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GPL does not permit additional conditions, it actually states that additional conditions may be removed by the licensee.

In this case, I don’t see the actual license containing additional conditions, simply that the FAQ guidance on the page is misleading.
Not a lawyer, what does this mean? Is this yet another attempt by OpenAI to remove Sam Altman?
I don't find it unreasonable.
I'd say that, when it comes to chemistry, only 100% reproduction can be considered identical. Anything less is to be deemed similar to some degree.

And so without the correct amount of salt and/or spices, we're talking about food that's very similar, and not identical.
The question I've always had - when can you feed them after that? Ok, we stop at midnight, when can we resume?
The software development community as a whole should look at that permissions inflation trend more closely also.

We've all heard stories of android torch applications that require filesystem access for murky reasons. Or websites with cookie banners that ask to install thousands of cookies and refuse to work without access being granted.
It’s very personal and I don’t need anyone to agree with it. I have 20+ years of Python programming behind me and while I like coding, I really don’t like Python or the Python dev experience. I guess I want to find out if the grass is greener or not at all.
> The possibility that the sun is conscious expands the scope of our thinking.

As would the possibility that cheese sandwiches are our creators.

No study of the sun ever produced a clue that it was conscious. There is no explanatory power regarding the sun, or us, that comes from assuming the sun is conscious.

That isn't science. Or even rational.

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If consciousness means anything, surely it means self-awareness, encompassing a level of self-awareness of one's own self-awareness.

Self-awareness requires a few things. An ability to sense oneself and one's context, some memory of that sensory information, an ability to develop understanding and application of that information with a learned model of oneself, second level sensory access to some of those internal activities creating self-awareness, and a richness of modeling and self-awareness to allow for clear recognition, consideration, and exploration of the state of being self-aware of one's own self-awareness.

So consciousness at a minimum, is a gradation based on the product of those features.

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Explanations of consciousness as resulting from some level of particles consciousness would be the materialistic constructive explanation.

In contrast, consciousness based on the attributes above is an information organization and flow explanation. Which in the end can be divorced from any particular material substrate.

Self-awareness of self-awareness requires a rich second or third order loop in information flow, reflectively about that information flow and the system doing the information flow.

Just as a recursive function can't be explained by the non-recursive functions that it is composed of. Only by the entire loop organization.

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Also, there needs to be a plausible mechanism of creation or development.

In our case, we see the path evolution took over aeons to develop the components of consciousness listed above. The result are brains whose activity enhances the gathering of energy and resources required to allow those brains time to grow, and the energy budget to operate.

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The only part of consciousness that is "mysterious" is the qualia aspect. The strange and seeming inexplicable experience of being conscious. But that is largely mysterious for the same reason as other mysteries. We are missing information. We can't yet access most of our brains activities, just some of them.

So our consciousness seems to float above other things we sense. There is a self-modeling/awareness gap there.

Which we are closing over time with science and technology.

Being which can access their own behavior at all levels will be more conscious
seems easily worked around with base64 and friends.
Best practice would have your internet exposed daemon (vpn or ssh) running a fairly locked down box that doesn’t also have your valuable “stuff” (whatever that is) on it.

So if someone cracks that box, their access is limited, and they still need to make a lateral move to access actual data.

In the case of this backdoor, if you have SSH exposed to the internet on a locked down jump box, AND use it as your internal mechanism for accessing your valuable boxes, you are owned, since the attacker can access your jump box and then immediately use the same vulnerability to move to an internal box.

In the case of a hypothetical VPN daemon vulnerability, they can use that to crack your jump box, but then still need another vulnerability to move beyond that. Not great, but a lot better than being fully owned.

You could certainly also accomplish a similar topology with two different SSH implementations.
I heard somewhere that the US (and developed countries in general) go into debt because... there's demand for it!

A state with a decent credit rating is going to keep paying interest and that's what investors are interested in.
No need. Every other charger manufacturer makes chargers that support 800 volt cars. You can buy them off the shelf. Hyundai's (same company as Kia) charging stations use third party chargers.

Like this one: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/RC-hipaK3GY

Their Korean stations are custom builds but they're not doing that everywhere: http://www.koreaherald.com/view.php?ud=20210121000481

The main issue is that North America's charging infrastructure is in a bad state due to a lack of standardization and regulation. Lack of direction means lack of investment.

Europe set their standards and direction early which is why the EV infrastructure is better. This is the European plan to 2030: https://www.fleeteurope.com/en/new-energies/europe/article/f...

North America will get its act together eventually.
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One of the few honest ads.
If you do not have an ID, can you not cast a provisional ballot, then return later with further identification?
I recognize most of the tidying patterns listed in the article and the associated Twitter feed. My problem is the unnecessary noise in version control. If I’m trying to see when some chunk of code was changed using blame, having a bunch of small edits can make it a lot more difficult.

Still, I tend to do this kind of work on days when I’m not feeling great. I work on a large, reasonably old codebase (28 years old) so tidying busywork sometimes leads me to someplace interesting.
> AT&T has determined that AT&T data-specific fields were contained in a data set released on the dark web; source is still being assessed.

In the "about us" section

> We help more than 100 million U.S. families, friends and neighbors, plus nearly 2.5 million businesses, connect to greater possibility.

I like how they address themselves in the 3rd person. Did something bad? Use the passive voice and address yourself in the 3rd person.
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There’s also research showing fruits (the whole thing with the fiber, not juice) can be eaten without causing an insulin spike — as in, X grams of natural sugar eaten in the form of an apple is not the same as getting those X grams as refined sugar such as a can of soda.
Nonetheless, if a condition is much more prevalent within a particular population (whether due to genotype or phenotype) then membership of that population is diagnostically relevant, regardless of the absolute level of genetic diversity with the population.

Black people are much more likely to have sickle cell disease. White people are much more likely to have melanoma. Ashkenazi Jews (and the Cajun) are much more likely to have Tay-Sachs.
> There is nothing in current federal law that would allow anything close to that level of reduction.

I mean, if you wanna be truly technical, that's not 100% true.[1]

[1]:https://www.justice.gov/pardon/apply-commutation
Not only is it likely to happen, it is happening: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edible_vaccine#Vaccines_in_dev...

I think there's a lot of people reacting to this article as if "vaccines in food" is a "baseless conspiracy theory" when in fact it's in the study phase. The world moves fast.

While the science and engineering of it is interesting and all, it's bad medicine to put things in the food supply, no matter how convenient it may seem superficially. There's always someone who is going to have a bad reaction, and the more it becomes normalized, the more stuff is going to become worrisome. The entire idea of dosing populations with effectively no ability to control doses is insane. What happens to people who pair these with grapefruit? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grapefruit%E2%80%93drug_intera... (and I also highlight the "Mechanism" section)

Passing a pre-emptive law against just lobbing it into the food supply to see what happens is nowhere near as nonsensical as it sounds. It may not be a serious threat right this second, but the cost of a law of this sort is cheap too.

(The stealth mRNA vaccine concerns some people have are silly, though. Given how hard it is to even inject them, they're not about to be passing through the digestive system any time soon.)
Agreed with the spirit of this post. OpenAI also pays very well though and has super high caliber talent (from what I can see from friends who have joined and other online anecdotes).
I'm still waiting for Star Trek's hypospray.
That, and the medical tricorder so I never need another needle-based biopsy procedure ever\ again.
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Israel is not in Europe
Incredible. This 3B1B series was started 6 years ago and keeps going today with chapter 5.

If you haven't seen the first few chapters, I cannot recommend enough.
I understand what you're saying, and I agree people should be able to switch as needed. But look at one of the top comments from that link (I swear that wasn't me):

"I find query syntax nigh unreadable. It's like someone stuck some other language in the middle of my C#. The mental switch between that small snippet of code and the surrounding code is harsh and annoying." [1]

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/csharp/comments/w7n11s/why_does_the...
I think I am not following some nuance; given:

4 4 2 16
8 8 4 2

pulling that 4 up into its friends yields

? ? 8 16
8 8 2 2

which after seeing that behavior across several combinations (2 2 2 -> 4) I'm now guessing the actual rules are "The more tiles in the match, the higher the resulting tile will be, PROVIDED IT IS A POWER OF 2". So, one must join at least 3, but only the power-of-2 pairs count, the other tile just evaporates
They're responding to research and articles that are publicly presaging and promoting this technology along with the idea that blind mass medical interventions are somehow ethical as long as it's a vaccine.

Finally.. how hard do you think it's going to be to actually implement this law? Would it require a new cabinet position? A new department? A single new hire? Then how did the government "get larger" as a result?
I love getting to play with these OSes that I never got to touch 20 years ago, so thanks for this! Now that you've got NeXTStep, have you considered Rhapsody?
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That's kind of the rub here.

> volunteer
That's the majority of OSS. Only a handful of the projects we use today as a part of the core set of systems in the OSS world actually have corporate sponsorship by virtue of maintainers/contributors on the payroll.
> unknown
The actor built up a positive reputation by assisting with maintaining the repo at a time when the lead dev was unable to take an active role. In this sense, although we did not have some kind of full chain of authentication that "Jia Tan" was a real human that existed, that's about as good as it gets, and there's plenty of real world examples of espionage in both the open and closed source software world that can tell us that identity verification may not have prevented anything.
> untrusted
The actor gained trust. The barrier to gaining trust may have been low due to the mental health of the lead maintainer, but trust was earned and received. The lead maintainer communicated to distros that they should be added.

That's the rub here. It's _really easy_ to say this is a process problem. It's not. This was a social engineering attack first and foremost before anything else. It unlocked the way forward for the threat actor to take many actions unilaterally.
I fail to understand why this, now. For these minimal gains (compared to Brotli), servers and CDNs will need to increase memory and disk space to store the cached responses in zstd.
it entails only that the associative model is coincidentally indinstiguishable from a semantic one in the cases where it's used

it is always trivial to take one of these models and expose it's failure to operate semantically, but these cases are never in the marketing material.

Consider an associative model of addition, all numbers from -1bn to 1bn, broken down into their digits, so that 1bn = <1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0>

Using such a model you can get the right answers for more additions than just -1bn to 1bn, but you can also easily find cases where the addition would fail.

It's never adding.
These are great stories but awful experiences to live through. I am currently going through one right now. My wireless CarPlay connection shuts off whenever I drive past a particular highway section. It never happens anywhere else but this one area. There is nothing of note happening there (it's on a bridge over a lake) but just like clockwork, my entertainment system shuts down and refuses to connect. I have tried everything (reboots, firmware updates, wired connections, etc) to no avail.
> This achieves the same effect as leaving a manual gearbox in gear

This is not true. In a manual car, you’re still relying on the engine. In an automatic vehicle, it’s essentially a latch that drops into place. A well designed one should actually tighten as the vehicle attempts to roll while in park.

It seems these are failing to engage or simply failing entirely.
Even better: that’s JAMA. Far less likely to just make things up to fit a narrative
It quite literally was, hence you losing your money and SBF serving time in prison.
Such things are already highly likely to fall under the FDA’s purview.
Bard already integrates with Google Search. These companies aren't competing to be the best; just the most good enough in existing form factors.
Looks like real inflation from 2018 to 2024 was 25% over that time frame, so I think that was the collapse.

I don't think we are going to see things get worse from now, maybe they will even stabilize. But generally, we just went through a massive inflationary period that will be felt for a while.
Slightly off topic. I have been working with Django for about 7 years now. Whenever I'm looking for a new contract, I first filter by Django, as it's just a pleasure to work with. Funny how many other ppl share similar exp in this discussion, yet today is the day of 'who's hiring' and Django is mentioned only twice so far.
What never ceases to amaze me is that people expect a company that has no experience building cars to know how to build cars..
it goes both ways. there's two sides to the current praetorian guard setup. nsa if you're a technocrat liberal. cia if you're a bible conservative.

with both having nothing to hide, of course
Whatever the substantive merits, passing a law like this at the state level seems like a waste of everyone's time and legal fees: the food and vaccine supply chains are pretty much archetypal examples of interstate or foreign commerce, so it's really going to be the federal Congress and the federal executive branch that decide these policies. State policies running contrary to those federal decisions will get invalidated on constitutional grounds, no matter which level of government enacts its law first.
Yes, I am quite disappointed too. Running a DOS webserver in a qemu vm does not feel very vintage.
The hypospray was actually a real technology predating Star Trek: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jet_injector
The legislator in question was born before the discovery of the structure of DNA.
Ugh, that this psyops sockpuppetry may have started or contributed to the maintainer's mental health issues seems like the most depressing part of all this. Maintaining OSS is hard enough.
I don't think it was executed incredibly well. There were definitely very clever aspects but they made multiple mistakes - triggering Valgrind, the performance issue, using a `.` to break the Landlock test, not giving the author a proper background identity.

I guess you could also include the fact that they made it a very obvious back door rather than an exploitable bug, but that has the advantage of only letting you exploit it so it was probably an intentional trade-off.

Just think how many back doors / intentional bugs there are that we don't know about because they didn't make any of these mistakes.
To me it seems reasonable that many diseases are more or less common based on race. But our concept and specially NA concept is not nearly fine-grained enough for it to work in many cases. Looking at Europe it seems there are differences even inside countries and groups that now are considered single ethnicity. So what would be needed is to track back to that level of history of population.
Autor was just on the Odd Lots podcast, so if you don't feel like reading the paper you can listen to the interview where he talks about it.
That just sounds like yet another reason not to organize society around 'gender identity' in lieu of sex. It leads to so many nonsensical and illogical outcomes, just to uphold this ideologically-driven legal fiction.
I think soil scientists know more about soil than plants.
still better than pan handling
Meta Outage
It look like Meta (facebook and instagram) are down for many people. This also affects their API access.
> I remember hearing about "Daniel in the Lion's Den" and Daniel sitting in flames in church and in my Children's Bible stories.

Minor nitpick, but it was Daniel's three friends who were thrown into the furnace, not Daniel himself.

They are both indeed memorable stories.
Personal costs shouldn't necessarily go down but also shouldn't inflate to require absurd salaries though. If you bought a home 10 years ago with a $250k salary, and are suddenly out of work along with everyone else, you have downward pressure on your asking price, but might have a better chance of tolerating it than someone who'll need a downpayment and to secure a long-term extremely high salary to service a brand new mortgage at a higher interest rate
I'm trying to start making games so I am learning graphics programming at the moment, and some physics. Currently work primarily with automation and embedded so it's quite different.
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I can't speak for everyone, but I have virtually no trust in it at all.
Isn't that the DIA? They're in most of the Presidential briefings.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Defense_Intelligence_Agency

The issue is that the DIA isn't above the rest of the alphabet soup agencies in the hierarchy, hence it cannot just report on the activities of the other agencies itself.
Given how lax AT&T is with this sad press release. They are fully expected to pay some fine, which they will pay after exhausting years of appeals. At that point, people will have forgotten. Impacted people get a check for $5 (if they are lucky). Business as usual.

Nobody goes to jail. Some offshore team is replaced with another bottom of the barrel contractor. Maybe a low ranking executive is given a slap on the wrists, internally. AT&T cuts some internal program to make up for loss (1 year moratorium on T&E for that team)
> I need to ask: what is race, specifically?

Clusters on the biological spectrum of the human species formed on the basis of easily recognizable superficial phenotypical traits?
It's an interesting point, but in our society and current economic system I have a hard time imagining it will be anything so different as to what we have now to "restore the middle class".

We have people and companies with so much power that it rivals governments, and in the US we also have a large segment of the population who has been conditioned to believe that the government is bad and having less of it will make it better, but it seems to me like better government that actually supports the needs/desires of the populace at large is required to make our society better for everyone.
At first I thought the guy who did this was a lone wolf but now I believe it was indeed state actor. They coordinated and harassed original maintainer into giving them access to the project, basically they hijacked the open source project. The poor guy(the original maintainer) was alone against state actor who was persistent with the goal of hijacking and then backdooring the open source project.

It seems like they were actively looking[0] which open source compression library they can inject with vulnerable code and then exploit and backdoor afterwards.

[0] https://lwn.net/Articles/967763/
Fortunately a superpower country is quite different from a random household in a number of ways. Being able to borrow trillions at the rate the treasury pays, having a massive military, controlling the money supply, and being the world reserve currency are some of the notable differences.
Might be worth looking into these guys...

https://www.linkedin.com/posts/oligo-security_a-true-oligo-m...
The most surprising thing to me is that Opus is only slightly in the lead.

I was feeding multiple python and c# coding challenges / questions to both and Opus blew GPT4 out of the water on every single task. Didn’t matter if I was giving them 50 lines or 5,000 Opus would consistently give working/correct solutions while GPT4 preferred to answer with pseudo code, half complete code with ‘do the thing here’ comments, or would just tell me that it’s too complicated.