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> Delta accomplishes this pricing through a partnership with Fetcherr, a six-year-old Israeli company that also counts Azul, WestJet, Virgin Atlantic, and VivaAerobus as clients. And it has its sights set beyond flying. “Once we will be
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In which country can the children trust the police?
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> Thus, safety measures for future AI agents will likely need to employ multiple monitoring layers that hopefully have uncorrelated failure modes [...] We encourage the research community and frontier AI developers to make best use of Co
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> "It's a counter against 'lazy reviewers' who use AI," said a Waseda professor who co-authored one of the manuscripts. Given that many academic conferences ban the use of artificial intelligence to evaluate pape
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Exactly. I was going to say the same thing: > Over half of Americans reported they felt that U.S. travelers would be less welcome in other So instead showing any animosity it's an article about a feeling about a hypothetical scenari
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Sycophancy is sort of like that. It seems to cause some people who are probably on the edge or vulnerable to have these mental breakdowns. Here is this cutting edge AI agreeing with every wild idea, telling the person they are a god or ever
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It's surprising how hostile youtube is to multilingual users. Probably all in some attempt to show off their translation capability or to improve the experience for users who may want to access content in a language they don't spe
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That's awesome. Thanks for sharing. I use tramp periodically and had to discover some of those on my own. > I kept thinking to myself “There has to be a better way to do this”. I have started to think of ways to fundamentally improv
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Sure, but only that team gets to put “designed and implemented new build system” on their resume. See how many meet/hangout/alo variants came out of Google. In companies of that size the “here” in NIH is a lot more localized to sm
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> Institute for the Study of Journalism found that 79% of people surveyed on the subject around the world said they did not currently receive any news alerts during an average week Having constant news alerts sounds like a sure away to l
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I can see that as long as 100% of the profit goes to the education or other social causes. It's also telling how they advertise it: "you might have fun", "you'll get lucky", showing pictures of winners on TV an
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> (The Houston Chronicle eventually reported that a London-based gambling syndicate had bankrolled the operation.) > Two years later, it has become a full-blown scandal. The Texas Rangers have been called in to investigate what Dan Pa
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> People are eager to pay money to not deal with other people I wonder if it's cultural. For instance I always hear how Japan has a lot of vending machines and am wondering if it's just pure tech advancement and efficiency at w
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Make things slow so they can sell more hardware to make it look faster? I don’t know, just kidding :-) If GPUs can handle it, I guess why not. It’s some people will notice and say “wow, looks pretty, glad I upgraded”
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The deconstruction trick is a bit like whataboutism. It sort of works on a shallow level but it's a cheap shot. You can say "this is just a collections of bites and matrix multiplications". If it's humans -- "it
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I call that the zealotry ratchet. The way it works is someone with more radical views can propose some stricter policies to the particular org. If the general group loosely aligns with that ideology, they'll always publicly agree. If t
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> Britain and France may have had mainly good intentions, but their policies did not prevent the disasters. They had an absolute lack of appetite for fighting since the WWI was not long ago. I don't know if the Germans were smart en
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That’s fair. It sort of like on “paper” they fulfilled their obligation, shot a few rounds and quickly ran away. And like we mentioned even in the end they gave Poland over to Stalin. So they won the war, but officially the reason they got
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That’s true. Abandoning the Czechs was embarrassing. That was probably a factor in then choosing to at least do the right thing for Poland. Otherwise it started to look really embarrassing for them: here are these great powers and they do n
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> There was moral clarity in West and South Europe Indeed: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_declaration_of_war_on_... . Both Britain and France declared war on Germany because they made guarantees to Poland abou
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https://archive.is/cMKRb > At Carnegie Mellon, for example, an NCO can be obtained by anyone who claims to be “the recipient of persistent unwanted or harassing contact by another student” and includes “indirect contact
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It's not being promoted much. There are no BEAM commercials during the Super Bowl. That is to say that there is no big company promoting it. Sun pushed Java hard, Google pushed Go, Mozilla pushed Rust and so on. But those who know, kno
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> Linas Beliūnas, Director of the financial company Zero Hash, recently exposed that Builder.ai lacked true AI, instead utilising a group of Indian developers who were merely pretending to be bots writing code. They probably had to train
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Anyone desperate to make a buck on scrap with no other jobs around. Especially in 90s things were pretty bleak in post Soviet states. Now imagine the appeal of selling any of this radioactive stuff to a shady buyer. Now it's even more
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Once they had a process to make it and enough to fire off hundreds of tests it probably wasn’t worth to waste time to dig through the rubble and then separate it all out again.
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> Universe has a sense of fun, NI3 is tuned specifically for existence as a prank substance. It does feel that way! Another plus for the substance is just releases iodine, not something poisonous like lead for instance.
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This stuff would go off immediately if you touched it. I used to make it with my friends with household ammonia and medical iodine. We mixed them and then filtered through paper. Then this brown powder would explode after it dried if we tou
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> I don’t really know what it is. Maybe a sense that because they’re using a tool that it’s not cheating? Thinking they’re less likely to get caught because it’s not identical to existing work? That would make sense. The logic that they
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Hopefully the notation language folks take full advantage of puns associated with explosives.
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Interestingly there is also C2: http://c2lang.org
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