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by jonas21 5mo ago
Seems like a fairly conventional economics paper title. Perhaps you're misparsing the second sentence? "Shocks" is not used as a verb here -- it's a noun, part of the phrase "labor market shocks," which refers
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by jonas21 5mo ago
> You get unlimited travel for $100/month on Trimet. Only because the government is subsidizing 90% of TriMet's operating costs. It might be interesting to see what sort of system Waymo could build with a similar subsidy...
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by jonas21 5mo ago
Google has been supporting Blender for over 20 years, initially through Summer of Code [1, 2], and also via corporate sponsorship once Blender started offering it. And I'm pretty sure I've seen most of the other big names in tech
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by jonas21 5mo ago
Or perhaps they're sponsoring it so artists can spend less time fiddling with Blender's UI and more time creating art?
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by jonas21 6mo ago
> That's why every chat box has that "Regenerate" button. Wait, are you doing this in the web chat interface?! That's definitely not a good way. You need to be using a harness (like Claude Code) where the agent can
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by jonas21 6mo ago
And before that, he was a columnist for the New York Times for 25 years. https://www.nytimes.com/column/paul-krugman And winner of the 2008 Nobel Prize in economics.
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by jonas21 6mo ago
It's a business with huge up-front capital expenses and typically very low margins. Supply is scaling up slowly because it's hard, and if you overshoot, you go out of business. Nobody is "allowing" this. It's a natu
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by jonas21 6mo ago
If you didn't have the humans on board, you wouldn't need to pressurize the cabin with oxygen. Or even have a cabin.
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by jonas21 6mo ago
> Supporting people that want more AI regulation to stop this? How are you supposed to know what sort of regulation is needed if you don't even know what the issues are yet? Similarly, won't it be much easier to make the case
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by jonas21 6mo ago
That's kind of the opposite problem -- the agent doesn't have robot arms or legs or a parcel of land. It has to rely on people to get access to land and plant and harvest the corn, and those people are ignoring it.
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by jonas21 6mo ago
But if you look at the HTML on the official blog, it has the tag: <link rel="canonical" href="https://blogfontawesome.wpcomstaging.com/we-have-a-99-email-reputation-gmail-disagrees/"> So
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by jonas21 6mo ago
This is much less concerning to me than mass surveillance. If someone calls 911 and you need to send a first responder, why not send a drone to get there faster while a person is on their way?
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by jonas21 6mo ago
Are cold starts an issue?
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by jonas21 6mo ago
They're not coming out in favor of Chat Control -- they're coming out in favor of having some option where they can operate without violating the law. The problem right now is that they can be held liable for distributing CSAM con
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No One at Waffle House Remembers FEMA Official Who Says He Teleported In(nytimes.com)
14 points by jonas21 6mo ago|4 comments
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by jonas21 6mo ago
> people may feel sorry for you but they won't know why. Or worse, they'll just think you're a jerk and not feel sorry for you.
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by jonas21 6mo ago
The graph in your Macrotrends link shows the exact same numbers as the AI source, but is harder to read and the page is half ads. It's not an authoritative source -- the data was most likely parsed out of Oracle's earning reports
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by jonas21 7mo ago
> For one thing, we don’t have access to all the data In the US, we do have access to all the data [1]. They're required to report every incident with an injury or any amount of property damage, and it's all available for d
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by jonas21 7mo ago
It can speed up the loading of the above-the-fold content because the images on the rest of the page can be loaded as the user scrolls closer to them.
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by jonas21 7mo ago
You probably haven't noticed it before because when it's done well, it's a subtle and pleasant effect that can be used to draw your attention to particular elements on the page. This site is intentionally doing it very poorly
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by jonas21 7mo ago
The Walmart greeter also isn't paying for the bulk of their healthcare expenses because Walmart provides subsidized health insurance to all employees who work at least 30 hours per week. All US employers with at least 50 employees are
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by jonas21 7mo ago
They are substitute goods. A common failure mode is not realizing this until it's too late.
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by jonas21 7mo ago
I wish the article had more technical details. Obviously, 2048 being a power of 2 stands out as being possibly related.
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by jonas21 7mo ago
> I think this is fine if it also then means that obtaining a qualifying ID is treated as a no-cost and highly-accessible right for all citizens. This is essentially what the Supreme Court said when they upheld Indiana's Voter ID
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60 Minutes Havana Syndrome report finds U.S. government tested energy weapon(cbsnews.com)
101 points by jonas21 7mo ago|45 comments
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by jonas21 7mo ago
2007 was 19 years ago. If you step back another 19 years, you'll find that the major tech companies of the era had huge defense contracts: IBM, HP, Oracle, SGI, Texas Instruments, etc. Not only that, the development of many technolog
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by jonas21 7mo ago
That location information is not available to apps or ad networks without user consent. The government can access it from the carrier with a warrant, but that's not what we're discussing here.
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by jonas21 7mo ago
No, it wasn't chosen at random -- it had to be a question that any reasonable person would immediately recognize as harmless, but where the old model would inject a bunch of safety caveats and the new model would not.
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by jonas21 7mo ago
It's basic physics, the sort of example you might find in a high school textbook.
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by jonas21 7mo ago
I assume that is the point of having a Greenpeace USA -- to shield Greenpeace International and other Greenpeace organizations from liability. And it seems to have mostly worked.

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