"Every single person you know today was at one point of stranger. Even your mother."
There's a lot of cynicism in here and it sucks. COVID has made talking to strangers a little harder, me included, and while every single stranger I talk might not want to talk back, more often than not, I leave a random interaction happy because I went into the conversation curious and left with a new perspective.
The world is full of joyous people, but it's up to you to open your eyes and see it.
What's with hacker news and having negative reactions to 100% of everything Meta does?
I don't agree with a lot of Meta's practices, but it's not like every single thing they do is purely evil... Every once in a while, something they do is cool and I think people are being dishonest if people don't recognize that.
> it's not like every single thing they do is purely evil
No, but they've lost the benefit of doubt. So in the absence of evidence it isn't evil, they're presumed to be so. Facebook pays well. But that's the cost of that compensation, a cost borne in the courts of public opinion and law, as well as in politics.
It's like reading a news that a drug cartel built a hospital and then someone goes on commenting "what's with people having negative reactions to 100% drug cartel does? I don't agree with a lot of what drug cartels are doing, but it's not like every single thing they do is purely evil".
Meta being evil to the point of profiting from political manipulation, doxxing, addiction, massive extraction of attention, and genocide, is already established.
In related news, in this time of severe drought, the Mexican cartels have expanded their business to stealing and selling water.
>Meta: This is evil. Zuck is a robot. Everyone laugh at the metaverse
>Google: Wow when are they going to cancel this
>Amazon: I've lost confidence in buying anything from amazon
>Apple: Apple is too corporate since Cook took over, I hate the app store monopoly
Because it's all accurate*!
You can try and be all hand-wavy about it, but the fact of the matter is these companies do a lot of harm and I will take advantage of every opportunity to warn others. They've long since lost the benefit of the doubt.
* Excluding Apple. I don't have much experience with them or their platform(s) to make an informed argument either way.
These companies are functioning like whales with pet chihuahuas on cocaine with a trillion dollar war-chest. I might try to make a prompt and see what the AI gives me back.
That they still exist and making money hand over fist should be considered a wonderful, quirky oddity of human fatuousness. I don't think they should be protected.
"The GPL is a free software license, and therefore it permits people to use and even redistribute the software without being required to pay anyone a fee for doing so."
GPL requires that derivative works - which, I argue, Copilot is - also be distributed under the GPL. Microsoft disagrees with my interpretation, and wins by default because I can't afford to sue them.
The GPL has requirements, and Copilot fails to adhere to those requirements. Here's an important one:
>You may convey verbatim copies of the Program's source code as you receive it, in any medium, provided that you conspicuously and appropriately publish on each copy an appropriate copyright notice
Say I drew a lovely picture and hung it outside my house for passers by to look at. I say “sure you can take a copy, no problem”, they then sell a billion prints, and don’t credit me at all.
Legally, not stealing. Ethically? I’d call that stealing.
Except that's not exactly what they are doing, is it?
Following on your example, it'd be like selling the advice of someone who has seen a lot of these pictures passing by windows, with a very good memory and understanding of pictures.
Github Copilot is not spitting out code verbatim, it's learning what code is, what shape it usually has, and trying to retrofit your own code onto the shape it thinks code should have.
It's not like it's doing a query like `SELECT * FROM COPIED_CODE WHERE CODE STARTS_WITH "def my_func("`.
> thanks for a great question. Candidly speaking, I’d say we’re taking a “move fast” and “seek forgiveness later” approach. The plan is a) to try to apologize and get a license if there are demands and if that doesn’t work b) create new synthetic voices that are not of real people.
This infuriates me to no end. People with that kind of mentality fuck up the entire startup ecosystem for everyone.
Apparently the creator has been down this road before and got told off. Apparently a firm "stop using people's voices without permission" was not sufficient.
So that makes this intentional and the excuse of "I didn't know any better" no longer plays.
Same thing. I immediately recognized Gary Vee. And I imagine that using audio generated that sounds exactly like him without his permission is gray area at best.
> Instead, they will be offered information on available health and social services
I can't emphasize this enough. If you hate drugs and think they're strictly horrible for society, what's worse is us ignoring the underlying reasons for using drugs to extreme levels.
If anyone hasn't heard of Rat Park, please do yourself and everyone a favor and watch this video / read on it
"How the flawed Rat Park experiment launched the drug war"
Does your definition of a drug include alcohol, nicotine and caffeine? If you hate anyone who consumes any kind of mind-altering substance, for any reason, in any circumstance, and regardless of the impact on their life, then that list includes most of the human population which doesn't seem productive.
For you Elden Ring fans I created a little rune calculator app for me and my friend.
I thought to throw it on reddit, and several thousand users later I'm happy I did!
I've spent <10 hours on it and did it to learn some next.js & preact, and as a bonus, people have been using it.
Yes, in fact, I'm switching off W2 as of April and am planning a 2 month sabbatical EOY. I'm thinking small contracts, otherwise strict 4 day weeks, but gone are the days of making 100k+ only to just suffer every Friday and not really work...
There's a lot of cynicism in here and it sucks. COVID has made talking to strangers a little harder, me included, and while every single stranger I talk might not want to talk back, more often than not, I leave a random interaction happy because I went into the conversation curious and left with a new perspective.
The world is full of joyous people, but it's up to you to open your eyes and see it.