Do you actually think no one did any work when the pandemic hit and all offices were closed for months? Like no work was done at all?

Tell us how that didn’t just create more space junk… it’s r/technicallythetruth

...by equipping their craft with a drag sail, deliberately designed to speed orbital decay. [Reading- how does it work?]

Tell us you didn't read the article without saying you didn't read the article.

Doesn't work when every other big tech is on hiring freeze though

> ...shows a low-cost way to reduce space junk

by becoming space junk.

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As long as it’s Edge

Please lay me off anytime for that 3+ month severance. You're supposed to jump around every 2 years for the best salary anyway

Thanks capitalism

I've been hit up by both an Amazon and Google recruiter with the last 10 days on LinkedIn. I wouldn't consider either based on their failed business plans and sticking it to the workers.

I frankly despise all authors daring to go ahead with this thing, as I fail to see this whole endeavor as anything but a money/15 min fame grab, since IA is only living to its name, for the sake of culture.

It just feels like good vs evil at this point.

Its time to download the torrents of what you can from IA. If the ship sinks torrents are going to be the fastest way to repopulate and reshare what we can.

Just to be clear to anyone reading this. You can do the same with books rented from other sites or ones you get from Amazon Unlimited. I am not advocating for this. I am just saying that this is possible with all digital rental/loan books, not just archive.org, so it shouldn't be used as a reason to target archive.org for allowing piracy.

I've been borrowing IA books that have "two week loans", downloading the Adobe Digital Editions pdf, using a Calibre plug-in to remove the restrictions, then "cleaning up" the copy (remove blank pages, reduce page background or increase contrast, add bookmarks if needed, and optimize file size). If the IA ever goes down, I'll have a backup.

I'm not against buying books, I have thousands of physical ones. But I believe sharing knowledge is an absolute good.

I had a coworker point out a mistake he caught on a job site and say to me (referencing previous conversations about whether or not AI could do our jobs) “you think an AI would have caught that?”

All I was thinking was “yeah, easily, absolutely and 100% of the time. It wouldn’t have been there in the first place.”

Over hiring will do that

The same thing was probably said about smartphones, computers, and other technological advancements.

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Disgusting that they want to take it down, but what do you expect of censors

So they don’t profit from ads on the site then, because there aren’t any.

Here’s the last part of your quoted source, it seems to have been left off:

“and that its digital scanning service is separate from the Open Library.”

In case anyone wants to read the response, you can see it here: Internet Archive response

I agree. This is huge. The Internet Archive have a large number of donated books that they scan and make available. Some of these are no longer published or available for purchase. It's an amazing resource and would be a huge loss to everyone if we lost it.

> I'm dreading the day AI can write code.

Self fixing code generation is already in the pipeline for simple programs. (that was the middle of last year. ): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_3MBQm7GFIM&t=260s @ 4.20

GPT4 can do some impressive things:

>"Not only have I asked GPT-4 to implement a functional Flappy Bird, but I also asked it to train an AI to learn how to play. In one minute, it implemented a DQN algorithm that started training on the first try."

https://twitter.com/DotCSV/status/1635991167614459904

a scrip dubbed "Wolverine" that hooks into GPT4 and recursivly resolves errors in python scripts.

https://twitter.com/bio_bootloader/status/1636880208304431104

“Yeah but I said it in the past, so it shouldn’t count. And after this legislation you shouldn’t be able to prove anything you meddling kids!”

Among other things, publishers argue that the organization is a commercial operation that’s received affiliate link revenue and has received money for digitizing library books. In a response, the Internet Archive says it’s received around $5,500 total in affiliate revenue