Everyone is discussing the tech, but you do realize that they made mapping data to real people easier using AI? This is essentially AI-assisted privacy violation, 4 times cheaper.

People, please try to understand what you are building. Don't just build it as asked!

Kind of offtopic, but I was kind of horrified by the rather blasé presentation of massive privacy invasion at scale, too. But there's clearly no stopping it technically, it will have to be handled by legislation, and the only hope of that happening is some kind of huge scandal.

You also need that for things like merging paper hospital records when you digitise them.

Yes and fission reactions can be used both for energy & destruction, but that doesn't mean that the applications of working in defense or powerplants are morally equal.

> Everyone is discussing the tech, but you do realize that they made mapping data to real people easier using AI?

That's Hacker News for you. They have chronic tunnel vision and are unable to look at implications that go beyond the technical. Particular blind spot for techno-social consequences.

Hacker News is you, too.

What are you talking about, these kind of tech have been available in industry way before (eg hypertargeting / profiling in adtech), and is entirely unrelated to LLMs or Jev.

I am talking about the article, which is applying LLMs and Jev to make those existing toxic patterns more effective and efficient.

> This is foundational for any company wishing to do outreach, personalization, or analytics on customers. You can’t know, for instance, the lifetime value of a customer without being able to map all their purchases to a single identity.

yuck

Shoutout to ConfigCat, https://configcat.com/

Same features as all these big guys, EU hosted, and down-to-earth pricing. Even the free tier got me quite far.

I'm unaffiliated btw.

The ConfigCat team is great!

Unleash also originates from Europe.

Sadly true, even to the point of paying for not only the pilot to fly their helicopter to the island in the inevitable collapse, but also the pilot's family. Not as a token of generosity of course, no, because otherwise the pilot wouldn't fly them.

And then they need to staff that island with all the accoutrements they are accustomed to from modern society. And defend it with a navy. And presumably pay for all of this with their billions of ... what, exactly?

Haha, indeed all of the preparations are surprisingly short-sighted. Nevertheless it shows the thought process behind many of the so-called 'leaders'.

The point OP is making is that it is not, in fact that its the opposite: its a magical valuation that almost guarantees you lose money.

Also rare for an IPO, I assume.

I see you are making a lot of similar comments. I am not sure where you get this perceived 'arrogance', I'm sure some of its there, but I'm similarly sure it can be found for Americans or Chinese. People being people, what's new.

> y'all are supposed to be our moral allies

This all comes across as rather black and white. I don't know why you take this stance. I'm sure you understand that it would be very hard for you to understand Europe as a whole, and judge it, just like it would be hard for me to do this with America.

Regardless, when talking morals, I'm also sure you agree there are numerous examples where America has not held up its end of the moral utopian future of prosperity and world peace.

We used to be a duo where America was pragmatic and European conscientious. In the new duo, China is pragmatic and America conscientious. If you think america wasn't holding up its end of the moral utopian future before, don't watch the news for the next fifty years.

I'm glad that geopolitics can be anthropomorphized, so we don't waste brainpower trying to see the nuance of all of it.

Also, have you watched the news in the last 50 years?

Depends. If you are middle class in US with little savings, moving to Europe will probably make your life worse as relative wages are lower for many professions (e.g software eng).

If you are middle class in EU and have little savings, moving to US will do the opposite and you would be better off.

Your comparison holds for the inverse: getting most of your quality of life from static wealth.

Define worse/better.

I’ve changed my worldview massively over the years. I don’t think it’s impossible for others to do so and I wouldn’t say they have no agency in keeping with their status quo.

That's nice but none of that is what I said.

Do you change your worldview daily, on the level of opting in or out of religions? Do you think most people do? Do you think we can expect them to?

Only a tourist would call Helmond and Zwolle closeby, that's like half the Netherlands!

Only a person from a country larger than a floppy disk would call them nearby.

Hey now, it's not about size but about how you use it.

Rutte being NATO Secretary General says more about that position than it does about Rutte. He is a serial liar, lacks any conviction or personal moral compass, and sees politics mostly as a professional career meta-game detached from society.

Although I support the idea that Rutte likely possesses a brain, I don't think he's a sensible example as an 'outside view' that tolerates Trump.

Put differently, I don't think a NATO can exist where the Sec. Gen. disagrees fundamentally with Trump. If that were to happen, NATO would simply cease to exist.

This is why its a bad example.