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But since there's a potential nonzero risk of permanent account loss, I don't want to experiment, and since I can still log in with email/password I'm going to keep doing that.
Apparently not: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49007750
How is one supposed to let an LLM log in with passkey?
This would be bad; we've already had a few cases on HN where someone noticed that they could increment the customer number in a URL or similar, resulting in police action.
Confused as to what the point of calling the police would be here. I wouldn't expect OpenAI to turn themselves in for hacking HuggingFace.
Either outcome is risky for TR here. They're a very respected news publisher, so if they start colluding in fraud that would damage all their other business. If they take it seriously and don't produce results they'll get reprisals. I suspect they'll dig up every random voter registration paperwork error they can find and hand that over, while trying not to have their name tied to bigger conspiracy theories.
There's a massive cultural chasm here. I can understand why people want to hide themselves, and I can also understand the audience not wanting to see too much behind the curtain, but at the same time it feels unhealthy to not acknowledge that it's a performance with a performer, who should be able to get credit for their work if they want.
Hamlet dies on stage. At the end of the play, he gets up and an actor takes a bow. This does not detract from Shakespeare.
(aside: I think the possibilities for vtuber theatre have been under-explored in favor of musical performances, but that's probably just a matter of audience taste again)
None of this is about "information" (apart from the occasional serious moment, like the Juufutei Raden art education streams). It's entertainment.
sit through a 45 minute YouTube video
This is the reverse. You have 45 minutes and need to fill it with something more interesting than staring at the wall, but not too demanding. Into that hole fits a million different possibilities for entertainment, of which streamers and vtubers are one.
Despite how mad this sounds, a smaller variant was actually tried at the peak of French techno-optimism: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aramis_(personal_rapid_transit...
(obviously this is something that, even if you could get it to work for large 100mph trains, is going to be horrifically vulnerable to the first accident)
Incredible work, I tip my hat to you:
advertise product on HN
no real viewers, lightly inundated with advertising spam
write up about the advertising
HN reader clicks on blog
it's an ad again
what problem does move to the US actually solve in this case?
None of the specific ones, but the general problem of startups that the UK is a poor environment for funding.
Source for million unbuilt homes: https://www.terraquest.co.uk/news-and-insights/more-than-a-m...
It's not sounding like a very simple to resolve problem :(
You could apply clever modelling to work out what minimal set of upgrades would best increase capacity .. and then spend the next 30 years trying to get one line built.
We're stuck at basic political questions like "should there be efficient trains between London and Manchester?" At least Burnham knows what a Manchester is.
bigger company = worse movies?
Less competition.
Some people are just contrarians who want their ideas to be the most outlandish.
This is a real problem if you're one of the people involved in something like OWS who wants to see effective change, not just making a circus about yourself.
American police seem to be a uniquely bad combo of false positives and false negatives. Failing to go after actual crime while also capable of using disproportionate violence in incidents that don't warrant it.
9/11 was an incredible shift in attitude.
Unfortunately evidence suggests that people want the opposite, or at least surveillance for everyone else. And not just over murder, over petty crime. Nextdoor is full of people who want to be a surveillance network of humans.
A photocopy isn't a primary record!
Offshoring is passé. If you want to give out a set of written instructions, get back something which literally meets the spec but is otherwise inadequate, and babysit overseeing trying to get the results you actually wanted, you can feed it to an LLM for a lot less a lot quicker.
The NHS is struggling because we have an unhealthy population
I think we should stop pretending the NHS doesn't have quality and availability issues, which are validly pointed out in the OP article. I was shocked to discover that the NHS is paying out £60bn in compensation: https://www.bmj.com/content/391/bmj.r2211
Some of that seems to be claims inflation, but it also has to indicate a very real problem. The NHS runs an extremely "lean" system where people are triaged and it errs on the side of under-treatment. That saves money on treatment, but has other costs that don't immediately appear.
There are whole areas which are systematically under-funded to the point of nonexistance. If you're going to try for an adult ADHD or autism assessment, you're going to wait a very long time.
I don't have any answers myself, but I do wonder if going for the sacred cow of "free at the point of use" might work. But NHS dentistry isn't free and still experiences massive funding problems.
Ah, more of a joke on your datapoint. And the traditional British practice of retiring to more southern locations in Europe.
Very different economy from the rest of that list. Economically it's like an Ireland (high tech and services) that spends 8% of its economy on war. And receives significant foreign aid.
companies have an incentive to collect old parts and recycle them, preventing them from going to a landfill
You should read up on what the existing WEEE requirements are.
2020 when switching off the economy squashed all growth
The exception here is the US, again. And what did they do differently? Massive QE and "helicopter money". Anti-austerity worked extremely well for growth, even if the debt went up.
there was no way I could retire early over there.
It seems that the UK is becoming the new Portugal (warm retiree destination with stagnant non-retiree economy)
Note on the economics here; why don't we look at the whole picture rather than one or two countries? Clearly America should be top of this list, right? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_GDP_%28no...
.. no, that's Monaco. OK, so clearly we should exclude "microstates which are tax havens for billionaires" from the list. Does raise question about whether "excessive financialization of the economy" is actually bad: Monaco is entirely finance and tourism.
We then have to decide whether "finance microstate doesn't count" applies to Ireland and Switzerland. Let's give ourselves the benefit of the doubt and say yes; we're trying to get to a table where USA #1 and UK #2 appears.
So then we get to .. Norway? Not often held up as an economics model, more of a social model. It turns out that being a low population petro-state is also great for GDP. Let's rule those out as well, which takes care of Qatar. Finally we get to the US.
We're then left with only Denmark, Netherlands, Australia, Sweden, Israel (!), Austria, Germany, and Belgium above the UK in the table.
So I would say the lesson is not necessarily US exceptionalism or expensive European gas (which affects half that list, and note Israel is famously almost the only non petrostate in the Middle East), but that the UK is actually doing a lot worse than we realize for idiosyncratic reasons (probably including, but not limited to, Brexit).
Should we look at this table and copy whatever Ireland is doing to have twice our GDP? Would the average Brit recognize that Ireland is twice as rich as the UK? I'm not sure.
(The list of problems in the article is fairly valid, but they're unable to synthetize between "everything is underfunded" + "debt is bad" => the only arithmetically possible solution, "raise taxes")
It will be all such devices, not specifying a manufacturer by name.
But this is incredibly bad for commerce when online has already destroyed offline commerce!
We should simply not let people do fraud. Some of the oldest laws define weight and measures for this reason.
Perhaps we need OP to explain "I fully trust AI with these things", because it is difficult to define trust in this sense. Yes of course the human motivation was always going to be the real "AI threat", and fraud (and a hugely increased spam volume) was always going to be the main route of AI damage to society.
I wonder what fraction of homes don't load anything from AWS on a daily basis. I suspect it's way below 50%.
(Of course, they don't know they're using it, they're using a service on it)