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by hnfong 3y ago
It's actually much harder for corporations to sue you if all they have on you is a github username. But once you start taking "donations" and run the project like a business with non-trivial revenue, they can take you down ea
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by hnfong 3y ago
I don't disagree with your take (though I don't know which part of mine you disagree with...) The idea of derivative work is clear, the confusion is how the FSF kept pushing their interpretations of it. Programmers are usually n
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by hnfong 3y ago
The point I was originally trying to make was that they all sucked before SVN came out. Especially when compared with the options we have now, I think it's slightly misleading to say OSS solutions were in any real way better back then.
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by hnfong 3y ago
I'm repeating my comment in a sibling thread, but I think it's worth repeating (paraphrasing) - (A) If the thing you have in mind can be inferred by looking at two commits, then you don't have to record the intention of the c
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by hnfong 3y ago
Keeping the "intention" of the changes in the system only works if you actually bother to record or annotate the intention while making the commit. If your idea is to use heuristics to automatically infer intention during commit t
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by hnfong 3y ago
> The open-source world was at least 10 years ahead. I'm not sure it is the win you're suggesting. I had brief stints with CVS and TBH it really sucked. Luckily when I started coding seriously (which coincided with my first job
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by hnfong 3y ago
It's extremely entertaining to see people here arguing that programming and software interfaces should be copyrightable and therefore protected by the GPL. Pretty sure the prevalent opinion was that it was going to be the end of the wo
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by hnfong 3y ago
To be pedantic, you can't actually violate the GPL. You infringe on the owner's copyrights if your actions don't fall in the GPL's allowed actions.
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by hnfong 3y ago
Yep, that's what the GP said.
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by hnfong 3y ago
1. Google has taken the headers from OpenJDK (GPL licensed) into Android ( https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2016/01/android-n-switch... ) 2. USSC claims Google's copying Java headers is fair use. 3. M
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by hnfong 3y ago
I'll tell you a fact that isn't popular or commonly known. At some point Google just took the headers of OpenJDK (GPL licensed) and used it in Android, without relicensing Android to GPL. ( https://arstechnica.com/
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by hnfong 3y ago
> The context sizes are too small, the models aren't sophisticated enough, etc. Yeah, I wonder what GPL-ed code is actually infringed upon. I vividly remember the time Oracle claimed Google infringed their copyrights because they co
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by hnfong 3y ago
AFAIK, having humans recite copyrighted songs from memory and then performing it without permission is illegal in most jurisdictions. However, copyright law seems to make a distinction between expression/implementation of an idea (whic
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by hnfong 3y ago
Mathematics had concepts of convergence/bounds of infinite sequences since antiquity. Big-O is just mathematical notation that you can use for whatever you want. Big-O is useful because most of the time we want to reduce time complexit
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by hnfong 3y ago
My comment does not contradict anything you say here.
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by hnfong 3y ago
I'm pretty sure your legal analysis here is overly-simplistic, but we don't need to get into that. Going back to the original topic, if somebody is trying to release open source drivers for HDMI (or a protocol compatible with HDMI
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by hnfong 3y ago
If a fisherman goes out to sea and fish, they will find fish with high probability. If a fisherman tries to float shares of their new business in the stock exchange... I'm not sure even whether you'd buy that stock.
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by hnfong 3y ago
I disagree that it is human nature. At least not generally speaking. There are people who are innately competitive. And there are people who don't care. I'd argue that a lot of people are apparently competitive because of social p
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by hnfong 3y ago
"Yes", but it's going to be unbearably slow on CPU without some form of GPU acceleration. You'll probably get more info/responses from https://www.reddit.com/r/LocalLLaMA/
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by hnfong 3y ago
> Except, AI is much easier for new players to enter What are you talking about? There's exactly one company that makes the machines that makes the AI chips. There's exactly one company that operates the machines that makes the
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by hnfong 3y ago
It's more simple (and complicated) than that. The issues with Google overtuning their AI is the embodiment of the maxim: You just can't please everyone. It's well known that most formulations of Politically Correct ideologies
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by hnfong 3y ago
A couple things I've used LLMs for: 1. Learning new things - with interactive feedback. While there's a risk of hallucination, genereally for basic concepts on the undergraduate level, the proprietary models (eg. ChatGPT/GPT4
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by hnfong 3y ago
Doing [4] yourself doesn't take a lot of time, but the time savings adds up. That said, I wouldn't recommend using the standard ChatGPT interface for generating code -- just use a solution that integrates with your IDE/editor
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by hnfong 3y ago
From your [1] it looks like the original dev(s?) left because their goal was accomplished? I'm confused because reputable dev leads getting "bullied out of a project" seems like a 2000s thing which shouldn't exist after
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by hnfong 3y ago
If you tune down the temperature you can get a high level of confidence that the output will be the same.
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by hnfong 3y ago
Presumably the "mistakes" mean failures to detect/recognize "attack patterns".
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by hnfong 3y ago
To be fair, these days, things can become viral literally overnight. That said, instead of depending on unreliable heuristics, they should just allow an option to change the behavior. The "current policy" to charge small sites on
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by hnfong 3y ago
Just curious, do the probabilities (regarding alien attack) on the risk matrix change upon UFO sighting reports on mainstream news media?
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by hnfong 3y ago
I've known about the two projects for literally 20+ years, but wow I never knew it was the same person behind them....
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by hnfong 3y ago
I generally agree with what you say. Except that I think it's more likely a red flag for the author of the article, not necessarily the company (but of course could be), depending on whether which side had the greater authority to se

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