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> The engine already existed, our public library system

How good one's library is depends on how well-off the operating local government is. The Imagination Library is more egalitarian because it's often funded at county and state-level, so kids with underfunded libraries get the same level of access as other kids from wealthier zip codes

In a just world, Musk would get the Ilhan Omar treatment - and he actually broke US immigration law, a breach for which thousands of people are being deported by the current administration.

> In the same vein there is no reason to bother with social networks owned by literal far left supporters

Name one

Why don't you open source 0.4-preview too, to make your claims verifiable. The longer you take to release it (or choose not to release it at all) the more it'll look like a cover-up. If the binary is (made) public, it's going to get the AI-assisted decompilation treatment anyway.

> The problem with free public transport is that it turns into a de facto homeless shelter.

I don't think $2.50 is what's preventing this from happening today.

> At the end of the deposition, the lawyer had to catch a flight to the west coast and she asked ME.

Was the lawyer that hired you present when she made the offer to pay you? If not, I'll cynically assume she was trying to entangle you in some conflict-of-interest ploy to keep you from being called as an expert at the trial.

> People are in stockholm syndrome over it though and aren't going to leave.

People usually dont - until the levies break, and they do. The PlayStation 4 won its generation, because people left XBox for it, in part, over game sharing (or lack thereof)

> I get the sense that people on HN just like to dunk on the guy who came up with the design

I can't speak for anyone else - but I'm dunking on the organization that failed to catch this - at multiple stages - before it was rolled out.

> It doesn’t strike me as inherently bad

It should! DNS is mostly public and therefore shouldn't be used to hold non-public information. Everyone (should) know TLS-protected paths are superior for privacy. The secondary issue is they used low-entropy guessable DNS records at that.

The domain-isolation advantages you mention are easily accomplished by using both a unique, high-entropy subdomain and a long unique path, but rach problem should be addressed individually with explicit goals and not just vibed. Also, aggressively rate-limit probers.

Sir, I take the impending plumbing singularity very seriously, and wouldn't want anyone to be left behind. When plumbing hits recursive self-improvement, we may see toilets that shit themselves more efficiently than any man can, and finally attain ASI (Auto-Shitting Infrastructure).

Many users no longer want to do this after facing a deluge of low-quality, low-effort games and having to rate them all. They'd rather let the dreck remain unrated.

Anyone who attempts to reframe this as "AI is not a contributing factor" needs to remember that in the past, the number of sloppy games were negligible due to a natural filter/barrier of entry where the indie author had to know how to code, or motivated enough pay someone who does.

AI lowers the barrier to entry - including for scammers.

Not too long in the future, I fully expect OpenAI to rescucitate the API copyright aspects of Google v Oracle to pad its revenue in OpenAI vs Everyone profitable

> I just need someone who's baseline competent

But why wouldn't you want (and pay) for the very best plumber? A frontier plumber will optimize the time their customers poop, pee, bathe, or do dishes 10x to 200x, and with their freed-up time,they'll outcompete those who don't pay for frontier plumbing!

Everyone knows the path followed by every single technology mankind has ever developed - including the incredible run that was Moore's law. Sure, some will think "This time is different" - but is it?

> There is really no "global right wing alliance"

Quick-cut to Musk funding right-wing political parties in Europe, JD Vance using the NATO bully-pulpit to talk down European center-right politicians, and Trump creating a slush-fund worth billions to Argentina to prop-up its failing experiment in right-wing libertarian governance, and America evangelicals funding regressive politics across Africa and Europe, reducing America's refugee program to resettle right-wing South Africans.

I doubted you for a second due to a clear, years-old memory of the announcement canceling the Bolt — so I checked and it was cancelled! Only to be brought back, only to be cancelled again. So the current (2027) Bolt is the last model consumers can buy- the factory will be retooled for the Chevrolet Equinox.

> ...sure some people take airplanes, but most aren't that well off.

Which highlights the other American failure: dismal rail transportation

Or more charitably to the consumers: "Having all EVs priced as luxury vehicles is stupid." Fortunately, non-American manufacturers are doing something about this, while Americans continue to dream about an electric Ford Maverick.

Sadly, this is not the first time someone on HN ignorantly assumed solar panels come bundled with scary Chinese firmware in their comment.

It's a failure-mode only those not familiar with the basics of solar can come up with, but are readoning it out from "first principles".

> 'Click to write and install driver’

Theo de Raadt would spin in his grave — after the security implications of this to OpenBSD gives him a fatal aneurysm.

Either that, or he'll surprise-launch OpenLLM, a model bundled in the next OpenBSD release that produces driver code free of security bugs.

> Right instinct for the criminal

Nothing to do with instinct, just low-hanging fruit from dragnet surveillance

> I haven't seen a single convincing argument against that.

When HuggingFace was in the midst of defending itself from OpenAI's automated hacking spree, they were blocked from using frontier models by Anthropic and OpenAI for "safety" reasons. HF had to resort to an open model to defend itself - and DeepSeek distinguished itself in that role: the second fact from that episode OpenAI would have you soon forget.

> China would actually have to build stuff to do that.

and they do. Unlike Denmark, China is the world's factory and can use the windfall from exports to fund projects and have them on its balance sheet.

> the internet often aren't doing business anymore.

A lot of pre-Internet businesses are still here with us, and online. The one thing the survivors did not do was hitch their wagons on a predator designed in a lab to devour them - to use mixed metaphors. Barnes & Noble didn't board up their brick-and-mortar stores to replace them with an Amazon storefront - they figured out how to use the Internet without handing over the family jewels.

> the creative authorship of the weights are all the creatives that involuntarily supplied the training data -- not the labs training the models.

I agree with that copyright holders that provide training data were screwed over, and should be fairly compensated.

That said, a lot of work that goes into training a model is editorial: structure of the model, training regime, etc . Copyright applies not just to the literal elements, but to Sequence, Structure and Organization, which is how poetry Anthologies are under additional copyright to the editor, and not just divided among just the poets.

> Why offer your weights for download or grant any third party usage access when you can just do the actual job yourself and collect all that turnover?

It's hilarious how a the trillions invested in AI companies, and their valuations are predicated on the AI labs Sherlocking entire industries, and yet CEOs, mathematicians, and everyone else are eagerly feeding the beast their most prized information.

Aren't model weights the output of human (?) authored software? The training software might have received creative input, but not the weights themselves

How does this legal theory square with output of a compiler? Or pictures generated by photo-editing suites when humans tweak color levels?

I noticed a pattern of people incapable of altruism - and apparently can't imagine it exists - weirdly call it "virtue signalling" as that's the best-fitting motivation that exists in their worldview.

Your comment says a lot about how you view things that don't affect you personally, in the vein of "Après moi, le déluge."

> Model weights are facts.

Only in the way a math textbooks are facts. Model weights are bits on a medium,designed and derived from the combined efforts, judgement and expertise of many humans, before and after training.

Software bits have been copyrighted for so long, there are 5¼" floppies with "(c) 1977" printed on them.

> Granted, this has yet to be fully tested in court and going to court is expensive, so it's likely that your employer would prefer to err on the side of caution and respect such attempts at model licensing anyway, similar to how one might treat a ToS agreement.

You may be conflating 2 things - the Muse model weights themselves, and what the models output when run. The former is prima facie the product of human authorship and hence has full protection of copyright law, the latter fits your characterization of likely not having copyright coverage. Meta can use the copyright on the model weights to dictate licensing terms. IANAL too.