All that does is make me distrust the freedom index.
The US isn't the bastion of freedom it's government likes it's people to believe, and there are European countries that strongly value freedom, but particularly the big/core EU countries and the UK are absolutely not free, nor are any of the other anglophone countries.
I could believe someone telling me Switzerland and Finland are more free than the US. They seem like very freedom loving people with governments that mostly leave them alone. Many of the metrics in the index I do believe apply and the US government's propaganda tries to focus on it's strengths instead of the aspects where it is not free. Freedom to trade internationally and regulation are good examples of that. Nonetheless, any country where you can't speak your mind freely you absolutely aren't free no matter what it's score on other metrics. The fact that Canada ranks higher than the US speaks to the fact that the index is extremely flawed. Many of these countries ranking higher than the US have banned books and jailed people for speaking words.
is US intellectual property a national security issue? I don't understand why they went to such extent pursuing a man for simply running a piracy site
meanwhile US is losing influence and trust on geopolitical stage, shouldn't that be the bigger issue
edit: im being rate limited so heres my response to comment below:
I didn't say anybody was replacing US, merely they are losing credibility and prestige on world stage and this isn't recent and not slowing down.
I don't think any country will be able to replace US and its freedom of maritime navigation anytime soon.
China is in no position to project as its undergoing internal turmoil. Neither is Russia. BRICS also won't offer much.
One potential non-zero chance scenario is the northern artic sea routes opening up due to rising temperatures melting ice bypassing the need to route through singapore and suez canal which would put Russia back on the power map.
US is a hyperpower and there is no equal.
Maybe a unified Korea with extended northern manchuria territories can fill the vacuum left by China and Russia in the region. I don't really see any other candidates.
One of the reasons the US is viewed as such a good place to start a business is that the country will go to bat for their (favored) businesses internationally.
National security is very far from the only scenario where the government will intervene in geopolitics, for better or worse.
In addition to copyright infringement, the charges are conspiracy, racketeering and money laundering, and presumably the evidence is strong. He has a long history of criminal activity, including embezzlement, selling personal information and trying to run a fake investment firm out of Hong Kong, after which he fled to New Zealand.
He has done some shady stuff in Germany with stocks
then used those proceeds to launch his other businesses
I really enjoyed Megaupload & rapidshare those were almost as good as the WaReZ days if not better: direct links to any digital content without waiting for seeders
It's a shame. Arresting Dotcom won't do anything to curb piracy in fact it would raise the stakes even higher and more untraceable leading to more uncensored content that would be deemed "harmful"
Dotcom should've chosen Russia or China instead of NZ but obviously the quality of life isn't quite up to par with NZ. Russia dacha outside moscow would've been great for him without worries of US extradition.
i think you are being overly dramatic. We can already tell if an image is AI generated same reason we can tell if a photorealistic gameplay video is real or not.
Our human brain is incredibly good at spotting contradictions even in the most subtle form.
Low trust societies existed long before AI and its the underlying dynamics in those societies that play a role.
High trust societies will exist regardless of AI because societies are ultimately ruled by law and sense of belonging (identity). Anytime you skimp out on one of those two you enter a negative feedback loop towards low trust society.
Mostly, for now. But if this is some sort of solid truth, then why would a utility like this even be necessary? The only purpose for it (and the one stated in the FAQ) is to make it easier to fool people.
For one it would throw off crawlers looking for these AI generated images
It would also throw cold water at "artists" who believes AI is stealing art somehow when they do it regularly by copying other artists style or work to be "inspired" by.
Very annoying bunch just like the getty image type of outfits that deploy these tools.
So yes, the entire purpose of this kind of utility is to deceive. I don't think it's being overly dramatic to point out that this further erodes trust in a world where trust is already getting increasingly rare.
> dont really need a screen, its cubersome when you are outside for long periods of time and battery life on Apple phones isn't very good
> Need something, I don't care if its big, that will last for at least a week, can do 3g/4g (5g is too much) SMS globally and calling internationally
That depends on if you feel that you need to keep everything that needs network running in the background all the time. I keep some things running in the background, but not everything. My aging iPhone 8 lasts me a week between charges, and it's got 4 years on its back and still using the original battery, now down to just under 80% maximum capacity. Really, the iPhones' battery life is fine.
My experience is the exact opposite, having to "scrounge" to even get close to a week with Android under similar usage. I have less control with Android over what gets to run in the background and how network access is permitted, and most importantly no control at all over any of the invasive behavior of Android itself where it uninhibitedly abuses cellular/WiFi access to shovel data to Google the entire time the phone has network access. It's a world of difference compared to how very rarely iOS "phones home". Regardless, I get a week of regular use out of this anno 2018 iPhone model. If I keep it going as just a phone and enable low-power mode, I get a few days more.
In many use cases, like flagging documents for compliance issues or processing customer emails, it's challenging to manage this at the vendor level because end customers want the ability to apply business logic and run different analyses.
For data ingestion and mapping, I agree that in an ideal world, we would all have first-party API integrations. However, many industries still rely on PDFs and CSV files to transfer data.
perhaps im misunderstanding the product offering here, isn't this just throwing PDFs (which also has unparsable content like formulas, symbols and large tables even with OCR) on an LLM with structured outputs and running SQL queries?
isn't it obvious that this would be a problem that will eventually be solved by the LLM providers themselves including the ability to flag and apply business logic on top of the structured outputs?
Like I'm not sure if this is well known but LLM providers have huge pressure to turn a profit and will not hesitate to copy any downstream wrappers out of existence rather than acquiring them outright.
Its like selling wrapping tape around the shovel handle for better grip and expecting the shovel makers to not release their new shovels with it in the near future.
The shovel makers don't even need to do any market research or product development and the buyers don't have any incentive to seek or pay a dedicated third party for what their vendors will release for free and at lower costs if that makes sense.
This misunderstanding is valid. Another example is why subscription/recurring billing software exists when payment gateways can solve this problem themselves.
The elephant in the room is the complexities involved down the funnel that need very specific focus/solutions.
A few that we experience as we’re building Trellis out:
1. Managing end-to-end workflows from integrating with data sources, automatically triggering new runs when there’s new data coming in, and keeping track of different business logic that’s involved (i.e. I want to classify the type of the
emails and based on that apply different extraction logic)
2. Most out-of-the-box solutions only get you 95% of the way there. The customers want the ability to pass in their own data to improve performance and specify their unique ontology.
3. Building a good UI and API support for both technical and non-technical users to use the product.
Don't think there is anything wrong with appreciating or buying historical artifacts, Nazi memorabilia included. There was even a point when many Americans brought over Nazi artifacts, sold, and trade it to this day without any affiliation or appreciation for Nazi ideology, if anything it helps us preserve human history.
if us treasury fails the last thing im worried about is my my bank okay