Despite the hype, EV adoption in Europe is still slow, not sure if there is a market segment for this kind of car when the charging network is not ready to support it.
- most people are Luddite, despite all the claim most do not want any revolution, they do fear any change;
- due to managerism the EU automotive, once the first and the best in the wold, is pure finance since decades, so completely lack substantial R&D, as a result we can't compete with China who actually what we have done in the past, when the automotive was the whole-industries driver.
China do a kind of public R&D, oh yes, not really a "free" one, but at least they have standards and public coordination, here in the whole west anyone go private and as a result innovation wane and capability to substantially evolve essentially disappear.
A BEV today, seeing it's useful expected life and performances should have price tags between city-centric toys sub 10.000€, entry-level real car with at least 400km WLTP/250 miles EPA range around 20.000€, mid-level cars, larger, with more accessories etc at 30.000€ range and so on. Actually our EU EVs are Chinese anyway and priced around 20.000€ too much to be acceptable.
Aside photovoltaic is pushed in bad directions for large corporate interests instead of the sole sensible direction witch is pure self-consumption to lower grid peak usage for the grid and spare money for the owner. In that sense we are even terribly behind in mere tech terms: we have stationary storage that are typically LFP 400V the very same of most cars, but there is NO DAMN charging station DC-to-DC from p.v. to the car to avoid wasting much in a double conversion. There is NO V2H solution and only few cars are capable of limited V2L around 3kW maximum. There are almost NO appliance easy to integrate with a self-consumption model on sale, no appliance offer a DC-DC direct power even for those internally actually use DC like aircon, heat-pump water heater and so on.
Unfortunately our economic ruling class want the green new deal to push most to poverty to enslave better, well, most are ignorant but not so ignorant nor stupid enough to understand at least something, so the green deal happen badly and late killing us. That's is. OR we made it PUBLIC for the PUBLIC interest or we will loose ALL, ruling class included, they simply want too much so they'll loose anyway.
This seems like one of those better to ask for forgiveness than permission issues getting resolved. SO knew their value was already taken for free. They also know there is absolutely nothing they can do since the models have already been trained. The only thing left to do to salvage any value was to make a press release blessing the theft so they don't look silly going forward.
Nothing has been resolved. OpenAI still infringed on copyright and should still be punished for this.
They broke the law on a grand scale, used this to make shitloads of money, and are now trying to use that money to pay off anyone that might give them trouble.
SO has to make a decision of how much can they prove in court. If they can prove it, what kind of damages might they be awarded, and if any rewards would cover the the expense of bringing the case forward. If any of those questions are a "no", then you have to try to save face some how. This is that face saving move. So to me, it sounds like they decided "no" was an answer somewhere in the decision tree.
When you steal, steal big. You go to jail for stealing someone's things, but if you steal everyone's things, then it's just too much for people to handle and they'd rather the whole thing just goes away really. (maybe I've read too much Douglas Adams)
> When you steal, steal big. You go to jail for stealing someone's things, but if you steal everyone's things, then it's just too much for people to handle and they'd rather the whole thing just goes away really. (maybe I've read too much Douglas Adams)
You're correct that this is how it works. It's just really sad, and shouldn't be.
People like Aaron Swartz got bullied into suicide, yet OpenAI is getting white glove treatment.
The idea of allowing to easily define the behaviour of the standard UI component is interesting and will save us from having to reinvent the wheel everytime. But why discussing this kind of things on Discord? Is open the new close? Not so good naming if you ask me, it might confuse people.
With regards to Discord, that's simply used in place of IRC for informal discussions. All potentially "normative" discussions occur within the Github issues and minutes are recorded as with other W3C groups via our IRC Channel. Thanks for the feedback :)
So we will have to think by ourselves and apply criticism to everything we read or see. Maybe it was always like this but AI made it accessible, faster and easier.
Levy is not regarded as a serious person. He once quoted a made up philosopher and has some dubious interests. In the french speaking world most people treat him as a joke.
It really depends on what makes you feel bad. Funny coincidence, I just found mine yesterday after it sitted 2 years in a drawer as I hate having things tell me what to do.
