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I'm pretty confused by most of the article. The focus is placed on "AI Literacy", but it seems to use this to just mean 'volume of AI use'. The discussion of the Netflix case study…

The H1B visa is explicitly designed for high skill (high paying) jobs which companies have (supposedly) demonstrated they cannot find enough citizen workers. There are much simpler…

This has everything to do with art direction, and not technology. The real world has much more light bouncing fidelity than even modern games. There are still dark things we can't …

Most of the big consumer VPNs include "privacy" with an implication of anonymity in their marketing, so it shouldn't really be surprising

It does seem like, especially for the supposed political goals of the recent governments, there's things to watch out for. But despite denying it ("This isn’t hyperbole"), it seems…

Sure. A reasonable model for incoming requests within a short window of time is as a "Poisson process", which means the expected number of incoming requests within any interval is …

It's basically using the "-" embedded in the definition of the eml operator. Table 4 shows the "size" of the operators when fully expanded to "eml" applications, which is quite lar…

"I would rather read the prompt" https://claytonwramsey.com/blog/prompt/ discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43888803 All of the output beyond the prompt contains, def…

"Consensus" in this post refers to the "consensus problem", which is a fundamental and well-known problem in distributed systems. It's not about political consensus. However, the p…

It could also be useful in low doses to supplement, for example, a seasonal vaccine in a year where they are especially unsure about prevalent strains, or where their predictions w…

> For optional types, 0 is decoded as the default value of the underlying type (e.g. string? decodes 0 as "", not null). In the "dense JSON" format, isn't representing removed/abse…

Isn't it? You can have Dependabot enabled, but turn off automatic PRs. You can then manually generate a PR for an auto-fixable issue if you want, or just do the fixes yourself and …

Conscription is horribly inapt metaphor for mandatory inoculation. Banning the playing of third-party Russian roulette, where you hold a mostly unloaded gun to the head of your nei…

A lien on the property? Although almost all jurisdictions already have property taxes, so it hasn't been an insurmountable problem so far

This could be stated much more succinctly using Jobs to be Done (which is referenced in the first few paragraphs): Your customers don't want to do stuff with AI. They want to do st…

It could, but under the current system, candidates who are affiliated with major parties (i.e., essentially everyone who ends up winning an election) already need to win the suppor…

I do not understand what this could mean. There are clear formalizations of concepts like Consistency in distributed systems, and there are algorithms that correctly achieve Consen…

They might not _notice_ but that doesn't mean it's not affecting their ability to use their computer smoothly. With computers such a huge part of almost everyone's lives now, it's …

My favorite concrete example of this is the textually beautiful "xd" crossword puzzle format. Interesting video story: https://youtu.be/9aHfK8EUIzg (2016) Data site: https://xd.sau…

Using words written by other people without disclosure has always been frowned upon. It's called plagiarism. Plagiarism is bad for a lot of reasons, all of which also apply to the …

Livestock emits between 10% to 20% of global greenhouse gases (in carbon equivalent/100y-GWP) [1] In contrast, all data centers (not just AI) currently use less than 1.5% of all el…

By replacing (some) farmed meat with farmed fungi protein. Although it's theoretically possible for a disease to infect both fungus and animals, because the biology is so different…

Formal verification is explicitly NOT testing. It is a method where a computer verifies a proof that the program adheres to its specification for _all_ inputs (subject to whatever …

I think this discussion dismisses the "physics" of writing code, which rewards laziness. Effects make _the right thing to do_ (proper sandboxing, testability, assertions, ...) the …

The United States is a country that doesn't require any form of identification to have a phone number. You can buy a "burner phone" at any Walmart, with prepaid minutes and no cont…