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manquer
2y ago
There are some in the civil side in last decade or so. Of the top of my head - the BusyBox suits from early 2010s - FSF vs Cisco on Linksys code - McHardy case over in germany - Artifex case over Ghostscript
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manquer
2y ago
It is personal to creators because honey paid a lot of them generously over the years to work with . It is not the industry is shady that made honey standout, it is the fact that they were paying the people to pick from their own pockets is
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manquer
2y ago
Your comment implicitly absolves PayPal of responsibility. One thief sold to another , it is like credit card lists or botnets are sold on the dark web . PayPal is hardly innocent here , they knew what they were getting into , this is the c
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manquer
2y ago
Both break the civil law , you can absolutely sue the thief for damages for lost property. Typically this is not done because it is not worth the lawyer expenses as recovery chances are pretty slim unless it is a kleptomaniac billionaire ma
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manquer
2y ago
The main point is not so much their busines/industry model, but how they used creators to promote it . isn’t it egregious when you make the people who are you stealing affiliate money from to promote the same thing ?
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manquer
2y ago
If the texts are truly missing , then accuracy is subjective ? i.e. human opinion versus AI generation
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manquer
2y ago
This is true for most databases though . How much is out of the box or simple easy to access configuration not magic incantations either you need expensive courses to know or be battle hardened with years of experience is the question reall
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manquer
2y ago
I don't see real justification for a ban in the first place. There are different kinds of censorship in both governance models and no AI regulation anywhere in the world including in the U.S, from law enforcement to private organizatio
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manquer
2y ago
Not to the volume needed to compete with the training infrastructure setups of Anthropic or OpenAI or other leading players No ban is perfect, there is always some loopholes or illegal exports this is to be expected, but if it prevents larg
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manquer
2y ago
Good financial management(portfolio and personal) is a matter of disciplined routine, performed consistently over long timeframe, combined with impulse control. It is not complicated at all, any program (LLM or just a rules engine) will alw
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manquer
2y ago
> would you let an LLM manage your financial affairs (entirely, unsupervised)? It will likely be better[2] not because AI is good at this . It would be because study after study[1] has shown that active management performs poorer than pa
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manquer
2y ago
Humans are not machines , they have both rights that machines do not have and also responsibilities and consequences that machines will not have, for example bad driving will cost you money, injury , prison time or even death. Therefore AI
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manquer
2y ago
Author says build dependencies calculation is not common in free software world . Aren’t emerge and other systems in source based distributions like gentoo doing this for 20 odd years now ? https://devmanual.gentoo.org/gene
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manquer
2y ago
And nikola famously made a video of a truck using one which had no engine, we don’t take a company word for anything until we can verify. This is not offered to public, they are actively expanding in only cities like LA , Miami or Phoenix n
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manquer
2y ago
Doctors[1] or say pilots are skilled professions and difficult to master and deserve respect yes , but they do not need high levels of intelligence to be good at. They require many other skills like taking decisions under pressure or good m
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manquer
2y ago
Waymo cannot handle poor weather at all, average human can. Being able to perform better than humans in specific constrained problem space is how every automation system has been developed. While self driving systems are impressive, they do
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manquer
2y ago
Anything can any thing , that is not what I said . OP implied they like it if they can get it, and is the better food for them , that is not true
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manquer
2y ago
That would only be true if you have the stomach biome to digest and extract the nutrients. What is the point of eating something that is hard to process and digest and has no nutritional value for you For herbivores, meat is objectively bad
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manquer
2y ago
There are influencers making many multiples of that for doing far less. Monetary returns has rarely if ever reflected skill, social value, or talent in capitalist economies, this is always been the case, not sure how that is relevant I was
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manquer
2y ago
It is also the corollary: we tend to attribute intelligence to things merely because it can have conversations from the first golden era of AI in 1960's that is always the case. Mimicking more patterns like emotion and motivation may b
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manquer
2y ago
> LLMs can pass CFA III. Everyone cites these kind of examples as LLM beating some test or other as some kind of validation. It isn’t . To me that just tells that the tests are poor, not the LLMs are good. Designing and curating a good t
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manquer
2y ago
The brain also does that . It doesn’t do it exclusively, but we do it an awful lot . we do extensive amount of pattern matching and drop enormous amount of sensory input very quickly because we expect patterns and assume a lot about our sur
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manquer
2y ago
It doesn’t have to understand anything, none of these demonstrate reasoning or understanding. All these models have just “seen” enough videos of all those things to build a probability distribution to predict the next step. This is not bad,
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manquer
2y ago
At some point why bother making it an acronym that makes little sense . Just call it VIPER, it doesn’t have ostensibly stand for a shoehorned acronym with no meaning
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manquer
2y ago
I am sorry, every A-List celebrity was shilling a NFT project, from superbowl to other public spheres of discourse seemed all crypto. The future president of the country has a crypto project to sell, I don’t see how much mainstream it can g
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manquer
2y ago
I considered fleet change as the transformation that eliminates driving as a needed skill . Getting a slightly better version of Waymo in SF is just augmenting for a poor public transit with a very American car solution . It scales pretty p
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manquer
2y ago
The point is not that they are snakeoil and have zero value . Every one of these things have some value in some area of applications. However the hype cycle just as now in AI claimed it will change everything, not hey here is interesting ne
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manquer
2y ago
Assuming we get to your level of value prop. It will still only be a choice for new first time buyers If I already own a car, for which am paying an emi and no hope of selling for good value (because market is dropping as newest buyers disa
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manquer
2y ago
Matter of perspective, Ai tools value depends on your existing skill level and whether it only doing what you already can do and you can correct it very well. However that kind of user in my experience is rare , vast majority are junior dev
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manquer
2y ago
I will bite, going with your analogy comparing to electricity on the other end of the spectrum. electricity is not ubiquitous in many parts of the global south full 130 years. The common definition is- access to electricity source that ca
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