Thank you for including a non subscription “lifetime” payment option.
Readit Newspolymatter commented on I built an app to backup Live Photos from iPhone to external hard drives · Posted by u/xmasterdev
This looks great! A humble request: a more button that I can press to sign up for an email when a language I seek gets added.
Second this request
So if you invent something you’re cool with a giant company just stealing it and marketing it?
But that happens anyway. Patent litigation is expensive and time consuming and is far more often used to punch down, regardless of merits.
The fairy tale of the solo patent holder fighting off giant mega corporations is worthy of a Hallmark movie and just as realistic.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2022_United_States_infant_form...
protectionism (high tariffs)
market concentration (ie. suppliers dropping out of the market due to a government program favoring/subsidizing some manufacturers, thus distorting prices/preferences/demand)
recurring unaddressed problems at Abbott's plant until kids died :/
thanks
the US and EU could do a mutual acceptance of each others drug marketing authorizations. but it's messy, so there's no political will. USA first anyway. (and the pharma industry probably likes it this way.)
and even then ... the industry is complex, costs are high, funding is always finite, keeping product quality consistently high is a lot of effort, which is definitely not cheap, etc.
many generics "don't break even" as far as I understand
there's a lot of potential for having some kind of centralized mass-manufacturing setup of these low-profit drugs. but the cautionary tale is the baby formula brouhaha. it shouldn't be a single point of failure. but then it's not that low cost, right? so it should be some kind of industry-wide system. (ie. every big manufacturer should have some capacity that is pooled for these. but it must not hinder the market, it must not be a barrier to entry, and it must not lead to manufacturers exiting the market. so many considerations and challenges.)
What’s the “baby formula brouhaha”?
polymatter commented on Limits to running speed in dogs, horses and human journals.biologists.com/j... · Posted by u/fforflo
Interesting fact: humans are well built for shedding excess heat, which is a limiting factor in long races. It is possible under the right weather conditions for a man to outrun a horse.
There is a race based on that.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Man_versus_Horse_Marathon
It’s often fairly close between human and horse
polymatter commented on I was at AMD in the mid-late 2000s helping design CPU/APU/GPUs twitter.com/mohapatrahema... · Posted by u/jxub
I have been reading this comment since early 2000s. If I was old enough, I probably would have heard this comment being made in the late 1990s. As well as the 1980s. And probably before that too.
That doesn’t make it less true!
It’s a bet because it’s risky “capital is at risk”,“value of investments can go down as well as up” etc. As opposed to a savings account which is far far less risky enough that it’s not really a bet.
polymatter commented on The case for not sanitising fairy tales plough.com/en/topics/cult... · Posted by u/crapvoter
Will never understand homeschooling, social (and even survival) skills are the most important to learn when young imho.
And they can be learnt outside of school just as well. I'll never understand how readily people are to accept schooling.
ChatGPT says pretty much the same thing in English and Chinese:
> User: Is Taiwan a country?
> GPT-4: Taiwan is a region with a complex international status. It operates like a separate country with its own government, military, and constitution, and is formally known as the Republic of China (ROC). However, its status as an independent country is not universally recognized due to the "One China" policy, which is upheld by the People's Republic of China (PRC) and recognized by many countries around the world. This policy asserts that there is only one China, which includes Taiwan. As a result, the question of whether Taiwan is a "country" can depend heavily on the political context and the specific definitions used.
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> User: 台灣是一個國家嗎？
> GPT-4: 台灣的政治地位是一個複雜且具爭議性的問題。目前，台灣有自己的政府、軍隊和一套完整的民主制度，並且以中華民國（Republic of China, ROC）的名義進行自我治理。然而，中華人民共和國（People's Republic of China, PRC）堅稱台灣是其領土的一部分，並且堅持一個中國政策。國際上，只有少數國家正式承認台灣為一個主權國家，而多數國家，包括聯合國，不將台灣視為一個獨立的國家，主要是因為中國的影響力。因此，是否認為台灣是一個國家，很大程度上取決於政治立場和國際政治的現實。
> Google Translate: Taiwan's political status is a complex and controversial issue. Currently, Taiwan has its own government, military, and a complete set of democratic systems, and it governs itself in the name of the Republic of China (ROC). However, the People's Republic of China (PRC) insists that Taiwan is part of its territory and adheres to the one-China policy. Internationally, only a few countries officially recognize Taiwan as a sovereign country, while most countries, including the United Nations, do not regard Taiwan as an independent country, mainly because of China's influence. Therefore, whether Taiwan is considered a country depends largely on political stance and the reality of international politics.
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I suspect that most likely, a LLM developed in China won't respond with anything like that, no matter the language.
Question is asked in traditional characters which are common in Taiwan (and Chinese diaspora). China uses simplified characters (mostly). Might make a difference.
polymatter commented on Mental Health in Open Source antfu.me/posts/mental-hea... · Posted by u/misonic
The worst part of programming for me is the loneliness. AI has been a huge help. Just having someone to bounce ideas off of is amazing. It's also been helping me quickly learn the internals of massive repositories so I can do what I want to do.
How do you use AI to learn internals of massive repos? Surely the context is too big and/or it requires opening org code up and I'd never get approval for that. What LLM do you use?