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GPL Infection of LLMs?

sl_convertible — Fri, 24 Jul 2026 20:51:18 +0000

So, since LLMS are trained on GPLed software, could it be said that they are based on GPL software, activating the "share the source" part of the GPL(v3?)?

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49041426

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New comment by sl_convertible in "The Humbling of the Once Almighty Dollar"

sl_convertible — Mon, 29 Jun 2026 19:38:00 +0000

s/subject/object - there's no objective standard for hatred. I find it funny that Trump was pretty much universally liked until he ran for President as a Republican. If you go back to his interviews in the 80's and 90's, he's pretty much saying now what he said back then, so what changed?

New comment by sl_convertible in "Emacs 31 is around the corner: The changes I'm daily driving"

sl_convertible — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 22:37:54 +0000

How is it now compared to 6 months ago? I tried it back then, and just... I don't know, couldn't get into it.

New comment by sl_convertible in "A scoping review of bicycling interventions’ impacts on well-being"

sl_convertible — Fri, 22 May 2026 21:33:27 +0000

We just had a death on the road, from a driver hitting a cyclist in a group. I'm a life-long cyclists, and I now am somewhat fearful about cycling on the road. I see so many groups that take an entire lane and not even care about the cars behind them - it's easy to understand the frustration of the drivers. It's a knotty problem, I wish we had more bicycle lanes.

New comment by sl_convertible in "SBCL: A Sanely-Bootstrappable Common Lisp (2008) [pdf]"

sl_convertible — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 20:31:37 +0000

But there's a value in having a defined, stable language definition. Being able to rely on the basic language not changing is a feature, not a bug. Though it does mean you have to sometimes search for a good lib if you don't have a feature built into the language.

New comment by sl_convertible in "FLASH radiotherapy's bold approach to cancer treatment"

sl_convertible — Sun, 08 Mar 2026 17:34:54 +0000

the body will actually turn protein into glucose, so the body will never be completely glucose free.

New comment by sl_convertible in "FLASH radiotherapy's bold approach to cancer treatment"

sl_convertible — Sat, 07 Mar 2026 19:24:50 +0000

Healthy cells CAN turtle-up, whereas cancer cells engage in unregulated reproduction. Also, some cancer cells can only consume glucose. Which, in a fasted state, would mean that the majority of energy would be in ketones(if the individual were metabolically healthy), starving the cancer cells to death.

New comment by sl_convertible in "Picking Up a Zillion Pieces of Litter"

sl_convertible — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 19:02:02 +0000

I spent an enjoyable afternoon on Kailua beach snorkeling for garbage. I found a fishing pole, a complete snorkeling set, and bunches of other stuff. I just grabbed what I found, took it back to the beach, and dumped it in the garbage can. Very satisfying day.

New comment by sl_convertible in "A GitHub Issue Title Compromised 4k Developer Machines"

sl_convertible — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 18:35:10 +0000

How many times are we going to have to learn this lesson?

New comment by sl_convertible in "In Europe, wind and solar overtake fossil fuels"

sl_convertible — Thu, 22 Jan 2026 18:09:03 +0000

If even a Democratically-led California is doing this, how can you point fingers at just the GOP? It's endemic to the system, and not restricted to just one party.

New comment by sl_convertible in "US, for first time in 50 years, experienced negative net migration in 2025"

sl_convertible — Thu, 15 Jan 2026 00:44:10 +0000

Federal involvement during WWII led to the founding of Silicon Valley.

New comment by sl_convertible in "Show HN: AI in SolidWorks"

sl_convertible — Mon, 12 Jan 2026 19:23:24 +0000

We're getting closer and closer to Jarvis.

New comment by sl_convertible in "TimeCapsuleLLM: LLM trained only on data from 1800-1875"

sl_convertible — Mon, 12 Jan 2026 19:22:29 +0000

Harry Seldon would, no doubt, find this fascinating. Imagine having a sliding-window LLM that you could use to verify a statistical model of society. I wonder what patterns it could deduce?

New comment by sl_convertible in "US blocks all offshore wind construction, says reason is classified"

sl_convertible — Mon, 22 Dec 2025 21:53:21 +0000

Also look at how defensible having your power generation outside your coastline is. This is creating a big vulnerability in your power grid.