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If the goal is to reduce advertising, I don't see this being effective.

Businesses will just continue to advertise, and pay the tax. Because all their competitors have to pay the same tax, it's just a status quo. And businesses will raise the prices consumers pay to make up for the difference.

So ultimately it would wind up being a regressive tax, like tariffs, paid for by people in rising consumer prices.

Taxes can only deter behavior when there are alternatives. But there aren't alternatives to advertising. Businesses advertise because it works, because it increases their revenue.

Also, if taxes did slightly reduce demand for advertising, then the price of advertising would just decrease, that would be the main effect. There would probably be a tiny contraction in advertising space, but not enough that anyone would notice.

The main effect would be to raise prices for consumers, not to reduce ads, because there aren't substitutes for advertising.
First of all, great that you seem to have a relatively equal situation. It reads like your wife is actually working. Good for you.

However, your accusation is totally wrong and uncalled for. I know the name, but I have never read/heard anything from the Tate brothers. In fact, my opinion about female priviledge in our society stems purely from my own experience, in particular my mother. This is something I'd like to have (make and female) feminists understand. All I need to be resentful of female priviledge is my own mother and her spite and her totally lack of humility. Much of backlash towards feminism is self-inflicted. We don't need hateful men to tell us what to think about female priviledge. All we need is our own eyes. Not all women are shining examples of rationality and empathy. Maybe feminists should start by working on/with the bad apples in their own circles.

Fact is, my mother owns way more then I do, despite actually only having worked roughly 5 years in her whole life. All she owns was built up by men in the family of my father. And she inherited everything, including the priviledge of not having to go to work. If I could, I'd step into her shoes every day. And she doesnt even realize her priviledge, which is insulting.

This is just one example of the elderly spitting on the young, sometimes without even noticing. This tension is going to increase in the future even more.
it's not a gotcha - it's just that what you're saying is already how it is for most of the judicial branch, so it's not really a big deal.
> Literally no other industry except for the performing arts interviews like this.

No, not really. Take for example FANGs. Their hiring process is notorious for culminating with an on-site interview, where 4 or more interviewers grill you on all topics they find relevant.

Some FANGs are also very clear that their hiring process focuses particularly on soft-skills.

Where in the world do hope to find an engineering job where you are not evaluated on soft skills and cultural fit?
>They get targeted the same and are not meaningfully different in their workings

I disagree. The Attack surface of a browser is huge compared to a local application. Browser password manager hacks only needs to exploit the browser itself (access password feature/addon) while the other needs to exploit the browser + OS +/ password manager (escape browser and access the application).

Browser sandbox escapes have historically been a lot more difficulty, rare and expensive compared to in browser exploits. A local password manager is also not always unlocked and running unlike the browser one.

Regardless, in the real world the most likely way to hack both is malware run on the device.
A major point of crypto is based on tracking as the ledger (blockchain) is completely public.
> L-theanine has a calming effect, it is quite well known.

The evidence for this in humans is very weak.
After he's done ranting he probably sits in the white house garden in his underpants too. So, maybe not that different?
everything you're saying is correct, and folks should contact their representatives, particularly if those are republicans, to share their concerns.
I recently built this because I spent too much time here and had FOMO about relevant topics :) https://www.kadoa.com/hacksnack

Let me know what I should improve.
Mm.

The arguments about wanting copyright to be life+70 have always felt entitled, to me. Making claims about things for their kids to inherit, when the median person doesn't have the option to build up much of an inheritance anyway, and 70 years isn't just the next generation but the next 2.5 generations.

I don't know the exact duration of copyright that makes sense, the world changes too much and different media behave differently. Feels like nobody should have the right to block remakes of C64 games on copyright grounds, but I wouldn't necessarily say that about books published in the same year.

From what I've seen about the distribution of specifically book sales, where even the top-100 best sellers often don't make enough to justify the time involved, I think that one of the biggest problems with the economics of the arts is a mixture of (1) the low cost of reproduction, and (2) all the other artists.

For the former: There were political campaigns a century ago, warning about the loss of culture when cinemas shifted from live bands to recorded music[0]; Today, if I were so inclined, I can for a pittance listen to any of (I'm told) 100 million musical performances, watch any of 1.24 million movies or TV shows. Even before GenAI, there was a seemingly endless quantity of graphical art.

For the latter: For every new book by a current living author such as Charlie Stross (who is on here sometimes), my limited time is also spread between that and the huge back-catalogue of old classics like the complete works of Conan Doyle, Larry Niven, or Terry Pratchett.

[0] https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/musicians-wage-war-ag...
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Isn't that what any other payment system and most of the banks around the world are - a foreign company with billions of dollars in charge of payment system in a country.

VISA, Mastercard, HSBC, UnionPay, ICBC, Santander...
Or is this all Brazilian technology?

The difference is that Meta is privacy data hoarder, not that it's a foreign company. And it's not "in charge of countries payment system", because that's pretty-much impossible, but "one of the payment systems in the country".
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>>>>Without it, you’re really just a conduit for press releases.

Thats arguably what the press has been doing for the CIA in the last decade more or less.

>>> hold on, are you expecting them to name their sources? On this? Really?

Yes. edward snowden went against the security state. its not far fetched to expect more transparency over a simple govt policy related to an agency that is under the microscope (DOGE)

Particularly when trust in media is an all all time low

Particularly because of behavior just like the one displayed by reuters
I am frequently disappointed with the results I obtain from search engines, but in some of these cases I can find the things I'm looking for by tweaking the advanced search settings.

On the other hand every time I've used language models to find information I've gotten back generic or incorrect text + "sources" that have nothing to do with my query.
Solution is straightforward: Separate the advertising service from the platform, so that the same corporate entity cannot run both.
I think when I cp a file it takes on the context of the directory or whatever the default context for that path is supposed to be, and when I mv, it retains the original context.
I tried gaming on Linux – and it's better (and worse) than you think
50+ hours on 256 H100s is considered impressively low training?

Really makes me wonder if any of this incredibly computationally expensive research is worth it, which seems only useful in potentially promising a future in which humans are given less opportunity to express themselves creatively - while delivering them an infinitely produceable amount of ai generated 'content' to passively consume
This comment bothers me a lot. It seems like you have a view that companies are at war with their pesky employees, and need to use whatever means to squash any bad apples.

Companies should be a place where people earn a livelyhood and contribute to society. They should feel safe at work and able to freely communicate any suggestions or complaints they have.
Yeah, I know. That's all me.

> Every generation has to invent sex and politics for itself, or at least imagine for a while in its 20s and 30s that it did. Why not the same in another preparadigmatic field like computing?

Because it's not "preparadigmatic"? There was a perfectly good paradigm before it was tossed out and re-written in Javascript (and then again in some other language, apparently). There have certainly been some revolutionary paradigms in my career (e.g. the web itself), but this "reinvention" of basic front-end tech doesn't qualify.

This stuff holds back the industry. It's part of why software engineers over the age of 30 are considered "old".
Or to release the energy in oil and coal. When you get a build up of stored energy something evolves to use it up.

I'm not being serious, but it's an interesting thought.
In every situation like this, always contemplate how the reception would be if the other side did it.

Like, we know the "but her emails" thing was the greatest example of bloviated hypocrisy in human history. This government has absolutely obliterated information security norms, and suddenly all of those fake concerns dissolved. Similarly there was a week-long outrage about Biden looking at his watch during a fallen servicemember repatriation. Trump didn't even show up to four fallen soldiers -- didn't even know about them almost a day later, presumably because to him they're suckers and losers -- and went golfing instead. Not a peep.

So if the Biden admin deployed an AI sentiment analysis that flagged and then fired any civil servant anywhere in the masses of government who went against any of their decrees, would you say "well that's their employer and they're toxic"? Really?
How do you encode that in law such that it won't be abused?
There are several competing, and sometimes complementary perspectives on what 'nature' means. Some include humans and their activity within it, others do not.

One thing you can ask yourself: if human activity and the impact it has on its environment is included in what you call 'natural', then what even does remain of the word 'unnatural'? What do people refer to, when they use that word? If you don't have any sensible explanation for it, then the whole thing collapses, yet evidently a lot of people really want to keep using the word nature and even seem to have no problem in making themselves understood when doing so.
I actually really like this, in theory. It feels like a sin tax for businesses.
It is not tax "things I don't like".

It is tax things that has macro dynamic negative externalities.

And subsidize things that has positive macro dynamic externalities.
I've seen a "senior" developer who didn't recognize what VSCode was. Like, not that they hadn't heard of the specific program—they didn't recognize the sort of program it was.

Not in an interview where maybe they're flustered, this was just an ordinary day on the job. They'd been in strange little enterprise vendor-silo programming environments their entire career. This was accompanied by exactly the sort of lack of understanding of lots of other stuff that you'd expect.

The flip side of this is programmers pushing companies to let them use k8s and Rust and shit when there's not a good business case for it, for fear of having a résumé that eventually starts to look like it could belong to that guy. Not wanting to look like him is a big part of the whole résumé driven development phenomenon.
That being said, this is clearly _not_ the FBI or the CIA. The power dynamics for anyone saying anything critical of the Trump administration in the media are strongly, strongly not in their favor.
Lawmakers typically prioritize economic growth, which is driven by consumption, and consumption is driven by advertising. Is there any way around this? I hate having my brain constantly invaded with no means of defending myself.
Footnote: "survival of the fittest" is circular.

Bob: It's about the survival of the fittest.

Alice: Fittest with respect to what?

Bob: Survival.

So, survival of the fittest to survive, or what survives, survives.

It is utterly banal, but in popular culture, it has been "elevated" into a deepity.
Read the fine article, please. It is not about intelligence disappearing and re-evolving.
I'd be curious to know what the prompt is. I'm sure it's just about flagging "blatant violations".
Many Japanese recipes I’ve tried have 2 tablespoons of sugar, but that’s not much in a meal for four.

Then there is mirin, which is basically sugar.
Everything is but I think if we're to generalize then plastering an entire square in billboards and having a tiny text at the bottom of a very simple HTML page are two wildly different things.
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What people outside of Latin America don't realize that "they were missing some documentation" is just not true for companies of the size of Meta. They have the best lawyers in the world and I'm pretty sure they used them to prepare all the documentation for this big launch. "You're missing a document" means: we're just fucking around and not letting you in.
Sure (although Trump's legitimacy to be in the position to do this kind of stuff is also suspect, but that's just me looking from across the Atlantic) but that doesn't make things necessarily legitimate.

Musk being in a position to do this due to Trump appointment doesn't imply that this ought to be a case, or that this is proper. Thus critique.
> Were you able to opt out of being part of the search index (and I don't mean at the site level with a robots.txt file)?

If you're in the EU, then yes, as "Right to be Forgotten" is a thing: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Right_to_be_forgotten#European...

But in general I agree, the expectation of something remaining "private" and "owned by you" after you publish it on the public internet, should be just about zero. Don't publish stuff you don't want others to read/store/redistribute/archive.
> is closer to traditional craftsmanship and the progression of apprentice-journeyman-master than the “every hacker for themselves”.

Let's fix the real problem then? Why can't tech be like this?
Not that FIPS is actually worth anything, anyway.
This is normal for developing stories. They’re reporting things which they’ve heard from sources which they consider to be reliable, are informing readers of the limits of what they know, and will almost certainly publish additional articles when more information becomes available.
Would you put your job on the line and provide a quote in that situation ?
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“Fair” doesn’t matter. The only consensus that matters is what is legal and profitable. The former seems to be pretty much decided in favor of AI, with some open question about whether large media companies enjoy protections that smaller artists don’t. (The legal battle when some AI company finally decides to let their model imitate Disney stuff is going to be epic.) Profitable remains to be seen, but doesn’t matter much while investors’ money is so plentiful.
Yep! And Napas247 was co-developed by Vietnam and South Korea (edit: Only VN - confused Shinhan's support for development work)!

The point is there is a steady decoupling towards non-Visa/MC payment systems outside the US and EU, and it wouldn't be too surprising if a number of these systems begin supporting inter-operability within the next 10 years.
That's a challenge I'd leave for much smarter people than me.

But it is a good point. If this were to make it into law then we need some sort of threshold.
You can always teach English abroad or join the air force both of which solve the environment problem. Going back home isn't a great option unless you have a high paying job lined up and can save a lot of money. The main issue with staying home is your days become monotonous and years can pass just treading water. It is also a huge hit to self confidence and mental health at least for a traditional US household. While you're away, it will be vital to keep learning new skills and trying to find better opportunities or you will get stuck.
not really. you could argue that if you're 2-3 feet from a monitor the text on the bottom of a full screen HN page takes more of your vision than a billboard 500ft away.
They know the keywords, but not how everything fit together, even in the basic sense.
Truly a disastrous slippery slope.

"What if we looked at advertising, but not for too long?"
It’s pretty wild to think intelligence might have evolved more than once in vertebrates. The example of birds and mammals both developing complex brains is fascinating. It makes you wonder how much untapped potential animals might have in terms of intelligence that we haven’t fully understood yet.
This is the only inexcusable proposal of the three. The whole point of effective advertising is that you can't escape it, and it penetrates your brain even if you actively resist it.
I guess you could say the same thing without sounding so condescending.
To your point, I think it would entice regulatory arbitrage, where companies will appear selling "influence positioning" (or whatever the term they come up with) that acts as advertising but hasn't yet been categorized in the eyes of the law.
What if you just read instead.
Hasn’t MS been offering this ad an add-on to exchange 365 for years?
Housing crisis deters people from moving to where the jobs are, and it's a new phenomenon.
I find this argument incredibly frustrating.

My view is that wide access to strong encryption carries non-obvious trade-offs, in particular with regards to organized crime. And I don't particularly mean paedophile rings, scooter gangs in London and professional burglars are organized crime too.

It's not that I have nothing to hide, therefore want the government to have unfettered access to everything. I want to ensure that properly overseen law enforcement and justice have access to normal info they need to prosecute crime, and if I have to give up a bit of privacy for it, so be it.
> flagging just blatant violations.

What is your basis for claiming this?

In particular, with the current state of the art, an AI could hallucinate a violation.
I don't know, anytime I read anything like this it's a whack a mole.

> Trump / Doge / Musk is snooping

It's pretty normal to monitor communication channels

> for anti Trump / Elon communication

It's pretty normal to have informal speech codes at work, which include don't un-constructively criticize your employer or parent company.

> using AI

Okay, it just does what humans do except more efficiently

> but the AI is not compliant to some regulation

I don't know and I don't think you know either

> but they don't "report" to him

They're still part of the federal government. Again, I don't think its unreasonable and its certainly not productive

At a certain point I realize there aren't any real objections other than [orange | rocket] man bad.

There's a lot to criticize with this administration but criticizing absolutely everything, even when its entirely reasonable, doesn't help sway people's opinions. So when people read hysterical headlines about how the federal government is spying on federal employees by accessing their pay information, they just tune out.
It is largely in the intent of the advertiser.
This isn't an issue with "preparing" with AI. This guy is just a liar. The ironic part is, this author is just as much a liar by claiming this as due AI preparation as the candidate was about his experience at the daycare app.
You should take one in Portugal, where it’s also government run…
You'd have to find a way to opt out of copy and paste. Even if you could do that someone could take a screenshot (or a photo of their screen) and use the image as input.

What's your concern here - is it not wanting LLMs to train future models on your content, or a more general dislike of the technology as a whole?

The "not train on my content" thing is unfortunately complicated. OpenAI and Anthropic don't train on content sent to their APIs but some other providers do under certain circumstances - Gemini in particular use data sent to their free tier "to improve our products" but not data sent to their paid tiers.

This has the weird result that it's rude to copy and paste other people's content into some LLMs but not others!

I've not seen anyone explicitly say "please don't share my content with LLMs that train on their input" because almost nobody will have the LLM literacy to follow that instruction!
Not that it should impact the validity of my argument, but I have sold commercial software in the past, and it is absurd that that software will be copyrighted through most of the 21st-century.
Nah. I'm perfectly conscious of the fact that ChatGPT can't be trusted with searches. Google is still my daily driver.
I thought the US wants to re-industrialize now? Then 5 years is laughably short to protect your invest.
>>> I will not disbelieve accounts just because the sources won't attach their names to them

Sounds like traditional media information is an article of faith for some, versus just another data point to analyze and address with skepticism in the search for truth.
> AI isn't coming for the ceramic folks.

*looks at 3D printer on desk that can apparently handle ceramic filaments, thinks about all the mass-produced ceramics sold in supermarkets*
Have you had any significant issues with scams? In my home country we have a huge problem of scammers calling and tricking elderly people to transfer their savings with a similar instant payment app.
Yep, Octopus is everywhere. Alipay HK is also almost everywhere. Different app than mainland China but basically the same.
It would be nice if there was at least a bare bones certificate that guaranteed the candidate knows at least some absolutely minimal baseline, like what a for loop and if statement is. You’d still have to interview the candidate but you wouldn’t have to start at Hello World or FizzBuzz.

I have interviewed at least one self-described Senior Software Engineer who didn’t know how to write a function that takes an integer parameter and then prints every integer from 0 to the argument passed.
I think if you are short-terming your existence by destroying everything around you, that could qualify as unnatural.
I've used TKW a few times and it's such a joy to use. The delayed gratification of knowing that the first two cards have arrived (a week apart) and then waiting for that last one to land is quite fun. Then it's a joy to hear from the target that they just found out it was me.

Almost everyone that receives one is on edge at first, thinking it is a scam or another "I'd like to buy your house in cash$$", so I've been working on ways to make it more personal. For example, addressing someone by a nickname or spelling variant that would only make sense to them.

My wife just tried it out too and set the whole thing up in under 4 minutes. Their friend just received the final one and came up to us to talk about it a few days ago.
> We should outright forbid [advertising] in public space. IHMO.

My cousin died to protect your right to say this. Ads are speech too.