bencollier49

They literally just announced they were doing it.

https://gizmodo.com/firefox-update-stop-url-tracking-chrome-...

Great timing. My children have friends around. I am now playing Scorched Earth with four 9-year-olds.

This blew my mind. Gives an idea of the timescales we're talking about:

"The reason why Old Tjikko now finds itself on the barren rock near Trysil – more than a hundred metres higher than what is considered the tree line – is simply that the spruce tree rose along with the mountain it grows on during the land uplift that followed the ice age."

Kemi Badenoch seems to be anti.

Arrest you when you change planes at Heathrow. It's nuts; most of the Internet will be locked off from UK users.

I don't think this defines what a false credential is, though.

It defines how one might illegally use one, or issue one, or falsely claim to have a real qualification, but I don't see a definition of a false credential.

It sounds like a false credential falsely claims to be accredited (ie. if I were to issue degrees from Harvard), which is not what the OP institution is doing, so this discussion is possibly moot.

This sounds like moat-building. But what does "the use of higher education credentials from diploma mills and unaccredited schools" actually amount to? Listing them on a CV?

A lot of religious ideas fall into this basket, particularly their manifestations in the USA. You could make a strong argument that American televangelists and their ilk killed Christianity in Western Europe.

A cynic might be tempted to make facetious comparisons to Copilot.

It has become much more socially acceptable to communicate ones emotions in the last few decades. This, added to the fact that female authors have tended to communicate differently (and I see no attempt to control for that in my admittedly quick scan of the write-up) makes me think that they may just be detecting a cultural trend in favour of honest emotional self-expression.

I should qualify this by saying that it happened on the day I first got the device. I was really excited to receive it, and it did everything hoped it would, but a gentle pull to the side on the power lead was enough to break internal components such that repair was out of the question, which is a real shame. This was one of the cheap 11" laptops, the bigger ones are probably better.

I bought a Pinebook which was bricked almost instantly by a child gently tripping over a lead. The build quality was terrible, it wouldn't have happened with any other laptop I've owned in the last 15 years.

Canon vs. custom, I think. The point being that you don't want a random person complaining to their DM that they're not using the rule about magical trousers, when it was actually written by some random on the internet and added to a Wiki.

This happened to me on Amazon, I think it was.

They shouldn't be allowed to use the word "buy".

Pubs were closing long before the internet appeared, albeit in smaller numbers.

The main driver, in my opinion, is specialisation. We've got a much more professional workforce these days, with more specialist skills, who for this reason often have to travel for some distance to get to their places of work. That means far less time to go to the pub. Combined with modern media, it's just easier to sit indoors. People have posted other points elsewhere on this thread - they're all contributing (plus drink driving laws and smoking bans).

I mean, a lot of people used to stop working at lunchtime and spend the afternoon in the pub.

Now, if home working holds up, and then inflation abates a bit, perhaps pubs might regain an advantage, but I fear we're now in a new "steady state", and it'd take more to change things back.

I feel very sorry for people working in cryptography who've had their prefix stolen.

Perhaps we see it as natural from a 21st century perspective. It's entirely possible that to people from back then, the thought process wasn't as obvious.

What, in Kanji?

Presumably there are computational models which can predict this sort of thing at the subatomic level?

Depends on your country, but I do know for a fact that if you're in the UK, there are government departments which will teach you modern development practices alongside COBOL, if you're near one of the relevant hubs.

I found it a bit jarring the way that the mass of regular BBSes go unmentioned in this piece. Fascinating though, I'm from the time (in the UK) and have no recollection of the Microsoft Network.

That's a better demonstration of the principle than I managed, actually. It does seem faintly absurd, unless there's something else involved.

Which raises a very interesting legal question: If the data is recompiled, despite having come from another source via an intermediary (who are using that data to describe the products they are selling), is it still subject to the database rights?

How about we try out a reductio ad absurdam: I'm going to start a startup. Our business model is to license the information on customers' websites, and then license it back to them in turn. This then means that anyone who uses our services in the UK can sue for copyright on lists of facts obtained by screen scrapers, as they've been through our database copyright washer. Think flight prices, hotels, cars, anything.

Is that a viable business model? If not, why not?

Bit of a stretch to figure Oxford as "ravaged by industry" though, isn't it? The Cotswolds are suffused with bucolicity.

Thanks, will take a look at this - would be lovely to add something of this nature to a CI pipeline.

Okay, so if you're in a country covered by GDPR, then any company (from wherever) has to give you control over the way that your data is used, within reasonable limits - there are exemptions for certain things, but probably not this.

Specifically, the AI model has both stored the personal data, and arguably "formed opinions" about it.

The first step would be to contact the people who own the model, and ask them under what terms they're storing the personal data. Do they have an exemption? The answer is probably no.

Then, you make a GDPR Erasure Request - delete my data. At that point, given that the company is based in the US with no European branch, then it largely becomes a matter of politics. If your local information regulator feels like it's worth pursuing, they'd contact the company and ask them to sort it out. At that point it's a matter of realpolitik - OpenAI (or whoever have this particular dataset - I'm not sure) probably don't want this to become a talking point - the process would probably result in them deciding to remove your PII from the training set.

There are bunch of other ways it could go of course - the local regulator may decide to sit on it, or the people in charge of the model might decide to ignore EU rules.

If you're based in Europe then you're quite right. This is a GDPR issue - identifiable PII in the model, and you can force the vendor to remove it.

Perhaps it's a little bit like employing a human programmer with an eidetic memory who occasionally remembers entire largish functions.

If he were able to remember a large enough piece of copyrighted code, and reused it, then it still wouldn't be fair use, even if he changed a variable name here or there, or the license message.

> Helping people get a good night's sleep -- without drugs -- would likely help, if only to stave it off in those at risk.

Or reverse causation.

> It should not replace or disrupt anything good that already exists, and this includes family and community relationships.

The man was bang on (for example, with reference to the discussion of intimate relationships posted here today).