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by petcat 10d ago
Hopefully Canada can just get the economic benefits and not end up having to be subject to the insane stuff like Chat Control
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by petcat 11d ago
You seem to think that scraping websites "for the public good" is somehow different than scraping websites for any other reason . The end result is exactly the same.
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by petcat 11d ago
It's bad form to scrape the scrapers?
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by petcat 11d ago
Bot traffic or human traffic doesn't matter. The goal is to read websites without having your own access. So Internet Archive, Archive.today, Archive.ph, etc. are all just means to the same end.
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by petcat 11d ago
Nobody is talking about criminal wreckless driving. We're talking about assurances that you're going to be able to cover damages if you rear-end a sedan and cause $8,000 in repairs. That's why you're required to drive w
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by petcat 11d ago
That provide the same functional service.... Hence, distinction without a difference.
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by petcat 11d ago
isn't that what wget -m does? what is there to pay for?
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by petcat 11d ago
ehh it's a distinction without a difference. The point is that alternative links are available to circumvent paid access for anyone that wants them.
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by petcat 11d ago
Because the company will file bankruptcy and nobody will get anything. Requiring insurance up front at least provides some coverage for liabilities. It's why you can't legally drive without insurance. It's not for you or yo
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by petcat 11d ago
> EU style governmental pushes to defend digital rights. No, I don't think we need Chat Control in the US or our government forcing ISPs and CDNs to block whole swaths of the internet just because a soccer game is on TV.
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by petcat 11d ago
There is no constitutional entitlement to receive government information through one's preferred newspaper, website, or social network. > it is a de facto loss of free speech for everyone else. You seem to be confused about what 1A
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by petcat 12d ago
> For constraint satisfaction, what ultimately matters is the model’s final output, since the internal process is discarded. By not requiring every intermediate step to satisfy the constraints, we give the model more freedom to find high
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by petcat 12d ago
The economics don’t make any more sense for Canada or the EU than they do for the US. The the new $100k H1B fee was imposed because companies have a huge financial incentive to import semi-skilled workers from lower-wage markets rather tha
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by petcat 12d ago
> Following legal advice It's impossible to know what this "legal advice" was, but the software project itself is probably fine. The legal risk is always going to be with the person that hosts it with the intention of fac
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by petcat 12d ago
I think there is a more nuanced perspective to take on this debate than just profit motive. If they believe that this version of "AI" is actually becoming so dangerous that there is a real risk of it falling into the wrong hands
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by petcat 12d ago
> Open-Source AI There are no open source AI models, at least not useful ones (yet [1]). Open weight is not the same as open source. "Open weight" models are still just inscrutable binary blobs that you can (theoretically) run
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by petcat 13d ago
The current valuations are only inflated until they're not . Especially if the big American labs can convince the US government to work out a joint "AI non-proliferation" agreement with China which will allow both countries
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by petcat 14d ago
I think we can go even further and say that IBM, Zeiss, several Japanese companies, and even the US Department of Energy are the actual foundation since ASML is largely just an integrator of many different technologies they license from els
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by petcat 14d ago
There are no open source models, at least not useful ones. Open weight is not the same as open source. Open weight models are still just inscrutable binary blobs that you can (theoretically) run on your own computer instead of through a SAA
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by petcat 14d ago
Nuclear weaponry is effectively regulated because the nuclear powers have agreed that nobody else should be allowed to have the capability. So this is basically suggesting that USA and China should work together to ensure that they are the
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by petcat 15d ago
> mainly produce consumer software to serve ads Pretty reductionist. I don't know about tiktok, but Google does a lot more than serve ads
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by petcat 15d ago
> You may trust them with your money, but does not equate to trusting them with any other PII. This doesn't really make any sense and it feels like it's just an attempt to be contrarian. Banks by law require substantial PII i
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by petcat 15d ago
Well the EU's own government websites are all polluted with the cookie banners too so it's obvious that they can't even resist collecting visitor tracking data themselves. The whole thing is pointless.
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by petcat 16d ago
Right, I can cobble together my own worse version of jQuery if I wanted to. Or I can just use jQuery.
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by petcat 17d ago
I prefer the terseness of jQuery's API and things like chaining dom operations with the fluent API. I don't like the native DOM API. Too verbose (I still read and review code)
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by petcat 17d ago
I instruct my agents to build UI exclusively with bootstrap 5, jQuery, and HTMX. Every app is fast, responsive, progressive, small, and most importantly: it fits in my brain and I can maintain it. No build step or really any tooling at all
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by petcat 18d ago
> I rather have 30 day vacations, a proper life with 40h work week, healthcare, union membership, than SV salaries This is an appeal to mediocrity and it doesn't really hold when comparing EU to Silicon Valley tech jobs. Young engin
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by petcat 18d ago
> Did they not ask Ukraine to give the already occupied land and then some? Ukraine is never going to retake the territory they've lost without European soldiers on the ground. Macron famously said that he would have to send troops
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by petcat 18d ago
The NSA collects and archives all internet traffic it can access for future analysis. It's the purpose of the Utah Data center. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utah_Data_Center
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by petcat 18d ago
EU is in a precarious situation with Mistral. If you look at their investor sheet, it's primarily American and other foreign investors with some token amount coming from within the EU. It seems like this is positioning as an acquisiti

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