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by bjt 5mo ago
"frontier level" is doing a lot of work there, but the idea would be to only feed it earlier sources. There are people working on this. e.g. https://github.com/haykgrigo3/TimeCapsuleLLM
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by bjt 5mo ago
You're saying no one capitalizes software development costs anymore? The rest of the internet disagrees strongly. The finance team at my employer would disagree strongly. Accountants talk to dev teams all the time about how many hours
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by bjt 5mo ago
There are licensing laws already protecting the lawyers whose names appear on motions and briefs, but not much protection for the junior lawyers who will be impacted most. Big law, like the fancy consultancies, was historically built like a
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by bjt 5mo ago
> You’re literally describing all companies. No, not quite. It really comes down to opex vs capex and the depreciation schedule for your investment. Software development is typically categorized as capex, on a 3-5 year depreciation sched
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by bjt 5mo ago
Macs are very popular in schools today for teachers and staff. Switching to Macbook Neos for students would actually simplify their support burden. I'm not sure they'd be cost justified though. Source: My wife works IT for our sch
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by bjt 5mo ago
Guidelines on their own probably won't be taken too seriously. But other things will: - Liability rules - Regulations that you get audited on (esp. for companies already heavily regulated, like banks, credit agencies, defense contracto
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by bjt 5mo ago
Still if you're the lawyer on the side of the lawsuit claiming that the code is copyrightable, you really don't want that copilot attribution in the commit message muddying the waters.
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by bjt 5mo ago
The models that make AI songs were trained on real musicians' copyrighted works, without permission. It's kinda shitty to steal someone's works, then use them to build a machine to also steal their jobs.
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by bjt 5mo ago
That's what Bump did, like 13 years ago, by sending accelerometer and GPS data up to the cloud and correlating it there. It works in isolation and fails miserably when trying to do a big demo of it in a conference talk when attempted b
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by bjt 6mo ago
Setting aside Flock, the "ownership" situation is not as clear as you say above. What you own is the image copyright. But the right to copy is only one of the rights at issue. Under various state laws (California in particular), y
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by bjt 6mo ago
I like the future that the ATProto evangelists are painting. I would love for it to happen. But I am skeptical that a protocol is going to solve an incentive problem. In the beginning Twitter was very free and open with API access. There we
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by bjt 6mo ago
The nice thing about laws passed by a legislature is that they don't need to have some airtight logic to stop us falling down every slippery slope. If cable television or restaurants or ice cream start causing harm that we want to deal
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by bjt 6mo ago
There are plenty of public interest limitations on free speech. Food labels, cigarette warnings, deceptive ad laws. Regulating addictive social media isn't really an outlier here.
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by bjt 7mo ago
The fact that these exist does not mean that they're immune from legal challenge. If the original creators wanted to sue, there are all kinds of claims that would have a decent shot in court (e.g. trademark, trade dress, design patents
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by bjt 7mo ago
You can get some good guesses from the comment itself. > I assumed the writer was a journalist or author with a non-technical background trying to explore a more "utopian" vision of where trends could go. If you assume you&#x27
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by bjt 7mo ago
> If source code can now be generated from a specification, the specification is where the essential intellectual content of a GPL project resides. Blanchard's own claim—that he worked only from the test suite and API without readin
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by bjt 7mo ago
Even with LLMs, we need a way to translate between the imprecise plain English description of a program and the completely-unambiguous level of code. You need the ability to see when the LLM has resolved ambiguities in the wrong direction a
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by bjt 7mo ago
That's not saying that Gemini is profitable though.
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by bjt 7mo ago
It's not about the .online TLD being "weird". The problem is that it was free. That's going to attract a swarm of fraudsters, spammers, etc, and then turn into a strong "this is probably fraud" signal in all ki
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by bjt 8mo ago
The point is that they don't have to be. You can moderate (scan for inappropriate content, copyrighted content, etc) without needing to have an algorithmic recommendation feed.
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by bjt 8mo ago
Moderation and recommendation are not the same thing.
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by bjt 8mo ago
There's OpenClaw the codebase, and there's OpenClaw the community. They could build the same program very easily (as evidenced by the number of clones out there already). That part's not worth paying much for. But redirecting
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by bjt 8mo ago
The point is that "who gathers it" should be irrelevant. The government shouldn't be able to buy data that would be unconstitutional or unlawful for them to gather themselves. On the other hand if a company is just aggregatin
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by bjt 8mo ago
I had a similar thought, but I think there's a key difference here. Traditional karma scores, star counts, etc, are mostly just counters. I can see that a bunch of people upvoted, but these days it's very easy for most of those vo
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by bjt 8mo ago
The claimed connections here fall apart for me pretty quickly. CPU instructions, caches, memory access, etc. are debated, tested, hardened, and documented to a degree that's orders of magnitude greater than the LLM-generated code we&#x
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by bjt 8mo ago
Maybe? I could see that happening. I could also see them being compared with companies still using venture capital to give stuff away for free. In that case, I'm OK with that tradeoff. I'm not really excited about changing my infr
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by bjt 8mo ago
Agreed. I liked the post. Then that graphic cost the author a whole lot of credibility points.
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by bjt 8mo ago
Digital Ocean is run into the ground? I've been with them for a long time and recently just launched new stuff. Still a pretty nice experience and a pretty decent price.
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by bjt 8mo ago
Thanks for that. It had flown below my radar.
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by bjt 8mo ago
The idea is just to avoid being the softest target. The scammers attempting this fraud don't want to do all the work you describe. They'll just move on to the next vacant property.

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