This is a really inspiring project and exactly the type of content I'm looking for on Hacker News.

A bit surprising that so many people in the comments would rather see links to cheap temu polaroid knockoffs.

There has been a similar project developed in Poland already. (https://en.media.pkobp.pl/78483-strategic-partnership-betwee...) In practice it's not much more than government-branded version of Google Cloud Platform and Microsoft Azure. So far it serves well as a marketing vehicle for a handful of the biggest corporations, but it's barely used by anyone.

I can see it could make sense as a solution to some particular problems though – European regulations often forbid banks from processing/storing customer data in other countries, so even though the tech is provided by the American tech giants, having everything hosted locally makes it possible for local financial services to finally move away from hosting everything on premises.

So they're reselling Google Cloud services? Subsidized by our tax money?

They provide cloud migration services for Polish enterprises and also run their own semi-public cloud infrastructure.

Wouldn't it make more sense for them to just take over Hulu? They are going to have 60% equity quite soon anyway

The “Disney brand” is about content that is at most PG and family friendly. Hulu would be for there less kid friendly content.

Not a book, but you might like Dirty Money series on Netflix.

I totally agree with you on the mandatory part, I’d hope it would be widely accepted that opt-in is the way to go in such cases.

Although I need to point out there’s a huge difference between what people say vs what they actually do (see https://www.nngroup.com/articles/first-rule-of-usability-don...) and I can’t imagine an effective product development process that ignores the actual usage data.

Transcriptions are not really the issue here, the cost of freelance transcribers is relatively low. It is privacy that makes it so hard, most of the call center calls need to have some kind of user authentication, which means they would need to be anonymized prior to being transcribed and used as a training material.

I’d say all of those examples show that you need to be first to the actual market, not just first or first to _some_ market

Having it learn on human games was just a way of speeding up the initialization process before running reinforcement learning, it didn't limit the state tree that was being searched later on.

Being a Pole, I wish more people understood that. :(

We're in the process of dismantling our democracy by removing all of the checks you mentioned, while supporters of the ruling party argue that democratically elected majority is within full rights to do it.

Why Java only?

Since computation is measured by bytecode cost of instructions, supporting other languages would require a great deal of effort to do similar bytecode counting and to make sure that the counting across languages is fair and balanced. They've considered doing other forms of computation measurement, but none of the alternatives are very good or deterministic (time, lower-level instruction counting, etc).

Also you can use Scala.