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by jawns 1y ago
There is an ethical component here. The process you describe involves bringing new human lives into existence, then culling the embryos that carry the gene. For those of us who believe that directly ending human lives at any stage is wron
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by jawns 1y ago
One of the reasons why I think Google Photos is pushing out this functionality is that these new AI-generated variations count toward your overall storage. So hey, you take a selfie, 3 MB. And now you want your selfie to show yourself posi
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by jawns 1y ago
The most troubling aspect of this EO is that Antifa is not an actual organization, nor even a centrally organized movement. It doesn't have a recognized leader, nor does it have a cohesive or consistent ideology. In short, it's
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by jawns 1y ago
Several US states that have legalized assisted suicide have polled people who opted for it, to better understand the reasons why it's pursued. [1] Interestingly, pain is not among the top reasons. Instead, the top reasons are around a
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by jawns 1y ago
Remains to be seen, but generally the holder of copyright is the author not the publisher.
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Then they can opt out of the class.
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by jawns 1y ago
You've misunderstood the case. The suit isn't about Anthropic training its models using copyrighted materials. Courts have generally found that to be legal. The suit is about Anthropic procuring those materials from a pirated dat
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by jawns 1y ago
https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2025/03/searc...
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by jawns 1y ago
I'm an author, and I've confirmed that 3 of my books are in the 500K dataset. Thus, I stand to receive about $9,000 as a result of this settlement. I think that's fair, considering that two of those books received advances un
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by jawns 1y ago
In class action lawsuits (Rule 23, Federal Rules of Civil Procedure in the U.S.) any settlement must be reviewed and approved by the judge, who has a duty to ensure it is "fair, reasonable, and adequate" for all members of the cla
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by jawns 1y ago
I assume your employer is grateful for your enthusiasm and is paying you for this extra work?
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by jawns 1y ago
This seems less scary, but certainly more labor-intensive, than bioluminescence, where biological mechanisms are causing the glow. Because the particles are injected into the plant but don't mess with the plant at a biological level, y
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by jawns 1y ago
We're still in the infancy of agentic AI, but I imagine that in the next few years, it's going to be more important to be able to grant an agent your credentials to perform operations on your behalf. Basically, you want the agent
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by jawns 1y ago
In case anyone is wondering what I was wondering: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dreamwidth
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I was able to upload my kids' back-to-school photos and ask nano-banana to turn them into a goth, an '80s workout girl, and a tracksuit mafioso. The results were incredibly believable, and I was able to prank my mom with them!
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by jawns 1y ago
Full disclosure: I'm currently in a leadership role on an AI engineering team, so it's in my best interest for AI to be perceived as driving value. Here's a relatively straightforward application of AI that is set to save my
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by jawns 1y ago
Is a person not allowed to put up a "no trespassing" sign on their land unless they have a reason that makes sense to would-be trespassers? I know that ignoring a robots.txt file doesn't carry the same legal consequences as t
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When the majority disagrees on the shadow docket(scotusblog.com)
8 points by jawns 1y ago|1 comments
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by jawns 1y ago
The Civil Rights Act requires companies not to discriminate against legally protected classes. That includes both disparate treatment and disparate impact. I can't see how "personalized pricing" would remain unchallenged, gi
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by jawns 1y ago
To be more precise than the headline: People with disorders of sex development such as Morris or Swyer syndrome have XY chromosomes, but they have female external genitalia, because the sexual development that would normally be triggered by
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by jawns 1y ago
The author gives an example of a HUD: an AI that writes a debugger program to enable the human developer to more easily debug code. But why should it be only the human developer who benefits? What if that debugger program becomes a tool th
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Why don't I drink? How much time you got?(shaungallagher.pressbin.com)
4 points by jawns 1y ago|1 comments
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Section 174 is reversed, mostly(newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com)
164 points by jawns 1y ago|99 comments
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Analysis of TTFF (Time to First Failure) in CI Processes (2024)(rstudio-pubs-static.s3.amazonaws.com)
1 points by jawns 1y ago|0 comments
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Everything You Need to Get Started in Magnet Fishing (2022)(popularmechanics.com)
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by jawns 1y ago
Subtract hedonistic and powerful. I would say that adventurous, open and autonomous are three qualities that make a person interesting, as opposed to boring. They likely have entertaining stories and an approach to life that repels dullnes
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I bet there are a bunch of people in upper management who hear about this phenomenon and think that employees are skipping meetings to slack off (appearing to do work but they're actually playing Mario Kart). In reality, it's more
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by jawns 1y ago
> Even for them it has a high failure rate. Care to cite a source? Here's a run-down of some modern methods: > Contemporary, evidence-based methods of natural family planning track the various phases of a woman’s cycle each month
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by jawns 1y ago
The headline is somewhat misleading. The device tracks progesterone levels via saliva. It's currently possible to track those levels via urine or blood, but saliva is probably the most convenient. But here's the catch. If you de
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A Criminal Defendant's Case So Messed Up It United Clarence Thomas and KBJ(slate.com)
2 points by jawns 1y ago|0 comments

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