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Open-source repos burdened by trillion downloads, used as CDNs, plan on charging(theregister.com)
4 points by alok-g 6mo ago|0 comments
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Microsoft's response to plain text passwords in Edge – it is an expected feature(zdnet.com)
14 points by alok-g 6mo ago|0 comments
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by alok-g 6mo ago
Since Google is planning to apply this retroactively, people should be allowed to return their phones for a refund. Also, could someone use a warranty claim to ask them to replace with a device that does not have this issue?
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by alok-g 6mo ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47937256 <-- This mean that apps that have already been installed prior to Sept 2026 may continue to work for a while but will stop getting updates. Does the new 24-hour process mean
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by alok-g 6mo ago
>> You can consider the training set of the LLM or other AI model to be 3rd party libraries ... I like this comparison -- training set as '3rd party libraries'. Except, of course, that the authors behind the training set ma
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by alok-g 6mo ago
I think your comments are originating in how I may have taken jacquesm's comment too literally, as I just wrote here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47944938 However: 1. The "every"ies in your comment ar
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by alok-g 6mo ago
>> No, that human owns the copyright on the prompt, not on the work product. I think I may have misunderstood your original comment above. It seems intending to say: No, that human owns the copyright on the prompt, not necessarily
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by alok-g 6mo ago
+1 Adding two subtle points: >> Indeed a developer owns copyright over the source code and on the compiled binaries, because there is no expansion happening here but just a translation from one format into another ... does not rely o
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by alok-g 6mo ago
The part I agree to is that copyright law calls out humans specifically as the potential owners of copyright. So what you suggest seems to be the only possibility out. Calling out humans could imply that when a human reads a thousand book
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by alok-g 6mo ago
Note: IANAL Copyrights already preclude short phrases for the same reason -- there are only so many ways in which short phrases could be produced. The moment a work becomes larger (large enough; AFAIK, the threshold is not precisely define
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by alok-g 6mo ago
If that were true, a developer may own copyright over the source code, but nothing on the compiled binaries, and I could download practically all software available as compiled binaries and use for free.
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by alok-g 6mo ago
Interesting, but I still do not think this is as easy. The AI model is still trained on some existing works, and it is generating code in the new DSL or programming language still based some higher level ideas and expressions it has consum
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by alok-g 6mo ago
Note: IANAL I think what this means is that the employee may not be the copyright owner for multiple reasons, which are possibly applicable simultaneously. It does not imply that the employer owns copyright over the work that is in public
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by alok-g 6mo ago
>> ... we've jumped to the conclusion backpropagation in neural networks should be legally treated the same as human learning. I agree. However, the reverse is also likely true, i.e., it cannot currently be denied that learnin
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by alok-g 6mo ago
A possibly naive question: Mobile phone plans, Internet service providers, etc., also often used fixed monthly pricing. How does that keep working (with competition present)? Is the issue monthly pricing, subsidies, or both?
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by alok-g 6mo ago
I hear that visual cortex being on the rear of the brain when the eyes are on the front is another example.
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by alok-g 6mo ago
OMG! I have been taking Dayquill/Nyquill in syrup form when having cold/cough and often without formally measuring! Will be careful from now on.
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by alok-g 6mo ago
>> everything in moderation Saying this is like saying 'pick the optimum point' without saying anything about how to find the optimum point. This cannot be a law, it is the definition of optimum. Note that optimum point nee
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by alok-g 6mo ago
Amazon had recently closed their Android App Store as well. Practically all apps I had ever installed from the app store, including paid ones, have stopped working. Seems like Apps installed from their store had some internal dependence o
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by alok-g 7mo ago
+1 Software in general is usually provided on an "as is" basis with the creator not taking responsibility for anything going wrong.
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by alok-g 7mo ago
>> When I was thinking about the sub-areas to implement an optical DAC, I was thinking about this in the low power realm of a self-sustaining MIP LCD without display refresh, but with more bit depth. Yes, this is correct. You can cal
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by alok-g 7mo ago
>> Hmm, are you saying that LCD (without memory-in-pixel) could have enough persistence to hold a (well disciplined) image without a constant, high-frequency driver? I was under the impression that the partial crystal alignments neede
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by alok-g 7mo ago
>> Well, the reflectivity of color MIP LCD is not very satisfactory. It is barely adequate, even for people like me who are fans. This is both because of the narrow-band RGB filtering and the inherent losses of the polarization-based
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by alok-g 7mo ago
Total column line capacitance is impacted by the number of pixels hanging onto it as each transistor (going to the pixel capacitance) adds some parasitic capacitance of its own. Hope that answers your question. You are right in the sense
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by alok-g 7mo ago
>> My fantasy display would be some kind of reflective-mode display that can passively show static images like e-ink, have partial updates like MIP LCD in wearables, response times like modern LCD and AMOLED, and "super-real&quot
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by alok-g 7mo ago
Isn't using bash effectively saying, I have a bunch of functions already written in say C which I'll use but would not count those towards the lines of code? You could do the same in C and C++ itself too. In other words, I am not
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by alok-g 7mo ago
A side-track and a possibly controversial opinion: It seems to me that Agile methodology did a similar thing. The idea of Agile is not to skip understanding requirements, design, upfront reasoning and due diligence, as seen in seen in wate
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by alok-g 7mo ago
Right question to ask, however, good readers/professionals do have some sense for this and ability to dig further as needed. On the other hand, books and articles are often over-detailed, with the key stuff buried in the lede or even
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by alok-g 7mo ago
Correct. I myself have been privy to similar R&D going on for more than a decade.
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by alok-g 7mo ago
Being a key technology architect for it (not the core inventor), I know all about it, and then some more! I cannot however talk publicly about it. :-( It has been a disappointment for me as well. I had worked on it for nearly eight years.

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