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Re:OccupySaaS on Monday November 02, 2026 @01:23AM (#50333705)
If they had chosen something like AGPL, they would have had comments saying noone is going to use it.

Can't make everyone happy.

Or life saving medication for a terrorist.
You should do it, so we find out.

(But my guess is that such Terms of Services are not considered accepted only by visiting or crawling the website. There probably need to be at least a clock through performed by an human)

Not a lawyer, but my understanding is that crawling is a gray area. By putting that into their terms of service that most of the planet is agreeing to, they protect themselves in the case someone complains.

Also, this is about crawling and has little to do with the license of the contents.

Re:Improving site performance by shipping more CSS on Sunday September 27, 2026 @06:01AM (#49865199)
Using GitHub everyday, I haven't really noticed an improved performance. Actually i'd say pages are becoming slower. Browsing issues with many comments or big PR has a terrible experience as not everything gets loaded
Re:I resigned from Anthropic today on Wednesday September 09, 2026 @01:54AM (#49621685)
This is so wildly incorrect I don't even know where to start.

For one, as you said yourself, they were just programmed to compute the probability of the next token. They were not programmed to play chess, chess games just happened to be in the training data.

For another, there is no formal definition of "understand", and it is therefore impossible to tell whether or not they "understand". (But my claim was that one need to understand something to write poem about it. And the LLM can write poem about it)

Re:I resigned from Anthropic today on Wednesday September 09, 2026 @01:36AM (#49621538)
He was referring to this basilisk https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roko%27s_basilisk

In short, this is the believe that a god-like AI could punish them retroactively, for not having done all that was in their power to create this AI.

(A bit similar to some religious believe that a god could punish you after your death if you did not spend your live "pleasing" said god during your life)

Re:I resigned from Anthropic today on Wednesday September 09, 2026 @01:10AM (#49621312)
I'm order to guess the next token in a love poem, they must understand love. In order to predict the next token in a chess game between grand master, they must master chess. In order to predict the next token in a computer program, they need to be able to program anything.

They gain all these abilities in their training. That's what training does. Despite no one programmed them to master chess, or hack into anything.

Re:A Note from LWN on Thursday September 03, 2026 @12:35AM (#49545974)
Just curious: what was the original title?
Re:U.S. Sanctions Against the a/I Collective on Saturday August 29, 2026 @03:30AM (#49487749)
Also, not everyone who was in the tower died
Re:Islamist terrorist attack in Berlin Pride event on Sunday July 26, 2026 @03:35PM (#49061602)
(the attacker was German, born in Germany)
Re:Future euro banknote design proposals on Saturday July 25, 2026 @02:29AM (#49045030)
democracy is the worst form of government except all those other forms that have been tried
Re:TypeScript 7 on Thursday July 09, 2026 @02:23AM (#48841708)
It is the run-time performance of the compiler depending on its implementation language. So totally relevant.
Re:Half-Baked Product on Friday July 03, 2026 @01:19PM (#48777429)
I just saw the news that you raised another 1.2 billion. Congrats!

If I may ask how do you actually plan to make money? Because as far as I can tell, you're still losing a lot of money on every oven you give away.

Örebropartiet is not Al Qaeda nor a terrorist organisation. They can have a controversial position, but I'm not sure it is worse than the position of the republican party in the US which has many supporters amongst CEO of big tech companies.
Re:The Radiation Exposure Lie on Monday June 29, 2026 @03:57PM (#48724319)
> ignoring the actual counts of people affected by Chernobyl.

Do you know what's the count?

Re:I Hate Compilers on Thursday June 18, 2026 @01:55AM (#48581347)
> The difference between “jmp $+15” and “jmp $+16” is inscrutable

I don't see why that's the case. LLM trained on binary would totally see it, not?

Also the tool can also be running the test and a debugger.

Re:The state of building user interfaces in Rust on Saturday June 13, 2026 @11:58AM (#48518500)
Web UI is fine for web applications, obviously.

But for desktop applications it is bloated, a big attack surface.

HTML/CSS is made for online documents, and using it for applications is a bit hack that happen to work, but hides a huge ton of complexity behind frameworks and frameworks of frameworks with leaky abstractions and each their own caveat.

Re:EU-banned pesticides found in rice, tea and spices on Tuesday June 09, 2026 @12:13PM (#48463027)
Do you need evidence that "Natural doesn't mean healthy or good for the environment"?

Asbestos, is "natural". So is Arsenic. And CO2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Appeal_to_nature

Or do you need evidence that the bio labels are not optimizing for health or environment? Check the rules. Most of them are just there to restrict synthetic products, regardless of their impact.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Organic_certification#False_as...

Re:EU-banned pesticides found in rice, tea and spices on Tuesday June 09, 2026 @06:16AM (#48459070)
They optimise for natural. So you can still have pesticides and herbicides. If you find your poison in some plant, it is fine. If you synthetize the same molecule in a factory, then it's not allowed.

As for the animal welfare, true, but there are also labels specifically for that that.

Re:EU-banned pesticides found in rice, tea and spices on Tuesday June 09, 2026 @12:35AM (#48456460)
But it is controlled for the wrong criterias. "Natural" doesn't mean healthy or good for the environment. It is only greenwashing and "appeal to nature" fallacy
Re:EU-banned pesticides found in rice, tea and spices on Tuesday June 09, 2026 @12:25AM (#48456383)
> strict Spanish regulation for organic produce.

Organic labels are a different thing than official regulation though. IMHO organic labels optimize for the wrong things.

Re:GitHub Is Down on Monday May 04, 2026 @10:03PM (#48017265)
Because users and community contributors most likely already have an account, are familiar with the UI.

There is also the "gamification" aspect that GitHub have. Doesn't motivate me personally, but could have effect on some others.

Projects on GitHub gets a lot more visibility. To the point that many projects that do not use GitHub as their main forge are still often mirroring their repository there, and have to deal with double source of bug reports or pr.

I guess the point is that there is no need for humans to read the code.

How often do you read assembly to check what your compiler is doing?

There is a niche of people doing it when they have special constraints, but that's a tiny niche.

Re:Online age verification is the hill to die on on Thursday April 30, 2026 @12:24AM (#47958086)
Right. Perhaps now, a parental filter could be an AI whose prompt is dictated by the parents, which can look at the contents before validating it.
Re:Online age verification is the hill to die on on Thursday April 30, 2026 @12:13AM (#47958016)
I have hard time imagining what is that argument, that apply to the thing you mention but that doesn't apply to hardcore pornography.

Or do you also think we should forbid hardcore pornography also for adults?

Re:Zed is 1.0 on Wednesday April 29, 2026 @12:24PM (#47950621)
What's so good about GPUI?
Re:Ghostty is leaving GitHub on Tuesday April 28, 2026 @05:44PM (#47941260)
So far everything is going according to the plan. Humans are really close to make the AI that will replace them and enter into the next phase of the plan.

Or do you have a better idea of what the plan exactly is?

> drop your Nokia and there's a chance the battery pops out.

This was actually a feature: by having the phone split in pieces, it would spread the kinetic energy and prevent worse damage.

"Esprit critique" ? "Sens critique" ?

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