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Why is this not set up to filter spam out of the box? It's not really an optional thing at this point, and writing Sieve scripts that work well is not necessarily easy.

The writer tears down prompt engineering while extolling the virtues of well-written prompts. Also GPT-4 isn't "learning new things all the time" in that way...it's getting updates, sure, but not constantly or in real time. These articles are pure nonsense.

It feels to me like Arduino is becoming a shill for whatever processor companies want to market to people. Not that there's anything wrong with the RA4M1 or anything, but Arduino seems like they are less focused on ecosystem than they used to be.

You are losing information. Knowing if you need that information or not is sometimes difficult. That's the whole lottery hypothesis (mentioned elsewhere).

There was no existential reason for SpaceX to launch before they had the infrastructure to support it. They knew they would blow stuff up, had already started engineering a solution to the problem, and still went ahead with the launch anyway. The environmental consequences are enormous. I am a fan of space, but I also want it to be done responsibly.

Whataboutism is a powerful drug.

I have come to believe that the desires of the satellite constellation providers will always trump that of the scientists. There is no money in astronomy and we have decided that money is more important than science in this case. We will need to build telescopes that live above LEO from now on. This means much higher costs and harder operational environments, but i don't see any other solution.

You can't just "paint them black" because the satellite is still there and will show up in the images.

M.U.L.E. is still one of the best games ever. I played that to death.

I was at Red Hat very early on. Red Hat has been remarkably consistent throughout its journey once it graduated from selling boxes of software at book stores (which was a necessary step). Red Hat only astook venture money once it was ready to go public and never before. The philosophy of Red Hat was to "make the pie bigger" and still largely is, therefore it supports open source first before anything else. This works because it provides product-market fit at scale and by nature. The thought that "all" Red Hat sells is software support, certifications, and subscriptions to updates is so short sighted and misses the point.

Red Hat created an industry and all of the successful enterprise Linux distros have followed its model to some extent or another (Canonical, SUSE, etc). You don't need "open core" (which is a misnomer if there ever was one) if you continue down a path that creates and maintains communities of software authors out there in the world that will constantly feed value back into the ecosystem.

A virtuous cycle of community maintained software alongside a thriving and growing business is still achievable, no one seems to have the guts to do it.

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Is it no longer possible to just have a nice open source project without a company existing around it?

It was always a boondoggle. An expression of ego more than building something generally interesting.

This is fabulous. My builds are much faster now than on Docker Desktop. I'll put it through its paces.

Why does it have to siphon all the data off of my phone?

There already are tons of open source models. Some of them good. Check out Huggingface. BLOOM comes to mind as a decent starting point.

That's not really possible. SVB as an entity no longer exists once the FDIC steps in.

This is about as far from antitrust as you can get. It’s fine to think you know things, but you don’t.

If you don't know you're going down, you might think you are upside down and going up. Disorientation is a strange thing.

This feels so familiar to me. I've been working on projects like these for a decade now. Every time, the infrastructure and applications get rebuilt by people. Thousands of hours are spent doing this work by well-meaning volunteers. I don't understand why though. These sorts of products exist in the world already. We have mapping tools from HotOSM, we have NeedList. I ultimately wonder what social good comes of these tools existing in disasters.

Cloudflare is _far_ from a monopoly. Akamai and Microsoft still hold huge leads in a lot of spaces.

That number makes no sense. How do you value a rock in space like that?

I'm not sure I follow how let's encrypt is included on this list. They are very transparent.

Apple has never said that using their App Store doesn’t cause data collection from the user. It’s part of the ToS and they tell you they will do it when you sign up. They have said they don’t sell it, which is a whole different type of complaint. This is a frivolous lawsuit with no teeth in US law.

Does anyone want to fund an open ADSB data gathering platform for a nonprofit to run?

We should not be mailing compost around...that sort of defeats one of the purposes. There are local composting companies/orgs in most major metropolitan areas. Mine is Compost Now.

Err. NOTAM should also have effected flights. Please don't downplay the safety of airspace.

The typical SaaS model. So ridiculous. SSO is behind that too

You all seem to think this is similar in value or operation to a web app. It is not. It is a safety-critical system that requires very stringent operational and development guidelines ON PURPOSE. The idea that the FAA shouldn't be risk averse in this system is absolutely ridiculous. The complexity of operating the airspace of an entire nation is nothing to scoff at and the importance of the NOTAM system should not be minimized in any way. This is not some government corruption thing. There are hundreds of thousands of lives at stake every day.

I, for one, appreciate the work that the FAA does to keep us safe in the air and appreciate that this was handled appropriately. Everything breaks. It's just a matter of how and when and what we do with it when it does. The FAA handled this outage appropriately and in a timely manner. I feel for the engineers who had to work on this incident.

It's probably easier to just remove everything and then add back what you want.

Was that response unconvincing somehow?

> They could design it in a way that it operates on your data but they have no access to the data outside of these strictly defined operations.

That is exactly what Google and Microsoft do with their enterprise products (free or not). They don't crawl your data at all.