JoshTriplett

There is no useful point to "accountable" other than "make it stop happening". The ship has not sailed. We can and should stop it.

> If all training requires a license, then none but a handful of tech giants will be able to afford the costs of training.

If the tech giants can afford the costs of training, the licenses aren't expensive enough. It should be affordable to license works for reasonable use. It should not be affordable to vacuum up the entire Internet and build an AI that competes with everyone.

> 160Wh is 160Wh.

And yet you can carry a 100Wh spare battery and a 100Wh laptop and a 15Wh cell phone...

Ultimately, an 80Wh battery and a 160Wh battery both have more than enough energy for overheating to start a serious fire. The much more important consideration is the quality of the battery controller and the physical protections on and within the battery. And it's also important that many planes now carry burn bags that they can quickly put a runaway overheating battery (or phone or other device) into.

It would make more sense to have a battery certification and require batteries to have that certification in order to carry them on a plane.

> The airline rules are a bit arbitrary. They have allowances for mobility devices but don't seem to take any extra precautions for them when they have bigger batteries. There are still a lot of dangerous gaps in airline safety when it comes to lithium batteries.

They're absolutely arbitrary. From what I've seen, one of the major problems is wild variation in quality. An 80Wh battery from six-random-letters-off-Amazon is going to be more dangerous than a 160Wh battery from a reputable manufacturer.

> Whether transparency has merit or not, tracking provenance would make the office partisan.

Tracking who added what language is in no way partisan.

The standard way you distinguish "adversary with physical possession" from "owner" is "do they have the owner's passphrase".

I'd much rather see your rough drafts than whatever AI turns it into.

Likewise; I feel exhausted after trying it for a short time, because it doesn't give any space.

Agreed. I'd love to have air purification (and air circulation to reduce CO2) without noise, to the extent possible.

> If your insert requires a parent record with a single child record, you have to get the next sequential id

Why would you need the next sequential ID, rather than just a unique ID? You could have a serial column that uses per-shard preallocations like I was describing, and allocate the IDs for both records.

There's no fundamental reason for this. Much as with per-CPU memory allocation, shards could pre-reserve chunks of the next serial space, and then only coordinate when they need a new chunk.

If we had a technique that would defeat almost every lock in the world, we might be prudent to delay releasing that until people have had time to change the locks.

Same general benefit as coordinated disclosure, except it's a big game-theory problem where we're likely to eventually have sufficiently capable defectors.

They do already exist, in multiple forms. The reason why they're not the norm, and copyright law still exists, is because the publishers with the most money won't make as much money that way.

Among the various options:

- Pay in advance, before the product exists.

- Pay for early access that other people don't have. (Yes, in the absence of copyright, people could take the early-access version and share it with others. People already do this today, and that doesn't stop folks from continuing to be patrons anyway.)

- Accept that the 0.0..01% case of absurdly popular works will end up making less money than they otherwise might have. Small price to pay for having a rich and vibrant ecosystem of people sharing things and modifying things.

The most likely answer is that they didn't think about it or didn't understand or didn't care. But on the off chance they did, perhaps they thought the DNS provider would enforce the ruling worldwide.