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The training is not the issue. It’s the reproduction. I expect long term the models will still be trained on copyrighted material, but it will refuse to recite any of it.

This whole thread reads like backlash to the async hype, not so much the merits of the paradigm itself.

If we are speculating, perhaps the extra testosterone is what makes the men on the right attracted to the strong-man daddy figures?

Needing a bunch of JavaScript to make it work, which will get bungled by the devs and break it for people using password managers, making the thing even worse. Login is such a common pattern that it should be just handled by the browser.

Yes! Please support GOG if you can because they are doing it right.

No doubt made by people who would screech at any whiff of their own First Amendment rights being infringed. What are we to do about these folks? Ban the Bible for child rape content?

> For example, a capacitor operating at 5 volts will continue to operate at the same voltage even after a decade. But unlike batteries, they cannot discharge energy constantly—to power a mobile phone, for example.

What is this nonsense?

This is a correct, but incomplete take that I see a lot in response to the "market is going to crash, yay!" comments. It's incomplete because it assumes that every housing unit in the country is owned by a single family and, if sold, would have to be replaced by another one. These are owner occupied primary residences which are 70-80% of the market, depending on who you ask.

The remainder consists of second homes and investment properties which will get sold, if they don't make financial sense anymore, for example, when short or long term rental income drops which is already happening. Overall, it's possible for the prices to drop in the total market even if the primary residence owners swear that they will take their 3% mortgage to their grave.

If the issue is the CCP connection, why aren’t all Chinese apps banned? If the issue is the excessive data collection, why isn’t that banned, regardless of who does it?

The most logical conclusion imo is that these reasons are simply bullshit.

Literally, any evidence at all. I’d even accept the word of a security agency, but there’s nothing besides the “strong beliefs” of some politicians.

> We know that beyond a doubt that TikTok’s parent company ByteDance is operating as a surveillance arm of the Chinese Communist Party and gathers information about Americans against their will.

I sure wish we lived in a world where people making decisions for us, such as Sen. Vance here, had to actually back up the the things they say.

They’re not novel in as in a box of cookies is a box of cookies, but you bet your ass that the manufacturers are constantly innovating new ingredients and processes to make their products ever more shelf stable and inexpensive. Same goes for cleaning supplies and similar things you can find in the grocery store.

The appeals to authority are a response to the flood of online discussions by people that are confused by what “doing research” means and suffer from Dunning-Kruger. I don’t want to read any “just asking questions” comments about COVID or the vaccines unless the people have years of experience working in the field prior to the pandemic, because it filters out the armchair experts that we have so many of.

What’s funny to me is that not everything evokes this much scrutiny as vaccines. Why do relatively few people care about what they’re putting into their bodies via the products they find at the grocery store vs a jab in their arms?

> This week, one of the most critical pieces of web software [..]

Nah, it’s not critical anymore, assuming it ever was. It’s a pest that finds its way into your code and you have to expend energy to get rid of it.

First off, it’s huge. Check this out: https://bundlephobia.com/package/core-js@3.28.0 How many copies of that do you have in your bundle?

Second, it’ll replace the native implementations of things like Promises and iterators with its own slower and bloated implementations in the name of compatibility, but is it even necessary anymore? IE11 is dead and the rest of the browsers get updated automatically. There might still be stragglers in the corporate world, but honestly I’d rather deal with any issues that come up over adding core-js “just in case”. I’ve also seen it cause issues due to said replacing of native functionality.

Maybe it’s time we moved on.

How could the OP make it a higher cost without necessarily having to get a lawyer themselves? This kind of behavior by LinkedIn leaves a bad taste in my mouth because it’s essentially bullying and I wish there was a way to bleed them a little by forcing them to have their $500/hr lawyer respond to some inane but legally necessary requests.

I recently got 7.4kWh at $160/kWh grade B cells for what it’s worth. Surely there are better deals out there, especially for used cells.

I would prefer 1. if it had full type safety. I’m imagining some sort of a build process that looks for any .sql files in the project and spits out .sql.d.ts in the same directory with the input and output types according to the current schema of the database. Another nice thing about a setup like this imo would be that the .sql files would have the full support of the editor for completions and execution, unlike sql fragments in a Typescript file.

I didn’t know governors could make changes to the law before signing it. Because they can’t. What they CAN do is threaten to veto it and ask the legislators to change it and vote again on it. I kind of wish they had stuck with it and made her go on the record why she’s vetoing it, but of course they have to play nice to get anything done. Ultimately, not enough important people cared about it so it was DOA.

So many times I've wanted a quick histogram of a list of values to get a feel for their distribution, but it's always felt like it's too much effort with the tools that I had available to me. This is perfect for it! Would be nice to be able to specify the bin size or clamp the values to a range, but that can be done with other tools in the pipeline.

You should just come out and say that you’re against subsidizing the wrong people. But maybe you’re a libertarian and think government should’t subsidize any of the thousand other things it does, like parents and farmers. I would have called myself a libertarian too some time ago, but now I see it as just youthful naivety.

These are all claims by one guy (Tristan Harris) who's made a career out of speaking against social media. He claims that the Chinese version of TikTok is the "spinach" version and serves more wholesome science content. He doesn't say that this is because of CCP involvement, ByteDance manipulation on their own accord or because Chinese children choose this type of content. He does go on to say that as a result of this, most children express desire to be astronauts when they grow up. If this last part isn't true, why should we believe anything else he says? Even if it is true, why should we believe him? He doesn't offer any evidence.

It's a bit weird to find myself in a position of defending a social media app. There are a lot of people in the US who have a reason to be upset with its existence. I think it played a key role in the last election, because that's where Gen-Z spends their time. Similarly the execs at Google and Facebook have a reason to want it gone, but you don't see them publicly lamenting how they don't make as much ad revenue as they used to. The negative comments here on HN at least are always some version of "national security" and "think of the children".

Wasn’t this debunked? Kids in China, when asked what they want to be when they grow up, overwhelmingly say influencer.

Fucking USSR apologist. The regime was threatened by poets! Like how could you possibly argue that sending poets to a labor camp to die was for the betterment of the people?

Edit: For anyone wondering what this poster is about, take a look at their brief comment history and all will be cleared up.

It wasn't one or the other, it was both 30 million dead AND some unknown number of dogs killed that very likely didn't make a meaningful difference in the Soviet war effort. Congrats on getting down to the level of your enemy, I guess.

I find Copilot most useful for filling out debug statements such as this:

  println(“foo at {:x} is {:?}”, &foo as *const _ as usize, foo);

It almost always writes what I would have. How DARE I steal from open source contributors like that?!

Imo the closest analog to a corporation is a program. It objectively exists like puppies do, but only when it's executed by the hardware, which are the people. Otherwise it's just a stack of documents without any real power to affect the reality.

You can easily guess what the purpose of the program is.

They also have the right to create the space junk in the first place. What are they going to do, revoke your space launch permit?

Even if they didn't bend over backwards to make sure everyone lands okay, saying "lose their livelihood" is a bit much, no? These are not peasants losing their land, rather they're highly paid professionals that should have no issue finding work. Shameful plug - we're hiring at Vitally :) Feel free to reach out in the DMs.

The logic is that removing buttons would make the cars cheaper as they have historically had buttons up until very recently. I imagine it did, by several dollars, but it was overwhelmed by the increase in other features. Now with touch screens they are able to iterate even quicker and add more features of dubious quality, but it looks better in comparison checklists.

Yet the cars are more expensive than ever. Nah, it’s a bet by the management that people don’t actually choose a car based on the polish of the infotainment system.