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bolasanibk··on Religious scholars met with Anthropic
Time to start putting Asmiov's laws of robotics into the model.
bolasanibk··on He set out to walk around the world. After 27 years, his quest is nearly over
It was not one continuous hike. He takes frequent breaks. But travels back to where he last stopped and continues.

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

Still very impressive, but a little less impressive than I first thought.

bolasanibk··on Trump to impose $100k fee for H-1B worker visas, White House says
Any idea what is considered a petition? New h1b? Transfer? Extension?
bolasanibk··on What does this company do?
The only link on their website is to the career page where they are looking for everybody from dashboarding intern to experimental physicists?
bolasanibk··on MomBoard: E-ink display for a parent with amnesia
> If literally everything was forgotten, then you could set up a reverse groundhog day or groundhog hour for someone, just optimize for them having a wonderful day every day. (Would still be horrible for the loved ones to be effectively disconnected from their still-living relative.) Probably there have been movies made about this.

There is a Drew Barrymore movie Fifty first dates. And yes, it is horrible for the relatives.

bolasanibk··on I've had a change of heart regarding employee metrics
“Hire to fire”. Not a new idea. I have been hearing it for at least 5 years now.
bolasanibk··on Some Florida cities are living off red light cameras
Florida shortened yellow lights to increase red light camera revenue https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5707465
bolasanibk··on I bought 300 emoji domain names from Kazakhstan and built an email service
Don’t ask me how I know.
bolasanibk··on Vernor Vinge has died
Aah! The infamous ‘slog’ for the WOT series. Book 10 is where things pick up again my opinion.
bolasanibk··on European crash tester says carmakers must bring back physical controls
I would the main driver was economics. It would be easier and cheaper to manufacture one big screen in the middle compared to a bunch of physical controls with wiring.

Also makes it easier to change things later in the design if you do not have a bunch of physical controls to move.

bolasanibk··on Rite Aid banned from using face recognition software after false ID shoplifters
Did you mean prop 65? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1986_California_Proposition_...
bolasanibk··on Slashdot founder Rob Malda on why there won’t be another Hacker News (2013)
I use /front. It’s a day old, but good enough for me.
bolasanibk··on ChatGPT Can't Kill Anything Worth Preserving
This. How are people going to learn/become better if all the base work is being done by an AI.

Reminds of the Empire in Asimov's Foundation where they knew just enough to keep the current tech running, but not enough to fix it if something major breaks or create new tech.

When the AI breaks something, we will be missing the people who knew how all this s$%T works.

bolasanibk··on Server stats say movetodon.org reached a new record of 49k users yesterday
Bluecheck.com redirects to "Rob Jacobson"'s profile on linkedin.com. Ge claims to be original inventor of the blue checkmark.
bolasanibk··on Binance to acquire FTX
Not to be confused with the talented soccer player Sam Obisanya. https://ted-lasso.fandom.com/wiki/Sam_Obisanya#Dubai_Air_and...
bolasanibk··on Cobra Maneuver
Some have: B-29 tail turret https://media.defense.gov/2010/Jun/14/2000352211/-1/-1/0/100...

I am guessing mostly space and weight are at a premium in an airplane.

bolasanibk··on Heathrow Airport: Two planes in minor collision
FAA search page for incidents: https://www.asias.faa.gov/apex/f?p=100:12:::NO:::

List of incidents in the past 10 days: https://www.asias.faa.gov/apex/f?p=100:93:::NO:::

bolasanibk··on US Government building AI tech to unmask anonymous writers
If you give me six lines written by the hand of the most honest of men, I will find something in them which will hang him. --Cardinal Richelieu

It does not matter what your beliefs are. If they want to hang you, they will find a reason.

bolasanibk··on US Government building AI tech to unmask anonymous writers
Just translate the text through Google translate a few times.

"I plan on not paying my taxes" becomes "I intend not to pay tax."

bolasanibk··on Super-Earths are ideal targets in the search for life
Shorter time scale but - Rendezvous with Rama by Arthur C Clarke
bolasanibk··on Why Craigslist still looks the same after 25 years
>already-made datasets that give the real world distance between two places

Can you point me to a source? Thanks.

bolasanibk··on Crazy Thin ‘Deep Insert’ ATM Skimmers
I agree with a lot of the other things. But for this:

>Sometimes I want to buy Girl Scout cookies from the girl with the table on the corner

I have seen a lot of them carry Square dongles or accept Venmo payments. I guess they got tired of people telling them they do not have cash.

bolasanibk··on The Follower: Using open cameras and AI to find how an Instagram photo is taken
I wonder what the storage requirements for video from multiple traffic cameras for weeks is? A few TB per day?
bolasanibk··on After 50 years, Michael Heizer is finally ready to unveil City, his life's work
> But also the fact that someone knows this story can signify that someone is “cultured”, or at least classically read or whatever.

Or in my case, watched “West Wing”. :)

bolasanibk··on US Mortgage Lenders Are Starting to Go Broke
They are sold to other banks.
bolasanibk··on ML is not that good at predicting consumers' choices
I cannot remember the reference now, but the reasoning I read was a person who just bought an item x might: 1. return the item if they are not satisfied with it and get a replacement Or 2. buy another one as a gift if they really like it.

Both of these result in a higher fraction of conversions in this kind of targeting vs other targeting criteria.

bolasanibk··on Characterization of JWST science performance from commissioning [pdf]
They have a nice image of Jupiter in it:

https://external-preview.redd.it/qnzeIpeBtxxrLMfMsH1aDlSMHpK...

bolasanibk··on Show HN: Inflation-adjusted stock charts – Total Real Returns
From what I understand, SPY returns adjusted for inflation over long term average to 7%.
bolasanibk··on Ten Percent of the Brain Myth
Hard agree. It's very easy to find people who agree with whatever your particular brand of crazy is. And it does not help that online people can say things they would never say face to face.
bolasanibk··on The world needs a non-profit search engine
I guarantee you that at least 60-70 out of the top 100 queries are navigational queries.
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