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What off-topic attacks? I was replying to your off-topic comment and attack on the credibility and myth of the posted book. I didn't make any attack. I simply pointed out a strange strategy that is a bit circular. If that author claims that there are no limits to growth, then why, exactly, do we need to terraform and mine an entire other planet? Do you not see the conflict there?

> that food production and wealth can not scale with the population is absurd. History shows us that that is not the case.

It can scale, but at the expense of tons of other things, and history indeed shows us that that's the case. The so-called Third Agricultural Revolution has shown us that quite explicitly.

And prove what wrong? I don't know what you're claiming or its relevance. If you're talking about per-capita GDP, I regret to inform you that wealth inequality and disparity is at an all-time high. So increasing the GDP has in fact correlated with a decrease in standard in living for the vast majority of people, relatively speaking.

If we take a look at raw numbers, there are more people starving today than there were people alive approximately 200 hundred years ago. Maybe the percentage of total population has changed, in either direction, but the point is that that is an absolute increase in the amount of suffering not offset by the number of people not suffering.

So like I said, you can bounce around these facts, and they are facts, all you want with a technocratic lens, but the data is quite clear that growth has led to a myriad of issues. Ignoring these issues and trends shows a huge misunderstanding of dynamic and complex systems. If there are issues with the methods in The Limits of Growth, that's fine, but at least they attempted to model these things. Pointing fingers at people trying to understand the direction we are heading is not productive.

I invite you to look at even simple things, like carpet. Approximately 95% of all carpet made heads to the landfill. Think about that for a second. We literally use up materials, people, effort, time, money, etc. just to dump it all in a landfill. And that's "just" carpet. It's the very definition of pointless.
I don't know if this is what you're looking exactly but the worker owned cooperative Mondragon might qualify: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mondragon_Corporation

It's become a federation of cooperatives so some members are better or worse but generally being owned by the people in the communities it operates in tends to lead to more ethical behavior.
Just 38 years ago, there were 50 companies in charge of most American media. Now, 90% of the media in the United States is controlled by just six corporations: AT&T, CBS, Comcast, Disney, Newscorp and Viacom. This means that just 232 media executives are calling the shots for the vast majority of the information we are presented with as a society.

Let that sink in.

And remember media bias and polarization is presented as a broad conflict that can’t be managed and is out of control to the point of causing extremism.

Consolidation of platforms and reach is much greater in the tech side of the arena.

Then there is the consolidation of independent media on tech company platforms like YouTube. If they ban someone, are they really running off to make a living on Rumble? No.

There are only 11 independent investigative journalism groups like ProPublica and The Center For Public Integrity but they are a shadow of their formers selves.

https://civilination.org/resources/investigative-journalism-...

You can check all the information sources you want, but primary source information means very little when the landscape lacks real diversity and the only substantive public oversight is underfunded or politically connected.

And then, there’s the research that shows fact-checker bias:

https://phys.org/news/2023-12-fact-checkers-tend-validity-ne...
I wonder if there's a way to leverage this application to create a user profile while keeping the data locally (storing, processing, etc.), just for the user to know _what_ social media companies know (or think they know) about the user.

If this application monitors, stores and analyses social media presence, email, etc. Could the application present to the user a profile similar to what Google has for the user?

For example, would be interesting to know how Spotify or Netflix sees me in technical and/or social terms.

This idea for such application comes from Yuval Harari.
I'm not talking about China alone. I'm talking about Asia. Which is China + Taiwan + Korea + Japan + Singapore, plus every major asian country.

Additionally the rivalry between the US and China is off topic I'm not talking about that.

My statement is, Asia is superior to the US in terms of Manufacturing/infrastructure. I can add more to that as well. In terms of ICs, Asia also dominates. The US is behind Asia on all three of these fronts. As a general statement this is still true. You didn't invalidate anything with your off topic comment here.

That being said, the united states is the dominant spender in terms of defense. They are number one on this front and in terms of technology. I don't think the world has ever seen a military industrial complex as massive and as advanced as the one the US has built. What you say here is true and it's major. It's not included in "manufacturing" but it's intimately connected and thus worth mentioning.
wow, i had the same experience. reaching my 40s and decided to drop all the cool kids stuff. i used to have emacs/scheme evangelist phases in my life, now i do all my coding using enterprise languages and tools.

i have never been so productive.
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I'm not a neuroscientist, i have no idea.

If i had to guess, its because i have never found highlighting particularly useful (whether in physical or digital form), and i generally find it easier to read things in order first and then go back to fill in gaps of understanding instead of constant cross referencing which breaks the flow of thought. So in essence i personally find most of the benefits of digital form is lost on me leaving just the downsides (not lugging around 100lb book would be nice though) But to each their own.

The point im trying to make is that there is no one true way. Reasons why probably aren't fully portable between people and blindly copying what other people do wont get you very far. What one should do is try all the different possibilities and figure out what works for yourself. There is no magic formula.
> There is always the possibility to only offer the priced version, even if it is free software. Someone else could of course redistribute it and then it would be their responsibility.

I thought the CRA would make the original distributor responsible for what they distributed. So A distributed to B and B redistributes to C, A is still has responsibilities to C. B might also have be in trouble when something goes wrong but B redistributing does not shield A to my understanding.
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It’s extremely hard to root, I think that’s why it got removed from the supported robot page. As for ios, just saving the page on the Home Screen really works fine, no need for a native app here imho.
I think the general critique is: the performance of a CEO should be tied somehow to the performance of the company, yet year after year, the company performs worse while CEO compensation goes up.
Is it? I use Firefox on android (and desktop) and I have to drop to chrome about once a year for rendering issues.
He doesn't actually make very heavy use of the satire plank of fair use. He credits the original artists. From his own website

"Does Al get permission to do his parodies?

Al does get permission from the original writers of the songs that he parodies. While the law supports his ability to parody without permission, he feels it’s important to maintain the relationships that he’s built with artists and writers over the years. Plus, Al wants to make sure that he gets his songwriter credit (as writer of new lyrics) as well as his rightful share of the royalties."

The fact that he could rely on fair use is separate from whether he as an artist does rely on fair use.
The problem is multi-dimensional, so bounding logic like this isn’t necessarily useful.
Last time I checked the Linux Foundation had a similar problem, spending 2% on the Kernel development and the rest on the latest tech trends, AI, blockchain, metaverse etc.
Whoever's using Photoshop to paint, however, does need to have seen existing artwork. But the point you raised demonstrates that comparing an ML model to Photoshop is an inappropriate comparison. The relevant comparison is between a person using an ML model and a person using Photoshop. A person using an ML model doesn't need to have seen existing works to ask for a generic output, but does need to have seen existing works to ask for an output similar to an existing work (outside of innocent name coincidences in the prompt like "a painting of a starry night"). If the prompt - which, I remind, comes from the person using the model - were to contain no reference to the existing work, the author, or a characteristic/style strongly associated with the work, then the output would almost never if not never be similar to an existing work.

Similarity is a prerequisite for infringement. No similarity means no infringement [1]. If a person painting with Photoshop produces something similar to an existing work and publishes the work to anyone else in a way not covered by fair use, then the painter bears the liability for the copyright infringement. Analogously, if a person using an ML model gives a prompt with a reference to an existing work, author, or strongly associated characteristic/style, gets an output similar to an existing work, and publishes the output to anyone else in a way not covered by fair use, then the user of the model should bear most of the liability for the copyright infringement. The model maker should take reasonable steps to prevent users from giving such prompts (or the model from accepting such prompts), but otherwise should bear no more than a minority of the liability (unless the model regularly gives infringing outputs for prompts with no references to any works, authors, or characteristics/styles).

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Substantial_similarity#Substan...
Unfortunately, the Affero changes to the GPL render it a nonfree license.

Free software licenses all have one thing in common: they speak only to redistribution, not to use. To use a free program, you only have to agree to the disclaimer (that if something goes wrong, it is at your own risk).

AGPL prohibits you from running a modified version of the program, if its functionality is publicly accessible, unless you release the modifications. That makes it an EULA.

No free software license requires you to release your modifications if the program is not redistributed.

The problem of siloed saas applications infringing on user freedoms cannot be attacked using copyright, without resorting to non-free licensing, which is an unacceptable.

Note that not everyone agrees that the GPL is a free license, in the first place. Software is maximally free if you can do anything with it you want, including incorporating it into proprietary software.

Many FOSS developers skip copyleft licenses and use MIT, BSD and such, myself included.

I can swallow the idea that GPLed software is free, but AGPL is out of the question.
>if a work is purely derivative of a source work

This is the weakest part of the case(s) against OpenAI. "Derivative work" is a legal term of art meaning a direct adaptation, like writing a screenplay of a book or translating a book into another language.

NYT has a stronger case than Sarah Silverman here because they can show actual 'memorized' text rather than just summarization, but given that those memorizations are a) an unintended failure mode of the training process, and b) from an older version of the model that has been updated to no longer regurgitate memorized text, it's not really clear how in current form GPT could possibly be considered a derivative work.
My most upvoted ASCII art on HN. The Van Halen logo, RIP.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24703707
By definition you don't want wildlife as a pet. Is there a reason you think this is the "wrong" type of wildlife?
I'm curious what makes you think that. That is, of course, one of the general solutions put forth to the fermi paradox. Ie either the species develops species killing weapons (like nukes) or individuals gain massively destructive weapons. But I find these things unlikely. Even exploding all of our existing nukes in the most devastating locations would not destroy humanity or the earth. We'd bounce back - tho if such an event is inevitable, perhaps we would ride an endless wax and wane between devastating destruction events every 1000 years.
I don’t care in which language my editor is written in. From the user perspective, what sets it apart from the plethora of available and more mature editors?
I didn't know that about Graal but I guess it depends on how easy that process is. Remember we're talking about "easily embeddable". You can embed anything with enough effort!
Scorched Earth was a nice upgrade from GORILLA.BAS :)
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Let's say that there's some sort of list component that's used in like six other places (that's maybe not obvious because there's different configurations or something).

Six months later I work on a new page that incorporates that component that requires some sort of change in that component that could theoretically break it elsewhere, at least how it looks or something, like alters the padding or something in a way that shoves things onto the next line in one of the instances.

If I don't mention what other places that component is used in my comments, are you going to know where all to look for the other instances of that component? Even if you look at the source code, it will only show changes, it won't say 'oh this component is used elsewhere' unless you actively bring up the source code yourself and do a code search yourself.

Because it's a visible component, maybe you'll just have the memory that something that looks like this is elsewhere, but maybe you won't remember. Or maybe you're fairly new to the project and aren't aware of these other parts of the site using it.

What about something that's even less visible, like something that takes in data and then sorts, transforms, and adds metadata to it? Then I make a change to it to accomodate for some new requirement on a new page. Maybe it's used for four other locations, but the changes only shows the function being altered and the new page using it. That change I made broke it elsewhere, but I don't mention where else to check in my notes. Are you going to think to check each place where data is loaded to make sure it's working correctly, without me explicitly telling you to check those spots?

If you can, great, you've got a real intuition for this that I doubt many QA people have. I don't even know to check these other places sometimes, and I worked on the code myself and can do a quick text search to see where else it's being used.

This was why I said what I did. It's not just about 'that area', the change could potentially affect another application in different repository entirely sometimes, especially if a shared library is involved. I've literally had like four or five of these situations happen in the past six months of my current project, where my change broke something elsewhere.

Usually I caught it, but I also told QA to check it explicitly anyway since I don't usually test things 100% (since I'm not QA). When I was a more junior developer, I missed these things more often and QA would sometimes miss it also since they didn't know to retest something.
The problem with these tools is that despite having worked with computers for 35 years, I don‘t get them. My brain is not made for them.

I only use out of the box vim when I work on consoles (which is still a fair amount of the time), I can exit (hey!), mark/cut/copy/paste (ok, yank!), save, and find/replace if I must. Everything else is just beyond what my brain wants to handle.

A lot of Jupyter lab and some VSCode otherwise. I can‘t say I know all about those either.

The last IDE that I knew pretty well was Eclipse, in about 2004. I even wrote plugins for it for my own use. That wasn‘t too bad for its time, I don‘t quite get why it got out of fashion.
I see. I asked the question because I legitimately didn't know, and haven't heard any conversation about it. Maybe that's because continuing Firefox outside of Mozilla seems like an insurmountable task, but doing nothing seems like a guaranteed dead end. I've been waiting a very long time for the ship to right, and it ain't happening.

I guess if what's Firefox needs is a reliable source of funding, at least recognizing that is a necessary first step. Who knows, maybe it could happen somehow.
In the context of this video, you're just wrong.

Other countries seem to be very careful with their reentry plans.
It's a very interesting topic, since the amount of brittle sed/grep/awk done by everybody using *nix on earth probably requires 128bits numbers, yet structured interactions does slow you down due to idiosyncracies. That said I wonder how quick things like powershell reward you. It's a bit like having a unit standard.
If that were the primary intended use then it wouldn’t be. However the product incidentally has that behavior if you specifically choose to use it in that way, which is not the intended use or the common use.
Summarization generally isn't considered a derivative work.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Derivative_work
My first thought for “can’t generalize over number of players” was that he could write code that emits a PRISM program…
That’s true. L6 offers are 700k to 900k plus whatever stock appreciation and refreshers. L7+ has nominal value of 1M+.

My point is for the past several years staff has been clearing 1M W2 or more per year and the nominal offers are high 6 figures. L7 and L8 offers are nominally 1M.

If I could make that money working on cool science and aerospace I would. When I graduated, Boeing, Lockheed etc wouldn’t give me the time of day but adtech welcomed me and paid me more in 1 year than Boeing would have in 10.
OK, so then we just need to figure out how to identify a true expert and we're off to the races.
It is a fact that we haven't been eaten by a swarm of anything. Facts are evidence. If you don't understand that, I don't think we'll be having a productive or fun converstion. Sound more like you're interested in making innane snarky comments to fuel your own ego. Good luck with that.
> one global event loop, the event loop calls into the application code. Application code doesn't run at other times.

In the 80s we called that "event-driven programming", and until threads became widely available, it is how all native GUI programming worked, more or less.
That's the entire reason why they launch from the coast, so that if something goes wrong the debris or booster will fall into the ocean.
Depends on the language.

Some languages have releases every year or two where they will introduce some new, elegant syntax (or maybe a new stdlib ADT, etc) to replace some pattern that was frequent yet clumsy in code written in that language. The developer communities for these languages then usually pretty-much-instantly consider use of the new syntax to be "idiomatic", and any code that still does things the old, clumsy way to need fixing.

The argument for making the change to any particular codebase is often that, relative to the new syntax, the old approach makes things more opaque and harder to maintain / code-review. If the new syntax existed from the start, nobody would think the old approach was good code. So, for the sake of legibility to new developers, and to lower the barrier to entry to code contributions, the code should be updated to use the new syntax.

If a library is implemented in such a language, and yet it hasn't been updated in 3+ years, that's often a bad sign — a sign that the developer isn't "plugged into" the language's community enough to keep the library up-to-date as idiomatic code that other developers (many of whom might have just learned the language in its latest form from a modern resource) can easily read. And therefore that the developer maybe isn't interested in receiving external PRs.
All your communication could be stronger if you flip it around and start with why: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=u4ZoJKF_VuA

Apart from that I am so excited to try it this holiday
A photocopier can reproduce entire articles verbatim, yet no one calls for the destruction of all photocopiers. In fact, many legitimate legal uses of photocopiers to reproduce whole newspaper articles take place commonly by archivists, journalists, students, etc.

It is the specific use of article photocopies to circumvent the normal sale of newspapers that becomes illegal.. and even that is questionable. If I read the newspaper left out in a waiting room and it keeps me from buying that days paper, this is not a criminal act.
> Yes, Rust makes a few categories of bugs disappear, but

Segfaults are only one of many ways for software to go wrong.
"What can I buy to feel better about myself and better then people who can't afford it."

Ethical companies are companies that offer products cheaply so that everyone can afford them, like Ryanair, Xiaomi, Google, Meta ...
Max terminal velocity of a skydiver is only 200 km/h.. if this booster is empty this is even maybe slower. Plus real slowness there is also the optical illusion of a very large object in some distance.

So just curious, how fast would you think it should be, and how fast do you think it is in the video?
Well, on the flip side: the whole reason these are sold is that the FDA is preventing the substance from being sold OTC. This is not an example of a manufacturer putting something unwanted in the product. It's all just a wink-wink-nudge-nudge kind of a deal with willing buyers. It creates some risk of accidents, but I doubt there were any.

I'm not sure the regulation here is great. As with Rx-only contraception, these regulations force patients to spend money and discuss their intimate life with a doctor for no real reason, which many people find difficult. And it's not like you undergo thorough screening to get Viagra anyway. A doctor is not gonna say "no".

The problem with bodies such as the FDA is that once they address grave risks, they seldom reach this point of "OK, we fixed the problem of arsenic in patent medicine, so let's scale back for now." Instead, the bureaucracies only grow. Today, far too many drugs are Rx-only and stay this way for too long. The need for prescriptions for equipment such as eyeglasses or contact lenses is hard to justify too.
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How far is this from what reddit does?

I read a NYT article, then summarize it into a link title for reddit. Reddit then republishes the summary to all of its users.
> Unlike other PDF readers/annotators, it saves a separate file, so the original PDF is untouched.

Just to give people another perspective on these issues [edit: not to deny the parent's perspective, just to add another]:

In PDFs, annotations are effectively (or actually?) on a separate layer from the document. It's not like marking up a paper book; in a PDF the annotations leave the original untouched, and can be easily hidden or removed.

Another advantage of using PDF annotations is that they are retained, readable, and editable for decades. There's no other file to retain. And if Xournalpp stops being developed, what happens to your annotations?