> The voting that followed was among ISO’s most contentious: several national bodies abruptly swelled with new members, many Microsoft partners, who then voted in favor. Sweden’s initial approval was voided after incentives linked to support came to light.
I suppose the difference is that Meta didn't just contribute to Torch, they created it. Meta seems to be quite good at open sourcing things in a way that provides real value to people.
The Github org you linked to mainly seems to have repos for the OpenAI API, which doesn't quite rise to the same level of React and PyTorch.
Unless VLC is one of the historic cases, F-Droid builds apps from source themselves [1]. They are more like a Linux Distro than an app store in that way. VLC hasn't had a new stable version tagged since 3.5.4 so that's what F-Droid ships[2].
Seems reasonable to me. Unless there is a good reason to believe that they have valuable information, ignoring condescending people seems worthwhile. How likely is someone to understand you and your problems when they are condescending? I also have a hard time imagining that this is something limited to Gen-Z.
Mozilla has now the chance to release a Gecko version of iOS Firefox to people living in the EU. That version currently doesn't exist and, depending on how valuable Mozilla thinks a port of Gecko to iOS would be, might never exist. But Apple would be unable to keep it off the App Store without drawing some serious ire from the EU, which is probably not a good thing for them.
I think it would be wise to reflect on whether the next logical step from "I think fines are not effective enough and decision markers should face jail setences" is "I think we should set people on fire as punishment and public entertainment". Do you genuinely believe that a person arguing for the first, would agree or would be close to agreeing with the second?
Its worth noting that this article is based entirely on an anonymous comment made below another article. They also link a Tweet alleging that "[..] other usually credible, usually careful folks positing same idea.", but no links are provided to that.
Is the Windows version ever exposed as a string in the Windows API? Seems strange in my mind, but I have no experience with Windows. On the one hand it sounds like something Microsoft would do for backwards compatibility, but on the other hand it seems like a weird API to provide.
I found GetVersion[1] but that returns the version as two numbers.
Instead its owned by the Government which can borrow an infinite amount of money and does for all kinds of reasons. Right now they spend 1.5 billion Euro each year for the Deutschland Ticket[1].
I am super happy about the ticket and think its a good thing. But lets not pretend its financing would be possible without heavy government spending.
The central issue seems to be that Yoav frames this as a technical discussion. That people are unhappy with how Google tries to achieve the goal.
> Focusing on use cases would enable you to distill the essence of the proposal, and potentially propose alternatives that still address them without the bits you find harmful or risky.
But I think its obvious from discourse around the proposal that the goal itself is the problem. People aren't "constructively involved", not because they don't know how, they aren't because they don't want to construct anything. They think your goal is bad. They want you to stop.
Its safe to assume that whoever OpenAI outsources to does not get access to the model. Collecting data and training models on it will be two different steps.
Seems to work when you go to that link via the homepage but fails to load when you use a direct link or refresh the page. It appends a / to the URL when you use the direct link, which I assume is what breaks it.
It seems to me that this article is not wrong, yet. Unless I misread, it argues that there will never be profitable power plants using fusion, rather than fusion being impossible.
The need for bootstrapping in this context comes from the lack of a compiler for the language you want to implement, as in before the Zig compiler in C++ there was no Zig compiler.
Huh, this is the first time I have heard about interventions. Checking about:compat on Firefox for Android reveals (perhaps unsurprisingly) multiple fixes for Google sites. I wonder what constitutes deploying an intervention versus letting the site break. I understand that part of the reason Google sites are being fixed by Mozilla is because they are popular.
Direct quote from the article.