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by petralithic 1y ago
I asked a question I'm curious to hear the answer from here to another similar response: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45207706
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by petralithic 1y ago
Serious question, have other past conflicts in history not made you also lose faith in humanity? Studying what people did to each other even thousands of years ago, systematically beheading and parading them around on spikes for example, as
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by petralithic 1y ago
All of those things happened in wars throughout history so they are, unfortunately, the reality of losing this war. Don't confuse what you wish to not be true to what is actually true, geographically and historically speaking.
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by petralithic 1y ago
The point is the legal concept is a fiction, useful perhaps in the past, but increasingly not today, and like all fictions, it can be dispelled if people agree to do so.
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by petralithic 1y ago
How is your version better?
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by petralithic 1y ago
Could you explain more about Automerge being legacy? They recently released a new major version and revamped their algorithm I believe. What is better about your version?
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by petralithic 1y ago
These private clubs are the de-facto quasi-public square, is my point. In virtual space, the government is not hosting some sort of public social media so people are forced to use private corporations' services to voice their thought
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by petralithic 1y ago
It's not McDonald's either, a singular location does not serve billions. The difference between a physical and virtual location is one of scale. As for your other paragraph, the point is that these corporations have gotten so larg
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by petralithic 1y ago
> The local Costco is "at such a scale in the modern day" that it, too, is essentially a public square. But it's not at such a scale though. It does not have one location with billions of members.
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by petralithic 1y ago
Yes, and it's shocking to see people cheer it on. An oft-heard refrain is about the legal right of the first amendment of the US constitution preventing the government from blocking speech, but that is based on the natural right of fre
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by petralithic 1y ago
This is some good marketing for Coolify, which the author makes as an open source platform as a service. I prefer Dokploy these days though, since it seems to be less buggy, as Coolify seems to have such bugs due to being on PHP. https:&#x
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by petralithic 1y ago
> It was a low effort attempt to make something interesting and it wasn’t. Maybe to you, but others in this thread found it interesting. > Lowers the bar for what good software really is. Software is a means to some end, not the e
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by petralithic 1y ago
I stopped using Agent mode, it's only Ask mode for me now.
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by petralithic 1y ago
Are you implying some sort of threat?
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by petralithic 1y ago
> Yet at the same time it's not talked about at all. You might be missing a whole paradigm that was written about in the 19th century and implemented in the 20th century, to deleterious effects.
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by petralithic 1y ago
In civilizations, people used to primarily be farmers but as food production increased, this gave rise to the specialization or division of labor. In the nature of an evolutionary competition of companies, those that specialize into builder
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by petralithic 1y ago
> this is exponentially more difficult when you don't have the backing of some ostentatious pedigree. This has not been the case these days, to be honest. While a pedigree helps, the playing field for investment has been much more
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by petralithic 1y ago
Millions, not billions, as DeepSeek and others have shown.
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by petralithic 1y ago
> The issue is pirating books, using them as inputs to math which is then resold as an LLM without compensation to the authors who have clearly copyrighted material. No one seems to be able to explain what exactly the issue is here.
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by petralithic 1y ago
Depends what you want to define startups as, "lifestyle" businesses are often just a derogatory term that VCs use that don't mean anything in real life.
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by petralithic 1y ago
Not all startups are venture-backed.
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by petralithic 1y ago
I'm guessing it's because every year, younger people join HN. I've been on this site for at least a decade and a half with various accounts and it's interesting to see the shift.
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by petralithic 1y ago
All my works are open source or in the public domain. I don't like copyright for a reason.
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by petralithic 1y ago
Piracy is not stealing. I don't know why everyone on HN suddenly turned into a copyright hawk, only big companies benefit from our current copyright regime, like Disney and their lobbying for increasing its length.
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by petralithic 1y ago
Hence, "should"
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by petralithic 1y ago
This is sad for open source AI, piracy for the purpose of model training should also be fair use because otherwise only the big companies who can afford to pay off publishers like Anthropic will be able to do so. There is no way to buy bill
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by petralithic 1y ago
What was the Browser Company even doing? First they had a successful consumer product with Arc as a Chrome clone, then they decided to shut it down for...a whole new browser called Dia that essentially acted as a browser extension that so m
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by petralithic 1y ago
Unless they all have ads, which is a good way to justify spending all that capex on training.
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by petralithic 1y ago
Humans are not tabulae rasae though. Evolution has hardwired our geniosity over millions of years.
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by petralithic 1y ago
> 10+ years ago I expected we would get AI that would impact blue collar work long before AI that impacted white collar work. I'm not sure where people get this impression from, even back decades ago. Hardware is always harder than

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