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All of those things happened in wars throughout history so they are, unfortunately, the reality of losing this war. Don't confuse what you wish to not be true to what is actually true, geographically and historically speaking.

The point is the legal concept is a fiction, useful perhaps in the past, but increasingly not today, and like all fictions, it can be dispelled if people agree to do so.

How is your version better?

Could you explain more about Automerge being legacy? They recently released a new major version and revamped their algorithm I believe. What is better about your version?

These private clubs are the de-facto quasi-public square, is my point. In virtual space, the government is not hosting some sort of public social media so people are forced to use private corporations' services to voice their thoughts.

It's not McDonald's either, a singular location does not serve billions. The difference between a physical and virtual location is one of scale. As for your other paragraph, the point is that these corporations have gotten so large and people depend on them so much that being banned on them is essentially akin to being exiled from the ability to have free speech in modern society, whatever restrictions you want to reasonably put on them. What is the alternative you want people to use if, like Nepal, the government bans social media platforms, that I have not already addressed?

With your linking of that xkcd, it's clear you're misunderstanding my point about legal vs natural rights, as I stated initially.

> The local Costco is "at such a scale in the modern day" that it, too, is essentially a public square.

But it's not at such a scale though. It does not have one location with billions of members.

Yes, and it's shocking to see people cheer it on. An oft-heard refrain is about the legal right of the first amendment of the US constitution preventing the government from blocking speech, but that is based on the natural right of freedom of speech, as Hobbes and Locke would differentiate. Social media platforms are at such a scale in the modern day that they are essentially the public square, so the government blocking them is akin to blocking free speech in the legal right itself.

Some might say, you can publish elsewhere on your own domain, but again, it's like barricading the public square and only allowing one to speak in the middle of a forest; if no one but the trees listen, what is the point of the natural right to free speech?

This is some good marketing for Coolify, which the author makes as an open source platform as a service. I prefer Dokploy these days though, since it seems to be less buggy, as Coolify seems to have such bugs due to being on PHP.

https://coolify.io/

https://dokploy.com/

> It was a low effort attempt to make something interesting and it wasn’t.

Maybe to you, but others in this thread found it interesting.

> Lowers the bar for what good software really is.

Software is a means to some end, not the end in itself. I can make the best coded software that does nothing [0], there is no point to that other than to practice one's skills, but again, those skills are to achieve something in the end.

[0] https://github.com/EnterpriseQualityCoding/FizzBuzzEnterpris...

I stopped using Agent mode, it's only Ask mode for me now.

Are you implying some sort of threat?

> Yet at the same time it's not talked about at all.

You might be missing a whole paradigm that was written about in the 19th century and implemented in the 20th century, to deleterious effects.

In civilizations, people used to primarily be farmers but as food production increased, this gave rise to the specialization or division of labor. In the nature of an evolutionary competition of companies, those that specialize into builders and sellers will do better than builders that try to do both, therefore the former paradigm will win out.

> this is exponentially more difficult when you don't have the backing of some ostentatious pedigree.

This has not been the case these days, to be honest. While a pedigree helps, the playing field for investment has been much more level than, say, a few decades ago. Harder, sure, but exponentially more so, definitely not.

Millions, not billions, as DeepSeek and others have shown.

> The issue is pirating books, using them as inputs to math which is then resold as an LLM without compensation to the authors who have clearly copyrighted material.

No one seems to be able to explain what exactly the issue is here. How are authors harmed by LLMs (where such harm is often used to understand the range of copyright in lawsuits)? I don't see anyone replacing authors and their works, such as JK Rowling being harmed just because people can output Harry Potter esque texts. And if that's the case, well, fan fiction has been around for a long time, with no LLMs in its writing.

Depends what you want to define startups as, "lifestyle" businesses are often just a derogatory term that VCs use that don't mean anything in real life.

Not all startups are venture-backed.

I'm guessing it's because every year, younger people join HN. I've been on this site for at least a decade and a half with various accounts and it's interesting to see the shift.

All my works are open source or in the public domain. I don't like copyright for a reason.

Piracy is not stealing. I don't know why everyone on HN suddenly turned into a copyright hawk, only big companies benefit from our current copyright regime, like Disney and their lobbying for increasing its length.

Hence, "should"

This is sad for open source AI, piracy for the purpose of model training should also be fair use because otherwise only the big companies who can afford to pay off publishers like Anthropic will be able to do so. There is no way to buy billions of books just for model training, it simply can't happen.

What was the Browser Company even doing? First they had a successful consumer product with Arc as a Chrome clone, then they decided to shut it down for...a whole new browser called Dia that essentially acted as a browser extension that so many vibe coded clones were made of?

What was even the point of all this roundabout engineering and the time and manpower to do so? What a waste. This seems more like an acquihire than actually about IP.

Unless they all have ads, which is a good way to justify spending all that capex on training.

Humans are not tabulae rasae though. Evolution has hardwired our geniosity over millions of years.

> 10+ years ago I expected we would get AI that would impact blue collar work long before AI that impacted white collar work.

I'm not sure where people get this impression from, even back decades ago. Hardware is always harder than software. We had chess engines in the 20th century but a robotic hand that could move pieces? That was obviously not as easy because dealing with the physical world always has issues that dealing with the virtual doesn't.

First emperor that did this, per the comment I was replying to

Well, you can be a descriptivist all you want, but it's commonly understood to not mean "in factuality" even if people use it "incorrectly."