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by simiones 3y ago
> No legal precedent supports the idea that the Android or iOS app stores are monopolies under US law. The right way to look at it is "US law is not written in a way to recognize and break up these monopolies". By any common se
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by simiones 3y ago
Each OS thread costs memory. With the version of Java I have, the default is to allocate 1MB of stack for each thread. So, 10,000 threads would require 10,000 MB of RAM even if we configured ulimit to allow that many threads. In contrast, a
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by simiones 3y ago
I don't agree. Companies seeking to make money from their IP have good reasons to provide different prices for different licensees. Why would the NYT ask Mom&Pop-AI for 100M dollars for their IP just because it wants 100M dollars f
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by simiones 3y ago
Note that there are no "thinking machines" in any of the original Dune novels by Frank Herbert. His son has worked with Brian Sanderson to create several prequels which detail the original Butlerian Jihad (the war against the mach
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by simiones 3y ago
> Have we been able to stop North Korea and Iran from developing nuclear weapons? Yes, obviously. They may be working on it to some extent, but they are yet to actually develop a nuclear weapon, and there is no reason to be certain they
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by simiones 3y ago
The way the ban is enforced, yes. But no one in their right mind believes that heroin should be openly accessible on the market like candy. We've seen how that works out with tobacco.
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by simiones 3y ago
Given that you need monumental amounts of compute power to come close to something like GPT-4, I don't think the added costs of not treading on people's IP is the major moat that it's being made out to be.
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by simiones 3y ago
> In theory, its functions could be replicated in silicon, enhanced for speed, parallel processing, internetworked, and with near-instant access to information. Therefore, AGI could emerge, if not from current AI research, then perhaps f
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by simiones 3y ago
The first links are spiffy little metaphors, but apply just as much at "God could smite all of humanity, even if you don't understand how". They're not making any argument, just assumptions. In particular, they accidenta
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by simiones 3y ago
It seems I made some confusions, you were actually right. Apologies...
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by simiones 3y ago
> If the web was already built with content-addressing in mind, my machine could automatically fetch the content from another machine on my network, my neighbor, a dynamic cache at the ISP or wherever, anyone could serve me that data ins
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by simiones 3y ago
You still have to talk to specific machines to get the data, so having it content addressable will not automatically make it either more or less rapidly available. Also, even for a peer-to-peer network, you still need some way to discover t
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by simiones 3y ago
There are two separate choices. One is the choice of whether to implement green threads in the JVM at all, or whether to use async/await, or some other type of concurrency primitive. The other is whether to expose the new concurrency p
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by simiones 3y ago
Oh, right, I forgot about that possibility...
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by simiones 3y ago
NGINX is a native C implementation, so it has to be carefully written to use the OS's native high-performance IO and native OS threads. The purpose of project Loom is to abstract that away from Java application code. The runtime can us
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by simiones 3y ago
If your program requires 5 OS threads to be able to make progress (say, there are operations for which 4 threads are blocked while the 5th does work), and the runtime only spawns 2 OS threads and tries to schedule your 5 now virtual threads
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by simiones 3y ago
> Virtual threads are nice for unblocking legacy code but they aren't without issues. There are better options for new code with less trade offs on the jvm as well. The designers of Project Loom would say the exact opposite. The who
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by simiones 3y ago
Even if that were true (I have personally not seen any sign of it, Israeli pro-war propaganda is much more direct), this article has nothing whatsoever of the kind. They do not show nor talk about any kind of commonality between the people
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by simiones 3y ago
They are quite directly reporting on a research paper published in Nature: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-023-06865-0 This seems like either a misguided pro-Palestinian jab at an Israeli paper (I for one very m
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by simiones 3y ago
> I think I'm with Dijkstra on this one: "The question of whether machines can think is about as relevant as the question of whether submarines can swim" Just a nitpick, but this is Turing, not Dijkstra. And it is in fact
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by simiones 3y ago
If you want to see an example of existential threat in fiction, the movie Lord of the Rings is a terrifying example of a scenario where an evil entity seduces humans with promises of power and (SPOILER) subsequently almost conquers the wh
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by simiones 3y ago
> Consider a world in which AI existential risk is real: where at some point AI systems become dramatically more capable than human minds, in a way that has catastrophic consequences for humanity. Consider a world where AGI requires anot
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by simiones 3y ago
> Because AI safety people are not the strawmen you are hypothesizing. They're arguing against taking existential risks. The AI safety strawman is "existential risk from magical super-God AI". That is what the unserious
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by simiones 3y ago
As a general rule, anything you do with a copyrighted work in private quite possibly falls under fair use, as long as the copies you are using were obtained legally. If you want to write Shawshank Redemption fan-fiction and read it to your
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by simiones 3y ago
I don't know, no one really does as this has never been tested in courts as far as I know. I believe the FSF would say that it's not a derivative work, as it doesn't interact with the Alexa code through complex data types.
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by simiones 3y ago
> If you have a different story to share, I'm sure the record would love to be updated. Sure, just looking at the Wikipedia article on "Computer file" [0], we see that the "punched card file" was only an early u
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by simiones 3y ago
> There's a phrase he uses that makes it clear to me what its intent is, "right to repair." The intent of the (author of the) LGPL and the letter of the LGPL (+ applicable law) may well be different. That is, just because
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by simiones 3y ago
> greet.c is not a derivative work of Y because I have not included any copyrightable elements of Y in greet.c. I think this is very much debatable, and I believe the FSF at least takes the position that greet.c is a derived work of Y
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by simiones 3y ago
At least in the USA, the copying of a program you legally received into working memory doesn't require a license of any kind, it is a type of fair use. I believe the EU has an explicit exception to copyright for the same reason. So I d
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by simiones 3y ago
The authors of the article claim that the Unity runtime uses (some of) those libraries, and that it is being used on iOS as well. You're right of course that I have not done any independent research on it, and so they may be lying or w

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