HighGoldstein

The caveat with the Unlicense is that it doesn't work in some jurisdictions, and the work may be considered literally unlicensed, as in nobody except the copyright owner can use it. In practical terms, of course, I doubt anyone using the Unlicense plans to come after you for copyright infringement, but it's something to keep in mind. This is why many organizations recommend instead using something like CC0, MIT etc.

> The problem, of course, is that it's not possible. But for those politicians, cryptography is pretty much magic. Why wouldn't it be possible?

Few, if any, politicians are nuclear physicists, and I'd argue nuclear physics is far more complex than cryptography, yet I haven't seen any of them ask the weapons industry to manufacture a nuke for just the bad guys.

Let's not attribute blatant malice to stupidity. People in these positions have the resources and advisors to know exactly what the consequences will be.

> There is very little practical difference between "understanding" and "reasoning" implemented in human mind and that implemented in LLMs.

Source?

Violence is not always physical. The likes of Meta have subjected the world to unfathomable violence, but we give them a pass because we can't see the scars with our eyes.

Given the policies of the current US administration, neither will Anduril.

> The first three months of childcare are practically memoryless for the child.

Source? The fact that you can't remember this period _now_ does not mean it has no impact on a child's development.

Conceptually no, unless you specifically target end-of-life fatal ailments for some reason. Extending the healthy lifespan is a pretty reliable way to extend overall lifespan.

Keeping a person _technically_ alive is not that difficult with modern technology. We can circulate blood without hearts, keep the brain-dead "alive", "feed" people intravenously. I don't know the absolute limits of this in practice, but the more autonomy you're willing to sacrifice the easier it becomes to keep a human body alive by artificial means.

There's always another CoPilot

> but in what world would the drives, and not the NAS itself, be stolen?

Not to defend Synology, but popping a drive out of the NAS so that it won't be noticed (or noticed much later) is a much easier way to steal data than carrying off the whole NAS. I assume they're guarding against the kind of scenario where an employee steals steals drives rather than ski-masked thieves breaching the office and making off with the NAS.

I wonder if, conversely, authentic media can be falsely watermarked as AI-generated.

Video evidence of you committing a crime, for example, should be identifiable as AI-generated.

To disrupt Valve's business you'd need an offering as good if not better than Steam, something several companies already tried and failed, and on top of that you need to convince everyone with buy-in to switch to your business, another monumental task. While people are happy with Steam it'll be impossible to challenge Valve as a digital distributor.

>Her parents also believe that watch circles contributed to Liu’s increasingly unstable emotional state in the run-up to China’s high school entrance exams. With just three months to go, teachers advised that she take a leave of absence after a video emerged of Liu rolling on the floor of a classroom before rushing out. Shortly after, she was placed on medication for severe depression.

>While the Asperger’s syndrome and academic pressure no doubt played a part in the breakdown, Wang and Liu’s therapist also felt that she had become overstimulated by her online socializing.

Naturally, it wasn't the Zhongkao, but basic social media.

Does this mean moving fastest would break infinitely many things?

The problem with fields like IT is that the people who can make unions effective are also already employed and likely making decent money, so they have little or not enough incentive to unionize. The worst thing that can usually happen to them is layoffs, and in that case there might be a lot of copium in the form of "It won't happen to me".

For a moment I thought it might be the presidential plane, which would explain the emissions, but no, for some reason Trump's personal plane is a whole ass Boring 757

Then, we ended up bundling 50MB of minified frameworks in every page load. Maybe the next part of the cycle will be for optimizing this aspect of LLMs, maybe even to be able to fit more meaningful code in the context windows of these very LLMs.

I think a lot of the Kubernetes hate comes from non-technical people deciding to use it in cases where it either doesn't actually solve any problem, or the overhead is much greater than the benefit. There's a reason it originated from Google, and as much as it pains MBA factory graduates, the project or organizaton they manage is nowhere near Google scale.

Autonomous sentry turrets have already been a thing since the 2000s. If we assume that military technology is always at least some 5-10 years ahead of civilian, it is likely that some if not all of the "defense" contractors have far more terrifying autonomous weapons.

> Their body, their choice. Why should people who can use it responsibly be denied? And worse, why should they be punished if they choose to use it regardless of legality?

Because we don't live in isolated universes of individuality. When they cause massive damage to their bodies and minds, that cost is not only borne by themselves but by their close circle and society at large. You can argue that prohibition is not the right approach to preventing these problems, but doing the non-optimal thing is better than doing nothing at all.

Op said "if you started with a high end card". The GTX 970 was Nvidia's mid-range at the time, and not a great one at that. A 980 Ti or Titan X can still perform reasonably well for a 10 year old card. Even with the 970, the real problem is its low VRAM (and the 3.5+0.5GB fiasco). The AMD RX 480 8G which was comparable but with much more VRAM can still run most games, even if you have to make some compromises.

> recognizing that indie games probably lose massive revenue from initial release piracy.

This seems like an odd claim _especially_ for indie games. Indie games tend to already have trouble attracting buyers, it feels like anyone considering pirating it would just move on if they couldn't do so.

> Is there a VM technology that can make Linux aware that it's running in a VM, and be able to hand back the memory it uses to the host OS?

Isn't this an issue of the hypervisor? The guest OS is just told it has X amount of memory available, whether this memory exists or not (hence why you can overallocate memory for VMs), whether the hypervisor will allocate the entire amount or just what the guest OS is actually using should depend on the hypervisor itself.

A lot of my university professors would use this kind of strategy where your final grading structure depends on various grades you got throughout the semester, so all students could get good grades whether they ace the exam or they are terrible at exams but excel at project based learning/labs.

However heating 30C water to the desired temperature is cheaper than heating 10C water

> What you are describing is a political problem, not one for entrepreneurs. IMO the solution would be a form of UBI that we can smoothly increase as automation in fact removes jobs or lowers wages.

The most successful entrepreneurs like Bezos are also the biggest political influencers, and instead of UBI they are advocating for less tax for themselves.

>I'd like to see that start ASAP, but OTOH we are still close to record-low unemployment and the last years saw the largest wage increases at the lower end in decades.

The last years also saw the highest rates of inflation in decades. Even basic necessities are the least affordable they've been in a long time, let alone something like housing.

I don't know about iOS, but on Android you can just pay through a Google Pay pop-up, you don't need to input any kind of payment information to the app itself. Does iOS not have such a mechanism?

> The first is that the LLM outputs are not consistently good or bad - the LLM can put out 9 good MRs before the 10th one has some critical bug or architecture mistake. This means you need to be hypervigilant of everything the LLM produces, and you need to review everything with the kind of care with which you review intern contributions.

This is not a counter-argument, but this is true of any software engineer as well. Maybe for really good engineers it can be 1/100 or 1/1000 instead, but critical mistakes are inevitable.

> I wonder if Brexit would have happened if Farage hadn't survived his plane crash? Or would the media elect another figurehead to put on all the talk shows?

Seeing as the difference was 1.89%, even marginally less effective campaigning would've doubtless resulted in a vote to remain in the EU.