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These cameras may have been originally sold to municipalities as a way to find stolen cars, but from one year to the next, federal agencies have (1) decided that their main goal is…

I think this is equally true of writing. Once you see something written one way, it's very hard to imagine other ways of writing the same thing. The influence of anchoring bias is …

I sympathize with people who find writing difficult. But, putting myself in GP's shoes, I can't imagine trying to read my father's LLM-generated memoir. How could I possibly unders…

What I'd really like to know is: - how many people that currently work at your company had to go through an AI interviewer to get the job? - do referrals have to go through an AI i…

Fan/AC remotes have some of the worst, most unexpected UX I've ever seen. I still remember an AC remote at an Airbnb I stayed at a few years ago that, instead of having temperature…

The author is pretty upfront that the conclusion was meant as a reference to a character in the movie "Hoosiers", not that any of the personalities named were literally drunks or b…

I also recently had this experience! I remembered a recurring bit from an older comedy film (a customer in a shop keeps saying "Kumquats!") and tried to prompt ChatGPT 4o into gett…

Notably the jury pool was from North Dakota, a state where many people have direct or indirect ties to oil and gas industries. In fact, > During jury selection, potential jurors ap…

The same type of people who name their companies Palantir and Anduril

Matt Levine had a funny similar take recently: "You could have a model of Harvard Business School that is like: 1. Harvard Business School teaches you skills that would make you go…

Yes, but what I'd really like to see is a visual graph of the dew point over the course of a day. The graph currently only shows RH%, and the only way to see how the dew point will…

The feature I miss most about Dark Sky was that it allowed you to visualize changes in dew point throughout the day. Where I live (US East Coast), the weather can feel dramatically…

> in the last 10 years. From the article: > In 2014, amid flagging sales and pressure from investors, Darden sold Red Lobster for $2.1 billion to Golden Gate Capital, a San Francis…

Back when I was in consulting, I used to think of it as a perk (as did many of my peers). Once the travel started to wear on my personal life, I ran the numbers and discovered the …

I also stopped being able to read articles on archive.is about a week ago because of this captcha loop. It seems to be related to my device and browser - my Firefox gets hit with t…

As noted in the linked article, people in urban areas are paying many times the price for water that farmers are. If farmers had to pay municipal water prices, it's much less clear…

The key here is distributed coordination. In the last few decades, the most effective social movements are those that did not rely on a single organization (hierarchical or not) bu…

I don't believe this is true on iOS, unless there was a recent change I'm not aware of. Right now, tapping power five times on my phone running iOS 16.1.1 opens an "emergency" mode…

The linked article and this entire discussion is addressing the ethical issues that surround grading, originality, and plagiarism. How is AI going to be able to apply the "correct"…

I think it's not fair to fault DB or EVG for failing to run 100% service after a nationwide strike was called off just a few hours before it was supposed to start. An orderly tempo…

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Maybe I'm just a newbie when it comes to building search algorithms, but how on earth would you maintain or test something like this? From experience, I know that search algorithms…

At most non-fancy corner stores they're still under $4. Usually under $3 if you just want egg & cheese. And they're always made to order - ketchup, mayo, salt/pepper, hot sauce, on…

As other commenters have mentioned, people living on the street don't comprise the majority of unhoused people. It does seem like California has a higher overall percentage of "uns…