olalonde

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by olalonde 3mo ago
Again, it would require an extremely unlikely set of circumstances. 1) All of GCC would have to be LLM generated. If some parts are not, it's sufficient to prevent the re-licensing. 2) That someone would have to prove that all the GCC
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by olalonde 3mo ago
This doesn't really happen by accident, especially where it's significant enough to constitute copyright infringement. And to my knowledge, there hasn't been a single lawsuit over this in the entire history of LLM-assisted co
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by olalonde 3mo ago
He's correct though. You would need 3 extremely low probability events to all occur simultaneously for the concern to actually manifest. 1) Courts reverse their previous decisions and declare LLM generated code as belonging to LLM labs
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by olalonde 3mo ago
You can use an LLM and demonstrably understand the code it produces.
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by olalonde 3mo ago
It seems you are confusing source-available and open source. One of the criteria of open source is free redistribution. If your license forbids sharing the source then it's not open source. In practice, if you use an actual open source
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Global surge in copper theft snares telecoms and trains(ft.com)
3 points by olalonde 3mo ago|1 comments
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by olalonde 3mo ago
> LLMs have destroyed problem solving, creative thinking in general. People probably had just as many uncreative ideas before, but lacked the ability to execute on them. Remember the "idea guys" constantly looking for tech cofo
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by olalonde 3mo ago
Hence why most companies don't publish research and most software is proprietary. Publishing and open source only make sense in certain situations.
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by olalonde 3mo ago
Mathematicians probably spend less time writing than programmers.
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by olalonde 3mo ago
I never understood people who preferred traditional math notation (e.g. single letter symbols, weird characters like ∣q⟩ instead of writing down an explicit type, etc.). I guess the main advantage is terseness? To me, the mathematical expre
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by olalonde 3mo ago
Stupid question but why should we care about Amodei's geopolitical insights more than anyone else's? I don't think knowing how LLMs work makes you particularly qualified to comment on this.
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FreeBSD Just Removed the Last of Its GPL-Licensed Code(hackaday.com)
4 points by olalonde 3mo ago|0 comments
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General Resolution: LLM Usage in Debian(debian.org)
4 points by olalonde 3mo ago|0 comments
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by olalonde 3mo ago
Oh ok, I misunderstood! Ledger wallet has a similar feature where you can assign a decoy wallet to a pin code.
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by olalonde 3mo ago
This feels like a rhetorical question but I'm not entirely sure. What do you mean?
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by olalonde 3mo ago
Deceiving a kidnapper into thinking you complied with their order to unlock your phone would be a legitimate use.
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by olalonde 3mo ago
No money is generally accepted. USD would come closest but it's still far from true (probably fewer than 10% of merchants globally).
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by olalonde 3mo ago
No, I didn't mean anything beyond what I wrote.
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by olalonde 3mo ago
These AI threads seem to attract the same kind of repetitive, low-effort dismissals that crypto threads used to.
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by olalonde 3mo ago
I don't think that's true. I think most people are naturally against this idea emotionally. Why would humans not want to be special? I know I wish it wasn't true.
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by olalonde 3mo ago
Probably not the author's point but to me, the takeaway is that these people are driven by emotion and can't be won over with rational arguments. They have an emotional attachment to their old ways, a fear of being obsoleted, a wi
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by olalonde 3mo ago
The top AI labs still employ thousands of software engineers. If it was dead, they'd be among the first to stop employing them. If by "software engineering is dead" you mean that using AI coding tools is now part of the job d
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by olalonde 3mo ago
The quote accurately mirrors a lot of the anti-AI sentiment in my experience. The pushback comes from a visceral, emotional aversion, and the technical or economic arguments proposed against it are largely post-hoc rationalizations.
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by olalonde 3mo ago
> This HN notion that ads shape everyone's behaviour (except me, obviously) is so disconnected from my experience that I am sometimes confused by it. Same. They've also never really bothered me, especially billboards and street
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by olalonde 3mo ago
Agreed that it would potentially be a bigger concern but it seems they support both "Free Software" and "Open Source". See my other reply here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49004912
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by olalonde 3mo ago
I don't think they have ulterior motives because I do, I think that because of the loaded language they use (e.g. "taking a stand against AI", "LLM-extrusions") and the dubious reasons they came up with. It's b
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by olalonde 3mo ago
> Well, not quite, it would still have to deal with handling and moderating copyright claims under German law. So while it's not a legal issue, it's definitely overhead for a nonprofit. Who is sending all those takedown request
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by olalonde 3mo ago
It would be cool if they just admitted that this is ideologically motivated rather than hide behind pragmatic excuses. 1) "unclear copyright status" Even if the copyright concern was legitimate (highly doubt so), Codeberg would be
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by olalonde 3mo ago
I simply meant that users ought to be free to choose between a product that offers a free ad-supported tier and one that is paid and ad-free. And I do believe that letting morons choose for themselves is the lesser evil.
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by olalonde 3mo ago
Unpopular opinion: I think users should be free to choose.

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