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temporalparts··on Introducing System One Models and Jev
A calculator is faster and cheaper and higher quality for the use cases I bind my task space to.

It's therefore misleading because they make people believe they're as general purpose as LLMs.

temporalparts··on Startup founders urge U.S. government not to shut off Chinese open weight AI
Setting aside the strict definition of IP, this does satisfy the philosophical motivation of IP, which is to protect people making significant capital investments.

This is not too different from drug discovery where it's extremely difficult to come up with the molecule, but relatively easy to copy it. Similarly, it's really hard to create frontier models from scratch but much easier to distill them.

temporalparts··on AI can't be listed as inventor on patent applications, Japan's top court rules
This may surprise extreme altruists but there are people who genuinely care about profit motives and are only willing to make the world a better place at a price. I don't see software engineers in advertising and finance quitting their jobs en-masse to work for teach for america, doctors without borders, etc.

Also, the bulk of the cost of manufacturing a drug lives in the scientific & engineering exploration space, which we should incentivize.

temporalparts··on Ask HN: What's your experience working on software for science?
Would love to learn more! What did you work on (even vertical: chemistry, medicine, materials, physics, cosmology, etc.), notable stories?
temporalparts··on US Copyright Office found AI companies breach copyright. Its boss was fired
I'm not an expert, but I thought fan art that people try to monetize in some form is explicitly illegal unless it's protected by parody, and any non commercial "violations" of copyright is totally legal. Disney can't stop me from drawing Mickey in the privacy of my own house, just monetizing/getting famous off of them.
temporalparts··on US Copyright Office found AI companies breach copyright. Its boss was fired
The problem isn't that people aren't aware that the scale and magnitude differences are large and significant.

It's that the space of intellectual property LAW does not handle the robust capabilities of LLMs. Legislators NEED to pass laws to reflect the new realities or else all prior case law relies on human analogies which fail in the obvious ways you alluded to.

If there was no law governing the use of death stars and mass murder, and the only legal analogy is to environmental damage, then the only crime the legal system can ascribe is mass environmental damage.

temporalparts··on Huawei launches $3,660 trifold phone
I saw an old man yesterday use a foldable for the larger screen for larger fonts. Maybe he was a hardcore tech enthusiasts, but larger screens is an important use case for many.
temporalparts··on Complex dynamics require complex solutions
I think Terrance makes a great general point in general, but the specific claim is not always true: complex dynamics can arise from simple initial conditions, therefore, simple changes could resolve those complex dynamics.
temporalparts··on The business of gutting failed Bay Area tech companies
Which one would you recommend for the greater Boston area?
temporalparts··on Trudeau government bans TikTok from operating in Canada
This can't be a serious question.

US Government likes US Government control because it's themselves.

They don't want an adversary to have control. Is the distinction not obvious??

temporalparts··on Hezbollah pager explosions kill several people in Lebanon
I know there is a documented case of a non-involved person getting injured, but do you have evidence that this attack was not 99% effective? The attack vector was the device specifically used only by involved people.
temporalparts··on Poetry was an official Olympic event
I mean, we have pistol, which is a smol cannon shooting.
temporalparts··on Google loses antitrust suit over search deals on phones
I think the important argument for^1 is that this prevents other search engine from bidding on the slot. It certainly would be an issue for Google if Apple products defaulted to Bing.
temporalparts··on Google-Wiz deal fizzles out, company will pursue IPO
I think there's some behind the scenes drama. It takes a LOT of time and investment from both sides to build up to a $23B offer. I wonder if there was something some Alphabet exec did to piss off the founders. Or Wiz was stringing Alphabet along to hype up the IPO.
temporalparts··on Canada imposes 5% tax on streaming to fund local news, diverse content
I can't tell if people in this thread are negative about taxes or negative about funding local news, which is crucial for a robust democracy.
temporalparts··on Starlink as a means to win at nuclear war
Yes, by making sure they don't hit back. The United States won a nuclear war against Japan in WW2. In theory, it's possible to intercept all the missiles from an enemy, see Iran's attack on Israel recently.
temporalparts··on Starlink as a means to win at nuclear war
Nothing notably bad happens. Nuclear explosions are highly sensitive and engineered events. If you destroy the ignition mechanism, then it will become a dud.

FWIW, there has been a number of nuclear explosion tests in our atmosphere: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tsar_Bomba

temporalparts··on A mile-long lava tube where humans sheltered for thousands of years
Where did you think ChatGPT got their training data?
temporalparts··on Scientists have traced human tail loss to a short sequence of genetic code
Nature rarely* refactors. Sometimes random mutations refactors, which leads to efficiencies which leads to evolutionary advantages.

If nature doesn't refactor, then why are there so many crabs?

temporalparts··on US permanently deploys training mission in Taiwan
Going by the contrapositive: Since China doesn't perceive this as a declaration of war, then I guess by your binary logic Taiwan's an independent country.
temporalparts··on Building end-to-end security for Messenger
How would the servers know where to route the poll requests without metadata? They wouldn't.
temporalparts··on Building end-to-end security for Messenger
It's not possible to have a "web scale" that end-to-end encrypts metadata, because part of the metadata is understanding the recipient.

If the network or server has no idea where to deliver an encrypted message, then the only way to guarantee delivery is to send all the messages to all the users to unpack to see which ones are relevant to them, which fails "web scale"

temporalparts··on Can’t send email more than 500 miles (2002)
Spain is 7 hours ahead of Central Time currently. Maybe the TV automatically reset at midnight Spain time?
temporalparts··on Carrefour puts ‘shrinkflation’ price warnings on food to shame brands
Then you’re just tracking the real inflation of the product. Most consumers don’t go through the trouble of looking or remembering what the past unit prices are, so there’s consumer protection advocacy to protect and inform the typical consumer of the downsides of current offerings.
temporalparts··on X updates its Terms to prohibit crawling/scraping of its data
I'm very familiar with the case, HiQ was found in violation because they also created bot accounts from which they consented into the user agreement. LinkedIn lost based on merits of the scraping of public data.
temporalparts··on X updates its Terms to prohibit crawling/scraping of its data
As long as it's not behind a login, and is publicly available, I think there's US precedent that this is unenforceable:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HiQ_Labs_v._LinkedIn

temporalparts··on Apple to Launch 'Low-Cost' MacBook Series Next Year to Rival Chromebooks
Because of price discrimination. By offering a cheaper product, a producer can capture more producer surplus by capturing users who would never have bought at the previous price point. This also allows the company to sell their higher end product at a greater price because the efficient price moves upwards when the lower demand folks get factored out.
temporalparts··on X/Twitter has updated its terms of service to let it use posts for AI training
> There's no other source like that in English other than Reddit

1) Facebook Posts/Comments, 2) Instagram Posts/Comments, 3) Youtube Comments, 4) Gmail content, 5) LinkedIn Comments, 6) TikTok contents / comments

X and Reddit are definitely valuable, but they're definitely not unique. I think Meta and Google have inherent advantages because their data is not accessible to LLM competitors and they have the actual capabilities to build great LLMs.

Unless X decides to tap AI talent in China, they're going to have a REALLY hard time spinning up a competitive LLM team compared to OpenAI, Google, and Meta, which I think are the top three LLM companies in that order.

temporalparts··on Figma makes 200 fixes and improvements to Dev Mode
US DOJ is still looking into it and perhaps EU would prevail here.

https://www.theverge.com/2023/8/8/23810981/eu-probe-investig...

temporalparts··on Boston mayor announces residential conversion program for office buildings
Nimby's have an easier time fighting new construction than conversions. I don't see this as a poor use of time if it can introduce hundreds of unit to a scarce and expensive market.

Also, the last sentence of the article:

> The Mayor also committed to update Boston’s zoning code to create thousands of additional housing units in Boston’s squares and corridors and reform the Article 80 process to increase speed and predictability for development.

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