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freedude··on Norway wealth fund makes $143B profit as AI surge lifts tech
What I am not sure about is why these aren't part of the same article. Maybe I missed something in my initial reading but here it is...

Norway wealth fund trims overweight tech investments

https://www.reuters.com/markets/europe/norway-wealth-fund-tr...

freedude··on Ask HN: Worst outcomes with self-driving being hacked?
Well, depending on the situation it could start World War 3. But what is the point of borrowing trouble?
freedude··on Federal agency tells SF workers to work from home due to unsafe conditions
The article states the above as the title. Unfortunately, this is too long for HN so I truncated the unnecessary words and made a post with the actual title per the style guides. That said, your point is well taken in that I would hope inside the building would be safer.
freedude··on Federal agency tells SF workers to work from home due to unsafe conditions
While the environment in which a person lives may dictate their value of their surroundings the real problem is a lack of hope. To further compound the lack of hope the local government has proven itself inept at solving the problems it is responsible to solve let alone the problems it is not responsible to resolve. That said it makes applying a "broken window" theory next to impossible. I do hope and pray they figure it out. For the sake of those on the street and the honest person that travels through there daily.
freedude··on Federal agency tells SF workers to work from home due to unsafe conditions
My gut feeling is the reference to Pelosi was due to the name of the building. Or because she is from that area and represented it for so many years. Regardless, the irony is amusing to some of us.
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[Video] of theft https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Bva5C92hmY
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'Flash mob' of thieves steal upto $100k worth of merch from Canoga Park Nordstrom
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Shocking scenes in Los Angeles as homeless smoke drugs on the streets, tents litter the downtown area and hawkers sell stolen goods
freedude··on Federal agency tells SF workers to work from home due to unsafe conditions
Federal Agency Tells SF Workers to Work From Home Due to Unsafe Conditions Outside Federal Building
freedude··on San Francisco's North Beach streets clogged by line of Cruise robotaxis
San Francisco's North Beach streets clogged as long line of Cruise robotaxis come to a standstill

"One day after California green-lighted a massive expansion of driverless robotaxis in San Francisco, the implications became clear.

At about 11 p.m. Friday, as many as 10 Cruise driverless taxis blocked two narrow streets in the center of the city’s lively North Beach bar and restaurant district. All traffic came to a standstill on Vallejo Street and around two corners on Grant. Human-driven cars sat stuck behind and in between the robotaxis, which might as well have been boulders: no one knew how to move them."

"As I understand it, outside lands impacted LTE cell connectivity and ability for RA advisors to route cars."

freedude··on China Busy Hiding Reports of Flood Damage and Death
"Hundreds of thousands of China's citizens have lost everything and had their lives destroyed. Still, the government is more interested in quelling the protests of victims than providing help. For the leadership this is about saving face. It is also proof that when a government "makes the news," it controls the news. This leaves the question of how bad the flooding has become.

It also highlights the fact that China's system of damns has not tamed its rivers."

"The government has put itself and saving certain cities it values above the lives of the people in other less favored areas.

This includes creating levee breaks and discharging water to flood farmland and lesser cities to defend what the government values. China Insights claims that On August 10, the upper reaches of the Qing River in northern China's Hebei Province had a dam break while flood levels downstream Tianjin were dropping. This has brought about speculation the authorities discharged flood water to Hebei in order to protect Tianjin. These officials led police teams and personally directed them to block the flood water exits to make sure the water stays in the farmland."

freedude··on Kansas Cops Raid Small Town Newspaper in Questionable ‘Criminal Investigation’
Kansas Cops Raid Small Town Newspaper In Extremely Questionable ‘Criminal Investigation’
freedude··on Creating Your Own Fakes Instead of Using Mocking Libraries
" I want to explain some of the terms that fly around like fake, mock, shim or stub.

    Fake is a general term and can include stubs, mocks, and shims.
    Stub provides pre-set answers to calls.
    Mock checks interactions and provides pre-set answers.
    Shim diverts or changes the behavior of existing calls.
"

...

" Creating your own fakes comes with a cost. You have to maintain them... "

freedude··on Exploring the Synergy Between Web Development and AI: A Beginner's Guide
How do I trust an AI to provide an accurate translation and not tell the other user to take a flying leap, a long walk off a short pier or just generate a random string of curse words? Trust is earned and I don't know of a good way to validate the trust in this product.
freedude··on Exploring the Synergy Between Web Development and AI: A Beginner's Guide
Exploring the Synergy between Web Development and Artificial Intelligence: A Beginner's Guide
freedude··on Public Preview of New Mv3 Medium Memory Virtual Machines
Key features on the new Mv3 MM VMs for memory-optimized workloads

    Powered by the 4th Generation Intel® Xeon® Scalable Processor and DDR5 DRAM technology, the Mv3 medium memory (MM) virtual machines can scale for workloads from 240GB to 3TB with faster performance and lower TCO.

    With Azure Boost, Mv3 MM provides a ~25% improvement in network throughput and up to 1.5X improvement in remote storage throughput over the previous M-series families.  

    Azure Boost’s isolated architecture inherently improves security for Mv3 MM virtual machines by running storage and networking processes separately on the purpose-built hardware, instead of on the host server.

    Designed from the ground up for increased resilience against failures in memory, disks, and networking based on intelligence from past generations.

    Available in both disk and diskless offerings allowing customers the flexibility to choose the option that best meets their workload needs.
freedude··on Payouts to begin soon in $500M iPhone batterygate lawsuit
"Unfortunately, it’s far too late for you to file a claim as part of the lawsuit. The deadline for doing so was October 6, 2020. Yes, it’s taken this long for the case to finally come to a close and for those payments to begin. Anyone who owned an iPhone 6, iPhone 6 Plus, iPhone 6s, iPhone 6s Plus, iPhone 7, iPhone 7 Plus, or iPhone SE was eligible to submit a claim."
freedude··on JavaScript and Asynchronous Functions
"A Promise is a proxy for a value that is not necessarily known when the promise is created. It allows us to associate handlers with an asynchronous action’s eventual success value or failure reason. Here, in the first part of the code, the Promise allows us to actually make a promise that after a second (after the fetch function is fully completed), we can resolve the “html” variable, which allows us to return the variable inside of the Promise to the executor function on the second part."
freedude··on BlackBerry Introduces Major Update to Next-Generation AI Engine
AI Cybersecurity Pioneer, BlackBerry Introduces Major Update to Next-Generation AI Engine

"BlackBerry’s generational release announced today updates the AI engine to enhance threat prediction capabilities for organizations by 40 percent compared with earlier versions."

freedude··on How to use Cryostat agent to profile Java workloads
Why should you use the Cryostat agent with your applications? Let’s start with a brief recap of why to use Cryostat:

    To discover and map out your Java applications and their deployment topology.
    To gather JDK Flight Recorder data from your applications.
    To store that JFR data in an in-cluster volume.
    To perform online analysis of that JFR data without the raw data leaving the cluster.
freedude··on Hon Hai [Foxconn] Announces Second Quarter 2023 Financial Results
Hon Hai Announces Second Quarter 2023 Financial Results

Hon Hai, aka Foxconn, is the latest to indicate an industry downturn.

"However, considering many external variables, in response to uncertainties such as global monetary tightening, geopolitical tensions, and inflation, the full-year outlook is now expected to slightly decline, from previous flattish expectations."

freedude··on Copilot in Dynamics 365 Field Service, helps frontline deliver service with AI
Introducing Copilot in Dynamics 365 Field Service, helping your frontline deliver exceptional service with next-generation AI
freedude··on Availability of Defender Vuln. Management and Container Vuln. Assessments
Availability of Defender Vulnerability Management Standalone and Container vulnerability assessments
freedude··on Kids almost never transmitted Covid in schools, a major new study shows
It appears personal attacks are being flung from both directions. If you are offended by the capitalization perhaps you are too easily offended. Regardless, I literally copied and pasted the title from the author and your original complaint said nothing about the capitalization but attempted to enforce a rule that was preempted by the rule's title.
freedude··on How to Get into SV's $600B Startup School-Garry Tan with Emily Chiang [video]
"I think tech should probably pay it's fair share."

What does this mean exactly? Are some tech companies and employees dodging taxes?

California has one of the highest corporate and income tax rates in the nation. https://www.nerdwallet.com/article/taxes/state-income-tax-ra...

freedude··on Nikola Announces Recalls Battery-Electric Trucks
Nikola Announces Preliminary Results of Battery Investigations, Voluntarily Recalls 209 Class 8 Battery-Electric Trucks
freedude··on Tracking the Trails of Political Biases Leading to Unfair NLP Models [pdf]
Sooo, even AI possess bias, and this is actually not that surprising considering the source of it's "knowledge" and the lack of an ability to possess wisdom beyond what a trainer can provide. I wonder if there is a way to predict the bias based upon on training text, methods and the trainer. Of course this could also be said of the study's methods as well. How did they eliminate bias?
freedude··on Kids almost never transmitted Covid in schools, a major new study shows
When you get around to reading the article you will realize this title was copied from the Author's blog. Which in turn was indicated in the study he refers to in the blog. Do yourself a positive and read the article prior to posting the rules. Please refer to the title of the rules section you refer to above, which states "PREFER ORIGINAL, JOURNALISTIC TITLES"

Also, the usage of the "almost never" does make sense in the context of the study abstract and the article discussing the study. Whereas your example is over the top.

That said I do prefer "rarely" per your suggestion but I didn't write the article and I chose to retain the Original, Journalistic title when submitting the article due to reading the journalist informed take on the study.

freedude··on Long-term surface impact of Hunga Ha'apai-like stratospheric water vapor inject
Long-term surface impact of Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha'apai-like stratospheric water vapor injection

"The amount of water vapor injected into the stratosphere after the eruption of HTHH was unprecedented, and it is, therefore, unclear what it might mean for surface climate. We use climate model simulations to assess the long-term surface impacts of stratospheric water vapor (SWV) anomalies caused by volcanic eruptions. The simulations show that the SWV anomalies lead to strong and persistent warming of Northern Hemisphere landmasses in boreal winter, and austral winter cooling over Australia"

freedude··on People lining up for Worldcoin eyeball scans: “Easy $50”
Who benefits from the data collection?
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