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by thayne 2mo ago
How would you acquire evidence that it is a ghost job, and they didn't just decide to hire someone else? How would you even know if there is a case worth pursuing?
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by thayne 2mo ago
I want copyright to get enforced against these corporations, because then they would have a reason to use their considerable lobbying power to change copyright law, hopefully in a way that benefits everyone (including things like an open di
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by thayne 2mo ago
Because these benchmarks are basically like a school test. Searches for general information are fine, but looking up the answer key is cheating, because then the benchmark isn't actually measuring how well the model would do on a novel
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by thayne 2mo ago
To steelman it: because you do want it to be able to do some searches, you just don't want it to just search for the specific answer.
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by thayne 2mo ago
Crates.io currently says: > A new version of the arrayref crate was published with a direct dependency on proc-macro1, which would execute a malicious build script. > This compromised version was published on 2026-08-20 and removed ap
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by thayne 2mo ago
No stdlib will ever include all the "batteries" you need. And large stdlibs have their own set of problems, like stagnation, tying the library version to the language version, backwards compatibility garantees preventing evolution
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by thayne 2mo ago
One of rust's strengths is it's ability to interface relatively easily with existing c code without having to rewrite absolutely everything in rust. I don't think that is something we want to give up.
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by thayne 2mo ago
It wasn't yanked, it was fully removed. They did that because a yanked package can still be used. And in this case there weren't any downloads, so it is unlikely the malicious package was actually used.
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by thayne 2mo ago
Android is built on the linux kernel which uses GPLv2
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by thayne 2mo ago
But google already built a tool to do exactly that: https://github.com/google/copybara
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by thayne 2mo ago
That's one problem. 25 years is also a really long time in fast moving fields like software, microchips, etc. And the format the invention is "published" as is essentially a legal document, often largely written by lawyers
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by thayne 2mo ago
It probably doesn't make sense for every airline to have a backup at every airport. But maybe the airport itself keeps a couple of backup planes that it rents out to airlines when they need it.
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by thayne 2mo ago
If they truly were exceptional that would be fine. But long delays happen a lot , and I am sure there are things airlines could do to improve that like maintain the planes better so they aren't grounded as often and having backup plan
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by thayne 2mo ago
When something like this happens, at the very least you should get the full cost of your ticket back, plus reimbursement for lodging and food, at least. Then maybe airlines would have more of an incentive to maintain their fleet better, and
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by thayne 2mo ago
It doesn't have to be. But without a hosted "source of truth", it's kinda hard to actually distribute it, and have a way to accept pull/merge requests/patches.
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by thayne 2mo ago
Maybe. I'm not sure if the original author's intent was to say how risc-v could be better or to say it is bad and people should use other (proprietary) ISAs instead.
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by thayne 2mo ago
If only ISAs weren't protected (or protectable) by patents.
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by thayne 2mo ago
My understanding is even with a PSK you need port 500 open for the initial handshake.
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by thayne 2mo ago
If you are connecting from a residence or a mobile device (like a laptop), your ip address isn't fixed, so a firewall won't help.
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by thayne 2mo ago
I think you are missing the point. It isn't about increasing the bits of security, it's about avoiding the flood of port scanners and the logs that produces. IPsec is way more complicated to set up than this (or other VPN solution
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by thayne 2mo ago
> the KJV is copyrighted in the UK But that only applies if you are subject to UK law right?
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by thayne 2mo ago
Those seem consistent to me. Some pages weren't written to the WAL (yet?), but something else referenced them or otherwise indicated they existed, so then the other process tried to read them, resulting in the issue in the first quote.
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by thayne 2mo ago
> the convention is kind of to have a constructor pattern with a NewStruct(...) *Struct method that initializes all properties But that doesn't stop you from declaring a var s Struct, and never initializing it, or making a NewStruct
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by thayne 2mo ago
nil pointer panics aren't nearly as bad as values getting zero initialized, then used in places that assume they were initialized, and getting subtle bugs because the state is inconsistent.
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by thayne 2mo ago
Maybe. That is still pretty different from the source code for software though. Suppose OpenAI released all the training data, training methodology, and training source code, but didn't release the weights for a frontier model. Would t
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by thayne 2mo ago
These things are not mutually exclusive. You can say that Nazis were evil and also analyze the factors that led to them coming into power.
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by thayne 2mo ago
Would you say it is a fallacy to apply such value judgements to say, the institutions of the National Socialist Party (Nazis), the KKK, the KGB, etc? How about a company whose business was selling slaves? To be clear, I'm not saying
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by thayne 2mo ago
"open source" doesn't even make much sense for a model. But llama isn't even fully open weights due to the restrictions on its use.
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by thayne 2mo ago
Plenty of things with prior art are successfully patentend. And are successfully enforced, because it is cheaper to pay the troll to cross the bridge than to take it to court. It isn't until the sue the wrong person who has the backbon
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by thayne 2mo ago
A bugtracker is inherently dynamic.

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