- Oarch parentThat second video was fascinating, thanks for posting.
- > Stealing implies the thing is gone, no longer accessible to the owner.
Isn't this a little simplistic?
If the value of something lies in its scarcity, then making it widely available has robbed the owner of a scarcity value which cannot be retrieved.
A win for consumers, perhaps, but a loss for the owner nonetheless.
- It could be a wide range of things depending on your field: highly particular materials, knowledge or processes that give your products or services a particular edge, and which a company has often incurred high R&D costs to discover.
Many businesses simply couldn't afford to operate without such an edge.
- Given the conduct we've seen to date, I'd trust them to follow the letter - but not the spirit - of IP law.
There may very well be clever techniques that don't require directly training on the users' data. Perhaps generating a parallel paraphrased corpus as they serve user queries - one which they CAN train on legally.
The amount of value unlocked by stealing practically ~everyone's lunch makes me not want to put that past anyone who's capable of implementing such a technology.
- I find the favicons needlessly distracting and unhelpful. I suspect we probably use different parts of the brain for processing images and text, so it's a lot of different information at once.
My main gripes with HN UI are the expand/collapse and voting buttons are tiny on mobile. And it's very easy to accidentally hide an article by accident (it's a hassle to undo this).