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Does a QR code for https://auberon.xyz/deathray freeze iPhones/iPads?

Doesn't

``less cars, more X, where X is bikes and trains''

save more lives than autonomous cars?

Also: We have 580k direct deaths a year due to a top pollutant society cross-funds for those who buy them? This is insane.

After ten-thousand years, nearly six billion humans died in car-related accidents, i.e. one population of earth when I was young? How is a personal level risk of one in ten thousand each year acceptable? Ban at least human-driven cars, not (only) AI/AGSI!

As for driving in full automation: seems impossible outside clear-weathered rectangular cities, for now. But perhaps that does not stay this way for years, and in some places, we can could either adopt this tech, pragmatically, or build liveable, walkable/bikable cities instead in the more long term.


Who's saying they don't? One good thing doesn't negate another

Driver assistance and self-driving cars are probably one of the cheapest and low-effort band-aids to the infrastructure mistakes made in the US.

They are, of course, not as good as more enlightened city planning, but they’d be an improvement to the status quo I expect, especially the way the quality has made some serious strides lately.

I get a sense that traditional automakers are done chasing Tesla on the technology and that’s unfortunate. Those traditional automakers figured out that their buyers don’t care that much about it, and the ones that do care already left for Tesla. Plus, the self-driving that really works best relies heavily on serious AI technology.


Wanted ideas on how to build an ink printer that is untraceable. For privacy reasons.

I wonder why we don't see slow-but-actually-works approaches that reuse 3d-printer hardware

just put a pen or sharpie on the same mechanism, no?


This is called a 'plotter', there's a whole community of axi-draw enthusiasts making cool art, for 200 bones you can probably have one on your doorstep tomorrow

And it's been a thing wayyyyyy before 3D printers were even a twinkle in some engineers eye

Why would you assume we are training helpful but deadly police robots? So far, we don't know what we give birth to.

I don't need to assume.

The errors LLMs typically made for me were looking for "schmutz" as a jiddish word, got "schmuck" on my screen. Thought why the stupid mistake? The next-token predictor model perfectly explains it.

Or starting with "yes". And this early locking in was a total lie, in the discussion that became "yes, might appear that way, but totally no since reasons". So it should have written "No", topmost, but could not self-edit that.

But nice that this gives it a more nuanced view, I might have to update my priors.


Swedish company, nice.

But "European values" seems to be a non-statement.

Doesn't European also possibly mean St. Petersburg, Malta, Cyprus, Istanbul, Greenland, or Switzerland? I.e. being not the same as EU hosting?


Greenland is not part of Europe. But they are part of "Rigsfællesskabet" (The Kingdom of Denmark). So part of Denmark but with a high degree of autonomy.

Regarding "European values", I think they are just Western values but with a twist away from the US version. In my layman view, that means: Europe values citizen privacy more, US values citizen freedoms more, Europe values environment more, US values businesses more.

Until recently I would have said Europe values diplomacy more, while US values military power more. But now I dont know about that.


It’s obvious and implied that “European” here means “EU”, especially when talking about values.

Low effort comment.


News article is about Microsoft Windows AdID?

But Doubleclick might use it, no clue if it affects Google.


Xanadu sounds like it would work well with git and absolutely abysmal with LLMs.

Doesn’t structured data work best with symbolic not statistical AI?


Why would anyone want to put out accurate structured data in the AI era where unpoisoned data is worth a hard drive's weight in gold? Structured data will all be like: we open on <date day="Monday">Friday</date>

Watermarks can even be removed, "if substantially proofread" in the EU, law says (for now. There might be a transition period on that).

For the text from an LLM, that you verify to be as true as if you wrote it yourself.

Not clear if making watermarks removable is a may, shall, or should, according to legislation. It certainly is not a must.


Watermarks cane even be removed, "if substantially proofread" in the EU, law says. For the text from an LLM, that you verify to be as true as if you wrote it yourself. Not clear is this is a may, shall, or should. It certainly is not a must.

(If you post a comment here on HN, then hit the back button, edit your comment, and click “reply” again, you end up posting multiple comments. That’s what’s happened here.)

It's not gonna survive my linter in a tightly coupled code base where it's not allowed to write comments but I do resent it for trying.

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