So they can go after any song using any particular harmonies or riffs? Seriously to this is just going to be an excuse for blackmail.

In the UK, yes, that's a weird island. The rest of Europe, generally only in places like airports, train stations, or other places considered high-risk. And then not by private cameras.

Ring cameras in the US are apparently usually mounted so that they film your entryway, behind that the public sidewalk and street, and across from that your neighbor's house. To me - in Europe - that seems insane. Here, it is generally illegal to film public areas, because people have a right to move through the world without being tracked. And it is hugely illegal to film other people's property, because - well, that ought to be obvious - it's their property and not yours.

And yet here we have a business that not only lets you record all of that, but actively hands it out to anyone who wants it, for any reason whatsoever.

I have nothing against cameras filming what's happening on your own property, but Ring has normalized surveilling your neighbors.

I've worked, at least tangentially, with IT folk from various cultures. The 996 is for sweatshop work. I remember one place where people sat at their desks entering code, or whatever. Walking around behind them was the boss, who would go from person to person, telling them *exactly* what to do. All the way down to telling one person to put a CD back into its case. The people were barely even code monkeys - more like typists. Probably you can do that 996 without losing productivity. No idea how the boss functioned. Maybe he swapped out with someone else?

When I was studying for my first master's degree, there was a brief time where I had coursework as well as my thesis. To get everything done, I worked highly structured 80 hour weeks. That was only possible, because it was only for a few weeks - there was an end in sight. That sort of schedule cannot be maintained. Anyone who thinks it can be is spending a lot of time staring into space / talking at the water cooler / something else non-productive.

I do occasionally use AI for shopping. If I ask for recommendations for some product, the AI would be free to collect some premium. Of course, the trick is not letting that influence the recommendation...

This. Ours has lane following, among other features. Get near the line at the edge of the road, and it steers towards the middle of the road. Only, we live in the mountains, with roads too narrow to have a center line.

If you meet oncoming traffic, there is room to pass, if both cars are very near the edge. The lane following sees you getting close to the edge, and steers left, like it wants to crash into the oncoming car.

Turn it off? Sure, you can, but it resets every time you start the car. Sometimes you forget. Great safety feature :-/

You can make out the pixels... I mean, sure, if you have a black field with a white pixel on it, you will see the white pixel. But put a normal picture on the screen, and tell me that you can see the individual pixels in the picture? You have a great imagination, or maybe the actual picture isn't 4k.

I am sitting pretty close (50cm) to a display with a horizontal resolution of 2560 (so, a lot less than 4k). Probably 45-50 degrees in my field of view. The text I'm writing, sure, I can pretend that I see the pixels, because it's small black text on a white background, and the letter forms are mostly 1px thick. But the desktop picture of a nebula? Nope, no way, just a nice sharp image.

The reason that there is no market for 8k is because - for the vast majority of use cases - the improvement in picture quality is negligible. Certainly Joe Sixpack watching his sportsball isn't going to notice any difference.

You all keep yammering about Trump, maybe because he's the easy target. There are many others who also need to be in the spotlight. Gates and Clinton, for example, but also lots more.

...with lots of redactions? Makes it pretty clear that people are being protected.

Let's be real: the entertainment offered by Epstein was sex with girls and young women. It is overwhelmingly likely that every regular male visitor was enjoying that entertainment.

The files must be released, but somehow the pimping and prostitution angles are missing. Strange...why would that be?

Why does the US government need to employ tens of thousands of hard science PhDs? Some smaller number to do things like reviewing grants, and advising other programs - that I would understand. But tens of thousands seems really excessive. Remember that no one in the government actually produces anything - it's all bureaucracy.

The proof will be interesting - do they have any? It could equally be that they are just hoping for a fat settlement, without going to court...

I view AI as a huge opportunity for game companies. I *want* AI content. Sure, checked by people for quality, but AI ought to massively increase productivity. Let AI create graphics, then check then and fix as needed. Give NPCs a personality - let a simple AI talk for them within defined limits, instead of having fixed responses. Have AI check all the paths through a game, to ensure they all work - for complex games a very difficult task for people.

In places with an excess of solar energy in the summer, this could make s lot of sense - basically, a kind of energy storage. The question will be affordability: can this compete with ordinary refineries?

It all depends on your definition of intelligence. I use LLMs daily, for various tasks. They have obvious limitations, but used for what they are good at, wow.

My neighbor, Joe Sixpack, is also good at some things, and also has obvious limitations. Overall, honestly, the LLM is more useful.

How do you want to define intelligence? Knowledge - LLMs win. Ability to discuss abstract philosophy - LLMs win. Ability to solve a quartic equation (did this yesterday) - LLMs win. Apparent sentience - LLMs win. Ability to piss off your neighbors - Joe wins.

Seriously, these things have long since passed the Turing test. But they are _different_ from humans - you cannot apply human measures. I submit that LLMs are, in fact, intelligent. We can now debate sentience...

It's not Trump's fault. Really.

The US has long claimed the right to force US companies to divulge data - even data outside the US, and fsck the actual laws that apply in that actual country.

The US has long used it's financial sector to interfere with international transactions - even transactions having nothing to do with the US. Example: There was a semi-famous case where the impounded money that a Danish business was sending to a Cuban business to buy cigars, because this somehow violated the US embargo on Cuba.

Back when my wife and I had a tiny IT company, our lawyer warned us: never do business with anyone in the US. We made that mistake exactly once: took on a customer in the US. The person at the company who hired us moved on, their successor wanted out of the deal. Threatened to sue us for some trumped up reason, using something called "long-arm" that lets a US court claim jurisdiction over non-US entities. To their dismay, I have a cousin in the US who is a lawyer, and he put a stop to it, but geez...

I genuinely do not understand why people do business with the US. It's just not worth it...