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This isn’t black and white. You might have huge amounts of non-essential data that aren’t worth the cost of off-site backups, but worth the cost of an extra disk of redundancy to lessen the risk. Even…

As far as I’m concerned, using the Shift key would already help.

The past has shown that “legitimate” criminals tend to be more careless and have a poorer technical understanding than you’d think. This is not a defense of surveillance, just that your argument doesn…

The other downside is that even good laws would not pass, because it would mean for MEPs having to constantly identify themselves as such.

A “no ever” law requires a constitutional majority. And for this concrete case, some member states effectively already have that via privacy guarantees in their constitution. Finally, it’s important t…

The criterion is if the parties in power can be voted out of office again, which is very much the case in Europe (see the recent example of Hungary). A dictatorship is if this is not possible anymor…

It doesn’t just help to “get used to” computers, it continues to help even after being used to computers for decades. The fact that it helps to better recognize and distinguish UI controls from conten…

The original C2 wiki did that for two decades.

There are a lot of night-time light sources on Earth to reflect.

Testing can expose errors, but it can’t prove correctness.

It could be an underground system, like sewerage. However, noise might be an issue.

Because not all content is suitable to be stretched out 16:9 (or whatever the screen ratio of your desktop monitor is). In fact, in my experience most web site content isn’t suitable for it. The defau…

My employer started using CO2 monitors in meeting rooms 15 years ago, it’s really a useful thing to have. As well as the meeting rooms having windows you can open.

These CO2 monitors have a configurable audio alarm. The present model uses an e-ink display to conserve battery. Physical LEDs would also work, but really in practice you don’t look at the unit and in…

There’s a reason not to maximize your browser windows. How do you handle HN threads on that monitor?

On the other hand, you have many more humans to choose from than models, and they don’t change their character every few months.

One could rephrase the parent that Windows did the sensible thing by not using the fork model.

mm?

Finally we can rewrite all the Rust in C. ;)

> patents directly attributed to AI can be clearly disregarded as trivial. You’d have to provide a convincing argument why that would be the case. You probably think it’s obvious, but it’s not at a…

Arguably, if you can’t tell if the code will halt, the code is not acceptable. Code is acceptable if it can be properly reasoned about. If it can’t, it is not.

I wasn’t arguing for AI inventions to be patentable, I was arguing against the argument presented above, which to me doesn’t make sense as an argument. I’m very much for not allowing trivial patents, …

Not all inventions can be effectively kept secret, and patents also have the benefit that what would otherwise remain secrets gets published. I’m not in favor of the current patent landscape, but doin…

Yes? But it’s not the AI that would receive the benefits, and where does accountability of patent inventors come in?

Indeed. Patents incentivize investment in R&D. There is an argument to be made that the scope of patentable inventions should be more limited, in particular preventing trivial patents that didn’t …

This appears to be confusing patent inventors with patent owners. It’s the latter who benefit and presumably are accountable for the use of the patent and potential plagiarism.

Discussion of the blog post (284 comments): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48496396 The blog post now also contains a second addendum that the Google doc doesn't have.…