody can“.

That's an understandable reaction.

But a better reaction would have been "what lessons did we learn?".

After the 2008 financial crisis, the financial regulators around the world gathered at the 2009 Pittsburgh Summit [1] to see what can be done to improve the resiliency of the global financial markets. They came up with a Statement [2]. Later on, the Basel Committee ironed out some details, and the national regulators other details, and the outcome was a long string of financial reforms known collectively as Basel III.

This was a monumental achievement (well, it's still work in progress, but it's about 80-90% done). Of course, for many professionals in the financial markets it felt more like a curse than a blessing. But we have been trough the March 2020 financial panic, and the financial system coped quite well.

In the nuclear regulatory space, there are so many regulators around the world. The NRC for sure, but also the nuclear regulators in Canada, the UK, France and Finland. One can add South Korea to the list and probably a few more countries. I'm sure they are exchanging notes. Overall, I think they have probably a huge amount of experience, and they have met 99.999% of the edge cases for classical (pressurized and boiling water) reactors.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2009_G20_Pittsburgh_summit

[2] http://www.g20.utoronto.ca/2009/2009communique0925.html

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basel_III
You cannot 1-for-1 replace a reliable energy source with an intermittent one.
You can spend around ~1000 dollars on a very good zoom lens and a mirrorless camera and get much, much better pictures than whatever the iphone or the pixel could ever give you.

I find these sort of articles just so, so stupid. If you're just going to be taking bathroom selfies then sure, you don't need "gear". But you don't get a camera to do that. You get a camera to actually go and take very good pictures. And a 10k camera? Those are meant to shoot extreme sports, wildlife, etc. I'd be surprised if you could take a picture of a cheetah running at 100km/h from hundreds of meters away with the pixel 7 pro. But guess what? That's precisely one of the use cases of these very expensive cameras.

Phone cameras are getting better, and that's amazing, and for sure they are a replacement for a ~1000 dollar camera set up that's only going to be used for daylight amateur street photography. But for photographers a good camera phone is a really good compliment to your gear, not a replacement.
You must carry one of those hooks to open doors, have you tried a touchscreen stylus?
But I don't care about the expression of the idea. I just want the idea to work. And I don't know how to do the idea myself. And I've seen how you've done it.

If I want to describe life with a nature metaphor, and then see you do it with a waterfall, I can probably get away with using a waterfall to the same metaphorical effect in my story.

Can I do that in code?
I disagree with the comment you're responding to. Please be more aggressive about dismissing crypto and blockchains as a fraud. It's actually shameful how reluctant some engineers are to do this. This isn't just about using them as a currency. They're bad at literally everything else too. There are no actual niche use cases. More software engineers need to be honest and up front about this before the scams continue. The irrational levels of hype must end. Crypto and blockchains are actually just completely useless. It's been 13 years and still every single person I've ever seen who says they're useful can't name a single actual use case that you can't do better with just a normal database. Even you're getting sucked into this trap.

Like, I get people's reluctance to seem biased, but how long are we going to let this charade continue? How long before we can say enough is enough? "Enterprise blockchain" is a marketing buzzword. Nobody actually wants them except to tick a box on a checklist. They never gained any real traction, because they're useless. They have to be managed by a centralized admin anyway, so what's the point? There just isn't one. Part of this is intentional confusion on the part of promoters, people labeling anything that uses paxos or merkle trees as "blockchain" for marketing reasons, but I hope people also start pushing back against that for what they are: obvious attempts to cash in on the crypto hype by using the word blockchain.
I'm curious how Sci-hub's approach compares to the What.cd/Redacted approach.

IIUC Sci-hub has scooped up science docs through a good enough UX that it was able to leverage the goodwill of science folks to upload docs (plus whatever other methods it has used to scoop up docs), and it uses a public blitzkrieg-style distribution mechanism. I.e., I guess if one had a big enough harddrive and a fast enough internet connection, one could start downloading the lib right now and see if they win the race against the copyright holders.

On the other hand, the What.cd/Redacted approach seems to use Bittorrent ratios to create a private-tracker economy. New users get a few gigs free download on joining. But apparently because a) there's a 1:1 upload/download ratio, and b) a few first-mover fat cats are sitting on enormous ratios, this means there is a scramble by everyone else to upload new FLACs to build up their ratio so they can continue to be able to download FLACs. It seems that would mean the library-in-its-entirety cannot be easily replicated at will. Yet the tracker was apparently already nuked off the internet as What.cd and reappeared later as Redacted. Was any data lost between the two services?

Oh yeah, there's also apparently another approach in rutracker, which seems to be blitzkrieg to add content and publish, at the (apparent?) cost of quality of content.

It's really a shame that the nerdy, completist domain of digital archiving through torrents isn't covered by fair use. Perhaps we could exclude the most recent 10 years of music so that the hopeful young musician streamers can get paid a few hundred dollars for millions of streams and then receive the silver lining of fair use protection against a label refusing to release one of their albums.
> In my opinion you shouldn't expect anything from the world, you should simply seek to be understood.

That’s expecting something, isn’t it? I much prefer the convention in Asia: don’t make yourself a burden; seek to make things easier for the people around you.
Learn to code! Oh wait...
The real problem is that while people might like the idea of more affordable houses, they do not like the idea of their house being worth less. It’s very hard to square this circle - build far away or totally different type or …? It didn’t mention the lack of investment options driving capital into housing markets, resulting in empty houses and Airbnb’s. Perhaps the idea of a vacant house tax is good, particularly if absentee owners don’t vote in that region :-). Here, Toronto and Vancouver have inflated prices and occupancy problems (and great volatility). Other, smaller cities have supply problems.
> MS absolutely has the authority to copy, use, and even train their models on your GPL-license code, because you agreed to let them do that when you signed their EULA when you decided to host your code on GitHub.

What about GPL code which you don't own, but post to Github, Like the gcc mirror repo?
Consumer capititalism and state capitalism aren't the only two options.

Especially if the state capitalists and consumer capitalosts stop murdering people who try them out.
The current high price of lithium carbonate (an input into batteries) is due to a shortage of lithium refining capacity, not crude lithium mining capacity or of resource available.

A factory shortage, not a mine shortage.
so many dark patterns

"click here to download PDF" -> "log in to download PDF" -> [ unbelievable, privacy-eviscerating Twitter permissions, email ] --email--> You're almost there, click the emailed link to download the PDF! --click link--> you must go premium to download the PDF!

And then no less than two additional "Your PDF is ready!" emails which also redirect to the "go premium" page.
Moving money between people has just as much effect on interstate commerce as growing your own grain for personal use.
those license tools already exist. they're not free, though, so they are mostly invisible and unknown to GPL types.
Seems they're tired of people in HN threads misgendering them, and have already tried diplomatic solutions. You can find it if you go straight to their profile. I honestly haven't seen anything like that in this thread, but maybe I'm not looking hard enough...
What about Solid State Relays? I think one of mine takes 5v-30v input and I switch mains with it.
To clarify, that earlier submission is about a likely contributing cause of the phenomenon reported here.
If only we had the technology to somehow record lessons for later viewing or for refreshing knowledge later, and additional catch-up materials & deeper dives into the topics. This seems like extremely low-hanging fruit.

Why do I get a sneaking suspicion that few in the machinery of education want this, as it is a fast-track to continuous accountability?
I find myself missing the creativity and passion of the old internet, rather than the specifics of how they were built. Is it really so bad that these sites have some scripting involved?
They could start by refusing to participate in the systems they say are so bad. At a certain point, it seems more like coping with the guilt of privilege (similar to survivor’s guilt) than any genuine intention to change anything.
read the terms of service.

you must have the right to publish the code you put on github.com, and by publishing to github.com, you assert that you have the rights to do so. you also grant GitHub the right to show that code to others, no matter what license your code is licensed under.

why does no one read the terms of service or license agreements? these questions are answered there and this "copilot is stealing" stuff won't even make it to court.
Well in terms of fatalities, FSD actually has a 100% reliability rating, so presumably it's ok for it to be deployed, right?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EAqUelpwEl8
>Sure you could say "just don't go to those places" but then you're slowly withdrawing from society as these things gain in ubiquity.

conversely the only reason that these companies enforce such policies is because they get away with doing so and people participate.
If X and Y, then my point is valid!

But if either of those are not true, then the GENERAL point is true and your point is not.

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Gais, gais, I downloaded the code using an automation tool called a browser, so it's fair use and not infringing!

yay for technicalities!
Yup. Arch has an officially supported `linux-lts` package which I use on my server, it's a good choice unless you need a bleeding edge kernel for hardware support etc.
That's what you do when you are not at-risk of being a monopoly in a sector. Apple could do these things back then because they were still a relatively small company in the tech sector. But now a days things do start to get more complicated.

As you point out, establishing what dominance is in a market is a tricky thing and it is why governments will investigate any potential signs of it. Now, personally I don't think this is really an issue for Github, or microsoft (the parent company) but let's not pretend market dominance and abuse of dominant position are not a real things.
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I would be pleasantly suprised if recycling is a focus earlier. But I fully expect huge landfills of batteries in the next few decades.
That's the first thing I thought of! I'm pretty sure the South Paw was inspired by the North Paw.
> I just don't want my kid rolling around in contaminated soil.

Ignorance is bliss. Contaminated soils abound across the industrialized world, it's just that most people have no idea.

Moreover, there's legitimate pressure to keep it that way as people irrationally freak out when they learn something is "contaminated". It turns out that often times the best way to promote soil remediation is to turn a blind eye (at least to some extent) as once contamination is publicly identified costs soar as the public begins demanding ever more onerous mandates, causing people to stop voluntarily remediating, which is why lead thresholds are set considerably lower than for other similarly problematic but less common contaminants.

Just this past week we called up the city environmental health inspector to ask him to check out some painting work being done at a house whose yard abuts our own. We've done it before as we have two young children. The inspector is very nice and accommodating, and there's basically zero risk of anyone getting fined or handed any stop-work order. He simply nudges the painters to take the barest of safety measures, e.g. simple tarping (even if amateurish), to minimize leaded paint flake dispersal. And what more can you reasonably ask? Turning every house scraping job into a super fund site would just be ridiculous, yet if the law treated lead the same way it treated nuclear, that's exactly what would be demanded.
Calm down. No need for ad hominem attacks.

I am discussing the license grant GH includes in its terms. And that doesn't appear to give them a blank check to do anything they want with code those users have uploaded. Certainly not sell it piecemeal.
The Flickr example is wild. How was nobody sued for that!?
Unfortunately, a lot of data is currently yet to be restored. Some of that music might not surface again for decades to come.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Postal_savings_system
Looks like something that has been tried in many countries with varying degrees of success. It appears it was tried for over fifty years in USA and then shut down. Would love to know why it was discontinued.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Postal_savings_system#United_S...
VirtualLink on the NV 20xx series was almost there on this.

A USB-C socket on the card and it can host audio/video/usb.

Skipped from 30xx onwards, and I'm not sure of the maximum video resolution, but I use an Apple USB-C to HDMI/USB dongle in mine to connect a rift - I don't think there is any reason it couldn't be a monitor on the other end of the USB-C cable.
> and when I see a clean instruction led process that has no room for human touch, may it be mistake that blends it naturally or unpredictibility it somehow appears dull.

I'll be honest I'm not 100% sure what you're criticizing here, do you mean the article giving a step-by-step guide on how to replicate the soundtrack? Or is something about the soundtrack itself a clean instruction led process with no room for human touch?

If you mean the steps of how to recreate the original songs, I half agree. Replication doesn't make for a super interesting piece to share. But it is a great way to learn how to make electronic music. A guitarist or pianist practices by learning existing music right? Much of electronic music is in the sound production and "covering" an existing track is just as good a practice as learning your favorite guitar solo.

If you mean the music itself is dull because it's software and sequencer driven well I'd say there's still plenty of human elements in the composition and I'd bet plenty of human knob-twiddling. But also consider it's a movie soundtrack so it's not really supposed to steal the foreground, and it's a movie that centers around programming and a main character with terrible social skills, so the robotic sequencing is probably very intentional. Check out the album "Ghosts I-IV" which includes these same 2 dudes and the rest of the NiN bandmates and was used as a placeholder score for the movie if you want to hear something with a similar vibe but far more "organic" sounding.
Pivot immediately to offering excepts, and then contact the publishers for resale rights when a request comes in.
Hmm, maybe I just dont understand github. I have only ever done one PR. I see people approved (https://github.com/PolyMC/PolyMC/pull/1243) and took that to mean PolyMC devs approved it, but maybe the forker approved his own fork and that has nothing to do with polymc devs?
In what sense? Certainly not my understanding of us antitrust law.
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It seems a benchmark of a transformative technology is whether or not people attempt to use the legal system to stop it.
One could also create their own gravel pebble based token and state that it is backed by something valuable. I don’t see how the existence of crypto changes much in this regard.
Fair use only applies in certain contexts, of which writing commercial software is not one of. 'Snippets' are not fair use and it is shocking how many people here think they are.
Pour in some traceable mix of chemicals, and see if it turns up somewhere.
Yes but that’s your problem as a user of the tool. It doesn’t make Copilot itself illegal which is what the person I originally replied to was saying.

Yes if you use a tool to violate copyright it’s copyright infringement. If you prod Midjourney into outputting near exact Starry Night that’s on you too.

So far no one has made a compelling case that Copilot itself is violating copyright.
Which language are you using?

There are plenty of free online tutorial. Have you tried something like https://docs.python.org/es/3/tutorial/ ?
The sum of all welfare isn't half of what UBI would cost.
The difference is that you could be unwittingly taking on liability in the copilot case. So that's fun. But also in the copilot case, microsoft distributed the code to you without a license, in violation of the license.
> This math for lithium stands before we consider really disruptive things such as: maybe lithium isn’t it for grid storage, or even autos?

This is a key point.

There are several chemistries, at least, that are near competitive in various applications with lithium despite being manufactured in much smaller quantities and so being much earlier in their learning curves. Off the top of my head:-

Vanadium redox flow - been around since the 1980s at least as an idea, now being realised by various people.

Ambri's molten calcium salt batteries.

PolyJoule's organic polymer-based batteries (based on chains of carbon atoms as the "ion").

CATL's sodium-ion batteries.

Iron-air, aluminum air, aluminum sulfur, lithium metal, sodium metal, various alloys.

The point is that sticking with lithium is the worst case. It only happens if all the alternatives fail, despite them all being in commercial use today. It's all upside, with a known and mild downside. By which I mean that batteries can only get cheaper, either very quickly, or only quickly.
"git hosting" is too narrow a market. Code repository may be someone interested in, there Github won't have a practical dominance. Most probably by nature of complete Github, it will come under "software development tools"
You cannot rationalize away the authoritarian nature of software with whataboutism like comparing it to a paper form.
I personally haven't seen an issue with Candace Owens based on what I've seen, do you have examples of a grift or something that can shed some light on this?
People might be able to, now!
I hate digital menus. I don't like being on my phone when I go out for dinner (unless I'm by myself) and looking at a nice menu was part of the experience.
They are taking your code verbatim and injecting it into numerous code bases around the world violating the license while getting paid for it?
That’s not inconsistent with survivorship bias.
Pounds and euros you can dump at the bigger banks, and the rest you could sell on eBay probably hah!
It is possible I dont understand how GH works. I apologies if I was wrong. I was talking about (https://github.com/PolyMC/PolyMC/pull/1243), which got 2 approvals. But it is possible I dont understand what approvals are, but to looks to me that people with authority on polymc to make changes approved of troll/destructive changes. But I am not an GH expert, maybe you dont need authority approve a PR that deleted the entire project and completly changes the readme?
I believe HTMX is also a rewrite (at least to some degree) of Intercooler, as it uses vanilla JS instead of jQuery.
Ironically, such tools already exist, and most (all?) large software companies use them routinely on all the code that they ship.
All of us who have shelled out ~$40 bucks for a pack of replacement blades for their Mach 3 knew this was true without a study.
IPFS is this
Are there companies that offer those sorts of “all included” services to people?

I’ve been trying to convince my wife to move because our house is too big, and we have tons of value in it, but she doesn’t want the work (understandably).
> If I use a sentence or even a paragraph from a copyrighted book, it's not copyright infringement.

It is…
> Following this line of thought, do you think that all code from all software should be open source and publicly available

Why are you asking this as if the answer might be no?
Awww ya jinxed it. And only nine days from retirement.
It's hilarious how when I express displeasure about AI image generators looking likely to take a huge bite out of my profession of "artist" and playing extremely fast and loose with fair use, I get told that it's completely inevitable now and I should either retrain as a prompt engineer or go join the buggy whip manufacturers, but now that this is clearly violating programmer copyrights, you folks are starting to get angry.

I'll just leave y'all with my favorite of the things you keep telling me to STFU about art AI with: If you're the kind of programmer who feels threatened by this, then you're not a real programmer.
> If the music industry can deal with royalties, maybe software can, too?

Maybe this is not the industry to emulate: https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2011/11/how-mus...
>If I use a sentence or even a paragraph from a copyrighted book, it's not copyright infringement.

I'm assuming you're referring to fair use. In that case whether it's copyright infringement or not is very situational (the legal standard consists of a test with various subjective factors) and isn't as simple as "it's less than a paragraph so I can copy whatever I want".
In the past, if you wanted to get a reservation at a popular restaurant, you would call and make a reservation. You would then have to show up on time and hope there were open tables.

Now, if you want a reservation at a popular restaurant, you can't. All of the tables are reserved by the time you want to go.
You want to use my code, without ever knowing I wrote it? You want to use my hard work, regurgitated anonymously, stripped of all credit, stripped of all attribution, stripped of all identity and ancestry and citation? FUCK YOU!

Training must be opt in, not opt out.

Every artist, every creative individual, must EXPLICITLY OPT IN to having their hard work regurgitated anonymously by Copilot or Dall-E or whatever.

If you want to donate your code or your painting or your music so it can easily be "written" or "painted", in whole or in part, by everyone else, without attribution, then go ahead and opt in.

But if they don't EXPLICITLY OPT IN, you can't use the artist's or author's creative work for training.

All these code/art washing systems, that absorb and mix and regurgitate the hard work of creative people must be strictly opt in.
> If I use a sentence or even a paragraph from a copyrighted book, it's not copyright infringement.

Note that this may not actually be true, and you may need to pay to license even shorter excerpts of creative work. Copyright is a complex topic. It's not always safe to assume that you have the rights you think you have, in terms of reproducing others' work.

For example: "The proportion of a total work is not the only factor, though. If you are including the most crucial aspect of a work, even if it is only a small part, then the question of “substantiality” comes into play." [1]

[1] https://www.dukeupress.edu/getmedia/3363cb6e-04b6-43ec-b004-...
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