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by mcherm 6mo ago
The significance of the changeover would be much more impactful if the chart showed a longer history.
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by mcherm 7mo ago
It's the third sentence of the article: > the district court ruled that using the books to train LLMs was fair use but left for trial the question of whether downloading them for this purpose was legal.
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by mcherm 7mo ago
Many people are taking what I believe to be the wrong message here. I believe the author's intent was (or should have been) to describe how THEY wanted to receive communication, not how EVERYONE should. A skilled communicator will craf
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by mcherm 7mo ago
A specific example will help. Imagine I am working for a company and I discover they are engaged in capturing and transporting human slaves. Furthermore, the government where they operate in fully aware and supportive of their actions so de
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by mcherm 7mo ago
There are a bunch of reasons. Perhaps their TOS involves additional evils they are performing in the world, and it would be good to know about that. Perhaps their TOS is restricting the US military from misusing the product and create unmon
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by mcherm 7mo ago
That's not an equivalent analogy. A better analogy would be to say I had a bank account and I told my bank to call up Joe on the phone when confirmations were needed. I still have the account, but I have fallen out with Joe. I want the
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by mcherm 7mo ago
No one who understands the first thing about this topic could possibly have read that web page and not realized that it was satire. "Those maintainers worked for free—why should they get credit?" "Your shareholders didn'
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by mcherm 7mo ago
The post claims (tongue-in-cheek, of course) that their customer owns the resulting code. But that's not true! According to binding precedent, works created by an AI are not protected by copyright. NO ONE OWNS THEM!!! I think maybe thi
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by mcherm 7mo ago
Being started? I would take that bet.
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by mcherm 7mo ago
I'm all in favor of not accepting "drive-by changes". But every contributor to the project had to make their first contribution at some point in time. What's the process for inviting in new contributors?
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by mcherm 7mo ago
At this stage, you are going to far in claiming that. So far, all that happened is that Meta's lawyers claimed it was fair use. They are paid to try every argument they can think of that might work. Just because they make the argumen
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by mcherm 7mo ago
No, under US law charities and non-profits are typically eligible for some kinds of tax benefits but public benefit corporations are not.
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by mcherm 7mo ago
Look, you can declare that it is a scam all you like. Trumpet statements like this one: "Large language models still hallucinate, and they still make boneheaded errors; they still lack a proper concept of reality. They often produce wo
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by mcherm 7mo ago
You wrote: > I'm glad Anthropic is getting a taste of their own medicine. I took that to mean that you support the Pentagon's threat which essentially IS to label Anthropic as a national security threat, simply because they wou
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by mcherm 8mo ago
Because ATProto is specifically designed to allow being NON-centralized. Unlike Pinterest. Yes, ATProto is new and most of the traffic is through a single site at the moment, but it is specifically designed to allow for that to change.
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by mcherm 8mo ago
Anything other than fawning allegiance to whatever Donald Trump said most recently is "leftist" now.
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by mcherm 8mo ago
> the goodwill they'd earned lately in my book was just decimated by this That sounds absurd to me. Committing to not building in advertising is very important and fundamental to me. Asking people who pay for a personal subscription
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by mcherm 8mo ago
That may be true, but the underlying problem is not that the LLMs are capable of accurately reporting information that is published in a single person's blog article. The underlying problem is that a portion of the population believes
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by mcherm 8mo ago
You write: > The goal of taxation isn't "take money from anyone we can", nor is it 'wealth redistribution', it's instead 'how to pay for joint projects' that all of society benefits from. But I thi
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by mcherm 8mo ago
Why does H3 use a nonoverlapping set of hexagons? A square grid would make it even simpler and faster to calculate. I am perfectly happy to believe that a hex grid works better for some reason but what is that reason?
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by mcherm 8mo ago
No, not that I am aware of. I'm not an expert on the topic, but it is my understanding that the majority of prosecuted crimes involving the Internet in the US are prosecuted in State courts, not Federal.
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by mcherm 8mo ago
Making formal, public statements like this is a good start. It is certainly better than NOT making these sorts of statements.
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by mcherm 8mo ago
Mostly, each county has its own registry. (In some cases, there is a statewide registry.) This works, because each parcel of land is clearly in one particular county.
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by mcherm 8mo ago
They are busy assisting ICE with hunting down immigrants.
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by mcherm 8mo ago
Discussing the truth or falsity of some vague accusations of misconduct against a public figure is not an appropriate topic for Hacker News. But the way in which social media can be used for baseless character assassination (and perhaps a d
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by mcherm 8mo ago
Nice solution! Google, can we get that on Android by default to reach the masses? Apple... you too: you built a reputation for protecting privacy.
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by mcherm 8mo ago
> The real take away is that the Robotaxis don't really exist More accurately, the real takeaway is that Tesla's robo-taxis don't really exist.
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by mcherm 9mo ago
It doesn't need to! If the winner, instead of paying what they bid, pays what the second-highest bidder bid (and bids are secret until someone exceeds them) then the incentives change. Everyone is incented to bid what it is worth to th
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by mcherm 9mo ago
Ever driven a vehicle with an automatic transmission rather than a manual gearshift with a clutch? Then you almost certainly used a fluid coupling: basically two fans in a can with oil so turning one turns the other. The article is so full
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by mcherm 9mo ago
My blog, which is only rarely maintained these days: https://www.mcherm.com

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