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mihaaly commented on Size of Life neal.fun/size-of-life/... · Posted by u/eatonphil

dim13 · 4 days ago

Also: Banana - Although not technically living, it does make for a good size comparison.

mihaaly · 4 days ago

It had to be added:

> Tyrannosaurus rex. One of the largest land predators ever, it had teeth the size of a banana

mihaaly commented on Show HN: Gemini Pro 3 imagines the HN front page 10 years from now dosaygo-studio.github.io/... · Posted by u/keepamovin

jll29 · 5 days ago

AI professor here. I know this page is a joke, but in the interest of accuracy, a terminological comment: we don't call it a "hallucination" if a model complies exactly with what a prompt asked for and produces a prediction, exactly as requested.

Rater, "hallucinations" are spurious replacements of factual knowledge with fictional material caused by the use of statistical process (the pseudo random number generator used with the "temperature" parameter of neural transformers): token prediction without meaning representation.

[typo fixed]

mihaaly · 5 days ago

Interesting.

There are AI professors out there already!

mihaaly commented on Accepting US car standards would risk European lives etsc.eu/accepting-us-car-... · Posted by u/saubeidl

jeroenhd · 12 days ago

> Every EU politician who tries to subvert car safety should be dismissed and tried for endangering public safety.

The problem is coming from the other side, the Americans are threatening to start a new trade war if the EU doesn't permit their murdermobiles on the European roads.

IMO pedestrian safety should still come above all else, but this is not an initiative coming from some EU representatives who want to own a Cybertruck. Blocking these cars can have impact on the war against Ukraine and the prices of fuel and other import products on the short term.

mihaaly · 12 days ago

Decisions are still made by our local polititians, not by Americans, who should take responsibility for those, especially in such a serious situation as this.

Pressure from Americans - who have no say in how we live in Europe -, remote or suspected, transient consequences on costs and conflics, all have lower, much lower priorities than keeping the population safe and healthy. Dead people need no cheap fuel, need no prompt conflict resolution, need no short term tariff settlements, and do not care what Americans think. Dead people are just dead! EU polititians should let people stay alive foremost of all! The rest come aftre that.

And all because these stupid huge trucks. Not even close in importance! Does not worth it.

mihaaly commented on Accepting US car standards would risk European lives etsc.eu/accepting-us-car-... · Posted by u/saubeidl

tormeh · 12 days ago

Obviously. Have you seen the Cybertruck? But I guess this is the price of the US remaining in NATO.

mihaaly · 12 days ago

Guaranteed new deaths everyday instead of possibly, maybe, USA president will not back out from a conflict on a whim or by getting offended and go full sulky kid due to some remarks on his patheticly idiotic personality (I hope he will never get here, I do not want to be carpet bombed because of a comment).

I'd say keep everyday life better and buy some stupid US military airplanes instead, to keep this deteriorated stupid smug child satisfied!

The EU representatives shall remain adults!!

mihaaly commented on Accepting US car standards would risk European lives etsc.eu/accepting-us-car-... · Posted by u/saubeidl

sigmoid10 · 12 days ago

>EU vehicle safety regulations have supported a 36% reduction in European road deaths since 2010. By contrast, road deaths in the US over the same period increased 30%, with pedestrian deaths up 80% and cyclist deaths up 50%

I didn't know this, but it is absolutely crazy. Every EU politician who tries to subvert car safety should be dismissed and tried for endangering public safety.

mihaaly · 12 days ago

I second that!

mihaaly commented on Europe is scaling back GDPR and relaxing AI laws theverge.com/news/823750/... · Posted by u/ksec

debazel · a month ago

Sure and that's why EU now has the weakest tech sector of any service industry and have become absolutely dependent on US and Chinese software instead.

I cannot even use my official government ID application that is mandatory almost everywhere without signing on to Google or Apple, so much for data privacy and sovereignty.

mihaaly · 24 days ago

The tech sector is for people, and not people for the tech sector!

If they cannot do without exploiting people for their organizational benefits, then they can go to China and USA, they do not care about living standards over there! That is the place for ruthless, greedy, lazy fast paced groups to stomp on people! As they already do.

The EU is not the strongest and who cares?! It is strong enough, and that's what counts! Fullfills the needs. Good. Not everything is a race to infinite numbers in quarterly reports! Less inflated pushy tech idiots racing each other to oblivivion? GOOD!

mihaaly commented on Verifying your Matrix devices is becoming mandatory element.io/blog/verifying... · Posted by u/LorenDB

mihaaly · a month ago

So compromising identities might happen - this seems to be a leading reason to verify devices - but can device verification be compromised too?

mihaaly commented on Europe is scaling back GDPR and relaxing AI laws theverge.com/news/823750/... · Posted by u/ksec

cm2012 · a month ago

Number one use case is sending anonymized and hashed data back to the ad platform to trigger conversion events.

Essentially all modern advertising is done algorithmically. The platform takes conversion events (a typical event is "someone fills out a form"), that signal is sent to the platforms, and the platforms use it to serve your ad to other people who may be interested. GDPR as it is means you need opt-in to do this, so it greatly reduces the effectiveness of online ad targeting.

So in practice, say you make a new cool B2B tool for, say, plumbers. It automates your plumbing business and makes plumbers more money.

In the US, you can make a Meta ad campaign with broad targeting and Meta will use algorithmic magic and be able to just find plumbers for you to show your ad to.

In the EU, this doesn't work as well, so its harder to find plumbers to show your ads to. Less plumbers get to use your product as a result. So its just one reason it's hard to get your EU based Plumbing SaaS off the ground.

mihaaly · a month ago

They are strangled by rules in using personal data on algorithmic advertismenet?

GOOD!

mihaaly commented on Europe is scaling back GDPR and relaxing AI laws theverge.com/news/823750/... · Posted by u/ksec

cm2012 · a month ago

This is such an important change for Europe. I've worked with 100+ start-ups as a consultant, and I've talked to EU ones who have been strangled by some of the regulations.

mihaaly · a month ago

I do not care about 100s of startups and how they want to use my data for advertisement or other things they benefit from.

I care about keeping my personal data private so it will be more difficult to use for profiling me for whatever (whatever!) reason, but all are for other's benefit on no or marginal benefit for me in overwhelmingly major part of the cases.

If startups cannot do properly, then they should not do at all! They must spend on handling personal data well if they want to handle personal data at all! There are way enough already and most are just go out and bust, circulating data collected who knows where and how. And they are surprised it is so hard compiling data on people, people are increasingly reluctant to share because the so many abuse and actual damages caused by personal data abused.

People are important, not the startups!

mihaaly commented on Nearly all UK drivers say headlights are too bright bbc.com/news/articles/c1j... · Posted by u/YeGoblynQueenne

mihaaly · a month ago

Wild west of light usage makes cycling habits in UK bad as well. Several thousands of lux lights are pointed towards the oncoming cyclsts switched to strobe mode. Rear light are comparably strong and distracting by all the very creative patterns of flashing. People seem to pour out the children of safety with the dirty bath water of flashing lights. Yes, you want to be noticed, yeah, you made it! By dazzling everyone else and divert attention away from any other traffic or dangers. Very stupid practice, making safety worse, not better.