Do you know how US healthcare costs at least ten times more than in other countries?

Eliminate from "the system" all the middlemen, all the shenanigans, all the MBA'ing, and all the lobbied-for anti-healthcare laws, and you'll have a lot with which to train (for free) and hire (with excellent wages) more doctors.

Yes.

Next question?

Precisely. Even if one session is fed the explicit code and documents it, then the second session generates code ostensibly based on the documentation generated by the first without having been fed the original code explicitly, the AI underlying both sessions was itself trained on the original code, even if a previous version of it, and holds large chunks of it lossy-compressed within its internal weights, to the point that, with the proper prompting in an entirely unrelated third session, we can get it to reproduce parts of that original code, if not the entirety of it. The end result is thus a two-step derivative of the original: original -> weights-compressed version of the original (first derivation) -> reimplementation based on that weights-compressed derivative version (second derivation).

For this to be true clean room one would need to entirely train a coding AI with everything it needs to become good enough except for the packages they want a clean-room implementation of, thus making sure there's absolutely nothing of that code anywhere within its weights. That AI would need to generate the documentation by being fed the completely novel (to it) code. Once that documentation was done, a completely clean state version of that AI would need to be started, no trace of the original code at all anywhere close to it or in its weights, then fed the documentation to code from it. Then, and only then, this code would be a true clean room implementation of that code.

Right now, that full special training from scratch for every set of packages one would want to clean room would be exorbitantly expensive, way more than paying two human teams to do the clean room implementation the old-fashioned way, so no one would really want to do it.

Australia is on the forefront of not allowing that to work for long. Their age-verification enforcement agency is actively monitoring every single trick kids use to bypass verification and updating their compliance rules to force companies to block those loopholes one by one.

For example, they've recently started threatening fines to websites that allow users to update their age to be higher than the threshold when they had previously informed they were younger than that, that allow a user to keep sending photos over and over and over until one is accepted as being higher than the threshold, and that accept known videogame characters to be accepted as photos of real people.

The game of cat and mouse will continue, and there's going to always be techniques that work, but they will become harder and harder, as well as more and more hidden, since revealing them in public where the authorities can also learn of them will trigger their banning. At some point it'll become so hard to bypass for anyone but the most dedicated teens that they expect most will simply give up such attempts and accept living under the imposed restrictions. Some will bypass them regardless, but as long as the percentage is tiny the law will be considered a success from the enforcers' perspective.

Soros hasn't been the Soros of tech, or anything, for a long time. He's one billionaire doing advocacy and lobbying for liberal causes, while all the others, individually and put together, are nowadays doing advocacy and lobbying for conservative causes. If anything, he's currently the lone underdog fighting an uphill battle against impossible odds.

The main pusher has been Meta. They want age verification everywhere because it (mostly) allows distinguishing real humans from bots, including AI bots. From what I read, no idea whether this is accurate or not, they want that because of ads. Bots don't generally buy products, so showing them ads reduces click-through metrics, thus ad revenue.

AI companies I don't know. For Altman, World might be a driving factor, but I imagine a more important factor is regulatory capture. The more roadblocks to competition billion- and trillion-dollar incumbent companies manage to add to their markets, the less competition from new entrants unable to afford compliance.

They will also be replacing the LED lighting in the schools with candles, and heat will be provided by hand-stoked coal furnaces.

Or US-grown bananas, as suggested by Lutnick June last year, given how banana producers were ripping-off America by not producing their bananas locally, thus the heavy tariffs against them. Once America is growing its own tropical fruits, it will stop being a Banana Republic in name only.

So, please explain to me why, in detail, why Trump wants Greenland. Go deep into it: you know, what's happening at the Arctic that's prompting geopolitical maneuvers and the threat of Russia and China and whatnot in the region. Add an explanation for why that thing is happening. Is it a mystery? Does it have causes? Why is it happening now and not, let's say, 200 years ago? Are those causes, maybe, supernatural? No? Then come back and compare that explanation with what you just said. We'll wait.

I assume you'll become shocked -- shocked, I say! -- when, in a few years, the infrastructure put in place to regulate and restrict dangerous content to people under 16 years of age is repurposed, by an amendment to the law that originally that infrastructure to be implemented, to regulate and restrict content to people under 120 years of age.

If you believe that's unlikely, I suggest learning of what has happened and continues happening in all the States that years ago approved laws to "protect" children from "gender ideology", as those laws have been continuously updated to increase the age of "protection", with some having removed age limits altogether. Something those legislators vowed they'd never do because children!!!11!!!!!!

I say we lock Putin, Trump, Netanyahu and Khamenei in a wrestling cage.

Since they are all either religious fanatics or are supported by religious fanatics as divinely appointed, I say we pull an Elijah on them (1 Kings 18:10-40) by locking each on their own cell with neither food nor water, and, on a separate room, a dead animal atop a pile of soaking wet firewood. The first with a bonfire spontaneously erupting and consuming their animal is released, and crowned king of the world, while the others are killed on the spot. And no time limit, please: they must stay there until at least one bonfire erupts.

I have tried it. It's not really a solution for me.
- good for watching local content

but

- netflix support is a kludge at best, unofficial and no 4k (is the plugin a web browser wrapper?)
- other streamers are in the same boat
- no F1TV support at all

I don't blame kodi, its the streaming services that are the root problem here. But I can't make them support open platforms and I understand why they don't.

The upshot is that picking up a dedicated streaming box seems to be the best solution to get official support from the streaming services. The boxes tend to generally work well with kodi/plex/jellyfin etc to give you a way to play your local content alongside the streamers own apps in a small remote-control friendly manner.

I like the roku and the shield pro -- although both have been adding ads to their home screens. I'll probably pickup an appleTV box next since its still pretty clean. Its bad enough the streaming services themselves are devolving into ad-ridden crap, but as long as the ads are limited to the app itself, and i can delete the app and cancel the service if it goes to far. So far netflix generally just pushes its own content which is fine, and F1 is ad-free unless you count all of f1 as just being a giant sponsor circus.

You do understand this is a fork of an open-source package, that the entire code of the original version can be read, and any backdoor, if found, removed from the fork, right?

The LitleLLM packages were comprimosed on Tuesday. The packages compromised today were telnyx 4.87.1 and 4.87.2. It's the same root cause: credentials exposed to a compromised version of Trivy earlier were used to make an unauthorized release of a compromised version of a different package.

What are you using for the streaming services? Netflix etc? A web browser?

If so, that's a complete non-starter; it fails the ease of use expectations of watching TV of the wife using a remote control to turn it on and make it go. (and honestly it fails my own expectations for that matter too; having to reach for a keyboard or mouse to watch a movie or stream a show is just clunky). It also limits you from watching content in 4k.

At the moment, I've got a RokuHD of some sort on one TV, and an nvidia shield on another one. Plex, netflix, f1tv, and a couple other things on both of them. The TV remote can fairly seamlessly control the TV/soundbar and the attached box and it works well, and passes the usability test, but both devices are still more ad-laden than I want.

I've also got computers and consoles hooked up to TVs for gaming and what not, but i find them utterly miserable to use for streaming. Their is no app for linux that I'm aware of. And even the app for Windows is regularly just complete ass to use, and its a PITA to switch from plex to netflix and back etc, and using them with a remote control is pretty trashy. So I've been using the aforementioned boxes for streaming as the least awful way to run things for some years now.

But if there's a better way now, I'm listening.