Thank you for this sensible comment.

model weights already more or less "contain" several partial OS kernels,

No, they don't. They were trained on that data, but they are not that data. You can't extract it from weights, and I highly doubt you'd be able to reproduce it from weights, even on an exceedingly large model.

At best, it's a work inspired by the original, not even a derivative. There's no "substantial or material" replication.

Why is this modded insightful?

Is it "stolen work" to read a book and then recite it, or paraphrase it, or create a story with the same themes? No. Those are new forms of work. The actual work isn't being recreated. Is software not the same as free speech? Can I not use phrases from other speeches in my speeches, and still have them be original work?

Who owns the copyright on the Klingon translation of Mein Kampf? Does Hitler retain those copyrights? No.

This "AI is all theft" argument is as tired as the old Microsoft lie that compatibility with their shitware was the same as copyright infringement. It's a tired argument. Retire it.

Look, I get it - a lot of the anti-AI folks don't take the time to inform themselves of how AI works, and it's generally scary, because it's threatening your identity as a coder. It's unfortunate, and not that different than the stablemaster being threatened by the automobile. That's the way things work, and there's no putting this cat back in the bag. You've got to adapt or die, just like the COBOL and FORTRAN developers of yesteryear. Or you could become a Maytag repairman.

Are we really going to trust something security-oriented by a guy who conceived of systemd? Instead of creating something which improves security and isolation, he created something renowned for its architectural and management complexity, privilege boundaries (or frequent lackthereof), attack surface, and the frequent consequences of concentrating system management in a large privileged software stack.

I'm reminded of the SSH/Pulse Audio privilege escalation through systemd some years back... due to their obstinately poor security design.

Illegal doesnâ(TM)t mean I donâ(TM)t have the right to record, tho. Government doesnâ(TM)t give rights.

There have been some interesting threads on Twitter recently where they discovered that by flipping two bits in a local AI model they could convert it to full "KILL ALL HUMANS!" mode where everything it generates looks like posts from the deep, dark depths of Reddit.

The callous part of me thinks that was the intention from the start: wash out the capable engineers who were competently producing and hire ethnic cohorts who played the game.

It's Amazon. Anything that gets them the metric that they can put in their promo doc is a good thing.

6-12 months later, when they've been promoted, they can nix it and add it to their next promodoc as company savings in efficiency.

Are you honestly summarizing the current state of advancement in LLM capabilities as "somewhat better search"?

It's apparent from that statement that you've not even been paying a slight bit of attention to state of the art. It isn't 2023; we're a far sight further than you conceptualize, and you'd be well suited to start familiarizing.

No, that's when you want a RAID system with multiple disks.

This is only for small corruption, like a failing drive might cause, or due to cosmic rays/bitflips.

This is just EC for a non-redundant drive.

That's such a dumb, smoothbrained description I doubted the capabilities of the person who wrote it - at first.

Then I realized he was right. There isn't a filesystem that does RS or, really, any sort of single-device EC. This is a genuinely good idea, at least for spinning disks, where sector corruption is more likely.

This may be personal anecdote only, but I've only seen 1 SSD get any sort of data corruption as a failure mode, and it was a very early iteration - maybe a 8 or 16GB one. SSDs seem to simply fail outright - the FRU or something else failing for one reason or another. The storage is fine.

I read that as "land asteroids in the next 2 years" and I was initially much more excited than the actual headline suggested I should be.

Landing asteroids to mine would be much cooler than just a mere moon base.

Let's keep in mind who Elizabeth Barron is: she's the prior Community Manager at GitHub who was best known for DEI initiatives. Before that, she was a Community Manager at Pivotal. Before that, she was the PHP Community Organizer at Engine Yard. Geeknet (of SourceForge and prior Slashdot relation)? You'll never guess! (OK, yes, it's, Community Organizer, er, no, "Development Manager".)

Her only personal github anything is an "about me" blog. She has no repos of "scripts I find useful" or "little cool thing I did". She has no forks for things she's contributed to or features she's working on. Judging by her commits, comments, etc. she's still basically just doing that: it's just her, the marketeer. She doesn't have any code contributions anywhere.

She also appears to be a current, touring professional photographer (though, not frequent) and to have done web development before "the Internet".

She is wearing PHP like a digital marketing meatsuit, and while the project starves for technical direction and purpose, she's manually doing PRs about *checks notes* bunny.net. Seriously.

This is a language which should have died years and years ago but has been kept publicly alive by a bunch of low-tech-skill web developers who likely survive almost solely on inertia and having a corner people with both "Grandma, we told you to stop clicking on the links in your email" energy and entirely too much money.

I'm still using a 40" 1080p monitor I bought for $50 in 2011. It's the only TV in the house and we just use it for things mostly made before 2005.

The new stuff isn't worth the time.

Thanks to our AI Oligarchs, pretty soon no-one will be able to afford a gaming PC so they'll have to rent Microsoft server time to run the games for them.