It seems that most of the toxic AI stuff has really only been coming out of a handful of companies: OpenAI, Meta, Palantir, Anduril. I am aware this is a layman take.
In what way do you think that's relevant? Large portions of that standard had already been abandoned in the Windows 95 era. Nowadays, approximately nobody uses Shift-Insert for Paste, and most laptop users wouldn't even know where to find an Insert key without hunting for it.
It's the same in the UK. I first became aware of it after the Jean Charles de Menezes shooting. He was the innocent electrician shot in 2005 as part a terrorism panic. Every detail released by the police to justify the killing turned out to be a lie. Having paid attention for years I've come to realise it is standard practice.
Police behaviour in public inquiries (usually stonewalling and obfuscating) has been so bad that the government has just passed a law placing a "duty of candour" on the police and other civil servants, with criminal penalties for serious breaches.
That was less than a month ago so we'll see how it works.
Do they? Wildfires are some percent more likely and larger, but forests have always burned, and there are other factors like a century of fire suppression. Hurricanes are more violent and frequent, but there have always been hurricanes. Eggheads will tell you those things, but your day-to-day experiences of them are easy to dismiss. Watching a glacier die is visceral:
Do you happen to recall which version? I've picked up a couple kid's books/playsets but mine is ready for a chapter-book type version soon. FWIW my favorite reading copy is the UC Press version based on the incredible Arion version (https://www.ucpress.edu/books/moby-dick-or-the-whale/paper) but any edition based on the Northwestern-Newberry text is solid.
This scenario is worse now than it used to be, but the concept isn't new. I remember wanting to tear my hair out learning Django 15 years ago: The tutorial had you install Vagrant, VirtualBox, and Chef in specific versions, all of which were broken and/or a pain to install!
I still use and love Django, and don't bother with that stuff. Django Rest Framework was another distraction.
ESP stuff is very cheap and works well, but the Arduino Uno is a great board/ecosystem for beginners and simple projects. Being 5V is more convenient for a lot of things, and having the pin headers already on the board that you can just start plugging things in with jumper wires is great.
The Arduino IDE is awesome for an extremely quick setup time. You can very easily download libraries and add them to your project, you don't have to create a blank source file, you just have to fill in setup() and loop(). The Arduino IDE makes it very easy to set up a new board and download code to it.
Much of this also applies to the Arduino IDE with and ESP32, but what I really appreciate about the whole Arduino ecosystem is if you want to do something really simple, like say, activate a servo when some sensor reaches a certain value, you literally only have to type 5-6 lines of code. You're not messing around with SDKs and Makefiles and git cloning repositories etc etc etc. You can get kits for $70 that have an Arduino clone, and a bunch of different sensors, servos, steppers, etc. It's absolutely fantastic for teaching basic programming and electronics.
A Federal government agency is "a paramilitary group operating illegally inside the US?" What?
"I think they're being employed in a shitty and potentially illegal manner outside their remit" is a perfectly arguable take that doesn't require tinfoil-hattery.
Mozilla Data Collective (the new platform where Mozilla Common Voice datasets, among other datasets, are hosted) just kicked off a Shared Task on Spontaneous Speech ASR. It targets 21 underrepresented languages (from Africa, the Americas, Europe, and Asia), brand-new datasets, and prizes for the best systems in each task.
If you want to test your skills and help build speech tech that actually works for all communities, consider participating!
I agree with the sentiment on this. I'm building applications that are easily converted to native mobile apps with minimal code and engineers left and right are telling me I should use 60 different libraries and frontend tools to reach the same goal.
Meanwhile Rails is becoming easier and easier to run complex apps with much smaller teams.
Eh, if a cop sat at a Dunkin Donuts and wrote down every license plate they saw that wouldn't require a warrant.
Why should contracting that out to a private company require a warrant?
Flock isn't say Google which collects location data because it needs it for Google Maps to function. Flock is only here because the local government paid it to setup equipment.
It's really an issue for the local community. Do you want your local tax dollars going to support parks or tracking individuals?
Ironic that a site offering anti-surveillance resources is itself hosted behind the servers of Cloudflare, a US-based company (read: must turn over all data to NSA whenever they receive a national security letter, if they're not already eagerly, voluntarily turning over that data) that MiTM's a substantial portion of all global internet traffic.
The only games I have modded significantly are Minecraft and Lethal Company, neither of which gave me much issue on Linux. Haven’t tried modding any Bethesda games though.
$1M ARR and 10k+ emails? Those are rookie numbers. There's nothing special about a rails app achieving that.
You'd be surprised what kind of far worse junk than anything we're talking about can scale the same or better and is ergonomic to another type of dev. This is all just bikeshedding.
I'm using the term "structural" here without any clear definition, to be honest. By it I mean that it's about the structure of society, the relationships that are in place, the difficulty of setting up a new school, the resistance of the AMA to open up more residency spots, etc. Points in the process where there's high friction for changing the system to a better "structure", whether or not the change requires financial incentives.
But I don't know if that meaning is shared by anyone else in the world! Thanks for asking for clarification, I'm interested in how you'd communicate that idea.
Science has allowed us to destroy our planet at industrial scale and provided the tools to destroy ourselves and as a result all humans will likely be dead long before the next planet killer asteroid.
> Gathering solar power isn't a problem, but storing it is
I would agree that storage should not be ignored when we talk about the cost but even without storage solar is not useless. Solar + peaking gas power plant is better then gas alone 24x7.
Many sunny countries still burn coal and gas in the middle of the day when solar can provide 100% of energy demand (e. g. in Algeria and many other African countries share of solar is <1%). Dropping cost of PV may help to change this.
