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> In fact, I suspect that if they did some kind of controlled lending program of the PS3 games, or the ISO was available to use upon request (e.g. like the US library of congress), that likely wouldn't get them sued either,

And if they really want to push the boundaries of format shifting and copyright, this would be a more productive avenue for it. Some physical libraries have games already, why not a digital one?
Short answer: it's not, and that's the problem.

Long answer: Windows has a few conventions that make it "better", like a predictable place to install your files, a global authoritative "registry", and never having dynamically linked (and separately installed) dependencies. By sheer virtue of not having a good package manager, Windows has avoided dependency hell. That does, however, still leave it without the utility of a package manager.
I agree that it doesn't have to be 1-to-1. But there are many parents that don't seem to have discipline for themselves in many ways. Using your beer example, getting drunk, or drunk driving, or drinking instead of helping with homework or something. Having a couple beers is fine if it's done responsibly, and one can still be a good role model.
I think any view of life consistent with its emergence by evolution isn't consistent with reincarnation, or certainly doesn't support it.

But given the universe in total may be unimaginably larger than our observable universe, and the total universe may well be an insignificant feature of an unimaginably larger reality, its quite possible that versions of us appear in a fractal-like way, over and over across reality.

Also, given the many worlds interpretation of quantum mechanics, which is the most basic (Occam's razor) interpretation of the equations, we are constantly spinning off a foam of combinatory alternatives of ourselves and everything around us, because the particles that make us up are doing that. So we live many lives, and even when we die in one perceived timeline, other versions of ourselves continue their journey.

Both of those are scientifically plausible, especially the second - which many scientists already believe to be true.

Although they sensibly tend to focus on interpretation at the particle level, avoiding the hype and wishful mysticism that would tend to crop up around its implications for us as individuals. Too many imaginative people and popularizers have a tendency to jump from actual equations/constraints they don't understand, to non-scientific psychologically motivated "implications" and ideologies. Quantum mechanics has been abused enough that way.
That's a very convenient excuse to ignore my well-reasoned response, eh?

Just don't bother responding to it. People like me are a scourge on the emotionally insecure.
> (politicians, governments, publishers, copyright cartel, list goes on all hate libraries

I have to say I've never seen anti-library sentiment from politicians or governments.
The services they cannot afford?

https://apnews.com/article/libraries-ebooks-publishers-expen... ("Libraries struggle to afford the demand for e-books and seek new state laws in fight with publishers")

Consider the title above in the context of this post. It is libraries against publishers.
No, for that there was bi-partisan support for retroactive immunity....
>It's hard to reconcile how overly careful they are with the Wayback Machine compared to the carelessness of unlimited lending.

Is it really? The cynical side of me wonders if it just might be intentional. What if this is a nonprofit analogue to VC monetization? Do you dislike an existing law? Create a similar but legal service you know other people will appreciate, use donations to undercut competitors and become the defacto monopoly, ride the network effect to a large crowd that basically relies on you, then rugpull by tying their narrow, legal use to your crusade for a different legal system by infecting their data with illegal material and declaring the whole thing must sink or swim together. Now your users have to pay you to fight your policy crusade or they lose their already legal resource they value much more, and you can use your legal half as a moral shield to get approval from anyone who only had the time to read the headline when the prosecution inevitably shows up at your door. All you need yo hold the almost-grift together is to lie by omission about who instigated it all.
> Silicon Valley will continue to suffer as long as we entrust the future to management consultants and showmen who don’t build software.

The management fetish is quite apparent.

If I understand it right, this is codified on IC ladders: E4s/E5s are doing the vast majority of actual software development, with E6+ contributing here and there but being a mix of PM/engineer/quality control. Staff eng's are often reminded if they're coding "too much" that they're probably Doing It Wrong and not maximizing impact and should have broken the task up into smaller chunks and distributed them among the team.

It's just gross: actually doing the work is made to seem a bit gauche because hierarchy needs something to distinguish itself otherwise.

Maybe I'm missing something here?
"convenient reference (to associate signatures) for famous people: Twitter/X profiles" is far from trustworthy.
also popular with Chinese, NK, Iranian, etc. cyber operatives.

India and other countries even dip into when given a reason, such as the recent Canada assassinations that the US called out.
Well, if we look back to those times, it was effective strategy to spray good money to keep talents occupied with dead end products because access to cheap VC money was plentiful due to prosperous decade of zero interest giving anyone ability to compete the slow moving behemoth with innovation as the crowd as hungry to accept new and shiny.

Google also managed to lure away talents out of promising places to snuff any competition risks.

Now that zero interest days of prosperity is effectively gone, economy and money is tight, everything easy had already been captured by Big Tech… now is the risk free time to ditch the dead weights.

Anything easy under the sun has now 20+ clones, expectations are immense, crowd are cautious to accept anything new, no supply of long time cash to burn due ti cautious VCs & non-zero interest rates, plenty regulations to block all privacy shenanigans or other known loopholes.

We forget that, the great ones(except M$) were all built in era of lax digital & privacy era and easy supply of cash. Anyone having any idea was showered with cash. Now those days are over. Any threat of competition is minimal.

If I were google, this is the perfect time to shed some weight given all of the above.
If you do not consider the ancient, famous libraries to be public, Wikipedia puts ~1600 as a first date of modern public libraries. While copyright has a first occurance date in the 1700s, in some locales much later.

Either way it seems public libraries were around at least a century before copyright, but by other measure, in some places, much longer.
This is exactly where my mind went. I assume most people, myself included, didn't realize this. This is absolutely going to turn into the economic equivalent of a ddos.
> > For the victims of Russia's imperialism, there have been many downsides, starting with deaths counting millions.
> Oh come on, communism had a hundred million of confirmed victims and I see Californians arguing for communism every week. On HN.

You are changing the subject completely. We are not talking about communism, it has another set of victims, but about Russian imperialism.
that was neither stated nor implied as you intuited by your "13 cents" vs my comment about $15 being break-even.

Curious about a source for $15 being uneconomical. It's just a SWAG on my part that it's break-even, but if you can state that it's uneconomical for any ISP, I'd love to see it. And is that uneconomical to do for 100% of their subscribers? or even for a small share? As you know there's a difference between marginal cost per additional subscriber vs each subscriber's share of the total fixed costs.
I had to check m-w's entry for "literally". While they do include a sense 2 that is similar to "figuratively", there is a substantial note afterwards and an FAQ that does a great job of explaining the status of the two senses and a touch of their history. They give some facts that contradict your above, as well (related to the timeline, as well as what constitutes slang). In case you're interested: https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/literally

I do think this is what the dictionary should say. It describes actual usage, including disagreements about it.

By the way, I do think there is a place for linguistic prescriptions, it's just in style guides rather than dictionaries. E.g., fine for the Economist to decide "literally" will only be used in its literal sense in their pages.
did it get translated to English and aggressively disseminated? Cuz this is the first time I've seen it.
> that's why I specified knowledge workers.

I don't think all knowledge workers are immune. Some will be, but companies are going to shed as much payroll as their customers will tolerate.

> I don't think it's bad if cashiers get replaced by self-checkout or if receptionists get replaced by automated agents on either end.

Well, it's bad for those workers. And, personally, I'd consider it bad for me. Having to use self-checkout is a much worse experience than human cashiers. Same with replacing receptionists (and etc.) with automated agents.

When people bring up these uses for LLMs, it sounds to me like they're advocating for a world that I honestly would hate to be a part of as a customer. But that's not really about LLMs as much as it's about increasing the rate of alienation in a world where we're already dangerously alienated from each other.

We need more interpersonal human interactions, not less.
> The blame squarely falls at the IA's feet; being an idealist doesn't give you the rights to delve into illegal behavior

This way of thinking is the reason why we are losing so many great things. Laws are created by people to support a society we want to live in. When laws no longer sever the society, then the society must rise up and change them. Like with any bug, fixing it early is cheaper than fixing it later.

> it's clear to me who is culpable

"Look what you made me do. If you hadn't acted up I wouldn't have had to destroy you."
Respect your opinion,

1. This will depend on each person who wants to interpret it that way.
2. About fake reviews, please review the others comment, I talked about this, this project initially was going to be a SaaS but at the last minute I decided to make it free, I already removed the testimonials.
3. Strange story commit, let me ask you a question, have you ever created some open source project? have you already checked the source code to say something is strange? check the others comment again this initially was going to be a SaaS i didn't have plans to release this for free, at the last minute i released and that's all, what's the purpose on see bad commits/code i have around 600 commits in another repository, I think it's a pleasure effect to see those commits or something because I see that people get excited, we DO NOT collect any tracking information or anything strange, you can review the code for yourself, I just want to have a clean repository that's all
4. About the license: This project was generally made for people who want to host their personal projects, mpvs or for agencies that want to do quick deployments on a simple vps server, maybe I'm wrong but 98% of people will use it personally and not a way to resell this same software without changing anything, so this probably won't affect you, as I say to almost no one, if you think you can take advantage of this project by selling it, let me know and I'll give you the permission you want, it's just asking, but People today criticize to get attention and it is valid. greetings!

you can check the docs commit at the last minute i added the open source term
before
https://github.com/Dokploy/docs/commit/456db4922538d8e4e8a12...

after
https://github.com/Dokploy/docs/commit/e386b356550857a7282f9...
Terrible reasoning. There are endless examples where reasoning like this had dire consequences.
The open use of drugs is offensive but rarely dangerous. I live adjacent to Seatle and have been coming here for 30 years.

The gig worker min hourly pay is fine. If it decreases the total demand for deliveries thats ok. I wouldn't want more McJobs for the state to subsidize anyway. Those workers don't cease to exist they just work somewhere else for someone who can actually afford to pay.
It's way worst than that. Manages billions of dollars and watch this interview for how he does due diligence on FSD...Goes to spend one half day at Tesla, and is driven around on a Tesla with FSD...

https://youtu.be/lGI7kAdWafU?t=376

I pity his investors, but they are all probably pension funds.

There is also something super interesting on the statement, apparently made by the Tesla driving team to him, if his quote is correct, on how the first 11 versions had "every possible situation hardcoded" but now is different....
I learned Perl in or around 1996; and it continues to work well for practical extraction and rubbish listing.

I've used Python when it was convenient, but I dislike it. So Perl remains my go to when I need to process data for more than a shell script.

Things I've written in Perl that I've run recently (or are croned so they run frequently) include: scripts to monitor shared directories for changes (kqueue) and publish the changes to a remote server so my spouse can drop images or other files to be shared on a share and get a link to send, or edit a recipe and check it from the web while shopping; my monitoring script that checks if my computers are working and emails me if not, it also reboots my dsl modem when it needs it; (for work) a tool to grab stats files from production, compute a summary, and then upload it so clients can be routed to the servers that are best for them.

I've done all sorts of stuff with Perl in the past, it's a very capable language.
Can FedCM improve the user experience of the decentralized ecosystem?
That excuse can be used for all violations of regulations, and thus quickly becomes somewhat unreasonable. Particularly since the question being asked is the theoretical of if the prices would not increase by the same percent if the fine was not levied (eg "due to inflation").
I've been working on the same product for 6 years now, on a team of people who have been working on it for 8 years. It is ridiculous how hard it is for us to design a new feature for the product that doesn't end up requiring the entirety of the deep knowledge we have about how existing features in the product interact with each other. That's not even getting into the complex interplay between the client and the backend API, and differences in how features are described and behave between the client and server. It's, in some ways, a relatively straightforward product. But the devil is in the details, and I find it hard to believe LLMs will be able to build and possess that kind of knowledge. The human brain is hard to beat deep down, and I think it betrays a pessimism about our overall capability when people think LLMs can really replace all the things we do.
> Let's say you're running a 10000 store burger shop. There is an outage and all of them are offline now.

That happened to McDonalds on March 23, 2024.[1] Outlets in UK, Australia, Japan, Thailand were down for hours. Burger sales stopped at most locations.

No backup plan. Unlike Waffle House.[2]

This is a serious issue for disaster preparedness. The Waffle House CEO tries to get other key businesses to prep more. He says that if you can keep the Waffle House, the Walgreens, and the WalMart open after a disaster, the community comes back fast.

[1] https://www.bbc.com/news/business-68573106

[2] https://www.hrdive.com/news/waffle-house-serves-up-emergency...
Maybe it's time for libraries to focus on the physical aspect... and education, for example teaching people how to pirate digital copies without getting malware.

For ebooks, pirates can provide the public library service.
I do wonder how they managed to retain that domain name. Most news orgs that were banned in Russia moved to other TLDs.
A quick answer is to put the bucket behind cloudfront so that the denial is cached, but that's not totally free either.

If they actually charge for unauth'd requests that's absurd
We're using in a large engineering use-case, 100s of millions of objects - and it almost doubled the nDCG@10 score vs pure vector search
I wish there were fixes to devcontainers before doing adding copilot. I really want declarative, repeatable builds that are easily used in both Codespaces AND Actions. I know all of the functionality is theoretically there in devcontainers.json, it is so manual to configure and confusing, that anytime I've done it, I use it for 2 weeks and then just go back to developing on local because I don't have time to keep that up. ESPECIALLY if you're deploying to AWS cloud and also, want to use alternative package managers like poetry, uv, yarn, jsr, etc.
Spam (like other unwanted communication) is better handled at origination than delivery.
If it were at all obvious how I was wrong I'd expect you to point it out. Are you afraid of being wrong?
We are talking about 5 - 7 year olds!
Yep, completely agree.

My local library has video games to borrow; I've never done it but I have no doubt that the NYPL has done their due diligence to avoid getting sued.

A "format-shift" is kind of untested ground legally and I think a consequence of how IA is doing stuff is going to lead to some really bad legal precedent that might take decades to undo.
An Analysis of the CSIRO Wireless LAN OFDM Patent
Here's the relevant bit of subsection (g):

>(1)is aware or has substantial reason to believe that it is engaging in the related or concerted reproduction or distribution of multiple copies or phonorecords of the same material, whether made on one occasion or over a period of time,

TL;DR: If you make more than one copy of a physical copy you have rights to and/or distribute that copy or copies multiple times simultanenously, the protections granted by this law do not apply.

This law only protects public libraries if they make one and only one copy and distribute (lend) that copy out once at a time on separate occasions.

There are clauses in this law permitting up to three copies in other circumstances, but those are not immediately relevant for this conversation.
From Wikipedia: Most nebulae are of vast size; some are hundreds of light-years in diameter.
Isn't that true for basically all speculative sci-fi? The point to the form is to pick an idea with "enough plausibility" and extend it to an interesting implication. Not all "sci-fi" can be (or should be) 2001 or The Martian; Foundation and Dune are kinda good books too.
There are so many things that can make your AWS bill explode, so it probably should be included into your budget. Like, $1000/mo is not actually $60K in 10 years, but $60K + some random $20K that may or may not be waived by AWS support.
Poor guy, he could have made $226M instead of $181M /s
I feel that up to a point the fines do little in the grand scheme of things, as they will pass the expense of the fines on to us, the consumer.
I think you are mistaking the map for the territory. I think you are blaming the data (actual usage) when the model is wrong (dictionaries).

"Literally" is allowed to have a valid and true definition of "figuratively" because exaggeration and hyperbole are used for rhetoric and expression. That's a vital and popular way language is used, and in the case of "literally" it is so commonly encountered that it worth noting in descriptive texts that it's common.
The downside is that Russia as a state has few friends. Had you decided not to go the imperial route, we could have normal, civilized relations like with the rest of the world. At some point we could even have something like EU-Russia union (why not?) with people traveling, living and working where they choose.
The section I quoted from the article (which is a direct quotes from the ruling) makes it sound like it's illegal regardless of the number of simultaneous copies being distributed, while your link explicitly states that 1:1 is legal.

So I'm a bit confused.
Hey, that's okay! At least our taxes pay money towards investigating and building these toothless fines! I don't have a problem with the taxes, just that it doesn't do anything.
Rich tech people didn't get rich by fighting for just causes, and against the interest of other rich corporations. There's no money or prestige in backing IA.
While we’re expressing opinions: in a show about navigating a partnership that accepts seduction as a necessary part of intelligence work (not solely of a romantic nature, but often), where the main characters are also being seduced by the capitalist lifestyle — I suspect some smart people might also view those less-clothed scenes as contributing (and even critical to) the underlying themes.
They can't increase the prices without customers going to competitors. So it's still an incentive against paying fines.
> That is because that particular fast-food chain was already paying most of its workers more than the new minimum wage.

and delivering superior product below market price. So, this is purely business efficiency/optimization aspect and not external factors.
I'm 34 now. When I was a kid, I'd spend hours daily on a Windows 3.1 computer at home and an Atari with those old 5 1/4-inch floppy game disks at my grandpa's place.

Then the internet and cable TV came to our house, and I was glued to that for most of my time. Faster internet followed, giving us access to all sorts of unfiltered online content (sites like Ogrish were the norm with my friend group). Smartphones and apps hit the scene not long after.

Nowadays, I have a 7-year-old son who's constantly on his tablet, playing Roblox or Minecraft on my computer, or watching YouTube videos about trains and tornado sirens on the TV (yep, he's autistic). He's been seeing me do similar stuff since he was born. No surprise he started mimicking that behavior. It doesn't really bother me, though.
> Other than deleting the bucket, there’s nothing you can do to prevent it. You can’t protect your bucket with services like CloudFront or WAF when it’s being accessed directly through the S3 API.
You can't protect your bucket with CloudFront if it's being access using S3 api.
For a country whose population is just 399,189 (according to 2024 census), I don't think what you propose is necessary.

Edit to add: I'm not sure if you added the "or pages" later or if I just missed it when replying, but my response was specifically about the suggestion that they should be separate systems. Separate pages totally makes sense, and I do think that's a good solution.
Posted 1st April. This implies something.
I think some of this is definetly due to lacking translation. The general consensus among fans is also that the first book is the least interesting, while the second and third become far better. IMO this is because the only role of the first book is a general setup with few Sci-Fi elements, of which all are hard!
> Imagine a video rental service where you can go in, and they will play whatever movie you want on a DVD player in the back room. How long can that wire be between the DVD player and the person watching before it starts being copyright infringement?

I imagine it would be when you put a Y on the wire so that two people can watch from two different monitors.
I have yet to see an LLM build and debug something complex. Barely stringing TODO apps, sure.

Still need a competent human to oversee. Hallucination are a serious problem. Without symbolic reasoning, LLMs quickly start to fall apart due to context limits and being able to know what exactly is wrong and needs to be changed.