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Move fast and break things.

After all, who cares about those lost lifes of other people. It's a sacrifice they're willing to make.

Dystopian.

I'd say the biggest conclusion to be drawn from all what has happened is "there is no moat".

Which, in turn, means that there is no first-mover advantage. Which, in turn, invalidates a ton of the ridiculous valuations by VCs like YC.

Deepseek proved that there is no moat. Thus no path to profitability for openai, anthropic & co.

Stealing from thieves is fine by me. Sama was the one claiming that all information could be used to train LLMs, without permisdion of the copyright holders.

Now the same is being done to openai. Well, too bad.

And within half an hour somebody invested in nvidia stock is going to swoop in and explain how they totally (trust me bro) made x thousand with an app written by llm.

Every. Single. Time.

Almost as if there was a financial incentive to do that.

This is an extremist position and disagrees with a century of science on the topic. That simplistic "weak-minded" indicates that you are just looking for a chance to make yourself feel/look better than others and are unable to get positive stimuli on your own positive merits.

Additionally, you seem to need this illusion of control, that you and your "strong mind" are actually in charge, which current research heavily disagrees with. If you want to put that to the test, I've got a few ideas for you...

Humans are not as simple as you seem to think. If only it were that easy. I'd argue, actual adults are primarily able to discuss a topic without shitting on those they perceive as "weak".

Greetings from somebody who used to work on the treatment side of things.

What's with that idea that compulsions aren't real? They are just as real and difficult to drop as substance-based addictions, for a rather simple reason: The physical addiction is only a compounding factor, not the core difficulty in a "classic" addiction.

What really makes people always come back, no matter what, is the psychological addiction, not the physical one. Which is also why phones can be just as difficult to stop as gambling compulsions or drug addictions.

Because a massive share of the kagi users are part of the hn-adjecent crowd. When you look at the most manually upranked domains, you'll probably get a clearer picture. https://imgur.com/a/1Ed23d6

The typical kagi user uses hn. In the past, hn was even further up, though I guess they're slowly getting "normal" people too.

Hype. HN is _the_ platform to create hype among the early adopter, super-spreader/tech exec kind of people and because of that has an absolutely massive indirect reach.

Just look how often PR reps appear here to reply to accusations - they wouldn't bother at all if this was just some random platform like reddit.

Yeeees, right next to the page where he's shown to be a fantastic brother to his sister.

A snowclone is not "stolen valor", it's a completely normal part of modern writing.

Especially considering that Dijkstra didn't even coin the phrase himself.

>> somewhat

It's a factor of 5 to 20 [1] in many cases.

Regular hosting is unbelievably cheap, especially in high traffic environments.

[1] https://tech.ahrefs.com/how-ahrefs-saved-us-400m-in-3-years-...

I don't see FUD anywhere in my post. Did you accidentally reply to the wrong person?

My point was essentially, that if he thinks wayland is this bad, the poster should help improve it to their liking, instead of ranting - it's pretty widely adopted now, and just like systemd, little more than a few minor holdouts are going to be left a few years down the line.

Now, keep in mind, I'm not claiming that wayland is good or bad - just, that complaining is unproductive and improving helps much more.

Sorry for the late reply, was way too tired yesterday.

The most extreme situation is concept artists right now. Essentially, the entire profession has lost their jobs in the last year. Or casual artists making drawings for commission - they can't compete with AI and mostly had to stop selling their art. Similar is happening to professional translators - with AI, the translations are close enough to native that nobody needs them anymore.

The book market is getting flooded with AI-crap, so is of course the web. Authors are losing their jobs.

Currently, it seems to be creeping into the music market - not sure if people are going to notice/accept AI-made music. All the fantastic artists creating dubs are starting to go away as well, after all you can just synthesize their voices now.

It's quite sad, all considered.

DC interferes with your heart's rhythm much, much less though, due to being constant. AC's frequency easily causes ventricular fibrillations even at low currents and voltages. AC is considered potentially lethal starting at 50V. For DC it's 120V, because it's significantly easier on your heart.

Thanks for the link, that's fantastic to hear!

I'm seriously sick of that whole "laundering copyright via AI"-grift - and the destruction of the creative industry is already pretty noticable. All the creatives who brought us all those wonderful masterworks with lots of thought and talent behind, they're all going bankrupt and getting fired right now.

It's truly a tragedy - the loss of art is so much more serious than people seem to think it is, considering how integral all kinds of creative works are to a modern human live. Just imagine all of that being without any thought, just statistically optimized for enjoyment... ugh.

They're limited to pretty small sizes by german law - they are so insignificant that they're much less dangerous to handle. I'm not up to date on their ROI, but IIR they usually were a rather bad investment and more of a novel toy than a serious and reliable source of electricity.

Essentially, any notable installation fundamentally deals with much higher currents and voltages and as such is much, much more dangerous. Once a certain size is reached, the carrier also has to be involved and professional installation is mandatory, both due to the law and requirements by insurance companies.

At least here in germany. I've been involved with building all kinds of PV installations in bavaria, from 4kwp up to 20MWp. The balkony generators aren't taken seriously by anybody in the industry right now, at least.

Sure it is, but which of the many small websites are going to be able to fight them legally? Most companies would go broke before getting a ruling.

Reality is, the law doesn't matter if you're big enough. As long as they're not stealing content from the big ones, they're going to be fine.

I see. Thanks for the clear explanation, it looks quite interesting for super quick setups.

Cheers!

And houses are burning and people are being electrocuted regularly - being not only a hazard for themselves but also their entire neighbourhood. I certainly wouldn't want to live next to somebody who thinks they can handle their electricity installation by themselves.

But you can see fuel. You can't see currents and it's not trivially visible which things you can touch at all, which things you can touch at the same time, which protection to wear, how to deal with the potentially fatal flashing arcs, ...

PV installations on roofs typically have around 10-20kW peak output.

Let's go with 10kW. That's around 25 panels, each outputting 30V with something like 13A. Small installations are typically single-stringed, so you end up with a voltage of 25*30V=750V with 13A DC. That's pretty likely to kill you within milliseconds if you mess up.

There's a reason that stuff tends to be handled by professionals. It's a ridiculous (and pointless) risk if you aren't well educated about it and have some experience.

A small current is going to flow internally, but nothing else happens. It's quite normal to have solar panels running with zero load in regions with lots of PV - reason being, that the carriers need to keep their electricity nets stable and have to carefully balance electricity entering and leaving the net.

At least in Germany, every PV installation of certain size (> 30kW peak) is mandated to be able to be shutdown remotely by the carrier if you supply electricity for the net and aren't just using it for yourself. (You get paid the same during shutdowns, just like it were running. Otherwise it would be quite damaging and likely reduce adoption of PV)

Point being: no, it doesn't hurt the panels and is a regular ocurence.

The currents and voltages involved are going to make that a non-starter. Do you really want random people messing with those? The solar inverters are also sized that big for a reason.

At least in countries with strong regulations around working with electricity this is simply not going to be feasible.

I've been in the PV business for some time now and seen a person get killed by it. It's not pretty. Still remembering that smell of burnt flesh... Now, to be fair, that was at a 12MW-installation, not on a roof. But still...

How does it compare to kanata and kmonad?

Found especially kanata a delight to use, while being both minimal, if needed, and maximally feature-filled if desired.

That ship has already sailed I'm afraid.

Instead of running against windmills, try submitting patches and constructively improving the thing - it isn't going to go away, that much is safe to say. Every day yet another distro adopts it, at a steadily increasing pace.

Build extension packs, workarounds, etc. - similar to all the tools unfucking gnome 3 did, instead of fighting a hopeless battle.

Copyright laundering.

Easily the cheapest way to get decorative pictures where reality doesn't matter much - at least for now, until the law in various countries catches up to this practice.

Happens a lot, mostly when US Companies with a majority of their customers in the US make changes without thinking about other countries/ taking them seriously.

Additionally, ToS really don't count for much in the EU, they're usually not enforcable anyway, if there's anything out of the ordinary at all. There's a whole lot of stuff in ToS nobody is ever going to be able to enforce at all.

They probably expected to fly under the radar, without making sure it's even okay everywhere. Well, that's not going to happen I guess.

That particular Vulture certainly won't fly in the EU.

Without a simple summarization for end users you can't just hide "unexpected" things in ToS-updates. And, well, a cloud-hoster deciding randomy to own your content hosted on servers you pay for is certainly neither expected nor typical.

Good luck enforcing anything of that, vultr.

Rimworld. Dyson Sphere Program. Cult of the Lamb. Escape from Tarkov. Furi. Getting over it with Bennett Foddy. Hollow Knight. Kerbal Space Program. Oxygen not included. Pillars of Eternity. Risk of Rain 2. Tyranny.

I'd say all of those do some major thing that makes them stand out.

Because the EU's overall attempt to disempower US tech giants is something SV simply doesn't like at all. A significant share of the users here are heavily invested in those companies - financially and otherwise - so obviously they won't ever encourage a future where tech companies are a part of society like every other one, without particular power.

And the more angry rants we get from SV-folks, the better we know that we're on the right track.

You keep claiming this across the entire thread, yet people explained to you dozens of times that the board is the ultimate arbiter over the nonprofit. They are not going to get ousted, unless they start killing people or anything like that.

They all have enough money to be able to fight any legal challenges. This is not your regular, poor nonprofit paying slave wages.

You always claim "precedent" - so please show me, when has the board of a nonprofit even close to as high profile as open AI ever been removed by external pressure? As far as I can tell, we're on entirely new territory here.

I for one am glad Ilya is prevailing here - sama is the typical SV sociopath pushing growth at any cost. We really don't need any more of those guys at a place this important.