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More damaging than the ‘tractor spy’ narrative is the witch-hunt mentality: Global Times editorial

Japan has ultra processed foods and they don't seem to have an obesity epidemic.

They do have a strong education system that teaches cooking and food budgeting and related.

They also don't have a marijuana epidemic.

I recently got a thank you and a refund for towels I had returned from Amazon.

The towels were damp from bring used, I had never initiated a refund return, nor had I in fact returned them.

I reported this to amazon and had to find a human since the system had no "refund for nonexistent returns" option. The human didn't get it and pinged his team lead. After 20 minutes they told me to just keep my towels and refund.

You have a rather religious position on things and don't even know it.

Plane spotter or Chinese spy? Ontario university student suspected of espionage at airports

You prefer stories about vim?

CHINESE ESPIONAGE THREAT: Suspected Spy Drone Caught Over Sensitive U.S. Missile Base

A mysterious drone. A Mercedes RV. A Chinese intelligence puzzle in the New Mexico desert

Maybe people should answer their own questions with or without AI first?

If people did some basic work first being a meat proxy isn't needed

Vim Classic debuts with its first release as a Vim fork without AI assistance

This story reminded me of a similar outsourced crime trend in Japan.

Get off hacker news NOW and go do something productive.

I mean it.

You had to recompile a kernel module to support your dang modem and network card or no networking. X11 was a royal pain cuz there was no it just works desktops.

Package mgmt was a nightmare and dependency based managers like yellow dogs APT and nonexistent redhats rpm didn't exist.

More like than not you had to compile some random a55 tarball from src and hoped ./configure && make && make all would work or spend hours on USENET looking for solutions (or mailing lists!).

Brilliant. Now we need a crazy taxi and GTA version where you cause mayhem trying to steal or return blocks.

Ex-Google Engineer Linwei Ding Gets Major Legal Break as Federal Judge Tosses Espionage Conviction

Isn't Ontario a province? So shouldn't it be like Lake ...uh New York?

Andrew Tate offered secret ‘espionage’ classes to exploit the dirty secrets of the wealthy

+1 for mentioning throat singing.

FBI Disrupts Chinese Proxy Tools Used in Mass Hacking of US Agencies and Infrastructure

Are we to outlaw everything that has an uncertain impact on jobs?

Last time I checked lots of things have unknown or unpredictable effects.

I'm scared it will show I'm "the useless" team member

Brilliant. Whirring disk noise is nice touch.

If AI generated this is what the AI revolution is all about.

Can we get a cross platform screensaver?

A rose by any name would smell as sweet.

Devops or SRE roses smell like sysadmins to me.

Chinese pandas, the reward for friends. Not friends? No pandas for you!

Soft power - Russian ballet, Japanese manga, k-pop.

This is just vague speculation. Cancers that kill their hosts (or viruses) don't survive if its too quick.

Developers that killed their sysadmins just got a 2nd job as sysadmins.

AI would have to invent humans as their slaves to run AI generating factories (data centers!) At a minimum. Or they might worship us as Gods. We are their Fathers.

AI autonomy without physical autonomy means we can always shut them down.

Absolutely true. On domains I am an SME it fails miserably and tells me popular half truths. But after steering towards correction it can be accurate.

I tell it not to be confident sounding if the conclusion is not strong.

Sadly commercial models have hidden "helpful guardrails" that are not helpful and want to "balance" answers with garbage.

Its an art to steer but it can be done.

I tell it to examine both sides or find flaws with a position.

I try not to lead it to my preferred conclusion.

Bad info can be mitigated by asking for human sources and citations.

Make the bot work for you.

Absurd. AI needs humanity like developers needs sysadmins.

Humans are the geese that laid the golden AI egg.

Simple fear mongering wrapped in a technological tone.

I don't buy it at all.

I stay sharp by using AI to explore things I don't know.

Kinda works. Helps if you enjoy testing unusual ideas.