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Probably because there’s a name in there they have been instructed not to share.

All the big tech companies had climate goals before the AI building craze.

All the big tech companies have now quietly removed their climate goals. You don’t need to know anything else.

Seems like a pretty good deal to me. Being free probably beats being incarcerated most days. Prostitutes sort of have to be attractive and like sex. Two things I appreciate in a spouse. They’re probably also not dull so maybe that’s three.

Maybe we should revive the practice. Not sure Louisiana is the right destination for the revival.

”Do not worry about your problems with Mathematics, I assure you mine are far greater.” Albert Einstein

At a certain point you know enough about how the sausage is made that the youthful illusion of love is impossible.

Every machine is reasoning given form. The spatula encodes understanding that the pancake needs a flat supportive surface to help it flip without breaking. Computers happen to be general purpose solutions to arbitrary problems. It’s fine to love the solution To a problem and not the embodiment of the solution.

There’s a total Samsung boycott going on because of their shitty business practices.

I’ve had fun with arduino.

Your local library likely has an ebook reader app such as Libby or Hoopla.

All books are available.

Yep, just 30 years away like it always has been.

So… nationalization.

Denying traffic is easy. Ensuring safe passage is harder. Especially because maritime insurers have the last say. Every vessel stuck in the gulf continues to pay premiums. Every vessel that risks the transit has the potential of being struck by a missile. What does the insurer choose?

“Control” is ambiguous.

Nope. This is a classic example of crimes being committed in public and police using technology to catch the perpetrators.

Passive surveillance would be your example. This program is specifically activated when an active investigation is in progress.

I have a healthy mistrust of authority and surveillance and police.

As far as I can tell this program is addressing a real crime problem in SF, it is getting real criminals off the streets and helping police do their jobs.

If some policeman abuses his authority and misuses the tech we should 100% prosecute them for that crime. There is as yet no report of a police officer misusing that tech.

There are however thousands of examples of police using that tech to arrest real criminals, criminals who commit property crime and violent crime. Those people are off the streets.

I am cautiously optimistic about this program and so far fully support it. We should pay some pen testers to attempt to misuse the system and see if the internal controls are sufficient to catch them.

Nothing in this report indicates that policy was being broken. There was a misconfiguration of the tool. They didn’t realize that the internal sharing link was publicly accessible.

Yes, that’s what police do. They drive around and use their judgment to match known criminal activity to behaviors they see around them. Hopefully instances of false positives like two kids going to play basketball get dropped without undue interruptions of the lives of people just going about their lives. (As happened in this case)

The videos in question are full of actual crimes being committed and criminals being arrested.

San Francisco used to not investigate or prosecute any of those crimes. Laptop stolen out of a car? Nothing to do. Now they catch video of it happening, follow the license plate, arrest the perpetrators. Catalytic converter stolen? We don’t investigate that.

Yes, police have shitty track records of abusing authority and technology. Does that mean we throw out all authority and technology? If you do we get the chaotic lawlessness San Francisco experienced for years.

So what’s the middle way? 1) Use the tech to fight crime. (Check! They’re doing it) 2) prevent abuses of that technology and authority (in progress, let’s see how it goes)

Really? I hear nobody can find jobs.

I’m not sure that’s how it works.

Windows 10 install still has like six traps in the setup wizard. If that’s the better option I shudder to think what 11 looks like. I call it adversarial computing where your OS is explicitly at cross purposes to what is best for you.

Apparently Venezuela is being entirely controlled by the US

https://archive.ph/RKlVD

This was a deliberate part of the plan. I’m not sure what strategic value they thought they’d get from it but it’s in there.

I sometimes hear things in the voice of the narrator from arrested development. “It is not”

They certainly don’t sound like nice Martians.

Consulting is hard. At a junior level you can teach people to interact with clients how you want. When you hire a senior person you want their advanced skills. Locking your employees in to a particular path for client interactions is dumb. Getting project specs over email one sentence at a time with 24hr delay is double dumb. If the customer can’t articulate what they want, a meeting is way faster. A demo of a working example (already written) is quite reasonable. “Ok like that only different in these five ways”

Count yourself lucky that you don’t work with people who obviously don’t jive with you.

Ai hallucinates so won’t this just judge the best sophist, not the one who is actually right based on like facts and stuff?

Destroying a bunch of satellites would almost certainly kick off Kessler syndrome denying orbit to everyone for centuries.

I’m mildly curious how they expected to monetize that. Not curious enough to sign up for a service that refuses to let customers cancel.

I guess the moral of the story could be learned from Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory.

Learn to fix the robots. https://archive.ph/u3uJu

Funny. The article fails to say how. Almost as if the clickbait writing asshole rewrote a reasonable headline.

It baffles me. Airbnb squeezes local workers out of apartments. (This is literally the only coherent argument I’ve heard from the anti-tourism people)

So let’s ban the tourists (not the Airbnbs that are the actual problem)

What you fail to realize is that Tourists bring money to your city. They buy drinks from your favorite bar. Lunch from a struggling local cafe. They pay cab drivers. They buy your cousin’s crappy art on the street corner, because while it may suck it sucks in a distinctly Barcelona way, and that’s what people come to experience.

You’re banning the people who pay money to come appreciate your culture.

You do you, but it doesn’t seem very clever to me. Happy to stay away forever. There are 500 other cities in the world I can go visit.

Guy has too many books Gets evicted Moves books into parents’ house The end

Elon might take the lead with his destruction of US aid. I heard an estimate that millions of unnecessary deaths may come of it.