It's not, and is obviously a bad faith representation. The real reason is slipped in at the bottom: "Eschewing cash cards will reduce Emut's costs"

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.

As if interstate/international business doesn't already involve keeping track of which timezone the other party's in?

I'd note that eliminating Daylight Saving Time doesn't require Congressional involvement. Any state can do it by simply declaring they will no longer use DST. Then they're on standard time all year, no changing clocks anymore. It's only eliminating Standard Time and going to DST all year that requires Congressional action.

As for daylight hours, for most of the year we get plenty of sunlight hours in the evening even on standard time. Between eliminating the headaches of the clock change twice a year and the demonstrated improvements from better alignment with normal sleep cycles, that seems to outweigh the short-term complaints about going to all-year standard time. People always complain about any change regardless, we'd hear the same complaints about switching to all-year DST, so I don't see any merit in considering the complaints qua complaints when deciding. The basis of the complaints, yes, but those boil down to "I don't like it." and only apply to a few weeks once a year (at the other switch the complainers get more of their preference) and that's not a very solid basis for ignoring the benefits.

The thing to look for is how they go about solving a problem. That's the key. Coding is easy. Figuring out what the problem is and how to go about solving it, that's the hard part. Especially given that the problem the user says they need solved is often not the problem they actually have.

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.

I'll believe it when I see it not turn out to be just another grift, like the trump phones ... made in the USA, err, actually a spraypainted 3-generation-old Chinese phone ... oh, and that is never actually delivered, and the trump watches ... solid gold, err, actually a spray-painted timex ... oh, and that is never actually delivered, and the trump shoes, made in the USA, err, actually made in an Indonesian sweatshop by child labour, ... oh, and that is never actually delivered ... Wash rinse repeat It's grift all the way down

While this is true, being the subject of an experiment to see what happens when you do that is not something most people would choose for themselves. It's not *irrational* to be concerned. Absence of evidence on a largely unexplored question like microplastic infiltration in human bodies is not the moral equivalent of absence of evidence in an extensively studied question like a vaccine-autism link.

The Guardian turning on Labour for being unelectable under Jeremy Corbyn is an honesty. He was an antisemite who let antisemitsim grow and fester in the Labour party. Besides, his policies and lack of leadership made him unelectable and unappealing to the majority of voters, so Labour were better without him. If you want to make a difference, you have to be able to form a government, and the Corbyn fans never understood that. It's been very entertaining watching him try to form a new party and seeing the kind of people it's attracting as its candidates and just how unelectable it is too.