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>Of course they get to complain.

No, they don't. They specifically waived any compensation by licensing their work for free-as-in-libre and/or free-as-in-beer. If they want to have social and legal standing to complain, they should have demanded compensation upfront.

>You don't do FOSS for the recognition/glory, but complaining about the hatred, hypocrisy, and complete lack of respect of the industry towards FOSS is normal.

FOSS doesn't ask for money. -> Users proceed to pay no money, because why would they? -> FOSS is pissed they don't get money.

This whole saga is hypocritical on FOSS's part. If devs want money they should demand money with appropriate licensing. It really isn't hard, it's dead simple.

Users and companies are happy to pay up if you can get them to sign the contract.

>I'd even say this, it's the user who does not get to complain, ... You get a message during `npm install` from the dev asking for funding and a job? Tough shit, you don't get to complain because you're not paying him.

Absolutely. Users don't get to complain about something they got for free.
Its sad, it really is. The word of the conductor vs manager on how far to push it. Ultimately management has to accept the blame. Where was the Atlas robot(s) to do to pump & hose work for the possibly exploding tanks? But, odds are the phosgene & HCL killed the animals & that is not a long term problem. If the Ohio EPA gets any the settlement money out of this it would be better off going towards a frack water processing facility to handle all the radioactive slush going into the injection wells & winter road "salt" in that area that makes the whole Australian find the pellet story quaint.
> Why are you interested in having a discussion on any of this...

I'm interested in systems which permit bug-free programming. Elm seems like a step in the right direction, bringing semi-obscure ideas closer to the mainstream. Lot of JS programmers got some exposure to Elm-like FP.

> you can just talk to yourself

I mostly do. (I'm a recluse, this account on HN is my primary channel of communication to the outside world.)

> (i.e., write your own)? It’s really not that hard.

I am writing my own system, and it's really not that hard.

> Yes, Elm and its core packages had bugs and critical omissions that were outstanding for years, many of which affected our app.

That sucks. But really, without any details your vague memories aren't much to go on.

> appreciate implied threats

I'm not sure what you mean, maybe I misread the message. It didn't sound to me like anyone was threatening anyone.

> Have fun in the sandbox.

Thanks! I will.
A thread from Mastodon, with a few pictures: https://oldbytes.space/@swordsjew@mstdn.social/1098487070662...
Curious if there's tooling to de/serialize the encryption context?

The examples aren't very useful to demonstrate "real" homomorphic encryption in the sense that it takes in plaintext directly; encrypt and transforms; then decrypts - I'd love to see a snub that takes encrypted input (only) and returns ciphertext of the result - that can then be decrypted on a client node provided the correct key?

Or is this supposed to be only proof of concept?

Cool stuff, either way.
> It does not do analyses

I find interacting with ChatGPT strangely boring. And Copilot is neat but I'm not blown away by it. However... just for laughs I threw some obfuscated genetic algorithm code I'd written at ChatGPT and asked it to guess what the code did. It identified the purpose of the code and speculated on the meaning of certain parameters that weren't clear in the sample I'd presented it. Pretty impressive.

I also showed it some brainfuck code for generating a Mandelbrot set, and it immediately identified it. From that point forward, though, it thought all other brainfuck code generated Mandelbrot sets.
> unless your startup is hogging a scarce, universal human need.

Like talented engineers that could be put to other social use, just like those empty buildings?
Tool Could Protect Artists from A.I.-Generated Art That Steals Their Style
The two "helpful" byproducts of vinyl chloride burning like that is HF and phosgene. The wind is going to spread those rapidly.
“You’ve not heard about it”
It would seem to me that a conservative could live how ever conservatively they want, even if others think it oppressive. A Southern Baptist has as much access to dance freely but may chose not to do so; just because they don't believe dancing is okay and can refuse to partake, it doesn't mean there should be laws to prevent it for everyone. Why should anyone be allowed to oppress those that do not wish to be repressed, simply because they themselves prefer it?

[edit to add] One can be conservative in a liberal environment, but to be liberal in a conservative place such as Iran has dire consequences. The only people being imposed on are the ones not free to live to their choosing, so there is no equivalent to forcing upon a conservative in the way conservative laws force upon non-conservatives (that I am aware of)
Frankly getting tired of hearing about how I haven't heard about it, and nobody wants me to hear about it. If you want to write about news, write about it. If you want to point out instances of news media not covering this story where they might have covered other stories go for it, cite instances. All I've been convinced of so far is some people have an axe to grind, and part of their narrative is how the media or the government doesn't want me to know about a thing I know about.

edit: please downvote my trash, the same as this article. Go find better reporting on this event to shove in front of everybody's eyeballs. (post title has since changed, see article for relevance)
I’m confused - you seem to have linked to a set of AR glasses? Ive been waiting eagerly for professional VR so hoping that you posted the wrong link and Lenovo already has it!
I am not even sure why i clicked that link. I must be bored
(IANAL.)

The headline is downright wrong, and the entire body of the article based on anything factual fails to support the thesis that the headline and article keep trying to push: the US Copyright Office said no such thing. They said that an AI cannot hold copyright, not that AI generated artwork cannot be eligible for copyright. The article even directly quotes this from the Copyright Office:

> The Office “will not register works produced by a machine or mere mechanical process that operates randomly or automatically without any creative input or intervention from a human author.”

They key word there is any: if there is creative input from a human, then that doesn't apply. To me, this says they would treat an AI like any other tool an artist might use to create art: as a tool; but there must still be creative input, and the copyright is still awarded to a human being (or, as the plaintiff additionally tried to argue that the AI was a "work for hire", a company and there must be some employee, but still not an AI. The office found this argument unconvincing, see the next link.)

This seems to be the original ruling from the Copyright Office, from Feb of 2022: https://www.copyright.gov/rulings-filings/review-board/docs/...

This seems to be an appellate decision from Aug: https://cafc.uscourts.gov/opinions-orders/21-2347.OPINION.8-... (so I'm a bit curious what is happening now, but as TFA fails to cite it's sources …)
I agree with you on the need for follow up questions when you don't understand the situation.

Yes, learning new content with the language is key. Laddering is a term used when you are learning a new 3rd language through your 2nd language. For example, learning French through French for Spanish speakers-type material.

The 80/90% comprehension ballpark figure was more about how much you can understand without looking it up. For example, when I watch a reality TV show like Gran Hermano (Big Brother reality TV series) where there is a lot of regional accents, rapid-fire repartee, idioms, street talk, I can struggle to figure out what was just said. The same goes for a standup comedy show in Spanish with the cultural contexts, inside jokes. On the opposite end of comprehension would be an evening news program where everything is said in a structured manner and the diction is as close to neutral/perfect for the greater region of the news broadcast.

Additionally, the environment matters. A crowded noisy bar can rapidly beat up your confidence of being able to communicate. The Foreign Service foreign language ability scales do account for this.
> But I'm pretty sure it's going to be a human or human company setting that up

Or a DAO https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decentralized_autonomous_organ...

Right now all this stuff have human involvement, but we're adding the building blocks to make software stop relying on humans for they day-to-day operation
From this article, Denis Pushkarev seems to be a remarkably principled developer in a horrible situation, and I admire his commitment to this project. Setting that aside, though, is anyone else alarmed that such a widely used project has exactly one maintainer who is able to push arbitrary changes without review? Especially one already in legal trouble and significant debt, unable to travel, for a project embedded in Fortune 500 e-commerce and (likely) intranet/administrative sites, with an extremely large surface area of used APIs where malicious minified code might easily go unnoticed and is highly difficult to audit?

I absolutely feel for his situation. Right now, the degree to which he could be threatened into allowing a malicious group to push changes in his name should not be taken lightly. Hopefully this article reaches the attention of some of the CISOs at companies who rely on the project, and a path towards a situation where multiple parties have visibility into release management can be explored. And honestly, such a solution might be the best thing to make Denis and his family less of a target.

(In the meantime, pin your core-js dependency, and track https://security.snyk.io/vuln/npm?search=core-js as well as npm audit. Arguably there should be an advisory category for known vulnerable maintenance situation - I'm not sure if such a registry exists. One might say that every open source project is vulnerable in some way, but there's nuance and splash radius to consider here, and core-js does not have much defense-in-depth at the moment.)
While I sympathise with this sentiment, it isn't really feasible, since there are too many useful programs written in Go. Since Go is Free Software, both users and distros like Debian can take advantage of that and just patch out the telemetry or disable it by default. Same goes for any new telemetry that is discovered. That is a better way forward here, since we get the programs implemented in Go but none of the telemetry.
We are about to be neck deep in so much AI generated shit I don't think anybody cares if you can copyright it.
> Maybe a couple decided to buy a second home or a duplex instead of investing in the S&P500.

Just want to address this particular point. That’s the problem. People want to use houses as an investment vehicle rather than a place to actually to live in. You want a buy a second, third , or even fourth house fine. But what should not happen is others are unable to live in the same city because people wanted to make more money from a fundamental need.
https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/2213682/154870832-...
Hilarious, although I am a bit disappointed. I was expecting an extremely specific demographic filter to target his roommate (e.g. “white males in their mid twenties who live in Philadelphia and like Slipknot and Beanie Babies”). I didn’t realize you could target based on email addresses!
So this train was carrying all of these various chemicals, but it wasn't classified as a High-Hazard Flammable Train?
To be fair, Greta is a teenager who happens to live in Europe.
It depends on the company. Some places are very social others not so much.
Because the guilty party are ad buyers.
Someone needs to make a crypto network that runs submitted FHE programs as proof of work.
I do understand that not a lot of people here really understand the sheer direness of his situation. He stuck in Russia because of unsettled problems regarding his conviction. He almost certainly cannot immigrate into most of the countries because of said conviction - to have a work permit one have to provide a certificate of good conduct. He is cut off most options to receive money from abroad and several means to receive support at all. He has a family to provide. The economy of Russia is increasingly deteriorating, the quality of life is following suit. His son will soon feel a taste of state fascist indoctrination, it starts in kindergarten now in Russia. While most commenters here feel sad, I feel an utter horror.
I get the option between Teams, Skype and Zoom. Teams by far is the best of the bunch, even on Linux. Skype is just a complete non-starter and Zoom's UI is so horrible it's surprising the company is valued as high as it is.
> you've not heard about it

False. I have heard about it.
What media? I saw it on CNN today. Fox News's website has multiple stories about this from the last hour.

The only place where the train stuff seems underrepresented is on some of the big subreddits (which are echo chambers already, so not surprising)
I would have started with energy audit including blower door test and infrared pictures. Next I would have got busy sealing and insulating.

New solar installs or heaters would then be considered.
> - The idea that companies would pay for a JS library that is patching browser support is wild.

Companies make more money by having their websites work in older browsers. If it wasn't for core-js, they would be paying developer time to write polyfills or compile and maintain them from various other single polyfill packages. Surely if they are willing to pay developers to do this in return for increased profits they would also be willing to pay someone else to do it, just as businesses outsource all kinds of tasks.
Tiktok targeting is not very good, best bet would be finding out what hashtag to target.
> Just abolish copyright. I'm not joking.

You are proposing eliminating viral licenses.

> There are many ways to earn money from films, music, art, books, etc., without needing copyright.

This an extraordinary claim, and extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence. I think you don't have it.

I suspect that, realistically, the only way to earn money from "films, music, art, books, etc.," without copyright is a patronage system. That's far from good.
My anxiety is sky high, I can assure you of that.
My comment was going in the direction of I think that, in an ideal system, legally an AI system would be looked at differently than many other tools.

I have no answer to your questions because I haven't thought about them.
Sounds like it is time to teach your teens how to do their laundry.
Slack was self-serve. They famously said they didn't need sales people.

Then they sold to Enterprise, governments, and had to face compliance queries.
Granted, but she seems to be invested in our environmental causes and had opinions on the XL pipeline, among other things.
> If you think solving problems by constant trial-and-error is the norm

News flash: It is.

> Dijkstra's idealized mathematically disciplined systematic approach methods can well be ignored

I never said that. I think they have their place, and I use them myself in some situations. It's Dijkstra and his acolytes who think iterative approaches can be ignored.

> One needs to practice Humility when approaching the Words/Works of Masters and try to understand them instead of being dismissive.

I've read a lot of Dijkstra's writings. They are not without merit. But he himself could have done with practicing some humility when engaging with computing as it is actually practiced in the physical world, as opposed to in his mathematical models.

Knuth is not any less theoretically sound than Dijkstra. But he engaged with practical computing issues and wrote software that is still in wide use. Wirth is not any less disdainful of commercial computing hype than Dijkstra. But he built actual hardware and software systems. Those are the masters I look up to.
Most VR headsets allow you to wear glasses, this one no idea. I've had a couple of VR headsets and am -6.5 each eye, no issue with glasses myself. There are some places that do custom lenses for the popular headset models too but I've never tried them.

If you're excited for VR products I recommend checking out the existing competition. My old Valve Index (sold to help pay for a boat), has been available for a few years now and is comparable. Different refresh, resolution etc. and importantly a higher FOV. Were I in the market I'd probably consider another Index over this.
Yeah, I think the only way around that would be for OpenSnitch to block all http/https requests and have a system-wide proxy that sees all the URLs, asks the user, does the approved requests and returns the results.
Adding additional storage doesn't seem like it should be impossible - sure have your backup uncompressed data, but you can have hours and hours of compressed audio in negligible space as well.
I realize my original comment was very short. I wrote it while on the train. I've now elaborated and hopefully it's more useful now.
Like it or not, the world is at war again. 3rd, 4th and 5th gen warfare.

Russia is at war officially with the Ukraine.

America and Russia are in a hot sabotage war. America blames rogue Ukrainian units for sabotage inside Russia, and nobody talks about the sabotage like food factories inside the USA.

America and China are in a cold war, allegedly utilizing balloons.

And YOU are in a war you don't even know. 5th generation warfare is simply psyops to sway public opinion and win wars without bullets. Unfortunately it means the end of objective reality and the world being too convoluted for anyone to push back or care.

Noone knows what's real and fake. No one knows what to tackle first.

So eat your UFO BS, forget this is new age cold war warfare and information warfare all in one, and keep wasting energy fighting with internet retards. But most of all, remember humans are bad and destructive, and fantasize about Aliens saving us from ourselves.

Now you know the story arc to distract from real 21st century warfare. It isn't robots or aliens, it's information warfare, including signals intelligence and spoofing physical instruments.

Hence the UFO angle. Warships are taken down with a single missile. Ergo, spoofing physical objects, and even better, spoofing onto real objects, confuses the enemy.

Better the enemy see 100 ships than 1. That's the only way a ship survives, electronic warfare creating targets that don't exist.

Everyone is holding this tech back so the next war is over in weeks or months, and electronic warfare will win the day in conjunction with physical warfare.

That's all these UFOs are. A cold war battle between China and America to test and ping each other capabilities in preparing for the next spoofing war.
https://www.theregister.com/2023/01/25/glitch_us_copyright_o...

It was reversed, again, i.e., Zarya Of The Dawn, the comic book generated with input from Midjourney, is currently copyrighted.
Whoa. William Henry Gates III, a Nobel laureate?

Nope. Bill hasn't even been nominated for a Nobel Prize.

Hard pass, even if the title makes a clear distinction of separate individuals (a Bill Gates and separately a Nobel laureate), pegging the two together is not the proper mean to elevate Mr. "I am the solution" Gate to that those of a climate expert.

https://www.thedailybeast.com/bill-gates-thought-jeffrey-eps...
Same thing happened at LinkedIn after the Microsoft acquisition. LinkedIn was using gmail, Google was quick to let the g suite contract die, so the timeline to move from gmail to Outlook was accelerated. Engineers at LinkedIn were livid about being forced to move off gmail.
Probably because it happened to a village of 200 people in the relative middle of nowhere.

Remember the Flint water crisis? That was a population-dense city, with multiple school districts all being poisoned by lead and legionnaires disease. Nobody cared about it until it was turned into a political negligence story, then it was all you could see on Fox and CNN...

People just don't really care about this stuff. It's novel from a social media perspective (black plume of smoke occludes forested midwestern town!) but it's not like the media has any shortage of humanitarian crises to report on.
> the casual way you say "you could evict" makes me think you don't appreciate that that's someone's home...

It's their home and your property. I'm not advocating anything crazy. As that hypothetical landlord your tenants deserve dignity, but it's your property and that has to confer certain rights beyond their tenancy. Otherwise, you don't really own it. You should be able to ask your tenants to leave with some amount of notice. You should be able to plan on your parents living in that unit at some point. Make the amount of time and planning for that very large, say 2 or 3 or 4 years. Doesn't that seem pretty fair?

Restricting ending tenancy in good faith all together creates perverse incentives. It pits your interests as a landlord against your tenants. If you bought a duplex in SF today, it would be in your best interest to do everything you could not to rent out the other unit. That is the problem.
They aren't led by exactly the same people as 20-30 years ago, so things do change a bit. Microsoft also isn't homogenous. They certainly haven't become Samaritans, however.
Brain-frequency primer accelerates learning and retention
Or find a cause to fight for that actually requires some amount of effort. People love to get worked up over things when the solution doesn’t require them to do or change anything. You trigger their sense of righteous superiority, and they’re all in. “Why can’t everyone just be like me?”
This was posted to reddit the other day: https://old.reddit.com/r/interestingasfuck/comments/110nlai/...

The footage has a lot of NSFW language, so just watch out for that. Within that thread there's some good discussion about some of the compounds that are being released into the air, and it is indeed very grim.

Interestingly here in Australia, I've heard about it a lot more in traditional media than my American friends seem to be hearing.
Don't get hung up on the word "just." "Just" is relative, so arguing about its value can lead to nothing but pointless discussion.
Housing Breaks People's Brains (2022)
I was expecting physical routes, as in a program that takes a geographical configuration and makes it look like the London Tube map. Oh well.