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ChaseMeAwayon Ousted Savannah police officer gave ICE agent husband access to Flock system

https://ourworldindata.org/us-crime-rates

This chart is up to 2024. If you look up 2025 and 2026 data for the US you will see that it has continued to decline YoY.

Judging by your comment I assume that you have personally witnessed some criminality recently and are drawing conclusions about the entire US, if so I’m sorry you had to endure that, but that doesn’t mean that your conclusions apply to the general trend in the US as the GP was referring to.

ChaseMeAwayon CFTC Staff Were Told to Retract Analysis of Suspicious Oil Trades

Ofc congresspeople should not be immune, but she is being investigated for the possibility that a relative who brought her to the US when she was a child (15) lied on her immigration paperwork.

It’s not clear to me how she’d be responsible for that and it’s also not clear to me what evidence they expected to turn up related to such an offense by raiding her home decades after the offense was alleged to have occurred.

ChaseMeAwayon Private equity bought America's essential services

I was working on something adjacent to this for a little while.

It was a Chrome extension which allowed a user to upload a list (pluggable community-maintained lists, akin to ublock). It would light up when a user was on a site in the list with details about the site, the ownership/board, recent news, etc.

It also had a space for recommended alternatives. I built it because I was tired of giving money to companies who used the profits to make society worse.

I’d be down to pick up work on it again and get development going in the open or shift to work on the more commercial oriented design you describe. Lmk a good way to reach you if you’re open to it.

If you’d rather I can set up an email for this alias I just don’t have one handy to post publicly at the time of writing.

ChaseMeAwayon Today I've made the difficult decision to reduce the size of Coinbase by ~14%

Certainly not, I don’t think anyone would make that claim, seems a bit silly.

The benefits of unionization extend beyond this particular situation or company.

They can help shift the balance of power back to the employee and help them guard against being squeezed by their employer to produce more or take on more work for less benefits or compensation.

American tech workers have been fortunate to avoid such aggressive practices, but working conditions will only deteriorate from here, with workers crushed between LLMs and offshoring.

ChaseMeAwayon Today I've made the difficult decision to reduce the size of Coinbase by ~14%

Perhaps it is time to unionize.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unionization_in_the_tech_secto...

ChaseMeAwayon JPMorgan Chase and Co tracks employees to dystopian extents

I guess I should have clarified, not put up with being monitored but, more to my second paragraph, be so willing and eager (maybe even write a fun technical blog about it) to construct cages for themselves and others.

ChaseMeAwayon JPMorgan Chase and Co tracks employees to dystopian extents

I think that software engineers need to start strongly considering a professional organization/association akin to Drs and Lawyers.

Do you think that other professionals would put up with this shit? Absolutely not.

There’s also the matter of an association binding its members by a professional code of ethics. The software engineers who are tasked with building systems like these need to stand up and say no when asked to do. These systems will make life worse for you, your coworkers, and society.

Stop trading your conscience for cash.

ChaseMeAwayon Experimental library for scraping websites using OpenAI's GPT API

My understanding of LLMs is sub-par at best, could someone explain where the randomness comes from in the event that the model temperature is 0?

I guess I was imagining that if temperature was 0, and the model was not being continuously trained, the weights wouldn’t change, and the output would be deterministic.

Is this a feature of LLMs more generally or has OpenAI more specifically introduced some other degree of randomness in their models?

ChaseMeAwayon Hospitals are reporting new mothers for neglect from poppyseed false positives

Interestingly a few states do offer a Codeine cough syrup without a prescription[0].

From the article: “Codeine regulation varies widely across countries and states. In some states, including North Carolina, Florida, Oklahoma, and Iowa,1,2 pharmacists can dispense a small quantity of cough syrup containing codeine OTC. Based on individual state law, this information may not be logged into the prescription drug monitoring program, which may contribute to providers being unaware of their patients’ use of codeine.”

This is an exceedingly rare practice in the US however.

[0]https://www.pharmacytimes.com/view/behind-the-counter-codein...

ChaseMeAwayon RWKV RNN: Better than ChatGPT?

I think that your first few points are fair, but I was a little confused about #4.

I had never heard of this, and it seemed important, some cursory research turned up many twitter posts from individuals amplifying your version of events.

I also found a write up on the situation from TechDirt[0]. The article is fairly good and well sourced, but it paints a substantially different picture than what you describe.

[0]https://www.techdirt.com/2023/02/15/extraordinarily-confused...

ChaseMeAwayon $3B in Bitcoin was sold in a last-ditch attempt to save UST from collapse

“Weak analogy

Definition: Many arguments rely on an analogy between two or more objects, ideas, or situations. If the two things that are being compared aren’t really alike in the relevant respects, the analogy is a weak one, and the argument that relies on it commits the fallacy of weak analogy.

Tip: Identify what properties are important to the claim you’re making, and see whether the two things you’re comparing both share those properties.“[1]

[1]https://writingcenter.unc.edu/tips-and-tools/fallacies/

I suspect the poster you are responding to disagrees that it is a relevant comparison, since commodities, their value, and subsequently the way in which they are traded is in some way influenced by their “vital” civilizational importance.

The implication here is that crypto does not share that crucial (for the analogy) property of vital importance, and as such the trading patterns/market forces are not comparable.

In this case is it reasonable to point out that the analogy is weak, we do not have to ignore how the two candidate comparables are different if they differ in fundamental ways.