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But they sure seem awfully worried about other companies distilling their models. The irony is rich.

I was referring to "Lower ability to perform cybersecurity-related tasks," which is newspeak for hacking.

This is code for "this model can't be used to hack other systems as effectively as Opus or Mythos."

LLMs have an original sin: training data was not legally or ethically licensed. Getting anyone to believe that the result of that process should be protected by the laws that were …

Crediting the origin of the idea is the whole point of citing sources. Learning something from someone doesn't mean the idea is yours now. It means that when you repeat that idea, …

I had a buddy in high school that was notorious for doing the same thing. (He's now a senior director at a Big 4 consultancy. :) )

Best practice in writing about technical concepts is to spell out acronyms like this on their first use. There is a ton of stuff I learn about here on HN that I didn't know anythin…

If copyright law doesn't extend to the works being used for training, why should it extend to the model that is produced as a result? AI model creators have set up an ethical scena…

As someone with 20 years in the industry, it seems absolutely plausible. Stupid, but entirely within the realm of possibility. The people making these calls have no loyalty to thei…

Hybrids are the only choice for the vast majority of the country that doesn't have the needed infrastructure to support EVs. If you never leave your urban enclave, then sure, EVs a…

This wasn't a case of the estates of dead authors trying to hold onto rights. Working authors were actively being harmed by the activities of the IA through the CDL. Working author…

This is a theater that has waitstaff that take orders and bring food and drinks to your seat as you watch the show. Don't want to tip, even though it's baked into the wage calculat…

Aside from theft from motor vehicles, other forms of crime have been on the decline in SF over the last decade. (1) There is no surge in crime. (1) http://www.cjcj.org/news/12756

ERP systems like Netsuite may or may not be good, but a huge portion of the bad experiences most users have with them has to do with configuration rather than the system itself. Th…

No states enforce federal laws. The federal government does that. If there is no state law criminalizing cannabis use there it's legal in that state.

The company reportedly had 100,000 DVD titles in their catalog, so yeah. Remember how old this contest was.

I think you're misreading Musk's reputation outside of tech circles. If they're aware of him at all, he's more or less viewed as a Bond villain at this point.

The internal transfers is much broader than just SWE to PM, as well. UX designers, technical writers, QA testers, etc. Anyone working on a dev team might start picking up PM respon…

That particular definition of racism has been in use for at least 25 years. You might recall it as a key plot point from the first season of MTV's reality show, The Real World, for…

Check the Monsanto Wikipedia page for more details, but the short version is that Monsanto patented its genetically engineered seeds and then sued farmers for patent infringement i…

You know how developers feel their managers never listen to their input before making big decisions that have drastic impact on their day to day work? That happens between managers…

> certain amount of work This is the crux. How does the business decide what's a reasonable amount of work to get done in a sprint? If the dev in the OP has time to work on his own…

If you think that Fantasy is just for entertainment and imagination, you're giving the genre short shrift. Imagining the world as different than it is has tons of philosophical imp…

This is why written music exists.

A djembe is played with rhythm and tone, but the rhythm itself doesn't have any tone color. Rhythm is time. Notes are wavelength, and in Western music we use a 12 note system to de…