jonplackett

Exactly. If GDPR fines can be so high, then something like this that is pretty much intentionally leaking personal data should be in the same ballpark.

Companies this inept really need to get fined.

Like how many layers of people had to have OKed having the same password for all of them? It’s incompetence on an impressive scale.

Michel Thomas is the answer (or it was for me anyway as someone previously TERRIBLE at languages)

BBC made a documentary about him where he teaches a French gcse to the 6 worst kids in the school, in I think 2 weeks. https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PL94A517B00A16C187&si=4eAv...

He was also in the French resistance, survived concentration camps and is generally a very interesting person.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michel_Thomas

I remember our arcade having one of these too! But I never had enough money to use it - and probably was too short anyway

This is where arcade machines should have all gone. More interesting experiences with hardware that are really difficult to replicate at scale.

The best arcade games sell did this - it doesn’t take much - like the pedal for time crisis. Sure you _can_ buy one at home but most people don’t and even then it’s a crap placid pedal.

Is part of the issue with this the AI’s basic assumption that you are asking a _sensible_ question?

Sounds great. When you say 12 years ago do you mean newer versions weren’t as good? Or was it discontinued or something?

I think the really puzzling thing about these keyboards is we all seem to remember typing being easier - even though phones back then were so much smaller. It makes no sense!

I have genuinely considered if my (and perhaps everyone on hn) life calling should be just to make a better touch keyboard.

Bearing in mind the amount of constant pain and torment the current best keyboards inflict upon the world, can there be any more urgent problem to tackle?

Forget climate change guys. Make a keyboard. Save the world.

Counter argument just to play devil’s advocate. Is that forming LLMs into useful shapes could become the game. If it turns out to be impossible to build a real moat around making LLMs - like maybe China or just anyone will ultimately be able to run them locally / cheaply, then the game of spending a billion dollars training one is much more risky

Just been reading about the crash they’re talking about in the article - it seems like a kid walked out from between two parked cars.

Rather than being a bad thing, this is probably Waymo saving his life.

It says the car reduced speed from 17mph to 6mph before contact. This is the kind of reaction-speed safety an AI car should have over a human driver - instead it’s just ‘waymo hit a kid’.

This assumes humanity can make it to 2034 without destroying itself some other way…

Companies did do that - but I belive now it’s not allowed to charge less for cash.

Do you think someone should be arrested for encouraging the burning down of a hotel full of people in real life? If so, why should it be different online? If not, well then you have more serious problems.

Yeah I 100% agree - but if you give them an alternative way to do the same thing without everyone having to get IDed - then I’d they still want that they’ll have to come out and be explicit.

The thing is though - only KIDS need to not own their device. With parents overseeing it.

Why do we even need to age check adults?

I really think on device verification is the way to go - and I don’t even see why we need to use ID.

Parents are always in control of a kids device. Just mandate devices have a child mode that parents can activate and have it send a ‘this is a child’ flag to all websites and apps.

But this assumes this isn’t all about ID checking everyone online, which is what it’s really about.

I think Apple / Google need to implement verification on the device - we already accept the device knows who we are.

And then social media platforms should be able to have the device confirm the user is over 18 and that’s all they need to know.

Gold for Anthropic but kinda shit for everyone else no? Now they have a profit motive for slowing down the normal service.

This is the Deliveroo playbook of offering a ‘premium’ service that is really just the original service with the original slowed down.

Same with speedy boarding for airlines. Now almost everyone pays for it so you don’t even get a benefit.

Is this is the beginning of the ‘Speedy boarding’ / ‘Fastest delivery’ enshitification?

Where everyone is forced to pay for a speed up because the ‘normal’ service just gets slower and slower.

I hope not. But I fear.

I miss flash too. No other development environment was/is as easy to use.

I learning to program with as2 and as3.

I think you have it a bit backwards.

The reason we have Iran with an insane government and all the princes and total lack of democracy is BECAUSE of all the interference due to oil.

America and before it Britain and the colonial powers just walked in there and stole everything and so now the region is divided into countries that were soccuessfully captured (Qatar etc) and countries that threw us out (Iran).

If oil wasn’t as important it might be chaos for a while though because this dictatorships are propped up expressly so they can sell us cheap oil.

How is renewable in any way independent if we don’t mine the necessary things nor manufacture the things.

Even if we get the data and an EU cloud we still need chips, operating system, devices.

Unless we’re all going to use. Raspberry Pi I’m not sure how this works.

So quiet…

Yeah what’s with the cursor moving thing? I put the damn thing where I wanted. Why move it? It’s so interrupting to general mental flow having to constantly check and double check every action.

It’s just a mesh router, they’ve been around for years. I don’t get it.

I thought it was going to be something about Starlink making mesh networks so they could still be used in an internet shutdown… but no. It’s just a WiFi router.

Why is this on the front page?

He headline misleading - they will give it if there’s a court order, not just if asked.

Still crap but the headline is intentionally inaccurate for clickbaiting

Jokes aren’t as funny when you have to explain them…

Totally. I just meant literally, AI servers need a lot of water to work.