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It's not a marathon, or any race. There is no a finish line. It doesn't matter that much that someone is a minute ahead.

Which system are you talking about?

APKWS.

The US took the old Vietnam-era unguided rocket pods (Hydra 70), of which they produce hundreds of thousands every year, and slapped a dirt-cheap guidance kit to the front of each rocket. Supposedly 90-95% effective. A bunch of countries are developing their own clones of the concept.

A single F-16 can carry 42 missiles. They've been rapidly expanding the number of platforms they can attach these to.


Yes, APKWS is a good solution, but it really wasn't used much for C-UAS before VAMPIRE was shipped to Ukraine.

Hyperbole.

It's really not. It was a fun toy but had very little utility. It could generate plausible looking text that collapsed immediately upon any amount of inspection or even just attention. Code generation wasn't even a twinkle in Altman's eye scanning orbs at that point.

But like Mythos, it was too dangerous to release.

https://slate.com/technology/2019/02/openai-gpt2-text-genera...


And the "too dangerous to release" capability was writing somewhat plausible news articles based on a headline or handwritten beginning of an article. In the same style as what you had written

Today we call that "advanced autocomplete", but at the time OpenAI managed to generate a lot of hype about how this would lead to an unstoppable flood of disinformation if they allowed the wrong people access to this dangerous tool. Even the original gpt3 was still behind waitlists with manual approval


And as it turns out, they were correct.

I think you misunderstand the comment you replied to. They are saying the above comment was a rhetorical exaggeration of GPT-2's capabilities as a commentary on how low quality Samsung TV software is. They don't actually think GPT-2 was very capable. It is a figure of speech, not a literal statement.

Talking about revisionist…

If so, I apologize.

I never understand these positions. How do authors make money selling books if someone can legally copy it and give it out for free?


Commissions, grants, advertisements, sponsorships, donations, teaching... There's already an enormous ecosystem of artists and authors who work outside of the copyright realm (blog writers, substackers, social media artists, youtube creators, soundcloud rappers) and who make money enough to pursue their passion and whose business model would be totally unchanged if copyright were abolished entirely tomorrow. When their work is downloaded or shared or copied or linked or edited or remixed they appreciate it and see it as a multiplication of their artistic impact.


It's not necessarily incompatible: authors can make money in ways that don't depend on enforcing IP or even the number of books sold. For example, Patreon, Kickstarter, government subsidies, payment for number of books written, grants, etc.

However, all those other ways are more difficult to set up, and can be risky for the funders, so IP enforcement is the least-worst solution.


I dunno, the same way they did for decades with public libraries?


> given Europe seized a ton of Russian assets

Those assets are frozen, not seized.


To me frozen and seized are roughly interchangeable and mean, minimally, a temporary capture of control of an asset. Although maybe there's some strict legal difference I'm not aware of, I'm not sure there's much practical difference from the Russian PoV.

Confiscation would be e.g. definitively taking control and disposing of it, the proceeds going in to the general funds of the relevant country.


The big difference is that the assets are given back when they stop invading other another country.


Americans should stop voting in governments like this then.


In fairness America doesn't work like Europe. The president can just start a war without asking for permission from the people nor parliament.


Majority of them didn't want this government, but US elections can be gamed.


The majority could have voted for a different government if they didn't want this one. I could understand this argument somewhere else, but the US has fair elections and voted for this twice.


Who issued this fine?


Ryanair are the biggest airline in Europe and they exclusively fly Boeing 737s.


What is the HN way to say "touch grass"?


Not to say it, but instead to choose to say something both interesting and directly responsive to the comment you're replying to.


Okay, here goes. You can tell when someone is acting in bad faith when they talk about a law that has been in force and enforced since the 1960s is something new.

Of course, "touch grass" works just as well.


Laws can be in existence for decades before they are weaponized against people. It's illegal to have most eBay/Amazon bulbs on your car because they are not DOT approved. If someday they start impounding cars crossing state borders with light bars, fog lights, and LEDs of races they don't want in that state... Someone like you will say "you're just making stuff up, that law has been on effect since 1961."


And do you have statistical evidence to back up your claim of increased enforcement, or are you just reading about it in the Daily Mail?


Does it?


Yup


I saw nobody making those arguments. Most people were thinking that Ireland doesn't burn coal anymore. People who think or care about this stuff know that interconnects exist.


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