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by tpmoney 2y ago
So what benefit do we derive as a society from deciding that the capability for copyright infringement is in and of itself infringement? What do we gain by overturning the current protections the law (or society) currently has for technolog
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by tpmoney 2y ago
I had assumed when you said that a human retaining information was "unavoidable" and a machine retaining it was "avoidable" that the implication was we wouldn't tolerate humans retaining information if it was also &
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by tpmoney 2y ago
Does this imply that the logging doesn't happen until all the items have been processed though? If I'm processing a list of 10M items, I have to store up 10M*${num log statements} messages until the whole thing is done?
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by tpmoney 2y ago
> The best they could do was pass Dodd-Frank to prevent the next financial crisis and ACA, which the courts promptly watered down. Why the heck are we ok with an entire wing of US politicians that even when they have total control over t
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by tpmoney 2y ago
> You know why we put up with copyrighted info in the human brain right? Because those are human beings, it’s unavoidable. I would hope we put up with it because "copyright" is only useful to us insofar as it advances good thin
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by tpmoney 2y ago
> if you ask for an image of an archeologist who wears a hat and uses a whip, it's weighted averages are going to lead it to create something extremely similar to Indiana Jones because it has seen Indiana Jones so much. If you ask a
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by tpmoney 2y ago
> The opposition party has no power in the US, as designed explicitly. This seems to be in direct contradiction to the other story we’re told repeatedly by DNC leaders that the reason they can’t get anything done when they are the majori
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by tpmoney 2y ago
One struggle I’ve had with wrapping my head around using FP and lisp like languages for a “real world” system is handling something like logging. Ideally that’s handled outside of the function that might be doing a data transformation but h
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by tpmoney 2y ago
Unless the ai model is being run at build time to generate inputs to the build I disagree that the model, its prompts or its weights and seeds constitute part of “the build” for reproducibility purposes. Static source files generated by an
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by tpmoney 2y ago
The statement seems to imply that it was one of these "external scripts...reluctantly approved...for...performance monitoring". Specifically google analytics. But google is an all consuming vacuum for information, and presumably d
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by tpmoney 2y ago
Surely you're not seriously that we've hit the peak (or even the top of an S curve) of what AI is capable of right? Even if you think LLMs have a limit to what they can do and current AI is overhyped (both of which I would agree w
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by tpmoney 2y ago
The “market” for almost any definition of that you can choose is demonstrably happy with “shit things made fast” provided that the “shit” thing still mostly works. Within rounding error, no one is paying for any artisan hand crafted product
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by tpmoney 2y ago
There was also that Der Spiegel journalist that wrote effectively a completely made up fiction about an American town called "Fergus Falls. The followup investigation of which discovered a number of additional stories that ranged from
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by tpmoney 2y ago
It's funny you mention Wikipedia, I wonder if (at least since the early days when Wikipedia was the big scary thing on the block) anyone has run the same sorts of searches for plagiarized material and "hallucinations" against
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by tpmoney 2y ago
I wonder if there is value in splitting copyright into two parts and keeping a longer duration on the copies of the original work, but shortening the duration on the concepts in that work. That is, allow an author / studio to retain a
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by tpmoney 2y ago
https://creativecommons.org/faq/#can-i-apply-a-creative-comm... TLDR CC licenses don't cover source code distribution, patent concerns and general incompatibility with other software licenses.
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by tpmoney 2y ago
> Why isn't CC-by-NC-ND adequate for code? Kinda makes sense IMO and the summary looks useful? Because the Creative Commons folks themselves say it’s not because it doesn’t cover a number of software specific edge cases.
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by tpmoney 2y ago
And photography initially had lower quality and performance ceilings compared to portraitists and artists of the day. And today, photographers win awards for their work. New tools and techniques that lower the barrier to entry always get ov
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by tpmoney 2y ago
People will make the choices that are rational for them. When your job is making content about hacking stuff, wasting 8 hours on hacking a dishwasher that both generates content and generates useful information for other people is a better
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by tpmoney 2y ago
I don't think there are realistically any good "individual" productivity measures that work across a broad spectrum of employees, even when all of those employees are in the same role. Every team I've ever been a part of
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by tpmoney 2y ago
> there is no reason to prevent others making other choices and allow other manufacturers to compete on features. Who is preventing other people from choosing an open platform and who is preventing other manufacturers from competing on t
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by tpmoney 2y ago
> And the point of asking what I did was to point out maybe you wouldn't be able to get as far as you did without linux; certainly macos wasn't an option, right? Not a modern version at least. Why criticize an area linux is fal
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by tpmoney 2y ago
> The EU may have something to say about the rate Apple drops of depreciated API's. Maintaining them does impose a burden, So you agree then that a public API would likely necessitate a slower pace of change. It’s good to finally ge
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by tpmoney 2y ago
> It's not that it's public. It's that it's in use. And an API that isn't public can have its use restricted to a controlled set of environments and places, which inherently makes it easier to update. > Apple
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by tpmoney 2y ago
>This sounds very much like an edge case. https://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=linux%20radeon%20audio... > Why didn't you use Windows or MacOS on the mini PC instead? Was it because you were unable to do so?
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by tpmoney 2y ago
> Often the new boy on the block had emulate all the previous ones to have a hope of being adopted. > ... > Once it's out there you can't change the API without breaking all the deployments. Yes, a successful standard mea
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by tpmoney 2y ago
> The market being the sum of iPhone end-users buying other stuff than iPhones. Which seems a little ridiculously narrow doesn’t it? Why does any hardware vendor have an obligation to open all of their APIs and functionality to all comer
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by tpmoney 2y ago
So what is the problem needing to be solved then? If there’s a thriving open ecosystem, that currently enjoys the majority of the market share in the EU per other commenters in this discussion, and the only way to get “locked in” to the clo
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by tpmoney 2y ago
> We don't need to imagine anything like this, the EU is not regulating any OS. The EU identified that Apple is a gatekeeper to a market and simultaneously a player there, controlling the market in its favor. That market being… soft
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by tpmoney 2y ago
Physically can they? Sure. But there’s costs associated with that too. They’re clearly not hugely concerned with developer relations right now, but an ever changing “public” api certainly can annoy and drive off your developers in a way tha

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