As much as I love "Songs of Distant Earth", I suspect a Hollywood version of it would amount to "giant lobsters vs space marines", whereas in the book they're a minor sideshow.
I tend to agree. I've always thought it would work well as a TV show in the more heady days of streaming (let's say 2012 - 2020) when networks and studios where it still felt like they had some room to take more risk. It's more towards the end of the last TV "golden age" but an adaptation like something like Apple's take on "Tales from the Loop". Not brash or loud or too formulaic but somehow still got made
I loved "Tales From the Loop", and wished they'd made more. It has a kind of atmospheric sensibility that sticks (with me, at least) long after the details of the plot are forgotten. That's appropriate, I guess, for something based on a portfolio of paintings. It's a hidden gem that I enjoy recommending.
Yes! Amazing show, one of my favourite shows of the last decade or two. I think what really does it for me is that they really bring the audience into the world itself. I think that's partly because there's no need to always be pushing the plot forward, which I think is a bugbear of mine of newer shows now. There's something to letting things just breathe and tales from the loop really excels at that.
The Phillip Glass soundtrack particularly elevates it too.
So basically Avatar just without all the Smurfs huh?
It would be surely minced thru to fit all the standard of the industry - and that's the fear I'm having while craving for screen adaptations of books today.
Yeah, I remember the two parties accusing each other of essentially the same thing -- destroying a 25-year business relationship over short-term greed, for no good reason.
It's good to see the result of the court case, now at least we know who tried to screw who over.
It could be, but are vendors actually upgrading kernels along with firmware updates? In my experience it's more like, ship 5+ year old kernel and then forget it forever.
> It could be, but are vendors actually upgrading kernels along with firmware updates?
Certainly the big guys like IBM/RedHat are putting effort into maintaining their legacy trees.
> In my experience it's more like, ship 5+ year old kernel and then forget it forever.
I think that's the case with smaller vendors, like the teams that produce a custom kernel for the newest ARM single board kit. Once most of their inventory is sold they have little incentive to dedicate engineering bandwidth to updates. (And there's always the community effort to pick up the slack.)
Most databases in practice are sub-terabyte and even sub-100Gb, their active dataset is almost fully cached. For most databases I worked with, cache hit rate is above 95% and for almost all of them it's above 90%. In that situation, most queries are CPU-bound. It's completely different from typical OLAP in this sense.
Definitely. If you're doing regular queries with filters on jsonb columns, having the index directly on the JSON paths is really powerful. If I have a jsonb filter in the codebase at all, it probably needs an index, unless I know the result set is already very small.
Yeah, the other problem is I've really struggled to have postgres use multiple threads/cores on one query. Often maxes out one CPU thread while dozens go unused. I constantly have to fight loads of defaults to get this to change and even then I never feel like I can get it working quite right (probably operator error to some extent).
This compares to clickhouse where it constantly uses the whole hardware. Obviously it's easier to do that on a columnar database but it seems that postgres is actively designed to _not_ saturate multiple cores, which may be a good assumption in the past but definitely isn't a good one now IMO.
The FAQ, under "How can OSE evolve in the long term, especially in an AI-powered world?" appears to state a very pro-AI view.
I think this is hopelessly naive. The LLMs crapping out code are shamelessly ripping off open source code, sans copyright notice. It makes no sense for a foundation supporting open source to also support this massive copyright massacre.
Also, I think you're going to get flooded with requests to give money to vibe-coded crap, because if you have no skills or shame but want to make a little money off your AI-generated crap, why not try and extract money from this initiative? The curl guy showed this is very real.
The curl guy is one of OSE founding donors, together with the terraform guy who recently released an open source trust management system to help with AI-generated crap: https://github.com/mitchellh/vouch
I think that AI eventually will solve technical maintenance problems, but not human-related ones: limited attention, trust, motivation issues. And we are going to support mostly "old" projects everybody relies on, not some new AI-gen stuff.
NPOs are constantly “running a tight ship.” I suspect a lot of HNers would be aghast at the limited resources available. I’ve been doing NPO work for decades.
LLMs represent a very important opportunity to force-multiply limited resources.
Potential issues from new tech aside, an open-source endowment is a pro-social idea, that absolutely deserves its day.
Now, setting aside ethical issues for a moment, open-sourced knowledge, writing, history, data, Q&A, and tech is essentially a prerequisite for a data-driven technology like LLMs, and if those turn out to be a net win for humanity, then we can directly trace the routes to initiatives like this one that can curate humanity's best contributions.
> flooded with requests to give money to vibe-coded crap
And our plan is to willy-nilly give money to everyone who asks for it with no oversight or attention to other factors or human involvement. Game over. You win.
> It makes no sense for a foundation supporting open source to also support this massive copyright massacre.
Copyright is a fundamentally unethical concept and must die. Open source foundations should rightfully support the death of copyright, whether by LLMs or by other means.
Author is all over AI, other projects on his github are some AI nonsense made with Claude and at least partially somewhat credited this way (or maybe not obscured well enough with Claude signed commits). Release page is your standard affair LLM emojis gag. But mostly code itself smells llm, was dumped all at once and there are no commits since initial upload.
One of the problems created by the LLM storm is that open source software, once published, gets stolen and regurgitated by LLMs, minus the copyright notices. As an open source author, how do I go about scratching my itch without contributing to this wholesale theft?
It would be great if I could do something to make my work undigestible, as the article suggests, but your example is unpalatable even for me. What else might serve this purpose?
You mean senior programmers that have been there for ages don't want to spend their time reviewing AI slop? Who'd a thunk it!
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