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bamboo ,

There should be a penalty for prosecutors who torture people to force them to make false confessions. This man had his entire adult life taken from him, so maybe premeditated murder would be a reasonable charge. Those bastards are likely dead by now, but even so they should be tried posthumously. And every case they ever worked on should be re-tried since they were not honest people and any evidence they produced cannot be trusted.

Edit: if they presented this information in a court under oath, add perjury to the list of charges

bamboo ,

Let’s be inclusive and go with “any agent of the state”

bamboo ,

I think if leftists started open carrying at protests we would either see way less harassment by police or literal civil war.

bamboo ,

I think it is this way because Apple thought it would be misleading if the option was “deny tracking”, because there isn’t a specific technical mechanism to ensure that. It’s unfortunate but I’d rather it was honest than lied.

bamboo ,

What’s the issue with Dell? Everyone I know at work with Dell laptops likes them. I’ve used XPS 15 and 13 in the past and they’ve been generally fine. Battery life sucked but I haven’t ever seen an x86 laptop with what I would consider good battery life.

bamboo ,

It’s unfortunate that they’re using an old processor, but this is super cool and shows that the framework platform allows companies to tinker with unusual laptop motherboards without having to design the rest of the device.

bamboo ,

I get the impression with a lot of Israeli politicians, they didn’t hate the Nazis so much as they hated being the out-group of the Nazis. Since, as soon as they were able to establish a foothold of power they’ve largely followed the same playbook, but with themselves as the “Master Race” and everybody else as the vermin to exterminate.

bamboo ,

Most computer displays also support hdmi too though. In the last though there were usually tradeoffs in using the hdmi input. Now hdmi has caught up enough that usually there’s no difference, assuming the manufacturer is using the latest standard.

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bamboo ,

Anything you put publicly on the internet in a well known format is likely to end up in a training set. It hasn’t been decided legally yet, but it’s very likely that training a model will fall under fair use. Commercial solutions go a step further and prevent exact 1:1 reproductions, which would likely settle any ambiguity. You can throw anti-AI licenses on it, but until it’s determined to be a violation of copyright, it is literally meaningless.

Also if you just hope to spam tab with any of the AI code generators and get good results, you’re not. That’s not how those work. Saying something like this just shows the world that you have no idea how to use the tool, not the quality of the tool itself. AI is a useful tool, it’s not a magic bullet.

bamboo ,

Lmao you got some criticism and now you’re saying everyone else is a bot or has an agenda. I am a software engineer and my organization does not gain any specific benefits for promoting AI in any way. They don’t sell AI products and never will. We do publish open source work however, and per its license anyone is free to use it for any purpose, AI training included. It’s actually great that our work is in training sets, because it means our users can ask tools like ChatGPT questions and it can usually generate accurate code, at least for the simple cases. Saves us time answering those questions ourselves.

I think that the anti-AI hysteria is stupid virtue signaling for luddites. LLMs are here, whether or not they train on your random project isn’t going to affect them in any meaningful way, there are more than enough fully open source works to train on. Better to have your work included so that the LLM can recommend it to people or answer questions about it.

bamboo ,

Yeah this is super sensible. Out of curiosity, do you have any decent examples bad usage? I think chatbots, GitHub copilot type stuff to be fine. I find the rewording applications to be fine. I haven’t used it but Duolingo has an AI mode now and it is questionable sounding, but maybe it is elementary enough and fine tuned well enough for the content in the supported courses that errors are extremely rare or even detectable.

bamboo ,

Why do you think they need your permission to use information you posted publicly to train their models? Copyright isn’t unlimited, and model training is probably fair use.

bamboo ,

I mean, this is how courts work. Someone will sue because a work they hold copyright to was used in a training set without their authorization, the defendant will claim it was fair use, the judge will pick a side. To the best of my knowledge this hasn’t happened just yet, and since I’m not a judge, I use “probably”. Fair use is both vague and broad, and this is important to ensure copyright holders don’t have complete control over their work. It was recognized a long time ago that you can make works that utilize another copyrighted work, but don’t functionally replace the original work, and are therefore fair use. The whole point was to try and foster innovation, not to allow copyright holders to dictate how their works are used, and fair use is an essential part of that.

Training an LLM with a work doesn’t functionally replace that work. If there is a filter that prevents 1:1 reproduction, then it literally cannot. It also provides significant benefit to have these LLMs, they are a unique and valuable work themselves. That’s why it’s fair use.

bamboo ,

How would an LLM answering questions about a git repo be legally different from a person answering those same questions (think stackoverflow)? Specific to this case, US law does not consider “APIs” to be copyrightable (Oracle v Google, Google reimplemented Java using the same APIs but their own implementation code, court ruled that Oracle couldn’t copyright the APIs).

Regarding “replace”, the primary use of the git repo is the code itself, not the Q&A about how to use it. The LLM doesn’t generate code that fully replaces that library or program, or if it does, it is distinct enough to be a different work.

bamboo ,

Chatbots are fine as long as it’s clearly disclosed to the user that anything they generate could be wrong. They’re super useful just as an idea generating machine for example, or even as a starting point for technical questions when you don’t know what the right vocabulary is to describe a problem.

bamboo ,

Oh yeah those are problematic, but I’m pretty sure a court has ruled in a customer’s favor when the AI fucked up, which is good at least.

bamboo ,

It hasn’t been decided in court yet, but it’s likely that AI training won’t be a considered copyright violation, especially if there is a measure in place to prevent exact 1:1 reproductions of the training material.

But even then, how is the questionable choices of some LLM trainers reason to ban all AI? There are some models that are trained exclusively on material that is explicitly licensed for this purpose. There’s nothing legally or morally dubious about training an LLM if the training material is all properly licensed, right?

bamboo ,

The fucking government is more concerned with punishing made up “criminals” than ensuring people have access to the doctor-prescribed drugs they need to function.

bamboo ,

This kind of comment just stigmatizes people getting actual medical help. Be better

bamboo ,

I got a MacBook Air last year because Apple Silicon is insanely good. I never have to worry about battery life. I was working on an android app at the time, and Android Studio ran so much better on that thing than it did on my 11 gen intel DPS 15. Build times were almost instant, and unlike the XPS, the battery life was well more than I needed in a day. The XPS I would close everything and could squeeze out about 3 hours, and it was hot on my lap. Got my boss to buy me an M3 Max MBP for work, I’m truly a convert, can’t see myself ever going back unless windows laptops can leapfrog Apple in terms of performance and battery life. And for the Linux crowd, much of my work takes place in a Linux VM and it’s great, build times are noticeably faster than the WSL2 environment I used on the XPS.

Since then I’ve bought the rest of the Apple ecosystem. Like, other than a Vision Pro and HomePods, I’ve got them all. Started with an iPhone simply because it was phone upgrade time, the iPhone 15 series was about to come out with USB C, figured I’d give it a try since it would sync up all the stuff really well with my Mac. Figured I’d try the watch too, I kinda like it (got the magnetic link band for Christmas too, it’s an awesome fidget toy you can wear on your wrist).

My Sony WF-1000xm4 battery died in one of the buds. Now, even though they’re out of warranty I’m pretty sure Sony would replace them, but I figured since I’m increasingly all in on the Apple ecosystem, I’d try the AirPods Pro with their new USB C case. My review: they’re not the best earbuds for noise cancelling, but they’re serviceable, the sound quality is pretty good (I switched to Apple Music at the same time, they encode their music with noticeably higher quality than Spotify, so that’s an important factor here). The real magic though: I stick them in my ears, and then they just follow me to whatever device I’m using. Listening to a podcast while cooking and cleaning, then sit down to do some work, pause my phone, they connect right to the Mac. Get up, grab the iPad to go lay down in bed, the switch automatically. Best thing I’ve ever used in that regard, and they’re quick. Highly recommend if you have many apple devices.

Most recently I bought one of the new M4 iPad Pros. My review isn’t quite as rosy here, don’t buy this thing unless you really want to piss away money. Like, I enjoy playing around with the Apple Pencil and all, but really it says more about my financial discipline than the usefulness of the device. I am hoping to contribute better iPad support to some open source iOS apps. Also bought an Apple TV because my partner was ready to destroy the HiSense google tv we have because its interface is slow and unresponsive, and the audio and video would desync all the time. Crossy road on the TV is amusing.

So that was long, but that’s how I went from no Apple products to all Apple products in a year, save for my gaming desktop which is running windows solely for the reason that it has the best games compatibility and I don’t want to have to spend any more time babysitting it than I have to. RX 5800x3d, 64 GB RAM, 3080ti. It ultimately came down to Apple silicon being the best thing to ever happen to laptops, Apple switching to USB C, and optimism that governments are going to force them to open up the ecosystem a bit more.

bamboo ,

In many cases you’re right. I manage some spreadsheets at work that are relatively small, have little/no automation, and are really just inventory lists with some notes on each item. Could be a CSV.

bamboo OP ,

This seems like a win for privacy. Modern cars collect a creepy amount of data often without the users knowledge or the ability to opt out. This article makes it seem like some car manufacturers are no longer selling the data, but I’m not sure how true that is.

bamboo OP ,

I assume the primary market for this is insurance companies who salivate at any data they can use to justify a rate hike. Secondarily advertisers, but they probably wouldn’t pay nearly as much since they have all sorts of data sources to pick from.

bamboo OP ,

Israel wants to expand their genocide to Lebanon and sees this as France and the US getting in the way of them. They don’t want to diffuse tensions, they’re trying to escalate them.

bamboo ,

If it ends up being ruled that training an LLM is fair use so long as the LLM doesn’t reproduce the works it is trained on verbatim, then licensing becomes irrelevant.

bamboo ,

Western governments: We need to take climate change seriously and transition to renewables and EVs.

Also western governments: It’s bad that China has ramped up production on renewable energy sources and EVs, hit them with tariffs to protect our insufficient domestic production.

bamboo ,

Alternative plan: we all are stuck on this rock together and maybe we should prioritize maintaining its habitability over bickering about who is allowed to provide the solution.

bamboo ,

I’m fully aware that EVs won’t solve the climate crisis. And, of course leaders in the west, especially the US, pitch consumerism as the solution to climate change. Unfortunately for many people, myself included, we have no option but to to drive as public transit has been purposefully dismantled, and opting for EVs (when already buying a car) is one of the only real choices that has any noticeable climate impact.

bamboo ,

Yeah no such catastrophic celestial events are likely in the next few millennia, and we’re pretty good at predicting those things now. The impact of climate change is already affecting a billion or more people right now.

bamboo ,

Western governments need to step up their subsidies for green tech then to compete, I guess. Not start banning the people who are providing the solution.

bamboo ,

Correct. These people live almost exclusively on tips.

bamboo ,

Seems reasonable to me. There’s no reason to believe Israel will give up its genocide just to save a few hundred lives.

bamboo ,

As someone who primarily uses Unix-like systems and develops cross platform software, having windows as a weird outlier is probably best for the long term. Windows is weird and dumb but it forces us to consider platform differences more explicitly. In the future if a new operating system becomes popular, all the checks that were implemented for windows will make it a bit easier to port to newer systems.

bamboo ,

Sure but what about the smartphone in your pocket?

bamboo ,

Hamas isn’t using civilians as human shields. At least, not at scale. Israel and its western co-conspirators manufacture evidence to use to justify the genocide, but none of that evidence is concrete. It’s just intelligence people making baseless claims.

bamboo ,

Supposedly they want us all in EVs, but American manufacturers aren’t producing shit except for Tesla which are safety hazards, and they effectively banned Chinese competition that could have actually accomplished it. US car manufacturers will likely ignore these new standards by pushing more “light trucks” that are exempt.

bamboo ,

The only EV I can find from an American brand that is in any way appealing is the Bolt. Everything else is a giant truck or SUV, and to be honest I don’t feel safe driving such a huge piece of metal, and I don’t have the money to justify buying one. No American options are affordable or reasonably sized. The US is doing EVs in possibly the most unsustainable way possible.

bamboo ,

The MachE is nearly a third larger than the bolt by weight, an already large car, as well as being larger than the bolt in every physical dimension, even if not by much (except for length, where there’s a nearly 2 foot difference). I just want a small compact car with enough range to get me to work and back and run a few errands. In 2000 most cars were reasonable sizes even in the US, but today you can find anything reasonably sized new. I don’t want an SUV or a “crossover”. In other coutures like China these vehicles are being built, but US politicians would rather protect the profits of car companies producing these massive, inefficient, unsustainable monster trucks for people to take to the office and back.

bamboo ,

Could you be more specific? I couldn’t find a single EV under $30k the cheapest one I could find on their website was $37.5k on their website. That’s not affordable, and 10k above where the bolt starts.

bamboo ,

I’m not the kind of person that wants a new car always. I’d rather have a car that will last me 20 years. With that in mind, leasing is almost always much more expensive.

bamboo ,

Hamas has no choice. They, along with Palestinian civilians, have been expelled from their homes and locked into the open air prison that is Gaza. They have a valid cause to fight for, and nowhere to go. In contrast, Israel is killing Palestinian civilians because they want to steal the little patch of land that they weren’t able to steal already. It’s not a valid cause and they have no reason to be anywhere near there.

bamboo ,

One side is committing genocide and the other is defending their home, but sure buddy, go on about how both sides are the same. I’m sure you would have supported the Nazis too, because after all remember the Warsaw ghetto uprising?

bamboo ,

War crimes are war crimes, but consider this: war crimes are worse if the warring party has the ability to mitigate them, and war crimes are worse if they are for an inherently unjust cause. Applied to this situation, killing civilians is a war crime, but it’s one thing if your best weapon is an unguided rocket, and way worse if you have the ability to make precise strikes against your enemy but choose to blow up an entire apartment building instead to intentionally commit collective punishment. And it’s even worse when you do so because your real goal is to kill all the civilians rather than the one scapegoat you used to try to justify killing them all.

bamboo ,

Where should they organize? They’re in one of the most densely populated regions of the world, no place is far from civilians. If they had a larger territory, fighting intentionally close to civilians would be much worse. But given they literally caged in by the enemy they are fighting, there is no other alternative.

As for hospitals and key infrastructure, there is no evidence that they were used in the way that Israel has accused. Israel attacked hospitals and other key infrastructure to dismantle them to prevent the Palestinians they want dead from getting any aid or relief. They lie about Hamas’ presence there only to mask their genocidal actions. If they could prove to the world they were in the right, they would have done so by now.

bamboo ,

While I’d admit throughout this thread you’ve been fairly constructive for someone sympathetic to Israel, this post is particularly dense with propaganda talking points. There’s not strong evidence for Hamas using civilians as physical shields, Israel just calls civilians living in the same area as Hamas is operating (with neither party having any option to leave) human shields to justify their slaughter of those civilians.

If we want to work on the house analogy earlier, you took one of the invaders and their friend that happened to be in the wrong place at the wrong time into the bedroom with you as prisoners. Your wife is hiding in the corner as best out of the way as you can, but the invaders keep shooting towards her anyways, she has a bullet lodged into her arm by the invaders even though she isn’t even involved, and they’re still shooting towards her. They’re also saying they are trying to get the prisoners but are shooting towards them, too. You’re pleading for them to stop shooting at you and your wife in exchange for releasing the prisoners, you aren’t even demanding your house back, but they keep firing because they actually just want all of you dead, don’t care about the prisoners in the slightest, and really just want you gone so they can have the last bit of your house.

bamboo ,

War crimes, like other crimes, must be considered in context. It’s ok to shoot someone in self defense charging you with a knife. It’s not ok to blow up an entire apartment building because you want the people living there dead so you can steal their land.

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