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Comment · 3 days ago
It's funny how there's a disclaimer about not supporting as much hardware as Linux. NetBSD had a reputation for supporting pretty much everything so seeing the tables turn in favor of Linux is pretty odd.
Comment · 3 days ago
There's already a project testing these. However the channels between the main islands in Hawaii can be pretty rough. The water gets pretty deep (900m - 3000+m) quickly and due to geography the winds and waves get funneled there and can easily hit 5-10m high. The short distances make it appealing despite the potentially rough sea state and waves.
Comment · 4 days ago
So there is data on some policing in NYC. Because the police need to record stop and frisk encounters, it turns out that black populations get stopped and searched at 2-3 times the rate that other racial groups get stopped and frisked (whites got 10% of the encounters despite being something like 33% of the pop and black+latinos got 90% of the encounters). And it's not like the frisks turned up anything, with the vast majority (90%) of the frisks finding nothing. I believe there's similar data for police in other cities.

At the very least, this suggests that police in NYC and probably elsewhere were disproportionately singling out Black (and Latinos) for intrusive searches without evidence and on a pretextual basis.

Comment · 4 days ago
Ideally that would be the place to keep them. It'd also help with not having to recalibrate the sensor arrays due to bumps that might not damage anything but which jostle things a bit. I think recalibration essentially requires an expensive visit to the dealer since the software needed to do it is dealer only or extremely expensive for independent mechanics.
Comment · 4 days ago
Beyond that reviewers probably don't get as much time with the product so they're not likely to get the chance to see reliability issues. A new product isn't likely to break within a 1 month review period.
Comment · 4 days ago
It's there even for parts that require regular replacement. For example, VW GTIs have required removing the bumper and taking a decent amount of stuff off the car in order to replace the headlights. This has been the case since at least 2007. Granted with LED headlights this isn't as much of an issue but prior generations had xenon headlights which required replacement periodically.
Comment · 5 days ago
Latine comes from South Americans (primarily chileans and argentinians). Whether the people from those countries that came up with it are insufferable white people is up to you.
Comment · 5 days ago
My point was really about profitability in general. The inference portion might be profitable but if training and operating costs are very large, then that can make the whole thing unprofitable. E.g. if it costs you $100B to train a good model but you make $0.00001 per inference token, you may not be able to hit breakeven for a very long time.
Comment · 6 days ago
TBH, roads and highways are paid for by gas tax and it effectively functions as a usage tax. Something similar for EVs wouldn't be too wild.
Comment · 6 days ago
SPCX had a pretty wild ride so far with a jump to 200 a few days after IPO and a drop down 108 a few months ago so I'm not sure the market really knows how to properly price SPCX right now.
Comment · 6 days ago
Are those statements audited or fact checked? Inference profitability is great but how much of that profit gets eaten up paying back training costs, R&D, and operating expenses.
Comment · 12 days ago
At least in certain parts of the world, there has been consistent efforts to manipulate the government and political movements for close to a century. It's not as if the US hasn't supported coup d'etats in Brazil, Chile, and other governments in South and Central America.
Comment · 12 days ago
Funny, there's been quite a few incidents where AI has made up case citations in briefs submitted by attorneys and then the same attorney submitted a LLM generated brief with similar errors when asked to defend themselves from sanctions.
Comment · 14 days ago
It genuinely depends. The author refers to zainichi koreans, i.e. a pretty large population of koreans that ended up in Japan just before and during WW2. Quite a few of them are still not Japanese citizens despite having lived in Japan for several generations.
Comment · 15 days ago
Isn't adding newspapers just adding cellulose with some bonus ink?

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