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by dTal 2y ago
>In this situation, the noble does not own the painting, so much as they possess it and have only been granted a license to privately view it, not a license to show it to others, and further license only to reproduce it for their own per
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by dTal 2y ago
> I don’t know what they will replace everything with, ideally they have a bunch of smart people thinking about that Kind of the key issue dontcha think? Maybe woulda been good to know that before burning down the government? "ide
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Regulated?? The entire point of DOGE is to be unregulated. They are ignoring existing regulations (read: laws), and specifically targeting regulatory and oversight bodies for destruction. Wake up!
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You are not paying attention if you believe that a crack team consisting of the world's richest man and half a dozen tween interns physically invading government offices and dismantling entire departments fast enough to make your head
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by dTal 2y ago
Most of this applies equally well to humans.
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The lines do explain why, from the horse's mouth. I don't know what value-add you'd expect from an "article" - an interview with jwz?
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by dTal 2y ago
Why do you need an article? Just find a link to some page on http://jwz.org somewhere on news.ycombinator.com, and click it. Note that you will get a (really quite tame) NSFW image. Said image will explain jwz's feelings re
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by dTal 2y ago
This tacit endorsement by YCombinator of the likes of Elon Musk and Sam Altman must be condemned in the strongest possible terms. Like Sam Altman's abrupt Face-Heel turn from staunch and eloquent Trump critic into gushing bootlicker [0
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by dTal 2y ago
I am disappointed: the Turing Test is central to the title topic, and this note's take on it is sophomoric: > This functional perspective is exemplified by the “Turing Test,” which considers a machine “intelligent” if a person canno
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by dTal 2y ago
What is the philosophical distinction between having "intention", and being a perfect behavioral simulation of something with intention? An LLM "merely" predicts the next token, but we do not interact directly with LLMs
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by dTal 2y ago
I don't know why you've been downvoted. This is a 100% correct history. "Open source" was specifically coined as a synonym to "free software", and has always been used that way.
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Ported to Linux? It runs on Linux. What exactly would need porting? What would be required to make surfaceflinger a practical Linux desktop compositor is merely some translation layer, equivalent to XWayland, that supports hardware accelera
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by dTal 2y ago
So, Flash websites? Please no...
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>By that metric, there are lots of connections between space flight and any other aspect of modern society. Indeed. But there's a reason "aerospace" is a word. >No plane, relying upon air pressure to fly, can ever use t
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by dTal 2y ago
And yet, the moon was reached a mere 66 years after the first powered flight. Perhaps it's a better heuristic than you are insinuating... In all honesty, there are lots of connections between powered flight and space travel. Two obvi
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by dTal 2y ago
> As Smolár dug further, he found that reloader.efi was present not only in Howyar’s SysReturn, but also in recovery software from six other suppliers They shared it around? Licensed it to each other? They obviously knew what they had.
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by dTal 2y ago
I would say that the "permissive" licenses are the ones that ignore incentive structures and expect people to contribute back because of feelies (if you think that works, I encourage you to go boot a copy of PureDarwin). GPL on th
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by dTal 2y ago
The pizza thing seemed incredibly silly to me. Surely the restaurant has already paid the tax when they bought the raw ingredients? Must any product served in a restaurant be taxed according to the rate of the most highly taxed ingredient i
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by dTal 2y ago
Huh? It's already extracted. Burning it causes a precisely proportional increase in the amount of fossil carbon that ends up in the atmosphere. It is exactly the same environmentally as burning gasoline, except even dirtier. Better to
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Plastic is made from fossil fuels. You are digging it up. It's not an alternative, it's just a longer way around.
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by dTal 2y ago
> i can think of much worse things than taking up more of our land with CO2-slurping trees This does not have the effect on atmospheric CO2 that you implying, unless the resulting paper is deeply buried - not incinerated, or left to rot,
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by dTal 2y ago
Install a key logger, when they already have someone on the end of the line willing to install and run whatever software they request? Why? I think the marginal security value of denying root on the computer when you have already wangle
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by dTal 2y ago
I would say that software is meant to be chopped up and glued together much more flexibly than the parts of a car. It is more like saying "all LEGO pieces have studs 5mm apart center to center".
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Interesting example. How does denying root to the user mitigate this attack?
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The issue is that the cocoa plant itself absorbs heavy metals from the ground like nobody's business. It's hard to get lead-free chocolate, full stop - no irresponsible supplier required.
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by dTal 2y ago
>in dismissing work for such trivial reasons, you risk ignoring things you might have otherwise found interesting Not dismissing work for trivially avoidable mistakes risks wasting your precious, limited lifespan investing effort into
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Realistically, 1) the model will be one of a small number of available models which can be tested against, 2) LLMs converge on similar predictions, so even an "unknown" model can hardly be considered cryptographic. The advantage o
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by dTal 2y ago
I will bet anything at all, on any odds ratio you name, that humans will go extinct. It's simply a question of when, and how. (Of course I'm cheating - the bet stays open until I win. On the other hand I will struggle to collect m
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by dTal 2y ago
wxWidgets isn't niche; it's probably the most commonly used third party toolkit to build commercial Linux desktop applications (yes they exist!). I guess Qt licensing is too scary, and GTK too crap.
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That's not a technical requirement; you could simply have a government-verified official public key. You could "log in" by signing a challenge message with your private key. The government would have no log that you'd ev

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