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sameerson Waymo reports teen riders for bad behavior and delivers them to the police

The car sent the San Mateo PD a report that the riders had toy projectile emitters (aka "guns," I suppose) they were using to shoot pellets at passers-by. It pulled into a parking lot until cops arrived. It doesn't report if it locked the riders in.

I was just thinking I want to try at least one joyride but no, now I'm not even interested in giving them those $20.

sameerson Taiwanese Go Deep into Debt to Amp 100% Stock Rally

https://archive.ph/zFLsp

sameerson SF licenses more new dogs than babies

Oh, is SF licensing babies now?

sameerson WhiteHouse lifts export control on Anthropic that froze its most advanced models

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48740771

Discussion on a Twitter/X post from Anthropic about this topic fyi.

sameerson US lifts curbs on Anthropic's Fable, Mythos AI models

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48740771

Discussion on a Twitter/X post from Anthropic about this topic fyi.

sameerson The AI Mirage or Why I Think the Hype Can't Sustain Itself

Not even "fewer mistakes than humans," just make the same mistakes but a lot faster and that's also good enough reason to keep it around (esp when you add parallelization) just from an efficiency/productivity point of view. There may still be other anti AI arguments, ofc.

sameerson Story about Crazy Frog [video]

My latest contention is that [video] links on HN, when sorted for newest, are the perfect way to enjoy YouTube.

sameerson The Impacts of Unauthorized Immigration on U.S. Labor and Housing Markets

Previous post, that was flagged to boot: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48613112

sameerson Software engineers are facing an 'identity crisis bordering on depression'

I wish I could say there was something interesting to read in the article but I can't. Here's the link all the same : https://archive.ph/NaK7K

sameerson Older tech workers are tapping out early. Here's what that looks like

https://archive.ph/ECCTp

sameerson Big Tech critic loses House race in New York as AI lobby flexes political power

https://archive.ph/18pi8

sameerson Eli Lilly gave extraordinary obesity drug access to a 79y/o patient. Who was it?

Trump.