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bjterry commented on Learnings from paying artists royalties for AI-generated art   kapwing.com/blog/learning... · Posted by u/jenthoven
Retric · 4 days ago
> is so absurd that it will probably genuinely burn down the entire global economy if paid.

Where did you get that idea. Global economy is ~200T/year PPP. 0.1% of that split across every artist you want the training data from would be insanely difficult for the vast majority of them to turn down. Which makes sense as art isn’t that big a percentage of the global economy compared to say housing, food, medical care, infrastructure, military spending etc.

Obviously the incentive to take without compensation is far more appealing, but that doesn’t mean it was impossible to make a reasonable offer.

bjterry · 4 days ago
For all the people represented in the training data to receive royalties would be an incredible wealth transfer to the Extremely Online. My forum posts, StackOverflow answers etc are also contributing to the model outputs. The training data, by volume, mostly belongs to blog authors, redditors, Wikipedia editors, to us!
bjterry commented on Delete LinkedIn – you'll have zero fucking regrets (2021)   thenextweb.com/news/delet... · Posted by u/austinallegro
bjterry · 2 months ago
Having a relatively new LinkedIn account now is probably a very bad move if you don't have an established network to reach out to for jobs. There are tons of AI generated profiles flooding every job post (particularly remote) from scammers who create new LinkedIn profiles. It's one of the most frequent signs of a fake submission.

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bjterry commented on California homeowners to fund half of high-risk insurer's $1B 'bailout'   calmatters.org/economy/20... · Posted by u/JumpCrisscross
amluto · a year ago
Much of the damage was in areas where a controlled burn would have been impossible due to geography. And the kind of vegetation in the burn area isn’t suited to controlled burns anyway:

https://thedispatch.com/newsletter/techne/why-shrubland-make...

bjterry · a year ago
Controlled burns aren't impossible in chaparral, even based on the logic of that article the controlled burns just need to be less frequent and more intense than for forest. There's no reason they couldn't be done.
bjterry commented on Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening (1923)   poets.org/poem/stopping-w... · Posted by u/keepamovin
re · a year ago
There have been many settings of this poem to music but the best known one (at least by choral nerds) might be the unauthorized one by Eric Whitacre: https://ericwhitacre.com/music-catalog/sleep

A recording with the original lyrics exists: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YDH5R_BgheI

bjterry · a year ago
YouTube also has a recording of Robert Frost himself reciting the poem: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rebVUgCgSAU
bjterry commented on Founder Mode   paulgraham.com/foundermod... · Posted by u/bifftastic
smugglerFlynn · 2 years ago
This whole article is written around one key sentence:

  > There are things founders can do that managers can't, and not doing them feels wrong to founders, because it is.
But there are absolutely no examples given of what these things actually are. Paul kinda vibes around that vague statement for 5 more paragraphs, giving absolutely nothing concrete.

And to be honest this hn comment section scares me, as it feels like people are discussing Paul’s new clothes without actually voicing out what they are talking about.

What the hell is “Founder mode”, exactly?

bjterry · 2 years ago
A founding CTO is more effective than a hired CTO, because the founding CTO has more moral authority to create a consistent system. In other companies there's infighting between people (senior engineers, senior managers) with different architectural preferences (e.g. microservices vs monoliths, Java vs Python). These senior people get half what they want, meaning half your system works one way and half the other. A CTO can hold to their singular vision.

It could be that the moral authority stems from having as much of a full picture as a single person can have over the entire lifecycle of the company, but I think a lot is also just the effect of "I got you here."

I'm glad pg named this effect, since I've talked about the related phenomenon for CTOs with many people.

bjterry commented on New Blast-RADIUS attack breaks 30-year-old protocol used in networks everywhere   arstechnica.com/security/... · Posted by u/LinuxBender
bcrl · 2 years ago
How in tarnation would they do that? To inject traffic into the network, the attacker would have to compromise the access network. The RADIUS attack is not going to accomplish that.
bjterry · 2 years ago
I mean, I know nothing about your network. If your network access servers are within a datacenter under your exclusive physical control, perhaps it's not an issue since it requires a man-in-the-middle position. Something like a neighborhood cabinet DSLAM could be open to abuse?
bjterry commented on New Blast-RADIUS attack breaks 30-year-old protocol used in networks everywhere   arstechnica.com/security/... · Posted by u/LinuxBender
bcrl · 2 years ago
Realistically, it doesn't matter. My ISP uses RADIUS for authenticating customers in the access network. If someone manages to intercept messages in the middle of my network, I've got bigger problems. Even if someone does inject in the middle, the worst case is that they can forge packets of residential end users. Those customers are already untrusted, so it really does not matter.
bjterry · 2 years ago
> Those customers are already untrusted, so it really does not matter.

Perhaps it doesn't matter to the health of your network, but if it leads to a customer's account being disabled due to incorrectly assigned abuse, surely it would matter to them.

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