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The "one module should be written by only one person" dogma is kind of interesting.

But I got to the "my wrapper around SDL supports multiple simultaneous mouse inputs, even though no operating system does" and noped out. YAGNI, even in a large project


He’s sitting at a system that thousands of people built together simultaneously. We have gripes with our OSes but they’re all capable of nearly perfect uptime (depending on the hardware and workload.) So I am not convinced individuals need to own modules. I think it’s good for things to work that way, but not necessary.

I didn’t find much fault at all with what he’s saying about SDL. It’s just an example of the “layered design” he’s advocating for. You may have drawn your conclusion a little early; he immediately follows up with his API for graphics, which is actually a very practical example. He’s really just saying people should consider writing their own APIs even if it’s implemented with a library, because you can select exactly how complex the API needs to be for your app’s requirements. This makes the task of replacing a dependency much simpler.

He’s actually trying to prevent relying on things you don’t need. YAGNI.


> YAGNI

“You Aren’t Gonna Need It”


> Not sure how cloudflare keeps struggling with issues like these

Cloudflare has a reasonable culture around incident response, but it doesn't incentivize proactive prevention.


Facts aren't copyrightable. Expression is. LLMs reproduce expression from the works they were trained on. The way they are being trained involves making an unlicensed reproduction of works. Both of those are pretty straightforwardly infringement of an exclusive right.

Establishing an affirmative defense that it's transformative fair use would hopefully be an uphill battle, given that it's commercial, using the whole work, and has a detrimental effect on the market for the work.


> Nintendo is Japans most successful company and Sony isn't even in the top 300

by what bizarro metric is Nintendo more successful than Toyota? debt to equity ratio is all you care about?


Successful may have been the wrong term, but Nintendo is (or was last year at least) Japan's richest company.

This is not a trivial thing

https://toyokeizai.net/articles/-/713322

> debt to equity ratio is all you care about?

All I care about? No, but you cannot so easily dismiss it either

Companies, even huge ones, that are highly leveraged are in a precarious spot. A competitor could simply buy them, a bad product launch could lead to investors pulling out and the company being parted out and sold... Many industries are littered with the remains of huge, "untouchable" companies that were vulnerable because of their debt load

Companies having savings and low debt load is good for the company and its employees actually

It is only bad if you are a hyper capitalist investor idiot who doesn't care about the long term success of the company and just want to extract as much wealth as you possibly can for yourself before leaving it to crumble


So toyota made more in net income last quarter alone than nintendo has in net cash, but they're less successful? Seems like a really weird metric.


They also have way more debt than Nintendo's net cash so?

Businesses may be comfortable operating in massive debt but it's clearly only sustainable for so long

Businesses operating under the kinds of debt loads they take on are what leads to irresponsible government bailouts to keep "key industries" from collapsing when they are unable to service their debt

Sure, Toyota is "successful" until it isn't, and then their debt comes due and they can't pay so it collapses

We should be encouraging more companies to be responsible like Nintendo


I get where you're coming from, but describing the fastest production FWD car as the "closest thing" is really funny


Yeah I mean dedicated sports car models, rather than sportified versions of existing models



I don't think those links support the point you are trying to make (i assume you are disagreeing with parent). Copyright law is a lot more complex then just a binary, and fictional characters certainly don't enjoy personality rights.


harrison ford certainly does

edit - also, I wasn't making a binary claim, the person I was responding to was: "no law". There are more than zero laws relevant to this situation. I agree with you that how relevant is context dependent.


Copyright protection doesn't prevent an illustrator from drawing the thing.


but selling it is another and these ai companies sell their IP theft with a monthly subscription.


to be fair, "thunk" is decades old

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thunk


Besides flooding them with junk, what about outright sabotage in the form of serving zip bombs or other ways to waste computational resources?


I think we need to aim for the bots to get _negative_ utility value from visiting our traps, not just zero value.

Did you try to GET a canary page forbidden in robots.txt? Very well, have a bucket load of articles on the benefits of drinking bleach.

Is your user-agent too suspicious? No problem, feel free to scrape my insecure code (google "emergent misalignment" for more info).

A request rate too inhuman? Here, take those generated articles about positive effect of catching measles on performance in bed.

And so on, and so forth ...


Even though I agree with what you're doing in principle, I feel it's necessary to remind and warn everyone here that sabotaging bots could be viewed as a violation of laws such as the US's Computer Fraud and Abuse Act[1]. I mean, unless the Second Amendment is suddenly interpreted to include cyberweapons.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_Fraud_and_Abuse_Act


> So long as the resulting model does not contain copies, it is not infringement

That's not true.

The article specifically deals with training by scraping sites. That does necessarily involve producing a copy from the server to the machine(s) doing the scraping & training. If the TOS of the site incorporates robots.txt or otherwise denies a license for such activity, it is arguably infringement. Sourcehut's TOS for example specifically denies the use of automated tools to obtain information for profit.


> your game must be good looking to sell copies

Nah, vampire survivors and balatro look like crap by modern standards, yet are breakout hits.


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