skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Anyone remember the Google IO demo where they had their “AI” call a barber to book an appointment.

Turns out it was all staged.

Lost a lot of trust after that.

Google is stuck in innovators dilemma.

They make 300B of revenue which ~90% is ads revenue.

Their actual mission that management chain optimizes for is their $ growth.

A superior AI model that gives the user exactly what they want would crash their market cap.

Microsoft has tons of products with Billion+ profit, Google has only a handful and other than cloud they all tie to Ads.

Google is addicted to ads. If chrome adds a feature that decreases ad revenue, that team gets a stick.

Nothing at Google should jeopardize their ad revenue.

AI is directly a threat to Google’s core business model - ads. It’s obvious they’re gonna half ass it.

For OpenAI, AI is existential for them. If they don’t deliver, they’ll die.
Probably the most reasonable take, but it’s unclear how you would tell who is a child and who is not.

I read your comment as a provocation to get the NCA to reveal that it’s not children they care about, which… I think some of them genuinely do, but encryption isn’t making a material difference.

Nota: detecting who was underage on Facebook used to be my job, so I'm happy to explain functional, scalable solutions and their limits, but not in public.

Edit: I think encryption isn’t material because you can have a bad-thing detector on the device if you suspect a problem. Naturally, there are debates about how to implement that, too.
Opinions based on trauma are rarely logical.
Yeah I think that's correct. The unions here are not acting as representatives of Tesla workers to negotiate with Tesla, but rather as cartels trying to prevent two willing parties (Tesla and its employees) from doing business without cutting in the union.

I had no idea that unions could operate like this. I thought unions were tools to gain workers leverage against their employers, which I obviously support. I find this cartel action repulsive and I don't see how it could be done here in the US without violating anti trust.
I assume they mean "...more targeted surveillance based on reasonable suspicion".
A quick search turned up this:

>> S&P Global Mobility forecasts 15% to 20% of traditional body-in-white (BIW) stampings in 2030 may be at risk from these gigacastings. Underbody components typically comprise about 50% of a vehicle's BIW shell, and this soft underbelly is the target of gigacasting's focus.

Source: https://www.spglobal.com/mobility/en/research-analysis/gigac...

Obviously not a technical journal, nor did I double check anything.

What the numbers say 15-20% might be replaced by gigastampings (sidenote: I ak surprised Elon didn't rename Twitter to Giga-X). Which, ok, is a thing. But nowhere near the revolution people seem to believe. First, it has to happen. Second, others have to consider it better, read overall cheaper, and continue doing it. Then we can properly judge. Until then, it might as well be in the category of Teslas fully automated factories that ended with Elon doing pyjama parties with his workers on the shopfloor and ad-hoc tents.

And Toyota, as per the linked article, is not copying it, they are "eyeing" it. And believe itbor not, manufacturers are eyeing new production tech all the time.

And Toyotas reputation in car manufacturing is well earned.
From my reading, they also seem to have seeded apparently random failures into the product, with a hidden reset key combo, even for those using them as support. Possibly to make themselves look good (our products may break randomly, but at least we fixed the "problem" quickly) going into the tendering process for support.
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Cars not bikes makes a compelling case that the Netherlands is the best place in the world to drive: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d8RRE2rDw4k
Well, those people can play Pathfinder: Wrath of the Righteus, which is essentially in spirit, storytelling, world and presentation very close to original BG1 and BG2. It launched in 2021.

It's amazing that we have two great games that modernize the formula in different ways - Pathfinder showing how to do the old style with modern tech and BG3 interpreting it.
> I actually agree that a lot of unions reinforce an us-vs-them mentality

In America, yes. Painting Scandinavian unions as fomenting an us-vs-them mentality is more misunderstanding from people who don't understand what it's like to live and work here.
What's to stop them from having hooks in their app that can bundle up all the decrypted messages, re-encrypt, and phone home? Certainly it wouldn't be default behavior, but its possible and would allow them to answer warrants.
The problem you have is with the record labels, not Spotify.

Spotify takes the blame, but the record labels take the lion's share.
The music in the title screen never fails to amuse me. When the chorus kicks in I am immediately immersed.
> That’s a weird set of complaints.

I didn't list any complains besides perhaps commenting on Larian's humor.

> The plot connections are pretty strong. Perhaps more than ought to have been expected

The plot has been concluded in ToB. Just sprinkling around random NPCs from previous games doesn't make it a sequel.
I feel there is a useful analogy in what happens in toxic environments. In areas where there are high levels of arsenic, for example, you find a limited ecology of organisms adapted to tolerate it, and I think I am right to say that they do not do well outside of this environment, as the mechanisms of tolerance are sub-optimal where they are not needed.

The most relevant situation would be where the environmental toxin is mutagenic. My uninformed guess is that adaptation to that environment would typically involve mechanisms to reduce susceptibility to the toxin's mutagenic effect, and, as in the case with other toxins, organisms so adapted would be out-competed in areas where the toxin is not present.

I guess we have examples in the microbes which have adapted to live in areas of high radiation, but I do not know how they fare elsewhere.

Update: D. radiodurans is an example, but it has been suggested that its tolerance is simply a side effect of a mechanism for dealing with prolonged cellular desiccation - another sort of environment where they do well.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deinococcus_radiodurans#Evolut...
It's likely to be a massive under-estimate.

>whereas the US only convicts 1,600 people a year. What causes these discrepancies?

Difficulties detecting the offending and the enthusiasm for prosecution.
It's a hot topic and I rarely want the Internet drama associated, but the UK LE already failed numerous times at keeping children safe, and they're probably trying to pick up the slack[0]. Searching "uk grooming gang scandal" will add some context. Hell, even "Prince Andrew scandal" would add a lot of context.

[0]https://www.statista.com/statistics/303514/child-cruelty-abu... (can't find a graph like that on sexual abuse cases but there's been constant growth too)
One can see multiple confident and very different explanations in these threads. They can't all be correct at the same time. But at least it's people trying to unwrap what's going on and there are good responses and back and forths et.
if they can
You left the combatting child exploitation part out. How does pulling troops from ME will achieve that?
It being Sweden, the other couriers are probably unionised.
You're complaining that the file is compressed...? You don't trust your unzip software?

How would you prefer they distribute the files?
So what you're saying is the union is forcing them to not deliver to Tesla?
Well, there's the I Am Rich app[0], which essentially did nothing and cost US$999.99.

The crux was, however, that the developer was totally upfront about what you got for the price and apparently there still were douchebags around forking over the cash to buy "status".

Apple yanked the app due to the publicity. Which I thought was wrong. It didn't violate any App store rules and it was honest and up front in the description of the app.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Am_Rich
It’s a summary of the public statement:

> Today, Meta has chosen to rollout end-to-end-encryption on Facebook Messenger, which means they will no longer be able to keep children safe on their platform.

> Today, our role in protecting children from sexual abuse just got harder.

> For years, Meta has supported law enforcement by reporting instances of abuse to National Center for Missing & Exploited Children. The content in these reports enable us to progress investigations.

> Currently, the NCA and UK policing are arresting around 800 offenders and safeguarding 1,200 children every month.

> Unfortunately, This important work is now at risk. Meta’s design choices mean they will no longer be able to see offending on their platform.

> As the rollout continues, we estimate that UK law enforcement will lose 92% of the reports we currently get from Facebook.

> The onus should not be entirely on children to report abuse.

> Along with our partners in the UK and overseas, we will continue to do everything in our power to safeguard children and identify offenders.

> Read our full statement https://ow.ly/6fFt50Qgra3
I never saw this substantiated, but I heard that they had on-device systems that they used in emergencies for stuff that was particularly bad + easy to scan for. The time I heard of it being deployed was to prevent the spread of the Christchurch shooting video.
> I don’t think it’s fair to blame Larian though. They got the IP and delivered a Larian-style spin on it.

I think it is. They should have refused the "3" in the name, then it would be completely fine (we already had Dark Alliance).
Klarna also had a breakdown with unions but ultimately signed an agreement in the last minute before strikes started to happen.

What makes Tesla different from Klarna and Spotify is that Tesla has a global policy to never sign. So Tesla’s Swedish company is prohibited by Tesla to do any kind of negotiation, and that escalates things drastically.
It seems like it should be possible to replicate this in code; has anyone done so?
No way, was Google Duplex fake?!
Not even a day until "THINK OF THE CHILDREN" .. probably not even a second. One could just write an auto answer script by now. Parse news headlines and the moment something with end-to-end encryption pops up. "Agency foo is very sad that <whoever> chose this step. <whoever> has an important responsibility to keep children safe and sadly, this will no longer be possible. We are so disappointed. So, so disappointed." .. and so on.
Personally I use it more as a reminder than an official reference. So, for example, reminders of less common diagnoses or less common presentations of common diagnoses that I’ve learned and know but may not remember the details of but will come back to me with some prodding. If I actually need to dive deep, I usually use UpToDate
I definitely liked it _despite_ the turn based combat. That was pure drudgery, but the rest of the game made up for it.

I'll recommend it to my wife if they ever add a "tourist mode" type thing which dramatically speeds up the fights, she's got a lot less patience than me.
The other 3 directions are corruption-free?
It might not have usb-c.
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This feels very disingenuous, and pretty unfair. I don’t think most Americans think it’s ok for google or banks to act that way, and I also feel very uncomfortable about a sort of “mob rule” system… where informal agreements dictate which businesses are allowed to operate.

They both feel weird for roughly the same reasons: arbitrary decisions instead of laws dictate which behavior is tolerated for which group of people. In both cases the rights of individuals seem like they’re subject to the whims of other groups of people, instead of “liberty and justice for all.”
Mr. Gatti's Pizza?
But there’s an end game to batteries given they have a decade+ useful life, and most can be recycled and reused. You belch out the diesel and your only option is to belch out more.
We already have a Push API specification that supports arbitrary push server URLs and self-hosting. It's called the Web Push API, although it can be used for mobile push as well.

The only problem is that no one is using it.

A bit longer comment on it:

https://gist.github.com/indigane/70ed13d5287c2d18b3e8e5d4f0c...
>> don't go down well in Europe.

> Exactly. This is about our entire model under threat. And it will be Tesla's Afghanistan. Membership in unions is the norm in Sweden.

Unionization rates differ significantly across European countries.
While the unionization rate in the Sweden is quite high at 65.2% (as of 2019), it is much lower in Germany at 16.3% and even lower in France at 8.9%.

https://www.statista.com/statistics/1356735/labor-unions-mos...
Interesting. Will take Bard for a spin.
But, how will we protect the children's need for privacy if just anyone can read their communication?! Think of the children!

The children argument has no bounds.
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I'm pretty sure it's already available on macOS and M* chips.
Nothing is black and white.

E2E encryption is a big headache for legitimate law enforcement. We've seen it with Encrochat.
Prince wasn't formally known as ""the site formerly known as Twitter"."
This isn't possible for Tesla because PostNord currently has the exclusive right to deliver license plates - they literally can't hire any other courier company to do it.
https://archive.today/5HVVp

https://faircompetitionlaw.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/Be...
The downvotes would be justified if they had somehow provided a bad review/comment. But they described what they didn't like about the game in a concise manner without directing any sort of insult at the game's devs/supporters.

I think this happens with a lot of older games too. Games like Bastion or FlatOut 2 sometimes don't get criticized enough for any bugs they may have had, and people look at them with rose-tinted glasses. It definitely happens a lot less with more recently released games.
What is striking here is that the Government offices all use the services of PostNord. So Tesla has no choice over using PostNord, they are mandated by law to do so to receive their plates, yet a private interest group can arbitrarily deny them access to public services.

There is a lot of verbiage about how Tesla is shooting itself in the foot for peanuts, and I guess it's a legitimate position to hold.

The far larger elephant in the room however, is a very public example of how a concerted labor action in Sweden can essentially bankrupt any international company setting offices in the country - by denying them access to public services they already paid for in taxes. This is bound to have profound chilling effects on any investor looking at Sweden as anything other than a consumer market into which to dump products.
I tried to play it last summer and it didn't work out. Thankfully I gave it a second chance with the intention to fully RP and with my main objective being to romance Shadowheart (because it's good to have goals), and it's been better. I must say that at times I felt overwhelmed, and I'm grateful to have some friends who played the game that could help me with some questlines!
I did not place them relatively, rather I stated that neither deserves any elevation. Are you assuming I have a preference for one of the companies? Certainly the parent of my comment has strong opinions about both

People are talking about the bad things both companies do in these threads, where do you see the whataboutism?

From the comment guidelines

> Please respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says, not a weaker one that's easier to criticize. Assume good faith.
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TFA is talking about train software that deliberately renders it nonfunctional when it detects it is being serviced by a third party. This isn't about environmental concerns.
The other companies and unions are also complying with the country's laws, and they're exercising their choice to not do business with a company that is choosing to operate in a way that contradicts the existing social structures.
I would say less people have moved to wireless for at-home headphones, with many pairs of headphones intended for use with a pc still being wired, so I dont think 'everyone else' has moved 'on' to wireless in all contexts.
funny how one "the" flips the meaning of the sentence

I thought I was being paranoid until I started reading the article

I choose to believe this is a freudian slip, which means they're trying to cause tooth decay while pretending to do the opposite.

If I were dentistry as a business, I wouldn't like this permanent (final) solution to tooth decay because of my unreasonably suspicions that the odontological treatment I received as a child was unconsciously intended to make me continue to need 'dental care' instead of fixing anything. Last time I was at a (very expensive private) dental clinic the treatment they pushed on to me was killing my tooth so I would buy one. I'm pretty sure some hugely powerful branch of dentistry is betting on people in my demographic (who get their teeth killed off) buying a full set of teeth from them in the future.

But I would only accept Thompson teeth, the only teeth capable of chewing other teeth
If you abstract from the current porn / nightclub styling of their branding, I agree it has potential.
> willful manipulation

Not trying to be inflammatory, but you're trying to manipulate readers right now. Why is your manipulation good but companies manipulation is bad?

> companies engineer food to exploit our senses [...] and we should stop it

I'm struggling to comprehend what you actually mean here, because the only interpretation I'm coming up with is that you believe a central authority should stop people from making food taste better.
10 acres.
That doesn't make the employees stalinist, does it.

The issue is that CSAM is not some sort of nebulous, vague idea. It is pervasive and endemic in online communities and if you have any tool that can facilitate the sharing of images and communication with children by adults then it will, inevitably, be used by paedophiles. This isn't a vague conjecture, it is the truth of the matter.

FB Messenger is specifically a problem because of the ready access it provides adults to children.
Carrier pigeons at this point. He’s right you know.
A union in Finland was already asked to support by Swedish unions and they already agreed.

But only regarding stuff exported to Sweden.

Tesla in Finland already follows the agreements agreed by the unions and the employer representative in the so-called kolmikanta. Because it's the law. Sweden has more loose laws there.

Finland had a devastating and bloody civil war with whites and reds and a somewhat different history than Sweden regarding the labor market.

IIRC some Finnish union people have tried to export labor union concepts to say China but I've heard that labor activists are persecuted there.
no - add race, spoken language, education, social status, income, politics.. those indicators are always present, and are controversial today as differentiation for street law enforcement
I think the compensation given to software developers by companies that view software as their product has drawn many of the skilled software developers away from jobs that would have once grabbed them because of the fun factor. Companies that make things that contain software are not in markets prepared to pay 2 and 3 times what they were for software. What you are left with is people who are willing to accept that fun factor as the difference in TC, and people who couldn't get jobs that paid more. These are the people we have making most of our safety critical systems. Go look at software developer compensation at X vs spaceX. That is the market at work. Fun does count as TC, but you also end up with people who aren't good developers pivoting to engineer new processes and tools in these domains. They latch on to whatever fad full stack is just getting over a case of, and try to apply it to train firmware. It wouldn't surprise me to find out they are all about scrumfall and have 10x more text in jira than git. And they have restful apis, or service oriented architecture in a safety critical embedded system.
The union doesn't force anyone, it's a collective action, the workers are the union, they've decided to not deliver to Tesla because Tesla is infringing on the most fundamental labour right in Sweden.

Stop thinking about Nordic unions as a boogeyman, a mafia, or whatever other "oppressive" figure you want to make them out to be, the way unions work here is different than what you are probably used to. It's a cornerstone on how the labour market functions in the Nordics...
The whole "think of the children" excuse wears after a while when you ponder - what about the adults, weaker encryption leaves them vulnerable to hackers/scammers..etc. But the whole aspect of weaker encryption is a risk to children has to be one of the most redactor-ad-absurdum things of government that has over-run its credibility.
There were no organisms selecting to reproduce either. Of course, natural selection is largely a random process that organisms are subject to rather than a process that requires them to be active agents.
Because of exorbitant price set by the registry. After the apps boom, domain name has lost half of it’s value. And, rest was messed up by the new TLDs.

I strongly believe if there was original gTLDs and ccTLDs, internet would be a better place.
It's a coalition government. The Foreign Minister is from a freshly minted party that he basically owns -- which he created after losing a power struggle back when he was head of the party Venstre. The third party in the coalition is Venstre.
The article has nothing to do with pollution.

The reference to Dieselgate might be because a geofencing condition was found in the code running the trains that caused certain misbehaviour when they were at the manufacturer’s competitor’s maintenance depots.
They could choose not to get the IP if its not something they can treat with respect. Getting it anyway and shitting on the previous games makes this a cash grab.
Not being glib. I’ve read quite a bit of Taleb’s stuff and it sounds like an observation based on how long he’s been aware of the market.

Usually if he’s talking about history so if he meant some long term based on analysis, I would expect him to call it out.
There are laws and there are norms. In Sweden, both are equally important and you'll get left out if you break either. It's sad in a lot of cases, as it removes some individuality, but it's how the country been operating for a long time.

Expecting to run a company against the norms in a culture that so heavily leans on norms is bound to create conflict, which is what we're seeing here.
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Payroll employment increases by 199K in Nov; unemployment rate down to 3.7%
The camera is dissappointingly bad. When you're indoors it's normal for it to bug terribly...
And a TD5 is already modern-ish enough, but very nice regardless! Personally, I would be at a loss working in anything built after the early 80s, so for a Defender that would be the dual-carb V8s, and 200/300 TDis.

My 1982 Range Rover has all of three fuses, so electrically I'm fine! Except the mess previous owners did to the original wiring... No idea why it is so difficult to just make your own wiring for after market accesories instead of butchering the OEM one up beyond recognition. It works, so I don't touch it. I have no idea why it works so...