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> Always important to remember that the equity-left is only about 20% of Americans, and the US is the global stronghold for such ideals
What ? The U.S main ideological exports of the last 50 years are neoliberalism, alt-right and techno-feudalism. Its 2 party would register as far right and center right in basically any other country.
Exactly, and the prupose of these legislation was supposed to be exactly that : force companies to integrate privacy in the core of their products, not to create a list of items to tick.
didn't they ? There is 4x more advertising for 4x less content and the recommendations are pretty crappy.
Don't mean to make Americans sad but "the US" doesn't win AI, a few oligarchs win AI (if US companies end up winning).
The question is not US v China, it's Peter Thiel and Elon Musk vs literally anything else (that would be clearly better).
Successfully ? Maybe the OG survivor bias here..
Do you think your organisation as a whole is doing more ?
Is the more being done actually useful ? i.e: is the outcome better ?
This looks like a fairly typical engineer's solution to a complex social problem: it doesn't really solve the problem, introduces other issues / is gameable, yet unlikely to create problems for the creator.
Of course creator answers any criticism of the solution with "Well make something better". That's not the point: this is most likely net negative, at least that is the (imo well supported) opinion of critics.
If the cons outway the pros, then doing nothing is better than this.
But humans react to this extremely differently than a self driving car.
Humans take responsability, and the self-driving disengages and say : WELP.
Oh sorry were you "enjoying your travel time to do something useful" as we very explicitely marketed ? Well now your wife is dead and it's your fault (legally). Kisses, Elon.
ECB is doing one reckless thing after another which will inevitably lead to Germany leaving Eurozone at some point.
I'm not even sure what you're trying to say with the rest of it but this is nonsense. The ECB policy IS German, and has been for 3 decades. All of germany's economy is organized around the existence of the eurozone with Germany controlling a unified monetary policy.
M1&2 yes with slight caveats, m3-5 not really (at least yet)
landlords need people to pay the rent. Or to spell it out more precisely : the construction/housing industry off of which land lords extract value needs external value creation to still exist AND give revenue to spend to a large population. "Houses are for people to live in" may be a communist slogan right now, but it's also very basic macro-economic reality.
It's particularly well suited for backups
Historically news outlet run as public service (with sufficient guardrails for autonomy) such as the BBC, PBS, France Television, Arte (naming only those I know well) have produce much better news coverage than the privately owned ones.
OTOH the concept of independent public institution and general checks and balances seems to have been entirely forgotten, so maybe that's not a solution for 21st century.
An alternative would be communally owned media (50/50 by readership and journalists), with simple direct tax incentive to fund them (equal amounts of $ per person)
There is very little hardware that would actually be ipv6 incompatible.
We're talking network equipment from 15+ years ago, which is also obsolete because it's 1Gbps at 10x the power usage of a 10gbps switch.
Yes they did, at least twice in the 19th century.
It was the largest financial crisis before 1929
Unless you are a personal assistant, your job probably is not to "make the life of your hiring manager easier".
You have responsibilities, which ideally should be stipulated in some form in a contract, and if you are vaguely senior they hopefully go beyond "do whatever steeve needs to feel good".
I would argue that it is in fact your manager whose job entails making your (and your peers) professional life easier, by identifying the roadblocks, escalating problems if need be, etc...
It has more words put together in seemingly correct sentences, so it's long enough his boss won't actually read it to proof it.
It is literally the ONE thing that every AI critic has been talking about for years.
Several things can be true at the same time : it's possible for the wild claims of great efficiency gains and transformative (for good) power of AI to be overblown (for the sake of stock prices) AND for AI applied to surveillance to be a terrifying prospect.
Surveillance AI doesn't need to be correct to be terrifying.
It solves a problem for Stripe : potentially evading some incoming regulations in payments in the UK/EU (and U.S probably).
Regulations in payments tend to be very technical, and inserting some crypto/distributed plausible deniability in the mix could get them 5 more years of delay (until the next generation of regulations). It will depend on how those regulations take shape in the coming months.
The why becoming stale is a feature, that's when you know there is a VALID reason you thought this looked weird and convoluted, instead of you completely missing the inherent complexity of the problem.
> If it saves my ass even just once, it will probably be worth it overall.
That's a common fallacy of safety by the way :)
It could very well "save your ass" just once (whatever that means) while costing you more in time, opportunity, effort, or even false sense of safety, to generate more harm than it will ultimately save you.
Every year someone figures out that encoding complex logic in type systems leads to complex type systems.
YES. Types will not simplify your logic, they mean to represent it, in all its glorious complexity, in a way that is checkable automatically, and will break and require refectoring when you violate the previous invariants.
This is types working.
Ah yes, operating system kernels, famously super mainstream programs that almost everyone works on.
I use search engines because I want a source for the info I get that I can assess the trustworthiness of.
Sadly search is massively enshitified by AI generated SEO'd crap...
"Participants had 5 minute conversations simultaneously with another human participant and one of these systems before judging which conversational partner they thought was human.
When prompted to adopt a humanlike persona, GPT-4.5 was judged to be the human 73% of the time: significantly more often than interrogators selected the real human participant."
That's the opposite of a Turing test pass : it shows a very clear bias in selection is present, which means the LLM is significantly different from humans (at least in this test setting).
If the test setting was : 1 humans talk to chatbot and after 5m decides yes/no on human, then yeah that would be a very impressive result.
But in the test setting of this paper, surely a success would be as close as possible to a 50%, i.e: statistically impossible to separate humans and LLMs.
Any are you Debug ? Are you DebugAny ?
I sounds insane to me number wise too.
Even growth stocks have about 5x the price to revenue.