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breppp··on Alibaba to ban Claude Code in workplace over alleged backdoor risks, source says
The issue here is not whether Anthropic used Common Crawl, Alibaba also does that.

The issue is that by distilling Claude, Alibaba reuses the IP anthropic used to train the model that's more akin to historical Chinese reverse engineering methods and disrespect of IP

breppp··on Spain Orders Blacklist of Palantir from Public and Private Companies
I'll simplify it for you, populists from left and right (Trump and Sanchez) main trick is blaming the elites for preventing the will of the people.

This usually puts them in conflict with the judiciary, that and the fact populist government are usually incredibly corrupt (also due to contempt of existing standards)

breppp··on Virginia bans sale of precise geolocation data
I assume this depends if 1750ft means the location you can derive from the data (together with other data) or the precision of the individual data point
breppp··on Spain Orders Blacklist of Palantir from Public and Private Companies
This is pretty common in any country going through a populist phase, they go against the judicial, as is happening in the US
breppp··on Spain Orders Blacklist of Palantir from Public and Private Companies
I am talking about the current government corruption cases, I assume Mexico is worse, but Spain isn't great for Europe either
breppp··on A new Android malware from Google
and it is still there

https://abc.xyz/investor/board-and-governance/google-code-of...

breppp··on The US ambassador had Belgian police stop our reporting
Since when having a government fund your news organization is a good sign for legitimacy
breppp··on Zuckerberg's war on whistleblowers
Quite an amazing feat by the author of the book to absolve herself from any responsibility for what happened, and triumphally sanctify herself as a silenced martyr
breppp··on Is America becoming a gerontocracy?
How do you "empirically" prove something of that sort?

I for one look at Trump or the previous Tea Party change in the Republican party as anything close to having a static group of elites controlling the country

breppp··on Is America becoming a gerontocracy?
https://archive.md/HKxLR
breppp··on Ultrasound Imaging of the Brain
I think the more interesting angle is focused ultrasound which is proposed as a solution to a whole lot of diseases
breppp··on Venezuela reveals $240B in debt it cannot pay (~$100B more than expected)
What I am saying is that as often missed by American policy makers, bringing Democracy does not make a population automatically Liberal, and they often vote for disaster for both them and for the US.

Also, contrary to your theory, most of human history people were ruled by non-democratic governments that were deemed legitimate, so I think you are conflating the two

breppp··on Venezuela reveals $240B in debt it cannot pay (~$100B more than expected)
And you suppose the Nazi party that had won a large enough of the seats to enforce democratic consensus is also better than any alternative?
breppp··on Meta Pauses Employee-Tracking Program Following Internal Data Leak
That's entirely possible, I was joking of course
breppp··on Venezuela reveals $240B in debt it cannot pay (~$100B more than expected)
> Where exactly this happened, really?

Iraq, Egypt, Gaza, Post-Soviet Russia comes to mind among others

breppp··on Meta Pauses Employee-Tracking Program Following Internal Data Leak
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9374977
breppp··on Wikipedia Workers to Seek Union Recognition
That's fair, I have witnessed unions that took companies to the ground, were a center of corruption and created class favoritism between old and new workers.

That does not say it cannot work, or is never needed though

breppp··on Wikipedia Workers to Seek Union Recognition
It happens that these are also the types that are attracted to union leadership positions
breppp··on Venezuela reveals $240B in debt it cannot pay (~$100B more than expected)
That's not a bad policy, considering America's disastrous history of spreading democracy and then finding out those voters want different shades of fascism
breppp··on Meta Pauses Employee-Tracking Program Following Internal Data Leak
Or maybe you are backed by the CIA?
breppp··on Meta Pauses Employee-Tracking Program Following Internal Data Leak
There are countries with universal healthcare and SV comparable wages
breppp··on Danish privacy activist Lars Andersen raided by police
The archetype of the whining activist. Getting himself in idiotic trouble so he could benefit from the status of a victim and ensuing drama
breppp··on Danish privacy activist Lars Andersen raided by police
I think the gun proliferation situation in Denmark is probably different than the US
breppp··on A tale of two path separators
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29177000
breppp··on A tale of two path separators
I was expecting the story of the magical ¥ path separator
breppp··on Norway imposes near ban on AI in elementary school
> Facing a broad decline in education test scores, the government in 2024 banned smartphones from schools and has given teachers back more powers to enforce discipline in the classroom.

Isn't that expected in most countries in Europe? There's an aging overall population that is shrinking and immigration is rising. So you get a progressively rising percentage of immigrants among school students, many of those coming from 3rd world countries with non-functioning education systems.

breppp··on The Korean telecom giant at the center of Anthropic's Mythos controversy
> I’d guess Occam’s razor the administration just leapt at the chance after their supplier sanctions fell flat?

For me Occam's Razor are these facts:

1. The Chinese are distilling American models

2. Anthropic last models have national security implications (large volume of exploit creation)

3. China is the US major adversary today

That's why restricting access to the models sound like a reasonable to do

breppp··on Noam Shazeer Joins OpenAI
Alphabet has Google with 99% of the profit through Ads, Search, Cloud, Gmail, Youtube etc

and tens of losing companies that make balloons or whatnot

breppp··on Israeli firm BlackCore suspected of meddling in New York and Scotland votes
Sorry, but none of your examples are related to Iran or are state mandated (and are awfully cherry-picked).

Iran ideological wishes of destroying Israel are pretty much in the open, no need to try to weasel around it. While there isn't any such ideology in Israel towards Iran

breppp··on Israeli firm BlackCore suspected of meddling in New York and Scotland votes
It's more complicated than that as the Palestinians are speaking the language of an earlier foreign colonizing empire that replaced another empire that ethnically cleansed the Jews and then colonized the area
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