skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Even if it was true, it could have been alleviated by 1) expanding public transportation 2) electrifying it, or building electrical from the start. Subway, buses, regional trains, trams, and so on.
Yes, and that's by mutual agreement. I allow you to read my content in exchange for money or traffic. That doesn't mean open ai, a company building a product, has the right to use my work word by word to train their model without my constent and then monetise it - that's theft. Where's the option to remove my content or to stop open ai from using it?
Carfascists cause more damage than ecofascists by every measure.
These were the very early YouTube days :^)
I'm turning 32 this year, started coding 19 years ago...
Same here. While my blog is more an infrequent dumping ground for (mostly technical) thoughts, I try to write up new info, things that I can't quite find elsewhere, in hopes others find them useful as well. Years ago, when ads didn't feel quite so smarmy, I had a simple banner on the page and would get an extra $100/mo or so. But then this fell off a cliff and the ads started feeling cheap, and I pulled it all off and now just have things up for free.

Yes, it costs me a bit out of pocket, but it's a useful shingle to hang, a place to dump thoughts, and an easy way to reference them in the future. It's not worth the time it'd take to even make the site pay for itself (~$20/mo).
If they're in violation of EU privacy laws then how are they not fined for it or outright banned? I got a fine from the local court in Germany because I put a google maps widget on my company's "about us" page, the court gave me 30 days to remove it.
This is sad. I feel like they should have actually added it. Developing a full application in a .svg file sounds really great to me.
> Overall this seems like a weak case to me.

The Economist, no fan of Trump, made much the same point [1], archived at [2]

> Prosecuting Mr Trump for the campaign-finance violation relies on a convoluted argument. In 2016 Michael Cohen, the president’s personal lawyer (who later went to prison himself), paid $130,000 to Ms Daniels out of his own pocket. Mr Trump allegedly reimbursed Mr Cohen with payments disguised as routine legal expenses. Falsifying business records can be a misdemeanour under New York law. The felony indictment would indicate that prosecutors are going to argue that the minor crime facilitated a more serious one: failing to declare the payment, which was made a few weeks before the election, as a de facto campaign expense.

> The payment probably did benefit the campaign and it was indeed undeclared. Mr Cohen, the lawyer, pleaded guilty to breaking campaign-finance law. But legal theory for prosecuting Mr Trump in Manhattan is untested. The campaign-finance rules that he may have broken are federal. The accounting rule is a state one. Linking the two in this way is unusual, and a judge may decide it is unwarranted.

And today it has a leader [3], archived at [4] which goes into greater detail, and concludes

> If Mr Trump is to be prosecuted, it should be for something that cannot be dismissed as a technicality, and where the law is clearer. The Manhattan DA’s case looks like a mistake.

[1] https://www.economist.com/united-states/2023/03/23/the-cases...
[2] https://web.archive.org/web/20230329221711/https://www.econo...
[3] https://www.economist.com/leaders/2023/03/30/prosecuting-don...
[4] https://web.archive.org/web/20230331115631/https://www.econo...
> This is the sort of thing that I'd be happy if it wasn't dumped into HN.

I agree with you but the OP has a bit of a point when it comes to the Irish privacy regulator. It's not the EU as a whole but the way they can pick the country that most suits them.

Ireland gets a substantial portion of its GDP from big tech so they are pretty receptive to their point of view and often Ireland has to be persuaded to give higher fines and to perform investigations in a timely manner. Facebook picked Ireland as their base of operations so the Irish regulators are responsible for the entire EU.

It's not just about privacy either. The EU ruled that Apple owed Ireland 1 billion in back taxes they illegally avoided. Ireland fought tooth and nail not to receive this money.

Clearly the EU rule that multinationals can choose the privacy and tech regulator to work with for the whole EU by choosing their main host country is helping them to cherry pick those that are most on their side and this is not helping the effectiveness of these laws.
almost everyone I know is eyeing the exit

Anecdotal only. I don't know many eyeing the exit. Not everybody is so money focused.
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The training data is a serious problem. So far Adobe is the only company I've heard of to publicly state they had the right to use the data for training.
Rishi Sunak just blew close to 10x that in a fortnight on private jet travel. Fantastic to see them getting their priorities in order.
Why, should not electricity be cheap all the time. Like when it is produced from nuclear powerplants. And not go for considerable periods to multi euro range per kwh like from solar and wind.

Horribly badly, just look at countries like USA, Britain, France invading countries like Afganistan and Iraq. Just imagine if either of those could have delivered nukes to NYC or Washington DC.

Many of the invasions might not have happened if the countries had realistic and effective tools to fight against the bad guys and cause considerable combatant losses at their home soils.
scaNN looks good.
Its not like banning you from getting high in Amsterdam. In that situation both you and the drugs are in amsterdam where they have no jurisdiction.
The prosecutor can only look at crimes in their jurisdiction. In this case it's a NY prosecutor and only crimes in that state can be charged. In fact, we don't know what the charges are yet as they are sealed (although the leak says it's 30+ charges). There are other, stronger cases against Trump being pursued in Georgia and at the Federal level (and perhaps more than that).

In the end, this is important though as we already have convictions that his company was committing tax fraud but those don't go back to him personally because the CFO was non-cooperative (and Trump probably wasn't directly involved enough to be convicted).

The campaign finance part though is definitely personally handled by him. He allegedly used money donated by people to his campaign to pay his lawyer who then used the money to pay Stormy Daniels. That money was billed as legal expenses for the campaign. That's more than accounting fraud - it's tax fraud and it's fraud against our democracy.
What I do (and would recommend) is building an adjacent product and selling it.

The product could be just a higher quality version of the content (e.g. book, course, etc.), or it could be something in the space, like a SaaS that helps your audience solve a problem the blog talks about.

This is a good way to upsell the people willing to pay without upsetting any of your readers. Also, positioning it as a different product breaks the "blogs should be free" mental block many people have.
You are ignoring everything GDPR is about.

European data, European rules.
> Legacy auto CEO want to gain time

Stellantis has already been selling hundreds of thousands of BEVs in the last couple of years and changing the entire offer of several brands they own, a process they are gonna complete in a few years, namely 3/4.

They also have a strong position on commercial vehicles as well.

Their position is everything but weak, considering they are indeed a "legacy automaker".
As a cat, I'd prefer for Firefox to stop integrating a Pocket chumbox and pinning sponsored sites on the new tab page, advertising Firefox VPN in their browser, increasing padding in the Normal tab bar at the same time they hide the option for Compact size, adding time-limited colorways you can't sync onto new computers added after the color scheme expires...
I'm not sure if you're intentionally being selective here, but I'll assume good intent.

GP goes on to say:

> There's clearly an element of selective prosecution here, regardless of whether the charge is valid. To make a martyr of Trump over small time crimes is not going to be good for the country in the end.

Their point is quite specifically _not_ whataboutism. They use another example to point to what they believe to be selective prosecution, not to ask "why not proscute the others who did this?".
> The Guarantor for the protection of personal data has imposed, with immediate effect, the temporary limitation of data processing of Italian users by OpenAI, the US company that developed and manages the platform.

Pretty sure OpenAI could just ignore this if they wish, unless they have a presence in the EU.
agnostic non political comment based on logic:

Possible the arrest comes to thwart presidential nomination?
Yes, just rewriting NeoVim in Rust would be a perfect solution.
Ah but your ability will be as useless as punch card programming is today.
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Imagine running a retail business without knowing how much you're paying your wholesaler for goods. Or running a restaurant without looking at the price of your ingredients. Or constructing homes without looking at the price of raw materials... you get the idea.

That lack of transparency would be frightening, but hey, things could still work out, right?

Well, let's up the difficulty.

Imagine that, on top of not knowing exactly how much you were paying for your inputs, you also didn't know if you would have consistent and continued access to your wholesaler, your food supplier, or your building materials. That would almost certainly induce high blood pressure, stomach ulcers, and mild insomnia.

In the world of private credit (this is basically business credit for the majority of companies), it's not only normal but expected that getting and maintaining access to debt capital (one of the key inputs for running any business!) will be opaque, error-prone, and hard to operationalize. In other words, capital uncertainty is the dismal reality in middle-market finance.

Private credit is enormous (add up all the VC dollars spent last year and you'd still be short of the amount of private credit issued over the same period), unavoidable, and broken.

That means credit access--the fuel or primary financial input for most medium-sized businesses--is hard to price, access, report on, and predict.

And yet it doesn't have to be that way; the data and operational issues of private credit have been solved in other domains (e.g., CRMs for Sales, infrastructure tooling for devs, EMRs for hospitals). What's missing is a software layer for business finance.

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Saying this as a European: Whenever I visit Italy, I love the food, I love the people, I love the weather and the beaches.

However, I often sense that in many places, the country seems to be entrenched in its medieval past.

This decision will not accelerate Italy's progress towards a more prosperous future.
"Public" data sources aren't in conflict with GDPR
Not so. The maximum fine for serious GDPR infringements is up to 20 million Euros or 4% of global turnover, whichever is higher.
> By indexing and training on everything it can find in the <PUBLIC> internet?!

and that's bad because?

I would see the point if they were training on my private data I entrusted to somebody and they illegally obtained it without my permission. Are they doing that?
This isn't really my point. My point is that you can't ask the documentation to expand upon what little is already in it. Stack Overflow works a little better for this purpose, because you can ask follow-up questions and get more than one answer. But even there you have to wait days for answers, and sometimes you don't get any at all. That's really inefficient, and perhaps you forgot why you asked in the first place, or just gave up and moved on.

Not so with an AI chat system. You get the answer immediately, and you can ask as many follow-up questions you like, to your heart's content. This means that, sure, even if the code you get from ChatGPT has approximately as high a chance to work as "random code from the internet," you can't ask that "random code from the internet" to expand on why it's good or bad, why it was made in a particular way, or if there are better ways, or if you can error check it one more time, or complain that, "Hey, random code, your dumb code didn't work!" In that way ChatGPT is already leaps and bounds better than "random code from the internet."

Also I assume here that you aren't just throwing darts at the wall, but instead testing out code with a clear goal in mind. Then it can be wise to ask ChatGPT about the underlying system, which it will gladly answer, and also immediately.
> ... I was deeply confused, until I heard a dear friend and colleague in academic AI, one who’s long been skeptical of AI-doom scenarios, explain why he signed the open letter. He said: look, we all started writing research papers about the safety issues with ChatGPT; then our work became obsolete when OpenAI released GPT-4 just a few months later. So now we’re writing papers about GPT-4. Will we again have to throw our work away when OpenAI releases GPT-5? I realized that, while six months might not suffice to save human civilization, it’s just enough for the more immediate concern of getting papers into academic AI conferences.

In other words, the people who wrote and are signing open letters to slow down AI scaling appear to be more concerned with their inability to benefit from and control the dialog around AI scaling than any societal risks posed by these advances in the near term. Meanwhile, to the folks at organizations like Microsoft/OpenAI, Alphabet, Facebook, etc., the scaling of AI looks like a shiny rainbow with a big pot of gold -- money, fame, glory, etc. -- on the other side. Why would they want to slow down now?
It took 4 years for Facebook's data collection and GDPR bypass mechanism to be ruled illegal. Give it another 4 more and maybe we'll actually see a decent fine?

> They are legally required to keep EU users' data in the EU anyway.

It's not about what you are legally required to do, it's about what happens in practice when you don't. In this case, not much happens, so why would they bother complying?
Easy to forget that most car enthusiasts thought that Elon Musk was a lunatic that was obviously going to fail about a decade ago. And now he's basically dominating the car industry. Lithium batteries did not exist until the nineties and did not get practical for use in cars until about 15 years ago.

Research on solid state batteries has been ongoing since then. E.g. Quantumscape founded in 2010. and is planning to start small scale production next year. We'll see how successful they are of course. You are right that it takes quite long to take technology into production. But the counter argument is that there are a few decades behind us with stuff that is now slowly trickling into the market.

Double the energy sounds amazing. Until you ask the question "double of what". Double of what's available in the market right now (450 wh/kg, Amprius sells these in low volumes) would be 900 wh/kg. That's perhaps not what they mean. The article is infuriatingly hand wavy on what is being compared to what. Or maybe they do. Hard to tell.
PyCharm 2023.1
Read the ruling.
You don't have to be money focused. Maybe you just want an appointment with your dentist without waiting for over 2 months for it.
I found Google Translate to be quite poor at translating nowadays, so I'd say GPT wins hands down. A worthy translating tool to me is deepl.com. Here's a diff between DeepL and your previous GPT one: https://www.diffchecker.com/jMgSgidy/

That said, all 3 do a decent job at translating, it's really hard for me to say which got closer (I can say GTranslate sure didnt, but it's not far behind) those kinds of docs employ legalese that's sometimes way removed from colloquial italian (e.g. "ovvero" almost always means "that is" in italian, but always means "or else" in legal documents).
Sounds like you haven't been around the US much. There are cheap places and safe places to live. Stay away from the bigger liberal cities if street violence is a concern.

If the US looks like South America you've fallen into a media trap. You are being sold something untrue but packaged perfectly so everyone gets paid. Where in America would you get pick pocked like south america? Disney World? The mean streets of Akron Ohio? Nonsense..
That is not at all clear to me. Why do you think so?
I keep thinking that some relatively-simple plugin is going to be made which allows for easy, instantaneous, irreversible access to news/blog articles — obviously a centralized issuer could accomplish this, or preferably a blockchain that isn't so slow nor expensive to utilize — and provides some privacy from data aggregation.

One of many reasons I don't PAY for news websites (let alone blogs) is because there is not an easy method to do so without having to create logins and then be trace-able [i.e. tracked]. The cost isn't really an issue, but until I can easily pay to read content, I will just continue to access archived copies of anything behind paywall [but WOULD rather pay writers!].

My ideal environment would be something like Privacy dot COM which allows you to create burning credit card accounts for each purchase — e.g. so that I could utilize above-described plugin to pay for content, quickly and cheaply (per article), that does not track me as a reader.
I think this is a fairly recent addition to Mysql. 8 something IIRC.

It's been around in Postgres for a long time so I was amazed when mysql 5.6 did not recognize it.
> have their ecosystem destroyed

As opposed to fossil-fuel global warming that threatens to destroy their ecosystems as well?

Just proactively enact aggressive environmental laws that force Lithium extraction to be environmentally sound.
maybe when it say: sorry, I am a language model...
GDPR tries to enforce its rules on servers outside of its territory.

I'm still waiting to see how well that holds up in court.
> […], whichever amount is higher.

https://gdpr.eu/fines/
I think it's about time they went into action with that then.
> The article is about the same thing essentially? Decreasing number of memory accesses is the same thing as exploiting cache locality.

No, it is not. For example, you can have an application that is doing a lot of memory accesses, but the working set is controlled to fit the cache except for couple of things that need to be fetched into the cache but you make sure those things fit predictable pattern that the CPU prefetcher can recognise and supply in advance of you needing it.

Now, having less memory accesses usually helps, but it is kinda newb way of looking at the problem. What if you have to make a lot of accesses because your application is memory heavy (say it is a database)? Does it mean there is nothing you can do to improve it? Of course there are things you can do to improve it -- but you need a bit more in depth knowledge.
Cohen plead guilty to the hush money as an excessive personal campaign contribution. Going forward, it's not likely that the contribution can be recharacterized for the purposes of charging DJT with a crime. This case is going to be tossed out of court.
Except you actually are getting excluded in a lot of conversations after uninstalling, thus it's not just a fear...

So it's not FOMO, it's just plain MO.
Interesting to see how this plays out. I’m sure many other jurisdictions will be watching too.
Counterpoint: I do not use any of their services when browsing non-Facebook websites, yet most sites still attempt to load FB tracking scripts.
Yep. And then they wonder why the government can't deliver anything.

(Government Digital Service being an exception, great work to those working there and reading this!)
Sorry, no, as a Canadian I've always been flabbergasted at the "smile and congratulate and comply" culture in American tech companies. Open criticism (and rebellion) to stupid ideas comes far quicker from Canadian and European colleagues.

As commenter poster alluded: a country with only two political parties, both of which are basically conformist on the same foreign policy and economic objectives... Where "conservatives" think anything left of Atilla the Hun is communism, so accept pathetic living conditions, corruption, and barbarous behaviour is A-OK.

Absolutely not a "rebellious country"; a country notorious for police brutality and individual acts of authoritarian violence.

Really more the tyrant than the rebel. Sorry you don't like the mirror I'm holding up.
We are part of nature, so all we do is also nature's doing. I think you're anthropomorphising earth. Earth and nature don't care about anything. You may argue that the way we are modifying the environment around us is not good for humans in the end. But that's an entirely human view. Nature does not care.
Rightly so. Change the job title, or change the salary.
> Because to Europe, the salaries are much lower than on UK,

After emigrating to central Europe I have to disagree. The salary in the UK is relative to the location so London for example is stupidly expensive to live in, so instead you commute an hour or so and still pay fairly high rent.

High salaries are in the major cities, but they carry extremely high cost of living, without necessarily high standard.

The salaries are actually closer than you might think once you look around of course, and the cost of living is almost always significantly less. So from my own experience overall I'm significantly in the green.

> Actually US is looking like South America: You try to earn as much as you can, not because you want, but to be able to live a safer life.

South America isn't all as bad as you hear on the news. You seem to have these sweeping ideas. Things usually aren't that black and white though.
Another trick I have found interesting and somewhat useful: asking it to give you his confidence score for it's statements, and a lot of the time his confidence are lower for his wrong statements but also lot of the times has high confidence in some wrong answers too (for example gets simple math wrong with 100% confidence), so not sure it's really that useful just an interesting thing to try.
I am actually very happy about this. If you like to have no protection over how big corporate treats your data as your own, and ingests whatever whenever they need to profit off your personal information, be my guest.

But I am happy to have a watchdog over my basic human rights.

> However, I often sense that in many places, the country seems to be entrenched in its medieval past.

It might be. But not on this front.
Everything is easy if all you care about the KPIs your system performs well in. Making any system with money is easy if you don't care about equality or fairness.