> So Europeans need a nuclear arsenal, but european politicians are totally lame
Are France's 240 submarines-launched thermonuclear ballistic missiles not adequate? Despite the need for security, nuclear proliferation is extremely bad. It seems ideal for France continue to maintain their nuclear weapons while the rest of Europe keeps their hands clean.
Instead of just canceling the contract, the DoD is trying to destroy Anthropic to make it comply with their whims.
IMO this will probably be quickly defeated in court.
If it isn't, comrade Hegseth will have done an impressive job of weakening the American empire. You simply can't do business with an entity that would try to destroy you over dumb bullshit like this.
Access for directly manipulating the file isn't necessary (perhaps if the files were enormous, but images and Gerber files aren't). One can upload/download files from a local web app just fine on firefox, and the WASM app can act on the file in memory with whatever APIs it wants.
Unfortunately no, they used RGB just like modern monitors.
The only kind I'm aware of is the Beam Index tube (aka Indextron), which used invisible UV phosphors to synchronize the beam. (Avoiding the need for a shadow mask, making the tube brighter and less sensitive to magnets.)
But in principle the phosphors used might have some power outside the visual spectrum, making them look different to an eye that can see into the near UV or IR. A lot of UV in particular would be filtered by the thick glass though, I guess.
If they aren't, they should be (for more effective fraud). Devoting a few of their 200,000 employees to make criticisms of LLMs look wrong seems like an effective use of marketing budget.
Notably, by doing this Discord lied in their initial announcement. They originally said [1] that all processing would be on-device, but that's not true for users subject to this "experiment".
> "By immediately I mean we send it to k-ID who said that's what they do."
People have already validated this fyi. When k-ID was first added you could send a bogus age result to discord from your local device, which probably still works. There's no evidence your facial scans leave the device.
> "By that I mean they partnered with Persona to do the actual verification."
Which isn't true, it was a UK-only experiment being run for a small subset of users, which has now been discontinued.
I get people are outraged, but this is sensationalism at best.
After the last screwup, by the same company, why would you trust the data to stay on your device?
> Of the accounts impacted globally, we have identified approximately 70,000 users that may have had government-ID photos exposed, which our vendor used to review age-related appeals.
And by same company, I don't mean discord. I mean Persona.
was it “uk only” or was it the only place that required them to notify users theyre being experimented on?
we know US law allows tech companies to experiment on us without notifying at all. facebook was caught experimenting on users to see if a timeline full of sad posts would cause the users to become depressed.
im guessing his companies will get ahold of discord users data in most other countries. i’d be shocked if he only wants data from a tiny number of UK people.
Discord probably still claims they weren't hacked. How they handle incidents like this matters to a lot of folks, and that's what this is about.
3 months after a major breach, how could anybody possibly believe that they fixed all their wrong organizational policies and security measurements within that time, while still not even acknowledging the incident?
I don't want to defend Discord, but that's just not true. That announcement did not say all processing would be on-device, only when you use the face scan.
> Video selfies for facial age estimation never leave a user’s device
> Facial scans never leave your device. Discord and our vendor partners never receive it.
Meanwhile they're also clear that uploaded IDs do get sent to "partners":
> Quick deletion: Identity documents submitted to our vendor partners are deleted quickly— in most cases, immediately after age confirmation.
Ah, I assumed that Persona is being used for face scans too. I haven't been able to find a screenshot of the actual flow, but based on this article [1] with a screenshot of the message UK users are receiving, I suspect they are:
>The information you submit will be temporarily stored for up to 7 days, then deleted. For ID document verification, all details are blurred except your photo and date of birth... [emphasis mine]
To me, that implies that Persona is/was doing more than just IDs.
Legitimate criticism is about specific actions or behaviors. You could even say that you are opposed to certain laws, like the right of return.
Saying that a nation should just not exist, regardless of how they behave or what laws they have betrays a deeper irrational hatred. Especially if there’s only one state that must not exist, while there are many countries with laws you would disagree with.
Are you against the existence of South Africa? Or were you against the existence of some laws in South Africa?
It also isn’t racist to be against the existence of states in general and believe in a world without borders. But to say that Ukraine has a right to exist, Ireland has a right to exist, Palestine has a right to exist, Greenland has a right to exist - only Israel does not have a right to exist is antisemitic.
I am against the existence of apartheid South Africa, just as I'm against the existence of apartheid Israel.
No state should discriminate against people based on their religion. (And absolutely no state has a right to exist. People have rights, not governments.)
I think you're exaggerating his policies. He's not proposing "rent control", he's saying he won't raise the rent on existing rent-stabilized apartments. To conclude that limits supply assumes that all the extra money would be invested into new construction.
Likewise, he's only proposing a pilot program with five grocery stores, which isn't a huge capital expenditure for a large city.
That's kind of a joke right? it's a pilot program for 5 grocery stores? he wins votes off something that is something you admit is so inconsequential, while spending political capital to do it instead of other things? 2% margins baby
Those apartments are already under rent control, and they'd be just as rent controlled if he allowed a rent increase. So, if "rent control limits supply", the supply will be limited no matter what he does.
My mistake, I thought you meant financial capital. I disagree. It seems like grocery prices are a real problem in New York, and the existing subsidy program isn't working. Ensuring people can afford food seems like an excellent use use of political capital, and if it works it can be scaled up.
Shareholders do not provide value, workers do. After he retired, Steve Ballmer did not provide $110B of value to Microsoft customers, but he received that wealth anyway.
That is completely untrue. Companies frequently own their own stock, and issue more when the price is high it continues to be quite valuable to the company
They can buy back shares and keep them in treasury, that's correct. But they need cash to buy them back first and it only actually results in a positive flow of money if they are able to sell it at a profit later.
And when they issue more, then this initial offering again (of new stock).
Are France's 240 submarines-launched thermonuclear ballistic missiles not adequate? Despite the need for security, nuclear proliferation is extremely bad. It seems ideal for France continue to maintain their nuclear weapons while the rest of Europe keeps their hands clean.
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