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I'm not seeing the connection between a relative lack of regulation in the software industry and the price of FOSS software being (close to) zero or your larger assertion regarding free markets and prosperity in general.

At the same time I'm not sure that the computer industry is a good example for your claim due to its roots in the Bell telecommunication monopoly and the massive subsidies from the US military that lead to the wide availability of the cheap personal computers that most of the open source software that you are talking about originated from.

If anything the rise of American tech giants and the proliferation of cheap computers is directly attributable to decades of intervention by the US government and not a free market success story.

> What can I or you possibly do that can wreak havoc on this scale?

Build a bunch of drones that carry explosives and leave them outside chemical plants, refineries, and nuclear plants across the world and then launch a simultaneous attack on infrastructure.

Budget $1000-$2000 per drone and then whatever your costs of transportation for the road trip are.

But animal testing could be a local maxima.

It could and likely is the case that we can make better alternatives to animal testing but we're held back by the kinds of arguments you just made and the inertia in the system so we don't move past a flawed but functional paradigm based around animal testing.

What do you believe is the correct course of action for law enforcement to take in this situation?

https://apnews.com/article/robot-germany-sexual-assault-colo...

Can you extend that to this situation?

Oh my god you're right.

I think I unintentionally brought Tree Law to HN.

Now that I think of this may be the first time that I've seen Tree Law on here.

We're only a hop, skip and a jump from getting some vigorous discussion about Bay area Tree Law now.

But isn't that typically the responsibility of the person who owns the land that the tree was sitting on before it fell?

Incorporate and have the phone be owned by your corporation. You're a contractor who separates business from pleasure.

I guess you could say that evolution is a sort of a paradox of heaps.[0]

Somewhere inside an organism must exist the means to evolve into another creature otherwise if it didn't it couldn't.

My layman's interpretation of this experiment is that the results characterize the process of evolution of a genome adapting to an environment overtime until novel phenotypes develop.

I find it awe inspiring to think about every single organism that ever lived and the entire surface of the planet has been defined by the first organism that came into existence and the particular chemical makeup of the first location where that occurred.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sorites_paradox

This reminds me of those evolution experiments where they would take a bacteria that couldn't metabolize citric acid and put it in a citric acid environment and then freeze / sequence samples every few generations and see how long it would take for them to develop the mutations required to metabolize citric acid and they woudl find that the precursors to this ability was already latent in generations prior to the adaptation showing up.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E._coli_long-term_evolution_ex...

I'm doing something similar but with a Red Alert++ type of game with C and WebAssembly and Emscripten.

It's something I've been picking at in my free time but these posts from the last week regarding game decompiling old games and rebuilding the as web apps have inspired me to pick it up again. It's interesting to me how many people were critical of the performance of these games and that recent Sim City clone definitely had my laptop fans whirring but I find that my game doesn't have any of these performance issues. Performance-wise WebAssembly and Emscripten seem remarkable, and I haven't even added SIMD or multicore functionality yet.

One of the nice features about building it this way is that the desktop version can easily interface with 3d model / image generators which I intend to in the desktop unit-editor to generate assets for the game.

The pipeline that I'm envisioning is a 3d model generator that pushes the models into Blender to generate different perspective stills of them and then feed that to a stable diffusion image generator that paints them and a unit icons and such, and a voice model that generates their "ready to serve" peon type sounds when you click on them. I'm picturing a system that I can leave over night unattended to generate a bunch of units that I can look at in the morning to add to the game if I like them.

It would be really cool if you guys enforced these rules uniformly.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50055304#50060177

What sets this particular comment apart from so many others on this thread that you felt the need to comment on it specifically?

Can you point out what a good way of expressing disagreement or skepticism about a subject matter looks like on HN?

I agree with this idea very much. I think that the magic moment will be when a humanoid robot can fully repair another humanoid robot.

If it can do all the other stuff that you're describing plus partial self-repair / full repair of another robot it can, with a supply of spare parts, with enough time and access to raw materials fully self replicate.

Anyone who owns those machines has a tremendous opportunity to build whatever they want.

An adjacent machine that you may be interested in: https://www.opulo.io/products/lumenpnp

I've got one that seems caught up perpetually in that "half built" state that some project find themselves in, but I too am hoping to get it done this year.

Their discord community is pretty active with a lot of mods and forks from the users, and the openpnp discord has some pretty interesting projects on there too.

If my car rolls into you, you can say it rolled into you, or that I let it roll into you, but those things can both be true.

Wow.

That's insane.

I don't see how the current American legal system can decisively shut this kind of reprehensible abuse of power down.

Everyone has to ask themselves what their personal breaking point is. How many times does a person need to stick a gun in your face and threaten your life before you do whatever is necessary to prevent them from doing that ever again?

Power never takes a back step only in the face of more power. — Malcolm X

Be peaceful, be courteous, obey the law, respect everyone; but if someone puts his hand on you, send him to the cemetery. — Malcolm X

55 times over two years, so basically every two weeks on average?

At what point do the officials involved in this become involved with the criminal harassment themselves? At what point is it legal / acceptable (though unwise) to shoot the armed men entering your house?

I've thought about submitting a "What are you listening to" question to get conversation about music and podcasts going, would that be an acceptable question to ask?

What does re-stimulate mean in this context?

I'm a bit confused about this discussion about whether or not she conceived of a double helix structure as this PBS Nova documentary on DNA includes a scene where they show her notes that have her muse about the possibility of a double or triple helix structure.[0]

As for base complementarity it seems likely that she would have made that leap from everything else that she knew of at the time, but I'm no expert on this subject and have not read her notes.

[0] https://youtu.be/_1FUqUSNPeI?t=2487

I've just been setting up some Odoo instances for some side projects that I'm involved with and it got me thinking about whether any of these automated business attempts have used an open source ERP like Odoo as a backend for their endeavours.

It seems to me that it's a good foundation for this kind of experiment and doesn't involve too much reinventing the wheel.

Just let the LLMs do what they're best at and keep the business records inside an established and tested system instead of reproducing one ad-hoc.

I have a sneaking suspicion that the talk about the water consumption is a red herring intentionally spread by the PR machines of these companies because it's it reframes the debate around an aspect of the issue that is ultimately irrelevant and distracts from ones that are more important like carbon emissions, pollution, electrical/gas price spikes due to induced scarcity and ultimately how these mega projects have little benefit for the people who will experience all the negative consequences of them.

Meta recently announced that they want to put a ~2.0 gigawatt DC about 70km from where I live. The provincial government played up the ~60 million that Meta would be doing int he area and the ~250 million in annual tax revenue that they would receive but none of the conversation focused on the wasted opportunity of using the heat generated from this facility to in greenhouses that could operate year round in our cold climate.

That frustrates me because the waste heat from that single facility alone could go a long way to bootstrapping a greenhouse industry here that would go a long way to ensuring food sovereignty in the region. But of course sovereignty and self-sufficiency are antithetical to the purpose of this AI infrastructure, our government lacks the foresight or will to maximize returns from these kinds of things, and people collectively lacks the ability to think and talk about these things.

So the best we can do is inconsequential conversation about water usage.

Inefficient compared to a B-29 dropping a bomb over a city but not inefficient compared to whatever other means (if any) Germany had of attacking an east cost city like New York.

Rest assured that if this alternate history scenario had occurred historians would not be talking about the inefficiency of the attack, they would be talking about the most devastating attack that Germany was able to conduct against Americans on their own soil during the war. It would have completely changed the American mindset and culture forever.

I went on a date with a woman in Romania. During the date she commented that my phone wasn't an iPhone but that I had a fancy Sony mirrorless camera (as I was a tourist) so that made up for it.

This comment is full of misinformation.

The US hasn't withdrawn from CUSMA. On July 1st it declined to extend the agreement past 2036, which isn't the same thing. The deal stays in force until 2036 with annual reviews, and no withdrawal notice has been given.

It was also the US, not Canada, that declined to renew. Canada and Mexico both pushed for extension with the same administration that renegotiated NAFTA into CUSMA only a few years ago. So what changed exactly?

Also, the 6 year review is about whether to extend the term. Withdrawal is a separate clause that a nation can use at any time on six months' notice. As I understand it the treaty doesn't set up "if negotiations fail, then withdraw" mechanism but IANAL.

The 400% dairy figure is incredbily inflated. The steep tariffs, roughly 200-300% depending on the product, apply only above quota, and in quota imports come into the states without duty. The US also runs its own dairy quotas, and it's incredibly disingenuous to portray Canada as the overbearing protectionist entity in a scenario where Americans twice elected a leader running on an overtly and relatively unprecedented (in modern times anyways) protectionist policy.

> The Canadian government made the soup themselves.

On this we are in full agreement. The integration of the Canadian economy into the American one has placed Canada in a precarious place and only further decoupling from America and seeking trading partners abroad will change that.

https://cassels.com/insights/cusmsa-still-in-force-notwithst...

The worst part is that they probably didn't delete the data and are using it to train models.

I'm not a lawyer but from my laymen perspective I see a whole lot of negligence and racketeering. Also the bribery with the American current administration.

These things may not be illegal in America but they certainly are illegal some jurisdiction that OpenAI and others operate in.

I'd like to hear more about how you feel the HN flag feature relates to the comparisons the user you replied to raised to the Slashdot voting system and context in voting.

One of my biggest criticisms of social media in general is that the algorithm that determines how things are scored and ranked is intentionally obfuscated under the auspices of preventing 3rd parties from gaming it in such way that results in an outcome where it is impossible for users to determine if the platform owners are gaming it themselves.

I'm not aware of a social media site that does it but I think that I'd very strongly prefer a site where I could view a transparent log of who voted for what and when and what moderator took what action and when and why and how that all factors into how a comment / post / thread is ranked on the feed at any particular moment than one that hides all that stuff.

Reproducible builds but for social media.

Less 'pay no attention to that man behind the curtain' and more 'Exactly what it says on the tin"

The more that I interact with moderators on social media the more I've come to realize that as much as they're burnt out from answering the same questions from not-bad actors over and over as they are dealing with organic bad actors or automated content generators and that a great deal of those questions stem from the opaque nature of the algorithm.

All too often I find that moderators on social media are exasperated and burnt out not just from the endless janitorial work but also from users reaching out to them for understanding about the opaque nature of their actions and the outcomes that they have in the system.

So a lot of moderators gravitate towards a 'don't rock the boat' sort of mentality and over time adopt this sort of mentality: https://youtu.be/hNuu9CpdjIo?t=56

IMHO we're well past the point where any sort of security by obscurity with regards to the algorithm prevents any sort of automated influence on social media and the negative impacts of this kind of moderating technique only causes more damage than it prevents / mitigates.

The American intelligence community choose to jumpstart the Surveillance Industrial Revolution which is what has enabled companies like Google, Microsoft, and Facebook to dominate.

Europe didn't choose to do that.