I've had occasional concerns about the Linux Foundation and how it operates, but there's no question it has been a transformative contribution to Open Source.

A bunch of folks decided to get off their butts and gather donations to support Linux... and then it snowballed. Cool. The creators and members get to decide how they contribute, and projects get to decide if they want to participate. There are alternatives for projects that need to "raise and spend", and some are 501(c)(3).

(Also keep in mind that techrights.org has been an unhinged shit sheet attacking individuals and companies for insufficient purity for decades now.)

... there's also a bit of a frequency illusion factor.

Opponents of obscene wealth/income inequality are typically not motivated by envy – that is your own projection.

Huh, I've always got the same vibe from socialists about money that I get from incels about women.

That terrible analogy does not produce a useful mental model on any level. You probably need to read Das Kapital.

Nah, it's an awful way to learn. Especially to learn to be good or great.

When you start reading, it helps to have some guidance towards good and relevant books, from e.g. school, mentors, criticism, etc. Then, when you encounter a "bad" book, you have some benchmarks from which you can build your capacity for analysis and critique. (Testing your analysis and critique with others helps, too.)

If you start with "bad" books, your concept of quality and what's possible is constrained. (Like when teenage boys read Atlas Shrugged.)

Reading slop code is a terrible way to build a mental benchmark for what's good, what's possible, what's elegant, and writing good code that is respectful to your fellow human beings.

> Reading slop code is a terrible way to build a mental benchmark for what's good

The days of AI only being capable of producing unreliable slop code are long gone.

And yet the examples in this post are of slop code, so clearly they're not that long gone.

If guest memory can be reclaimed, it doesn't need to be paged to disk once you hit RAM contention. It's mostly saving accounting overhead, but it'll have some effect on latency, which you're more likely to perceive under contention.

But if it can be reclaimed it's not actually needed. So i'd find the minimum amount of configured ram a mac os VM can boot with more significant than the actual usage while booted but doing nothing.

Less reasoning than a dimension of brute force unfamiliar to human brains.

Trying to diminish this as brute force (something by the way that is categorically not 'unfamiliar to human brains' - as anyone who has every worked on complex slippery problems will tell you) is foolish, when the models hypothesize along the way to their solutions. That's reasoning.

The dimension of brute force unfamiliar to human brains is "well-read with zero judgement", where connections can be made even if they're not thought through.

Grinding through completions isn't reasoning.

Familiar but isn't effective enough for surviving.

> Security is less or no concern

[waits for chickens to come home to roost]

> [waits for chickens to come home to roost]

"We are writing down X billions over 4 years, and have cancel several ambitious programs related to our AI experiments. We were following standard practice in the industry, so [shareholders] can't blame us for these chickens coming to roost. If everyone is guilty, is anyone really guilty?"

Doesn't take long until someone has the bright idea to pipe customer tickets directly into the poorly written internal tool

If security was the prime concern, there would be no chickens and no coop and no farm - people would still be living in caves. After all, outside is dangerous, and Grug Chief said, smart ass grugs with their smart ass ideas like fire or agriculture just invite complexity and create security vulnerabilities.

After all (Grug Chief reminds us), the only truly secure computing system is an inert rock.

You're hearing "don't invent fire" but what's being said is "for fuck's sake, stop lighting fires in the cave".

No problems at all except, unauthorized access to a model they were claiming was a weapon and couldn't be released to the public and having their cli code leaked in the last two weeks. Everything's just fine

When attackers can move laterally through everything because every internal tool leaks credentials and data there will be issues.

Internal tool Doesn’t have credential. Checkmate ;)

Anthropic seems to be doing fine :)

> It feels personal at this point.

Yeah, it seems hard to believe that anyone would take Alex Jones' behaviour so personally. He only suggested that the murder of 20 young children and 6 adults in a school shooting was faked for political reasons.

(Are you serious?!)

That's not how trademarks work.

The Tolkien state (and related orgs) have registered "Palantir" under many (generally publishing/merchandising) domains, but Palantir Technologies has registered it under IC 009: computer software for collection, editing, analysis, viewing, [etc.] and a few others.

Calling it "Harmony" is a historical death knell. :-D