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You're being willfully dense, I do not believe it's up for debate.

Governments that public force to kidnap, torture, murder, "disappear" their own citizens, are bad. Plenty of examples to go around, both historically and currently: China, Russia, México, North Korea, Belarus, the balcans, plenty of African governments, etc.

It shouldn't matter that "34% of my neighbors" want me sent to a concentration camp, personally I wouldn't want to end up there.

The example you're giving, the whole "it really depends on people's views, ..." is a bad government.

And the truth is that it's easy to be a good government: don't be bad.

Edit: fixed a word.

Because, nature in its infinite wisdom, gets rid of what's not used.

You don't use your muscles? They atrophy. You don't make an effort to travel without a gps regularily, to force your brain to remember your way around naturally? Your spatial memory atrophies and becomes useless [here: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-020-62877-0 ]

People don't need to learn math anymore, hence, no more calculus lessons? People are literally becoming idiots who can't calculate simple change at the cash register without pulling out their calculators.

It's exercise. It keeps the brain itself from atrophying. It stops you from becoming a "wetware LLM" that's just parroting whatever echo of a thought (natural or otherwise) goes through it.

It doesn't matter if you can't solve a randomly-appearing-in-your-newsreel integral; it matters that you have the background knowledge of what an integral is, that there are rules to solving it, and you can read up on the rules and understand them.

For the [current] layperson, each of those things I mentioned I might as well be speaking in Martian.

Why would anyone give them any money AT ALL?

It's not like they're poor or struggling.

Am I missing something?

It's like you didn't read the article.

They address exactly that gripe at the end.

Imagine being so deluded and disconnected that you actually believe that AI has any similarity with the printing press regarding the benefits to The People.

Don't be dense.

At least try to keep up with the main concern: "sending potentially private or security impacting information in plaintext across the internet".

"Does not exist blah blah"

That has to be one of the most inane replies I've read in a while.

> The one I am assuming you are referring to is Meta, and they are getting sued. They arguably should also be facing criminal charges too under current law.

I think your assumption is falling too short, it's not just Meta, it's OpenAI, it's Anthropic, it's Google, and Microsoft, and others.

Like you said, the court case hasn't finished, but there's meddling from the Whitehouse already; I really doubt there's going to be any fair play in this case.

A better analogy is that LLM crawlers are candy store workers going through the houses grabbing free candy and then selling it in their own shop.

Scalpers. Knowledge scalpers.

Does it matter?

Will the existence or lack thereof excuse the absolute lack of security and privacy this package exhibits? And the lack of interest from the developer?

I disagree; it's basically lawyerspeak for "sucks to be you".

If one is expected to go through all the documentation of both the main package and all dependency packages, and also through whatever specific configuration details to your case, just to be able to catch a specific IMPORTANT detail that's not clearly spelled out in the main package, that's malicious.

"A dependency we use captures your clipboard data and sends it to remote servers"

That sentence right there would kill their userbase, so they omit warning you about it. And on top of the "...user should have read the description..." non-apology, "just split the packages, bro".

That's malicious.

This makes me feel old.

I loved that movie, and everyone I know at least liked it, a lot.

It flopped because of The Lorax, and THAT was massively disappointing.

To be honest, the similarity is skin-deep only: * Python: VERY dynamic, interpreted, interactive * Nim: Static typing, compiled, non-interactive ("inim" gives it a good try tho)

That said, Nim has great metaprogramming facilities, and one of its similarities with Python is that it requires very very little scaffolding to get your program going. Unlike Java, or C, you don't need to write up classes and functions, it can literally be just a straightforward script written in Nim and it'll compile an executable from there.

It also has great modularity, so you can split up your solution into whatever makes the most sense to you.

So... I think the best way is to try it.

I'm pretty sure that if you like Python you'll like Nim.

I don't know if I'm the only one that finds fault with:

> GBH, which produces Frontline, gets $177MM in revenue from major donors and viewer subscriptions.

Given Frontline is a production for public consumption, for public good, it shouldn't have to be financed by donations, it absolutely should be financed by the federal government.

I find your tone (sorry) offensive, in the sense that you DON'T find it dramatic and just plain terrible that CPB had to cease operations, just because billionaires feel it's a waste of "money that could be in their pocket" and obviously they prefer the greater population to be clueless and ignorant.

Me? I am furious. But what can I do besides the usual? Write my congresscritters, call them, write angry posts on Hackernews, donate?

Nim?

I'm still waiting for specifics.

I've been running Mint for ... longer than I care to remember, many years, and it's been flawless for me. I see windows users around me raging when it decides to just freeze, or has weird twitchy behavior, and I just keep on going.

And no, I don't spend hours upon hours tweaking and troubleshooting until it's "just right"; Mint convinced me because it was 99% "just right" out of the box.

Compared to when I used W10 and earlier, it's been sheer joy. It just stays out of the way and lets me do what I need to do.

"Odds vs. Stakes"

"The odds of X happening are so low that what's the point?", to which I respond "It only needs to happen once for me to be dead, so, the stakes are way too high for me to risk the odds".

I think it was having a government having an active hand in guiding society: housing, education, childcare, stable government jobs, high enough taxes at the top end to finance all of that.

lol, it's not a "you do you" thing, that's what they're actually named, "parameters" and "arguments" have distinct objective definitions in this context and those are it. In this specific case it's you who's using made up words for concepts that others already have a specific name for.

The more you know, the more you know you don't know.

Not just a learning exercise, it's also very useful, it allows you to expose application internals in a controlled way so that they can be scripted without exposing your entire codebase to untrusted code.

> I guess for me the questions is, at what point do you feel it would be reasonable to this without the experts involved in your case?

I don't know if it was the intent but these kind of questions bother me, the seem to hint at an agenda, "when can I have a farm of idiots with keyboards paid minimum wage churn out products indistinguishable from expertly designed applications".

To me that's the danger of AI, not it's purported intelligence, but our manifested greed.

This is a thing of beauty, thank you!! :-D

Incredible work :-)

Congratulations!!

That's funny, there's a huge community of people doing just that: https://circuitpython.org/awesome

> I'm interested to see whether the final feature set will be larger than what you'd get by creating a type-safe language with a pythonic syntax and compiling that to native, rather than building custom hardware.

It almost sounds like you're asking for Nim ( https://nim-lang.org/ ); and there are some projects using it for microcontroller programming, since it compiles down to C (for ESP32, last I saw).

>> I don't think >Definitely true.

I thought we left middle-school playground tactics behind.

I worry that they don't understand the limitations of their own product.

I don't know if you're being sarcastic or obtuse.