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What do you mean they do nothing? They have a redundant microphone array that can track sound with high precision and a camera that can be used to automatically issue fines. Just point the hardware at the people walking about or congregating and see who is saying things The Cabinet doesn't like to hear. Or maybe even who isn't saying enough of what the Cabinet wants to hear. Why get rid of a perfectly functioning and deployed surveillance apparatus?

Gleeful at no more easy transport in or out, eh? Will the regime, I mean The Party, oops I mean The Cabinet, also be removing the noise cameras installed along the roads when they remove the roads? Or are those going to be kept there to protect the people from ideological deviants?

> Why do I get the feeling that you hope for this outcome, from this comment?

I do not hope for it. But if it happens, may it serve as a warning and example to everyone else who has freedom and does not currently cherish it enough. I know that what happened to the truckers in Canada when they had their electronic assets frozen certainly woke up people in Canada to a degree.

Friend, I recommend carrying cash and using exclusively cash from now on and raising a stink about this legislation while there is still freedom to push back on it.

What do you think about using Brave on Apple with its built-in ad-blocking?

It's not about what I do. Your response is similar to people who respond to privacy advoates with "what do you have to hide" or who brush aside their concerns with "I have nothing to hide."

One thing to consider is the trend of expected speech or compulsory speech. There are people who would want to see if other people are saying what they want them to say, rather than just not saying what they don't want them to say. There are people who weigh someone's words to see how dedicated they are to a cause or to an idea or to a movement.

These technologies empower language police even in cases where someone would otherwise choose to say nothing. And they establish a precedent.

Do you prefer the Cabinet? Anyway if all you have are qualms about the allusions, then that’s just the same as saying you don’t like what I said because it makes you uncomfortable. It doesn’t invalidate what I said. Notice how you ignored a legitimate question to gripe over allusions and words.

The worst part is how many people in the other comments are begging for this to be brought to their city too. They've been trained well.

Nah, what's low is to pretend that the solution to any of those is surveillance deployed at scale. Police officers in cruisers with radar and noise guns coordinating amongst one another to pull over and fine some drivers with very loud cars accomplish the same result without empowering abusive centralized authorities with boxes that hear everything 24/7.

> That doesn't mean we shouldn't have laws.

Nobody said we shouldn't have laws.

There was no comparison between road noise and wrongspeak. That was a warning. The Cabinet wants boxes that hear things with precision 24/7 and can issue fines. Of course they'll justify it however they can.

It's a warning because the power will be abused. You have 1984 in your username - I recommend re-reading that book if it's been a while since you read it.

I don't trust the Party to care about protecting speech. Or to steward this technology properly. Or to be honest about what they're doing with the hardware. What the Party says publicly and what it does internally are two different things.

What are you going to do if they abuse the power? Protest and try to raise awareness? They'll just bankrupt the entire group of protestors for being too loud.

You'd need police officers in police cruisers waiting for the sign of trouble. The officers would communicate with one another when they notice a loud vehicle pass by. Then they can use a noise gun to get a decibel reading. This is an intentional physical bottleneck placed on the surveillance apparatus so that it is limited to only identifying and pursuing those cars that are too loud. You would have the same end result if the fines are hefty enough without needing to build and deploy a surveillance dragnet that you won't be able to escape from once it exists.

A town or city would do better with a few police officers in cruisers keeping an eye on things than with these boxes deployed on every streetlight listening 24/7.

I do not support this technology being used anywhere. It is not surprising to me that cities in California would be the ones interested in this. I do not trust most of these cities to be responsible stewards in general, least of all when it comes to surveillance equipment. California's politicians have lost track of reality and priorities.

Key words: when a police officer tells you

Those things are not free speech and your examples are disingenuous. If you need to reach for disingenuous examples in defense of the Cabinet's chosen machinery, you don't have an argument worth standing on.

Police officers can pull those people over and issue citations for vehicles that are too loud. You could create similar justifications for using these systems for monitoring Wrongspeak in the same way by citing PTSD, the children, or people who just want to enjoy life without being put through thought pollution when someone's thoughts are contradicting the Cabinet's thoughts.

It's better to not have this technology deployed in the first place. It's very easy to have an officer pull someone over if their vehicle is too loud, issue a hefty citation in place, and then let word get around that you will get pulled over for exceeding the local decibel limit for your vehicle.

God made society.

What you said is unbelievably stupid. Society resulted in science and technology which drastically increased life span and health span for the majority of people who have lived and are living. Society has lifted billions out of poverty and created wonderful opportunities for the average person who would've otherwise been a peasant living a short brutish life unable to learn and enjoy things.

We all participate in society, work in society, build society, rest in society, and benefit from society. People who paid their dues doing these things receive retirement at old age because of society. You can find edge cases where society isn't perfect, but none of these edge cases will justify the sweeping claims you made. You threw the baby out with the bathwater big time. You're pretty much advocating for anarchy and chaos.

Economic systems and religious systems exist because they are useful abstractions. Sometimes they map onto physical reality and correctly measure and explain the movement of commodities and as a result we get a more connected world and more trade. When the abstractions don't serve us well anymore, they get upgraded to address new complexity. That is why we have economic theory. Sometimes these abstractions map onto human emotions and lived experience across the spectrum of ages to give people hope and to answer the questions science cannot. That is why we have religions.

They're all beautiful, they're all abstractions that are useful, and they exist because everyone wants them to. There is no conspiracy by the old to subsume the young.

Is it private and offline via ollama? Are all ollama models private and offline?

Great read, especially the section on how important emotional health and wellbeing are to overall health.

I am interested in a source comparing small farms versus non-industrial farms in terms of nutrition per sqkm. That's a very interesting concept I've not heard before. How is nutrition per sqkm being calculated here? Would this reduce the availability of diverse produce by comparison?

I wanted to make a Twitter / X account but the sign-up flow requires you to solve 10 of those puzzles where you have to rotate the animal with the matching symbol to be oriented in the direction that the hand with that symbol is pointing in. After putting up with this next-gen captcha to train X's algorithm for free, it asked me to do another 10 because supposedly it couldn't tell if I'm a human or not. So I decided not to bother with making an account since it's clearly trying to monetize by obtaining free training data for its ML. I also don't trust that they're not attempting to associate performance on these types of tasks with someone's identity to infer things about them and sell that data further.

Is this what it now takes for a sign-up to be credibly done by a human? Or is it just a cheap attempt to obtain free training sets from people who aren't being paid to label data?

Parent probably intended to say silicone, which is a plastic polymer. Silicone rings are commonly used even in stainless steel kettles or glass bottles for sealing the cap or lid.

Plastics leeching toxic chemicals/compounds into food and water, especially when being heated, is a known thing. It's especially bad for the endocrine system. The disruption to the hormonal balance is noticeably affecting people.

I would want to know, especially if it’s a large object and higher percentage probability, because then it’s a way to tell loved ones what we need to tell them and go forward together in love. We should always strive to do this, of course, but it would still be better to have the opportunity to do it.

I am interested in this as well. Pretty please!!!

Whoa, 50 tokens/second locally sounds amazing. Any recommendations on guides or documentation for setting up the stack to run on hardware like that?

There once was a tribe that had no idea that the sky is blue. People from afar who were more technologically and scientifically advanced tried to explain that the sky is blue, but the tribe members had no conception of this or capacity to really understand what it means for the sky to be blue. They had never considered what color the sky is.

That is because in their language, they had no words to describe the concept of the sky having a color. So they didn't even comprehend or notice that the sky was blue.

Be careful with any trend to publicize or normalize a smaller language that can be shared with everyone. It's a trap. It's a trap so that people lose sight and memory of things that exist. Who wants you to forget what exists, and why? Who wants to take away words and what words are those?

This is really cool. Godspeed!

This is so cool. Amazing work Apple. Truly amazing work. Everyone who works on iPhones and the Emergency SOS feature should be incredibly proud.

What kind of salary ranges do you expect for these roles and in what metro areas?