MRtecno98

These aren't mission critical systems, they can lose their email

It's also a mistake that implies a complete lack of familiarity with scientific publishing, unfortunately, which makes it a bit difficult to take your judgements regarding plausibility very seriously.

It's still peer reviewed, and as the sibling comment said, more applicable to this type of research. Also you now went from raising understandable objections to refusing the argument because it comes from a specific journal, which doesn't sound very scientific to me

They are just predicting the next token. In human text it's more common to talk to other people than a computer, so they end up talking to the computers like they were people.

Because java is garbage-collected and doesn't have any of the problems of C++ exceptions, so checked exceptions just become a nuisance of having to try/catch everything.

Earth (and the solar system) is 4.3B years old, a bit more than a third of that, so it's not really that much time in comparison no?

There's no point maintaining the illusion that we're soliciting feedback or discussion on the issues tracker when we are not.

You could have just said this (maybe you did when linking the code of conduct) instead of writing a paragraph of confrontational arguments and it would have looked way better imho.

You may think it hyperbolic but drive-by negativity by non-code-contributor users is the biggest existential risk to projects like Homebrew.

If this was true every oss project would either be dead or be entirely comprised of dicks, neither of which are the case.

A human leg isn't designed to be repaired from the outside, it doesn't need replacement parts, it doesn't need external maintenance. It's designed around the maintenance and repair procedures of the human body which are able to fix it in situ and produce new parts on the fly. That allows it to have more freedom of design than a mechanical part that needs to be made from standardized parts in order to be serviced and manufactured.

The limitation is not cognitive, it's a matter of efficiency. We could, if we wanted to, make a lamp with all custom parts with the maximum efficiency possible in the design, but those efficiency gains would be at the cost of extremely difficult manufacturing. It's a tradeoff that the human body can make because it needs to produce only one (or two) legs, while us humans mass manufacture the stuff we make.

On one hand it's true, on the other people want stability in their jobs. You need a compromise between flexibility for the employer and stability for the employee, and one such compromise (in this area) is having a consulting company whose contract with the client can be easily terminated, while keeping the actual people doing the work with a job and stable income.

LLMs are not humans, nowhere near.

We don't know what LLMs encode because we don't know what the model weights represent.

On the second point it depends how the models were made to reporduce text verbatim. If i copy-paste someone's article in MS word i technically made word reproduce the text verbatim., obviously that's not Word's fault. If i asked an LLM explicitly to list the entire Bee Movie script it would probably do it, which means it was trained on it, but that's through a direct and clear request to copy the original verbatim.

It wouldn't amplify them, there's no energy gain. A gravitational lenses just bends the trajectory of the waves. If you do it right it may be possible to use that to focus the signal on a directional trajectory(as in, the same energy is redirected in a single direction instead of being spread out), if I'm not mistaken.

That... sounds like an unreasonable bias to me

To add to what other people said: we're talking about criminal trials, here "on average" isn't enough. Criminal procedure requires such a high standard of certainty(proving without a reasonable doubt, unanimity of jurors) because unlike civil trials it actually sends people to jail. So being right "on average" isn't enough because we can't afford to punish innocent people, we would rather not punish a guilty person than wrongfully punish an innocent one.

If there were no patents most of them would just be kept as secrets, and you would, for the most part, get right back where you started(if not in a worse position)

No, they are questioning the parent comment's argument that patents are against the basis for modern technological development itself, which is obviously false if patents where present well before this development

Still doesn't add anything useful to the conversation

I'm pretty sure the vote would be a firm "No"

So... you're critizing having no elections by assuming the outcome of one based purely on personal intuition? I think you're making the same mistake you seem to criticize.

Also just think about the impracticality of doing something like that and at the same time the fact that of that 7.5B, 90% probably wouldn't care. How many complaints about starlink have you received from, idk, China or Zimbawe or rural Russia?

Starlink satellites naturally decay into unstable orbits after 5 years without boost-backs

I get your point with blockchain(altough i'd like a source for 2% of the entire human energy production going into it) but ads are useful actually, they make people know about what other people do which drives economy, and economy is basically a fancy word for the system that distributes each human's limited time into the various tasks society needs(which do include large scale planetary development but also for example, your local supermarket which makes you eat).

As for tiktok and silly dances, humans don't need only food and water to work reliably, they also need mental health. So leisure, amenities, relationships etc.(yeah tiktok included) are an addiction in the same sense food water and oxygen are an addiction, we just need them to work.(obviously while "addiction" to leisures is in general not a real problem, addiction to a specific thing in this list is, just like addiction to a specific food is a problem. I'm not saying tiktok addiction is a good thing)

If you think humanity's purpose is to develop their knowledge of the universe and techonological grasp, then i reassure you that(almost) everything we do on this spinning ball is a cog in the machine that ultimately sustains that development

It'd be all fine and dandy if you didn't hop in a car after getting off your Airbus

Pilot's shouldn't be encouraged to walk out of the cockpit mid flight, also after 9/11 all cockpit doors are locked during flight

It's still a neural network, like your brain. It lacks plasticity and can't "learn" autonoumously but it's still one step closer in creating an artifical brain

Relativity is the least of your concerns when different planets have different length "hours"

It's not only insurance, rent and cost of living in general is (on average) higher in the US, partly because of the higher wages

Astronomers today measure the distance between Earth and the Moon by shining a laser beam towards it and measuring the time it takes to come back.

Now, guess why the beam actually comes back instead of getting absorbed by the lunar surface? Because Apollo 11 left a mirror there half a century ago, it still works

There are people alive, today, that can prove to you that we went to the moon just by shooting a laser beam in the sky, so yes, we did go to the moon.

well, if we want to get philosophical, that's kinda the point of free market. Not saying that it always works out well of course, but in this case it did so i don't see anything to criticize to Microsoft per se

Producing OSS is not the only way to contribute to the OSS ecosystem, github offers free services for OSS developers who otherwise would have to host them themselves, that's the reason why they got so popular and i think we can all agree on the fact that it's incredibly useful.

Doesn't it mean "Moon's day"? From a quick google it seems it derives from the greek "Selēnēs hēmera", where "Selēnēs" is the gooddess of the moon and "Hēmera" is the personification of day(all of this is straight from google[1] btw, i know nothing about ethymology, only thing that sparked my interest is that in most romance languages the word for monday has a similar root to "moon")

[1] https://www.etymonline.com/word/Monday

Edit: also wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monday

iirc the GDPR prohibits storing EU data in non-EU servers, not vice-versa

Well, if you're going to be really nitpicky, pulmonary veins also carry oxygenated blood ;)