A decade or more of people copy-pasting rote solutions from StackOverflow only supports the notion that many people will forego comprehension to foster the illusion of competent productivity.

This ain't an AI problem, it's a people problem that's getting amplified by AI.

It was interesting the other day tracing the lineage of Aaron Swartz -> Library Genesis / Sci-Hub -> LLM vendors relying on that work to train their models and sell it back to us all with no royalties or accountability to the original authors of all this painstakingly researched, developed, and recorded human knowledge they’re making billions on.

they are not making billions.. they are burning billions.

That's true. Except that you can have Agents doing it 24/7 with no human input. The amount of repos/PRs is only limited by GPUs

Just curious: why wouldn't you attack this with a jail?

Jails are alien magic and typescript is safe and familiar

What, exactly, is "safe" about TypeScript other than type safety?

TypeScript is just a language anyway. It's the runtime that needs to be contained. In that sense it's no different from any other interpreter or runtime, whether it be Go, Python, Java, or any shell.

In my view this really is best managed by the OS kernel, as the ultimate responsibility for process isolation belongs to it. Relying on userspace solutions to enforce restrictions only gets you so far.

Ah I forgot to add an /s

I agree on all counts and that this project is silly on the face of it.

My comment was more that there is a massive cohort of devs who have never done sysadmin and know nothing of prior art in the space. Typescript "feels" safe and familiar and the right way to accomplish their goals, regardless of if it actually is.

agree, or just busybox or alpine linux that will have more flexibility?

but i think its still useful if we are bound to js/ts ecosystem sandboxed enviroment like in vercel.

When the tokens are nice and lean.

But that's not what he said! He distinctly said "AI", so you were probably playing capitalism, and he cheated!

Acting without due process is oppression.

$Work pays for GitHub, so the implicit solution offered is "take my money and make your service reliable"

The providers for tofu are by design the same as for terraform.

Also, for large providers like AWS, GCP, Azure, etc - these are often largely authored by the hyperscaler themselves, for better or worse.

I don't think the boring reality of most jury trials would make for an interesting screenplay.

To every commenter offering incredulity or sarcasm at the apparent obviousness of this advice:

A great swath of us did not possess the social intelligence to arrive at this conclusion independently upon our arrival in the workforce. I didn't. I got lucky.

In my experience, pretty much anything relating to spaceflight is gonna be lumped under ITAR and restricted from general disclosure.

The question is, do we have enough capacity to mine and refine them at a reasonable price? They're there, in the dirt for the taking.

We used to have several companies in the US that mined and refined the materials. They shut down because they couldn't compete with China, but if supply became constrained over a long period of time they could restart operations.

It's one reason the Chinese threats of cutting off rare earths is not quite as scary as the media makes it out to be. They can't do it for too long before alternatives get spun up and they lose their leverage entirely.

That makes no sense whatsoever. We are not consuming rare earths; only moving them from one place to another.

Arguably, future generations would find it easier to mine them from former landfill sites, where they would be present in concentrated form, than from some distant mine in the middle of nowhere.

Will the NIMBYs of the future allow for rare earths processing in long defunct landfills that in the future are surrounded by residential development? These urban landfills even today really aren't far from civilization. In fact they have been enveloped by civilization in many cases.

I mean as it is you can't even recycle most things if they are the least bit soiled since it is not economically viable to implement a cleaning process. We are doing a whole lot of assumptions that our future members of our species will have solved a way to reliably get pure rare earths from a mixed up slop of everything in a landfill. Whatever they possibly figure out is going to probably be far more challenging than ore refining processes we use today.

It might be cheaper/easier to try and capture an asteroid than to refine a landfill.

Why not do that now?

It's called recycling.

As long as the "virgin" sources are super cheap its not worth it, but the market can change.

Sounds mighty expensive if not impossible for extraction.

> Future generations will blame us for damning them out of rare earths to build yet another cellphone.

We’ll be out of many elements before we run out of rare earths. They are not actually that rare, they are mostly inconvenient to extract because they are distributed everywhere as minor elements rather than concentrated into ores. Things like cobalt, nickel, the platinum group metals, or even copper, are more worrying from a sustainable production point of view.