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39896880on Framework Laptop 13 Deep Dive: A laptop webcam with smartphone technology

What distro are people running with the new 2.8k display? I want to like the Framework (and indeed, any linux laptop) but the compromises are still too many. Poor battery life, lack of fractional scaling support, fan noise, trouble with suspend/hibernate, palm rejection issues, wonky wifi and tinny sound are all things I see on forums.

39896880on Tesla parental controls keep teenage lead feet in check

If you are under a tornado watch you should take shelter, not drive.

39896880on Tesla parental controls keep teenage lead feet in check

What is an example of a life saving reason to go faster? What are the chances of that situation happening vs a situation where the young driver will exceed the speed limit and cause injury?

39896880on Nicotine patches as a possible treatment for long covid and me/cfs

The study summary addresses this.

“The presentation of four individual case descriptions does not allow for general conclusions to be made about the therapeutic effect of transcutaneous nicotine administration in post-COVD-19 syndrome; this would require double-blinded, randomized studies. Due to the minimal therapeutic intervention, studies such as these have the potential to be carried out rather easily. Due to the lack of blinding, the author believes that the psychosomatic component, which other authors suspect to be a central component of long-haul COVID (Stengel et al. 2021), cannot be safely ruled out as part of the therapeutic effect. However, no symptom-related relapses were observed in a follow-up telephone consultation with the patients three to six months post-intervention.”

39896880on Nicotine patches as a possible treatment for long covid and me/cfs

Well, if the choice is between “[being] unable to proceed with common everyday activities due to weakness, memory lapses, pain, dyspnea and other unspecific physical complaints” and addicted to a substance that itself has mild side effects, I suspect many would choose the addiction.

Remember, nicotine!=tobacco

39896880on $1B gift to make Johns Hopkins medical school free for most

Is it binary, no aid vs 100%? Or does it scale based on income?

39896880on Zuckerberg and Peter Thiel on Facebook, Millenials, and Predictions for 2030

That is because Thiel is a dead eyed psychopath.

39896880on Portugal brings back tax breaks for foreigners in bid to woo digital nomads

The EU does not have the cultural means to adapt to immigration the way the US does. The US removed the native population, so all cultural in the US is adaptation; adding more into the mix isn't such a problem.

39896880on The A.I. Bubble is Bursting with Ed Zitron [video]

They were garbage in hindsight. Being "blinded by the hype" is what drives people to try new things and fail. And that's okay! It's okay that we ended up with a handful of viable companies. Those viable companies emerged because people tried new things, and failed. Investors lost money because investment has the risk of loss.

39896880on Japan is bracing for rage against the vending machine

Eh. Vending machines take Suica and Japan only issues notes for ¥1000+. A drink is like ¥100-150. The new ¥500 coins have been around for 3 years.

39896880on Rivian Amazon delivery vans catching on fire while charging: reports

Worrying before having all the facts is a waste of time.

39896880on Rivian Amazon delivery vans catching on fire while charging: reports

Worrisome for whom? It doesn’t appear that anyone was hurt. I’m not exactly crying for Jeff Bezos, I’m sure he has insurance.

39896880on Rivian Amazon delivery vans catching on fire while charging: reports

Article is light on details. How many Rivian vans have caught on fire over what span of time? How does that compare to non-EV vans? Other EVs?

39896880on Nintendo ends Wii U repairs

12 years is a very reasonable run. Thanks Nintendo, the hackers will take it from here.

39896880on Why is Chile so long?

I suspect Shenzhen for one

39896880on Upcoming Book on AI and Democracy

https://web.archive.org/web/20240701194019/https://www.schne...

Text:

Upcoming Book on AI and Democracy If you’ve been reading my blog, you’ve noticed that I have written a lot about AI and democracy, mostly with my co-author Nathan Sanders. I am pleased to announce that we’re writing a book on the topic.

This isn’t a book about deep fakes, or misinformation. This is a book about what happens when AI writes laws, adjudicates disputes, audits bureaucratic actions, assists in political strategy, and advises citizens on what candidates and issues to support. It’s a book that tries to look into what an AI-assisted democratic system might look like, and then at how to best ensure that we make use of the good parts while avoiding the bad parts.

This is what I talked about in my RSA Conference speech last month, which you can both watch and read. (You can also read earlier attempts at this idea.)

The book will be published by MIT Press sometime in fall 2025, with an open-access digital version available a year after that. (It really can’t be published earlier. Nothing published this year will rise above the noise of the US presidential election, and anything published next spring will have to go to press without knowing the results of that election.)

Right now, the organization of the book is in six parts:

AI-Assisted Politicians AI-Assisted Legislators The AI-Assisted Administration The AI-Assisted Legal System AI-Assisted Citizens Getting the Future We Want

It’s too early to share a more detailed table of contents, but I would like help thinking about titles. Below are my current list of brainstorming ideas: both titles and subtitles. Please mix and match, or suggest your own in the comments. No idea is too far afield, because anything can spark more ideas.

Titles:

AI and Democracy Democracy with AI Democracy after AI Democratia ex Machina Democracy ex Machina E Pluribus, Machina Democracy and the Machines Democracy with Machines Building Democracy with Machines Democracy in the Loop We the People + AI Artificial Democracy AI Enhanced Democracy The State of AI Citizen AI

Trusting the Bots Trusting the Computer Trusting the Machine

The End of the Beginning Sharing Power Better Run Speed, Scale, Scope, and Sophistication The New Model of Governance Model Citizen Artificial Individualism

Subtitles:

How AI Upsets the Power Balances of Democracy Twenty (or So) Ways AI will Change Democracy Reimagining Democracy for the Age of AI Who Wins and Loses How Democracy Thrives in an AI-Enhanced World Ensuring that AI Enhances Democracy and Doesn’t Destroy It How AI Will Change Politics, Legislating, Bureaucracy, Courtrooms, and Citizens AI’s Transformation of Government, Citizenship, and Everything In-Between Remaking Democracy, from Voting to Legislating to Waiting in Line How to Make Democracy Work for People in an AI Future How AI Will Totally Reshape Democracies and Democratic Institutions Who Wins and Loses when AI Governs How to Win and Not Lose With AI as a Partner AI’s Transformation of Democracy, for Better and for Worse How AI Can Improve Society and Not Destroy It How AI Can Improve Society and Not Subvert It Of the People, for the People, with a Whole lot of AI How AI Will Reshape Democracy How the AI Revolution Will Reshape Democracy

Combinations:

Imagining a Thriving Democracy in the Age of AI: How Technology Enhances Democratic Ideals and Nurtures a Society that Serves its People

Making Model Citizens: How to Put AI to Use to Help Democracy Modeling Citizenship: Who Wins and Who Loses when AI Transforms Democracy A Model for Government: Democracy with AI, and How to Make it Work for Us

AI of, By, and for the People: How Artificial Intelligence will reshape Democracy The (AI) Political Revolution: Speed, Scale, Scope, Sophistication, and our Democracy Speed, Scale, Scope, Sophistication: The AI Democratic Revolution The Artificial Political Revolution: X Ways AI will Change Democracy…Forever

39896880on California approves final high-speed rail link connecting San Francisco to LA

The sad thing is, I can't tell if this is a joke.

39896880on Report shows that AAA games for iPhone and iPad aren't a hit with users

David Lynch agrees. https://youtu.be/wKiIroiCvZ0?si=TCMRYUW-k6ayfIHl

39896880on Slack AI

I actually think "hallucination" sounds worse than "mistake." A hallucination is a fundamental break from the shared reality.

39896880on Re: Supreme Court's Loper decision: offer some thought someone who has litigated

This “silent on” meme is clever, but it doesn’t quite work when the entire framework of regulatory law relied on the agencies to adapt to circumstances that everyone knows will change. In fact, your point strengthens that idea: why would anyone with any working knowledge of how regulations work expect the law to need changing to cover every type of fish when the overfishing situation is by definition dynamic? This is the purpose of the “necessary and appropriate” clause.

This isn’t even an example text vs. spirit. Congress wrote the law to cover this.

39896880on Re: Supreme Court's Loper decision: offer some thought someone who has litigated

“ A split in decisions among federal appeals courts has set the stage for possibly overturning the Chevron deference.

In its ruling on the Cape May fishermen’s case, the First Circuit Court of Appeals in Washington, D.C., “decided that broad ‘necessary and appropriate’ language in the Magnuson-Stevens Act, which governs U.S. fisheries, augmented the agency’s regulatory power,” according to a narrative from the New Civil Liberties Alliance. “It then relied heavily on Chevron deference to uphold the agency’s ostensibly reasonable interpretation of a supposedly ambiguous federal statute.”

https://www.nationalfisherman.com/national-international/sup...

Here’s the necessary and proper clause: https://constitution.congress.gov/browse/essay/artI-S8-C18-1....

It’s hard to square “well congress didn’t intend for them to have that power” when they quoted their own damn rules when they wrote the law.

But again, SCOTUS decided Congress doesn’t have that power.

39896880on Re: Supreme Court's Loper decision: offer some thought someone who has litigated

Except the law did contain the provision for this fee. The Magnuson–Stevens Fishery Conservation and Management Act included a “Necessary and Proper” clause that mirrors the Constitution’s, yet the Supreme Court decided that Congress’ ability under that clause doesn’t extend beyond itself. Despite the “History and Tradition” of this delegation, and despite the fact that such powers are literally written in the constitution itself.

It seems we are inching closer to a world where it would require a constitutional amendment to make traffic laws.

39896880on EV charging is so bleak in US that 46% consider going back to gas-powered cars

If I understand correctly, this means that Tesla vehicles that do not have CCS retrofit will not work with J3400 NACS third party chargers. Is that correct?

39896880on EV charging is so bleak in US that 46% consider going back to gas-powered cars

>Older Teslas can't charge on these chargers because they don't have CCS support. Those cars will need to get a CCS retrofit

When you said "these chargers," do you mean the V3 Superchargers with CCS+J3400? Or, do you mean NACS 3rd party charging stations?

39896880on EV charging is so bleak in US that 46% consider going back to gas-powered cars

What's the difference between "Tesla's charging standard" and NACS? The Tesla website calls their Supercharger NACS: https://www.tesla.com/NACS

39896880on FDA warns top U.S. bakery not to claim foods contain allergens when they don't

Nothing that bakery makes can reasonably be labelled food.

39896880on Took part in Apache ceremonies. schools expelled them for satanic activities

Public schools aren’t very good on reservations.

39896880on Singapore doubles down on lab-grown meat as Silicon Valley backs off

> The formulation of its new product uses just 3% cultivated chicken in order to sell at a lower price point so more people can try it, he said

So it’s 97% normal chicken, but 3% cultured? That doesn’t seem too interesting.

39896880on OpenEMR: Open-source medical record software

Agreed, and honestly this is one of the easiest and best behaving use case for LLMs. We’re not talking replacing any diagnoses, but freeing the humans to do what they do best, using their intuition.

39896880on Show HN: Simple script to cripple personalized targeting from Facebook

They lease your behavior to other advertisers, insurance companies, loan guarantors…