How far we've regressed. 400 years ago you would get a gallon of beer per day if you were a sailor.
Navy-strength rum.
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archontes commented on Canadian math prodigy allegedly stole $65M in crypto theglobeandmail.com/busin... · Posted by u/bookmtn
If you want to know the future of humanity, just imagine a bot stamping on a human face forever.
I can't tell if this is a typo or not, and it's perfect.
archontes commented on Canadian math prodigy allegedly stole $65M in crypto theglobeandmail.com/busin... · Posted by u/bookmtn
> to get protections from the law and guarantees, financial institutions need to get licensed and comply with all the rules, regulations and law.
That’s not how the law works.
If someone breaks the law or doesn’t comply with regulations, that’s a separate issue. It doesn’t entitle a third party to steal their funds.
If you were to rob a drug dealer, you couldn’t argue that they weren’t complying with the law and therefore you were free to take it. You would both have broken laws.
Define theft.
If you write a contract and give it to a lawyer with the instruction, "Anyone who satisfies this contract gets this money." And someone satisfies the contract to the lawyer's -but not your- satisfaction, and the lawyer sends the money, did the third party steal from you?
archontes commented on Canadian math prodigy allegedly stole $65M in crypto theglobeandmail.com/busin... · Posted by u/bookmtn
„Code is law“ isn’t a thing. Go tell a judge that your hacking is legal because the code allowed it. That’s not something that’s allowed by law.
Imagine I write a contract and empower an AI to execute it. I put $10,000 in a bank account and write, "I'd like a nice car."
I do this of my own free will, at my own hazard. I know I'm playing this game. I have intentionally elected to use a system that will execute without any further intervention or oversight on my part. Verbally, I state that I am confident enough in the writing of my instruction that I feel secure in whatever outcome it may bring.
The system automatically executes and someone has sold me a very nice remote control car.
I sue that person.
Why should I have standing?
Ok but you're not "remembering what they say", you're creating a "derivative work" by literally just tokenizing/vectorizing (I'm not a data scientist or AI expert) the words as they appear exactly. AI doesn't innovate based on works it consumes, and it doesn't understand "concepts" picked up from it. It simply adds the possibility of regurgitating (read plagiarizing) verbatim or part or whole to a list of other possibilities. This is on top of the fact that these parasites didn't even ask to use or purchase the works to begin with, they stole (pirated) them.
It's a stretch to call training an AI creating a 'derivative work' by the legal definition.
You could count the words in a book and publish the word count, and while the information is based on the contents of the book, that would fall incredibly short of being a derivative work.
I suspect they committed whatever copyright violation is committed when they downloaded the copyrighted works. Training an AI on them is simply not related to the protections that copyright offers.
>Will we still have just three operating systems to choose from - of which only two are really suitable for a worker's desktop?
That's going to go down poorly with the Linux enthusiasts
I'm not even a Linux "enthusiast". I simply find Windows to be a terrible product and Linux to be a better product. I simply use the least terrible option.
Can it differentiate between different household members?
archontes commented on $30 Thrift Store Find a $223,000 Jet Engine Valve avweb.com/aviation-news/3... · Posted by u/iancmceachern
Is a 3000 dollar valve with 220,000 worth of paperwork. Without the paperwork and a pedigree it’s basically useless
+1. There's a lot of money invested in having very very high confidence a part is perfect all the way through.
archontes commented on Show HN: Game Bub – open-source FPGA retro emulation handheld eli.lipsitz.net/posts/int... · Posted by u/elipsitz
Apologies for the tangent, but may I ask what you use to write your blog? I love how clean it is.
Friend of mine is a contractor for NASA who has been trained as a parts engineer for sourcing and testing electronic components that go into satellites and spacecrafts will be out of a job in a few months as her entire branch is eliminating all contractor positions.
Now she has a specialized skillset that isn't very readily transferable to other local companies and industries.
Sucks. Can't imagine she's the only one from NASA facing this crisis.
And Russell Vought is holding the weapon.