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Glad you asked! So copyright is a limited, temporary monopoly on a work. You create a work, the law grants you the exclusive rights to that work, for a time. Because of this monopoly the vast majority of the benefit from that work accrues to you, including financially. (All pretty fair in my opinion, you did the work, you deserve the reward!)

If let's say Star Wars falls out of copyright tomorrow, economically that has two effects. One, Disney loses a ton of future revenue. Two, countless Disney other people create derivatives of Star Wars, and they make money from those. Competition is increased.

So the expiration of a copyright results in a sharing of the wealth. The wealth generating potential along with the creative potential is passed along to all members of society. Our culture becomes richer and deeper. A great example of this is all the works that build on the mythos created by HP Lovecraft, one of the last great ones created before Congress started indefinitely extending copyright. Lovecraft wrote great literature and some of the authors that built on his world are fantastic as well, I'm sure they've come up with countless ideas he never considered. But as long as Congress keeps on extending copyright, nothing we create today will ever become like that.

There is of course an important question about what is fair and how long a copyright should last. Most people these days agree that it should last for at least the author's lifetime, maybe long enough to benefit their kids and grandkids as well. But the status quo is basically permanent copyright which prevents substantial creative and economic benefits to society.
Agreed, I am planning on moving overseas because of how horrific our healthcare system is, I can go to Vietnam, Thailand, or any number "developing" countries and receive better care at their private clinics than in the USA. If the US wants to operate on a market system for healthcare, give me a better product. And with respect to experimental treatments, Singapore and Japan have advanced medical technology and treatments at a fraction of the price. The US system manages to have the worst of single payer and market systems while providing none of the benefits of either approach.
Concentration is absolutely a problem, but the second point undermines the first. The world is more interesting because anyone can adapt old stories like The Little Mermaid however they want. How could it not be even richer if the same applied to newer creations like Bugs Bunny?
There's something more fundamental, though - humans are a "social species". Evolutionarily, we are adapted to requiring (generally) at least something of a group / tribe. Other organisms solve survival (of the species, ultimately) problems differently - incredible and 'cheap' reproductive capacity, strength and versatility enough to be much more solitary as a rule, etc. - those niches are somewhat to rather different.

In any case, at this point in human history especially, I'd argue it's time to consider "the group" to be ALL humans - "by default". There are nuances, and I'm out of time for commenting further right now, but, that's my take on it.

Hopefully, this comment is of some use to you / someone / etc. - hope y'all have a great day!
> Then use E2E encryption

Great idea, except for the part that modifying the client is a bannable offense itself, and you can get banned as a spammer for using it too often. Nevertheless, it's possible: https://github.com/leogx9r/DiscordCrypt // https://github.com/An00nymushun/End-to-end-Discord-Encryptio...
No you are claiming the carrier "doesn't want to pay for it because they deem what the clinic charged as "too expensive"".

That is not nuance, that is an knee jerk unsubstantiated misleading claim. You have 0 details into what chassis the plan is carried on, what the plan design is, who the carrier is etc.

>>"this is why global/nomad/world traveller health insurance typically excludes the US specifically from coverage and visitors to the US in many cases will fly home for urgent medical emergencies vs receiving care in country; the economics are simply unpalatable."

Again misleading, there are expatriate plans specifically for visitors to the USA, and frankly, it's great coverage.

https://www.imglobal.com/
> Whilst it's nice to think America would share such tech willingly, I'd offer the reality that if it's not generating a revenue, it's not being given away.
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On the contrary, I think as long as it's generating revenue, it's not going to be given away. Remember that UNIX was popularized only because AT&T were under anti-trust sanctions and couldn't sell it.
This is partially down to good promoting though.

It has seen those Stack Overflow responses and if you ask it to give you more context about a certain approach, it will.

I've learned when asking GPT-4 for help to push past the first answer, or ask it to offer more solutions. Also to ask why it choose a certain approach.

Quite often it will give me a response that doesn't fit well with my code, and I'll say "I don't want to do it this way, please give me another option, keeping in mind that [some important aspect of the code base]."

It then spits it out and it's usually way closer. Iterate on this and it's often quite good.

I think you're completely right if a person were copy pasting the first response every time, but that person is simply using it wrong in my opinion.
How pointless would this legislation be anyway? Literally every YouTube video is advertising VPN services. I would guess that if you polled age 10-18 "do you know what a VPN is" easily more than half would say yes. It's not 2005 any more, this stuff isn't niche.

They should refuse to do it on that basis alone. It's just unworkable. Restricting Wikipedia for the least educated but not for the most would be exactly the opposite of their mission.
Mirror - https://archive.is/85FPd
"AI" changes things by making it even harder for individuals to defend against.

Right now, we have FOSS organizations that will help you in lawsuits against companies that don't follow licenses. With "AI" in the picture, companies can launder your code with "plausible" deniability. [1]

[1]: https://matthewbutterick.com/chron/will-ai-obliterate-the-ru...
What the hell is this cynicism? Seems completely inappropriate.

Helion isn’t vaporware.
I wonder if Americans' history of seeing cheating as dishonorable grew from our roots in Puritanism, where principle always trumps pragmatism. If so, then perhaps our ongoing devaluation of principles (and our rising mistrust in others to act honorably) is caused by the erosion of those roots as the American middle class has fallen on harder times, concluding that "the rules of the game have changed" and the old mantra of guiding one's life by principle is now delivering diminishing returns. So when in Rome...
This is a very naive take that lets people feel good that cheaters will one day face their comeuppance. They don't. Learning to cheat itself is sometimes a useful skill. It means you have figured out what's important that's going to get assessed, and you have figured out a way to pass the assessment. That skill will help you in the workplace as well.
Life under 24/7 GPS surveillance – A GPS ankle tag experiment
It has always surprised me that Norway leads the way in electric vehicles, for two reasons: they are a massive oil & gas exporter, and it gets really cold - where electric vehicles lose significant range as they struggle to keep the battery warm.
> Because it doesn't cost MS a bean until Helion have something working

I doubt that (unless you have some source for it which I missed, in which case sorry). It seems really unlikely that Helion would commit to a contract with penalty clauses if they didn't get money before they got fusion working.

Once (if) they have commercial fusion working they're golden, it will be trivial to raise money on excellent terms, and as such they won't need income from this contract. If this contract only gave them money at that point it wouldn't be worth very much to them.

If the contract gave them money now though... well right now it's hard to raise money. Taking a loan out could make sense. Getting the option to repay that loan by providing services could make sense. And what is a contract where you get paid now on the condition that you pay back more at the end (either in dollars in energy) if not a loan?

Besides, it's a loan which serves as great PR for both companies.
Have you ever looked into Rails generators? They’re meant to be run over the lifetime of the project, and many libraries (specifically thinking of Devise, since it’s a large feature) have “install me” generators.
Dedicated back and home button is the reason why I always buy a refurbished Galaxy S7 after I break/lose it. This is my third is six years.
I like that the price to pay to maintain the same experience actually goes downwards. Who knows how long it will keep working like that?
Hopefully I will be able to put lineageOS or postmarketOS on it when the software eventually stops working. Maybe some day I get to be an amazing linux hardware programmer like Caleb Connolly and am able to mainline S7 support in linux like he did for the SnapDragon 845, whatever that means
So, you turn off all the state TV coming by satellite... so that you hope that all the satellite receivers get unplugged from the wall (else, they're likely to be listening to reacquire and get program guide etc)... so that you can drive around in vans and look for the -remaining- satellite receivers as a conduit of information coming in.

I mean, I guess it's possible. But probably not your top priority during a time of potential unrest. And it probably won't work that well as a way to find people with the links.
I'm sure you could get code that would work going this route, but I'm worried about the code base growing to have lots of duplication and it generally just growing into a mess without any standard patterns and it would become a nightmare to maintain if that's the case.
I'm not to into the weeds of activitypub yet but in my head it seems like you could add some things to the protocol to optimize this.

1. server with the sender constructs a map by receiving server that contains a list of all users on that server who should receive the message.

2. sending server iterates the map. If the receiving server has multiple recipients do a check to see if the receiving server supports this kind of 'bundled' delivery.

2a. If so send the message once with a list of receivers.

2b. receiving service processes the one message and delivers it to all the users.

3. If not sending server sends it in the traditional way, multiple pushes.
I recently discovered how completely arbitrary healthcare pricing is. I got services from an out-of-network clinic, and ended up receiving a very large bill. I called my health insurer, and the conversation went like this:

- What's up with this $2000 bill?

- You went to an out-of-network clinic.

- I didn't know it was out-of-network; my doctor recommended it to me.

- [...pause...] How about $200?

And that was it. My $2000 bill became $200 for a completely unknown reason. I didn't ask for a price reduction; I didn't even know that was possible.

The whole situation was, and still is, bizarre to me. What is the pricing based on, if it can be dropped so drastically without explanation?
Take a look at https://phind.com

Being able to search the web allows it to deal with recent information: you can ask it to limit its search to the API documentation for the library you're working with.
One of the reasons I drifted towards heavy hardware computing was that the software was still impossible via web browser. This is amazing tech and everyone has wanted a universal GPU interface for years, but I'll be a bit solemn when all my favorite tools are replaced by website equivalents. It was good while it lasted!
How many and for what treatments? I want details and specific numbers. And how does that compare to the number of people who go to Eastern Europe and Latin American for medical care they can't afford in the US?
I think there are a few incorrect logical leaps in here. An identification number is only regulated insofar as it can be used to "identify a natural person". The law is referring to something like driver's license # or customer ID number or username or etc (or, increasingly, an IP address).

Within the spirit of the law, it's okay to say "this is user 1, this is user 2, etc". Pseudo-anonymous data has been specifically called out several times as fine.

In that context, the author is really stretching to claim that any amount of "fingerprinting" is deanonymizing. But there's not a lot of evidence that a fingerprint, no matter how good of one, is in violation of GDPR until it can be tied to a natural* person*.
It’s a sliding scale in the end. You can have a fusion system that barely breaks even, or only slightly breaks even, and then is still more expensive than traditional energy sources after factoring in fixed costs and maintenance.
That, I do not know - I'd have to ask. I'm guessing she acts as an intermediary/agent of sorts, and probably has 1-2 PMs or lead engineers here in the US, so all external calls are with that group, and then the work is partitioned off from there to the team in Argentina.
A) awesome username, b) I love my work and hired somebody who also loves the work. I told them explicitly up front this is a relationship based on the capitalist structure we live in and to keep an eye out for better pay but to give me a chance to make a counter.

Nobody should be exploited and in my experience the easiest people to rip off are the passionate ones - which is why my advice to such people is always to get paid because somebody up the stack is siphoning off what should be yours.
HN, what the heck has happened to you?

What is with all of these cynical comments? Helion is an awesome company, their technology is real, and this is cool.

>oh no this might not work!

Do you guys not understand that you’re posting on the forum of a venture capital firm/startup accelerator?
This is one of my pet peeves of GDPR! Your nephew and IP Octet cases are very extreme edge cases that we shouldn't build policy around if there are major drawbacks to including them. It's bad there is ostensibly no compliant way to count anonymized unique users in Europe under the current framework.
Hi Cory, this was a fantastic writeup! Your explanation of the value of generating a codebase for people instead of having them use a project template is compelling; it articulates that aversion I've always felt towards large templated projects.

The section about testing is particularly interesting to me. I'm working on django-simple-deploy [0], a project that automates people's initial deployments of a Django project. When people first hear about this project, they assume it's just for beginners. But when a lot of people started migrating away from Heroku, we saw how much work it is even for experienced developers to read through a new platform's docs and configure their project correctly for deployment. simple_deploy does all that configuration in one pass, and then all of the platform-specific configuration is contained in one commit.

A fun question I've shared when talking about this project is "How do you test a standalone management command, whose goal is to act on a variety of Django projects?" In this project there's no settings file, no models, no urls, no views, etc. The project also needs to support multiple dependency management systems, multiple target platforms, and since it works on the user's local system it needs to be cross platform as well.

To deal with this efficiently, the unit test suite copies a sample project to a temp directory. It then builds a venv, and runs a commit. It runs simple_deploy against the project, and then does as many tests as it can against the configuration that was done for that project. Then, instead of starting over, it uses git to reset the sample project to the original state. This lets it run ~90 tests in about 10 seconds.

Even more interestingly, that temp project is still available when the test suite finishes. pytest takes care of deleting it at some point, but not immediately. So, debugging can be really efficient. If you run `pytest -x`, you can open that test project and poke around to see what didn't work. The setup uses an editable install, so you can modify simple_deploy, reset the test project manually, and run the command again (outside of the test suite).

pytest is an amazing tool. Just yesterday I wrote a plugin that lets you run `pytest -x --open-test-project`. When the test suite exits, it pops open a new terminal window at the test project, with an active virtual environment and the output of `git status` and `git log`. This turns the test suite into a development tool.

I'm curious if you use your test suite for development in any way, or if it's just for catching bugs and regressions? Also, with that tree of configuration options, have you integrated randomization into your tests at all? That seems like it might be a good way to hit branches you haven't tried before, but then again the majority of the 33M branches are probably not meaningful to test.

- [0] https://django-simple-deploy.readthedocs.io/en/latest/
There are reasons why all browsers partition their file cache by domain. Having some things pre-loaded makes things worse:

https://developer.chrome.com/blog/http-cache-partitioning/

> However, the time a website takes to respond to HTTP requests can reveal that the browser has accessed the same resource in the past, which opens the browser to security and privacy attacks, like the following:

> Detect if a user has visited a specific site

> Cross-site search attack

> Cross-site tracking

With this suggestion, I guess we can add browser version (and thus, which vulnerabilities can be exploited) to that list. Chrome is trying to freeze the user-agent string, but this would defeat the point.
For most people the need for more seat time vastly outweighs the concern that they might pick up “bad habits”.
Without including meaningful tax increases, I don't think that the Republican bill can really be said to be a serious proposal. "We get everything we want and you get nothing" isn't a good faith negotiating position.
> Hinton even says the AI actually understands you. The fact that there's division among the real experts (ie not you or me) shows theirs legitimacy in the defense.

Exactly. Every time I push back on people who dismiss LLMs as not understanding, they but don't seem to realize how little we know about the brain and what "understanding" actually means, mechanistically. So even with perfect understanding of how LLMs function, that tells us nothing about whether they actually understand.

If defined operationally as being able to reliably and coherently converse about topics, make connections, solve problems and respond in novel or surprising ways, LLMs these days are at or slightly above the average human. Way above in some respects, but still below in others. It won't be long before their capabilities undeniably surpass the average.
Yup. Pretty much.

Or you don’t believe this material/test will affect your future.
Half-assed ecosystem and OS is the reason why I left for iOS.

So yeah, they couldn’t even make it proper, which reinforces my belief.
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better than .net, admittedly.
> You might suspect that OP has a familiarity bias here but actually there is objective evidence that ActivityPub based implementations are (relatively) simple: there are dozens of implementations of both servers and clients, will all sorts of functionality that is not emulating the "twitter/mastodon" experience. Heck, even a Wordpress plugin in the works.

AT Protocol has a very active ecosystem already too (even though Bluesky is still invite-only): https://github.com/bluesky-social/atproto-ecosystem

And this isn't a complete list; there's a very active Discord for people doing bluesky projects which currently has 1.2k+ members
While you’re probably right about GP’s cynical tone, this announcement does seem fairly meaningless. Does Helion have a working prototype that can be reasonably moved into production? Or is that still years away?
Bioethicists: Canada should give MAID if social conditions make life intolerable
IQ scores are highly correlated with actual success, undeniably so.

Maybe IQ doesn't exactly track "intelligence", or whatever that is, but it is certainly tracking something that is correlated to success.
Yes, with a 'club membership' especially. Rando Sci-Fi Classic Tuesday etc..

Don't underestimate the lethargy and stupidity of mega corps. Content owners vastly overvalue their catalogues, and movie chain theatres are stupid and completely lacking in creativity.

They will go out of business before they even entertain an idea.
They always were liable. But of course, people would have to show they were actually harmed in some way by being “tracked”. GDPR makes it illegal to collect data that doesn’t cause any demonstrable harm to anyone.
"Me too." I have never had a blog but I feel this time it could be interesting to share what I do and discover. I'll treat each post as a "subject" that can be updated, this way I won't have any pressure to do everything perfectly when the blog entry is published. Good luck.
> Luckily, my professor was right though...

The explanation provided by the professor assuaged your concerns, but their salary was funded in part from the tuitions paid by the cheaters.

The 'grift' is a collaboration between the academic institutions that tolerate cheating and award degrees and GPA scores, and the cheating students that game the process.
It is so weird how you guys belittle those that appreciate 2A as though it's not useful until we have "Taliban-levels of capability and organization" but if we did, you'd immediately cry "insurgency! This is too dangerous for our democracy!"

There's no winning with you people. That's why the 2A movement is progressing finally. You're impossible to please.
It's because I'm here.
If anyone want to use my blog posts, they can contact me. I want to know my customer.

If you want to know about copyright that applies to my work: https://www.riksdagen.se/sv/dokument-lagar/dokument/svensk-f...

Beeing in the US does not shield you from my country's laws. You are not allowed to copy my work without my permission, you are not allowed to transform it.
> And in the dictionaries I've looked in, there are many usage senses of the word illegal that do cover things that are not criminal.

That wasn't the question under discussion -- my comment already had an example of that, of driving over the speed limit.

The question is whether breaking a contract falls under the term "illegal". And again, you're using logic to argue this, when it's simply a question of definition. It's not whether it should fall under the term "illegal", it's whether lawyers and lawmakers and other educated folks define the term that way.

And it doesn't seem like they do. It seems that someone is not acting "illegally" when they break a contract. They can be sued, the contract can be binding, but the word we use for the behavior is "breaching" or "violating", not "illegal".
You know, I keep reading web3isgoinggreat, and after every rugpull and hack I always think to myself "who throws thousands and millions into random 3-weeks-old exchanges with names like coolMonkey.coin and kittyCat2DaMoon". Hmmm... I guess this is what it feels to get old.
This is pretty exciting honestly, I hope it works out!
AIUI Helion’s bottleneck is the number of capacitors needed to run a sustained reaction at a given scale.

The numbers don’t seem out of this world to me, and it’s probably smarter money than what we are throwing at ITER given time to market.
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There can be an interrogation endpoint/message of supported versions/extensions to the base protocol, that's a very normal thing. If it supports bundled delivery, send a single bundle if not send them all individually.