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Awesome. It'd be pretty cool to generate maps with a certain style from descriptions of areas/towns/etc like this. A big problem would be the lack of consistency in the internal model though, which is a really persistent problem with chatGPT/others like it.

Why is this here? This is just Chinese government propaganda.

Do you mean the other way around? Pepper spray is illegal in the UK (https://www.gov.uk/guidance/import-controls-on-offensive-wea...) but its legal in all states in the US.

Isn't this situation the entire purpose of Signal..? Don't they already operate in the most authoritarian countries in the world? I don't understand why they would walk.

Honestly this my favorite type of startup: a small company trying to do something insane, previously restricted to very large and resource-rich companies. Actually disruptive.

Jim Keller is still CEO of Tenstorrent right? If so then is this Jim vertically integrating in a way? I don't know much about Grayskull tbh, but this would make sense.

Honestly any kind of obsession with Musk is weird, and this is included. What happened to the exodus of people leaving Twitter for Mastodon saying Twitter's collapse was imminent? I've seen people coming back after making such a dramatic event of it. I've been using Twitter throughout all of this and honestly nothing has actually changed. It's just so weird people so obsessed with Musk, even hating him with such fervor and putting him under this weird hyper scrutiny.

I remember once upon a time I thought C was fairly simple, so I decided to write a program to generate ASTs from C programs. I was very wrong and it was kind of a nightmare. There are so many weird little quirks or lesser-used features that I never saw in the wild even in large production codebases; I feel like you really don't _need_ a lot of these features. I can't imagine doing proper compiler work, especially for something like C++. Nice article.

unlocked ring? the ring buffers are lock free. I'm not sure it stands for userspace since the ring buffers are shared between kernel and userspace, thats the core of io_uring, so that seems kind of misleading.

I guess the burden of proof for being a flight risk is reasonbly high? Which makes sense? As long as the bail amount is reasonable for the individual (its not too much that they cannot afford, but its enough of an incentive for them to reappear in court), it seems fine? I think at the level of wealth of SBF/the level of wealth of his network, declaring him a flight risk kinda makes more sense and denying bail. I dunno law though.

Precious space? Its a pretty big continent.

Fair point, but at the very least the bias of the articles/sources should be taken into consideration considering the widespread anti-semitism and historical context of such.

from the salon article

"Hanen "acknowledged that [a] pro-Palestinian view is protected by the First Amendment," said Abbas. "That may sound like little crumbs, but that's a controversial take, and it's a blessing."" its not a prevention of being pro-Palestinian or demonstrating any pro-Palestinian activtism, but specifically about BDS in the context of federal law regarding commerce and boycotting.

Trust me, I know about the differing opinions in our community. But there does tend to be some who reject their identity to appease the people persecuting us...

With the final link, the BBC really tries to be impartial so it makes sense they would review content? If they never add it back, or add an edited form back then I'd be more concerned. Plus "Foulkes explained that the series will be suspended from the site whilst an editorial review is carried out and that once the review has been completed, the BBC will decide which content to retire permanently and which to reinstate and / or edit."

Sure.

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/27/world/middleeast/bds-isra... - "Critics say B.D.S. is actually counterproductive to resolving the conflict, because it rejects Israel’s right to exist in spite of settled international law; encourages Palestinians to insist on the right of return for all refugees, which Israel is unlikely to ever accept in negotiations; pressures only one side to make concessions; and discourages bridge-building efforts between Israelis and Palestinians on the grounds that they “normalize” Israel. They say its rejection of the Jewish state distracts from debate over how to end the conflict and plays into the hands of right-wing Israeli opponents of a Palestinian state."

So its anti-semitic at worst but honestly unproductive at best.

https://thehill.com/opinion/international/454958-the-truth-a...

"There are many challenges in Israel, not the least of which is the plight of the Palestinians. This is a real challenge that needs to be addressed with urgency, coupled with the very priority of Israel’s security. Our energy should be more focused on what we can do to move toward peace, what we can we do to lift up the Palestinians in a sustainable way, and not isolate Israel in an anti-Semitic way.

BDS is not about the “pursuit of civil and human rights.” It’s not about the First Amendment. It is an attempt to demonize, delegitimize and apply a double standard to Israel—all three of Sharansky’s indicators. And we, as members of the Jewish and broader communities, should be willing to partner wholly with anyone truly committed to such an end, and not merely using it as cover for implicit anti-Semitic gains."

My support for the ADL has waxed and waned, me also being Jewish, so I can understand the skepticism.

Interesting. Good article. I can see some of the acts may have been blown out of proportion, and I think it is dangerous to paint _all_ pro-Palestinian activism as anti-semitic. I mean I support all peoples having a home in Israel.

Its just a problem of engrained anti-semitism, propaganda, and students not using their brain enough of the time I guess so most pro-Palestinian activities just get taken over by the loud voices of anti-semites.

Stuff like "But most of these students “personally never experienced antisemitism and did not know of any antisemitic occurrences on campus,” Aeder wrote in a recent essay. “Their fear of antisemitism was informed not by their own experiences, but by what they read online and on social media.”" is interesting.

Did you happen to read the ADL report at all..? Because those attacks definitely sound anti-semitic.

I still don't understand why people think that the level of information that the public is aware of is somehow the exact same as the USG has. Not to mention, knowledge of what truly when on is heavily compartmentalized within the USG and IC as a whole. Whatever narrative the people are being told is the same narrative that our adversaries are being fed, so a fine line needs to be tread between putting the public at ease and giving away information about our capabilities.

This obviously does leave room for speculation and thus conspiracy theorists, but what justification do conspiracy theorists need anyway? The crux of most conspiracy theories is making a mountain out of a mole hill.

I mean thats being pushed onto the Chinese domestic population, probably to drown out any coverage of the balloons for them. Maybe its bleeding over to US media but I suspect its more propaganda for them than a concerted propaganda effort for foreign audiences.

Probably people with not a lot of other options to turn crypto into some more liquid? IIRC most UK banks (including challengers) are completely hostile to anything crypto, so I'm not sure what options one would have.

Russia has been infamous for sowing division in the West using information warfare, and its no surprise that anti-West/anti-American's end up picking up pro-Russian propaganda which has become incredibly apparent throughout this war. Propaganda is designed to build lies from a truth or misinterpreted fact so it seems believeable; its not so much that a website/forum needs to be _controlled_ or _backed_, or that bots need to be leveraged most of the time. Plus, most people think they are too smart to believe propaganda which honestly means they are more likely to fall for it.

What is the best way to mitigate the effects? I guess nothing for long distance since the radio waves need to bounce off the atmosphere, but what about for more local/direct line of sight?

I think the core problem of the anthropomorphization is calling it AI; intelligence is something usually assigned to humans, so people expect it to replace/substitute a human. So instead of thinking this technology augments existing workflows, they think it will replace it. Sure, animals can be intelligent but AI/AGI/ASI is all human-centric based around a human-baseline. I don't honestly know what it should be called, but I don't think it should be AI.

Maybe I'm wrong honestly. Maybe not anthropomorphizing something is impossible for humans (stick a pair of eyes and a mouth on anything and a person would probably give it a name). I guess people _expect_ AI to replace a human in a given role, but the reality is that they will augment existing workflows, e.g. instead of replacing a digital artist, it would be used to spark creativity and basically eliminate creative blocks.

I'm not sure. It is impossible to theorize what Russia would do in the wake of that kind loss, nor is it possible to theorize the conditions that would trigger the use of nuclear weapons and in what way. The last time nuclear weapons was used was in a very different situation, and with radically different technology, and thus with radically different policies.

As with the build up to the invasion in late 2021, I think we would see much more happening before something as serious as that occurs; it is difficult to truly hide your intentions in today's world with the technology we have.

Surveillance satellites are very different to directly flying this equipment into US airspace, including the fact that this equipment could hold paylods other than ISR. Not to mention this comment implies China does not have equivalent spy satellites, which it does. Also the UN is an absolute joke. That article links has China and Russia complaining about the West being aggressors so honestly its kinda BS. Also forgetting about China's [ASAT test](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fengyun) which has been the worst in history.

Of course here come the articles undermining the intelligence community, right in the wake of the Chinese balloon incursions and continued Chinese/Russian foreign intelligence efforts, and at its core are republicans. As usual these articles pertaining to the IC massively misunderstand, misrepresent, and downright act against the interests of the United States by so feverently spurring on the de-fanging of intelligence capabilities.

Yeah I was looking at those specs, and these seems very overpriced no?

If you spec a Tuxedo Aura 15 Gen2 (https://www.tuxedocomputers.com/en/Linux-Hardware/Notebooks/...) to the same level (not sure what the equivalent to the CPU is for Ryzen though), and although the display isn't 4K its still much less (just over 700, so around half the price...). There are nice features that the StarFighter has than the Aura 15 Gen2 doesn't, but are those features worth basically 2x the price..?

cute quote, but meaningless. ask anyone who lived in a communist/ex-soviet state which is better. also why [over 100,000 citizens of east germany](https://www.berlin.de/mauer/en/history/victims-of-the-wall/) tried to escape, many dying in their attempts. its without a doubt which is better.

That also reminds me of Her (2013) and the departure of the AI's, leaving the humans behind. That would be a rather depressing outcome as a human, AI finding alien life but leaving us all behind.

always jumping to the nefarious. "provide a persistent surveillance system to locate and deter narcotic trafficking and homeland security threats" makes sense, given the absolutely massive length of the borders and the amount of area that needs to be surveilled. as usual, the people criticizing homeland security efforts are so insulated that they think its all just evil government stuff, rather than the fact that their safe lives are a product of this strength.

that doesn't make any sense though. UFOs dont get people interested in "space". if its aerospace then rockets and spacecraft do that just fine, and if its hard sciences then there are a billion other cool, real things. the MIC? yeah UFO people are famously pro-government and pro-military. the most well known media featuring UFOs/aliens, the X-Files, is full of government-related conspiracy theories.