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Comment · 6 days ago
Much like other uses of LLM, it never worked right, and everyone went back to the original, working, way of doing it.

You do not, and never did, need AI for tab complete.

Comment · 8 days ago
Thats a weird way for Disney+ to go under.
Comment · 10 days ago
I wonder if why people rejected the site is because there seems to be no way tos scroll the page?
Comment · 10 days ago
Comment · 15 days ago
It depends on the culture. Many crimes like this are considered adult crimes, and to be charged with them as a minor the prosecution has to go through the process to get them charged as an adult.

Generally the process isn't worth it unless they think they have a near certain chance of winning against the child.

I do agree, however, that in bird culture, sharing nudes that were sent to you is considered a dick move.

Comment · 15 days ago
Given how Tesla's profitability nearly vanished due to Elon outing himself with the "roman salute", I don't see why he thinks his company will be around long enough to actually get this out the door.

I have no reason to believe this isn't another Deplorean.

Comment · 15 days ago
Comment · 15 days ago
Unfortunately that gets into a weird spot. I, too, believe that it should be disallowed for that reason, but the opposite end of that is prosecuting teenagers for distributing photos of themselves to other teenagers (their same-age peers)... which has unfortunately occurred due to improper application of the law.

The law must recognize the right to self-determinism and bodily autonomy, and you can't inherently be both the victim and the abuser. There is no one size fits all law, and many governments are trying to act like they have one.

Comment · 16 days ago
The lady doth protest too much, methinks.

Also your account is 10 hours old, hows the Russian datacenters this time of year?

Comment · 16 days ago
I, too, have an issue with this ruling.

CSAM laws exist to punish abusers, and seek justice for the abused. Not one or the other, but both. The law cannot function without the victims, else you're just attacking people for what amounts to thought crimes.

I find CSAM and pedophiles disgusting, and I imagine 100% of HN users agree with me on this, but this just opens the door for world governments to a) claim LLM output is real and factual (!), but b) minimizes the danger to victims and equates victimhood to being a fictional character.

I'm not Danish and I'm hoping this is just some Dane-specific weird quirk of their law, but from what I can see, this is a politically-biased ruling to "think of the children".

Comment · 16 days ago
Weird, because Microsoft invented the ttc. Its usually Mac users that have the problems with it.

Are you sure it isn't an issue where a specific app just doesn't know how to use ttc?

Comment · 17 days ago
It has been litigated to death before the invention of LLMs. Also, the current opinion of the USCO, which is unlikely to change, is that humans must be the author of the Copyrighted work. The problem with the entire argument is both sides are trying to think like a programmer, not a laywer, but only lawyers should be trying to argue novel interpretations of the law.

I would love to see the opinion of a copyright lawyer that would be willing to bring an LLM output copyright case to the Supreme Court, their opinion must be absolutely wild.

This whole thing was most recently affirmed in the 9th Circuit case Naruto v. Slater, where a monkey used a photographer's camera to take a selfie, and the photographer claimed he owned the Copyright because it was his camera, and then attempted to extort the Wikimedia Foundation. Monkeys are clearly intelligent and actually alive (unlike LLMs) yet that still did not alter the opinion of the Judges based on the current interpretation of the Copyright Act (which clearly states only humans can hold Copyright) and all the decades of case law proceeding this case.

As for specifically GenAI, the case involving Théâtre D'opéra Spatial also moved in this exact direction: it is a Midjourney manufactured image that the prompt-giver attempted to Copyright, and the USCO rejected the application and the USCO Review Board also rejected it, however the prompt-giver has not elected to sue the USCO over this.

Comment · 17 days ago
As a reminder, my manifesto: https://github.com/Diablo-D3/dotfiles/blob/master/fontsizes....

The part you'd all be interested is the table at the bottom: ideal font size to get the most out of your favorite code font, but also ordered by font size (for maximum code density on screen while still being readable).

Even though vector fonts are, well, vectors and not bitmaps, they often are fuzzy or misshapen at some sizes. The only way to objectively judge a font is to view it at it's best. Some fonts are objectively bad.

Iosevka is my daily driver, but not the most dense font on the list.

Comment · 17 days ago
To quote myself and what I just said: "Even the largest proponents of it have quit due to the exceptionally bad code quality."

I am very much paying attention to the current state of LLM acceptance.

Comment · 17 days ago
Yes.

He is now the leader of a cabal of maintainers, and the only coding he does now is minor fixups for branch merging.

I suspect he still codes his own pet projects in his off time though, that's how we got git after all.

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