That is the most distant definition from "necessity" i can think of.

> That is the most distant definition from "necessity" i can think of.

It is a sign of the rapid transformation of our world that the above statement is simultaneously true and completely missing the context here.

Why? Think about the context of OpenAI's founding. As I remember it, OpenAI wanted to offer an alternative locus of power compared to Google and Facebook around AI. They wanted to have the spotlight to talk about broader topics and share advancements more broadly.

To accomplish that mission, there are many hard compromises that have to be met.

To be clear, I'm not assessing how well OpenAI did. I don't know the right answers.

Rather, I'm pointing out the constraints in their space are substantial. I don't think anyone can dispute the upsides of having a large budget -- to hire in-demand experts and train expensive models. What are the best ways to acquire this funding? I think there are many thought experiments to conduct and cross-comparisons to make.

According to the article they have decided that the way forward is by going with “bigger and better” models, which necessitated the need for more resources.

I’m going to trust them on their reasoning, but with that premise what are the options here if they lack required resources?

If they to avoid what is dubbed a “sell” option to private money, the other option is to get some public funding or to be honest about the issue and close the shop.

demoscene reason d'etre is antithetical to museums. But i think this is very fitting for a time when, as you say, "we are losing more and more control over the hardware and software that we buy"

This may be a huge ego trip or pure gatekeeping, but I never wrote anything that I expected people to run, look at the pretty pixels, and be done.

You cannot be truly impressed if you don't know the effort to put that art into a tiny file or abuse the hardware in ways never seen before. If you never fired a debugger or other development/reverse engineering tool, then you missed most it had to offer. And IMHO you never connected to the artist in any way.

If pouet.net isn't a huge museum, then what is it?

A cesspool of trolls? :-)

(not saying it isn't also a huge museum btw)

> It might not be obvious, but the app will have access to all your other open windows.

Fun fact, most docker hosts will allow access to all your files anyway! (specially true on docker for mac, which all the cool kids(tm) here are using). Even if you restrict container host-FS access to a source repo dir, mind rogue code changing your .git hook scripts in there or you might run code outside of the container when committing ;)

Another slightly relevant fun fact, USB is a bus. That means that any device can listen in on any other device. And USB access is given by default to some X-enabled docker (--tty something), and to most virtualbox machines (including the hidden one running the fake docker linux host on docker-for-mac), and more recently Google-Chrome. ;)

> and to most virtualbox machines (including the hidden one running the fake docker linux host on docker-for-mac)

docker-for-mac does not use virtualbox.

Docker For Mac does use a virtual machine to run the Docker machine, though. It's complicated to access the automatically generated mount point on Docker's mac when you create a virtual folder but don't bind it anywhere.

But does Docker for Mac give unlimited access to the host’s usb bus like GP claims? I don’t see any evidence that it’s true, and the mistaken claim that d4m uses virtualbox increases my skepticism.

I have no knowledge on that matter, I’m sorry

Did you read the rest of the article?

That was not a summary of why the old model could not be kept, just of why it was promiscuous.

I give it very low grades.

It suggests installing many closed source, Advertising-ridden apps from the play store.

And to one of those ad-ridden apps, it even suggest you use adb to give it supper powers of sorts.

You don't even have to go to open source. You can see this hostile behaviour from their top-paying clients!

Microsoft own previous gen Xbox emulator on the next gen xbox (i think it was original xbox emulated in the 360, but i might be wrong) was impacted by the team having to reverse-engineer the GPU because nvidia refused to let the emulator people to have access to the documentation provided to the original team.

Stumbling around Google didn't find me much more info on this, do you have any citations or keywords I could follow up on?

> In compliance with the new ruling, GitHub is now relying on SCCs to establish necessary data protection for all

That means: "our last industry hack, Privacy Shield Framework, was shot down for the second time, making it dangerous for us. Now we use the even more dubious one, until it is shot down too"

more on SCCs gaps: https://www.bclplaw.com/en-US/insights/gdpr-the-most-frequen...

Sounds more like GitHub is just "safeguarding" their own ass. What does "data protection" mean in this context? Protecting user data from the US Government? Strange article...

i did not but i do not pay youtube premium. Mostly because all that money will go to RIAA and other DMCA backers, not content creators. Specially not the ones everyone here watches.

Nobody uses youtube because they love it. Everyone uses youtube because google effectively killed all the competition by sliding billions of investor money to DMCA backers. And well, this one time it worked out nice for them, i guess. But it is not a business practice I will support. Fortunately, i'm technical enough to play their cat and mouse game to consume creators who are hostage to their monopoly on discovery.

I couldn't remember if that was one of the things they fixed with ES6.

I wonder if passing in a dict is a good alternative in this case. More syntax clutter but at least the params have some semantic meaning.

Object destructuring in the parameter list comes very close to supporting keyword arguments, with only a couple of characters overhead.

This is the best economic answer to the question of why dollar doesn't had inflation like other currencies that increase supply. much better than the "the rich will only inflate art prices" that is currently on top of this one.

But also ignores the military power. Which plays a huge part on why the dollar is always so strong, regardless of how much is printed.

When Saddam decided to sell oil in euro, or Venezuela decided to accept gold, the US was ready to bring democracy and peace.

On a free market you can't shut down a bakery if they decide to buy flour from your competitor.