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Visas are capped and farmers don't want to pay for pesky safety things like seatbelts in the transportation vans.

Oh, there is such a rich history of exploiting the underprivileged in the US. The more interesting bits lately center around a special visa for agricultural migrant workers, called…

Your narrative is embellished and does not correlate strongly with the data [1]. Embellished: marriage rates are 33.8% for Black women and 37.8% for Black men, neither of which I w…

One answer is that ALPRs have much too high an error rate (John Oliver claims it exceeds 30%) to rely on them for dragnet surveillance. Maybe it makes sense to track specific vehic…

Careful, I was called a "radical" on this site for suggesting a corporate death penalty. Because jobs are so important that when a corporation risks its own existence so it can bre…

The problem here is not the ATC union failing to enforce safety measures, it's the federal agency whose job that is failing to do their job, and Congress for failing to oversee the…

This deserves about as large of a "[citation needed]" as one could draw. Are you well-studied in neuroscience?

Honestly, Linux is so thoroughly Tivo-ized on these things that it is not really worth the effort. You will be forever locked into the official firmware's kernel, nonfree drivers a…

What does debugging Markdown even mean? What is a Markdown-heavy project? Is this a generated comment?

Receipts please. This is counter to everything I've read about the technology.

D'oh, they are running the benchmark themselves. Reasonable.

In what world is 55.7 the same number as 54.8? What variance is acceptable to publish without a retraction?

Are you talking about driver ABIs or something else?

Not a blog, but I handwrite presentation slides sometimes. And, of course, pages of notes. I use my ReMarkable 2 for that, so it's pretty easy to import to desktop and run scripts.…

In case you are paywalled, the complaint is that the OpenAI PBC is controlled by the OpenAI 501(c)(3), thus will be subject to constraints its competitors do not face, and investor…

The LLMs themselves are not doing the developing or learning.

Then everyone is open source if you have $20 to spend on tokens, I guess.

If weights are the source for models then ELF binaries are the source for software.

Third-party doctrine.

This is pretty funny. You almost had me until the Perl part. Not going to get baited this time!

Problem with that is that gathering evidence invariably leads to tracking down the recipient of the provider's service.

Who is stopping you? Is it an employment concern?

I do like that you mention diminishing returns, because we are hitting them in building out all the external requirements for competing at the frontier. Even if model performance s…

Yes, this ships in basically every smartwatch since the Snapdragon Wear 3100 launched in 2018.