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One UK man whose bill is usually less than £1 says he ‘almost had a heart attack’ when he saw £5.8bn invoice

That sucks, some people will get legit panic attacks and worse over this, especially for the smaller, more believable numbers in the 50k-500k range.

Hope they recover and sue for medical bill costs, emotional damage etc.

And like one reddit user suggests, everyone affected should write to their representative about hard billing caps protections

Even feeling the heat output of a computer running at 100% in your office makes it clear.

What does it make clear? That I can replace the space heater my wife runs 9 out of 12 months of the year with a home server? And effectively get $0.00 per token during those times?

In houses running A/C year round, sure there'd be some impact, but in all the places running heat, doesn't seem that it'd move the needle on power bills.

There are startups whose entire business model is "cloud server as a home space heater" (aka "data furnace") ...

that influencer will have their own opinions and quirks.

Yeah, and those differences in opinion might cause anger/sadness to people in a maladaptive unhealthy parasocial "relationship" with these influencers.

Those strong negative emotions might cause them to break out of it, or seek help / have people around them guide them to get help.

With AI sycophancy you're right it can be worse.

Look what happened with GPT-4o sycophancy already, and the communities mourning its deprecation.

Sorry for the delayed response to this, I just woke up

Posted 7:52 am

https://x.com/i/status/2070158170937581951

Ahhh, that explains now why working 7 days a week is necessary for this Manhattan-project-level startup, he's not ‘Grindmaxxing’ by waking up with the 5 AM club every day!

(Context for folks not terminally online: https://x.com/i/status/2061139112426623054)

and that they provably cannot track.

That's not easily provable though.

Any token given that way contains some amount of encrypted payload.

That secret payload may contain uniquely tracking numbers.

Even the encrypted payload itself, if treated as an opaque string, can be used for tracking if they decide to log it when they deliver it to you, and when the website where you use the token passes it back to the government auth service.

You need to replicate the UX of a stack of pile of cards at the grocery store, that's not really possible in digital space.

buy a card with a UUID from anywhere that sells alcohol/tobacco that is valid for some period of time

Exactly, prepaid phone cards with point of sales activation (to eliminate large scale theft incentive) is nothing new. Once activated, the validity of the token can be like 6 months or one year, and at-most-once-per-domain schema can be managed by the issuing authority if they want.

Instead of a 100 phone minutes, 300 phone minutes card you just buy "I'm over 16", "I'm over 18" cards. It's simple UX.

That's not a myth and your story doesn't invalidate what I said. Never said Debit card aren't protected

Between the time [some money stolen] and [bank gave my money back] your checking account balance was lowered by the amount stolen.

With a credit card, your checking account isn't directly affected.

Both are protected, the difference is your effective checking account balance in the time window between the time the money is stolen and the money is recovered.

Setting weird rewards/cash back things aside, which is the main incentive for folks to use it over debit card in most places:

It's not fully unnecessary step in-between when fraud is involved.

If someone hacks you/deceives you and somehow they got $5000 from your debit card, then your bank account is $5000 smaller. That can impact your ability to pay rent, or whatever you needed those $5000 for.

If it's via credit card, you have a decent amount of time to contest and resolve the issue.

the disputed amount should effectively be removed from your balance or offset by a temporary provisional credit until the investigation is completed

Giving Europe independence from US payments processors is a huge deal and very necessary

You do realize that US payement processor like Visa & MasterCard rely on chip technology from French company (Gemalto, now part of Thales), so these companies aren't independent from EU to start with.

Getting independence from the networks themselves, you only need to create a local competitor ...

And those has been existing for multi-decades in each country. E.g. Carte Bleue(France) Bancomat (Italy), Bizum (Spain), SIBS (Portugal) etc.

Just merge those into a bigger more ambitious network

"EuroPA" is exactly that effort. A digital euro is completely orthogonal to that effort.

Crazy people don't see how dystopian and dangerous the concept of a centralized digital currency is...

giving Union citizens the freedom to opt to pay with central bank money

Because nothing speaks freedom more than a crazily centralized digital currency

/s

Mistral just hired as CMO a Seattle based former Amazon/Google VP¹ , so seems their US based presence is growing.

¹ The one locally famous for being sued by Amazon for non compete back when non compete were a thing: https://www.geekwire.com/2020/amazon-sues-former-aws-marketi...

> “No one talks on the bus. No one greets the barista ...

Why? Bother them for no good reason?

Those 2 examples for the article are not the same situation at all... in many cultures:

"No one talks on the bus" --> very good, people are here to commute and want quiet.

"No one greets the barista" --> Wow, you're a POS human being. It's basic human dignity to greet the people you interact with.

Try the latter in a country like France for instance, skipping the "Bonjour", which is the expected cultural greeting (You're not expected to do small talk, just "Bonjour"), keep your airpods on and just place your order ... and see how the person on the other side reacts :)

Easy to make a snarky comments at Democrats US who always love to say “Follow the Nordic Model” “Follow Scandinavian countries” on almost every topic... Safe to say they wouldn't agree here.

But serious question here: What happened in Sweden that lead to this parliament move?

This is a quite interesting paragraph, because you can rewrite it to today's extremist (both far left & far right):

"Never believe that far-left woke extremists are completely unaware of the absurdity of their assertions. They know that their ideological mandates are fragile, open to challenge. But they are amusing themselves, for it is their moderate or conservative adversary who is obliged to use language responsibly, since he still believes in universal standards of logic. The ideological zealots have the right to play. They even like to play with discourse for, by enforcing shifting definitions and linguistic traps, they discredit the seriousness of their interlocutors. They delight in acting in bad faith, since they seek not to persuade by objective evidence but to intimidate, socially ostracize, and disconcert. If you press them too closely, they will abruptly fall silent or weaponize moral outrage, loftily indicating by some accusation of bigotry or systemic harm that the time for argument is past"

If your city council meetings are running on Zoom (which many are since the pandemic) you should email them your concerns immediately about this...

Any alternative seems better at this point... For most tech savvy https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46875837 is probably the best alternative

    > "Frontier model" means an artificial intelligence model that:

    > (1) is trained using greater than 10^26 computational operations, such as integer or floating-point operations; or

    > (2) has a compute cost that exceeds $100,000,000

But here it seems to be an anti- competitive move for market entrants who haven't made it into the big league yet...

Sounds like the saga for some players pushing for Biden's EO 14110 but this time at the state level?

Nice biography from Loopt to OpenAI. Why no mention of the Worldcoin cryptocurrency https://x.com/sama/status/1451203161029427208 in this piece? Was there nothing interesting to report in that area?

Interestingly, Dartmouth, UPenn, and Cornell aren't on the Cancelled Senior Service College (SSC) Fellowships list. So this is some select Ivy Leagues only.

"built their own" wrapper yes (which is a very important piece of a end-to-end Zoom like product)

But you can see:

Powered by [LiveKit](https://livekit.io/)

Fine since this is an open source product, but not full EU sovereignty of the software stack.

Livekit could at any time change their license and drop support for the free open-source version like so many products have done in the past.

If a EU entity forks it and maintains it, then that'd be end-to-end sovereignty IMO.