npm is a problem. It's this massive, unvetted self-publishing repository without any easy way to verify the origin of packages, and the packages largely get installed directly to production on billions of sites every day without any vetting or review.

It's crazy, like something out of the 90s.

Yes, supply attacks like those carried out against npm are pretty common in general, at the state actor level. There've been a couple fun ones in recent years. But the openness and lack of basic precautions surrounding npm in conjunctions with common development practice just makes it a recipe for disaster.

"lossy compression"

Yes, just like human memory.

If I read a bunch of books from a series and extrapolate based on them to form something similar, it's not plagiarism.

If I read your book, then write a book using a similar voice, style, and plot, and do it in a different language - it's not plagiarism if I offer citation. Likewise, if I do so with a verbatim copy in another language. It's an independent effort.

Ultimately, it boils down to what you can get away with. Considering how trivial it is now to re-implement things, I'd say the chance of license enforcement is close to zero for anything open source except in extremely rare situations where there's a lot of money involved.

Let the courts figure it out. If licensed car skins were an issue, Ubisoft could choose to all the skins with Lada's, and release the server protocol.

If it's a clone it can't be brainless, unless you lobotomize it. That's evil in itself. Even then it will still have to have a functional brain if you need the body to stay alive.

Torpedo this idea. Don't condone murder. Did this guy gets his idea from 'The Island'?

If you can substantially distinguish how tokenized abstraction is any different than natural learning, I'd buy it. But as it's not, I don't think that's a meaningful argument.

You realize that's extremely easy to do with AI, right?

If I can run software, I can run run function/system tracing and introspection on it. Simply that. The difference between this and looking at the code is almost negligible, except in terms of scope of difficulty.

And with AI, I can automate the entire process.

I'm sure there are techniques which will be readily implemented in at least one of a half dozen different agent platforms - assuming there's any merit in it. It's too stupidly easy to build things now to really keep anything "unique" private. People will figure it out and do as they will to get things they want to use.

I personally have an agent framework that's a combination of capabilities of different agent platforms that does things the way I want to. I haven't shared it, though judging by the quality and utility of some of these other platforms, I just might once I iron out a couple little bugs...

Yes, it was miserable nonsense.

Antrhopic seems to be spiraling of late, doing a lot of things which are shooting themselves in the foot.

- This "accidental" code release (I'm not convinced it was an accident and not a fancy PR stunt)
- The complete nerfing to useless of Claude Max plans (less usage, heavily throttled to the point where even getting close to quota has been impossible, and waiting 30m+ for a simple prompt response often takes longer than doing it myelf)
- Consistent API outages for the past several weeks during US business hours.

In this specific case, the only reasonable response to the leak was to embrace it: "our client is now open source, I guess". Put it in a repo and control it. They'd have gotten a lot of community involvement, as it's the forefront client, and would've effectively nix'd many moving to opencode, codex, or hermes agent. Sure, there are a lot of features in there which make them look not-so-benevolent, but it is what it is.

Now they've got a PR nightmare to contend with.

for the illegal tariffs to be struck down.

But I keep all my vaping equipment - mod, drippers and all manners of accessories - from the early teens when vaping was free, unregulated and not yet killed by Big Pharma. Hell, I still have 3 gallons of 100mg nic base in blue bottles with nitrogen in storage in the freezer from that time.

I was a big vaping enthusiast for years. It's what kept me from smoking again. I've quit smoking and vaping for years, but just in case I decide to pick up vaping again - like if I'm diagnosed with cancer again, and it's terminal this time - I keep all that good stuff from a better past.

You are correct. Meta (parent company of Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp) has an annual R&D spend exceeding US$40 billion. Five times more than the $7 billion (in today's money) quoted as the Bell Labs R&D budget.

Anecdotally, the only crashes I've ever had on MacOS were due to HDMI and cheap USB dongles. Find a combination that works and you're not going to have problems. I've been a consistent MacOS user since 2017.

Haven't had a single issue in years, on Apple Silicon.

These things include:

- booting
- rebooting
- using basic high quality hardware (asus/mb/msi boards w/ corsair/crucial memory, nvidia GPUs, seasonic PSUs)
- installing drivers

I've seen crashes on W10/W11 on each of these, sometimes (often) requiring "repair" that fails, and a reinstall (of the OS). Multiple machines.

I just won't do it anymore.

On linux, sleep/hibernation is more like a Polish revolver with one bullet loaded. When it works, it works. When it doesn't, it really doesn't.