tukantje (u/tukantje)

tukantje commented on An engineer's perspective on hiring jyn.dev/an-engineers-pers... · Posted by u/pabs3

ThrowawayR2 · 23 days ago

> "They think we are fungible"

Most software people do web front end or web back end or CRUD. Most of the rest do apps, whether mobile or desktop. What's non-fungible about us?

tukantje · 23 days ago

At the very least understanding of the specific domain comes to mind.

tukantje commented on An engineer's perspective on hiring jyn.dev/an-engineers-pers... · Posted by u/pabs3

sensanaty · 23 days ago

And on the plus side that liability also provides people a lever with which they can push back against stupid managerial decisions. My father was an aeronautical engineer, and his favorite word to say to management was "No". Yes, the engine inspection takes a long time. No, I cannot cut corners in any way just to save you some money (No idea if this is just one of his stories or a real situation, but you get the idea :p ).

I don't know why people are so against it in this field

tukantje · 23 days ago

We have this idea that gatekeeping in all its forms is bad; and like all absolutes it is not true.

tukantje commented on I gave the AI arms and legs then it rejected me grell.dev/blog/ai_rejecti... · Posted by u/serhack_

atommclain · a month ago

To intentionally mix metaphors, I can't believe I'm about to knowingly kick this well worn hornets nest.

It seems obvious that if Tanenbaum, or any open source project used a GP license in lieu of a permissive legally familiar license like MIT or BSD, the likelihood of the project being used in a commercial product would reduce to nearly zero. Intel would have used a different OS for their management engine.

I'm glad the GPL exists and believe the world is a better place because of it, but it feels like more and more it's salad days are in the past and the world has moved on.

The ops experience reminds me of the story of the maintainer of homebrew that despite widely being used at google was not able to be hired for a job there. It's disappointing and feels unjust, and I wish it was different.

tukantje · 23 days ago

"GPL or pay" could very well be an option as well.

tukantje commented on Ask HN: Have you ever regretted open-sourcing something? · Posted by u/paulwilsonn

sfRattan · a month ago

Looking out across the software landscape, it seems to me software companies do just fine if they achieve some-to-most of:

1. Build a piece of software that actually solves one or more problems.

2. Keep ownership private and limited. Once you're publicly traded, long term planning becomes impossible and "line must go up" becomes the reigning false god.

3. Sell a perpetual commercial license to the version-at-purchase, and offer subscription for updates after purchase. On cancellation, stop providing updates but do not disable that customer's last working version.

4. Optionally, dual license under a free license that prevents competitors from eating your lunch (usually latest GPL or AGPL, depending on context).

If you're implementing the above items, it's absolutely possible to run a profitable company.

tukantje · 23 days ago

Small nit pick: this only works if the perpetually licensed product does not have running costs for you.

tukantje commented on Ask HN: Have you ever regretted open-sourcing something? · Posted by u/paulwilsonn

Lerc · a month ago

I think it is generally accepted that AI should not reproduce works that others have the right to. I think most people developing AI consider it a mode of failure when it does reproduce a copy of its training data.

It remains an open question on who's responsibility it is to not distribute infringing AI works. The developer or the the user of the AI. Legally it is unclear due to a lack of cases providing precedent in such a new situation. Morally I think AI developers do consider it a duty to reduce such behaviour to a minimum, but also believe that the benefits of the AI are significant enough that it would be unreasonable to block access to them because of the existence of failure modes.

When it comes to being "slopped up" which is a weird phrasing in itself, but I gather you are trying to repurpose the term "slop" to add additional pejorative tone to you words. I'm not really a fan of 'slop' as a term for AI output because it is used specifically as a term for AI output. Should it be used as a blanket term for low effort, mass generated content it would be reasonable, but when it seems to apply specifically to AI it carries the implication of prejudice. Choosing to move it to a verb describing input removes all of the meaningful aspect of the term leaving only the prejudice. Just go with "slurped up"

That brings us to what training actually is, Reading. There is no requirement for attribution to read something. There is no requirement for attribution to learn from something. The restrictions on reproduction are there in recognition of your work representing the ideas. The ideas themselves are not copyrightable, This is widely recognised legally and morally. Scholars have written volumes on why this should be the case and how bad it would be if the alternative, a world where people could own ideas themselves, were true. Imagine the wealth imbalance that exist in today's world, now extend that imbalance from money to the very ideas that you use to express yourself.

AI should not reproduce your work by terms you have not agreed to. You have a valid complaint when it does that. My concern is that people appear to be extending their claims to suggest that they control the right to be learned from. That is not true, right, or moral.

tukantje · 23 days ago

> That brings us to what training actually is, Reading. There is no requirement for attribution to read something.

> My concern is that people appear to be extending their claims to suggest that they control the right to be learned from.

Some would claim that training actually is not reading / learning but embedding / encoding. This take creates arguments like the following;

If I were to take his work and gzip it; does that mean I should be able to use it?

Why? Because this is an automated system. You are anthropomorphizing it unwarrantedly.

Not to mention usual copyright arguments like "If I memorize his code and write it on my computer by hand; can I do it now? What if I only remember 90%? 80%? What if I just change variable names?"

This isn't as cut and dry as you make it out to be, in my humble opinion.

tukantje commented on Ask HN: Have you ever regretted open-sourcing something? · Posted by u/paulwilsonn

4gotunameagain · a month ago

How did something as popular not find its way to the internet archive ?

tukantje · 23 days ago

I think it is these ones - especially since I can see that they turned to 404 pages later down the line - in order of parts 1 through 5;

- https://web.archive.org/web/20220823113634/https://ewanvalen...

- https://web.archive.org/web/20220823104052/https://ewanvalen...

- https://web.archive.org/web/20220820044449/https://ewanvalen...

- https://web.archive.org/web/20220811080027/https://ewanvalen...

- https://web.archive.org/web/20220820045729/https://ewanvalen...

tukantje commented on 12ft.io Taken Down newsmediaalliance.org/tak... · Posted by u/afeuerstein

BizarroLand · a month ago

The real answer is that we need a universal web currency, and a tracker that pays web pages on view.

There would be 2 webs. A free web, and a paid web. The paid web would set a cost per page and if you wanted to view the page you would pay the cost.

No more month to month flat fee, if you watch non-stop videos, you pay non-stop video prices.

No more unlimited anything on the paid web, but the trade off would be that there are no more ads.

Of course, the paid web would hate the existence of the free web and spend untold fortunes to destroy it, as any time you can get something for free instead of paying for it is a potential loss of income for them.

tukantje · a month ago

> No more unlimited anything on the paid web, but the trade off would be that there are no more ads.

The assumption that publishers wouldn't double, or triple dip is absurd. If you've read any recent magazine you'll notice half of it is advertisement. You'd essentially end up with a paid web _and_ ads.

tukantje commented on 12ft.io Taken Down newsmediaalliance.org/tak... · Posted by u/afeuerstein

cwillu · a month ago

My computer belongs to me and will display the things I tell it to display. If ABP gets in the way of that, then so long ABP.

tukantje · a month ago

This is essentially a variant of tragedy of commons by this point.

tukantje commented on 12ft.io Taken Down newsmediaalliance.org/tak... · Posted by u/afeuerstein

yegle · a month ago

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Contributor

The basic idea is that you as a user can also participate in the ads bidding, and if you wins, the ad space will be replaced by a static image. To the website owner this is revenue neutral.

I'm not sure why it was discontinued. I still have fond memories of this service.

tukantje · a month ago

Most likely reason why it'd be discontinued is that it makes rest of the ads less valuable; so to speak.

People who can afford to & are willing to pay for something like this; tend to also be the type of people advertisers want to actually target: disposable income, willing to spend etc.

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dolebirchwood · a month ago

> In your 20’s it unlocks taking big risks and swing for the fences. YC bets in this, for example. What can ambitious kids do when they don’t need to worry about money?

That might be true for maybe 5-10% of 20-somethings. The rest will blow it.

tukantje · a month ago

You are underestimating the human desire to be useful.