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U.S. Seizes Oil Tanker Off Venezuelan Coast, Escalating Pressure on Maduro(nytimes.com)
13 points by zzzeek 11mo ago|1 comments
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> In the agricultural sector, labor shortages are increasing the need for automated harvesting using robots. This is about Japan, but like the US, Japan has a restrictive immigration policy and an aging, not-replaced population that&#x27
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by zzzeek 11mo ago
the main thing "rare" engineers would have in common is that they think for themselves and dont need preachy blog posts with ambiguously sexist AI graphics to tell them how.
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sure but then the citations are no longer "hallucinated", they actually point to something fraudulent. that's a different problem.
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by zzzeek 11mo ago
correct me if I'm wrong but citations in papers follow a specific format, and the case here is that a tool was used to validate that they are all real. Certainly a tool that scans a paper for all citations and verifies that they actu
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> I wrote a lot of Perl in the mid 90s and subsequently worked on some of the most trafficked sites on the web in mod_perl in the early 2000s, so I have some thoughts. Hey me too exactly! I wrote the CMS for mlb.com in 2003 entirely i
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by zzzeek 11mo ago
the agenda being pushed with the recent spate of articles to the effect of "people are saying they're autistic when they're really not, and should be classified differently" I think has mostly to do with RFKs overarching
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by zzzeek 11mo ago
how about we just tax billionaires at 95% instead. Have Elon buy his coffee at 7-11 like everyone else.
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by zzzeek 11mo ago
you had to choose between vinegar and glyphosate, I'd use the vinegar. your dogs aren't going to roll around in a too-strong concentration of vinegar, it has a smell and if it were actually going to cause burns (what kind of vine
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in that case it should be completely uncontroversial to raise the minimum wage and help that .5% of labor out. yet somehow, it's a non-starter. (btw, googling says the number is more like 1.1%. in 1979, 13.4% of the labor force m
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by zzzeek 11mo ago
ive dealt a bit with ewaste kinds of machines, old Dells and such and have two still running here, the issue is they use a crapton of power. I had one such ewaste Dell machine that I just had to take to the dump it was so underpeforming wh
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and times a hundred, Robert F Kennedy Jr., an absolute con artist with no qualifications of any kind
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by zzzeek 11mo ago
never give an LLM to your junior engineers. The LLM itself is mostly like a junior engineer and will make a complete mess of things if not guided by someone with a lot of experience. Basically if people are producing code or documentati
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by zzzeek 11mo ago
my current job /role combinations has me working in a variety of projects which feature tasks to be done in: Python/SQLAlchemy (which I maintain), Go, k8s, Ansible, Bash, Groovy, Java, Typescript, javascript, etc. If I'm
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ive been programming for more than 40 years
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the list of people who write code, use high quality LLM agents (not chatbots) like Claude, and report not just having success with the tools but watching the tools change how they think about programming, continues to grow. The sudde
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Retracted: Safety Eval and Risk Assessment of the Herbicide Roundup for Humans(sciencedirect.com)
5 points by zzzeek 11mo ago|1 comments
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"Joe Biden won the 2020 election" is not a "left wing" notion (or if you're looking for a more hefty one, "vaccines do not cause autism"). it is objective fact. the "left wing" has nothing to d
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> This is specially problematic when active issues with developer notes begin to be filled with comments from users that have never contributed to the project and usually do more harm than good. This situation ends up causing burnout in
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How ironic it would be for Adobe, the literal 500 ton dreadnaught of copyright, patent, and intellectual property ownership, to be sucking down training content from unlicensed sources. At least something is not entirely wrong in the world
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What would a "good" version be ? Start putting real facts into a site and before you know it you're "woke" again with such untruths as Slavery was Bad, Biden won the 2020 Election and of course Full Self Driving is
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> We will work with the creators, writers, and artists, instead of ripping off their life's work to feed the model. i support this but the Smarter Than Me types say it's impossible. It's not possible to track down an ad
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i dont see why, hacker news is loaded with enthusiastic young entrepreneurs and I posted this thinking some brilliant protege of Peter Thiel would be inspired to "disrupt" the "surveilling and abducting people" industry
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A correctly manufactured chainsaw can be used safely by adults. Products like "MoonSoll and Magic Chems Fuel Bottles" [1], "Tesla Powerwall 2 AC Battery Power Systems" [2] and literally tens of thousands of other produc
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ICE Offers Up to $280M to Immigrant-Tracking 'Bounty Hunter' Firms(wired.com)
157 points by zzzeek 11mo ago|81 comments
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Acetylene is being marketed to children as something fun to play with ?
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Agree, in any other field if a product cannot be made safe for consumers, you just don't produce and sell it. The world does not need to have a Roblox app (my 11 year old would disagree very much)
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CDC to end all monkey research; will phase out HIV, infectious disease studies(science.org)
77 points by zzzeek 11mo ago|16 comments
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Facebook : 3 billion monthly active users Instagram : 3 billion monthly active users X : 586 million monthly active users Bluesky: 38 million *total* users . Additionally, Bluesky allows third party moderation by any party through open API
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Mark Zuckerberg's hate-speech gamble fuels Gen Z radicalization on Instagram(fortune.com)
8 points by zzzeek 11mo ago|4 comments

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