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(1) An inmate is not allowed (essentially, by the society) a specific diet dictated by his/her belief; and, (2) A poor person cannot afford (essentially, because of the society) a nutritious and delicious meal dictated by his/her needs or wants.
What are the differences between them? Are there differences at all?
I'm guessing the person you're replying to meant the incremental cost of serving African customers is low.
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'Open' and 'for everyone' doesn't have to mean 'not following government's orders'. The last sentence of yours is a non sequitur.
Also, in today's environment with the US using AI in active wars while blocking whole models from even its own citizens, the words you say against the Chinese government is particularly weak.
The repository has 75 commits and everything stopped 10 months ago.
There's another contest called Underhanded C that I enjoyed a lot reading, but it has been inactive for a decade at this point...
Is it? As mentioned by another comment, it's probably more divided than 'anti-AI'.
Also, 'Over the past six months, there hasn’t been a single day where I’ve checked the HN Best RSS feed without seeing a post about how AI ...' probably means the opposite is simply not news worthy anymore - no one wants to read another article that says AI could write fairly reasonable code.
Ah yes, FSearch is what I'm using right now. Although, correct me if I'm wrong, it relied on a search database and is slower? I remember reading somewhere that Everything is so quick because of NTFS - not sure about the technical details, though.
I thought a company called Frontier broke a file format CTF.
Tax is a complex issue that differs from one jurisdiction to another, and I am in no way an expert in any of them, but I do believe most tax authorities would require fair value exchanges.
Which means, "If the work is performed for $1 or $5000 the government doesn't get a say in that." --- it absolutely does, in the way of requiring the person getting a "$1 service" to calculate their tax as if they got $5000.
Everything is an absolute gem. I literally cannot survive on the work computer without it. At home on Linux, this is one of things (probably the only one even) I really missed from Windows.
The title is misleading in that it makes people think only 3% goes to Linux as a whole, while that number is about the linux kernel only.
Some other comments mention blockchain: one could argue for or against endorsing blockchain technology, but that doesn't seem to be the point of this article.
China is also short on supply... Capex for these are planned years ahead and just not flexible enough to deal with the supply squeeze right now.
The seemingly lack of any source for the first illustration (share of wealth) troubles me...
In today's world this shouldn't have come as a surprise.
Would satellite dishes still be allowed when push comes to shove and the Internet is completely locked down?
Care to elaborate why? I'm just curious since I didn't know (1) there was actually any kind of serious usage, or (2) there was pushback from rescue team...
It reminds me of what3words, using three words to describe any location on earth. I really hoped that could catch on.
My knowledge may be out-of-date, but sodium-ion battery has a 30-50% lower energy density to lithium (200 Wh/kg vs 300-400). My understanding is it will be confined to cheaper solutions.
Oh okay, that's fair. How long would you achieve breakeven, i.e. save enough money from electricity to cover the initial cost?
That makes sense. I am running a desktop PC as server, and a NAS for backup. Only the PC is protected by a UPS, and the NAS is directly connected to the socket. I can't recall experiencing any glitches actually...it was a bit more common ~20 years ago. Most of the outages were things like maintenance, or some guy at a construction site did something stupid.
As for the remote rural argument, I totally agree with you: it's just that I don't know about those places. What I said about affordability was regarding the article: I don't think Anker would be able to sell those in China, since those who might want one probably couldn't afford it.
We live in a big city now (though not exactly close to hospital or government), but my wife's hometown is a smallish rural town, and power outage is also extremely rare (less than once per year?) in the past decade or so. If you need e.g. oxygen ventilation at home, probably safer to have a backup generator or UPS, but I don't think anyone I know would need one at home.
I don't know about "remote rural". But in those places, I don't think anyone could afford an energy storage system even if needed......
Oh I didn't mean 'violated', but 'no longer work as intended'. It's been a while, but I think there were cases where the robot was paralysed because of conflicting directives from the three laws.
I'm always curious why homes in the US need energy storage systems, basically UPS for the house? I live in China, and the only times my UPS for the home server tripped in the last 5 years were scheduled maintenance that lasted for no more than 30 minutes, and even that was rare...
Well, in the books the three laws were immediately challenged and broken, so much so it felt like Mr Asimov's intention, to show that nuances of human society can't be represented easily by a few "laws".
I meant the enforceability of such clause: to the extent of my limited understanding of law, you would need to at least appear to prove that: someone has breached the agreement by, for example, using your code to train AI. I am not sure how it is possible.
How do you propose someone who uses this license to enforce such clauses?
That is probably a good idea. I was so confused listening to the example.
This number is wrong. Instead, ~70-75%[0] of China's oil demand is met by importing.
[0]: "2024年，中国...石油对外依存度71.9%，同比下降0.5个百分点。" (In 2024, China's ... dependence on foreign oil was 71.9%, a year-on-year decrease of 0.5 percentage points.)(https://finance.sina.cn/2025-01-24/detail-inefzsek2941040.d....)
Emm...I played the sample audio and it was...horrible?
How is it voice cloning if even the sample doesn't sound like any human being...