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> It's not even knowledge. I can't take advantage of most of the tax breaks rich people can because I am not in control of billions of dollars of physical and intellectual property to play shell games with.

In my view, not analogous to the OAi situation

Mark-to-market taxation is entirely unrelated to non-profits. You're just vaguely gesturing at wealthy people and taxes.

fwiw I am largely supportive of some form of mark-to-market.
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A historic home [c1920] in my neighborhood had an elevator installed; I ended up fishing out four 3ft 4x12 segments, and they're absolutely fantastic (color, density, rings, smell).

No clue what I'll ever do with these, but they seemed too cool to just garbage.
I applied December 23 and July 23. But didn't get any reply.
Maybe for the Nintendo Power kiosks?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nintendo_Power_(cartridge)
>Through the exact science you say you "don't buy" because you seem to believe companies operating in a flawed market are better at finding ground truth than literal science.

I'm saying companies believe in science that leads to profit, as the market can stay irrational longer than companies can stay solvent.

Same how science showed switching to EUV lithography is better than sticking to DUV and then all companies adopted that, if science would also show workers working 32h per week results in more profit for them than 40h, then they would all switch in a heart beat to capture all that money left on the table by their competitors still stuck in their ancient 40h workweek.

But that hasn't happened.
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https://github.com/goplus/gop, but they go slightly too overboard imo.
I didn't mean to give the impression that I was boasting or that I bring this up with him or my management, but just that there's a somewhat objective relative measurement that shows that it's possible to keep up high output for some jobs. I was surprised that my _total_ output stayed so high after transitioning from 40 to 20 hours.

No backlash or retaliation so far after more than 2 years.
That power-split planetary gearbox is great. They "have CVTs", literally, because it's a transmission and it's continuously variable, but it's not a steel band and roller that'll turn into metal shavings. Indeed, a planetary "CVT" is simpler and more reliable than a traditional six-speed automatic. But people get triggered by the word "CVT". We should instead say "steel band" and "planetary gearset" or something.
The damages are clearly the valuation of the current organization vs the percent of original funding Musk provided.

The exact amount will be argued but it will likely be in the billions given OpenAI’s recent valuations.
Do you have a better suggestion? At the end of the day, someone has to make decisions. Who wouldn't nominate themselves?
Just realized. I'm absolutely flabbergasted nothing happened at my company.
Microsoft contributes to the python foundation, Linux, and lots of other non-profits with valuable IP. I’m sure if any of those nonprofits stopped releasing source code and began giving it only to Microsoft, there would be a lawsuit as well.

OpenAI was still effectively sharing their research until last year.
I don't think you understand how minimalist Golang is... the std lib only has room for anything you would ever need for a web service including a full web server, builtins like hashmaps, a bunch of things for concurrent programming like channels, go routines, etc. There's also language features like returning tuples and destructuring them which is actually more advanced than it's peers.

To include an optional type would be against go's identity.
heh - my girlfriend's son is an 'elder millenial' (~40)...
He was called a boomer about a month ago. :-P

Meanwhile, us gen-X's just squeak on by - everyone forgets about us :-D
Well. I do use digitalocean and reading that they screwed up with CSS tricks did affect my perception of them. You screw Open Source/dev community only once. Then you spend decades trying to fix your reputation and fail at it. Just ask Microsoft.

Whatever they do, they should keep the site running and keep it on WP as its an endorsement of open source and a great demonstration of their platform in hosting the biggest website framework on the Internet. (~43% of all web sites and 30% of all ecommerce sites are WP at the moment).

Or they can improve their bottom line by shutting it down or by moving it to some other stack that has no relation with what people actually use in the wild and screw their reputation up forever.
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In the 80s and 90s, the government had shattered AT&T into many pieces, so there was plenty of real growth in implementing innovations that said monopoly had foregone (e.g. packet switching, wireless telephony, etc). But that's temporary.

Parallel to this was the complete disintegration of the understanding that ruled during the Progressive Era, when we believed you don't sell half your country's economy to a handful of megacorporations[0]. The real growth that came from switching from analog[2] landlines to Internet ran out in the mid 2000s, because most people had it, while consolidation kept on going up until 2020 when we realized, "shit, we're locked in a box with Facebook and TikTok now".

In the late 2000s, there was a shift in the kinds of businesses venture capitalists funded. They can be classified as one of two things:

- Creating a target for a big tech acquisition that will get the VCs their exit

- Flagrantly violating an established rule or law and calling it "disruptive"

The last bit is almost a sort of parody of the post-AT&T boom. Surely, if we squint, AT&T and the US government are both monopolies[3], so they're both fair game to 'disrupt'. Shareholder fraud is pretty ubiquitous in large companies[4], but AI is also based on several more instances of "hope the law goes unenforced". e.g. the whole usefulness of all this AI crap is specifically based on laundering away copyright in a way that lets OpenAI replace the entire creative industry without actually getting rid of the monopolies that made the creative industry so onerous for the public.

"Laws for thee but not for me" is the key point here. Uber and Lyft violate taxi medallion rules, but they aren't interested in abolishing those rules. They just wanted (and got) special carve-outs for themselves so they'd have a durable advantage. If they had just gotten those rules removed, there'd be competitive pressure that would eat their profits. To be clear, I'm not alleging that Uber and Lyft actually are profitable businesses - they aren't - but their ability to access capital markets to continue losing money is predicated on them having something monopoly-shaped. Every pirate wants to be an admiral, after all.

[0] English for chaebol[1]

[1] Korean for zaibatsu

[2] Yes I know ISDN existed sshhh

[3] To be clear, the US government is not a moral high star, but they have democratic controls that other monopolies do not. Voting in a government is granted to all citizens on a one person, one vote basis. Voting in a corporation is one dollar, one vote - i.e. not a democracy.

[4] Example: big tech's complete refusal to break down business profits by line of business despite clear SEC rules against that
This would be less than good for inflation.
The nonprofit owns the for profit.
> For example, some states recognize a "handshake agreement" as a legally-binding contract

Subject to limits on specific kinds of contracts that must be reduced to writing, all US jurisdictions (not just some states) recognize oral contracts provided that the basic requirements of a contract (offer, acceptance, consideration, etc.) are present.
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No one said there wasn't, what was stated is that it wasn't common.

Great for you to manage to find those gigs, it's not representative of the more general trend.

It was always there, for a very few select opportunities. I only got 2 remote gigs for very early stage startups without an office before COVID (and I've been in this industry for 20 years), after it's been 70% of offers from recruiters telling me "we're remote friendly".

Do you understand the difference? If you don't like unions, don't join one, you're free to do it, as others are free to associate and be part of one. If you don't like a unionised place you can always move to another job, it will always be there for you, no worries.
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show me a single accounting statement with a non-profit listing their 'profits'
Right? And for many people it’s not like there is any realistic choice. It’s government sanctioned extortion.
“She is not a rock star”

That is a statement about relevance and I would argue to be a “rock star” you also have to have a lot of accomplishments.

You might not agree that she is a rock start but you did make comments about her relevance (“twitter followers” etc)
If you're using protobufs anyway, you can get also get this functionality generated by using a proto enum: https://protobuf.dev/reference/go/go-generated/#enum. It works really nicely and has all the features mentioned in the article.

One added benefit is it serializes/deserializes safely (even when you add / remove values), so you can persist and read back values without a problem - even to a different language.
One of the biggest car rentals is experimenting with this to cut costs. And this is more efficient than actually solving their systems integrating problem which is the only reason they actually need these drones to copy/paste.
Yep - the very existence of a widespread concern that open sourcing would be counter to AI safety, and thus not "for the public benefit," would likely it very hard to find OpenAI in violation of that commitment. (Not a lawyer, not legal advice.)
Having recently retired from full-time employment, I can relate.
In the US they are, thanks to Citizens United.
My curiosity got to the better of me so I have to ask this question: how is it that you post in almost every single thread about "the old web" and at that so many times a day? I see your name on these threads constantly. I'm only here because I left a comment idly yesterday.
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> the Germans, for all their flaws, still have a much better understanding of the concept of privacy than the Dutch

This is the country that makes you put your full name and address on personal websites yeah?
I'm working 1/2 the time (7 hours Monday & Tuesday, and 6 hours Wednesday), and, yes, it even surprised me that my total productivity is about the same as when I worked 40 hours per week. It's even possible that my total productivity is actually greater than before but we don't have sufficiently precise metrics off of which to judge that.
Or just define the constants as string constants in the first place: "type Operation string"
The SEC doesn’t protect investors in private companies. OpenAI isn’t a public company
Just a nit, DARPA grand challenge in 2004 wasn’t 29 years ago, it was 19 years ago (or almost 20 years ago, if you round up by a month).
>> Sounds fine for a lot of cases, of course, but in a world of mixed deployment fleets working on data, you pretty much have to have a way to allow a value that is not part of your current definition, or you are basically placing a "poison pill" on your system.

I had the joy of a numeric ID (an int) getting a B added to the end of it to distinguish the product as being the "same" but sourced from another vendor... (and vendor is part of the system so this is layers of silly, but useful on the floor if there is a problem).

This is the down side of "fleets" of applications with differing degrees of type safety working in concert.

Should an enum be fixed, and its change need to be reflected in every system? Cause current go out of the box isnt that. Should it be open ended as your suggesting ... because a "new int value" can flow through the system in an "Unsafe" way depending on the permissiveness or quality of your code.

I dont like any of the answers, but I candidly dont have a lot of problems with the current enum system in go. Is it great, no. But if your validating at your borders/boundries (storage, api, etc) and being responsible I dont really give it much thought.
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Microsoft should have learned how to red-team from that fiasco. Release a beta version to 4chan and X, and see the different ways a model can be prompted to create controversial results.
You can actually blame DVI for this one.

DVI connectors offered analog VGA for years. This meant that graphics card vendors could put one port on their card that did both, huzzah, and a passive adapter got you VGA out of DVI.

DVI is ahead of DisplayPort by 8 years. The DMCA is passed and HDCP becomes a Thing. Many card vendors do put DisplayPort on their cards, since it's the "Professional" standard for video, but that isn't until 2008 or so. DisplayPort would not be widely adopted until 2012-ish.

Fast forward, VGA dies. DisplayPort and DVI-Dual link are there. DVI Dual is forwards-ish compatible with upcoming HDMI displays for TVs, as pushed by the MPEG-LA and DVD makers. In 2009, less than 5% of devices shipped had DisplayPort on them. DisplayPort at this time also cannot handle the two most popular color spaces in use: sRGB and Adobe RGB 1998.

Part of the issue was a perception thing: Displayport was widely adopted by Apple early on, and consumer understanding of Mini DisplayPort was that it was an Apple standard, rather than an open standard, and this further pushed the port out of the limelight.
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The delayed error happens only when you ignore unchecked warnings, which would have been compiler errors if not for backward compatibility. One can turn them into errors with `-Werror`.

The type erasure has occasional benefits, like allowing objects that are polymorphic in their type argument when that’s still safe semantically (a simple example being emptyList() and emptySet()), where the type system isn’t expressive enough to otherwise allow it. This is a bit like the “unsafe” escape in other languages.
While I agree it doesn’t exclude “human in the loop” necessarily, but there is a lack of clarity as yet whether a decision made by an AI to flag something for manual review would also qualify as a “decision” in this context.

It’s also not explicit that the “legal effects” need be negative, just significant, which I think entering into a loan agreement probably is.

On the plus side, I don’t think it will take too long for case law to develop on these points.
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there are large positive externalities to major research unis. imposing a $300m/yr tax because of anti-ivy sentiment means net fewer researchers, grad students, funded residencies, etc.

do people just no longer believe in win wins? if someone else is successful or impactful they must be taken down?
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Elon Musk is all about Elon Musk. One of the biggest hypocrites on Earth right now. He might be right about OpenAI not being open as they promised, but, if anyone, its not Musk who should sue them. He claims his goal is to save humanity, but he is actively working on destroying it for profit.