skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Either the credit card machine is broken and you must pay too much cash...

Wouldn't you just respond "Sorry, no cash!" and walk away? It's literally true for me - I rarely have more than $10 cash on hand, because I never need it.
Maybe we could call it the Riksbank Prize?

edit: For the english speakers, maybe a literal translation helps? "The rich's bank prize"
Will this end up like every other Tata collab where Tata eventually just takes full ownership and edges the partners out for a minimal payout?
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then maybe I can lend a different perspective with this article
95+% of the value of land in LA is because it's in LA not because it's on the coast. Just compare land costs vs various properties ~1 mile from the ocean in Florida or Texas far from cities.

Meanwhile you can an awesome spot in central WV with a nice stream an a scenic waterfall perfect view for a family home. But it's not worth much because it's far from restaurants, office paying six figures etc.
I would not update for the time being. If it works it will probably break, if it is broken it may break more.

Btw what sort of problems are you facing? I have had problems with closing figures, but figured it out eventually with a workaround [0].

[0] https://se.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/answers/2027964-matla...
> I call upon all German users of this website to write to their legislators! Obviously the German civil service is a bad actor! The German deep state must be shut down!

I understand the joke you're trying to make but you clearly don't understand the relation between germans and privacy/tracking regulation to think this makes sense.
India is following the Chinese model of starting off in Memory Fabrication and Packaging to build up Fab infrastructure.

There's a similarly sized Packaging plant opening in Assam in Northeast India, and India is working with Tower Semiconductors to restart the SCL Fab in Chandigarh, which back in the 1980s used to sell Intel knockoffs to the Soviet and Indian defense industries before it was burned down during the Khalistan insurgency.

It doesn't hurt that the ministers leading India's semiconductor strategy was part of the team that designed and fabricated the Intel i486 in the 1980s-90s [0] and managed GE Transportation and Siemens Transportation in India [1]

At least India already has a very strong Hardware and Chip Design base, as most companies do Semiconductor Design in India already, and have been since TI opened their office in Bangalore in the early 1980s, and most EDA software is coded in the India offices of Synopsys, Cadence, Ansys, Siemens, etc.

Edit:

Cool article from the early 1980s about India's initial attempt at chip fabrication - https://www.indiatoday.in/magazine/economy/story/19831015-se...

Most Indian and Indian American leadership and middle management in the Electronics and Chips industry are alumni of SCL Mohali.

[0] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rajeev_Chandrasekhar

[1] - https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ashwini_Vaishnaw
Exactly! And study how it's actually is, without resorting to works of fiction made specificallly to entertain and be dramatic
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Wouldn't the issue be Gemini would need access to the users personal information in order to act on it? Yes there are applications where this wouldn't be needed, but I can't help but think that the number one application of ai would be adding to the capabilities of the personal assistant. To me a personal assistant that couldn't draw on the context of my location, calendar, or communications wouldn't be much improvement.

If you believe the memes, Siri is already quite capable of searching Google for you.
They weren't widely implemented until post GDPR, and in fact post https://curia.europa.eu/juris/document/document.jsf;jsession...
I like this analogy, especially because lots of homeless people sit on the beach without things to do, and we don’t really envy that they have the time to write the next great American novel.
I really hope that communities could build their own AI. For example, GPT-4-turbo doesn't get keyboard navigation for blind people right in just about any conversation. Why Microsoft made a chat bot for this very purpose of serving people with disabilities, I don't know. It's not even 100% accessible, the web app anyway. So, if we could train our own AI's, and multi-modal models, on how to help us, how to describe things, or even the kinds of media we each like, that'd be amazing!
Here is an authoritative source[0]:

> consent is not required [for] cookies that are strictly necessary to provide an online service that the person explicitly requested. e.g. […] when your customers use a shopping basket

So shopping carts (user clicked to add to cart) and notification preferences (user clicked to indicate preference) don’t require consent. Same for authentication cookies.

The page is quite clear; the confusion likely arises from how companies implement it.

[0]: https://europa.eu/youreurope/business/dealing-with-customers...
Definitely. They even let you export the password hashes (which you should do carefully). You can then import them into any identity provider that supports modified scrypt[0]. Your users will continue to be able to log in without a password reset.

0: https://firebase.google.com/docs/reference/admin/java/refere...
But why do programmers themselves develop AI? I'm talking about individual motivations here. For example, I can say I just got into technical work because it's intellectually interesting, not because I wanted to further technological development.

And those individual motivations add up to a collective force that is shaped via actions that persist with differential survivability based on capitalistic forces, which still have nothing to do with improving society. And they only reason why we have those is because at one time, free markets and trading were a good proxy for societal improvement on a small scale. On a large scale, they have become completely pathological.
There are a bazillion unclear laws all over the world. It's common practice, really, to formulate things a little bit generally, and let practitioners (lawyers and courts) figure out the details.

In this case, the unclear point is around the notion of "legitimate interest". I guess something like fraud prevention can be thought of legitimate interest. But ad companies just said, "well, we make money out of tracking the hell out of users, so it's in our legitimate interest to keep doing it, and never mind that the whole point of the law was explicitly to rein in our industry's nasty behaviour."

So now law practitioners how to hash out amongst themselves what "legitimate interest" actually means in 2024, and this of course can change in 2034, so you write the law to not have to be updated every time the tech industry invents new ways of being naughty.
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Something similarly useful is the https://www.selfauthoring.com/

I remember listening to Jordan Peterson a couple years ago and he was promoting it. I haven't used it, as I have my journaling all set up and helping me, but that seems to be similar to what the article speaks (except from the "tell people..." towards the end).
Yeah the lava lamps are a gimmick

Every processor built in the last 9 years has support for this https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RDRAND

Or, you know, if you crank up the mic-in input gain on any PC you can get more randomness (even without a mic plugged in)
Apart from the customer service agent that tried to flirt with them :P
Taiwan, Japan and Hong Kong mostly.

SEA used a mix of messaging app, where Whatsapp > Line.
Yes, but when can Devin SSH onto production to diagnose and fix the system outage at 3am while managers complain on the phone?
Note that it means the end of BSD-based version of TrueNAS CORE, but not the end of the FreeBSD itself.
I didn't know about this, thanks for sharing!
Relevant

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucas_critique
So you want users to be tracked without consent? I don't.
Apple may use Google Gemini or ChatGPT to power the iPhone's AI features
That is already the case when inheriting from humans. I think the big advantage is that you don't have curse to as you won't even read it; you'll throw it into the black hole and ask for the improvements you require. Until that also is no longer needed.
I wouldn't call it fun that so many big providers just ignore the law and are apparently getting through without consequences.
How do you know?

Do you seriously mean that smaller economies can be modelled several months into the future with accuracy and be correct more than 50% of the time?
It would, except if you have a f'ed up schema like most of these companies had.
In my experience, which is not nothing, if you try that you'll end up in endless conversations where people go with some variant of "well it worked there, but it won't work here!".

Economists have been idly trying to figure out a way to pitch the idea that wages are a price and therefore subject to supply and demand model for decades. No luck so far; it is difficult to get a man to understand something when that thing is his salary.

Also, it is more interesting to try and find places where supply-demand doesn't work and then figure out why not. Usually the answer is regulation that creates shortages or overproduction.

If you want a specific example; masks in COVID. There were price caps that guarantee we'll be caught short of masks the next time a respiratory crisis rolls around. It isn't like Bill Gates didn't see it coming, if there was money to be made he'd have a strategic mask reserve ready to go for the next one. But no. Price caps. There was even an article about a US mask producer who was refusing to expand production because he knew how it'd play out, unless my memory deceives me [0].

[0] EDIT Found the article - https://www.wired.com/story/surreal-frenzy-inside-us-biggest... . Bowen doesn't mention price caps, but you can see he is no stranger at all to how that sort of medical crisis plays out. He'd be the sort of person in a great place to make decisions about what sort of surge capacity to have on hand and how to plan for it and he is mainly responding to basic price signals. I still suspect that he'd be sensitive to the eminent domain risks under crisis conditions.
A-fucking men.
Tata Electronics is organized the same way as TCS - they want to be a middle manager who isn't directly investing in R&D due to margins.

By maintaining the partnership with a foreign partner, they can get fairly advanced manufacturing IP and knowhow without having to R&D from scratch.

Indian companies don't have the need for 100% IP transfers like China because most have had shared IP partnerships with Western countries for generations (all the way back to the British Raj), nor have private sector Indian entities ever faced sanctions similar to China or Russia/USSR in the 20th century.

This also helps adjacent Tata Motors, as they were severely impacted by the chips shortage and the battery shortage (for their EV division), along with Tata Advanced Systems (the defense contractor) who need commodity chips for a number of it's armament SKUs.
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To be fair, I think it's very subjective, given the fact that Alacritty doesn't even support tabs (by design).

Also I find a simple Konsole on KDE+Linux superior for every Windows and macOS setup (including iTerm2).
We already have granular permissions for other things (like location queries) and it works out just fine. You allow things when they make sense and refuse when they don't. It could be resolved in a way that preserves usability, but still achieves a goal not tracking non-users via ads. I doubt that it would make PG particularly happy though.
> Do we have proof for existence or existence? We could have an experiment where we attempt to measure the existence at that future time.

That future time only exists in your mind as a concept. Think about it. It's self-evident for all practical purposes.

Whether the future does exist now in some physical sense is completely irrelevant as long you can't prove/use that for something real.

Your experiment would only prove that there is a now in which the previously described future has become present or not. It's pointless.
Not my experience for what it’s worth.
Why is it understandable that the regulations aren’t enforced properly?
The actual paper for those interested:

Abstract: https://dx.doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/ad1bc6

Direct PDF Link: https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/ad1bc6/...
Supply curves are very observable. They are in fact about the only concrete thing you can get in economics. The demand curve on the other hand? That thing is borderline made up magic.

But the reality is the inputs need to be known to make the curves. Supply curve is 'easy' as you know what it takes to build X number of items. So you can make that curve easily. The hard part is the other curve. How do you know I can sell X of an item. Is there demand there? 'utility' 'happiness' and other things like that make up that curve. But how do you measure those inputs? If you have been around awhile you probably have a good idea where your curve is by seeing it in action, but the inputs for it you are usually guessing. But starting out? Not really. What really bakes someone's noodle is the supply curve can affect the demand curve.

You want to get as close to MR=MC as you can. But that is not always achievable. As you point out the curves move around. But that is on you as a business owner to make sure your prices are in line with your demand.
My take is that law tries to dictate UX more than just set groundrules which good laws do. They pre-emptively set the law such that it prevents any use when the focus is on misuse. The law is about 1st party and 3rd party cookies, not just 3rd party.

In an ideal case, if it was just a law, a simpler wording could be "you are allowed to collect anonymized data, but not monetize/share it without permission from users. We may ask you to furnish proof that you havent been doing that at times, failing which you would face massive fines (as %age of revenue whatever)."

Problem is collecting basic anonymized usage data[1] is needed by companies to improve the product, provide a better experience, detect misuse. They bundled those use cases with everything else meaning the law was too broad and we got cookie banners given every site needs basic analytics. On flipside, worst is that most websites use Google Analytics, so they might have had to display the banners anyway.

[1] Moreover, it's vaguely worded so we companies do not know if they have committed a GDPR offence. By general understanding IP addresses are under GDPR. You can get that via request headers. So, to be on the safe side, even anonymized analytics tracking is considered under GDPR
I have what I think is a somewhat clear perspective on the issue of tracking cookies, because I have been on both sides of this issue “in the trenches.” My observation has been that companies really cannot choose to not track as a larger entity, because systemically they do not trust their own employees to make good decisions.

What I mean by this is that tracking in web properties is a joint decision (in most tech companies anyway) between Marketing, Legal, and Product as functions and executive leadership overall. This is actually a “big” decision, because it’s a binary decision that guides future trajectory.

Companies can choose to:

A. Make decisions about where to expend resources on ads, product feature development, localization, accessibility, et al on web properties based entirely on the “gut check” of their employees in each function and trust the outcomes.

B. Carefully measure and track everything so that decisions are supported by data and results are tracked, simplifying decision making and reducing the potential bias of employees and eliminating the need to trust employees to make good decisions and being able to validate outcomes.

If your product /is/ a web-app, the impact becomes even more pronounced.

At the end of the day, the only way to get an organization to give up tracking is to directly force the issue in the law or solve the underlying issues that create a trust gap and competency gap within large organizations. I think the latter is likely impossible to solve, so the former is the only option. In line with the banality of evil, companies are not maliciously deciding to track you, if there is any malice here its towards their own employees down the line, who aren’t or can’t be trusted to do their jobs without tracking.

Because Option B is the only likely option here, the net effect of the law as it stands today is to have a cookie banner everywhere. There’s literally a SaaS called Cookie Law that helps companies comply with these rules.
Tell me how calories, legally, are measured in food. Also, tell me the caloric value (legally, as per FDA regulation) of butyrates.

When you understand why I asked those two questions, then that will answer your question far better than me spending a dozen pages to answer you. The statistics available to the average consumer are not a level playing field.
What's trite is often true.
The point is that you'd still get cookie banners even with option 1, because a site can always ask you if you're willing to override your default preference.
I mean, for CO2, the U.S. and the EU (who were once the largest emitters) have not only flattened the curve, but have in fact reduced emissions over the past 20 years:

https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/annual-co-emissions-by-re...

China has blown up emissions astronomically, though. To a lesser extent other Asian countries have as well.

I generally agree that international regulations controlling AI are unlikely to work, though, since it seems like it might be such a powerful and disruptive technology: if it doesn't stall, it could effectively be single-shot Prisoner's Dilemma, and when you have 193 players, someone's going to defect.

Personally though I think there are two possible outcomes:

1. Progress stalls, and it turns out getting from GPT-4-Turbo to better-than-human intelligence just doesn't pan out. LLMs are stuck as junior engineers for decades. If so, this is largely good for software engineers (and somewhat good for everyone, since it means we're more productive), but society doesn't change too much.

2. Progress doesn't stall, and we hit at least slightly-superhuman intelligence within the next decade. While this would obviously be a tough shift for most knowledge workers, especially depending on how quickly the shift happens, I also think this would likely bring about incredible medical advances, as well as incredible advances in robotics that reduce the cost of physical labor as well: meaning the price of goods drops enormously, and thanks to the medical advances we significantly increase either our lifespans, or at least the quality of our lives in old age, which seems quite positive. We'd need to figure out some sort of UBI system once the labor costs drop enough, but I think most people will be in favor of that, and also most stuff will just be really cheap at that point: ultimately just the cost of electricity (even "raw materials" are priced based on the cost of labor to get the materials, and the labor would be... the cost of electricity to run the robotics).

There are probably some in between scenarios, but TBH it's hard to see anything other than "stall" vs "takeoff" as being likely: either you never get past human intelligence (stall), or you do break through the wall, and then intelligence self-improves faster than before, up to some sort of information theory limit that I think is a lot higher than the average human is operating close to (consider just the variation in intelligence between individual human beings!).

Takeoff could also result in some sort of doomsday scenario, but the current LLMs haven't seemed to have the problems that the early doomers predicted, and so I think the like, humanity-enslaving or destroying outcomes are probably just not gonna happen.
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Your lawyers are playing it safe. Their job is to make sure your company is not getting into lawsuits, and having a cookie banner that is not needed won't get you into a lawsuit, so that's what they suggest. They don't care about annoying your users.

If you really care about not annoying your users and don't intend to track them more than what's absolutely required for the service to work, then talk with your lawyers more. Of course, it is not free as it requires extra work, and it may carry some risk (which your lawyers should minimize) but it may be worth it, many people press the "back" button as soon as they see a cookie banner and try their luck elsewhere.
The closest setup off the top of my head might be something like meteor.js on top of mongo DB.
Well, I'm in my mid-thirties, not 72, so I wouldn't claim to have any profound insights or wisdom. But if someone asked me for advice and I didn't have a long time to think about a proper answer, I'd say something like:

- Pick a career in your early 20s and get really good at it. Just pick something. Being good at something is better than endlessly searching for the "perfect" job that matches all of your interests. I worked in the food service industry for ±5 years during and after college, and I occasionally wish I had just become a chef, or an architect, or a mechanic, or some other very narrowly defined profession that results in mastering a particular set of skills – as opposed to the ever-changing, nebulous format of most white-collar technology jobs. You'll probably make less money, but I feel like such people have a better sense of identity and overall purpose than the typical white-collar worker.

- Popular culture is very feel-good about everything and shies away from any kind of negative emotions or feelings, preferring instead to neuter them, and push humans to be stoic, utilitarian, and anti-romantic. (As shown by the OP.) I don't think this is healthy or practical, and instead suggest that you learn to channel negative emotions into useful behaviors. We're all human and it's normal to get angry and not be nice.

- An extension of #1 above: good people are hard to find and the "maximize preferences" approach to dating, jobs, and other life decisions seems rational but really isn't. The best partner/job/etc. for you isn't one that has the most compatibility points determined by an algorithm and is in fact much more mundane and human in nature.

- The human ability to forget pain is really remarkable. No matter how horrible a situation is, you'll most likely forget about it in a few months or years. "This too shall pass" is the traditional adage describing this.

- You live in an era that has compressed every major life decision into a series of supposedly arbitrary choices. The real world doesn't work this way, and there are very different outcomes between say, being a parent and not being one, both for you and for society at large.

- Finally, the modern world, by default, thinks that the past was filled with dumb, irrational people, and that the present is automatically better in every way. This isn't a smart attitude and you shouldn't discount someone's viewpoints just because they lived a century or a millennium ago. And as an extension to this: don't be afraid of reading something by someone that you (think) you'll immediately disagree with. It's helpful to be able to interact with a variety of ideas and viewpoints without necessarily agreeing or disagreeing with them in toto.
It’s not like health.

Driving by and large is wholly controllable and should be rated on wholly controllable variables.

Not BS stuff like are you married? no? then higher rates for you.
Economics is more a branch of arts or humanities than a branch of science. Sadly many economists take that as a negative and over compensate with ever more elaborate nonsense.
You don't need a VPN, just a different DNS server.
Bro woke up with no gf :'(