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icpmacdo··on Canada faces a series of crises that will test it in the coming years, RCMP warn
“New information technologies, including AI deepfakes, quantum computing and blockchain, could also present challenges, says the report.

"Law enforcement should anticipate that criminals will leverage technological innovations to gain profit and influence," the report says. "Law enforcement should also continue to contribute to policy change related to the privacy of personal information, artificial intelligence, the Internet of Things, quantum computing, digital ledger technology and more."”

icpmacdo··on OpenAI and Elon Musk
He is a signatory
icpmacdo··on Self-driving as a case study for AGI
> Seeing the guy who couldn't deliver FSD decide to make analogies

Reductive and rude phrasing.

icpmacdo··on Unveiling secrets of the ESP32: creating an open-source MAC layer
I can attest to the challenges of the section on Dynamic analysis on real hardware and the struggles of attenuating signal interference on the ESP.

Anyone have a recommendation on conducting fabric for RF isolation as briefly mentioned in the article or resources on the subject of rf isolation/Faraday cages for microcontrollers?

icpmacdo··on Amazon Aurora Limitless Database
Sharing here a wonderful MIT lecture on the architecture of Aurora I recently watched https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jJSh54J1s5o
icpmacdo··on A Complete Guide to CSS Grid
There is a great Hacker News comment from this year out there somewhere explaining exactly where the complexity in CSS comes from, if only I can find it again.
icpmacdo··on OpenAI in Talks for Deal That Would Value Company at $80B
Sell half your shares if possible?
icpmacdo··on Celebrity Flights
I'm arguing a tool like this could counter act the pressure of the societal delusion caused by these celebrities berating the working class about their virtue signalling causes like plastic straws while incurring such outsizes externalities. I'm not arguing against a big to small approach but this effect on discourse is important and its hypocrisy currently harmful.
icpmacdo··on Celebrity Flights
Pointing towards this to help reconcile some of the hypocrisy from celebrity messaging seems productive towards better discourse on climate change imo
icpmacdo··on Meta spends $181M to get out of lease at vacant London offices
I think we will evolve to this soon, first slowly then quickly, I don’t think we will self immolate over housing
icpmacdo··on Cryptocurrency Mining in Texas
This truly seems like scapegoating larger issues
icpmacdo··on Programming Language Inventor or Serial Killer? (2003)
Funny seeing this I've have the identical idea before
icpmacdo··on Oregon decriminalized hard drugs – early results aren’t encouraging
Same for 'no one willingly goes to get help or treatment'
icpmacdo··on Is Htmx Gaining in Popularity?
I've gleaned value from many of those 100 second explainers video
icpmacdo··on The idea maze for AI startups (2015)
The linked document from Balaji's startup engineering course is extremely useful

https://spark-public.s3.amazonaws.com/startup/lecture_slides...

icpmacdo··on Canada's new tech talent strategy
Quality of life can be commensurate so it depends on priorities
icpmacdo··on Ted Kaczynski has died
Here is a timestamped clip of George Hotz Twitch stream from 6 days ago making the same point about rationalizing his own emotional state of powerlessness in Industrial Society and its Future

https://youtu.be/Mr0rWJhv9jU?t=7169

icpmacdo··on MeZO: Fine-Tuning Language Models with Just Forward Passes
Maybe a reference to GGML thread
icpmacdo··on Apple Vision Pro Is Apple's New VR Headset
For reference you can refer to the original airpod's announcement thread to see how Hacker News comments on new products look in hindsight

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12446094

icpmacdo··on TikTok’s algorithm keeps pushing suicide to vulnerable kids
I don't use TikTok but I have used the youtube shorts algorithm and it seems like its almost intentionally shit and trying to stir up people. I try and watch one linked short about something sports related on the home page and scroll feed automatically propagates with super low quality right wing, hustle and Jordan Peterson propaganda content.

We can deflect saying "Anyone who knows a bit about recommendation systems", blame my use of the platform or play these off as a technical problem but imo it seems like Google and the other tech companies know exactly what they are doing in these use cases and are just cynically deploying this content with the culture war filter on because they know it makes the most money. I think when people ascribe political leanings to tech companies that maybe the mean belief of their employee's but as an org it is not the standard opined ultra left havens.

icpmacdo··on Node.js 20 is now available
What is the standard web application backend framework for Node.js these days, is it Koa? As I understand it express is quite dated because of the callback structure.

I have been confused recently with the moving best practices. What is the server architecture Next.js is most often plugged into?

icpmacdo··on Making friends as an adult is hard (2021)
Thanks for sharing your experiences I found this very interesting. As you said yourself, an eclectic group of characters!
icpmacdo··on Ask HN: Is the job market brutal? or is it just me?
I am in exactly the same position, if our experience are the same though at least we aren't burned out anymore. I am uncertain what the next move is though. The timing indeed couldn't have been any worse lol.
icpmacdo··on Xylazine, a dangerous new drug fuelling Canada’s opioid crisis
Imo because it's a waste of thread space but here you go.

One example of a grocery store being held liable for unknowingly selling a pre-prepared item that caused illness is the case of In Re: King Soopers Listeria Outbreak Litigation. In this case, a number of people became ill with listeriosis, a serious and potentially life-threatening bacterial infection, after consuming pre-packaged deli meats sold at various King Soopers grocery store locations in Colorado.

The outbreak was traced back to contaminated meat produced by a third-party supplier, and a number of people filed lawsuits against King Soopers alleging that the store was liable for selling the contaminated meat. The lawsuits alleged that King Soopers had a duty to ensure that the food it sold was safe for consumption and that it had breached that duty by selling the contaminated meat.

The case ultimately settled for an undisclosed sum, with King Soopers agreeing to compensate those who became ill as a result of consuming the contaminated meat.

This case illustrates how grocery stores can be held liable for selling pre-prepared food items that cause illness, even if the store was unaware of the contamination at the time of sale. It also highlights the importance of ensuring that food safety measures are in place throughout the supply chain, from the producers of the food to the stores that sell it to the public.

icpmacdo··on Xylazine, a dangerous new drug fuelling Canada’s opioid crisis
I asked chatGPT for a “ example of an individual store being liable for unknowingly selling a preprepared item that causes illness” and it gave me a non hallucinated one
icpmacdo··on Xylazine, a dangerous new drug fuelling Canada’s opioid crisis
There are indeed liabilities for products sold at convenience and grocery stores
icpmacdo··on Thinking hard makes the brain tired
Only having 1-2 cups of coffee between 10am and noon have been a very helpful personal rule
icpmacdo··on Wind chill on Mt. Washington NH minus 108, temp -46, wind 98 gusting 107
Where did you go?
icpmacdo··on Ask HN: Did dang get hacked?
Maybe he uses LastPass
icpmacdo··on Binance is trying to calm investors, but its finances remain a mystery
https://twitter.com/tier10k/status/1602446984090107905
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