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Several bathrooms at the openings to hiking trails near me had been smeared with feces. The local newspaper reported someone was caught and taken to a homeless shelter. I remain suspicious that simply resulted in the shelter's bathroom meeting the same fate.

Between human languages? The problem will be Google is giving that away for free.

> I was presented with art and literature as if it was self-explanatory, and that everything wonderful about it was plainly visible from the outside. But those works were much more like dark, winding caves with treasure stashed inside of them. My teachers were like, “Right, well, into the cave you go!” and I was like “But there’s nothing in there” and they were like “Entering the cave is 30% of your grade” and so I took a few steps into the darkness and I was like “Just as I suspected: an empty cave” and then I came trudging back out and pretended that I saw something.

Doesn't particularly sound like their English teachers are owed an apology.

Nothing they said suggested they'd be disruptive.

If someone does their work properly, and you're upset at their lack of sociability, you're the problem.

They seem willing to gradually replace C++ with Rust, but that actually does require C++ to not change in backward incompatible ways. They're depending on a stable ABI when calling into Rust.

Look at video games and you'll see the surface area of "addictive design" is basically infinite. People have gotten addicted to a huge variety of games, with not all that much in common.

I'm aware. The age of the data is likely why they stopped showing results.

Reddit started charging for access: https://arstechnica.com/ai/2024/02/reddit-has-already-booked...

The environmental concerns around oil refineries are a huge barrier to construction across much of the world.

I became immediately suspicious due to how complex the rationing schemes were.

Even the labels put on food like "margarine" aren't composed of what you'd normally expect, as they shifted to fish/whale oils due to availability.

I'd caution that you just have independent groups in some of these comment sections.

You sometimes see people on reddit amazed that "reddit's opinion seems to have changed". Nothing changed, just a different subgroup. You'll see the other opinion again if you wait for another similar article.

For example, the "did bother reading the article" crowd is attracted to certain headlines, and this probably isn't one of those.

My company has an AI tool appending a summary after the human one. As far as I can tell, people aren't reading it.

If people create the PR using something like Claude, you get an AI summary after another AI summary.

I suspect there is actually three groups, because the app also has a sort of coupon-ing in it. The lowest price requires you to search the app to find a "deal" that is currently available, rather than just use your loyalty points to get a discount.

One of the ideas of classic coupons was to offer a lower price to the most price sensitive customers. The people willing to deal with the fuss of finding and cutting out the coupons.

> Twitter has plenty of leftists.

How, when according to you, they're dominating Reddit and Bsky?

Baring the possibility that people on the left use all the platforms, and people on the right don't for some reason, an excess on one platform has to mean a shortage on another.

Neither Bluesky or Threads actually made that pitch.

Threads was started up because of the business opportunity of Musk fumbling things, but Bluesky seemed almost annoyed by all the new users.

You choose what you see on Bluesky. I see little politics while using it. If everyone you followed moved over, just limit it to their posts.

Consider the ratio of air traffic controllers to the number of people moving through the airport. It's not a huge cost. There's often far more staff moving bags.

It was a problem at very rural airports, and now some people man those remotely.

This is just the classic "we're going to crack down, but even harder!".

It's just the behavior of people who have no new ideas for how to solve a problem.

> With the changes, people became reluctant to make these transactions, Ornelas said, because they worry it will open them up for government surveillance or targeting by immigration authorities in the current intensified enforcement.

Presumably, because it's hard to get a bank account in a country you aren't supposed to be in.

They don't have much of an offering yet. OpenAI has some conventional ads, but everyone expects more involved advertising integrated into the conversation itself somehow.

Never, not a single time, in the entire history of California, has efficiency ever increased?

A number of famous business leaders have admitted they had no idea what they were doing in their memoirs. A few have even suggested that was an advantage.

Everyone running these AI firms is being forced to make educated guesses about the future of the technology and the industry. It's unlikely they're all making accurate predictions.

That you struggle to believe a government could ever operate modestly more efficiently, doesn't mean it never happens.

The problem is deception. People aren't going to check the weight and ingredients label every time they buy a product. A small size decrease won't get caught.

You can generate 10000 different versions of something that might resemble someone's lost work. It's unlikely anyone will want to read any of them.

Someone did notice, as they panicked at the cost.

What didn't happen is any analysis of cost/benefit up front. Many of the corporate decisions around AI have seemed characterized by companies blindly copying each other.

My company has tried to produce an AI oriented process, and I just don't see it making sense.

The basic problem is, no one on our side has actually doubted the ability of candidates to us the AI tools in conventional ways.

Consider the design section here. I think we are all confident the candidates can query some AI tool for a design. It's basically copy-pasting the description in. The real goal is to have a discussion, to see if they understand the relevant issues. But then, we could just hand them a design.

It just seems like you waste time having them fiddle with prompts and everyone trying to read the output. Just skip to the discussion.

Technically yes, but you can clearly see the growth slow to essentially zero during part of the late Clinton years in that chart.

Maybe after the US annexes Greenland, for some reason.

Sure, but remember the use case being discussed is interrogation. You have a tool that can collect what someone is trying to type, but they aren't trying to type.

And, my point was, there may be zero words to collect at all, because they'll tend not to be actively thinking about any words.