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by marcinzm 3y ago
That's not a clean room implementation. A clean room would be having a description for the game of quidditch (game rules are not copyrightable just like specifications for software) and then writing a background story to explain it wit
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by marcinzm 3y ago
That's literally the exact opposite of reality: > Clean-room design is useful as a defense against copyright infringement because it relies on independent creation. However, because independent invention is not a defense against pat
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by marcinzm 3y ago
You seem to have a very limited view of artists. The vast vast majority of artists are not professionals and make no money from their art. The vast majority of them also get very little publicity for their arts. Yet they still create. There
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by marcinzm 3y ago
>Why would any human spend their limited lifespan to create a piece of work that will be grabbed without permission, approximated algorithmically (at least on the surface) and reused in infinite possible small variations without any attr
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by marcinzm 3y ago
So specifically what is there except the sum total of our experiences and our genetics?
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by marcinzm 3y ago
> In this case the Judge chose to say, in effect: unless you have explicitly copyrighted it, it's fair use No, this has always been the case. The judge ruled nothing new. You cannot sue someone for copyright unless you first registe
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by marcinzm 3y ago
Are we going to hold all human artists to that standard as well? I suspect many would fail it.
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by marcinzm 3y ago
Pharma is not insurance.
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by marcinzm 3y ago
I also can't find any description of what is in the Open Source version and what is in the not Open Source version. Does the README cover both or just one?
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by marcinzm 3y ago
You could do what they do in larger US buildings. Non load bearing walls are not made of concrete so vertical pipes go into those walls and are encased in drywall. Bathrooms and so on have their horizontal pipes below the ceiling of the spa
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by marcinzm 3y ago
And when that system of institutional safety measures fails such as someone being swindled into sending all their money to a Nigerian prince you get news stories that ask why the institution isn't liable for the loss or doesn't ha
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by marcinzm 3y ago
> The problem is that so many people got comfortable delegating all their financial and data risk to third parties The "problem" is that most people prefer to not lose their life savings because their cat stole a little piece o
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by marcinzm 3y ago
My credit card purchases? Not really. I'm more worried about some of my teenage Reddit posts being tied to me than what brand of soap I buy on Amazon.
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by marcinzm 3y ago
And who is in charge of making sure those laws are executed on by the Federal Goverment? Hint: It's the President and executive orders are the President's directive on how the Federal government should execute on laws.
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by marcinzm 3y ago
Reading this all I'm seeing is "we'll research these things", "we'll look into how to keep AIs from doing these things" and "tell the US government how you tested your foundational models." Excep
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by marcinzm 3y ago
I'm honestly curious, how so? From what I can tell the only thing which isn't a "we'll research this area" or "this only applies to the government" is "tell the US government how you tested your found
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by marcinzm 3y ago
>They have a GPU supercompute cluster?? It seems like they have the capability to do training and inference with state-of-the-art algorithms at massive scales then. Why have Twitter's recommendations and ad revenue (even before the
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by marcinzm 3y ago
If your main focus is growth or potential growth then inefficiencies are fine if they allow increased product velocity. A unified platform for N features is more efficient but communication overheads will cut velocity on improvements for al
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by marcinzm 3y ago
I'm not sure why you put VCs into that group since it makes it easier for a bunch of kids to make a business. I mean kids who don't have rich parents to cover all their costs. edit: Another big difference is that kids now would be
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by marcinzm 3y ago
GCP is overall a good product. Support is so atrocious and they break things often enough that it more than offsets that in any larger scale use case in my experience.
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by marcinzm 3y ago
>companies of the size of Google or Apple Neither of them used to be the giants they are but overall they made solutions that their customers (who are, btw, advertisers in Google's case) wanted and bought over larger existing compet
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by marcinzm 3y ago
>Since when customers have any meaningful choice or way to express preferences? It's long been a supply-driven market: vendors make what they want, customers buy what's being put on the market. By your logic Tesla and Apple sho
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by marcinzm 3y ago
Everything has a cost. In the cases where the computing cost or degraded user experience is high enough efficiency is optimized for (see ML models for example). In other cases it's not because the end user doesn't actually want th
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by marcinzm 3y ago
Good luck getting a company with no EU presence to pay those fines.
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by marcinzm 3y ago
> If the purpose of the Mozilla organisation was to fund Firefox into the future then they have catastrophically failed at their job. If their purpose was to spread the money they had around to a bunch of people as quickly as possible be
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by marcinzm 3y ago
Would you prefer that IC levels just ended at some point and everyone got shuffled onto the management track if they wanted further progress?
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by marcinzm 3y ago
From their own job posting social recommendations, search (but that seems to be Firefox branded?) and a bunch of AI stuff.
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by marcinzm 3y ago
Mozilla is clearly trying to expand into new areas. Some of the fun ones from their open job postings include a social recommendation component (likely the reason for this rename), Search and a bunch of AI stuff. > Mozilla Social’s visio
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by marcinzm 3y ago
ROT13 is just one-to-one character replacement in the end. You can also presumably ask it to do other character replacement, foreign language or even made up languages. At some point you need an LLM to even have a chance of figuring out if
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by marcinzm 3y ago
I mean we're talking about an article on lifestyle businesses so going from "I can't bootstrap a lifestyle business on my own" to "I can't bootstrap a billion dollar business on my own" seems to be moving

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