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This paints a picture of the future that imo is kind of fatalistic and dystopian. I personally refuse to accept that this is the inevitable end state of our society and markets.

German here.

If the way you are building a product requires you to risk the well being of your employees, which these laws are designed to protect, you and your product are not welcome here.

Please build it somewhere else.

This reads like its a group advocating for exactly the wrong kind of deregulation that turns markets into basically unbreakable monopolys.

The EU directly opposes the growth model of the new-era tech startups (ruthless growth financed by investor money, take over competitors, market monopoly) and the regulations aim to keep markets at least a little bit competitive.

We (the EU) do not need or want this kind of deregulation.

So what is your proposed solution? I'd rather have a sociopath that is upfront about being one to me than figuring that fact out by myself.

Shunning those people from society seems like not an option to me, they are people after all.

I think normalizing sociopathic behaviour is something to be worried about, but I personally don't see that happening anywhere so I am unsure what your point is.

Parent did not say they should understand ML on a fundamental level. Reading the description in the comment should be enough for the author of the article to say "oh" and not write this article.

This does ignore the damage done to the free market though. Every job that a prison inmate takes up, is a job that could be taken by a non-criminal and which would pay for at least federal minimum wage.

I'd call the difference of prison wage and the minimum wage lost money.

With a specific exception: "(...) except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted".

So it does still exist - but America only considers criminals for it. From what I've gathered, though, that is still a lot of people.

I actually like self-checkouts very much and use them every time they are available. The reason is very simple: They typically do not require any social interaction. I like to shop with music on my ears and generally am pretty deep inside my head when I shop, because I like to plan my shopping list and would like to do that in peace. I hate the superficial social interactions at the register like saying hello and wishing a nice day (which is common and expected here in Germany, where I live).

Now don't get me wrong, I'm pretty social inside my own circle or when I go out for a drink for example (although I am Gen Z, so there's that), but I really do not like these interactions when they are forced and imposed upon me while doing mundane tasks like grocery shopping.

I was pretty surprised when the article claimed customers do not like them because that is the reception I've also gathered from friends.

It says in the article that the faces are swapped with those of actors. Are those something like film actors? Because that would actually be amazing, completely dodging the drawback several commenters here have mentioned that faces of innocent people could be used.

Actors faces are already public. Then again,I would probably be pissed when my face would be used as a mask to say something I might not agree with. Interesting question if that is ethical or not.

Emphasis on

> if left unchecked

This obviously represents an error on how abuse is handled in these power structures.

What baffles me the most, is that this list in particular is not only shared between staff or subordinates, but concerns colleagues. It seems that women feel that they cannot speak out against such forms of potential abuse because they fear they will get themself axed, even if the alleged abuser is power-wise on the same level.

This is very concerning to hear, but frankly not surprising if you speak with any woman that operates in any kind of hierarchy, be it corporate or otherwise.

I think with the scale requirements of YouTube, we can not assume that the search is powered by one single DB or any traditional, relational DB at all.

Some things that are easy with one DB, get surprisingly hard when you scale up. Lets give them the benefit of the doubt regarding technical issues here.

This is why the concept of "granular permissions" is so important on modern pcs, and I personally think linux is severely lacking in this regard.

Flatpack et al. have improved this situation somewhat, but come with their own drawbacks. Linux needs a central application-level permission system like Android, where I can grant/revoke e.g. internet access to applications. Frankly, I should never have to use sudo to install anything in my daily life, that is unfortunately not the case with the common ubuntu install, and will probably stay this way for a long time.

It's very much interesting how gamification tickles the monkey parts of the brains of me and even the smartest people I know. We even know it's "stupid" or "useless" and still strive to make the number go up.

Frankly, thats terrifying, now that I think about it. What a powerful tool.

It seems to me that enabling string replacement with all lookups enabled by default would be a dangerous idea to begin with. Why would it be implemented that way?

Having a replacement that is based on arbitrary scripts (!) seems especially questionable to me, in my brain that is a niche use case and should be turned off by default.

Maybe we have to sharpen the awareness of the common developer to these kind of dangerous practices, like we did with SQL injection attacks where string concatenation to create your queries is generally frowned upon and is regarded as a bad practice industry-wide.