Why? Do you even pay anything for data? You probably pay a fixed amount for the physical connection and right to use your provider's network.

Thank you for this sensible comment.

IMO, this whole incident is just an all around mess. I mean, obviously it illustrates another big failure by police departments using Flock and not enough common sense or restraint. But it's also about a towing company unable to do its job correctly. And lastly, it sounds suspiciously like the victim is trying to milk the situation for as much as she can get.

By that, I mean, the towing company DID agree to make things right with the bumper they partially tore off. But coming back after that to demand a mechanical inspection, which found bad ball joints and tie rods/tie rod ends? That doesn't really add up as damage the towing company could have done. A torn bumper would be due to anything from attaching the tow hook to the wrong place and pulling it off to the (more likely) scenario of accidentally damaging it while towing it over a curb/speed bump,etc. or when lowering it back to the ground.

Ball joints and tie rod ends wear out from many dozens of thousands of miles of driving. They can also get damaged from collisions that cause sudden impacts, such as getting t-boned by a vehicle that rams into a wheel/tire and forces it to bend/turn. If simply towing the car and getting a plastic bumper caught on a curb or whatnot broke the tie rods and popped ball joints loose? They were already in bad shape and unsafe to drive on.

He won't be surprised. Everyone in that biz knows that winter is coming. The issue is that nobody knows exactly when it'll hit, and they're all hoping to be one of the few left standing. Besides, even if they fail, the paycheck was good, for a while.

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.

There’s an entire country that specializes in creepy, uncanny-valley, semi-insane video content that might as well be AI generated. They;ve been doing it for decades. AI can’t be any worse.

https://youtu.be/nOJd3xoKMyI?s...

AI allows drawing conclusions from mass movement information, it is beyond just someone's location, it would allow predicting market moves based on movement of groups of people.

This is not just about following any one person, this is about information movement, following a group of people who work on the same project for example to understand when they are going towards the same site / goal. This is beyond dangerous.

Tobacco companies did this. Oil companies did. Companies involved in leaded gas did too. Governments literally have entire divisions of people tasked with discrediting their enemies.

Not justifying it or defending it. Just saying that it should come as absolutely no surprise.

What a dumb article. Quality goes up and down every year, but Apple is not making "slop." That's just a clickbait headline.

Apple sells luxury products. Who cares if the polishing cloth is $19? Wait till you see how much Porsche charges.

Poor Apple, do you think they will ever catch a break? People do not realize that the huge markups on things like RAM and SSDs exist because Apple uses superior RAM and SSDs.

They do not use discount RAM modules or SSD drives and simply jack up the prices. Because that would not be luxury. That would just be more expensive. Those are not the same things.

Hmmm, I wonder what kind of RAM and SSDs they use? I am pretty sure it is one of the luxury brands.

If youâ(TM)re system is showing signs of failure now, you wont be able to wait out the current surge in prices. Grit your teeth and budget an extra 300-500 bucks for components. Modern computers do NOT fail gracefully.

Has made it to THAT stage. During the mortgage crisis, a few years before the whole thing imploded and we nearly had another Great Depression, every in-crisis company was announcing that they were switching to mortgage processing and real estate finance. What was their business previously? Didnt matter. Anything to do with houses, or money, or anything remotely related? Nope, not required. All you had to do was say the word *mortgages* and a drooling idiot would hand you money. It ended badly for basically everyone. Theres nothing I can do with the info. Timing the market is gambling for people with dunning Kruger. And theres no good countercyclical assets anymore, anyways. Nothing better than a standard diversified portfolio, I mean. Buckle up buckaroos cause were goin for a ride.

Rewriting legacy code in itself makes sense if the idea is to extend and improve the project, add new features, increase functionality. For this purpose, however, you need a person with access to all of the documentation and understanding of why the code exists, not a person who can ask an LLM to rewrite the code simply by using the existing code base as the documentation base. Before rewriting the code what needs to be done is documentation needs to be created (if it doesn't exist) and business requirements need to be collected, basically normal business analysis and product management, once you have that you can hand it over to a developer.

Starting with a developer is probably a recipe for failure in this case.

- lets just make sure we get behind it during the other 99.9% of the time..